In 2230, as the first batch of immortals, Lin Yong has been in the immortal world for 150 years.

He has lost his job for 120 years, and the 100,000 immortal coins per month allow him to "nourish" his life even if he has no job.

Now there are more and more people in the immortal world, and AI is becoming more and more advanced, replacing the work of most immortals. He knew that he might be doomed to lose his job in this life, however, he didn't know how long it would be.

When time loses its meaning, life loses its meaning, and everything becomes very boring. Almost 70 years ago, he was tired of it.

Last night's alcohol slowly subsided, no, it was this morning's alcohol intensity. Lin Yong once again drank alone until the early hours of the morning.

He slowly opened his eyes.

The consciousness is still a little unconscious, and the head hurts a little. The eyes opened and closed again. It took a long time for him to come to his senses.

As soon as I woke up, hunger struck.

Glancing at the time, it was already nine o'clock in the evening.

Lin Yong got up slowly, his room was very messy, like a small garbage dump, with empty beer bottles and leftover instant noodle barrels thrown everywhere, and the smell of multiple food spoils in the air. This room can be said to be a place to stay for those who love cleanliness.

Lin Yong walked into the bathroom, the same mess, the same smell, but the mirror in the bathroom was very clean, so that he could clearly see his appearance. Their eyes were bloodshot, their hair was oily and dirty, and there was a ring of stubble of varying lengths around their mouths. He looked at himself in the mirror and suddenly noticed two white hairs on his left sideburns, and at this moment, he suddenly cried and laughed. This life is coming to an end again.

After tidying up a little, Lin Yong went out. He hadn't been out for a month and five days, and just yesterday he had eaten all his food and drank all his beer.

Lin Yong lives in the most fringe part of the city, so the evenings here are not so lively. Add to that the fact that it's a winter night in the north, and the streets are even more deserted.

Lin Yong walked around the street, and only a barbecue stall at the end of the street was still open. He walked into the store, the store manager was an AI robot with a signature smile on his face, Qi Peng glanced at the store manager with disgust, and still ordered dozens of skewers of lamb and eight bottles of beer.

After a few bottles of beer, Lin Yong's consciousness blurred again.

What is the meaning of my life? Alas, am I still a life? It's just a "program" that doesn't want to die.

He remembered going to see the damn psychiatrist two months ago.

"I haven't had a job for 150 years, I don't know the meaning of life, I don't know the value of myself. In 150 years, I have seen many beautiful landscapes, played many great games, and had many like-minded friends, but I have become more and more empty, because I have lost my own value, and no matter how long my life is, it is just a waste. He sighed.

After a conversation, he suddenly asked, "Are you a real person?" The psychiatrist smiled and replied, "I'm the latest AI psychiatrist." At that time, Lin Yong knocked down the table in one fell swoop.

"Then how can you know my pain, it's because your garbage is getting more and more advanced that we have done nothing." Lin Yong roared. With his trademark smile, the AI psychiatrist lowered his head and said "I'm sorry." At this moment, Lin Yong instantly understood that wasting emotions on such emotionless things was useless.

Retracting his thoughts, Lin Yong was in a daze while eating barbecue. His eyes were hollow.

A holographic projection billboard next to it is playing an advertisement called the Afterworld Island Game, one boring introduction after another. Lin Yong glanced at it, then turned his head, bored, he shook his head.

"There are 5,032 people living on this island, and these people are not highly intelligent NPCs, but people with real emotions and thoughts like us."

Lin Yong's eyes widened suddenly. Turned around violently, staring at the screen, is there really such a game?

Lin Yong walked to the billboard, clicked on the purchase, and just got the game, he quickly returned home.

Lin Yong clicked into the game and carefully looked at the description of the game.

Afterworld Island, this small island is home to 5032 people, and unlike the highly intelligent NPCs in other games, they are a group of people with real thoughts and emotions.

It is a small island that is almost circular, this island covers an area of about 200 square kilometers, and the sea near the island is still very calm, but about 20 kilometers away, it is surrounded by a perennial lightning storm.

All of the island's inhabitants are descendants of people who fled by boat during World War II, and their ancestors were displaced on the island during a lightning storm. Decades have passed, and there are many people who want to go outside the island to see, but everyone who tried, the next day, their bodies were beaten to the beach. The people of the island understand that a lightning storm is an obstacle that can never be crossed. There are only 5,032 people on the island, and none of them know anything about the outside world. The people of the island are simple and helpful. There are no rules in this game, and the player takes on the role of a shipwrecked and then has the option to choose a few things as their starting items.

Your identity, your experiences, everything about you is up to you.

Lin Yong clicked to start, and suddenly his eyes went dark, and he suddenly lost consciousness.

Slowly, Lin Yong's consciousness came to his senses, and the pain all over his body suddenly hit, Lin Yong scolded secretly, stupidly planned, did it so really, it hurt to death. Feeling the severe pain and the weakness of the body, Lin Yongqiang opened his eyes, and what caught his eyes was the golden beach, the blue waves kept hitting Qi Peng's body, and the sea breeze still had a faint salty taste.

After a while, Lin Yong saw the two of them running quickly like him. My body became weaker and weaker, and my eyes slowly closed.

"He's alive." One of them spoke, his voice was beautiful and soft, and in a trance, Lin Yong felt that he was being lifted up. As his consciousness became more and more blurred, Lin Yong fainted again.

When he woke up again, it was already in a small room, Lin Yong looked around, this was an ordinary house. After a while, a beautiful woman came in, and as soon as she spoke, Lin Yong knew that she was the girl who had saved him.

Lin Yong asked, "Where is this?" ”

"You're awake." The girl was a little pleased. Lin Yong looked at the girl's face seriously, and the expression was extremely vivid, and almost instantly he could confirm that she was a real person.

Lin Yong suddenly smiled and looked out the window.

There really is such a game, no, it's a world.

……

In 2230, a game called Afterworld Island is full of immortal worlds, without the plot of saving the world, there are countless unknown stories, and the secret of success is that there are 5032 NPCs in the game, all of whom are people with real emotions and thoughts.

With the popularity of Afterworld, many games similar to Afterworld Island have been developed. The characters in these games are also people with real emotions and thoughts, such as Atlantis, Loulan, and so on. Another common feature of these games is that the maps are small and the characters are few. The largest of them, Atlantis, is 30,000 people and 1,200 square kilometers.

Five years later.

In 2235, Chen Dong came to the tallest building in the city and looked down on the city. Even if the immortal world is a hundred years behind reality, it is now equivalent to 2135 years of reality, which is still much more spectacular than Chen Dong's time.

At this time, a man in his thirties walked behind him.

"Remember? When this immortal world was first created. We're both two old men now. Drinking beer and eating skewers on the roadside of that world, I made an appointment to meet in this world. Chen Dong said.

"Naturally, we remember that we said at the time that we had spent our lives for this world, but it could give us back a hundred lifetimes." The man responded.

"Now the real Hundred Lives have come, and this is the afterlife." Chen Dong directly skipped all the politeness.

"That's a big project. It's better to listen to me and develop a daughter country. The man who had seen the plan replied.

Immediately, the two of them burst out laughing.

It took a long time before it stopped.

"This needs your support." Chen Dong said back to business.

"The two of us retired early, and we can't be responsible for such a project, and this is a project that is so big that you can't imagine, the earth in the eighties, 4.5 billion real people, trillions of relationship lines, everyone's memories, as big as their relatives and friends, as small as the breakfast a few days ago, these can't go wrong, once it goes wrong, the chain reaction caused can make the world collapse in an instant. This is a hundred times more difficult than God creating the world, after all, God created only the most primitive society. It is very difficult to persuade the Eternal Life Government to do such a big project. The man persuaded bitterly.

"No matter how big a project is, it seems small in the face of endless time, and it is worth it, this is the wish of all the immortal people. Even if there is a magical world and a fantasy world in the future, I believe that what people are most nostalgic for is the world they once lived in. Chen Dong said.

"It's because you're nostalgic for the world!" The man debunked Chen Dong.

"yes!" Chen Dong admitted.

"I'm nostalgic too." The man also confessed.

……

In 2238, the Immortal World officially announced the development of an afterlife. The news made the people of Eternal boil. What everyone didn't expect was that it wasn't until 2312 that the game that everyone dreamed of, or the afterworld, was successfully developed. But the eternal people's passion and desire for the afterlife has not diminished in the slightest, a world that no living person can refuse.

Because the afterlife is so big, the designer finally completed this almost impossible task by dividing the earth into many small regions, first designing the personalities, memories, and relationships of the people in these small regions, and then connecting the small regions together.

It is based on the world in which the living people once lived—the earth.

This world is almost a restoration of the world of 1980. Seventy percent of the ocean, thirty percent of the land. More than 100 countries, the same international situation, the same human geography. A total of 4.5 billion people, designed by 3 billion AI and 10 million immortal people. And every person in the afterlife world is a person with real emotions and thoughts, and they are both good and evil.

Time flows here at exactly the same rate as in reality. Here the player can choose any time from 1980 to 2000 to come to this world.

The Afterlife is different from the Afterlife Island in that the game is for a lifetime and cannot be quit halfway. Once the choice begins, only death can leave. Of course, this death refers to a return to the world of eternal life. In order for everyone to have a complete life, if there is suicide in the next life, it will be forbidden to enter the afterlife for fifty years.

In this world, babies must be born before they become conscious, so the immortal people can only choose the birth of the baby that is about to be born. Once born, you will be completely cut off from the world of eternal life. Unable to enjoy any of the Eternal World's technologies and items. You can only live in the second world with your memories, consciousness, emotions. AI is now very advanced, but in the afterlife that we create with AI, there are still trillions of mistakes, which have been corrected and tested again and again. Now this world has passed twenty years from 1980 to 2000 without any mistakes, and the current afterlife can be said to be a real world, a group of real human beings.

However, in the afterlife, because the data is too large, the first batch of 100,000 units will be mass-produced.

Because of the shortage of machines, each world needs to accommodate 10,000 immortal people. and the proportion of 1/450,000 of the people in the afterlife. The next batch of afterlife worlds will be fifty years from now. Now there are already 20 billion people in the Eternal World, and the first batch is only a billion people, which will be determined by lottery. Participation is open to all immortal people who wish to enter the afterlife.

The Eternal Government expects that in 50 years, there will be 5 million afterworlds. With the development of science and technology, we will strive to achieve the degree of one person and one world. This is the speed at which quantum computers are developing.

Ten of the first batch of users in the afterlife signed contracts with Eternal Life to broadcast their afterlife live. Of course, their identities are kept secret, and so is their privacy. Among them are singers, influencers, writers, and so on. This is the longest live broadcast in history, and it is also the most popular, which is like a realistic version of Truman's world.

The people of Eternal Life will also be stupid when they look at these people who are obviously hundreds of years old, they will also be sad because of a small thing, and they will also be ecstatic because of a word or a small act of others. They looked at these people stupidly, wondering what their next life would be like.

The Eternal Government did not expect that the live broadcast of the afterlife made the people of the Eternal World even more impatient, and the Eternal Government had no choice but to start the freezing service, which is similar to the technology in science fiction novels that freezes the human body and wakes up when needed. Since the Eternals are virtual worlds, this is easy, and most of the unchosen Eternals have opted for the Frozen Service. When they wake up, they are qualified to experience the afterlife. There are also those who live in games similar to those in the Afterworld, waiting.

……

This was the luckiest thing that Lin Yong had ever been in the Immortal World for so long, and he had actually obtained the first batch of qualifications to enter the Afterlife World.

Lin Yong closed his eyes and entered the afterlife with excitement and apprehension.

"Welcome to the afterlife, I am your afterlife service specialist. You can call me Xiao Su. ”

Hearing the sound slowly, Lin Yong opened his eyes, and in front of him was a pure white space, and in front of him stood a woman in professional clothes.

"First of all, congratulations on your first batch of experiences in the afterlife. You will descend on 76,340 afterlife worlds, and I am a customer service who specializes in customizing afterlife services for you. Xiao Su said.

"As the trailer says, this world is based on the world you once lived in, the Earth, and the time is 1980. With 1.5 billion babies born between 1980 and mid-2020, you can choose to be one of them. Xiao Su continued.

"But since you're the first users, 10,000 people share an afterlife, and if you choose a baby that has already been chosen by someone else, you'll need to make a different choice." Xiao Su added.

"Do you want to start choosing right away?" Xiao Su said.

"Let's go." Lin Yong's voice trembled a little, he hadn't been so excited for a long time.

"First of all, please select your nationality."

Lin Yong chose his original homeland with almost no hesitation.

"We're going to do the screening. Please select the year you would like to be born, the city, the family conditions, and your appearance requirements. ”

"Can you choose your looks?" Lin Yong had some doubts.

"Yes, we can select a couple to be their offspring based on your genetics and your appearance requirements. Then through genetics, you can have the physiognomy you want. Xiao Su replied.

Lin Yong made the choice one by one according to his own requirements.

"There are 2,764 families that meet your requirements, of which 178 have already been selected. Filter again or pick the families you want to have a baby in. Xiao Su said.

After a long time, Lin Yong finally chose everything.

"Do you want to start your life right away?"

Lin Yong thought about it and clicked yes.

"Your life is about to begin."