Eternal Night

Chapter 722 Become bigger and stronger and create greater glory!
"What?! Over 68 million points? One trade run, over 68 million points?! You guys went and robbed the Origin Treasure Vault?!"

Chu Minghao's voice sounded so agitated and distorted for the first time, to the point of being so agitated that he seemed ready to devour someone. If you only saw him grabbing Wu Pifu's collar and yelling, then for someone who had always been so ethereal, it really looked like a demon about to eat someone.

Wu Pifu didn't know how to explain for a moment, so he looked at Xu Shilan.

Xu Shilan wasn't in a hurry, and sipped her tea in the president's office with a smile.

Wu Pifu wasn't familiar with this expression, but Chu Minghao was very familiar with it.

Before the Fourth World War, when he was still trapped on Earth, without the super brain aid, without the Dragon Rider system, and without the matching mecha, he was at his weakest, like a dragon swimming in shallow waters. He had encountered Xu Shilan with this expression many times.

This indicates that she is about to start a business.

“…Just tell me, what do you need me to do?” Chu Minghao said helplessly.

Xu Shilan put down her teacup and said frankly, "Then I'll be frank. I want Chu Yuyan. The most precious thing in any era is always talent. The Chu family has two outstanding talents. Chu Anran is dead, but Chu Yuyan is still alive. I want him to join the Ocean Dream World strategy after establishing the territory's sanctuary, and to help me as my deputy."

Chu Minghao looked somewhat troubled. He murmured, "As you know, the Chu family currently has the fewest awakened members of all the families. I must set an example. As the president, even if it's just for show, I must ensure that the Chu family is ranked after the government, and even after the list of ordinary awakened members... I don't have many capable people among my entourage. Chu Yuyan is really..."

Xu Shilan chuckled coldly: "Anyway, I don't care. You know my personality. Just one sentence is enough."

Chu Minghao glanced at Wu Pifu, who didn't even show any expression. The two of them could tell what the other was thinking just by looking at each other... There was nothing he could do.

Chu Minghao sighed and said, "Alright, it's limited to the development of Ocean Dream World, and you must guarantee his safety. Also, once Ocean Dream World is developed and stabilized, he must leave. If that's acceptable, let's make this agreement."

"it is good!"

Xu Shilan reached out and gave Chu Minghao a high five, then smiled and said, "When I came to the Land of Redemption and checked the government database, I actually had some thoughts. The current source of human points is very monotonous. Basically, all of them come from the rewards of the main brain's missions, and points can only be obtained by killing a small number of monsters. Apart from that, even the government's points are given through the main brain's authority, right?"

Chu Minghao nodded, a thoughtful expression on his face.

Xu Shilan spread her hands and said, "Government think tanks must have offered some suggestions on this, right? Although they are all scoundrels who would rather avoid taking responsibility than take responsibility, their suggestions are still quite useful sometimes."

Chu Minghao sighed and said, "Yes, the think tank team has put forward many suggestions regarding the current points system, especially expressing great concern about the government's points reserves. According to them, the vast majority of the government's points currently come from the monthly allocation given by the mainframe, while the tax rate collected from the Night Watchers is completely insufficient to cover the debts. The government's points cannot support the consumption after the awakening of all humanity in the future. And this is still under the current condition that humanity is in the Absolute Reality Layer. If humanity begins to fall in the future, the consumption of points will accelerate, and the bankruptcy of the government is a completely foreseeable problem. At that time, human civilization will collapse rapidly because it does not have enough points."

"They suggested opening up the source of points, but this could not be done for two reasons. First, humanity currently lacks ways to obtain points. Apart from completing the mainframe missions and killing certain monsters, there are no other ways to obtain them. Second, because I am trapped in the Land of Redemption, I cannot take the time to upgrade the mainframe a second time, so I cannot obtain new sources of points."

Chu Minghao and Xu Shilan both looked at Wu Pifu, who expressionlessly picked up his teacup and took a sip.

Both of them looked relieved. Xu Shilan smiled and said, "Theoretically speaking, the truth of the absolute truth layer, that is, the integral, should be infinite. But it is actually like the universe space of 1.0, which is filled with infinite energy, but we have no way to extract and use it. The main brain can't do it either. So what do the government think tank team and the scientific community have to say about the source of the integral?"

Chu Minghao said, "The think tank members and research team all share a common conjecture: that reality actually exists in two forms. One is an inert solid state, and the other is an active free state. The former is the basic framework of the world, while the latter is the related attribute energy derived from the basic framework of the world. To put it bluntly, the essence of integration is reality, and the essence of reality is actually the cognition of all things by intelligent life. Our cognition of the universe gave birth to the existing universe, of which 99.999%... is the universe itself. We cannot use this part. The only part that can be used is 0.000...1%, which was born from our cognition of the universe. This usable part can be called the 'universe concept.' Do you understand what I mean?"

Chu Minghao said a lot of things, and surprisingly, Wu Pifu understood them very quickly, while Xu Shilan thought about it for almost a minute before she gradually understood.

The superbrain works very well in this situation. "...I see. To put it simply, the zero-point real universe is all real, all integral, but the vast majority of it constitutes the universe itself, the absolute real layer itself. This massive amount of reality is the essence that suppresses the dream world, and the main brain cannot use this portion of reality. Only the remaining countless billions of percent are concepts generated by intelligent life through cognition. This part is the reality that the main brain can use and obtain, right?" Xu Shilan said while thinking.

Chu Minghao nodded: "Yes, that's right. But even this portion of reality that can be used is practically infinite in scale, although it all exists at the level of absolute reality. The research team's analysis and explanation based on the current dream world model concluded that the main brain's integration is actually a kind of substitution. How should I describe it... the most suitable adjective would be 'density'."

"The definition generated by the intellectual life of the Absolute Truth Layer, resulting in the Martian free-state truth share, has an extremely high density, ranging from 1.0 to 0.9, a density difference of approximately ten orders of magnitude..."

Hearing this, Wu Pifu asked curiously, "A tenfold difference? That's quite a lot..."

Xu Shilan looked at Wu Pifu speechlessly and said, "The so-called ten orders of magnitude generally refers to ten to the power of ten, which is about a hundred billion times the difference."

Wu Pifu clicked his tongue in disbelief, and Chu Minghao was speechless for a long time before continuing, "That's why there's the saying that the absolute truth layer is infinitely real. However, this level of density makes it very difficult for the main brain to obtain a usable share of truth. It has to use replacement and dilution methods. So the main brain's task is to obtain a certain 'resource' for replacement and dilution. This is the research team's conclusion."

Xu Shilan clapped her hands and said, "The Xu family's research team has also reached the same conclusion. This is why I plan to do business. So far, I have not found any Night Watch team in the Land of Redemption that has conducted large-scale dream world business. I have also thought about the reasons, and finally came to only two possibilities."

"First, they are not strong enough. Even if they obtain a territory-type shelter, they cannot defend it. The larger the territory-type shelter, the greater the pressure in the dream world. Unless they can overpower the entire dream world, they cannot defend it and cannot form a large-scale trade."

"Secondly, they didn't find any large quantities of items that could be traded. Extraordinary items are probably rare even in the dream world. There might be one or two, ten or a hundred, but finding tens of thousands, especially if they are renewable, would be difficult."

Xu Shilan then smiled reservedly and said, "We were lucky this time because both conditions were met. With Wu Pifu in charge of the Ocean Dream World, it was enough to suppress the entire world. Secondly, this Ocean Dream World belongs to the lower realm of the Transcendent Great World, and may even be a fragment that fell from the Mountain and Sea Realm. It has its own reality and renewable extraordinary resources. All of these combined led to this achievement."

Even so, the first transaction volume was over 60 million. Once the scale is established, even if it's just a steady stream, the unified human government will have its first stable channel for crediting points. Both of them understand the significance of this: a qualitative breakthrough from zero to one.

Chu Minghao was also delighted. He said, "In that case, I'll lend you Chu Yuyan. Set up this framework. With this first sustainable points-earning project, other Night Watch teams will also develop in this direction in the future. Moreover, the direction of the second upgrade of the mainframe will be determined. This is a good thing, a great thing!"

Xu Shilan shook her head slightly and said, "Even so, there are still two hidden dangers. The first problem is the information about the ship curse we brought back. This curse is very strange. The Night Watchers entering this dream world must be careful and it is best to set sail on level three ships for business. The second problem is sustainable development. If we only keep buying extraordinary items from this dream world and bringing them to the Land of Redemption, and keep plundering the reality of this dream world, this dream world may decline, become corrupt, and be lost, so we must achieve sustainable development."

After pondering for a while, Chu Minghao said, "That's the question. Your conversation with that goblin was quite interesting. They can obtain reality through trade, not just physical goods... So, could we sell the products of the Land of Redemption, whether basic necessities or industrial products, into that dream world? Could we create a flow of trade? Would this generate a replacement-type reality? After all, reality is obtained through the cognition of non-transcendent beings. So, can this kind of trade, this kind of exchange, generate a reality that both parties possess?"

Wu Pifu didn't understand many of the topics that followed, including various discussions about business, culture, and the practicalities of exchanging partners. So, Wu Pifu simply sat down and closed his eyes to rest.

After a while, he woke Xu Shilan up and saw that she looked slightly tired, but her expression was extremely excited.

"Let's go back to Ocean Dream World, acquire a territory-type shelter as soon as possible, and then..."

"And then?" Wu Pifu asked curiously.

"Grow bigger and stronger! Create greater glory!"

Xu Shilan said with great excitement, "Let me help you create a business empire. Then Rong'er from your dream world can come and help. Later, if there are any mistresses, they can also come and help. You won't have to worry about them getting jealous and causing trouble in your harem."

Wu Pifu blinked but didn't say anything, while Xu Shilan smiled and pushed him out of the office.

The next step is to acquire a territory-type shelter!
(End of this chapter)