Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 570 - 281 Unmanned Town_3

Chapter 570: Chapter 281 Unmanned Town_3

Lin Wu: "I have no artistic talent. When I said the house is nice, I didn’t mean the base is nice."

Maya, defeated, admitted, "Alright, the house itself is indeed nice."

Lin Wu: "Nice my ass. There are no resources nearby, only prey outside the town, and the closest water source is a kilometer away, on the edge of the Blood Mist. Tell me what’s nice about that?"

Maya laughed irritably and said, "Let’s go!" Their death time was four in the afternoon, and now it was already five-thirty.

Maya said, "If we can’t find a player by seven, we’ll find a building to spend the night in. We’re not certain if it’s the Night of Faint Light, so we need to look for combustible material. We have at most two hours."

Lin Wu puzzled: "Even if we find a place to stay by seven, two hours later it’ll be nine, and won’t it already be completely dark?"

Maya explained, "No, the geographical environment is different. If we refer to Blue Star’s terrain, Technology City should enter real darkness around 9:30 PM."

"Oh!"

Maya asked, "Doesn’t the Public Supporting System have an out-of-district field trip every year?"

"I chose the island," Lin Wu explained. "Between the Gobi Desert and Ghibli Island, what would you choose? No, island coconuts. My bad, slip of the tongue." He had to make this clear to avoid Maya thinking he intentionally disturbed her. Annoyingly, the school didn’t allow choosing clothes-free beaches...

Seeing Lin Wu trailing off into reminiscence while speaking, Maya reminded him, "I know, let’s go." She remembered their first encounter, where her own prying led to quite the trouble.

Speaking of fate, it’s truly wondrous. Not to mention other things, just look at marriage; aside from Lin Wu, no one would choose her. In fact, Lin Wu didn’t want to choose her either; it’s just that he could choose himself.

With this thought, Maya began to worry about Shadow. Her leaving the team with Lin Wu would surely bring chaos to Shadow, and Stone lacked skilled people by his side. She hoped that Starlight would step up to take on the role of Deputy Commander. Maya knew Starlight was capable, but as a newcomer, he was reluctant to overstep and diminish Shana’s value.

"Ah!" Lin Wu exclaimed in surprise and immediately stepped back. The zombies converged on the source of the sound, not detecting Lin Wu’s presence. Lin Wu and Maya retreated to the back door of the Jade Store, and Lin Wu said seriously to Maya, "I know why I was put in the little black room."

Maya asked, "Why?"

Lin Wu said, "We made a common-sense mistake, assuming that the higher a person’s points at death, the better the treatment they’d get."

Maya replied, "No, that’s not a mistake; that’s the truth."

Lin Wu said, "Yes, it’s the truth, but we got the primary and secondary confused. I’ll file the complaint first."

Little White Rabbit appeared, and Lin Wu said, "I want to file a complaint that I wasn’t deducted points when I last died."

This question stumped Little White Rabbit; it couldn’t directly tell Lin Wu about the hidden game mechanics of death and points, but Lin Wu hit upon the right information.

Of course, Little White Rabbit wouldn’t be stumped; its computing capacity was nearly infinite. It answered, "Because you possessed a Shaman Amulet, you were not deducted points upon death."

Lin Wu said, "The treatment players receive after death is not based on the treatment provided by their points, but on the treatment provided by the points deducted. Right?"

Little White Rabbit: "Sorry, this is a matter related to game mechanics, I can’t answer."

Lin Wu said, "So, the deduction of points on death is percentage-based, and what you really want to hide is this piece of game information. If fixed points were deducted upon death, there wouldn’t be different treatments for each person. And the reason I got the little black room treatment is that I wasn’t deducted any points."

Lin Wu looked at Maya and explained, "The treatment everyone enjoys after death isn’t based on their points, but on the treatment after the deduction of points." The deducted points were treated as a one-time expenditure and returned to the players. The only reason Dawn gave vague explanations was that it wanted to hide this information; it didn’t want players to know: Death incurs a points deduction based on proportion, not on a fixed value.

Dawn has always been misleading players: the higher the points, the better the treatment after death. Though not wrong, it’s putting the cart before the horse.

Lin Wu said, "The cost of your death was very high."

Maya’s heart broke instantly, as the better the treatment she enjoyed, the more points she must have been deducted.