Rewriting Time Through Gaming
Chapter 18

Explosion is Art

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Su Wen pressed the M key in the game to open the in-game map.

Near him, in the coastal area, four dangerous points that needed adjustment were marked with glowing spots.

Moreover, those locations were all in the isolated coastal border area and the offshore area.

Normally, no tourists could come.

Even if there were any, it would mostly be a few scattered employees from Schlote Heavy Industries slacking off because they couldn't stand working there anymore.

So when the super hurricane Ewiniar changed its course without warning due to the influence of the Spiritual Energy Tide at the relic site, the situation became extremely urgent.

Plus, the storm's intensity was too high.

The special task force spent a lot of time dispatching a rescue fleet from the coastal port dozens of kilometers away.

This led to the Voyager being completely destroyed and sunk in the hurricane disaster.

And the BHX District isolation zone also suffered severe damage from the hurricane.

Su Wen finished reading the further background information on this event.

Then he opened the introduction of the four target points in the game list:

[Danger Node 1: Lighthouse 43. Due to years of disrepair, Lighthouse 43 only lasted for twenty minutes as a navigation point before losing lighting support when the hurricane struck.] [Please first arrive at Danger Node 1: Complete the repair of the Lighthouse 43 lighting system.] [Now, you shouldn't be thinking about how to fleece Schlote, but how to get to the repair point.]

Su Wen smiled as he looked at this game prompt.

But he wasn't worried about being trapped in the recycling area.

After all, this area of Schlote Heavy Industries is an isolation zone, with nothing of value other than mechanical waste.

After cleaning up, he returned to the workshop and opened the old employee terminal.

From it, he ordered a mobile Bluetooth camera produced by Schlote.

Then he returned to the previous recycling area.

He picked up the part that Schlote Heavy Industries should have installed the camera on.

[Configuration connection point—replace] [Modular assembly complete] [Camera module assembly complete]

That's right.

He used the newly purchased camera to modify it into an old-style structure, and then threw it into the light green precision recycling conveyor belt.

This thing costs 15,000 at first hand.

But the recycling price is only 2,000.

It's truly black to the core.

Su Wen watched as the balance on his account, earned through "hard work," increased by only 2,000, and couldn't help but denounce the evil and greed of the capitalists.

At the same time, he connected to the pan-tilt and began to watch the video data transmitted by the camera.

The direction of the recycling conveyor belt is diagonally upward, and it will pass through an open-air process that climbs to a high place.

This is probably to avoid the influence of the slight Cohen Radiation field underground.

But this also provided Su Wen with a way to leave.

He took advantage of Schlote's scanning mechanism's extremely low maximum judgment number.

He threw a large amount of combined garbage at once.

Directly submerging and blocking the two scanning light path exits.

Then he brazenly slipped out along the conveyor belt.

As for whether he would be discovered later, he didn't care.

After all, he was going home after this job.

He definitely had to screw Schlote Heavy Industries one last time.

Su Wen jumped from the exit of the conveyor belt to the coastline of the isolation zone.

Unlike the wasteland-style roaring Schlote Heavy Industries recycling station, while heading towards Danger Point 1: Lighthouse 43 in the game map, ...

The coastline he passed was devoid of human activity for so long, resulting in a heightened sense of natural atmosphere, a blend of pristine clarity and detachment from the edges of civilization.

Perhaps.

This would be a great place to stroll in the evening, casually discussing future prospects.

He made a mental note of the place, planning to bring Jiang Menghan here someday.

For the impoverished Su Wen, any free attraction was worth a visit.

In the distance, Lighthouse 43 stood alone on the headland.

As Su Wen approached, he noticed the aquatic moss spreading from the base of the lighthouse, a result of constant battering by the waves, along with the rusty iron railings.

It certainly looked old.

But this was, after all, a pilot lighthouse in an area with no established shipping lanes or a history of storm warnings.

It had probably long been forgotten.

"It's time for a serious upgrade."

Su Wen glanced at the various high-tech components in his unrestricted storage box.

He smiled confidently.

He, as a big-spending gamer, was already fully aware of how to provide guidance through a storm.

In old-fashioned lighthouses, designers directed light from the lamp horizontally to conserve energy and focus the beam.

The light's horizontal orientation remained constant at the top of the tower, and a rotating mechanism was installed to ensure visibility in all directions.

Su Wen, however, was different.

He directly pulled out twenty Halesde M04 Energy Beam Ray Cannons.

These were large submarine lighting systems that had been mounted to explore deep-sea ruins and penetrate deep-water mazes.

They were top-tier beam generators capable of cutting through intense turbidity.

Each one cost:

$3.7 million!

This was just a chance to experience the feeling of being a tycoon in a game.

Initiating Assembly

Fifteen minutes later.

An outer protective layer made of deep-water anti-permeation modules was attached to the top of the lighthouse.

Then, in the center, he extravagantly placed a power core that he had redeemed from Schlote at a high price.

There was no way around it.

He could find functional components among the old machinery, but he couldn't find a power core that had survived an electromagnetic storm intact.

And so, after modular connections, a giant ray of light was suspended in the center of the transparent outer protective layer.

When the hurricane was about to arrive, the sailors would probably see

what could be called: "The newborn dawn in the storm."

Danger Node One: Repair of Lighthouse 43 Lighting System Completed Current Completion Progress: Exceeded Please proceed to Danger Node Two, Danger Node Three: Channel Reef Clearing Due to the absence of ports in the BHX District isolation zone, the Voyager, guided by strong light during the storm, is highly likely to run aground and suffer cargo damage due to forced course deviation.

The two most prominent reef clusters had already been marked with light spots.

Su Wen was truly speechless.

Repairing a lighthouse was manageable for him.

But dealing with reefs was a bit too much to ask.

He couldn't exactly build himself an Iron Man suit, could he?

Maybe a high-level module skill would work, but the most basic one he has now can only create technologies that are already mature in human civilization.

Besides, most reefs are located on the seabed, and touching the bottom is just the most dangerous potential disaster.

The shapes of underwater reefs are varied and often accompanied by complex gully structures, so the changes in water flow they cause are also difficult to predict.

He looked at the unstable, flawed products in his storage space.

A good idea came to him instantly.

[Combine: Isaiah Underwater Micro Remote Control Submarine, Payload - Unstable Composite.]

One after another, simple, self-destructing underwater remote control submarines were placed into the water.

Among them, 70% of the underwater submarines failed after cruising for a short time.

But there was nothing he could do about it.

First of all, Su Wen himself didn't study engineering.

Secondly, launching them without multiple test runs, it's already good enough that he can create toys that explode.

But he wasn't worried.

After all.

As a whale, he needed to have confidence.

If ten weren't enough, he'd use a hundred.

If a hundred weren't enough, he'd use a thousand.

He was playing a game of burning money and self-detonating attacks.

Su Wen sat inside the waterproof barrier on top of Lighthouse 43, which he had transformed into a simple control console through modular modifications.

Dozens of gimbal screens displayed the status of each Isaiah submarine and the footage scanned by the front cameras.

Whenever a screen went black, he switched to the next submarine.

[Target point reached] [Detonation model simulating, searching for the best deflection point to destroy the reef] [Data model presented, predicted detonation results match simulation] [Detonate?]

Su Wen looked at the dozens of red dots on the computer screen.

Ensuring that no passing yachts would be harmed.

He pressed the detonation button.

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

One after another, underwater explosions rang out, destroying the seabed reefs into small pieces or powder.

The waterway was completely cleared.

Su Wen felt that his 'post-modern art' had been sublimated once again.

After all.

Explosion is art!

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