My Players Are So Fierce - Chapter 377

Chapter 377: Wow, Sister Pomegranate Found a Wild Genius!

“Oh, so that’s how it is! Your plan to verify the game’s simulation development authenticity by recreating cement in-game is a great method, using the replication of macroscopic physics and chemical laws to distinguish truth from fiction.

Why didn’t I think of that?”

In the wasteland not far from the Adventurer Guild, MoeHaha, who had just entered the game wearing a novice robe gifted by Sister Pomegranate and using a novice staff as a walking stick, listened to Heaven’s Chosen Grayman’s explanation and her eyes lit up as she praised:

“You guys are really clever little devils, and indeed have the practical mindset of engineering students. I admit I must learn from you.”

“Learn what from us? I feel like this beautiful sister is just mocking us two as idiots.”

Beside her, Bricklayer sighed with a pained and discouraged expression:

“This is already the third attempt. Grayman and I commissioned local workers to find all similar materials we could find near Crimson Citadel, but every attempt hasn’t been very successful, and we don’t know where the problem is!

We know Transia definitely doesn’t have ready-made raw materials, so following the ‘ancestors” method, we burned limestone with clay to make hydraulic materials.

Theoretically, this material should already work as low-quality cement, but every time we add water it becomes very brittle and can’t be used for building houses at all.”

“Yeah.”

Grayman also had the same pained expression as he pushed up his luxurious noble glasses and said:

“Although the spirit energy spell of turning stone to mud works well, we’re still builders and can’t bring spirit mages everywhere we go, right? Plus, Brother Stick gave us an order, he’s about to dig trenches in the Baroness of Shadow’s territory, and he hopes to build fortresses in the war zone with reinforced concrete.

But where am I supposed to find reinforced concrete for him!”

“Hmm, there’s actually an alternative solution for reinforced concrete.”

MoeHaha rubbed her forehead and said:

“During World War 2, when resources were scarce in Japan, they tried using specially treated bamboo reinforcement to replace steel bars. Of course, I’ve only heard about this alternative solution and can’t guarantee its effectiveness, but you should be able to find related materials online.

I think it should be sufficient for the current setting.

From the information I’ve gathered on the forums these past few days, although artillery has appeared on the continent, the Black Plague composed of gnolls probably doesn’t have World War 2 level firepower that could destroy ordinary fortresses?

As for cement manufacturing, your approach is correct, but you’re missing one thing.

Volcanic ash.”

“I know we’re missing volcanic ash, no need to remind us, beautiful big sister, we’re professionals in this field.”

Bricklayer looked sideways at this pretty sister who was clearly young but always spoke slowly like an old man, and complained:

“But there’s simply no place in Transia where we can find volcanic ash deposits. Maybe there is, but even the locals don’t know about it. We were hoping those four geology beasts would help us explore and find volcanic ash and kaolin.

But those guys actually went to become ‘village chiefs’.

They’re really not doing any real work!”

“Oh, kaolin? Are you planning to make porcelain?”

MoeHaha grinned and said:

“Are you guys planning to do business too?”

“Hehe, everyone’s doing it, so naturally our Stonemason Guild has to keep up with the trend.”

Grayman smiled and looked at MoeHaha, saying:

“Sister, you look like a professional. Why not join our Stonemason Guild?”

“Tch, this sister isn’t one of you poor civil engineering folks.”

MoeHaha waved her hand in rejection and said:

“Besides, I already have a team, so I won’t trouble you guys. However, regarding the cement you want to make, my suggestion is that although you haven’t made universal cement yet, you might want to start with special cements that have specific formulas.

If I remember correctly, some formulas for special cements can be substituted, so maybe you can find another way?

You guys are professionals, so I don’t need to say more about this aspect.”

After speaking, MoeHaha slowly walked away leaning on her staff, her movements and demeanor very much like Old Chen taking a stroll. Moreover, her slow and articulate way of speaking was also very much like a university lecturer.

To put it more plainly, this sister had an unmistakable scholarly air about her. If she were to wear round-framed glasses, it would be easy to associate her with the image of a top student.

“This sister is unusual.”

Grayman watched MoeHaha leave and said to Bricklayer beside him:

“I feel like she’s also a hidden expert.”

“Tch, how many truly ordinary people can enter the game at this stage?”

Bricklayer was already thinking about MoeHaha’s suggestions as he casually said:

“Playing with game helmets every week from now on, we’ll definitely meet more unique brothers. Stop slacking and quickly look for World War 1 and World War 2 grade special cements according to this sister’s suggestion. Best to get it done before Old Chen returns, so we brothers can show off in front of our mentor.

I suddenly realized she probably saw through the problem from the beginning!

This person was probably just saying some nonsense earlier to actually probe us.

Wow, so cunning.”

MoeHaha, who had been evaluated as “cunning”, had already left the inner city and crossed the temporary suspension bridge over the city’s great ravine to reach the “trade district” of the outer city.

Called a trade district, it was actually just a few streets built on the ruins of the former outer city. After building the residential area for the subjects, Grayman and Bricklayer started “major construction” in this area according to their city planning.

Two streets and their roadside buildings have already been completed.

However, these “shops” for rent are mostly vacant at present. Due to the approaching Black Plague and the current lack of actual local demand, the administrative office hasn’t given out the property deeds yet. Only a few shops are operated by players.

Dump Truck Iaido, Bulldozer Man, and Half Off With Full Coverage opened a farming tool store.

They used the property deeds and inventory stock they received from rescuing people earlier, and even set up stalls outside in proper fashion. Though they haven’t officially opened for business yet, MoeHaha could see several NPCs busy walking in and out, presumably hired shop staff.

At the end of the street, there were some donkey carts busy transporting various tools from the blacksmith shop.

Master Broken Blade also had his blacksmith shop on this street. Today he unusually took a day off work to get his new shop properly arranged. Opposite the blacksmith shop was Lady Aqua’s tailor shop, though its doors were tightly closed and also not ready to open for business.

Besides these busy people, not many locals could be seen on the street. However, when MoeHaha laboriously climbed onto the roof of a nearby house to look further, she could see the residential district standing to the side, where there was also a large construction site in progress. A four-story square building had already completed its roof, seemingly indicating that the Stonemason Guild workers were planning to further expand the size of the residential area.

The planning there was also very orderly, clearly the work of the old designer.

Compared to the trade district’s quietness, the residential area was much more lively.

MoeHaha even saw vendors pushing small carts selling goods along the streets, and there seemed to be a very primitive marketplace there. Such bustling scenes were quite rare in Transia, a place permeated with an atmosphere of abandonment everywhere.

“It’s just like a large-scale city reconstruction pioneering site. If you remove these guys’ unique ‘otherworld style’, this scene isn’t much different from the construction of a tier-38 small town in reality.”

MoeHaha silently observed all this, but her mind was running at high speed.

As a physicist, she was most skilled at exploring certain “truths” hidden deep within these visible phenomena, then piecing these fragmentary truths together to reach a conclusion. The final step was to seek various evidence to prove her conclusion.

And now the scene before her eyes was already enough for MoeHaha to make a judgment.

Setting aside all emotional factors, proceeding purely from the most rational perspective, thinking further on the basis that everything around was a “game”.

Based on the AI intelligence level of the NPCs MoeHaha had encountered so far and her understanding of the industry’s current cutting-edge AI, leaving aside their differences in intelligent automation, just assuming all this was AI roleplay, the computing power and load required for thousands of AIs operating simultaneously in this city before MoeHaha’s eyes would be terrifying astronomical numbers.

Not to mention needing to establish a set of action logic pursuing 100% realism for each of them.

Even if a template could be used for copy and paste, the complexity of this overall integrated system would still be beyond imagination.

This was a standard “super chaos system”!

The most complex chaos system that humans can predict with current technology is the unpredictable weather, with too many factors to consider making weather forecasts unable to achieve 100% accuracy. However, even this level of prediction is nothing compared to the workload when building this Crimson Citadel.

“There’s simply no computing system in the world that can provide this kind of computing power. Even if you combine the most advanced supercomputers of various countries into a super workstation, it couldn’t handle the data calculations of even just one Crimson Citadel.

Moreover, Crimson Citadel’s area isn’t even one-hundredth of Transia, and Transia is only one region of this continent.”

MoeHaha became increasingly despairing as she thought.

Finally, she had to reach a pessimistic conclusion that this “game” she was currently in simply couldn’t be something that humans’ current technological level could match.

The entire 《Reality Realm》 was just a not-so-standard “Third Kind Contact”, no, with the current virtual reality technology achieved through quantum entanglement at the microscopic level, it should be called a “Fourth Kind Contact”.

However, compared to this conclusion without any evidence, the rational MoeHaha was more willing to believe another more horrifying answer.

She withdrew her gaze, climbed down from the roof and crouched down to grab a handful of soil from the ground.

She felt the coldness transmitted when her fingers dug into the earth and that sticky sensation, and also sensed some kind of reality contained within it as she crumbled the soil in her hand.

After several seconds, she sighed and said:

“A real world! An otherworld, a true large-scale transmigration… no, that’s not quite accurate, our situation should probably be called ‘controllable soul transmigration’ for now? If this continues to develop, the establishment of the ‘Transmigrator Affairs Bureau’ will need to be put on the agenda.

However, even this outrageous conclusion has no evidence yet, unless I can take apart that damn helmet, but the problem is that even a hydraulic press couldn’t open it

Even though it feels like plastic but why is the hardness more extreme than diamond?!

What kind of otherworld black technology is this?

No!

Wrong!

I’m very suspicious!

Even with this continent’s so-called ‘technological level’, they absolutely couldn’t achieve something like this, their civilization is clearly still in the feudal era, and hasn’t even achieved unification.

So, are both our world and this world actually under the manipulation of a mysterious ‘third party’?

Someone quietly opened a door between two worlds.

But, why?

What’s the logic behind doing this? Where’s the underlying planning? And where’s the top-level design?”

A series of questions that simply couldn’t get answers violently bombarded MoeHaha’s thoughts, making her feel the pressure of “brainstorming” even in the game.

She shook her head hard to throw these questions out of her mind.

She had to take it step by step, couldn’t make conclusions so easily.

As a consultant, once she submitted her report it meant her “undercover career” would end, and her helmet would probably have to be handed over.

However…

“I just got in, haven’t played enough yet!”

MoeHaha’s lips curled into a strange smile.

She threw down the soil in her hand and wiped them clean, then hummed some odd tune while leaning on her staff heading towards the hallway. She would submit a detailed and reliable report and attach some truths and evidence she discovered, but that definitely wasn’t something that could be accomplished overnight.

Doing science, after all, must be a rigorous thing, so she must be cautious again and again.

So, relax, take it slowly.

“Beep”

The Computation Bead made a soft sound, causing MoeHaha to somewhat awkwardly open the interface, where she saw a private message from Brother Loyalty.

What Color is Loyalty:【MoeHaha, we’ve created a player guild called ‘Loyalty Anthem’, want to join? It’s all our own brothers inside.】

Invincible Cute MoeHaha:【No thanks, I have my own friends, I want to join their guild. Besides, your guild name is too conspicuous, why not make it more ordinary, like ‘Transia Firearms Research Institute’ or something that sounds more neutral.

Also, if possible, don’t send important information through the Computation Bead, let’s talk face to face.】

What Color is Loyalty:【??? You mean】

Invincible Cute MoeHaha:【Yes, exactly what you’re thinking, but don’t worry too much, I’ve reached preliminary conclusions. Whatever the truth is, so far, it’s harmless, although I don’t have any evidence to prove this point yet.】

What Color is Loyalty:【Okay, then I won’t disturb your work. Need a ‘newbie package’? I’ll have Master Ziwei send it to you, 10 gold coins plus two Spirit Bags as startup capital, is that enough?】

Invincible Cute MoeHaha:【Oh, we even have these benefits? Alright, send them over, I’m at the hallway entrance.】

After chatting with Brother Loyalty for a few sentences, MoeHaha was very satisfied as she ended the communication. She waited here for Sister Pomegranate to bring her friends over for introductions.

However, the waiting time was a bit longer than she expected. It wasn’t until MoeHaha had gotten bored enough to look at the murals at the Blood Vulture Halls entrance three times that the chattering voices of the Silver Moon team finally came from ahead.

With the flapping of wings, Little Ashina rushed out first.

She circled around MoeHaha suspiciously several times, even sniffing with her nose, before finally putting her hands on her hips while floating in the air, shouting at MoeHaha:

“Hey, newcomer, you need to pass a test to join us.”

“I know, doing a quiz, right?”

MoeHaha grinned and said:

“Sister Pomegranate already shared the set of questions she did before with me. I’ve finished them, got 144 points in the end, ah, accidentally got a few wrong.”

“Huh? 144? Are you joking?”

Little Ashina screamed:

“That’s even higher than me! Lumina is going to cry again, she’s still the bottom-ranked idiot, but never mind, Sister Pomegranate can keep her company.

By the way, what path are you planning to take?”

“Hmm, Spirit Mage?”

MoeHaha blinked and said:

“In a world where magic exists, to pursue truth one must be proficient in using this world’s unique rules, so I think I’ll start as a Spirit Apprentice.

This might waste a bit of time.

But I promise, you’ll eventually get a super powerful Spirit Mage!”

“Great great, our team is just lacking this kind of violent mage.”

Little Ashina laughed and said:

“You look just like a super academic elite, wow, I’m already looking forward to Silver Moon team’s future scenes of domination! Lumina, come quick! Sister Pomegranate picked up a wild genius, she got 144 points on that set of questions, 15 points higher than you.

You idiot!”

“What are you so proud about? Her score is higher than yours too, you know? You’re also an idiot in front of her.”

Lumina walked over with an unhappy expression.

She looked MoeHaha up and down who was smiling, then pouted and said:

“Sister Concrete has been missing recently, can’t contact her at all, but without her permission I can’t invite you to the group, but being friends in the game is the same anyway.

Sister Pomegranate strongly insisted we recruit you, I’ve almost never seen her care about someone like that, so to avoid making her sad, from now on, you’re Silver Moon Pride team’s ‘Special Invited Archmage’.”

“Mm mm, thank you all.”

MoeHaha nodded in gratitude while secretly observing the people before her, her gaze lingering for a few seconds on the smiling Lady Aqua. Facing this gentle married woman, she felt as if she had been seen through.

“Speaking of which, isn’t Lumina going back to her country?”

Sister Pomegranate said from the side:

“You better hurry, I heard from MoeHaha that the situation abroad is bad, quickly buy plane tickets.”

“What plane tickets! Is that the treatment of our Silver Moon Pride team?”

Little Ashina complained:

“Lady Aqua’s family plane will be there tomorrow, okay? Not only picking up Lumina, but also picking up some of her classmates to come back together, we’ll have an offline gathering then! It’s happily decided just like that.”