I am weak and friendly

Chapter 281 The Map That Came Back to Life
On the 41st floor of Qihang Building, the large screen has switched from OIFU to ROBO-FU.

Tang Yiping sat in his wheelchair, looking up at the big screen. Shen Hong stood behind him with his hands behind his back, both of them exuding the aura of powerful figures.

Behind them, many people were also looking up at the map.

On the large screen in front of them, the map was changing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Centered on thousands of different points, the originally very rudimentary map is being modified and evolved at an astonishing rate, while also being marked with all sorts of things: building entrances, temporary barriers, roadside trees, green belts, parked vehicles...

Gradually, these points turned into light spots surrounded by different POIs (Points of Interest), making the open-source map, which was a much richer representation than a static base map, became.

These dots of light are vending machines, and these light spots represent the area that the vending machines' cameras and sensors can detect and cover.

Then, different colored carrots were placed on the map, representing vehicles, pedestrians, bicycles, etc., that entered the detection range of these vending machines on the road.

Then, these different colored radishes further differentiated into even richer colors and markings, distinguishing different vehicle types, professions, and even differentiating red, blue, and yellow riders...

These little radishes move in different directions and at different speeds. Once they leave the edge of the light spot, they become several different trajectory lines. These are their possible trajectories. When they reappear within the range of another light spot, the trajectory lines suddenly converge. After they have passed through the range of several light spots, the prediction of them becomes more and more accurate, turning into even more convergent lines.

In the areas where these lines pass through, some gray POIs are also marked. These POIs are inferred based on changes in the items they carry and their status.

However, in just half an hour, the entire city had transformed into a blooming tree.

The gray tree trunk is adorned with thousands of blooming flowers.

The process was so wonderful that everyone was completely captivated by the screen for a full half hour until the changes gradually subsided, at which point everyone came to their senses.

"How...how did they do that?" Shen Hong asked in astonishment.

As a powerful commander in a special department, Shen Hong had seen countless kinds of maps.

Different levels of precision, for civilian, military, and commercial use.

Smart cities, surveillance systems, traffic simulations...

He has seen them all.

But he had never seen a map like this before.

A map that grows on its own.

Or rather, what he had seen before were all completed maps; he had never seen a map being gradually improved.

And this process has been compressed to within half an hour.

It gave him the illusion that the map had come to life.

“Data and forecasts,” Tang Yiping said.

"Hmm?" Shen Hong thought Tang Yiping would explain for a long time, but he only gave two words.

"It's that simple, completely accurate data and extremely precise predictions..." Tang Yiping shrugged, he didn't have any other tricks up his sleeve.

"This data... was collected by vending machines? But we couldn't find their servers, could we?" Gao Ming asked, joining the conversation.

One of the biggest takeaways from their last visit to the warehouse was obtaining Touchpoint Interconnect's technical manuals. This allowed technicians to fully understand how the vending machines worked and even redirect them to new servers.

However, if you want to build a new server and redirect these servers to the new server, you still need to rewrite and configure them one by one.

"Hmm... I've found a better way than using a server," Tang Yiping said.

When Tang Yiping was updating ROBO-FU to version v0.5, the first data source that came to mind was Touchpoint Interconnect's vending machines.

As a highly ambitious project of Touchpoint Connect, this vending machine is equipped with hardware that is still quite advanced even today. It not only has various sensors, but also computing power that rivals the most powerful autonomous vehicles currently available. It can perform local edge computing without having to send all the information to a server for processing.

Unfortunately, they cannot connect to the internet and are uncontrollable.

So, what methods are there to control them?

Of course, they are a group of laborers who can live off them, work very diligently without complaint, and are even happier the more they work—no, [oxen and horses]! Moreover, there are many, a great many, even more [oxen and horses].

Thinking this, Tang Yiping turned to Stoka and asked:
How many [ox and horse] apprentices do we have now?

“Woo-hoo…” Stoka said.

"Twenty-seven? That's not enough! With so few [cattle and horses], how long will it take for them to help me exchange for enough survival points? It's too little, still too little!" Tang Yiping said, "Give me more!"

Tang Yiping remembered that Stoka had said that it would take two people five years to exchange for enough survival points, so 27 people would need 135 days, which would be too late.

“Ugh…” Stoka lowered her head, expressing deep shame.

Although he has tried his best.

Within the group, Stoka was not the most anticipated member.

Therefore, when Stokka went back and called on everyone to rent prosthetic bodies and go to Earth, the holy land of skill learning, and promised that they could find suitable C-level skill learning paths, the tribe was overjoyed, but some people still had doubts.

After all, even Lagrang, whom the entire clan considers the most talented, is still struggling to learn and hasn't been able to bring back the C-rank skill [Supply].

But everything changed after Stoca learned the [Bull and Horse] technique.

When the news spread back to the clan that he had learned the C-level [Bull and Horse] skill in such a short time, the entire clan was in an uproar.

Stokka, who was generally considered to lack talent in the clan, has become a powerful figure with C-level skills in such a short time. He may even be able to challenge the realms of dual skills, triple skills, or even quasi-professionals and professionals. How could this not make the entire clan excited?

If Stoka can learn it, wouldn't the other members of the tribe be even more able to learn it?

If Stoka can learn one, maybe I can learn two or three survival skills at once!

No one was convinced.

So when Stokaden shouted, "Anyone willing to learn C-level skills, come with me!" everyone in the clan with any ambition came.

Of course, the biggest problem coming to Earth is that prosthetic bodies are too difficult to rent.

Although the Stoka clan has the ability to use temporary prosthetics, the requirements for the prosthetics themselves are not high. For example, Stoka's dogs and Lagrange's rats can be used, but these prosthetics are not so easy to obtain.

So right now, the people of Stoka's tribe are stuck in traffic.

"Woo-hoo-hoo?" Stoka asked Tang Yiping how many tribesmen he needed.

“If it takes only one or two days to save enough money…” Tang Yiping thought for a moment, stroking his chin, “27 is too few, 2700 would be more like it.”

"Woo-hoo?????" Stokka's dog eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

No, are you really going to make me sell my clan?

The problem is, we don't have that many people in our tribe. Even if we sold them all, it wouldn't be enough!

However, Stoka actually came up with a solution.

“Woo-chio-chio-ao-wu-ao-wu…” he said.

"You mean, pay these guys to work?"

You're really ruthless towards your own teammates!
You truly are my good [ox and horse]!
But it's not impossible. If you guys don't pull out all your savings, how can I, as the boss, possibly get my new car?

Wait a minute, who was it that vehemently opposed the "Survival Guide for the Weak" before?

Tang Yiping felt that he had been corrupted.

Alas, capital!

(End of this chapter)