Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 623: Chapter 591: “Your house is too terrible”

On Friday at 2 PM, most players waiting for Terraria to go online have a wealth of experience in the game “My World.”

So now they are all quite confident facing “Terraria”.

In addition, the [Survival Challenge] is a highly visible guide, and there are an astonishing number of players who choose [expert mode] to enter the game at the first opportunity.

As soon as Yi enters the game, he finds himself in a sparse forest.

The trees are quite tall, and he can’t really tell what kind of trees they are by looking at their leaves.

But that’s alright since they’re going to be chopped down anyway!

Yi lowers his gaze to check the items he has and finds a Copper Sword, a Copper Pickaxe, and an Axe.

“They even give away weapons and tools? Can this really be called expert mode? Shouldn’t expert mode start with a barehanded, completely naked challenge?”

Yi picks up the Copper Sword and approaches the only Guide NPC to try talking to them.

But soon he realizes that this NPC has inherited the stupidity of villagers in “My World” – only able to engage in fixed dialogue, with no free dialogue system.

However, the Guide can provide various crafting recipes, which is still pretty convenient.

Compared to the “My World” base, the crafting recipes in “Terraria” aren’t exactly the same – and there are even many new things that Yi hasn’t seen before.

But he isn’t surprised by this: after all, this is a mod from the Cloud Dream officials, and adding new items demonstrates sincerity, which is also expected.

Since he can’t memorize so many new things all at once, Yi decides to disregard them for now and go chop some trees efficiently.

“If you want to be rich, chop trees first, an unchanging truth since ancient times.”

With a few chops, the entire tree suddenly explodes, turning into wooden logs and startling him a little.

“So considerate, taking down a whole tree with just a few chops, this is much easier than the base game.”

After chopping some trees for a while, killing two transparent, round Slimes, and setting up a crafting table, Yi starts digging for minerals underground, hoping to craft armor and weapons, just like a “Gold Miner.”

It’s only natural for anyone who’s played “My World” to dig for minerals, isn’t it?

Yi works hard swinging his pickaxe to dig downward, and without any surprises, he soon comes across an empty cave.

However, compared to the underground caves in “My World”, this place is clearly more perilous and complicated.

In “My World”, even the underground caves have flat grounds due to the blocky nature of the world.

As long as a torch is held up, the cave walls can be clearly seen, making it easier to understand the terrain.

But in “Terraria”, although the “blocky” nature still exists, it has been diluted, with uneven ground surfaces and drastic differences in elevation.

The player’s field of view is also much more limited – a torch can only illuminate a radius of about 6 meters, roughly the size of a bedroom, with only deep darkness beyond that range.

Unfortunately, the terrain here is extremely complex as well, with caverns just large enough to fit a person, steep slopes, unannounced cliffs, inexplicable water pits, sharp rocks, bottomless pitfalls, bouncing slimes, and suddenly screeching bats flying past…

It’s both dangerous and suffocating!

After just a glimpse, the lively atmosphere in the live broadcast room becomes tense and the comments in the chat become sparse.

After descending another twenty meters or so, Yi suddenly stops.

He looks at the darkness beyond the reach of the firelight and looks back at the path he took, only to find the torch he left far behind still emitting a faint glow.

He regrets not making a few more torches on the ground above.

Thinking about it, he decides to return to the surface and kill more Slimes to gather more Gel, then come back down with enough torches.

Just as he turns around, a strange, fleshy object suddenly falls on his head, and Yi, frightened, instinctively reaches out to hit it.

It turns out to be a huge rat that squeals as he pulls it from his head and then runs away.

Yi immediately gets goosebumps, finds his footing, and follows it, swearing and drawing his sword.

But the uneven ground and the slope leading downward make it hard for Yi to run fast, and the chase is labored.

After persistently chasing it for a while, he finally seizes the opportunity to stab the rat viciously into the ground with his sword!

That finally lets out some of his anger.

But before he can relax, the ground suddenly begins to move.

At the next moment, a massive abyssal maw studded with vicious, sharp teeth bursts through the dirt, swallowing the rat, sword, and half of Yi’s body all at once!

Yi feels the countless teeth sinking into his flesh, causing a tingling sensation that’s not painful, but makes his scalp numb!

What makes his scalp even more numb is the fact that those dense teeth are tearing and wriggling in his body!

In the eyes of the live broadcast audience, Yi was half-swallowed by a giant worm, leaving only his two legs flapping outside, and then the worm’s dense teeth began to rotate!

Yi’s screams were completely muffled in the worm’s stomach, and the audience could only hear faint wailing sounds.

Until a shattering sound came, Yi experienced the feeling of his soul leaving his body once again, and then his perspective was brought to the void.

Together with the live broadcast audience, they watched a giant worm swallow his corpse down, burrow into the ground and vanish.

The last line of text appeared in front of his eyes –

[You have been crushed by the giant worm]

[Game Over]

And then, the screen really went back to the game’s starting interface.

Yi fell silent for a moment, summarizing his experience: “It’s all that rat’s fault!”

And then: “Can humans fight such a big bug?”

“Also, why can the monsters go through walls?”

“Is that reasonable?”

He was only 30% scared and 70% unconvinced.

But no matter what, giving up was impossible, [expert mode], here we go!

This time, Yi became smarter; he fought slimes first, made torches, saved up items, and then went down to mine.

—The inertia of thinking in “My World” was too strong; he never thought of “getting weapons and items from treasure chests.”

As he was fighting, night fell.

Yi once again made a judgment based on his “My World” experience: Monsters will spawn at night.

So he quickly built a small wooden house, saw the NPC guide wandering outside, and kindly called out, “Come in and hide!”

In his expectation, the guide would either come in to hide or not understand his words and keep wandering in the same place.

Unexpectedly, however, the guide glanced at his house, and immediately snubbed it: “Your house is too shabby; I don’t want to live there.”

“???”

Yi was puzzled for a moment and immediately became upset: “You kidding me! Trying to act high and mighty?”

As he saw slimes, skeletons, zombies, and even empty armor carrying weapons approaching from all directions, Yi decisively closed the door!

“Then die outside!”

But after thinking for a moment, Yi crafted a wooden stool to reach a higher part of the wall and made a small window for observation, wanting to see if there were any opportunities to kill monsters outside.

As soon as he opened the window, he was shocked to see that the “retarded” NPC pulled out a wooden bow, shot an arrow, instantly turned it into a flaming arrow, and directly set a zombie on fire!

After that, he quickly shot off three more arrows, efficiently killing the zombie and dropping copper coins and legcuffs.

After finishing the task, he immediately continued to attack other monsters without stopping.

But there were too many monsters, and they were about to surround him.

Seeing this, Yi immediately shouted, “Come in! If you don’t come in, you’ll die outside! Isn’t it much safer to shoot arrows inside?”

—Since this NPC was really useful and could help kill monsters, he could tolerate a little bit of annoying behavior and rude talk.

But the guide looked back at Yi and his house with even more disdain: “Your house is even worse now; I don’t want to live there.”

“???” Yi subconsciously looked back at the interior of the house, “Even worse? What did I do?”

Or…

He lowered his head and looked at himself.

“Is it worse because I came in?”

“Damn, so it’s a personal attack, huh? Staying in the same room with me, are you feeling wronged?!”

Yi became furious once more, immediately crafted a wooden bow and a bow and arrow, stood on the wooden stool, and started shooting at the guide!

“If you don’t want to come in, then die outside!”

“Hurry up and die, die quickly!”