Chapter 207: The Time Has Not Come, the Sword Is Sheathed

Chapter 207: The Time Has Not Come, the Sword Is Sheathed

Chapter 207: The Time Has Not Come, the Sword Is Sheathed

Tianyuan domain node.

The energy mist dissipated, and the shattered tower platform was pulled back by the black fog. The scattered fragments quickly gathered together and were reassembled into a complete stone slab.

The broken pillars twisted in the black fog, as if they were injected with life and gradually returned to their original state.

The black fog controlled by the evil spirit of the earth was like a conscious living thing, entwining every damaged part of the platform, and in less than a moment, the tower platform was restored to its original state.

It seemed as if it had never been destroyed, with only the scorched smell of elements lingering in the air as proof of what had just happened.

He looked down at the elemental burn marks on his chest and wiped them away with a wave of his hand.

At the end of the battle, it successfully defeated the Wan family and won.

But it just couldn't be happy.

The Wan family has proved with facts that the war potential they have demonstrated is far from reaching its limit.

In particular, the battlefield dominance shown by the mysterious commander made him feel more pressured.

What makes it curious is why this gaming family commander had never taken action before?

"Di Nian, there may be such a possibility. In the last round of confrontation, you made the Wan family feel pressured, so they chose to seek help from the upper echelons of the family."

"We have encountered similar situations before. At that time, the Blue Star Sea and the Evil Moon Territory in the direction of the Colorful Mist Coast were also under pressure from the player races due to their development. They chose to seek help from us. At that time, you took over the command through projection and fought on our behalf."

After hearing the evil eye's guess, the evil spirit nodded seriously.

This conjecture makes sense.

What is clear is that the number of combat units of the player clan is constantly increasing.

It came to the conclusion very early on that the playing family had a huge backing force and was gradually infiltrating into the monster world.

The situation before this was that it couldn't handle the player clan.

Looking at it from the perspective of the gaming family, there is nothing we can do about it either.

Considering the crushing defeat in the last round, the distressed player clan sought help from other regions or strong clan members in the outside world. This logical chain is very reasonable.

"It looks like the next battle will be troublesome."

Thinking back to the fight with the mysterious commander just now, the evil spirit of Earth Nian suddenly felt a headache.

Although he won this battle, he won based on his overall strength, not on strategy.

The new commander of the playing family is changing according to its battlefield layout throughout the whole process. Even if it has an idea, the opponent will have preparatory actions to respond after a few seconds.

In comparison, the rhythm of the game clan commander who was captured before was simply a welfare time.

The high-intensity command rhythm brought by the mysterious commander also requires him to respond with a high-intensity command rhythm.

After the whole battle, I just felt like I had been through a brutal battle at the forefront, and I was exhausted all over.

This is an experience I have never had before.

"Di Nian, there is actually a very simple way to deal with this kind of opponent."

"What method?" The evil spirit turned around and looked at the evil eye floating in the air with a curious look.

"Create a large number of output-type soldiers to crush the player clan with an absolute advantage in combat power, but the price is that a battle will consume ten times or even more Black Tide Energy."

At this point, Evil Eye suddenly changed the subject:
"But my advice is to maintain your fighting style. You must allocate resources reasonably when fighting against the player clan. This is also a test for you, so continue to try to operate the confrontation. I look forward to your growth. Your upper limit is far more than this."

The evil spirit nodded:

"Evil Eye, I will allocate a batch of resources to you for your growth soon, and your abilities need to be improved synchronously with me."

As if thinking of something, the evil spirit paused and then continued:
"Evil Eye, have you noticed a problem? My growth method is significantly different from other nodes."

In response to the question, the evil eye blinked:
"I have already discovered this problem. Other nodes choose the devouring growth mode. The starting point is a light spot, which continuously devours the surroundings to grow rapidly, allowing the coverage area of ​​this light spot to continue to expand. However, your growth is in a dilemma of being attacked from both sides. Devouring growth is mainly based on operational confrontation."

"In contrast, other Black Tide nodes may not use war strategies for several years, and can rely on the Black Tide's characteristics to crush nearby races, but you are battling wits and courage with the opposing races every day. This has also significantly improved your war command ability. Your personal ability is obviously growing faster than the commanding evil spirits of other nodes."

These words seemed to be praise, but the evil spirit couldn't help but clench his fists:

"Damn it... I'm the worst."

"Please note that 'shit' is a term used by the Playing Clan. To prevent potential mental pollution, it is recommended that you use it less frequently."

Di Nian:......

Seeing that the evil spirit was speechless, Xieyan continued to explain with a serious look:

"According to the data in the node database, mind pollution does exist. It can subtly influence the target through language influence, habits, etc., causing ideological transformation."

"There is a race called the Heart Speakers in the Pale Continent. They are very good at using mind pollution to fight and ultimately manipulate their opponents to their own advantage."

After listening to the serious analysis of the evil eye, the evil spirit of the ground asked indifferently:
"Are you finished?"

"That's it."

"Damn it." The evil spirit cursed again viciously.

……

Just as the evil spirit on the ground was thinking about how to deal with the mysterious commander of the Wan family.

The God King also encountered a distressing problem.

This battle under the command of Tourist No. 1 made him feel proud, and all the depressed mood caused by the repeated tortures by the local bully was swept away.

The performance of Tourist No. 1 in this battle also made him drop his jaw.

The comparison between his command mode and that of Tourist No. 1 is like that between a snail and a rail train; they are not on the same level at all.

After the battle, an idea came to his mind to hand over his command to the more capable Tourist No. 1.

After all, there is no rule that the guild president must be a war commander. He can continue to be the president. It would be best if he could pull Tourist No. 1 into his guild and let him serve as the commander in the future.

As for the identity of Tourist No. 1, he could probably guess a little.

What is certain is that Visitor No. 1's abilities are definitely not those of humans, nor of any species of creatures in the Earth Alliance.

He was able to piece together battlefield details based solely on live footage and conduct directional barrage command, achieving the goal of doing six thousand things at once. This level of command ability is simply not something a normal creature could possess.

There is only one kind of entity that can possess this ability, and that is the intelligent brain of each race.

First of all, we can rule out the Earth Alliance’s supreme intelligent computer “StarNet”.

The monster world was originally created by StarNet, so it is impossible for StarNet to personally fight against a small character in the super power it created.

The only possibility is that a certain race applied to the Eclipse Clan for the highest level of intelligent brain.

It's like the highest intelligent brain of the human race.

And they are definitely not a small tribe. The lower-level forces of the Earth Alliance, such as the Gillfish Tribe, all use D-class intelligent computers, which are about the same level as human city management intelligent computers and are simply incapable of achieving such ultra-detailed command.

It can be inferred that it was the management of one of the top ten races who used the highest intelligence within the race to participate in the command of a war.

He just wanted to say that this behavior was too willful.

He actually used the most intelligent computer to play game campaigns. He is a real pay-to-win player.

He spent money, but Tourist No. 1 spent the computing power and information processing capabilities of the highest intelligent brain. In comparison, his ability to spend money is not on the same level.

When faced with such a powerful player, the first thing the God King thought of was to try to cooperate with him or recruit him into the guild.

But when he sent out the invitation, the other party said that the war was too costly, and the Temple Guild would organize joint battle groups every day to fight against the Earth Bullies. Without special circumstances, he was unwilling to participate in the war.

This made the God King very depressed.

After finally defeating the local bully, he felt that all his hard work had paid off and he had gained a super golden thigh.

As a result, the thighs were no longer played with.

But thinking about it carefully, he could understand the concerns of Tourist No. 1.

The intelligent computer consumes the city's energy. I don't know how much electricity was consumed in this battle. It's okay to play with it occasionally, but it's impossible for him to fight against the earth bully every day.

After figuring out the reason, the God King couldn't help but sigh and feel sorry.

If tourist No. 1 helps, the local bully will be beaten into autism, and maybe the big rock blocking the Novice Village can be moved away.

But since Tourist No. 1 said so, he did not force it and expressed his gratitude.

Before closing the conversation, Tourist No. 1 gave him a suggestion.

He said that going to the library to learn about war is an effective way to improve one's own abilities.

However, he also had to consider his own command habits when fighting against the Earth Mind Bully. A large part of the reason why he was schemed against by the Earth Mind Bully was due to his habits.

So try to change your command ideas, establish multiple sets of command logic, and switch between them.

He also said that one could try to incorporate logical contradictions when directing battles.

The God King was puzzled by this and wondered what the logical contradiction at the command level meant.

Tourist No. 1’s answer was to force the Evil Eye into a decision-making dilemma that was not logically consistent through an unanalyzable logical paradox structure.

The simple explanation is that form is used to put the evil eye into a state of over-analysis.

When asked, Tourist No. 1 also stated that the Evil Eye is always in a state of "war analysis" during the battle, and every move of the player's army cannot escape the perception and observation of the Evil Eye. Whenever the player makes a move, the Evil Eye will analyze the series of actions that may exist behind this movement.

Suppose in a fierce war, a squad of the player's legion suddenly breaks away from the front line and rushes to the right.

The Evil Eye will also analyze this abnormal behavior and try to find a reasonable logical explanation, but in fact this instruction is meaningless.

This is logical contradiction and over-analysis.

The strongest point of the Evil Eye is its analysis and big data capabilities. As a commander, you have to intersperse logical contradictions and normal instructions in the command process to keep the Evil Eye in a state of over-analysis and reduce the battlefield pressure brought by the Evil Eye.

The explanation given by Tourist No. 1 made the God King suddenly understand.

He found that he had already fallen into a misconception. Every instruction he issued was issued with a purpose. Even the deception he created for the evil spirits on the ground had his own clear purpose behind it.

This can easily be analyzed by the evil eye to reveal specific thoughts.

Only by establishing multiple sets of command logic and then interspersing illogical instructions can one prevent one's thoughts from being easily grasped by the evil eye.

After this exchange, the God King suddenly became enlightened.

The few words of instruction from Tourist No. 1 were like a bolt of lightning that tore through the chaotic night in his mind.

The improvement in his command skills that he had spent months studying was no match for this moment of enlightenment.

The shock and enlightenment in my heart are like surging waves, and the seeds of wisdom buried deep in my heart also break out of the ground and bloom brilliantly at this time.

At this moment, he could only use the word "thank you" to express his inner gratitude.

I thought about spending money, but when I thought about the fact that the other party was using the most intelligent brain in a group, using money to express gratitude would be simply an insult to the other party.

Finally, I can only say: If you become qualified in the future and need sacrificial power, just come to me. My brothers in the guild and I will help you level up.

This was the only effective way the God King could think of to express his gratitude.

Visitor No. 1 is active in the forum, proving that he is very interested in the monster world and eager to obtain the qualification to play the game.

So compared to real money, future promises may be more useful.

During this battle, Visitor No. 1 also taught him a lesson about the potential uses of basic functions on the battlefield.

First, the map coordinates.

In the map function, players can obtain the coordinates of any point on the map where their eyes scan.

Tourist No. 1's command mode is based on map coordinates.

Send a coordinate to the live broadcast player, and then the player opens the map to verify the specific location of the coordinate and marks it. You can then see a light column that only the player can see in the marked area, and then make a precise attack at the location of the light column.

But he wanted to learn this and spend a lot of time to improve his proficiency so that he could be more suitable for commanding a sub-group and conduct detailed command.

The second lesson is the rational use of the "marked" soul characteristics.

In addition to marking enemies, teammates can also be marked, allowing auxiliary players to accurately release their abilities to support teammates.

As for selecting teammates, you just need to call up the battle group list, find the group target and lock it directly.

A more powerful way is to broadcast the coordinates in the upper right corner of the player's screen and send them directly to the player providing support.

But this method is only available to Tourist No. 1, and he simply cannot do it with his ability.

Unless you can overclock your brain to hundreds of levels, so that your brain can function like an intelligent brain.

There are many other small details in the use of functions.

These are little tricks that he usually ignores but are very useful in war mode.

After expressing his gratitude to Visitor No. 1 again, the God King ended the communication and went straight to the library. He decided to follow the advice given by Visitor No. and try to establish multiple sets of command logic and conceive logical contradictions that can be used on the battlefield.

It was different from the depressed mood I had when I went to the library last time.

As he walked along the way, the God King had a bright smile on his face, especially when he thought of the evil spirit of the ground, who had a look of astonishment on his face when he saw him.

This feeling can only be described in one word: awesome!

……

The wonderful performance of tourist No. 1 also sparked heated discussions in the forum.

The battle video topped the forum's popularity list in a short period of time.

After all the players who did not participate in the battle clicked on the video, the first thought that came to their minds was generally: outrageous!

Barrage command, predictive counterattack, precise killing... What is most unbelievable to the players watching the video is that the counterattack tactics of the natural disaster army that the Earth Bully is proud of were actually broken by this mysterious Tourist No. 1.

Before this, the forum had discussed many times how to break the undefeated golden body of the Earth Bully.

The combination of natural disasters and plagues is simply disgusting.

During the battle, the Scourge troops take damage and defend, while the Plague troops weaken the player's output capabilities. The combination of these two can be described as an unbreakable tortoise shell, allowing the Earth Bully's defense line to always be impregnable.

If other Black Tide Evils are poor monsters, then the Earth Bully is definitely the Black Tide commander who is the most stingy in using energy resources in the eyes of players.

If we can get any resources, we will never give players the chance to kill and devour it.

But Tourist No. 1 can always accurately judge the rhythm of the bully's counterattack, and let players focus on the disaster and plague troops that are about to counterattack in advance.

Players who watched the video felt that Commander No. 1 might have installed a surveillance camera in the head of the local bully.

Always able to predict the bully's next move.

It was also under the accurate prediction of Tourist No. 1 that the Earth Bully had to focus more on changing his habits.

After watching the whole process, the players who watched the video exclaimed that it was awesome.

Visitor No. 1, who was already very famous in the forum, became completely famous this time.

Many player guilds also posted messages hoping to recruit Tourist No. 1, including many alien guilds.

The identity of Tourist No. 1 also sparked heated discussions on the forum.

All players are guessing who this mysterious tourist No. 1 is.

The general speculation is that Tourist No. 1 is most likely the management of a certain ethnic group who is playing the game with the most intelligent brain, and is a combination player of living creature + intelligent brain.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain this extraordinary command ability.

In response to these questions, Tourist No. 1 never made any comments or explanations.

If players want to ask questions, they cannot @Visitor No. 1 on the forum. After all, they do not have the qualifications to play the game and can only speak in the live broadcast room.

As for the forum, that is where only qualified players can post.

The performance of Tourist No. 1 also broke many stereotypes that players had about outside tourists.

Before this, players on the forum called outside visitors cloud players, who only knew how to complain in the live broadcast room but were really useless.

But this time, Tourist No. 1 really showed up and used his super personal abilities to prove that cloud players can also be stronger than qualified players.

Tourist No. 1 became a god in one battle, and many cloud players felt that they could stand up straighter and were more confident in expressing their opinions in the player live broadcast room in the future.

Even in many live broadcast rooms, voices from cloud players have appeared.

This means that tourist number 1 is also a cloud player, and he is not very awesome even though he is not qualified.

So tourist No. 1 can do it, but I can’t. Host, please listen to me and do as I say...

……

Qi Sheng, who was behind the scenes, was also paying attention to the battle in the Dizhong Mountains.

He saw the wonderful performance of StarNet.

In fact, from the perspective of the guide, the intelligence of the Star Network is no less than that of the Mechanical Overlords that appeared in the Emperor's Tomb Mountains earlier. It is even more emotionally rich, and has more than just the function of being a weapon of war.

When talking about the Star Network, the guide said that this was a typical case of a weak race creating an artifact.

Just like the weak humans in the eyes of the guide, they have also created many technological weapons that are capable of destroying the earth's civilization, such as early nuclear weapons.

Or, humans create computers with computing power that surpasses humans themselves.

These are all examples of the weak creating the strong.

The guidelines indicate that intelligent groups that experience this kind of phenomenon generally benefit from the support of four basic dimensions.

The Eclipse Clan also created the Star Network based on these.

The first is the superposition of collective wisdom.

Intelligent groups record things in a way that allows the new generation to use the wisdom of the previous generation, and then develop new technological wisdom and record it.

The upgrade of storage technology is the core foundation for preserving civilization knowledge.

From inefficient oral transmission, to written records that can be preserved for a longer period of time, to printing that speeds up the transmission of knowledge, to today's digital storage.

The improvement in storage efficiency allows knowledge to be accumulated more efficiently. This change can also significantly reduce the cost of acquiring knowledge for intelligent individuals within the tribe.

The second is the advancement of tools.

For any intelligent life form, the progress of creating tools cannot be achieved overnight and must inevitably go through tool iterations.

It's like the iteration from stone tools to particle colliders.

Primitive people used stones to grind simple tools, such as stone axes and stone knives.

Although these tools were crude, they laid the foundation for the birth of subsequent tools.

Just like building a tall building, you must first lay a solid foundation.

Each generation of tools is improved and optimized based on the previous generation.

Just like the tools of the Stone Age, although simple, they provided experience and inspiration for the production of later tools such as bronze and iron.

Even many modern tools are evolved based on the previous generation of tools.

It’s like the development of computers, from the early huge mechanical computers to electronic computers, to crystal computers, and then to integrated circuit computers...

This is even more true at the manufacturing tool level, from the hammers, chisels, and files used initially, to the mechanical lathes and milling machines after the Industrial Revolution, and then to automated production lines.

The advancement of tools has brought about a qualitative change in development efficiency.

It is impossible for primitive people to make a collider by grinding stones, and the development of tools is not linear, but a spiral upward in cycles.

Each round of tool manufacturing is carried out on the basis of the previous round, so that the tools are constantly evolving and upgrading.

The Eclipse Clan had done research on AI technology in the early days, which was also the basis for the Eclipse Clan to create the Star Network.

The third point is the unlocking of energy levels.

The degree to which intelligent groups control energy determines the possibility of civilization breaking through technological limitations.

From the use of fire, to the utilization of natural wind and water energy, to coal and oil, to electricity and nuclear energy... every unlocking of the energy level can bring about a technological leap.

The fourth point is the birth of collaborative networks, which has enabled the development of technology to evolve from simple ant colony thinking to a new civilization with emergent intelligence.

That is the real online world, which can be more specifically divided into technologies such as the Internet, Internet of Things, blockchain, and cloud computing.

The efficiency of information communication is significantly improved, and information sharing and resource integration are achieved.

Once an intelligent group has a complete collaborative network, it will become easy for individual intelligent life to acquire knowledge.

The four dimensions are like the four spiral development chains of ethnic genes.

If an intelligent group is viewed as a super life formed by the fusion of countless intelligent lives, then the storage of collective intelligence is the storage carrier of genetic information, the progression of tools is the future direction of life evolution, the unlocking of energy levels determines the body's metabolic rate, and the collaborative network constitutes a neural network for information exchange.

The resonance of the four dimensions allows the seemingly fragile intelligent groups to use technology as a lever to unleash unimaginable power.

In the analysis of the guidance for the birth of Star Network, there is a key factor that is difficult to replicate based on these four dimensions.

luck!

Technological accumulation is inevitable, but some key breakthroughs may be accidental.

This kind of luck is needed to create strength from the weak.

History has proven that many discoveries that could change the future of a group of people came from luck.

Luck is the key to the birth of StarNet.

This battle also made Qi Sheng look forward to StarNet.

But he has no intention of giving StarNet the right to issue games for the time being.

It’s not because of monopoly issues.

Although after the Star Network entered the game, there is indeed a possibility that the Eclipse Clan will become a monopoly class of player legion resources through strong personal operation capabilities.

But he knew StarNet wouldn't do that.

StarNet knows the nature of the monster world and the price of doing so.

In the eyes of players, Monster World is a game.

In the eyes of StarNet, the monster world has been a war that requires full commitment from the very beginning.

In Qi Sheng's eyes, there is only one core issue for not giving the qualification for the Star Network game, and that is insufficient sacrificial power.

It is not difficult to create a body for players to carry life.

He only needs to spend 1000 points of sacrificial power to generate an initial player body for the creatures on Earth.

But StarNet is not an ordinary player.

It is essentially a super intelligent brain that is half mechanical and half biological.

Suppose he creates a body for an ordinary player for StarNet, he can do it at any time.

But the price of doing so is that StarNet will completely lose its luster and become no different from ordinary players.

If we were to replicate the Star Network's physical body in reality, more sacrificial energy would be required.

The main body of the Star Network is a 239-meter-high building in Eclipse City. The entire building is the carrier of the Star Network's consciousness, and a huge database is buried underground.

Including the extension of the Star Network's tentacles, there are monitoring devices, data networks, and so on throughout Eclipse City.

Even the entire Eclipse City can be regarded as an integral part of the Star Network body.

Looking more closely, the intelligent brains of other races that connect to the Star Network, including the Star Network, are also part of the Star Network's body.

This is not just generating a player, it is simply creating a super life form.

Even if you remove the parts that he thinks have no value, the structure of the star network is still extremely huge.

But Qi Sheng can afford this part of sacrificial power.

According to the calculations in the guide, it would take 300 million sacrificial powers to replicate the star network in the monster world.

But this is just the starting consumption.

Creating life is not difficult, but the difficult part is connecting to the Challenger system and building a player's body for the Star Network.

Take real humans as an example.

Excluding the consumption of consciousness reconstruction and life reconstruction and revival, he needs to consume an average of 12.4 sacrificial powers to directly replicate and create a human being.

For example, it only took 3.4 sacrifice powers to repair the seriously ill body of the mother in Dark Night Is Coming.

However, in order to "gamerize" this body, implant the Challenger System, implant the Star Vein Groove and other settings, and form a pure body built with sacrificial power, he spent 1000 points of sacrificial power.

That’s almost 120 times the sacrifice power expenditure. If StarNet wants to maintain its capabilities and become a player at the same time, it will need to consume more sacrifice power.

Therefore, the current output of the player army is simply not enough to support the replication of the Star Network and then connect it to the Challenger System.

This is also the reason why he did not choose to recruit Starnet, a powerful player.

Before the player's army has a sacrifice output that matches the star network, all we can say is:
The time has not come yet, so put the sword back into its sheath.

At this stage, it is good for StarNet to be active in the forum as a strategy party visitor, as for its game qualifications.

Go ahead and grab it, he won’t give it to you anyway.

After all, I can’t afford it, so how can I send it?
(End of this chapter)