Chapter 2740: Romantic Sightseeing Tour

No matter the original intention, Zone 022 is very welcoming to foreign players. As soon as they step out of the station, people start promoting maps and travel guides to them. When they bought the first map, Xu Huo and his group triggered the instance notification:

[Players have entered the "Romantic Sightseeing Tour" instance area, default participation in this Rank-B Copy.]

[Background Introduction: Known as the most romantic country, Ivan Country is beautiful and livable, the ideal residence desired by residents of the entire zone and even the entire Wormhole Points. The country boasts nearly 50,000 Rank-A attractions and close to 100,000 Rank-B attractions, making tourist routes complex and varied. Whether it’s cultural history or natural scenery, any route can satisfy tourists’ desire for exploration and leisure.]

[Instance Task: Select any route to complete the attraction check-in.]

[Instance Time: Unlimited.]

[Note: Each tourist route can accommodate a limited number of tourists, please players promptly select a route map.]

After reading the instance introduction, Levi said, "This really is a suitable zone for retirement."

There are so many tourist routes, every player may take a different one. Ivan Country is a tourism nation, unless the country collapses, the likelihood of the instance crashing is very low.

"Not necessarily." Zhou Juanjuan lowered her voice and said, "You all saw it, the people of the zone look at us foreign players as entertainment. If the entertainment isn’t appealing, what will they do?"

An instance born from a tourism country, to destroy or adjust the instance, it will definitely leave traces. How could it possibly allow entering players to mess up?

"Maybe that’s part of the entertainment too." Zhan Erliu stretched lazily, "Don’t think too much, let’s go buy the route map, there’s a tourist station ahead."

The group moved towards the tourist station.

The so-called tourist station is a terminal point specifically providing route consultation for tourists. Here, players can choose their preferred routes electronically, input them into their personal terminal or make a booklet.

When Xu Huo and the others went over, there were players coming out, holding more than one travel brochure in hand.

With a rough glance, at least twenty or more tourist attractions can be seen on it.

"Design a few more routes." Zhou Juanjuan suggested, "Choose again when the time comes."

The group entered the station, combining information from Beneath the Dimension and the local Collection of Information Terminal, each selected a few routes, but ultimately can only choose one.

The token triggered by each tourist spot may be the same, may be different, only upon arriving can one determine the difficulty of acquiring the token, but tokens are generally locally sourced, some can judge the scope in advance.

However, there are just too many tourist spots. Apart from a few appearing frequently in different tourist route maps, other information is fragmented, making it hard to extract useful data. In other words, each place has visitors, but the information lacks representativeness, and it’s difficult to distinguish true from false.

"Will frequently visited places be harder to refresh tokens because of the crowd?" Levi said, "If there are many visitors, and the refreshed token is the same, wouldn’t there be competition?"

This possibility cannot be ruled out; one purpose of those fixed locations is probably this.

"Choosing lesser-populated places also carries risk." Zhan Erliu said, "If few people go, less information is known, which could open a checkpoint requiring a token that’s difficult to obtain."

"With over ten thousand locations, the number of people should not be an issue." Xu Huo’s selected routes were based on popular guides from Zone 022. There are complete sightseeing routes, along which aircraft are available for easy travel.

"Won’t this be too popular?" Zhou Juanjuan said, "Zone 022 is concerned with Outer Zone players clearing the instance, popular locations might increase in difficulty because of higher attention."

"Lesser-populated place doesn’t necessarily mean lower difficulty." Xu Huo said, "In exposed places, the likelihood of others tampering with them is reduced."

Looking at it from another angle, these tourist spots have competitive relations, the more visitors, the more attention they garner, making the spot more popular. If the attention from Zone 022 residents is one of the variables, then to attract more people, someone will certainly try ways to increase the spectacle, needless to say what the spectacle is.

"What you say makes sense too." Levi said, staring at his chosen route map with some difficulty, "Should we first visit a few places to assess the situation before deciding?"

"No need to waste time," Xu Huo said, "Beneath the Dimension has many strategies already, each person’s encounters are different, while fixed locations and fixed patterns, no matter how much they’re explored, hold no real meaning."

"Which route map should we choose then?" Zhan Erliu asked.

"We can’t share the same route map." Xu Huo stated in advance.

Zhou Juanjuan was slightly surprised, "Didn’t we agree to form a team?"

"That’s not the point, we can still move together, choosing the same route map is okay, but can’t form a team." Xu Huo explained, "The locations involved in this instance are really extensive, it’s hard to predict what changes may occur, the chance of getting scattered is high. After forming a team, if someone falls behind, it will slow everyone down, and there’s a risk in the final instance clearance settlement."

"So it’s best for each to hold a route map."

If a group forms a team and upon clearing the instance someone doesn’t cooperate, team rewards can hold people back, there’s no need to dig a hole for yourself in such a wide dungeon venue, after all, every place needs to be visited once.

Zhou Juanjuan saw that he didn’t want to form a team, contemplated momentarily and said, "If that’s the case, we need not choose entirely overlapping routes, in case the token at a spot is just one..."

She didn’t finish her sentence but instead chose a route not too popular, "Mine overlaps with your route map in many places, we can assist each other when we meet."

Xu Huo opted for a popular route.

After slight hesitation, Levi chose almost entirely overlapping route map with Zhou Juanjuan. Zhan Erliu clicked around on everyone’s booklet and eventually picked the same route as Xu Huo.

Zhou Juanjuan gave him an unexpected look.

After selecting the route map, the next step was to enter the route map into the instance.

The routes open to tourists in Zone 022 can be randomly combined, whether from north to south, or all in one city, but players’ strategies have already mentioned that major popular spots have to take a few. If not chosen, once entered into the instance, it will automatically adjust new routes. It’s best to pre-choose a relatively reasonable one to avoid the situation where post-instance adjustment results in crossing half a country between two locations.

Once Xu Huo and the others entered their route maps, the instance quickly gave feedback.

Two locations in Xu Huo’s route map were adjusted, two locations removed, everything else stayed the same.

For Zhou Juanjuan and Levi, at least one-third of theirs changed, those less popular places specifically chosen were swapped to fairly unpopular ones, and a few locations were added.