Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 886: Chapter 842 Say it properly, don’t play music…_1 Chapter 886: Chapter 842 Say it properly, don’t play music…_1 “Ahhhhhhh~~~~”

The group around the hole were the first to suffer.

They let out a shout as they and the ground they stood on fell into the raging water below, swept by the tumultuous current into the depths!

They vanished in the blink of an eye.

The ground continued to collapse.

The players who hadn’t fallen in the first wave began to retreat, backing away from the widening hole.

But in the midst of their retreat, several people suddenly stopped.

They quickly calculated, tightened the gourd around their bodies, and leapt into the hole!

Before long, the collapsing hole was flooded by the spreading lake water.

All they could see was a whirlpool, continuously draining the water from the lake into the underground city.

The audience in the live broadcasting room were given quite a scare—

Victoria, Shuihua, and Lance fell into the collapsing hole immediately, the live broadcast lens were instantly filled with mud and rushing water.

Everything was spinning and nothing could be clearly seen.

Even their intense screams were quickly replaced by “glub glub glub—”

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The one thing everyone could be certain of was that the anchor was currently experiencing a thrilling plummet and could potentially meet their end at any moment!

However, something unexpected occurred—among the two shaking lenses, one quickly stabilized—

In the chaotic torrents and muddy water, Lance managed to regain his balance!

Not only did he regain his balance, but he also oriented himself with the flow of water and grabbed hold of Shuihua!

Shuihua, who was frantically spinning around in the water, suddenly felt her ankle being pulled, followed by her belt, and finally, her arm.

She struggled with panic while forcing her eyes open.

The moment she opened her eyes, she saw Lance’s face mere inches away from hers.

In the turbulent water, Lance’s face was distorted by the rushing current, making him seem foreign to Shuihua for an instant.

It was precisely because of this momentary strangeness that Shuihua experienced an unexpected sensation.

For the first time, she realized that this childhood friend who had grown up with her…

seemed rather attractive?

Shuihua blinked in the water and stopped struggling.

But before she could take a better look, their situation changed drastically once again—they had shot out of the hole!

Underneath them sprawled the vast Mechanism City!

The lake water pouring out of the hole descended like a waterfall, crashing onto the bronze buildings and ground of Mechanism City.

It created a spectacular waterfall.

They were currently plummeting down this waterfall headfirst!

From Shuihua’s perspective, it was as if the entire Bronze City was falling from the sky, bearing down on them with destructive force!

She instinctively recoiled, bracing herself for imminent death.

However, Lance vividly displayed the fierce determination of a professional player who refuses to give up until the last second—he held Shuihua’s arm and desperately tried to find balance by stepping on the water surface.

He attempted to use his lightness skill, [Cross the River with a Reed – Advanced], to cling to life.

But all this was futile—there was no force to borrow from in the water, and he was dragging along another person who wouldn’t let go.

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Even if he used grandmaster-level lightness skills, they likely wouldn’t suffice.

It wasn’t until the ground was nearly within reach that Lance gave up his struggles.

But he still held onto Shuihua, turning his body to land on his back, preparing to take the impact.

The streets of Bronze City spread out in all directions.

The incoming water quickly spread throughout the city.

Even in courtyards surrounded by walls, the accumulated water was no more than three meters deep, hardly cushioning their fall.

The only good news was that the water flow and debris had broken the surface tension, so they wouldn’t suffer an all-out injury.

The next moment, Lance plunged into the water, creating a harsh splash.

Almost instantly, he spat out a mouthful of blood after landing on his back, on the brink of death.

But he held on.

There were various buildings protruding from the water in Mechanism City.

There were various metal objects and damaged bronze traps nearby.

Coming into contact with any of these would mean certain death for Lance.

Yet they fortuitously landed in the deepest part of a courtyard in the area and avoided all obstacles.

They landed on a clean, flat section of the waterbed with no protrusions, somehow—

They survived!

But Lance was still seriously injured and paralyzed, lying powerless at the bottom of the water.

He could only hope for Shuihua to pull him to the surface.

But Shuihua made no move.

After the thrilling fall, she felt her heart pounding, her cheeks blazing, and for some reason, she was a bit reluctant to raise her head.

She also found it strange—why hadn’t Lance let her go yet?

But she caught on fairly quickly: I’m in water, what’s there to feel hot?!

She rubbed her cheeks to regain her courage and looked up at Lance, intending to intimidate him with her gaze into freeing her.

But when she looked up, she realized that Lance was almost gone…

She quickly freed herself from Lance’s arms, pulled him up to the surface, and as soon as they surfaced, the rushing water immediately swept them away.

Shuihua quickly pulled out a porcelain bottle and stuffed a pill into Lance’s mouth.

Only 5 seconds later, the pill pulled Lance back from the brink of death.

And the first thing Lance said was, “What kind of medicine is this?

It’s so potent?”

“??” Shuihua was stunned, “Is now the time to be concerned about this?!”

She looked up at the increasingly spectacular waterfall, the surging water tumbling down, washing over this bronze city that had been hidden from daylight for who knows how long.

At the forefront of the water, dense mechanisms were accidentally triggered, and all kinds of clockwork creatures were washed away like trash.

— Her plan had already achieved the expected effect, the threat of Mechanism City greatly reduced.

The crucial thing now was to follow the flow of water, watching for any relics being swept away while looking for a possible entrance or exit.

But this was really difficult!

Once the water rushed into the Mechanism City, it quickly flowed in all directions along the buildings and streets.

It was impossible to tell which direction was downstream.

While smaller mechanism puppets were indeed washed away by the rapids, some large puppets managed to climb onto rooftops with astonishing agility, running and jumping across buildings, trying to escape the flow of water.

They were about to be caught up in the flow and it was hard to tell if these mechanism puppets would attack them.

Lance quickly scanned the surroundings, at some point he suddenly dived underwater, grabbed a piece of mechanical beast’s wooden shell, and surfaced again.

Then he stood on this curved shell as a surfboard, grabbed Shuihua, and started surfing in the Mechanism City!

Indeed, it was cool.

But it didn’t really help with the increasing threat from the mechanical beasts ahead.

Shuihua pulled out a flintlock from the weapon storage box just in case – even though she knew that it had little to no effect on the giant mechanical beasts ahead.

What’s worse: a gigantic frog-like mechanical beast opened its mouth wide in front of them, as if waiting for them to just jump in.

Shuihua frowned, promptly raised her flintlock to take aim, planning to give it a taste of her bullet.

She tried hard to keep her balance on the “surfboard”, holding the flintlock in one hand, trying to fit the frog’s wooden eye into her sight.

This was not easy, Shuihua concentrated, it took a great deal of effort to finally seize the opportunity, and she pulled the trigger!

But just at the moment she pulled the trigger, the world in her sight suddenly met an unexpected and considerable disaster —

A bloody mouth suddenly rushed from underwater and swallowed the big frog in one gulp!

“Bang!”

The sound of gunpowder exploding echoed as the bullet from the flintlock hit the body of the mechanical beast, making an insignificant dent before shattering into iron scraps.

Shuihua and Lance stared in astonishment at what appeared before them —

It was a colossal figure that suddenly burst from underwater, a mechanical giant serpent bigger and longer than a clockwork train!

Each segment of its body was as huge as a house!

And how many segments did it have?

No one knew!

There were dozens of them just above water, and who knows how many were underwater!

The mechanical frog that was big enough to fill the entire street was crunched and destroyed in just one bite!

After biting the frog, the giant mechanical serpent’s body soared into the sky without pause, almost reaching the Brass Tower which was the tallest building in Mechanism City!

And its head was hanging low, letting out a terrifying roar at Lance and Shuihua:

“Roar——————”

The huge roar reverberated endlessly throughout the Bronze City.

What was even more frightening was — the majestic and expansive music suddenly echoed throughout the Mechanism City!

Shuihua was so surprised that she was lost for words, her mouth hanging open enough to fit an apple.

After a while, she found her voice and asked with difficulty:

“What does…

this music mean?”