After selecting the game, the animation of the entire game visually appears as a swirl-like effect, which can be changed to a gate, a cave, or a nebula or something like that, depending on the translucent hint in an inconspicuous area.

Wu Qing ignored these, he turned his head, looked at Changbai and Changhong behind him, and suddenly felt that the two of them were "real" people, compared to the illusory world in front of them, they seemed so thin and fragile.

As long as he is sure in his head, he is entering a separate game world - in it, as long as he does not have contact with the outside world, theoretically no one can find him, and naturally no one can hurt him. But at the same time, it also means that no one will help him, reminding him that after this, everything will depend on Wu Qing himself.

In order to minimize the possibility of exposure, Changbai and Changhong are all separated and hid in different games, and the goal of a group of people playing together for a long time is too big.

Especially Changbai, he is now nominally retired, but Changbai is still under the management of the military organization, his physical address and corresponding data are public, and the military can investigate his consumption of computing resources in the virtual world at any time - it is almost certain that they have been tracking it like this, and if he also enters the same game world together, it may soon be exposed due to the characteristics of computing resources.

Each type of game has its own unique characteristic value for how much computing resources it consumes - just like the fingerprint of the game itself. If Changbai continues to follow Wu Qing further, it will be convenient for the federal government to follow this clue to capture Wu Qing.

But this kind of tracking is at most a tracking of characteristic values, which is essentially a kind of intelligence analysis, just like analyzing a person's recent life status based on photos and information posted on Facebook on the earth. It's just that the Federation's technology is more advanced and the accuracy of the details is higher.

However, it is necessary to rely on this analysis to pinpoint their area, location, ...... It's still far from being possible, it's like although there are satellite maps on the earth, it's also difficult to track and lock down a person by satellites alone. - let alone directly searching for someone.

"Let's go in," Changbai finally told Wu Qing, "remember to be vigilant inside, don't believe all the information, including mine, only the information between me and Changhong is completely consistent......

"Also," Changbai continued, "...... When you leave the game, you must not leave the building unless we come to pick you up. You are free to move between the game worlds, but remember not to communicate with anyone else - you have too many traces of alien cultures to be easily targeted by federal investigators. ”

"Shen Changwen and Xu Yan, will they come in the future?"

"Yes, because of your special situation here, I can only arrange for you first...... They're safe for the time being, and I'll find a way to put them in the game once you're in the game. ”

After Changbai said this, Wu Qing still looked at Changbai, until Changbai didn't speak for a long time, just nodded, Wu Qing turned around and nodded in his consciousness.

In an instant, the vortex in front of me began to grow.

Solar System Storm is a game that simulates the current Federation civilization, essentially a political game, the main simulation of history in the game, is the historical process of the Federation "Solar System" for a thousand years, and the deduction of the future.

For Wu Qing, an alien, this game is undoubtedly the best tool to understand their civilization. If there are really aliens coming to the earth and need the fastest time to understand the development history of the entire earth, it is estimated that the fastest and most efficient way is not to catch a few earthlings to do experiments, but to find the game platform of the earth, download "Civilization 6", and have a few good fun. - Maybe after a few plays, the alien's lifespan will be exhausted, after all, this bastard game is a night in one round.

……

Shen Changwen has learned how to use a communicator to link to the Internet in this world, so he has received a lot of bad news: he can now be sure that Changxing, the Changxing who saved them, has now been arrested.

The results of the trial have already come out, just half an hour ago - the death penalty.

It was the first death penalty in the entire federation in nearly a thousand years, and it was carried out three months later.

It is said that the execution method is instantaneous evaporation of high-energy lasers...... This ensures that even the body does not exist after death, preventing anyone from "resurrecting" him in the virtual world through the most advanced consciousness replication technology available now, usually the brain of the long star of death. -- Truly and completely destroyed.

Judging from the public opinion on the Internet, it is obvious that many people in the federation now believe that the current federation already has such technology.

Xu Yan still doesn't seem to understand what happened, and is still asking Shen Changwen if he has found information about the search and rescue ship on the Internet—he is still thinking about how to send the information into space and let the search and rescue team come to rescue them.

But Shen Changwen, no, in fact, he had changed himself to Shen Wen for the first time like Wu Qing, and Shen Wen knew that all this was impossible.

Unlike Wu Qing, Shen Changwen knew almost all the technological progress of the Federation on the digitization of consciousness through the Internet in his temporary habitat, and he only needed to reason a little logically to understand his current state - they were just a piece of data that had been copied and stored here.

Before participating in this mission, Shen Changwen had already made some mental preparations when he learned about the danger of this mission, and he originally thought that he might die in a completely unfamiliar civilization because of a mistake in the mission - but there was nothing to be afraid of. Living to Shen Changwen's age, he has made so many achievements, and he can still have such an experience after he is old...... Shen Changwen felt that his life was completely worthwhile.

But the reality is more complicated than he imagined.

Shen Changwen began to realize that the more terrible reality than death seemed to be eternal, and he lived without his control.

Just like they are now.

All the other federal citizens in the Second Earth, although they have many virtual roles and identities, are essentially the same as earthlings, and behind each character is a real body and brain.

Although the current medical level of the federation is very advanced, and the average life expectancy of people can be 300 years old, considering the hibernation technology, it may not be impossible to live even 7 or 800 years...... But no matter how long you live, you will eventually grow old and die. Although the Federation's technology has made it possible to completely clone humans and treat almost all diseases...... But in the face of brain aging, the Federation has never had a good solution.

The mainstream medical community has begun to discuss the ethics of brain swap surgery – this is not a brain swap surgery on earth that changes one person's head to another's body, which is at best a change of body. The brain-swapping that the Federalists are now discussing is to completely physically "copy" a person's brain, even including the information in the brain—this is what it means to digitize consciousness.

Unlike the real "silicon-based school", brain replacement surgery only uses the technology of consciousness digitization, first storing the information in the human brain through the medium of data, and then re-injecting these data back into a new body - this technology is obviously much more difficult than simple consciousness digitization, the latter is only an experimental scientific attempt even in the Federation, and there is no forming technology.

That is, for the Federalists, they always have to die.

But Shen Changwen, Xu Yan, and Wu Xiaoqing, who has not yet met, Wu Xiaoqing in this world is different from all of them.

For the people of the Federation, because the legislation of consciousness digitization has not yet been completed, everyone will eventually have to correspond to a carbon-based body built from cells in real life, but for the current Shen Wen, it is impossible for him to find his counterpart, which is still on the search and rescue ship and can go back to the body of the earth at any time.

Maybe because of the mission, Shen Changwen and Wu Xiaoqing will return to the ship again and contact them or with the federal civilization in a new way, but what about after contact?

Is it possible for them to go back to Earth? Even if they want to go back, if they want to go back, is there an environment on Earth that can accommodate their life form?

Just the hardware facilities of the second earth...... It is simply an incomprehensible miracle in the eyes of the entire earthling! The total mass of the storage medium of the entire second earth exceeded 6 billion tons when it was first launched! What is this concept? One trillionth of the mass of the entire Earth, which sounds small, but what if it were 60,000 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers combined?

There are more of these storage media than the entire planet combined...... If you simply calculate the storage density, it will be billions of times more......

Not to mention the software technology needed to sustain this life form - Shen Wen can see the entire development process of the entire federation in computer technology on the Internet, even if his confidence in humanity is high...... It would not have been possible for mankind to complete the grand construction process of this scale without thousands of years.

It's like asking Qin Shi Huang to build an aircraft carrier in the era of Qin Shi Huang, and he can't unify the whole world.

The technological level of the two civilizations is not at all at the same level.

In other words, technically, they are actually destined to be Federation people, not earthlings, although they still have a complete earth mind, and what they have in mind is the success or failure of this rescue mission......

"Professor," Xu Yan began to ask stupid questions again, and since he came here, his questions have not stopped, "why haven't we been hungry or thirst......y all the time?"

"It's a virtual world! Our bodies are all ornaments...... Did your original body grow hair? ”

"But I still want to eat KFC......," Xu Yan thought about it, "Do you think they can change KFC here...... By the way, you won't gain weight by eating here, and it's okay to smoke and drink? ”

Shen Wen was almost * in his heart, and he regretted it incomparably now—how could he have thought of bringing Xu Yan over in the first place, and still counting on training him.

"Professor Shen, did I say the wrong thing again," Xu Yan's ability to observe words and expressions was still there, he thought about it for a while, and then cautiously continued, "It seems that the news says that our spaceship is gone...... Do you think the search and rescue team will find this task too difficult...... Go straight back to Earth, leave us alone? ”

It was hard for Shen Wen to imagine how this poor guy would react when he told Xu Yan the truth. But he opened his mouth, still didn't say, just explained his question: "The search and rescue ship will not go to the earth, then it will be a serious leak, and the impact on the earth will be devastating, even more serious than not being able to complete this mission." It should be left on the far side of the star, but it will not be visible for the time being. ”

It's not that Shen Wen is soft-hearted, it's that he is beginning to realize that the truth is actually meaningless to them now, if he can, he really hopes that he is Xu Yan now - at least this way can stupidly retain hope. Not like yourself......

and Wu Xiaoqing - with Wu Xiaoqing's current state of intelligence, it is only a matter of time before he understands this truth. - Maybe it's earlier than yourself, no, definitely not before yourself.

What will he do?

The door of the room was opened at this time, Changbai walked in quietly and quickly, and then immediately locked the door, and carefully observed the door for a while.

After making sure that no one should be following, he said to Shen Wen: "Prepare to go, Wu Xiaoqing is safe now, I will pick you up to see him now." ”

"You said the Game Mansion?"

"That's right," Changbai glanced at Shen Wen's eyes, as if he saw his dazedness and uneasiness, and comforted him, "Don't think about it...... When I meet Wu Xiaoqing, there will be solutions to many problems. ”