The Question Setter's Joy

Too few questions?

No rush, let's look at others first.

Piracy?

Lu Mingyuan stared blankly at the frequently appearing message from "Gentle and Cute Jiang Zichun":

Piracy appeared so quickly? This is even faster than the original Blue Star.

Because the illusion realm supernatural power Lu Mingyuan created was very simple, especially after he had already paved the way, this supernatural power could be called the simplest supernatural power in history.

Therefore, Lu Mingyuan had long expected piracy, but he didn't expect it to appear on the fourth day.

Thinking that he had already sold tens of millions of copies, Lu Mingyuan thought to himself: Perhaps it's too popular.

However, this speed is really fast.

It's like not giving people a way to live!

Lu Mingyuan really wanted to shout, I haven't earned enough yet.

Although he had just said that he no longer cared about Luck Points and that what he had earned was enough to spend, Lu Mingyuan still felt a bit indignant at the thought of others snatching food from his mouth.

If he wasn't afraid of suddenly scolding people inappropriately, Lu Mingyuan would have already cursed them out.

Eh, that's not right. I can go into the soul space and curse them out. That way, I won't be heard or schemed against by others.

"You..."

"I..."

"Who..."

In the soul space, Lu Mingyuan vented thoroughly before regaining his composure.

"So comfortable! Cursing people feels so good."

Immediately, Lu Mingyuan realized that this was probably because he had been too repressed normally, which was why he felt this way.

Although he truly didn't care about many things and was usually quite easygoing, he harbored a big secret in his heart. Once it was leaked, it would bring about a fatal disaster, so he always felt a bit uneasy and insecure.

He didn't even dare to speak carelessly or sigh randomly, for fear of causing trouble.

It was imaginable how much he suffered and how repressed he was internally.

In his previous life, Lu Mingyuan had also studied psychology and knew that continuing like this for a long time would have negative effects on his body and mind. Therefore, he always told himself, comforted himself not to care about those things, and that his plan was more important. After all, to achieve certain things, one had to pay a price.

He was mentally prepared for this.

But now it's better. After venting in the soul space, his mood has indeed improved a lot.

Seeing that cursing had an unexpected effect, Lu Mingyuan muttered to himself: "It seems that when I'm in a bad mood in the future, I can often come to the soul space to relax, so I won't get sick from holding it in."

Only after his mood improved did Lu Mingyuan start to deal with the piracy issue.

He searched for "Chicken and Rabbit in the Same Cage" in the supernatural power options on the Heavenly Dao Virtual Net.

Good heavens, nearly a hundred supernatural powers popped up. Although "Anonymous"'s [Chicken and Rabbit in the Same Cage] was ranked first.

Yesterday, it was just me. In just one day, or one afternoon, so many appeared?

What kind of speed is this?

Most people haven't reacted yet, and so many have appeared. Based on this estimation, tomorrow there will likely be thousands or even tens of thousands more.

By then, the Mind Stabilizing Supernatural Power market will definitely be fiercely competitive, likely a red sea.

Seeing this situation, Lu Mingyuan felt fortunate: "Fortunately, as the boss, I can still get the lion's share. Otherwise, I would have to fight bare-knuckled with those people. And it's also fortunate that I set the lowest price back then, with no one lower than me. Otherwise, others could engage in a price war with me, and the situation would be dire."

"Alas! It's also my fault that the principle of this supernatural power is too simple. Now, with my foundation, anyone who has been to school can make it."

Of course, Lu Mingyuan had already made a huge profit, so he had no intention of regretting it.

As early as when he publicly sold this supernatural power on the Heavenly Dao Virtual Net, he had already prepared himself for piracy.

There was no way around it. His supernatural power was both simple and easy to sell. If people didn't pirate it, they would be letting down their profession. To be honest, if Lu Mingyuan had seen this supernatural power and knew it would sell well, he would have pirated it himself immediately.

Now, there was no need. Even Lu Mingyuan could easily do it with his other account.

In Lu Mingyuan's opinion, the market today is still a blue ocean. Tomorrow, it will probably become a red sea. Once you fall, don't think about coming back up.

Moreover, he estimated that besides "Anonymous," only a few others would be able to earn the money for one Supernatural Power Stone, which is ten million Luck Points. For the others, it couldn't be said they lost money, just that they didn't earn much, as the first Supernatural Power Stone was free.

Lu Mingyuan had already used his free Supernatural Power Stone, and he also planned to continue creating supernatural powers with the account "The Road is Under My Feet." If he couldn't earn back the money for the Supernatural Power Stone then, he would have lost a lot.

Next, Lu Mingyuan tried out a few supernatural powers that were also labeled "Chicken and Rabbit in the Same Cage." He found that they were indeed similar to his own, except that the other party had slightly changed the problems inside.

"As expected..."

Lu Mingyuan shook his head, not wanting to speak.

"I'll add a few more problems first. This can also deter some pirates."

After speaking, Lu Mingyuan thought of his plan and said softly, "After some time, I'll catch them all in one net."

After deciding to add more problems, Lu Mingyuan materialized paper and pen in the soul space and prepared to start calculating and creating problems.

The solution to the "Chicken and Rabbit in the Same Cage" problem can be quickly solved using a system of two linear equations, but for creating problems, it's not that troublesome. Multiplication and addition are sufficient.

The number of heads each beast has multiplied by the number of beasts plus the number of heads each bird has multiplied by the number of birds equals the total number of heads.

The number of legs each beast has multiplied by the number of beasts plus the number of legs each bird has multiplied by the number of birds equals the total number of legs.

This is how the question is formulated.

There are now beasts, some heads, some feet; birds, some heads, some feet; there are this many heads in total, and this many feet in total. Question: How many birds and beasts are there respectively?

Simply fill in the numbers for [number of heads each beast has], [number of legs each beast has], [number of heads each bird has], [number of legs each bird has], [total number of heads], and [total number of legs] into the formula.

As for the answer, it is the [number of beasts] and [number of birds] in the formula.

It's simple and clear, just takes some time.

After about the time it takes for one stick of incense to burn, Lu Mingyuan put down his pen. He felt this wouldn't work; it was too time-consuming and prone to repetition, requiring him to check each one later, which was too troublesome.

Therefore, he felt he needed to come up with a better method to optimize it and reduce the workload.

For repetition, he could use the "traversal method," or "exhaustive method." Moreover, this way he could create more questions and even categorize the difficulty of the questions more finely.

For example, assuming beasts and birds have a [number of heads] and [number of legs], and their respective quantities are within ten, then there are the following combinations.

1*1+1*1=2;1*1+1*1=2;

2*1+1*1=3;1*1+1*1=2;

3*1+1*1=4;1*1+1*1=2;

9*9+9*9=162;9*9+9*9=162;

[The meaning of the numbers corresponds to the formula above]

During this period, it must also be ensured that the multipliers in each row, namely the [number of beasts] and [number of birds], must be equal respectively.

Finally, for the total number, after traversing all of them, there are about tens of millions of combinations.

With so many, writing them directly is impossible and would take too long, so he still needed to think of other methods.

Through experimentation, Lu Mingyuan discovered that by making certain modifications to his original supernatural power, as long as there was a formula, he could spend Luck Points to directly generate hundreds of millions of calculation formulas.

This is very simple.

For the current Lu Mingyuan, any problem that can be solved with Luck Points is not a problem. He is currently spending more Luck Points than he is earning, so if he can use Luck Points to save trouble, he will directly do so; he doesn't lack this amount.

After about the time it takes for one stick of incense to burn, the numbers within ten were completed. Next were the numbers within one hundred.

Of course, combinations of numbers within ten should be excluded to avoid repetition.

Also, "one hundred" here refers to the [number of beasts] and [number of birds]. The [number of heads] and [number of legs] are still within ten.

Otherwise, it would be too monstrous, and people would probably curse.

After completing the numbers within one hundred, the next step was three-digit numbers, four-digit numbers, and five-digit numbers.

As for higher digit numbers, Lu Mingyuan decided against it. As he said before, he was afraid people would thank him too much.

As the number of digits increased, the results multiplied, with the final results even exceeding the trillions.

So many are definitely not feasible. It's daunting!

With so many questions, people would be exhausted even trying to complete them. Lu Mingyuan didn't want to dampen everyone's enthusiasm. Therefore, selection became an issue.

For selection, Lu Mingyuan, based on the rules he designed, first eliminated the overly simple ones, and then randomly selected from the remaining questions. Fortunately, this step could also be easily handled by his original supernatural power.

Finally, for each digit level, Lu Mingyuan selected about one hundred thousand pairs of calculation formulas and divided them into major levels.

In this way, in less than a day, Lu Mingyuan created five hundred thousand questions, and he also divided these questions into five levels.

Each level was further subdivided.

Lastly, Lu Mingyuan added some "packages" to these questions, ensuring the other party would have an endless aftertaste.

Although it cost about five thousand Luck Points, Lu Mingyuan fully enjoyed the pleasure of being a question setter this time.

After spending about three days, Lu Mingyuan finally completed all of this. Subsequently, he treated "these added questions and the changes to the supernatural power" as a patch for the original [Supernatural Power: Chicken and Rabbit in the Same Cage] and uploaded it to the Supernatural Power Zone of the Heavenly Dao Virtual Net, priced at one Luck Point.

Regarding patches, this is actually a common practice for everyone. It's not unique to Lu Mingyuan.

Just like the Mohist's [Supernatural Power: Sword Creation], each precious sword he makes is a patch. You can download the patch for whichever precious sword you want. Of course, you must have the original [Supernatural Power: Sword Creation]; otherwise, having only the patch is useless.

You can actually think of these patches as data updates for a single-player game. Without the patch, you can still play, but you can't play the latest version.

Now, with these patches, Lu Mingyuan's [Supernatural Power: Chicken and Rabbit in the Same Cage] has also been strengthened, and it can be considered version 2.0. At the same time, it has also widened the gap with pirated supernatural powers.