Chapter 258: Merit Changes Destiny
Chen Zihan, a male college student.
As a typical post-00s, he was the target of the popular online meme "Teacher, my Zi Han XX" from the past two years.
There is no way! Who made his parents name him at a time when names like Zi Han, Zi Xuan, and Zi Han were very popular? As the saying goes, things change with time.
When his parents named him, they probably didn't expect that "My Zi Han" would become an Internet meme, and they didn't expect that there would be so many peers with the same name.
It's awkward, I'm used to it anyway.
What's more, although this name is very popular, just like Jianguo and Weiguo in the 1970s and 1980s, it is a name given by parents after all.
Chen Zihan thinks there is nothing wrong with this, because when he gets married and has children, they will probably be named after these internet celebrities.
Chen Zihan is not in a relationship.
In addition to teaching himself photography and shooting Vlogs to record his life, his biggest hobby is playing games, which is also the norm for many college students.
This is not surprising...
As for college students, only a few are motivated and self-disciplined after all. Most of them are like wild horses. It is definitely unrealistic to expect them to stay in the library all day.
"Cultivation Fantasy has been updated!"
As soon as he returned to the dormitory, Chen Zihan heard his roommate Yu Zihan's exclamation.
That’s right! There are two “Zi Hans” in their dormitory 403, and they were both born in the same year and studied the same major in college.
Because of this, dormitory 403 was also called "Zi Han's dormitory" by the neighboring dormitory. The other two roommates who were not named Zi Han were also nicknamed "Zi Han's brother/brother".
"What's updated?"
Pulling out a chair and sitting down, Chen Zihan rubbed his ankle and asked curiously, "Could it be that Brother Ba has a change of heart and finally adjusted the output of the Foundation Establishment Stage dungeon?"
"What the hell are you dreaming about!"
Yu Zihan shook his head and said, "This update seems to have modified the merit system. The update announcement is rather vague and I don't quite understand it."
How can you not understand it when it’s all in Chinese?
Chen Zihan was speechless. He suspected that his roommate's college entrance examination score was guessed. A college student couldn't understand a game update announcement. What a joke! "Let me see!"
Chen Zihan stood up and walked behind him, looking at the 16-inch screen of the laptop.
"After the update, a new way to obtain merits in "Mountain Village Past" has been added. Merits can also affect luck to a certain extent. Fellow Taoists, please work hard..."
What is this? Chen Zihan also plays "Mountain Village Past". To be more precise, this is a game that several people in his dormitory pooled money to buy.
One person buys it, and the whole dormitory enjoys it! Because he has played "Mountain Village Past", he was confused and puzzled by this update announcement.
Isn't "Mountain Village Past" a pure single-player horror game? How can I earn merit without even having an online function?
The fact that this game was linked to merit already puzzled him, but what puzzled him even more was the description that "merit can affect luck to a certain extent."
Luck?
What is luck? I wonder if there is no spiritual energy revival in this world, how can there be a term used exclusively in novels? Damn, he can't understand it either!
The two looked at each other, and finally decided to go to the Tianba community to see how others analyzed and understood this update. Otherwise, after studying for a long time, they probably wouldn't even understand what the so-called "luck" is.
"Oh, I see..."
After browsing several popular posts in the Tianba community, Chen Zihan roughly understood it.
This luck actually means luck! However, this luck has nothing to do with luck in real life, it is simply "luck when playing games".
"There is such a thing?"
While reading and replying to posts, the two also saw that there was an anomaly in the divination system of "Mountain Village Past", which could be used to predict the "good or bad fortune" of other games.
Chen Zihan was very surprised, so he quickly opened his computer and planned to verify it himself.
It turns out that this is true! In addition to "Xiu Zhen Fantasy" and another two-dimensional mobile game, Chen Zihan also plays a Japanese online game called "Beach Volleyball".
In this game, players can draw SSR swimsuits for their favorite characters, obtain materials to improve the swimsuit's attributes, develop the characters, and finally play "eye-catching" beach volleyball.
Chen Zihan first cast a fortune, and the result showed "small good luck", so he used the lottery tickets he had saved up and made a ten-draw streak.
As expected, I got the SSR limited edition swimsuit I wanted!
After I drew ten times in a row, I divined again, and the hexagram changed to "very bad". I knew without a doubt that I would not get anything if I drew again.
"The divination function of "Mountain Village Past" can actually be used like this? Wow, it's amazing!"
Yu Zihan, who was watching him operate, was surprised and said: "How does this thing calculate good and bad luck? It feels quite metaphysical, but the key is that it is quite accurate!"
"How could it be metaphysics..."
"You are a college student after all. Can you have some basic common sense? This is a probability calculated based on data. Do you really think you are a fortune teller under the overpass?"
Chen Zihan shook his head and then said, "Although I know the principle, this thing is so accurate, it's really amazing!"
Calculating probability is not difficult.
Let’s not talk about anything else, just take the example of the process of him drawing the SSR swimsuit just now. If he makes a formula and calculates it on a piece of draft paper, he can also come to a rough “shipping” conclusion.
But what I calculated myself is definitely not as accurate as the divination function of "Mountain Village Past", and it is even far worse.
The divination just now accurately predicted whether each of the ten consecutive draws would produce a product!
If you calculate the probability of a shipment, can you figure out which of the ten consecutive shipments will result in a shipment? You can't figure it out. At most, you can figure out that four or five of the ten consecutive shipments will result in a shipment.
"The product will be shipped within fifty draws" and "The product will be shipped within the next ten draws" are two different concepts.
The most powerful feature of the divination function of "Mountain Village Past" is that it makes many probabilistic and data-based things more accurate.
The lottery is guaranteed to be drawn 50 times, so will it be a one-shot success, or will it be necessary to take 50 draws?
No one has been able to answer this question before, because no one can explain probability clearly.
The divination function of "Mountain Village Past" cannot calculate which draw you will deliver in the 1-49 draws. But it can calculate which round you will deliver in: 10, 20, 30, 40, or 50.
certainly!
The calculated hexagram is not 100% accurate. Some big guys in the Tianba community have verified it and found that at least one out of ten hexagrams is wrong.
But even so, this function allows players to control the direction of their own luck, which is already very powerful.
After all, before this, when everyone was doing raffles, opening boxes and drawing cards, at most they would play a song "Good Luck Comes" to increase some confidence, but in reality no one was sure.
At least now we have a clue.
Chen Zihan took a look at the discussions among the community leaders and gained a certain understanding of the term "luck".
In short…
The so-called "luck" refers to the luck in the game. The better the luck, the more likely you are to become a "lucky guy" when playing games. The worse the luck, the more likely you are to become a "lucky guy" when playing games.
"Is there such a saying?"
Another roommate walked into the dormitory carrying a lunch box. Hearing this, he couldn't help but ask curiously, "I understand what you mean, but what's the point of studying this? The unlucky and the European are destined by heaven. Can the unlucky be able to sneak into the European?"
"Congratulations, you got it right!"
Chen Zihan snapped his fingers and said, "If the update announcement is correct, then a non-African can really sneak into becoming a European emperor, provided that your merits are high enough!"
"ah?"
The two roommates were stunned.
My friend is talking to you about games, but you are talking about metaphysics, right? Luck is something that is predetermined by heaven. If luck can be changed, then wouldn't everyone be able to win 5 million in the lottery? "Ahem..."
"What are you two thinking about? The boss has already said that the luck we are discussing is limited to game luck, that is, the luck when playing games."
Chen Zihan was speechless and said, "What does this have to do with real luck? He won 5 million in the lottery. Even if the child of destiny came, he probably wouldn't win, right?"
Reality is reality, and games are games.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Luck in real life is invisible and intangible, and it is even more impossible to change your luck against all odds. That is a true metaphysical concept! But luck in the game...
Who says this thing can't be changed? Who says the unlucky people in the game can't sneak into the European world?
After all, games are just a bunch of codes. Since it is a computer program and a program controlled by humans, it means that there is room for manipulation.
"To put it bluntly, those game cheats, if put into novels, would just be the templates of the protagonists, with the standard cheat codes."
Chen Zihan couldn't help laughing and said, "Do you understand now? The luck in the game can be changed. It is possible for a non-African to sneak into the European world."
"How do you do that?"
Yu Zihan raised his eyebrows and said, "Cheating? Just crack the game so that everyone can become the child of destiny and have fun in the game?"
"I don't know, but it shouldn't be cheating..."
Chen Zihan shook his head.
If they were using cheats, or directly hacking and modifying the client or server data of the other party's game, wouldn't Tianba Studio be guilty of a heinous crime? All game companies should sue them and ask them to compensate for the losses, right?
Based on this premise, the "merit to change fortune" mentioned by Brother Ba in the update announcement is definitely not done by cheating or directly modifying data.
But Chen Zihan couldn't figure out how to implement it specifically. After all, he was just an ordinary college student and didn't know much about computers.
"Why don't you just give it a try and find out?"
Yu Zihan was eager to try: "According to the description in the update announcement, it means that the more merits you accumulate, the stronger your luck will become, right?"
"It seems so."
Chen Zihan nodded and said, "But the announcement didn't mention how much merit is needed to change one's luck, and..."
This merit changes fortune. What kind of fortune does it change?
Change your luck for a specific game so that you can enjoy the treatment of "Lucky King" when playing this game?
Or did he change his luck in the game? No matter what game he plays, he can enjoy the same treatment as the "Emperor of Europe"? Most importantly, how did Brother Ba achieve this "merit to change his luck"? He wouldn't be banned right after he changed his luck, right?
…
"Have you forgotten our merit whitelist?"
Seeing that Xiao Lu was also confused about what the so-called merit-changing fortune was, Chen Ba explained: "We have connections with all the games on the merit whitelist, including those that are not on the list."
Brothers, all of us are brothers!
Through the game "Xiuzhen Fantasy", Tianba Studio has established "deep friendships" with many friendly companies.
With this relationship in place, we can just give them a heads up and ask them to tweak their own games to give certain preferential treatment to players with high merits. Wouldn't that make "merits changing fortunes" a reality?
"So this is how you change your fortune..."
Xiao Lu complained: "I thought you were planning to use illegal means to invade the other party's server and modify the game data to change the players' luck!"
"How is that possible!"
Chen Ba firmly denied, "Am I that kind of person? I would never do that. Besides, with the power of the divination program of "Mountain Village Past", is it necessary to invade the other party's server?"
It was changed without anyone noticing! After all, this is the code written by the Tiehanhan system, and it is a piece of cake to attack with dimensionality reduction and make small moves against friendly competitors.
Chen Ba is a civilized man.
He felt that it would be better to communicate in advance. After all, everyone was a buddy, so how could they do anything sneaky?
If these game companies are willing to accept his proposal and conduct secret operations on players who have "immeasurable merits", everyone will be happy.
If you don’t want to…
Sorry, you have to agree to it even if you don't want to. After all, if Tianba Studio really wants to do something, these friendly companies can't stop it, and they can't even detect it.
Don't forget! In the game "Mountain Village Past", the purpose of the divination program is that the divination comes first and then the game process.
"First, you use divination to get the hexagram, and then deduce a suitable game process and plot based on the hexagram."
Chen Ba explained: "That is to say, the divination program of "Mountain Village Past" has the ability to modify the game content and data from the very beginning."
Although the modification scope is limited to the game "Mountain Village Past", this restriction is not impossible to remove...
"Okay, I have no problem with all of that. I just want to know, as a horror game, do you think "The Village" is lacking in something?"
"Almost what?"
"The plot! Why is no one discussing the plot, and no one discussing the horror elements in the game?"
Xiao Lu was extremely mad and said, "Please! We have put so much effort into making this game, creating so many puzzle levels and interlocking plots, why is no one discussing it?"
This makes him look stupid!
You know, "Past Events in a Mountain Village" is a story script that he spent countless brain cells to polish, and each puzzle level is also carefully designed.
result……
The game has been released for almost a week, and no one has yet finished it. Everyone is studying the divination system.
Xiao Lu felt so tired that he wanted the world to be destroyed immediately.
Are these players seriously ill? Hu Xi's adoptive father has been dead for almost a year, why hasn't he been buried yet? Why are they studying that broken copper coin all day? Can you please follow the story and bury your father quickly? Don't let his body be exposed in the wilderness?
(End of this chapter)