Chapter Twenty-Nine: Guangwen Building
In the following time, Ma Le came to the commercial street of Miracle City. The so-called commercial street is the official shop gathering place of Miracle City, and Miracle Square is just a spontaneous trading place for adventurers, in which both buyers and sellers are adventurers. But the shopping street is different, the people who open shops here to do business are all system characters, and the goods sold are everything from weapons and equipment to prop supplies, and there are even some enchanted cards with general attributes for sale. However, most of the equipment props sold are standard, most of them are blue and white, and the occasional silver attribute is also very mediocre. And all the goods are worth a lot of money, generally more than twice as much as the items of the same quality in Miracle Square. These shops also offer an unlimited amount of items that adventurers don't use, but at a fraction of the selling price, less than one-fifth of the selling price! Therefore, adventurers generally jokingly call the commercial street "black shop street".
But this "black shop street" is also patronized by countless adventurers, one is because many small things cannot be sold profitably, rather than wasting time by setting up stalls, it is better to throw them directly into the store. Second, it's because all the entertainment venues in Miracle City are located in the commercial street!
Compared with the simple and ordinary facilities of other facilities, the entertainment venues in the shopping street are extremely rich and luxurious, with casinos, restaurants, brothels, auction houses, and all of them luxurious and rich, and the materials used to eat are all purchased from adventurers, rare toys from the major mission worlds.
Here, adventurers can experience the extraordinary enjoyment of the real world, just imagine the mesmerizing scene of hugging the elven beauty, drinking the wine that has been lost for thousands of years, tasting the meat steak of the legendary dragon, and watching the life-and-death battle between gladiators! What's even more valuable is that compared to the expensive price of equipment and props, the fees in the entertainment industry are relatively low. This allows most adventurers to spend one-tenth to one-fifth of their income after experiencing the life-and-death mission world, come here to relax and experience the feeling of an emperor!
But Ma Le didn't come here for relaxation and entertainment, along the way, he withstood the delicacy of otherworldly food, resisted the temptation of fantasy beauties, and came to his destination with a nosebleed and spittle all the way to the destination, the largest teahouse and intelligence trading center in Miracle City - Guangwen Building!
The building is a place that restricts the status of customers, and can only be entered if you have reached the citizen level. Ma Le was just enough, paid 30 credits at the front desk at the door, and was led to a single table by the waiter to sit down.
Just like a self-service teahouse in reality, after paying the credits, Ma Le can enjoy refreshments at will. The tables in the teahouse are all small black square tables, made of similar material to marble, and the real function is similar to the decoration equipment in the room, which is a large tablet computer, which can be activated and ordered with your fingers.
Of course, adventurers don't come here just for refreshments. After ordering a pot of green tea and a plate of broad beans, Ma Le operated on the desktop and opened the intelligence interface.
The intelligence system of Guangwenlou is very interesting, and all the information in it is provided by adventurers. If an adventurer discovers something valuable, he can come here, access the intelligence system through the guò desktop, and upload his own information. The system will automatically review the value of the information, and determine whether the same information has been uploaded before, as long as the information is original and the value is sufficient, it can be sold at a price on the intelligence system and be seen by all people who come to Guangwenlou.
Adventurers can use the search engine to find the entry they need when viewing the information, and once they find it, they need to pay a fee to view it. The general intelligence fee is between a few points and tens of credits, while some of the more advanced and more secret intelligence is more expensive, and some are even as high as thousands of credits. Correspondingly, most of this information also has identity restrictions, and many of them require adventurers to reach a certain level or title to browse. According to legend, in the Guangwen Building, there is information about leaving Miracle City and leaving the ultimate hidden mission of the city battle system!
When an adventurer looks at the information, a portion of the intelligence fee paid is paid to the intelligence provider, usually about half. Therefore, if you provide more valuable information, you can earn a considerable amount of credits even if you don't rely on the mission.
However, although this kind of welfare is good, it also creates a mixed quality of information, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false. Although the system will review the value of the information, it will not verify the authenticity of the information, so many people have a speculative mentality and deliberately fabricate some sensational false information to deceive click-through rates and credits. Therefore, there will be an evaluation function in the intelligence system, and all adventurers who have browsed this information can evaluate the authenticity of the information, and before clicking on the intelligence, the adventurer can first see the proportion of authenticity in the evaluation, so as to determine whether to click on this information. Once a piece of information is determined to be false by more than 10 people, the information will be deleted and the provider will be penalized with credits. Of course, no one knows whether the amount of the penalty will be comparable to his profit.
Ma Le had already thought about the information he needed before he came here, and he had absorbed Brad, an adventurer from Hurricane City, and also read some of his memories. But for some reason, the memories read this time were so fragmented and cluttered that it was almost difficult to piece together useful information. This situation did not appear when Zhao Renfan was absorbed before, and Ma Le's speculation was that the adventurer's memories would be protected in some way in the mission world. After all, there are a lot of abilities that can read memories, and if an adventurer is read and lets the characters of the plot know about the existence of Miracle City, it will be a big trouble. From this point of view, the original plan of Zhao Renfan and others to sacrifice Ma Lece to oppose Alex was actually very low.
Far away, although most of the memories Ma Le read were worthless gibberish, he still parsed two more useful pieces of information from them. One is that he had told Snowy Owl and Persian Cat before that Brad had never seen the King's uniform. The second is about Hurricane City, and that message doesn't mention Hurricane City's style, strength, class, etc., but only mentions a number of people! Ma Le learned from this memory that although it was also a subordinate city of the city warfare system, Hurricane City seemed to be much more deserted than Miracle City, with fewer than three thousand people! This made Ma Le very curious, to know that there were more than 8,000 people in Miracle City, so it seemed that the number of people in each city-state was different? If so, all adventurers are numbered by six digits, and the first two are still city-state numbers, does that mean that a city-state can accommodate only 9,999 adventurers? In that case, isn't the 8,000-scale Miracle City quite a powerful city-state?
With these questions in mind, Ma Le clicked on the search engine and searched for information about the number and size of the city-states.
There is a lot of information in this area, and the price is not expensive, it belongs to the common sense that can be accessed naturally at a certain level, but Ma Le will feel mysterious when he first arrives. After browsing through hundreds of titles, Ma Le finally chose a post called "The Grand View of the City War System", which is worth 60 credits and has as many as 300 positive reviews, with no false reporting records, only two questioning records, which means that some adventurers have doubts about the accuracy of some of the contents, but generally admit the authenticity of the information.
Click on the post, this is a piece of information sprinkled with thousands of words, which describes the size, number, activity and participation of the city-state in the city warfare system in a relatively general manner. From this post, Ma Le learned that there were originally 60 city-states in the entire city battle system, and the first two digits of the adventurer's number ranged from 00~59. The 60 city-states vary greatly in size, from "metropolises" with more than 8,000 adventurers like Miracle City to "small towns" with only a few hundred people. And the size of most city-states is around one or two thousand people, and the three thousand like Hurricane City is already relatively large-scale.
The initial conditions of all the city-states are similar, the hardware scale and facilities are similar, and the key depends on whether the development process is successful or not, and the situation that has caused today is completely the result of free development. Almost all of the city-states' development resources are derived from the mission world.
Because of the large number of adventurers, the wide range of information sources, and the abundant sources of equipment and props, the adventurers among them are naturally generally well developed. The small city-states tend to have less harvest in the mission world due to the lack of personnel, and the adventurers' lives are generally more difficult. Therefore, the larger the city-state, the higher the general level of adventurers in it. Of course, this is not absolute, for example, the Yinxue trio in Miracle City was tailed by the ghost beast old gentleman and his party in Hurricane City for three whole worlds, and finally was made to die and live and couldn't take care of themselves, and finally left with hatred......
There is also a ranking of size among the sixty city-states, but it has nothing to do with the city-state number. At present, there are seven super-large city-states with more than 5,000 people, namely the Origin City numbered 00, the Sacred City numbered 09, the Miracle City numbered 11, the Imperial City numbered 26, the Dynamic City numbered 31, the Dark City numbered 48, and the Huangsha City numbered 55. These seven city-states are the largest and most powerful, and they are collectively known as the Seven Heroes of the Battle City. Among them, Miracle City ranks third, and there are Origin City and Dark City in front, both of which are super cities with 9,000 people.
As for the rest, there are about eight large city-states of more than two thousand, thirty-two medium-sized city-states of one thousand to two thousand, and the rest are small cities of less than one thousand. In the entire city battle system, there are currently about 120,000 adventurers, including about 70,000 at the entry level, nearly 30,000 at the ordinary level, about 10,000 at the senior level, and less than 1,000 at the elite level and champion level.
In other words, in the real world with a population of more than 7 billion, there is an average of one adventurer for every 60,000 people. The city of Shengzhou, where Ma Le lives, has a population of 5.5 million, and in other words, there should be about 100 adventurers!