Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch - Chapter 761

Chapter 761: Chapter 721: I think you’re just making things difficult for me!

As Giselle endured a sleepless night, it was just afternoon in Daxia.

The plant dragon battle in the metropolis was becoming increasingly spectacular and chaotic.

A whole fleet of helicopters took off from Night City, crossing the Red Gate Bridge and arriving at the battlefield.

The dense helicopters surrounded the plant dragon, and the door-mounted machine guns unleashed their full power, their firepower astonishing.

But the plant dragon also unleashed its ultimate move!

The already sprawling giant trees grew wildly again, with their trunks dancing in the air like huge pythons!

One helicopter after another was pierced by these “plant pythons” and exploded in the air, like a grand fireworks display.

The plant dragon was also severely injured, with its dragon blood splattering everywhere and its wings riddled with holes, barely able to continue flying.

However, as the magical light flashed, its wounds healed rapidly, its wings restored to their original state, and with a gentle flap, the plant dragon adjusted its flying posture.

The magic of the plant dragon turned the battle into an all-out war.

With the failure of powerful hot weapons, the players’ winning rate was not high in the first half of the day, and the plant dragon often killed enough people in the midst of the battle, then left arrogantly after spouting harsh words.

Or after a full hour and a half of fighting, the plant dragon would withdraw without a clear winner.

After all, it had to appear on stage again after resting for half an hour, and it couldn’t keep fighting, or else two giant dragons would appear, right?

The players were fighting defensively.

It wasn’t until after noon that the situation slowly turned around.

That’s because the players who had made the most progress and were the most hardcore had started to equip the[Armament Box], stuffing various items into the armament box and testing the effects of this prop.

Yelang, who had been constantly fighting in the [Extraordinary Battlefield], had also successfully achieved 30 victories.

After the settlement, he returned to the combat room, and the special achievement trophy emerged in the light.

The trophy had an interesting design— a classic Rubik’s Cube.

Achievement Name—[ Warriors don’t die unarmed].

As for the achievement effect, Yelang already knew: Summoning the[Armament Box].

He used the effect, and a Rubik’s Cube appeared in front of him, with only the yellow side restored, and the other five sides still scrambled.

There were two system options floating in the air above the Rubik’s Cube:

[1]: Change the carrying method.

[2]: Unlock more space.

Yelang chose [1].

The Rubik’s Cube immediately changed its shape, and virtual images of various items, such as wristbands, bracelets, rings, gloves, belts, necklaces, collars, pockets, socks, headbands, etc., appeared in front of him, as well as a question mark option labeled [Customize].

Yelang chose [Wristband], the Rubik’s Cube changed shape accordingly, turning into a leather wristband.

He put the wristband on his hand, focused his attention on it, and a empty slot appeared above the wristband, waiting for him to place a weapon.

Yelang decisively entered the vehicle warehouse and brought the wristband to the tank side, trying to see if he could put it inside.

The answer was, of course, a failure.

He tried again with the airplane and the bomber.

Still a failure.

Yelang was somewhat disappointed, but not surprised, and tried the mortar.

This time it actually worked!

But just as Yelang was about to rejoice, he found that the artillery shells were not included…

If he wanted to use this thing to fire, he had to carry the artillery shells himself.

The problem was that when crossing the game world, he couldn’t take the shells out if they weren’t inside the Armament Box.

Logically, he returned the wristband to the initial appearance of the Rubik’s Cube, selecting option [2] to try to unlock more space.

Yelang still had a few diamond achievmeent trophies, although not as many as five, but he had four.

After clicking on [Option 2], the system prompted:

‘Please choose a color’

‘Red’, ‘Blue’, ‘White’, ‘Green’, ‘Orange’

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Yelang casually chose ‘Red’.

The option disappeared, and all the red squares on the Rubik’s Cube glowed slightly, then…

But then nothing happened.

“???”

Yelang held the Rubik’s Cube in both hands with a bewildered expression.

“What’s the meaning of this? Do I have to restore the Rubik’s Cube myself?!”

“I don’t know how to do that!”

But no matter how much he complained, the system had no response.Yelang was speechless but still picked up the Rubik’s Cube and gave it a try.

He couldn’t possibly solve all six sides by himself, but two sides should be achievable, right?

Professional Rubik’s Cube players can solve all six sides in just a few seconds, but he knew that he was far from being even a hobbyist, let alone a professional. However, solving just two sides without a time limit didn’t seem impossible to him, did it?

And so, Yelang began to struggle with the cube in his hand.

10 minutes later, he was still struggling with the cube.

30 minutes later, he was still struggling with the cube.

1 hour later, he felt like he could see a glimmer of hope.

1 hour and 15 minutes later, the glimmer of hope faded away again.

1 and a half hours later, Yelang cursed, “F*ck you!” and fiercely threw the cube onto the floor.

But the manifested achievement item was indestructible, and the cube bounced up and down and rolled around, still intact.

After an hour and a half of studying, Yelang did make progress.

At one point, in order to restore the red side, he had messed up the yellow side and couldn’t restore it back at all.

Unexpectedly, once the yellow side was messed up, the only unlocked slot got locked again and couldn’t be accessed…

This gave him a terrible headache.

However, just before he angrily smashed the cube, he had no pressure in restoring one side — he could quickly restore either the yellow or the red side within three minutes.

But the problem was: he could only restore one of them.

What to do?

The answer was obvious:

Either learn to twist the Rubik’s Cube himself or find someone highly skilled in twisting the Rubik’s Cube for help.

Yelang, using the excuse of “time is precious, and I won’t waste the audience’s valuable time,” decided on the latter without hesitation.

Unfortunately, when a Rubik’s Cube expert added him as a friend and entered his virtual house, they found that the cube couldn’t be twisted at all.

Seeing this, Yelang couldn’t help but sigh in pain, “This Rubik’s Cube can only be solved by me??”

“It seems like you’re just trying to make things difficult for me!”

Complaints aside, Yelang had to sit down with the Rubik’s Cube expert, holding the cube, and followed the expert’s guidance to restore it, one step at a time.

By the time he had successfully used all the diamond achievements and completed the cube under the hands-on guidance of the expert, two and a half hours had passed.

Even with face-to-face, step-by-step instruction, he still often made mistakes, which further consumed a lot of time.

Looking at the fully restored Rubik’s Cube in front of him, Yelang thanked the expert profusely and even wanted to pay them.

—Although his diamond achievements only unlocked four additional sides, restoring the fifth side naturally fixed the last side.

As long as he gets another diamond achievement, he can directly activate the last slot of the armament box, without having to reassemble the cube again.

Considering the demand for Rubik’s Cube masters, it’s an obligation to have someone spend an hour to help out.

However, the Rubik’s Cube expert refused to accept any payment and left after offering their help.

The final stage of adding weapons was much simpler: A mortar for one slot, artillery shells for another, a heavy machine gun for one more, and a rifle for the last.

—Luckily, Lincoln was kind enough not to count the bullets as a separate slot.

Yelang planned to leave the last slot for the grappling hook.

But his entire focus was spent on winning the “Battlefield” matches, leaving not enough time for hunting. So, he asked several experts to quickly complete 30 hunting sessions along with him.

Though he could accomplish the hunting missions himself, it would probably take another day— as the hunting targets got larger, the difficulty and time consumption also increased.

He could not afford to waste that much time.

The final grappling hook task was even simpler.

Although Dinosaur Island’s mission items could not be traded, boosters could help you complete tasks quickly.

The cost was now 800 dollars.

Last night, the price was 1500 dollars, and now it had gone down by almost half.

By tonight, the price might halve again.

They’re making money from impatient players.

It seemed costly, but this money was not earned by one person alone—

Escorting the boss deep into the dangerous area, finding mission minerals, blocking monsters from disturbing the boss while he mined, and then escorting him back—all of these tasks required a squad to complete.

The stronger and more skilled they were, the fewer people were needed, and the more money each person could earn.

In other words, this was still a “skill-based income.”

Yelang spent money to save time, quickly completed the grappling hook task, and entered the metropolis with a box of hot weapons and a grappling hook, ready to show off his skills.

However, only when the Plant Dragon appeared in the metropolis and players started fighting with the giant dragon once again did he realize, dumbfounded:

On this battlefield, hot weapons seemed to have become obsolete already?

Players flying all over the place with grappling hooks, relentlessly pursuing the Plant Dragon, were all carrying swords instead of guns?