Chen Zihan, a male university student.
As a typical post-00s kid, he beca a target of the internet "Teacher, my kid Zihan XX" a couple of years back.
Can’t help it!
Who knew when his parents nad him, they caught the trend of nas like Zihan, Zixuan, and Zihan being all the rage?
As the saying goes, tis change.
His parents probably didn’t foresee that "My kid Zihan" would beco a , nor that so many people his age would have the sa na.
Awkward it might be, but he’s used to it.
More importantly, even though the na is quite common, much like Jianguo and Weiguo in the 70s and 80s, it’s a na his parents chose for him.
Chen Zihan doesn’t think it’s a bad thing. After all, when he gets married and has kids, he’ll probably give them a trendy na too.
Chen Zihan is not in a relationship.
Besides learning photography and shooting vlogs to docunt his life, his major pasti is gaming, just like many other university students.
Nothing surprising there...
University students—the studious and disciplined ones are the minority. Most are like wild horses off the leash, and it’s unrealistic to expect them to hang out in the library all day.
"Cultivation Fantasy just got an update!"
As soon as he returned to the dormitory, Chen Zihan heard his roommate Yu Zihan exclaim.
That’s right! Their dorm room 403 has two "Zihan"s and both were born in the sa year, studying the sa major.
Because of this, their dorm is dubbed the "Zihan Dorm" by the neighboring dorms. The other two roommates who aren’t nad Zihan were given the nicknas "Brother Zihan" and "Little Zihan."
"What’s the update?"
Pulling out a chair and plopping down, Chen Zihan rubbed his ankle and curiously asked, "Did Ba have a change of heart and finally adjust the Foundation Establishnt stage drop rates?"
"Dream on!"
Yu Zihan shook his head and said, "The update seed to have made changes to the rit System. The announcent was pretty vague, I couldn’t really understand it."
It’s all in Chinese, how can you not understand it?
Chen Zihan was speechless. He was starting to wonder if his roommate’s college entrance scores were just a fluke. How can a university student not understand a ga update notice?
"Let see!"
Chen Zihan got up, walked over to him, and looked at the 16-inch laptop screen.
"After the update, new ways to obtain rit in ’Mountain Village mories’ are added. Additionally, rits can affect luck to so extent. Fellow Daoists, please work hard..."
What the heck?
Chen Zihan also played "Mountain Village mories." To be precise, their entire dorm pooled money to buy the ga.
One person buys it; the whole dorm enjoys it!
Having played "Mountain Village mories," he was baffled and puzzled by this update announcent.
Isn’t "Mountain Village mories" a pure single-player horror ga with no online features? How do you even obtain rit?
The ga being tied to rit was already puzzling enough. What further confused him was the statent "rit can affect luck to so extent."
Luck?
What’s luck? I’m wondering how this world without a Spiritual Qi Revival has a term straight out of novels?
Oh no, he couldn’t understand it either!
The two exchanged looks and eventually decided to check out the Tianba Community to see how others are analyzing and interpreting this update. Otherwise, they’d spend ages trying to figure out what this so-called "luck" even ans.
"Oh, so that’s it..."
After browsing a few popular posts on the Tianba Community, Chen Zihan roughly got it.
This thing called luck is essentially just luck! But it’s not related to real-world luck, it’s simply "in-ga luck."
"Is sothing like this even possible?"
While reading posts and replying, they also saw ntions of an anomaly with the "Divination System" in "Mountain Village mories," allowing players to predict "fortune or misfortune" in other gas.
Chen Zihan was greatly surprised, so he quickly opened his own computer to verify it himself.
Turns out, it was true!
Apart from "Cultivation Fantasy" and another ani-style mobile ga, Chen Zihan also played a Neon online ga called "Beach Volleyball."
In this ga, players can draw SSR swimsuits for their favorite characters, acquire materials to enhance swimsuit stats, develop characters, and finally play "eye-catching" beach volleyball.
Chen Zihan first did a divination, and the result showed "Small Luck," so he used his accumulated draw tickets to do a ten-pull.
And indeed, he got the SSR limited swimsuit he wanted!
After that ten-pull, he divined again, and the trigram showed "Great Misfortune," so it was obvious that drawing more wouldn’t bring any rewards.
"The divination function in ’Mountain Village mories’ can be used like this? Holy cow, that’s aweso!"
Watching him operate, Yu Zihan exclaid in surprise, "How does it calculate fortune or misfortune? It feels so mystical, and the key thing is it’s pretty accurate!"
"How could it be mystical..."
"At least you’re a university student, could you have so basic knowledge? This is calculating probability based on data. Did you think it was so fortune-teller under the overpass?"
Chen Zihan shook his head and then said, "Although I understand the principle, the fact that this thing is so accurate is indeed impressive!"
Calculating probability isn’t a big deal.
Take my process of drawing the SSR swimsuit just now, for example. I can write out a formula, do so calculations on scratch paper, and co to a rough conclusion about the draws.
But my calculations definitely wouldn’t be as accurate as the divination function in "Mountain Village mories," not even close.
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