Tianfeng City, Southern District.
Walking on the streets of the city, Qi Sheng sees his hometown as an extremely unfamiliar place.
Looking up, the street is lined with towering skyscrapers, and the smart glass covering the surface displays advertisements for wearable technology devices.
The pavement underfoot is no longer the asphalt and stone pavement in my memory, but has been replaced by more advanced self-luminous materials that can automatically adjust the brightness according to the flow of pedestrians. The billboards standing on the roadside are playing weather forecasts and news updates.
This city is very much like the future world he imagined when he was young. It is full of vitality, but it lacks the familiar flavor.
Arriving at the end of the street, Qi Sheng stopped and looked at the tall building across the road.
Memories come flooding back.
"Are you a tourist here? Do you need any help?"
I saw Qi Sheng standing there staring at the tall buildings in a daze. A young man wearing "obligatory" work clothes on the roadside and controlling a cleaning robot to clean the road came over curiously to say hello.
Facing the inquiry, Qi Sheng was silent for a moment and then nodded with a smile:
"Yeah, I'm traveling here, I don't need any help, thank you."
The young man's greetings made Qi Sheng sigh with emotion.
There are no friends or relatives he knows in this city, and the traces of him have long been erased with the changes of the times, leaving only uncared for tombstones.
At this time, Guidance's voice with a teasing tone sounded in his mind:
[Tsk, tsk, the saddest thing in life is not that children don't recognize each other and smile and ask where the visitor is from, nor is it that the rusty lock of the broken door has not been opened for a long time, the gray brick path is covered with dry moss, and the nameless withered grass has invaded the garden, but that the traces of one's own times have long been erased, and the memories of the old days are gone when I revisit the old place. I feel so sad at this moment. When I came to my throat, I suddenly recalled that when I was in high office, I used to cook the pots and stoves... Well, my childhood dream of superpowers has come true, but I found that I have also shouldered a heavy mission and embarked on a road full of hardships... I suddenly realized that it was a dream when I was young, and no one in the old place could express my feelings.]
"Since when have you become so cultured?"
[I recently looked through the Star Network database, which records a lot of historical information on the human race, and I feel inspired when I see your sudden loneliness.]
"Have you finished sending it?" Qi Sheng asked breathlessly.
[After sending it, boss, you can continue to reminisce, I will never disturb you.]
No response Guidance, Qi Sheng followed the route in memory and traveled to his old place, but in this process, he could no longer find anything familiar.
Revisiting an old place is like carving a boat in search of a sword.
The part of his memory of the era has long been covered by the new era, and he is no longer young.
The moment he turned to leave, Qi Sheng officially said goodbye to his former self.
The memories of my hometown come to an end.
The only way forward is to move forward.
Returning to Origin Altar, Qi Sheng began to look through the information flow produced by players today.
During this period, a post on the forum that continued to gain popularity made him dumbfounded.
The poster recorded the changes in Lu Xing's mental journey before and after he met Qidian.
The content begins with the bold words Lu Xing left on the forum when he first entered the game, saying that he would write an illustrated book for all players to travel and witness the unknown scenery of Monster World.
The post also attached a screenshot of a record message posted by Lu Xing, which said:
As a Exploration Party player, what I want to tell everyone is that the game is not only Grinding and Leveling, but also poetry and distance.
When you are inching in order to improve your level, the red dragon above Ancient Battlefield is tearing apart the clouds. When you are digging hard for Sacrificial Power, bright flowers are blooming on Crimson Plains. When you are working for When I was worried about the combination of Astral Veins, the starry manta in the description of Guidance jumped out of the sea of stars. It is said that the night sky in the Great North is colorful and has unimaginable beauty... Those wonderful scenery that only exists in the description of Guidance will be a stop on my future journey.
At the end of this paragraph, there is a GIF picture made by the original poster in the Lu Xing live broadcast room.
In the picture, Lu Xing was beaten by Strange Butterfly until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen. He pointed at Strange Butterfly with trembling hands and roared in grief and indignation:
"Just wait for me."
Other emoticons below are also equipped with text descriptions, such as:
Get beaten like crazy, curl up to reduce the area of stress, it's safe (laughing wildly while holding a gun), watch me blow you up (the arrogant face before detonating Spirit Energy Bomb), have something to say (begging for mercy), this is unscientific (the panic after the explosion failed), it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge in ten years (crazy upgrade)...
The story of Lu Xing challenging Strange Butterfly has become a funny drama in the eyes of forum players.
Everyone is looking forward to the sequel, but they are even more looking forward to the plot ending as soon as possible so that everyone can have Wind Control Monster Soul to use.
After reading the content of the post, Qi Sheng was attracted by a newly refreshed post.
[About a serious problem in the combination of Astral Veins, I hope Moon Eclipse Clan officials can improve it as soon as possible after seeing it.]
Posted by: Black Night Approaching
Content: Recently, I played many new Astral Veins combination genres in Test Tower, and then I thought of a very serious problem, which will cause our Sacrificial Power cost to increase explosively in the later period.
Why is there no Monster Soul decomposition function in the game?
Suppose I have a better idea and want to reconstruct the Astral Veins combination, I have to peel off the Monster Soul inlaid on the front.
However, the initial investment of the divested Monster Soul cannot be returned, which results in the very high cost of Trial and Error.
For example, I upgraded Black Armored Snake Soul to level 30, but I no longer want Black Armored Snake Soul. After peeling off, although Star Vein Slot has a new position and can be embedded with a new Monster Soul, my initial investment is just lost?
If the dog official sees it, I hope this aspect can be improved.
This idea seems completely feasible to Qi Sheng.
In the initial setting, the Monster Soul stripped by the player will not disappear directly, but will be refined into pure Sacrificial Power and re-enter Sacrificial Power Pool.
This part of the income is not distributed to the player, it is exclusive to him.
But the player's suggestion made him feel that doing so would indeed increase the burden on players to improve their strength.
How to solve this problem? Qi Sheng already has an idea after reading the post.
He plans to take 5% of the Evolution Points produced after the Monster Soul has been stripped and decomposed, and put it into Sacrificial Power Pool, and the remaining 95% will be returned to the players, who can allocate and use it freely.
The setting of decomposition and return can significantly reduce the player's energy and investment in re-training Monster Soul.
The introduction of the Monster Soul decomposition mode can also stimulate players' creativity, allowing them to dare to try various combinations of Astral Veins genres without having to worry about re-training.
But before the decomposition function is launched, he needs to contact Hyperdimension in advance and implant Challenger System with the new function settings of Monster Soul's decomposition, refining, and return of resources.
With the idea in mind, Qi Sheng immediately contacted Hyperdimension who was underground through Guidance and proposed the idea.
After listening to his explanation, Hyperdimension, who was building the function of the armed vehicle, immediately said that this part of the content was very simple, and he could complete the decomposition and return functions first, and then continue the production of the function of the armed vehicle.
After the conversation ended, Qi Sheng hung up the connection, and his sight switched to the leyline cliff area where Guidance's latest feedback prompted him.
Leyline cliff.
Domain Node derived energy, as well as free energy particles between heaven and earth, are continuously extracted by the towering Evil Eye tower.
The black mist that enveloped the tower surged violently, and evil beings were constantly being generated in the black mist, and then merged into the black mist again.
On the high tower platform, Di Nian Evil Spirit's strength gradually increased with the surge of energy from Black Tide.
"Evil Eye, have you ever refined divinity?"
Facing the inquiry, Evil Eye, who was suspended in the sky, looked at Di Nian Evil Spirit:
"Don't worry, Domain Node contains the power of rules under your feet. With my ability, I cannot separate the source of the rules. I can only extract a part of the energy derived from the rules. Even if this part of the energy derived from the rules is poured into your body, it will take time to digest."
Hearing these words, although he felt impatient, Di Nian Evil Spirit still nodded in agreement.
After knowing the strength of Monster World, he has restrained his arrogance and decided to develop well in this world.
At this point he continued:
"Pour this extracted power into me first."
Evil Eye didn't make a sound this time, and several jet-black tentacles stretched out from his eyes and pierced Di Nian Evil Spirit's back.
Suddenly, a complex mark appeared on Di Nian Evil Spirit's forehead, shimmering, and surging energy was injected into his body.
Its physical strength is also strengthened by the energy wash.
What Di Nian Evil Spirit and Evil Eye don't know is that their actions are completely exposed to the surveillance of Guidance.
At this time, above Origin Altar, Qi Sheng, who saw this scene through Guidance's feedback, was curious and looked up at Guidance and asked:
"Guidance, Evil Eye are you extracting the power of rules from Domain Node?"
Guidance heard this and immediately shook his head:
[Except for you who inherit the origin of Di Zhao, you can use the power of rules contained in Domain Node at will. No other living being can do this, including our four major servants. What Evil Eye extracts is only the energy derived from Rule Core of Domain Node.]
[Take Gloomy Cave to explain. The characteristic of Domain Node is to breed spiritual minerals. The behavior of Evil Eye is equivalent to cutting off the output of spiritual minerals and converting the output energy into Black Tide energy, and used Black Tide energy to breed a large number of evil beings, and because this process reversed the operating rules of Monster World, there was a serious loss in the energy conversion process, and only about 10% of the derived energy could be obtained.]
After listening to Guidance's explanation, Qi Sheng immediately understood the principle.
Take Gloomy Cave as an example. This Domain Node operates according to the rules of Monster World, and the energy produced will breed Spiritual Ore.
If the energy output is cut off, there will be a certain loss. If this part of the output energy is converted into other energy substances, the loss will be more serious.
Evil Eye's ultimate goal is to change the way of energy output, and it is impossible to extract the rule characteristics of the node field that breed energy.
"What is the energy injected into Di Nian Evil Spirit's body?" Qi Sheng continued to ask.
[Domain Node's Rule Core will give birth to some rule fragments in the process of deriving energy]
[The rule-derived energy refers to the fact that during the process of gestating energy, Domain Node will imprint some of the energy's regular characteristics. This part of the energy will soon dissipate and disappear, but Evil Eye intercepts this part of the energy and imprints it in Di Nian Evil Spirit's body, making it strengthened... This process is like plagiarism. In theory, as long as there is enough time, Evil Eye can produce imitation rule features, allowing Di Nian Evil Spirit to master similar rule abilities, but fake ones are fake after all, and the effectiveness of the rules is far from comparable to the real Domain Node rules.]
[And this is the most terrifying thing about Black Tide warriors. Every intelligent evil spirit has strong growth potential. It can gain strength by occupying Domain Node to extract energy or devour living creatures.]
After understanding the principle, Qi Sheng continued to ask:
"Can I also cut off the process of Gloomy Cave deriving Spiritual Ore, refine the generated energy and introduce it into Sacrificial Power Pool, like the contained Primal Monster, which will continue to produce Sacrificial Power energy for me."
[Of course you can, but I don't recommend it.]
[The process of Gloomy Cave producing Spiritual Ore is not only blessed by the derivative energy of Rule Core, but also the energy of heaven and earth is poured into it at the moment of generation. It is like completing the game task and getting the world's reward, and cutting off the behavior of derivative Spiritual Ore and There is no difference with Evil Eye, the only difference is the amount of energy loss...Evil Eye cannot really control the node field, so there is more than 50% loss in the energy extracted, but you can completely control Domain Node, and the loss of conversion can be greatly reduced. I estimate that the loss is about 25%.]
[The Sacrificial Power produced through player mining is an additional infusion of heaven and earth energy on the basis of no loss, and an energy bonus of more than 50% is obtained. The summary is that the Sacrificial Power produced after cutting off is only 0.75, while the Sacrificial Power produced by mining is 1.5, and the difference is doubled.]
After listening to the explanation, Qi Sheng nodded to express understanding.
As Guidance said, Gloomy Cave is already a resource production place integrated into Emperor's Tomb Village. It is obviously a better choice to increase the total income through mining.
At this moment, his eyes swept towards the light curtain suspended in front of him.
In the picture, under the high tower, evil lives are still rapidly forming in the billowing black mist.
He knows that the time when Black Tide breaks out in the Emperor's Tomb Mountain Range area is approaching. When Di Nian Evil Spirit has a large enough number of evil creatures, it will launch an offensive against all Domain Node in the Emperor's Tomb Mountain Range area, trying to completely occupy the entire Emperor's Tomb Mountain Range area.
If this is achieved, Evil Eye will have multiple Domain Nodes that can extract energy.
Di Nian Evil Spirit and the evil beings it leads will also receive stronger power infusion, and their strength will be greatly improved.
This will also be Player Legion's first real battle with Black Tide.
The evil beings such as Cursed Soldiers, Blood Corpse, and even the black-armored soldiers encountered by Gloomy Cave that players encountered before this are just unintelligent evil beings derived from the light of Evil Moon.
Black Tide warriors like Di Nian Evil Spirit are completely different concepts.
But Qi Sheng doesn't have much idea about this upcoming war. Di Nian Evil Spirit is just the most ordinary soldier among Terror Black Tide.
In his eyes, the upcoming Black Tide battle is just a training exercise on the Player Legion's growth path.
Let players experience what it is like to have high-intensity evil spirits raging, and think about how to solve the dilemma of evil spirits raging.
Players may be abused in the process, but they can also grow by killing evil spirits.
The endless characteristics of evil spirits are very powerful when conquering other worlds, but the Challenger System conceived by Qi Sheng was built to cope with this characteristic.
The inexhaustibility of evil spirits comes from the rapid growth after extracting the energy of heaven and earth, but after all, there is loss.
However, the players created by Challenger System are endless without loss. Even if they die, they can reshape their bodies and rejoin the battlefield without any weakening in strength.
With the blessing of the rules and characteristics of Challenger System and Emperor's Tomb Village "Flesh Reshaping", large-scale Player Legion is a terrifying disaster more terrifying than evil spirits.
(End of chapter)