Yang Zicang hadn’t expected that this Director General would show up again.
And the moment he entered, he radiated an overwhelming aura of slaughter, as if the entire spiritual world were on the verge of collapse—the oppressive presence of a demon king about to descend upon the world.
Yang Zicang and Boboli quickly sat down properly on the grass. He conjured a small table and placed it on the ground, inviting the Director General to take a seat opposite them. This maintained a psychological sense of safety.
Huan Bao’er, seated across the small table, scanned the two of them back and forth with his eyes.
–Why do you think you two are capable of building a Demon Hero Hall?-
Asking this question, Huan Bao’er felt like a complete fool—naïve, whimsical, utterly unrealistic!
Why the hell had he been so possessed as to come here?
–Because I believe in my friend.-
Yang Zicang looked at Boboli: –I… trust Boboli. Maybe he can’t yet…-
–I can!-
Boboli, who had been keeping his head down, lifted it up: –I’ve thought about it countless times in my mind, ever since I received this task.-
He opened his hand, and scattered luminous blueprint fragments materialized before them.
–From the moment I received the design data that everyone helped me memorize, I suddenly felt a strange… call it emotion, or maybe an idea. Anyway, I feel like I can be the one to unlock this Demon Hero Hall. It’s like…-
Boboli, who had been confused until this moment, finally broke through his mental block and said:
–It’s as if everyone not only recited the information about the Moying Hall for me, but also their understanding of it, and most importantly… I could feel their wishes!-
Huan Bao’er looked at him doubtfully.
Boboli said excitedly:
–I feel as if I am standing before a mysterious door. The afternoon’s efforts of those people gave me the ability to enter that unknown Moying Hall! I am not creating the Moying Hall, I am discovering it! I yearn to experience the unprecedented within and the expectation of having my wishes fulfilled.-
–Heh…-
–I started to push open this door, I began to explore the unknown there… From that moment, many ideas and scenes appeared in my mind.-
–Impressive! As expected of someone who played games so much they entered another world.-
–Ahaha.-
Boboli scratched his head awkwardly.
Huan Bao’er sat on the grass, looking up at the identical images arranged in the air.
Though it was impulsive, facts are facts. Expecting to build a Moying Hall with just three people plus oneself is indeed wishful thinking.
–Why are you making so many identical things?- Huan Bao’er, now much calmer, asked in a conversational tone.
–Because of time.-
Boboli fiddled with the various conjured parts on the table: –I calculated that if it’s an arena city that can hold at least twenty thousand people, then with ten people per team, we would need two thousand rooms for them to complete a single competition.-
Huan Bao’er grew a bit interested.
–Well, and then? What do these identical rooms have to do with all this?-
–We don’t have the time or manpower to adapt to all sorts of complex terrains, so I made them identical.-
–Though naive, the child had indeed put some thought into it. Huan Bao’er nodded, her curiosity satisfied.-
–At that moment, because the two of them were continuously using the ‘Power of Mental Manifestation’ in their Moxels, by manifesting this psychic illusion, Boboli, as the master of the psychic field, instantly conjured a large phantom clock.-
–He raised his hand slightly, and the clock floated and expanded to the size of a house, revealing the constantly rotating mechanical structure behind it.-
––_What’s this?- Huan Bao’er looked on in confusion.-_
–Gears!-
–Gears?-
–Make the scenes into gears and let them collide.-
As the young man said this, Huan Bao’er was stunned for a moment, then a strange brilliance burst forth from her eyes!
She instantly pictured the scene.
–So! So they are all that trapezoidal shape! These rooms are gears?-
–Exactly!-
Boboli jumped up and pointed to the sky, saying:
–As long as all the gears are polished, we can just mount them on the wheel. No matter which scene we pick, there won’t be any mistakes!-
–My god, this saves at least 90% of the time!-
–Yes, yes, that’s why I said I don’t need to put too much effort into designing the structure of the Demon Hero Hall, because its structure is just a few big sticks!-
Huan Bao’er was stunned, feeling a long-lost tingling sensation on her skin.
Something she had previously dismissed as a fool’s fantasy now seemed on the verge of hatching into reality at any moment!
–Impossible things… might actually…-
Her heart suddenly tightened, and she quickly turned to confirm:
–Then how many scenarios have you completed?-
Yang Zicang said, –Working day and night recently, we finally have close to two thousand done. We had made quite a few before, but later found the precision wasn’t enough and had to rework them, adding many scene arrangement techniques learned from Executive Croft. I dare say most teams can have battles matching their strength inside.-
Huan Bao’er sighed:
–But that’s only enough for one trial per team, the number is a bit small.-
This many scenes are far from enough, and there’s no time left—unless I mobilize more people to work on this and apply for a more relaxed Chronos expansion state. But in the Lost Illusion Company, we can’t do things that alter Chronos state too much.
Can it really be done?
If it’s just the three of them…
However, if we increase manpower…
Huan Bao’er showed the look of someone about to make a decision—should she gamble along with these little rascals? But although the Mo Ying Hall already had a rudimentary form, something was still missing.
–If a team is too strong, can’t they clear out many gear rooms? Your rooms simply aren’t enough.-
Yang Zicang turned to look at Boboli.
Seeing the young man’s expression, Huan Bao’er looked at the boy: –Do you have some other consideration?-
–Yes. Because of the existence of the five elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—I have divided all the rooms into five colors.-
Bopoli pointed to the trapezoidal gear scenes scattered across the sky.
–Even without a route, everyone must clear the scrambled five-colored gear rooms. So they cannot simply take the easiest path; instead, they have to go back and forth through the various colliding gear rooms to find the piece they are missing.-
–This way, they won’t have enough time to recklessly attack the gear rooms—they have to search.- Huan Bao’er nodded. It was indeed a brilliant design.
Bopoli waved his hand, and the structure on the back of the clock before him mirrored an image, like looking into a mirror.
A mechanical device composed of two gears, one large and one small, lay flat in front of Huan Bao’er like two doors.
He looked at Huan Bao’er: –And I will make the gear wheels interlock, so that the two cities are intertwined—each contains a part of the other.-
–This is…!-
Bopoli said, –Isn’t it a competition between two cities? According to Team Leader Jiaoma, the stability of a terrain scene is actually just a snapshot of one of its periods, isn’t it?-
Huan Bao’er looked at the mirrored image of the two gear cities, and the surprise on his face grew deeper and deeper.
–We just need to mirror it, modify the time coordinates of the mirrored gear room, and display its terrain from hundreds or thousands of years ago. Some places were originally lakes, which turned into fields after centuries; some were mountains, which became temples after centuries, and later fell into ruins.-
Yang Zicang said: –Director General, that’s why from the very beginning, when we chose scenes, we consciously selected terrain scenes that had stabilized at least two era nodes. This way, after mirroring and copying, we can activate the landscape’s appearance from another era.-
In an instant, we’ve doubled the number of rooms.
Huan Bao’er couldn’t help but clap.
Boboli said with full confidence: –There’s no time to design the route—no problem. The wheel will rotate up and down like an elevator, colliding with different gears.-
–Brilliant.-
–Not enough scenes? No problem. Every time they encounter a scene, it will be different.-
Huan Bao’er looked up: –But what about the trial monsters?-
–Not enough monsters? Also no problem.-
–What? You can skimp on that too?-
Boboli chuckled:
–The team that claims a room’s color becomes the monsters of that room! If latecomers run into an empty room, well, sorry—they must chase the shadows of the strong, or else they get eliminated.-
Yang Zicang said: –In this way, the number of teams shrinks, and those who are filtered out grow stronger.-
Boboli stared at Huan Bao’er without a hint of timidity, her eyes growing sharper and more spirited as she looked at the two before her.
The woman exclaimed, her body radiating heat: –Such an arena city, even if used ten times, it could still be random! If you swap out the gears and add a few rooms and turntables, you could use it a hundred times and still never find an optimal route!-
Yang Zicang said: –Yes, Chief Director. Even if there were an optimal route, it would change after a few gear rotations. Moreover, more strong players would know the route, making the chance of battles between strong teams even greater!-
–We both think this is an arena city that can be used many times. And there’s no risk of leaking secrets.-
–Yang Zicang, is this the ‘Chief Designer’ you found? The two of you have done an absolutely fantastic job!-
Huan Bao’er stood up, radiating a confident and powerful aura.
–Your Magic Hero Hall will be a great, an incredibly great arena city! But…-
The woman said solemnly: –Let me tell you some bad news. The key to passing the review quickly for the Magic Hero Hall should not be the Five Elements.-
–What!- Popoli shrieked in disbelief.
A flash of insight struck Yang Zicang, and he suddenly tensed: –Could it be… the Green Lotus Crown didn’t pass the review?-
–Yes. And Croft’s design passed!-
The two finally understood why Huan Bao’er had come running at this time.
But if that was the case, all their hard work these past days was for nothing.
That damned Croft—what on earth had he hidden in his design? He had been involved from start to finish, yet he had never found it!
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