Sweeping the Universe Starting with a Hand-Built CPU
Chapter 8

Modeling

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Ocean Star is considered a relatively high-end and important dungeon in the game Cosmic Warfare. The final boss in this dungeon is the Serpent Emperor, and it drops some relatively rare materials, equipment, and honor titles, which are very important to players.

Correspondingly, the Serpent Emperor is also quite difficult to defeat, requiring sufficiently good equipment, high enough attributes, and considerable operational skill to beat.

In terms of operational skill, Han Yang naturally had no worries at all. At this time, Han Yang's skill was absolutely top-notch.

"The Serpent Emperor is quite difficult to beat. Send me your character's attribute sheet so I can take a look."

After waiting for a while, the customer sent the attribute sheet. Han Yang looked at it and subconsciously frowned.

These attributes aren't high. Not enough physical resistance, not enough agility, and not enough poison resistance...

Han Yang subconsciously wanted to reply that he couldn't do it, but after thinking about it, he deleted the text he had already typed.

Although these attributes weren't high, even some gaming experts would basically have no confidence in clearing the Serpent Emperor dungeon with them, but... the difference didn't seem to be that big. If he were to do it, there might be a possibility of clearing it.

He still needed to calculate carefully.

After a brief recollection, Han Yang immediately recalled all the monsters involved in the Serpent Emperor dungeon, including every single small monster, all the monsters' health, skills, resistances, attack power, as well as the terrain environment, his own health, resistances, skills, and so on.

A model was quietly built in Han Yang's mind, and these data were transformed into parameters and input into the model, beginning the simulation and calculation.

At this moment, due to the sudden large consumption of computing power, the actions of the four robots at the four computers slowed down somewhat.

Fortunately, this model wasn't too complex. After a few minutes, Han Yang finished the calculation and had a conclusion in his mind.

With this character's attributes, there was theoretically a possibility of clearing the Serpent Emperor dungeon. However, it required extremely high operational skill, demanding no mistakes throughout the entire process, and every step needed to be almost optimal. He had to precisely allocate the game character's stamina and health, his positioning had to be precise, his timing had to be accurate, and he had to calculate the cooldown and release time of each skill, as well as the damage of each skill.

This was an almost impossible task for ordinary gaming experts. But Han Yang had the confidence to challenge it.

He didn't agree directly, but instead asked, "If you want to do it, it's very difficult. It's best to change a piece of equipment before trying again, the chances will be greater."

In a normal residential area in Tiemu City, Zhao Ping looked at the message sent by the customer service of the shop called "Revival Game Studio" and smiled bitterly.

If he could afford better equipment, why would he look for someone to level for him? He would just do it himself.

Currently, equipping this set of gear had already used up all his savings. He originally thought he could almost beat it, but he tried all day and couldn't.

But he urgently needed the honor title from the Serpent Emperor dungeon. Only by getting it could he proceed with his next plan, make that top-tier equipment and sell it for money, so that he could pay off this month's mortgage and his funds could circulate.

Aside from his formal job, the money he earned from games was an important help for Zhao Ping to support his family.

He just didn't expect that the set of equipment he originally thought could beat the Serpent Emperor ultimately couldn't. This immediately disrupted his entire plan.

Zhao Ping could only find game boosters, find experts to help him. But he asked more than a dozen shops, and they all replied that they couldn't do it. The Serpent Emperor dungeon was also a solo dungeon, so he couldn't find someone to carry him, and now he was almost in despair.

Originally, Zhao Ping didn't have much hope for this so-called Revival Game Studio. But now seeing the customer service's reply seemed to be softening, he couldn't help but feel a surge of energy, and a ripple of hope rose in his heart: "I can't afford to change equipment. This is the set I have. If you can help me beat it, can I pay double?"

The Serpent Emperor dungeon normally takes an hour and a half, and the normal price is around 100 yuan. Doubling it is only 200 yuan, which is nothing.

Zhao Ping continued to type: "I also rely on games to earn some pocket money and support my family. Now all my money is invested in this set of equipment. If I can't beat it, I'm finished, and my house will be repossessed. Big brother, please help me. I also have a game group, and most of the people in it are like me. Big brother, if you can help me beat it, I'll promote you for free."

He's a pitiful person too...

Han Yang sighed and said, "Alright, I'll help you. But you don't need to pay 200 yuan, I'll charge you 150 yuan. Just introduce more customers in the future."

Under the same level of service, the price must be lower than others. This was Han Yang's business strategy.

In front of the computer, Zhao Ping was overjoyed: "Big brother, you're a good person. Okay, I'll place the order now."

He quickly placed the order and paid, letting the booster log into his account. Zhao Ping was full of anticipation.

Ding dong, a new message arrived on the chat software. He opened it and saw someone in the game group @ him.

"Old Zhao, how's the Serpent Emperor fight going? Did you find someone to do it?"

"I told you a long time ago, Old Zhao's equipment set isn't good enough, but he wouldn't listen. According to me, you need to change at least three pieces to have a little hope."

"Hurry up and figure something out, Old Zhao. If it really doesn't work, spend more money and find an expert. If you delay, the equipment might expire before you can make it."

"With these attributes, even an expert would just stare blankly."

The game group was buzzing with discussion.

Calming himself down, Zhao Ping replied: "One studio is willing to take it. I'm letting him log in now."

"How much?"

"150."

The group immediately exploded: "150 yuan to boost the Serpent Emperor? The market price for a character with the 'Peerless Set' fighting the Serpent Emperor is already 100 yuan, and that doesn't even guarantee a clear. Your attributes, 150 yuan? Are you kidding?"

"Is it a scammer?"

"It's through an e-commerce website, can't be a scam."

"There must be something fishy. Could it be that they're logging into your account to scam people?"

"I'm using safe mode login for him, he can't scam anyone."

"Anyway, something's definitely not right. Think about it yourself, 150 yuan to beat the Serpent Emperor, is that reasonable?"

Originally full of confidence, Zhao Ping gradually began to feel suspicious under the bombardment of his group members. Several times he wanted to click on the window to ask about the progress.

While Zhao Ping was feeling uneasy, in the small courtyard in the market area of Da Jiang City, Han Yang had already operated the robot to log into Zhao Ping's account.

After preparing, the character flew directly to Ocean Star and arrived at the entrance of the Serpent Emperor dungeon.

Clicking start, the eerie dungeon scene, a mix of dark blue and a hint of strangeness, appeared before the robot's camera.

The robot operated the mouse to precisely move a distance of 3.6 centimeters, accurately controlling the game character to start moving forward.

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