Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1166: Chapter 1064: Pandora’s Massive Change!_1 Chapter 1166: Chapter 1064: Pandora’s Massive Change!_1 “???”

“Where am I?”

Shuihua stood on the scorched earth, utterly bewildered.

She walked a short distance forward, coming to a hill where the view was more expansive, looking around in all directions.

It took her a great effort to recognize the surrounding environment:

This was surprisingly the place where she had first logged into Pandora!

Although now, this place’s eerie appearance is completely different from when she first logged in!

The lush trees, countless unidentifiable plants, colorful beasts, melodious bird calls…

All of them, every single one, had vanished.

Only the cracked earth, charred tree trunks, dried-up waterways remained…

Even the wind was filled with suffocating ash.

There were no animals, no sounds, and no greenery.

The land was utterly silent.

“What…

What happened here?” Shuihua stood still in shock.

It’s now mid-April, and the college entrance examination is just one and a half months away.

Even with her love for surfing the internet, she couldn’t help but restrain her behavior, pouring her energy into study and preparation.

She has stopped her habit of rushing into the virtual world to play games with great excitement every day after finishing her homework, only sparing some time to go back to the virtual world and play for two or three hours during rest days.

She even semi-sealed her mobile phone, focusing all her attention on studying.

Shuihua is very serious, really serious, about getting into a good university.

She knew that she didn’t have a brain as good as her best friend Camille, and if she didn’t get into a good university, she worried that she might no longer have common ground with her friend.

When the cognitive differences are too great, communication becomes problematic.

Being active on the internet with multiple accounts and befriending people from various classes and age brackets, Shuihua had a clear understanding of this predicament.

She certainly didn’t want a day to come where she’d be seated facing her best friend, while being unable to comprehend her feelings.

That’s why, study!

Study furiously!

Of course, necessary relaxation is still needed.

Shuihua even bought “Gravity” and didn’t play it out of fear of wasting too much time or losing her focus to study if she logged out before the game was finished, so she chose [Pandora], a place where she could log out anytime.

But…

what’s happening here now?

“Where’s my tree?”

“Where’s my home?”

“Where’s my bird??”

Shuihua asked three baffling questions in a row.

Especially the last one, “Where’s my bird”, was asked especially loudly, expressing profound distress.

That was her purpose for logging in today, her morale to challenge [Burst of Strength]!

Her [Burst of Strength] challenge progress has already reached (1/3), she had already hunted the Death God Beast.

Of course, it wasn’t her heartless victory over the one she had tamed – it so happened that the first one she encountered, and successfully tamed, was a rare “elite” Death God Beast.

But the moment she had any ill intentions, the Death God Beast would immediately run away quickly, making it impossible for her to hit it.

So Shuihua ended up riding the Death God Beast, finding another elite Death God Beast, and after a tough battle, successfully completed the hunt, achieving one third of the [Burst of Strength] progress.

Afterwards, Shuihua let go of the Death God Beast that had been following her around.

She had to travel, climb trees, find bait, and it was only after much trouble that she finally managed to catch a Yikaran Flying Dragon.

Trying to physically tame a Yikaran Flying Dragon in mid-air was something Shuihua had also attempted.

Her evaluation was: [This is not what humans should do.]

Translated into human language, it means:

“This is not something a person could do!”

She just couldn’t do it!

Anyway, after Shuihua, using her scarce gaming time, succeeded in taming a Yikaran Flying Dragon, she was full of excitement to mount the Yikaran Flying Dragon and either tame or hunt the sky dominator — the Phantom Dragon.

Everyone has now acknowledged that the [Phantom Dragon] is just a part of the three hunting challenges in the [Burst of Strength], even though no one has succeeded yet.

Shuihua felt very hopeful.

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She also logged in today with high hopes.

But what she never expected was that after logging in after a week, her bird…

her dragon was gone!

Not only was the dragon gone, but her checkpoint was also gone!!

She was sent right back to the spawn point!

What’s the matter?

Shuihua opened the map and found that the original green map had turned yellow, suddenly changing from the Amazon rainforest to the African savannah!

All the player bases she had been to disappeared.

She couldn’t even log out and log in with a different base!

Was all the pioneering work done by the players for a whole month gone like this??

Shuihua couldn’t accept it and wanted to figure out what had happened.

Just then, a team invite suddenly came through—

[Friend [Versatile Princess] requests to join your party]

[Accept]/[Decline]

Shuihua accepted.

—[Versatile Princess] is a note she made for her best friend, Camille Victoria.

The next moment, a door opened beside Shuihua, and a well-dressed Little Princess walked out.

She was originally dressed up to meet Lincoln, but before going, she saw Shuihua online, so she told Lincoln she would go later and came to find Shuihua first.

After Shuihua immersed herself in her studies, they had fewer chances to meet.

“Shuihua, you’re online so early!”

“Yeah, I want to minimize study interference, but…” Shuihua took another look at this scorched earth, “It seems I came for nothing.”

The Little Princess took a glance and immediately understood Shuihua’s meaning: “Well…

this is indeed a big problem.

Shall I help you change to a regular mirror world?

You didn’t participate in the fire lighting, so you won’t be limited.”

“The fire?” Shuihua was late in realizing and couldn’t believe it, “Such a large-scale fire, was it man-made??!”

“Yes.” Although Camille Victoria was a bit unaccustomed to the fact that Shuihua, a skilled internet surfer, reacted slowly to such big news, she still patiently explained to her:

“At first, just a few thousand people lit the Tree of Life, and it burned for a day and a night, reducing the entire Tree of Life to ashes.”

“But soon, the fire spread to the surrounding forest, and hundreds of thousands, even millions of players were incited to actively start fires and worsen the situation.”

“The fire not only swallowed the forest but also merged player after player’s mirror world.”

“Up to this point, the impact was also controllable, but then, the drastic changes that this fire brought to the world, affected Pandora’s intelligent management algorithm.

The mirror zone mode was changed, and more and more mirror worlds were actively merged into the fire disaster mirror by the algorithm.”

“By now, nearly a third of the mirrors have turned into the [Apocalyptic Disaster] version.”

“Wait wait wait!” Shuihua’s head started to itch, “Why would one person setting a fire in a mirror affect other mirrors?”

The Little Princess blinked her eyes, thought for a while, and explained in a way that Shuihua could understand: “During your exploration, you have also encountered tombstones and positions left by players from other mirrors, right?”

“Yeah, I’ve seen those.” Shuihua nodded.

“That’s because the changes players have made to the world of Pandora will randomly be synchronized to other mirrors by the algorithm.

Also, the more drastic the change, the higher its weight, and the more likely it will be synchronized to other mirrors.”

“So…” Shuihua said in surprise, “Because the environmental change caused by the fire was too drastic, it was synchronized by the algorithm??”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

“You guys…” Shuihua was speechless, “At least try to save it!”

“Sigh.” The Little Princess sighed, “Lincoln said that when he released Pandora, he promised that he would leave this world to the players and the algorithm, allowing everything to evolve naturally, so he doesn’t plan on intervening.”

“So you guys just watch…

as the entire Pandora gets burned to a white ground, and players all around the world have to foot the bill for these freaks?” Shuihua couldn’t comprehend Lincoln’s insanity.

“That won’t happen, Lincoln said that there’s a limit to this [Mirror Erosion].” The Little Princess defended Lincoln.

“What’s the limit?” Shuihua continued to ask.

Camielle Victoria paused for a moment, then revealed the answer: “50%”

Hearing this number, Shuihua slowly opened her mouth: “You mean, in the future only half the players can stay in the normal world of Pandora, and the other half, all have to stay in this fire disaster world?”