I haven't seen him for a few months, and when I walked into the space station Internet café again, Liu Shumeng said that I almost couldn't recognize it, and the decoration of the Internet café, which was already very sci-fi, seemed to have been remade, and being in it at the moment was like walking the kind of space station in science fiction movies and games.

Well, space stations in sci-fi movies are generally equipped with artificial gravity as standard by default, just like now, you can stand on the floor and walk. In reality, there is no space station, there are floating pens, gloves and so on.

Thinking of the floating pen, Liu Shumeng couldn't help but think of a paragraph about a space pen he saw on the Internet before.

It is said that the NASA spent millions of dollars to recruit astronauts for space pens, this kind of pen barrel pressurized space pen can ensure that the space pen can still write smoothly in the weightless environment of space, but the Soviets used cheap pencils to achieve the same purpose.

He was touched by this paragraph, and also agreed with the accompanying comment that "developing new products for new uses is innovation, but developing new uses for old products is also innovation", and then copied and pasted it into his various chat groups. As a result, he received a reply within a few seconds: "Boy, have you forgotten the graphite bombs that NATO used to bomb the power plant of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia?"

After some back and forth, Liu Shumeng could only silently cry and say that he was sorry for the middle school physics teacher. Fountain pens, ballpoint pens, gel pens cannot be used in weightlessness in space, while pencils, crayons, and watercolor pens can be used normally, but this does not mean that pencils can be used inside the space station.

Anyone who knows a little bit will know that the main components of the pencil lead without lead are graphite and clay, which is called pencil and seems to be because the writing principle exhausts the soft lead strip. The more graphite content there is, the softer and blacker the lead core is, for example, the 2B pencil they use to paint the answer sheet of the fourth and sixth grades of the high school entrance examination is softer than the ordinary HB pencil, and the handwriting should also be black.

No matter what kind of pencil it is, some powder will be scattered when writing, which contains more or less graphite to make it able to conduct electricity, on the earth these powder particles are large and cannot fly without harm, but in the weightless environment of space they will become floating dust, and eventually it is likely to be adsorbed by the static electricity emitted by electronic components, which may cause short circuits in components and damage equipment.

Therefore, the so-called statement that the Soviets carried pencils into space is purely a matter of course taken for granted by some ignorant scholars. After being deceived by the other party's clear content, Liu Shumeng did not gain nothing, at least he deepened his impression of the pencil again, and therefore became interested in searching for the composition of the dust, knowing that most of it was the epidermal cells that had fallen off his body......

The reason why Liu Shumeng has the feeling of walking into the sci-fi space station is mainly because the layout of the Internet café has changed dramatically, and the space station company has transformed part of the Internet café into an exclusive experience Internet café for dreamwalker virtual reality equipment, and the one he walked in is this kind of VR Internet café.

The common computer desks, computer chairs, small sofas, monitors, keyboards, mice, and headsets that are common in Internet cafes have disappeared, and all that appears in his eyes are rows of curved floor-to-ceiling glass walls more than two meters wide, and there are sci-fi-style fonts and instructions on the glass walls, and the walls between the glass windows are also painted with the shapes of sci-fi astronauts wearing helmets, which look like small cabins in the space station from a distance.

Although the spacesuit in the sci-fi film has the same function as the real prototype, or even more powerful, the thickness will be significantly reduced, similar to the astronauts and astronauts in film and television dramas and games, wearing spacesuits will not feel bloated and bulky at all.

"These are VR-specific boxes," Atletico explained to his roommate, who was right next to him, "and there are several models depending on whether the equipment is an omnidirectional treadmill, an electric skateboard, a car simulator, an airplane simulator or a sofa." ”

Liu Shumeng looked at the nearest glass window, which was lit with a soft white light, and a short-haired boy with a dreamwalker blindfold on his head was standing on top of an object similar to a skateboard, with seat belts fastened in several places around his waist and crotch, and a protective ring similar to an omnidirectional treadmill on the periphery.

"What is that Edgeworth skateboard?" he asked.

Atletico glanced at it and nodded, "Because there was an incident where someone threw the plastic hilt of the sword and the butt of the plastic gun on his body to smash people, we made this kind of small box in a single room and isolated them." As we support more and more games, we have also introduced this electric simulator with an electro-hydraulic lever that can be adjusted synchronously according to the player's character's posture in the game, making the player get a more immersive experience, of course, the difficult action of somersaults cannot be simulated. This skateboard is designed to simulate skateboarding, surfboarding, and edgeworth, and the player stands on top of a tablet and looks down to see something different under their feet, depending on what is allowed in the game. ”

Liu Shumeng looked at the small box with interest and found that the layout was not complicated, an electric skateboard occupied more than one-third of the area, a computer screen hung on the wall, and there were cabinets and two high chairs on the other side.

Turning to look across the box, he saw a round steering wheel, thinking that it was a car simulator inside. This car simulator also has a lot of electro-hydraulic levers around the seats, and you can see the eye-catching red seat belts on the seats, so you think it would be nice to sit there and play a rally simulation game like Dirt.

Of course, there are still two kinds of boxes with omnidirectional treadmills and sofas, after all, the former has the best applicability, and the latter can sit on the seat belt and wear the most relaxed and comfortable. Correspondingly, car and plane simulators that need to tie people to chairs with six-point harnesses are the least numerous here, and even the two add up to one row.

At this moment, there are two lights on the outside of all omnidirectional treadmill boxes, one blue and one green, and the blue light means that someone is using it inside, and the green light means that everything is normal.

Inside, players are punching and kicking the air as if no one is around, or wielding the butts of plastic swords, and they are engaged in a pinnacle duel that takes place in the virtual world.

Today is the last day of the National Day Golden Week, and they are conducting the monthly competition of bees in September.

Sky Fight is a virtual fighting game esports event organized by Bee Games, which uses a ladder point system and a season system learned from other competitive sports. After a period of time, the points will be able to better describe the specific strength of the player, and according to the ranking of the points, the players will be divided into five ranks: black iron, bronze, silver, gold, and diamond.

Every month, Bee Games will hold a monthly tournament in the Space Station Internet Café and other partner Internet Cafes for Gold and Diamond Tier players, and will offer amazing rewards.

Boss Ma came today to give monthly rewards to the monthly champion and the top ten, and if the top ten appeared in this Internet café, the award will be presented on the spot. Otherwise, the award will only be presented via video link. Fortunately, now that video conferencing technology is very mature, even retired mothers will pop up video chat windows for their children who are going to school or working far away!

As for Liu Shumeng, he had nothing to do in the dormitory today, so he came over to join in the fun, and by the way, he hoped to improve his pitiful points.

The feature of the ladder is that all players are randomly matched with opponents, and the system tries to match players with similar points and win rates, and strives to achieve an expected win rate of 50% for both sides. Before the start of each battle, the system will give a predicted win rate according to the strength points and breakdown win rate data of both sides, and the player who predicts the actual victory will receive additional points reward, and the player who predicts the actual victory will have additional points deducted, so that the strength points displayed in the player's account can match the real strength as much as possible as soon as possible.

Although there are already CS, Warcraft 3, and interstellar e-sports projects, and some people claim to promote e-sports into the Olympic Games, in fact, in the eyes of big people including the Sports Bureau and the Radio and Television Bureau, these so-called e-sports are just a group of young people who have nothing to do to compete and play games, and the video game halls that were banned back then are actually no different. If it weren't for the telecom department cover, maybe the so-called e-sports would have been banned a long time ago, and the "players" would have been pulled to Professor Yang.

For the unpopularity of e-sports, Atletico Madrid has a clear understanding, sweating more and the user experience is closer to traditional sports, but the bees are not rushing to play the banner of a new generation of e-sports, but to carry it out as an entertainment mass cultural activity. It's not hard to explain why they come up with the so-called "big prizes", "big prizes", and "big prizes" that are full of headline party and pants so (spoof) elements.

The grand prize is indeed "huge", a trailer-style RV that is very popular in the United States.

The heavy reward is indeed very "heavy", a hundred pounds of fat pigs, and heavier black and white cows.

As for the main event, the tens of billions of denominations produced by the Republic of Zimbabwe are indeed big enough cards.

The central bank of Zimbabwe never expected that it was the printing cost of paper money that finally supported the exchange rate of the Zimbabwean yuan. After the value of the currency fell into the pit, there was a phenomenon in the world that the small and medium-sized denominations were more valuable than the large denominations, of course, this value can only be compared with the underworld bank, the "heaven and earth bank" issued by the underworld, and even compared with the counterfeit money.

No matter how valuable the Jinyuan is, it is also made of banknote printing paper imported from Germany, which is made by regular money-printing equipment and technology, and is naturally more valuable than the dark coins printed at will by ordinary printing houses.

On a whim, Atletico Madrid prepared the world's largest denomination of Jinyuan as a reward for Chaotian Fighting, but unexpectedly received a warm response from players and media, and Bee Chaotian Fighting has gained much more attention and discussion on the Internet than the Olympic martial arts competition. Of course, it can only be compared with the embarrassing status of "Olympic martial arts", and it cannot be compared with the popular events of hurdles, shooting, diving, badminton and so on.

Coupled with the impact of Zimbabwe's statement that it would return the gold standard or abandon the Zimbabwean dollar, Atletico Madrid simply contacted the supplier to wholesale a larger amount of Zimbabwean dollars as stock, ready to be used for various daily rewards in the future.

Of course, as a profiteer with a very conscientious drinking discipline, in addition to the basically worthless Jin Yuan, he still prepared some more valuable prizes, although these prizes are still very painful.

Pointing to the image of the cow on the big screen in the audience area, Atletico said to the player who won the monthly championship on the screen: "Congratulations to Pan Pan for winning the championship of the moon in September, he will receive a robust lactating cow exclusive to the champion of the month, as well as a trillion-dollar suit." Congratulations to him!"

As his voice fell, a cow on the left side of the screen stepped out of the line and walked to the moon champion Pan Pan on the right side of the screen, the boy was still a little stunned, but the cow who walked to him stretched out his tongue and licked his face from bottom to top.

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On the way back, Liu Shumeng couldn't help but ask, "Boss Ma, did you really award a cow to the monthly champion?"

"Of course! Be honest. ”

Atletico Madrid turned the steering wheel with ease, and said: "Although for health and safety reasons, the pigs and cows in the physical prizes have not been sent to the local sub-venues, and we will deliver them to your door for free soon." ”

"You send a live pig to someone's house, if the player's family has a yard in the countryside, it's okay to say, find someone to help, and kill the pig, but what if the family doesn't have a yard or simply lives upstairs?"

"Dear, you'll know when you climb above the silver rank. Our prize distribution is flexible, allowing players to choose whether to send live or locally available fresh meat vouchers, or let us mail processed cooked meat. ”

In addition to the monthly rewards of the Cow and Pig, players will also receive similar physical rewards when they first obtain a rank evaluation above Silver, Silver is a rabbit, Gold is an ostrich, and Diamond is the legendary mythical beast Grass Mud Horse Alpaca.

"Hey, this rank is not easy to climb!" Liu Shumeng sighed, "I played seven today, the front won two and lost one, and then I simply knelt three times in a row, and I directly withdrew from the qualifying round." How did all those Gold Rank players get there? By the way, it can't be your staff and closed beta players, right?"

He's still in the bronze rank, and his points are like hitting the ceiling, and he basically doesn't go up. Even if you are in good shape occasionally, the score jumps up and down again after a few days.

"How is this possible? The staff is forbidden to participate in the open beta version and grab meat from players. ”

"Grab the meat to eat, hey, it's really meat to eat!" Liu Shumeng chuckled: "By the way, if a player gets those animal rewards, shouldn't they have to pay for the shipping costs?"

"Free shipping in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai?"

"No, the land in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai is too expensive, we haven't bought a farm over there, and the free shipping range is a hundred kilometers around the farm. In other areas, shipping costs will be added, and the shipping costs for live animals are very high. ”

"I don't understand the two of you, why do you want to go to raise pigs and cattle?"

"There's no place to spend money!"

"Huh!" Liu Shumeng was suddenly sunk, and he didn't know how to answer.

With the departure of foreign friends after the Olympic Games, melamine appeared more and more frequently in various media, making the connection between domestic dairy products and melamine, which was completely punctured because of the 3 deer leaks, gradually become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Even if the national inspection-free signboard is still the same, even if the local quality inspection departments have been claiming that there is no melamine in the local market, it is obvious that market confidence has been greatly hit, and the sales of domestic dairy products have gradually declined. The sluggish sales led to a further decline in the purchase price of fresh milk at the milk station, and some incidents of dumping milk and selling cows or even killing cattle began to appear in various places.

This is a typical farce and tragedy of "a rat feces spoils a can of milk", and the evil deeds of some dairy farmers, milk sellers, and dairy companies have collapsed the market and affected other peers.

However, these reports of pouring milk and killing cows have not played a positive role at all, except for causing netizens to recall the description of the economic crisis in the United States in the thirties in middle school history textbooks.

Well, it seems that there is a new round of economic crisis now, according to the media, the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States officially turned into a global financial crisis in September this year.

With the melamine panic, some strange phenomena such as "online sales of excess breast milk" and "self-raised dairy sheep in residential communities" slowly appeared, and the little rich woman Tang Jiayi saw the opportunity and decided to invest in the market to build a smart farm.

In fact, the so-called cattle killing generally starts the elimination of old cattle in advance, and the healthy cattle of real young adults will still be sold, after all, they are important assets worth tens of thousands. Many people bought cows, and then bought a bunch of piglets at a high price to start raising pigs, and recently the price of pork has risen very crazy, and it has doubled and is still going up.

However, discerning people know that the high price of pork now is the result of the low price of pork last year and last year, and the price of pork is so high this year that there are more people who buy piglets, and the price of pork will definitely fall next year.

The principle of buying low and selling high is very correct most of the time, so Tang Jiayi and their Jiajing Modern Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company, which was established by Jiajing Company, did not make any decisions about pigs at all, and aimed directly at dairy cows. Fujian Province is mountainous, high-altitude mountainous areas are suitable for planting alfalfa milk vetch and other pastures, and the cool climate of the mountains is also suitable for the growth of black and white cows with Dutch ancestry, so this summer they did not go to see the Olympics, but they went into the mountains and climbed a bunch of large and small mountains.

"Actually, Jiajia plans to do some professional things, although she is not studying agriculture and animal husbandry and food engineering, but running an agricultural and animal husbandry company is also a biological industry after all. ”

"By the way, third brother, we are also juniors, do you have any career plans for the future?"

"Me?" Liu Shumeng pointed his index finger at himself and asked himself, and replied by himself: "I haven't thought about this yet, maybe I'll go to graduate school, right?"

"Do scientific research in the field of computer science...... Our school is not the National Defense University of the University of Science and Technology, and there are many fewer relevant national projects. There is no state funding, and Mao's scientific research is carried out?"

"Isn't there still a technology company like you? Companies plus universities, companies pay for patents, and universities publish articles, which is the normal state of scientific research in the world. ”

"But it's not the norm at home. Most of the company's projects are actually more application-oriented, and no matter how much you do, you can't publish a few papers. For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net