279 Time is money
How many functions the Endless Hut has, Sycamore is not known for the time being.
The 150-panel "Rubik's Cube" made of black metal has neither a description of the item nor an instruction manual, so it's unclear what it is.
And the mysterious rune arrangement method of entering the Endless Hut is still a coincidence that the little monkey is embarrassed and unintentionally twisted together, and Wutong doesn't even dare to twist this thing again, for fear that it will not be able to recover if it is messed up, and he will lose the channel to enter the Endless Hut.
So he specially ordered an iron box in the blacksmith shop that was just enough to put a Rubik's cube on, and put the Rubik's Cube into it, only revealing the side that could open the dark blue portal into the endless hut, and every time he needed to open and close the portal, he only needed to flip the mysterious rune on it to open or close the mysterious blue portal like a remote control.
Regardless of whether the Endless Hut has other functions, such as the dark blue portals around the room that the Sycamore dare not easily enter, it does not consider whether the existence of the Endless Hut is a bug and whether it will be unfair to other players.
At the very least, if you don't take into account the consumption of coins, the existence of the Endless Hut is simply a cheat against the sky, which is equivalent to a lot of extra time than other players, which can be used to learn, practice craft, process and manufacture, which is equivalent to accelerating the process of improving the various skills that players have!
Take Sycamore as an example, the skills and various skills he has mastered now have basically reached the full point of the current level.
A full set of basic books that can be obtained from the hands of NPC mentors, if it is an ordinary player, regardless of when it will be available, just reading, it may take several years to read it, so as to brush the reading degree of the knowledge child to +10, after all, players can't do nothing for a long time, squatting in the room to read books, that's not to play games, that's to go to school, players can read books for an hour or two a day, and the rest of the time you have to level up, fight bosses, pk, pickle girls.
And Wutong, thanks to his dead house, the skill of staying at home for more than ten years, he himself is quiet, and he can sit down, stunned to rely on the function of the endless hut, and complete this impossible task in two months.
Although this has a lot to do with Sycamore's rapid reading speed and instantaneous memory ability, it cannot be denied that if it weren't for the Endless Hut, even Sycamore, it would be impossible to read all the basic books in two months.
Reading does not directly increase the player's surname, but usually every 10% reading of these basic books will increase the player's own skill by an additional level, and the reading degree reaches 100%, which means that a skill will receive an additional +10 reward without using skill points.
Although it does not directly increase the player's surname, it will not cause the player to suddenly become stronger, but the mage itself is a powerful profession that relies on the accumulation of [knowledge], and the more knowledgeable the mage, the more powerful it is, which is the same for both NPCs and players.
Why are mages called "academics"? It's because the mage spends most of his time studying, studying, and learning again!
"Knowledge is power!"
Accumulating and precipitating knowledge by reading a large number of classics is the way for a mage to improve his strength.
If you are troublesome, or unwilling to read, absolutely no one will force you, because the "reading" system of "Endless" itself is the compensation of the core consciousness god for monsters to be much stronger than players of the same level, not only for mages, but also for players of other professions.
After reading a book, the reading degree reaches 100%, and you can increase the level of your own skills by 10, which is equivalent to giving an additional 10 skill points, which is extremely important to the mage with a huge skill tree and no matter how many skill points are not enough, it is self-evident.
Generally speaking, there is no neurotic who will choose to brush all the basic books to 100% reading, which is not realistic at all, and usually choose a classification of [knowledge] skills and select a few children of one of the majors to study.
Just as in reality, there are many departments in the university, such as the Department of Commerce, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Media, etc., and the students who graduate from their respective departments are naturally professionals who specialize in their respective fields, and everyone works together to form a perfect player interaction system.
This is also the reason why the official skill tree system of mages is set up so large and complex, emphasizing the surname, even if the profession is the same, each is good at different specialties, "Endless" is a game that claims that no player's profession is exactly the same.
"A flock of birds in the forest is not as good as a bird in hand" is a truth that everyone understands.
And only a game white like Sycamore,Will be greedy and want to learn everything.,People officially dare not restrict players from learning any skills.,Even cross-career skills can be learned.,Is there no consideration?
In any way, it is impossible for the official to want to see an all-round superman cultivated, which would disrupt the balance of the game too much, so although the player's degree of freedom is outrageously high, it is in the case of no limit, using the difficulty of the player's reading volume as a restriction that is not a limit.
According to the normal process, if you want to gnaw all the basic books to +10, how can it be after the middle term, at that time, the speed of players' level improvement will become very slow, and more channels are needed to enhance their strength, through the means of reading books, to obtain additional skill points, is a good way.
In "Endless", the player character can only get a caste point at level 4, and each level can only get less than 10 skill points, compared to the wide variety of skills and the huge skill subsystem in "Endless", it is simply a drop in the bucket, and it is impossible to get additional skill points and caste points through various means and channels.
But again: don't force it! If you want to become strong, you must be willing to pay.
Therefore, when Sycamore, a mage who requires extreme patience, and has spent a lot of time and energy, and has been honed through a lot of study, suddenly obtains the permission to use the endless hut in the mysterious Rubik's Cube, it is conceivable what a terrible turn will happen.
Sycamore spent a lot of time in the Endless Hut, honing all the skills and crafts that he thought might be useful, or that he was interested in, to the limit of his current level, before he "exited" the Trials Island, and although it was nearly two months slower than the players of the same period, Sycamore felt that it was very worthwhile.
The official does not make any restrictions, itself is a trap, for the average player, the door will not be as good as a master, and taking the specialized route is a strong royal road, and the vast majority of experienced old players do this.
Only Wutong, a rookie Xiaobai, because of the initial encounter, got the opportunity to learn a variety of skills, professions and crafts, and was very greedy and got all of them into his arms.
If you follow the normal trajectory, you may have the advantage of being an all-rounder because it is easy to upgrade and easy to obtain skill points at the beginning, and all skills and specialties have been improved to a certain extent.
However, as the speed of upgrading decreases, the already meager skill points are scattered to too many skills and specialties, and in the end, nothing will be achieved, and eventually become a member of the vast crowd of street fighters.
But now, the Sycamore who obtained the Endless Hut has completely embarked on the specialization route chosen by the vast majority of players, diametrically opposed to the path, although the various skills he has obtained, the effect cannot be seen for the time being, but no one can be sure that the Sycamore, which has a large number of additional skill points than ordinary players, will have what kind of advantages it will have.
The premise is:
He's got to have so much money to burn!
During his 4-hour "copper coin time" every day, he needed to burn 14,400 copper coins.
During his 8-hour "silver coin time" every day, he needed to burn 480 silver coins.
During the 12 hours of "gold coin time" every day, he needs to burn 12 gold coins.
In total, he had to burn nearly 20 gold coins a day in exchange for an extra day.
Some people may wonder that the ability to earn money with Sycamore, 20 gold coins a day is nothing, and two months will only consume more than 1,000 gold coins, compared to the extra two months of game time, it's a hair? How did he burn more than 2 million gold coins?
I'm sorry.,If that's just the case.,Sycamore isn't enough to get the advantages of being almost "in full state" now.,Not to mention, just reading so many books.,Even if you have an extra 2 months of game time.,Is it really enough?
After Sycamore discovered the function of the Endless Hut, considering that it would be difficult to collect materials after leaving the Trials Island, he decided to grind the profession and craftsmanship that require a lot of materials to the top of the current level on the Trials Island.
But he didn't expect that the Endless Hut could still be "upgraded", and after he spent nearly a hundred gold coins in exchange for extra time, he suddenly received a message from the owner of the Endless Hut, the "Astral Merchant" Magellan who didn't know where he was.
He said that he "spent" 100 gold coins in the Endless Hut, and in gratitude for his "generosity", he was allowed to use more features of the Endless Hut, such as putting multipliers into the crockpot in exchange for extra time!
For example, he only needs to invest 14,400 copper coins in the first 4 hours of "copper coin time", and when the first 4 hours of "copper coin time" is consumed, then he can invest another 28,800 copper coins in exchange for 4 hours of "copper coin time", the third time he needs to invest 57,600 copper coins, the fourth time 115,200 and so on!
Chessboard and wheat calculations!
Sycamore is not stupid! It was impossible to do such a thing, not to mention that even if he searched all the Trial Islands, he would not be able to scrape together that many copper coins, so he only used the first six "copper coin time" to gain an extra twenty-four hours of extra time every day.
Then, the "spent" gold accumulated to 10,000 gold coins, the "silver coin time" opened the "chessboard and wheat calculation", and then the "gold coins" accumulated to 1 million gold coins, and the "gold time" opened the "chessboard and wheat calculation"
This is the true embodiment of "time is money"!
If he was willing, and with so many coins, he could almost stay in the endless hut and not come out, but the sycamore, which had almost sharpened his professional skills and skills, really couldn't afford to burn it, more than two million gold coins! It's gone!
Decisively shed tears, packed up, and went out of the island!
If he stays any longer, even the "Zhudao Chamber of Commerce" and "Secret Shadow Guild" will have to be burned by him.
More than 2 million gold coins, if they are exchanged for real coins on the trading platform, how much will it be?
Even if the exchange ratio between gold and real coins has now plummeted as the game progresses and the player's income increases, it is far less terrible than the initial 1:1350, but it is definitely not as low as that.
After all, if ordinary players only rely on part-time jobs in the game, they can earn about 2 silver coins at most an hour, and according to the real salary, players can only earn 16 silver coins for 8 hours of work a day.
According to the 1:3 ratio of reality to the game, players can earn about 50 silver coins in one day of real time.
If you want to say that you don't do anything in the game, you just go to earn money, because you won't get tired in the game, so you can work 3 days and 72 hours a day, and earn 1.5 gold coins a day, that's okay.
Referring to the monthly salary of ordinary salaried people in reality, the average is about 1000~1200 real coins, and 72 hours of hard work in the game is equivalent to 9 days in reality, and if calculated according to working hours, 1.5 gold coins are equivalent to half a month's salary of ordinary wage earners, which is greater than about 500~600 real coins.
However, considering that in "Endless", because you can sleep and eat or drink, the labor is relatively cheap, so the price is relatively low, and in general, a gold coin is currently on the virtual trading platform, and it can be sold for about 1:300 real coins on average, which is more than four times more than the previous 1:1350.
At this price, the more than 2 million gold coins burned by Wutong are almost close to 6 or 70 million real coins! What a terrible number!
It's also thanks to Wutong's thick nerves, he hasn't considered this aspect of the problem, and he hasn't directly linked the currency in the game with the real currency, otherwise, his legs may be weak!
Wutong carried all the materials in the house into the endless hut, then took out a handful of coins and threw them into the broken crockpot in the center of the room, which could not be moved or damaged, and began to sit down to process the pills.
With the progress of the pharmaceutical process, the hand speed of the sycamore is getting faster and faster, faster and faster, just like a precise automated intelligent machine, constantly repeating the boring process of the machine.
The most peculiar thing is that when Sycamore enters this state, he completely falls into an absolutely rational emotional control, he does not feel bored, he does not feel tired, and he does not even feel the passage of time at all.
If anyone else was watching, they might be startled by Sycamore, because he was like a robot, his hands moving faster than the limits of the human body, as if he were playing a movie at 16 times the speed, and his hands twitched with lightning agility.
The weirdest thing is that not only Wutong himself, but even the pharmaceutical tools he came into contact with seem to have been "accelerated", boiling the medicinal paste originally took five or six minutes, but now, almost in the blink of an eye, a jar of medicinal paste was boiled, and then quickly disappeared in Wutong's hands, and was processed into brown pills.
In this state, it seems that only things related to the sycamore will be affected, and it has been confirmed that only those who put gold coins into the crockpot will be able to "gain time".
Because the area of the endless hut is nearly ten square meters, so Wutong had planned to maximize the benefits, anyway, the money is spent, he uses it alone, it is better for everyone to use it together, he originally thought that after investing gold coins, the whole house will enter a special "time environment", but when he got a group of craftsmen under the name of the "Zhudao Chamber of Commerce" into it, he found that only he got the "time", and the others were not affected.
That is to say, if other people also want to gain time, they must also put coins into the clay pot like Sycamore, Sycamore they didn't dare to do that, it is terrible enough to burn it alone, and a group of people can stand it.
Wutong consumed all the materials, and in the spirit of seizing the time to study, he burned the 510 gold coins he won and the more than 500 gold coins he got from selling the materials, and then he came out of the endless hut, and there was already a commotion outside the door.
Curiously opened the door of his room and saw that they were gathering in the foyer of the No. 44 dormitory building, excited about what they were talking about, seeing Wutong coming out, July Liuhuo raised his hand happily: "Good morning!" Did you go offline just now? We called you for a long time! ”
"Uh, yes! What are you arguing about when you go offline to deal with something? Sycamore flickered casually, and came out of the room sideways, and closed the door with his hand, he didn't want them to see that the materials in the room that had been enough to use for a long time had disappeared without a trace.
"Wha! I made more than 200 cans of 'Minor Injury Hemostatic Ointment [Micro Effect]' in one night, and I also made more than a dozen cans of [Weak Effect] quality! More materials are cool! ”
Concubine Wow laughed in confusion, it seems that each of them has stayed up all night, desperately processing medicinal materials, and it is estimated that the output is not small, otherwise they will not feel tired at all, and they are excited to ask each other how much they have done.
Hearing the concubine's confused shouting, Wutong sweated for a while, and estimated that this girl's [making ointment] skill level was only level 4 or 5, otherwise she wouldn't have made more than 200 cans of [micro effect] in one night, and only a dozen cans of [weak effect] came out.
"Alright, alright! Stop arguing! Sycamore is also online, so let's go! First go to Dongdaji to sell the medicine, and then team up to brush the task! ”
As the head of the dormitory building No. 44, July Liuhuo slapped his face, which quieted down the girls who were so excited because they had received a large amount of material sponsorship from Wutong: "Uh, that's right! I have to go to the seminary to pick up Wutong's little sister first, and I have to go to the mercenary guild, uh-huh! There's a lot going on! Hurry up! I should be able to come back in time for the evening to rob the local elite caravan and go! Let's go! ”
Do they call buying drug materials from the local elite caravans "robbing"? But it's right to think about it, when the wolf has more meat and less meat, the scene of rushing to buy the materials needed is indeed like a robbery Without waiting for Wutong to react, he was involuntarily pushed out of the dormitory by a group of people.
The Venane Academy is not a concentration camp for the mages, a group of people didn't meet many people along the way, it seems that the vast majority of mage players are either hiding in the room to chew books, or hiding in the room desperately rubbing medicine, so that the academy is quite deserted.
In the academy where yin and yang are in decline, the combination of a large group of large and small beauties is inconspicuous, but when it comes out of the academy, the combination of six beauties and NPC Lori who has been wearing a cloak is very eye-catching, and the green eyes projected by the male players around him make the sycamore feel so psychologically stressful, but the three guys of July Liuhuo, Xiangyuan and Ace have no feeling to talk and laugh with a group of beauties, and it seems that they are used to it.
The group called five two-wheeled carriages "with a lot of money" and ran directly to the area where the seminary was located.
The so-called seminary is actually a large temple complex, where the gods of the non-rival camp almost all have their own large temples, and in a huge Obai. In front of the Hai Natural Temple, Sycamore and they saw the little Lori who was waiting there early.
It's just that Xiaoxiao is not standing there alone, but like Wutong, there is a group of players in priest robes surrounding her, talking and laughing as if they are talking about something.
(To be continued)