Fan Lang studied these system notifications, and with his understanding of how to infiltrate the system, he found the answer he wanted.
According to the system rules, as long as Fan Lang participated, he would receive the appropriate reward no matter how the target ultimately died.
If he poisoned the Bug Clan and forced them to commit suicide, the system would recognize it.
The first batch of infected Bug Clan would produce new Insecticidal Powder within their bodies and spread it to their kind. When those infected bugs died, he would receive rewards as well, though the diminishing returns rule would be triggered.
After the second batch of infected died, the Experience Points would decrease by one-thousandth, and so on, dwindling more and more.
A reduction of ten-thousandths... one hundred-thousandths... nine hundred and ninety-nine-thousandths...
By the time the infection reached the thousandth batch, the Experience Points awarded would be down to only one-thousandth—far too little to matter.
As for whether Experience Points would still be awarded after the thousandth batch, that would need to be verified through further observation. The infected population had not yet developed anywhere near that far.
Fan Lang also sensed that this diminishing returns rule had been issued directly from the core of the Pangu System. There was absolutely no possibility of breaking it in the short term unless his cracking of the Pangu System rose to a new level.
Under the restrictions of the diminishing returns rule, half of Fan Lang's beautiful dream had been crushed.
He could use Insecticidal Powder to wipe out massive numbers of Bug Clan and earn Experience Points, but he could not expect to reach the heavens in a single step. He still had to advance steadily, one step at a time.
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