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Chapter 644: A Carefully Crafted Scam

Li Wenhao was also speechless. This was simply impossible to guard against!
Now he knew where the problem lay.

Li Wenhao was also very cautious before. After all, in a game like "Against the Sky", it was inevitable that there would be scammers everywhere. Whenever he encountered something that required spending money, he had to be careful to identify them.

But no matter how careful you are, there is always room for error.

What is the Rat on the Street scam?
In fact, it still takes advantage of the information gap.

The reason why Li Wenhao believed him was that the agreement could be signed in black and white within the game system. He did see that his survival rate from the thunder tribulation dropped from 87% to 72%, which matched the probability mentioned by Rat Crossing the Street before.

That's why Li Wenhao felt at ease signing the contract.

However, he overlooked a very serious problem: that is, when he first saw the thunder tribulation, the specific survival rate and intensity of the thunder tribulation were not prompted by the system panel!
It all depends on what the disciples of Mingxing Pavilion have to say.

The rat said that Li Wenhao had an 87% chance of encountering a low-grade thunder tribulation, and then Li Wenhao believed it.

In fact, Li Wenhao does have an 87% probability, but his is a medium-grade thunder tribulation.

If one wants to upgrade to a high-grade thunder tribulation, the probability must be reduced from 87% to about 50%. This means that not only will the cost of materials needed to activate the secret technique double, but also such a large reduction in probability will make the entire tribulation process very uncontrollable, so it is not cost-effective.

If you are a conscientious disciple of the Fate Star Pavilion, the advice at this time should be to maintain this probability to survive the tribulation and not to do any unnecessary operations.

But the scumbag, Crossing the Street Rat, lied to Li Wenhao and said that the 87% probability was a low-level thunder tribulation, and to upgrade to a medium-level thunder tribulation, he only needed to reduce it to 72%.

In fact, it is a medium thunder tribulation (high probability of passing) that turns into a medium thunder tribulation (low probability of passing).

But after Li Wenhao signed the agreement, he encountered a medium-level thunder tribulation, so he had no way of verifying whether it was originally low-level or medium-level.

Therefore, Rat Crossing the Street forcibly created a demand that Li Wenhao did not have at all, and happily earned a sum of transaction fees from it.

Li Wenhao also had to pay an extra amount of money for materials for no reason, and all these materials were wasted.

As for whether Li Wenhao could finally pass the tribulation successfully, it cannot be said that his failure was entirely due to the fact that he was a rat crossing the street, but it is also related.

Because the calamity mechanism of "Against the Sky" is quite special:

Thunder tribulations are divided into four levels: low, medium, high, and top-grade. These four types of thunder tribulations correspond to the basic numerical strength of the golden elixir.

They are both medium-level thunder tribulations, and although the special effects and appearance are exactly the same, the damage is different. Otherwise, how can we distinguish the different success rates of tribulations?

For example, a medium-level thunder tribulation with an 87% success rate, compared to a medium-level thunder tribulation with a 72% success rate, although the thunder special effects and appearance seem to be exactly the same, the damage of the former is slightly lower.

All these injuries are accumulated, and the accumulation of small amounts will lead to changes in the success rate of overcoming the tribulation.

But for players, as long as the level of the thunder tribulation cannot be changed, the success rate of adjusting the thunder tribulation can only be adjusted higher, not lowered.

To lower the tone is simply to make things more difficult for yourself.

If Li Wenhao had not asked Street Rat to change the survival rate of the thunder tribulation, but continued to use the 87% probability to pass the thunder tribulation, then he would have a high probability of passing it, even if he was hit by the floor skill.

Because the basic damage values ​​of these two types of thunder tribulations are different, this probability is just an estimate made by the system based on the player's character attributes and operation expectations.

So what are the benefits of the street rat doing this?

You know what, the benefits are huge!
At first glance, this seems to be an act that harms others and does not benefit oneself, but when combined with the skills of the Mingxing Pavilion, it is not the case.

Why couldn't other disciples of Mingxing Pavilion level up as fast as rats crossing the street?

Obviously, their conscience still trapped them.

Take standard zero-氪 parties like Li Wenhao and Liang Chun for example, the probability of them passing the tribulation to the Jindan stage is about 90%-50%, all of which are medium-level thunder tribulations, and less than 50% are high-level thunder tribulations.

At the beginning, the default probability fluctuated around 85%.

Therefore, the optimal solution is actually not to change the probability.

But in this case, how can the disciples of Mingxing Pavilion make money?
If you only make the money from the probability of thunder tribulation at the beginning, it would be too little and not enough to fill your stomach.

By doing this, the Rat can not only collect extra money for improving the survival rate of the tribulation, but also significantly increase the risk of the player exploding during the thunder tribulation.

If the player does not explode, then just pretend nothing happened and it is not a loss for the rat crossing the street.

Players may even thank him because they will mistakenly believe that they have successfully obtained the 1.0x Golden Elixir through the operation of the Street Rat.

What if the player explodes? Then the street rat will make a lot of money.

According to the Fate Star Pavilion's Nine-Turn Destiny-Seizing Technique, he can directly gain cultivation and resources from the losses caused by players' explosions and deaths.

As long as we find a few more unlucky victims, the speed of our cultivation will skyrocket.

Moreover, it is difficult for players who have explosive bodies, like Li Wenhao, to realize that it is actually the Street Rat who is playing tricks, after all, they signed the agreement voluntarily. So why didn't the Street Rat just change the probability to less than 50% and make it a top-level thunder tribulation?

Because if you do that, the deal might not be done.

The charge for this function is based on the change in probability. The greater the change in probability, the higher the charge, and it increases exponentially.

The 1.2 times golden elixir of the top-grade thunder tribulation is certainly very attractive, but for these zero-氪 players, there is no way they can pay such a large sum of money at once, and they cannot accept the risk of being killed by the thunder tribulation with a 50% probability.

Changing the lightning tribulation survival rate from 87% to 72%, this mere 15% change is just within the affordable range of zero-氪 players, and they can still afford it if they squeeze a little.

Moreover, with this survival rate, the probability of exploding is neither too high nor too low. The Rat Crossing the Street can ensure that it gains more benefits from the Nine Revolutions Luck Stealing Tribulation while remaining as anonymous as possible.

After figuring out the whole thing, Li Wenhao was so angry that he almost lost his temper.

"Birth! Pure birth!

“The world of immortal cultivation is so dangerous, you can be deceived if you are not careful!

"No, I have to expose this behavior, there must be many other victims!"

Liang Chun was smart and specially found a disciple from other Mingxing Pavilion to look at the probability.

If it is still path dependence and we just go and look at it like a rat crossing the street, I am afraid we will be fooled together.

There is another very important reason why the scam of Crossing the Street Rat can be successful, that is, there are not many disciples in the Mingxing Pavilion.

As one of the six major sects, one needs to spend 648 kryptonite to join randomly, and not every disciple has the business acumen to start side jobs everywhere.

Most of the disciples of Mingxing Pavilion stayed in the sect and practiced every minute, and only went out on field trips when someone came to visit them.

As for the few who run around, they basically have their own fixed areas. After all, the map of this game is very large, and there are tribulation points near each major sect.

Therefore, these players tend to do business at fixed tribulation points.

There are two or three tribulation points near Chen Tingquan’s sect, and there is only one disciple from the Mingxing Pavilion, Guojieshu.

Even if other disciples from the Fate Star Pavilion come over, Street Rat will spot them the first time, and then either persuade them with kind words or secretly give them some benefits to make them go somewhere else.

In this way, the rat crossing the street is like catching a sheep and trying to pull it apart, but because of the information gap, the sheep does not know the situation of other sheep.

Some Henggang Sect disciples might think of looking for other people from Mingxing Pavilion, but after all, everyone's probability of passing the tribulation is different, and they don't know other Henggang Sect disciples, so it is difficult to expose this scam.

If Liang Chun and Li Wenhao didn't just happen to know each other and knew that their cultivation levels were similar, it would be hard to tell when this scam would be exposed.

There may even be an outrageous situation: as the first batch of players advance to the Jindan stage, the number of subsequent new players decreases and there is a lack of mutual comparison, so this secret will be permanently covered up.

Although the probability is not very high, once it happens, the rat crossing the street will really make a lot of money.

Li Wenhao originally planned to use his identity as a host to promote the product, but he was overthinking it, as he didn't need to promote it at all.

Because this matter was so explosive, netizens started discussing it immediately.

After checking the accounts, I found that there are quite a few people who have been deceived online.

And it’s not just Guojie Shu who is the disciple of Mingxing Pavilion who is cheating, there are many other disciples who are also cheating!
Even their wording is similar, they all adjust the original probability of around 80% to 70%.

Another common point is that most of the activities are held at the tribulation points around ordinary sects, because these places are basically populated by zero-氪 or low-氪 players.

This is obviously intentional.

Because the top kryptonians of the six major sects are relatively powerful, if they are discovered, they may really be hunted down. Moreover, it is very easy for the top kryptonians to withstand the Jindan tribulation, and there is not much room for the disciples of the Mingxing Pavilion to fool them.

In comparison, zero-氪 players have little ability to resist and are very prone to anxiety about thunder tribulations, making them the best targets for deception.

Everyone highly suspected that this rat crossing the street should have secretly recruited a few disciples of the Mingxing Pavilion to form such a fraud alliance.

His approach was actually very smart, because the more disciples who joined the fraud alliance, the more difficult it would be to expose the entire scam.

And for other disciples of the Fate Star Pavilion, this matter is indeed very attractive.

Who wouldn’t envy the speed at which Street Rat rushed to the top of the Tianjiao list?
As long as you let go of your conscience, you don't have to suffer the pain of the Nine Dragon Pill, and you don't have to worry too much about exploding and dying. Few people in the game can resist this temptation.

Of course, if the truth comes out, it will be a different story.

The only problem now is that Li Wenhao is just an ordinary disciple of the Henggang Sect, while the other party is a genius from the six major sects and is on the genius list.

I can’t beat him either!
He thought about it and sent a message to Lecturer Ding: "Do me a favor and help me kill someone! I'll treat you to a meal later!"

(End of this chapter)