Chapter 457: The Forsaken Realm of God 46 (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
The opposing organization agreed to Bai Jinshu's request without even thinking about it.
[Will adding another 300 be enough? Since this space can be transferred to development expenditure, this year's exploration expenditure quota has not been used up. ]
[However, these 300 have to go through the foundation's account, and the foundation will also take a 5% commission, which means 285 in total. If your organization has other ways to pay less commission, that's fine. This is additional money that will be added later, and the foundation will definitely turn a blind eye.]
Guan Hongyan held up her watch and did not reveal the secret plot between the exploration team members in front of the live audience. She selectively repeated the other party's words: "Money is not a problem. Big brother, we are mainly making friends and will keep in touch in the future..."
"Oh my god, do you have to lick it like that?" Her eyelids twitched after she finished reading it. "She didn't treat me like that."
When they were having a meal together, who was the one who wanted to return the three-dollar table napkins?
[Riding a bicycle to the bar, saving when necessary and spending when necessary] Her friend's nonchalant reply appeared on her watch, [Besides, this is not my money, it's our organization's money, it's not my own money, so it's refreshing to spend it.]
Guan Hongyan: ...
She was silent for a few seconds, then asked a soul-searching question: "Why is your organization so rich?"
They are both organizations, so why do they [0106] never seem to be so generous and magnanimous?
Bai Jinshu: ...
He was also silent for a few seconds.
No, in fact, your organization has been generous and magnanimous before.
Looking at the entire foundation, there are only a handful of people who would be so idle as to buy an S-class space without developing it or building a base. He is the only one who would just throw money into the water and wait for it to make a sound.
Now he is trying to make money everywhere, and he even wants to take fifty cents from the mouths of dogs passing by. This is the retribution for his generosity.
Fortunately, this question was quickly answered.
"Because we don't get any commission." Yun Guang touched his chin and suddenly spoke.
Guan Hongyan: "? What commission?"
What a strange word.
"A commission for completing tasks," Yun Guang thought thoughtfully, "In fact, most organizations still default on members handing over a portion of the rewards they receive for completing tasks as a commission, but we don't."
If he hadn't communicated with people from other organizations, he wouldn't even know that there was such a thing as high-end space.
Guan Hongyan: "Ah? Is that so?"
It turns out that others also have to hand over a portion of their profits to the organization?
On the other hand, they [0106] seem to have never had this happen before, and they even asked their own members to help spend money to lock in a spot...
That's okay.
As expected, contrast creates beauty. All of a sudden, even Chao Yougan, the famous capitalist in the organization who took advantage of others, didn't seem so hateful anymore.
"Sure enough, it's because there were few active people in the organization when it was first established," she complained, "We are all acquaintances, and we have to take a commission when others enter the game. It's embarrassing to say it out loud."
Who knew that in the end they [0106] would change from an extremely loose and weird organization to what they are now.
"By the way, Dermis," she quickly changed the subject, "the other side has added money...what's with that expression on your face?"
She originally wanted to say that since the other side has added money, then we should quickly explore the rest of the content. Anyway, there are so many clues now, and if we continue to push forward, the answer will probably be right in front of us.
As a result, when he turned around, he found that Dermis looked very sad.
What is he lamenting?
Bai Jin said: "I am thinking."
"What are you thinking about?" Guan Hongyan was at a loss.
"Think about whether we should also implement a commission for new members who join," he said in a sad tone, "I will give the captain a suggestion when I return."
When he returns, he will fleece those tens of thousands of Gu Kings!
"Some suggestions don't really need to be raised. If you want to raise them, be sure to define the 'new' in the new members as after I joined..." Xu Zichen quickly and tactfully changed the subject, "So we should go to the Perlan Mine first to inform them to resume mining and transportation. What do we do next?"
"The first question at the moment is the relationship between Enoch and Lao Zhang, and the second is the specific actions of the Grand Mage," White Moth flipped through the memo in his hand, "Well, there is also what happened to Lao Zhang in the past, and the specific direction of the purple-haired adventurer's travel across the continent."
"As for the first one, we can only rely on whether Enoch can recover his memory," Yun Guang quickly entered the working state, "At present, it seems that the only things that can awaken his memory are those magic pattern fragments. Maybe after seeing the complete magic pattern, he can remember what happened before."
"The second question should actually be divided into two parts," Su Hao also said, "The first is how these magic patterns that have been split into magic pattern fragments actually work, and the second is why those disappeared professional mentors disappeared."
This problem also requires the use of magic patterns.
"Yes," White Moth also muttered, "Dermis, didn't you say that the magic pattern was a fragment? If the middle of the fragment needs to be supplemented, then how can the missing patterns be supplemented?"
The incomplete magic patterns have no effect, so how are these incompletely distributed magic patterns connected?
"The question now is Enoch's identity and why the magic patterns all over the world are all fragments," Yun Guang concluded, "What does the purple-haired adventurer who travels around the world mean, and there is also the missing professional mentor."
"The whole world..." A fleeting inspiration suddenly flashed through Bai Jinshu's mind.
"The issue of Lao Zhang and the purple-haired adventurer depends on the progress of the mother world. Didn't you say that the purple hair might be a secret code between Lao Zhang and his friends in the studio? Then let's not consider it for now." Guan Hongyan didn't hear his mumbling and was still planning the next itinerary. "You can also ask the people in the studio about the details of how Lao Zhang got here. This is also crossed out. So what we can do now is to piece together the complete magic pattern?"
"No way..." She drawled, "We still have to continue playing the digging simulator?"
All the clues in this world now seem to be related to that magic pattern, but she really doesn't want to dig holes everywhere anymore.
"If all else fails, we can also enslave the players," Yun Guang patted her shoulder, "Let Wei Yu's studio find a way to find players to do the hard labor and dig holes."
Players are much more useful than them. Not only are their resources inexhaustible, but most of them also find digging holes very interesting.
Guan Hongyan was silent for a moment: "I think with Wei Yu's current reputation, it will be difficult to control the players."
That's true.
"Then let's enslave the adventurers!" Zhao Yinglai said carelessly, "At most we can send out commissions and ask adventurers to dig holes. Adventurers will do anything if they have money. Digging holes all over the world is nothing."
"That's a good idea..." Guan Hongyan muttered.
"The whole continent..." Bai Jinshu felt a flash of inspiration again, "The whole continent?"
"Please repeat what you just said." He looked straight at Zhao Yinglai.
"Let...let the adventurers dig a hole for us?"
"Let adventurers dig holes for us all over the continent," Bai Jinshu added the key point in her words, "What is that rumor?"
"The purple-haired adventurer can open the gate to the kingdom of God by traveling across the continent..." Xu Zichen added without knowing why.
"Also the entire continent," Bai Jinshu frowned slightly, "Both of these involve the same concept, the entire continent."
This point has been ignored by them in the past. The entire continent is a very broad concept, but in the clues they obtained, this concept appeared twice.
Since the same keyword appears in two seemingly unrelated clues, does it mean that these two clues can actually be connected and the answer behind them is the same thing?
He followed his intuition: "The rumors spread by Lao Zhang are related to the formation of the magic pattern."
This rumor was spread by Lao Zhang. They always believed that Lao Zhang spread the rumor in order to convey information to the studio, but what if it was not, or not just that?
"Old Zhang also participated in the process of the great magician drawing magic patterns... This rumor may not be spread by the studio, it is very likely to complete this process?" A flash of lightning pierced through Yun Guang's mind.
"Thousands of years ago, an earthquake caused the gods to disappear. A purple-haired adventurer who travels across the continent can open the gate to the kingdom of God and save the world."
He spoke quickly: "An earthquake here refers to a car accident, the disappearance of the gods refers to the death of Lao Zhang, the purple-haired adventurer is a code that only friends in the studio understand, opening the gate to the kingdom of God is to drive the adventurers to act, to make them feel that it is an interesting excuse, saving the world is a false proposition, then what is traveling across the continent?"
"Isn't it for the purpose of traveling across the continent to let the people in the studio see the purple-haired adventurer..." Lu Changfeng added subconsciously.
"No," Bai Jinshu paused, "Not only..."
"We're not the only ones who thought of using adventurers."
He suddenly stood up and walked to the edge of the ghost ship and looked down, and the exploration team members hurriedly followed.
It is easy to get lost without a compass after entering the mountains. They have been using ghost ships to fly in the sky, but ordinary adventurers can only walk on the ground.
Of the many buildings with magic patterns that we have dug up in the mountains before, no matter what their real functions and external uses are, the only thing they have in common is that these buildings can accommodate passing adventurers.
Adventurers can follow the path in the forest and see hunter supply points, ascetic churches, nameless small villages, and armored regiment garrisons around the path.
These buildings are inhabited all year round. Adventurers coming and going pass by here, take a short rest, and then continue to move forward and embark on their adventure.
The alchemical carriage that transports magic sand travels through the mountains and forests once a month, ensuring that every road is free of weeds and not covered. In the mountains and forests far away from human habitation, a road that is free of weeds, not covered, and still has carriage tracks on it, the subtext behind it is safety.
This is the only road that has no safety hazards, so cars often pass by it.
Because this road is safe, most adventurers will choose to follow the trail.
"If there needs to be some passages to connect the magic patterns, then why can't it be these fixed roads?" Guan Hongyan followed his gaze and looked down at the boat. The clear road between the mountains and woods was like a clear line.
Looking from above, this line is not straight. On the contrary, it actually has more unnecessary bends, and these bends avoid the hills and lakes that have to be avoided.
But most adventurers walk on the ground and do not have the top-down vision that they have, so they cannot realize that the path they are walking on is not straight.
Or maybe they realize it, but they don't know that the detour section of the road doesn't actually have any hillside lakes to detour around.
The path that the alchemical carriage took was not straight.
The non-straight road is the missing connecting line between the magic patterns.
The rumors spread by Lao Zhang had two purposes from the beginning: [to inform the studio that he had entered the game] and [to get adventurers to travel across the continent to keep the magic pattern running].
"But the magic patterns underground are not connected to the roads..." Su Hao subconsciously asked, "If they are just roads, then these roads don't have magic power, right?"
"Because it's not the roads that connect the magic pattern, but the adventurers who follow the roads," Bai Jinshuo looked down at the boat, "The adventurers who travel around the world and advance on these roads are the magic power flowing through this huge magic pattern..."
The Grand Mage is also an alchemist and magic pattern master. He clearly knows that the larger the magic product is, the more magic materials it consumes. In order to ensure the stability of the flow of magic power, the materials used to draw fixed magic patterns must be consistent from beginning to end. The magic materials consumed by magic patterns that are enough to cover the entire continent may not be enough even if the entire continent is emptied.
So he had to use some tricks to achieve this goal.
For example, magic patterns drawn using fixed materials, and adventurers walking on the road connected by the magic patterns.
Adventurers must also carry items that are of the same origin as the magic pattern materials.
"Adventurer's Badge." Yun Guang gave the final answer.
An adventurer who travels across the continent wearing an adventurer badge.
From the beginning to the end, everything is part of this magic pattern.
The alchemical carriage that was set to a fixed route and could not be changed, the adventurers who traveled around the world following rumors, the buildings in the mountains that belonged to different forces but could provide food and lodging for adventurers, the magic sand that was steadily produced by the Perrin Mine above Alterac...
As long as each link runs smoothly, this magic pattern will run smoothly forever.
The problem was that not long ago, elemental elves suddenly appeared in the Perrin Mine.
Coincidentally, elemental elves also appeared in an unknown small village tens of thousands of miles away from here.
Coincidentally, it’s like the key words highlighted by a highlighter.
All the problems started with the appearance of the elemental elves: the elemental elves accidentally penetrated the Perrin Mine and the fairy kingdom of Alterac under the mine. The goblins entered the mining area and played pranks, causing countless miners to disappear, forcing the Perrin Mine to stop working. The shutdown of the mine caused the supply chain of magic sand to break, which in turn made the magic patterns all over the continent inactive. The strange disease that had been suppressed by the magic patterns began to invade Slenkmed, and the world was about to be destroyed.
"Found it." Bai Jinshu whispered.
Found the only variable that has appeared since this world became an independent space.
Elemental spirits suddenly appeared.
After turning into a subspace, the changes here are not in Enoch, not in Lao Zhang, and not in the magic pattern.
It lies in the elemental elf that destroys the stable cycle of this system.
*
After discovering the truth about the magic patterns and finding the key problem of the world, everyone soon arrived at the Perrin Mine.
The Perrin Mine was even noisier than when they had been there. In the distance they could already hear the sound of machines running. It seemed that the person in charge still could not withstand the pressure from the workers and opened the mine on a small scale.
However, they dared not use the original and later mine tunnels, so they had to move equipment and reopen a third mine tunnel.
Yun Guang’s previous image as a “priest” left a deep impression on the miners. They split into two groups. One group went to the person in charge’s office to ask them where they had imprisoned the captured elemental elves, and the other group followed Delmis to Outlanklee to capture a fairy to act as an interpreter, after all, the elemental elf could only speak fairy language.
Guan Hongyan walked in the mine, paying attention to the development of public opinion in the mother world.
Six hours have passed since Wei Yu released the announcement at 8:30 in the morning, only to be slapped in the face by Xiao Chun. I don't know if there are really people who support Wei Yu despite the pressure or they have finally started to hire internet trolls. In addition to the players who are angry that Wei Yu concealed the news of his death and those who have conspiracy theories, as time goes by, some people gradually say that they have no obligation to tell players about the producer's death, and that setting up a memorial account in the game is also a way to remember the deceased, and accuse everyone of being too nosy.
Just when the water was about to get even more muddy, someone who knew the situation suddenly jumped out and posted a long Weibo post.
"This person said that he was a member of the studio at the time. It was a critical moment for the game. Unexpectedly, the producer Lao Zhang suddenly had a car accident and was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. When everyone learned the news, he had just been pushed into the operating room and his life or death was unknown. The perpetrator fled for fear of crime and has not been found yet. The police were afraid that his parents would be too shocked after hearing the news, so they unlocked Lao Zhang's phone and called the person with the note "brother". Unexpectedly, this "brother" was not his brother or sister, but a buddy in the studio," Guan Hongyan summarized as she walked, "This is not a new account, but a daily life account. Except for this new Weibo post, the others are all daily life. It doesn't look like the kind of account that is specially registered to guide public opinion."
"Lao Zhang was rescued for several days, but when he was out of danger, he had become a vegetable. We also notified his parents," she read the whole article at a glance. "Originally, the studio wanted to spread the news, but the game was at a critical juncture at the time. If the news that the producer had become a vegetable spread, Weiyu's stock price would definitely be volatile, affecting the overseas release of Breath of Schlenkmed."
Before taking over Breath of Slenkmed, Wei Yu was just a small company. Now all the assets of the company are placed on this game, and as the release date approaches, no negative information will be allowed to be leaked.
Besides, Lao Zhang was not dead at that time, he just became a vegetable and there was still hope for him to wake up. After his parents got the news and rushed over, they were unwilling to accept their son's current situation and insisted that he would definitely wake up in the future, so the matter was shelved.
It is not surprising that the relatives of a vegetative person firmly believe that the other person will wake up sooner or later. Although Lao Zhang has become a vegetative person, the people in the studio are all friends who started the business together. Even though he is lying in bed now, the dividends and salary are still deposited into his card every month without any deduction.
Lao Zhang's parents found the best nursing center, so Lao Zhang stayed in bed for three years.
During these three years, Breath of Slenkmed went from its peak to its lowest point. Lao Zhang died before the release of the holographic technology for awakening vegetative patients, which caused his parents to fall out with their studio friends who were also in the holographic field. They disappeared from the public eye and left their home in City A with their son's ashes.
After Lao Zhang passed away, the studio did think about announcing his death, but his relatives refused to accept it and took away Lao Zhang's social media account, insisting that he was still alive, so they did not announce the matter.
"Does this mean that the account has nothing to do with them after Lao Zhang died?" Xu Zichen translated. "This person means that it was their fault that Lao Zhang did not announce the rescue information or tell everyone that he had become a vegetable at the beginning, but concealing the death news for more than ten years was the intention of the relatives. Don't look for them."
From the perspective of the long Weibo post, this statement seems like an attempt to pass the buck, putting all the blame on the family members' refusal to accept the situation.
But if you add the premise that "they try to put a holographic helmet on Lao Zhang" to try to wake him up, then everything will make sense.
"At first, Lao Zhang's relatives and the studio both hoped that they could wake him up in this way, so both sides agreed not to disclose the news. First, if the news got out, they might be criticized by the public for using a method that had not been tested in medicine to wake up the patient. Second, it would affect Wei Yu's stock price and the development of the game," Yun Guang tried to restore the truth. "Three years later, Lao Zhang died. His parents were still pinning their hopes on this new technology because they had given Lao Zhang a holographic helmet. They didn't expect that a truly effective awakening technology would be released a few months later, so they fell out with the people in the studio, thinking that they had delayed their son's treatment."
The people in the studio did nothing wrong, and as practitioners, they knew better than ever that their previous attempts had failed. So Lao Zhang passed away, the game went downhill, and coupled with the conflicts with his parents and everyone's inner remorse and guilt, all these factors combined prompted them to make the decision to completely package up "Breath of Slenkmed" and sell it to Wei Yu, thus abandoning the game.
What they didn't know was that after Lao Zhang's death, Enoch in "Breath of Slenkmed" came back to life.
The unfinished plot of "Breath of Slenkmed" has also become a death warrant for this world.
"Enoch, who arranged the magic pattern together with the Grand Mage, proves that the studio's attempt was successful," Su Hao took a deep breath, "Now there is another question besides the elemental elves, why does Enoch have no memory now."
All these elements indicate that the person with the Grand Mage is the producer Lao Zhang who has Zhang Noke's memories and was awakened by the holographic game. So why did Enoch lose Lao Zhang's memories?
What unexpected happened?
An accident that is enough to cause an adult to lose his memory, but still have a false understanding of his past?
"If we look at it from a macro perspective..." Guan Hongyan frowned, "From the time the magic pattern was set up until we entered here and met Enoch, there was only one major event that happened during this period."
That is, "Breath of Slenkmed" suddenly became an independent space and appeared under the names of all organizations.
in other words……
"Do you suspect that Enoch's amnesia is related to the Breath of Slenkmed coming to life?" Xu Zichen continued.
The author has something to say:
Ah, the copy is coming to an end, all the foreshadowing is recovered + all the reasoning ideas are connected, the writing is a bit slow
First 20 + Random 20
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