Have you heard a story? Once upon a time, there was a farmer who worked hard every day to farm, and he was very tired and unhappy. Until one day, he had a dream that he had become a king, that he had lived in a luxurious palace, that he had eaten delicacies from the mountains and the sea, and that he had a large number of servants at his disposal, and that this dream was very real, and that he had been able to continue this dream every night ever since. So the farmer became very happy every day. When asked why, he said that I had made my dream of being a king every night a reality, and that I had a dream of being a farmer every day, so I had a very happy day.

I live in an era where everyone can live this kind of life, and this is the dream world, the dream of eight billion people on the earth.

A person's life, many things, a lifetime of untouchable, if you can feel, see, hear, touch, even if it is illusory, can you refuse?

The time is now 2045, and the world has changed dramatically. In 2030, sunspot activity is at a minimum, the earth has entered the Xiaoice period, food production has been greatly reduced, fortunately human science and technology has been very developed, the use of energy to grow many crops, food problem solved. However, human mobility has also been difficult, and the cold weather has forced humans to live at home, and their work, entertainment, and study have been seriously affected.

It is at this time that dreams are born. VR Dream was released in 2035 and is the first conscious VR game, no, strictly speaking it is a virtual world, a second world. After ten years of development, the world has become no different from reality, at first people in this world only have sight and hearing, then smell and touch and finally taste. All human senses can be felt here.

Like a farmer's dream, VR dreams have become the dreams of eight billion people on Earth. It has changed the way of life of human beings, who are in this world to play, study, work, and do everything they want. It divides the world into two, half real and half unreal.

My name is Qiu Yu, I was born in 2027, and I am an ordinary college student. This is the world we live in.

Just after a day of classes, I called a taxi, this era of taxis are already fully autonomous, the space in the back is very spacious, when I get in the car, I turn on the car travel function, the world outside the window becomes a blur, after a while, it becomes clear. Originally, the world outside the window should be on the streets of the capital, but now it has become a piece of blue sea and golden sand, the car is open at a constant speed by the beach, and the afterglow of the sunset is sprinkled on my face through the car window, it will make you believe for a moment that when you get out of the car, there is still that blue sea and golden sand outside. Finger swipe over an option, and the world outside the window changes again. This is the underwater world, the car is driving in the glass tunnel, and the underwater world is completely unfolded before my eyes, sharks are hunting, sea turtles are swimming leisurely, and huge whales are devouring krill schools.

This is the on-board travel system that can take you to any corner of the world. Even landscapes that no longer exist, it can be recreated, it can make your car shuttle through the Jurassic jungle, it can make you run in the lanes of space, and it can also let you gallop on unknown planets.

After a while, I was back home, and the moment I stepped out of the car, I was once again back in the bustling capital.

At dinner time, the capital has already entered the night, and the simple white light of the day has turned into a colorful color. I was eating and looking out the window. Outside, the wine is green and the lights are red, and there are disturbances. And I don't like to be noisy in reality.

After eating, I returned to the bedroom, and leaning against the head of the bed, I turned on the holographic projection multimedia. The lights in the room slowly dimmed, and the holographic projection installed on the ceiling cast light, and in an instant, the whole bedroom became a vast space, countless stars slowly revolving around me, comets passing by me, with long tails, and spaceships flying by from time to time, I felt like a giant in the boundless universe. This is one of my favorite holographic projection themes.

As soon as my hand slid against the air, there were eight planets circling around me, each planet had different options, and when I was about to click on the film and television option, I suddenly received a holographic call request from Li Wei.

I clicked accept. Suddenly an old TV appeared in front of me, and I blackened my face, and a woman with a disheveled hair appeared on the TV.

Anyone who likes horror movies should know that this is the classic horror character Sadako. Everything goes according to the script, and Sadako in the TV slowly climbs out of the TV and crawls towards me step by step.

When Sadako was less than half a meter away from me, I cut off the call.

Although I know that on the other end of the holographic call, there is just a strange thing crawling slowly on the bed, but to be honest, it still feels a little scary.

After a few seconds, Li Wei sent a voice. I clicked on it, and there was a smug and exaggerated laugh in the room.

"Aha, Xiao Yuzi, you are so timid, are you frightened?" I suddenly felt a big head, and then Li Wei sent a holographic call request.

I didn't even think about it, and immediately refused.

Then another voice message came. "Xiao Yuzi, don't make trouble, pick it up, there's something serious."

In the end, I accepted the holographic call request. A lively and beautiful girl immediately appeared in the bedroom, looking seventeen or eighteen years old, with shoulder-length short hair, a goose egg face, smart facial features, and a smug smile on her face, the outline of her face is exactly the same as that of Sadako just now, this is Li Wei, my netizen.

This is WeChat's holographic special effects call, I sighed, what a boring feature. Li Wei also leaned on the head of the bed like me and started the topic.

"Xiao Yuzi, the latest Resident Evil 17 is out, let's play the multiplayer story mode together. I also invited Qi Peng. "I live in an era where VR horror games are too realistic, so there is one more option in the main line of the game, multiplayer story mode. This option, as soon as you see it, is that you can have multiple people online to live the plot together. Resident Evil 17 can support up to four people to cross the main story together.

Thinking of the previous game experience, Qi Peng and I were responsible for finding clues, fighting zombies, and fighting bosses, while Li Wei was responsible for screaming loudly and running around to attract zombies.

I frowned, my mind spinning at high speed, and I was about to say the excuse I had just come up with.

But before I could say it, Li Wei had already taken the first step

"Then let's say it, I'll wait for you online, and I'll invite you to KTV after the fight." I almost squirted out a mouthful of old blood, and scolded angrily in my heart, "I still want to go to KTV, I'm a sound idiot, do you want to go to KTV in a daze?" ”

At the same time, on the other end of the call, Li Wei chuckled.

"yes, that's it."

I sighed and slung the connector to the back of my neck. The hypnosis system allowed me to quickly enter the VR dream. When I went to sleep, the lights in the room dimmed.

It's not like dreaming, it's like waking up in another world.

I got up from the bed and looked out the window, in the middle of the city, a 20,000-meter tree went straight into the sky, this is the tree city, I took a deep breath, as fresh as ever. I live in a duplex suite, on the one hundred and fifth floor, in the middle of this building, the balcony is a huge lawn, and there is a two-person tall maple tree, and I like to lean back on a chair under the tree and watch the scenery quietly. As the founder of Dreamland said, Dreamland is a world of science fiction and dreams.

The geography of the dream world is almost indistinguishable from reality, the North and South Poles are covered in ice and snow, the world's highest peak, Everest, is in the sky, and the Sahara Desert is barren. It's just that the cities where people live have changed.

Li Wei lives in the empty city, the empty city is one kilometer away from the ground, the house price is much higher than the tree city, an average of 2 yuan per square meter, the house in the empty city is just to buy a suspended disc, you can build any building you want on it, Li Wei's disc has a full two thousand square meters, I asked her before, buy such a large disc is to build a shopping mall? She built a castle on the disc, as well as a garden and a bamboo grove in which her pet panda lived. There are no roads in the empty city, and all traffic is carried out by aircraft.

In addition to Tree City and Empty City, there are many different cities. There is a space city in outer space, where the means of transportation is a spaceship, and the house price is the most expensive, 4 yuan per square meter. Cities have also been built on Mars and the Moon, and the environment on Mars and the Moon is almost the same as in reality, and those who live there must wear spacesuits whenever they leave the city.

I also have a house in Haicheng, which is in the middle of the sea, and it is covered by a huge glass enclosure, which is cut off from the sea. Because it's in a shallow sea, the sun can shine, and my favorite thing is to look up at the sea in Haicheng, everything is sparkling, and you can see some small fish swimming around. In Haicheng, people travel by small submarines, but you can also swim freely in the water in a variety of wetsuits. There are also some people who like Deep Sea City, which is 5,000 meters below the seabed, there is no sunlight, even the lights are dim, and there are some strange deep-sea creatures, most of them glow, those people like this eerie environment, the bar there has the best atmosphere. The people there love nothing more than to explore the bottomless trenches in small submarines. In addition to these cities, there are also ancient cities, future cities, magic cities, and many more.

In this era, there are fewer and fewer secrets of the earth, and people are discovering more and more, and they record these in books and restore them in the dream world, not many people will read books, and everyone likes to see all this by themselves in dreams. The dream world also has a lot of its own legends, such as mermaids and monsters in the deep sea, aliens in the starry sky, for these rumors, the dream company did not admit or deny them, just said, these are all up to you to explore.

Most people in the dream world have a few houses, because they probably love both the sparkling waters of Sea City and the infinite stars of Space City. I often wonder how long it will take for a real-world city to be like a dream city, perhaps hundreds of thousands of years to see it.

After a while, I saw Li Wei appear outside my window in a flying machine, she parked the flying machine on my balcony, walked into the house, and shook the disc of Resident Evil 17 in her hand at me. She walked in the door, looked around, and said disdainfully, "Your decoration is still so old-fashioned." ”

When buying a house and renovation in the dream world, there are several options for you to choose from. If you're not satisfied, you can build and decorate it yourself, but some of the materials in the dream world come with a fee. If you don't know, you can also directly use the plan of online netizens, of course, some plans also have to be charged.

Li Wei's castle was designed by herself, and she also ordered AI butler and AI maid services. In total, more than five thousand were spent. It's the most upscale housing in the dream world. In the dream world, a medium house can be bought for only a hundred dollars, such as the tree city where I live now. I bought it ready-made, but the decoration of the room was designed by myself. Qi Peng's house is a Chinese-style courtyard house.

"The big star of the future is here, hurry up and open the door for me."

Suddenly there was a man's voice outside the door, and after a while, there was a rapid knock on the door. It was Qi Peng who came. He's a good friend in our dream world, but he's much older than us, he's 47 this year, but he's not as mature as he should be at that age, by the way, he thinks he's still an actor in the dream world, in fact, he's a trickster.

"Everyone is here, so let's start the game! Xiao Yuzi. Li Wei said

"How many times have you said it, don't call me Xiao Yuzi." I said dissatisfied.

"Then call him the Little Universe." Qi Peng answered.

I rolled my eyes and stopped struggling. I took the disc and took Li Wei to the living room, a whole wall in the living room was my TV, I put the disc into the game console, a door appeared on the TV, I gently pushed the door open, and walked in with Li Wei and Qi Peng.

As soon as I entered the game, I became an American uncle in his forties. I moved a little, and I was quite satisfied with this body, with years of experience in the game, I feel that this body has the physical fitness of a retired special forces. Qi Peng turned into a young and strong black man, and he smiled: "I feel like I was young again." ”

glanced at Li Wei again, and she had become a little Lori who was about seven or eight years old.

"I can finally lie down and win." Li Weiwei's face was excited, and Qi Peng and I rolled our eyes.

Resident Evil 17 is set in the world in 2025 when there is an outbreak of the zombie virus, and the story takes place in a city.

Our van was once again surrounded by zombies because of Li Wei's shouting, and I drove the car on a rampage, and Qi Peng used Gatling to shoot wildly in the compartment of the truck. Li Wei sat in the co-pilot, ready to quit the game at any time. Due to the number of zombies, the truck eventually overturned, and when I was surrounded by piles of zombies in the cab, I saw Li Wei quickly quit the game.

Returning to the living room again, Li Wei looked like he had palpitations.

After a while, Li Wei finally regained his senses and loudly accused me and Qi Peng. "Why are you two so vegetable, you were surrounded all of a sudden, but fortunately I quit quickly."

After resting for a while, Li Wei dragged me and Qi Peng to KTV. The KTV is not far away, just in a shopping mall near my house, so the three of us walked there.

Walking out into the street, people come and go, just like a real city. Now the season of dream time is autumn, the time is six o'clock in the evening, there is a little coolness in the air, the lights in the city have been lit up, the lights of the dream world are beautiful, as early as the update in 2041, the dream world has the same day and night and seasons as reality.

Tree City is a city that is neither noisy nor silent. People with the same personality in the dream world will always gather in one city, those who like to be noisy gather in a noisy city, and those who like to be quiet gather in a quiet city. The crowd on the streets here is dressed in a variety of clothes, such as the most popular hanfu in the dream world, cosplay clothes, and so on.

There is a constant stream of people wearing all kinds of clothes, and there are all kinds of transportation, the ones that walk on the ground, the ones that fly in the sky are as small as bicycles, and the largest ones are called party cars, which can hold hundreds of people, and people hold all kinds of events in it. It flies low in the city, almost filling the streets. This is what we see at this point. People live in the world in the way they love the most, never pretending.

A gust of autumn wind blew, Li Wei tightened his clothes, and the world became more and more real.

Qi Peng shouted: "I say all day long that it's for the world to be more real, I think it's for money." I used to earn 3,000 a month in this world, and I could keep 1,500 if I stayed. Now I can't keep 200 a month. This will change seasons and you will have to spend money on clothes. ”

The design patent of the costume is still useful to this world, but minus the materials and production costs, the clothes in the dream world are very cheap.

"Do you know what the worst thing is, wow, this world will actually get sick, you will feel a headache, a fever. You have to buy medicine. Qi Peng complained about the world one by one.

"The dream company also explained that this is to make the world more real, obviously just to make money." Qi Peng then complained. Qi Peng's complaint reminded me of a joke I read on the Internet.

suddenly looked at Qi Peng: "You are so buttoned, you won't use paper after going to the toilet, wipe it with your hands, and you're washing." ”

"I'm not stupid, I've also seen that paragraph, it's a thief, every time I go to the toilet, I don't even use paper, I wipe it with my hands, wash it again, and then update the olfactory system. His friends kept smelling on him, and they didn't know how to tell him yes. Qi Peng said.

I still couldn't help but sniff it hard. Qi Peng clenched his fists.

When he arrived at KTV, Li Wei ordered several songs in one go. Qi Peng and I walked to the corner and sat down.

When the first song sounds, the surroundings change instantly. Then we appeared on an aerial stage under the stars, she stepped on a huge ball of light in the center, and Qi Peng and I sat on a much smaller ball of light, in addition to us there were thousands of "spectators", yes, these are AI viewers, they are also sitting on various colors of light balls, shaking the light sticks in their hands with excited faces. All the balls of light rotated and beat regularly with Li Wei's singing. Towards the end of the song, all the balls of light flew into the starry sky.

As soon as this song was sung, the accompaniment to the next song sounded again, and the environment changed again. This time the scene was on an ordinary stage, and I was relieved, I was a little dizzy from the light ball just now. There was still an excited audience and me and Qi Peng with an indifferent face, but there was one more person on the stage, who was the original singer of the song and Li Wei's idol, a girl with a beautiful singing voice and a sweet voice. Immediately, the duet between the two began, and the contrast suddenly formed.

After tossing and turning for hours, I glanced at the time, and there were only 2 hours and 15 minutes left before my time to get up. My routine is to go to bed at 10 p.m., wake up at 8 o'clock during the day, and sleep for 10 hours, these 10 hours, 8 hours are spent in the dream world, but I will leave two hours for deep sleep.

Most people are like me, working or studying during the day and going to the dream world at night to do what they want to do, but some people are different, their work and study are also in the dream world, and their day is only reserved for eating in the real world.

Although scientifically tested, staying in the dream world for a long time has no effect on the human body. However, such people are often overly obese because they are too obsessed with dreams and neglect exercise.

We left the KTV, I went back to my room, lay down on the bed, fell asleep in the dream world, and fell into real sleep.

When I woke up again, the curtains opened automatically, and I looked out the window and returned to reality.