It is said that every day and every hour, tens of millions of people in the universe will enter the world of "Final Plan".
Ethan Wu was unable to verify the authenticity of this number. After all, he didn't even have a clear idea of how many people there were in the entire universe.
Ethan Wu stood in the work hall on the central island of "Final Plan" waiting. People were coming and going around him. Some people suddenly appeared, and some people suddenly disappeared. In the world of consciousness network, this situation is very normal.
His application for entry was quickly approved. A polite middle-aged man in a neat three-piece work suit led him into a huge spaceship and said politely, "Mr. Wu, I am Julian. This spaceship will take you to the final planned landing island. During this period, I will accompany you until you successfully enter. If you have any questions or doubts, you can ask me at any time during this period."
When Ethan Wu watched the live broadcast before, he paid more attention to the various strange levels in the final plan, hoping to gain more experience in passing the levels at the last minute, and did not pay attention to other content. However, he also knew one thing - from entering the central island of the final plan, all the "people" he saw, except for the participants, were data intelligence.
In other words, no matter how real the middle-aged man sitting next to him and accompanying him feels, he is actually not a real person, but just a virtual intelligence.
As expected of a product left over from a level five civilization, the Julian in front of him was no different from a real person. In other words, in this world of information and data, he was a real being.
The cabin of the spacecraft was as big as half a stadium. The seats were not densely packed and arranged a bit like the first-class cabin of an airplane, making everyone as comfortable as possible. Next to each participant sat an accompanying intelligence in work clothes.
Julian carefully explained to Ethan Wu: "Mr. Wu, the participants in the spacecraft will enter the final plan with you. You will be greeted by Miss Lulu. She is an experienced guide and will definitely help you enter the final plan smoothly."
The spacecraft soon arrived at an isolated oasis island in the sea of stars.
The entire oasis is surrounded by lush vegetation and there is only one building on it. The building is built with transparent glass and white ceramic-like materials. The overall look is crystal clear and reflects sparkling light under the sunlight.
Julian explained that the number of such guidance points is random and an infinite number of them can exist at the same time. When a new group of participants arrives, a guidance point will be generated to lead them into the final plan.
Ethan Wu followed Julian and other participants into the glass building. There was a wide hall with golden marble floor. Further inside was a large empty lecture hall. When the participants walked in, translucent milky white chairs emerged from the ground for the visitors to sit.
After everyone took their seats, a pretty young woman in a light blue uniform and with long chestnut hair tied up with a string of pearls suddenly appeared on the stage of the lecture hall. In front of everyone, a translucent screen appeared, showing the figure of the woman and some other auxiliary information.
In the final plan, all information can be expressed in the currency, units and language familiar to the participants, so there will be no communication barriers.
"Welcome to the Final Plan. I am your guide Lulu." The young woman bowed slightly on the stage and greeted the participants. "Some of the participants may have learned about the Final Plan before coming here. I will only give a brief introduction today and help you complete the preliminary preparations so that you can enter the Final Plan smoothly. If you encounter any problems with the rules during the participation process, you can ask me at any time through the communicator."
"There are two main types of levels in the final plan: challenge levels and rest levels. Challenge levels are very rich in content. After clearing a level, you can get rewards and move on. If you fail in a challenge level or fail in the challenge, you will be eliminated from the final plan and lose the right to continue the challenge. In the rest level, you can rest, replenish supplies, or visit relatives and friends. In addition, there are some special levels. If they appear, I will explain them to you."
"After understanding this, you can prepare to enter the final plan. In order to help you pass the challenge level better, you can draw a contractor before the challenge begins. There is only one contractor, who will assist you in all aspects of the process. After drawing, it cannot be replaced, but you can spend currency and special items to draw other identity ability cards of the contractor to strengthen the contractor in the subsequent challenge."
Miss Lulu observed everyone's reactions, nodded, and pointed to the left side of the hall, where three dark brown doors appeared: "After you have selected the contractors, you can exit from here and officially begin the challenge in the final plan."
This is a scam... This is actually a card-drawing game that cheats people?!
Ethan Wu's heart was shaken. When he watched the live broadcast, he knew that every participant would have a virtual intelligent contractor to assist him or her. He also knew that when entering the final plan, they would get their own contractor, and this contractor would play a very important role in the challenge. In some levels where the abilities of the participants themselves could not be effective, the strength of the contractor's ability would directly affect the outcome of the challenge.
But he didn't expect that the way to strengthen the contractor was to continue drawing cards.
No wonder he saw some strategy posts saying that if you want to go far, you must invest in the early stages. Only if you are willing to invest can you go further and get your money back. If you don’t spend a million or eight hundred thousand in the early stages, you won’t be able to even make it through two levels.
He didn't pay attention to these comments at the time, which makes sense now, but even if he knew about this situation at the time, he didn't have any money to invest. He was prepared to get something for nothing.
At this time, many people couldn't wait to start drawing. For a while, some people in the hall exclaimed excitedly, while others complained and groaned. Sitting on Wu's left was a young man with a flat head. He had a straight and sunny face and looked quite healthy. He also quickly drew his contractor and let out a suppressed "wow" after seeing the result.
It looks like he had good results.
Ethan Wu was not in a hurry to draw his contractor, but turned his head to look at the other party. On the young man's yellow shirt was embroidered a blue and green sphere with the Roman numeral "ii" in the middle. This was the symbol of the earth, indicating that the young man was also an earthling.
And judging from his appearance, the young man is most likely a Chinese compatriot.
As he exclaimed, a strong green light flashed, and a beautiful woman in ancient costume with a human head and a snake body appeared beside the man and stood quietly by his side.
Ethan Wu hesitated for a moment, then took the opportunity to turn to the direction of the young man and said, "Brother, your contractor looks quite powerful. I don't know much about these contractors, can you tell me about them?"
The young man drew out his ideal contractor. At this time, he also saw the same earth symbol on Ethan Wu and him. His expression instantly became much more friendly. He said, "Brother, I can see that you didn't do enough preliminary preparation and didn't check the information sufficiently."
Ethan Wu smiled and replied, "Yes, I came in a hurry. I was only focused on reading the level content before, and I don't know much about these processes."
"You've heard from Lulu, right? Everyone can only have one contractor, so the contractor's qualifications are very important. After being selected, the contractor will come with an initial ID card and a series of ID cards corresponding to him. The ID cards contain information about race, identity, special abilities, and rarity."
"Generally speaking, the higher the rarity, the better the qualification. Usually, non-human races are rarer than human races, and special identities are higher than general identities. For example, my initial race is a descendant of Nuwa, my identity is a priest candidate, and I have a special ability of fast recovery, which sounds very powerful, so the initial identity card rating is also one in a million SS level."
The rarity of the contractor's identity card is divided into five levels: N, R, S, SS, SSS. S level and above are relatively rare, and SS level is already a trump card in most levels.
"But even if the initial identity you draw doesn't look very powerful or rare, don't be sad. It's just a little difficult in the early stages. If you have money and good luck to draw a high-rarity identity card, you can quickly strengthen your contractor."
"That's how the teams from the advanced civilizations all play. The ace contractor Eisen from Team 14 of Planet Deke started out as a human teacher, with the lowest rarity N, and was extremely weak. But they had money and resources, and his contractor quickly drew Eisen's SSS-level Angel Son of Light identity card, which instantly strengthened Eisen, turning him into a rare 3S-level ace contractor in the entire final plan. So as long as you keep playing and have money to draw, your contractor will slowly become stronger."
The young man was very satisfied with his contractor. Not only was she strong, but she was also a classical beauty who met his ideals in every aspect. He was very happy to think that he could act with her. In his joy, he told Ethan Wu a series of things about the contractor in one breath. Seeing that Ethan Wu listened carefully, he continued to instruct:
"Moreover, contractors are very precious. They have emotions and feelings just like people. If you don't treat them well and don't coax them well, they won't help you properly. They may even unilaterally terminate the contract when they can't stand it anymore. Then you will become a person without contractors, and you basically can't survive here."
Ethan Wu probably understood what he said. To put it bluntly, this is still a world of big spenders where "you can't become stronger without spending money" and "you can do whatever you want if you have money".
In fact, there is one more thing that the young people did not mention, because this point is just widely circulated and there is no clear proof:
The qualifications of contractors are different. The "qualifications" referred to here have nothing to do with their initial identity cards, but only with the quality of the corresponding total identity card pool, because the identity card pool is not universal for different contractors.
Let's take an extreme example. There are two contractors, each with 10,000 ID cards to be drawn:
In the former's identity card pool, 50% are N-level cards, 40% are R-level cards, 9.89% are S-level cards, 0.1% are SS-level cards, and only 0.01% are SSS-level cards;
Among the latter’s identity card pool, 1% are N-level cards, 5% are R-level cards, 44% are S-level cards, 40% are SS-level cards, and 10% are SSS-level cards.
Obviously, the latter's qualifications are much stronger than the former's, because through countless empirical tests, participants have found that high-rarity identity cards are more powerful and advantageous than low-rarity ones in all aspects.
Therefore, participants attach great importance to the first ten identity cards they draw. If two or three of these ten identities are S or even SS level, then it means that their qualifications as contractors are pretty good; if there is no identity above S level, then it means that the qualifications of this contractor are not very good.
The average participant does not desire a 3S-level ID card, because 3S-level cards are too rare, and there are only a handful of them in the entire final plan. If a contractor is known to have a 3S-level ID card, then his reputation will surely spread among all the participants and followers of the final plan.
Generally speaking, only powerful people with strong financial resources or extremely lucky people, or both, can draw their contractor's 3S-level identity card. Identity cards will not be drawn repeatedly, but it is rumored that the identity card pool for each contractor is not a fixed number that has been set, but an infinite number that will be continuously generated. In other words, no matter how much money is spent, no matter how many times it is drawn, this card pool will never be drained, and the probability of drawing an SSS-level identity card is just a little bit.
Ethan Wu was not opposed to spending money in the game. He was in the industry and relied on the support of his fellow players for food, clothing, shelter and transportation. He also spent thousands or tens of thousands of yuan to play his own games or those of other companies. But he had a stable income, no burden, and a bright future, so he didn't take it seriously.
But now it's different. He has no money prepared to invest in the final plan. At least in the early stage, he can't afford to draw cards to strengthen his contractors, so he can only hope to be lucky and draw a contractor with good initial qualifications.
Although as a designer he knows best that probability is the least reliable thing.
The young man turned to look at Ethan Wu: "Brother? Haven't you drawn yet? Come on, come on, and see what you can draw."
As he spoke, he squeezed behind Ethan Wu, waiting expectantly for Ethan Wu's action.
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