Chapter 9 Preparation
After taking over the assignment task from Jian Shiyuan, Shenhong took the initiative to discuss the assignment matters with Confidence Interval.
According to Shenhong's idea, only after exploration can the best construction site of the sect be determined and construction can begin. Therefore, the confidence interval should fully cooperate with his work and try to speed up the process.
Confidence intervals don't work that way.
His idea is simple and pure - no one can get anything out of him.
Before Jian Shiyuan distributed the supplies, Confidence Interval contacted the carpenter [木牛流马马马马] to inquire about the quantity of materials needed to build the snowmobile.
He even calculated the consumables required for several simple replacements.
When Shen Hong came to him, he listened calmly to Shen Hong's plan. Then, after Shen Hong's passionate speech for a quarter of an hour, he suddenly interrupted:
"Do you really have to use a snowmobile? I think sleds and sleds are both good. They're simple, convenient, and easy to make.
You pick a few players to pull the sled in front, and you sit in the back, enjoying the breeze and the beautiful scenery along the way. Isn't this more exciting than taking a limited-time sled dog-pulled ride in Northeast China? "
Shenhong's face turned green at that moment.
The confidence interval is so obvious that it says "I am not a human being"
"One who manages the household doesn't know how valuable firewood and rice are. Our sect is still in its infancy, so we should all work together to conserve resources for the Sect Master."
"This pile of supplies looks like a lot, but there isn't much to allocate to each person. My mission is to build the sect, which is related to the subsequent development of the corporate brand and is of paramount importance. I should enjoy 90% of the resources. Things like these ores and timber were originally allocated to me."
If shamelessness is a skill, then confidence interval is probably at the maximum level.
"But I'm also a reasonable person, and your task requires tools. Let me give you five logs, ten pounds of iron ingots, five pounds of copper ingots, two barrels of glue, and one barrel of tung oil. You can borrow all the necessary tools—"
Hearing this, Shenhong's face turned green with a hint of blue.
Confidence Interval didn't give him a chance to speak and continued:
"Well, don't think I'm just throwing out some numbers to get you off. I've carefully calculated them. Let's first establish a coordinate system, then set the mass as x, the dynamic force as y, and introduce a Gaussian function."
Confidence Interval spewed out a long string of technical terms, regardless of whether Crimson could understand them or not, speaking in both Chinese and English, and finally ended with a sentence:
"It's not that I don't want to give you more supplies, it's just that the current arrangement is the best. If you don't believe me, let's see which of the above links can be budgeted for more, and then we can find a compromise."
"I don't have to pull the sled."
You're such a fool! Is that even human language? I didn't understand a single word you said.
The confidence interval is very understanding of the avoidance of calculations by people who are not good at mathematics.
He had a mysterious smile on his face and watched Shenhong leave.
Crimson cursed and went to ask other players to move their things.
He has never seen a man more crooked and stingy than a confidence interval.
It completely overturned Crimson's understanding of the male species.
Even though he is so stingy, he still pretends to be doing this for the good of the sect.
If Jian Shiyuan had not told him that once the materials were used up, no new materials would be provided for free, and that they could only be exchanged for contribution points if needed, he might have really believed the nonsense about the confidence interval.
Looking at the players who were excitedly moving things, Shenhong just felt that "human beings' joys and sorrows are not shared."
It seems like this time I'm really going to become a 'sled dog'——
There were quite a few female players in the team, and he couldn't just ask them to poop with their butts sticking out, right? If he didn't take the initiative to demonstrate, he wouldn't be able to convince the other male players.
At this moment, the sentence "Enjoy the beautiful scenery along the border" from the confidence interval flashed through Shenhong's mind, and he felt his fists harden.
[木牛流马马马马] also didn't understand his sadness, and happily gathered with a bunch of players around the supplies they had brought, their eyes glued to the logs.
"It's actually rosewood? Such a big piece—"
The wooden ox and horse rubbed their tongues frantically on the logs, licking them with an intoxicated look on their faces.
“That’s the taste!”
"Pure small-leaf red sandalwood!"
Shenhong couldn't bear to watch it any longer, "Trojan, take it easy, you're licking it with saliva all over it, it's disgusting."
The wooden ox and horse leaned sideways, still unwilling to remove their tongues, and quickly flicked them on the annual rings a few times before saying with an unsatisfied expression:
"It's not that I don't want to control myself, I just can't. Do you know how many years it's been since I've seen such a large log of red sandalwood? In our world, this log wouldn't cost hundreds of millions, right?
"It's almost thirty centimeters in diameter, and its solidity can't be less than 97. A few hundred years ago, this kind of top-grade wood would have been considered tribute. But in this world of immortal cultivation, it can only be used as our basic material."
The players who had originally just gathered to watch the excitement automatically picked up the key words [hundreds to tens of millions], and their eyes became heated when they looked at Yuanmu.
"Is this rosewood? The color isn't purple?"
"Stupid guy, it's oxidized and turned black. If you cut an apple and leave it for a while, it will change color too."
"The precious wood from our world wouldn't be that valuable in the world of immortal cultivation."
"It's just a matter of setting it up. The planner just needs to move his fingers. Maybe in the future there will be an SSS-level sacred tree, like red sandalwood."
The players were talking at once, their hands busy too, sometimes picking at the bark, sometimes touching the concentric lines on the cross section, and praising it in admiration.
In the real world, few players present would be willing to buy such red sandalwood logs to play with. Now that they have the opportunity to try it out, they are all eager to wait for the instructions of the professional Wooden Ox and Flowing Horse.
"Brother Mu Ma, have you figured out how to saw? My iron saw is thirsty."
"I've done DIY at home before, but I always bought material kits and put them together, screwing in a few screws at most. Now I have to start from cutting the logs. It's a bit too hardcore, but I like it."
Shen Hong looked at the wooden ox and flowing horse, who was still immersed in his own world, and reminded them, "We only have so much material, so please use it sparingly. I told you in detail before the requirements were made."
The thought of the elegant and beautiful red sandalwood being brutally ravaged by these animals who don't know how to handle it is...
The wooden ox and horse hugged the log and shed tears of regret, "What a waste of natural resources! I wouldn't even dare to be so wild in my dreams!"
"Poor Tan'er, if you were born in my world, I would definitely treat you well, I would-"
"Are you acting like a Qiong Yao here?" Shen Hong casually picked up an axe and weighed it. "Where do you want to chop?"
The axe in his hand weighs about three pounds, with a sharp blade that gleams coldly in the sunlight.
Seeing Shen Hong's posture, Mu Niu Liu Ma instantly put on a scumbag face. Before he had finished sucking his saliva, he pointed at Tan Er's waist and said, "This."
His answer was a heavy blow from Crimson.
I saw only a cold light——
"Click"
The red sandalwood log was cut in half, revealing its deep red inner veins.
Shenhong moved quickly, and this attack consumed about 80% of his strength, and the effect was truly amazing.
Rosewood has a hard and dense texture. Old logs are treated with preservatives before being sold, making them even harder than fresh wood. Yet, such a thick log was chopped off by Shenhong with ease.
The players watching were shocked and speechless, staring at the broken part with wide eyes.
Shenhong held the axe and felt numbness in the palm of his hand. He couldn't help rubbing his hands.
It was also thanks to his strong physique, otherwise, if he had not worn protective gear after the heavy blow just now, his knuckles would have been cracked by the residual force.
"This power—"
Shenhong stared at the broken part in front of him in disbelief. "I didn't deliberately make the character a strong man when I created his face. He shouldn't be a strength type. Why is his initial strength value so high at the beginning?"
The world of immortals and demons is different from ordinary games. Players cannot see their own attribute panels, and Shenhong does not know the character's initial strength value.
But obviously, the combat power displayed by the attack just now far exceeded Crimson's expectations.
It is true that it is unreasonable for a whiteboard trumpet to hit a bronze attack.
Crimson is better at long-range output characters like mages, so when shaping his face, he tried his best to make himself nimble and slender so that he could operate tools more easily.
From the beginning, he didn't expect that he could have such a strong physical output power.
As a game, character settings must establish long-term mechanisms. For example, if you set a meat tank, you cannot increase his flexibility, otherwise it will definitely destroy the balance of the game. Crimson is unwilling to give up his agility for strength, nor does he want to go the meat tank output route.
Now, he is not sure whether the initial strength value of this game is set very high, or whether there is no role difference between players.
This question concerns whether players can have character talents, and also concerns the classification of game characters.
Holographic online games like the Immortal Demon World are a new blue ocean. There is no game on the market to serve as a reference, so Shenhong can only explore the rules of the game on his own.
In that move just now, Shenhong only used 80% of his strength. He thought he could only make a small gap at most. Who would have thought that the log with a diameter of nearly 30 centimeters would be cut in half by him.
Seeing that Okari was also there, Crimson gestured for him to try it too.
The wooden ox and the flowing horse are setting the standard for them.
Shenhong heard him brag that his craftsmanship was passed down for eight generations, and his ancestors had all been royal craftsmen.
The wooden ox and the flowing horse boasted that their ancestors had pioneered the watertight compartment structure and were awarded a plaque by the emperor at that time as the best craftsman in the world.
Shenhong had just listened and didn't take it seriously at first, but now seeing the smooth operation of the wooden ox and horse, it seemed quite real.
The tools provided by Jian Shiyuan were not complete, and there was not a single measuring tool like an ink fountain or a measuring tape.
But this did not pose a problem for the wooden ox and horse.
I saw him holding a strand of hair in his left hand and a small knife in his right hand. He used his long hair as a guideline and carved out marking marks with his bare hands.
From a deep red perspective, every cross-section cut by the wooden ox and horse is evenly and straightly divided, no different from mechanical calibration.
The wooden ox and horse moved very quickly, and while carving, he could also explain his work to everyone:
"Sandalwood fibers are relatively fine, with few knots. The snow sports tool I designed can be spliced together in different sizes and inlaid internally, making it ideal for this string cutting method. You'll first chop this entire piece of wood into smaller pieces as required, then use the saw and axe to split it along my scale."
He pointed at his mark. "The thick scratches are for you to chop with a double-edged axe like this, just brute force. The thin scratches require a single-edged axe like this. I'll make you a whole horse stand with the scraps right now. You can use it as a cushion and chop gently. Be sure not to chop it crooked, or the material will be ruined."
Considering that the players are all novices in woodworking, the requirements for the wooden ox and horse are not too high, and they just simply demonstrate the chopping and splitting techniques.
The rest depends on the players' actions.
The second one to try was Okarire.
He always goes for the berserker style, and the characters he designs have thick arms and strong thighs, and it looks like they can pick up Crimson and beat him up.
"Why don't you try using 50% of your strength first and see if you can cut it completely through?"
"good."
Okari took a deep breath, swung the axe and hit the carvings on the wooden ox and horse.
There was a sound of "click" and the log broke.
"How does it feel?"
When chopping down the tree just now, Shenhong could clearly feel the resistance of the axe hitting the tree trunk, the downward impact, and the numbness caused by the recoil of the axe.
"How can I describe it? Like cutting tofu? Look at my hands—"
Okarirui opened his palm to show Crimson, "I felt the recoil just now, but the force was too subtle for me right now. I didn't even feel any pain, just an itch."
The data collection was too infrequent for Crimson to accurately estimate the power gap between him and Okarire.
"Try again a few times, this time using 10%, 20%, and 30% of your strength."
O'Kariri guessed what he wanted to do and cooperated, swinging the axe three times with "clang, clang, clang".
"One percent force"
Most of the log was cut off, except for the part where the bark was attached.
"20% force"
The log was completely cut.
"Thirty percent power"
This time, Okariri didn't hold back and chopped directly into the dirt under the log.
Crimson frowned and asked the female players present, "Is there any young lady willing to give it a try? We're trying to figure out the character's initial strength. If anyone is willing to cooperate with us, we'll post our conclusions on the forum and share them with everyone."
The players present were talking about it, and soon a short-haired female player with the ID [Hongxian] came out.
She didn't introduce herself, but simply took the axe from Okari and asked indifferently, "How much strength do you need? How many times do you want to chop? Do you want to rest in between?"
Shen Hong didn't feel offended. He actually liked Hong Xian's personality. "Start with 50% strength, then increase by 10% at a time. Stop when I say stop."
Hongxian didn't say anything. He walked to the log, raised his axe, and chopped it down expressionlessly.
Boom, the sound of logging was dull and the log was only half cut.
"At 50% strength, I felt noticeable resistance and a tingling sensation in my hand, followed by a slight numbness, but it was bearable."
Without resting, she walked to the next deep scar and continued cutting wood.
This time, more than half of the log was cut off, leaving only a coin-sized gap.
"At 60% strength, the resistance increased, but my hand didn't hurt anymore. It felt slightly warm and quite comfortable."
The third time, the log was completely cut through.
"I used 70% or maybe 80% of my strength. I was chopping trees smoothly and couldn't help but want to use all my strength, so I could only roughly control the strength."
"You can stop now," Crimson looked at the other players and said enthusiastically, "Everyone come and try it too."
The other players were just waiting for Shenhong to say this. They pushed and shoved to grab the tools on the ground, and under the angrily shouts of Wooden Ox and Flowing Horse, they rolled up their sleeves and started working.
"Oh, go slow, be careful not to break the wood, we only have so much wood--"
Mu Niu Liu Ma was terrified and looked back and forth, thinking that the players were not just chopping logs, but were chopping at his heart's flesh!
Sawdust flew everywhere—
The curly-haired male player with the id [You are a dog if you spend money on games] worked the hardest. He swung his axe and raced against the tied-haired male player with the id [Ren] next to him, chasing each other and chopping logs frantically.
"Isn't this much better than the gym? Lifting weights is worse than lifting trees. I love working, and working makes me happy."
Ren Yi agreed, and the two of them chatted while working with great interest.
"This game is so hardcore. Look, when you chop the wood with an axe, juice comes out. I can even smell the unique aroma of sandalwood."
"The feeling of felling trees here is exactly the same as when I was young, working in the forest. The texture of the bark feels just like the real thing. I never thought I could relive my youth by playing a game. It's worth it."
"Brother Ren Yi, you must be very good at cutting trees. Can you tell me about your experience at the forest farm?"
"Well, I was a clerical worker, practicing my writing skills. Back then, I contributed articles to tabloids. I would go out for a walk at night, looking for inspiration. The lumberjacks would sing under the moon, and I would sit next to them and share kidney bean soup with them. They actually taught me how to chop trees, so I learned for a few days, and then—"
"And then what happened?"
"I cut down a tree in the wrong way, and it fell towards me, almost breaking my leg. The clerk then forbade me to work again."
""
[Playing games and spending money on them is like being a dog] Silence
Ren Yi looked nostalgic, "Though those days were tough, they were the happiest time of my life. I thought I'd never feel the same again, but now I have a strong body again, happily chopping wood, and it feels like I'm in my twenties again."
As he said this, as if to prove something, he suddenly raised the axe and chopped it down, laughing loudly.
[If you spend money playing games, you are a dog] Inwardly complaining: When you were young, you were so bad that you would hit yourself when chopping trees. It’s okay to reminisce about the past, but don’t over-beautify your image!
Crimson and Okari did not join in the chopping and felling. They were observing and collecting data from the players, and had almost figured out the power gap between them.
In fact, there is a big difference.
If everyone's strength is simply converted into a number, then Crimson's current strength value is 4, which is in the lower middle range among players. Okari's strength value is 7, which is in the upper middle range.
The World of Immortals and Demons is a virtual reality holographic game, and its initial power setting is somewhat related to the physiological structure of the real human body.
In reality, men have larger skeletons and larger muscle fibers than women, so men are stronger than women.
The setting of this game is the same. If you want to gain more strength than other players in the initial stage, you can squeeze yourself into a big frame with muscular body.
For example, the male player with the ID [东方精琉璃] is a bald strong man who looks like the Chinese version of Tyson. He has an initial strength of 10 and can tear wood with one hand. He is undoubtedly the strongest player at this stage.
In this game, gender is not a differentiating factor. For example, the female player Hongxian is no different from Shenhong in terms of strength.
Shen Hong looked at the enthusiastic players and sighed, "This is just the current distinction. I don't know how it will develop in the future. After all, the game is set in the world of immortal cultivation. Look at our sect leader. He's not very strong, but he possesses terrifying power. He can easily defeat all 100 of us players."
"Does this mean that players who are weak now may overtake others in the later stages?"
O'Kariri glanced at him and said, "Why don't you just ask the Sect Master? Maybe he can explain it to you clearly, and then you won't have to guess randomly."
"You're right."
Jian Shiyuan looked down at Shen Hong who was half-kneeling in front of him, with a slight smile on his face, "Is this the question you wanted to ask?"
Shenhong was a little nervous. He lowered his head. The wind blew Jian Shiyuan's robe, revealing the snow-white boots.
Just now, when Shenhong summarized his classification of players' initial strength values to the sect leader, he blurted out the character panel.
Although he quickly added another explanation, he always felt that there was something profound in the way Jian Shiyuan looked at him.
He was unsure whether Jian Shiyuan was satisfied or dissatisfied with his scoring, so he could only bow his head deeply and said more respectfully, "Master, please help me solve this problem."
Jian Shiyuan didn't expect that the players would come up with a power classification table themselves, and even count the power data of all players.
Nowadays, the leeks are becoming more and more self-aware.
Originally, he planned to wait until the players entered the cultivation stage, and then find a way to compare their differences and simply create a player ranking list. After all, playing games without player rankings is half the fun.
Who would have thought that Crimson would take the initiative to figure out the strength value? It seems that it is time to put the character panel online.
Jian Shiyuan thought for a moment and said slowly, "You are now at the peak of martial arts, the strongest state that humans can reach without practicing. The difference in strength between you comes from the different limits of your physical bodies, but once you begin practicing, everything will be overturned."
"The speed of a cultivator's cultivation is related to their spiritual roots, while their strength is related to their cultivation realm. I will explain this common sense in detail to everyone later."
Hearing this, Shenhong understood that the specific content would likely be revealed as part of the storyline, and wouldn't be revealed to him yet. However, Shenhong was also very satisfied to learn about some of the content that would be revealed later.
Just as he was about to bow and thank Jian Shiyuan for his answer, the Sect Leader spoke again, "As for the character panel, I will consider it."
[Server Announcement: Congratulations to player Shenhong for his eloquence in convincing NPC Jian Shiyuan. The character panel will be online soon! Let's mourn for programmer Xiao Giegie's hair! Please note that there will be no server downtime for updates.]
Server-wide announcement!
The first server-wide announcement!
All the players in the audience were excited!
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