Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 243 - 243: 241: Unorthodox Way of Advancing

Because at the beginning, players were rushing into the inner circle, and coupled with the change in the way the circle was shrinking, its area was reduced by a quarter again, which resulted in a high density of players in the inner circle now.

The team that ambushed them didn’t come over for the two kills.

This gave Shuihua and Lance critical breathing time.

Lance looked at Shuihua with gratitude, but she didn’t seem to care as she shook her shot arm to see if the negative status of not being able to exert force was greatly affected.

“Thank you,” Lance expressed his gratitude.

But Shuihua skipped over the meaningless small talk and asked directly, “Are you out of danger?”

“Probably not far enough, not yet.”

“Then what are you waiting for?” Shuihua puzzled.

“What do you mean?” Lance was even more confused.

“Revive your teammates!” Shuihua scolded in frustration, “Where are your teammates?!”

She didn’t believe that Lance’s teammates were all wiped out; they were a team of professional players! If they hadn’t been ambushed, it wouldn’t be so easy to die, right?

After Lance revived his teammates, Shuihua decided to leave: “I’m leaving, I won’t bother you at work anymore.”

“Also, no shooting me in the back!”

“Wait!” Lance hurriedly stopped her, “Why don’t you join us?”

“Huh?” It was Shuihua’s turn to be at a loss, “Is that possible?”

“It should be.” Lance explained to Shuihua, “Cloud Dream’s competition rules don’t forbid players from different teams to cooperate.”

“Wouldn’t that mean…” Shuihua immediately used the example, “If you have strong communication skills, you can form an alliance with 10 teams, creating a brigade that sweeps the battlefield and monopolizes the top 10?”

“Uh, this… probably won’t work, right?” Lance was unsure too.

Intuitively, he felt that such an outrageous thing was certainly impossible.

Yet, based on the rules alone, Cloud Dream indeed didn’t forbid it; theoretically, there was a possibility for it to happen…

Lance convinced Shuihua to join their team, and relying on his teammates’ covering fire, they left the dangerous area.

They didn’t think of avenging their fallen teammates, for the same reason – it was too dangerous. Who knew if there were several more ambushers lurking in the corner, waiting to catch them off guard.

It just wasn’t worth it.

So by fate, Shuihua clung to the thighs of professional players.

The audience watching the live stream was completely baffled. What’s going on? Did they miss some special event happening?

How did these two turn from enemies to friends?

Especially that female player, who had just been eager to kill Lance. How did she suddenly start risking her life to save someone?

And hey, your teammates were all killed by your opponents. Aren’t you at all angry? You just joined the “enemy” team like that??

Don’t you feel guilty?!

Of course, Shuihua’s conscience wasn’t hurting. She used the etiquette reserved for outsiders, politely greeting Lance’s teammates and expressing her gratitude.

She didn’t forget to stress repeatedly: If there are any special circumstances, please don’t worry about my safety. I’m just here to play games; I don’t have any attachment to qualifying.

“Don’t let me affect your performance.”

Actually, Lance’s teammates, who had been training with him all the time, were already aware of Shuihua. It was only the substitutes and second team members who needed to get to know her anew.

Shuihua joined Lance’s teammates in the latter half of the competition.

At the same time, inspired players had already begun to take action.

Still on the veteran player forum “Whirlpool,” one hot post after another appeared as players posted the specific time slots of their participation in the competition, calling for friends to form a “Grand Alliance” in advance.

After all, the idea Shuihua described of “forming a brigade, sweeping the whole battlefield” was truly tempting!

Some players even started a thread aiming not to qualify but to form the largest-scale army and experience the thrill of steamrolling. As long as they had fun, it didn’t matter if they qualified in the end!

It couldn’t be random, right?

Or would there be extra games?

Some players were very confident in their strength and had already begun to plan for the final day after the preliminary selection.

They were trying to communicate with some experts they knew, expressing their intentions to cooperate in advance.

On the final day, if they were grouped together, they would cooperate to compete for the final ranking.

In fact, before this, some eSports club managers were already doing this sort of thing.

In short, the casual conversation between Lance and Shuihua completely inspired the players to start exploring more and more complex gameplay!

And these gameplays were actually what Lincoln had expected the players to come up with when he first designed the event.

Otherwise, there was no need to put so many players in one map.

If it was just a small team melee, there wouldn’t be any essential difference between having 1000 or 10000 players on the map.

As players began scheming both inside and outside the game, the exciting plot was just about to start for Lincoln!

He had even prepared a special surprise for the players on the final day!

The collapse sequence of the earth later on was exactly as Super Tomato predicted: it collapsed in segments clockwise.

Super Tomato’s team, taking advantage of their early start, managed to secure a prime location despite losing two people during the first circle shrink, thanks to their ample supply of weapons and ammunition.

Afterwards, they executed a perfect trench warfare strategy, successively repelling 15 waves of enemy attacks and surviving until the end.

However, they started to realize that the tactical advantage of “trench warfare” was coming to an end as teams began throwing Molotov cocktails at them, making it increasingly difficult to hold on to their position.

This made Super Tomato realize that the subsequent players who participated in the competition were likely to have Molotov cocktails with them while assaulting the inner circle.

If there were still players emulating their trench warfare strategy, they would probably have a miserable end.

“But it’s none of my business now.” Super Tomato thought unscrupulously,

“Anyway, we have already advanced.”

The esports club team that Lance belonged to also successfully qualified due to their strong ability.

Shuihua, under the protection of a bunch of professional players, basically did nothing and qualified.

Well… it couldn’t be said that she did nothing. After each battle, Shuihua would clap applaudingly to celebrate and exclaim how amazing they were, providing considerable emotional value for everyone.

When it was confirmed that they had advanced, her teammates were so excited that they almost wanted to shout for their mothers…

They never thought they could qualify like this!

What a great stroke of luck! They were going to buy lottery tickets as soon as they logged out!

The audience felt the same way, having never seen such an absurd way to

qualify!