Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 675: Chapter 642: A Bunch of Troublemakers, Can’t Control Them!

“I’ve heard of a method called [Thumbs Up for Distance Calculation] that can estimate whether you can escape from under a nuclear bomb. I’m not sure how reliable it is, though.”

Drawing a Snake With Horns and teammates had no intention of hiding for a guerrilla war. They were swaggering and ran to the rooftop of the tallest building of the town. They were looking in the direction of the anti-aircraft hole, ready to witness the nuclear explosion.

Being surrounded by large forces and boldly exposing themselves outdoors pose considerable risks.

But the real question is, which one is more important? Life or witnessing a nuclear explosion?

Do you even need to think about it?

Of course, it’s to witness the nuclear explosion!

Any hesitation lasting even for a second would be betraying the identity of being players.

A suitcase-sized Nuclear Bomb Controller was haphazardly placed up on the parapet of the rooftop. Daxia players were constantly watching the countdown on it.

When it reached the last 10 seconds, everyone started to count down excitedly:

“10!”

“9!”

“8!”

…

This is a nuclear explosion, the pinnacle of human weapons. No one would hope to see it, nor would anyone want to, in reality. But in the virtual world, who doesn’t want to witness it?!

During the final seconds, even the System notification sounded in advance——

[Nuclear weaponry is ready. Target has been recalibrated. Launch tube is open. Final countdown—]

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[Nuclear bomb has been ignited. It will reach the battlefield in 3 seconds.]

[Nuclear bomb controller has been redeployed.]

The controller in front of Drawing a Snake With Horns suddenly cut off its power supply and was damaged, turning into a piece of scrap metal.

But they have no time to care about it. Everyone is looking up at the sky——

Up there, a super-fast missile cut through the sky. In the blink of an eye, it flew from the horizon to the near view. Cloud Dream had added an incredibly exaggerated visual effect for this missile. The spectacular tail flame was like a meteor falling from the sky, and it entered the sight of everyone present.

The French players guarding outside the anti-aircraft hole felt something was wrong as they watched the direction of the falling nuclear bomb!

The next moment, a bright system warning popped up in front of him——

[Incoming nuclear strike detected. Please take immediate evasive action! Please take immediate evasive action!]

At this moment, all the French players outside and inside the anti-aircraft hole, a third of the Ottoman Republic players in the adjacent area, the Izumo players who were drowning or about to drown on the opposite river, and the Italian players who were chasing too close, all received this warning!

“What?”

All of them raised their heads with their eyes wide open.

On the shore, Izumo player “Da Sen” instinctively raised his thumb to measure the distance. Still, seeing the flame tail being pulled straight down vertically, he felt there was no need…

This is the only thing he could think of due to the 3 seconds. It was absolutely insufficient to do anything!

The next moment——

He saw light.

Endless light, endless heat exploded in front of his eyes.

At the moment of the explosion, he didn’t hear the anticipated explosion sound.

Not only was there no sound of the explosion, but the world also seemed to fall into a silence, no sound at all. He could only see the exploding light, the instant subsidence of the earth, and the river that evaporated completely.

He didn’t even realize when he died, only transformed into a conscious state.

Indeed, there was no feeling at all. He smoothly switched from a living state to a conscious state, so he could not even see his body when he lowered his head, only a faint shadow on the ground.

——He was too close to the epicenter. He was vaporized in an instant when the nuclear explosion occurred.

[T2 War Zone-Izumo has exited the battlefield.]

The Italian players who were a bit farther away were fortunate to see a more detailed scene of the explosion——

First, there was a strong, expanding light, followed by a visible shock wave lifting off the ground. However, what arrived sooner than the shock wave was a massive roar sound, three to four times the human hearing comfort zone.

Fortunately, this torment only occurred for a moment——the next moment, they lost their hearing.

The powerful shock wave immediately followed, effortlessly blowing away everything on the ground: people, cars, cannons, rocks…

The Italian players suffered devastating losses, with the death toll skyrocketing!

Those who were lucky enough not to die found themselves experiencing the terrifying heat wave that followed!

They only felt the rapid rise in temperature for 2 seconds before the System cut off their temperature sensation.

But they could see their health rapidly dwindling, the guns in their hands glowing red, and the cars that had toppled over beside them were melting!

The wheels of the cars were visibly turning into a sticky liquid at an alarming rate.

In their attribute column, [Deafness], [Burns], [Bleeding], [Radiation], [Fracture], [Serious Injury]…a long list of negative statuses rapidly appeared.

And then… death.

Only those further away, Drawing a Snake With Horns and the players surrounding them, were lucky enough to witness the entire explosion:

The intense flame rising from the ground, the mushroom cloud that emerged, the spreading shockwave, the collapsing buildings, the tiny figures being blown away like ants…

The strong shockwave even reached them, the earth shuddering violently, all the glass in the small town breaking into pieces, and the strong wind blowing their hair, forcing them to squint their eyes.

Even so, Drawing a Snake With Horns didn’t forget what he always wanted to do:

He closed his left eye, held up his thumb to gauge the size of the mushroom cloud, and used his right eye to see if he could completely block the view.

The result was: he couldn’t.

“Fuck?! Are you serious?”

He quickly opened his status bar and found a new negative status: [Radiation].

[Radiation]: Your body is being exposed to nuclear radiation, slowly losing vitality. If you don’t leave the radiation environment, the speed of loss will accelerate over time. If you continue to be exposed to radiation for 10 minutes, this status will become permanent.

Drawing a Snake With Horns watched his health bar for a while and realized that it dropped by only 1% per minute, so he relaxed almost immediately.

“Keep it draining. I don’t even know if I’ll survive the next 10 minutes.”

The trembling of the earth and the sound of the nuclear explosion resonated across the battlefield.

Even at the distant seaport, the players on the cargo ship felt the sea becoming very rough, and the ship started to rock significantly.

“Awesome!” Daxia players, although unsteady, expressed their admiration.

“I really want to see what the view is like at the epicenter of the nuclear explosion.”

“Now that you’ve said it, I also feel a bit eager to get bombed… It must feel amazing!”

…

But for those who were bombed, it didn’t feel amazing at all.

Inside the anti-aircraft hole, it was total chaos.

Actually, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say it was littered with corpses—The moment the nuclear bomb exploded, the earth sank into a huge deep pit. Even the nuclear-proof anti-aircraft hole couldn’t completely block this terrible explosion. The heavy iron blast doors were already in a semi-molten state, and half of the anti-aircraft hole had collapsed.

French players in the anti-aircraft hole, those who were close by were practically all killed instantly, only those deeper inside were lucky enough to survive.

This round of attack reduced their numbers by more than half!

But it wasn’t over yet, the [Radiation] status at their location is much fierce than that of Drawing a Snake With Horns! Their health bars were visibly dropping rapidly.

Turner, who put on the protective suit early, was in a slightly better condition. The radiation damage could not threaten him for the time being.

—- Three seconds from the countdown, an outside French player sent a message down before dying.

The French players all prayed, “God bless me.”

Only Turner quickly got up and put on the half-worn protective suit and locked it tight.

Turner looked at his teammate who understood foreign languages and couldn’t help but mock, “How about that?”

This brother who understood ancient Daxia was still in shock, endlessly murmuring “Oh my god…”

Looking at the collapsing anti-aircraft hole, where rocks kept falling, and the chaotic soldiers looking for protective suits, Turner really couldn’t swallow his anger.

He naively opened the friend interface and questioned the contact person from yesterday’s alliance—

“Is this your so-called alliance?! Is that how you treat your allies?!”

Yi immediately replied:

“Ah, there might be a little misunderstanding here. I can only represent myself and not all Daxia players, I don’t have that authority.”

“As for me personally, I genuinely wanted to form an alliance with you. Didn’t you see me desperately opposing it before?”

“But they just wouldn’t listen to me, so I genuinely had no other option…”

“Sigh, a bunch of stubborn people! I can’t control them!”