The game invaded, and I became the uncle of someone else in another world!

"However, I have a question, Brother Zhou. I've heard people analyze why organizations like mercenary guilds haven't evolved in the real world. They say it's because if the reward is too low, being an adventurer isn't worthwhile, and if the reward is too high, the mission isn't worthwhile. How does the MMO continent balance this out?"

Lü Ming spoke.

Zhou Wan was playing a game and didn't even look up.

"That's because their premise is wrong. If they lock in adventurers, then they can only be adventurers and can only take on missions from the Mercenary Guild. In reality, there are probably quite a few mercenaries in modern times, or some who take on jobs online. They have their own things to do in their spare time, and they don't necessarily rely on this for a living. The same goes for players. Those high-difficulty missions can only be completed by players. This rarity ensures that the rewards won't be low."

"Oh...I see."

[This is Zhou Wan's first time taking on a mission. This ham worm is listed in the Extraordinary Ingredients Encyclopedia.]

[Ham Worm: Scales range from 10 to 1000 meters in length. A gregarious and exceptional food source, it prefers to lurk beneath the surface of swamps. Sensing ground tremors, it suddenly attacks its prey. It possesses remarkable regenerative abilities and a powerful ability to corrode prey with its saliva. Its meat is firm and can be eaten raw, fried, boiled, or cooked in various ways. It is recommended that after capturing it, it not be killed immediately, but rather raised to utilize its regenerative abilities for a long-term meat supply.]

"..."

"It really is an ingredient introduction."

Chung Pak was looking forward to the monster encyclopedia.

But what I saw was a complete cookbook.

"Hey, if we could catch one of these ham worms, wouldn't we have an unlimited food supply? Wouldn't that be a perpetual motion machine?!"

Lu Ming's eyes lit up, feeling that he had discovered a way to make money.

Zhou Wan had not yet spoken.

Chung Pak has learned to take the initiative this time.

"Master often says that everything comes at a price, so this ham worm should be about the same. I estimate that although this thing has an abnormal recovery ability, it is not unlimited. Even if we let it recover naturally, the amount of food it needs to replenish should be astronomical."

"Wow, you've learned to answer first, not bad, not bad."

Zhou Wan nodded. "That's right. Just like Zhong Bai said, if you treat it as a food generator, you'll definitely lose a lot of money. But it's not without its advantages. At least it recovers naturally, and the energy it consumes can be replenished with ordinary food. Players can obtain a stable supply of extraordinary food through it."

"So, are there people in another world who raise ham worms and make a fortune by canning them?"

There was still a glimmer of hope in Lü Ming's eyes.

"Of course there are. People in other worlds aren't stupid. Although the main customers of extraordinary ingredients are players, it doesn't mean that ordinary people can't eat them. For example, this ham worm, if an ordinary person eats just a tiny bit the size of a fingernail, they won't feel hungry for a day. Long-term use can even slightly improve their body's recovery ability."

"Ah, another world is so convenient." x3

"Hey Zhou, you keep talking about energy, why do we have to rely on food? Can't we just eat a gram of uranium?" Lu Ming had a small question of his own.

Zhou Wan rolled her eyes at her.

"First and foremost, I am a human being."

"You can't do that even with an engine, master?"

Zhong Bai had wanted to ask this question too, but he hadn't found the right opportunity.

"If this were that simple, I should have started a massacre in the city when I came back the day before yesterday, waited for the higher-ups to use an atomic bomb to pacify me, and then just stood there with my mouth open, waiting to be invincible."

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"Even invincible players can't do it? How will they fill that massive heat deficit in the later stages?"

Chung Pak expressed his disappointment.

An invincible player shouldn't be omnipotent, right?

Zhou Wan gave him an annoyed look. "I don't know what you're disappointed about. It's not like there aren't extraordinary ingredients with energy higher than a nuclear bomb. Besides, the highest I've ever reached is Tier 2. The knowledge I have is insufficient. But higher-level players, Tier 3, Tier 4, or even Tier 5 players, might be able to turn uranium into candy. Anyway, I'm just a human body right now."

At this point, Zhou Wan thought for a moment, "And at that stage, even if we eat a nuclear bomb, we might not have enough energy."

"Brother Zhou! Nuclear weapons are basically fission and fusion. Maybe if we just grabbed a handful of soil and let the matter inside undergo fusion and fission, we could generate a huge amount of energy. Wouldn't that make us invincible?"

Zhou Wan didn't say anything.

Zhong Bai sighed, "Everything has a price. Even if a player can make any atom produce nuclear fusion, his own consumption will only increase, not decrease. It's better to just eat it directly."

"Bingo! Congratulations, you've passed the basic player theory test!"

"Hehe, thank you for the compliment, Master."

The player's system doesn't come from nothing.

The kind of exploiting bugs to infinitely farm energy will not exist.

For example, Zhou Wan, as a player, has so many abilities, why doesn't she travel through time and go back to the time when her parents died to resurrect them?

Hey!

This means that, according to the theory of the multiverse, every choice you make will cause the universe to branch out.

If traveling back in time is equivalent to creating a separate branch of the universe, then you would need to provide an energy that is larger than the entire universe combined to do so.

This is essentially a paradox.

According to this logic, does that mean players no longer have the ability to control time?

Nor is it.

Even among adult game players, time management is quite common.

It's just a pseudo-time ability.

For example, stopping a person's time, stopping the time in this room, or even stopping the time of a planet.

All of these are possible.

But stop the time of the entire universe.

No.

I can't do that.

After all, how can players in the universe collect energy that is even greater than the universe itself?

Then some dissenters might ask:

If I were to collect an even greater amount of energy in another, larger universe, would I be able to control this smaller universe?

Let's talk about it on that day.

What if there are no other universes at all?

"Master, according to you, how much energy did I expend when I was showing off the other day?"

"Oh, actually, apart from the knife that was used to slash Lao Ba that day, everything else was special effects. After all, my nickname is Rainbow Running Dog, and I'm best at making special effects."

"Ah...I see...Is that so?"

Zhou Wan still thought that he had really cleaved the sky in two days ago.

[Given that the other world has a ham worm farming industry, it's clear that the mission Zhou Wan received wasn't about capturing them.]

[The problem lies with these wild ham worms, which have already impacted the local ecosystem; after all, these things are quite edible.]

When Zhou Wan arrived at the crime scene as instructed, the battle had already begun.