Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1285: Chapter 1158: The Cost of [Choosing the Ugly Contest]_1 Chapter 1285: Chapter 1158: The Cost of [Choosing the Ugly Contest]_1 Within less than 10 minutes, they had gathered 387 people.

But Super Tomato was a bit late to call upon everyone, many players had already committed suicide to return to the respawn point.

Subsequently, without wasting any time, they picked a checkpoint and decided to charge straight for it.

Many of them were big dogs, unable to climb over walls, climb electric poles, or squeeze through small holes… really, completely useless for anything other than charging head-on.

Once the time had been agreed upon, they prepared everything necessary.

The [First Ascend Camp] discussion group counted down from 10 seconds, and all the cats and dogs sprinted off at the same time!

The oddly silent Modified Human Police were unimpressed, but the Law Enforcement Robots quickly became alerted, with their heads flashing red warning lights.

Each with a net in one hand and a trident in the other, they looked quite imposing.

Super Tomato dashed across the police line, skillfully dodged the net trap with a prepared side-jump, his claws emitted a harsh noise against the concrete surface due to friction, and managed to duck past the attempted throat-lock by the trident, successfully passing the blockade of the first Law Enforcement Robot.

He immediately noticed: The Modified Human Police stood up silently, their shock guns sparked with bright arcs, and three other Law Enforcement Robots also pulled out their batons and nets and began to converge upon him.

There’s no way it would be this easy to get past the checkpoint.

Super Tomato understood this clearly.

Continuing to charge in would only “activate” more Modified Human Police and Law Enforcement Robots, the weapons they used might also become more powerful – this is what others had found out before.

So what he should do is, before he’s caught, or even killed, get as far in as he possibly could!

With no harm done he crossed the 5-meter mark, but was hit by a baton when he reached the 10-meter mark.

At the 17-meter mark, he was struck by a shock gun, his body convulsed, and he foamed at the mouth.

Due to inertia, he rolled forward another few meters like a ragged sack, a large section of his fur was rubbed raw.

When he finally came to a stop, Super Tomato had no strength left to fight back.

But by this time, he had already crossed the 20-meter line from the checkpoint.

“Wait for me!!”

Suddenly, a harsh voice came from behind him, and then something fell from the sky, crashing onto Super Tomato with a “bang” sound.

Super Tomato instantly felt a sharp pain in his ribs and spat out a mouthful of blood.

When he turned his head, he saw that it was an Erha (a dog breed) that had crashed onto him.

“Brother…cough, who are you?”

“First Camp!

Call me Mr.

Ha!”

“Mr.

ƝονǤᴑ.ƈօ

Second, how do you do.”

“What Mr.

Second!” Erha argued with his tongue sticking out.

But then, a large net fell from the sky and swept away the two dogs.

Before his vision went dark, Super Tomato saw one dog after another rushing past him in a flash, heading towards the distance.

The Law Enforcement Robots sprinted, the Modified Human Police dropped their shock guns, pulled out firearms, and began to rattle off rubber bullets.

‘Hmm, the development group is rather gentle this time.’

Super Tomato subconsciously thought, ‘They aren’t even using live ammunition in this situation, are they afraid of stirring up a nest of animal lovers?’

When he opened his eyes again, he was back at the respawn point in Huang Liang Town.

Of course, this was just some internal grumbling.

He wasn’t interested in bringing up the topic in the live streaming room.

“Brothers, we did it!”

“Once you cross about 20 meters, you enter the multiplayer world!

It really can be played online!”

“This Chang’an City, we’re going to conquer it!!”

Although Super Tomato was grumbling internally, he was excited outwardly, and his words effectively set off a wave of howling in the live streaming room.

Everyone immediately began to envision tens of thousands of cats and dogs charging in, creating an unstoppable flood overwhelming the enemies.

Yet, Super Tomato remained calm: “If we want to succeed, the best opportunity is probably tomorrow evening.”

“Not only can we gather enough players, Cloud Dream is still on vacation, if the development group hasn’t prepared in advance, it’ll be too late to respond by then.”

“Unless Lincoln drags himself out of bed in the middle of the night…”

Upon saying this, Super Tomato paused suddenly: “Ah?

That actually sounds rather interesting!”

There was a burst of laughter in the live streaming room.

Surrounded by the laughter of the live-streamer community, Super Tomato shared this important information with the [First Ascend Camp] discussion group.

Then, without any hesitation, he gave up his current trial data, returned to the initial interface, and changed his character’s appearance.

Although he was interested in this, he had made a promise to stream the new game, so he kept streaming.

What if higher-level players have useful transportation tools- like the glider that appeared in the trailer?

This time, he’s choosing a cat!

A big cat!

*

Choosing mode: [Cats and Dogs Together]

Character Creation: Cat

“Random!

Roll one that’s handsome!”

He wanted to roll a basic character that met the requirements first, and then fine-tune it.

But the randomly rolled cat…

“Why is it so ugly?”

Super Tomato stared at the skinny, yellow-furred, severely malnourished cat with a crooked face, immediately flopping backwards in horror.

It was not worth modifying at all and went straight to the next round of randomization!

“So ugly!”

Super Tomato reclined once again.

This time the cat appeared was not skinny, but it was covered in spots, had a scarred face, and a half-bald tail…

It was equally outrageously ugly!

Super Tomato defied the odds, randomizing again.

Bald spots, eye boogers, crooked mouth, it was a complete mess, simply unbearable…

“It’s still so ugly!”

The fourth randomization.

The cat that appeared this time was completely bald like rubber, only the front chest had some rough hair, the tail was like a mouse, and the face was wrinkled.

“This never ends, does it?!!” Super Tomato fell apart a little.

The fifth randomization!

Its eyes were nearly invisible, yellow nostrils, flat-headed, and the expression was listless.

“…” Super Tomato fell silent.

He started doubting his life: “Five continuous randomizations, every time I get a super ugly cat, what are the odds of that?”

The viewers were all laughing hysterically, not bothering to answer his question.

Super Tomato hit the button defiantly, initiating the sixth randomization.

Yet another hideously ugly cat appeared before the viewers.

Super Tomato weakly asked:

“What about the sixth time?”

The viewers’ response was only three words ——

[Hahahaha]

The seventh, eighth, ninth…

Eighteen consecutive randomizations, each time a super ugly cat appeared!

Super Tomato completely lost it: “Am I fucking cursed?!”

While the streamer was losing his mind, the viewers were thoroughly entertained ——

“Hahaha, that poor guy!”

“This definitely isn’t a coincidence!

I bet this is targeting by the development team!”

“Ugliest contest!

This is karma haha!”

“Hurry up and contact Lincoln!

Stick it to Victoria!”

…

Super Tomato didn’t contact Lincoln, nor did he report the problem to customer service.

He quietly returned to the initial page, chose an adult Maine Coon, and began customizing the new image one item at a time.

*

On the other side, Victoria saw that Golden Retriever with a seriously low IQ again.

After a few seconds of silence, she asked uncomfortably to the viewers, “Do I have to keep getting tortured by this stupid dog?”

God knows how painful it is to play a game with a mentally challenged dog…

Walking on a log bridge to another building, it fell off three times!

Nearly every trap met on the road was triggered one hundred percent of the time!

It was of no help in finding hidden items at all.

If it did help, it must be because there was food inside!

…

After several days of testing the game, Victoria felt utterly tortured.

Now she really wanted to switch to a smarter dog.

Even if it couldn’t help, at least it wouldn’t add chaos!!!

Unfortunately, the viewers’ answer was always the same——

“Of course!!!”