Chapter 164: Overclocked Divine Might, A Reasonable Plan (Begging for Monthly Tickets)

Looking at the elderly player who had already died.

The opponent's detailed information surfaced in Qi Sheng's mind.

【Name: Lei Lei Lingfei】:

Age: 97

Identity Analysis: Born in Earth Calendar year 2428, a member of the Human Federation, was an ordinary engineer in his youth, entered the Resource Management Bureau through hard work, performed outstandingly on the job… later served in the "Resource Management Bureau" as a Resource Allocation Specialist, responsible for coordinating resource distribution between Earth and the various races, ensuring stable supply of materials across all regions of the Alliance.

With a wave of his hand, Lei Lei Lingfei's three-dimensional projection screen in the game appeared before Qi Sheng's eyes.

On the right side was the detailed record of the game information.

Monster World information:

Star Vein Combination (Four-Star Vein Slots): Gargoyle (Lv. 42), Resistance (Lv. 23), Bloodthirst (Lv. 29), Rock Shield (Lv. 18).

Armed Vehicle: Personalized Hovercar (Shou Shou Jili: 3429)

Spatial Pouch: Intermediate Health Recovery Potion (5), Low-Grade Health Recovery Potion (15), Spirit Recovery Potion (3), Silver-Tail Fish (12), Celestial Star Grass (1)… Total Value: 5823 Shou Shou Jili.

Portable Guide Avatar Level: 10

Growth-Type Pet: Light Spirit Feather (Lv. 21)

Shou Shou Jili Reserve: 239 points

……

After reading Lei Lei Lingfei's analysis information, Qi Sheng fell into thought.

How to handle a player who had died in reality — he truly had not considered this question in detail.

But since it had already happened.

He had to plan ahead for how to deal quickly and effectively with similar incidents in the future.

As his thoughts churned, the wail of an ambulance siren drew near from afar.

Qi Sheng raised his hand and grabbed at the dead old man; instantly, the consciousness that was dispersing gathered into an invisible orb of light in his palm.

He also followed the guide back to the Meng Yuan Chu Altar at this moment.

Looking at the consciousness orb in his hand, Qi Sheng, who had not yet decided how to handle it, planned to preserve this dead player's consciousness in storage.

In an instant, the consciousness sphere in his hand appeared in the Shou Shou Jili Pool space, suspended above.

According to the Human Federation's regulations, cremation after death must be carried out after seven days.

Assuming he chose resurrection, he also had sufficient time to do so.

Next, he had to think carefully about the correct way to resolve this matter.

……

The real world, the Underground Cavern Trading Market.

This was one of the venues where the alien races conducted resource and technology exchanges; the market was a mixed bag, with the various races communicating through Earth language or portable translation devices.

As a D-rank administrator, Qin Ye patrolled the trading area under his jurisdiction once before returning to his room.

Then he could hardly wait to prepare to log into the game.

Now, every time he logged off, it gave him a strong sense of disconnection, always making him feel out of place in reality.

The food in reality, his frail body… accustomed to the player's body in Monster World, even breathing felt laborious in reality, and the air was unbearably murky.

It was nothing like the energy-rich air of Monster World, which tasted delicious.

Yes, "delicious" was entirely the right word.

Every breath in Monster World was full of vitality; he could even feel the energy particles dancing in the air flow in through his nostrils, down his trachea straight into his lungs, and then circulate through his body.

After spending a long time in the game, this sensation didn't seem particularly remarkable.

But every time he returned to reality, it became especially intense.

Each breath was like inhaling a thick fog, making him deeply uncomfortable.

He even felt Earth's air carried a heavy, oppressive texture, like a mixture of dust, smoke, and dampness, invading through his nostrils and clinging to his throat and lungs.

On top of that, without the attribute boosts of the player's body, his heart and lung strength were diminished.

Every breath became laborious, as if there were invisible resistance in the air hindering the flow of oxygen.

This murky air not only made him feel physically unwell, but also brought a psychological oppression, as if the entire world had lost its color and vitality.

So every time he logged off and returned to Monster World, there was a feeling of breaking free from a cage and gaining liberty.

These issues were also reflected in the food.

He now subsisted entirely on nutrient solution, and ate his meals inside Monster World.

He would rather spend Shou Shou Jili to buy spirit-food than eat ordinary meals devoid of spiritual essence.

The moment his patrol ended, the first thing Qin Ye thought of upon returning to his room was to enter the game, not to stay in reality.

Just as he had changed into his game suit and was preparing to enter the game pod, his phone rang.

The melody of the ringtone made Qin Ye pause; he decisively went to the desk and pressed the green button.

Instantly, the projection lamp on the ceiling lit up, popping up a light screen before him.

On the screen was an old man with graying hair, several deep wrinkles on his forehead, sharply defined features, prominent brow bones, wearing a well-tailored uniform, a delicate badge pinned to his left shoulder, his silver hair neatly combed back, looking capable and dignified, radiating an unquestionable authority.

Before Qin Ye could speak, the old man introduced himself:

"Qin Ye, I am Wang Quan, Chief of the Dome Technology R&D Center."

"Chief Wang, please go ahead."

"Tell me about your current situation in the game, including your Painful Painful Minghun level and other details."

Upon hearing this, Qin Ye immediately reported the detailed situation of his game.

After hearing his account, Wang Quan nodded, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes smoothing out:

"Qin Ye, I have a mission for you."

"Chief Wang, please give your orders."

"In the game Monster World, the Imperial Tomb Village space has a library that contains a large amount of technical data the Eclipse Clan has not publicly released. I need you to go to the library and memorize as much of the data as possible, then bring these technical materials out."

Qin Ye heard this and couldn't help but be stunned.

He hadn't expected that the chief of Dome Technology R&D Center contacting him was actually to have him obtain technical data from inside the game.

But then he thought of a problem:

"Chief Wang, why does the technical data need to be brought out by memorization? Now that Monster World and the outside world are connected, it could be brought out by posting."

Wang Shou in the screen shook his head:

"We've already tried this method. After posting, it gets judged as content unrelated to the game and gets deleted. Plus each post has a length limit, and sending large numbers of such posts results in a one-month forum ban. There's no way to operate the way you suggested."

"Secondly, the library's books can't be viewed through livestream either. It looks like text reading, but it might actually be consciousness reading — the books simply can't display any content in the livestream feed."

"So we can only use the most rudimentary method, which is also the most effective — transporting the content through memory."

"Also, you know the situation with the Genetic R&D Department and the Weapons R&D Department. Their Painful Painful Minghun and Body Tempering levels are relatively low, making it hard to quickly memorize large amounts of content. So we need a higher-level player like you to go and try whether this data-transport model is feasible. If it doesn't work, we'll think of other methods."

Understanding the reason, Qin Ye nodded solemnly:

"Chief Wang, I understand. I'll enter the game shortly to try memorizing the technical data… By the way, are there any requirements for the direction of the technical data?"

"For now, focus primarily on spirit-plant cultivation techniques. If there's other need, I'll contact you."

"Understood."

Hanging up the connection, Qin Ye knew he was going to be busy.

The one who called was the chief of Dome Technology R&D Base — his superior's superior's superior. He had to go all out on this mission.

From now on, he would fight for the rise of humanity.

Returning to the game pod, he opened the back cover, pulled out several soft tubes from inside, and connected them to a freshly opened nutrition canister.

One canister of nutrient solution could sustain the body's consumption needs for about seven days. At 100% absorption, it produced no metabolic waste, so no excretion was needed during gameplay.

But the game pod still had an excretion-handling system to deal with waste from various foods players ate before entering the game — it would be absorbed into the pod walls and ultimately flow into the waste tank beneath the game pod.

For the next period of time, he planned to spend the entire duration inside the game.

Before long, Qin Ye's figure appeared in the Imperial Tomb Village space.

The crimson robe on his body transformed into a crystalline form that fell to the ground, gathering into a stylishly cool-looking tractor that carried him toward the marked location on the map.

Entering the library, he headed straight for the spirit-plant books section, picked a basic spirit-plant studies book, and went to the reading area to begin flipping through and memorizing.

Time passed, and the more Qin Ye read, the more his head ached.

Memorizing also had its easy and hard parts.

The bitter, hard-to-understand content involved complex concepts. He lacked relevant knowledge of spirit-plant studies, so it was difficult to establish connections with existing knowledge, leading to memory difficulties.

It required the brain to spend more time recording, and no clear knowledge logic chain could be formed.

He could only memorize by rote — no technique to speak of.

After memorizing three pages of content, Qin Ye flipped back to the first page to memorize again, and felt that some of the earlier content had already gotten mixed up.

Before long, Qin Ye stopped flipping pages.

He felt that rather than memorizing content this way, it would be more efficient to memorize a portion, go offline, organize and record that portion on the computer, then come back in to continue memorizing.

But doing so was truly troublesome.

Just then, a flash of inspiration struck his mind.

He suddenly thought of a special Painful Painful Minghun that forum players had flushed down the drain: Brain Overclock.

This Painful Painful Minghun's characteristic effect was boosting thinking-logic ability and memory.

Wasn't this a perfect match for his current needs?

Feeling this approach was feasible, Qin Ye summoned the function panel and opened the Star Vein interface.

After much deliberation, he still painfully chose to decompose the control Painful Painful Minghun in his Star Vein slot three.

After purchasing the third-generation Meng Yuan Chu Painful Painful Minghun Brain Overclock, he poured all the evolution points obtained from decomposition into it.

The Brain Overclock Painful Painful Minghun immediately rose to level 31.

Taking a deep breath, Qin Ye activated Brain Overclock mode with anticipation.

As if a current of electricity pierced through his whole body, a tremendous energy was injected into his brain, and the entire world before his eyes suddenly became clear.

Hmm?

In an instant, it was like a carnival feast unfolding inside his skull.

The blood at his temples drummed like a war-drum being struck, pulsing rhythmically with a thump-thump.

Each beat brought a sensation beyond words.

Everything in the outside world at this moment seemed captured by a super high-definition camera — every detail was vivid down to the finest hair. The textures on the book pages that normally required leaning in to examine were exceptionally clear. The sound of his heartbeat amplified in his ears, and he could hear the clear sound of every tiny muscle twitch.

His thoughts were like a train running at ultra-high speed, racing along vast tracks.

Those "Spirit Energy Studies" concepts that normally required racking his brain to grasp now stood like a neat row of dominoes — with one gentle push they toppled in succession, and the logic chains linked up perfectly in an instant.

The mathematical formulas in his memory were no longer dry symbols but became magical codes unlocking the world's mysteries. Language and text seemed endowed with life — various vocabularies and grammars darted freely through his mind. Even those individual alien languages he had once memorized and had nearly half-forgotten by now all came back.

The gates of memory were thrown wide open, and every bit of the past, no matter how trivial and minute, came flooding back like a tide.

As a child, grabbing toys in the crib — the fine fuzz rubbing against his fingertips.

The obscure theories the professor explained in university lectures — every stroke order of the blackboard writing entered his mind with crystal clarity.

Even the clothing and appearance of the alien being he brushed past yesterday at the cavern trading market appeared clearly before his eyes, like high-definition footage he could call up and play at will.

Emotion, within this powerful torrent of thought, presented a state of utmost excitement.

Focus was like an unbreakable barrier, shutting out all outside interference, his whole being immersed in the wondrous journey of thought.

Under Brain Overclock mode, his body seemed to become an accessory to thought.

His breathing also quickened involuntarily at this moment. The air energy particles absorbed by the Air-Breathing Painful Painful Minghun continuously poured into his mouth, delivering more energy and nourishment to the high-speed-operating brain.

"Siiip~ siiip~."

The process of inhaling was like a bellows, stoking the blazing furnace of his brain.

His heart pounded like a wildly running engine, supplying an endless stream of energy for the feast of thought about to unfold.

"Such a powerful Painful Painful Minghun ability — it's a real shame it was tossed into the gutter just because it can't provide combat power."

After a brief sigh, Qin Ye picked up *Introductory Spirit Botany — Volume 1*, flipped to the first page, and began reading again.

What met his eyes was a vivid illustration of a spirit plant, its leaf veins as if heaven-made; his gaze drifted lightly onto the text, and those words about spirit plant characteristics, growth cycles, and cultivation methods seemed to carry a certain magic, drilling themselves into his brain on their own.

Rather than calling it memorization, it was more like scanning with his eyes.

Wherever his gaze swept, every detail and content he saw was recorded.

The feeling it gave Qin Ye was like taking screenshots at any moment.

What made Qin Ye even more incredulous was that, during the memorization process, his comprehension ability had also received a terrifying boost.

He found that he actually understood the contents of the book.

Before this, he had never come into contact with any knowledge related to spirit botany — he was completely clueless in this area.

But at this moment, through Brain Overclock, he had pieced together these tedious contents into a comprehensible logical thread.

The growth environment of spirit plants, spiritual energy concentration, geography and climate, soil conditions, spirit plant attributes… his brain was like a library that could automatically organize knowledge, cataloguing and housing what he recorded, with the corresponding pieces of knowledge linking to one another.

The process was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle.

Every time a piece of knowledge entered his brain, it would automatically fill in one section of the puzzle.

Knowledge kept connecting, gradually making the system of spirit botany clearer.

The highly efficient learning captivated Qin Ye, and brought him a strong sense of pleasure.

He was utterly immersed in the vast starry sea of spirit botany knowledge; the book spread open before him was like a treasure maze, every page a winding path leading to an unknown realm.

Those complicated descriptions were no longer obscure, hard-to-understand text — every passage could be assembled into a picture in his mind.

For example, a passage on page 39 of the book described the growth process of a spirit seed.

In his mind, the scene of the seed growing appeared automatically — the sprout cautiously poked out of the soil like a needle tip, trembling gently in the faint morning light, straining to stretch its slender body and touch the vast world beyond the soil.

How could this be called studying? It was simply brewing happiness.

His thirst for knowledge was satisfied in every way at this moment.

The sounds made by other players in the library were blocked off by an invisible barrier; his focus reached its peak.

Soon the contents of the first volume were recorded, and he decisively fetched the second volume to continue reading.

The third volume, the fourth volume… until he reached the sixth volume, when Qin Ye stopped his study.

Feeling dizzy, he turned off Brain Overclock mode.

At once, an indescribable sense of disparity washed over him.

Like a beach after the tide had receded — empty and silent.

Just moments ago he had been tearing along at ultra-high speed on the track of thought; now every idea in his brain suddenly slowed down.

The rapid throbbing at his temples steadied, a buzzing rang in his ears — these were signs of excessive spiritual energy consumption.

Drawing a deep breath, Qin Ye began trying to recall what he had memorized.

He was very worried about one thing: after Brain Overclock mode was turned off, would the content he had just memorized disappear?

Facts proved that, although recall had become sluggish, the content recorded at the time had not vanished.

It was just that the process of retrieving it had become extremely difficult — like a song that was currently playing but stuttering, requiring broken, intermittent bits to piece the song back together.

After waiting half an hour and trying to recall again, Qin Ye finally let out a long sigh of relief.

He could still remember all the content; he just needed to spend some time piecing the memories back together.

Confirmed it was feasible, Qin Ye grinned with delight, and immediately took out a bottle of spiritual-restoration potion from his spatial pouch and downed it in one gulp.

A clear, tasteless liquid entered his mouth, and a thread of coolness spread from his oral cavity.

Like a mountain spring, it flowed slowly over his parched throat; the taut nerves felt as if gently stroked, gradually relaxing.

Fatigue and drowsiness melted away quickly like snow under sunlight; the brain, which had been dizzy and muddled from prolonged high-intensity memorization, was like a clear breeze passing through — the fog instantly dispersed, and his thinking became clear.

Every neuron in his brain seemed to be reactivated, brimming with vigorous vitality.

His originally dulled reflexes instantly recovered their sharpness.

He summoned his attribute panel to check his spiritual energy value, then took out another bottle, until his spiritual energy value was filled to the brim.

With his state restored, he once again activated Brain Overclock mode, entering the state of a thought storm.

He now understood why Brain Overclock was a third-generation Meng Yuan Chu.

It was simply a god-tier skill among god-tier skills — a super ability that could bring wisdom.

At the current stage, everyone has few Star Vein Slots, and the Painful Painful Minghun embedded in them all boost combat power; but in the future, when there are more Star Vein Slots, Brain Overclock will also be a must-pick.

It seemed to offer no help at all to combat power — that was because no player had raised the level of the Brain Overclock Painful Painful Minghun.

The Brain Overclock he was currently using was level 31, and the boost to his thinking could be called a qualitative change.

In theory, this trait could also have an incidental effect on boosting combat power, letting a player clearly understand what they should do in combat to maximize efficiency.

In battle, it could also quickly analyze an opponent's weaknesses.

As long as the level was raised, the amplification Brain Overclock brought was terrifyingly powerful.

He even suspected that once Brain Overclock was raised to level 100, it would probably be able to analyze the opponent's next move based on subtle changes in their behavior and expression, achieving a combat mode that was nearly prescient — anticipating the enemy.

Secondly, in fields like command operations and technical research, Brain Overclock could also shine brilliantly.

After experiencing it, Brain Overclock in his eyes was already a T0-tier Painful Painful Minghun; aside from its expensive price, there was no problem with it at all.

But expensive came with its own logic.

"Heh, if only I could bring this Painful Painful Minghun back to reality."

After that sigh, Qin Ye once again entered a state of study.

The foundational knowledge of Spirit Botany has over 300 volumes; with the boost of Brain Overclock, he only needs a few days to finish learning this basic content.

An hour later, Qin Ye stopped once more.

After a long period of high-intensity mental exertion, an intense wave of hunger surged in his heart.

Completely opposite to the qi-and-blood recovery and spiritual power recovery effects brought by the Food-Qi Painful Painful Minghun, Brain Overclock is a Painful Painful Minghun that, in its activated state among the contained Painful Painful Minghun, requires the simultaneous consumption of both types of energy.

His body's nutrients were severely depleted, so he decisively took out a delicacy made by a Spirit Chef player from his spatial pouch and placed it on top of the book.

This was a spirit food priced at 38 Shou Shou Jili on the trading house: Precious Bone Warm Winter Pot.

After being taken out of the spatial pouch, it still retained the temperature from when it was finished; the curling rising heat carried a rich, fresh fragrance, instantly stirring Qin Ye's appetite.

He took out a metal spoon purchased from the trading house, scooped up a mouthful of soup, and brought it to his lips; the rich aroma of meat instantly filled his nostrils.

Sending it into his mouth to taste, the taste buds' carnival began right then and there.

The rich broth rippled lightly on the tip of his tongue; every touch released a signal of fresh fragrance, the mellow taste slid slowly down his throat, and warmth spread through his body, as if winter sunshine pierced through the clouds, gently wrapping his whole body.

This spirit food had the mellow meat fragrance of spirit beast spare ribs as its base, and also blended the spicy aroma of spices with the rich fragrance of the seasoning liquid; the flavors intertwined, harmonizing like a perfect symphony, every note striking precisely at his heart, leaving Qin Ye utterly intoxicated.

"This is what food for humans should be."

Having experienced spirit food, any food in reality became hard to swallow.

Every time he enjoyed a delicacy in Monster World, it brought him an intense sense of pleasure.

His gaze shifted to the spare ribs in the bowl; he scooped up a piece and sent it into his mouth. With a gentle bite, the meat and bone separated easily, and the soft, glutinous meat instantly spread between his teeth.

The meat fragrance exploded, so rich it made him shout for satisfaction; the meat fibers, having fully absorbed the essence of the broth, brought the ultimate deliciousness; the lean portion was tender and juicy, every fiber brimming with savory broth, and the cartilage near the bone was especially springy and soft, with a slight chewiness.

Sliding down his throat into his stomach, a gentle power dispersed through his body.

His body was like parched earth receiving sweet rain, greedily absorbing the energy released by the spirit food; every pore on his body opened in comfort, greedily breathing in the world's spiritual energy, as if his body had become a channel for communicating with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

"Awesome, way too awesome."

Every mouthful brought an exquisite enjoyment; Qin Ye was utterly lost in the pleasure brought by the delicacy.

Feedback effects from eating the spirit food kept sounding in his mind: Body Tempering experience increased, and there was also the spiritual power recovery effect brought by the Precious Bone Warm Winter Pot.

Before long, he had eaten up this entire bowl of spirit food, not even leaving any soup.

Letting out a breath of hot air, Qin Ye leaned back against his seat in satisfaction.

He discovered that the skills of Spirit Chef players were advancing rapidly; new dishes were constantly being created, and the variety of spirit food available for gluttons like them to choose from was growing more and more.

Among them, spirit food that could permanently boost attributes was a hot commodity on the trading house, snapped up the moment it was listed.

The only thing limiting Spirit Chef players was the lack of ingredients; many recipes couldn't be made because the ingredients were unavailable.

But the development of the entire player legion had always been mutually supportive.

Exploration-faction players expanded regions and brought new ingredient compendiums; hunting and combat-flow players followed the exploration faction's footsteps to harvest (obtain) ingredients; Spirit Chef players then made them into spirit food and sold them to hunting and combat-faction players, helping them boost their strength.

Players of different playstyles were all contributing their share to the construction of the player legion.

After enjoying the delicacy, Qin Ye put the utensils back into his pouch and threw himself back into studying.

Half a day's effort, and he had memorized a quarter of the foundational Spirit Botany content.

But the high-intensity memorization also left him feeling a bit mentally fatigued.

This was not an effect caused by the drain of spiritual power, but a kind of emotional fatigue.

He felt it was time to log off and record the content he had memorized over the past half day.

He summoned the function panel and selected log off.

A 30-second logout countdown appeared in his mind, and his vision was gradually swallowed by darkness.

Back in reality, an intense wave of weakness struck; the turbid smell in the air gave Qin Ye a strong sense of revulsion.

"So uncomfortable. If my strength keeps rising like this, I'm afraid I won't even be able to log off."

After complaining once, Qin Ye immediately got up, changed into a set of clothes, and sat down at the computer desk.

He woke the screen and opened a document.

After typing in the two characters "Spirit Plant."

Qin Ye: …

His hand on the virtual projection keyboard hovered in mid-air, as if time had frozen.

He tried hard to recall the Spirit Botany knowledge that had just been clearly imprinted in his mind, but the information in his memory vanished at an unstoppable speed.

Names of spirit plants, growing environments, growth cycles… the memories firmly etched in his mind were like being erased bit by bit by a rubber.

It was as if a huge void had appeared in his mind; the harder he tried to grasp at them, the faster the memories fled.

The knowledge that had once been at his fingertips now only left scattered fragments, like fallen leaves blown apart by the wind, no longer able to be pieced together.

A strong sense of helplessness welled up in Qin Ye's heart:

"No way, Brother Beneath Di Zhao, you can't play it like this."

He suddenly realized something.

The reason memory could be retained after disabling Brain Overclock in the game was that this Painful Painful Minghun was still in the Star Vein slot, or the attribute boosts of the player's body were still there, enough to carry the massive information memory.

But after logging out of the game, attributes were stripped away, Painful Painful Minghun were stripped away.

As an ordinary person, he simply couldn't extract the massive short-term memory information from his memory.

The content he had quickly memorized in the game was now like footprints on the beach, washed away by the waves without a trace.

At this moment, Qin Ye was on the verge of tears, unable to hold back a sigh:

"If only I could bring the attributes and abilities from the game back to reality."

……

Meng Yuan Chu Altar.

Qi Sheng sat cross-legged on the altar, lost in thought.

After half a day of deliberation, he had an idea.

Every player is wealth that creates Shou Shou Jili for him, and after death there are many ways to handle them.

The first method is death and resurrection.

By consuming a large amount of Shou Shou Jili, the player is resurrected in reality, and can continue to operate in Monster World as a player afterward, creating Shou Shou Jili income for him.

As for how to explain resurrection after death.

He doesn't need to explain to anyone, and the outside world will only consider it a medical miracle.

Just like how he cured the mother of "Nightfall."

The problem with this method isn't the explanation, but the consumption of Shou Shou Jili.

According to the guide's feedback, resurrection requires roughly ten thousand points of Shou Shou Jili, but as the player operates in Monster World, this expenditure can certainly be recouped.

The second method is death decomposition and recovery.

The dead player's Painful Painful Minghun, body, pets, spatial satchel, guide avatar, and everything else are fully decomposed and recovered, converted into Shou Shou Jili and poured into the Shou Shou Jili pool.

This method is also viable.

Once all the Shou Shou Jili is recovered, it can be used elsewhere, or converted into the growth of the player legion.

But this method has one drawback.

Although the Shou Shou Jili itself isn't wasted after recovery, the player's growth in combat awareness, combat techniques, and other experience is undoubtedly wasted.

The veteran player who just died now only has a few months of combat experience, so it seems to have no impact.

But looking to the future, if those veterans with ten or a hundred years of combat experience die and still choose decomposition and recovery, it would undoubtedly be a tremendous loss.

Many powerful players grow through accumulating war experience time and again, and they hold great significance for the player legion.

Take the Divine King of the Sanctuary Guild, for example.

From initially commanding a few hundred players, to later commanding several thousand, and recently beginning to attempt commanding tens of thousands of players in external wars.

Besides this, the Divine King also spends a great deal of time browsing strategy guides on the forum.

Learning the effects and strength of different Painful Painful Minghun combinations, as well as the significance of various new functions in warfare.

Every command in war and every session of study lets him grow, and these precious experiences will vanish completely once the player's body is fully decomposed.

It seems decomposing one player yields Shou Shou Jili that can recruit more players.

But on closer thought, this plan isn't advisable.

The third handling plan is to ignore the player in reality, revive their consciousness and implant it into the game, achieving immortality in the form of a player.

Doing so can indeed preserve everything about the player.

The player's resurrection can be explained as implanting an AI intelligence, restricting the resurrected player from revealing the secret of resurrection, letting them continue to accompany family and even in-game friends in the form of a player.

But this model also has a series of problems.

This isn't an optional implant; once the Challenger System setup is complete, an automated process will be initiated afterward.

When the player dies, their consciousness is implanted into a player's body, completely severing ties with reality.

But whether the player themselves is willing is a possible issue; perhaps the real-world death was the player's own choice.

Secondly, whether the player's family agrees is also an issue.

Implanting an AI, explaining that the player's memories and information from life are preserved, the player's family and friends may feel delighted, but they may also find it repulsive.

After all, in the players' eyes, this is essentially not a human, merely an AI with memories.

A similar situation can be referenced from the Soul Return Clan.

This is one of the cheating factions players find most repulsive, precisely because of the perfect memory possession, which can even use the host's former tone of voice to converse with friends.

But without a doubt, this is the seemingly most reliable choice among the three plans.

It can preserve the player's memories and let the player continue creating value in Monster World, only completely severing contact with reality from then on.

In fact, he doesn't need to explain to any player, and can directly reveal the truth of Monster World.

But he doesn't want to disrupt the player legion construction he envisions, preserving the creativity players should have.

The fourth plan is to make the player into a growth-type NPC with a different appearance, preserve their memories, and let them blend into the player community to fight together.

Essentially, there's no difference from a player.

But in other games, NPCs are an important component of the game world; their existence has a profound impact on the game's experience, narrative, and gameplay, serving to enrich the game's worldview.

Yet NPCs converted from players are still players in essence, not natives, and can provide expansion of background knowledge.

They also cannot provide Shangcheng purchases, quest issuance, skill learning, and a series of auxiliary tasks, let alone drive the unlocking of exploration-world plotlines.

Essentially just a reskinned player.

When this group gradually grows in number, players will be startled to discover that player-like NPCs are even starting to encroach upon the development space of ordinary players.

They are players themselves, so they can understand the competitive relationship between other players and themselves, but NPCs on their own side becoming competitors that hinder their own growth will seriously affect normal players' gaming experience.

The Eclipse Clan will inevitably get roasted.

As for designing them as "street-stationed NPCs" to provide players with extra services.

The Challenger System he designed is compatible with all functions; whether Shangcheng or other functions, the panel can be summoned and used directly, and large attached functions also include functional buildings within the city, making the appearance of street-stationed NPCs superfluous.

Choosing this way neither creates value nor makes good use of the player's body; it would be better to decompose them into Shou Shou Jili and issue more player qualifications.

The fifth plan is to announce to the outside world in the name of the Eclipse Clan that consciousness uploading technology has been mastered.

Players who obtained Monster World, even if their real-world bodies die, can upload their consciousness to the game and continue to exist as players.

In other players' eyes, the dead player is still the same person as before.

The sixth plan...

How to choose, Qi Sheng fell into deep thought.

Could there be a better alternative?

【Boss, how about gradually feeding the game content back to reality?】

The guide's words made Qi Sheng involuntarily freeze for a moment.

If it were a player's body in the game, the player's lifespan would be very long, and would gradually increase as their strength grew.

In theory, as long as the player could keep growing, their lifespan could approach infinity.

But if abilities were fed back into reality, it would clearly conflict with his envisioned Calamity-class player army.

Losing the definition of those two words, "player."

Unpredictability, creativity, destructive power, and the ability to act collectively made the player army the most uncontrollable "calamity."

Feeding abilities back into reality to extend player lifespans was indeed feasible, but it could not be a truth-revealing kind of feedback.

As thoughts churned, a brand-new idea surfaced in Qi Sheng's mind.

Could this idea be presented in a different way?

For example, launching a life modification program under the name of the Eclipse Clan.

Players could participate in the modification by spending Shou Shou Jili, improving their physical fitness and lifespan.

In essence, this modification project merely fed back the player's in-game attributes to their real-world body, and transmitted them to Monster World each time they logged in.

Suppose player A participated in the modification project, spending N points of Shou Shou Jili, they could obtain 1% of their in-game player body's attributes as feedback.

Doing so would extend the player's real-world lifespan while still allowing them to continuously produce Shou Shou Jili income in Monster World.

But only attributes were fed back, not abilities like Painful Painful Minghun characteristics.

Special abilities would only be fully opened to all players if Earth fell into a Black Tide eruption crisis that already affected the player army's growth in Monster World.

However, once this technology appeared, it would inevitably cause a severe shock to real-world currency.

The price of Shou Shou Jili would no longer be a simple matter of skyrocketing.

Once tied to real-world lifespan and ability, it would inevitably replace all currencies and become a true resource-based currency.

The actual value Shou Shou Jili could buy would be enough to drive every race on Earth mad.

As for an explanation, none was needed at all.

The various races of the Earth Alliance did not know much about the Eclipse Clan.

But many of the technologies used by various racial factions were provided by the Eclipse Clan.

This was also why, after Monster World was exposed, the Earth Alliance's races were shocked yet could still understand it as Eclipse Clan black technology.

The Eclipse Clan's genetic modification technology was already powerful; the Human race's Gene Warrior project was born from the basic genetic technology provided by the Eclipse Clan, and veteran player "Iron-Forge" was a Gene Warrior who had undergone genetic modification.

So life modification already had real-world technological groundwork.

The Eclipse Clan was jokingly called "Upper Realm Beings" by netizens of the Earth Alliance's various races; possessing some technologies other races found hard to imagine was perfectly normal.

In fact, the real-world Eclipse Clan rolled out new technologies every year that made the various races' eyes light up.

So this concept was entirely feasible.

As for lifespan continuously extending and real-world population gradually exploding, there was no need to worry at all.

If resources ran short, Monster World would top them up.

He even felt that a player base of 15 billion was still too small for Monster World.

The Reverse Tide Army's year of localized warfare alone consumed several billion warriors; with Monster World's resource volume, however Earth's population grew, it could bear it.

As for the outside world possibly wondering why Shou Shou Jili had to be used as the currency for life modification, players would fill in the blanks themselves without any explanation.

At the briefing, the Eclipse Clan's Number One Administrator had already explained in detail that the Star Net's definition of the game "Monster World" was a gift to the Earth Alliance's races and the cornerstone of the Earth Alliance's unity.

Even if the Eclipse Clan said nothing, there would be no problem.

After all, the Eclipse Clan had never given the Earth Alliance's races any explanation whenever it rolled out new technologies or projects.

Just like after the Dark Lands was released, when various races requested additional qualification slots, the Eclipse Clan had always ignored them.

Moreover, he could even add some consumer products on top of this technology to improve real-world problems.

For example, holding an item auction on Earth once a month under the Eclipse Clan's name.

The goods could be lifespan-extending medicines, special resources, new technologies, letting players bid for them with Shou Shou Jili.

Once the real-world auction model launched, it could even replace the in-game lottery, spinning wheel, blind box, and other scam-like methods of recouping Shou Shou Jili.

For example, a basic health-recovery potion sold for 10 points of Shou Shou Jili in Monster World.

But auctioning it in reality for ten thousand points of Shou Shou Jili would not be excessive—after all, this was something that could resolve hidden ailments in the real-world body.

When short on Shou Shou Jili, just hold a real-world auction and let players happily pay up for premium services.

(End of this chapter)