Chapter 12: Networks and Reality

"Sister Wu, your man is not an ordinary person, something that no one can do, and besides, about his auction of himself, maybe there is something else in it, or does he have another deep meaning? Maiden, let's listen to what he has to say! The willow fairy smiled and persuaded the butterfly.

"Yes, since he can have a virtual person, and the equipment on his body doesn't look like an ordinary product, the dragon won't take this million in his eyes, there must be something in it that we don't know, dragon, isn't that the case." Butterfly asked me softly.

"It's all my own business, you don't have to worry about me, don't talk nonsense, what do you want me to do when you let me come here?" I wanted to correct the fact that I am not a man who dances to the willow fairy, but after thinking about it, such an occasion seems difficult to say, just imagine, if I say to the willow fairy that the butterfly is not my girlfriend, it will inevitably make others think that I have an intention for the willow fairy, the willow fairy is a woman, the beauty is beautiful, but her heart is not very good, and the domineering, unstoppable appearance makes me very disgusted, and she is a member of a famous big group, a noble princess who spends a lot of pounds, but I am a poor boy who is worthless, We are people of two worlds, and in front of them, I feel as if I am being crushed by a stone, which is very unnatural. I just want to leave as soon as possible.

"Oh, I almost forgot to get down to business, that's right, we're going to go to the Chaos Mountains to get some materials, those things are very heavy, we can't take much, and the level of the weight-bearing beasts we can find is too low to survive in the Chaos Mountains. Dancing Butterfly recommended you to me, saying that you have a Mount of the Condensation Beast, so we want you to take us on a trip to the Chaos Mountains and help us transport some materials. Fairy Willow patiently explained to me.

To be honest, I did hesitate to go to the Chaos Mountains when I heard it, it doesn't seem to be a place I can go at this stage now, especially Ya'er, where I have no way to protect her, if something happens to her, I will also suffer, and I don't want to stay with them, that willow fairy, obviously because of Ya'er's affairs, it will be me who is unlucky to go with her, as for the dancing butterfly, I have already decided to break my promise.

"Long, you must go, you have promised me, let me follow you for a month, last time you just promised me to go offline, I waited for almost half a month, if you dare to escape again this time, we will be with you in the future." Seeing that I hadn't made up my mind, Dancing Butterfly immediately threatened me.

I glanced at her and didn't speak, then the willow fairy spoke, she smiled at me first, and said, "Long Teng, the Chaos Mountain Range is notoriously dangerous, it's normal for you to be afraid, you can not go." ”

I knew that the Willow Fairy was using a trick on me, but looking at the Willow Fairy's sarcastic eyes, my self-esteem made me unable to hold my breath, and I said loudly: "I'm afraid? Lao Tzu has not been afraid of anything since he was a child. Chaos Mountains? I've been wanting to see it for a long time. ”

"Long Teng, you are welcome to join, but it is indeed dangerous there, and we must first test your ability to determine if you have the ability to protect yourself there. You won't mind! The Willow Fairy's tone was impossible to refuse, and I pretended not to care.

The Willow Fairy test is very simple, it only has two items, the first is for me to use a knife to chop a piece of wood and determine the maximum attack power of a player from the depth of the wood. I glanced at the wood, which was plain and simple, and it already had knife marks of different shades. I checked the size of it, and it didn't seem like a difficult task to split it, so I decided to split it to show them my strength, so as not to be underestimated by them.

I took a deep breath, sank my arms, and when I had gathered up my strength, I slashed at the wood with all my might. With the sound of "doo", the wood was very hard, and I only slashed into it with all my strength, and the anti-shock force of the wood almost shook my hand away, but the knife was no longer stable, and it fell to the ground with a "dang" sound.

My face was ugly, not because of the soreness on my hands, but because I left the shallowest traces on that wood, when the thunderstorm followed me on the wood and left a knife mark twice as deep as mine, I was even more ashamed, I didn't expect that my force, compared to the current master, has such a big gap, twice as deep as the knife mark, but it can not be left twice as high as the attack power, it needs at least four times the attack power greater than me. Moreover, the knife marks of the thunderstorm are also very inconspicuous, on this, there are more than a dozen knife marks two or three times deeper than the thunderstorm, and their large marks seem to be open mouths, laughing at my insignificance.

I felt that many people around me looked at me with disdain after seeing the shallow knife marks I left, especially the dancing butterfly, which made me very angry, and I was so embarrassed to let such an ugly woman look down on me. People have such a bad habit of judging people by their appearance, and when I see the ugly appearance of the butterfly, I will have the illusion that everything I have is better than the butterfly. The attitude of these people towards me made me feel like a man, and at this time, the willow fairy spoke, "Long Teng, your attack power is a little low, but the attack power of the rest of our team members is relatively high, and the task of dealing with monsters will not trouble you, as long as you can protect yourself during the battle." ”

Fairy Liu's words made me even more uncomfortable, and then someone said: "Fairy Willow, it's better to do this, let's buy his Condensation Beast, so that he doesn't need to take risks, I'm really worried, with his ability, he may not be able to follow us to our destination." If he hangs up halfway, our future plans will be very passive. ”

"Yes, Fairy Willow, this kind of possibility is very high, in the Chaos Mountain Range, we can't guarantee that we can protect him." Someone else chimed in.

I was so embarrassed that I couldn't speak, ashamed of being a burden to others, and at the same time there was a hint of anger in my heart.

"Don't worry, I'll be there for him to protect him." Dancing Butterfly said on the side.

"Dancing Butterfly, your strength is higher than many people, but the Chaos Mountain Range is not an ordinary place, it is not something you can say you can, it is a matter of success or failure of this mission, I hope you can take it seriously." The man said lightly, gently pushing Butterfly's words back.

"This condensing beast is a mount, and it can't be sold." Thunderstorm interjected beside him.

"Real mounts, that's great." When they heard this, they rejoiced. What's the matter with them, the Condensation Beast has become my mount, so there is no way to transfer it to them, but they are happy. Suddenly I understood that in the game "Taimeng", mounts have many advantages that pets do not have, one of which is the transportation function, the system stipulates that a certain creature becomes a mount, and his transportation capacity is three times greater than that of becoming a pet, and now what they need most is the transportation capacity of the condensing beast.

"Then it's decided, Long Teng, we'll leave early tomorrow morning, please pack your things and report here tomorrow." The willow fairy glanced at me and said lightly.

I nodded to show that I understood, and was about to leave, when at this time, Fairy Liu said again: "Long Teng, wait a minute, your internal strength is too low, Steward Li, take him to the restaurant, give him a few dishes to increase internal strength, as much as you can increase." ”

The thin housekeeper Li snorted and immediately led the way in front, and I followed closely with Ya'er.

We came to a very elegant restaurant, and I asked Ya'er to sit next to me, and then sat upright, excitedly waiting for the legendary million-dish dish to come up. Millions, converted into RMB, there are tens of thousands of yuan, even in reality, tens of thousands of dollars of a dish is not how many people can afford to eat, if I were asked to buy it, I would never buy it to eat.

The dish came up quickly, and when the NPC waiter uncovered the rattan cover covering the magical dish, I was disappointed, the dishes of these millions of dishes turned out to be very ordinary, as if the ingredients were just fried casually, and the same as the home-made dishes that everyone usually eats, nothing special.

My disappointed expression was seen by the NPC waiter, and she smiled: "Dear guests, our dishes do not pay attention to form, we pursue the connotation of the dishes, and our focus is to let the guests eat the dishes that are good for their own bodies, rather than letting the guests eat dishes that are not useful." ”

"Really? If that's the case, your delicacies might as well be called medicinal food. I shook my head undeniably and said, after seeing the thousand mountains and white snow of the old patriarch of the Chiya people, I became picky about my diet.

"Honorable guests, the taste of medicinal food can't be as good as ours, honorable guests, as long as you taste it, you will know." The NPC waiter smiled and handed me a pair of chopsticks and said sweetly.

I took my chopsticks, picked up a dish that didn't look very good, and tasted it carefully. Well, the taste is still very good, but, compared to the old patriarch's craftsmanship, it is more than a step behind, the thousand mountains and white snow, we mortals should not eat it, so that I am now, even if this dish in front of me has been appreciated by countless players, I feel that it is nothing more than that.

"Doesn't it taste good?" The sweet voice of the NPC waiter came to my ears again. I looked up and saw the smiling face of the NPC waiter, nodded and said, "Thank you for taking care of it, it tastes good." "Then eat them all, they are very helpful for your internal strength." The NPC waiter is attentive and authentic.

I was about to listen to the NPC waiter, sweeping away the dish, but I saw a red shadow passing by, and the red cloud beast that was originally on Ya'er's body actually ran out, holding a piece of the dish in its small paws and eating it, and without thinking about it, it immediately spit out the dish, squeaking, as if it was very dissatisfied with the taste of the dish.

"Xiaohong, don't be naughty, give you this." Ya'er took out a Red Flame Fruit like a trick and dangled it in front of the Red Cloud Beast's eyes. When the Red Cloud Beast saw what it liked, it immediately pounced on Ya'er's body, took the Red Flame Fruit in its mouth, and sat on Ya'er's shoulder to eat it.

"Red Flame Fruit!" Suddenly, an exclamation came from outside the restaurant, and then a chubby NPC rushed into the restaurant from outside. Pointing to the Red Flame Fruit in the Red Cloud Beast's claws, he shouted.

We looked at the NPC in confusion, not knowing what he wanted to do, but the Red Cloud Beast quickly swallowed the Red Flame Fruit three times and two times.

"This guest, do you still have the Red Flame Fruit?" The fat NPC took a deep breath and asked.

"Oh! There are some, do you need it, uncle? As soon as I heard that business came to my door, I hurriedly replied.

"Yes, yes." The NPC said immediately.

"The price?"

"We'll give you 10,000 silver coins each." The NPC said immediately.

When I heard this price, my face immediately changed, 10,000 silver coins, such a valuable thing, I actually ate so much for the Condensing Beast like an ordinary wild fruit, those are all handfuls of money, I lost a lot, thinking about it, my face began to get whiter and whiter.

"Isn't 10,000 okay? The 11,000 bar, in fact, the price is still negotiable. "The NPC saw that my face was wrong, and thought I thought his price was too low, so he immediately remedied.

You can also discuss, my God, I know from the "Materialistic Chronicles" that this red flame fruit has many functions, it can relieve a variety of abnormal states of living things, and moreover, eating more of this kind of thing can increase people's agility, and the speed of the red cloud beast is mostly related to it, I also tried to eat more than a dozen, but there was no effect, I don't know how much agility I have to eat to come up, so I don't dare to eat it again, who knows, this NPC actually came out with 10,000 silver coins, it was really earned.

"Uncle, you can set a maximum price yourself, if I think it's okay, I'll sell it to you, if I think it's low, then forget it." I didn't know what the bottom line of that NPC was, so I threw bricks and stones.

The NPC thought for a moment and said, "We can get up to 12,500 pieces, this kind of thing, only we can give full play to its role here, it's a waste to feed the beasts like you." ”

"Deal!" I clapped my hands. The NPC is right, such a thing can only play all its functions in the hands of experts, if in my hands, it can only be combined with some other medicines, used to refine a few drugs that are not very useful, but in the hands of that NPC, it can be made into dishes to increase agility points for players.

What makes me haunted is that there are less than a hundred Red Flame Fruits left on my body, if that gram of condensing beasts hadn't come out to rob, I should have had thousands, eh, almost eaten by that gram of condensing beasts. If calculated at the current price, this Condensing Beast is worth almost tens of millions of silver coins, and I still lose money to spend so much money to get a Condensing Beast.

"Long Teng, those wild fruits of yours are not bad, they were picked there!" After the fat NPC left, Steward Li asked me secretly. Of course, I won't answer this question, and the fool will tell him that that is my way of making money, how can I easily leak it out and tell them what I will eat in the future.

"Long Teng, see how much your internal strength has risen?" Steward Li saw that I had finished eating a dish and asked me.

My original internal force was less than a year, but now after eating that dish, it has risen to a little more than a year, and a dish can increase the internal force for almost half a year. I told Steward Li about my changes, but Steward Li frowned when he heard it, "It's only added a little more than half a year's internal force, so what is the speed of your mind in seconds?" ”

"Around 1.3." I replied honestly.

"No wonder this is the case, Long Teng, your heart speed is a little too low, with your heart speed per second, even if you eat the remaining two dishes, it won't change much. It is stipulated here that eating this kind of dish here, only the first 3 dishes are effective, if you continue to eat, with your mental speed per second, the internal force will be improved very little, so let's save the remaining two dishes, and wait for you to re-practice the mental method of higher second speed and then eat, right? Steward Li thought for a moment and said.

This guy is not a good thing, he can't ask the origin of Hongyanguo and dare to shorten my special dish, how can I let him get his wish, so I smiled and said: "Also, I'll go back and tell Fairy Liu, saying that my heart is too bad, just eat one dish, thank her for her hospitality." ”

"Long Teng, I think it's better to forget it, the high-second speed method is not easy to walk, the place we are going to tomorrow is too dangerous, just finish the three dishes, and add a little more ability if you can increase it." Steward Li immediately changed his words.

"Everything is up to Steward Li's arrangement." I replied with a smile, and said with a secret smile in my heart, you kid, play tricks with me, Lao Tzu is not easy to bully.

After eating the remaining two dishes, my internal strength has been close to two years, and I wanted to sit down again after eating, but I saw the willow fairy and the dancing butterfly walking towards this restaurant, and I hurriedly took Ya'er and slipped away from the other direction.

Out of the game, it was already dinner time, I was trying to find a pack of instant noodles to solve my stomach like before, but I saw Liu Zi coming out of the kitchen with a big bowl of hot soup, and then looking at the dinner table, several side dishes had been fried, and they were still steaming.

"Sister Liu, great, you've already cooked!" I cheered, ran to the table, picked up a piece and put it in my mouth and chewed it, deliberately making a sound of satisfaction. "Sister Liu, your craftsmanship is better than the special dishes that cost more than one million yuan at the Haolong Inn, if Sister Liu becomes a chef in the game in the future, Sister Liu's dishes will definitely surprise those gourmets."

"Dragon, you, you will play poor sister, there is as good as you say." Sister Liu gently knocked me on the head, sneered, and scooped me a bowl of soup and handed it to me.

"It's true, Sister Liu's craftsmanship is really good, I think, if anyone marries Sister Liu in the future, that guy will be the happiest man in the world, he can eat Sister Liu's dishes every day, and Sister Liu is so gentle and knows how to care about people......" I said nonsense, but was knocked heavily by Sister Liu, "Long, you are talking nonsense again, eat quickly, the dishes are going to be cold." ”

"Yes, yes." I hurriedly devoured it, but I didn't expect to be choked, which made Sister Liu scramble my chest and hammer my back, and it took a while to swallow the mouthful of rice.

"Dragon, see that you are in a hurry to eat, and no one is robbing you." Sister Liu handed me a cup and scolded.

"I don't want to either, who made my sister's food so delicious." I looked at her innocently. "You, if you put your energy into studying, then your grades will not be so bad." Sister Liu gave me a blank look and said.

"Sister Liu, how do you feel in the game? It's not bad. "I saw that Sister Liu shifted the topic to my most troublesome study, and hurriedly forked it off.

"It's not bad, the statement on the forum is not exaggerated at all, the game "Taimeng" is really real, and after playing for a long time, it makes people feel like they are in reality." Sister Liu saw that I didn't want to talk about studying, so she had to frown and follow my words.

"I'm just saying, this "Taimeng" game is really good, the things in it, and the reality is not much different, some are more realistic than reality, and now, many people regard it as the second world of human beings? I heard that the scientists of the LX company are trying to solve a technology, it is about the problem of game time and real time, if you overcome it, in the future, the game time can be 100 times faster than the real time, at that time, one day in the real world is equivalent to 100 days of the game, in the game, human beings can achieve another form of longevity. I said eloquently.

"Dragon, that technology is not easy to overcome, I heard that it is related to human brain science, all the technology related to the human brain, it is very difficult to overcome, if it is not for the LX company has that huge capital and technology team as the backing, it does not dare to set foot in this field, it is not an ordinary science and technology project, and, spending such a huge amount of manpower and material resources, to engage in this game, network-related technology, I can't see any military value, the country will not support it, LX company can recover the cost in the future is difficult to say." Sister Liu shook her head and said.

"But that's good for humanity, it gives humanity more time, and it can contribute more."

"Dragon, you're just talking about the Internet!"

"Now the Internet and reality are almost the same, and you think, the relationship between human beings and the Internet is like fish and water, if there is no Internet all of a sudden, I think the whole world will collapse in an instant."

"Dragon, there is still a difference between the Internet and reality, such as this "Taimeng" game, it makes people think of it as a second world for people, many people run into this game, want to realize their dreams that they can't achieve in reality, they think, this game is so real, success in the game, it also represents success in reality, but they forget, a game, no matter how real, these are just external things, the important thing in the game is people, people in the game are the same as people in reality, They have all human feelings, and they also have the same interpersonal relationships as real human beings, and some people who have escaped from reality are delusional to realize their dreams in the game, which is tantamount to a fool's dream. Dragon, if you don't work hard in the real world, you can't play the game well. "It's really annoying, Sister Liu has been talking to me for a long time, and then she has come back. I think Sister Liu should become a teacher, but she doesn't miss any opportunity, and she regrets it!