151: Chapter 148 Watching the Show

Yang Hang recited the name, which perfectly matched the shape of this wristband, as thin as a cicada's wing.

Pretty good.

The name is set. Next is the pricing.

Yang Hang crossed his legs and tapped his fingers on his knee a few times.

The production cost for a single life ring, excluding the initial expenditure of his own human resources and treasure chests, is about one-tenth of a point of Karma energy in the Late Stage of production.

When converted, it is almost negligible.

But the price cannot be cheap.

If it's too cheap, no one will take it seriously.

Such is human nature; free things are the least cherished.

If it's too expensive, being unable to afford it is the same as not having it at all.

Yang Hang finally settled on a price of two hundred karma points for Yanhuang Civilization Survivors.

Yes, two hundred.

He still intended to set a higher price.

For most ordinary Survivors, this is not a small amount. In fact, many people's current balance of karma points might not even be fifty.

But that is not a problem.

If they don't have enough karma points, they can pay in installments.

Zero interest.

Purchase starts from one Karma point.

After activating the life ring, a minimum of one Karma point will be automatically deducted from the account daily. When the account balance exceeds one hundred points, deductions will be made at a rate of one percent.

This continues until the two hundred points are paid off.

As for Survivors from other civilizations.

The same life ring will have all functions locked.

Only the most basic Personal Information Panel and chat functions will be retained.

The price is four hundred karma points.

The same installment plan and deduction logic apply.

But what they receive is an empty shell where most functions are not open, and only the chat domain is operating normally.

Of course, Yang Hang will not tell them that an AI data collection module will be embedded into this shell in the Late Stage.

By then, whenever a Survivor from another civilization wears the life ring and enters the consciousness space of the Sequence War, the life ring will automatically record their combat data. Attack frequency, reaction speed, talent usage habits, combat style, physical weaknesses—all will be uploaded back to the database in the Karmic Void Realm.

Once he finds that suitable AI, this data will be the best nourishment to cultivate the combat assistance AI he needs.

Yang Hang went over the pricing plan in his mind one last time to ensure there were no omissions.

Then, he activated the Fate Platform.

He spent ten minutes building a new button next to each user's profile picture on their homepage—'life ring'—and then hid it.

It would appear only after the Fate Platform pushed the announcement notification.

After finishing the architecture, he browsed the Fate Platform for a while.

The Symphony Realm was still lively, with discussions about the Sequence War and the aftermath of the food god shrine intertwined.

Some were showing off their battle records, some were showing off their food, and others were analyzing the trends of the leaderboards.

Yang Hang watched a few interesting videos and chuckled happily for a while.

Then, he chatted with his parents and younger sister about daily life.

It was past three in the afternoon.

Yang Hang brought up the backend of the Fate Platform and edited the push notification.

[Cause and Effect Fate Platform Version 4.0 Update Announcement]

[1. Fixed several known bugs and display anomalies.]

[2. Optimized the transaction matching speed and cross-span teleportation stability of the Karmic Trading Realm.]

[3. Added the Life Platform Peripheral Terminal—'life ring'.]

['life ring' is the official peripheral terminal of the Cause and Effect Fate Platform, one device per person, bound login...]

[...]

Yang Hang spent several minutes editing, thinking over whether there were any other issues, and then pushed it to the entire platform.

After three in the afternoon, the fervor of the Sequence War finally cooled down from a boil to a simmer.

The entire Magic Sea returned to its proper rhythm.

Those hunting beasts continued hunting, those scavenging for supplies continued scavenging, and those fishing continued fishing. However, from today on, everyone's schedule included one more fixed activity—the Sequence War.

Discussions on the Fate Platform also gradually returned to normal topics.

After a whole night and more than half a day of fighting, the real-time victory leaderboard for the 5v5 Faction Sequence Battle was already very different from last night's version.

The first and second places remained unchanged.

Yanhuang Civilization · Wall of Despair, with three hundred and twenty-one wins.

Yanhuang Civilization · Lucky Squad, with three hundred and fourteen wins.

From the start of the competition until now, the gap in wins between the two teams has never exceeded ten, like two parallel trains moving side by side, leaving all pursuers behind.

The change was in third place.

Fog City Camp · Red Dragon Knights, with two hundred and sixteen wins.

The Star-Spangled Banner Camp · Freedom Falcon, which was ranked third last night, slipped to fourth with two hundred and nine wins.

A gap of seven wins is not large. But the direction is clear—the Red Dragon Knights are pulling away.

And what really made everyone notice this change was not the leaderboard itself, but the Survivors of the Fog City Camp.

In the World Echo channel of the Symphony Realm, the Fog City Survivors who still had speaking opportunities were very lively.

A Fog City Survivor with the ID 'Thames_Tide' posted a screenshot.

The screenshot showed the leaderboard with the Red Dragon Knights ranked third, accompanied by a line of uppercase English text below—but the Myriad World Text faithfully translated it into Chinese.

"THIRD! THIRD! WE ARE THIRD!!!"

The Fog City Survivors replying below were more excited than each other.

"Long live Queen Victoria!!!"

"The Red Dragon Knights are the strongest team in the entire Magic Sea, excluding the Yanhuang Civilization! Without exception!"

"I knew Victoria was a woman chosen by God! The sword of the sea in her hands is simply—I don't know how to describe it—too beautiful!"

"Can someone post a screenshot of Victoria hunting the sea beast? I want to set it as my Fate Platform profile picture!"

"Victoria is the Saintess of our time. I formally propose that the Fog City Alliance should grant her the title of Knight."

"What's a Knight? Canonize her! Canonize her directly!"

The Yanhuang Survivors watched these comments with mixed expressions.

Some found it amusing.

"Are they celebrating third place?"

"They are indeed the strongest besides us. Third place is their ceiling, so what's wrong with them being happy?"

"No, I just think that scene is a bit... how should I put it..."

"I get what you mean. It's like the top student in class watching the third-to-last and fourth-to-last students fighting over who gets to be third-to-last."

"Hahahaha, brilliant!"

The revelry of the Fog City Survivors naturally drew dissatisfaction from other civilizations.

The Star-Spangled Banner Camp bore the brunt of it.

A Star-Spangled Banner Survivor used up their last remaining speaking opportunity and posted a long text of over three hundred words.

The gist of the translation was: The Red Dragon Knights just got lucky and were matched against weak teams; the average strength of the Freedom Falcon's opponents was far higher than what the Red Dragon Knights encountered. The seven-win gap could be overturned at any time in the next few days; the Fog City people were celebrating too early.

Another Star-Spangled Banner Survivor was more blunt: "Third place? What's there to brag about with third place? You are one hundred and five wins behind the first-place Yanhuang Civilization. One hundred and five wins! Can't you see this number?"

The Fog City Survivor immediately retorted: "We see it. But we are seven wins ahead of fourth place, and the gap is widening. Can't you see this number?"

Star-Spangled Banner Survivor: "..."

The Teutonic Faction Survivors could not sit still either. The Iron Cross Squad was ranked fifth, only three wins behind the fourth-place Freedom Falcon. A Teuton Survivor coldly threw out a sentence: "Stop arguing. Let's look at the leaderboard again in twelve hours."

The Indian Survivors chose another angle to intervene: "The tactical system of the Hand of Brahma Squad has a greater advantage in protracted warfare. Falling behind in the early stage is because our players need meditation to recover. Exerting strength in the later stage is our strong suit."

A Polar Bear Survivor below replied: "You have been saying this for twenty-four hours."

The Survivors from other civilizations were arguing heatedly.

And what were the Yanhuang Survivors doing?

Watching the show.

And it was the kind of show where they were holding tea and cracking peanuts while watching.