Ethan's Journey Through the Virtual Frontier Chapter 3

After Miss Lulu finished her explanation, the screen in front of them disappeared and was replaced by a golden ball of light.

Many people have already summoned their own contractors, most of whom are R-level. SS-level contractors like the young man next to him are very rare.

Ethan Wu saw what other people did - as long as they put their hands on the golden ball of light, they could summon their own contractor.

He calmed himself down and placed his hand on the ball of light.

Soon, wisps of golden light emanated from the light ball, and finally formed a golden card on the back of Ethan Wu's hand. A faint black shadow was outlined by golden lines in the center of the card.

Soon, the card turned into a golden light and sank into the communicator on Ethan Wu's wrist. At the same time, a golden and silver light flashed beside Ethan Wu, and then a black ball of hair appeared in his palm.

The black kitten closed his eyes slightly, and his black ears drooped quietly. Then he slowly opened his eyes, revealing a pair of calm and deep golden eyes. He looked at Ethan Wu quietly, then turned his head away without interest for a while and closed his eyes again.

Under the young man's instructions, Ethan Wu summoned the card again. The blue card floated above the black communicator, emitting an ice-blue light.

This light ice blue color... the young man sighed, guessing that this should be an R card. The level of the card can also be seen from the halo around the card. Generally speaking, the lighter the halo, the lower the level of the card, while the brighter the halo, the higher the level of the card. For example, his SS-level contractor identity card is surrounded by a circle of strong cyan light.

"Hey, why doesn't your card have a pattern? It's different from mine."

The young man muttered and took out his ID card. On the front of the green card was a descendant of Nuwa with a human head and a snake body, with his head lowered and his eyes slightly closed, praying on a green and white jade altar, looking holy and dignified. On the back was the identity information of the contractor named Qingyu.

The card floating on Ethan Wu's communicator was different. Its front was black, without any jade-like image. Only the back was lit, with the identity information written on it:

Name: Max Shen

Race: Human

Position: President of Shen Group

Special Ability: Good at managing investments

Rarity: r

Judging from the rarity alone, the rarity of his contractor's initial identity card is not high.

Ethan Wu's heart suddenly sank.

Human... CEO... Investment management... It would be great if I had such a helper in the real world. He might be able to quickly earn enough money to help my parents pay off their debts...

But look at what the levels are in the final plan!

Escape the sharp teeth of the mutant great white shark 10,000 meters under the sea! Seize the treasure of the dragon in the dragon cave! Escape the killing of the devil in hell! Fight with other participants in the wilderness with scarce resources to seize the last chance of survival!

The above are the levels that Ethan Wu has seen in the live broadcasts these days.

...What's the point of bringing a CEO with you in these levels?! This isn't a dating game.

The big brother he summoned really couldn't keep up with the trend of the times.

However, Ethan Wu waited for a minute but Mr. Shen, whom he pulled out, still did not show up. He was stunned for a moment, and finally lowered his head in disbelief, facing the reality and looking at the palm-sized kitten in his hand that was resting with its eyes closed - are you kidding me, it's obviously a cat, and you tell me it's a person?

So, this weak and powerless kitten that looked like it would die if it was pinched was his contractor? A human in name only, but actually a kitten?

At this moment, he really felt that a normal human president would be a good contractor. At least he could look like a human being, be cool to take out, and be able to give advice.

Now this cat ball... is useless even in a love-raising game. At most, it can be used to play in the cat garden.

The young man also looked at the cat cub in Ethan Wu's hand in astonishment, and confirmed: "Is this the contractor you drew?"

Ethan Wu's heart was in turmoil, but on the surface he remained calm.

He nodded and said seriously, "It looks like this now... Is this rare?"

The young man seemed to be choosing his words, and after a moment's thought, he replied, "It's not uncommon. Some of the contractors were originally beastmen or fairies, and they may appear in animal form. There was also someone who drew a pot of flowers because his contractor was a flower fairy."

Ethan Wu looked at his contractor's identity information again. It was indeed a human. Not only a human, but also a CEO.

Well, a cat president.

Maybe he misunderstood, Shen Group might be a rat catching company.

The young man slowly regained his composure and tried to comfort Ethan Wu, "It's actually quite good. I remember the information says it's good at investment management. Although it's a cat... well, I don't know why this happens to humans, but it should be very useful if you encounter a challenge level in a business simulation."

"And you see, there is an unwritten rule in the previous games and the final plan on the market. Generally, people with good looks and good temperament are top-quality cards. You, the contractor, have good appearance. Look at this fur, it's like satin, and you can tell it's well-nourished. Look at this eye, it's golden, better than the best gems. Nine and a half out of ten people draw R as their first identity card. As long as you draw a good racial identity in the future, you should be very powerful."

Having said that, he actually couldn't understand how a cat could be a president, how it could be so good at investment management... and he couldn't understand why the data showed that it was a human being but in cat form.

Ethan Wu knew that the other party meant well, so he nodded, but he didn't say that what he lacked most at the moment was money and he had no way of drawing cards.

The young man raised the communicator on his left hand: "Okay, it's time for me to go too. We will separate after entering the challenge level. Let's add each other as friends. Meeting is fate. Maybe we can look after each other in the future. My name is Derek Mu, what's yours?"

Ethan Wu also took out his communicator and added the other party as a friend: "My name is Ethan Wu."

The communicators that both of them obtained when they entered the final plan were entry-level ones, with only the simplest functions, similar to the functions of the information sheets that are used to replace smartphones in reality today.

In the final plan, there are many more advanced communicators with more complete functions, but some can only be obtained in special levels, and some can be purchased directly. If the participants have sufficient funds, they will generally buy themselves a high-level communicator first. Now Ethan Wu naturally has no money to pay for the cost of the communicator.

After Derek Mu and Ethan Wu added each other as friends, they left through the middle door with their contractor, Qingyu, a descendant of Nuwa. These three doors are exactly the same, and what you will encounter in the first level depends entirely on luck.

In fact, he was not optimistic about Ethan Wu's future. The other party was obviously not well prepared and looked like just an ordinary person. Without the help of a strong contractor, it would be difficult for him to pass the two levels. The rarity of the other party's contractor was not high, and he really couldn't see what such a small cat could do.

However, what the final result will be depends on each person's luck.

After saying goodbye to the other party, Ethan Wu frowned and looked down at the kitten in his hand, then raised his hand and nonchalantly swept the kitten onto his shoulder: "Let's go, little cat, it's time for us to go in, you better show some respect for me."

The black kitten opened its eyes at this time. Its pair of dark golden eyes were bottomless. It looked at Ethan Wu with a hint of dissatisfaction, and then closed its eyes nonchalantly.

In the final plan, each person can only have one contractor, so even though he somehow pulled out a kitten whose profile showed it was a human, Ethan Wu was rude in his words, but he also planned to take good care of the other party.

First, to keep him company. Second, as Derek Mu had just said, if he drew a good ID card, his cat would suddenly become more powerful. Third, Ethan Wu thought that something must be wrong when things were out of the ordinary. At least that was how it was set in novels and TV dramas.

The data showed that the cat looked like a human but was actually a kitten, which was extremely rare. As a relic of a level 5 civilization, the final plan was unlikely to have any bugs. Ethan Wu could only pray secretly that his cat might be more powerful than he imagined or even what he had seen - although he didn't know how powerful a cat could be.

At this moment, his communicator beeped twice:

Derek Mu: Brother, I have entered the first level. The content of my level is not easy, and there are many high-level planners vying for the chance to pass the level. So I suggest that if you have extra funds, draw two more identity cards for your contractor before entering. The levels of the final plan are randomly generated and planners are randomly assigned. There is no such thing as a novice halo or novice protection, so your first level may not be easy.

Ethan Wu was silent for a moment, and had to admit that the other party was right.

He actually understood best that sometimes early investment was necessary to survive in a game. When he was playing games before, if he thought the game was playable, he would at least buy a first-charge gift pack or a monthly card. Since he had bad luck at the beginning, it was okay to try another card in order to avoid being eliminated immediately, but he was not sure whether he could get a powerful identity card.

Ethan Wu had no one to talk to, so he turned his head and nodded to the cat on his shoulder: "You see, what this guy said seems to make sense. I'll go ask how to draw another ID card for you. But your information shows that you are a human, why do you look like a cat?"

The kitten ignored him, just closed its dark golden eyes and continued to rest on his shoulder.

Ethan Wu curled his lips at being ignored, and walked over to ask Lulu who was standing beside him: "I want to know more about drawing extra ID cards."

He could also guess from the reactions and words of Derek Mu and others that when the racial identities of the existing contractors were mediocre, the probability of drawing a powerful racial identity should not be high. Otherwise, the news that the human teacher Eisen was drawn to be an angel would not have been widely spread, and Derek Mu would not have been so surprised and happy to draw Qingyu, the descendant of Nuwa. There would not be a consensus that non-human races are rarer than humans.

Lulu nodded and explained, "The details and rarity of each contractor's other identity cards vary from contractor to contractor and are unknown. If there is already a contractor, the probability of drawing an identity card of an existing race, identity, and different abilities is the highest; the probability of drawing an identity card of an existing race and different identity is second; the probability of drawing an identity card of a different race is the lowest."

That is to say, even if he draws another card, there is still a high probability that he will draw the human president, but the cat President Shen may have an additional special ability besides investment management - such as catching mice.

It might take many, many draws to get another non-human race identity for Mr. Shen. The most important thing is that the probability of drawing cards in the final plan is not public, and it will vary according to different contractors, so it is difficult for him to estimate how many times he needs to draw a useful identity card.

Thinking of this, Ethan Wu continued to ask the most critical question: "How much does it cost to draw a card? Is there a minimum for ten consecutive draws? Is there a discount? Can you tell me how much I can draw before there is a minimum?"

Miss Lulu still smiled politely: "Mr. Wu, converted into your usual currency, the current cost of drawing a card is 648 yuan. There is no guarantee and no discount. As the number of cards you have drawn increases, the cost of drawing a card will be adjusted dynamically."

It is called dynamic adjustment, but it is actually an index price increase---this is the annotation of the so-called dynamic adjustment in the final plan discussion area.