Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 82: Delivered to the Wrong Person, Hey! (3/10)

Chapter 82: Chapter 82: Delivered to the Wrong Person, Hey! (3/10)

Instructor Ding and the others returned to the base of the bell tower once again.

The eleven manual laborers who hadn’t been chosen as Flame Thieves were making good progress. The construction speed of the thoroughfare was quite fast, and it was already nearing the Divine Fire High Platform and the Pyrothief Bell Tower.

Close to the intersection of the high platform and the bell tower, the thoroughfare also underwent some minor changes, requiring smaller materials.

After players brought materials from the roadside, they had to use tools to trim them to the right size before they could be properly installed.

This operation was not difficult, but it was an additional step, making the already boring construction process seem even more tedious.

Seeing Instructor Ding and the others returning, a manual laborer who had stayed behind quickly came forward to meet them.

"Brother Ding, the construction of the thoroughfare is almost done!"

Instructor Ding nodded and praised, "Good job, Boss Mi. I really made the right choice; you’ve done well!"

This manual laborer in charge of the construction was a lucky streaming follower who often played games with Instructor Ding. His online name was Michelangelo Jikelo, also known as "Boss Mi" or "Michelangelo."

He was very skilled at construction games; while most players could only build matchbox-sized structures in the games, he could create magnificent palaces and lifelike buildings.

As for his real-world profession, that was a mystery. Some said he was an architect, others thought he was an art student who played with sculptures, yet others said he was simply a player with high talent.

But no matter what, his strong building skills were indeed solid, so Instructor Ding naturally pulled him into his own team.

Chen Tingquan was somewhat surprised, "Eh, we’ve been chatting here, and the Supervisor didn’t mind?"

Michelangelo nodded, "Right, I’ve found that the Supervisor doesn’t really intervene much. There are basically only two actions that are strictly prohibited: the first is escaping the construction area, and the second is not following the blueprint and placing wrong materials.

"You’ll get whipped for these two offenses, but it seems that he doesn’t care if you just slack off for a bit."

Li Wenhao criticized, "He’s surprisingly lenient."

Michelangelo looked at everyone, "The Flame Thieves should not have much time left, so let’s hurry up and get to the point. Just dump the materials you brought down here. We’re already starting to run out of materials. There’s enough rubble and sleepers, but we’re running low on large stones; look, the thoroughfare over there doesn’t even have a road surface."

Everyone turned their heads and saw that near the high platform, indeed, only rubble and sleepers were exposed, without paved stone bricks.

The manual laborers led by Michelangelo were making rapid progress. The materials that had been piled up by the roadside were already running out.

If the Flame Thieves didn’t bring out new materials, some of the processes in the construction would have to stop.

However, Michelangelo looked at the five people, who all were looking up at the sky, pretending they hadn’t heard anything.

Instructor Ding coughed awkwardly, "Ahem, ahem, this... The situation in the Divine Realm is a bit complicated, and I can’t explain it all in a few words. In short... Our exploration was very productive! It’s just that we were unlucky, ran into powerful monsters, and wiped twice. We had picked up a bunch of stuff, but didn’t bring anything out..."

Michelangelo was stunned, and after a moment made a "middle finger" expression, then turned around and walked away.

The live streaming chat went wild with laughter.

"Hahahaha! Flame Thieves, more like a bunch of losers!"

"Exactly, not even finding the Divine Fire is one thing, but they didn’t even bring back a single stone, after all the hard work the brothers put in outside!"

"All Little Ding’s fault!"

Seeing the mockery in the chat, Instructor Ding was also feeling a bit uncomfortable.

Fortunately, this game could only harvest the players’ negative emotions, not the audience’s, otherwise Lilith would have ascended to heaven in minutes.

After some painful reflection, Instructor Ding once again gathered the five Flame Thieves for a vigorous mobilization.

"Did you guys see that? Next time we go in, we must bring some things out! Especially the stones that we’re currently short on, the more the better!

"Let’s come up with a good strategy. I think, how about we work as a team, search different areas separately? Anyway, the monsters in the Divine Realm are all so strong, it hardly makes a difference whether we go solo or in a group, it’s still a death sentence.

"Wouldn’t it be better to split up and try our luck..."

The five Flame Thieves heatedly discussed, determined to learn from their previous lessons and redeem themselves.

Soon, the bell rang once more.

[New "Flame Thieves" have been selected!]

Instructor Ding’s expression was serious, standing tall and straight, assuming the righteous demeanor of one about to enter the battlefield.

This time he had a detailed plan. Even though they were sure to be no match for the monsters in the Divine Realm, they had to bring out a brick or tile no matter what!

However, after the bell rang, the five people waited for a while, but it seemed like nothing happened.

Instructor Ding turned his head and just happened to see that among the 11 manual laborers moving bricks, five of them were surrounded by blue light and were transported into the Divine Realm.

This included Michelangelo, who was directing the construction.

"Hey?? Bro, you teleported the wrong people, hello!!"

Instructor Ding was so anxious that he hopped on one leg, but it was to no avail; he could only watch as these five manual laborers became the new Flame Thieves entering the Divine Realm, while they themselves lost their Flame Thief status and turned back into manual laborers.

Chen Tingquan fell silent for a moment, then made a "facepalm" gesture: "Crap, all planning for nothing!"

...

Time ticked away, second by second.

[Instructor Ding’s negative emotions +5!]

[Instructor Ding’s negative emotions +3!]

[Instructor Ding’s negative emotions +7!]

Instructor Ding continued moving bricks, constantly accumulating negative emotions.

Clearly, he was somewhat depressed at this moment.

Why couldn’t I go in? My newly learned Grappling Technique! And we had just made a meticulous plan, even got a handle on the habits of two types of monsters in there, now all my skills are useless!

Also, moving bricks is really boring!

It’s just a simple task of moving materials from one place to another and then selecting the corresponding spot on the blueprint to resize and fill in the materials.

Instructor Ding was bored playing and the viewers were also bored watching.

Of course, there might be a rare few players who enjoyed this simple "fill in the blank" type of gameplay, but they were definitely in the minority.

But he couldn’t just wander off, as the Supervisor was watching like a hawk.

Soon, the expressway’s construction was mostly finished. Although due to a shortage of stones, part of the road was left unpaved, but there were indeed no more tasks for this project at the moment.

So the Supervisor immediately drove these people to the next construction site.

This time, two projects were activated, one was the Great Canal, and the other a workshop.

Constructing the Great Canal was the opposite of the expressway; it wasn’t about transporting materials to pave, but used shovels to dig up the soil, then cart the excavated earth away, and finally, one would use stones and wood to build docks and other facilities along the banks of the canal.

The workshop was a series of simple, low-rise buildings that, once completed, would unlock tools such as the furnace.

Players could go to mine copper ore, iron ore, then smelt them in the furnace into copper ingots, iron ingots, and then... use them to build new structures.

"Damn, stop just unlocking materials! Hurry up and unlock blueprints so we can build freely!" Instructor Ding complained.

If this were any other building game, players could have started building houses with just wood and stone, and subsequently unlocked materials would just enrich the building options.

This game, on the other hand, indeed had new materials unlocked but continually prevented players from building freely. What kind of nonsense was that!

Li Wenhao sighed silently, "Hey, just hang in there. Building according to the blueprint now, consider it a tutorial for beginners. According to that Supervisor, after building a few more structures, we should be able to unlock free building."

At this point, everyone’s negative emotions were constantly bubbling up, but they were strung along by a vague goal and, with many people playing together, no one wanted to be the first to quit the game.

"Dang!"

The bell rang again, and the five new Flame Thieves who had entered the Divine Realm were teleported out.

So far, ten people from "Sky-Defying Sixteen Bronzemen" had entered the Divine Realm as Flame Thieves.

Instructor Ding didn’t care and continued with his own task at hand, building walls for the workshop.

This time, the one leading the group that was teleported in was Michelangelo; the rest were mostly friends or fans of the streamers in real life, who weren’t particularly adept at adventuring; what kind of results could they have?

The next second, these five people swiftly came to a more open area of the site and began pulling things out.

"Thud!"

A muffled sound as a stone, originally the size of a palm plus two rounds, was thrown on the ground, but the next second, it turned into a large stone that was two to three meters square!

A small twig became a trunk too thick for even a person to wrap their arms around.

A metal nameplate transformed into a stack of thick metal plates.

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