4: Chapter 4: Over 100 Million Users & Relatives

The early recharges from tens of thousands of users brought him the first wave of pure "Qi" energy.

These energies were varied: some hot, some gentle, some full of resentment, some full of hope.

But after being converted by the Power of Causality, they all became fuel to drive the Fate Platform.

With this startup capital, his efficiency skyrocketed.

The number of karmic lines he could manifest and invite at once climbed geometrically from the tens of millions level.

Fifty million!

One hundred million!

Five hundred million!

One billion!

Over an hour later, when Yang Hang slowly opened his eyes, the entire Huaxia faction, nearly 1.5 billion people, had received an invitation from the "Cause and Effect Fate Platform"!

Thirty percent of them, for various reasons, chose to accept immediately.

Yang Hang wasn't worried about the rest.

He had already utilized the logic of social fission to let those users who had already entered the Fate Platform invite their own friends and family.

You invite your husband, your husband invites his mother-in-law, your mother-in-law invites her sister-in-law, your sister-in-law invites her boyfriend... Nothing moves a person in a desperate situation more than the call of family.

As for those orphans with no family or friends, or those on the social periphery, he set up a program for daily follow-up invitations.

He wanted the Cause and Effect Fate Platform to cover every single Huaxia person.

At this moment, the Fate Platform's public forum had completely exploded.

Besides the initial funny, abstract posts and help requests, all kinds of valuable information began to emerge.

"Hardcore Info! Tutorial on Distilling Seawater for Fresh Water, Tested and Effective!"

The poster was a user with the screen name "Wilderness Survival Veteran", and the post detailed how to make a simple distiller using plastic bottles, cloth strips, and sunlight, complete with pictures and text.

The comment section was full of gratitude; some said "Just tried it, it really produces water", others said "Take me with you, veteran", and some said "This post is worth one karmic point".

"A Few Tips You Need to Know About Fishing!"

This post was even more popular because food was everyone's most urgent need.

The post explained how to rub clothing fibers into fishing line, how to use possible metal from clothing to make fishhooks, and how to use one's own flesh and blood as bait.

In just ten minutes, there were over ten thousand replies.

"I Found a Recipe for Making Salt from a Supply Box, Sharing for Free!"

"Need seawater, a pot, and a heat source. Three jin of seawater can boil down to one liang of coarse salt; dissolve and filter the coarse salt, and you can get edible fine salt."

The poster said, "I tried it, it's edible, just a bit bitter. But it's better than nothing."

"Warning! There Are Monsters in the Sea! My Boat House Was Hit, and the Planks Cracked!"

This post caused panic.

The poster described that the thing was dark, huge, looked like a fish but wasn't, and ran away after bumping into it.

Now the floor of his boat house was leaking, and he was plugging it with clothes.

Yang Hang browsed silently, liking the posts of those who shared knowledge one by one.

There were still quite a few kind-hearted people.

This society wasn't too cold yet.

He suddenly felt that collecting that half of the service fee was even more justified.

"Without me building this platform, where would you go to share? Where would you go to ask for help? Where would you find out there are monsters in the sea?"

"I really am a great philanthropist."

Yang Hang mocked himself, but immediately discovered a problem.

Online users had already exceeded 100 million, and thousands of new posts were born every second.

The [Latest Posts] section in front of him refreshed so fast it created afterimages; it was impossible to read effectively.

The post title would just appear, and before he could see what it was, it was pushed down by a new post.

He tried clicking into [Hot Discussions]; the situation was better, but only slightly.

The update speed of hot posts was equally astonishing; a post that was ranked first a second ago was squeezed to third or fourth in the next.

Information overload.

This function had completely failed in the face of massive users.

What to do?

Create sections?

There were already help, trading, and chat sections, but it obviously wasn't enough.

Should he divide by region? By demand? By urgency?

Create a hot topic ranking?

But how to design the algorithm? By number of replies? By likes? By time decay?

These all required complex logic, not something he could just think of on a whim.

Perhaps, brainstorm?

Post in the forum and ask users what kind of functions they want?

Yang Hang rubbed his throbbing temples and decided to temporarily shelve this issue.

He had two most urgent things to do right now: one was to contact his parents, grandparents, and younger sister to try to ensure their safety, and the second was to eat!

He hadn't had a drop of water since waking up and was starving.

Yang Hang sank his consciousness into the Karmic Void Realm.

With the appearance of a large number of karmic lines, he quickly fiddled with the karmic lines of his grandparents, parents, and younger sister.

His parents and younger sister were okay, apart from terror and being at a loss, they hadn't suffered much harm.

Grandparents still sleeping?

This made him frown; what was going on?

Worry instantly surged in his heart.

Without time to think, he chose to deeply fluctuate the two karmic lines of his grandparents, following the red lines, tracing back to the source.

As the tracing deepened, Yang Hang's Qi was visibly depleted.

Without hesitation, he directly connected to the massive amount of Qi collected from the Fate Platform users in his Karmic Void Realm.

Boom~

With the integration of the massive energy of all living beings, the originally slow red line tracing suddenly surged.

Source~ Source~

When it touched a certain point, a star-filled giant eye of immeasurable size appeared before his eyes.

Just this moment, more than half of the energy of living beings he had saved was instantly drained!

A piece of information appeared in his mind.

"Those under fifteen and elders over seventy are frozen in deep sleep!"

The next moment, Yang Hang was ejected from the giant eye's vision.

Woken up, Yang Hang was pale, gasping for breath.

Was that giant starry eye a god?

The mastermind behind this Magic Sea survival and civilization hegemony?

Would he be hated?

With a fluctuating expression, he ultimately gave up on pondering this question because he knew he couldn't solve it.

And knowing his grandparents were fine was good news, and the remaining urgent thing was to solve the safety problem of his parents and younger sister.

As for being the Lord of the Fate Altar, he decided not to reveal it for now.

He thought it would be too troublesome to explain.

However, he could silently give his sister and parents some buffs in the background.

After thinking it through, before Yang Hang could contact his parents and sister, his father contacted him.

His father's karmic line was trembling.

"Xiao Xing, is that you?"

"It's me!"

After contacting his father, he also contacted his mother and sister.

Although the Cause and Effect Fate Platform didn't have a group chat function online yet.

But who was Yang Hang?

The Lord of the Fate Altar directly partitioned a small area to create a group chat for his whole family, and patched the Cause and Effect Fate Platform to allow group chats, but didn't announce it, letting everyone discover it themselves.

In the group chat, everyone cared about each other's status.

Especially Father Yang and Mother Yang, who kept telling Yang Hang and Yang Yue to stay safe.

After Yang Hang and his sister promised, there was a series of sighs in the group.

Yang Hang's sister, Yang Yue, sent a large number of practical survival posts forwarded from the world forum.

Like fire-starting posts, water-making posts, fishing posts, etc...

Things having reached this point, Father Yang and Mother Yang had no other choice but to resign themselves and earnestly study the posts.

During the group chat, Yang Hang's sister Yang Yue suddenly @'d Yang Hang.

"Brother, what did your initial treasure chest open? I opened a silver treasure chest containing an infinite durability semi-automatic fish gun. Unfortunately, I used it a few times, it has no aim, and my shoulder is sore from the recoil. If only I could give it to Dad and you! I don't know if this Cause and Effect Fate Platform can trade items! But it seems I haven't seen this function..."

After Yang Yue finished speaking, Father Yang and Mother Yang also immediately said what their initial treasure chests had opened, which were a pair of rubber gloves and a pack of Master's braised noodles, the bagged kind.

Thus, it can be seen that not everyone has the good luck of the Yang Hang and Yang Yue siblings.

Accompanying Yang Yue's worry for her parents, Yang Hang also pondered and gave an answer.