The main mission officially began. After entering this world, the subtle sense of separation disappeared, and more noticeably, the invisible barrier also vanished.
A newcomer cautiously stretched out a hand to test the air outside. When he found no obstruction, he was overjoyed and instinctively wanted to flee. But just as he moved, he was pulled back by the person beside him.
"What are you doing?"
"What do you mean, 'what am I doing'? Let's go!"
"Are you crazy? They haven't even spoken yet. Where are you going?"
"Don't worry about me!" The man shook off the hand of the person next to him and grumbled, "Following them, those veterans will sooner or later use us newcomers as cannon fodder! Do you think I haven't read enough novels?"
"You idiot! What if you don't listen to the veterans and get killed?"
"Heh heh, didn't you see the Main God's prompt? Veterans are not allowed to harm newcomers. Look, they don't care at all whether we stay or leave."
With that, he turned and left, walking away without looking back.
The Reincarnators who saw him leave, some of them newcomers, looked awkwardly at the veterans, worried that if they angered them, they might kill that unlucky fellow on the spot and implicate him as well.
However, the veterans didn't even glance at them, and they remained indifferent to the newcomer who had left.
They were gathered together, gazing into the distance, not knowing what they were looking at.
The newcomers relaxed, but then suddenly saw a patch of large trees in the distance, all cut down at waist height and strewn across the ground, and their hearts tightened again.
This was no longer their original world, but a dangerous plot world. How could they, these weak newcomers, survive?
..."Your mission is to protect the Dragon Vein from destruction?"
Among the veterans, a brief exchange of information revealed many problems for both sides.
The main missions of the two teams were different. Zhou Ming and his team at least had a clear mission objective, but the Yuanzheng Team's mission left people a bit puzzled.
Protect the Dragon Vein? What is the Dragon Vein? Is it a concrete object or an abstract concept? Or mountains and rivers, a matter of Feng Shui? Or is it the imperial court of this world? The royal family?
The overly vague mission description left several people scratching their heads about this task.
With insufficient information, the group realized that discussing it further would yield no results. They immediately decided to team up and leave this place first, heading to a populated area to gather information.
"Wait a moment, the miniature satellite I just launched hasn't reached its predetermined altitude yet."
Kaka said, operating the computer in his hand without looking up.
At this moment, the rich experience and professionalism of the Advanced Rank Reincarnators became evident.
Kaka and his team's strength might not even be as good as Zhou Ming's, but their preparations for the mission far exceeded those of the two members of the Fang Yuan Team.
"Alright!"
Kaka tapped the keyboard, and a map immediately appeared on the screen.
It was an aerial photograph of the ground, taken by the miniature satellite from a high altitude, centered on their position.
After multiple photos were stitched together and analyzed, a map covering a hundred-mile radius around them was freshly produced.
"Look, we are currently here, on a hillside."
Kaka manipulated the map, zooming in for everyone to see.
"About ten miles east from here, at the foot of the mountain, there's a town with an estimated population of around ten thousand. We can settle there first."
"Has the route map been drawn?" Both Feng Jianye and Feng Yuanzheng appeared calm and posed a new question to Kaka.
"Of course!" Kaka confidently tapped the keyboard, and a curved red line immediately appeared on the map on the screen, connecting their current location to the town.
"I'll lead the way. Let's go." Kaka took a step, identified the direction, and set off first.
"Amazing!" Zhou Ming praised sincerely.
Reincarnators are not just reckless brutes who only know how to fight and kill.
They travel through different worlds, mastering various abilities and knowledge. Any Reincarnator whose intelligence meets the standard should be able to do much more than their apparent abilities suggest.
Good logistics might not directly enhance the combat power of Reincarnators, but it can save them a lot of effort in many situations.
Various auxiliary tools, technological products, and mysterious artifacts require relatively small investments, but if used well, they can yield several times the returns.
If planned well, a significant portion of a mission can even be completed without needing to fight.
This was a principle Zhou Ming understood from his first entry into a Reincarnation world.
Unfortunately, when it came to technological products, compared to Kaka, he was practically illiterate.
Qin Wumeng was also clearly not the right Material for this, so neither of them had made any preparations in this regard.
However, even without the Yuanzheng Team, Zhou Ming had his own methods, such as riding the Flying Flower Gu directly into the sky to overlook the land.
The Ghost Eye Gu granted him excellent vision, allowing him to clearly observe everything on the ground from several kilometers up... The group of ten Reincarnators slowly walked down the hillside path.
One newcomer had left, so now there were five remaining, which was exactly the same number as the veterans.
Along the way, the five newcomers introduced themselves.
Zhang Bin, male, 37 years old, truck driver.
Zhou Peng, male, 26 years old, real estate sales.
Qu Wei, female, 24 years old, public relations personnel.
Gu Xianghai, male, 24 years old, cartoonist.
Zhou Xinyue, female, 21 years old, university student.
As for the one who left, no one bothered to ask about him.
Perhaps he had his own secrets, or perhaps he had extraordinary qualities, it didn't matter. People must be responsible for themselves, and in the Reincarnation world, achieving this first is enough.
"By the way, what were those four-star and eight-star things you mentioned earlier? Are they the Main God's standard for evaluating team strength?"
On the way, Zhou Ming asked this question again.
This time, Kaka certainly wouldn't be like at the beginning, not even giving him a chance to ask. Instead, he patiently answered the question.
"Although I don't know how a mere three novice missions could produce a freak with your strength... it's true that from the fourth mission onwards, Reincarnators truly begin to enter the Main God's evaluation system."
"First, whether it's the plot world, or Reincarnators, including exchanged items, and mission evaluations, all use star ratings as a measure of Rank."
"Each time a Reincarnator completes a mission, the next plot world's difficulty automatically increases by one star. The higher the star Rank, the harder the mission. This accumulates until the Reincarnator's growth pace can no longer keep up with the difficulty increase, and then only death awaits the Reincarnator."
"Therefore, many Reincarnators will feel that missions are getting harder and harder, completing them is becoming more and more strenuous, and the evaluation after mission completion is getting lower and lower."
"And the final evaluation after each mission completion determines your exchange limit in the Main God Space."
"For example, if your mission completion evaluation is five stars, then during this mission interval, you can only exchange for items of five stars and below. Exceeding five stars, you will not have the exchange authority."
"There's such a restriction?" Zhou Ming was a little surprised; he had never discovered this.
On second thought, his first novice mission's evaluation was five stars, but at that time, he had few reward points, so he didn't pay attention to the later things.
For his second and third missions, his evaluations were eight stars and nine stars respectively. Exchangeable items that could reach this evaluation were already quite Advanced.
Although he had a very sufficient amount of reward points at this time, because he was worried that exchanging for too good or Advanced items would form an Immortal Gu when brought to the Gu World, Zhou Ming had not made any higher Rank exchanges.
So, he had never realized that there were actually restrictions on exchanging high-Rank items!
"You don't mean you didn't know about exchange authority, do you?"
Kaka showed an even more astonished expression at Zhou Ming's surprise and couldn't help but ask, "What was your final evaluation for your last mission?"
Zhou Ming smiled without speaking.
"..." Kaka fell silent.
After a while, he spoke again, "If the mission completion evaluation is low, you can't exchange for higher Rank items, your strength increases slower, and it becomes harder to pass the next mission. This is a vicious cycle that eliminates Reincarnators with insufficient Aptitude one by one."
"And for Reincarnators with good Aptitude and rapidly increasing strength, the Main God will not let the plot world become their playground for scoring."
"For each new plot world, in addition to the fixed one-star difficulty increase, there will also be a difficulty bonus based on the Reincarnator's mission settlement from the previous round."
"Generally speaking, the increase in a Reincarnator's strength will not exceed the scope of this one-star difficulty increase, but there are some freaks..."
At this point, Kaka couldn't help but look at Zhou Ming again and said, "Like you, your evaluation from the last mission must have been ridiculously high, which is why you were thrown into a mission world at our level right after leaving the novice period."
"And according to another rule of the Main God Space, Reincarnators on their fourth mission must bring a new batch of newcomers, so these few newcomers were also sent into this world."
"I don't know what terrible things they did in their previous lives to have such bad luck in this life. It's truly a sin."
Zhou Ming shrugged, expressing regret but no responsibility for this.
Then he thought of another question and continued to ask, "How is a team calculated? Each Reincarnator's evaluation isn't the same, right?"
"Ha, that's a very good question." Kaka clapped his hands and laughed, "After joining a team, the difficulty of entering the plot world will be calculated according to the team's star Rank. The Main God has a complete algorithm that evenly calculates each Reincarnator in the team."
"Let's take you as an example again. I can tell that your teammate is much weaker than you. If you didn't have a team and participated in the fourth mission alone, the mission difficulty you would experience would only be higher than it is now."
"In that case, couldn't one constantly add newcomers, then let them die, and control the difficulty increase in this way?"
Zhou Ming asked with a frown.
"No, that won't work." Kaka laughed, "The Main God's algorithm is very comprehensive. All the loopholes you can think of have been tried by Reincarnators."
"Ultimately, the Main God is not an unchanging program, but a great existence with all power concentrated in itself, and we are His subjects, His Families, His loyal servants and warriors.