Surviving The Fourth Calamity

"Why did you send out the Magic Sword?" ’Snow Cloud Peak’ asked with a cold smile.

"The art of building requires attention to feng shui, something you wouldn’t understand." ’Perfect Bald’ typed this without blushing.

"What’s Old Dog up to again? Tell him to scram!" Hanging atop a large overturned rock at the top of the mine, the ’Old Age Striking King’ was drilling from an angle into the rock, visibly agitated, "I’ve graduated so many years ago, and yet here I am, still manually digging a mine!"

"Your digging skills are really good though, the diameter always stays at half a meter!" a girl hanging nearby drilling, spoke with admiration, "If only I could do that one day."

"Are you stupid or what? Is her skill really the issue here?" ’Cunlü’, who could only hang on the side wall of the mine due to body size, replied impatiently, "It’s because her arms are short and she’s strong!

Try letting her drill a one-meter hole! See if she struggles!"

"I know you’re just envious and jealous... Hehe, making money as a model, huh?

Forgot even the skill of hand drilling, huh~

Why vent incompetently now? Go find your Hard Wind!

Tsk~ Say whatever you want, I’m not mad." ’Old Age Striking King’ swung the pickaxe a few more times with a raised eyebrow, smiling at them.

"Everyone, pay attention!" ’Perfect Bald’ said seriously, "We’ve been through years of graduation, climbing up and down construction sites!

Even Cunlü has graduated properly, hasn’t she?

Don’t forget, Wenjian has a bunch of junior brothers and sisters watching!

More importantly, people from other schools are watching too!

If we really make this mineshaft collapse... our school would be ridiculed along with us!

Heh~ It’s one thing to embarrass ourselves, but if someone points at me and says our engineering school’s failure is raising a loser like me, I can’t accept that!

Hey~ Even if you learn from Road Eunuch’s skill of drying with spit on the face, who’s to guarantee someone won’t gossip about it to your mentor?

Graduating after so many years, being brought up again for poor basic skills leading to external ridicule... I wouldn’t rest in peace even in death!"

"Can you shut your crow’s mouth?" ’Xiao Liuliu’, also hanging from the ceiling, said coldly, "I can’t even manage my own child, getting dragged up here to dig holes, if anything happens, heh~"

The usual gentle ’Xiao Liuliu’s cold laugh struck not just the anxious ’Perfect Bald,’ but the entire crew in the mine fell silent, except for the occasional sound of pickaxes hitting rock.

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’Snow Cloud Peak’ glanced at the tablet, judging ’Perfect Bald’s’ reaction, as long as the ’Magic Sword’ and ’An Idler’ aren’t put in, everything should be fine.

This is nuts... Weren’t those two primarily in construction, too? Why do they become destructors in-game?

’Old Age Striking King’ has such a bad temper, stronger than knights who specialize in attack, yet he’s never run into situations where everything collapses around him!

’Snow Cloud Peak’ pondered, still puzzled, but he knew how to handle those two hyperactives... they can’t be left idle, or trouble follows.

Even though he threatened ’Night Slumber Treading Flames’ with the ’Magic Sword,’ he didn’t really plan to act.

Time’s tight enough, no need for internal chaos.

He turned to look at the slowly approaching ’Lu Huayu’ on the city wall: "Not willing?"

"Why should I take Black Rose members out to sea? Especially those two notorious Disaster Stars?" ’Lu Huayu’ replied displeased, "Half a month~ What if the ship... Ugh!"

He quickly shut his mouth.

"I’m not worried if your words ever come true." ’Snow Cloud Peak’ interrupted him absurdly, "But are they really such a big threat?

You actually almost jinxed yourself?"

"I really dislike the Black Rose family." ’Lu Huayu’ looked serious, "Especially Perfect Bald who’s always running wild with them!

Yet I must admit, their construction is undeniably strong, no matter what.

However, I’ve personally seen them wreck more than one house, all their own family’s.

Importantly, Black Rose had at least five large ships when leaving Teraxil.

Did you see them use any in Aesces?

That main ship, battle-hardened against Ambori for days, vanished after those two took it for a spin."

’Snow Cloud Peak’ shrugged helplessly, ’Perfect Bald’ couldn’t care less, that foreman’s always cherished brotherly loyalty, even denying compensation demands from ’Magic Sword’ and ’An Idler’ solemnly.

After all, most of the blame for the ship’s demise lay in his duel with Ambori... otherwise, Baldy wouldn’t have turned it into a fishing boat at Agleya.

It’s just those two always have odd luck, causing things to fall in their hands.

Indeed, within Sword Bay Area administrated by Agleya, it’s always calm, not even a malicious shark.

But they still managed to encounter a raging giant octopus... followed by a few pursuing massive whales.

God knows how these creatures, long lurking in the Great Glacier, ended up chasing each other to Sword Bay.

Isn’t it just one octopus we can tear apart, right?

’Snow Cloud Peak’ thought about it for a moment and still smiled: "But isn’t it true that there was already a problem with that ship, right?

They are indeed very destructive, but usually, what really gets messed up by them already had issues.

For normal people, they can handle it, so they prefer not to let them get involved.

But your Doomsday is different!

Your boss, would he buy something with flaws even if he’s paying big money?

Let them mess around before the departure to check the ship’s integrity, isn’t it just right?

The big boss wouldn’t care about the repair money, would he?"

Repair my ass!

Their household would rather replace a ship entirely!

’Lu Huayu’ just wanted to get angry but suddenly went quiet, looking at ’Snow Cloud Peak’ with a look that said ’Damn it, you showed off again’.

Was he troubled by having to take those two guys from Black Rose out?

He was troubled by the outrageous idea of his mad boss, who decided to have a yacht party in an ocean full of sea monsters and gigantic waves!

When was this happening?

The Great Sages under Triton of Scaret were flying all over the place... They didn’t want to stay on that island waiting for news of Ismael and the Princess’s child being born, but for obvious reasons, couldn’t go home either.

So, they could only fly around the sea to hunt down those gigantic sea monsters.

To be honest, after seeing what they were doing on the ship, when the Undead Tribe starts fighting the sea monsters, ’Lu Huayu’ wasn’t sure who they would help.

He felt there was an eighty percent chance they would help the sea monsters finish them off first.

’Lu Huayu’ of course knew that as long as you had a mage who could condense pure water, life at sea wouldn’t be too hard.

But it definitely wouldn’t be as luxurious as being able to buy all sorts of fresh flowers and fruits, and fresh meat from various lands in the Space-Time Shop.

Even though the Scaret Royal Family could carry those good things around, they... couldn’t compete with the Undead Tribe who can procure from several worlds, could they?

’Lu Huayu’ truly didn’t want to go out and attract hatred at this time.

But their boss... when he gets capricious, it’s really troublesome.

The crucial point is, rather than racking her brains to make this romantic yet brave trip... It’s obvious that the boss’s girlfriend this time has a spirit of adventure. She likes flirting on the edge... bankrupted, it’s better to let them sacrifice themselves heroically for their passionate and fiery emotions.

So although ’Lu Huayu’ was not very willing, after putting a lot of effort into persuading Ambori not to go out to sea with them, he just gave up.

Their boss really does need a beating every now and then.

But what makes ’Lu Huayu’ a bit hesitant is, what if trouble comes right after being ambushed in Cain Valley?

Having spent a long time with Proud Sky Alliance, he finally gained deeper insights into these past opponents... and deeply realized he used to be no different from a blind person.

For instance, he used to think ’Battlefield Lightening’ and ’Night Slumber Treading Flames’ were highly valued by Snow Old Dog, and all crucial jobs needing surveillance would be given to them.

Whereas ’Perfect Bald’, who had betrayed Snow Old Dog, mostly did the dirty work.

Tsk~

When he figured this out recently, he almost wanted to go back in time and slap his confident past self: What kind of fool would think those two guys could be entrusted with important tasks!

Even a cow or horse would be better than them.

On the contrary, it was the Black Rose, who seemed to always act solo but actually handled the most critical work.

Especially those major events that could turn the tide of battle, Black Rose was almost always there.

But Battlefield and Night Slumber, forever on the main battlefield, fighting bravely by Snow Old Dog’s side, but never using their brains.

So when ’Lu Huayu’ discovered the mine work here was publicly managed by these two factions, he realized that over in Basia City things would probably... fall into a trap again.

The more time ’Lu Huayu’ spent with Snow Old Dog, the more he didn’t want to be enemies with him in this game, in fact, he hoped to always maintain alliance status.

After all, he is expected to retire here.

Thus, ideally, their Doomsday’s main force should not miss this battle related to the canyon’s safety.

But, who told their boss to speak out first... and that adventurous girl is even from another family?

’Lu Huayu’ really doesn’t want to suspect the lady, but there’s no need to give some important information to this lady he might only interact with for a few months, right?

He certainly doesn’t want to see certain things leaking from him.

However, now he seems to have a countdown timer to go offline and return to the city!