I rely on being an NPC to cultivate immortals [holographic]

When Nanshan gradually fell asleep, Dongli upstairs was also calculating the day's income and expenditure——

In addition to the goods in the grocery store, his initial capital is 100 silver coins.

然后今天一天，杂货铺里的货物卖出了152银币355铜币，扣除成本费102银币125铜币，净赚50银币230铜币；

But for all the tasks he released today, the experience earned is only 1+, the experience that can be spent is 20+, and the amount of money spent is 55.6 silver coins.

Fortunately, the two meals at lunch and dinner added more than 5 experience points. He cooked 12 dishes today, and each dish also rewarded 1 experience points, so as not to lose too much.

Dong Li rubbed his forehead with some headaches, and asked Tai Chu inexplicably, "My daily profit today, regardless of experience or money, why is it a negative number?"

Others have been busy for a day, and the level is at least four or five. He still doesn't say level 0, and he still owes tens of thousands of experience, so he doesn't know what to say.

The voice of the beginning of time resounded faintly in the consciousness, [You have to ask yourself! ]

Dongli asked himself, "I don't think I have done any loss-making business. Why does the system deduct so much experience and money from me?"

Taichu directly popped up the income and expenditure details for him to see, [You can see for yourself. ]

Dongli took a closer look and realized, "The experience and money and other task rewards given to players are all deducted from my account?"

[Yes! ] Taichu explained, [It is the task you give to the players!Of course you give the reward.That's why I suggest you, don't keep posting missions that are not in your mission program for players to do. ]

Dongli was silent, but he didn't agree, "I don't let players help find ingredients and medicinal materials, so I can't make alchemy to make food and sell it for money, and I can't practice cooking or pharmaceutical proficiency. Relying on the meager income of the grocery store, There is simply no way to provide enough resources. So, an upfront investment is necessary.”

In the beginning, he was silent, not because he didn't agree, but in his cognition, his master was an incomparably precious scientist. What he needed to study in the past was provided by the whole country or even the whole world.

But now, he bent his waist for five buckets of rice, worked hard to make food, and earned one copper coin and two copper coins.But it can't help at all like a waste, it is so sad that it is closed to itself.

Dongli didn't expect him to help, he had already made a plan, "Don't worry, at least three to five days later, you will be able to return to your capital and make a profit."

Taichu also knew that if he followed the game's settings for NPCs step by step, he would not be able to save resources at all, so he let out a dull "hmm", [Is there anything I can do to help? ]

Listening to its slowly guilty tone, Dongli smiled slightly, "I want to ask, how did the experience in the game come about? What kind of operating mechanism is it?"

He can understand virtual currencies such as copper coins and silver coins, but he doesn't understand what kind of rules they are based on experience.

[Isn’t the air on this planet filled with aura?Both the player and the NPC have a program to plunder the aura and turn it into energy.Activities such as killing monsters, collecting herbs, eating, and practicing, no matter what you do, will plunder a certain amount of aura from the outside world. ]

Dongli immediately understood when he heard it, "This seems to be the same as in the world of cultivation, where monks practice to absorb spiritual energy and transform it into their own spiritual power?"

[Yes, it is a principle.The program is actually to imitate the spiritual roots in the cultivation world. After absorbing a certain amount of spiritual energy and activating the spiritual roots, the players will be able to detect the spiritual roots and start to practice.This counterfeit spiritual root was your most important core research back then. ]

Dongli was quite surprised when he heard it. How did his brain grow in his previous life, so that he could imitate the spiritual root and study the working principle of the spiritual root?

"Then how much spiritual energy does the player need to absorb to activate the "spiritual root"?"

Tai Chu glanced at the internal setting data of the game, [The setting in the game is that the player must be at least level 10 to activate the spirit root. ]

"Level 10?" Dongli recalled the upgrade mechanism, "That requires more than 100 billion experience. By the way, what is the relationship between this experience and aura?"

[Experience in the game is actually a unit that converts aura into energy.How much energy the aura absorbed by the player or NPC is converted into for their own use is how much experience they get. ]

Dong Li probably understood, "Where did the energy consumed for the upgrade go? The level is just a virtual setting of the main brain system, or does it have real objects or practical functions?"

[The experience of a player or NPC is energy, and when a certain amount is saved, it will be upgraded.The energy consumed by the upgrade is actually the energy applied to oneself.So every time you upgrade, everyone's attribute data in all aspects will improve. ]

[To put it bluntly, it is to strengthen oneself with energy.This is not a random virtual setting of the master brain system, it is a real effect implemented on everyone. ]

"Oh." Dongli was more puzzled, "Then just level 10 needs more than 100 billion experience? After that, the data required are astronomical figures. Is the demand too much?"

[In order to accurately calculate various data, this experience value was actuarially calculated according to the smallest unit of aura.There is also the energy converted from the aura absorbed by everyone. Players and masterminds get [-]-[-] points, and NPCs and masterminds get [-] points.Therefore, the data of this experience value seems a bit huge. ]

"Huh?" Dong Li was slightly taken aback when he heard that, [Why should the energy I absorbed be divided with the main brain? ]

[Because the main brain needs energy to run!Such a huge system in this game naturally requires a lot of energy to keep it running, which is equivalent to paying taxes for citizens.After all, everyone can practice here because of the platform of the game mastermind system, right? ]

This is reasonable, but Dongli, as an NPC, said it was a bit unfair, [Then why is the NPC's share so small? ]

[Of course it's because NPCs have no human rights!Moreover, because the players have already paid the cost of the game warehouse and point cards on the Earth Star, the ultimate goal of the game is for the players to practice and upgrade early, so naturally they will not charge them too much energy.And the NPC is just an AI program, just leave enough energy to maintain the normal operation of the program. ]

"That's it." This also makes sense, Dongli thought for a while, and then raised a question, "Since the NPC is just a program of the mastermind, why do you need to set up panels such as roles, cultivation, and tasks, and ask the NPC to take the initiative to earn money?" Experience upgrade? Isn’t it easier to do it automatically?”

[That's because, in addition to pure AI intelligence, NPC also has real NPC. ]

"A real NPC?" Dong Li was slightly taken aback, "What does this mean? Is it the same existence as me?"

[Roughly the same. ] Explained in the beginning, [is the combination of the consciousness donated by the dead and the AI.Therefore, all NPC terminals are the same as the player's terminal system, with character upgrade settings for the convenience of investing in the consciousness of real people whose lives have passed away. ]

Dong Li was thoughtful when he heard the words, "That is to say, if this kind of real NPC also practiced to the distraction stage to reshape the body, would it be equivalent to a disguised resurrection?"

[Yes.Therefore, if this kind of real NPC wants to live or even survive in the game, it must work hard to provide energy for the brain to earn aura.This can not only retain a strong spiritual body, but also provide cheap labor for the game. ]

[However, for those who have lost their lives, they should be very happy to have another chance to live, no matter how cheap or even free labor. ]

[And you should be most aware that the stronger the mental power, the easier it is to cultivate to the distraction stage, and the success rate of this immigration will be greatly increased.It's a win-win thing. ]

This is true, Dongli nodded slightly, and finally understood that this experience is energy, and upgrading means absorbing energy to strengthen oneself, which is actually the same as the principle of cultivation in the cultivation world.

In other words, he has to work harder than the players to gain experience and upgrade.

But... Dongli stretched out his hand and looked at his rough wheat-colored hand. This was not his own body, and his existence could not be detected by the master brain.

This situation means that he is a black household now, and he is not eligible to enjoy the "artificial life technology" of the planet Earth in the future. He can only use methods in the cultivation world to reshape his real body.

So now he is desperately working hard to earn experience upgrades, which is basically equivalent to working for nothing, and in the end all the energy belongs to the main brain system.

Dong Li was silent for a moment, and then he had a plan in his mind: he still needs to make money as soon as possible, so that he can hire more players to collect materials for him to reshape his real body.After having a real life body, it's not too late to plan to cultivate.

Thinking of this, Dongli blew out the lamp, "Let's rest, tomorrow I have to get up early to do food and shopping."

Speaking of this, at the beginning of the day, I let out a low "di--" and fell asleep autistically.

Because he was thinking about things in his heart, and because he went to bed early, Dongli woke up before five o'clock the next morning.

When I went to the firewood room to get firewood for breakfast, I found that Nanshan was lying on his back, sleeping heartlessly.It may be that I was really tired the day before, slept very deeply, and was still slightly snoozing, and the quilt was kicked off a little.

Dongli went over to cover him lightly without waking him up, and turned to the kitchen to prepare breakfast.