The moment he was caught in the storm, Wu Chen was shuddered.
The internal and external body sensations are very different.
Being outside the storm, nature always pays attention to its trajectory. Being in the storm, everything you see is dots of embers.
Especially for a person with mental powers like Wu Chen, the five senses are compressed to the extreme, feeling like suffocation like drowning. The originally invisible base shield also revealed its tenacious outline amidst the endless embers rolling in. Bailiyan and the player's couple's flat base, which were just around the corner, had been submerged in the raging embers at some point, and there was no trace at all. Partner connections were also completely disconnected. The torn-off ruins of the base and the large fragments of the starship that we had seen before were all reduced to the humblest embers in the void storm. You can see the intensity of the storm. Therefore, veteran players call the Void Storm "The Extinguishing of Annihilation".
"Master, go check the asylum coins." Zhinao reminded. As long as the protective shield is not broken, the embers will not be contaminated. Not to mention being swallowed up by the void storm.
"Okay." Wu Chen got out of the car and walked into the phone booth.
Insert the campus card into the card reader. A group of numbers that continued to decrease immediately appeared on the LCD screen of the card-and-coin phone: 11059, 11058, 11057.
Wu Chen used his watch to measure time and roughly calculated that 1 coin was consumed per minute. A total of 720 coins is required for 12 hours.
For newbies, this is an astronomical figure. Of course, the Void Storm is sometimes strong and sometimes weak, and its movement throughout the city is not fixed. Under normal circumstances, 700 coins is enough. There are always people who are lucky and people who are unlucky. Again, the more shelter coins, the better. Never bet your luck on the rules.
I don’t know if Void Storm has “stickiness”. For example, the more experienced the invasion of plot fragments, the easier it is for the old player base to be involved in the storm. And a group of unprofitable new players like the Broken Traveler Camp are unwilling to even stop at Annihilation.
The eye of the storm moves unimpeded, spiraling back and forth in the four systems.
The storm gradually weakened at the cube campsite in the outfitting workshop where Wu Chen was located. Although there were still embers scraping through the shelter from time to time, the intensity was much lower than before. The reduction of asylum coins has also been reduced from 1 coin per minute at the peak to 1 coin every 5 minutes or even 10 minutes.
For Wu Chen's five-digit stock, the threat is almost negligible. But he didn't dare to be careless at all. Time passed by every second, which seemed very long. The storm began to weaken in the afternoon. The broken city, which had been dark since the turn of day and night, only filled with embers, finally saw a trace of skylight.
Wu Chen also immediately saw the base of Bailiyan and others, which seemed to be intact and had survived the embers. Although attempts to restore the connection between partners have failed. But according to the rules, as long as the base exists, the player's life can be saved.
Wu Chen suddenly felt a sense of sadness as he watched the embers of sparks spiraling upward into the void like moths flying into a flame.
"Master, in fact, the plot fragments swallowed by the void will eventually feed back to the shelter. Just like..." Zhi Nao was racking his brains to find suitable rhetoric.
Recalling the acquisition of the first asylum coin, Wu Chen had already understood: "Ashes will return to ashes, and soil will return to soil."
"That's right." Zhinao agreed very much. The broken old plot world is the basis for creating a new world.
As he spoke, the drone swarm restored the base to its original state. The losses are negligible, but the gains are huge. Wu Chen could spend the first cleaning day safely without having to go back. After experiencing this test, Wu Chen was finally able to occupy a place in the Broken City. Say goodbye to being a broken newbie.
"Master?" Lin Baiyu, who had been sitting quietly beside him, spoke softly.
"Huh?" Wu Chen responded softly.
"Thank you." Lin Bai's jade eyes were filled with starlight.
"No need." When their eyes met, Wu Chen was relieved. Once upon a time, every plot character who was turned into a star would say similar words to Wu Chen.
The emotions revealed between the lines are, in the words of the player: even if they are broken.
Anyone who has experienced cleaning day knows this feeling. No matter the player or the plot character.
At dusk, the top of the city, where the four spiral systems converge, begins to glow. Like a twilight city, like a candle in the wind. The ever-expanding light curtain gradually lights up the entire city. Wherever the light shines, embers are annihilated and the storm is eroded. In the glorious dome that continues to expand, players build structures in the light engravings, miraculously recovering as before.
The dome starts from the tip of the city and spreads unstoppably to the four-system spiral. The city, which has been devastated by debris and looks like a ruin, is being re-dressed in a bright and beautiful coat by the light engraving of the spiers. The entire city is quickly "recovering its memory."
Although he could only witness what happened from the front window of AE86 through the base's protective shield, Wu Chen was still filled with shock.
Wu Chen wanted to know: "What's at the tip of the spiral?"
"I heard he is the 'Broken King'." Zhi Nao worked around the clock all day long, wandering around the camp LAN and the city cloud, and collected a large amount of information.
"Player?" Wu Chen thought of the Sanctuary Brotherhood.
"The identity is not certain." Intelligent brain fuzzy calculation gave the answer: "But it must have player attributes. Otherwise, it will not be labeled as a 'memory' by the 'huge shadow in the void'. Used to restore (reshape) the entire building Broken City.”
"That's right." Wu Chen was convinced.
When the light from the spire spreads to the traveler camp, the shelter of the player base immediately merges with it, restoring the minimum consumption of one coin per day. As the light from the spire continues to expand, the intensity of the photolithography gradually eases. When day and night change again, the city spiers that have completed the restoration of time disappear into the clouds. Then the end of Wu Chen's first cleaning day was announced.
For almost an instant, the silent camp LAN was filled with joy after the disaster. Through the front window of AE86, Wu Chen could see the obvious incompleteness of the floating cube matrix. Apparently there are still quite a few players in the camp who didn't make it through cleanup day. Zhinao judged that, without exception, they were all unfortunate people hit by the rain of fragmented meteorites. It is said that Wu Chen is one of the few players who successfully cleared the plot fragments that penetrated the base's protective cover before the void storm came. And also activate the reaper rules, get a 5-star card and 9999 coins. It is in line with the proverb "wealth is found in danger".
Especially 5-star cards, the market price is as high as 100,000 coins. For junior players in the Traveler Camp, it is almost impossible to accumulate a 6-digit fortune just by accepting player commissions.
The Cursed Witch Queen sleeping in the regeneration cocoon has been transferred to the medical cabin to rest in peace. The armored cabin, medical cabin, and passenger cabin carried by the AE86 have been copied exactly by the intelligent brain that has doubled its knowledge and actions and traveled rapidly. The new annex building "Medical Rehabilitation Center" is under design.
"Master, we need a therapist." Zhinao suggested: "It's best to be a four-star one."
"Are there any suitable candidates in the talent pool?" Wu Chen could barely bear it as a 4-star therapist.
"Just like the client of the prosthetic doctor, special professions like doctors that can replace back work to a considerable extent have always been very popular. And the premiums are extremely high." The results retrieved by Zhi Nao have premiums ranging from 5 to 10 times. And all are auctions with no time limit. The auction will continue as long as there are bids. It is impossible to estimate who will end up in the end. It is a long-term investment through and through. For junior players who must go through the test of life and death on the 12th, it is simply unaffordable.
"Master, there is another suitable target." Zhinao had already made a plan.
"Dr. Olet." Wu Chen also thought of it.
