A glimpse of an observation.
Perhaps seeing that Li Yun had shown no reaction for quite some time, someone beside him suddenly leaned over and shouted at close range, "Brother, your Main God ID's activated, right? Did the Exchange Listings dazzle you?"
"To tell you the truth, when I first encountered this list, I had the same reaction as you. I kept staring at it without being able to move my eyes until my allotted time ended and the Main God kicked me straight off the platform!"
In the excessively noisy and chaotic environment, Li Qingzhi instead took the initiative to move closer, enthusiastically trying to offer this "fellow clansman" a few pointers.
Noticing that the other man was treating him very differently from the other newcomers and was clearly trying to curry favor, Li Yun did not particularly care, but neither did he refuse.
He was not completely lacking in emotional intelligence.
Leaving everything else aside, although he might not be as clever as this strange young man before him, when it came to studying the Exchange Listings, this "Old Li" evidently had at least a little confidence.
Hadn't he painstakingly compared and filtered through the Main God's Exchange Listings, ultimately finding a strengthening that could be considered exceptionally cost-effective—the "Psychokinesis Development" that had already initially gained the ability to physically interfere through mental power at merely the First Tier?
One had to understand that here with the Main God, the more common psychokinesis-type strengthenings generally started at the price of at least the Third or Fourth Tier!
...After glancing at the information that had just appeared on the light screen, as well as the [Tier-One Psychokinesis Development] exchange that the other man had taken the initiative to share and strongly recommend, Li Yun could not help raising his eyebrows.
Unlike "Old Li," although the Exchange Listings themselves were the same for him as a Main God User, the "additional specific information" he could see at a glance was far beyond what these ordinary users could see.
[Name: Tier-One Psychokinesis Development] "Name: Experimental Subject Mental Guidance Technology" [Type: Strengthening/Mutation] [Quality: Tier One] "Quality: Tier Two (After some content was removed, the stable version was downgraded to Tier One)" [Description: Originating from a certain "Red Alert" derivative universe, this biological strengthening technology was gradually developed by some scientists after extensive experimental testing. It was used to develop humanity's latent mental traits and initially activate psychokinesis-like effects.] "Description: During a derivative experiment of the Omega Plan, conducted by the Shinra Psychic Research Center under the Rising Sun Empire in this secondary timeline and focused on "superhuman development," data from testing human copy-type substrates that had undergone further subdivision was reused. Through a multilevel process involving drug effects, physical stimulation, consciousness erasure, and more, part of humanity's mental potential was forcibly activated. The complete technology was gradually developed to equip the advanced ground unit "King Oni Mecha" with "temporary drivers" possessing a certain resistance to mental interference." [Exchange Requirement: One hundred Universal Points and one Common Exchange Card.] [Additional Tip: The strengthening effect of this exchange is concentrated solely in the mental category and cannot effectively improve the complete essence of life.] "Additional Tip: This technology has been slightly modified by the Main God, weakening and stabilizing some of its content. The side effect stating that "after undergoing development, the human substrate's life cycle will automatically enter a period of accelerated depletion, with a theoretical survival time of no more than three years" has been removed. However, the user must still bear a certain burden, and this is not considered a bloodline-type strengthening." [Note: --Yuriko Omega disliked this!] "Note: You can even dig this out? Huh? You actually dared to choose it?!"
It was obvious that among these listings, most of the information that contained a great deal of detail but was not actually that important—the information within the quotation marks—had simply been omitted by the Main God from its normal user-facing descriptions.
Li Yun cast a rather subtle glance at the senior who seemed fairly honest and had also been quite cooperative during the previous Newcomer Trial mission world. He had no intention of saying much, merely offering a calm reminder.
"Old Li, I think you should earn some points first and exchange them for a bloodline, an energy system, or something similar. It'd be better to raise your attributes a little."
"I'd like to as well, but everything here with the Main God is so expensive. Where would I get enough spare money to buy things one by one?"
The man, who was only a little over thirty, instinctively reached into his pocket, only to come up empty-handed. That was when he realized this was not reality and he had not brought any cigarettes.
He rubbed his head awkwardly and sighed.
"Being able to buy this is already pretty good. Otherwise, why would I have taken that 'Guide' task and come lead these oddballs...?"
Without specifying who the "oddballs" in his mouth were, Li Qingzhi merely swept his gaze around the other foreign newcomers. Their eyes were all fixed blankly on some point in the air before them, their fingers constantly swiping through it as they stared intently.
This included the unconscious youth lying motionless on the ground, his head resting on the leg of the bearded white man.
It went without saying.
The man who had voluntarily become half a "cushion" appeared to be an old man by his features. However, considering that white-skinned races aged noticeably faster and that the other man's large beard was excessively distracting, it was truly difficult to determine his exact age. He was a white man from Russia.
Although he had lent one leg to the South Asian boy, he himself was sitting on the ground and concentrating on the information in his personal light screen.
Seeing this, "Old Li" merely spread his hands, wearing a bitter smile that said, "A man in the martial world has no choice but to go with the flow."
"Oh, right. I was so caught up talking that I haven't claimed my share of the rewards!"
He had finally remembered the important matter.
Li Qingzhi's shoulders relaxed slightly, and his expression also grew somewhat more serious.
Earlier, because there were so many people around, even with the effect of the naturally divided distances on the Main God Platform,
as long as there was no malice involved, people who were relatively familiar with one another—such as them—could still come into unobstructed contact with the unconscious youth on the ground. That mechanism would not easily make the pressure between people disappear completely.
Only by actively activating the free shielding function provided by the Main God could one isolate the influence of outside information.
Otherwise, relying solely on the thin halo around their bodies, it was like having a layer of obstruction between them. A small portion of the force still passed through the thirty-centimeter gap and acted around the users' bodies.
To be safe, and also to avoid being pushed apart, the group first formed a rough ring amid the increasingly dense flow of people, half-protecting the unconscious boy in the middle.
Taking advantage of the small amount of familiarity they had formed in the mission world, Li Qingzhi also briefly explained the various kinds of information on the platform, allowing the newcomers to examine it carefully.
Now, it was time to take stock of his own gains.
With a definite thought, he quickly opened his personal light screen. Compared to these newcomers, who had just changed their identity from "Visitor" to "Level-One Main God User" and were still somewhat unaccustomed to the various panel functions, only knowing how to swipe their fingers through the "air,"
Li Qingzhi opened the information notification panel with practiced ease and found the latest "clearance evaluation."
However, the instant he opened it, he had barely read for a few seconds before his eyes widened.
[...Main Mission One: Survive for seventy-two hours (Completed)] [Main Mission Two: Exploration Score reaches five points (Incomplete)--When exiting the mission world, your total Exploration Score was four. This Exploration Score has been converted into an evaluation bonus.] [No side mission triggered. No additional score.] [Your mission performance evaluation this time: Common Grade] [--Based on the overall mission score, the final mission reward is calculated as follows: 82 Universal Points and one Common Exchange Card.]
The first part was not particularly surprising.
After all, without the fivefold bonus that had been provided during the first Newcomer Trial, and considering that the upper limit of the Universal Points reward for this mission's main task was only 120 points, this amount was actually fairly good.
But what came next was absurd beyond measure.
[Additional Guide Task--During this Newcomer Trial-type mission world, you guided a total of thirteen "Visitors," of whom ten successfully cleared the mission.]
The blonde, freckled girl who had fallen behind on the first afternoon; the Italian man whose appearance he could no longer remember, though the rings covering his hands had left the deepest impression; and a Black man who woke with water in both his ears and nose, yet, even after experiencing the Main God's information, still decided that someone was targeting him and left the group halfway through while cursing loudly...
Three had been eliminated. Li Qingzhi briefly recalled the matter, confirming that there was no mistake.
[In accordance with the Guide Regulations, you will additionally receive a random amount equivalent to 5%–15% of the reward points obtained by the Visitors you guided in this mission world.] [--Your Guide Task this time yielded a total of 303 additional Universal Points.] [--Because it has been detected that someone among the "Visitors" you guided obtained a "Rare Grade" mission evaluation during this Newcomer Trial, you will additionally receive one Common Exchange Card...]
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A large question mark... seemed to appear above Li Qingzhi's head.
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