Palm 78: The Plot Mission Begins

"There are three optional difficulty items in total." The system answered directly. "The contents are respectively no punishment mode, basic punishment mode and ten times punishment mode."

"Is there any specific difference?"

"In terms of punishment, just as the name says, the non-punishment mode means there is no punishment at all. After death, the mission will be automatically judged as failed, and then sent out in the state when entering the mission. There will be no downgrade, no equipment loss, and no calculation of personal defeat rate. Basically Punishment mode is similar to the punishment mode used on the main map. Two levels are lost when you die, and other punishment items are carried out as usual. In the ten-fold punishment mode, you will lose twenty levels directly when you die, and an additional monetary penalty will be added. Crystals will be deducted for each death. The first coin will be used and a piece of equipment with all undroppable attributes will be randomly dropped."

"The severity of the punishment also corresponds to the size of the reward, right?" Christina asked.

"Yes. The degree of reward depends on the selected punishment mode. The higher the punishment, the greater the reward after completing the task. However, it should be noted that the punishment mode is also the choice of the task difficulty standard. If you choose the non-punishment mode, then The difficulty of the task will be very low, with the base penalty corresponding to normal difficulty and ten times the penalty corresponding to ten times difficulty."

"Ten times more difficult?" Zhenhong was startled. "Isn't this too deceptive? There's no way it's going to be ten times the difficulty, right?"

"You can make your own judgment on this, but you can choose to activate the special assistant mode at the cost of adding a boss-level monster to the mission."

"What is special assistant mode?" Rose asked.

"The special assistant mode is a special assistant that assists the player with all information. This assistant can contribute intelligence to the main system. All system information can be called up, so various data evaluations and tactical effect predictions can be made, and the enemy's general intelligence information can be provided before receiving After the battle, detailed information can be obtained. This system is still in the testing stage, so it is only open to some advanced players. Moreover, because this system can provide players with a large amount of auxiliary information during the mission, it will lead to an increase in the mission pass rate. Therefore, balance the system and call the assistant. The difficulty of the game needs to be increased. The current increase in difficulty is to add additional bosses to the mission. However, players can choose whether to call the assistant. Do you need to call it? "

Zhenhong looked at me and asked, "Boss. Do we want it or not?"

Christina looked at me and said: "Intelligence is very important. But I don't know if this boss exceeds the value of intelligence."

Rose did not hesitate, but said with great certainty: "We should call."

"What?" Neither Zhenhong nor Christina fully understood Rose's choice.

"The reason is very simple." Rose explained: "The system said that the existence of this boss is designed to balance the intelligence advantage, and this assistant is not unique to us. It will be open to all players in the future. In other words, using is the normal standard. The combat effectiveness of our group of people exceeds the normal standard of ordinary players. Therefore, the same intelligence is more meaningful to us, and the same boss is less threatening to us. Therefore, if the setting of this boss There is no big deviation when compared with the value of intelligence. When we call assistants, we all take advantage. This is for sure.”

"Your analysis makes sense." I said, "Then let's call the assistant."

"Understood, the assistant call is activated. Now it will intelligently switch to assistant mode to help the player team set tasks." After saying this, the system voice changed, directly from the previous mature female voice to a girl-like voice. , even the tone of speaking has changed. "Hello everyone, I am a player assistant. Since I do not serve a specific team, please don't give me a name. Just call me assistant. Now I start to perform my work. First of all, about the character difficulty. Settings, the assistant’s advice to you is to choose ten times the difficulty.”

"What?" Zhenhong asked in surprise: "Isn't this high difficulty dangerous?"

"It should not be said to be dangerous for normal players, but completely impossible to complete. But this is not the case for you. The difficulty of this task is designed according to the standards of normal players. Your single combat power is too much beyond that of ordinary players. There are many, so the normal difficulty may be easier for you than ordinary players who choose the no-punishment mode. Of course, the ten-fold punishment mode is still a challenge for you, but based on my evaluation of your combat data, as long as you don’t show up Unexpectedly, your combat effectiveness can be used normally, and the pass rate is as high as 75%. This value is already quite high. So, I think it is worth a try. At the same time, because I can share the system data, I can tell you in advance, the ten times punishment mode The rewards are very useful and definitely worth the risk for you.”

"75% winning rate?" Rose nodded: "It's really worth a try."

"What is the final prize?" Zhenhong asked again.

The assistant said: "Although I can call system data, I will not do anything beyond the rules of the game. Therefore, I can tell you in advance that the reward is worth your risk, but I cannot tell you what it is, because once you know If you do, you will definitely do the task, which cancels your judgment and directly increases your growth probability, which is not allowed."

"Well, I believe that what you said is indeed worth the risk, then we will choose ten times the difficulty." I directly confirmed this choice. Anyway, Rose also said that the probability is actually very high.

After hearing my confirmation, the assistant immediately said: "Then, the next thing we need to determine is whether you will make certain adjustments to the current number of combatants."

"Can you still ask someone to come in?" I asked in surprise.

The assistant replied affirmatively: "Yes, according to the reward setting, this reward task allows no more than 30% adjustment based on the original number of people. There are four of you now, which means you can add or subtract one person."

"Will changing the number of people affect the task difficulty and rewards?" Rose asked quickly.

The assistant replied: "Changes in the number of people will affect the difficulty and rewards. When the number of people increases, the number of monsters in the game will increase proportionally to ensure that the average number of hostile creatures that each person needs to face remains basically unchanged. And the task rewards will also Therefore, by increasing the weight of the extra player, the goal is to ensure that the rewards that everyone gets in the future remain unchanged."

"Then increase it." Rose confirmed this time without even asking me, but I also agreed with this decision. The person we need to add is actually very clear. It is just gold coins. After all, she is one of the strongest combatants in the guild. We cannot leave her outside. It is naturally better for more people to receive rewards. Moreover, although the task will increase the number of monsters according to the number of people to balance the difficulty, when there are more people, there will be auxiliary advantages, which in turn reduces the difficulty of the task.

The truth is actually very simple. Suppose there is a group of players with exactly the same attributes, and everyone has an aura skill that can increase the attack power of all people within range by 5%. In this case. If four people fight together. Then their actual attack power is 1% of the normal value. Because the four people have auras, four 5% extra attack power is added. At this time, if the number of people increases to 5, and the number of monsters is also increased, the number of monsters that each person needs to deal with remains unchanged. So. To these people. In fact, they took advantage. Although it seems that the number of monsters that each person needs to deal with is still the same, and the burden has not been reduced due to the increase in the number of team members, there is an additional 5% attack power due to one more person. So in fact everyone still takes advantage.

The same is true here. After bringing in the gold coins, it seems that the number of monsters we need to deal with has not changed on the surface, but in fact, everyone's strength will increase after the gold coins join forces with us, so we actually still get a big advantage. Moreover, each player is good at what he or she is good at, and having one more person means one more thing that they are good at. Bringing more assists like Rose means our continuous combat capability will increase. If we encounter a war of attrition, our winning rate will increase significantly. And if there is a battle with a lot of soldiers, Jin Coin and Christina will become the best candidates. Therefore, more people will not only increase that person's own combat effectiveness, but they will also increase the combat effectiveness of others. Of course, the first step in this situation is that the additional people have strong combat effectiveness. If the addition of people whose combat effectiveness is lower than the average of the players joins, then it will not increase our strength but hinder us.

After confirming the additional personnel, the system assistant was silent for a while, probably communicating with the gold coins. After a few seconds, the gold coins appeared directly in front of us. Jin Coin's first words after seeing us were: "If you're sorry, you can bring more people in, otherwise I'll be screwed out this time!"

"Didn't this call you in?" Christina said.

"So I said thanks to that we can recruit people!"

"Okay, let's quickly set the task." After I said that, I called the assistant directly. "Okay, is there anything else that needs to be set?"

"Of course. In addition to difficulty and personnel, another thing that needs to be set for a new mission is whether additional experience points are required."

"What is additional experience points?"

"The additional experience value is to give you additional experience value. You can set the value yourself. Since you have chosen the ten-fold punishment mode, the experience value of the internal hostile creatures has been increased to ten times the normal experience value of that type of creature. You can choose On this basis, continue to increase the experience multiplier, but it must be increased by an integer multiple of 0.2, that is, 10.2 times, 10.4 times, such increases of 0.2 and 0.2, and the maximum allowed increase is 100 times."

"What? 100 times the experience?" Jin Coin almost drooled when he heard this data.

The assistant promptly stopped the gold coin delusion and said directly: "If it is a system setting, there will be no guiding opinions. The setting magnification will be entirely decided by you. But I am your assistant. I will not break the system rules. Everything is done in your best interest. Therefore, after combining all the data I can obtain, my suggestion is to increase the experience multiplier to 14 times."

"This experience multiplier, like the previous punishment, will be forced to bundle with some other setting changes, right?" Rose asked.

The assistant immediately replied: "Yes, increasing the experience value multiplier in the mission setting will also increase the number of monsters. The specific conversion relationship is quite complicated. But in short, the higher the experience multiplier, the more monsters you will encounter, so if you If you choose 100 times the experience, you may encounter dozens of times the original number of enemies, and according to my analysis, in that case, your probability of completing the mission is no more than 1%, which means you are destined to fail."

"So what is the winning rate corresponding to fourteen times the experience?" I asked.

"Sixty percent." The assistant said: "According to your previous battle records, some of you seem to be able to get a 100% winning rate when the system determines a 50% winning rate. Therefore, I judge how many of you Possess certain inherent characteristics other than system attributes. Based on the "Virtual Reality Game Information Confidentiality Guidance Plan" and the "Mind Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China" and other regulations. The system cannot collect player information outside of the game. Therefore, I cannot Make accurate judgments about your special abilities, but based on probability calculations and the judgment given by the experience accumulator in my artificial intelligence, you actually have an additional win rate guarantee in addition to attributes. Therefore, even if the mission win rate is only There is 50%. You should be able to pass safely. But to ensure safety, I recommend choosing the 60% probability, which is fourteen times the experience value. In this case, your winning rate may be more guaranteed."

After listening to this analysis, Jin Coin suddenly said: "Why do I have an unknown feeling?"

Rose and I ignored the gold coin rants. Instead, they looked at each other, and then Rose said: "If you choose 15 times the experience, what is the winning rate?"

"57%."

"What about 16 times?"

"52%."

"17 times."

"44%."

"Please help us set the mission experience value multiplier sixteen times."

"I want to wake you up again. At sixteen times the experience value, your winning rate is only 52%. This winning rate is already close to your safety bottom line, and this safety bottom line only applies to individual people among you. The team safety line may need to be updated. High, so you may have entered the red danger probability zone. Are you sure you want to set it like this?"

"OK." I confirmed directly.

"Okay then. I am only responsible for assisting in judgment, and the decision is yours. Now set the mission experience value multiplier to 16 times. The experience value of each monster you kill in the mission will be the experience value of the monster in normal mode. 16 times the value. By the way, the increase in experience value will also affect the probability of rewards. Increasing the experience multiplier can allow you to obtain additional rewards, but this reward is random and therefore cannot be measured. "

"Okay, what else needs to be set?"

"Next setting. Please choose the battle scene you want. This bonus task allows participants to set the scene environment." After finishing speaking this time, the assistant directly showed us a series of character scenes on the display wall. , using the split-screen mode to display them one by one. It can be seen that there is no normal scene here.

After the scene appeared, the assistant immediately continued: "I need to talk to you before you choose. Different scenes will bring different mission rewards. Your original mission rewards include scene rewards, but according to your choice , the scene rewards will be different. I can’t tell you the specific reward content, but I can reveal a piece of information. Which scene you choose, the rewards you get will increase your combat effectiveness in that scene. In other words, if you If you choose an underwater scene, the scene rewards must be attributes or items that mainly enhance your underwater combat effectiveness."

"So we only need to choose the battle mode we need, right?" Jin Coin asked.

Unexpectedly, the assistant actually denied it: "No, if you choose a combat mode that you lack, your mission victory rate will decrease, because the mode that you lack means that your combat effectiveness in this mode will not be as good as yours." normal level, so it is said to be lacking. When you choose this scenario, it means that you have chosen a battlefield that you are not suitable for, which will increase the difficulty of the task and lead to a decrease in the winning rate. If the previous difficulty selection was lower, it does not matter What scenario, but you have already dropped the winning rate to 52%, which is quite dangerous. Therefore, I need to ask you to carefully consider the battle scenario."

Rose nodded and said: "Indeed, what you said makes sense. It seems that your assistant is still very useful. So, let's choose a scene where we are better at or can exert our regular combat effectiveness?"

"Our underwater combat effectiveness is the worst, right?" Zhenhong asked.

Jin Coin nodded and said, "I'm not good at water fighting anyway."

"I'm not very good either." Rose herself admitted.

Christina followed: "I can ensure that the base's combat effectiveness remains unchanged underwater."

"My combat effectiveness will be reduced underwater. It seems that we are not suitable for water combat." I said: "Assistant. Shield the real underwater battlefield environment. How are your surface combat capabilities?"

"It's okay." Zhenhong said.

"I have no problem." Jin Coin also said.

"..."

After asking around, the water battle seemed to be acceptable. Then everyone discussed other battles in reality. As a result, the desert scene was eliminated, and the reason was also true red. Her fighting style is not suited to a desert environment.

Next, because the sword array of gold coins requires open space, the super dense jungle environment and underground environment are also blocked. There were not many scenes to choose from. In the end, after we deleted a lot of environments, only a few environments were left.

"Currently, there are only three environments you can choose from." The assistant said: "One is the cold battlefield, one is the magma battlefield, and the other is the water battle environment. According to the mission setting, you need to choose at least two scenarios. But Cold and lava are not suitable to appear in the same mission. So you must choose surface combat, plus a tactical environment that you can agree with, right?"

"Then let's go to the cold battlefield." I said, "At least it's not that dangerous."

The only reason to choose severe cold is to protect Christina, Rose, and Gold Coins. All three of them may be harmed by the environment in this environment, so the possibility of injury in this place increases. In comparison, the severe cold is slightly better. However, speaking of severe cold environments, they are actually similar to super-hot magma environments. will continue to damage our combat effectiveness. But you have to suffer anyway, and the severe cold that is not life-threatening is better.

The assistant immediately said after I completed the settings: "Then the scene setting is completed. There is one last setting. You need two scenes to choose two weather conditions. This task will be carried out in a harsh environment. Therefore, you need to choose the weather The complexity of the situation.”

"Shouldn't you choose the weather type?"

"No, it just sets the degree of danger of the weather." The assistant said: "The optional items are set in percentages. One hundred percent is an extremely harsh environment, and one percent is ordinary rain or moderate wind. Natural weather, but this time your mission allows the adjustment range to start from 50%. Based on the previous settings, I recommend that you set the condition at 50%."

"Will changing weather conditions bring rewards or difficulty changes?"

"The weather environment will of course bring about changes in task difficulty, but it will not change the rewards. However, the impact of weather conditions on task difficulty is uncertain, because it is uncertain about the resistance of you and your hostile creatures to the weather environment, so if Niemi Ning’s enemies are more intolerant of harsh environments than you, so a high setting may help you. But this is a random setting, so for safety reasons I recommend setting it to 50%, which is safer."

"Since it is uncertain, it is safest to set an intermediate number, right?" Rose said: "The variables given by the system range from 50% to 100%, so let's set it to 75%."

"you sure?"

"Sure. We are very strong. Bad weather will not have much impact on us. On the contrary, our enemies may be greatly affected."

"Then let's set it up like this." The assistant said: "Please start checking the status and adjusting the equipment. You have ten minutes to prepare, or you can call me to start the transmission at any time when you are finished."

I looked at the gold coins and they asked, "Is there anything you need to adjust?"

Jin Coin shook his head and said: "I have been in the guild before, so what need to be adjusted?"

"It's OK here," Christina said.

Zhenhong nodded directly and said: "I can leave at any time."

"Then teleport now. Don't wait any longer. My attributes have been restored to full value after a long time of setting."

"Okay, the transmission begins."

This time the assistant was very cheerful and sent us out directly. However, after this teleportation, we hoped that the assistant could tell us something more before, because she actually forgot to tell us that the teleportation location would be on the sea.

Of course, what we set before was the sea battle scene. So you can’t blame the assistant for this, but you can’t really throw us directly into the sea! At any rate, you might as well give us a hint! If that doesn't work, you can put it higher. Even if it's a hundred meters above the sea, can I still react and use my wings to maintain a flying posture? It's a pity that after the assistant completed the transmission, he threw us directly into the sea. It's the real sea. The soles of our feet were just touching the sea level, appearing directly above the sea water.

After the teleportation was completed, we lost support and began to fall directly. Since our feet were directly in the sea water, we fell into the water before we could react. By the time everyone realized that there was sea water below them, we had even begun to float upward due to the buoyancy of the sea water.

"Ahem, cough, cough...Assistant, you are cheating!" He coughed violently as soon as the gold coin came out. Although everyone has underwater breathing methods such as avoiding water, no one can react in such a short time. I didn't even have time to put down my consciousness control mask. Let alone others.

Except for gold coins actually. Even Zhenhong and Christina choked. Entering the water at such a close distance, human reflex nerves cannot keep up. Only Rose and I reacted in time to hold our breath without choking. But the sudden weightlessness also shocked us.

After we all showed up, the assistant's voice suddenly sounded at the same time. "This is really not my fault. This is the beginning process of setting up your mission scene. I can't wake you up. Besides, I will be with you during this mission. And only you can hear my voice. Other beings in the mission cannot hear you. Oh, by the way, although I am an assistant, I do not work as a communicator. So if you are separated, although I will serve each of you, I will not communicate with you. Communication relay, this is limited to the game, so I’m sorry. But I noticed that you seem to have your own communicator, so it shouldn’t have much impact.”

"What do we need to do now?" Rose asked while treading water.

"You don't have to do anything now, just wait here. The plot will start soon."

"Is there a plot flow for this mission?" Zhenhong asked in surprise.

"Of course. This is a normal task, and of course there is a process. Please wait patiently, and the task process will start to guide you soon. If you don't understand anything, you can ask me at any time, I will be by your side at any time."

Although the assistant said that the process was about to begin, I was not used to waiting like this, so I just waved and let the bird go. As soon as the birds came out, they soared into the sky, and then they quickly plunged down. "Huh? Why did it come back again?" Zhenhong asked immediately when she saw the flying bird taking off and then coming down again.

"Over there, a ship is coming."

Zhenhong and the others looked in the direction of my finger, but saw nothing. There is nothing we can do about this. We are floating on the sea now, with only our heads and necks above the water. The sea is not very calm, and there are certain winds and waves. Although not very big, there are waves after all, so we can't see anything far away. However, the other party's ship was indeed not far away from us. Soon we noticed a mast, and then the mast began to become longer and larger, and gradually appeared on the bow of the ship.

"sailboat?"

"wooden?"

"Assistant. Isn't this the main map?" I asked directly.

"No. This is a mission space, with its own time and world setting. The general setting is similar to the main map, but without your advanced magic and technological civilization, you cannot build metal battleships, and there is no magic machine technology."

"Is that the standard European medieval level?" Christina asked.

"No, there is still magic here, but the technology is incomparable to your guild."

"understood."

While we were talking another mast appeared over there, and then two more, evidently not a ship but a fleet. The reason why it is said to be a fleet rather than a fleet is mainly because several of these ships are warships. Although overall the number of warships in this fleet is less than that of ordinary ships, since the proportion of warships has exceeded one-third, it is basically still a fleet. You must know that at the level of sailing battleships, it is right to bring more transport ships for ocean voyages. After all, the speed of these sailing ships cannot be compared with motorized ships. If the wind direction or sea conditions are bad, they will have to take a detour, so the supply fleet needs to be very large.

The fleet had obviously spotted us. After it appeared, it slightly adjusted its course and drove towards us. However, I have no intention of waiting for them to come to the rescue, because if that is the case, although it will eliminate part of the other party's vigilance, it will also be despised by the other party, and many of our actions will become unconvincing in the future.

"It looks like they are planning to rescue us. Let's not wait any longer and go up on our own." As I said that, I directly pushed the wings up from behind, then flapped them a few times, my body immediately lifted up, and then my feet were on the water. Kick hard. The whole person rises slightly. After a few more violent flaps of its wings, it was completely out of the water.

After I flew up, I went directly to Rose, then reached out and held her arm, pulling her up and holding her in front of me. On the other side, both True Red and Christina rose directly from the water as if in a gravity-free environment, and in the air Christina even spread her beautiful wings that made many female players jealous. This pair of realistic and illusory crystal butterfly wings makes many beauties envious. After all, these things are so beautiful. certainly. In fact, male players also want it. Not just because of beauty. The main reason is that this wing has many additional functions.

After Christina and Zhenhong took off, the gold coins also flew up, but the way she flew up was sitting on a flying sword, if it weren't for the fact that she was sitting sideways. I feel like a witch riding a broomstick. Of course, the gold coin body does not look like a witch. Even if she just came out of the water, her Tianzun suit did not feel wet at all. After all, there are only three sets of national weapons in the country, and the basic attribute is to avoid water.

After we flew up here, we started to move towards the fleet over there. We wanted to go up and see the situation, but the situation took a turn for the worse at this moment. Just when we were flying, the battleships on the opposite side made a collective U-turn, turning ninety degrees and pointing the sides of their hulls towards us. Then we saw the positions of the sides of the battleships. Rows of small windows opened.

"Hey, hey, hey, what's going on?" I asked as the gold coin flew towards me at an accelerated speed.

Christina said: "I'm afraid our situation scared the other side, and they thought we were going to attack them."

"Then what should we do? Do we need to get a white flag or something to shake it?" Jin Coin asked.

"What do you think?" Rose asked.

Jin Coin himself scratched his head and said: "It does seem a bit embarrassing. Forget it, never mind, if they really dare to open fire, we will fight back. Dozens of broken ships still dare to show off their power, I will just open a few holes for them. Let them go into the sea to feed the fish.”

"Excuse me, everyone." The assistant's voice rang at the right time. "If you are not very busy, I suggest you turn around and look behind you."

"Huh? What do you mean?" Jin Coin turned around and looked behind him in confusion. We had the same reaction, and then everyone understood what the other fleet's reaction was.

In the direction behind us, a fleet comparable in size to the fleet in front of us appeared in our sights. The fleet below is obviously not trying to fire at us, they are wary of the fleet on the opposite side. I'll just say it. Although we were not flying high, it was much higher than the deck. It would be understandable if these warships raised their heads to fire with the cannons on the deck, but it would be abnormal to open the gun windows on the side of the ship. The cannon inside has no shooting angle, so what can it do if it is opened? Now that I think about it, I understand that they are going to deal with the fleet over there.

The fleets on both sides have obviously discovered each other, and are now adjusting their routes and preparing for battle while approaching. Obviously, the two sides knew each other, because they started preparing for the bombardment without any communication. Although strange forces at sea will defend each other when they meet, this is not generally the case. They have now made it clear that they are going to fight.

"Is this going to be a melee?" Christina asked: "Are we watching from the side, or are we helping one party to kill the other party and selling a favor at the same time?"

After Christina asked, Rose said: "Does this need to be said? Of course it is to help one party fight the other party."

"Then which side shall we attack?" Zhenhong asked.

"I'm more inclined to attack the fleet on the opposite side. The one over there is new, and the one over here was planning to save us from the beginning. Let's just say they are good people." Jin Coin said.

"Or we can go on board and inquire before making a decision?" Zhenhong asked.

"No, let's help the fleet here attack the one over there." I directly identified the target without asking them at all.

Rose understood my intention, pointed to the fleet over there and said: "Look clearly, although the fleet on the opposite side does not have an advantage in number, the tonnage of the ships is obviously larger than this, and two-thirds of them are warships. , there are very few supply ships, and the combat effectiveness is much stronger than here. Helping the other side is just the icing on the cake, and helping the fleet here is just giving timely help. Which one do you think is more touching afterwards?" (To be continued...)