It was always better to sharpen one's axe before chopping wood, so Meng Yi did not rush outside.
Fifteen days in the Paradise was neither a particularly long nor particularly short amount of time.
Just as the exclusive room had given rise to the concept of a "door," the Paradise had transmitted an Instruction Manual and unlocked new permissions for the Player Panel.
Besides the "Title" function Meng Yi had unlocked in advance, the new features included "Contacts," "Mail," and "Storage Space."
The Instruction Manual stated that as long as players were within the Paradise, they could ignore geographical distances and rank barriers and communicate with their "friends" through "Contacts."
However, once they returned to the Original World or began an Instance Mission, the "Contacts" function would temporarily freeze and become unusable.
Players could also leave messages for their "friends" through the "Contacts" function, ensuring that their "friends" would see them and reply.
Meng Yi opened the "Contacts" panel. After thinking for a moment, he entered "Firefly" and "Wallfacer" and applied to add his two former teammates as contacts.
Since the three of them had completed the Selection Dungeon at the same time, Meng Yi's requests were approved very quickly.
After chatting casually with Firefly and Luo Ji for a few sentences and testing the "Contacts" function, he closed the feature.
The "Mail" function was exactly what its name suggested. By spending a small amount of Paradise Coins as "postage," players could send items to designated contacts. Its basic capabilities were likewise limited to sending and receiving within the Paradise.
Besides "Basic Mail," there was also "Advanced Mail."
"Advanced Mail" was far more impressive. The currency used for postage started with "World Origin Crystals," followed by "World Cores," "Universe Cores," "Great Universe Cores," "Multiverse Cores," and "???."
The specifics depended on the situation. The required "postage" varied according to the distance and the mail's level, so there was no universal answer.
Even if players returned to their own Worldviews, they could still send items to players in other Worldviews without any problem.
For example, one day Meng Yi might beat "Chaos Gods: Tzeentch, the Changer of Ways" until he could barely speak or close his eyes, make him suffer humiliation to his heart's content, beg for mercy on his knees, and submit completely.
He could then stuff the "Blue-haired Fluttering Bird" into "Advanced Mail," spend a high-level currency unit as postage, and use the Paradise's "Mail" function to send her to Firefly, who was far away in the "Imaginary Tree and Quantum Sea."
Then he could have Firefly release Tzeentch. After that, "Tzeentch, the Changer of Ways" and "Aha the Aeon of Elation" could team up and wreak havoc through the "Imaginary Tree and Quantum Sea" to their hearts' content.
Ah, that scene was too beautiful to look at.
"Advanced Mail" and "Regular Mail" shared one identical restriction: neither could be used while executing a Paradise Instance.
"Wait! The currencies above the level of 'World Origin Crystals' are 'World Cores,' 'Universe Cores,' 'Great Universe Cores,' and 'Multiverse Cores.' What kind of heaven-defying thing is that '???' at the end?"
Meng Yi widened his eyes, wondering whether something had gone wrong with his visual system.
Collapsing a complete universe into a single "core" to serve as advanced currency for players was utterly absurd.
He could not imagine what level the top-level players of "Evolution Paradise" had reached. Could they all be super experts capable of creating and destroying multiverses?!
"Skip it! Skip it!"
Meng Yi began studying the "Storage Space" function.
"Evolution Paradise" gave every player one cubic meter of "Storage Space" for free. "Storage Space" could be used in the Paradise, the Original World, and Instance Worlds, and it possessed the property of "absolute safety."
"Evolution Paradise" would ensure that no life-form in the endless Worldviews of all the worlds could destroy the "absolute safety" property of "Evolution Paradise."
Even players who collapsed a multiverse to create top-level currency and materials, as well as the pinnacles of various systems in the "Primordial Instance," still could not destroy the "absoluteness" provided by "Evolution Paradise."
Because it was "absolute," it was "expensive."
The cost of expanding "Storage Space" increased with its size.
At first, expansion used Paradise Coins. During the early and middle stages, it used "World Origin Crystals." After that came "World Cores," "Universe Cores," "Great Universe Cores," "Multiverse Cores," and "???" again.
When a player died, their exclusive "Storage Space" would be reclaimed by the Paradise.
After thinking briefly, Meng Yi tried expanding the one cubic meter.
[Prompt: Will Player 'White Devil' spend 1,000 Paradise Coins to double the capacity of "Storage Space," increasing it from 1 cubic meter → 2 cubic meters?]
"Yes."
[Prompt: 1,000 Paradise Coins have been deducted. Current "Storage Space" capacity: 2 cubic meters.]
After spending a thousand, he still had 46,000 in his wallet. Meng Yi tried expanding it again.
[Prompt: Will Player 'White Devil' spend 2,000 Paradise Coins to double the capacity of "Storage Space," increasing it from 2 cubic meters → 4 cubic meters?]
"Double the capacity?"
With endless ×2×2×2... increases, could "Storage Space" ultimately be expanded to the size of a universe?
"No!"
Although doubts still lingered in his heart and he still had plenty of money in his pocket, Meng Yi did not continue wasting Paradise Coins to test his guess.
Good steel had to be used where it mattered.
People needed self-control. Only by using reason to control their impulses could they avoid being swayed by external things.
At the current stage, two cubic meters of "Storage Space" was enough. There was no need to waste money on it. He only needed "Storage Space" to hold Super Queen, whose main body's strength was relatively weak.
Meng Yi opened the "Title" function and carefully read the relevant explanation.
"Title": World Origin condensates of different concentrations contained different special abilities.
Title Ranks: From F-Rank at the bottom to EX-Rank at the top.
Methods of Acquisition: Side Quests and Main Quests could both potentially grant titles.
There was no limit to the number of titles a player could possess, but only one could be equipped at a time. Changing to a title of a different rank required a different length of "buffer time."
"Hmm? It doesn't include advanced currency units at the level of 'World Cores' and above?"
"Or does it mean that players above EX-Rank have, to a certain extent, broken free from their dependence on 'Evolution Paradise'? Having forged their own paths, they no longer need 'Titles' to adorn their glory?"
Following this line of thought, could players above EX-Rank be the ones who had truly escaped the "Novice Village"?
"Highly likely!"
"'Scholars and gentlemen gather in laughter; no commoners come and go.' High-Level Players with bodies exceeding the scale of a universe can probably craft 'World Cores' and 'Universe Cores' by hand at some cost."
"After crossing beyond the Gu Worm Identity of the 'Novice Village · Gu Raising Field,' have they perhaps become high-level wage earners of 'Evolution Paradise'? Strategic Partners?"
Meng Yi's doubts received no explanation from "Evolution Paradise."
"Evolution Paradise" did not care whether the intelligent thought too much, nor did it care about the ignorant charging ahead blindly.
Once one reached a certain level, everything would become clear without explanation.
As for whether clever people would guess too early, suffer a blow because of it, lose their fighting spirit, and collapse into a life of aimless idleness—
Or whether clever people would be greatly encouraged, transform pressure into motivation, become reinvigorated, and press forward with determination—
The strong grew stronger, while the weak perished.
Whether it was the former or the latter, "Evolution Paradise" did not care.
During the initial "Selection Dungeon," "Evolution Paradise" had already explained it very clearly.
Selection meant screening, picking, deciding, and choosing.
Life was made up of one forked path after another, and "choice" filled every corner of it.
The future of every player could only be decided by that player.
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