The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 382: In the face of the absolute power gap... (Seeking monthly votes!)

"???"

"Boss, think twice!"

"No! Absolutely not!"

"You still say that we are the ones who led the child astray?"

……

Xu Meng's words made everyone in the group unable to hold back, and they all advised him to think twice before acting.

The security department in particular - which was actually a department composed of employees from the military region and the National Security Bureau - exploded on the spot.

The department boss got up without saying a word and went straight to Xu Meng's office!

Even Lu Ming, the proposer of the plan, was a little confused when he heard this.

For the first time, he felt that this plan might be a bit risky.

——He felt it was completely OK and there was no problem at all.

Even after being rejected several times, I still refuse to give up.

But Xu Meng said he wanted to go too, and Lu Ming immediately felt that this plan was a bit inappropriate and the risk was too high!
"Boss...how about we forget it? We won't bomb it anymore."

he said proactively.

Other members of the development team also said: "Yes, yes, we won't blow it up."

"No more explosions, no more explosions, safety first."

But unfortunately, it's too late to say this now.

Xu Meng said decisively: "Three ships, three captains."

"One for you, one for Xiao Meng, and one for me."

"It's settled! Find some skilled shipwrights and build the boat as soon as possible."

"I have something urgent to do. Let's talk later."

After saying that, Xu Meng closed the office group, pinched Xiao Meng's soft face, and returned to the holographic conference room to continue the meeting.

A bunch of people in the office group were left looking at each other in bewilderment.

After a long silence, Yang Wan spoke again: "Take the proposal back and revise it. Double the funds used for security. No, triple it!"

Lu Ming honestly withdrew the proposal.

Everyone dispersed.

However, they did not start working immediately. Instead, they went to their respective small groups to discuss passionately for a while before revising the proposal and adjusting the next work arrangements based on the boss's opinions.

……

……

When Lu Ming was struggling with Xu Meng's request, the second day of live broadcast of the [Ocean Survival Competition] started again.

However, from this day on, he, the head of the project team, no longer needed to serve as the commentator himself.

He was replaced by Yang Jun.

Lu Ming threw him into the studio and asked him to cooperate with the host in the live broadcast.

At this time, the situation in the sea area where the competition was taking place was undergoing subtle changes.

The participating players began to show obvious divisions.

The competition server is open 24 hours a day, but except for the start of the competition when all participants are required to be online, they only need to be online for 4 hours a day to meet the requirements.

——It doesn’t matter which 4 hours they are, but they must be 4 consecutive hours. You cannot suddenly go offline after going online.

You can't escape death this way.

But it can greatly reduce the entry threshold for players.

This is also based on previous experience. During the [Age of Madness Global Survival Competition], many players reported that the game took too long and was very tiring to play.

But at the same time, you don't have to log off after being online for 4 hours.

If you want to continue playing, of course you can stay online and increase your survival time.

——The time for refreshing supplies and supply boxes at sea is fixed.

The longer you are online, the more supplies and supply boxes you can salvage, and the higher the chance of getting good stuff.

You can also have more time to fish.

Accumulate supplies, expand the raft, make allies...

These are all advantages of long online time.

But at the same time, the longer you are online, the stronger the attacks from marine creatures you encounter will be.

The probability of being hunted by other players will also greatly increase!

——This is by no means an unfounded worry.

The record of 233 kills in one day by the Honest Fisherman is still fresh in our minds.

There are also hundreds of reinforced [raft floating islands] that are like giant beasts, swimming slowly in various sea areas.

When you see a player, invite him to join you.

The player who was hit had only two choices:

Accept the invitation to join and nail your own raft on to become the foundation of the floating island.

Or if he refused the invitation, he would be chased by a group of people, hacked to death, and the raft would be stolen.

In the end, the raft still has to become the foundation of the floating island.

Only a very small number of floating islands are complete pacifists, spending all their time building and beautifying the floating islands and having no intention of fighting at all.

Under such threats, many players would log off immediately after being online for 4 hours.

Never stay on this ocean for long.

There was not much difference between these two completely different ideas of participating in the competition at the beginning.

But as the game days passed, the number showing the number of surviving players on the event page became smaller and smaller, and the gap in combat power and resources between the two types of people became larger and larger!
By the seventh day of the [Ocean Survival Competition], the gap had become so large that it was completely unbridgeable.

Because the situation of players banding together has developed to an extreme!
Under the pressure of the floating island group, a large number of players who want to stay online for a long time have to take the initiative to form a group.

Players who spend too little time online...

Too little online time, insufficient resource reserves, and too weak overall combat effectiveness.

In this process of forming a group, they were naturally abandoned.

As a result, they became the first players to be eliminated.
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Zhang Siming and his teammates also participated in this competition.

And they are very sure: if they want to win in the end, they must extend their online time as much as possible.

However, Dream Team has been slow to launch small-team competitions, so the club cannot transform even if it wants to. They have to spend a lot of time and energy on "Foreign Exchange" competitions.

It just so happens that the spring season of "Foreign Exchange" is coming soon.

The time they can squeeze out to participate in the [Ocean Survival Competition] is really limited - they have already done their best to meet the bottom line of 4 hours a day.

Even with this, I still have to worry about affecting my performance in the game and being scolded by fans.

Their reaction speed, physical fitness and fighting skills are all quite good.

On the first day of the competition, six people, each with a wooden spear, successfully defeated a 13-man team.

Moreover, no one on our side died, and we achieved a perfect 0 for 13 result.

At that time they still thought: Although they had little time online, they might be able to make it to the end by relying on their operations!
But in the next few days, every time they went online, their opponents became stronger and more difficult!
Until the seventh day.

They also welcomed their own doomsday - a thick fog rose over the sea that day.

——This did not surprise them.

In the past few days, all kinds of extreme weather have occurred, including thunderstorms, huge waves, typhoons, blizzards...

Everyone speculated that this was not only to eliminate more players and speed up the game process, but also for DreamHub to take the opportunity to test its new game "The Ocean".

Compared with those extreme climates, thick fog can be said to be a very mild climate.

The only problem is: it severely affects the field of view.

On the raft's 15-meter-high observation deck, Zhang Siming reluctantly put away his telescope and informed his teammates below: "No! I can't see anything!"

His teammates comforted him: "Don't worry, this is a good thing for us!"

"Our ships are too bad. We have almost no means of long-range attack and no means of speeding up. When we encounter ships with good maneuverability and crossbows and cannons, we can only be targets."

“It’s better this way now!”

“We can’t see others, and others can’t see us.”

"If you're lucky, you can even grab a good ship!"

Zhang Siming was not comforted by his teammates' words. The loss of vision still made him very uneasy, and he kept observing the surrounding sea.

Then, he really saw the target!
"Look to the right! There are enemies!" Zhang Siming loudly reminded his teammates.

——On the sea, if you don’t take out a compass and look carefully, you won’t be able to tell the directions of east, south, west, and north.

Fortunately, the teammates were in sync, thinking that the bow was up and the stern was down, and they quickly understood that he was referring to the right side.

Everyone turned their heads and saw a ship!

And it was not their open "raft boat" with four layers stacked up on top of each other, but a real boat wrapped in a "shell"!
"This ship is twice as big as ours! It must have good stuff!"

"Robbed?"

"Grab it! You must grab it!"

"Give it a try and your bicycle will turn into a motorcycle!"

"Go, go, go!"

Zhang Siming on the observation deck also jumped down quickly.

He jumped onto the boat fully armed, wearing leather armor, carrying a scimitar, a flintlock rifle at his waist, and four short spears on his back.

——If you want to get close to your opponent quickly, you can’t just row your four-story “sea villa” slowly over there.

At first they were worried that their opponents would discover them and shoot them on the way.

They held their flintlock rifles and bows tightly all the way.

But they were incredibly lucky; the ship didn't make any noise, allowing them to find their way to the side.

Several people sighed quietly: "What good luck!"

At the same time, he took out the hook used to salvage supplies and threw it over the side of the ship.

In the endless sea fog, six pirates climbed up the hull quietly.

Finally, six men leaped onto the deck at the same time, drew their scimitars and flintlocks, and pointed them at...

Air?

There was no one on the deck of this ship!
No, not just the deck.

The whole ship was eerily quiet!
"No one? An empty ship?" Zhang Siming was surprised.

The teammates were also a little confused: "How could this happen? When the player goes offline, won't the ship disappear?"

"It can't be..." Another teammate subconsciously looked at the endless thick fog outside.

"It can't be a ghost ship, right?"

"It's hard to say. No one knows what's in the minds of the Dream Building development team." Zhang Siming shook his head. "Anyway, let's search first."

Several people searched from the bow to the stern of the ship, but found nothing.

Couldn't even find the entrance to the cabin.

Several people stood at the stern in confusion, not knowing what was going on.

Just as they were discussing what to do next, Zhang Siming suddenly heard a special voice, which seemed to be——

Rumor?

The teammates were still talking.

Zhang Siming raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet and listen attentively.

Seeing him like this, his teammates also reacted and listened attentively.

The sound seemed to come from...the side and rear?

The moment he and his teammates turned their heads, they saw a huge iron ball wider than the ship breaking through the thick fog and smashing towards them!
"Fuck!"

Several people reacted very quickly and subconsciously ran away from the stern!

Almost in the next second!
The amazing iron ball passed by them and smashed the entire stern into pieces!

It flew a long way with its remaining momentum until it disappeared in the thick fog again.

The broken pieces of wood hit them like shrapnel.

Zhang Siming is indeed a master with superb reflexes. Even though he had just brushed shoulders with death and there were so many obstacles, he still saw clearly -

Behind that huge iron ball, there is a thick iron chain!

He immediately realized that this iron ball was made into a weapon and thrown out by someone!

This empty ship...

It's just bait!

It is even possible that this bait was temporarily made after the thick fog rose!
Whoever gets on board will be smashed into a meat patty by this huge iron ball!
After realizing these things, Zhang Siming immediately reminded his teammates: "Keep running! Don't stop!"

The ship was already tilting.

The wind sounded again.

The giant iron ball that had just disappeared in the thick fog was thrown out again!
This time, the target was the middle part of the bait boat!

At their current moving speed, there is no time to dodge!
“Jump off the boat!!!”

Zhang Siming made a prompt decision.

But just as they jumped up, the iron ball arrived.

Six people were hit by the big iron ball at the same time and were knocked away instantly!

The person is still in the air and the health bar is already empty.

The souls of the dead even appeared in the air.

The teammates looked at their bodies in confusion as they slid out a long parabola and disappeared into the depths of the thick fog.

Zhang Siming stared at the back, hoping to see his opponent whom he had never met before everything was over.

He really wanted to know—

Who on earth could be so sinister? !

and……

It would take hundreds of people working for days and nights to make such a big iron ball, right? ?
With so many resources, just use them to make this iron ball?

Wouldn't it be more reliable to use it as a cannon than this thing? !
(End of this chapter)