Chapter 598: Chapter 566: How Can a Competition with a Bug be Interesting?


    Watching Little Chun and Randall embrace each other, one constantly crying, the other not knowing what to do.


    Lincoln, Camille Victoria, and Mavis, sitting across from them, were also somewhat confused.


    After a while, feeling that Little Chun’s emotions should have been vented out, Lincoln suddenly suggested: “Why don’t… we also hug each other?”


    “Huh?” Princess Camille Victoria was taken aback.


    But before she could react, Mavis had already jumped up and shouted “Great idea!”, hanging on Lincoln’s neck.


    “Haha, I was just kidding.” Lincoln took Mavis off, patted her on the head, and asked her to sit down properly.


    After this distraction, the awkward atmosphere eased a bit.


    Little Chun wiped her tears and whispered in Randall’s ear: “We’ll talk moreter.”


    Then she sat up straight and apologized: “Sorry, I was just reminded of some things from the past.”


    “It’s okay, it’s okay.” Lincoln quickly waved his hands, “I didn’t mean to interrupt you guys.”<div>


    As he spoke, he extended his index finger, and a stream of data quickly converged at his fingertip, turning into a little fire dragon shape, slowly pping its wings, and flying towards Little Chun.


    “These are the sensory data that appeared in your memory. Mavis has done an initial ssification based on the code characteristics, but we still need your help tobel which pieces of data represent which senses.”


    Little Chun reached out to catch the little fire dragon and nodded: “No problem, leave it to me.”


    The little fire dragon disappeared slowly in Little Chun’s hand – this was just a form of authorization, and the actual data content had already been transferred to Little Chun’s workspace.


    “There’s no need to rush, many things are not yet ready, and the Civil Affairs Bureau is still coordinating. We have plenty of time. You can do this when you have some free time at work.”


    After exining his intentions, Lincoln pulled Mavis and Camille Victoria away, leaving them some private space.


    However, after they left, Little Chun didn’t spend much time cuddling with Randall, they only talked softly for a while about the trip they’d had before and decided to go see it again this weekend.


    Slowing down the worsening of the disease is important, but you can’t sacrifice your current life for dying the bad days toe.


    After all, living in the present is what people must do.


    After opening their hearts to each other once again, they returned to their respective teams and continued their leading work.


    The difference was that their steps were lighter, and the tangled emotions in their hearts had been greatly relieved.


    Little Chun returned to her team with a smile and asked: “How are the yers reacting to thepetition?”


    rk quickly put away his copy of The Development of Tang Dynasty Clothing and the Changes in Clothing of All sses, then erged the work window in front of him with a serious expression before answering Little Chun: “It’s great, the boss’s suggestion is really impressive. If it weren’t for the National Construction Competition, the Redstone Challenge alone wouldn’t have caused such a sensation.”


    Seeing that rk was not beingpletely idle, Little Chun didn’t mind. She was used to it – after all, he was eager to join the Virtual Chang’an project.


    Returning to her own sofa and sitting down, she began to pay attention to the yers’ feedback.


    She soon discovered that rk’s summary of the yers’ situation was quite urate.


    Just looking at the yer’s feedback below the announcement, although the Redstone Challenge had a higher prize than the National Construction Competition – the champion prize of the Redstone Challenge was 3 million, while the National Construction Competition was 2.8 million – but what the yers were most enthusiastic and eager to talk about was the National Construction Competition.


    Lincoln wouldn’t mind giving more prize money, but Little Chun’s team philosophy doesn’t want the words “game” and “get-rich-quick” closely linked – that would mislead many immature yers.


    So, in their event ns, the prize money wouldn’t concentrate on one person or, let’s say, “very likely” wouldn’t concentrate on one person.<div>


    Because the entirepetition process was designed verypactly: the whole process onlysted 15 days.


    Twelve days were allocated for building and submitting results, and the remaining three days were for presenting to all the yers for voting, and the results were determined based on the voting results.


    The National Construction Competition had no barriers to entry, and standings were determined solely by voting results. Even if the yers went crazy and voted for a piece of dirt as the winner, Lincoln would still pay out the prize money.


    However, considering that this was a globalpetition and all yers worldwide who had purchased the game could participate and vote, this likelihood was pretty low.<div>


    The Redstone Challenge had set a requirement: arge number of Redstone structures must appear in the entries.


    It seemed that thispetition could be entered individually.


    But in reality, a work that could win the world’s attention could hardly be small-scale.


    Large-scale works were, of course, the result of many people working together. Super Tomato’s Forbidden City and Camille Victoria’s Floating Ind were both like this.


    If you haven’t done these things before and want to sprint in thest 12 days, it’s even more impossible to rely on one person to make it.


    So, the likely oue was that the entire team of yers would share the huge prize money.


    This was the scene that Little Chun’s team wanted to see the most: yers working together, united in cooperation, striving for victory in thepetition.


    Now, the online discussions were in line with their expectations: yers were forming groups, expressing ideas, and recruiting teammates.


    However, some of the discussions were strange:


    “@Super Tomato, is there a spot for me in your Forbidden City project? Can I join? I can pay to work!”


    “@Camille Victoria, big sister, please take me in! Your floating ind needs a hardworking sheep like me!”


    “@Super Roller Coaster Project Team, add me! I can mine for eight hours a day without pay!”


    …<div>


    Yes,pared to starting from scratch now, many yers hope to join an ongoing project that has been under construction since the game wasunched and has already taken shape.


    This can save a lot of preliminary work.


    And there are not a few such projects; many great anchors have organized such projects.


    Even in the past few days, when many anchors have be “Battlefield” people, they still take some time every day to return to build houses as a way to rx.


    Besides the anchors, many small teams formed by colleagues, ssmates, and friends also post videos to showcase their construction achievements.


    These teams with a first-mover advantage naturally received enthusiastic attention fromizens.


    However, these teams did not immediately recruit new members, apparently fearing that they would recruit those who want to gain something for nothing.


    Under the strong calls of the yers, Camille Victoria finally showed up and posted an update.


    But this update wasn’t about whether or not they were recruiting. Instead, it was a [Deration of Withdrawing from the Competition]—


    [The Floating Ind is not my aplishment, and I have contributed very little to it. To “Defend the Farm,” we pulled in a lot of yers at once, adding yers who came for the fameter. These yers have contributed more or less, and their total number probably exceeds 2,000.


    So, strictly speaking, the Floating Ind is a public venue, not a construction entry, and is not suitable for thepetition.


    We havemunicated with the fans who participated the earliest and contributed the most.


    [The Floating Ind will not participate in thepetition]—that is our final decision.]<div>


    This post naturally caused quite a stir, andizens discussed it.


    But Camille Victoria didn’t even look at theizens’ reactions, turning her head straight back to her hardcore fan group and saying to them, “Let’s make something new for thepetition? How about a giant flying whale?”


    Fans in the group immediately got excited: “Great idea! Totally possible!”


    “Sounds fantastic! I’m in!”


    “One? Are you looking down on me?! A group of whales! Let’s make twenty!”


    “What a joke! There are only 12 days left, and there are more than 400 of us, most of whom still have to work during the day. Think about the workload!”


    “Let’s start with a big one and see how time goes! If there’s enough time, we’ll make more; if not, we’ll make a few small ones as whale children. It makes perfect sense!”


    “What do you guys think about adding an old fisherman and creating a whale-hunting effect?”


    …


    Super Tomato’s situation was a bit unique: the number of participants in his Forbidden City project was limited and easily identified.


    As he was the actual project leader and had put a lot of effort into it, he could confidently submit it for thepetition.


    He did intend to participate.


    However, hispetition goal was not quite whatizens had in mind—<div>


    Super Tomato didn’t n topete for the top prize of the National Construction Competition; he wanted to try… exploiting a BUG.


    He nned to use the unfinished Forbidden City building group to participate in the Redstone Challenge.


    Yes, he nned to participate in the “Redstone” challenge with this building group, which has not a single redstone structure so far.


    —Super Tomato had carefully studied the rules of thepetition and discovered that none of them explicitly stated that the “Redstone structure” had to be closely integrated with the “main building.”


    The rules only required the “quantity” of the redstone structure, not the plexity.”


    Then, what if they ced a redstone torch at the entrance of the Forbidden City building group, and then connected it to thousands of levers using redstone powder so that any lever could ignite the torch?


    Would that meet the standard for a rge number of redstone structures”?


    Super Tomato wanted to give it a try.


    The group friends who loved to make trouble all strongly supported the idea, even suggesting that whenying out the redstone powder circuit, there was no need to use strictly straight lines—


    “We could use the line to paint a pile of poop!”


    “Gross! How about a tomato instead?”


    “Boring! I say draw Mavis! All her fans will vote for us then!”


    “Might as well draw Alex.”


    “Draw a princess!”


    “Draw Lincoln! Who would dare not give us the championship? Even those rigging the results would have to give us the championship!”


    “???”


    “???”


    …


    Super Tomato found the suggestions of his group friends very amusing, so he chimed in: “Only children make choices, adults want them all!”


    “Let’s leave some space for everyone to draw whatever they want!”