In this world, apart from the almost puppet government, the five major companies control almost all industries, namely Yuan Energy, Xuanniao Technology, Tenglong Machinery, Bai Ze Group and Taotie Group.
Yuan Energy Company monopolizes almost 70% of the world's minerals and owns a large amount of assets. Recently, it has begun to turn to the field of life research and development, and has launched many drugs including X-drugs that can enhance human potential, which can be said to be unparalleled.
Xuanniao Technology specializes in the field of intelligence. Most of the virtual games on the market are produced and developed by its subsidiaries, and even the games on Prisoner Island are sponsored by the company.
Tenglong Machinery is the king of mechanical prostheses. On the surface, they are only engaged in the sale of daily machinery, but in fact, they secretly trade a large number of weapons and equipment with the government. It is the company with the closest relationship with the government among the five major companies.
Bai Ze Group is mainly responsible for the delivery of talents. Basically, there are employees from this company in all walks of life. These employees are versatile, not inferior to robots, and have added flexibility, which also leads to a good relationship between the company and the other four major companies.
Finally, there is the Taotie Group. As the name suggests, it is a company that studies nutritional supplements and other energy supplements for the body. The nutritional supplements on the market are all produced by this company, which also makes it one of the top companies.
Among them, Yuan Energy Company has always been the top of the five major companies with its huge financial resources and high-end technology.
Moreover, it has a good relationship with Xuanniao Technology Company. The leaders often visit each other, and its products occasionally develop joint models, which seems to exclude the other three companies.
However, the families holding shares behind these companies have never appeared in public, and even no one knows who is in the family.
It seems that their lives are completely isolated from other citizens, as if they live in another dimension.
The government is a system completely independent of the five major companies. The fields using intelligent robots, including the AI court that maintains order and law, have not been intervened by the five major companies, but have their own set of core programs.
Prisoner Island is a game developed by the government. It is said that its highest program is a branch of the government's central brain, and the source of its huge database is unknown even to Xuanniao Company.
These things are well known among citizens above D level, and no one thinks there is anything wrong with this situation.
After all, this institutional structure has lasted for nearly three hundred years. Whether it is the uneven distribution of resources caused by the monopoly of the market by the five major companies, or how strange the citizen levels are based on their origins, for them, all of this is as natural as breathing.
Payne has naturally accepted this concept since he was a child, and he has accepted from the bottom of his heart that the families behind the five major companies are different from them.
That's why it is even more difficult to accept that a natural noble like Xie Qi would fall to this place.
Hearing Payne's question, Noah was silent for a while, and for the first time he focused his eyes on him.
Noah knew that his style of doing things was inhumane in the eyes of many people. Every time the other three prison wardens saw him, they just greeted him in a stereotyped way. Only this gray-haired young man with a missing brain seemed to be unable to see his expression and always liked to get close to him.
"I'm not planning anything, I'm just doing this for your own good. You'd better forget about this new guy. Don't mention it to anyone after you leave this door."
"There's something wrong with what you said. Why should I forget? He must have something... Noah..."
"What's wrong with you?"
Noah's eyebrows never relaxed when he faced Payne.
Following his line of sight, he found that the "leaving the copy" displayed at the bottom of Xie Qi's panel just now changed to "selecting a copy."
"?"
Noah's face was rarely covered with question marks, and his expression looked no different from Payne's.
"Arnold, you said this person, isn't he... sent here because he's crazy?"
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While Noah and Payne were talking about Xie Qi, he was still in the system space.
Shortly after receiving the Kezhi potion, the points and item card rewards from the previous copy were also sent over.
These two things can be received in the space. Xie Qi looked at the item card curiously and sighed that his luck was not that bad.
[Name: Upgrade Card]
[Attribute: Disposable Consumable]
[Function: Can upgrade skills of level E or below or ordinary items of level E or below (the effect depends on the specific user)]
[Level: Level E]
This is a card that can upgrade the skills and items that the prisoner has. Although the level is relatively low, it is enough for Xie Qi. After all, he does not have any skills or items above level E.
Now he only has an excellentLevel weapon and two E-level skills.
Because the weapon upgrade card level is not high enough, Xie Qi plans to use this upgrade card on the skill.
He first tried [I am invincible when I go crazy], but as soon as he selected it, the system prompted that it could not be used.
He looked at the small words below, which said that the level of this skill was reduced due to damage and could not be repaired with an upgrade card.
There was no other way, so he could only use it on another one.
After clicking to use, the skill page also changed.
[Skill name: Guess who I am]
[Attribute: Active skill]
[Consumption: 5% SAN value]
[Effect: You can possess the holder through the playing card and control the holder's actions during the process. A successful one consumes 5% SAN value, and the current copy cannot be restored. 】
【Additional effect: Different suits of playing cards can control different parts of the holder, and the numbers represent the duration. The specific values are as follows:
Hearts - can control the holder's thoughts (duration depends on the size of the number)
Diamonds - can control the holder's voice (duration depends on the size of the number)
Spades - can control the holder's hands (duration depends on the size of the number)
Clubs - can control the holder's legs (duration depends on the size of the number)
Little King - can communicate with the holder, cannot be controlled (duration is inversely proportional to the holder's mental strength)
Big King - complete control (duration is inversely proportional to the holder's mental strength)
Numbers A-10: represent 11-20 seconds
Letters J, Q, K: represent 21-23 seconds
PS:
1. The control time is based on the number of points thrown by the dice;
2. Only possession does not consume time, just hold the playing cards]
【Note: The ghost mixed in the crowd, is it an excellent assassin or a crazy troublemaker? 】
【Overall evaluation: E-level → E+-level】
Xie Qi took a quick look and found that the most important SAN consumption was halved, which doubled the number of times he could use it in a dungeon.
The control time represented by the numbers A-K also changed from 1-13 to 11-23.
The final overall evaluation was still E-level, just a little short of being upgraded to D-level, or because the upgrade card itself was an E-level card, and probably one more card was needed to upgrade this skill to D-level.
He touched his chin and was quite satisfied with the change in this skill, then took a look at his SAN value that had recovered to 45%, and said to himself:
"This value is not too low, right?"
As he said that, he smiled and pressed the button that said start dungeon without any hesitation.
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