Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1176: Chapter 1070 [Ultimate Challenge] List Appears Again!

_1 Chapter 1176: Chapter 1070 [Ultimate Challenge] List Appears Again!

_1 Having spent so much time on Pandora, the players couldn’t help but notice the native peculiarities of “Neural Bundles”.

Especially when interacting with Na’vi, players often witnessed the special communication method of connecting through neural bundles with armored horses and Yikaran Flying Dragons, becoming cavalry and dragon riders.

But bogglingly, players found these neural bundles growing from their own heads!

“It should be right then.”

Camille gathered Shuihua’s hair; seeing the translucent threads spontaneously bundled together, she confirmed Lance’s guess.

“Ew~~~” Shuihua was a bit disgruntled.

She was uncomfortable with the sudden appearance of these things in her hair.

However, she quickly brightened up, thinking of all the fun ways to use them: “So, does this mean that I can communicate with animals through my hair now?”

Although Shuihua could tame the animals of Pandora using the “Angel Halo,” she couldn’t communicate with them, let alone know what they were thinking.

But now, if she also had neural bundles that could connect her to animals, wouldn’t that mean she could know what animals are thinking, just like in the film Pacific Rim?

Thinking about this, Shuihua was fired up and couldn’t wait to try it out— she had an insatiable curiosity about new things!

However, Camille shook her head: “No, not yet.

You have to wait for these neural structures to grow a little more and develop fully.”

“Fully developed?

How much longer does that take?” Shuihua asked curiously.

Camille blushed bashfully, “I…I’m not so sure on that detail.

That’s Lincoln’s design.

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Previously, I didn’t know players could grow neural bundles.”

“Oh.” Shuihua was somewhat disappointed.

As she still had to review for her exams, she planned to only play for today and wouldn’t be online until the next week.

If she couldn’t solve this mystery, it would probably bother her for the whole week.

Camille didn’t want to disappoint Shuihua, so she whispered into her ear a small tease, “It’s not just animals!

Once your neural structures mature, you can also communicate with certain special plants!”

“Oh!!!!”

Shuihua’s eyes lit up in astonishment, her disappointment dissipating instantly, and she felt highly motivated—

“Since these things only grew today, it must be because of our attack on the World’s Foe!

If we intensify the attack and kill more of the World’s Foes, these neural structures should grow faster, right?”

“Attack, attack, attack!”

Shuihua, who loved spearheading, would always rush to the front lines of every battle.

After each battle, she would straighten up the battlefield a bit, check the overall situation, and then dive into the next battle.

With this good news, her energy was on full blast!

Lance looked at the icon of [Eva’s Favour] in his own status bar and tentatively pulled at his hair.

Unfortunately, nothing happened.

He didn’t even seem to have a single extra hair strand, let alone Na’vi neural structures.

“Sigh.” He heaved a sigh and caught up with Shuihua’s pace.

After all, wasn’t it Shuihua who first came up with the idea of curbing the fire and saving Pandora?

He could only envy her, thriving in envy.

…

…

By this stage of the war on Pandora, the outcome was essentially a foregone conclusion.

Thanks to Shuihua’s “connections” and [Eva’s Favour], the [Flag of Savior] had an overwhelming advantage in terms of numbers.

If it were not for a sufficient number of double agents, the [World’s Foe] would have long succumbed.

After all, the most hardcore members in the [World’s Foe] discussion group were at most destruction enthusiasts, not masochists.

Who would be willing to be beaten by thousands or even tens of thousands of people?

Even before the evening arrived, the [World’s Foe] was completely crushed.

The large-scale discussion group with a million members was oddly quiet, less active than a small group of just 50,000 members.

The only ones still talking were essentially all double agents.

Thus, the war flames of Pandora were extinguished in one mirror world after another.

Finally, when the last [World’s Foe] team of merely 300 people was annihilated, endless rays of light descended from the sky, turning into a dazzling Diamond Trophy, marking the end of this war.

The [Flag of Savior] had achieved the final victory.

Thousands of rays of light descended from the sky, nearly converging into a light waterfall.

One [Flag of Savior] team after another, bathed in this light, held up their trophies.

——-

[Scorched Earth War: New Dawn]

You participated in a war to save the world, halting Pandora’s descent into a scorched earth world.

There is still a journey to the world’s rebirth, but the bells of destruction have ceased, and the seeds of hope have been sown.

Received the title: [Saviour of Pandora]

Received boost: All your actions in Pandora related to “planting” will receive an additional boost.

(Survival rate, growth rate increased, harvest cycle shortened, favorable mutations rate increased.)

(Even after leaving the world of Pandora, this effect can still play 20% of its effect)

Additional effect: [Eva’s Favor] effect level +1

——

New title, new special effect.

The title is eye-catching, even though there are many participants, making this title less rare, but the “limited edition” label can compensate for this shortcoming.

The purpose of the special effect is obviously for Eva to encourage players to engage in “farming,” to quickly transform the scorched areas back into green.

However, everyone agrees.

Especially the players from Daxia, they are very satisfied with it.

— This thing is too versatile, “All planting-related actions” means planting trees, farming, growing vegetables, flower planting… anything goes!

The best part is that it can have effect across worlds!

In the virtual world, anything that can take effect “across worlds” is in a league of its own, and its value is unquestionable!

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The grand “lightfall” finally slowly faded.

But the work of [Flag of Salvation] is far from finished.

From the beginning, the mission of [Flag of Salvation] was not to fight a war, but to prevent further desertification of the world.

Firefighting and tree planting were their original objectives.

This sudden war was only fought because of the provocations of the arsonists.

Of course, the rewards gained after the victory are huge.

Without taking a break to eat, Shuihua began to work diligently again.

After sincerely thanking everyone for their support and efforts, she began to count the number of members in each mirror of [Flag of Salvation], and with the help of a large number of commanders, she organized various large teams to transfer across mirrors to get a reasonable distribution of manpower.

Those who put out fires put out fires, those who plant trees plant trees, those who treat animals treat animals.

Moreover, after this victory, these tasks have become much easier.

Previously, when fighting fires and treating animals, players would often be attacked by frightened animals, resulting in extremely low efficiency.

But now, all members of [Flag of Salvation] are Saviors of Pandora, not only are animals not attacking, but they are also taking the initiative to help.

Formerly ferocious beasts have turned themselves into beasts of burden, helping carry supplies and put out fires.

Animals that were originally water and fire incompatible, hunting each other, have now turned their enemies into friends, cooperating wholeheartedly to aid the players.

Planting trees is much easier than before.

Everyone is almost “transplanting” saplings.

What’s more outrageous is: such a casual way of planting, and there is no problem at all!

As soon as the saplings are put down, they can survive, the grass seeds dipped in the water, thrown down and covered with soil, they will sprout when you turn around.

The impact on the world is profound when tens of millions of people work together to do the same thing.

Victoria can clearly see from the background that the process of desertification in the mirror has long since stopped, the fire no longer ignites for no reason, and the scorched forests quickly sprout new green buds.

Even in mirrors where there are no [Flag of Savior] players, the forest is slowly spreading, regaining its territory from the scorched earth.

The proportion of [Scorched Earth World] mirrors has retreated bit by bit from one-third to one-fourth, one-fifth, and even…

one-tenth.

The transformation has not yet stopped, but before logging off, Shuihua received an unexpected reward-

In the sky of all mirrors of Pandora, the gaseous giant star [Boluphimus] simultaneously emitted dazzling light, and a transparent leaderboard familiar to everyone slowly unfolded in the sky.

That is the global total leaderboard of [Ultimate Challenge].

Only the top 10 IDs were displayed on it.

Shawn, with the [Creatures of Water] and one-third progress of [Burst of Strength], had been hanging first for a long time.

But now, a new ID has parachuted in at number one, pushing Shawn to second place—

[1, Shuihua (Daxia) – [Ultimate Trust], [Burst of Strength (1/3)]

The system’s announcement also sounded in the ears of all Pandora players:

“Congratulations to player [Shuihua] for successfully completing the eighth item of the eight ultimate challenges – [Ultimate Trust].”