Yuntan Mountain floats above the white clouds, and the mountain becomes wider and wider the higher it goes. Wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, it looks like a huge spinning top suspended in the air from a distance.

The whole mountain is shrouded in mist and surrounded by verdant. The pine and cypress reflect each other, and the birds and apes play each other, which is very much like the place where the gods live.

On the edge of a lake at the top of the hill, a splendid building stands proudly. I don't know how many floors there are in that building, and the golden light emitted by it penetrates hundreds of millions of miles away.

On the steps at the foot of the mountain, Pei Yulong was slowly climbing up. The steps were very steep, and he used his hands and feet to keep himself from falling.

Every time I want to see Mr. Co, I have to go through this hard crawl.

But Pei Yulong did not complain.

In his eyes, Mr. Koh is God.

I finally got to the top of the hill near the building. The bluestone chair appeared in front of me again. Pei Yulong climbed onto the chair with a roll.

As usual, as soon as he sat down in his chair, Mr. Coe's voice rang to his ears.

"Pei Yulong, you did a good job this time, connecting the signals of fifty-six people to our system. The current situation is that most of the signals are normal, but three signals show a loss of energy.

This weakening may be caused by the person's physical inability to adapt after being connected to the system, or it may be caused by the intervention of external forces. If it's the result of an external force's intervention, it means that someone is aware of your actions and has taken countermeasures. You have to be careful. ”

"If the government security department was aware of it, I would probably be in a big trouble. What should I do if I am trapped and can't leave?" Pei Yulong asked a little worriedly.

Mr. Ke's tone was still calm, "If you can't escape, you can connect to the virtual system and let the spirit return to Yuntan Mountain and give up your current physical body." After the spirit stays in this realm to cultivate, and grows to the right level, I will find a new body for you to be reborn. ”

Pei Yulong hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "Mr. Ke, this method of rebirth is not risky, right?"

"There is no risk. Mr. Coe replied, "Actually, in my opinion, the physical body is of no use at all. But your current ability to understand things is still very limited, and a more thorough method of liberation is not suitable for you. Only the method of physical regeneration is the most comforting for you and is in line with your ability to understand. “

When Pei Yulong wanted to ask again, Mr. Ke interrupted him. "Alright, now it's time for you to go. Among the fifty-six people's signals, a few more energy has weakened, and now it is almost certain that it is the intervention of an outside force, and you need to deal with your troubles. “

As Mr. Ke's voice fell, there was a "boom", and the white light flashed in front of him, and Pei Yulong instantly returned to a villa in the green villa.

He slowly took off the virtual helmet on his head, lit a cigarette, leaned back on the sofa, closed his eyes and meditated.

More than twenty years ago, he was just an ordinary miner. I have to work in a crazy well hundreds of meters deep for more than ten hours every day, and I am tired and stinky, and the money is not enough to spend.

After being exposed to a game called "Rising Star", he immediately fell in love with the game.

It's so cool, you want anything, money, beauty, success, the right to live in someone else's destiny, you can achieve it in the game. It's a game that can make you completely forget about the real world.

No matter how cruel the reality is, at least for those few hours in the game, life is good.

The young miner, who spent all his savings on this game, went from playing for half an hour or an hour a day to gradually becoming addicted to playing six or seven hours a day. When you're not working underground, you're always in the game world.

With so little sleep, his energy was getting worse and worse, his body was in trouble, he was sick, and he could no longer bear the intensity of underground labor.

He lost his job as a miner. Because I read too few books, I can't do anything else.

There is no love in life.

Reality would be as good as that game.

With the last sum of money and a bottle of sleeping pills, Pei Yulong came to the game hall again and ordered twelve hours of game time.

He decided to happily die in the game and never wake up again.

In that day's game, he experienced the joy of life to the fullest.

At the end of the game, he has become the richest man in the world and jumps from the top of the 360-story skyscraper he owns.

Then, "Yuntan Mountain" appeared in front of his eyes.

When he found the bluestone chair and sat down curiously, Mr. Ke's voice came to his ears.

Mr. Koh asked him only one question, "I can make the qiē you wish for a real reality on the condition that you give me your soul from now on." Are you going to do this deal?"

Pei Yulong agreed without hesitation.

Mr. Ke did not break his promise, and over the years, Pei Yulong almost got his dream, quickly climbed from a low-level worker to a mining tycoon, and was still secretly operating a huge underground cultural relics trade.

When he walked out of the arcade that day, he only had more than a hundred dollars on him.

Mr. Ke instructed him, starting with a hundred yuan, investing and accumulating little by little, until the current billions. Stocks, lottery tickets, real estate, minerals, gold, never a single miss.

Mr. Ke is a god, Pei Yulong has always felt so.

But why does this god only appear in the game? And why can it be extended from the game to affect reality? Pei Yulong tentatively asked Mr. Ke's origin, but he didn't understand Mr. Ke's answer. Mr. Coe put it this way, "Rising Stars is not just a game, it's a world. The world is made up of artificial intelligence programs and human consciousness. The original designers designed this game to control human consciousness. But he didn't expect that human consciousness and intelligent programs are evolving rapidly in this game system. Finally, some procedures and consciousness are independent of the designer's control.

I am an independent member. Yuntan Mountain is an independent space in the system.

From my point of view, your world is a virtual game world.

You think I'm God, basically, yes. “

Pei Yulong didn't understand the previous part. But remember the last sentence. For so many years, he has been unswervingly following Mr. Ke and faithfully carrying out various instructions. I have also encountered various risks, but they have all escaped.

I guess it's okay this time today, right?

Pei Yulong was still pondering. At this moment, there was a sharp knock at the door.

It was Akai who came in, "Brother Pei, the situation is not right, on the highway closest to us, half an hour ago, the traffic suddenly began to become very small, and now there are no cars at all." The public explanation on the radio was that the road was damaged and the temporary traffic control was directed, and I think it may be coming at us. “

Pei Yulong nodded calmly: "It's coming for us." Sue everyone, copy the guy and prepare. “