What the Hell
But that's just literature. Excessive sadness is a weakness, and in Land of Darkness, a weakness often means faster elimination.
The individuals and organizations that have survived through several rounds of brutal selection are all those who have honed the concept of "survival" into an instinct.
They are battle-hardened, possess exceptional combat skills, have a beast-like instinct for danger, and a vulture-like possessiveness of resources.
However, the strength of individuals and minority groups cannot mask the structural trauma and Future shadows caused by the sharp decline in the number of the entire civilization.
Thus, in the ever-swirling Ocean of information bubbles on the World Channel, a few cold yet precise new terms, like the tips of an iceberg rising to the surface, began to be mentioned frequently and imbued with increasingly heavy meanings:
Survival Filters, Dead Zones, Survival Debt.
A "theoretical construction" based on Survival Games and involving the entire population has quietly begun.
The so-called Survival Filter originally abstracted the stages and links in Survival Games into "nets" to visualize the multi-layered, progressive elimination mechanism set by the system.
If we analyze the macro-level Survival Filters from a timeline perspective, the end of the seven-day safety period is definitely the first filter.
The seven-day safety period has ended, and over 80% of the world's population Annihilation.
The subsequent Monster Tide and District Wars Continued Battle, as well as the rule changes and environmental upheavals brought about by each major system update... each one was a ruthless selection process, weeding out those Adapter.
However, survivors are more concerned about the effects of the filter on themselves. Therefore, the theory of "Individual Survival Filter" has been refined and is usually summarized into four intertwined levels:
Physical Filter: The most direct layer. Assess immediate combat effectiveness: Attributes, skills, equipment, etc., adaptability and utilization of the current environment: terrain, climate, resource distribution, etc., and the objective risks undertaken in each battle.
Rules Filter: Tests your understanding and efficiency in utilizing the Survival System's rules, task mechanics, exchange system, and even hidden settings. Failure to understand the rules may result in significant losses in resource acquisition, task selection, and timing, or even violation of system rules leading to elimination.
Evolution Filter: A determining layer in the long run. It measures an individual's growth rate, the efficiency of realizing its potential, and its speed of adaptation to the ever-changing "filter" itself.
Conceptual Filter: The most dangerous and unpredictable layer. It involves contact with and resistance to beings of higher rank, the Unspeakable knowledge, causal Curses, and spacetime paradoxes that far exceed one's own level. If handled improperly, death may be the least of one's worries; the most common example is the Forbidden Existence in Trial Instances.
"Survival Debt," on the other hand, serves as a warning to those individuals who seem to have gotten away with something by luck.
It refers to Survivors who, when they manage to pass a level by taking shortcuts, relying on luck, depending on others, or exploiting temporary loopholes in the rules, fail to truly address their own skill deficiencies, cognitive shortcomings, or weak foundations.
These "debts" will not disappear; they will only accumulate and generate "interest."
In subsequent, higher-level, and more stringent filters, these old debts will erupt with interest, often leading to even more devastating failures.
For example, relying on powerful allies to survive early Monster Tide without developing combat skills or mental fortitude results in Physical Debt; blindly pursuing high-powered skills without a thorough understanding of the system rules results in Rules Debt; forcibly boosting Attributes through external means without corresponding control, and recklessly using Free Attribute Points results in Evolution Debt...
Some radicals argue that simply using Free Attribute Points naturally accumulates a large amount of Evolution Debt.
There's no need to discuss Dead Zones anymore; as of now, the number of Dead Zones has accumulated to 10,123, and there are still many Dead Zones that haven't been counted.
However, in the game "Darkness Survival," there are only 80,000 zones in total, and more than one-eighth of these zones have completely lost their development potential and have been filtered out by the survival filter.
[(Gold Badge) It is recommended that professionals post at least one message to facilitate statistics; as of the 63rd, 67,648,327 professionals have posted. Among them, 895 are Gold Badge, 10,532,456 are Silver Badge members, and 57,114,976 are Bronze Badge members.]
[Can the (Silver Badge) reach 100 million? Just over two months ago there were 8 billion!]
[The (Silver Badge) is unattainable; the massive Class Change wave has passed, and for those who haven't Class Change, the window of opportunity is only half a month. Moreover, this number only represents those who have 'spoken out'; professionals... will also die, dying every minute and every second.]
The World Channel was still bustling today. Whether you like chatting or not, most Survivors were watching the comments from those with Gold Badges.
The hundreds of discussions, analyses, intelligence sharing, and even debates that occur daily among Gold Badge are subtly shaping the development strategies and survival awareness of countless regions.
Furthermore, the World Channel allows users to view only comments from Gold Badge above, making their comments the primary source of important intelligence for most regions of the world.
Recently, one of the core focuses of our channel's attention has been the attempt by several Gold Badge to combine "filter theory" to build a more refined "Survival Potential Assessment Model."
This required sufficiently authoritative and publicly available reference data. Therefore, the participants unanimously turned their attention to one name— Ye Fan.
[(Gold Badge): The model needs to be anchored to a benchmark value. I suggest using Ye Fan's data as one of the theoretical upper limits of the current version's 'Individual Survival Potential', and using Zone 76 and District 66666... as upper limits of 'Regional Survival Potential'... @Ye Fan, could you please release your Attribute data? It's only for model building purposes.]
This suggestion was echoed by several Gold Badge. To many people's surprise, Ye Fan did not shirk responsibility or ignore it, but instead directly posted three simple lines of numbers: Strength: 26.0, Spirit: 28.0, Constitution: 26.5.
Then it just exploded.
[Gold Badge Jiang Mengrui: Is this a human?]
[(Gold Badge)(Anonymous): Are you Forbidden Existence, or am I Forbidden Existence?]
[(Gold Badge) Ye Zizhen: I can create a regional survival assessment model.]
[(Gold Badge) Su Luo: I can create individual survival assessment models]
[(Gold Badge) Qing Yunnan: Your Attribute are boosted by purple- Attribute skills. I'll eat them, I'll eat them live on stream.]
Following that were the intermittent conversations between the Scholar and Ye Fan over the past few days:
[(Gold Label) Su Luo: I met an immortal cultivator who called himself [] before and asked about you. Do you know him?]
[(Seven-Colored) Ye Fan:? What is this? I don't recognize it.]
Next day.
[(Seven-Colored) Ye Fan: No! I know him, but how did you run into him?]
[(Gold Badge) Su Luo: He came to see me, what's going on?]
And then there's today.
[(Seven-Colored) Ye Fan: What a ghost! Don't Ask, I'm scared. / The following are my Attributes...]