Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton
Chapter 2022 - 1583: Playing an Information Blind Box Game
Let Anthony speak, and the rhythm immediately falls into the hands of the Old God Stick: "Esteemed God Stars, as you know, information has value. May I ask what price you intend to pay to exchange for the information on the Information Storm?"
"What? Information on the Information Storm also needs to be exchanged?" Tutubas exclaimed in shock.
"God Star Tutubas, you’re joking. You send Star Descendants here to gather information, surely you know it needs to be paid for? Payment means an equivalent exchange," Anthony said.
Tutubas instantly regretted letting Anthony handle the communication: "I know what payment is. Just now, your main star didn’t mention any payment request."
"My Lord only mentioned the cause earlier, not the specific details. Discussing the specifics requires payment. Are you only interested in the cause? Don’t you want to know what the Information Storm entails?" Anthony asked, his tone carrying a hint of temptation.
The thoughts of the other God Stars lingered on Anthony’s body for a moment, shifted to Tutubas, and then back to Anthony.
Tutubas pondered for a while and said, "I can give you Star Flame."
"How much Star Flame can you pay? If it’s too little, my Lord won’t be interested," Anthony replied.
Tutubas fell silent immediately. It seemed like Star Flame was a hard currency in the Void, needed by everyone, yet in reality, it wasn’t.
If the amount is too small, the God Stars wouldn’t be interested; if too much, the cost to deliver it becomes prohibitive.
For more distant God Stars, sending a unit of Star Flame could consume ten units of Star Flame, making it uneconomical.
The habit of exchanging information for Star Flame here formed purely because there’s no better equivalent, and everyone needs Star Flame, so it circulates enough to fuel the consumption of these Star Descendants.
But with the main star here in person, how could it be interested in such measly amounts of Star Flame?
"What do you need?" After a long while, Tutubas finally asked.
"Information, some valuable information," Anthony said.
Since coming to this world, Anthony had a strong feeling that material no longer mattered, nor did power. The most important thing was intelligence, information.
Material is not important; Ange, with incremental power, can manifest any material, be it equipment, weapons, materials, bodies, or even planes.
Power also isn’t particularly important anymore. If you can’t win a fight, you can run. If you can’t run, there are clones. Even if they are all obliterated now, it just means retreating to another Stacked Clone.
Even if both of Ange’s Stacked Clones are blown up, he can retreat to the anchor point, back to the Land of the Infinity, back to Ange’s true body.
Essentially, Ange can already be considered an eternal entity in the Void, as long as he doesn’t enter any closed space and get trapped by a Consciousness Cage, practically nothing can harm him.
Even Consciousness Cages might not be able to harm Ange, though this can’t be proven, it’s merely a vague premonition of Anthony.
Material and power aren’t the most important things. The most important thing is information. Only information is worth exchanging for with other information.
"What kind of information do you need? How am I supposed to know what information you need? I may not even have the information you need, so how can we exchange?" Tutubas asked.
Anthony seemed to be waiting for this question and said with a smile, "We can play a data blind box game. The six of you and I, seven in total, each put in a piece of information we consider valuable into the blind box. Once done, we’ll open it together and check. If all seven pieces of information are valuable, we’ll proceed to the next round."
"If one or several are valueless garbage information, we will vote together to kick them out and not let them participate in the next round. You wouldn’t want someone swapping garbage information for your valuable information, right? You’d vote to kick out the useless information, right?"
"If two or more pieces of information are repeated, the person with the duplicate information will need to provide two pieces of information in the next round. So you’ll need to offer some information only you know, not outdated goods everyone in the All Void knows. Are you willing to play such a data blind box game?" Anthony asked.
Before the God Stars could answer, in the Soul Network, the silver coin couldn’t help but applaud: "Lord Anthony’s idea is truly brilliant. I wondered why the God Stars were called together instead of being contacted one-on-one. Turns out it was for this."
Negris also thought the Death God’s Staff was very cunning but couldn’t see where the cunning lay and couldn’t help but ask, "What’s so brilliant about it?"
"There are many brilliant aspects. First, with one piece of information, we can exchange for six pieces of information. If it were one-on-one, we couldn’t refuse if the other party exchanged with repetitive information."
"Of course, we could also swap the same piece of information six times, but it would be meaningless. We’re after more useful information, not just gaining an advantage."
Pausing briefly, the silver coin continued, "Second, the competitive mechanism can prevent the other party from using outdated, repetitive information everyone knows to exchange. To avoid being voted out and unable to participate in the next round, everyone will rack their brains to come up with something valuable and scarcely-known."
"Third, cross-checking. We just arrived in this world and know nothing about it, not even how to discern what information is valuable or not. But now we don’t need to worry, as the six God Stars cross-check. If even they think it’s valuable, it must be valuable information."
"And we just need to exchange information on the Information Storm, not fearing they will deduce from our information range that we just arrived here not long ago," the silver coin summarized at last. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖
Negris was left speechless, "This Death God’s Staff is too cunning, not afraid others will see through his intentions and stop playing?"
The silver coin said, "Why wouldn’t they play? If you offer a piece of valuable information and can exchange it for six equally valuable pieces, would you not play? They also want to know if there are any exclusive tidbits from other God Stars, or else they wouldn’t have sent Star Descendants here."
As expected, all the God Stars showed great interest in this data blind box mechanism, and not a single one backed out, inquiring about the details, even the other four God Stars who had barely spoken were no exception.
Once everyone agreed to participate in the game, Anthony pulled open a Devouring Abyss with both hands and said to everyone, "Everyone, put the information you want to exchange into the abyss. As I release it, you can simultaneously browse all the inserted information. Please begin."
All the God Stars inserted the information they wanted to exchange, simultaneously scanning Anthony with surprise.
The strength of this Devouring Abyss was something all the God Stars present could easily pull apart. However, since they were in projection form, trying to pull out a Devouring Abyss with just a projection was beyond them.