Starting from Zero

"There are three difficulty items to choose from." System's answer is very direct. "The contents are respectively no punishment mode, basic punishment mode and ten times punishment mode."

"What's the specific difference?"

"The punishment is just like the name says. In that way, no penalty mode means no penalty at all. After death, the mission is automatically judged to have failed, and then sent out in the state when entering the mission, without downgrading, without losing equipment, and without calculating personal failure rate. The basic penalty mode is similar to the penalty used on the main map. Mode, when you die, you drop two levels, and other punishment items are also carried out as usual. Ten times penalty mode is to drop Level 20 directly when you die, and an additional monetary penalty is added. Each time you die, the previous crystal coins are deducted and dropped randomly on the body. One piece of attribute equipment is dropped."

"The severity of the punishment also corresponds to the amount of reward, right?" Christina asked.

"Yes. The degree of reward depends on the chosen punishment mode. The higher the punishment, the more rewards after the task is completed. However, it should be noted that the punishment mode is also the choice of the difficulty standard of the task. If you choose the no-punishment mode, the task difficulty will be very low. The basic punishment corresponds to the normal difficulty, and the ten times the punishment corresponds to the ten times the difficulty."

"Ten times the difficulty?" Zhenhong was taken aback. "This is too overly pit peoples, isn't it? Ten times the difficulty is definitely useless?"

"This is up to your own judgment, but you can choose to start the special at the cost of adding a BOSS-Rank monster to the mission Assistant mode."

"What is special assistant mode?" Rose asked.

"Special assistant mode is a special assistant that provides players with full information assistance. This assistant can contribute to the main system intelligence network and call all system information, so it can provide various data evaluations and tactical effect predictions, and The enemy’s general intelligence information can be provided in advance, and detailed information can be provided after the battle. The system is currently in the testing stage, so it is only open to some high level players, and because the system can provide players with a large number of missions Auxiliary information will lead to an increase in the mission pass rate. Therefore, in order to balance the system, calling the assistant needs to increase the difficulty of the game. The current increase in difficulty is to add additional BOSS to the mission. However, the player can choose whether to call the assistant. Do you need to call it?"

True red looked towards me and asked: "Boss, shall we or should we not?"

Christina looked towards me and said: "Information is very important, but I don't know Does this BOSS exceed the value of intelligence."

Rose did not hesitate, but rather said with certainty: "We should call."

"Why?" Neither Zhenhong nor Christina understood Rose's choice very well.

"The reason is very simple." Rose explained: "System said, the existence of this BOSS is designed to balance intelligence advantages, and this assistant is not unique for us, it will be for all The players are open, which means that they are using conventional standards. Our group of people’s battle strength exceeds the conventional standards of ordinary players, so the same intelligence is more meaningful to us, and the same BOSS is less threatening to us Therefore, if the comparison between the setting of this BOSS and the value of intelligence does not show much deviation, we will take advantage of calling the assistant. This is for sure."

"Your analysis is very reasonable. "I said: "Then let's call the assistant."

"Understand, the assistant call is activated, and now the smart turns to assistant mode to help the player set the task for the squad." The system voice finished this sentence. There was a change, the voice of a mature woman was changed to that of a girl, and even the tone of speech was changed. "Hello everyone, I am a player assistant, because I am not specifically for a certain team, so you don't want to name me, just call me assistant. Now I start to perform my work. First of all, about the character difficulty The assistant’s suggestion to you is to choose ten times the difficulty."

"Why?" Zhenhong asked in surprise: "Is this high level of difficulty not dangerous?"

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"For normal players, it should not be said to be dangerous, but completely impossible to complete. But for you, this is not the case. The difficulty of this task is designed according to the standards of normal players. Your single battle There are too many strength surpassing ordinary players, so ordinary difficulty may be easier for you than ordinary players to choose no punishment mode. Of course, ten times punishment mode is still a challenge for you, but according to my evaluation of your battle data , As long as there are no accidents, you can play your battle strength normally. The pass rate is as high as 75%. This value is already quite high. So, I think it’s worth a try. At the same time, because I can share system data, I can tell in advance You guys, the rewards of the ten times punishment mode are very useful, and it is definitely worth the risk for you."

"75% win rate?" Rose nodded and said: "It's really worth a try."

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"What the hell is the final prize?" Zhenhong asked again.

The assistant said: "Although I can call system data, I will not do anything beyond the rules of the game, so I can tell you in advance that the reward is worth your risk, but I can't tell you What exactly is that, because once you know it, you will definitely do the task. This cancels your judgment and directly increases your growth probability. This is not allowed."

"Well, tentatively believe that what you said is indeed worth our risk, then we choose ten times the difficulty." I directly determined this choice, anyway Rose said, the probability is actually very high.

After hearing my confirmation, the assistant immediately said: "Then, the next thing we need to determine is whether you have made some adjustments to the current number of combatants."

"Can you still call someone in?" I asked in surprise.

The assistant replied affirmatively: "Yes, according to the reward setting, this reward task allows an adjustment of no more than 30% based on the original number. You now have four people, which means you can increase Or reduce one person."

"Will changing the number of people affect the difficulty of the task and rewards?" Rose asked quickly.

Assistant replied: "The change in the number of people will affect the difficulty and rewards. When the number of people increases, the number of monsters in the game will increase proportionally to ensure that the average number of hostile creatures that each person needs to face is basically the same , And the task reward will also increase the weight of the extra player. The goal is to ensure that everyone will get the same reward."

"Then increase." Rose did not even ask this time. Ask me to confirm directly, but I also agree with this decision. The number of people we need to add already understands very well. It is just gold coin. After all, it is one of the strongest battle strengths in the guild, and we cannot leave her out. One more person will be rewarded naturally better. Moreover, although the task will increase the number of monsters according to the number of people to balance the difficulty, when there are more people, it will have an auxiliary advantage, which is equivalent to reducing the difficulty of the task in turn.

The truth is actually very simple. Suppose there is a group of players with exactly the same attributes, and each of them has an aura skill that can increase the attack power of all personnel in the range by 5%. In this case, if four people fight together, their actual attack power is 120% of the normal value, because four people get four 5% extra attack power for the aura. At this time, if the number of people is increased to 5 and the number of monsters is also increased to ensure that the number of monsters that each person needs to deal with remains unchanged, then for these people, they are actually taking advantage. Although it seems that the number of monsters that everyone has to deal with is still so large, the burden is not reduced due to the increase in the number of players, but because one more person will increase the extra attack power by 5%, in fact everyone still takes advantage. .

The same goes for our side. After pulling in gold coin, it seems that the number of monsters that everyone needs to deal with has not changed on the surface, but in fact, because gold coin and us will join hands, everyone's strength will rise, so in fact we still take a big advantage. Moreover, each player is good at his own area, and bringing one more person means one more project that he is good at. With support like Rose, bringing her more means that our continuous combat capability will increase. In the event of a war of attrition, our winning rate will be greatly improved. And if it is a battle with a lot of mixed soldiers, gold coin and Christina become the best candidates. Therefore, the increase in the number of people is not only that person’s own battle strength, he will also increase the battle strength of others. Of course, the premise of this situation is that the added person has a very strong battle strength. If a person who is lower than the average player's battle strength joins, then it is not an increase in our strength but a hindrance.

After confirming the additional personnel, the system assistant was silent for a while, probably communicating with gold coin. After a few seconds, gold coin appeared directly in front of us. After seeing us, the first sentence of gold coin was: "If you lose money, you can still bring people in, otherwise I will lose money this time when I go out!"

"Isn't this calling you in? "Christina said.

"So I said that thanks to the hiring!"

"Okay, set the task quickly." After I finished speaking, I called the assistant directly. "Okay, is there anything else that needs to be set?"

"Of course. In addition to the difficulty and personnel, the new task needs to be set, and there is another item that needs to be added to EXP."

"What is EXP addition?"

"EXP addition is to provide you with extra EXP, the value is set by you. Because you chose the ten times penalty mode, so the internal hostile creatures EXP has been increased to ten times the normal EXP of this type of creature. You can choose to continue to increase the experience multiplier on this basis, but it must be increased by an integer multiple of 0.2, which is 10.2 times, 10.4 times, such as 0.2, 0.2 increase, and the maximum allowed increase is To 100 times."

"What? 100 times experience?" Gold coin almost drooled after hearing this data.

The assistant stopped the delusion of gold coin in a timely manner, and said directly: "If it is the system setting, no guiding opinions will be made. The setting magnification will be completely determined by you, but I am Your assistants, under the premise of not breaking the rules of the system, everything is based on your interests. Therefore, my suggestion after combining all the data I can get is to increase the experience multiplier to 14 times."

"This experience multiplier, like the previous punishment, will force some other setting changes to be bundled?" Rose asked.

The assistant immediately replied: "Yes, increasing the EXP multiplier in the task setting will also increase the number of monsters. The specific conversion relationship is quite complicated, but in short, the higher the experience multiplier, the greater the number of monsters you will encounter Therefore, if you choose 100 times the experience, you may encounter dozens of times the original number of enemies. According to my analysis, in that case, your probability of completing the task is not more than 1%, which is destined Failure."

"So what is the winning rate for 14 times the experience?" I asked.

"Sixty percent." The assistant said: "According to your previous battle records, several of you seem to be able to get a 100% win rate when the system determines a win rate of 50%, so I judge that some of you have some inherent characteristics other than the system attribute. Based on the "Virtual Reality Game Information Confidentiality Guidance Program" and the "People's Republic of China Mind Information Protection Law" and other provisions, the system cannot collect other than games Player information, so I can’t make accurate judgments about your special abilities, but based on the probabilistic calculations and the judgments given by the experience accumulator in my artificial intelligence, you actually have additional winning percentage guarantees in addition to attributes. Therefore, even if the mission's winning rate is only 50%, you should be able to pass it safely, but in order to ensure safety, I recommend choosing 60% probability, which is 14 times EXP. In this case, your winning rate may be more guaranteed. "

After listening to this analysis, Gold Coin suddenly came out: "Why do I feel unclear?"

Rose and I didn’t bother with Gold Coin’s complaints. , But glanced at each other, then Rose opened the mouth and said: "If you choose 15 times experience, what is the winning rate?"

"57%."

"16 How about times?"

"52%."

"17 times."

"44%."

"Please help We set the mission EXP multiplier to be sixteen times."

"I want to remind you again that your winning rate at sixteen times EXP is only 52%. This winning rate is approaching your safe bottom line. The safety bottom line only applies to individual personnel among you, and the team safety line may be even higher, so you may have entered the red danger probability zone. Are you sure you want to set this way?"

"OK. "I confirmed directly.

"Well then. I am only responsible for providing auxiliary judgments. The decision is yours. Now set the mission EXP multiplier to 16 times. The EXP of every monster you kill in the mission will be It is 16 times the monster EXP in the normal mode. By the way, the increase in EXP will also affect the probability of the rewards. Increasing the experience multiplier will allow you to get additional rewards, but this reward is random and therefore not measurable."

"Okay, what else needs to be set?"

"The next setting. Please choose the battle scene you want. This reward task allows participants to set the scene environment "After this time, the assistant showed us a series of character scenes directly on the display wall, using the split screen mode to display them one by one. It can be seen that none of the above are normal scenes.

After the scene appeared, the assistant immediately said: "You need to talk to you before you choose. Different scenes will bring different task rewards. Your original task rewards include scenes. Rewards, but depending on your choice, the rewards of the scene will be different. I can’t tell you the specific reward content, but I can reveal a piece of information. What kind of scene you choose, the reward you get will improve your under that scene battle strength. In other words, if you choose an underwater scene, the scene reward must be the attribute or item that strengthens your underwater battle strength."

"Speaking of which we only Just choose the battle mode we need, right?" Gold coin asked.

Unexpectedly, the assistant actually denied: "No, if you choose the combat mode that you lack, your mission win rate will drop, because the mode you lack means that you are in this In the mode, the battle strength is not up to your normal level, so it is called a deficiency. When you choose this scenario, it means that you have chosen a battlefield that you are not suitable for, which will increase the difficulty of the task and result in a decrease in your winning rate. If you choose a lower difficulty level, it doesn’t matter what the scene is, but you have already lowered your winning rate to 52% before. This ratio is quite dangerous. So I need to ask you to carefully consider the battle scene."

Rose nodded and said: "Indeed, what you said is very reasonable. It seems that your assistant is still very useful. Then, let us choose a scene that is better or can play the regular battle strength?"

"Our underwater battle strength is the worst, right?" Zhen Hong asked.

gold coin nodded and said: "I am not good at water warfare anyway."

"I am not very good either." Rose himself admitted.

Christina followed: "I can ensure that the basic battle strength remains the same underwater."

"My battle strength will drop underwater. It seems that we are not suitable for water battles. ." I said: "Assistant, shield the real underwater battlefield environment. You guys, how are you capable of surface warfare?"

"Basically no problem." Zhenhong said.

"I have no problem." Gold coin also said.

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After asking for a while, surface battles seem to be acceptable. Then everyone talking at once discussed other battles in reality. The result was a desert scene. Was eliminated, the reason is also really red over there. Her battle method is not suitable for desert environments.

Next, because the sword array of gold coin needs open space, the super dense jungle environment and underground environment are also shielded. There were not many scenes originally selected, but after we deleted a lot of environments, only a few environments were left.

"At present, there are only three environments you can choose." The assistant said: "One is the severe cold battlefield. One is the lava battlefield, and the other is the surface battle environment. According to the mission setting, you need Choose at least two scenarios, but severe cold and lava are not suitable to appear in a mission, so you must choose surface combat, plus a tactical environment that you think is OK?"

"Then the cold battlefield Right." I said: "At least not so dangerous."

As long as the cold is chosen to protect Christina, Rose, and gold coin, the three of them may be harmed by the environment in this environment, so in The probability of injury in this kind of place increases, and the severe cold is slightly better in comparison. However, speaking of which the severe cold environment is similar to the super-hot lava environment, it will continue to damage our battle strength, but anyway, it is to suffer, it is better to not endanger the life of the cold.

As soon as I finished the setting, the assistant said: "Then the scene setting is complete. Finally, there is another setting. You need to choose two weather conditions for the two scenes. The task will be in a harsh environment. So you need to choose the complexity of the weather conditions."

"Didn't you choose the weather type?"

"No, just set the degree of danger of the weather." The assistant said : "The optional items are set in percentages. One hundred percent is extreme harsh environment, and one percent is ordinary natural weather like simple rain or moderate wind, but this time your mission allows the adjustment range from It starts at 50%. According to the previous setting, I suggest you set the status at 50%."

"Will changing weather conditions bring rewards or changes in difficulty?"

< p>"The weather environment will of course change the difficulty of the task, but it will not change the reward. However, the impact of the weather condition on the difficulty of the task is uncertain, because it is not sure about the resistance of you and your hostile creatures to the weather environment, so if Nieminen’s enemies are more intolerant of harsh environments than you, and the high setting may be your help. But this is a random setting, so I recommend setting it to 50% for safety."

"Since it is uncertain, it is safest to set it to the middle number, right?" Rose said: "The variable given by the system is 50% to 100%, so let's set 75%."

"Are you sure?"

"We are very strong. Bad weather will not affect us much, but our enemies may be greatly affected."

"Then set it up like this." The assistant said: "Please start to check the status adjustment equipment. You have ten minutes of preparation time, or you can call me to start the transmission at any time if you complete it in advance."

I took a look at gold coin and they asked, "Is there anything you need to adjust?"

Gold coin shook his head and said, "I have been in the guild before, so what needs to be adjusted?"< /p>

"Our side is also OK," Christina said.

True red directly nodded and said: "I can set off at any time."

"Then send it now. Don't wait. After setting it for a long time, my attributes have been fully restored. It's worth it."

"Okay, the transmission begins."

This time the assistant was very refreshing and sent us directly. However, after the teleportation is over, we hope that the assistant can tell us more before, because she actually forgot to tell us that the teleportation location will be on the sea.

Of course, what we set up before is the sea battle scene, so we can't blame the assistant, but you can't really throw us directly on the sea! Anyhow, you can give us a hint! If you can’t put it higher, even if it’s 100 meters above the sea, can I still use my wings to maintain a flying attitude. It's a pity that the assistant really threw us directly onto the sea after sending it. It's really the surface of the sea. The bottom of our feet was just stepping on the sea level, and it appeared directly above the sea.

After the transmission is completed, we lose support and immediately start to fall, and because our feet are directly in the sea, we fall into the water before we can react. When everyone realized that there was sea water underneath, we even started to float up because of the buoyancy of the sea water.

"cough cough cough... assistant, you cheat!" Gold coin coughed violently as soon as it came out. Although everyone has underwater breathing methods such as avoiding water, no one can respond in such a short time. Even my consciousness-controlled mask didn't have time to put it down, let alone others.

In fact, apart from gold coin, even Zhenhong and Christina choked water. Entering the water at such a close distance, the human reflex nerves simply couldn't keep up. Only Rose and I reacted in time and shut our breath without choking. But the sudden weightlessness shocked us.

After we all showed up, the assistant's voice suddenly rang at the same time. "This is really not my fault. This is the beginning process of your mission scenario setting. I can't remind you. In addition, I will be with you during this mission, and only you can hear my voice. Nothing else in the mission can be heard. Oh, yes, although I am an assistant, I am not a part-time communicator, so if you get separated, although I will provide service to each of you, I will not do it for you. Communication transfer, this is a game limitation, so I’m sorry. But I found that you seem to have a communicator, so it should have little effect."

"What do we need to do now?" Rose asked as she stepped on the water road.

"You don't need to do anything now, just wait here. The plot is about to begin."

"Is there a plot flow for this task?" Zhenhong asked in surprise road.

"Of course. This is a normal task, of course there is a process. Please wait patiently, there will be a task process to guide you soon. If you don’t understand, you can ask me at any time, I will always By your side."

Although the assistant said that the process was about to begin, I was not used to waiting so stupidly, so I beckoned and let the bird out. As soon as the flying bird came out, it went straight into the sky, and then quickly plunged one end down. "Huh? Why did it come back again?" Zhenhong immediately asked as soon as Asuka had just lifted off and came down.

"There is a boat coming over there."

True Red and they looked in the direction of my fingers, but they didn't see anything. This is also something that can't be helped. We are floating on the sea now, only our heads and necks are on the water, and the sea is not too calm. There are certain winds and waves. Although it is not very big, there are waves after all, so we can't see anything in the distance. But the other party's ship was indeed not far from us. Soon we noticed a mast, and then the mast began to grow larger and larger, and the bow gradually appeared.

"Sailing boat?"

"Wooden?"

"Assistant. Isn't this the main map?" I asked directly.

"No. This is the mission space, with its own time and world settings. The settings are roughly the same as the main map, but without your advanced magic and technological civilization, you cannot build a metal battleship, and there is no Magic motive technology."

"Is that the standard European medieval level?" Christina asked.

"No, there is still magic here, but technology is incomparable with your guild."

"Understood."

It's with us During the conversation, another mast appeared over there, and then two others, obviously not a ship but a fleet. The reason why it is said that it is a fleet rather than a fleet, this is mainly because several of these ships are battleships. Although overall there are fewer battleships in this fleet than ordinary ships, but because the proportion of battleships has exceeded one third, this is basically a fleet. You must know that at the level of sailing battleship, ocean voyages with multiple transport ships are correct. After all, the speed of these sailboats is impossible compared to motor boats. In the case of bad wind or sea conditions, they have to detour, so the supply fleet needs to be very large.

Fleet obviously spotted us, and after showing up, it adjusted its course slightly and drove towards us. But I did not intend to wait for them to come to rescue, because if that were the case, although part of the other side's vigilance would be eliminated, it would also be despised by the other side, and many of our actions would become unconvincing.

"It looks like they are going to save us. Let's not wait anymore and go up by ourselves." As I said, I pushed my wings up from behind and slapped my body immediately. Pulling up, and then pushing the soles of the feet hard on the water, the whole person rises slightly, and the wings are completely detached from the water after a few more vigorous flaps.

After I flew up, I went directly to Rose's side, and then reached out to hold her arm and pulled her up and hugged her in front of me. On the other side, both Zhenhong and Christina rose directly from the surface of the water like a gravity-free environment, and in the air Christina also opened her beautiful wings that made many female players jealous. This pair of seemingly true and seemingly illusory crystal butterfly wings envy many beauties, after all, this thing is so beautiful. Of course, in fact, male players also want it, not only because of its beauty, but also because the wings have many additional functions.

After Christina and Zhenhong took off, gold coin also flew up, but the way she flew up was to sit on a Flying Sword. If it weren’t for she was sitting on the side, it felt like It's a witch who wants to ride a broom. Of course, gold coin itself is not like a witch, even if she just came out of the water, her Heavenly Venerable suit does not feel wet at all. After all, there are only three sets of national instruments in the country, and water protection is a basic attribute.

After we flew up here, we began to move towards the fleet over there. We wanted to go up and see the situation, but the situation took a turn for the worse at this time. Just when we just started flying, the battleship on the opposite side made a big U-turn. They all turned a ninety-degree angle, and pointed the side of the hull to our side, and then we saw the side of the battleship. Rows of small windows opened.

"hey hey hey, what's the situation?" Gold coin speeded up to fly to me and asked.

Christina said: "I'm afraid our situation scared the other party. They thought we were going to attack them."

"Then what should we do? Do you need to get a white flag? Shake it?" Gold coin asked.

"What do you think?" Rose asked rhetorically.

gold coin scratched his head and said: "It seems to be a bit embarrassing. Forget it, no matter what, if they really dare to open fire, we will fight back. Dozens of broken ships dare to show off one's military Of strength, I can just open a few holes for them and let them go into the sea to feed the fish."

"Excuse me, everyone." The assistant's voice rang in due course. "If you are not very busy, I suggest you look back at the back."

"en? What do you mean?" Gold coin looked back in confusion and looked towards the direction behind. We also reacted in the same way, and then Everyone understood why the opposing fleet responded.

In the direction behind us, a fleet of the same size as the fleet in front of us appeared in our sight. Obviously, the fleet below is not going to shoot us, they are guarding the fleet on the opposite side. I'll just say it. Although we fly not high, it is much higher than the deck. If these battleships were shot up with the cannons on the deck of the ship, we can understand that opening the cannon windows on the side of the ship would be abnormal. The cannon in there simply doesn't have a firing angle, so what can you do if you turn it on? Now that I think about it, I understand that they are going to deal with the fleet over there.

Obviously, the fleets on both sides have found each other, and are now adjusting their routes, preparing for battle as they approach. Obviously, the two sides knew each other, because they started preparing for shelling without any communication. Although strange forces at sea will also be wary of each other when they meet, it will not be the case in generally speaking. They are now clearly set out to be the rhythm of the fight.

"Is this going to be a melee?" Christina asked: "Are we watching or helping one of them kill the other by the way?"

After Christina asked, Rose said, "Is it necessary? Of course it is to help one party fight the other."

"Then which side shall we attack?" Zhenhong asked.

"I'm more inclined to attack the fleet on the opposite side. The one over there is a newcomer. This at first is going to save us. Tentatively, they are good people." Gold coin said.

"Or we can get on the boat to find out before making a decision?" Zhenhong asked.

"No, we help the fleet here to attack the one over there." I directly determined the target without asking them at all.

Rose understood my intentions and pointed to the fleet over there and said: "Look clearly, although the fleet on the opposite side is not dominant in number, the tonnage of ships is obviously larger than this, and there are some over there. 2/3/2021 is a battleship. There are few supply ships and the battle strength is much stronger than here. Helping the opponent is just icing on the cake. Helping the fleet here is provide timely help. Which one do you think is more touching afterwards?"