Infinity through different life

Chapter 360 Tears of Krypton Gold
Xu Jing went through the task and the reminder from beginning to end again, and fell into a tangle.

Except for the first task this time, the remaining two tasks are not easy to do.

The news about the three keys of brass, emerald and crystal, as well as the easter egg competition, is well known all over the world.

James Halliday has achieved unprecedented success since creating Oasis. He changed the world and became the richest man in the world.

But he was an extremely lonely person, unmarried, without children, without any relatives, and it was rumored that he didn't even have a friend, and he had been in a state of voluntary isolation for the last 15 years of his life.

As a rich man known to the world, when the obituary of his death came out, people all over the world went crazy.

The reason for this is that Halliday left an easter egg in the Oasis game.

On January 2040, 1, along with the news of his death, every Oasis user in the world received a short video.

This video is actually an elaborate movie called "Arnock's Invitation".

Halliday used his character in the Oasis game, the omniscient and omnipotent Arnock, to create three keys, which correspond to the three levels.

He hid the key in the oasis world and left relevant clues, which are puzzles.

The first person who collects all the keys will get the easter egg he left in the game, and this easter egg is all his property, more than 5000 billion US dollars in company stock, including the control of Oasis.

This video was only less than 5 minutes long, but it soon became the most carefully watched film in history, and was even analyzed countless times frame by frame. Anyone who is interested in finding Easter eggs can take this video Retell it in full.

From the day when the easter eggs were opened, a scoreboard that was the same as the old-fashioned arcade game highscores appeared.

Also present is the Halliday Archives, which is equivalent to Halliday’s brain, which contains Halliday’s comments and views on all the games, novels, movies, comics and 80s pop culture he has seen and played. There is also some information about his daily work life.

This game, from the day it started, immediately became a global event, regardless of gender, age, and everyone fantasized about being the winner.

The emergence of Halliday’s archives has pointed out one thing to people, that is, familiarity with Halliday’s various hobbies is crucial to finding easter eggs.

Therefore, the popular culture frenzy that started in the 80s swept the world again, and various movies, games and fashions from half a century ago swept the world.

At the same time, a kind of professional people appeared in the game. They called themselves "hunters" and specialized in researching and finding easter eggs.

There are lone rangers among the hunters, and naturally there are hunters' guilds, and even in reality, there are various Easter egg companies, large and small, that hire special personnel to participate in the competition.

Then, a year passed.

Nobody, professional or amateur, has found any clues, not even where to start looking for the first brass key.

Another year has passed, and there is still no improvement.

Some people began to lose patience with this game and chose to give up.

Of course, this will not affect the operation of Oasis at all. Halliday handed it over to a third party for safekeeping. Oasis Company is still constantly upgrading the game and developing new expansion packs, and creating huge benefits. Anyone with ulterior motives wants to It cannot be affected by acquisitions or the like.

The oasis is the only one, especially when reality becomes messy and seems to be about to enter the end of the world, people simply cannot do without this beautiful second world.

Year after year passed.

Until now, it is already 2045. After five years of waiting, there is still no progress on Easter eggs. Only those who are still persisting are those who are persistent.

Perhaps some of them have already made progress, but even so, the person who discovered the secret will not announce such important information to increase competitors.

Xu Jing's second task is to solve the mystery of the brass key and announce it to the whole world. can be easily found.

Also, although he has some understanding of the 80s, compared to people in this world, especially those who have studied it for five years, it is not 01:30.

The most pitiful thing is that he has never seen a movie in this world. Even if there is information transmitted by the system, he still knows what everyone else knows. He does not have any advantage of foresight. people behind.

Xu Jing's thoughts flashed and he kept analyzing. After thinking about it carefully, he actually still has an advantage, and that is the ability to learn.

The ability to never forget, coupled with the strong support of the soul, he can absorb knowledge quickly and catch up with other people's progress without sleep. In addition, the strong advantage of the soul also helps him analyze puzzles and grasp the key points like a super computer Retrieval of memory, which is not available to ordinary people.

"It seems that the first mission issued by the system is to guide me."

Xu Jing's heart skipped a beat, and he looked at prompt 1.

By learning Halliday culture, the authority of the artificial intelligence NPC can be opened, and the opening of the authority is related to whether he can leave his original position, leave school, leave the planet Ludus, and even move freely.

This is also a prerequisite for completing Task 1.

As for Mission 3, although the rewards were unprecedented, the difficulty was not ordinary. Not only did he need to find the three keys, but he would also have to face those competitors.

Just thinking about it, Xu Jing felt a bloodbath. To him, this oasis was a huge real world, but to the players, it was still a game. There was no law here. Opponents, if you have the opportunity to believe that no one will show mercy to him.

Among the individual players, it's okay to say that what they are afraid of is those union or company forces. After all, those forces are all rich and powerful, and some have equipment and even artifacts.

Xu Jing couldn't help looking at prompt 7 - how to become stronger without topping up?

Leaving aside the latter two tasks, the study required for the first task is not free. The books, anime, movies, episodes, songs, and games that Halliday has read are all for free. costly.

The current situation is that his gold coins are 0.

Xu Jing sighed speechlessly. In the past, after entering the world, he would first spend krypton gold to strengthen it first, but this time it was a little different from what he encountered in the past.

The source points he recharges will not directly enhance the character, but will be turned into gold coins, but prompt 5 points out that only by completing task 3 can the gold coins be extracted as source points, and the fixed limit is [-].

He kills any monsters and humans, and what he gets is gold coins instead of origin points, so the consequences of failing to complete task 3 are very serious. Not only the recharged origin points are in vain, but there is no other origin point income except for the rewards of missions 1 and 2. Even if task 3 is completed, you can only extract a maximum of [-] origin points, and the origin points that have been recharged cannot be extracted additionally.

"The excess reward of mission 3 is really not that easy to get."

Xu Jing despised the system in his heart, but was extremely eager to complete the task. Finally, he gritted his teeth and filled up a hundred points of essence first with great heartache.

(End of this chapter)