Butterfly Effect, the Powerful 001 Channel!
During the thunderstorm, Su Mo stood there for more than ten minutes.
Midway through, Su Mo even climbed to the top of the hill at the Underground Shelter and looked out into the distance.
Unfortunately, during those ten minutes, the thunderstorm showed no signs of abating, with streaks of lightning swiftly ripping across the sky and rushing toward the horizon.
" In this Talisman Paper World, there's no water on the ground, which means this rain couldn't possibly last longer than today."
"But Pei Shao's departure time cannot be delayed, otherwise the exploration team won't be able to reach 1,500 kilometers before the disaster strikes."
Staring at the torrential rain in the sky and looking at the puddles on the ground, Su Mo felt a little worried.
The plan to find these alien races lurking around the depression was devised the night before last, consisting of four simple and clear steps.
The first step was to direct Pei Shao to set off in the direction of the 12 o'clock position in the depression.
The Step Two is to enter the Heaven Stealing Secret Talisman and communicate with Pei Shao three days later via Radio Station to obtain all the location information of these alien races and record it to form an atlas. The Step Three is to return to the main wasteland world and have Pei Shao, who may have only been gone for five minutes, change direction and continue to investigate along a clockwise path.
The fourth step is to repeat the previous steps until Pei Shao has explored the entire depression within a 1500-kilometer radius in every direction.
Once these four steps are completed and a hunting map is drawn up, Su Mo can easily sail the Hope and give these alien races that want to harm the lowlands a big surprise after the ocean arrives.
However, this approach is not without its flaws; there is a fatal problem.
Although Pei Shao may have only been gone for 5 minutes, Su Mo was able to enter the Talisman Paper World and obtain all the information in this direction in the future.
However, this information is based on the premise that Pei Shao must be able to arrive within these three days without any unexpected events!
If Pei Shao were to die in any accident on the road, or encounter any problems while gathering information...
Three days later in the Talisman Paper World, Su Mo still couldn't get any news.
"Fortunately, the Earth Tiger underwent chassis upgrades yesterday."
"Now all we need to do is spend some Survival Points to fix the minor issues that arose before, and upgrade the wheelbase to ensure the vehicle's stability."
"As for further upgrades, let's save where we can for now!"
Today, the Earth Tiger's upgrade speed can no longer keep up with the development speed of the natural disasters.
Perhaps if they went to the New Continent, the Earth Tiger could have a second spring, but at this juncture, Su Mo decided to save up more Survival Points points for a rainy day.
I'll spend 1200 of the 2000 points I just earned today, plus some of the materials I already have.
The earth tiger was visibly wider, and its originally narrow body became thicker, giving it a stronger grip.
This kind of upgrade is more than enough for such an "old car".
This was quite a pleasant surprise for the intelligence team!
Raise the garage door to its highest position, park the upgraded Land Rover in front of the door, close the garage door again, open the friends panel, and send Pei Shao a message to pick up the car and prepare to leave.
After doing all this, and instructing the four little ones not to disturb him in any way, Su Mo returned to the third floor of the shelter with light steps.
The huge clock hanging in the gym's living room showed that it was 8:35 a. m. in the wasteland.
There were only 25 minutes left until 9 o'clock, the time when the wasteland disaster information was scheduled to be released.
But at this moment, as he arrived on the third floor and felt the surge of emotion that had disappeared for many days return, Su Mo couldn't help but smile.
Taking out a new rag, wetting it, and slowly walking to the workbench, Su Mo began to clean diligently.
On this workbench, Su Mo once crafted hundreds of tools, which not only brought countless resources to the shelter but also the most important blueprints for the Hope.
It was on this workbench that Su Mo concocted various explosives, bringing a super fortune of several hundred treasure chests to the shelter during its most difficult early stages of development!
This workbench witnessed the flourishing development of the Underground Shelter and the countless drops of sweat that rolled down Su Mo's head.
This workbench witnessed every sleepless night, and Su Mo's tireless dedication!
This small table holds too Su Mo memories for Su Mo, and it accompanied Su Mo through more than half a month of hibernation! A breeze rises from the tip of a blade of grass, and a wave forms from a ripple.
One stroke at a time, Su Mo carefully wiped away the grease, dust, and debris from the table.
After repeated cleaning, the workbench began to reveal its original color.
As the table shifted, the previously unremarkable Su Mo suddenly unleashed an indescribable aura, as if a sword had been drawn from its sheath! A sword's Jian Feng comes from honing, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from bitter cold! From the end of the Welfare Disaster until now, during this period of dormancy, although the myth of Su God continued in the chat channel, only Su Mo knew that his sword had been dormant for far too long, and now it was finally time to be drawn!
With his mind focused, Su Mo opened the Game Panel, clicked on the chat channel, and before entering the World Channel to announce the big news, he first clicked on the area chat that he hadn't entered for a long time.
With the end of the last Welfare Disaster and the ocean version update, the number of people in the regional chat has been replenished according to region, and the total number of people is now 9235.
In other words, apart from the original group of veterans, all the players in these chat areas are now considered neighbors.
Even the villagers of Hope Village have joined this Area Channel! "Hey, there are actually 912 elderly people from the second wave!"
"It seems that humans are indeed highly adaptable; the further we go, the more people should be able to survive."
The two Trading Realm, the transmission of the seeds of Welfare Disaster, have enabled most of the elderly people from before, even without extra savings to become rich, to live much better than others.
In the upper right corner of the channel, Su Mo noticed a newly added feature and clicked on it with great interest.
Current channel members: 9235
Current channel combat power: 35814
[Currently ranked 1st in all of humanity on Channel 001]
"Good heavens, they've even put channel rankings on the table now, and channel 001 is number one!"
"Although I added 35,000 points by myself, even excluding my contribution, 814's combat power can still rank in the top fifty in the wasteland!"
Looking at the combat power listed after each person's name, Su Mo couldn't help but chuckle after opening the chat box in the Area Channel and glancing at the topmost message.
Good heavens, after all this time, all these familiar faces are still here! [Liang Jian: Hey bro, are you still around? I've sharpened my knife today. Come to my hideout, I'll treat you to some meat!]
[Liang Jian: Oh, by the way, let me advertise a bit more. The Starfire Kirin Shelter, located at XXXX, currently has 86 people, but our Silver Sandboat still has 40 seats available. Each seat is on sale now! You only need 200kg of supplies to join the shelter and become part of the family. This price is practically a fire sale! If you want to join, just message me privately. First come, first served!]
[Cai Junfeng: Damn, the idiot in charge of supplies at our shelter drank too much last night and slept too soundly, causing all the wood we were drying to get wet. What bad luck! Does anyone have any extra wood? We're willing to pay a 15% premium to buy it, as long as it's dried or roasted with Disaster Points!]
[Na Wenxing: Awesome! I thought Lu Bu was invincible, but I never expected someone to be even more valiant. No wonder he's Feng Zong's subordinate!]
[Sun Xian: Xiao Feng, you only have about twenty people in your shelter, why are you even making a sandboat? Don't get ripped off by those unscrupulous lumber sellers at the market. If you want to operate that sandboat, you'll need at least twenty or thirty people. Do you really think you're playing a game where you can just WASD to move, Shift to drift, and Ctrl to get a nitro boost?]
[Sun Xian: Brother, let me show you the way. Forget about sandboats. While tires are still cheap on the market, buy dozens, reformat your core, turn them into rafts, and then strap sturdy tires to them. The buoyancy will be absolutely phenomenal. I guarantee it. Even if your raft capsizes, these tires will keep you afloat to the New Continent!]
[Gao Wen: Sun Xian, you old dog, take this! That "coffin" you told us about to avoid the blizzard last time—if Su God hadn't ended the disaster, I would have been killed by your brilliant invention, you Hidden Dragon and Young Phoenix! And now you're trying to trick us into going to the Leave-it-to-Fate Class? You must have a bunch of old tires on hand, right?!]
[Rebecca: I can testify, that Sun Gou did indeed have tires. That's incredibly insidious!]
[Sun Xian: Hey! Don't insult people's innocence for no reason! If you ask me, what if Su God ends the Ocean Disaster for us again? Wouldn't all our shipbuilding money have been wasted? We might as well have bought tires!]
[Rong Taotao: That's true, but speaking of which, I haven't seen Su God say anything since I joined the channel after the last update!]
[Ren Zhong: Young man, you're still too young and naive. Su God is incredibly busy; he can't possibly have time to come online and brag like we do. If you ask me, every time Su God appears, something big has happened. It's better if he doesn't appear now; if he does, you and I should be worried about our lives!]
[Hoshimiya Ichika: What a pity! I was hoping to wait for Su God to speak up and ask if I could Su God's refuge~]
When the conversation lingers for no more than five sentences, it inevitably returns to the topic at hand.
This familiar feeling made Su Mo burst into laughter.
Despite the surge in the number of people in the Area Channel, the butterfly effect generated by the two previous secret realm transactions has given these "veterans" a significant early resource advantage.
As expected, these individuals are currently at the forefront of the region.
The quick-witted Liang Jian is now the director of the Starfire Kirin Shelter, with more than eighty people under his command and a sand barge that can carry more than a hundred people.
Cai Junfeng, who was just asking if he could be put back into the fold, probably has quite a lot of resources on hand, judging from his attitude of offering a premium for acquisitions.
Even a simpleton like Sun Xian, who was so poor he needed to live in a "coffin," is now making a fortune by reselling old tires.
Unbeknownst to them, with the initial assistance from Su Mo, these people successfully took the lead and became the leaders in the wasteland.
This feeling of others being influenced by him and then getting better and better gave Su Mo a strange sense of happiness!
After observing for a while, and seeing different versions of the Su God Legend unfolding on the channel again, Su Mo suppressed a laugh, used his hand as a pen, and wrote down his first statement in a month:
[Su Mo: Hello, there are still three days until the disaster. How are everyone's preparations going?]
A seemingly ordinary comment, like something an elderly person would say casually, was Area Channel by Su Mo with a bang! It was like dropping a cannonball into a calm lake.
It exploded!
The chat in the area, which was originally scrolling through the messages at a manageable speed, fell silent for two or three seconds after that sentence, and then exploded like a bomb.
Whether they were lurking or chatting, everyone was blown away by this single sentence, which could be counted in a glance! Meanwhile, those not watching the Area Channel were also bombarded with a deluge of private messages on their Game Panel! What? Su God appeared? Holy crap, in our channel? Oh my god, is he saying hello to us? These three questions brought everyone—whether they were sleeping, resting, working, eating, or even in a meeting—into the fray.
Within the Area Channel, the chat frequency, which was originally forty or fifty messages per minute, suddenly jumped to over a thousand messages per minute! Without restrictions on the number of chats or the frequency of messages, shocked emoticons, welcoming emoticons, and rose emoticons began to surge like a tide within the Area Channel.
Without game intervention to adjust the speed, it's impossible to see what was being said a second ago.
After watching for a while, Su Mo realized that it was really difficult to distinguish each person's message with the naked eye on the panel, so he left the Area Channel with a mix of laughter and frustration.
Well, even though I'm no longer active in the underworld, my legend will live on forever, right? Compared to the Su Supporter in the world chat, these people who have actually met him are even more fervent than the Su Supporter.
Su Mo had no doubt that if he posted a message recruiting crew members in the chat channel right now, countless people would immediately start packing their supplies and set off for Hope Village!
This is the power of Su God's appeal! It's also the real reason why these lurking fish wanted to plot against him! They were afraid that Su God's appeal would become even stronger, and they were afraid that personal faith would truly emerge in the wasteland! However, after leaving the Area Channel, Su Mo did not become complacent because of such appeal.
With a hint of seriousness, Su Mo's expression returned to calm after switching to the world chat!