Chapter 142 Chapter 142
Adventurer's Home Forum.
A few days after the game was released, the forum exploded, with countless posts pouring out.
[Breaking news! Hey guys, I've won a spot in the game's open beta. Whether it's fun or not is secondary. Can you believe there are new evolutions in it?]
[There's more than one! Our instructor happened to be raising a group of small moths. He worked all night for the past two days on experiments, and without exception, all of them were successful! Picture/Picture/]
[Not to mention, the combination of evolutionary materials is much more advanced! ]
Our team is researching Green Jaw Beast. Our team leader was the first to discover that the evolutionary material combinations in the game are nearly identical to real-life ones. Later, we discovered that some evolutionary types require even fewer materials than currently accepted. We tried that out, and guess what?
[Big success! Big success, brothers! ! Except for one Green Jaw Beast with a congenital defect that failed to evolve, all the others succeeded at once!]
[Great, I need to rewrite my thesis—my thesis is about comparing the pros and cons of the various evolutionary forms of the genus Moth! Now I've doubled the number of evolutionary forms. Ahhhh, there are only 20 days left until the defense, haha ...
[Calm down, calm down, and think positively. Will we have all the topics and materials for the crazy water papers in the next few years? (dog head)]
[The above person is overthinking it. You're just plagiarizing, okay? The project team will definitely sue you. Unless you just want to avoid defending your thesis in jail, then just ignore what I said. [Spreading hands/]
[Girls, the best part is the skill experience feature, right? Thousands of skills to choose from, that's hundreds of millions of possible combinations. My two Ballmons are going crazy! They even mastered a combo skill yesterday without any instruction!]
[That's right, my Golden Electric Snail also learned new skills by playing the game—I just want to ask one thing: who designed the skills and evolutions for this game? It's absolutely amazing!]
[Yes, yes, Daxia should award him the highest technology medal! !]
The forum was in chaos. Academic dogs and research giants worked all night long, their eyes red but they were still very excited. They used all their strength to type on the keyboard, and they wanted to crow like chickens through the screen.
The project team did not hide Xia Muqing's contribution to the entire design process, and to be honest, the first people to be shocked were Chi Zi and other project team members.
Plagiarism is non-existent. Xia Muqing has dozens of papers and has submitted them to several key journals.
Previously, the journal had some doubts about the authenticity of the paper's conclusions. After all, Xia Muqing did not provide strong evidence of the success of the experiment, so everything was just speculation - but now it's different!
The 30,000 players across the country, and the countless researchers and research institutes behind them, are spontaneously helping her verify the authenticity of the paper!
So within a few days, before the popularity of the game had subsided, a new piece of news pushed it to a new climax.
[16 new evolution types! 20 improved evolution material configurations! She may become the greatest researcher of this century!]
As a result, groups outside the gaming circle were also shocked.
16 new evolutionary types, what does that mean?
The combination of 20 improved materials will make everyone drop their jaws!
You should know that the evolution of mysterious beasts is highly random, and the evolution materials are almost irregular. The most commonly used research method at present is still the traditional trial and error method. More often, it is necessary to rely on the intuition and experience of scientific researchers, matching different materials one by one, and repeatedly trying hundreds of millions of combinations until the one that relatively meets the needs is found.
In addition to professionalism, this thing actually tests luck very much. A lucky person may succeed on the first try, but a unlucky person may have to test hundreds of millions of possibilities one by one.
On average, a researcher who can improve an evolutionary material or discover a stably achievable evolutionary form in three years is already a leader.
And 16 new evolutions and 20 new combinations...
Many people may spend their entire lives tinkering with it and still not be able to figure it out.
What surprised everyone even more was that the person who discovered these things was not some long-established beast taming boss, but a young girl who had just reached adulthood.
[Surprise! The boss behind the new evolution is actually Xiao Xia, the beast user!]
[Wow, wow! She's still so young... Okay, if it were someone else, I'd definitely suspect she stole it from somewhere, but as for Xiao Xia, the beast user, I can only say that everyone is different. They have brains, but I don't. TAT]
[Yeah, after all, he's so young and already has two mythical beasts, both newly evolved. He even cultivated a gilded sky dragon. Slurp, slurp!]
The key is that she crammed all of this into the game! It's like giving us free lessons! Wow, I really admire her. For a mortal like me, all I can think about every day is, if I could discover a completely new evolutionary path, I'd definitely patent it and live off it forever... Sigh, the gap in realm is just too big.
How could they have discovered 16 species, while we haven't found any? It seems God has his own standards.
Even if I die, nailed to my coffin, I will use this decayed voice to shout out—Xiao Xia Divine Beast Envoy is the best in the world!
The Internet was a sea of joy, and no one would say a bad word about Xia Muqing at this moment. After all, she had discovered the evolutionary forms and material combinations of ordinary mysterious beasts, and countless people had benefited from it.
People like Feng Che, who are preparing for the exam, turned into crazy fans overnight and wanted to worship Xia Muqing as a bodhisattva.
As for Xia Muqing...
There are so many things in her head that she can't let them out at once. These are just some of the more popular ones that she can't use herself.
It is used to improve the overall strength of low-level beastmasters and has a very high cost-effectiveness.
And it’s free… How could that be? You know, free things are the most expensive!
She now holds shares in the game, and as the news continues to ferment, the game project is also rising in popularity. When the game is officially launched in a while, the annual dividends alone will be enough for her to spend in a lifetime.
This wave is a pure win-win.
Moreover, Xia Muqing is no longer the little girl who couldn't even afford an initial mysterious beast. Now she has two divine beasts by her side, and is surrounded by a large circle of friends such as Chi Zi and Cheng Zizhuo. Even if she releases this knowledge and attracts people's covetousness, who would dare to attack her easily?
Lord Feng Luo's casual "blizzard" is enough to cause trouble for others.
So Xia Muqing simply came clean and stopped pretending!
She is extremely talented. Not only is she good at taming beasts, she is also a good researcher. Believe it or not!
Even if she doesn't believe it, what can she do to her?
If she really didn't believe it, she still had an excuse - that was the existence of Ark Xiaoxue, who helped her use advanced algorithms to construct a large number of mysterious beast models, thus saving a lot of time on repeated experiments and deducing those evolutionary and improved materials from the big data level.
Anyway, no one else can get such a large piece of elemental fluid.
As for why the Ark console didn't have this feature—she had no idea. Her Ark, Xiaoxue, had been attacked by a Koi fish using its "Chaos" attribute. What happened to her was indescribable, and impossible to replicate. It was the only one of its kind in the world!
In fact, Ark Xiaoxue doesn’t have such a strong deduction function: “…?”
The little golden dragon, who was inexplicably dragged into the past, responded: "???"
“Ouch.”
Oh, forget it, whatever the master says is what it is, as long as I am happy.
Longlong spread his hands.
…
In the following period of time, several mysterious beasts used the game to improve their basic skills.
After getting used to using advanced skills, it feels very strange to look back at the basic skills, especially in the simulator, where all the mysterious beasts are chopped into blanks and pulled down to the same level. So when the koi fish in the game was killed twice in a row by a shell beibei with a "water gun stab", it was shocked.
“Ouch!”
A mighty dragon can't even stop a tiny shell?
Xia Muqing smiled and waved, asking Ark Xiaoxue to pull up a data chart. "Don't underestimate your opponent. Although Water Gun Thrust is just a basic water skill, according to statistics, every Shell Beibei who has learned this skill has practiced it an average of 1,000 to 2,000 times."
"This is just the average. A more advanced Xuan Beast might practice a skill tens of thousands of times—remember when Xiaofeng first practiced Wind Scroll?"
"The proficiency of skills gained through repeated practice is still different, but you are the smartest in our family, Xiao Jin, and you learn everything quickly. Now that you have encountered a powerful Shell Beibei, do you have any new insights into the water gun thrust?"
Little Golden Dragon: “…Ah!”
Yes, must have!
It’s just a water gun thrust, it can be mastered quickly. Next time I meet it, I must teach that Shell Beibei to be a beast again!
Games have winners and losers, which greatly stimulated the learning enthusiasm of the mysterious beasts, and they learned basic skills quickly. After checking for omissions and filling in the gaps, the strength of the three little ones improved a lot.
In addition to laying a solid foundation, Xia Muqing also set a high goal for each mysterious beast, focusing on grasping it with both hands and making both hands strong.
The Yin-Yang Butterfly is primarily adjusting its state to prepare for the next round of evolution. Repeated practice of basic skills also helps it gain a clearer understanding of itself and identify the next direction of learning.
Moreover, Xia Muqing noticed that when encountering skills such as 'Intimidation' and 'Source of Nightmare', the Yin-Yang Butterfly was miraculously not as resistant as before.
Sometimes, even when the team lacks the attributes to restrain the opponent, it will take the initiative to volunteer to try combining dark skills.
This change made Xia Muqing very happy.
Abilities are not divided into right or wrong, good or bad. The only difference is the mysterious beast and the beastmaster who uses the ability. If the Yin-Yang Butterfly can understand this, its potential can be further explored.
The little golden dragon was figuring out the gravitational field. Xia Muqing gave it a ball, and it needed to try to apply different gravity multiples on both sides.
The difficulty in control is one aspect, but the more important thing is that the ball is too unstable and will shake with the slightest external force. Therefore, during this period of time, you can often see the little golden dragon chasing the ball in frustration.
Xia Muqing’s requirement was: use the distortion of the gravitational field to crush the ball.
You are not allowed to use mysterious power, it can only be achieved through force field. If you commit a foul, you will be punished and not allowed to play the game for half a day. You can only watch Liangyi Butterfly and Gale Dog play happily together.
Little Golden Dragon: “…”
I have all this energy but nowhere to use it. This request is really too much.
The Gale Hound is still gnawing on the tough bone of time and space skills. It has set its sights on a skill called "Space Interlacing", which is a bit similar to the teleportation effect of the Cloud Beast, but it can not only move itself, but also move the enemy depending on the situation. It can be called a magical skill on the chaotic battlefield.
Of course, it is more difficult to learn.
The skills related to time and space are too mysterious, and it all depends on the comprehension and talent of the Gale Dog. Xia Muqing can't help much, so she can only swipe the card and book a long-term stay in the meditation house in the training ground for it.
Having money means you can be so willful.
"It's quite sad to think about it. It wasn't that long ago. I still remember the first time Cheng Zizhuo took us to visit the training ground. Looking at the meditation room back then, I felt like every minute was incredibly expensive. Only those who were willing to charge ten days for this thing were rich people with too much money to spend."
Xia Muqing sighed as she took out her purse: "I never thought that now I have become the representative of having money but nowhere to spend it. I really despise myself... Come to the boss, swipe the card, and charge it for a month."
There are too many star coins remaining, and she has received a lot of points as rewards after publishing the paper. If the selection competition was not imminent, Xia Muqing would have wanted to spend half a year in one go to earn them.
But there’s no discount if you charge too much for this thing, so forget it.
…
Time flies, and the national trials are approaching.
The popularity of the competition has been rising steadily, and it has gradually become a new hot spot on the entire Internet.
At the end of the month, the Beast Tamer Association announced a new piece of news:
[The Trial is a single-player event. Each person may register with no more than 5 mysterious beasts.]
The competition is divided into three stages: preliminary round, semi-final, and final. Due to the large number of applicants, the preliminary round will be conducted as an online simulation. There are 20 assessment sites nationwide, and each applicant can choose their own assessment site. The assessment will end at 6:00 PM on X/X. The top 100 contestants will advance to the semi-final.
The purpose of the preliminary round is to screen out the messy people and quickly find the 100 most promising and outstanding beastmasters.
This was very simple for Xia Muqing, and there was an assessment point next to Yan University, so she took the time to take the mysterious beasts there.
The test is similar to the college entrance examination, but this time the content measured is much richer. In addition to energy value, there are five other indicators: attack, defense, speed, endurance, and spirit.
Xia Muqing: “……?”
It looks so familiar. Is this test template becoming more and more similar to her system properties?
The server carrying the numerical scan was undoubtedly the Ark main system. Xia Muqing turned around and asked Chi Zi again. Chi Zi was very excited: "This is all thanks to you. Attracting beast masters through games is such a great idea. It's really useful."
"We have been working hard to expand the database before, but the results are nothing compared to what we have seen in the past month."
"Since the game officially launched, the number of players online daily has never dropped below 50 million. Ark has scanned the panel data of so many profound beasts, and combined it with their combat situations, its own functions will naturally become more and more perfect - its system settings already include a learning module!"
Xia Muqing: "...Wow!"
Xia Muqing was a little envious. The Big Ark database sounded really tempting. If Xiaoxue didn't have so much memory space, she would have wanted to go to the research institute to get it for free.
But on second thought, it doesn’t matter if she doesn’t prostitute herself. Anyway, the Ark host is in the project team and she is a core member of the project team. If she wants to borrow the Ark host in the future, will Chi Zi refuse?
Xia Muqing doesn't need to put in much effort in the preliminary round. If her stats aren't even in the top 100, there's no need to hold the preliminary round.
More than half a month passed quickly, and the nationwide assessment sites, which had been packed at the beginning, gradually became sparsely populated. The vast majority of applicants had completed the online test. On the morning of the third day after the deadline, the official website released the list of Beastmasters who had qualified for the semi-finals, along with the time and venue.
As soon as the news came out, it immediately sparked widespread discussion.
Because the location of the rematch... is in the southwest.
…
The southwest of Daxia is mostly plateau terrain, but after skirting Jing Yiyi's hometown, a vast basin miraculously appears. Perhaps because the mountains block the coastal monsoon, also intercepting river steam and thick fog, the area experiences constant rain and humid temperatures year-round. There are vast expanses of undeveloped, dense rainforest, home to ferocious beasts and venomous insects.
After the mysterious beast appeared, a space gate appeared there, and a large number of poisonous mysterious beasts swarmed out from the alien space, turning the entire rainforest into a restricted area for humans for a time.
Later, as human beastmasters continued to grow and become stronger, the poisonous insects were gradually suppressed, and this area was counterattacked. Even the rainforest behind the space gate was conquered and included in the safe zone.
However, the scope of the alien space is too vast, and the Beastmaster Association dare not say that it has completely studied the secrets of this area. Every year, a large number of exploration missions are issued to the southwest area.
"Does the space gate lead directly to the Tenth Area, the Nightmare Rainforest?"
Looking at the information Ark Xiaoxue had gathered, Xia Muqing frowned slightly. "There are more poison-type Mystical Beasts over there. Even those who aren't major poison-type beasts will have some on them."
Xu Ling leaned in beside her, also a little nervous: "Not only the mysterious beasts, but even the insignificant little bugs on the roadside, a bite could be fatal."
In recent times, Xu Ling's beast taming ability has also been improving by leaps and bounds. Last month, she broke through numerous selections and successfully squeezed into the inter-school competition team. She is currently preparing hard - Yanda organized a closed training camp, pulling all the team members out to practice secretly and study tactics. She hasn't returned to the dormitory for some time.
When he came back this time, he knew that Xia Muqing was about to leave for the southwest, so Xu Ling came to see her off.
"And I remember that the southwest is the Xu family's territory?" Xu Ling had also watched the video online some time ago, and she felt indignant when she mentioned it. "Why is it such a coincidence that it was set in the southwest? Are they secretly doing something?"
Xia Muqing thought for a moment and said, "Not really, it could just be a coincidence."
"This is a national selection. If the Xu family had such great ability, they would have become prosperous long ago."
"And the southwest..." She swiped the screen. "The southwest rainforest is much more closely integrated with the alien dimension than the east. There are also areas like unstable states and buffer zones, which are full of good things. Setting the competition zone there, maybe they want us to take advantage of the opportunity to dig some up?"
After the mysterious beasts from the other dimension retreated, a large amount of miasma filled with toxins was left behind in the southwestern rainforest, causing many areas to remain closed to the public and no one is allowed to enter or exit freely.
But in fact, due to the large number of mysterious beasts that have entered and exited, many magnetic field areas have been formed in these closed areas, similar to the place where the Yunhua Ceremony was held before, with very strange effects.
"It's quite far. I'll pack up and leave tomorrow." Xia Muqing decided, "The sooner we go, the better chance we'll have of finding out more about the situation."
Xu Ling nodded: "Come on, I'll wait for your good news!"
Xia Muqing smiled and said, "You too, good luck in the inter-school competition."
…
The southwest was indeed humid and hot. As soon as she got off the plane, Xia Muqing felt like she was wrapped in a warm mist.
Even if it wasn't raining, the air was damp and all the clothes stuck to my body, and it felt like water would drip out if I wrung them.
"The weather is so stuffy..." Xia Muqing muttered, "Xiaofeng, can you help me?"
The Swift Dog followed her footsteps and lazily exhaled a whirlwind of wind: "Ouch."
As a long-haired mysterious beast, it also doesn't like too humid air. Fortunately, the properly controlled "wind roll" can perfectly solve this problem. A cool breeze blew, and Xia Muqing immediately felt much refreshed.
Wagging its tail, the Swift Dog summoned another gust of wind and snow.
Now it was not only dry and refreshing, but even the high temperature was blocked out, just like having a portable air conditioner. Xia Muqing lowered her baseball cap and walked out happily with the mysterious beasts.
"Let me see where the airport bus is...ah, who's calling me?"
Shouts came from not far away. Xia Muqing turned her head in surprise and saw Guan Yun waving at her vigorously.
"I saw someone who looked like you right after I got off the plane. I didn't expect it to be true." Guan Yun threw the suitcase to the mysterious beast next to him, smiled and rushed over to hug Xia Muqing, "You came so early? If you have time, let's go for a walk around the area together?"
Xia Muqing happily agreed: "Okay!"
This was obviously not Guan Yun's first time in the southwest. She took Xia Muqing on the bus with ease, put her luggage away, and recommended a bunch of must-see places to her.
It's not a place of delicious food, nor a place of tourist attractions, but a bunch of fighting training grounds...
"This is a private training ground. The owner has contracted a Tyrannosaurus Rex, which is quite powerful. I used to often challenge him to private duels. There's also this one. They have bounty tournaments, and occasionally some experts from the street would show up. I'd go and play a few games when I had nothing to do..."
Xia Muqing didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Wait, you've been on the plane for several hours, aren't you hungry at all?"
"Is there any suitable place where we can eat something first?"
Guan Yun seemed to be lost in thought. "Eat? Sure, I have a recommendation. This place has a pretty good poisonous mushroom meal. It doesn't taste great, but it uses a lot of ingredients and works quickly. If a Xuan Beast eats more than a few times, it can stack up its poison resistance."
Xia Muqing: "..."
The three little ones: "..."
"Actually, I was going to say hot pot," Xia Muqing covered her face, "but it can stack poison resistance... let's go and take a look."
The three little ones: “……!”
No, they want to eat hot pot!
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