All Novel Full Chapter 1144
Chapter 1144: Chapter 1046: 8000 Arsonists!_1 Chapter 1144: Chapter 1046: 8000 Arsonists!_1 When Pandora was first opened, Yi was tempted to burn down that giant tree on the horizon.
But later, due to too many people rushing in wanting to complete the [Ultimate Challenge], and the Tree of Life was almost unanimously believed to have an [Ultimate Challenge], he had to abandon this wild idea.
However, in the player forum, there have always been quite a number of players declaring boldly that they want to “set fire to the World Tree”.
The main reason why no one had actually done it before today was not for lack of desire, but inability.
—This is not just burning an ordinary tree.
This is an astonishingly huge tree, tall enough to cross the cloud layers and so thick that it would take six native tribes to surround the trunk!
Without enough, or strong enough kindling, it would be impossible to ignite.
Not to mention the six surrounding Na’vi tribes—they surely wouldn’t sit idle and watch their sacred tree be burned by a group of aliens.
Exaggeration aside, this is a task as challenging as the [Ultimate Challenge].
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But now, someone had actually pulled it off?
“Let’s check it out.” Without a second thought, Lincoln quickly pulled Mavis with him, disappearing from their original spot in a flare of light.
Left behind were three players facing a Na’vi squad, looking at each other in amazement.
Meanwhile, Lincoln and Mavis had already arrived in a new mirror.
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Here, raging flames spread unceasingly up the trunk of the Tree of Life.
Massive, rolling plumes of smoke obscured the entire sky.
The air was filled with a choking aroma.
The forest around the main trunk had long been burned to ashes, and the trees further away withered in the intense heat.
Their leaves curled up, burned, and spread the fire in all directions.
The six surrounding Na’vi tribes had all suffered devastating blows.
The war had already ended.
The surviving life forms, whether they be players, Na’vi or creatures from the forest, were all driven by the fire, fleeing to more secure areas.
But the wildfire was too overwhelming.
Neither humans nor Na’vi could outrun it.
They were soon caught up and met with a brutal death.
“Holy…shit…” Suspended in mid-air and watching the apocalyptic scene unfold, Lincoln managed to utter two words.
It had completely exceeded his expectations.
Looking at the unstoppable spread of the fire, the vast green hell slowly being burnt out, turning into charred earth.
His first thought was to stop it.
Otherwise, this fire could burn for months, destroying all player bases and the forest Na’vi tribes in one breath, and entirely damaging the forest’s ecosystem.
Eva was not omnipotent.
Under normal circumstances, the humidity of Pandora’s forest is high, unable to trigger such a big fire, and consequently has no ecological measures to address this.
However, just because of that, once the abnormal fire started, Eva was completely powerless to stop it.
It could only wait for the fire to burn out all combustible material and extinguish, or—for other external forces to intervene.
Lincoln was that external force.
But as he was about to act, he hesitated.
When Pandora was first launched, he made a solemn promise: the development of Pandora would be entirely left to the intelligent algorithm.
If he intervenes now, he would obviously be breaking that promise.
And moreover—
Being chased by a forest fire…
It was a rare game experience, too!
After experiencing it in person, players’ forest fire preventions would greatly increase.
This was precious fire safety education!
As for the massive real-time computing power needed for this wildfire… consider it an investment in education.
Lincoln diverted his gaze from a group of players running desperately from the fire and looked at the Tree of Life, which was engulfed in flames.
More and more birds nesting higher up the tree, unable to escape in time, were affected, plummeting straight down from the sky.
Before hitting the ground, they were ignited by the high temperature and turned into fireballs.
Lincoln even saw some unlucky players mixed in between.
They’d rather risk climbing upwards than just leave like this.
As a result, due to a miscalculation of the fire’s speed of spread, they were engulfed by the smoke and fire, screaming as they plummeted from the sky.
“Master.” Mavis shook Lincoln’s hand gently, “They’ve arrived to meet you, and they’re about to ring the doorbell.”
Lincoln hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said, “Let them in.
Keep an eye on this and remember to keep a video record.”
“Alright,” Mavis nodded.
Then, Lincoln let out a sigh and vanished into thin air.
The next moment he opened his eyes, he found himself back in reality.
Of course, Lincoln would have liked to keep an eye on the apocalyptic fire, but those scientists, who possessed the world’s most advanced brains yet gave up personal enjoyment to contribute their whole lives to national development, couldn’t wait any longer.
Lincoln couldn’t take the risk.
As Henry approached the gate of the villa, the door opened before he even had the chance to ring the doorbell.
He walked into the villa as if it was nothing out of the ordinary, just in time to see Lincoln and Mavis coming out.
“Are we ready to go?”
“Yeah, let’s go.” Lincoln did not hesitate for a second and went out the door with Henry and got into the car.
He then sat in the back of the car, continuing to pay attention to the inferno through the headband.
“Mavis, have you found out who did this yet?”
“Mmm…” Mavis’s voice was drawn out a bit, “I’ve found them, but…
the list is a bit long.”
Henry, upon hearing their conversation, chimed in, “What’s going on?
What happened?”
“Well, we found an arsonist.” Lincoln answered offhandedly, then opened up the list Mavis had given him.
The moment he opened it, he was struck dumb.
Because this list…
was too long!
There were more than 8000 names on it!
Even just the 36 names of the suspected organizers that were bolded at the top were too many!
Lincoln quickly scanned the list, the 36 organizers were from 6 different countries, and he didn’t recognize a single one of them.
“No, it’s not one, it’s over 8000 arsonists.” Lincoln added, causing Henry’s eyes to widen.
He then began to review the video logs captured by Mavis.
But to his surprise—
These people didn’t have any secret weapons, nor did they use any special techniques.
They simply overwhelmed with force—
They burned it down!
Under normal circumstances, a single instance should house around 3000 people.
Any more than that would be matched into other instances by the system.
However, Cloud Dream doesn’t implement this to relieve server stress, but purely for the sake of the players’ gaming experience.
So theoretically, players can keep inviting others, up to 100,000 if necessary.
The arsonists exploited this mechanism, inviting a frenzy of people into an instance originally limited to 3000, breaking ten thousand.
But rather than engaging with the Na’vi tribe, they immediately began to set the Tree of Life on fire!
What good is a single torch?
But what about 8000?
Or 16,000?
Or 40,000?!
—Obviously, these arsonists prepared a large amount of easily flammable materials in advance.
Over 8000 arsonists, all prepared in advance, their destructive power was astonishing.
The Na’vi tribe attempted to put out the fire.
But a forest fire, once it has started, is not something that the natives can stop.
These arsonists ran ahead of the fire, continually igniting the forest in their wake, fearlessly bringing the fire right to the base of the Tree of Life.
And then—
They climbed the tree and kept igniting!
In their relentless, sacrificial effort, the Tree of Life was finally immersed in flame, creating this apocalyptic inferno!
Lincoln watched this fanatical arson attack, and could do nothing but shake his head in disbelief.
Feeling a rush of awe—
“One can never predict the wacky stunts that players will suddenly pull!”
There was no professional player, no anchor, no Pay-To-Win Lord, nor any superplayers.
It was just a group of ordinary players, yet they had created such an earth-shattering fire.
“Awesome!”
Besides ‘awesome’, Lincoln couldn’t think of anything else to say.
“I must give them an achievement later.”
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By the time they arrived at the hospital, the [Pandora Inferno] had started trending.
Many netizens, who loved seeing a spectacle, not only didn’t avoid it, but started begging for players still in the instance to invite them over.
They wanted to go and watch the excitement.
A small number of kind-hearted players debated about when the fire might finally be put out.
But a large number of fun-loving players started discussing:
Could they possibly fan the flames?
Given the current situation in Pandora, if all the players band together, could they attempt to bring about the apocalypse?