Miracle Apartment Building, the first day of the seven-day survival game, began. This was also an almost risk-free day, like the Desire Tower.
After Wen Xiangge, Wen Xishu, and the other three moved into the apartment building, various options appeared before each person’s eyes.
[Explore Miracle Apartment Building: Consumes 50 points of action power.]
[Initiate a new resident meeting: Consumes 25 points of action power.]
[Explore your own room: Consumes 25 points of action power.]
[Interact with neighbors: Consumes 50 points of action power.]
[Note, the content of exploration and interaction is not fixed.]
It was already past noon, and for Wen Xishu, the morning time was somewhat wasted.
He was testing everything in the room.
When Wen Xishu chose to return to bed, prepare food, or clean the room, it did not trigger the action power consumption prompt.
But when Wen Xishu started to carefully observe the room, pondering its structure or hidden secrets, engaging in this type of mental activity...
The prompt [If you continue this action, you will automatically choose to explore your own room and 25 points of action power will be deducted.] appeared...
Wen Xishu was still unsure if the action power in this reverse seven-plan game was abundant or tight.
He had just discovered a crucial point in the task prompt but was hesitating whether to initiate a meeting, consuming 25 points of action power to inform everyone.
"If I treat this as a purely single-player game... then I don’t have to care about their survival."
This was actually the most comfortable and adaptable approach for Wen Xishu. However, the problem was that the benefits of uniting with others were high.
"Assuming everyone has a hundred points of action power per day... then each person can explore the building twice."
"Exploring the building consumes the most points, which also means the information gathered from exploring the building would be the most."
"If I choose to act alone, then the building exploration and neighbor interactions can only occur once each at most. But if we act in groups, I can also obtain the others’ information."
Ultimately, Wen Xishu decided to cooperate with his teammates.
He planned to consume 25 points of action power, leaving him with only seventy points of action power...
But seventy points essentially equaled only 50 points. Because the remaining options requiring action power cost 25 and 50 points respectively.
To maximize benefits, he could only choose the 50-point option. The remaining 20 points would be useless.
Wen Xishu could be said to incur a loss, but after calculating the benefits of solo and team actions, although he felt pain, he wasn’t reluctant.
Just as Wen Xishu was about to initiate the meeting, a prompt suddenly appeared.
[A fellow resident, id: Wen Xiangge, has initiated a meeting, would you like to join?]
Someone had initiated the meeting one step ahead of Wen Xishu, saving his action power.
This move somewhat surprised Wen Xishu, as he had assumed his competitors were fools and his teammates were simple AI’s.
This wasn’t arrogance; rather, by setting these expectations, he placed himself in the worst possible environment, forcing himself to perform at his best.
Wen Xishu chose to join the meeting.
At the moment of choosing, four floating squares resembling projections appeared before Wen Xishu’s eyes.
The four squares corresponded to Xiaowu, Ah Miao, Wu Xiangjiao, and Wen Xiangge.
[Meeting duration: Fifteen minutes.]
So stingy. Wen Xishu couldn’t help but sigh, consuming 25 points of action power just for a fifteen-minute call.
"Guys, I discovered that the action power seems quite tight... We need to save seven households, but we can only interact with others twice a day..."
"I’m thinking, we must cooperate well, so I spent some action power hoping we can set some rules."
Wen Xishu was now convinced this big bald head wasn’t just a bluffer; he did have some sense of the bigger picture.
Wu Xiangjiao suddenly spoke at this time:
"Revered one, I actually... wanted to explore the room. My thought was, this action doesn’t consume too many points, but it’s my living space. What if there’s something strange here..."
"I dare not think so, I can’t even sleep well. This task may not be completed in seven days, but certainly not within a day or two..."
"But I found that if I really wanted to explore the room, I was quite confused because... a lot of items appeared as garbled text to me."
Upon hearing the garbled text, Ah Miao also said:
"Same here... When I was tidying up the room, I found some items would trigger notes, but they were all garbled text."
"This... even if I consume action power, I probably won’t be able to accomplish anything. How about you guys?"
Xiaowu said:
"I can see some words, but many were obscured by garbled text, preventing me from understanding much."
"I’m the same..." Wen Xiangge said.
Wen Xishu didn’t encounter any abnormalities; completing the twenty-first floor at level six and the sixth floor at level six had given him fifteen points of Anti-Magic Value.
Faced with the seventh floor, Wen Xishu almost didn’t encounter many garbled texts, so he hadn’t noticed this issue.
"Same here, I can see some text, but there’s a lot of garbled text too, though I can generally guess the combinations. If you all trust me, the exploration tasks can be handed to me." Wen Xishu said.
"However, my personal suggestion is for us to collectively interact with our neighbors today."
"After the interactions, one person can initiate a meeting, and then we can exchange the interaction information."