Points System

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

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Golden Pomfret sold for between 10 and 20 yuan per jin. They were a fairly common commercial fish and could already be farmed in coastal provinces and cities.

Although this fish looked very similar to Silver Pomfret, they were actually two different species. Its back and fins were yellow, while Silver Pomfret were white. Since Silver Pomfret were relatively scarce, they were more expensive.

I'll use you as my test subjects, Ye Yuan thought as he swiftly swam near the school of Golden Pomfret. The twenty-odd fish abruptly vanished from this stretch of sea as Ye Yuan locked onto them. But what happened next left him standing dumbfounded in the water.

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

"Exchangeable items for points detected. Would you like to exchange them?"

"What the hell is this?" Ye Yuan was too stunned to react.

While Ye Yuan was still dazed, the mechanical voice sounded again.

"Exchangeable items for points detected. Would you like to exchange them?"

Two virtual buttons, "Yes" and "No," appeared before Ye Yuan's eyes. He casually tapped one.

"Yes."

"Congratulations. You have discovered a Golden Pomfret and obtained 1 point!"

"Congratulations. You have discovered a Golden Pomfret and obtained 2 points!"

"Congratulations. You have discovered a Golden Pomfret and obtained 1 point!"

"Congratulations. You have discovered a Golden Pomfret and obtained 2 points!"

After the succession of notifications ended, the sea returned to normal.

Ye Yuan quickly returned to the boat. He wanted to figure out what that voice had been. It had to be connected to his Reef Space.

Entering the Reef Space, Ye Yuan found that two lines of writing had appeared on the previously blank stone stele in the middle of the reef. This time, he could understand the words.

Host: Ye Yuan

Points: 23

Ye Yuan looked at the stone stele. "What is this? Could this space be some kind of high-tech item?"

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

The cold mechanical voice sounded again.

"So this is an intelligent system too?" Ye Yuan muttered to himself.

"Yes," the mechanical voice replied.

Ye Yuan looked at the stone stele again.

Host: Ye Yuan

Points: 13

Fuck, those two words had just robbed him of the points earned from ten fish. What a rip-off. No, he had to test it again.

"Can you tell me about your origins?"

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

Ye Yuan was speechless at that response. Still, at least he now knew there was a chance he could uncover the origins of this space.

Ye Yuan did not dwell on it. He directly exited the space and returned to the seabed.

This time, Ye Yuan turned into an undersea bulldozer. As long as it was near him, no matter what kind of seafood it was, he immediately collected it into the space and exchanged it for points.

"Congratulations. You have discovered a swimming crab and obtained 0.5 points!"

"Congratulations. You have discovered a sea bass and obtained 2.5 points!"

"Congratulations. You have discovered a Bamboo Fish and obtained 2 points!"

"Congratulations. You have discovered a grouper and obtained 2 points!"

"Congratulations. You have discovered a Spanish mackerel and obtained 3 points!"

During Ye Yuan's frenzied catching spree, he also got an answer. The number of points had nothing to do with a fish's value. The fish worth more points were simply heavier than ordinary fish. In other words, points depended on the fish's size, not its value.

That put Ye Yuan more at ease. At the same time, he discovered that as long as he selected "No," the fish would be placed into the ocean within the space instead of being exchanged for points by the system.

After Ye Yuan kept catching fish for half a day, his points finally reached 815. He then stopped.

Returning to the space once more, Ye Yuan roughly figured out the origins of this space by questioning the system.

The stone pearl he had obtained came from a place called Huangyuan Star.

The system could not provide an exact answer for how far Huangyuan Star was from Blue Star, where Ye Yuan lived. This system was, in fact, merely an artificial intelligence.

The stone pearl was a portable fishery from Huangyuan Star. That technological planet, whose technology was countless times more advanced than Blue Star's, had long since achieved private ownership of space.

So-called private ownership of space meant purchasing a section of space with currency, then using technological means to install that independent space inside an accessory for easy carrying.

Naturally, these spaces for sale were not located on Huangyuan Star itself. Most were auctioned off by the discoverers after new planets were found. These independent spaces were somewhat like the intermediary spaces found in cultivation novels.

This Spatial Fishery was far from as simple as Ye Yuan had initially thought. That reef was not an ordinary reef, either. The reason it had become what it was now was mainly because the intelligent management system required energy.

The intelligent system could not independently obtain energy from the outside world. It could only acquire it from within the fishery.

This intelligent system had been managing the place on its own for an unknown length of time. The fish, plants, and even the ocean within the fishery had all been converted into energy to replenish itself.

The Water Control Art had been obtained by the system's previous owner by chance. After obtaining it, that owner tossed it into the system and never returned to the Fishery Space. Ye Yuan guessed that the owner must have encountered some sort of accident.

According to the system, as long as something was an object, it could be converted into energy. The unit of energy was system points. Once the space had enough energy, it could continuously bring Ye Yuan benefits.

There were certain requirements for exchanging energy. Although all matter could be converted into energy, there were still differences. For example, when Ye Yuan had first obtained the Fishery Space, he had brought several items inside. Combined, those items were not even worth 0.01 points, so the system had not given any notification.

Take bottled mineral water as an example. One bottle was worth roughly 0.001 points, meaning that one thousand bottles were needed to exchange for a single point.

An ordinary sea fish could be exchanged for 1 point as long as it weighed one jin.

An ordinary sea fish weighing one jin cost less than 10 yuan. One thousand bottles of mineral water cost around 1,000 yuan, and that was for the cheap kind.

So what he needed to do now was find as many items as possible that could be exchanged for energy.

He needed to compare them and see which was most suitable for exchange. So far, he could think of many possibilities, such as electricity, gasoline, and other common energy sources on Blue Star. If those energy sources could be exchanged for energy, and if they were more cost-effective than fish, that would be ideal.

After all, Huaxia Nation's fisheries were no longer doing very well. Ye Yuan believed this Fishery Space would not be satisfied with just a small amount of fish. Using a few tons a year might not matter, but what about hundreds or thousands of tons? Would that bring severe consequences to his country's fisheries?

After learning the abilities of the Fishery Space, Ye Yuan no longer worried about being unable to catch fish.

Relying only on his hands, he had caught 800 jin of fish in half a day, and that was in waters so close to home.