The Artifact Forger from the Beginning of Collapse

"..." Fine, Chen Li reluctantly believed the little elf's nonsense.

Wait, didn't you say you were fixing bugs?

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"The good news is that the entry has been successfully completed." Chen Li looked up and glanced at it.

Not only did they complete it, they exceeded the target.

Leg rings from various sources, such as the Big Black Tower's leg ring, the Little Black Tower's leg ring, Ruan Mei's leg ring, Xilin's leg ring... even Estella joined in the fun.

Of course, it's also possible that the little guy from the Black Tower, who was overjoyed with his mechanical spirit, personally took it.

The bad news is that Chen Li has no idea what to do with these leg rings.

Besides the leg ring incident, Chen Li was also bombarded with mentions in the group and harassed by friends who hadn't joined the chat.

The reason is that the moment Chen Li returned to the "present," all of Chen Li's friends on WeChat Moments were disconnected.

The culprit was Chen Li, because when he went to the Black Commander's headquarters, he completely wiped out his "friends".

The fact that these people were able to quickly go online and frantically tag Chen Li after receiving the "You have been consumed" notification is also thanks to Chen Li's sense of vigilance—Chen Li is now used to having more than two copies of his WeChat Moments app for each friend.

"Speaking of which... how are my sea patrol and wandering knight friends doing?" After returning to the present and dealing with the trivial matters, Chen Li focused his attention on this important matter.

In the battle where the Sea Patrol Knights attacked the Great Lord of Annihilation, Zhu Luo, the Sea Patrol Knights suffered heavy losses. Otherwise, in the original storyline, it wouldn't have taken a hundred years for Tiernan and Huang Quan to clear away the shadow of death on the sea.

These sea patrol rangers are often very determined. Although as blood spirits they will constantly repeat the actions of the deceased in life, with the help of the Rebirth Pool, perhaps more blood spirits with sufficient self-awareness, like Tirnan, will be born, thus meeting the minimum requirement to watch the resurrection match advertisement.

"Let me see... Goodness, how many revival cards did they collect?" After Chen Li used his organizer privileges to open the revival card application interface, his consciousness arrived in front of a virtual desk, and then countless revival cards fell from the sky, burying Chen Li.

......

"Chen Li, are you alright?" Robin asked with concern.

"N-nothing." Chen Li shook his head, trying to clear his head.

"What is this?" Robin immediately noticed the virtual interface that suddenly popped up in front of Chen Li.

"Oh, this is the data table of resurrection card fragment drop rates that I retrieved. It details the average drop rate of resurrection cards obtained by 500 people who watched the resurrection match advertisement within a hundred years. The data shows that almost everyone who watches the resurrection match advertisement will encounter a certain resurrection card fragment that they are destined to obtain but cannot get."

“Indeed, the number I’ve never gotten is 6, while my brother gets 8.” The robin nodded.

"And the data shows that the average drop rate of this highly sought-after resurrection card fragment is 1/3000."

"How much?" The robin paused for a moment.

Although Robin didn't know where Chen Li found 500 people and made them watch an advertisement for a resurrection card artifact that was forged just a few days ago for 100 years, wasn't the drop rate of 1/3000 a bit outrageous?

"1/3000." Chen Li thought the robin hadn't heard him clearly, so he repeated it again.

To be honest, Chen Li felt that the number was quite romantic.

Amidst a vast expanse of water, a glimmer of hope...

Of course, for those who watch ads, this number of times is certainly not romantic.

"Suppose someone watches the revival card ads continuously without interruption. Each watch takes 30 seconds, so watching 3000 times would take about 25 hours... It seems... it's not unacceptable." Robin was about to complain about the irrationality of this mechanism, but after getting the calculation results, she felt that it seemed quite reasonable.

Watching ads continuously for 25 hours will earn you a complete revival card. Once you have a revival card, you can designate one person to participate in the revival competition, with a chance to defeat the opponent and successfully revive.

It doesn't seem like an unbearable price to pay.

"The drop rate for the hardest-to-obtain fragment is 1/3000, which seems unreasonable, but if you include the other 9 fragments, the drop rate for each fragment becomes 1/300. That's less than half the probability of getting a limited 5-star character after maxing out the pity system in a gacha game. It's still acceptable," Chen Li said.

"I'm not complaining about the unreasonable system, but I'm wondering how long it will take me to watch 25 hours of ads? And having to listen to my own singing every time I watch an ad is really embarrassing." The robin said, while manipulating the small wings behind its neck to cover its eyes.

"Haven't you seen the ads lately? They've been replaced with Black Tower's brainwashing ads now."

“I know. I just suggested to my brother yesterday that he stop buying me advertising space.”

"Oh, no wonder no one is competing with Black Tower for the advertising space starting at noon today," Chen Li suddenly realized.

"Speaking of which, has anyone collected all the resurrection cards yet?" the robin asked curiously.

"Got it." Chen Li nodded.

"how many?"

"About 100."

"Huh? How much?"

"Now you understand how I felt when I wanted to approve the revival cards and received over a million applications, right?" Chen Li rubbed his forehead.

There are 8760 hours in a year. If 500 people work for 100 years and continuously watch the revival card ads, it's equivalent to watching 438000000 hours of ads.

Assuming it takes an average of 25 hours to obtain a complete resurrection card, then 438000000 hours would produce 17520000 resurrection cards.

A holiday? What does a Bloodstained Spirit need a holiday for?

An 8-hour workday? What does Bloodstained Souls need an 8-hour workday for?

Rest? What does a Bloodstained Spirit need to rest?

Fortunately, purifying the Blood Sin Spirit is a gradual process, so it's impossible for 500 people to simultaneously watch the resurrection card advertisement on their WeChat Moments at the beginning. Therefore, Chen Li doesn't actually need to approve more than 1700 million resurrection cards.

As for why the results differed so much, only God knows.

Moreover, just over a million resurrection cards were enough to give Chen Li a headache and make him want to die.

Chen Li couldn't just approve an application without reading its contents simply because it was submitted by a Sea Patrol Ranger. Otherwise, what if a Sea Patrol Ranger had a sudden inspiration and actually wanted to resurrect a Star God, and Chen Li accidentally agreed, and that Star God happened to win the resurrection match... then the Balanced Star God would really be in trouble.

"1 million resurrection cards, when will I ever finish approving them all? And why is it that out of the 100 resurrection cards I just approved, more than 1000 have my name on them?" Chen Li didn't understand, but he was greatly shocked.

After approving 1 resurrection cards, Chen Li discovered that 80% of them were intended to revive the patrolling rangers who died in that battle, 5% were intended to revive his good brother Tiernan, 5% were cards to renew for Huang Quan, a friendly stranger, and 10% were resurrection cards to renew for Chen Li, the artifact blacksmith who had helped him a lot.

If this ratio continues, it means Chen Li could have more than 10 revival cards, which means Chen Li would have more than 10 revival matches to play.

Although it's unclear what the motives of these patrolling rangers were in giving Chen Li, the organizer who could revive by watching ads without needing a revival card, a new card was issued. But...

Chen Li is truly grateful to them!

Why don't you keep these resurrection cards to revive your teammates?

Considering that playing the revival match is largely a matter of luck, and given that quite a few Sea Rangers died in that battle, these 100 million revival cards might not be enough.

"your name?"

"That's right, it's my name."

"These patrolmen are so enthusiastic, so enthusiastic that I almost want to die and die with them." After briefly explaining the situation to Robin, Chen Li sighed.

Unfortunately, once a revival card is used to revive a candidate, it either gets approved or the card becomes invalid; there is no option to return it.

Could it be that these patrolling rangers were thinking, "We might not need Chen Li, but we have to give him these cards," and that's why they gave Chen Li so many resurrection cards?

Or perhaps they were worried that if Chen Li died, no one would be there to revive him, so they sincerely hoped that Chen Li could continue to live.

"There's no need for that." Sensing that Chen Li wasn't joking, Robin quickly reassured him.

"Speaking of which, once you collect all the resurrection card fragments, you can give the resurrection card to anyone else to use, regardless of whether you have any connection with them?" Robin suddenly asked with some doubt.

If other people could help designate certain individuals to be resurrected, then the robin would have to use its "money" power!

Robin wasn't lacking the willpower to watch 25 ads to revive her mother; she was just worried that her mother might not be strong enough to defeat the monsters in the revival competition, so she wanted to prepare more revival cards as a backup.

When poor, use tactical infiltration; when rich, use carpet bombing.

"No. The relationship doesn't have to be direct relatives, but it can't be completely unrelated. And while you can watch the ads however you want, you must be sincere when designating someone to be the target of the resurrection card, and you can't be swayed by any external forces."

"How is this relationship determined? And how is sincerity determined?"

"If you and I, Robin, were strangers before, and you suddenly approached me, threw credits in my face, and demanded to sell me the resurrection cards you'd collected, you would encounter the following troubles. First, I would need to know the name and appearance of the person you wish to resurrect..."

"Wait, if some people are still young and have forgotten their mother's appearance, can their mother still be brought back to life?"

"It doesn't have to be that strict. You just need to prepare accurate information that allows the resurrection card to recognize the person you want to resurrect. Just like an ID card, driver's license, or household registration book can all be used to prove identity."

"Oh, go on." The robin nodded knowingly.

"Once you have the information to designate someone, the criteria for determining whether you are qualified to resurrect that person become more lenient. Things like the relationship between believer and believer, admirer and admired, son-in-law and mother-in-law, etc. Because disturbing the peace of the dead is a very serious matter, you can have a very distant relationship, but you can't have no relationship at all."

In the world of Honkai Impact 3rd, this relationship takes on a special extension, such as the relationship between the Fated Traveler and the Star God...

Because the Star God possesses destiny, and because of destiny, the Destiny Walker can draw power. In other words, the Destiny Walker and the Star God are in cahoots.

Although few people tread both paths, they do exist, which is why Chen Li needs to strictly review the resurrection applications of the patrolling sea knights.

"That's it..."

"And the final hurdle is sincerity. Suppose, and I mean suppose... I'm Robin's number one fan, and I know about the resurrection card. In order to pursue you, I watched 25 hours of ads to create a resurrection card, but this resurrection card probably can't be used. Because I didn't resurrect your mother to resurrect her, but to use her to pursue you. This might be to protect the interests of those who watch the ads... Hmm? Robin, why are you blushing?" Chen Li tilted his head.

"No, it's nothing."

"Oh, by the way, if you really don't have time, Robin, I can help you collect some resurrection card fragments. But I don't have much time to watch ads..."

"Oh, can you help me choose my mother?" The robin paused for a moment.

"In terms of our relationship, we've been through thick and thin together. As for my sincerity, my idea of ​​resurrecting your mother is entirely selfless, so there's no problem."

Chen Li and Robin are related in that one gives away a revival card link, and the other receives a revival card link!

In short, a life-or-death friendship.

That's why those sea patrol heroes were able to vote for Chen Li.

Sincerity is even simpler.