159: Chapter 156 Luck and Teleportation Device

The Symphony Realm was in an uproar.

"The powerhouses of foreign civilizations are actually recommending the life ring collectively???"

"Even Queen Victoria said we Yanhuang Civilization people thought it was expensive—I'm blushing."

"That Teuton guy Fritz said it surpasses all known industrial levels on Earth! And he's the technology big shot who pioneered the Engineering Manual!"

"What the heck is Jack trying to bite it with his teeth and failing, hahaha!"

"Wait, you guys go back and look at the Revival Society's post—200 karma points for Gold Tier equipment. Gold Tier! Strengthening one piece of Gold Tier equipment costs at least one hundred thousand karma points!"

"I... I was just complaining about the price..."

"Holy crap, when you calculate it like that—isn't Fate Master giving it away for free?!"

"Exactly! And every time the Fate Platform updates with a new feature, the life ring gets another Gold Tier function! That means this piece of equipment is constantly appreciating in value!"

"I get it now! I finally get it!"

"Stop getting it! Go and activate it!!!"

"From today on, if anyone dares to question Fate Master again—I'll slap them on his behalf!"

"You don't need to do it for him, they'll slap themselves!"

"To be honest... isn't two hundred karma points too cheap? This kind of Gold Tier equipment must have a very high manufacturing cost. Fate Master won't lose money, right?"

This comment drew agreement from many Yanhuang Civilization Survivors.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's too cheap, which actually makes me uneasy. Fate Master must not lose money on us!"

"Is four hundred karma points also too cheap? Should we suggest that Fate Master raise the price?"

However, a Survivor from a foreign civilization quickly replied under this comment.

[David Reeves (Stars and Stripes): (╥﹏╥) We spent 400 karma points to buy an empty shell that can only chat. You Yanhuang Civilization people are actually complaining it's cheap and want to raise the price. [Banging head and crying.jpg] [My heart is bleeding.jpg]]

It instantly amused the entire Symphony Realm.

"Hahaha, this brother from Stars and Stripes is too miserable!"

"Four hundred for an empty shell—good heavens, I suddenly feel like us buying the full-featured version for two hundred is a huge blessing."

"Brother, my condolences. Once the Fate Platform opens up more features for you later, you'll also essentially have traded four hundred for a Gold Tier item."

"What condolences! That's later! Later! Right now, I'm just a sucker wearing a nice-looking bracelet!"

David's self-deprecating comment instantly struck a chord with a large number of foreign civilization Survivors.

"I feel your pain. A four hundred Karma point chat bracelet, the most expensive jewelry in the entire Magic Sea."

"Yanhuang Civilization Survivors have Gold Tier equipment on average... Why am I not Yanhuang Civilization?"

"Can I Transmigrate back and be reincarnated as a Yanhuang Civilization person? Seriously."

"They have Fate Master, we have nothing."

"If Fate Master is willing to open up more features, I'm willing to spend one thousand karma points. No, two thousand."

A Fog City Survivor posted a long thread: "The Fate Platform is already a lifesaver for us foreign civilization Survivors. Even if it only has chat functions and limited posting opportunities, for those of us drifting alone on the Magic Sea, it is a light in the darkness. I choose to believe in Fate Master."

Under the post, countless foreign civilization Survivors silently liked it.

Meanwhile, the data on the Fate Platform backend was jumping rapidly.

Number of life ring activations—

Yanhuang Civilization: Seven hundred thirty million, and the number was still climbing at a rate of tens of thousands per second.

Foreign civilization visitor users: One point nine billion, also continuing to grow.

Most foreign civilization Survivors had their psychological defenses completely collapse after seeing the powerhouses of their own civilizations—Victoria, Fritz, Solomon, Igor—not only activated the life ring but also took the initiative to post photos and videos to strongly recommend it.

If the powerhouses have all activated it, what reason do they have not to?

Foreign civilization Survivors on the Fate Platform were showing off screenshots and videos of the life ring's futuristic holographic projection screen, the silver-gray thin bands fitting on wrists of various skin tones, the pale blue light refracting a cold sci-fi texture in different environments.

"This projection effect looks ten times better than any smart device before Transmigration."

"Four hundred karma points, just consider it buying a cyberpunk-style bracelet."

However, not everyone was willing.

In corners unseen by the Fate Platform, on the Houseboats of those foreign civilization Survivors who hadn't posted, hadn't commented, or hadn't even turned on the Fate Platform notifications—another emotion was secretly growing.

"It's just a suggestion," a Survivor from the Taegeukgi Camp told himself. "It should be fine to be a few days late. It won't be too late to activate it if something happens, I'll just say I forgot."

On another part of the sea, a Survivor from the Stars and Stripes Camp sneered as he swiped away the notification interface and muttered in a low voice.

"Victoria, Fritz... a bunch of spineless cowards completely corrupted by the Yanhuang Civilization people."

He cast his gaze toward the black sea surface.

"Four hundred karma points for an empty shell? Heh. Even when I save up enough karma points, I won't spend them on something like this."

On the deck of a dilapidated Bronze Grade warship, three Fuso foreign civilization Survivors sat together. Their Fate Platform avatars were gray; the notifications were read, but the life ring icon was not lit.

"Four hundred? Are you kidding me?" A young male Survivor sneered. "I have a total of fifty-three karma points in my hand, four hundred? I'd rather use this money to exchange for dozens of messaging permissions on the Fate Platform."

"And the functions are all locked." The Fuso middle-aged Survivor next to him, Tetsuya Yamagami, leaned against the ship's railing, his tone gloomy. "Spend four hundred to buy a bracelet that can only chat? What for? Looks?"

"'Users who don't accept suggestions are not cute'—so what?" The Fuso female Survivor hesitated. "It didn't say what would happen if you don't activate it. It's just 'not cute.' A suggestion is a suggestion, not an order."

The young male Survivor glanced at her but didn't speak.

"And look at those so-called 'powerhouses' of foreign civilizations—Victoria, Fritz, Solomon—"

The Fuso female Survivor became more agitated as she spoke. "Wagging their tails after the Yanhuang Civilization people, posting photos to recommend it? They have been completely corrupted by the Yanhuang Civilization. It's so shameful."

The young male Survivor nodded in full agreement, casting his gaze toward the distant dark sea.

"Wait and see," he said, his voice very soft. "Even if there really is a problem, it will be in time to activate it then. Just say you forgot, that you were a step late. Who could hold you accountable?"

This mentality was not an isolated case.

Among the foreign civilization Survivors covered by the Fate Platform, the vast majority had already activated the life ring. But a small portion—accounting for a few percent of the total foreign civilization population—chose to wait and see.

Some really didn't have the money.

Some were betting that "suggestion does not equal mandatory."

Some just didn't like the Yanhuang Civilization.

They all harbored the same fluke in their hearts—

There shouldn't be any problems, right?

On the deck of the ultra-luxurious Houseboat, after Yang Hang pushed the life ring update notification, although his main body was leisurely playing games, his Divided Soul was standing by in the Fate Platform backend, observing the continuously climbing life ring activation data.

In just a few dozen seconds, millions of account life rings were activated, accompanied by the production factories in the dimensional space producing the life rings, which instantly exhausted the already produced life rings, followed by even louder production sounds.

Seeing that the next moment, production would not be able to keep up with consumption, the River of Causality within Yang Hang's Karmic Void Realm automatically split into countless tributaries, and countless millions, tens of millions, and even hundreds of millions of future causal lines where life rings were produced were dragged into reality in a phantom state from the Void Realm.

As the activation level of the life rings continued to rise, these semi-illusory causal lines were completely dragged into reality in real-time, turning into real life rings.

Soon, just one hour later, the number of life ring activations reached nearly three billion, and the River of Causality within Yang Hang's Karmic Void Realm grew a solid circle thicker.

There were still nearly one billion Survivors who hadn't activated it, most of whom were still in the Sequence War.

Yang Hang wasn't too worried.

He felt it was enough at this point.

Just as many Survivors in the Fate Platform analyzed, his notification suggestion was a real suggestion to Yanhuang Civilization Survivors, but it wasn't quite so true for foreign civilization Survivors.

If there were people who were still stubborn and unwilling to activate it days after the life ring was launched, he would see if the volume was large or small.

If the volume was large, he would adopt the strategy of boiling a frog in warm water. When the visitor system permissions were further opened later, he would treat them differently. By then, when these people saw that people of the same civilization or even those around them had better and more powerful functions to use, while they could only struggle to survive bitterly, Yang Hang was confident that no one could hold out for long.

As for if the volume was small, Yang Hang might take more aggressive measures.

Yang Hang wouldn't kick them out of the Fate Platform, but would find opportunities to squeeze them dry, and the Fate Platform functions wouldn't be opened too much to them.

As the opening of the life ring got on the right track, most Yanhuang Civilization Survivors and foreign civilization Survivors had fully equipped life rings and brought them into the Sequence War. After a few short hours, the time reached seven o'clock in the evening. At this moment, the individual battle leaderboard and camp battle leaderboard of the Sequence War had changed greatly.

The top twenty of the two leaderboards hadn't changed too much, only a few more Yanhuang Civilization teams had squeezed in. The point was that in the top one hundred and top one thousand, it had suddenly changed from the original contention among many heroes to a situation completely occupied by Yanhuang Civilization Survivors, reaching about sixty percent.

At a glance, it was almost all Yanhuang Civilization Survivors and Yanhuang Civilization teams.

Thus, the battle of the Yanhuang Civilization in this Sequence War was almost settled at this moment, with the first place being unshakeable.

So foreign civilization Survivors almost all set their sights on second place in the camp battle.

Although the top of the individual battle leaderboard was still Yang Hang, because his number of matches hadn't changed, he had been gradually approached by the foreign civilization Survivors in second and fourth place, as well as the third-place Yanhuang Civilization Survivor who had rushed up.

This was a situation where if Yang Hang didn't adjust the number of his personal battle victories by tomorrow, he would inevitably be surpassed.

Just when countless Yanhuang Civilization Survivors were worried and foreign civilization Survivors were puzzled, Yang Hang didn't care about the leaderboard at all.

Instead, he set out to figure out how to make a teleportation device.