r18novel Chapter 96 Pei Qi's Astounding Wisdom!
Chapter 96 Pei Qi's Astounding Wisdom!
Chapter 90 Pei Qi's Astounding Wisdom!
Pei Qi always thought Terraria's "Slime King" was a joke.
In the original Terraria, this guy was a newbie gift pack that players would hang up with ropes and beat up, a living treasure chest that dropped the Ninja Set, and a mobile ATM in the eyes of speedrunners.
With just a rope twenty blocks off the ground, you could even kill it with a wooden bow while sipping tea.
But now, in this living hell of the trinity of [Calamity (Death Mode)] + [Fargo (Masochistic Mode)] + [Zenith Seed], this thing in front of me is the most perfect interpretation of the word "despair".
It's no longer that cute blue jelly.
It is a mountain.
A living fortress, fifty meters high, made of high-density gel, with a deep blue, highly toxic vortex churning inside.
With the blessing of the legendary seed, its size was magnified several times.
Inside that translucent body, the ninja that originally looked comical twitched as the gel writhed, as if screaming silently.
One second ago, it was on the hillside 200 meters away, preparing to be crushed by Mount Tai.
The next second, the golden crown appeared on the back of Pei Qi's head, accompanied by a breathtaking whooshing sound.
Their proud dynamic vision and mech-assisted aiming system are as powerless as trying to calculate pi with an abacus in the face of this unreasonable "mechanical monster".
Every depleted uranium bullet he fired either hit an afterimage or was blocked by those annoying [Crown Gems]. Sometimes, the Slime King could even turn a fatal blow into a mere misfire simply by changing his form.
"Is this the tragedy of early-game archers in Terraria?"
Pei Qi performed a clumsy side roll in mid-air, narrowly avoiding a sudden burst of red laser light.
"Without the auto-aiming of the Chlorophyllite Bullets, and without the tracking of the Yeti Cannon, I feel like a caveman with a fire poker when facing such highly mobile units!"
He needs a solution.
A solution that requires no vision, no prediction, and not even operation.
Pei Qi's brain was racing, with countless tactical models being constructed and then collapsing in his mind.
The core problem we need to solve is only one: hit rate.
In shooting games, there are generally two ways to improve accuracy:
First, hone your marksmanship to become a sharpshooter capable of taking down enemies from a kilometer away. That's obviously unrealistic; the opponent is a cheater who can teleport.
Second, use tracking weapons to let the bullets find the enemy on their own. Unfortunately, this feature is not yet available in the current tech tree.
"Isn't there a third way?"
Pei Qi looked down at the vast plain covered by the slime rain, at the densely packed little monsters and the BOSS that was running around everywhere.
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration exploded in his mind like nuclear fusion.
"Wait a moment----"
Pei Qi's lips gradually curled upwards, finally splitting into a maniacal laugh that would chill any pacifist to the bone.
Why should I pursue "accuracy"?
This is a simple geometry problem, and also a basic philosophical problem.
If the target's evasion radius is 50 meters.
And my attack coverage radius is 500 meters?
"As long as my warhead is big enough, there's no such thing as outlining."
"As long as my firepower covers a wide enough area, everything within this coordinate system will turn to ashes!"
This is the extraordinary wisdom of Pei Qi!
Since I can't hit you, I'll just wipe out the entire battlefield, including you!
Once I destroy the chessboard, I don't need to think about how to place my pieces!
"Although this sounds a bit extreme, it has to be said—"
Pei Qi grabbed at the air, and the sophisticated electromagnetic railgun disappeared.
Instead, there is a heavy, rugged green launcher that exudes a chilling aesthetic of industrial violence.
[HBM Nuclear Technology - Fat Man Nuclear Bomb Launcher]
[Type: Tactical Nuclear Weapon Delivery System]
[Loading: Mini nuclear bomb]
It was a bullet, about the size of a rugby ball, painted with dangerous yellow and black stripes.
Although it has the word "mini" in front of it, in the HBM module's settings, this thing's equivalent is calculated in the thousands of tons of TNT.
It was not designed for precision strikes.
It was created for "map editing".
"Teleportation? Fine, keep teleporting."
Pei Qi shouldered the heavy launcher, feeling the cold touch on his shoulder—the weight of truth.
He no longer bothered to aim at the core of the Slime King, nor did he try to predict its landing point.
He simply pointed the dark muzzle of the cannon at the approximate area where the Slime King was located.
Or rather, that mountain peak.
"I'd like to see whether your teleportation cooldown is faster or my shockwave spreads faster!"
"Art is—Patrick Star!"
"Click."
The trigger is pulled.
"Pass--!"
A dull thud, like a cork being pulled from a bottle.
The miniature nuclear bomb, with its adorable appearance but hellish interior, slowly flew towards the earth in a less-than-graceful parabola, propelled by compressed gas.
At this moment, King Slime had just completed a teleportation.
It was in a brief state of stagnation, where "old power had been exhausted and new power had not yet been generated." Its enormous, faceless gelatinous face was facing the sky, as if mocking the tiny human for firing such a slow and off-target bullet.
According to its AI, the object will land about 30 meters away from it.
There is absolutely no threat.
It didn't even bother to teleport again, preparing to take the hit head-on before jumping up to deliver the fatal blow to the insect.
However, it is wrong.
That's completely wrong.
The moment the warhead hit the ground.
Time seemed to stand still at that moment.
No sound.
The first thing to arrive was light.
"flash".
It was a pure white beam of light that was ten thousand times more dazzling than the midday sun.
Before this light, all colors in the world were forcibly stripped away. The blue slime, the green grass, and the black rocks all turned a ghastly white.
Next comes "heat".
It was a miniature sun blooming on the Earth's surface.
The temperature in the core area soared to millions of degrees Celsius in a fraction of a second.
The [Slime Rain] that was originally falling from the sky didn't even give the thousands of colorful slime monsters that were hopping around on the ground a chance to scream. The water and gel inside their bodies boiled, vaporized, and then ionized in an instant.
It's like throwing a drop of water into a steel furnace.
In an instant, the entire battlefield was wiped out. Those annoying grunts were completely erased from the physical realm, leaving not even ashes behind.
"BOOM—!!!"
Only then did the belated roar, accompanied by a devastating shockwave, sweep across the surrounding area.
A huge, orange-red mushroom cloud rose from the ground, tumbling and soaring into the sky, tearing a large hole in the dark clouds above.