Dark Sand: My Players Are All Actors
Chapter 372 - 234: Building Blocks_4

Chapter 372: Chapter 234: Building Blocks_4

"These parts... they all look exactly alike!"

Although there were shadows, the shadows were, after all, in a state of complete assembly, with various lines densely packed and layered. To accurately find the corresponding parts in reality based on what little could be seen after the assembly was complete, that was definitely a task that could drive one to despair.

For example, there were many types of "Dou" in the assembled parts, and they also had various names, such as concentric Dou, interlocking Dou, scattered fight, and so on.

But from the outside, Li Hongyun could hardly tell any difference between them.

If he looked closer, he would see that there seemed to be a difference in size. The interlocking Dou were the longest, the concentric Dou were next, and the scattered fight were the shortest.

However, this gap was very small, and while it might be possible to distinguish them if they were taken out separately for comparison, once thrown into the huge group of buildings, it was immediately impossible to tell who was who.

"Forget it, let’s just hope for a miracle!

"After all, every tenon fits a mortise; as long as I can prop up the roof when I plug it in, that should be fine."

Li Hongyun decided to once again leave his fate to his luck and began assembling.

Luckily, after he finished assembling the first bracket structure, this structure became a part that could be directly applied to other columns.

Then, Li Hongyun began to build the roof on these bracket structures, lay the tiles, and construct the exterior walls.

Outside these huge buildings, craftsmen and labourers set up tall wooden scaffolds and began all sorts of decorative work, like the pair of dragon head gables at both ends of the roof ridge of Fengtian Hall, which were over three meters high, more than two meters wide, and weighed about four tons, composed of 13 glazed components.

In addition, there were all sorts of complicated and exquisite murals and other decorations.

There were many similar details, which were either purely for the sake of beauty or had a special functional purpose besides beauty.

The rapid enrichment of details allowed a gigantic prototype of Fengtian Hall to begin taking shape before Li Hongyun.

"It doesn’t seem that difficult, does it?"

As Li Hongyun witnessed such a massive building gradually becoming more complete before his eyes, a sense of pride as if to say "that’s it" naturally emerged.

Fengtian Hall was the largest palace in the entire Forbidden City. As long as he could get it built, the following thousands of palaces would definitely be a piece of cake; it was just a matter of time.

However, just as Li Hongyun wanted to enter Fengtian Hall to take a good look at his own construction masterpiece, an accident happened.

The craftsmen and soldiers who were still bustling about in the Forbidden City vanished into thin air, and then the ground began to rumble and tremble!

Li Hongyun was startled: "What’s going on?"

He didn’t have time to think too much because Fengtian Hall was already swaying in the violent tremors, with tiles clinking against each other and all kinds of rubble and dust falling like rain.

"An earthquake?"

Li Hongyun quickly realized that this should not be an event that actually occurred in history, as there was no record of an earthquake disrupting the construction of the Forbidden City. It was most likely a special challenge arranged by the Trial Illusion.

"I built it according to the blueprints, so there shouldn’t be any problems...

"Right?"

Before Li Hongyun could finish his sentence with "right?", he saw a part of Fengtian Hall suddenly collapse into thin air, followed by what seemed like a chain reaction as other brackets also began to collapse, causing the thick load-bearing columns to also fall to one side!

A cloud of dust rose.

When the dust settled and Li Hongyun looked towards Fengtian Hall again, he realized that the great hall that he had put so much effort into had become a heap of ruins.

The wooden beams were skewed, debris littered the ground, and the once majestic hall looked as though it had been slapped from top to bottom by a giant and turned into a two-dimensional structure.

"Why did this happen..."

Li Hongyun was dumbfounded, somewhat at a loss.

He should have assembled it according to the blueprints, so there shouldn’t have been any structural flaws, right?

Could it be because the columns were not deeply embedded into the foundation?

But that wasn’t right either; the blueprints indicated it this way, and if he had arbitrarily decided to embed the columns deeper into the foundation, it might have led to even more serious consequences.

"Could it be that I used the three types of Dou incorrectly?

"Tenon-and-mortise joints require a perfect fit, and the size has strict requirements. Those three types of Dou only had a very slight size difference. If a larger Dou was placed in the position of a smaller one, it might not look too noticeable on the surface, but the gaps left would definitely be larger than originally planned.

"The Dou structures were all copy and pasted; if one bracket had issues, it meant that the others were likely to have issues as well...

"In this case, when the earthquake struck, the original structure’s weak points emerged and triggered a chain reaction, which naturally led to the collapse of the entire structure.

"It seems that at times like this, one can’t just count on creating miracles through brute force; it’s better to assemble it honestly according to the blueprints..."

Li Hongyun couldn’t help but admire the ancient sages’ intelligence again.

In ancient times, building such a massive structure covering several thousand square meters and several stories high without using any nails or glue was already incredible.

Moreover, the building had to possess considerable seismic capabilities, which was even more astonishing.

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