Chapter 69: Returning to the old place, the dark tide surges (first update)
Tianfeng City, Southern District.
Walking on the streets of the city, Qi Sheng's hometown seems extremely strange.
Looking up, the streets are lined with towering skyscrapers, and smart glass covering their surfaces displays advertisements for wearable technology devices.
The pavement underfoot is no longer the asphalt and stone pavement in memory, but has been replaced by more advanced self-luminous materials that can automatically adjust the brightness according to the flow of pedestrians. The billboards standing on the roadside are playing weather forecasts and news updates.
This city is very much like the future world he imagined when he was young. It is full of vitality, but it lacks the familiar flavor.
When he reached the end of the street, Qi Sheng stopped and looked at the tall buildings across the road.
Memories come flooding back.
"Are you a tourist? Do you need any help?"
Seeing Qi Sheng standing there looking at the tall buildings in a daze, a young man wearing "voluntary" work clothes on the roadside and controlling a cleaning robot to clean the road came over curiously to say hello.
Facing the inquiry, Qi Sheng was silent for a moment and then nodded with a smile:
"Yeah, I'm traveling here, I don't need help, thank you."
The young man's greetings made Qi Sheng sigh with emotion.
There are no friends or relatives he knows in this city, and the traces of him have long been erased with the changes of the times, leaving only uncared for tombstones.
At this time, the guide’s voice with a mocking tone sounded in his mind:
[Tsk tsk, the saddest thing in life is not when children see each other but don’t know each other, and laugh and ask where the guest is from, nor is the rusty lock on the broken door that has not been opened for a long time, the gray brick path is covered with dry moss, and the nameless withered grass fills the garden, but the discovery that it belongs to you. The traces of the times have long been erased, and when I revisit my old place, I can no longer see the memories of the past. With a deep sadness in my throat, I suddenly recalled that when I was in high office, I used to cook the stove... Well, my childhood dream of super powers has come true, but I find that I have also shouldered a heavy mission and embarked on a journey full of hardships. The road... I suddenly realized that it was a dream when I was young, and no one in the old place expressed my feelings. 】
"Since when did you become so cultured?"
[I recently looked through the Star Network database to record a lot of historical information on the human race. I saw your sudden loneliness and felt moved. 】
"Have you finished sending it?" Qi Sheng asked angrily.
[After sending it, boss, you can continue to reminisce, I will never interrupt you. 】
Without responding to the guidance, Qi Sheng traveled to his hometown according to the route in his memory, but in this process, he could no longer find anything familiar.
Revisiting an old place is like carving a boat in search of a sword.
The part of his memory of the era has long been covered by the new era, and he is no longer young.
The moment he turned to leave, Qi Sheng formally said goodbye to his former self.
The memories of my hometown come to an end.
The only way forward is to move forward.
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Returning to the Altar of Origin, Qi Sheng began to look through the information flow produced by players today.
During this period, a post on the forum that continued to gain popularity made him dumbfounded.
The poster recorded the changes in Lu Xing's mental journey before and after he met Qi Die.
The content begins with Lu Xing’s lofty ambitions left on the forum when he first joined the game, saying that he would write an illustrated book for all players to travel and witness the unknown scenery of the monster world.
The post also attached a screenshot, which is a record message released by Lu Xing. It said this:
As an exploration party player, what I want to tell you is that the game is not only about killing monsters and upgrading, but also poetry and distance.
When you are involuntarily trying to improve your level, the giant red dragon above the ancient battlefield is tearing apart the clouds. When you are mining for sacrifice, bright flowers are blooming on the bloody plain. When you are fighting for the combination of star veins, When I was distressed, the starry manta fish in the description of the guide jumped out of the sea of stars. It is said that the night sky in the Great North is colorful and has unimaginable beauty... Those wonderful scenery that only exists in the description of the guide will be a stop on my future journey< br>
At the end of this paragraph, there is a GIF picture made by the poster in the Luxing live broadcast room.
In the picture, Lu Xing was beaten by Qi Die until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen. He pointed at Qi Die with trembling hands and roared in grief and anger:
"Just wait for me."
Other emoticons below are also equipped with text descriptions, such as:
Get beaten like crazy, curl up to reduce the area of stress, this is safe (laughing wildly while holding a gun), watch me blow you up (arrogant face before detonating the psychic bomb), have something to say (begging for mercy), this is unscientific (after the explosion failed) The panic), it is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge (crazy escalation)...
The story of Lu Xing challenging Qi Die has become a funny drama in the eyes of forum players.
Everyone is looking forward to the sequel, but they are even more looking forward to the plot ending as soon as possible, so that everyone can have the wind-controlling soul that can be used.
After reading the content of the post, Qi Sheng was attracted by a newly refreshed post.
[Regarding a serious problem in the combination of star veins, I hope that the Lunar Eclipse Clan official can improve it as soon as possible after seeing it. 】
Posted by: The night is coming
Content: Recently, I played many new star vein combination styles in the test tower, and then I thought of a very serious problem, which will cause our sacrifice power consumption to increase explosively in the later stage.
Why is there no life soul decomposition function in the game?
Suppose I have a better idea and want to reconstruct the combination of star veins, I have to peel off the life soul embedded in the front.
However, the initial investment of the stripped life soul cannot be returned, which leads to very high trial and error costs.
For example, I upgraded the black-armored snake life soul to level 30, but I no longer want the black-armored snake life soul. After stripping it off, although the star vein slot has a new position and can be embedded with a new life soul, my early investment is just gone?
If the dog official sees it, I hope this aspect can be improved.
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This idea seems completely feasible to Qi Sheng.
In the original setting, the life soul stripped off by the player does not disappear directly, but will be refined into pure sacrifice power and re-entered into the sacrifice power pool.
This part of the income is not distributed to the player, it is exclusive to him.
But the player's suggestion made him feel that doing so would indeed increase the burden on players to improve their strength.
How to solve this problem? Qi Sheng already had an idea after reading the post.
He plans to take 5% of the handling fees from the evolution points produced after the decomposition of the stripped life souls into the sacrificial power pool, and return the remaining 95% to the players, who can allocate and use them freely.
The setting of decomposition and return can significantly reduce the player's energy and investment in re-cultivating life souls.
The introduction of the life soul decomposition mode can also stimulate players' creativity, allowing them to have the courage to try various combinations of star pulse schools without having to worry about re-training.
But before the decomposition function was launched, he needed to contact Super Dimension in advance to implant new function settings for the challenger system to decompose, refine, and return resources. With the idea in mind, Qi Sheng immediately contacted the superdimensional underground through guidance and proposed an idea.
After listening to his explanation, Chaowei, who was building the function of the armed vehicle, immediately said that this part of the content was very simple, and he could complete the decomposed and returned functions first, and then continue the production of the function of the armed vehicle.
After the conversation ended, Qi Sheng hung up the connection, and his sight switched to the cliff area where the latest feedback was directed.
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Leyline cliff.
The energy derived from the domain nodes and the energy particles floating between heaven and earth are continuously extracted by the towering Evil Eye Tower.
The black mist that enveloped the tower surged violently, and evil beings were constantly being generated in the black mist, and then merged into the black mist again.
On the high tower platform, the strength of the evil spirit of Earth Thought gradually increased with the surge of black tide energy.
"Evil Eye, has it ever been possible to refine divinity?"
Facing the inquiry, the evil eye suspended in the sky looked at the evil spirit of Earth Thought:
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"Don't worry, the nodes in the field under your feet contain the power of rules. With my ability, I can't separate the origin of the rules. I can only extract a part of the energy derived from the rules. Even if this part of the energy derived from the rules is poured into your body, it will take time to digest. .”
Hearing these words, although he felt impatient, the evil spirit of Earth Thought still nodded in agreement.
After knowing the intensity of the monster world, he has restrained his arrogance and decided to develop well in this world.
He continued at this time:
"Pour this extracted power into me first."
The evil eye did not make a sound this time, and several jet-black tentacles stretched out from its eyes and pierced directly into the back of the evil spirit.
Immediately, a complex mark appeared on the forehead of the evil spirit, shimmering with light, and surging energy was injected into the body.
Its physical strength is also strengthened by the energy wash.
What the evil spirits and evil eyes don't know is that their actions are completely exposed to the supervision of guidance.
At this time, on the altar of Yuanchu, Qi Sheng, who saw this scene through the guidance feedback, was curious, looked up at the guidance and asked:
"Guide, is Evil Eye extracting the power of rules from domain nodes?"
When the guide heard this, he immediately shook his head:
[Except for you, who inherits the origin of Emperor Zhao Guwo, you can use the power of rules contained in the domain nodes at will. No other living being can do this, including our four major servants. What the evil eye extracts is only the power of the domain nodes. Energy derived from the core of rules. 】
[Take the dark cave to explain. The characteristic of this domain node is to breed spiritual minerals. The behavior of the evil eye is equivalent to cutting off the output of the spiritual minerals, converting the output energy into black tide energy, and using the black tide energy to breed a large number of evil spirits. , and because this process reverses the operating rules of the monster world, there is serious loss in the energy conversion process, and only about 10% of the derived energy can be obtained. 】
After listening to the guide's explanation, Qi Sheng immediately understood the principle.
Take the Dark Cave as an example. This domain node operates according to the laws of the monster world, and the energy produced will breed spiritual ore.
If the energy output is cut off, there will be a certain loss. If this part of the output energy is converted into other energy substances, the loss will be more serious.
The evil eye can only change the way of energy output at its extreme, and cannot extract the rule characteristics of the node field that breed energy at all.
"What is the energy injected into the body of the evil spirit of Earth Mind?" Qi Sheng continued to ask.
[The rule core of the domain node will give birth to some rule fragments in the process of deriving energy]
[The rule-derived energy refers to the fact that in the process of nurturing energy in domain nodes, part of the energy will imprint the rule characteristics. This part of the energy will soon dissipate and disappear, but the evil eye intercepts this part of the energy and imprints it on Inside the body of the evil spirit of Di Nian, it is strengthened... This process is like plagiarism. Theoretically, as long as it has enough time, the evil eye can produce imitation rules and characteristics, so that the evil spirit of Di Nian can master the ability of similar rules, but if it is fake After all, it is fake, and the effectiveness of the rules is far from being comparable to the real domain node rules. 】
[And this is the most terrifying thing about the Kuroshio warriors. Every intelligent evil spirit has strong growth potential. It can extract energy by occupying domain nodes, or gain strength by devouring living beings. 】
After understanding the principle, Qi Sheng continued to ask:
"Can I also cut off the process of deriving spiritual ore in the Dark Cave, refine the energy generated and introduce it into the sacrificial power pool, like the contained original monster, to continue to produce sacrificial energy for me?"
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[Of course you can, but I don’t recommend it. 】
[The process of producing spiritual ore in the Dark Cave is not only blessed by the derivative energy of the core core of the rules, but also the energy of heaven and earth is poured into it at the moment of generation. It is like completing a game mission and getting rewards from the world, and the act of cutting off the derived spiritual ore and the evil eye There is no difference, the only difference is the amount of energy loss... The evil eye cannot truly control the node field, so there is more than 50% loss of the energy extracted, but you can completely control the field node, and the loss of conversion can be greatly reduced. I estimate the loss to be around 25%. 】
[Producing sacrificial power through players’ mining method adds an additional infusion of heaven and earth energy on the basis of no loss, obtaining an energy bonus of more than 50%. The summary is that the sacrificial power produced after cutting off is only 0.75, and The sacrificial power of mining output is 1.5, and the difference is doubled. 】
After hearing the explanation, Qi Sheng nodded to express his understanding.
As the guide said, the Dark Cave is already a resource producing area integrated into Imperial Tomb Village, and it is obviously a better choice to increase the total income through mining.
At this moment, his eyes swept towards the light curtain suspended in front of him.
Under the high tower in the picture, evil lives are still rapidly forming in the billowing black mist.
He knew that the time when the black tide broke out in the Emperor's Tomb Mountain Range was approaching. When the evil spirits of Earth Mind had a large enough number of evil creatures, they would launch an offensive against all the domain nodes in the Emperor's Tomb Mountain Range, trying to completely occupy the entire Emperor's Tomb Mountain Range.
If this is achieved, Evil Eye will have multiple field nodes from which energy can be extracted.
The evil spirit of Earth Thought and the evil beings led by it will also receive stronger power infusion, and their strength will be greatly improved.
This will also be the first real battle between the player army and the Black Tide.
The cursed soldiers, blood corpses, and even the black-armored soldiers and other evil beings that players encountered before in the dark cave were just unintelligent evil beings derived under the illumination of the evil moon.
They are completely different concepts from Kuroshio warriors like Di Nian Evil Spirit.
But Qi Sheng didn't have much thought about this upcoming war. The evil spirits of Earth Mind were just the most ordinary warriors in the terrifying black tide.
In his eyes, the upcoming Black Tide Battle is just a training ground for the player's legion to grow.
Let players experience what it is like to have high-intensity evil spirits raging, and think about how to solve the dilemma of evil spirits raging.
Players may be abused in the process, but they can also grow by killing evil spirits.
The endless characteristics of evil spirits are very strong when conquering other worlds, but the challenger system conceived by Qi Sheng was created to deal with this characteristic.
The inexhaustibility of evil comes from the rapid growth after extracting the energy of heaven and earth, but after all, there is loss.
However, the players created by the Challenger system are endless without any loss. Even if they die, they can reshape their bodies and rejoin the battlefield without any weakening in strength.
With the support of the challenger system and the "flesh reshaping" rules and characteristics of Imperial Tomb Village, a large-scale player legion is a terrifying disaster more terrifying than evil spirits.
(End of chapter)