Chapter 41: Each with His Own Thoughts
"Business is all about mutual consent. If you don't want to, forget it. Why are you angry?"
Fluorescent Protein crossed his arms and ignored Ye Lingfei's anger.
Ye Lingfei paced back and forth, gritting his teeth, and finally compromised.
"Okay! I promise you, but we have to negotiate. I'll be your experimental subject, and you'll give me thirty bats at once? Am I that cheap? Even if I were to stand on the street, you wouldn't give me thirty at once, right?"
He earned his money through hard work.
Fluorescent Protein sighed, then changed her expression and began to play the victim. "You don't understand my difficulties. I've only just become the queen of the snow bats, and they don't obey me yet. I can only command a few dozen snow bats at a time. You see, I can't always have the bats I command go and never return. That would undermine my rule."
Ye Lingfei hesitated to speak, but Fluorescent Protein didn't give him a chance to speak, continuing, "As a girl, I have to manage an entire tribe. Is it easy for me? They need food and water, but I have to collect them. It's not easy to feed them. I pay a lot."
[Reasonably play the victim, increase self-cost]
"Snow bats are living creatures. If one dies, there's one less. I'm not a snow bat, and I can't breed them. Every one you take away is a huge loss to me. They can't be resurrected like you can."
[Never give in easily, use language skills to create an imbalance of value between the two parties]
"How about this? I'll add a few more, 35 bats, and you dissect them for me. How about that? No more. If you're not happy with that, then stand on the street and let people pay you in snow bats."
[Throw out the bottom line conditions and leave the other party with no way out]
Ye Lingfei endured it again and again, but finally agreed resignedly, "Okay."
He felt like he was getting something for free, but also like he wasn't.
Fluorescent Protein smiled, "Then it's a deal. We're old acquaintances, so I won't cheat you. As for you, if you can trick other players into replacing you, I'll reduce your number of attempts. Of course, I'll give you the Snow Bats you deserve."
As she spoke, she twirled the scalpel in her hand and, looking at Ye Lingfei's changing expression, said, "You should learn more from Hu Fugui. We carried him back, and when he heard that he could contribute to the sect, he donated his body without a second thought. Aren't you trying to calculate the cost of resurrection? Death is death anyway, so why dwell on the method?"
Ye Lingfei turned and left without looking back.
Fluorescent Protein was not angry. Seeing the Shui Jing Zhu not far away, she walked over slowly.
Shui Jing Zhu was surrounded by a group of life players, who were carefully discussing the plan of building a sect.
She decided to follow the sect leader's suggestion and build a sect gate at the junction of the ice peaks to help stabilize the terrain of the mountain.
"Similar to an ancient city wall? It would require a lot of supplies, right? Do we have enough?"
"Why use bricks and stones in this Ice State? Just build with ice. The outer city, Sheep and Horse City, and even the bend that diverts the demonic tide will all be built with ice. Use the saved materials to build the inner city."
"Should we open or close the gap in the mountain? If we open, we'll extend the outer city walls, expand it into a reservoir, build arrow towers around it, and surround it with heavy iron to lure the enemy into the city, where we can surround and kill them. If we close, we'll build artillery batteries along the gap to plug it."
"Whether it's for dredging or blocking, a double-wall structure must be used, with a low wall inside to build a three-dimensional firepower network. This is a huge loss."
"We can finish building the city walls first, and slow down the construction of the city inside. We can develop and build as we go. After all, our bodies will automatically return to the system space after we log off."
When Fluorescent Protein walked up to them, he saw them drawing a blueprint.
She also squatted down like them and listened to their discussion without saying a word.
"The entire outer city needs to be deeply excavated and equipped with three levels of barriers. Otherwise, the structure will easily collapse due to the impact of the demonic tide."
"It's just that the frozen soil of the glacier isn't suitable for deep farming. Otherwise, we could build a city within the outer city, develop farming, and fully utilize the area."
"I don't know if we can grow crops on this ice field. It's too cold."
Fluorescent Protein spoke up, "The Bat Cave is suitable for planting. I discovered underground hot springs there."
Shui Jing Zhu's eyes lit up, and Fluorescent Protein continued, "Shui Jing Zhu, do you want to go and take a look? If we can expand the space, we can build the bat cave into our underground fortress."
Shui Jing Zhu immediately stood up and said, "Let's go."
Fluorescent Protein saw Shenhong talking to Confidence Interval from the side, she pursed her lips to smile, and hid the deep thought in her eyes.
Confidence Interval is teaching Crimson the secret of exploiting players. He made a lot of money by lending money, and was afraid that Crimson would take a piece of the pie, so he was actively trying to find ways to help Crimson earn contribution points.
"You only have 40,000 contribution points. If you lend it out, it's easy to run out of cash. Don't even think about it. I'll teach you a way to get rich."
Shenhong smiled. He knew that Confidence Interval was afraid that he would break his monopoly on contribution value. He was about to say that he would not lend money at high interest rates, but seeing that Confidence Interval seemed to be saying something, he swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth.
"you say."
"Didn't the Sect Master say we'd use a ranking system for settlement? One of the rules is that the team's exploration degree is based on the average individual exploration degree."
Crimson thought for a moment. "The team's exploration degree must not be lower than the average number of individual exploration degrees per team member? If it is lower, the team exploration mission will fail and receive 0 contribution points?"
Confidence Interval blinked at Crimson with an ambiguous expression. "Master, you only mentioned the average individual exploration, but you didn't mention the average for each individual exploration. For the first exploration, most players went on solo adventures. You just calculated and distributed the contribution points, and they've gained quite a lot."
Shenhong understood what he meant. He frowned, as if hesitating whether to be so decisive.
Confidence Interval didn't keep him in suspense, and lured him in, "You can use the mean of the first individual exploration to measure future team expeditions. In the first exploration, they brought back everything they could find, so the mean was very high, which means the subsequent team missions will be difficult. Aren't there players who haven't logged off and have already started the second expedition? Most of them choose to cooperate, tsk."
"How many teams will receive 0 contribution points this time? How much can you earn?"
Crimson scoffed, "Is this what you meant by 'exchanging the concepts of time and material'? You're so rude! If I did that, they'd all choose to explore individually on the third day. It would be a one-time deal, and I'd be discredited. What a loss!"
Confidence Interval shook his head. "You're too stupid. Can't you find an excuse? For example, help Fluorescent Protein complete a long-term task—organizing the properties of materials. Then set up a benefit. If players collect more than fifty types of materials when turning in a task, they can receive additional contribution points. The more types of materials collected, the richer the reward. Let's have a cumulative reward."
"Then players will save up and submit the tasks to you on the last day. They're all asking me for loans to redeem their contribution points for logging in all day anyway, and there's nowhere else to use contribution points right now. They'll definitely be willing to wait a few more days to claim their rewards all at once."
Shen Hong shook his head. "They can get rewards by submitting tasks every day, which means they can get them four times. If they submit on the last day, they can only get one. The contribution value rewards are small, so players won't be willing to accumulate rewards. If the rewards are too high, then I will lose money."
Confidence Interval tilted his head slightly and asked, “You don’t know how to submit virtually?”
Crimson wondered.
Confidence Interval taught him step by step, "You can have players virtually check in once a day to calculate their rankings. Then, no rewards will be distributed, only accumulated. From the player's perspective, this means that the contribution points they have earned are deposited with you. On the last day, you can settle the account all at once. On the last day, players can accumulate their gains and redeem them for additional rewards, while also claiming the rewards for the previous three days' tasks."
Crimson thought for a moment and asked again, "If the extra rewards are too small, it won't be attractive. Some players can't keep their gains. If someone comes to me to claim their rewards early, it will expose my plan. If the extra rewards are too much, I will lose money again."
Confidence Interval asked with a smile, "You don't know how to draw a lottery? Why does the extra reward have to be a fixed contribution value? You can create a prize bag, and the first prize is a large contribution value. Only one person is given a contribution value of 10,000. Would any player not be tempted? The extra reward can be converted into the number of lottery draws. The more species you submit, the more lottery draws you get."
Crimson understood.
Confidence Interval leaned over and quietly asked, "Does someone always win the jackpot in the lottery? Winning is a small probability event. Everyone has bad luck, so it's not your fault if you don't win the jackpot, right?"
Shen Hong's face was strange. "You are too cruel. Will you really not get beaten if you do this?"
Don't be ashamed of confidence intervals. "Life is full of deception and surprises."
He came to give advice to Crimson for other reasons. On the one hand, he wanted to give Crimson some advice and persuade Crimson to give up lending. On the other hand, the more stingy Crimson was and the more it exploited the players, the more likely they would not be able to earn enough contribution points to repay the loans, and the interest would compound, so he could make more money.
As for whether Crimson will be scolded by players, what does it have to do with his confidence interval?
Crimson thought of something and patted Confidence Interval's shoulder cheerfully, "You are such a good person."
After the mission was over, he put the blame on Confidence Interval. In the players' minds, he was not a smart guy anyway. Only Confidence Interval could come up with such a sinister idea, and this was indeed his idea.
The two of them each had their own ulterior motives, looked at each other, and smiled brightly.
Fluorescent Protein was also very happy. After hearing Shui Jing Zhu's answer, she couldn't suppress the joy in her heart.
"We can try digging deeper and enclosing this area as a plantation. Bat droppings are excellent fertilizer, and this area is very fertile."
"Most importantly, the structure here is very stable. With proper design, it can be turned into an underground fortress, giving us another area for development. There are also hot springs here. We can definitely build an underground palace here, connecting it to the ground, forming a smooth space inside and outside. Hu Fugui mentioned that he wanted to build a Huaqing Pool for the sect leader. I think diverting the hot springs here would help maintain a constant temperature."
Hearing about the suzerain's hot spring pool, unlike the excitement of Shui Jing Zhu, the fluorescent protein just thought 'involving the suzerain, the contribution value of the confidence interval is given'.
No matter what the players think, they all have a common goal - to build the largest and most powerful sect.
An invisible hand united them tightly together, and they rushed towards their predetermined goal.
At this moment, Jian Shiyuan had already forgotten the time.
He was completely immersed in the selflessness of polishing his soul, and his consciousness only consisted of two halves of his soul.
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