The Game of Global Mining-Chapter 402 - 319: Empire Technology Relies on Archaeology Too
The sky is bright, and Fan’s voice comes from outside the door: "Mom, I’m off to school..."
Chun suddenly wakes up, realizing it’s been half a month and he still hasn’t seen this kid.
Xiaoqin also wakes up slowly: "While you weren’t around, Fan became more sensible."
Chun is astonished: "Could it be that I hinder his sensibility?"
Xiaoqin laughs: "This is called creating a single-parent family atmosphere. How’s work lately?"
Last night when I got back, I was too focused on delivering grain, neither she asked nor I mentioned...
Chun clears his throat and prepares to get the files: "I’ve been appointed as a product manager internally, let me show you the group’s appointment letter."
But Xiaoqin pulls Chun again: "Come on, empty the grain warehouse! Finish quickly so you can go to work!"
Here we go again~~
Chun’s pride trembles slightly: "Okay..."
Xiaoqin tightly hooks onto Chun: "You used to be in the technical position without socializing, now things are different, you should be careful, understand?"
Be careful?
"Yes, I understand."
"This is the breakthrough period in your career, don’t relax for even a moment... You need to sprint with all your might, sprint... sprint..."
Then, sprint with all my might!
Finally...
Not a single grain is left now.
Xiaoqin leisurely gets up: "There’s a box of clothes I prepared at the door, three sets of changing clothes, go to work! Don’t worry about home, call if anything happens."
Chun is suddenly filled with infinite drive: "Then I’m off, might have to stay away for some time again..."
When you think about it, instead of calling it drive, it’s more like worry about the situation in the game. If I really rested at home for a day or two, I’d probably be restless.
...
At nine in the morning, Chun returns to the long-missed waist flower noodle restaurant.
When leaving the restaurant, sure enough, he encounters the security guard going the same way.
Chun nods in greeting, then goes into the internet café.
The first floor of the café erupts in cheers: "Brother Chun, hello!"
The girl at the counter laughs: "Mr. Ding, your private room has been cleaned and had water replaced, please feel free to use it."
The internet manager guy also laughs: "Brother Chun, I’ll deliver lunch and dinner for you. Also, here, Brother Chun, take this."
Chun takes a mobile phone, is this from Zhou Qing?
As the preappointed product manager, Chun isn’t modest: "I’d like porridge for lunch."
"No problem, crab roe and lean meat porridge, here we go~~~"
Great God says: "Don’t worry, Brother Chun, our mission is on the go too!"
Chun smiles quietly: "Keep it secret!"
The group laughs mysteriously: "Right, right!"
Chun returns to the private room and officially starts up the machine.
——System tip: Welcome to Golden Continent, it is now April 15th, 9:31 AM, Golden Continent time April 15th, 9:31 PM...
——System tip: You have received a daily salary of 100 Mining Coins from the Honorary Elder of Southern Canyon Village and 200 Mining Coins as the vice-captain of Black Iron Blade. The Chamber of Commerce President currently has a daily salary of 21 Mining Coins.
These are the only two system messages received, which really make Chun feel a bit uneasy.
But it’s also good, indicating nothing major happened in between.
First checking the main account, the main remains lying flat in prison, without any records of visitation. This special-grade prison is really different, ordinary prisons don’t even qualify for imprisonment, they are sent mining, doing menial work.
Then look at the secondary account, it continues exploring and probing in the darkness.
Look at Ugly Emperor, at this moment Ugly Emperor has changed into the previous clown costume, continuing with a lame performance on the street with sparse spectators.
Indeed, a typical day.
Chun then opens the phone given by the guy, which has only one video player software and lacks most common applications, plus there’s a phone number. Zhou Qing’s number?
Chun opens the file player, one line appears: "Brother Chun, this is the Genesis map strategy we collected last night, take a look when you have time, more strategies will be updated in real-time."
Chun really has to admire Zhou Qing’s efficiency, getting so much done in one night. However, this kind of thing... Alright, I am a product manager after all. As there’s nothing now, I’ll take a look.
Once he starts looking, he becomes engrossed until the young guy knocks on the door delivering lunch: "Brother Chun, the porridge is here!"
Chun laughs: "Thank you for the trouble! I’ve been studying this thing, pretty interesting."
The guy laughs: "Interesting is good, take your time, Brother Chun."
After finishing lunch, Chun basically skimmed through the map strategy, experiencing the game’s past glory; it’s fair to say, current character models compared to then haven’t progressed much. It can be understood that the system lacks interest in spending computational power on appearance, instead focusing on developing artificial intelligence?
More striking is that back then the game had countless major first-tier cities and numerous second and third-tier mid-small cities alongside various villages. Now the game has only the setup of 5 first-tier cities, simply incomparable! This also corroborates what’s said before: The Empire Guardian God is simply insufficient, even sending kids like Nancy to the New World.
Chun mainly watched the late-game God and Demon battles, where half the world was engulfed by fire, earthquakes, tsunamis.
This ending is quite abrupt, but Chun understood: Perhaps the game was commercialized from the start, so there were multiple gameplay options, many cities with their own features and systems, even giving Chun a simulation of human society.
But by the end, true AI likely emerged, computational power couldn’t keep up—then it became like a chess plug-in, reducing computation by sacrificing pieces, thus the world is destroyed...
Seeing this, Chun can conclude, today’s Global Mining is extended development based on the system kernel of that era, if so, that old ruin world couldn’t be artificially modified, only changing slowly according to system time evolution rules, thus, archaeology is useful! Archaeology specifically targets the ruins of the old world!
