Chapter 657: Survival Contest Seventh Round, Solar Storm!
[Dorm Survival Game——]
[Survival Contest, Section Six: "Gravity Abyss" has concluded!]
[Survival Contest, Section Seven: "Solar Storm" will begin shortly. Please make preparations!]
[Abnormal stellar activity detected!]
[A Solar Storm will arrive in this area in 7 hours, lasting 7 hours!]
[During the storm, dormitory buildings will continuously suffer "Solar Storm" damage!]
[All dormitory buildings, prepare for disaster!]
[Disaster overview as follows!]
[Hour 1, X-Ray Burst: Extremely high penetration. Requires heavy metal shielding or energy barriers to block!]
[Hour 3, Ultraviolet Torrent: Burns all things, ignites fires, deals sustained damage. Please prepare light-blocking coatings and fire-resistant materials!]
[Hour 5, Coronal Mass Ejection: Corona burns all things, causes electromagnetic chaos. Facilities and items with mystical attributes will be instantly destroyed!]
[Hour 7, Solar Radiation Burst: Three types of radiation randomly mixed, compounded explosion!]
[Hint: The dormitory building that lasts until the end will receive a temporary BUFF, "Child of the Corona," lasting until Building Wars conclude!]
This time, the Dorm Survival Game's voice was no longer as cold and mechanical as usual. There was a slight fluctuation, as if it too was excited for the grand spectacle about to unfold.
The sky split open, revealing a massive fireball spewing flames and endless blazing heat. Black particles melted and reformed within it, resembling churning rivers of petroleum.
When the sun appeared on the battlefield, the first thing that came to the players' minds wasn't the sun itself, but a furious eye bearing down on them!
This sun was too big. So big it blotted out the entire sky, making people forget what color the sky had originally been. It was no longer a distant celestial body, but a reachable abyss of flame!
"Ahhh!!!"
Quite a few Amusement Park Building players, struck by a fear of colossal objects, screamed in terror!
Beyond the psychological damage, they also suffered tangible attacks!
The orange-red light wasn't warm. It was pure, brutal destruction!
The radiance peeled away from the sun's surface like billions of invisible blades, simultaneously stabbing into every pair of upturned eyes!
Who told Amusement Park Building players to love watching the show so much.
Players from other buildings, upon hearing dangerous terms like X-Ray Burst and Ultraviolet Torrent, had immediately returned home.
Only they were still foolishly gawking.
These Amusement Park Building players who had survived the sixth round were, without exception, all powerhouses. Yet now, they were all covering their faces, screaming in agony. Their thoroughly cooked brain matter directly oozed out from their facial orifices, a truly tragic outcome!
...
Demon King Castle.
Witnessing the scene outside, Cao Yaxuan and the other women were also stunned.
"Lang Ge..." Chi Qingman said, her hands spread open as if floating on water, unsteady on her feet.
In truth, the ground was indeed trembling slightly, though very subtly.
A sun hanging over their heads...
A sun hanging over their heads!!!!!!
This feeling was utterly terrifying.
"No need to panic." Xu Lang said indifferently, glancing at the women.
Chi Qingman was still too much of a newbie, so panicked reactions were understandable.
Cao Yaxuan and the others, while shocked, showed no fear.
He nodded inwardly and continued, "Zhichun, Zhixia, go prepare at the door. Repair the gate's Durability whenever it decreases."
The two women immediately complied.
Miaoying then asked, "Master, don't the turrets need Durability repairs?"
Xu Lang shook his head with a grave expression, "No need..."
This final round was extremely difficult. In the Simulation Dream, he had simply given up.
But this time, he wanted to try.
After all, in reality, he could use Nightmare Coins!
Even if he gave up resisting, all the facilities in his current dorm would be destroyed in this round anyway.
When the Gravity Beasts attacked, quite a few players had chosen to kill themselves, trying to preserve their facilities...
That was completely misguided!
This round was specifically designed to wipe out facilities!
"Xu Lang, Xu Lang, look, the sun is starting to power up!" Cao Yaxuan suddenly tugged on Xu Lang, pointing at the surveillance monitor, calling out repeatedly.
They saw an abnormal light appear on the sun's surface, like a chaotic current woven from various energies. Then, under everyone's gaze, this abnormal light condensed into a beam, abruptly shooting towards the Demon King Castle!!!
It wasn't attacking the Mad King Building, but directly targeting the Demon King Castle, its destination clear!
Boom!!!
A beam several meters thick landed on the Mad King Building. The terrifying roar was like the end of the world!
A few seconds later.
Cao Yaxuan blinked and said, "Seems like nothing happened?"
"Something did happen. The dormitory gate lost thirty thousand Durability!" Zhen Lu's expression was strange, unsure whether to laugh or cry.
"What happened?" Miaoying's cat ears twitched. She had been covering her ears just now, neither seeing nor hearing anything.
Xu Ruyan smiled and said, "Look at the position."
"The sun is hanging in the sky. Although the floor gaps in the Mad King Building are high, the corridors are also very wide."
"So this X-Ray Burst didn't directly hit the Auspicious Gate. It just forced some energy into the corridor and grazed the gate!"
As danger approached, Xu Ruyan hadn't closed her eyes. She had witnessed the entire process and knew what had happened.
"Our gate lost thirty thousand Durability. What about the turrets..." Xu Xiaomeng gasped, thinking of another problem.
"They won't survive." Xu Lang shook his head. "In this round, we can only protect the gate."
Chi Qingman's face fell. She felt a pang of regret.
The turrets would all be destroyed in this round. How were they supposed to get through the next one?
She didn't know that as soon as Xu Lang upgraded, the turrets' Durability would be fully restored. It would just cost a bit more Nightmare Coins than a normal upgrade.
In fact, if it weren't for the fact that a player who stays away from their dormitory for too long would automatically lose their Dorm Owner status, Xu Lang wouldn't even bother to protect the dormitory gate. He could just hide in the Demon Box World.
By then, even though the items inside the room would be destroyed, as long as the dormitory building was upgraded, the Core Facilities would also be repaired. They would lose nothing more than a few pieces of furniture.
After all, protecting the Auspicious Gate might require upgrading it more than once, whereas destroying it and rebuilding only required one upgrade.
Suddenly, Xu Lang was a little stunned.
"Since the Auspicious Gate is bound to be upgraded anyway, upgrading it sooner or later is the same. I haven't really lost anything."
So far, he hadn't seen another gate more suitable for the Demon King Castle than the Golden Fortune Auspicious Door, which had condensed Time's Power.
When choosing the gate's upgrade direction in the past, he had actually overlooked a very important point.
That was the importance of fortune!
For instance, in this Gravity Beast farming session, if he hadn't had fortune's blessing, his Funding Chain might have snapped.
What had once been a decision made by chance had turned out to be the correct one.
"No matter how I think about it, it's not just coincidence. The path was so correct, it was all my subconscious choices."
"In the end, it's because I'm just too overpowered."
"What really made me what I am, was it only the Nightmare Lord sequence?"
After establishing his general strategy, some irrelevant thoughts began to drift through Xu Lang's mind.
The sun's second attack condensed ten seconds later, this time targeting the Evil King Building.
As the energy beam descended, the three Wicked Gods simultaneously swung their weapons, blocking the strike!
"Hmm? Could this round be the Evil King Building's home turf?"
Xu Lang quickly conjured an Eye of Providence, observing the other three buildings from all angles.
He was shocked by what he saw. Quite a few surviving dormitories remained.
They were all riding on the Demon King Castle's coattails, having escaped the Gravity Beast attacks.