3: Chapter 3: Frenzied Target Ranking!

The system's cries fell silent.

It seemed to be struggling against evil!

Lin Wan wanted to make a few sarcastic remarks...

But upon remembering that he was the culprit, his remaining conscience surfaced, and he softened his heart.

"Forget it, let's see what she can do first!"

As he said this, he turned his gaze to the talent [Target Settlement].

[Target to Decrypt: Target Settlement talent]

[Required Decryption Points: 100,000]

[Decrypt?]

"Yes."

[Current Decryption Points: ???]

[Decryption conditions met!]

[Ding! The talent belongs to you; decryption time is significantly reduced. Current required decryption time is 24 hours. Please wait patiently.]

Lin Wan frowned.

He was already using cheats, yet it still required such a long decryption time.

"No wonder you're ranked over 30,000 among all geniuses; you're too far behind!"

System: [Don't you dare... hoh hoh hoh——]

"Tsk... what a mess!"

"However, judging by the response, it's showing initial results. I wonder when it will return to normal..."

Lin Wan sighed.

The system was already so pleasured it had lost all sense of reality.

With this source of information gone, he would have to rely on himself to learn about this world step by step.

"If Decryption Points can be used for decryption, they should be able to accelerate the decryption time, right..."

"Also, is time frozen in this trial space?"

"If time can be frozen, can I exploit a bug and spend the required decryption time in this space?"

All of this needed to be tested one by one.

"decryption system, accelerate decryption time."

After Lin Wan gave the command.

[Ding! Do you want to consume 50,000 Decryption Points to accelerate the decryption time?]

"Yes."

[Ding! Acceleration successful. Current required decryption time is 12 hours.]

"It really works."

Lin Wan's smile became incredibly bright.

"Continue accelerating."

[Ding! Do you want to consume 100,000 Decryption Points to accelerate the decryption time?]

"Yes."

[Ding! Acceleration successful. Current required decryption time is 6 hours.]

"Continue, continue."

[Ding! ...]

"Yes, continue, keep accelerating until decryption is complete."

[...]

It took no more than a minute.

[Ding! Target Settlement talent decryption complete.]

[Original source code successfully acquired.]

[Related restrictions on the Target Settlement talent have been removed. The host currently has no daily usage limit for this talent.]

"Now this is cheating!"

For a moment, Lin Wan was glad that the rich girl had bought the jade pendant.

Otherwise, if he had done as the system said and foolishly used the first free decryption to decrypt that galaxy-level inheritance, he estimated that after reaching galaxy-level combat power through the inheritance, it would have been incredibly difficult to develop rapidly again.

After all, with the system's previous configuration, the settings weren't very reliable, and development was too slow.

Decryption required physical touch, and if it didn't belong to him, it required a large amount of Decryption Points, as well as a large amount of decryption time.

It was simply a money pit; one could say a system that required the law of conservation of energy was basically finished. Being ranked over 30,000 really wasn't wrong.

Conversely, now that Lin Wan had helped her upgrade and let her feel so good for so long, she should be thanking him instead!

However, accelerating decryption also takes time. The interval required after each acceleration gets longer. It takes about a year to accelerate to about 17 and a half minutes, and ten years only requires 210 minutes, which is three and a half hours, but that is still a significant speedup.

"It's time to start verifying the second idea!"

"Head to the trial grounds!"

As Lin Wan's voice fell, his figure vanished into the space.

...

Chaotic Beast Star Sector!

Lin Wan felt his feet sink as he stepped onto soft sand.

A strange scent flooded his nostrils, filled with the primitive atmosphere of this planet.

"Heh! The scent here is truly different from Earth; on the contrary, I've never felt so refreshed..."

The fresh air of the Chaotic Beast Star Sector, including its oxygen content, was vastly different compared to the turbid air on Earth, almost making him dizzy.

It took a while for him to adapt to the environment, and he quickly looked around.

This was a vast wasteland; the sky appeared dark purple, and two moons hung in the air, one large and one small.

In the distance were rolling hills, with some sparse, low shrubs growing and swaying gently in the breeze.

[Entered the trial grounds; real-time map unlocked.]

[Trial time countdown: 71:59:45]

The voice from the sky rang out, still with a cold tone.

He opened the map.

A region with a radius of ten kilometers appeared in his mind, with his own position marked by a green light dot.

[Chaotic Beast Star Sector · Edge Wasteland]

[Danger Level: E+]

[Suitable Combat Power: 2-20]

[Suggestion: Little punk, stay hidden, don't be reckless.]

Lin Wan's mouth twitched.

This cosmic will must think it's very humorous.

However, he was also willing to take advice; he didn't act immediately but instead squatted down and began to analyze calmly.

The idea that time is frozen in the trial space had been verified.

As for what comes next...

First, the trial requirement is to survive for three days.

Three days is neither long nor short.

But since sentient beings from the entire universe are participating in this trial, that means...

He is not the only one here.

To be precise, he is not the only human.

Not just from Earth, but Trial-takers from other civilizations in the universe have also landed in some corner of this star sector at this moment.

Secondly, the talent [Target Settlement] has been upgraded to an unlimited version.

What does that mean?

It means he can crazily spam rewards.

Set a target, complete it, receive a reward.

Set another, complete it, receive another.

Theoretically, as long as he sets targets fast enough and completes them easily enough, he can obtain massive amounts of resources in a short time.

Then, by using the decryption system to copy and paste, he could achieve resource freedom.

But the problem is...

Target difficulty is linked to the size of the reward.

If he sets targets with too low a difficulty, the reward will probably be something like "Congratulations, you have obtained black silk stockings x1" or something.

Although it wouldn't be that pathetic, it would be about the same.

After all, an S-rank talent, no matter how strong, won't be too overpowered in essence.

Therefore, he needs to find a balance between easy completion and high rewards.

"Hmm..."

"The difficulty judgment for setting tasks should be defined by my current state."

"Then my permanent tasks should be chosen based on the current survival difficulty..."

Thinking of it, he did it; he began setting targets one by one.

Target: [Successfully set permanent target: Survive for half an hour (Difficulty: One Star)]

[Successfully set permanent target: Survive for one hour (Difficulty: One and a half Stars)]

[Successfully set permanent target: Survive for two hours (Difficulty: Two Stars)]

[...]

Lin Wan directly filled up the targets for one day.

He set a total of 25 permanent time-based targets.

If it weren't for the fact that the content of the targets couldn't be repeated within a day, he could have spammed the talent to the limit.

The highest time target was: [Survive for one day (Difficulty: Seven Stars)].

The maximum difficulty is ten stars.

If it exceeds ten stars, it means he currently cannot complete it at all.

In other words, with his current combat power, wanting to survive in this trial ground for one day is extremely difficult.

"It's not over yet, keep setting!"

Target: [Successfully set permanent target: Escape from a ferocious beast's pursuit once (Difficulty: Unknown)]

[Set permanent target: Kill a ferocious beast (Difficulty: Unknown)]

[Set permanent target: Find items related to cultivation, such as heavenly treasures, etc. (Difficulty: Seven Stars)]

[Set permanent target: Solve the water source problem (Difficulty: Two Stars)]

[Set permanent target: Solve the food problem (Difficulty: Three Stars)]

Lin Wan discovered a pattern: only when a target has clear information will the difficulty be displayed; if the target information is incomplete, the difficulty will not be displayed.

For example, killing a ferocious beast, without knowing its strength, the difficulty won't be displayed, but for heavenly treasures—items useful for cultivation—the difficulty was displayed.

Very reasonable.

"In that case, is my talent based on causality... or does it possess detection-type abilities, capable of detecting the impact that my current area has on me?"

"Can this talent be used as a method of elimination?"

To verify this idea, Lin Wan started an experiment again.

[Set target: I want to find the blond-haired Ye Fan within these three days (Difficulty: Ten Stars)]