Chapter 850: The End of Winter Solstice (1)
By then, if the situation gets out of control, the players will be responsible for their own actions.
[Qing Ben Zhiruo]: "I have already taken action. I used the Ice Drill to open a legendary blueprint from the hail. It is called Waist Guard, and it is also one of the series of mysterious armor."
Although everyone is mentally prepared for this, after watching it so many times, they are still shocked.
[Cang Sheng Taegeuk]: "When Boss Qingqing makes a move, it's a golden legend. If we make a move - well, there will only be broken ice on the ground."
[Flowing Years]: "We need to clear the hailstones as soon as possible. The courtyard is protected from hailstones, but if we continue to do this, the hailstones will pile up more and more, and we will be trapped in here."
[Little Bayberry]: "The hail is so big, my bayberry tree is in trouble!"
The most anxious ones are the farmers. The heavy hail has just begun, so their thickened greenhouse can still hold up for now.
But the durability keeps decreasing, and they, as the owners of the building, can check it.
So without anyone telling them, they needed to go out and clean up the hail themselves, otherwise it would accumulate more and more, becoming increasingly difficult to clean up and easily crushing the greenhouse.
If the greenhouse collapses once, all the crops planted inside will be ruined!
[Cloud Pattern]: "Our reinforced diamond greenhouse can only last for so long. We need to clean it diligently and replace it whenever possible to wait until all the crops are mature."
[Luo Yi who loves potato sauce soup]: "Big Boss Wenwen and I have already discussed that after this batch of crops mature, we will not plant new crops in the next five days."
The temperature is now over 40 degrees, and the seeds they have in their hands can hardly withstand the continued drop in temperature.
Even if there are a few who can bear it, they are not willing to plant in the next few days. After all, after planting, they need to keep checking to ensure the existence of the greenhouse.
Otherwise, these crops might be killed by hail at any time, and all the efforts would be wasted.
These things are just plants after all, and they will die if they are hit by these huge hailstones.
Its seed source is very precious. If one of them dies, the farming players will be very sad.
[Cai Cai Cai Li]: "I urge everyone to hurry up. My greenhouse can't hold out for much longer. The destructive power of this huge hail is very great. Ordinary protective shields can't hold out for too long. This is still within the territory..."
Cai Li meant that there was a protective shield inside the territory, so the frequency of huge hail falling was considered low.
Wang Wenwen has already put on a set of protective gear, including a Lei Feng hat on her head, a pair of anti-glare sunglasses, and alloy wrist guards on her shoulders.
He was wearing a large cotton-padded jacket embroidered with snowflake patterns, and a close-fitting soft armor underneath.
Super cotton pants are thick and warm, and paired with a pair of snow-resistant boots, you can be as fully armed as possible.
He brought good stuff, including an ice drill and a shield, and while clearing the hail, he took a look at the scene outside the protective shield at the edge of his own farmland.
The huge hailstones outside the protective shield have piled up like a mountain.
There were also many huge hailstones falling from the sky, streaking away like a silver stream.
Dark clouds were rolling in the sky, with a scarlet light shining inside, and countless huge hailstones were crashing down.
From time to time, a flash of lightning struck, with such speed and brightness that if the players did not wear anti-glare sunglasses, they would be blinded by the huge hailstones before being killed.
There were flashes of lightning and rumbles of thunder. Huge hailstones fell on the ground like raindrops. There were so many hailstones that the ground could faintly feel the vibrations.
Under this kind of natural disaster, players instinctively feel their own insignificance and the horror of the disaster!
Seeing this situation, she couldn't help but sigh on the public screen, fortunately the Nanhua Liushuang mulberry trees and Tianshan Snow Lotus were no longer planted.
Otherwise, all of them would be crushed or smashed by hail, and a lot of seeds would be wasted at once.
[Cloud Pattern]: "Although I don't know what the next solar term will be like, it is definitely not suitable to plant seeds, a rare resource, these days."
Even Han Wu couldn't help but nodded.
The Tianshan Snow Lotus has relatively high requirements for the environment, so after the snow completely melted, it was no longer suitable for planting, so it was not planted anymore.
However, we have to admit that if you wear anti-flash sunglasses when going out, no matter how bright the lightning is, it will not affect the players' actions.
The sunglasses have a slightly heavy texture, and the mirror surface is made of the black mist stone, so that the eyes are separated from the objects by a layer of light black mist.
When there is no strong light, the black mist will flow lightly on the frame and lens, just like real flowing clouds.
Once strong light is sensed, it will gather instantly, blocking the strong light without affecting the line of sight.
Then, with the shoulder guard and the alloy wrist guard, our hands can be said to be quite invincible, and we can withstand this kind of hail with our bare hands for a while.
Even using elbows to attack this huge hailstone when necessary is not a problem.
Everyone is a little sad about the decreased durability of the shoulder pad. Anyway, the durability of this kind of legendary quality item is very high, so a slight decrease doesn't matter.
[Xue'er]: "Brother Qingqing also obtained a waist guard, which is also a part of the mysterious armor. We are processing and manufacturing it here, and we may produce the first batch in the afternoon."
Suddenly, the players in several territories were excited!
Players have gathered together this set of equipment and gone out to "clean up" these huge hailstones.
[Tian Mozi, the God of Misery]: "The drop rate of materials in the extra-large hailstones is a bit higher than that of the previous large hailstones!"
Even though the materials are limited at present, it is impossible to mass-produce shoulder swallows and waist defenders, and they cannot be supplied to all players.
But for most players, it is enough to have the alloy wrist guards.
Other players who don't have it can entrust these players to help clean up their house doorways while walking in the territory, and they can give rewards.
[Big Ginger Head]: "Wow, I'm crying. The relationship between the sisters is so good."
Many players expressed this sentiment on the public screen, and everyone should contribute their part.
However, not all players in the game area can get along so harmoniously. Even in the same game area, some players have a miserable life.
Not only is there no protection from the shield, but even the players are treated differently and are not as well treated as before.
The heavy hailstorm without a protective shield was even more terrifying. After just one morning, the huge hail had piled up into a high layer, almost completely covering the small protective shield of the entire courtyard.
The phantoms of dragons and phoenixes that were originally visible surrounding the courtyard and forming a small protective shield were now becoming increasingly weak.
It's not that these players haven't thought about going out to get the blueprints from the huge hail, but going out to get supplies requires several conventional equipment, whether it's an ice drill or a Lei Feng hat or a shoulder cape and other protective props. They don't have any blueprints for the latter armor series.
They wanted to buy it, but because their previous behavior had caused dislike among the public, everyone blocked them and they could not buy it even if they wanted to.
[Stars and Rainbows]: "It's okay. It's only a few days away. We just need to hold on and get through it. When the hail melts in the new solar term, we'll be able to relax."
Even now, there are still people who insist on hoping that the hail will melt with the new solar term, but they forget the terrible scene caused by the melting snow during the winter solstice.
[Yifanxuan]: "I think so too, so you don't have to be too anxious, it's not a big deal."
[Dudu]: "There's nothing wrong with staying here and growing up for so many solar terms. Why do you have to go out and do this? Have you forgotten how Brother Huaihe died?"
[Bear Cub]: "The durability of the Siheyuan hasn't dropped much, why are you so anxious? In my opinion, I think it may still have more than half of its durability left by the end of this solar term!"
[Ice Peak Warrior]: "Even if the wear and tear is gone, we still have some materials, right? We can fix it and it will be fine."
Soon the group had finished pacifying the people inside and decided that as long as they didn't go out to deal with the huge hail, there would be no problem as long as they could keep their lives, and they could go on with their lives.
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Only with anti-glare sunglasses, the players in their game area became active again, but the situation in other game areas was not very good.
Sometimes you can't make things immediately after getting the blueprint. It requires the player's own professional level and even the inventory preparation of materials.
Master-level professional players are not easily available, and no matter how good the legendary blueprint is, it will not work if you don’t have enough materials.
A good cook cannot cook without rice.
In addition, without the help of the Daughter of Luck, there is no blueprint for the anti-flash sunglasses, resulting in players being unable to go out directly to clear the huge hail. Once they go out, the lightning will hit them twice, and the huge hail will not directly take away those players who do not have proper protective gear.
Without anti-glare sunglasses, players cannot go out, resulting in missing out on more drawings.
Even if you have the blueprints, the ores required for these blueprints are too rare and need to be opened from huge hail.
This becomes a huge vicious cycle.
The blizzard in the last solar term had a huge impact on them, and this solar term, the flood of dirty snow water caused by the melting snow resulted in countless casualties among players.
You have to know that they don't have life-saving things like donkey-hide gelatin. After the winter solstice merger, there were originally 13,000 to 14,000 survivors, but now there are still fewer survivors than in Shuling Game Area 1.
That one flood directly took away the lives of nearly half of the players in the entire game area. So far, almost all those with the Chill buff have died. Now there are only 5,430 people left, and nearly 10,000 people have died.
If it were any other solar term, this gaming area would have been wiped out long ago.
The huge hailstorms that followed destroyed various basic buildings. Even if they were rebuilt, the materials could not support such consumption.
Buildings such as furnaces, brick kilns, and farm greenhouses could no longer be built after that. Without furnaces, many mineral materials could not be processed. Without farmland to grow crops, the production of golden nanmu had ceased long ago.
The supply of other materials, such as bricks and tiles, was simply halted.
The natural disaster caused great damage to the entire territory. After the territory lost all renewable resources, everything became hesitant.
Therefore, they no longer went out, dared not leave the range of the protective shield, and were even unwilling to leave their homes. They only wanted to rely on the shelter of the courtyard and survive to the end.
However, when the huge hail comes, the health of the protective shield is not good, and it is difficult for players without shield stones to survive this disaster.
If the protective shield cannot be upgraded, it will be completely destroyed sooner or later, and the entire territory will have no hope of new life.
But there are still people who persist, thinking that as long as they can survive the last few days of this solar term, they will still have a chance of survival in the future.
Unfortunately, the game doesn't give them much hope. As time goes by, they can still hold on temporarily on the first day of the heavy hailstorm.
But at noon on the second day, we were bombarded by this huge hail for twenty hours in a row. The hail was so strong that it covered the sky like a rainstorm. Even if you stayed in the game area and looked out through the protective shield, you would be frightened by the scene.
What’s even more shocking and frightening is that the protective shield is about to collapse!
All the territories in this game area began to be broken one after another at this moment.
The electronic sound announcing the fall of the territory echoed throughout the entire gaming area, one after another without stopping. Every time it sounded, a large number of players would be heartbroken!
Only after the protective shield was broken and the territory was gone, could they truly face the so-called storm - although they were all huge hail.
Even the courtyard houses could hardly hold up and began to show signs of wear and tear.
Everyone was worried about their own safety and just wanted to live together in a courtyard so that they could work together to stabilize the wear and tear of the courtyard. Everyone would contribute something to repair the courtyard and get through it.
Without the territory's protective shield, the frequency and duration of the huge hailstorms doubled from the initial level.
The next day seemed to be survivable. The fully upgraded courtyard house was not just boasted about, it was indestructible and no matter how big the hail was, it could not hit us.
The only problem is wear and tear.
But by the third or fourth day, they had an additional problem on their hands.
That is because no additional sufficient resources were prepared, so the courtyard house could not be repaired even if it was needed.
The bricks and tiles as well as the beams are the most core materials. As long as these legendary quality materials can be put into the courtyard in small quantities and multiple times to repair it, it will definitely last until the new solar term.
It turns out they had none.
Or maybe only a few players still have these materials, but everyone only dares to use them for themselves.
They can barely take care of themselves, so how can they think about saving the world?
Among the few remaining gaming areas, at least 90% of them have witnessed such tragedies.
At the beginning of Winter Solstice, there were more than 10,000 people in the entire game area, but now only one in ten is left.
805441 game area.
[Mongoose who likes tiger-striped dogs]: "If the shield can't hold up, you can apply to merge with me. My shield is guaranteed to be strong. After all, it is at the maximum level!"
[Meow meow meow]: "I've already applied, otherwise I really can't hold on any longer. All the gold coins have been used up, and they are being consumed really fast! Please save my wallet and my residents!"
[Ning Nuannuan who loves Shunchang stuffed eggs]: "I'm coming too! Who doesn't want a chance to survive? Alas, luckily we helped Mengmeng when we heard that she was buried under the snowy mountain."
[Promise You a Thousand Lights]: "Yes, at that time I thought that those people were trapped under the mountain by the avalanche and encountered monsters, which was really pitiful, so I thought of saving them along the way, but I didn't expect that..."
[Wei Shao Wang of the Void Dimension]: "Speaking of which, I really didn't expect that there would be a player who was so brave that he dared to go out and have fun on the last day."
[Meow meow meow]: "But it makes sense. You have to go through this to get the treasure chest after killing the monsters. Then you will have the shield stone to upgrade this protective shield."
Everyone agrees with this statement by default. You have to give up something to gain something. People who have risked their lives to fight for the items deserve special rights to control them.
At that time, these players extended a helping hand to [Mongolian Beast Who Likes Tiger-Striped Dogs] and his group, so now they have been protected.
[Asura]: "To be honest, this avalanche can trigger monsters to be killed and get treasure chests. Which genius came up with this idea?!"
[Ning Nuannuan who loves Shunchang stuffed eggs]: "This game planning is really a spiral upwards!"
When they received the request for help from the [Mongolian Giant Beast Territory], these territories were willing to lend a hand and now they have gained a lot of benefits.
[Mongoose who likes tiger-striped dogs]: "Thank you so much, if it weren't for you, I might not have survived."
Meng Wan was very moved, but she did not forget the hatred she carried.
Next to her were several hand-painted black-and-white portraits. Although somewhat abstract, the tear marks on them showed the extraordinary significance of these people to her.
At that time, she and a group of friends fell from the snow mountain into a cave, facing the snow mountain dragon turtle. Their physical strength was not as good as Shu Lingyi and Zhong Qingwei.
Even their equipment and other aspects were a little lacking, but their combat power was only comparable to that of the dragon turtle because of their large numbers.
However, their tacit understanding is slightly inferior to that of Shu Ling and the other two, and there are always some small mistakes in their cooperation.
Shu Lingyi received a lot of help from his partners at that time. All kinds of props, clothes, food and medicine were sent to him.
True feelings are precious. It is easy to add icing on the cake, but difficult to provide timely assistance.
On Meng Wan's side, the situation was completely opposite to the above.
Many territories in a game area not only did not lend a helping hand at the time, but even made excuses to refuse funding because of some minor frictions in the past.
They refused for various reasons, saying that they were poor, embarrassed, or had no other choice.
At that time, there were three territories that were at odds with the [Meng Giant Beast Territory] and they directly mocked and cursed Meng Wan and others to die.
They say they just like to make trouble. If we give them so many resources and they die soon, it would be a waste.
Also, even if Meng Wan and the others came back alive, could they afford the compensation with so many resources?
Killing the monster won't drop any special items, not even a piece of meat, but only a huge exploding snow pile.
Only three territories reluctantly extended a helping hand. Later, an explosion caused the snow mountain to collapse. When the new solar term came, [Wish You a Thousand Lights] and others took action.
Therefore, all the player territories that have extended a helping hand to Meng Wan have now been rewarded.
As for those who took advantage of the situation, the protection shield of their territory was already crumbling, but it was too late to apply to merge into the [Mongolian Giant Beast Territory].
Meng Wan is not a fool, nor does she have the good quality of repaying evil with kindness, so who would agree?
Of course, the players in the six game territories, including the lords, were also in a bad situation - if they didn’t ask for help, they would be beaten up if their shields were gone!
At this time, the group of people were having a crazy discussion in private.
The game area where [Mongolian Giant Beast Territory] is located is different from before. There are a lot of territories here. There were 10 territories in total before, big and small. After the end of the big and small snow solar terms and the merger of the new solar term Winter Solstice, there will be a few more territories.
Although a few were killed, it was not a large number.
When these territories are in the hands of these dozen game lords, they are played just like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
All kinds of back-and-forth, maneuvering, and deception are bound to occur between several territories, and naturally, due to the different operations of each lord, there is the possibility of friendly exchanges and constant hatred.
The territory of [Mongolian giant who likes tiger-striped dogs] was considered to be relatively strong at the time, and the many territories in the game area were divided into two factions.
As a result, in addition to her own territories, she also had three other territories, and the three of them formed an alliance.
The remaining three territories in the entire territory are completely at odds with their territory. Everyone has different ideas and concepts, and these territories are relatively weak individually, so the three ordinary small territories simply form a group with these three to survive.
Therefore, when it was discovered that the lord of [Mongolian giant beast that likes tiger-striped dogs] and a group of core players were buried under the snow mountain and encountered a very scary monster, who dared to go up and support them?
[Asura]: "I'm from the new merge zone. We can't stand it any more. Sigh, it turns out that good people are rewarded in this world!"
[Hua Sanseng's Scimitar]: "Oh! Fortunately, our lord had foresight at that time. At this time, we have a courtyard with a maximum level and a protective shield with a maximum level. A mere huge hail is a piece of cake!"
This group of people were all talking and chatting smugly on the public screen. Although they were a little worried about the current situation, the concerns were not too great and they insisted on finding joy in the midst of adversity.
However, in their current situation, if they just stay safe, they are obviously much safer than some other players.
These players who were originally talking happily on the public screen suddenly changed their tone and became sarcastic.
[Meow meow meow]: "These are some people. They must be so sad. Let them do some good deeds."
This group of people were also having heated discussions in private. No one wanted to die, which was human nature.
But now their protective shields have reached their limit and will soon be unable to hold on!
One of the territories had been shattered, and the system's announcement could be heard on all public screens, which made them even more anxious.
"If all else fails, we can just give in. At worst, we'll have to sacrifice more. We still have to do everything to survive!"
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