Chapter 461: The Forsaken Realm of Gods (50) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]

Why are the earth veins blocked?

There are many answers to this question. The ley line is not a smooth circuit in a fixed position, but a mystical concept. It does not have a physical pipeline or shape. In most cases, it is just a concrete expression of the operation process of an element.

Since it is a concrete expression, all natural phenomena related to the movement of elements can be attributed to ground vein problems, which means that the name "ground vein blockage" may refer to hundreds or thousands of problems.

It is extremely difficult to check them one by one. For most people, it may be difficult to come into contact with the existence of "earth veins".

Bai Jinshu stood up from the house and patted the dirt off his hands.

"Hongyan, you and Xiaoying take Amy outside and tell them that no one else can see the process of our magicians casting spells." Yun Guang keenly noticed the change on his face and quickly turned around to whisper to Guan Hongyan.

"Ok." Guan Hongyan made a gesture and pulled Zhao Yinglai out.

"Have you found the problem?" Yun Guang turned to look at Bai Jinshu, "Is it about the earth veins?"

"Hmm," Bai Jinshu wiped the dust off his hands, "the ground veins should be blocked."

"Blockage," Yun Guang chewed the word in his mouth, his mind working quickly, "The difference between blockage and decay is that decay is irreversible and the elements are constantly decreasing, while blockage means that the elements are not decreasing and can be unblocked?"

"Almost," Bai Jinshu pressed his knuckles against his solar plexus with a headache, "but there are many reasons for blockage, and the solution depends on the cause."

However, if it was Slenkmed, combined with the clues found by everyone before, the reason why the ground veins here were blocked might be very simple -

Yun Guang's eyes flashed: "The elements of Slenkmed simply don't flow."

Bai Jinshu opened his eyes slightly wider in surprise: "Yes."

There is no influence from any external factors, no special regional interference, and no conspiracy or threat.

The ground veins of Slenkmed are blocked simply because the elements here cannot flow.

It sounds a little unbelievable that the most basic elements that make up the world might not flow, not to mention that this is a magical world. If the elements do not flow, how do the magical creatures and wizards here survive?

But this is a real world transformed from a holographic game. When it is still controlled by code, whatever the producer writes will appear here. There is no need to consider its rationality. The only responsibility lies with the only guests in this fictional world, namely the players.

All behaviors that are convenient for players and help improve their entertainment experience, no matter how unreasonable, will appear very commonly under the manipulation of codes in this virtual world, such as cyberpunk costumes that are simply impossible to exist in the Western fantasy world.

"Breath of Slenkmed" has a realism that is unmatched by other holographic games. However, no matter how real it is, a producer in the technological world cannot think of constructing the elemental foundation that makes up the magic world when constructing a holographic magic world, and it is impossible for him to know how the ground veins of a magic world are composed and how they flow.

So this can only mean one thing -

"Before Slenkmed became a sub-world, its elements should not have flowed at all," Bai Jinshu put down his hand that was rubbing the solar acupoint and looked around again, "Everything around was created."

"Modeling, right?" White Moth snapped his fingers. "The code sets up a lush forest here. The tree modeling is placed, so there is a forest here. The code sets up these n.pcs to be alive, so the n.pcs here cannot die. Even if times change, their appearance may not change even after decades. A three or four-year-old child will still be three or four years old."

In the game world, nothing here will change with time. The elderly will not age and die, children will not grow up gradually, and the tree rings will not increase one by one. Everything here is "dead" and is driven by codes and internal programs.

They may have a certain degree of autonomy under the settings, such as the side quests here that are always impossible to complete, dynamically refreshed with the player's completion level, and automatically generated Adventurer's Guild commissions that do not require text editing.

But these autonomous spaces are built on higher-level behaviors and do not involve the underlying structure of this world.

For game developers, the underlying structure of the world is code, not how the elements work, how the ley lines operate, or how different elements coexist.

These are the underlying operating logics that appear when a real world is first formed, but they are not the entire world.

So when a high-level behavior with autonomy but a blank holographic world with missing underlying structure suddenly becomes a real world, the first problem it faces is how to survive.

"For Slenkmed, it's like a person who can sing and dance but whose blood can't flow. Even if this person can sing, dance and run, but the basic elements of life are blank, he can't survive," Yun Guang said with a hint of familiarity, "So in a world like this that has never been set up for the flow of elements, once it comes to life, the elements can't suddenly learn to flow on their own."

This world is not a world generated bit by bit from the most basic elements. Just like the example he gave, as a holographic world, it is piled up with countless "talents", such as singing, dancing and playing musical instruments, but as long as the blood does not flow, everything is in vain.

Then the magic patterns set up by Lao Zhang and others are most likely not used to transport the wood element to the entire continent.

"Isn't that magic pattern like a heart?" Yun Guang lowered his head slightly and looked at the ground. "Transport the wood element to the entire continent and force this element to flow. This will drive other elements to flow together."

Its function is similar to that of a heart, pushing elements to flow across the entire continent and turning things that should be automatic in the ordinary world into manual ones.

Bai Jinshu nodded: "Yes."

To be able to come up with this method, the great magician of this world must have gone through countless considerations and experiments.

This method may seem time-consuming and labor-intensive, but for a world where the flow of underlying elements is stagnant, it can be said to be getting the greatest benefit at the lowest cost.

The wood element was stolen from the Fairy National Server where elements were free. Since the elements in this world did not flow and there was no concept of ground veins, we used the circuits connecting magic patterns to create an artificial concept of "ground veins". All elements were dormant underground and would not flow actively, so we used one element to stir them all up, just like throwing a stirring stick into a cup of calm water.

"But this method is only effective for a short time," Yun Guang pondered for a few seconds, "What should we do when the Perlan Mine is mined out?"

Unlike human blood, the magic sand in the Perrin Mine is a non-renewable resource. Once it is mined, the heart of Slenkmed will stop sooner or later.

"So they need to find other solutions before the Perrin Mine is mined out," Bai Jinshu raised his chin, "such as the sixteen professional mentors."

Lao Zhang found that he could not contact the studio in a short time. After updating the subsequent plot, he chose to spread rumors. He first worked with the Grand Mage to create magic patterns to stabilize the situation in Slenkmed. The departure of the sixteen professional mentors should also be one of his attempts.

However, as time passed, after all sixteen professional mentors left, Slenkmed was unable to wait for the studio to come back to update the plot. As a member of the heart-making plan, Lao Zhang should know better than anyone that the magic sand will run out sooner or later. By that day, Slenkmed, who had lost the great magician, would no longer have a second chance.

"He must have done something not long ago that caused him to become Enoch, and also caused this world to suddenly change from simply alive to an independent sub-world," Xu Zichen analyzed with his arms folded across his chest, "but what else can he do?"

"Go to hell." Yun Guang suddenly spoke.

"Slenkmed must have suddenly come back to life after Lao Zhang entered. Otherwise, without the information he provided that there was Alterac under the Perrin Mine, this magic pattern would not have been created," Yun Guang walked forward a few steps, "So Slenkmed gradually came back to life, it must be because Lao Zhang, the producer, entered here."

So in Lao Zhang's mind, if he discovered that it was he, the person who created Slenkmed, who entered here and caused the world to suddenly come alive.

This alive world is a disabled world with congenital deficiencies. The reason for the congenital deficiencies is that it is not a real space. Everything in it seems to be alive, but in fact it is still "dead". What will he do?

"He would think that only if he died again could he inject soul into Slenkmede and turn it into a real world?" Su Hao was shocked. "Isn't that too much of a gamble?"

"No more gambling. I've been pushed to the edge," Yun Guang shook his head slightly. "The stock of magic sand is running out. I can't contact the studio. All the professional mentors who left this world have lost contact. I have no other options."

Of course, Lao Zhang could choose to go to the end with Schlenkmade, but as a producer, he could not bear to see the world he created end like this because of his entry.

Schlenkmade suddenly came back to life because of him. Lao Zhang was the god who created this world. He had devoted his heart and soul to every plant and tree here. If these things had never happened, Lao Zhang could still treat this world as if it had never existed. He would have better works, more popular games, and would always be the creator of the holographic world. His life was in another dimension, and his future had infinite possibilities.

But he had died once, and when he opened his eyes again, he entered "Breath of Slenkmed". The world he created saved his life, and he became a part of it.

So what if I die again?

Will the death of the Creator God make this world truly come alive, fill the gaps that belong here, and let it know how to continue as a real world?

"Old Zhang failed?" Lu Changfeng said softly.

"No, he succeeded," Bai Jinshu exhaled lightly, "because elemental elves appeared on this continent."

A special kind of creature that can only be formed in places with extremely high concentrations of elements. The existence of elemental elves itself represents the "activity" of elements, represents that elements have developed "consciousness", and represents that the world is indeed trying to make the elements move.

After it became a huge monster, it went back to learning to walk slowly and staggeringly.

However, the formation of elemental elves is extremely random and irregular. No one expected that the magic sand in the Perrin Mine would also form elemental elves. This happened to cause the mine tunnels of the fairy kingdom Alterac and the Perrin Mine to be accidentally connected, the miners disappeared, and the mining had to be stopped, which led to a series of butterfly effects, causing the earth vein failure to spread across the entire continent.

If this hadn't happened, once Lao Zhang died, the magic sand in the Perrin Mine was used up, and the world gradually declined without having time to form a complete element circulation cycle, this place would have simply become a space that was about to be scrapped.

In time, the true past of this place will be buried and will never be seen again.

"So the real rules of this space are..." Xu Zichen raised his eyes and exchanged glances with Bai Jinshu, "This world is incomplete. It was a disabled world at the beginning, without any basic structural functions. So after becoming the real world, it needs to slowly learn everything?"

There are countless holographic worlds, but only "Breath of Slenkmed" has become the real world. The first reason is that only here can their creators find their way, and the second reason is probably because this place is too real.

As a producer and the first holographic game released, Lao Zhang made this place seem too real, almost indistinguishable from the real world.

Mages need to recite spells, knights really need to learn horsemanship and swordsmanship here, players who choose to be animal tamers follow the Royal Circus on tour, and blacksmiths who have apprenticed to legendary craftsmen forge iron in the game... Compared with other holographic worlds that simplify these processes and ensure playability, this place is too real.

It is so real that it only needs to wait for an opportunity to become no different from the real world.

"In an incomplete world, there is no need to live on," Bai Jinshu glanced at Enoch who was locked outside the door, "If it weren't for Lao Zhang who created this world and was willing to die..."

This world will soon decline and die as the magic sand is drained away, and will eventually be completely destroyed.

"Then I'll fill in the rules..." Bai E had just raised her watch when she saw Yun Guang suddenly stop her.

"Wait a minute," Yun Guang straightened his face, "Dermis, you can discover these things because Amy suddenly appeared outside the door, and Amy's sudden appearance is because we acted out a play and decided not to go to Winterdre City. All this is because you feel that there is a consciousness that is arranging for us to accomplish something, right?"

Bai Jinshu nodded slightly, confirming his speculation.

"Then this consciousness... is now leading us to completely discover the truth here, which is enough to prove that it should not be the inevitability of the plot as we thought before," Yun Guang pondered for a few seconds, "It also led us to Dongdelei City, there can only be other reasons."

"That rumor?" White Moth was quick-witted. "But wasn't that made up by Old Zhang?"

They have already deciphered all the information in this rumor except for the "purple-haired adventurer". Why does this consciousness still let them follow this process?

"It's the world saving itself," Yun Guang shook his head seriously, "We came here to complete the exploration, but this last step was told to us by this consciousness. Once we fill in the rules and leave here, we can only fend for ourselves. It will be frightened by Delmis's decision not to go to Winterdre, and it is willing to push the clues about the rules in front of us, which means it needs our help. It tells us the rules, and we help it fulfill its request."

"Its request is..." The white moth hesitated.

"Yun Guang," Guan Hongyan suddenly knocked on the door, "There is a new situation."

Xu Zichen opened the door a crack, and Guan Hongyan squeezed in, pointing at her watch: "New news, my friend and his organization are negotiating with Wei Yu for investment, hoping to complete the unfinished fourth expansion pack of Breath of Slenkmed. The only requirement is that the original team must be here. Today, the veterans of the Breath of Slenkmed studio returned from abroad, and they got some information by accident through indirect means."

"The purple-haired adventurer is Lao Zhang himself," Guan Hongyan said with a surprised expression on her face. "The studio founder was Lao Zhang's roommate in college. He said that Lao Zhang dyed his hair purple for a few months to keep up with the trend, but later he was often called out by the teacher and it was inconvenient for him to skip classes, so he dyed it back to purple. Because he was caught skipping classes several times during that period, everyone started to call him "the classmate with purple hair" to make fun of him. Only his classmates and buddies who started the business with him at the beginning knew about this, and even his parents didn't know."

Yun Guang looked through the window at Enoch outside.

"Will this information help with exploration?" Guan Hongyan tugged at Yun Guang curiously, "What did you come up with from your discussion?"

She and Zhao Yinglai just chatted with the girl named Amy. She didn't know what they were researching in there. She thought there was something shameful in the house that they had to avoid Amy from digging up. But when she came in, she saw that it was no different from when she left.

"What should we do next?" She looked at Xu Zichen and asked.

"Take Enoch and travel across the continent." Yun Guang said confidently.

This unknown consciousness used the rules of this space in exchange, and all they had to do was take Lao Zhang around here.

This rumor was just made up by Lao Zhang in order to convey information and achieve his goal. What would happen if he really took him across the continent and arrived at Dongdelei City?

"I traveled around the continent with Enoch Hector," Bai Jinshu suddenly corrected, "Enoch doesn't have purple hair."

"You said," he added, "that every detail must fit together to achieve the final result, so there must be a purple-haired adventurer."

It was this reason that Bai Moth used to prevent him from directly opening the so-called "Gate of the Kingdom of God".

So Hector is indispensable.

"What are you waiting for? Let's go," Xu Zichen took the lead and walked towards the door. "Didn't you say that staying in this space will shorten our lifespan? Let's finish it quickly and leave!"

"Dermis," Yun Guang suddenly leaned over and whispered, "The White Moth's rules have not been passed, indicating that it needs to be supplemented."

Bai Jinshu nodded silently.

*

At five twenty, just before getting off work and with ten minutes left before clocking out, Wang Wenhua's cell phone on the table began to vibrate rapidly.

[Xiao Wang, Xiao Chun (please note when submitting information), Resentment is heavier than ghosts (3)]

[Xiao Chun (please leave a note when submitting information)]: First-hand information!

[Xiao Chun (please note when submitting information)]: Our company’s other account received a private message submission about Wei Yu and Breath of Slenkmed.

[The resentment is heavier than the ghost]: Isn’t this information given to you?

[Xiao Chun (please note when submitting the tip-off)]: No, I leaked the tip to another marketing account that was also working on the topic of Breath of Schlenkmed. I just didn’t expect that we were from the same company, and the operator of that account was sitting next to me.

[Xiao Wang]: What news? About Lao Zhang?

[Xiao Chun (please note when submitting information)]: No, but we can’t say no either.

[Xiao Chun (please leave a note when submitting information)]: My colleague received a message saying that Wei Yu, for some unknown reason, suddenly decided to re-finish the fourth expansion pack of Breath of Slenkmed, and has now begun to gather the original team of the Breath of Slenkmed studio. They said that this was to commemorate Lao Zhang, and to fulfill his last wish.

【Grudge is heavier than ghosts】:? What the hell are they talking about? When Lao Zhang turned into a vegetable, the second expansion pack hadn’t even been completed.

[Xiao Chun (please note when submitting information)]: Yes, so it is very strange, but this news is absolutely true. A lot of real money has been invested, and I also want to know why they suddenly developed a new version for a game that has been out of fashion for more than ten years and has only recently regained attention. If it is not for sentimentality, who can explain it?

【Grudges are heavier than ghosts】: So all the updates in this game are quietly optimized by Weiyu? Does your company plan to disclose this information? Why are they suddenly optimizing this?

[Xiao Chun (please leave a note when submitting information)]: I don't know. I plan to check out the game. I always feel that this matter seems unreasonable. It must be related to those strange NPCs and Lao Zhang's account. How could someone inexplicably make a new version of a game that has been out of date for more than ten years? Even though it caused a lot of uproar a while ago, most of the people who returned to the game were there to watch the fun. No one would really go back to play the game seriously, right?

Hearing the sounds of colleagues leaving their seats and cleaning up their desks, Wang Wenhua looked up at his watch. It was half past five and he was off work.

[Xiao Wang]: I’m off work, I’m going to take a look around the game now.

He grabbed the bag on the table and walked towards the elevator.

[Xiao Wang]: Is there anything you want me to see?

Xiao Chun was right. It was simply irrational for Wei Yu to suddenly plan to re-make the fourth expansion pack. Moreover, the overly realistic game mode of Breath of Slenkmed was a barrier for most people who were accustomed to ordinary holographic games. Most of the players who returned due to the popularity were just joining in the fun. Updating the fourth expansion pack now was simply throwing money into the water.

And didn’t the leak say that they only recently started to gather the original team? Then who made those optimizations in the game?

[Grudge is heavier than ghosts]: Did you pay special attention to those n.pcs you added?

【Xiao Wang】: No.

[Xiao Wang]: I remember that those NPCs cannot be added.

[Grudge is heavier than ghosts]: Then don’t rush in. You can’t add those strange N.PCs, but I have Hector’s special attention friends.

Wang Wenhua paused for a moment and saw the message "Grudge is heavier than ghosts" pop up on the screen.

[Several of my friends have been asking me about Enoch these days, so we decided to meet up tonight.]

The author has something to say:

Fifty chapters is a big failure, I will definitely finish chapter 51 tomorrow (turned into a flip phone and bowed)

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