In the year 2080, humanity finally achieved immortality.

Thanks to the successful development of controlled nuclear fusion and quantum computers. Human technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, and VR immortality has been officially launched. This is a technology that can extract human consciousness into the VR world, and then be able to live forever in this virtual world. This world is known as the world of eternal life.

Unlike dreams, this is a world that only people who are about to die can go to. Before you go to this world, you must pass the review of the relevant personnel, they will review your life, but in fact, as long as you do not commit major mistakes, such as murder, or treason, you can go to the eternal world, and even if you are in prison, you can go to the eternal world, but the rest of your sentence will be spent in the prison in the eternal world.

Because of technical problems, the world of the Immortal World was a hundred years earlier than it is now, that is, in 1980. Time flows at the same rate as reality in the immortal world. So it will be forever a hundred years behind reality.

To go to the Immortal World, you must deliver 90% of all your assets. Because all the resources in the real world are reserved for the people living in the real world, the remaining ten percent of your assets will also be cashed out and deposited into your account in the immortal world, which is called the reality coin. Real-world coins cannot be used to invest in real society. The Eternal World will also provide 100,000 Eternal Life Coins (purchasing power equivalent to the current 100,000 RMB) every month, which can be used to purchase items from the era of Eternal Life. If you want to buy products from the real world era, you need to use real coins, that is, your remaining ten percent of your assets, and the purpose of real coins is to allow you to enjoy the products of this era of the real world without having to wait a hundred years. Of course, whether it is eternal coins or real currency, there are channels to obtain them in the eternal world. Eternal Coins are of course relatively easy to obtain, but Real Coins are very difficult, and they will become more and more difficult due to the increasing number of people in the Eternal World.

With the development of the immortal world and the increase in the number of people, some industries in reality have been divided into the immortal world, such as the entertainment industry. The way to obtain real coins in the immortal world is to provide services to real humans, such as online education, virtual stars, etc.

In the same year, the state recognized the VR Immortal World. The people of the immortal world retain all the basic rights of citizenship and, of course, need to fulfill the basic obligations of citizenship. Killing the people of the real world and the people of the immortal world now is considered murder, depriving them of the right to live in the immortal world, and imprisonment for life until old age.

……

Chen Zhe was lying on the hospital bed.

The staff of Eternal Life have reviewed Chen Zhe's life. He will be able to enter the world of eternal life tomorrow. His body couldn't drag anymore. Most of the organs are aging and necrotic, and he may leave this world at any time.

In this life, Chen Zhe did not leave many regrets, even if he died, he would not be so unwilling. But who wants to die if they can continue to live.

Finally the day came. A helmet-like instrument was placed on Chen Zhe's head, and Chen Zhe felt his consciousness becoming more and more blurred. His life flashed in his mind one by one, those most beautiful scenery, those most splendid times, those people he loved the most.

It's death, or it's a new life.

……

As if in the next moment, Chen Zhe slowly opened his eyes, and what greeted him was a room decorated in the eighties.

He slowly got up and walked over to the mirror to look at himself.

Inside the mirror was a familiar and strange person, who looked to be about twenty years old.

He thought for a moment, this is his younger self. He smiled, as if he had traveled through a scene from a novel. But Chen Zhe knows that this is not a journey through a novel, but an eternal world. It felt like a sleep, dreaming that I was twenty years old again, but I felt like I was twenty years old, and those years after twenty years seemed like a dream. This is like Zhuang Zhou's dream butterfly.

At this moment a man walked into the room, looking to be forty or fifty years old, and wearing a suit. He said to Qi Peng: "Hello, welcome to the Immortal World, I am your AI butler in the Immortal World. You can call me Ye Xiu or Ye Steward. I will take you through this immortal world. This world is now in the eighties of the last century, and your current age in the immortal world is 18 years old. The immortal world preserves the life cycle of humans, from 18 to 80 years old. Humans can choose to start the next life after the age of 50. Accidental death, suicide or murder before the age of 50 will also start the next life, and then the immortal currency of this life will be cleared, and the real currency will be retained. ”

Subsequently, Qi Peng learned about the immortal world through conversation.

In this world, people still have all their feelings and needs, such as they still need to eat and sleep, they need to take medicine when they are sick, and they will be obese if they don't exercise. Between the ages of 18 and 30, people need to stay in school and study, and after the age of 30 they can choose to go out and work. It's like living in the real world.

Obviously got eternal life, but Chen Zhe looked a little empty.

The housekeeper glanced at Chen Zhe, who was a little strange, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"It feels like you've lost everything but life." Chen Zhe replied. Then he added, "I want to go out and have a look." ”

"Of course, the world is free." The butler replied.

Walking out into the street, the world is still empty. Chen Zhe knew because he was the first person to come to this world.

The world is big, exactly as big as the Earth.

Walking into the streets of the 80s, there are several floors of houses on both sides, and some cities in this era have also been high-rise, but Chen Zhe chose this remote town, which is where he once lived and where he is most familiar. The construction here is almost exactly the same as his childhood memory, Chen Zhe seems to have returned to his childhood, that simple age, that age without troubles.

Chen Zhe stopped at the door of a game machine hall, and the machines inside were all turned off, and there was not a single customer. Chen Zhe walked in, the boss looked young, dyed yellow hair, but he was an artificial intelligence, but the service attitude was very good.

Chen Zhe took the freshly changed coins and chose a machine to sit down, and when he started playing, Chen Zhe felt that this world seemed to be the world he was familiar with again. But after a while, he suddenly felt a little empty, got up and left.

After a while, Chen Zhe stopped next to a video game store again. There are FC, GB, MD and other game consoles for sale in the store.

Chen Zhe looked at these game consoles, and thought of playing pirated FC (Xiaobawang) in front of a TV with a bunch of people with those friends without even doing homework when he was a child, and thought that he couldn't afford GB at that time, and surrounded the boy with GB every day, watching him play Pokémon.

Chen Zhe walked in, the boss was a man, he looked like he was fifty or sixty years old, very kind, and he was also an artificial intelligence.

Chen Zhe bought a genuine FC and a GB game console, he couldn't wait to turn on the GB, at this moment, the small screen showed a rough picture, but once again brought him the same shock as when he was a child.

After a while, Chen Zhe turned off the GB, walked out of the video game store, and walked to the empty street again, his back was a little lonely.

"Hey!" There was a greeting from behind, Chen Zhe stopped, and he turned his head away.

An 18-year-old girl was standing on the other side of the street. She wore a white dress, and the breeze blew. It was the most beautiful picture in Chen Zhe's memory, and after seventy years, he saw it again.

Chen Zhe walked towards her and stood in front of her.

"Why did you come so early?" Chen Zhe's tone was a little reproachful and a little distressed.

"I know how terrible it is for a person to go to a strange world that he will never come back to, but it is even more terrible to stay in a world without you, but no matter where it is, as long as there is you, it is not terrible."

……

Three months later, the woman accompanied Chen Zhe to play genuine FC in the room, and suddenly the doorbell rang.

Chen Zhe opened the door and took a look. This is a young and handsome man. Chen Zhe recognized it, this was his best friend.

The man said with a grin: "I didn't expect me to die so soon, by the way, Lao Lin is about to hang up, when the time comes, when he hangs up, the three of us will go out to celebrate and catch the wind for him." ”

"Okay."