Chapter 465 The Real World (3) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
Yun Guang: [Link sharing]
Yun Guang: [This is the general information of the unknown space. ]
There was still some time before they got home. Brother Gao was driving in front. Bai Jinshu pulled up the tailgate and opened the information given by Yun Guang to read it carefully.
[Unknown Space: Above the Posa]
[The Foundation predicts the collection level: E+]
[Explorer team personnel quota: 8 people]
[The longest time this unknown space can be explored: seven days]
[The interface link is not good, the miracle exchange and use channel is closed. 】
[Dear investor, the current investment amount of this space does not meet the amount required to dispatch the second investigation team. Please make a mandatory additional investment at 17:36 on the 3rd, and click the page again to confirm.]
Judging from the last sentence, this interface should be the interface that investors can see.
But… Bai Jinshu scrolled down and found that the few sentences had already reached the bottom of the page. He raised his eyebrows in surprise: [That’s it? ]
Are these the only few sentences in this link?
Yun Guang: [That’s all. This is the amount of information in this space for now.]
Bai Jinshu frowned slightly: [How many teams have entered here before? ]
Yun Guang replied quickly: [There is only one team, which was the one where our members died a month ago. After that exploration, the funds in this space were not enough to send out a second exploration team.]
Bai Jinshu asked: [Where is the exploration video of the previous team? ]
Yun Guang: [No.]
Bai Jinshu was silent for a moment and held his forehead with his hand: […Then the previous team also didn’t find any rules? ]
Yun Guang: [Neither do I.]
This is really a question with no answers.
It stands to reason that a space that has been explored by humans should have some information left behind.
It's not like he hasn't been to non-opened spaces before. [Night City] and [Blood, Flesh, Weakness] are both such spaces. Teams that have entered a space before would leave behind a lot of information about the space. How come there is no information left in this space?
Bai Jinshu held his solar plexus against the sun and exhaled lightly: [So all the people in the previous team died? ]
If it was a group wipe, then it would be reasonable.
As the saying goes, "A horse may stumble, a man may misstep." One of the Gu Kings who emerged from a Gu field actually fell into an E+ space. Either there was something wrong with this space, or the value of this Gu King was watered down.
When Zhao Yinglai came to the Gu field, he relied on snowballing as a younger brother to a group of Long Aotian. The one who was chosen by her and lasted until they entered without being devoured by other Gu Kings should not be a fake.
That's a problem with space.
There must be something far beyond E+ in this space, which caused the King of Gu to get into trouble here. I just don’t know if only the King of Gu got into trouble here, or if everyone died.
This question probably hit Yun Guang's blind spot. It wasn't until Bai Jinshu returned home that he got back the news: [Not sure. I checked the investigation data and it seems that the whole group was not wiped out. It seems that one person survived in the end.]
Bai Jinshu closed the panel thoughtfully.
According to the current information, the unknown space where the Gu King had the accident was initially rated only E+, which is a mediocre rating.
There are so many E-level projects broadcast live in the foundation every day that it is impossible to count them all. Even if you open the live broadcast hall and scroll down for more than ten minutes, you still cannot reach the bottom. Although the E+ rating is slightly higher than the E, in terms of energy concentration, the difference between the two is not big.
Generally speaking, for an E-level space, the only viewers from beginning to end will be blind investors. After all, there are too many E-level spaces, and it is the bottom of the foundation rating. Except for the investors who open the blind box and get E, most investors will not stay on the name of the E-level live broadcast room for even a second.
What is more likely is that these investors will not actually look at the E-level space. After all, the E-level within the foundation represents extremely low growth space and simple exploration without any ornamental value. It is the most inconspicuous existence among all the investment spaces of the foundation.
An E-class space that can cause a stir among investors either has a special space mechanism itself, and investors who have opened blind boxes go to the forum to post in person, attracting a large crowd of onlookers; or it is like the first unknown space [First Hospital] that Bai Jinshu entered, where it is obvious from the outside that the potential value of the space is not equal to the rating of the space, attracting a large number of curious investors to come in and take a look; or it is like [Yinshi Group], where there are several exploration team members in the space who are very famous among investors, and investors who are familiar with this exploration team member will follow.
Obviously, this E+ space that the Gu King has visited is not any of them.
The information sent by Yun Guang showed that this space called [Above Posa] had only been explored once, a month ago. This exploration failed to discover any useful rules, and seven team members were unfortunately killed. When the seven-day exploration was over, only one lucky person escaped from it. No one had time to leave any clues or ideas about the rules throughout the process.
There is almost no prior information. Although the second team of explorers is to be sent into this space, the situation faced by the second team based on the information they have is basically the same as that of the pioneers. Only through the experience of the previous team can they know that this space is probably very dangerous.
Moreover, the second exploration team cannot enter immediately.
This space was unlucky. When it was first discovered and entered the blind investment process, it happened to coincide with the period when the investment bank’s novice village was being hotly discussed within the foundation. Most investors were attracted by this big gossip and had no interest in paying attention to this batch of newly discovered spaces. Naturally, not many people chose to invest blindly.
The investment in blind box space is time-limited. Everyone pays attention to the novice village of the investment bank, which leads to the fact that when the blind investment is over and the investment team is ready to be dispatched, this batch of investors in the unknown space and the investment in the capital pool are not much. Compared with the previous unknown spaces of the same level, the initial investment and investors of this batch of spaces have basically dropped by about half.
[Above Posa] There were only a dozen investors at the beginning, and a lowest-level E+ space was opened. Most investors saw the initial rating, the low potential value of this space, and the unfamiliar team members, and instantly lost interest in this place. They turned around and left the live broadcast room to watch other live broadcasts.
This is also the reason why the pioneering team of this project did not leave any video footage. The investors who blindly invested in it had no confidence in it and of course were too lazy to record these things.
In addition, these dozen or so investors did not invest much, and it seems that everyone is the type who is just trying to test the waters.
A dozen investors who didn't invest much money got together, and after the blind investment, the funds of [Poshang Zhishang] were barely enough to send one person. As a result, seven people died in the pioneering exploration team, and only one survived. These dozen investors unanimously started to procrastinate.
The so-called procrastination tactic is that the blind box investment within the foundation is equivalent to being bound to the invested space. Investors who have invested in the blind box space must continue to invest money in it until the project is explored and distributed, or there is a major danger and it is sealed up by referendum.
If the fund pool accumulated by everyone's blind investment has been exhausted, you will need to add money to it. The trick is to keep dragging it out and wait until the foundation's one-month countdown ends and the ultimatum is automatically deducted.
It was the last sentence in the information Yun Guang sent just now: [Dear investor, the current investment amount of this space does not meet the amount required to send out the second investigation team. Please make a mandatory additional investment at 17:36 on the 3rd, and then click the page again to confirm.]
Translated into plain language, it means that the money in the fund pool of [Posha Zhi Shang] is not enough to pay the salaries. It can't even pay the minimum eight E-level team members with 200 points each, which adds up to 1,600 points.
Only after the foundation's ultimatum will the dozen or so investors who have lost confidence in this space reluctantly make up for the investment and then send out the next team of explorers.
The ultimatum is due in three days.
No wonder Yun Guang and his team were not in a hurry before. After all, there is no point in being in a hurry. Live streaming is not enabled in this space now. If live streaming is not enabled, no one except the blind investment team members and the team members who had made additional investments before can immediately invest money to send out the second exploration team.
Even if human lives are at stake and the situation is extremely urgent, they can only wait until three days later.
Moreover, the funds are not in place now, and the space exploration team members have no choice. Only after the countdown is up and the funds are compulsorily deducted, can the space embark on the subsequent exploration process.
In other words, it will take at least three or four days to enter this space.
If it’s fast, it will take three or four days, and if it’s slow, it may take more than ten days.
This leaves us with plenty of time.
Yun Guang conveyed Zhao Ying's plan. This girl valued her life very much and had no intention of bringing her real body in. She planned to use her own shadow puppet to enter, while her real body would be controlled from outside the unknown space. This way, even if the shadow puppet died inside, it would not be a big harm to her.
The reason why she contacted Scarao was because she was really unsure of herself. She knew the level of her friends best. A space that could make a Gu King fold in must contain some dangerous things. Her greatest advantage was that she was never blindly confident, so she planned to find a few more people to go together from the beginning.
Secondly, I don't know what Guan Hongyan said to her. She probably complained that the captain [0106] who had never appeared in front of her recruited all the weirdos in the organization, and the captain himself was the biggest weirdo here. He was so lucky that it was incomprehensible (this should be what Lu Changfeng said), and the only nanny rice noodle roll in the team was the one he fished out from the E-level space.
Zhao Ying had never seen him before, but after hearing Guan Hongyan's description, he suddenly developed an unusual yearning for this captain whom he had never met before.
Mainly, I envy the good fortune of Koi.
"That's great," Zhao Yinglai grabbed Guan Hongyan's sleeve, his face full of envy, "If my fixed attribute is [Koi], I will do nothing but scratch lottery tickets every day. What do you think is the probability that a random string of numbers I ask him to report is a winning number?"
"Haha..." Guan Hongyan smiled wryly, "I think you can give it a try..."
Lu Changfeng was full of blind confidence in his brother Ao: "It's definitely a million-dollar prize... no, tens of millions!"
"Really?" Zhao Yinglai rubbed his hands, "Then next time I open a limited card pool in the game, can I ask the captain to come and draw?"
"Theoretically, yes," Yun Guang said with a gentle expression, "if you can really invite him."
"Skao hasn't appeared in any unknown space for nearly seven months. He only appeared briefly on the message board a month ago, urging everyone to complete the mission of maintaining their rank," Xu Zichen twitched his lips. "Yun Guang's message has been sent out for seven or eight days, and he hasn't replied. I think you should go in by yourself. You won't die anyway."
"No... I'm afraid I can't lead seven E-class players by myself," Zhao Yinglai said in a long tone, took out a green sign from his pocket and checked it, "Hey, you're not dead yet? You're really alive, who can live longer than you?"
If the sign cracked before the countdown ended, she wouldn't have to go in.
Zhao Yinglai put away the sign and muttered, "Hey, do you think our organization can have a team member benefit? That is, when the captain has nothing to do every month, he can leave some numbers on the message board for us to buy lottery tickets..."
In other words, Bai Jinshu did not hear this conversation.
Otherwise, given how short of money he is now, he might actually take Zhao Yinglai's advice and use this identity to buy lottery tickets.
Unfortunately, fixed attributes cannot be used in the real world. Winning the lottery in the base space of [0106] is like transferring money from one hand to the other, and it would be a huge loss for Skao if he was discovered. There is no such thing as lottery tickets in the market in the high-end space of the Foundation, otherwise he would have to go and buy a few tickets.
Regarding this space, Bai Jinshu originally had no plan to enter it. The fact that a Gu King could fall into such a space might indicate that there were some dangers far beyond the E+ level in this space, but this had not reached the level that required Skao's [absolute luck].
However, his previous three experiences of using [She Mochu] made him vaguely aware that the more times he used an identity, the deeper the influence of this role would be on him. This was a side effect of his fixed attribute [Character in the Play].
After She Mochu experienced [Blood, Flesh, Bitterness and Weakness], there was a thin layer of cracked wall between him and her. Bai Jinshu said that even now in the real world, he still felt uncontrollable dull physiological pain when he thought about what happened in that space.
This was the first time he had let his emotions come out of the unknown space. Without using fixed attributes or getting into the role, he could feel sadness and dull pain just by recalling it.
This is a normal thing for ordinary people, but it is the first time for Bai Jinshu.
This is She Mochu's emotion, and it is also the pain and powerlessness he has experienced and learned through the medium of She Mochu.
He now suspected that this emotion was actually generated by himself, but there was no trigger point other than [Blood, Flesh, Bitterness and Weakness] that could allow him to verify this.
Moreover, after "Blood, Flesh, Bitterness and Weakness", She Mochu's original comic stopped updating for two full months. After the resumption of publication, it was unusual and began to promote the plot from the perspective of a supporting character. Now the comic has been updated for three more chapters, but the protagonist She Mochu only appears in the mouth of the supporting character, and the supporting character still describes him as "seriously injured".
Normal readers just think that the comic is about to enter the final battle chapter. After all, if the protagonist is not killed, as a T0-level existence in the comic, as long as She Mochu can still move, the villain cannot cause trouble in She Mochu's home court.
Now, in order to unfold the plot, it’s not a big problem to let the protagonist go offline for a few episodes.
However, a very small number of readers in the comment area were shouting some coded words that no one could understand. The investors of the foundation knew very well that She Mochu's "serious injury" was not a temporary offline removal by the author to advance the plot, but a real serious blow in "Blood, Flesh, Bitterness and Weakness".
In other words, what happens when he uses this identity will not only be reflected when he uses the identity, but also after he finishes using the identity, She Mochu's comics will be updated along with what happens when he uses the identity. Bai Jinshu suspects that if he uses [She Mochu] to enter the copy again, he will completely merge with this character.
He didn't know what would happen then.
Maybe he will gain all the emotions that belong to the identity of She Mochu, or maybe he will gain more than just emotions, and also some weird and untouchable parts that are not human.
That would be a waste of time.
Bai Jinshu is still very rational.
The best way at the moment is to seal this ID card temporarily and not use it again.
But in this case, he actually wanted to know what would happen if an ID card was used too many times.
She Mochu's identity is too dangerous. Apart from She Mochu, Isaac, one of the other identities he has used, is not a human being at all, but a supreme intelligent machine. Chao Yougan and Wu Zongzi are not characters in literary creations. Ye Dian and Delmis are both mages. Not to mention Cen Bingqi's tricky 24th personality, the stark difference between this character in the script and in his performance is enough to make Bai Jinshu feel something is wrong.
By this calculation, the only purebred human in literary works that can be used for experiments is Skao.
Bai Jinshu sat on the sofa and reflected deeply for a few seconds.
He has played many roles, so why is it that every time he enters the foundation, it is always some supernatural character?
But you can't blame him for this.
No one knows what will happen in the unknown space. At this time, supernatural characters have higher self-protection capabilities than ordinary people. As long as he has a normal IQ, he will clearly know that it is safer to use supernatural characters.
If you want to know what will happen if a certain character is used too much, Scario seems to be the best experimental subject at the moment. He has used this identity twice, and there are no supernatural factors that may have an impact on the real world. The fixed attribute is still Koi.
If "fusion" is a bad thing, I believe that with the blessing of [Koi], the harm can be minimized.
Bai Jinshu immediately responded to Yun Guang: [Okay.]
And there is something special about this exploration that is different from the usual ones. His only teammate Zhao Yinglai uses shadow puppets.
This means that even if Scarao was driven to murder for "fun", he would not actually kill Zhao Yinglai.
——It can also stop the girl from always wanting to ask him for lottery numbers.
Thinking of this, Bai Jinshu sent a message to Yun Guang: [Send me the appearance of the shadow puppet that Zhao Ying is about to enter the unknown space. ]
Before [Above Possa] officially opened, in order to free up seven days of free time, Bai Jinshu arranged his schedule more tightly and rushed to complete all the remaining tasks.
He Chuling has not woken up since she fell into a coma, and the cause of the coma has remained unknown. The program team has four permanent hosts, so it doesn't matter if one is missing occasionally. In addition, He Chuling has been sick and on leave for the past few months, and the program couldn't wait for her to recover, so they simply rescheduled the schedule with everyone and recorded an episode without He Chuling.
This time, the assistant following Rao Xian has become Gao Ge's comrade-in-arms. Bai Jinshu twitched his lips as he looked at this assistant, who was a head taller than Rao Xian in high heels when standing up, and his assistant Gao Ge standing together. He felt that even if he jumped into the Yellow River in the future, he would not be able to explain that these two people were not bodyguards.
"I heard that He Chuling hasn't woken up yet, and the hospital doesn't know why," Rao Xian gossiped as usual. "The last time I went there, guess what I bumped into?"
Bai Jin said: "How can I guess that?"
There was no way he could have guessed it.
The people he hired would squat outside the door of He Chuling's ward every day, recording who had entered there and whether anyone had tried to replace He Chuling's medication or attack her in the dead of night.
At present, no one wants to kill He Chuling, but it is hard to say whether these people are responsible for her coma.
He Chuling fell into a coma for no apparent reason, and the hospital equipment could not detect any abnormalities. His family and the company have shifted from scientific to metaphysical methods.
The last time Rao Xian went there, he happened to run into the "master" hired by He Chuling's family. The "master" examined He Chuling for a long time and told her mother that she was scared out of her wits and that she just needed to call her soul back.
Rao Xian was about to say “You’re not a liar”, but when she saw the tears in the mother’s eyes, she didn’t say it directly because she had high emotional intelligence. She held it in for three days and waited until the recording of the show to complain to Bai Jinshu.
"That old man looks like a liar," she twitched her lips, "Do you know what solution he gave?"
"What is it?" Bai Jinshu asked in cooperation.
Rao Xian pointed speechlessly at his assistant who was sitting in the chaos backstage.
Bai Jinshu looked in the direction of her finger and found that the assistant, who was dressed fashionably, was holding an out-of-place stainless steel iron basin and a rolling pin that looked like it had been used for a long time.
"Calling the soul," Brother Gao said, "We have this saying in our hometown, but it usually refers to children of a few years old. If they keep crying and can't sleep at night, it means that their soul was scared away during the day. We have to beat the gong and call the child's name to let the lost soul follow the sound back home. After finding it, the child will sleep soundly."
"Yes, it's to call back her soul. You are very knowledgeable! Oh my God..." Rao Xian held his forehead with his hand, "The master said that her soul should be called back to the place where it was scared away. Her assistant is here to call back her soul. Later, she will hold the stainless steel basin and walk around the stage while calling He Chuling's name. According to Baidu Encyclopedia, He Chuling is 27 years old this year. Can her soul still be scared away..."
Bai Jinshu: ...
He said sincerely: "He is definitely a liar."
Although everyone in the entertainment industry believes this, his original world is a "pure materialistic world" that has been stamped as such by most investors.
In other words, it is impossible for non-materialistic things to happen here, and He Chuling's soul cannot fall.
"Yeah, yeah, that's what I told you!" Rao Xian finally found an ally and couldn't hold back her surging desire to complain. She kept muttering to Bai Jin while removing her makeup until the end of the program recording.
After both of them removed their makeup and walked outside, they happened to run into He Chuling's assistant holding a stainless steel basin and preparing to go on stage.
She had informed the director in advance, and everyone in the circle believed this. The director did not ask any questions to assistant He Chuling, but just said to wait until most of the audience had left before calling her.
Now the staff on the stage were dismantling the scenery. He Chuling's assistant was holding a stainless steel basin and shouting "He Zi! He Zi!" as he walked.
"Who is He Zi? Isn't her name Ling?" Brother Gao asked casually.
"He Chuling's real name, right?" Rao Xian walked to the door, glanced back and said casually, "He Chuling sounds like a stage name. Calling the soul must be her real name."
As for whether this method is useful...most likely it is not.
He Chuling did not wake up until Bai Jinshu entered the unknown space.
At eight o'clock in the morning, Bai Jinshu and Huai Jiamu got up on time and prepared to start exploring.
[Loading into unknown space——]
【Unknown space loading completed】
[Unknown Space: Above the Posa]
[The Foundation predicts the collection level: E+]
[Initial potential value: 10,799]
[Explorer team personnel quota: 8 people]
[The longest time this unknown space can be explored: seven days]
[The interface link is poor, and the miracle exchange and use channel is closed. 】
This is a city that looks no different from modern society.
Early in the morning, it was rush hour at 8 a.m., and students riding bicycles hurriedly on the road to school had their clothes fluttering, office workers lined up in front of the subway station with briefcases, and the potato pancakes that had just been heated on the breakfast stall exuded aroma and heat, and the rising white hot air was frozen in the air.
As a crisp "ding" sound echoed across the city skyline, the suspended time began to flow again.
The wheels of bicycles and cars turned at the same time, the green light on the crosswalk skipped at the last second, and the pedestrians who did not have time to reach the other side of the road started jogging with their breakfast in their hands. The latest subway arrived at the station, and the white-collar workers took a deep breath and squeezed into the crowded train that would make them late if they didn't get on.
[Pioneer JS5418345 login completed]
The author has something to say:
That's great. Thank you to my naming god Bingyan. He helped me think of a new dungeon name before I even had time to eat after the exam. Without you, who would still treat me like a child?
The standees of Metal and Xiao Chu have arrived. Hehehe, we will hold a lucky draw together on Weibo and Jinjiang tomorrow!
The first 20+random 20, is it super early today? Praise me! Praise my new schedule!
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