Vol. 1 - Ch. 3 - Point Consumption

March and April are not the best seasons for buying cars, so even with the help of the big data app, Li Han could only close one deal today.After dinner at home, Li Han grabbed his phone and checked the items he could consume in the Big Data app.

Currently, he had 1700 DP points, and with a few clicks, many short-term financial products appeared, requiring only a few dozen to a hundred DP points.

But now Li Han had a big problem: he had no capital.

After four years, he had barely saved a hundred thousand in savings. But he would regret it if he lost his money in investing, especially given that his principal is not much and the benefits are not high.

It is also for this reason that projects like the first prize of the lottery, which did not rely much on capital, required five thousand DP points.

Although he couldn't afford to calculate for the first prize, the second prize was not a problem. It only needed to consume one thousand DP points.

But in case, Li Han first checked other items he could afford.

Then he found two special consumption items.

The first one is "Danger Anticipation," which automatically consumes DP points to provide prompts when encountering danger.

For example, it can calculate the route of a truck coming from the front and colliding with you or predicting the trajectory of a knife wielded by a troublemaker. Although "Danger Anticipation" automatically consumes DP, its consumption is very low, only deducting one DP point each time.

Li Han did not hesitate to activate this feature. Just one DP could save his life; it was too cost-effective.

The second item on the list was "Love Calculation", and for some reason, the "ideal love interest" only costs 100 DP.

According to the rule that the higher the difficulty of calculation, the higher the consumption, it is evident that it is too easy to calculate the girl who is ideal for him as his wife.

Even Li Han could not resist such temptation and wanted to see who the best woman for him to marry is. After hesitating for a long time, he clicked on this item and said, "Come on, let me see who my future wife is!"

"According to the user's browsing history, X-rated media download history, personal values, and personality analysis..." the app's female voice muttered.

"Damn!" Even though he knew it was an app, Li Han's face still turned red. "I'll delete the download history later!"(T/N: ...eyyo?)

Then a girl's photo appeared in Li Han's sight.

Looking at the girl in the photo, Li Han also knew why the big data points consumed by this project were so few: he knew this girl. S~ᴇaʀᴄh the NovᴇlFɪre .ɴᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of nøvels early and in the highest quality.

"This is...Wang Man?!" Li Han exclaimed in surprise. "That's impossible! You must be mistaken. It can't be her!"

Wang Man was the class flower in his junior high school, but Li Han didn't like her at all, not even a bit. During their three years in junior high school, they barely spoke to each other.

On one hand, because of her aggressive and tomboyish personality, she often fought with boys when she got angry...

But the main reason was because of her self-abandonment.

When she first entered junior high school, Wang Man actually had good grades and ranked in the top five in the class, which was even better than Li Han at the time.

But, by the third year of junior high school, she entered a rebellious phase. She started challenging teachers, fighting with students from other schools, frequently skipped classes, hung out with some seemingly shady adults, and her grades also plummeted.

After the final exam for junior high, she went to a mediocre secondary school and disappeared from sight.

All these years, she hadn't attended class reunions or even said a single word in their class chat group, and only existed in everyone's memories.

Li Han and Wang Man didn't have much contact back then, and they had not been in contact for ten years after graduation.

For two people like this, their relationship, at best, was "former classmates."

But why did the big data app push Wang Man to him based on his personal preferences and tell him she was the most suitable person to be his wife?

Is it because it consumed too few data points and thus had low service standards?

"Something must be wrong." Li Han frowned and muttered. "Or is it based on aesthetic standards to make a judgment?"

Admittedly, Wang Man was indeed very beautiful back then. Not only in their class but also in the entire school, she was the most beautiful girl. But Li Han refused to let appearance dictate his values.

"Are there any upgraded love recommendations? One that costs tens of thousands of data points?" Li Han said disdainfully. 

The app replied in his mind, "There is only one "most ideal" love recommendation, but we can recommend the second and third "ideal" candidates based on big data. Would you like to consume more data points to list more candidates further down the list?"

"So, according to the big data, she is the best girl for me?!" Li Han asked in amazement. He then covered his forehead and sighed. "Ah, I'm so foolish. What does big data know about love? I'd better trust my own feelings."

With that in mind, Li Han decided to spend 1,000 DP and choose "Lottery Second Prize Calculation."

"Based on the materials, weight, volume and surface friction of the lottery balls, as well as the temperature, humidity, air pressure and quality of the lottery machine on-site..." the big data app chatted in his mind.

Then a long series of numbers appeared in Li Han's field of vision. He counted them and found that there were twenty-three groups of numbers, and the probability of winning for each set was also listed, adding up to an accuracy rate of only seventy-three percent.

In other words, it was possible that the winning numbers may not even be among these twenty-three groups of numbers.

"What? Isn't it supposed to give me a 100% accurate winning number?" Li Han felt a sinking feeling in his heart.

But then he realized that big data could only calculate based on existing data and couldn't really predict the future. How could it give him the exact winning number?

But, at this moment, Li Han had a bright idea: Second prize requires one to correctly guess all six red balls, and the first prize is to correctly guess all six red balls and one blue ball. The correct numbers of the six red balls might be among these twenty-three combinations.

In other words, if he could just use these twenty-three combinations and match them with sixteen blue ball combinations, he could win the first prize!

But after some thought, Li Han dismissed the idea.

On one hand, even if he bought all these combinations, there was no guarantee he might win 100%. But more importantly...it lacked a sense of accomplishment if he relied on the lottery to earn money despite having the big data app as a goldfinger.

So, he decided to buy twenty tickets for each of these twenty-three combinations and leave the rest to fate.

Even if he didn't win anything, he would only lose about nine hundred yuan.