One hour later.
Bursts of white light flashed repeatedly, and 52 figures logged into the resurrection point of the Imperial Tomb Village.
As soon as they entered the ga, Yang Tianxuan and the mbers of the Weapon Developnt Departnt were stunned by the scene before them, unable to believe this was actually a ga world.
Driven by their profession, they imdiately comnced testing the world’s realism.
Gravity perception test, throwing stones to observe parabolic trajectories, olfactory tests, body coordination tests... Amidst the dumbfounded stares of other players, they were completely convinced by the realism of this ga.
"Boss, the technology of the Moon Eclipse Clan has made a leaps and bounds improvent, they can actually create such a realistic ga world," exclaid the white-haired elder standing next to Yang Tianxuan.
Hearing this, Yang Tianxuan did not respond, his heart’s shock was beyond description.
He had long harbored the idea of testing weapon performance in a virtual scene.
He had conducted weapon tests in the Moon Eclipse Clan’s virtual ga "Land of Sin" released five years ago.
But the results were unsatisfactory, and he eventually gave up.
In fact, creating a ga that perfectly replicates real physical performance is harder than reaching the sky.
He had ticulously analyzed a series of issues that needed overcoming.
Not to ntion the terrifying server capacity needed for this ga, other standards must reach absolute perfection such as interaction frequency, data processing capacity, and even image rendering quality.
Additionally, the virtual world needs to mimic all physical phenona of the real world, including but not limited to gravity, lighting, materials, and sound, requiring computing power beyond cognition to ensure the accuracy and real-ti capability of the physics engine.
To achieve perfect realism, every detail in the virtual world must be ticulously simulated, including buildings, vegetation, terrain, and weather changes, adding significant burden to the data processing center.
Moreover, massive data generated anywhere in the ga must be processed and fed back in a very short ti, including player-generated input.
For example, when players damage the environnt in the ga, the information must be collected and the environnt modified in real-ti.
Considering various variable issues, creating a completely realistic ga was nearly impossible in Yang Tianxuan’s vision, as it amounted to creating a brand new world requiring a 1:1 resource consumption.
That is to say, creating a perfect simulation of Earth theoretically requires the consumption of an Earth’s worth of resources.
But everything in front of him was real; the Moon Eclipse Clan truly created such a perfect virtual ga through so unknown technology.
Feeling the imnse technological gap between the Human Federation and the Moon Eclipse Clan, a fire kindled in Yang Tianxuan’s heart.
With such a realistic virtual environnt at their disposal, they could fully exert themselves without worrying about environntal destruction, personal safety, and other troubleso issues.
"Boss, I’ve checked the store, and there are no equipnt available for our weapon developnt; we have to start from scratch... However, there are Spirit Stones for sale in the store, perhaps we can first make a batch of Spiritual Ability Guns."
Yang Tianxuan listened and nodded in agreent.
To manufacture powerful technological weapons, issues such as forging equipnt, processing equipnt, and calibration tools needed to be addressed, a cumberso process from nothing to sothing.
Currently, lacking sufficient resources, they were at a standstill.
But Spiritual Ability Guns were different, this was one of the early weapon technologies provided by the Moon Eclipse Clan to humanity.
Weapons could be forged by altering the energy pathways of Spiritual Ore, then embedding Spirit Stones to drive the bullets and engraving internal arrays for compressing Spiritual Energy.
Upon pulling the trigger, the gun would automatically draw energy from the Spirit Stone, compress it into a bullet shape internally, and with the push of internal Spiritual Energy, shoot it out. Upon contact with the target, the unstable Spiritual Energy Bullet would instantly burst open, causing a ranged explosion damage.
For initial developnt, this technology was obviously more practical.
"Let’s make a batch of Spiritual Ability Guns then," confird Yang Tianxuan at this mont.
Just then, a middle-aged man with a scruffy beard in the team queried:
"Director, the problem is that all items in the store require sacrificial power to purchase, and I can’t find any recharge function in the ga’s control panel, where do we get the starting funds to buy materials and make Spiritual Ability Guns?"
Yang Tianxuan: ...
Faced with the issue of no startup funds, Yang Tianxuan fell into deep thought.
"Have you contacted Qin Ye? He entered the ga before us, ask him how much sacrificial power he can lend us."
"I just added him as a friend, I’ll ask now," said a middle-aged man in his early thirties from the team, who then accessed his friend list trying to connect with Qin Ye.
Soon after, the middle-aged man looked towards Yang Tianxuan with slight embarrassnt:
"He only has 239 points of sacrificial power, not nearly enough for us to use as start-up capital."
"Then let’s start buying sacrificial power from other players, the costs will be pooled by us for now, we won’t submit a request for funds."
With this idea in mind, they imdiately started acting, and several ssages to buy sacrificial power appeared in the regional channel, with a buying rate of 1:20.
However, these few ssages were quickly overwheld by other player’s ssages, which included a few taunts joking about their unrealistic pricing, comparing their offer to robbery.
This made Yang Tianxuan and the mbers of the Weapon Developnt Departnt realize that their purchase price was too low.
They chose to gradually increase the price.
From 20:1, climbing slowly to 100:1, but still, no player was willing to sell their sacrificial power to them.
This left Yang Tianxuan completely baffled.
Feeling sothing was wrong, he imdiately contacted Qin Ye, who had entered the ga earlier.
The response he received was surprising.
The price of sacrificial power in the ga had already risen from 50:1 to 150:1, and few players were willing to sell their sacrificial power.
There were mainly two reasons.
Firstly, the consumption rate of sacrificial power far exceeded its production rate, and players did not have enough sacrificial power to enhance their own strength, let alone sell it.
Secondly, the price of sacrificial power was consistently rising, leading most players to believe that the price would continue to climb.
Many hardworking players thought it better to use their sacrificial power to boost their strength early on, and after becoming stronger, earn even more sacrificial power. Selling sacrificial power early on might cause one’s power to lag behind other players, leading to diminished returns in the later stages.
Learning the reasons from Qin Ye, Yang Tianxuan fell into contemplation.
Continuing to raise the purchase price would strain their salaries, and the process for applying for funds was too cumberso and ti-consuming.
Without a recharge option and unable to purchase sacrificial power at a reasonable price, Yang Tianxuan, at a loss for solutions, had to voice call Qin Ye again:
"Xiao Ye, is there any quick way to earn sacrificial power?"
"There are three ways to earn sacrificial power at this stage," replied Qin Ye. "The first is to leave the Imperial Tomb Village and hunt various types of monsters outside, the second is to be lucky enough during world exploration to encounter minable Spirit Plants, compared to the first two, I recomnd the third way."
"What way?" Yang Tianxuan imdiately asked.
"Go to the Dark Cave to mine!"
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