History of Human Space Exploitation

Chapter 30 Pleasant Conversation

Luo Dengden: Guess what I saw in yesterday's "Network Information"?
Scarlett: There are billions of pieces of information per standard hour in the "full network information". What do you see?
Rodden: Guess what.

Scarlett: How do you guess?Could it be the update information of the game called "Xia Ke Jiang Hu"?I don't know if you play games or not?
Rodden: Well... no.But I play "Xia Ke Jianghu", I didn't expect you to pay attention to this, are you playing it too?
Scarlett: Well, I am playing, I like playing very much, many of the settings in it are very retro, very emotional, shall we play together?
Luo Dengdeng: Okay, okay, but first guess what I just said?

Scarlett: It's so hard to guess... I was very bored for a while last year, and I was immersed in "full network information" for almost two months.There are hundreds of major categories and tens of thousands of subcategories in the information classification alone...

Luo Dengden: Didn't expect you to like to use this too?How do you feel?

Scarlett: How does it feel?It just feels like I am standing at the center of the universe, and all kinds of weird, important and unimportant things will come to me.In this case, you will feel that you are an important person.But, when I think about it, as long as there are hundreds of billions of people in the universe who use the Welsh information stream to access the entire network, I feel a little bit lost.

Luo Dengdeng: When I first started using it, just looking at the catalog and introduction of the sub-categories, plus some demo items, did it take almost a day?

Scarlett: No, I have a hard time imagining how ancient people could obtain such a large amount of information with their eyes and ears?If we don't have implants and output information directly to the brain through cortical stimulation, it probably won't be enough for three or four days just to look at the catalogs you mentioned just now.

Luo Dengden: There are not many people like you who can seriously browse the index, at least the first-level and second-level indexes, in our era.I admire you!I remember I read an article saying that 90.00% of the people above [-] now, no matter what kind of information or knowledge they get, are cortical shunts. Recommended directly by the brain.That is, it means that people seem to have a hard time seeing things that they are not normally interested in under normal circumstances.Did you do this at that time because of the need for work or study?

Scarlett: I'm so sorry... It's been a long time since I've been complimented by someone, I'm really embarrassed to feel this way, haha.But at that time, I hadn't gone to school, and I hadn't started working yet. I just wanted to see what kind of knowledge I didn't know in this world. It was very interesting.

Rodden: Huh?Your idea is very close to a saying I seem to have heard.It seems to be what a scientist in ancient America said to officials in their government like the Department of Defense or something, when they asked him about the budget and investment of a certain scientific project.

Scarlett: What are you talking about?It seems that I have also vaguely heard of it.

Rodden: Well, I don't remember the scientist's name, nor what the original passage said.But the general idea is that a nation's pursuit of pure knowledge makes it worth defending.

Scarlett: Well, well, I also remember that officials from the Department of Defense asked him what this project meant for our homeland defense, or national defense, right?But I don't remember who this scientist is...

Rodden: I think this is really good and makes sense.In fact, if you think about it, many of our basic scientific breakthroughs in the past few hundred years were really the foundation of many pure scientific researches in their era that had only input but no output.

Scarlett: Yeah yeah, I totally agree!Oh, by the way, just now you said what did you see on the Internet information that day?

Luo Dengden: Ha, I was so busy talking about this, I almost forgot about that, I saw a joke.I don't know if it can make you feel funny.

Scarlett: What joke?Let's hear it.

Luo Dengdeng: It is the planet Dodos Lakla, which is the first time I have heard of this name. It seems to be a planet dedicated to planting trees.You know, no matter who is the owner of that kind of place, they won't waste even a square meter of land for other things.There seem to be 200 managers plus workers on the entire planet.

Scarlett: Well, there are indeed many such planets within the reach of human beings. Like you said, there are those who plant trees, those who mine, and those who mine oil to make plastics. I even heard that there is such a planet. There is only one very large astronomical telescope on the planet, and there are often three or five people stationed there.

Rodden: Well, yes yes.On that day, the person in charge of purchasing from the management committee on the planet received an arrangement from above to let him pass through the nearby star tunnel and go to Dahe Jianxing to buy life supplies for the next two months.Then he set off in his transport ship.

Scarlett: Well, then what?When I was young, I went to Dahejianxing with my family. It is not big, but I feel that anything can be planted.

Rodden: Well, yes, I have been to that place too.Did you go there as a child?Did your family take you there for vacation or to experience life?What an unusual family.

Scarlett: Not at all, I have an uncle who contracted a piece of land to grow star anise on farm No. 31 there, in 290.Have you ever heard of anise?

Luo Dengden: Like a kind of spice?I haven't eaten it, but it is said to be common on many planets.This is also what I saw on the Internet.

Scarlett: Yes, although star anise can be grown in many places, the area of ​​Dahe Jianxing is particularly good and the yield is particularly high.What about going on?That person went to Dahe Jianxing to buy vegetables and meat, and then what?
Luo Dengdeng: Haha, this statement is really appropriate, buy vegetables and meat.As usual, he arrived at the supplier's warehouse where he usually went. He went to have a meal nearby, and the goods were packed when he came back.Paying the credits, he took off and headed back as usual.

Scarlett: The front sounds normal, but maybe the turning point is in the back?He returned to their Dodo what star?

Rodden: Yeah yeah, guess what?When they were unloading the cargo, they found a huge animal with a long nose hidden in it. Almost no one on the planet had ever seen it before, so they didn't know what it was.

Scarlett: Long nose?big?Is it an elephant?

Luo Dengden: Yes, it is an elephant, and it is not a small elephant, but a mammoth that was resurrected by scientists through many complicated technologies 2000 years ago!And the fur was dyed pink!
Scarlett: Mammoth? ? ?Pink? ?They are so happy, I have only seen the holographic images of mammoths, they can get close contact, it is amazing!Are these people in danger?Although most of those things are said to be docile, they are still that big.

Luo Dengden: Well, nothing happened, it's just that those people were quite frightened.Don't you think it's strange?Such a big living creature can pass through the customs of Dahe Jianxing smoothly.

Scarlett: Well, this thing is really strange. As far as I know, their supervision and taxation policies for import and export goods are still very strict. How could there be such an oolong?
Rodden: That's the fun part of it.The spaceship of the buyer who went to buy vegetables, the body of the mammoth, including the warehouse of the purchasing center he went to, were equipped with an unknown number of micro-cameras.

Scarlett: Camera? ?Ha, I see, which media's reality show is it?

Rodden: You're so smart!That's right, it's the masterpiece of the show called "咵咵咵咵啦啦啦嘿嘿嘿" on Vega C.

Scarlett: Hahaha, I see, they must have bribed the relevant departments on Dahejian, arranged taxes and everything in advance, and then bribed the procurement center as well.

Luo Dengdeng: Hmm, but, I really don’t watch entertainment programs very much, so I know this is all in the form of a piece of information from a place that has no entertainment and emotional color like "Internet Information".

Scarlett: Hey, don't tell me I don't know about it, even though their program is so well-known.

Rodden: Hahaha, don't you think we are very similar?on this point.

Scarlett: Hahaha, yeah yeah, we're very similar in that.You know what I'm going to say next?I guess you know what I want to say, and I know you know what I want to say.

Rodden: Yes, yes, but I know what you think, and you know that I know what you think, right?
Scarlett: Yes, yes.

Rodden: Mmmm.

Scarlett: Mmmm.

Rodden: I know what you most want us to do together now.

Scarlett: I know, you know I'm thinking about the one thing we should do together right now.

Rodden: How about we write down everything we think on paper?See if you guessed right?
Scarlett: Yes, yes.

The two began to write down their thoughts on paper.

Luo Dengdeng on the paper: Find another person to fight the landlord!Fight until dark!
Scarlet on paper: Find two more people to hoe the earth!Hoe to exhaustion!
Rodden: Hahahahahaha!

Scarlett: Hahahahahaha!
Luo Dengdeng: Stop joking, stop joking, come to think of it, which weapon did you play in "Xia Ke Jiang Hu"?
Scarlett: Guess what?This time I want you to guess, haha.

Luo Dengdeng: Hmm... You have to tell me more before I can guess, otherwise it would be too boring to guess one of the eighteen weapons.Do you prefer strength, agility or intelligence?

Scarlett: I like weapons with more intelligence than strength.

Luo Dengdeng: He really has a personality, um... Let me think about it. In the entire talent network map, those with intelligence and strength should have weapons such as long swords, shields, spears and long knives.The shield here is purely defensive, and it is difficult to practice. I remember you said that you like to play alone, so I guess you may have chosen a spear that is both offensive and defensive?
Scarlett: Well, I guessed right. I am a three-level repairer of spears, long knives, and shields. Among them, the talents in the spear area are the most, followed by long knives, and then shields.You should know the benefits of this, right?

Luo Dengdeng: I know, if you just play like this, although you major in Spear, even if you have reached level 170 or above, you probably won't be able to point out the ultimate talents of Spear, right?Of course, if you play this way, you can use spears to spawn monsters and treasures everywhere when the pressure of survival is not high, and when you are PKing with other players, you can equip shields and long knives to deal with others.right?
Scarlett: Yeah yeah, you're a master.As the shield with the strongest defensive attribute among the 37 weapons in the entire game, coupled with the long knife that is more biased towards the strength area, the survivability is very powerful in many cases.But it’s also like you said, many ultimate talents can’t be tapped out, the talent points are not enough, and the scene after the [-]th level is basically untouchable... You know so well, tell me which one you play?Just say it, I can't figure it out, it's too complicated.

Luo Dengdeng: I'm kind of a master. I've played three or four characters before, and this should be the fifth character I've played.Although the system allows us to use props to wash points, there are several key points in the process of re-doing missions and leveling from scratch. Unchangeable choices will greatly affect the later attributes, so I re-train characters after I have new ideas.

At the beginning, I played the long axe of pure strength, I also played the double rest of the longbow and chain hammer, and I also tried the three repairs of chain single mace and long hook. Now my latest character is playing Changge single repair.Changge is a pretty good weapon, and my talent is more towards agility, so that the attack speed, hit rate and dodge rate are guaranteed, and the practicability is very good.My current best record is clearing the level 71 map.

Scarlett: Level 71! ! !Bravo!

Luo Dengdeng: What's so great, everyone's masters start at level 100.you know what?Every higher level, the strength of the monsters in the map will increase by 100 times. According to the 71th level map, the damage and the blood needed to kill the monsters are at least 190 times that of my [-]st level, not even higher. Various special skills in the level map.

Scarlett: Ah, I can't even imagine what it looks like in a map above level 40...

Rodden: Why don't we go together?Although your talent points have some flaws, but in terms of talent complementarity, our two ways of adding talent points are just on the diagonal line of the talent network diagram, and they belong to two roles that are relatively complementary.It's hard to say, we can break through the difficulty level of around 75 together.

Scarlett: Okay, okay, let's go in and try it now?
Note 1: "Xia Ke Jiang Hu" is a multiplayer online quiet character developed after more than ten years based on the "Eighteen Weapons" of ancient China, plus the usual settings in later games. Play the game.The game experience is very good. There are about 50 billion players in the entire galaxy cluster. The number of real-time online users has not been lower than 10 billion since the server was opened until more than ten years after operation.

"Xia Ke Jianghu" does not have the concept of "profession" in previous role-playing games. When players create a character, they only need to choose a man and a woman, as well as the appearance and body shape of the character.The application of full-body scanning technology allows players to "copy" a game character that is almost exactly the same as their own appearance in the game.The core system of the game includes long axe, single whip, long halberd, single sword, spear, shield, long sword, long hook, chain, single mace, blunderbuss gun, white fist, longbow, chain hammer, long dagger, Eighteen types of ancient Chinese weapons including crossbows, long axes, and single hammers, and the different attack and defense orientations behind these weapons.

十八种兵器被平均地分布在了复杂而丰富的原型天赋网图里，每种兵器占据整个360度圆形里的20度扇形空间。每个20度扇形空间里有100到120个从初级到高级的天赋点位，整个天赋网图里有2197个天赋点位。玩家每升一级就可以获得一个天赋点，来对自己的天赋点位系统进行构建。

除了被十八个武器分成大约均等的18个20度扇形区域，整个天赋网图还被均等地分成三个120度的大区。三个大区的分割点分别是0度代表最强力量的“长钺”、120度处代表最强智力的“长剑”以及240度处代表最强敏捷属性的“长弓”。比如处于代表力量的长钺和代表敏捷长弓之间的单锤、长斧、强弩、长戈和链锤，所代表的属性也从更偏向力量到力量敏捷平均，再到更偏向敏捷属性。

Under different allocation schemes, players will make their characters have several attribute results that are difficult to be the same as others.At the same time, the experience and difficulty required to upgrade the game after level 160 will rise linearly, so generally speaking, players at level 165 will have a total of 170 talent points even with the task rewards during the upgrade process.The result of this is that it is basically difficult for players to "proficient in all" two weapons, and players choose one major or two plus points, depending on their own preferences and understanding of the game.

Note 2: After being fitted by the system through various data, Luo Dengdeng and Scarlett think that they are very compatible and can generate a spark of love.This conversation was a kind of "blind date" arranged by the system. During the more than ten hours that the two of them were silent in the game called "Xia Ke Jiang Hu" with the ancient Chinese cold weapon system as the background, the relationship between the two of them continued. further improved.

(End of this chapter)