Chapter 4 of 11
Chapter 4
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Chapter 4
648 yuan …. for one card draw. There was also the possibility that the price would be adjusted again as the number of card drawn increased – a price increase for every tenth.
Wu Fei was directly stunned.
In his twenty years career as a player plus three years of career in trading plus three years of his coma, he had never seen such a simple, straightforward, and unpretentious game to directly ask for money.
He remembered when he had just started in the business and made a simple playing method and system and showed it to the boss.
The boss looked at it and said, “About how much money can you make from it?”
“Six hundred plus,” Wu Fei said.
“Six-hundred?” The boss looked at him like he was a prehistoric monster.
“You’re underestimating us players, aren’t you? Are you too green or what? Can’t the players fill in your pit just in a couple of minutes? It won’t do, Xiao Wu you go back and recalculate it.”
Afterwards Wu Fei opened the pit to three thousand kuai with much difficulty moreover limited players will spend a maximum of sixty per day in this hole to ensure that his hole could live for two months, before barely handing it over.
Since then, the designer Xiao Wu has never designed a pit less than three thousand kuai otherwise what about his well-being from head to tail, if you want to designed a pit then you should designed it big.
Yet today, he had no choice but to admit that he had met his money digging ancestor.
But it was understandable. After all, not everyone was in financial straits as he was today. The 648 yuan was required for the initial card draw fee and it was nothing difficult as there were many rich people either from earth or from other planets let alone those groups with a backing supported by the planets. So the more you draw, the higher the marginal cost of drawing another card, it would be so high that even those with ample resources can no longer draw cards at will.
The contractor’s identity card was directly linked to contractor’s strength, and with this kind of cost, the final plan guaranteed the gap between each internal reference and contractor’s strength was manageable to a certain extent.
In fact, it was supposed to protect the rights and interests of a poor civilian player like him.
This time when Wu Fei went, his parents gave him five thousand yuan deposited in the card and actually the Internet Café he chose was the cheapest virtual capsule in the whole Ning Cheng. The rent was 349 yuan per day. He set himself a goal to make money on the final plan in ten days, so that there would still be fifteen hundred kuai left in case he needed it for something.
It’s not impossible to take 648 yuan out of the 1500 yuan to draw a card, if it was him before the car accident he wouldn’t really care about it. He wouldn’t be that reluctant to even draw ten cards. However, currently he still felt the pain because what if he had spent 648 yuan but couldn’t recovered it.
After Wu Fei thought about this, he confirmed with Ms Lulu in front of him, “You can also draw cards within the challenge level, right?”
“Yes.” Miss Lulu nodded and reminded him, “However, it will take about half a minute to draw the identity card so you must make sure that you have plenty of time to draw the card.”
Wu Fei made a ying ying sound (crying).
He had decided to not draw another card right now.
Right now, he still didn’t know what the first level was about. Wait until when he entered the level and met with a problem that he couldn’t solve then he might try to draw a card.
When the young cat saw him giving up drawing a card, it didn’t say anything, only opened its dark golden eyes and glanced at Wu Fei, then continued to nest on his shoulder. Actually Wu Fei felt inconvenient to carry him and thought to put it into his pocket but as the kitten opened his eyes and gave him a disgruntled look, Wu Fei could only stop.
this is how i imagined Shen Xing in his cute little from <3
A creature such as a cat was really delicate and noble and he couldn’t afford to offend it.
Wu Fei silently cursed, straighten out the cat on his left shoulder a little: “Little Cat, we are really going to go in, you must sit firmly so you won’t fall down.”
The cat ignored him.
Seeing that they were about to walk through the door, Ms Lulu called out to Wu Fei again to remind him, “Mr. Wu, do you want to turn on the live streaming?”
“If you turn on the live streaming, there will be a live streaming room in Final Plan activated for your feed and the rest of the universe will be able to see you what you are doing live. They can send comments to communicate with you or give you a reward. The reward that you received can directly be converted to money and used within the Final Plan.”
“Of course, you can choose to turn off the live streaming when you find it inconvenient and turn it on again when it’s convenient; you can also choose to check the comments in your live streaming when you are free.”
Wu Fei’s eyes lit up and he agreed without hesitation, “Yes, please open the live streaming function for me.”
He had watched many of the existing participants’ live streaming before he entered the Final Plan and he was not unfamiliar with this function.
Although he felt that his current live streaming might not be watched by many people, but slowly he would be able to accumulate a number of viewers and it would be even better if he could receive the rewards. Right now even if it was a small amount of money but it was important to him.
After he agreed, Ms Lulu eyes flashed a deep blue light and at the same time she informed: “Okay, your live streaming room has been opened, the room number was asx1314. You can use the communicator to set the live streaming function on and off, check the comments and rewards. When you quit from the Final Plan then your live feed will also be permanently shut down.”
“Feel free to contact me through the contact Lulu on your communicator if you have any questions. I will always stand by to answer your questions.”
By now there were very few people in the hall, most of them had already left through one of the three gates to officially enter the Final Plan’s challenge. Wu Fei turned his head to Ms Lulu and said “thank you” then he pushed open the gates in the middle without hesitation.
Just as the door closed behind them, simultaneously a traditional and stereotypical mechanical voice sounded above his head.
“Welcome to the Final Plan.”
“Your current position is in: Bronze Level 1.”
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Wu Fei arrived in a room similar to the one he had seen before in the live streaming.
This was the place where the next levels were randomly generated, it could be opened for him alone or it might also be opened for other planner and when he met other planners then he might need to work with them or fight them head-to-head or even kill them to have the opportunity to clear the level.
And it’s uncertain what kind of planners he’ll meet, so first-time newcomers and planners who’ve been making their way into the final plan for years might all appear in the same level.
But no matter what the level was, Wu Fei was ready for his solo preparation.
Although he was not an animal protectionism person, but Wu Fei thought that he also was not so frenzied to send a cat to kill fight someone.
When he thought of his useless contractor, Wu Fei rubbed the kitten’s fur on his shoulder several times in frustration, hoping for a miracle so afterwards he would be able to draw a few powerful identity cards for this cat ancestor.
The cat sat back straight and let him rubbed, motionless.
The room was completely dark, except for a lit translucent virtual screen in the middle, and a string of data flashed across the screen, it eventually stopped then there was three words: seven-day apocalypse, zombies, and survival.
At the same time underneath a small line of words appeared ——
Restrictive instructions: The contractor can only entered in a human race form. If the contractor temporarily had no human race identity then it would temporarily change into a human race form and the special ability from the original race will disappear.
When watching the live streaming, Wu Fei had seen what those kinds of anchors looked like when they entered the level and knew that the keywords that appeared on the screen were a good indication of what would come next. But he had never seen such “restrictive instructions”. After pondering for a while, Wu Fei directly contacted Ms Lulu to ask questions about it through the communicator.
Lulu was a data intelligence, so she can appeared in multiple places at the same time to answer different people’s questions.
After receiving Wu Fei’s question she immediately appeared and explained: “In some levels, to ensure the fairness and challenge, contractor’s identity might be restricted. For example, in levels where zombies are the main challenge, it would be unchallenging if the contractors are to enter in their legendary race such as Angel and Demon. So the contractor will be restricted and enter only using their human identity.”
Wu Fei secretly breathed a sigh of relief, since that was the case then it meant that in this world, at least their President Shen’ cat wouldn’t especially be in disadvantaged.
Although Shen Xing didn’t have much combat power, but being a cat at least wouldn’t attract enemy to attack them.
However, it also set an alarm in his heart, let’s not talk about this level, but if in that kind of level where they didn’t restrict the contractor’s identity, while the others pulled out an Angel or Demon or something else like Mu Bei’s Nuwa descendant contractor which could fight, then how about him and Shen Xing who only laid on his shoulder?
En, he could only lay flat and be trampled, but they might still be able to do a sneak attack using the delicate body with soft black fur and quietly slipped away.
So the first thing he needed to do was to find a way to earn money to at least draw a powerful race identity card for the cat.
In the meantime as he thought about it, when Shen Xing who was sitting on his shoulder saw the content related to the level, slightly knitted his brows. It was rare that this noble cat making such an expression to Wu Fei.
Wu Fei felt that the cat might be worried, so he smiled back and reassured it, “It’s okay, others in this level are also human. They don’t have much advantage over you.”
… or rather, at least they were human.
Wu Fei continued to coax it, “Be good, get into my arms and hold on tight, don’t worry gege will cover you, you won’t die ….”
“To think about it, those kinds of zombies’ game such as Seven Days to Die, Dayz, and Resident Evil … I hadn’t played it before I got the car accident. But at least I do understand it so even if you’re such a little kitten gege can still protect you.”
“Be good, calling me gege also sounds nice, then gege won’t use you as bait to sneak from the zombies and will protect you … look at the pocket you’re in. How’s that? Safe enough, right?”
He hadn’t consoled a data Intelligence before nor had he consoled a small animal, moreover to console a data Intelligence in a cat form. So he didn’t know if what he said would work on Shen Xing.
However, it was said that a fourth-level civilization would be able to create a data intelligence that was indistinguishable from a real person. The staffs, guides, contractors and other characters in the final plan were all the creations of a fifth-level civilization, so they should be more advanced, right?
So this kitten should be able to understand his words, right?
TL Note:
The appellation for cat = it. As for Shen Xing or in his human form = he
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