Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?-Chapter 939 - 615: The Maps of Hollow Knight

"Um, Lord Gedwin..."

Cangyin Dungeon, the City Lord's room. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Heiniss had a look full of worry, rubbing her small hands back and forth anxiously and said:

"Is it really possible for adventurers to pass with this design? That place called the Road of Suffering, won't it upset people?"

"Don't worry, adventurers, the more you challenge them, the more actively happy they become. Sometimes you can't even imagine what they'll do to your dungeon."

Gong Qiying was watching the adventurers' recordings from Cangyin Dungeon that day.

Although he usually watched recordings of adventurers in Sain Dungeon for entertainment, watching adventurers from other dungeons also had its own charm.

Although the adventurers in Cangyin Dungeon were somewhat influenced by Soul V from Sain Dungeon, most of them were still simple little knights, and their actions while exploring the dungeon were unexpectedly genuine.

Simplicity has its benefits, like the "Road of Suffering Challenge Recording" he's watching now.

If adventurers from Sain Dungeon encountered the Road of Suffering here, they would probably start doing unexpected tricks.

Luluwo would definitely try swinging with chains tied to spiky iron thorns like Spiderman, Steeran might try Hound Step, and Dal could probably ignore the pain and climb the wall holding the thorns directly.

Besides that, perhaps some adventurers would put a big shield under their feet as a skateboard and slide on spikes, flying adventurers would fly over, Civil Engineering Magicians would soften the spikes, and Beastmen would tough it out with their thick skins, and so on.

After spending a long time interacting with adventurers, Gong Qiying could probably guess what tricks these people would come up with.

Therefore, when he learned about Heiniss's design of the Road of Suffering, he prepared strategies to deal with the actions he could imagine, not completely denying the possible actions adventurers might take but also not letting them proceed too smoothly.

Throughout the design process, whenever Heiniss added a trap, she would tremble and ask, "Is this really okay?" She must have repeated this sentence hundreds of times.

For her heart still filled with love and peace, this "Gedwin Confrontation Meeting" genuinely refreshed her worldview.

The moral baseline perhaps unconsciously lowered a bit.

However, the adventurers of Cangyin Dungeon used their actual performance to prove one thing.

That is, the worries of these two City Lords seem to be redundant.

As of now, the adventurers forced to challenge the Road of Suffering...

Unexpectedly behaved quite well.

Because Hollow Knight is a horizontal 2D game, recreating it in three dimensions would have some strange troubles, Gong Qiying just tried to make the current design somewhat similar to the original.

For example, in Hollow Knight, the Little Knight can rise and even continuously jump by using their weapon to perform downward slashes on the ground spikes; the Road of Suffering is a big test of the player's ability to master jumping and slashing.

But one can't help but complain that the Road of Suffering should be where someone lives, who would decorate their home full of saws, spikes, and thorny iron brush!

Given that Hollow Knight only has one weapon, Gong Qiying thoughtfully suggested leaving two High Nut Fragments for the adventurers, which counts as a nice benefit.

And after discovering their presence in Cangyin Dungeon and attempting to develop the possibility of striking spikes for jumping.

Most were astonishingly honest, using only this method to challenge.

Honest to an unbelievable degree.

Throughout the day, Gong Qiying watched the adventurers challenge the Road of Suffering alongside Heiniss, realizing in the end.

There seems to be no exciting tricks to talk about.

They were truly using the designed methods to clear the challenges, constantly trial and error to find appropriate force and distance, dancing on spikes in pain and not quite joy, seeking rewards they themselves didn't know the appearance of.

Seeing them in this way, Gong Qiying recalled his first contact with the Road of Suffering, truly distant memories surged to mind.

If this were his Sain Dungeon, he might have been unable to resist giving some useful rewards to these hard-working adventurers as encouragement.

Heiniss was kind-hearted too; she divided the Road of Suffering into different segments, with corresponding rewards through each segment. She was much softer than Gong Qiying.

Even so, what Gong Qiying deemed sure to attract people, in her eyes was still full of uncertainty.

"But being able to design such scenes, truly worthy of Lord Gedwin."

Regardless of how adventurers react, Heiniss applauded and praised:

"This wicked, oh no, I mean such extremely interesting design truly suits your style!"

"Just borrowed the experience of predecessors."

Gong Qiying shrugged and did not linger, suggesting to temporarily leave here.

After all, how the new design responds among adventurers would take time to verify, staying here he had nothing to do.

"Mmm, mmm!" Heiniss nodded energetically, "If there are new changes, I'll notify you in time!"

Thus, the great Sain Dungeon Lord completed the first teaching session for the lovely juniors.

However, only three days later, the other party sent another invitation.

"Ge-Gedwin, sir, good news, good news! The adventurers surprisingly don't dislike these new designs, and a few more people have come!"

"You still need to continue maintaining it to make the dungeon more full of life force."

"Yes! I will heed your teachings!"

Heiniss saluted like a soldier, then couldn't help but chuckle, unable to suppress the cheerful atmosphere.

This is the youth, this feeling of vitality and is entirely different from Red Teeth's group.

Gong Qiying couldn't help but express such emotion.

He congratulated the other party, then looked at the adventurers' images, leading to the final step.

Taking his reward.

"Well, I'll take these with me."

What Gong Qiying took was the monster from Cangyin Dungeon.

To be precise, it was the plants from Plants vs. Zombies, and they were mutated versions.

The adventurers from Cangyin Dungeon brought these plants out, and after exposure to the outside world, these plants adapted and underwent changes to fit this world.

For instance, the Ice Shooter really learned Ice Magic, the Big Enoki Mushroom can open its eyes during the day without coffee beans, some plants seemed to form a fantastic symbiotic relationship with the local monsters…

Gong Qiying valued two things the most.

First, those plants that underwent gigantism relying on local characteristics.

Second, almost all plants leaving Cangyin Dungeon developed the characteristic of [delicious] after being nurtured outside for a while.

The taste was not inferior to the vegetables in the gourmet area.

Very miraculous, Gong Qiying couldn't explain these changes either.

Thus, he collected samples from Cangyin Dungeon, planning to research them upon returning, enriching his monster resources and gourmet area, regularly updating to maintain vitality.

"If there are any new mutated plants, remember to let me know, I'll come to collect some samples."

Moreover, he didn't take from Heiniss for free, even though the entire Plants vs. Zombies set was lent to her by Gong Qiying, it served as operating costs.

"If there are some highly practical mutated plants, I can guide you again."

Saying this, he displayed several deeply related map designs of the Road of Suffering.

[Cang Green Path], [Fungal Wasteland], [Crystal Mountain Peak], [City of Tears]…

A series of maps all these are from Hollow Knight.

Heiniss couldn't quite understand but just hearing those names gave an inexplicable sense of awesomeness, her eyes filled with more anticipation, nodding heavily!

"Goodbye, Gedwin, sir!"

"Goodbye, I look forward to your future endeavors."

Just like that, the troubles of Cangyin Dungeon were perfectly resolved.

Precisely the day after Gong Qiying took the mutated plants back.

The workers who frequently roamed the gourmet area to gather ingredients were surprised to find that the gourmet area had added common vegetables like peas, cabbages, corn, mushrooms, unlike the previous uniquely shaped ingredients, just items you could see at the market daily.

However, despite their ordinary appearance, their taste astonished the adventurers.

These were not ordinary vegetables at all, but a new masterpiece from the gourmet area disguised under regular vegetable skins!

All kinds of chefs embarked on journeys again to procure such vegetables, each filled with anticipation for their career.

With these new breeds which no different from household vegetables, they could use the high-quality ingredients from Sain Dungeon to craft popular dishes of this world, rather than creating original ones based on the unique ingredients from the gourmet area, undoubtedly increasing the restaurant quality further.

The chefs also noticed the plants from Cangyin Dungeon and made considerable purchases, but currently, they could not meet demand.

The biggest beneficiaries of this incident were unexpectedly chefs and diners.

While the Yanor Kingdom was engrossed in cooking.

The status of Warrior Country underwent even further changes.