Eternal Night

Chapter 697 Entertainment and Knowledge Visit
Wu Pifu did not make a choice immediately.

Of these three options, the second one is obviously ridiculous. If all three options are like this, then he plans to have the mainframe decide to kill the mission system.

However, both the first and third options are good things.

The first option is to receive a mission, the reward of which is at least 100 million points.

One hundred million points is a lot of money. This isn't even the source of the problem. Missions that require hundreds of billions or even trillions of points are rare and hard to come by. A mission that requires more than one hundred million points is already extremely valuable.

As for danger, since a task worth hundreds of millions of points is bound to be dangerous, Wu Pifu wasn't worried about it at all.

Could anything be more dangerous than the Root? Judging by the amount of points, the Root must have at least tens of billions of points or even more. With just over one hundred million points, it's probably only at the Ascended Body level, or at most an Ascended Body level with the power of the Root. Wu Pifu is not afraid of this. If there really is such an enemy, it's just right to kill it to recharge the Nodos Contract Crystal.

The only concern is the issues surrounding Xu Shilan and Amadeus.

Their strength is still too weak, and they are not yet able to join the battlefield at this level. If they accept the challenge now, it means that Xu Shilan and Amadei will not be able to team up with him in the short term.

The third option is also good: the Dream Compass. It sounds like a great product. Although it's a fragment with only one percent of the effect and is a one-time trial version, its effects still make Wu Pifu very excited.

It's important to understand that penetrating the dream world is entirely random. Aside from confirming the lower level when penetrating from the upper level down, nothing else can be confirmed. You don't know what kind of dream world you're going to, or what you'll encounter in it. It's all a matter of luck.

Why are extraordinary skills and methods so difficult to obtain and upgrade?
It's precisely because of this uncertainty in the dream world!

Take Wu Pifu's Human Immortal Martial Arts as an example. After obtaining the initial Human Immortal Martial Arts from the main brain, he has been trying to complete it from the dream world. However, after experiencing so many dream worlds, he has not encountered a single dream world based on Human Immortal Martial Arts.

Now Wu Pifu also knows that all the rewards from the mainframe, such as extraordinary cultivation techniques, should come from the Root Corpse that resonates with it, or at least be closely related to it.

Even Wu Pifu hadn't seen how many Root Corpses resonated with the Main Brain. However, this was just resonance, not the Root Corpses becoming the Main Brain. Therefore, the Main Brain couldn't possibly possess all the essence or resources of these Root Corpses.

This is why the extraordinary techniques, various extraordinary items, or fantasy objects provided by the mastermind are mostly incomplete. For example, his Magical Girl Heart Flower is incomplete, his Nodos Contract Crystal is also incomplete, and the Human Immortal Martial Arts, etc., are all incomplete for this reason.

On the contrary, titles and other items obtained from the dream world are complete.

Therefore, if you want to obtain a complete extraordinary cultivation technique or a complete core item, you really have to obtain it in the dream world.

Wu Pifu is no longer in a hurry to obtain the follow-up techniques of the Human Immortal Martial Arts. As long as he has enough points, he can obtain the follow-up techniques of the Human Immortal Martial Arts from the people in the Lost Lands. However, he is also lacking in other things.

For example, the opportunity for the ultimate sublimation of traditional Chinese martial arts, the possible subsequent techniques of immortal martial arts, or even something as important as the secret treasures of the Buddhist realm, which could completely complete the dream of magical girls?
In short, if he really had something as good as the Dream Compass, then he could achieve far too many goals.

Wu Pifu wasn't in a hurry to choose a reward right now; both options one and three were good for him.

However, this required discussion with others, and since it concerned Xu Shilan and Amadei, he decided to wait until they returned before discussing it further.

Wu Pifu then rested in Gao Changgong's guild building.

Actually, he didn't do anything else. Every day, besides practicing kung fu, eating and drinking, taking walks, Wu Pifu basically spent his time playing games, reading novels, watching movies, animations, and other entertainment activities. It was a simple and routine.

During this time, Liang Min had already left the Land of Redemption, Chu Minghao was still very busy every day, and several acquaintances returned from the dream world to meet him. He also heard from Gao Changgong that Xu Shilan was highly skilled and had become the head of the Xu family again in just two or three days.

However, this was to be expected.

Xu Wanfang's lineage is the direct descendant of the Xu family, which is very different from Xu Ruonan's collateral line. Before the Dream World opened, Xu Shilan was also the head of the Xu family, but she went mad because of Xu Wanfang's death and was eventually sentenced by the unified human government.

When she returned, the Xu family was easily under her control.

Moreover... the Xu family's influence isn't blind. Xu Shilan returned with Wu Pifu and even went to the Presidential Palace. Naturally, they couldn't possibly be unaware of these things. Furthermore, her relationship with Wu Pifu is practically public knowledge. In addition, there have been recent rumors that Wu Pifu killed four Roots and resurrected his former teammates through time reversal. With all this information combined, let alone the current state of the Xu family, even if all the elders of the Xu family were to awaken, they probably wouldn't dare to disobey Xu Shilan's orders.

In short, Xu Shilan's control over the Xu family went smoothly. Immediately after seizing power, she reorganized and dismantled the existing forces within the Xu family, consolidating all power in just a few days. Today is the fourth day since Wu Pifu returned to the Land of Redemption. He got up early this morning, went to the wilderness of the Land of Redemption to practice his boxing and train, then returned to the guild building for a hearty breakfast. He chatted with Chu Yu, Yan Haocheng, and the others who had just returned, before going back to his room to continue playing his game.

This is a virtual reality game from before World War IV, making it a relatively old game. If we trace it back further, it can even be considered a pre-World War II online virtual reality game. From its inception to its shutdown, it was continuously updated for about 150 years, making it a very classic game in human civilization.

The game content is quite interesting. The game is called "The Story of Earth's 4.6 Billion Years". It divides the game version and world according to the era of the birth of life on Earth. In the earliest time, there were only primitive oceans and cellular life. Then, it progresses step by step according to the evolution of life era. Unlike the real evolution on Earth, from the very beginning of life era, the player can play as the weak to defeat the strong, challenge powerful enemies, and obtain precious gene fragments to evolve themselves.

If one can defeat an absolutely powerful enemy by means of an absolutely weaker force, it is even possible to produce legendary genes or mythical genes. Legendary genes belong to the protagonist life genes of a certain era in the evolution of life, but mythical genes are completely virtual.

Through these gene combinations, life can evolve into forms and combat power that match the player's struggles. If there are mythological genes, it is even possible to give birth to completely virtual mythological life forms.

This game uses this as its selling point: each account has only one life, and once it dies, the account will be deleted. There are only two ways to make money in the game: account registration fee and game cards. There is no other store or additional fees.

According to the information Wu Pifu obtained from Gao Changgong, the game was extremely popular at the time because of the endless stream of mythical creatures.

Many wealthy players who spend money on in-game purchases strive to evolve their desired mythical creatures, or at least legendary creatures from a particular era, such as the nautilus of the Ordovician period or the Dunkleosteus of the Devonian period, which were the dominant and legendary creatures of their respective eras.

These wealthy players would repeatedly challenge the strongest life forms in various eras, only to have their accounts deleted and then re-register to continue the challenge. This is how the game thrived for 150 years, eventually reaching the Neogene period, very close to the emergence of Homo sapiens. However, at that time, chaos reigned, with mythical and legendary creatures crossing eras to fight each other. For example, a hundred-meter-long Dunkleosteus battled a super dragonfly tens of meters long from the Carboniferous period, or a mythical dinosaur that absorbed radiation energy fought a mythical three-headed dragonfly. This caused immense suffering for new, non-paying players, and the game world was destroyed time and again, ultimately leading to the game's gradual decline and eventual demise.

At this very moment, Wu Pifu is playing the single-player version of this game.

In the virtual world, he transformed into a bizarre, tentacle-like starfish, chasing a nautilus ten times its size.

Just as it was about to be in its grasp, the nautilus suddenly flashed with light and transformed into a human.

Just as Wu Pifu's tentacles were about to reach out, he abruptly stopped them, because he actually knew this human.

"Oh, Mr. Wu, is that right?"

Zhi chuckled and greeted Wu Pifu: "Mi hurriedly awakened one of my ganglia, saying that someone claimed to be our parents, forcing me to come and see you. I didn't expect our father to be a tentacle monster? Or do you just want to scold Mi?"

The tentacle monster that Wu Pifu had transformed into immediately began to gurgle and spew water bubbles.

(Oh, you've come at the perfect time. I need your help with something.)
An ordinary person would definitely not understand what this means, but it seems that the intrusion into the virtual program has actually understood it. He frowned and looked at Wu Pifu with a puzzled expression.

Wu Pifu didn't seem to mind. He continued, "Here's what happened: I just completed a mission and got a reward option. Right now, I'm desperately short of points and need them a lot. Plus, I need to help my two teammates level up, so..."

Wu Pifu then told Zhi about his situation without any concealment.

Zhi remained silent, a glint of light seemingly emanating from his eyes, though it couldn't be seen in this virtual world.

He laughed loudly, "You told me that so easily? Are we that close? Or do you simply have no idea how much I really..."

A tentacle touched Liaozhi's head while continuing to gurgle.

(It's okay, if it were you!)

After remaining silent for at least several dozen seconds, he suddenly spoke: "If you're not afraid of death, then take my advice. Now... I'm going to start investigating you, Mr. Wu. You'd better pray that some things are true..."

"Your reward is too easy to choose. Just pick the third option, and after you get this one-time trial version, make a wish. As for what you wish for..."

"Obtain the 'true and complete' dream compass!"

(End of this chapter)