Chapter Six: Points System

Ye Yuan searched the seabed for a while and found some Golden Pomfret, about twenty of them. 520 Official Website www.

Golden Pomfret sells for between 10-20 yuan per jin. It's a relatively common economic fish species and can already be farmed in coastal provinces and cities.

Although these fish look very similar to Silver Pomfret, they are actually two different species. The Golden Pomfret's back and fins are yellowish, while the Silver Pomfret is white. Because Silver Pomfret are less common, they are more expensive.

"Let's use you guys for an experiment then." Ye Yuan quickly swam closer to the school of Golden Pomfret. As Ye Yuan locked onto them, the twenty-odd Golden Pomfret suddenly vanished from the area. What happened next left Ye Yuan stunned in the water.

As the Golden Pomfret disappeared, a cold mechanical voice sounded in Ye Yuan's ear.

"Found item redeemable for points. Redeem?"

"Nani? What the heck is this?" Ye Yuan was dumbfounded, unable to snap out of it.

While Ye Yuan was still in shock, the mechanical voice spoke again.

"Found item redeemable for points. Redeem?"

Two virtual buttons, "Yes" and "No," appeared before Ye Yuan. Ye Yuan casually clicked one.

"Yes"

"Congratulations on finding a Golden Pomfret, earning 1 point!"

"Congratulations on finding a Golden Pomfret, earning 2 points!"

"Congratulations on finding a Golden Pomfret, earning 1 point!"

"Congratulations on finding a Golden Pomfret, earning 2 points!"

After a series of prompts, the sea returned to its original state.

Ye Yuan quickly returned to the boat. He wanted to figure out what that voice was about. It must be related to his Reef Space.

Entering the Reef Space, Ye Yuan found that on the stone tablet in the center of the reef, which was previously blank, two lines of text had appeared. This time, he could understand the words.

Host: Ye Yuan Points: 23

Ye Yuan looked at the stone tablet. "What's going on? Is this space some kind of high-tech item?"

"Answering your question requires 50 points. Insufficient points to answer."

The cold mechanical voice spoke again.

"This is also an intelligent system?" Ye Yuan muttered to himself.

"Yes," the mechanical voice replied.

Ye Yuan looked at the stone tablet again.

Host: Ye Yuan Points: 13

Damn it, it took the points from 10 fish just for two words. This is too greedy. No, I have to try it again.

"Can you tell me about your origin?"

"Answering your question requires 100 points. Insufficient points to answer."

Hearing this response, Ye Yuan was speechless. But at least he knew that it was possible to understand the origin of this space.

Ye Yuan didn't dwell on it any longer and exited the space, returning to the seabed.

This time, upon returning to the seabed, Ye Yuan transformed into an underwater bulldozer. Anything within his vicinity, regardless of what seafood it was, was directly collected into the space and converted into points.

"Congratulations on finding a swimming crab, earning 0.5 points!"

"Congratulations on finding a Perch, earning 2.5 points!"

"Congratulations on finding a Bamboo Fish, earning 2 points!"

"Congratulations on finding a Grouper, earning 2 points!"

"Congratulations on finding a Mackerel, earning 3 points!"

As Ye Yuan frantically captured them, he also got an answer. The points awarded had nothing to do with the value of the fish. The fish that gave higher points were simply heavier than average. This meant that the number of points was determined by the size of the fish, not its value.

This put Ye Yuan at ease. He also discovered that if he chose "No," those fish would be placed in the ocean within the space and not converted into points by the system.

As Ye Yuan continued to capture, he spent half a day, and his points finally reached 815. Ye Yuan stopped capturing.

Returning to the space again, through his conversation with the system, Ye Yuan had a general understanding of the space's origin.

The stone bead he obtained came from Huangyuan Star.

The system couldn't provide a clear answer as to how far Huangyuan Star was from Blue Star, where Ye Yuan was located. The system was actually just an artificial intelligence.

The stone bead was a portable fishery from Huangyuan Star. That technologically advanced planet, whose technology was countless times more advanced than Blue Star, had already achieved private space ownership.

Private space ownership meant purchasing a piece of space through a currency-like system, and then using technology to embed this independent space into an accessory for easy portability.

Of course, these spaces being sold wouldn't be on the planet Huangyuan itself. Most of them were auctioned off by the discoverers after new planets were found. These independent spaces were quite similar to the pocket dimensions found in cultivation novels.

This fishing ground space was far more complex than Ye Yuan initially realized. That reef wasn't just a simple reef either. The primary reason it had transformed into its current state was the need for energy by the intelligent management system.

The intelligent system couldn't acquire energy autonomously from the outside world; it could only obtain it from within the fishing ground.

It was unknown how long this intelligent system had been managing the fishing ground freely. The fish, plants, and even the ocean within the fishery had all been converted into energy by the intelligent system to replenish itself.

The Water Control Art was also obtained by the previous system owner by chance. After obtaining it, they threw it into the system and never returned to this fishing ground space. Ye Yuan suspected that owner must have met with some accident.

According to the system, any item could be converted into energy. The unit of energy was system points. With sufficient energy, the space could continuously bring benefits to Ye Yuan.

There were certain requirements for exchanging energy. Although all matter could be converted into energy, there were still differences. For example, when Ye Yuan first acquired the fishing ground space, he had brought in a few items. The combined value of those items wasn't even enough for 0.01 points, so the system didn't provide any prompts.

Take mineral water as an example. A bottle of mineral water was worth approximately 0.001 points, meaning it would take 1,000 bottles of mineral water to earn 1 point.

A very ordinary sea fish, weighing just one jin, could be exchanged for 1 point.

An ordinary sea fish weighing one jin cost less than 10 yuan. 1,000 bottles of mineral water would cost around 1,000 yuan, and that's for the cheaper brands.

Therefore, the task now was to find as many items as possible that could be exchanged for energy.

By comparison, he needed to figure out which option was more suitable for him. He could already think of many possibilities, such as electricity, gasoline, and other common energy sources from Blue Star. If these energies could be exchanged for energy and their cost-effectiveness was higher than fish, that would be ideal.

After all, China's fishing industry wasn't doing very well. Ye Yuan believed that this fishing ground space couldn't be sustained by just a small amount of sea fish. If it consumed a few tons a year, it might be manageable, but what about hundreds or thousands of tons? Wouldn't that have serious consequences for his country's fishing industry?

Once Ye Yuan understood the capabilities of the fishing ground space, he no longer worried about not being able to catch fish.

With his bare hands, he managed to catch 800 jin of fish in half a day, and that was only in the waters close to his home.