Hyperdimensional Warlock

Chapter 3742 Raising the Upper Limit
Beverly Nursing Center, first floor lobby.

At this time, a large number of onlookers gathered here.

Some hurried nurses, when passing by the lobby on the first floor, couldn't help but look from afar at the onlookers.

The reason why these onlookers kept paying attention was the front wall of the hall.

In the past, this wall was hung with an exotic tapestry, said to have come from a superior hospital.

But at this moment, the tapestry on the wall disappeared and was replaced by a screen of light.

Light screens are not unfamiliar to people living in underground blocks. When you go to homeless houses or the bases of major groups, you can see light screens all over the house.

However, the screens of the major groups mostly played content promoting their own companies, while the screens of the wandering house were a summary of various mission information.

The contents of these light screens will make you bored at a glance.

However, the content played on the light screen on the first floor of the nursing center at this time had nothing to do with "boredom".

Because, what was playing on the light screen was actually an episode of "Variety Awards"!
The circus opens with Dumbo around; the Queen of the Night sings with coloratura soprano; there is a drag show, huge beauties in light and shadow... and there are also various interesting mini-games.

Residents who usually live underground have no access to these contents.

Even the residents on the surface of Modern City don't usually get to see such a wonderful variety show.

Coupled with the superb editing skills of the behind-the-scenes workers, excellent camera language, and just the right background music, the "variety show" on the screen is not only flawless, but also extremely eye-catching.

Just look at the crowd that spontaneously gathered in the lobby on the first floor, and the increasing number of onlookers, and you can see the value of this variety show broadcast!

The Variety Awards program is still going on.

At this time, Ingres, who was in a corner of the hall, was also watching silently.

The light screen in the hall and the "Variety Awards" playing on it were naturally the work of Ingres.

The purpose of doing this is naturally to quickly gain popularity.

To obtain the hot spots, two conditions must be met:
First, the hot events must be created by the magician himself. This means that whether it is a variety show or a hot event, the magician himself must be deeply involved.

Second, this hot event needs feedback from the audience.

For Angle, currently only the Variety Awards meets these two conditions.

But considering that he had previously created a huge vortex in the central area with the "Variety Awards", it was not easy for Angle to randomly find an audience to play the "Variety Awards". Once the news got out, it was estimated that the magicians of Tina Entertainment would immediately smell the scent and come looking for them.

So, he finally chose to return to the nursing home.

Everyone here, whether patients, doctors, or even ordinary staff, are carrying nightmare nodes.

They watched the "Variety Awards" and would never spread it out, so they naturally don't have to worry about causing unnecessary trouble.

The only thing to worry about is whether the "Variety Awards" can get positive feedback from these "audiences".

Now it seems that Ingres was obviously worrying too much.

In a city where entertainment is paramount, even residents living in underground blocks will go crazy for the "Variety Awards."

"Is this variety show produced by the host? From the content to the pictures, even the camera switching, it is absolutely impeccable!"

"It turns out that the host is the ceiling of variety show production... I still have a lot to learn."

Turing's mumbling voice continued to reach Ingres' ears.

Angel was silent for a moment: "Don't pay attention to the content first, pay attention to the progress of the hot spots."

Turing nodded: "Understood!"

"Master, the heat points have begun to recover."

As he spoke, the recovery progress of the heat points appeared on Turing's small golden TV.

The heat points are like riding on an airplane, rising rapidly and recovering extremely quickly.

It only took a few minutes for the heat point to return to its maximum value.

15/15.

However, this is not the limit. Turing added a small bracket after the number of the heat point.

15/15 (1%)

Ingres didn't understand what it meant at first, but soon the number in the parentheses soared to (100%).

The next second, the upper limit of the heat point increased.

15/16.

The small brackets disappear, and then after a while, when the heat point becomes 16/16 again, the small brackets appear again, and the progress inside still starts from 0%.

At this point, Angel already understood that the small brackets set by Turing were to allow Angel to see more intuitively the progress of the next increase in the heat point limit.

Very intuitive and convenient.

If Angle were to make his own judgment, it would probably take a long time to come up with a formula for the upper limit increase. He would also need to be able to perceive the audience's feedback progress in a timely manner to determine when to increase the upper limit.

But now with Turing, Angle doesn't have to worry about this kind of thing at all.

As the "big housekeeper", Turing naturally maximizes its computing power in terms of perception of hot spots.

This is why fashion magicians would pursue fashion monsters with special forms, not only because of their outstanding abilities, but also because they are naturally the best helpers in fashion magic.

With Turing's help, Ingres no longer had to focus on hot spots and sense the audience's feedback; he could see it clearly at a glance through Turing's digital display.

The upper limit of the heat point increases rapidly.

Every time the small brackets appear, every few seconds, the progress bar inside the brackets starts to move up.

The progress is almost one second, and the upper limit can be increased by 1 point in one and a half minutes.

But this situation only lasted about five minutes, and the speed at which the upper limit increased began to slow down significantly.

"Before, for every 10 heat points, you can increase the upper limit by 1 point. But now, it is about every 20 heat points that increase the upper limit by 1 point."

Turing said: "In general, because the required margin has increased, the growth rate appears to have slowed down."

After a pause, Turing looked around and said, "Besides, the number of viewers is relatively small, and the feedback we received has also entered the surplus period."

Although the lobby on the first floor looks crowded, there are actually only about a hundred people.

Each of these people has already given great feedback, and it is no longer possible to continue to squeeze new heat points out of them.

Unless the capacity is expanded.

Let more people come to the nursing home and watch the "Variety Awards".

However, it is definitely not something that will be considered at the moment.

Therefore, according to the current progress, it won’t be long before the upper limit of the heat point reaches a bottleneck period.

Sure enough, after a while, the progress bar in the parentheses became increasingly difficult to rise.

Now, it has been fixed at 23/23 (66%) for a long time.

But even so, Ingres thought it was pretty good.

The upper limit of heat points has been increased by 8 points. At least, both abilities of the traffic bat can be released.

"It's time to test my abilities."

Now that the heat points have been restored, Angel is ready to leave the care center and look for someone to test his abilities.

However, although Angel plans to leave the nursing center, he is not ready to turn off the "Variety Awards" on the screen.

He plans to play it over and over again.

After all, there are actually quite a few people in the nursing center, and currently only a small number of those with free time have watched the variety show; there are also quite a few doctors and nurses who are unable to come and watch because they have to study the virus and take care of patients.

But they always have time to take a break.

By then, the hot spots should see another wave of growth.

……

After leaving the care center, Angle began to figure out how to test the capabilities of the traffic bats.

The first is the ability of “traffic aggregation”.

According to the ability description, you can add heat to an event or news that has already happened.

How do we define this event that has already occurred?
Just as Angel was thinking, there was a cry from across the street. Angel turned his head and saw a child with a runny nose who had fallen to the ground for some reason.

Maybe he was in pain and kept crying.

However, there was no one else on the street where the child was, and no one paid attention to the child even though he was lying on the ground crying.

When Ingres saw this scene, his heart suddenly moved.

When a child falls, that is also an event that has already happened, right?
"Turing, release a flow of traffic towards the crying child."

Angel has given Turing the authority to take over the "Homologous Puzzle", so even if Turing is a variety show elf, he can release the ability of the traffic bat in the magic book.

Turing nodded: "Okay, but how many heat points do I need to release?"

For the traffic aggregation capability, the initial heat point released is 1 point, and up to 100 heat points can be released at one time.

The more hot spots released at one time, the better the traffic aggregation effect will be.

However, Angel's current heat point limit is only 23 points, so it is naturally impossible for him to release so many heat points for an incident of "a child falling down".

"One o'clock will do."

Turing nodded, and then the picture on the small TV turned into an illustration.

If you look closely, you will find that this illustration is exactly the second page of the "Fashion Magic Book", with a popular bat soaring into the sky with the flowing clouds!
Traffic gathers and releases!
The next second, the illustration on the small TV emitted a bright light.

Angel felt an extremely subtle energy fluctuation emanating from the small TV and merging into the body of the crying child not far away.

The child did not react at all, but Angel, as the owner of the magic book, had already vaguely felt that the traffic aggregation was working.

Angel did not hesitate and went straight into the God's perspective, wanting to see how traffic aggregation worked.

You know, there is no one around the child now, and the nearest person is Angel who is across the street.

After about ten seconds, the changes finally appeared.

I saw a little old lady on the second floor nearby, holding a watering can and opening the window. She looked like she was going to water the flowers planted on the windowsill.

Because of the soundproof glass, the old lady didn't hear the crying outside at first, but when she opened the window to water, the soundproofing effect naturally disappeared, and she immediately heard the crying coming from below.

The little old lady rubbed her head and looked down: "Oh, it's old Lev's little treasure crying. How did he fall down?"

The little old lady called out a few times, but the child was crying so hard that he didn't hear her at all.

Seeing this, the old lady quickly put away the watering can, untied her apron and went downstairs. At the entrance of the corridor, she met a few old neighbors, who saw that the old lady looked anxious and asked her what happened.

then……

By the time the little old lady came to the child, several neighbors had already followed her.

In less than five minutes, the child went from being surrounded by no one to being surrounded by several neighbors. Because of the crowd, passers-by who saw him from afar at the end of the street also ran over curiously.

At this time, a large group of people had gathered around the child.

Maybe the child's father is famous, they all seem to know the child and are concerned about him...

Ingres, who witnessed all this, fell into deep thought.

Angel originally thought that traffic aggregation causes events to gain popularity by influencing the thoughts of people around them.

But now it seems that the traffic gathering is not to force people around to pay attention to the incident of "a child falling", but to attract attention to the child through some details and coincidences.

In other words, "traffic aggregation" is a capability whose behavioral logic can be self-consistent.

This is undoubtedly more covert, and it is difficult for people to detect whether there is the influence of extraordinary abilities.

However, because of the need to make the behavioral logic self-consistent, the speed of gathering traffic and the effect of fueling the incident are not as high as imagined.

The traffic released by the 1st hot spot has attracted the attention of eight acquaintances and more than ten passers-by. However, many passers-by just took a look and left.

It has about 1 popularity point and has attracted the attention of nearly people.

According to this algorithm, even if 100 heat points are used at one time, it is estimated that there will be only about people paying attention, and most of them are just passers-by who will not care too much about the event itself and will just watch.

From this point of view, the effect of traffic aggregation is not too outstanding.

However, it is not without advantages. Its hidden drainage method is its shining point.

After testing the "child falling" incident, Angel did not stay there for long and continued to move forward.

Then he tested "traffic aggregation" twice more.

One of the times was when Ingres brought traffic to a relatively deserted art exhibition.

The reason why Ingres chose this exhibition was mainly to test whether this kind of exhibition could be considered an "event that had already happened"?

After the test, Ingres also came to the answer: Yes.

Another time, Angle used "traffic aggregation" on a wasteland-style stage.

This wasteland-style stage was organized by a small group. Although the popularity was not high, it was not low either. There was no need for Angel to use his abilities to attract traffic.

The reason why he used "traffic gathering" on a wasteland-style stage was because this stage was not in the Fourteenth Town.

But in the fifth town.

Ingres saw the promotional poster for this wasteland-style stage at a newsstand on the roadside.

When he learned that the stage was not in the Fourteenth Town, he immediately had an idea and decided to test whether he could use "traffic aggregation" through paper media such as promotional posters.

At the same time, he also wanted to know whether this effect could reach the wasteland-style stage across dozens of kilometers.

It turns out, yes.