Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 676: Chapter 643: How Could It Just Disappear?

Watching Yi’s absurd explanation, Turner felt an overwhelming sense of rage stuck in his throat.

“You shameless guy!!!” He yelled angrily in the anti-aircraft hole.

But this couldn’t change their predicament.

In their imagination, a nuclear explosion could further strengthen their invincible anti-aircraft hole defenses. This idea was now half successful—

The entrance to the anti-aircraft hole was both collapsed and irradiated, indeed no one could come over.

But the problem is: they can’t get out either…

While they were in trouble, suddenly a voice came from the deepest part of the air-raid shelter—

“Look! This collapsed part has revealed a huge hole!”

Upon hearing this, Turner immediately ran to the depths of the air-raid shelter and truly saw a large hole that could accommodate two cars side by side!

However, when he shone his flashlight, he found that it was a natural cave environment behind, which was not suitable for driving.

But it’s at least a path to get away from the radiation environment. With the mentality of treating a dead horse as a live horse doctor, the French Players still went out from here, hoping to get away from the radiation area.

There were lighting facilities in the original air-raid shelter, and everyone had estimated the battlefield would be above ground, so not many people equipped themselves with flashlights.

After the nuclear explosion, the supply depot was directly buried, so there was nothing to replenish.

This led to the scarcity of flashlights now, and there were only six pitiful flashlights for nearly 400 people.

This slowed their advance.

Some impatient players, watching the negative status of [Radiation] accumulating over time, were worried about it becoming a permanent negative status, gradually losing patience, and speeding up to overtake the main troops by using the faint light of the system panel.

But not far along, they saw a flashlight shining not far ahead.

Behind several light beams, it was hard to see how many people were there.

“What happened? Have we walked back the same way?”

“Impossible, right?”

As they hesitated, the flashlight was already shining on them.

The next moment, intensive gunshots swept over!

“Bang, bang, bang”, “dakka, dakka, dakka,” bullets flew around, and the soil and rubble were continuous.

“Oh putain!” French Players exclaimed as they dodged, shooting blindly in retaliation while loudly calling for support on the channel.

French Players rushed to support.

Fortunately, the underground environment was complicated, the lighting was poor to begin with, and the flashlight was shining everywhere, making it difficult to see clearly, both sides relied on chance gun skills.

Rather than comparing gun skills and techniques, it was more a matter of luck and ammunition.

In such a narrow underground environment, unless forced, no one would dare to throw hand grenades or bombs randomly.

Finally, before the French Players in the front were all killed, the support troops arrived, naturally leading to more intense gunfire!

Based on the kill records, French Players finally understood who their opponent was —

It was their original neighbor, the Ottoman Republic which occupied [Area 13: Underground Stronghold].

Their territories were indeed interconnected!

But for now, having met on a narrow path, it was pointless to think too much. They could only find a way to beat back their opponents.

Anyway, it’s better than being eliminated by a nuclear bomb without doing anything!

In the chaotic underground cave, with numerous stone pillars and underground plants, apart from the light beams that French and Ottomans were shooting at each other, the periphery was completely dark.

The entire battlefield was in total chaos.

The number of deaths on both sides was climbing non-stop!

If it continued like this, France would be the first to collapse. After all, in this environment where killing efficiency was similar, there were fewer French Players.

But in the midst of the fighting, the Ottoman Republic’s Players began to feel that something was wrong.

They had nearly lost a hundred people on their side, but why was the firepower on the other side still not slackening?

The words of some dead players before they left the battlefield were also very puzzling —

“I was stabbed to death with a knife!”

After another ten or so minutes, Ottoman Players had nearly lost another hundred, they were starting to feel the pinch!

Only by now had the French Players finally lost over a hundred, but they were now down to less than 300 people, so they had to retreat hastily.

If they kept fighting, they would be forcibly eliminated.

The Ottoman Republic’s Players had lost too many and dared not give chase. They took the opportunity to retreat, trying to find another way out.

They couldn’t help it, their underground stronghold had collapsed too.

Although they were further from the center of the nuclear explosion, the durability of their underground stronghold couldn’t be compared with France’s nuclear facilities, and the collapse was very severe.

That’s why they had to follow the hole that had been revealed after the collapse to find their way out.

After both sides withdrew, the battle area finally became quiet, and darkness was restored once again.

But in this quiet, a voice suddenly rang out:

“Tạm Biệt Nhé.” (Goodbye)

The soft light from the panel gradually illuminated, showing the faces one by one in the dark.

It’s the players from Annan!

But their presence here isn’t for seeking an exit, their camp was originally part of the caves. Before the nuclear explosion, they explored up to here and understood the terrain.

They were just stirring things up in the confusion, happily picking off the teams.

In order to balance the forces and prolong the combat, they deliberately targeted the larger troop of players from the Ottoman Republic.

As a result, until the end of the combat and both sides retreated, no one realized their existence…

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The French players, frustrated, retreated, fearing chasing attack from the Ottoman players. They planned to fall back to the large hole they originated from.

Everyone was gloomy, deliberating on what to do next as they moved.

But as they moved, someone noticed something wasn’t right — why were their footsteps so conspicuous?

They looked down and found water pooling around their feet, it had begun unknown to them.

“Everybody quiet down!” someone shouted.

The sound gradually faded into silence, then the sound of running water became clear, and in just a few seconds, the flow rate and the sound grew!

“What on earth?” Turner couldn’t believe it.

No sooner had the voice stopped than there was a rumbling sound of falling rocks. Following that was the gushing sound of water!

In just a dozen seconds or so, the flow of water had surged from far away to their feet, quickly rising above their shins.

“Turn around! Run!!” Turner shouted.

Taken aback from the reality of the situation, they all turned and started running.

But it was too late! Even the raging waters pushed massive stones bigger than a human head towards them!

The water rose past their shins, knees, waist, chest… until —

Their heads!

French players were swept away by the torrent, amidst the rushing water were rubble and debris constantly impacting them. They were helpless against the current and were quickly eliminated from the match.

“WTF!!” Turner left his last words frustratedly. His health bar was instantly depleted after crashing into a stone pillar. He was eliminated from the match!

The water kept surging forward, sweeping in a bunch of Annan players who were waiting for a chance to strike, it rushed towards the Ottoman camp.

When the Annan and Ottoman players encountered each other in the rapid current, the expressions on their faces were priceless!

At this moment in Cloud Dream’s live stream room, the director split the screen into two parts:

The larger screen showed the raging waters in the underground caves and the fate of the players caught in it.

The smaller screen shifted to the surface.

The surface exit of the air-raid shelter was blown into a hole nearly one kilometer in diameter and hundreds of meters deep by the nuclear bomb. Even a river a hundred meters wide changed its course because of it —

After a stretch of the river was evaporated, the following water didn’t continue flowing towards the ocean. Instead, it was funneling into the massive craters, set to form a lake.

But the collapse of the air-raid shelter wasn’t complete. Under the pressure of a massive volume of water, rubble, earth, and debris were gradually pushed aside. The hole slowly grew larger and the lake water continued to pour in. Now, it seems unstoppable and is about to fill up the entire air-raid shelter, underground military, and the subterranean caves!

The players witnessed this grand reshaping of the terrain and excitedly spammed “Awesome!” in the chat.

[T1 War Zone – France, has exited the battlefield.]

[T2 War Zone – Ottoman Republic, has exited the battlefield.]

Two heavy notifications echoed through the battlefield.

Many had anticipated the first one, as they were the direct target of the nuclear missile.

But the second one was rather a surprise. The reputedly powerful opponent, why was there no warning? They were just gone??

Compared to that, the Daxia players were indeed shocked, but due to the previous speculation of “one shot, three kills”, they have accepted the situation pretty quickly.

Besides, they had more important matters to discuss at the moment and temporarily ignored feeling schadenfreude.

This important matter is —

How to deal with the two bombers in front of them?

This started from about ten minutes ago.

At that time when the nuclear bomb hadn’t exploded yet, the Izumo players were fleeing. The airplane certainly moved faster than ground troops.

But they were isolated and had no clue where to fly to.

The two bomber pilots, seeing that Izumo was in danger, decided to fly directly to the harbor after a round of hesitation.

But after the airplane landed, they just had time to say: “Avenge us!”

Before being kicked off the battlefield because the casualties of their faction exceeded 80%.

Consequently, Daxia received two bombers, and they were both large ones!

As for revenge, that’s a given. In the end, there will only be one champion. Sooner or later, we will face off against Russia and Germany.

So what they’re discussing isn’t about that, but because a recon soldier found a tank outside.

An intact, unclaimed, and well-armed tank!

Knowing that they have “bomb-less” bombers at home, he had a “brilliant” idea:

Why not combine the two?