There's something wrong with me

Chapter 191 The New World 'Heavenly Dao Rule Algorithm'

Open your eyes.

This is a storefront that is only a dozen square meters in size.

It was three o'clock in the afternoon, and outside the door was the bustling street of the small town with cars coming and going.

Zhang Feng, who was standing at the door, walked a little into the house, sat on the simulated mahogany bench, and looked around the room.

It was covered with a lot of strange talismans.

In short, it's all fake.

But he himself is a 'feng shui master', the kind without any spiritual energy.

At first glance, he was clearly a charlatan.

After pondering for a moment, Zhang Feng straightened his hairpin (commander's hat) and looked at his attributes.

【Age: 45】

[Physique: 21]

【Root bone: 6】

[Martial Arts: 6.5]

[Spiritual Roots: 1.2]

The spiritual root is quite good.

Furthermore, with the blessing of the spiritual root, even though 'he' himself' did not cultivate or know any techniques, his physique improved significantly.

I used visualization to sense that this world has spiritual energy.

A concentration of approximately 1.5.

After experiencing the spiritual energy.

Zhang Feng activated his spiritual senses while absorbing spiritual energy.

This is aided by the study of neurology and the data on neurons in the virtual world.

The spiritual thought opened instantly in the next second.

Spend a little more of your attention scanning the meridians.

And then, in the process of opening the meridians and cultivating the spirit.

Zhang Feng recalled his memories.

In a brief moment, Zhang Feng knew it was 07.

Furthermore, he also has some feng shui secrets in his memory.

However, in this secret technique, three out of ten sentences are flattering words, while the remaining six are meant to intimidate.

Only one sentence is somewhat knowledgeable, but not much.

It's like when a customer comes in, you touch his hand to read his palm, and you find that his palm is very rough and he is dressed rather plainly.

If you just say something vague like "you have suffered a lot in your life," then you can't go wrong.

Seeing that the male customer's palms were fair and plump, it was assumed that he came from a good family and had never done heavy work at home, which was not wrong.

Even if they said something wrong, the other party can just leave without paying; they're not going to kill themselves with a hammer.

But if you guess right, then business will start.

The main point is to use a single, universally applicable term, allowing the other party to "identify" it themselves.

The rest is all about flattery in business. Say some nice things, then mention some potential bloodshed, and get some foreplay, and the money will come.

However, I myself seem to be a novice.

In the year since the store opened, nine out of ten customers have left.

The remaining one was still half-believing.

Zhang Fengyue figured that if he didn't come, the shop would probably close down by the end of the month.

Fortunately, no one accused me of theft and fraud, otherwise I would have closed down long ago.

While fortune telling isn't illegal, it can still cause trouble if the amount of money involved is too large.

As he pondered, Zhang Feng looked at the World Information again.

Resurrection: 5

[Adventure Level: 6+]

[Adventure Type: Special, World Line Backtracking]

[Main Mission: Survive for 30 Days]

[Optional Main Quest: Survive for 30 Days]

[Identity: Wandering Taoist Priest]

[Note: You will receive a boost every ten days you survive.]

[The maximum number of enhancements this time: 5]

……

After reading the information, I saw that there was no one in the store and no danger nearby.

Zhang Feng didn't know if the mission started from here, so he ignored it for now and focused on cultivating and choosing the remaining enhancements.

Let's look at the following text again.

【Please select your first enhancement】

[1: Constitution +2.7]

[2: Sensory Enhancement]

【3: Defense】

At first glance, it's no surprise that it's a timeline reversal option; there's not much to improve.

It all depends on yourself.

The timeline challenges are a test of accumulated experience over a long period of time.

Zhang Feng remained completely calm, skipping over point 1 and looking directly at points 2 and 3.
[Sensory Enhancement: Rare, Rare]

[Effect 1: Reaction speed -0.009]

[Effect 2: Enhances five senses by 3%]

The increase wasn't high, but it was mostly in combat power.

Zhang Feng glanced at it, memorized the attributes, and used them for comparison before looking at 3.
[Defense: Rare, Epic]

[Effect 1: Constitution +1, Vitality +1]

[Effect 2: Physical defense is increased by an additional 10%]

'Another rule-based defense?'

Zhang Feng really liked this kind of 'extra defense' option.

But time is limited in this world; there are only 30 days.

To better calculate the results, we need to compare the gains and losses.

Zhang Feng first reflected on himself and organized what he had learned.

If you practice diligently, your physical fitness can reach around 90 in just ten days.

Because the early stage is a period of rapid development and changes very quickly.

I'm very familiar with these things.

Then, with a 90% physique, one can almost withstand a shot from a regular rifle by using their muscles to barely hold it in place.

Reaching 'non-human' status in ten days.

After that, with the addition of the "Durability" attribute, it's basically possible to reduce bullet damage to the surface layer.

Zhang Fengxuan had gone through and experienced the 'extra bonus' entries twice, and now he knew how they were 'calculated'.

First, it is not added to its own defense.

Instead, a bullet is fired, and under the influence of the defense rules, its kinetic energy is first reduced by 10%.

The remaining 90% is left for me to handle.

This is a direct reduction.

This weakened the weapon that could have broken through its defenses to a level that it could absorb.

However, if it's added directly to oneself, instead of being an extra boost, then at most it would only increase one's own defense by 10%, rather than weakening the opponent's base defense by a larger margin.

For example, if your current defense is 150, a 10% increase will bring it to 165, an increase of 15 points.

The opponent's damage is 200. If it is reduced by 10%, it becomes 180, which is 20 points.

The additional calculation method is higher.

Of course, this applies if your defense is high enough to far exceed the opponent's attack.

This additional 10% defense will create another calculation mechanism.

For example, first calculate the opponent's attack minus your own defense, and then calculate the final damage.

This reverse calculation method ultimately prevents the other party from causing any harm to oneself, producing an effect similar to 'damage immunity'.

Enemy attacks will be directly absorbed by the algorithm.

If we use the game's health bar as a benchmark, then there isn't even a 'forced -1 health' deduction.

Zhang Feng also figured out this pattern and was certain that the additional defense-related entries involved 'two algorithms'.

If the enemy has high attack power, prioritize weakening their overall attack.

If the enemy's attack is lower than your own defense, then calculate your own total defense first.

Furthermore, based on these 'two algorithms'.

Zhang Feng felt that this was a very powerful 'optimized defense formula'.

It should be able to materialize 'talismans'.

If it can be made into a talisman, then I can use this formula to try to integrate it into my spiritual structure.

In this way, if one's physical body can block an attack, then one does not need to use spiritual energy.

If you cannot block, the spiritual energy within your body will automatically surface at the point of attack.

If you circulate spiritual energy in this way, you can save a spiritual thought and don't need to maintain the spiritual energy around your body every day.

My highest number of spiritual thoughts to date is ten.

If one can save a step, indirectly, one's current cultivation speed will increase by about 13%.

A single thought now requires 0.13 units of computing power.

Of course, once you have more and more spiritual energy, you can add it to your cultivation when you no longer need to maintain the spiritual energy on your body.

Zhang Feng always felt that the higher one's cultivation level, the more 'worry-free' the process became.

Wait until the Qi of Returning to the Origin is fully formed and all techniques are integrated.

That would mean there is only 'all spiritual thoughts, commanding one stream of energy'.

Zhang Feng felt great.

And after selecting the 'defense' attribute.

My meridians have opened up to 70% without me even realizing it.

The current overall trend is 85%.

The remaining 15% or so consists of unfamiliar pathways that cannot be instantly grasped during a moment of distraction.

Zhang Feng quickly put it down and began to attack the second spiritual thought, while also looking at the remaining enhancements.

The second enhancement.

Select [Constitution +1.5]

The third one, [Wood Spirit Root +0.2]

All selected.

From the moment I came into this world, including the time I spent thinking, it was only about ten minutes.

Zhang Feng's second spiritual thought opened.

The third checkpoint will open no later than six hours later. The fourth checkpoint, and those thereafter, will also open approximately every 6 to 10 hours.

The exact time depends on the situation at the time.

If your physical condition is unstable, then open a pot every ten hours.

This is why, after these two stages, one needs to rely on their own physical constitution as a foundation and to stabilize their condition.

Otherwise, with a normal person's 'non-extraordinary physique,' it would be impossible to open ten spiritual thoughts at once.

The mind can keep up, but the subtle physical movements cannot.

After a 'neural conflict' occurs between the body and mind, it will only affect cultivation and lead to a disguised form of 'schizophrenia'.

But originally, it was opened every three days, which was even slower.

Thanks to virtual reality technology and big data neuroscience data, the time has now been reduced to 6-10 hours.

Zhang Feng felt that this was not the limit either.

It should be able to be shortened again.

……

Nothing much happened all afternoon.

There were no customers in the shop.

While cultivating, Zhang Feng looked at the street, feeling that this should be a 'buffer period'.

Then take a look at the scribbled talismans all around.

To be honest, Zhang Feng didn't know what this change in fate was related to.

But if it really is related to feng shui.

Even if one is proficient in both Taoism and Buddhism, and also cultivates immortality, one still doesn't really know how.

However, if you arrange the items in someone else's home to form some kind of array, or gather spiritual energy to prolong life, it is possible.

Or it can ward off evil spirits and dispel negative influences, helping those afflicted by such misfortune to escape their illness.

Or perhaps they wield rune technology, or even use magic to fight and exterminate ghosts and demons.

These are no big deal.

However, this is the way of the Celestial Master to capture demons.

It is not a feng shui secret technique related to fortune.

In Zhang Feng's view, the secret arts of Feng Shui require algorithms based on rules, to calculate the secrets of heaven, to list all possible future scenarios, and to perfectly resolve them.

The planning department, equipped with a quantum-themed building, is comprised of people who can provide all the contingency plans that human civilization can prevent or optimize.

This entire scenario also indirectly proves that fate lines are multiple and irregular, and unexpected situations can arise at any time.

But if we were to say that the planning department could accurately predict a person's inevitable 'fate line' in the future...

That would require considering all people and all events, and ensuring that no unforeseen circumstances occur, in order to establish such a 'destined line'.

In Zhang Feng's view, this was impossible and unrealistic.

Because under such conditions, firstly, the world must have a Heavenly Way, or rather, a 'central server' that can unify all rules.

So, given the rules that are 'inevitable' and the very stringent conditions in place.

Only then will a line of fate appear.

Otherwise, everything is random.

Zhang Feng is the 'Heavenly Dao' in the virtual world, and he has an understanding of this kind of rule-based computing power.

For example, adjusting virtual world data and sending a command to the main server to 'make a zombie pass by an office building two days later.'

Under the control of the main server, the zombies will inevitably pass by the building two days later, under logical circumstances, due to various factors.

This is the 'destiny' calculation law.

Similarly, if a player is proficient in all subjects such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry, and also has powerful computing capabilities, then they can determine the zombie's movement trajectory through various factors.

This is the secret art of Feng Shui, 'calculating the secrets of heaven'.

The premise is that you have your own "divine will" and that the zombies passing through the building are "destined".

Otherwise, all factors are random, and it's impossible for the zombies to happen to pass by that building by such a 'coincidence'.

It's also possible that a zombie is walking along, and just as it sees a building ahead, a person suddenly appears behind it, so it starts yelling and turns around to chase after the person.

This person is a random factor without the interference of 'Heavenly Dao'.

In contrast, if Heaven wants the zombies to go to that building, it has to calculate all factors and create a necessary coincidence.

Even if this person reappears, they will still affect the zombies.

Then there must be a master, or something, who, through natural forces, will capture this person.

Or perhaps something else causes this person to disappear naturally, allowing the zombie to still pass by the building within the allotted time.

This is the Heavenly Dao algorithm that Zhang Feng had conceived.

It doesn't sound like anything special; it's just a 'stable formula'.

However, if one's own computing power is sufficient, this stable algorithm can be used to deduce whether there is a 'Heavenly Way' in the future world.

Furthermore, this algorithm can be used to conform to the rules of nature and realize the idea of ​​artificially creating a 'chosen one'.

This algorithm is also tentatively called the 'Fortune Formula'.

The idea of ​​a 'chosen one' from the previous world.

It is based on this theoretical prototype.

At first, Zhang Feng had no clue what to do, but it was through his experiences in the virtual world that he gradually figured things out.

In particular, this formula is gradually maturing and being perfected in the calculations of the virtual building and the quantum building.

If it stabilizes, theoretically it can form a kind of 'luck rune'.

Because the virtual building is a virtual world of runes created by spiritual runes.

All the rules there can be expressed using rune patterns.

If expressed, it becomes a theoretical entity, and one can try to depict runes in reality.

Once it's inscribed, it becomes a talisman (rune).

As long as it's a spiritual structure.

You can try installing it into your own spiritual structure to achieve fusion.

In text format, it would be 'You have installed the Luck Rune, Luck +1'.

The premise is that this rune is compatible with a world that may have a Heavenly Dao in the future.

But once you get there, you can use the principles of the 'fortune formula' to reverse-engineer the rune structure you've installed, based on some of the factors that have occurred.

The key is that as long as the formula for fortune is correct, it's just like '1+1=2'.

For example, I have now entered a world of celestial laws.

If you don't know whether your luck rune is correct, your rune is X (unknown) in the formula.

After that, the factors that occur in the Heavenly Dao World are number 1 in the formula.

The final result of this factor is 2.

Based on the above two points, it can be deduced that one's rune should be changed to '1' to conform to the world's fortune formula.

That's the principle behind Qi Lü (energy flow).

For example, if you know information about a treasure and want to obtain it, then the process of finding the treasure is '1' in the formula.

If your runes also meet the requirement of 1.

For the sake of the final outcome 2, and when it cannot affect itself, Heaven will modify another outcome 1 (the process of finding the treasure).

If the theory is correct.

Even if you are not very strong, the treasure hunt will go smoothly.

This is about adapting to the right timing in terms of rule-based computing power.

Of course, if Heaven wants to kill you, it will keep modifying the formula.

Then let's not say anything more and just get reborn.

This is unsolvable; it's a complete reversal of reasoning.

……

In a blink of an eye.

Twelve days have passed.

On the afternoon of the thirteenth day.

Zhang Feng was truly puzzled, because the crisis had not yet arrived.

But two customers did come, both of them fortune tellers.

Because no.

Zhang Feng then made up a story based on his memory, and all the stories he made up were nice.

After that, neither of the two guests believed it and left.

Furthermore, Zhang Feng also followed them for a while.

After confirming that they were not in any danger, they continued to guard the area.

"Master Zhang, how's business?"

At this moment again.

Zhang Feng was pouring his fifth cup of tea that day.

A neighbor who sells breakfast was walking past the shop on his way home from get off work.

"Come on, let's play a couple of rounds."

Zhang Feng had nothing else to do, so he took out a chess set from the drawer of his desk.

"No, no," the neighbor said with a laugh and walked away. "I'm going back to sleep. I have to get up in the middle of the night to knead dough."

The neighbors in this area don't really like hanging out with Zhang Feng.

Even though distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, no one likes to hang out with 'con artists'.

Zhang Feng doesn't have a good reputation in this small area of ​​shops.

Because within that year, many clients came to Zhang Feng, saying that his predictions were inaccurate.

Some were even shouting for a refund.

After a while, his reputation naturally suffered.

Anyway, none of the residents in this area came to Zhang Feng for fortune telling.

Only tourists who come from afar, perhaps for a bit of fun or out of curiosity, come to take a look.

And then the neighbor left.

Zhang Feng saw that the chess set had been taken out and was just about to practice when...

Ta-ta-ta—

A middle-aged man in a suit walked in.

He was followed by a young woman who was dressed fairly fashionably.

The two women have some similarities in their features, so they are probably father and daughter.

"Hello, Master."

The middle-aged man smiled and stepped forward, extending his hand.

The girl tugged at her father and whispered, "Dad, our house might really have been broken into by a thief, not by something dirty."

"Don't speak!" the middle-aged man snapped, turning his head. "What do you know, you're just a kid!"

As he spoke, he turned back, smiled, looked at the composed Zhang Feng, and shook hands with him.
"Master, our family... might..."

As he spoke, thinking about the strange things that had been happening in his house recently, he felt a chill run down his spine. "There might be something evil in our house..."

"dirty stuff?"

Zhang Feng sized up the middle-aged man, then looked at the skeptical young woman.
"You two do indeed possess a certain sinister aura."

(End of this chapter)