Chapter 242: A Xue's Tomb-Building Journey
Waking up, it was already daylight.
Lin Xue had dug a tunnel out from another side. Luckily, the surface above was flat ground, not a lake or something—otherwise, water would have flooded in.
She continued wandering, punching trees, shearing sheep, digging here and there.
The stream effect was pretty good. The melon-eating audience in the chat was having a great time, with all kinds of wild comments popping up endlessly.
"Is A Xue planning to bury herself alive again?"
"Tomb Raider Chronicles Part Five: A Xue's Underground Tomb"
"Haha, last night A Xue was chased by skeletons for ages, almost scared to tears."
"I want to ask, isn't this supposed to be a building block game? How did it turn into a horror game?"
"Didn't A Xue watch the tutorial? Why does she still not know anything? Feels like she watched a fake tutorial lol"
But as they watched, many viewers were also puzzled.
"Why does it feel like the game A Xue is playing is totally different from Chen Mo's promotional video?"
"Right? Chen Mo even built the Forbidden City, but A Xue has been playing for so long and all she does is dig holes?"
"A Xue, hurry up and build a house! We want to see a house!"
"Yeah, start with something simple, just build a castle!"
Lin Xue was helpless. "Hey, you guys need to rein it in a bit! First of all, I need to figure out how to survive!"
Lin Xue herself was a bit confused. What the heck? Before playing, she didn't think this game was this hard. How come monsters were spawning in the dark? Not only did they attack people, but they also made terrifying noises. And at night, it was pitch black—the experience in VR mode was just awful!
"Alright, let's stop the survival mode here for now. A lot of viewers want to see me build a house, right? Fine then, I'll log out now and build a house for you in creative mode!"
Returning to the login screen, Lin Xue pushed the door open again and entered single-player mode, but this time she chose creative mode and specifically set it to eternal daylight.
This time, Lin Xue appeared in another world, similar to the previous one, but the difference was that she found she could freely choose all materials and could also fly.
"Oh? I can fly!"
Lin Xue happily experienced the flight mode. A pair of silver-white wings appeared behind her character, and she flew around in the sky according to her own will.
After getting a bird's-eye view of the terrain, Lin Xue cheerfully found a hilltop with a decent view.
"Alright, right here. Backed by the mountain and facing the water, my villa will be built here!"
Lin Xue was highly motivated, ready to go all out.
First, she leveled the terrain, digging out a large flat area against the hillside. Then she laid the foundation, outlining the shape of the house.
She used stone to outline a square area.
Then she connected a beam from the mountain.
Lin Xue even ran to a distance to check, making sure the beam was right in the center of the house. Her obsessive-compulsive disorder was fully satisfied.
"Mm, the position of this beam is absolutely perfect, simply fantastic. Very centered! Alright, chat, please don't spam 'Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon' or anything, okay? This is just a perfectly normal beam!"
"Okay, so next, we're going to build the main structure of this house. I've decided to use a wood-and-stone hybrid structure. Isn't that great?"
Although she said it in a fancy way, Lin Xue was actually just piling up dirt and stone blocks to build the roof like crazy.
"Don't think this house is ugly right now. Let me tell you, this is just the foundation. How good-looking can a foundation be?"
"For the roof, I'm thinking of making it that beautiful Chinese style, the kind with eaves—high in the middle, low on both sides. Everyone see this beam? This is the highest point of my house."
"Next... mm, I'll build the walls on both sides first. As the saying goes, 'A house has four bare walls,' but I don't even have four walls yet."
Lin Xue stacked the walls on both sides three meters high, then punched a few holes in them as reserved windows.
Then, Lin Xue started building the roof. The central beam was the highest point, and both sides gradually got lower, forming a very clunky roof.
"Mm, everyone look. Now, in terms of feel, the Chinese-style roof is there, it's just a bit ugly. Oh, don't complain about it being ugly, okay? Later, I'll add a lot of beautiful materials to it."
As the last dirt block was placed, the entire roof of the house was finally finished.
But from a distance, the "beautiful Chinese-style roof" Lin Xue wanted didn't appear at all. Instead, it looked like a giant grave mound.
The chat was in hysterics.
"The more I look at it, the more it looks like a tomb!"
"A Xue, aren't you afraid that after it rains, grass will grow on the grave mound? lol"
"A Xue, didn't you say it was a wood-and-stone structure? Why did you use so much dirt? This material really looks too much like a tomb!"
"And those holes—are those grave robber tunnels?"
"A Xue, give up. This house of yours is really too ugly! You don't have the talent for this!"
"A Xue, I heard you're in the capital. Do you live at Princess Tomb?"
Lin Xue coughed dryly. "This is art. You people who don't understand art shouldn't talk nonsense, okay? How can the charm of art be obvious to everyone? You have to savor it slowly. Just savor it a bit more, alright."
"Huh? So I've been building the house with dirt all along? Oh my god! I didn't notice—I just randomly picked a block and used it! Everyone, don't worry. Now that the structure of the house is there, I'll just replace all the dirt with wood."
"Don't worry, everyone. After switching to wood, it definitely won't feel like a tomb anymore!"
The chat ignored her and kept spamming.
"Filming location for Tomb Raider Chronicles?"
"No matter how you look at it, it's a tomb chamber. There's even an altar."
"A Xue, once you're done building, I'll come grave-robbing. Make sure to put in a lot of jewelry."
Lin Xue was unfazed. She tore off all the dirt blocks and replaced them with wood.
And sure enough, after switching everything to wood, the whole house looked much better visually. It actually looked a bit like a house now.
It was just a bit too big—nearly ten meters high, about the same in length and width. And it was empty inside, with no complex structures at all, and pitch black.
Lin Xue said, "Everyone, don't worry. I'll light some torches in here right now."
Fishing out torches, Lin Xue started sticking them on the walls. One in the front, one in the back, and in all the nooks and crannies—she stuffed them everywhere, making the whole interior very bright.
"Nice, awesome!" Lin Xue looked at the two neat rows of torches on the wall and nodded in satisfaction.
The chat started spamming again.
"A Xue, it wasn't that bad before, but now it really looks like a funeral hall!"
"Oh my god, if there's no light, shouldn't your first instinct be to open a window? Why would you think of lighting torches for illumination?"
"Lol, I feel like A Xue's thinking is still stuck in the hole-digging phase. She subconsciously thinks this is an underground tomb!"
"Actually, it's an above-ground tomb!"