Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 627: Chapter 594: Lincoln is quite skilled at messing with people’s mentality!

Yi wailed for a long time but ultimately had no choice but to accept his fate and start again.

What’s painful is that he even carried all 600 pieces of wood with him, which he completely lost when he died an explosive death.

Now, he had to start chopping trees with the trashy copper axe and start climbing technology again.

This made him determined that when he found platinum next time, he would definitely make double pickaxes and axes!

One set to carry, and another set to leave at home!

He also needed to use a chest to store them!

Because when he re-entered the world, he found that the coins and seeds he had thrown on the ground had disappeared, along with the death of his character.

…

Yi regrouped and went back to chopping trees.

On Super Tomato’s side, he had already finished watching three episodes of the TV series.

Aside from the noise of monsters roaring and bumping into the house, safety was not a problem at all.

But after watching the third episode, while waiting for the ending song to play, Super Tomato couldn’t help but doubt:

‘Why did nothing happen?’

‘Is it because Lincoln didn’t make any preparations at all, just leaving a loophole for others to exploit?’

‘Or is it that the [Special Progress] reward is actually the main thing, and ordinary endurance gives very average rewards?’

Super Tomato couldn’t figure it out.

As he was puzzled, he suddenly heard the sound of wooden walls being knocked.

It wasn’t the sound of monsters hitting the wall, but the sound of a pickaxe hitting wood. Super Tomato turned his head and saw a piece of wall being shattered and turned back into a piece of wood, which was picked up by someone.

And the one who picked up the wood was – the NPC Guide!

“What are you doing?” Super Tomato was shocked. The NPC was dismantling my house?

The Guide ignored him, continuing to swing the pickaxe and dismantle the house.

Super Tomato didn’t try to stop him.

Firstly, the matchbox house was not worth keeping; secondly, he was curious about what the Guide was up to.

The Guide skillfully dismantled Super Tomato’s house, then formally began to build his own house.

Just like that, Super Tomato watched the Guide tear down the “construction materials” from his house and build a house for himself.

After building the house, the Guide took an axe and went to cut trees on his own.

Super Tomato remained indifferent, watching from a distance.

The Guide finished cutting trees, picked a plot of land, and started digging underground. In no time, he returned with minerals, went back into the house, made an anvil with the materials, and upgraded his axe, sword, and an entire set of iron armor.

Then, he continued to cut trees with the upgraded tools, expanding the house.

Looking at the busy Guide, Super Tomato tentatively guessed: “Is he… teaching me how to play the game?”

“But isn’t this game for adults? Is it necessary to demonstrate like teaching a child?”

In the live broadcast room, water friends who watched the series together commented:

“There are mentally challenged adults too, I mean people with incomplete intellectual development!”

“System: Motionless for two hours, one stupid, assessment completed, [Accessibility Mode] activated.”

“Guide: A useless hero who only watches series, can’t rely on him, have to do it myself.”

…

Even with the barrage of comments relentlessly mocking him, Super Tomato was still unmoved, and even seemed indifferent. He walked into the Guide’s newly-expanded house and directly moved into the room with windows.

Then—

Continued watching the series.

But this time, things didn’t go so smoothly!

As night fell, monsters began to attack. Super Tomato saw for the first time what kind of creatures were coming—

He looked at the huge eyeballs in the sky, as big as human heads, dragging dense, bloody veins and nerves, flying chaotically in the night sky, and subconsciously retreated three steps, away from the window.

“What the hell is that thing?!”

Before he could finish speaking, two huge eyeballs in the sky suddenly turned and stared straight at him!

The next moment, the two large eyeballs made a U-turn in the air and rushed straight at him!

“Bang!”

The eyeball hit the window and wooden wall, then bounced far away.

Super Tomato clearly saw the eyeball smash into the glass, shattering its lens like tofu, leaving behind a thick layer of blood and an unidentified liquid on the window, slowly flowing down the glass.

“When I was watching the series earlier, these things were the ones bumping into my house just one wall away?” Just thinking about it made Super Tomato’s scalp tingle!

“Thank God they couldn’t break in. If I got hit by those things, I’d have to take eighteen baths tonight!”

—The glass and wood continued to exhibit their unreasonably strong resistance, and the eyeball monsters could not break in.

This provided him with a valuable sense of security.

Super Tomato forced himself to look away, no longer looking out the window, and tried his best to ignore the creepy monster.

But as soon as he turned around, he heard a crisp “click” of a door opening.

Raising his eyes, the Guide was wearing iron armor, holding an iron sword, ready to go out and fight the monster?!

“Are you crazy!”

Super Tomato took three steps at once, quickly rushing to close the door.

But as soon as the door closed, the Guide turned around and opened it again, continuing to fight the zombies.

Super Tomato saw zombies for the first time, the blood-soaked creatures with rotting flesh and exposed bones looked disgusting as they roared with their broken vocal cords and mindlessly charged into the room.

This shocking scene made him retreat again and again.

“This is just too disgusting!”

He took out his copper sword to cut down the zombies to clean up the environment.

But he felt too nauseated to do it…

Before he could hesitate further, another group of monsters appeared in front of him – Goblin Warriors, Goblin Thieves, Goblin Archers, Goblin Javelin Throwers, and the most special one, which only appeared in the current Easter egg mode triggered by Super Tomato – Goblin Bombards!

Just as Super Tomato was about to retreat to his room, he saw a Goblin Bombard precisely throwing a basketball-sized bomb at his feet.

“!!!”

Super Tomato practically rolled and crawled, running frantically and closing the door of his small room.

But before he could be grateful for the slow burn of the bomb’s fuse, there was a loud “boom” and the floor, wooden walls, and room door were all blown to pieces!

Super Tomato was also blown two meters away and was critically injured.

Struggling to get up, he saw two more bombs being thrown at him.

“Damn…”

“Boom!”

Super Tomato’s soul left his body, seeing his corpse and the entire room being shattered by the bombs.

Even after killing him, the Goblin Bombard didn’t stop but continued to throw bombs until everything built by the Guide was leveled to the ground, then stopped leisurely.

Looking at the [Select World] page in front of him, Super Tomato took a while to adjust his mood before continuing to speak:

“Alright, that makes sense.”

“It’s always the players working for the NPCs, not the other way around.”

“It’s normal for the Guide’s work to be destroyed, but… Lincoln is still as sick as ever!”

“There’s obviously an easier way: just let the monsters throw bombs and blow up the house. But no! He has to make you think you can get a free house without any effort first, and then blow up both you and the house together…”

“He’s so good at messing with people’s minds!”

Super Tomato complained while re-entering the world, finally starting his real adventure.

Meanwhile, the viewers in the live-streamer community had been holding back for so long, they finally got the chance to show off their skills, with comments jumping out crazily:

“Don’t start digging right away, go around kicking jars and looking for chests!”

“Don’t build houses randomly, just follow the template the NPC gives you. You can use the panel to check if your house is up to standard.”

“Fishing! Fishing! You can fish for good items!”

“Don’t dig mines randomly, look for minecart tracks, follow the tracks to find mining ores. It’s more efficient.”

…

During Super Tomato’s binge-watching time, the other streamers had not been idle.

They had been tirelessly exploring, spending a lot of energy to summarize very simple but incredibly efficient tips for starting a new game.

Super Tomato followed their advice, looked around, and explored towards the extremely huge, dense, and almost several dozen times bigger than ordinary giant trees in the distance.

Based on his experience, these obvious “wonders” were made for players to explore, and there might be good rewards.

…

…

Three hours after Terraria was launched, Super Tomato had just begun his journey in expert mode.

But at the same time, a large number of [expert mode] players were giving up the difficulty, returning to [normal mode], and playing the game “like normal humans”.

The number of [expert mode] players quickly shrank by more than two-thirds.

Of course, some people decided to “completely give up expert mode and forfeit the [Survival Challenge]”.

Others planned to “first play in normal mode, become skilled, and then challenge expert mode.”

Yi used the latter excuse to explain to his viewers.

Unfortunately, the viewers relentlessly replied:

“No!”