Chapter 92
There was a small room at the end of the corridor, which seemed deserted in the huge training ground. The other rooms were crowded with mysterious beasts, and there were many people queuing outside, but there was only this room, and there was no one outside the door.
Xia Muqing walked over to take a look and was shocked by the price on the sign outside the door: "It's so high!"
The training price in this room is ridiculously expensive, as high as 10,000 star coins per hour, which is more than the previous rooms combined!
"What's so expensive...a meditation room?"
"Is it the kind of meditation I know about, where you sit cross-legged and take a nap?"
Cheng Zizhuo laughed heartily: "Don't you understand it at all?"
"When I first came here, I was like, what's the point of selling something so expensive? Why not just grab it?"
"Later, I learned from my senior sister that this is a stone house made of Chaos Stone, which has miraculous effects on special-type profound beasts. Not only that, even profound beasts that have entered the second level for many years can gradually improve their strength by meditating in this room frequently."
He waved at Xia Muqing, walked to the side of the room, and pointed at a display screen hanging on the wall. "Before the energy standardization method was established, the evolution of the profound beasts' strength was not obvious, and many people were unaware of the benefits of the meditation room."
"But things have changed recently. The energy detector is right next to me, and I can tell my progress with just one test. Furthermore, the Beastmaster Association has introduced the Cloud River and Star Sea levels, so the Beastmasters are even more motivated."
"So, this room is quite full, but they tend to make reservations ahead of time rather than queue outside. Look at this screen, it's all people waiting in line, and the queue is already up until next Wednesday. Those who use this room are generally wealthy. A beast user once booked it for over a month..."
Xia Muqing was stunned when she heard this, and calculated the amount in her mind: "One month... 7.2 million star coins?"
Oh my god, this is too much of a nouveau riche!
"Which beast master is so generous?"
Cheng Zizhuo spread his hands and said, "I don't know who it is, but I heard that he declared bankruptcy right after coming out of the meditation room. He fled to another dimension with his luggage overnight and is still working to pay off his debts."
Xia Muqing: "...Puff!"
It's a bit tragic, but also a bit funny. What should I do?
Cheng Zizhuo curled his lips. "So you understand, the further you go in training a Mystical Beast, the more expensive it becomes. That's the venue and training fees, and then there's the materials the Mystical Beasts consume. What's the point of being a Divine Beast Master? Aren't you still broke and in debt?"
"That's why my brother has been hanging out in the alternate dimension for years. After a while, I want to make some money..."
The two chatted as they walked a little further inside.
Ahead of the various training rooms is a large, wide area divided into different standards according to energy levels. At this moment, there are also many people with mysterious beasts fighting freely.
This place is much larger than the training venue in S City, and there are more people here. Multiple battles are going on simultaneously, and the fighting is going on vigorously. Five-colored mysterious light bursts out in all directions, and shouts are heard one after another.
The hurricane dog clung to the railing outside the field, poked out its furry little head, and shook its nose curiously. Xia Muqing stood by and watched for a while, and also found it very interesting.
Cheng Zizhuo introduced: "The rules of the battle here are very simple. If you want to participate in the battle, go to the front desk to get a badge, and the training ground will randomly draw an opponent for you."
"Or, if you like someone's profound beast, go over and discuss it with him. If he agrees to fight, then you can exchange numbers and go directly to find an empty venue."
"Everyone sparred casually, winning or losing, and afterward, they just shook hands and called it a day. This feeling of chance encounters was quite appealing, so not only did the locals of Yandu like it, but people from all over Daxia who traveled to Yandu also liked to join in the fun, and the number of people here has grown."
"Haha, it's a unique check-in spot, right? Lots of influencers are posting pictures of their numbers from this venue on Starbucks. I heard there were even couples who met at this training ground, so a lot of single Beast Tamers like to come here whenever they have time..."
Xia Muqing blinked and suddenly asked, "What about you? Will you come here often?"
"Me?" Cheng Zizhuo was stunned for a moment, "No, I'm not..."
His Adam's apple twitched a few times, and powerful instinct instantly took over his entire body. "Not very often. Before Fairy Caiyun evolved, she would occasionally come here to fight with someone to improve her proficiency. After that, she didn't come much. I couldn't find a suitable opponent here, and I was so busy!"
Xia Muqing smiled, her eyebrows curved. "Not often? That would be a shame. After listening to you, I feel like this is a great place to train and make friends."
Cheng Zizhuo: “…”
Cheng Zizhuo suddenly had a toothache and felt that bringing Xia Muqing here to check in was not a good idea. He quickly led the group forward and pointed to a large area on the right and said, "Look over there, that's the virtual battle area."
In the area on the right, there are many virtual connectors. At this moment, many people are bringing their own mysterious beasts and wearing instruments to fight in the virtual space. The blue light on the virtual helmets is flashing non-stop.
Xia Muqing's eyes lit up: "Ark system?"
"Yes," Cheng Zizhuo said, "All of the programs here are connected to the latest generation of Ark system. The simulation degree exceeds 95%. When connected to the mainframe database, you can challenge all kinds of mysterious beasts without leaving home. It has been very popular since its launch."
"These are currently free for customers to try. In exchange, they need to sign an agreement, agreeing to allow the Ark system to replicate their profound beast simulation data. This can be considered one of the methods that Senior Sister and the others came up with to expand the database."
"I heard that their project team has developed a method to reduce the cost of the connector. Maybe soon, this simulator will be available in every household..."
Xia Muqing nodded: "I know this better than you. I came to Yandu this time just for this matter."
She told him that Chi Zi had invited her to join the project team, and Cheng Zizhuo was very excited: "That's great!"
"I heard that every official member of their project team can raise a small Ark... It's a subsystem of the Ark system. The program code is directly copied from the main system, and the functions are the same, but there is no huge database, so you have to feed it yourself."
"This is a small, personal system with limited memory, but it can specialize in one area. For example, if you only feed it information and data about water-type profound beasts, it will grow into a water-type know-it-all. It can analyze the evolution of profound beasts, the matching of materials, and the mutual promotion and restraint of attributes during battles, and provide you with big data recommendations. How is it? Is it fun?"
Xia Muqing was slightly stunned.
Little Ark?
Several mysterious beasts also came over and listened curiously. The little koi blew out a mouthful of bubbles: "Gulu?"
A water know-it-all?
It sounds fun, but what does this little Ark look like? Is it the same as the clumsy mysterious beast simulated in the system during the last exam?
Of the three mysterious beasts present, only Koi Fish had experience in using the simulation system. Gale Dog and Yin-Yang Butterfly both looked at it, listening attentively as it described its feelings about the simulation training.
Colored steel centipedes, cold elves... Although clumsy, you never know what will appear in the next second, and that feeling of unknown is also very strange.
Little Koi: "Gurgle gurgle."
Unfortunately, the system wasn't up to par, unable to simulate its 'disorder'. It didn't even dare to use the features in the simulation. Oh, its strength had been significantly reduced for no reason. It was really unfair to the fish.
Swift Dog blinked: "...Awoo?"
If 'Disorder' doesn't work, will its 'Danger Sense' work?
Cheng Zizhuo stroked his chin. "As for characteristics, it should be fine. Senior Sister has done a lot of tests, and even the characteristics of some mythical beast cubs can be simulated. Your koi fish has such unique characteristics, even more powerful than the cubs of mythical beasts?"
Xia Muqing thought for a moment and said, "It's not a question of how powerful it is. The most important thing about an AI system is that the code runs stably, and the characteristics of the little koi just happen to have a restraining effect on it."
Cheng Zizhuo nodded and added, "Indeed, some special abilities cannot be copied, such as the magical skills of mythical beasts."
"Senior Sister initially recruited many Divine Beast Masters to help expand the database, and she even drafted me in as a soldier, but in the end, we couldn't enter any data. It's not just Divine Skills, even more powerful Divine Beast data is difficult to write into the database. It seems to involve the issue of the upper limit of AI simulation..."
The two chatted about the Ark system for a while, when Xia Muqing suddenly noticed that the Yin-Yang Butterfly had fallen behind. She turned around and found that the Yin-Yang Butterfly was still hovering beside the analog linker, curiously.
Xia Muqing called out, "Xiao Zi?"
The Yin-Yang butterfly then hurried over and hung on Xia Muqing's shoulder: "Ya-ya-ya?"
Master, can the system replicate emotional energy?
If so, is it its emotion or the system's emotion?
If not, can it attach emotional energy to machinery?
It's not just emotional perception, it's also life energy. If life energy is added to the system, can the system become a "living" mysterious beast?
The Yin-Yang butterfly asked a bunch of questions in one breath, finally becoming somewhat like the curious little caterpillar it had been before. None of the questions were simple, and Xia Muqing was speechless for a moment. "This... well, I'm not quite sure."
"How about we wait until we meet Senior and ask her for an Ark subsystem and try feeding it from scratch?"
"Feed it with both emotional energy and life energy, and see how it grows. But Xiao Zi, don't get your hopes up too much. I feel like if we keep doing this, the biggest possibility is that we'll destroy the system..."
The Yin-Yang butterfly waved its antennae and flew up and down, looking very happy.
Cheng Zizhuo was curious: "The mysterious beasts you raise are all very strange. The Liangyi Butterfly is actually interested in scientific research projects?"
Xia Muqing smiled. "It's interested in everything. When it was still a little caterpillar, it would crawl around the house every day, scratching at all kinds of objects and asking questions... It wasn't very clear-headed back then, and it couldn't remember what it asked. It would ask again every now and then, and it really annoyed the little koi."
"It's a good thing to ask questions," Cheng Zizhuo said. "At least it shows that it loves this world and wants to understand everything...right, Xiao Zi?"
The Yin-Yang Butterfly shyly shrank behind Xia Muqing and waved its tentacles at Cheng Zizhuo.
Just then, the door of a fighting room on the right was pushed open, and two beastmasters finished their fight and walked out.
"An empty room?" Cheng Zizhuo's eyes lit up. "There's no one queuing outside. We're really lucky."
"Wait a moment, I'll raise the room's protection energy to special level...Okay, let's go in."
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