The two of us walked out of the ancient street and came to the entrance of the hospital, but we saw that these people were still gathered there, and the onlookers gathered more and more, and the paper money in the brazier burned more and more vigorously.

We squeezed into the crowd and it was only at such a close distance that we could see the portrait on the posthumous photo.

"So young?" Seeing the portrait on the posthumous photo clearly, Xie Liuying couldn't help but be surprised.

We thought it was an old man suffering from illness and then didn't survive the winter, and the hospital was unable to recover, which finally caused dissatisfaction among the family. I never expected that the deceased looked similar in age to us, and it was indeed a little unacceptable to think that the white-haired person sent the black-haired person, and the family of the deceased cried so badly that it was not all disguised.

We heard a shocking fact - this young man died suddenly after playing games in an Internet café all night a year ago! Although it is not new to play games with sudden death these days, it is a bit too coincidental to set up a professional player in the game.

Similarly, the reason why these family members cried, made trouble and hanged themselves was also very simple, because people just fainted in the Internet café, and they were still angry when they were sent to the hospital, but they were gone after being treated, and of course they couldn't accept it. You don't care about cardiac arrest, blood vessel rupture and other things are really not easy to do, in short, people die in the hospital, so naturally they have to come to the hospital to burn money to summon spirits.

I had some ominous premonitions, and whispered to Xie Liuying: "This person shouldn't have died suddenly while playing "Book Title"? ”

Xie Liuying shook his head: "You think, it doesn't matter what this person died when he was playing, the important thing is that Lu Xiao appeared here dressed as Ling Husheng, how do you say the person who sees the photo will contact him?" ”

Me: ", the mastermind behind this is also vicious, isn't this killing two birds with one stone?" ”

We got the general idea of what was going on and silently withdrew from the crowd.

Xie Liuying: "The key is how did they do it?" Knowing in advance that people are going to die? Knowing in advance that the first seven days of the family will come to make trouble? Also know in advance that the cause of death was due to addiction to games? ”

Me: "I think we have to think about it the other way around, and the reason why a coincidence is a coincidence is not that something that happens infrequently happens, but that something that doesn't happen suddenly comes together. Our country is so vast and has such a large population, and tragedies of different situations happen every day. Sudden death from game addiction may be a small probability event if it is placed around everyone, but it is almost an inevitable event when placed in such a large sample of the whole country. ”

Xie Liuying: "You mean that this incident was originally just a simple tragedy of sudden death by playing a game, and the mastermind behind the scenes used it after learning about it, which is what we are seeing now?" ”

Me: "Yes, thinking about it this way, he could send someone to instigate his family to come to the hospital today to make trouble after knowing about this incident, and then use the fan group owner to trick Lu Xiao into coming to the hospital gate on the same day." And these two things, as long as the death of this person is known in advance, it is not difficult to really operate. ”

Xie Liuying: "Wouldn't it be bad if things became like this?" Even if Lu Xiao goes back and asks the official blog of their team to explain this, I am afraid that in the end, the water will not be clear, and the trend of public opinion will still condemn online games as harming people, and in the end, "The Title of the Book" will still take the blame. ”

Me: "There's no way, this mastermind behind the scenes is almost leakless, we can make an announcement in advance to minimize the impact can be regarded as a reversal, as for what others think, we really can't control it." What's more, if you really want to talk about it, the game is ......"

I wanted to say "electronic heroin", but I thought about it and couldn't say it.

Me: "It's designed for human weaknesses, and almost everything in the game is designed to please the player. The production under this product design concept is very scary. It brings together everything you need to get addicted and constantly turns all your investment into pleasure at breakneck speed. ”

In fact, reading and studying can also bring happiness to people, but because of the intellectual nature of this behavior, they have a long monetization cycle. For example, you may have to study hard for a month to get the pleasure of improving your grades, and this pleasure may come from praise from teachers and parents, recognition from classmates, and self-satisfaction, and there is no pleasure in the boring homework every day for this month.

This is not the case with entertainment products, for example, you can brush through the most boring but at the same time the most important cultivation process from the perspective of the protagonist, and any author will focus on how the protagonist defeats the villain after practicing the martial arts. In other words, everyone can "get the thrill directly" with the main character.

The same is true in the game, how many monsters you fight and how many tasks you do will quickly be rewarded in terms of the level and attributes of the character, and in PVP, you can also immediately get the thrill of "defeating the villain". Everything is clearly marked in the definition of values, how much to pay, how much to return, Tong Suo is not bullied.

Unfortunately, most of the things that are good for you, such as studying or working out, don't have a progress bar, and you can't tell how much the bar has gone up in an hour of effort. The future returns cannot be predicted in advance, and there is a great deal of uncertainty. The reason why systematic writing is so popular in today's network community is probably also due to the visualization of this process of gaining progress.

Since I was a child, almost all the top students I know can get fun from "boring homework", and they can get immediate pleasure every time they solve a problem, so I can comfort myself that these top students are not a big deal, but their cool point is the sense of accomplishment in solving problems and gaining knowledge.

Xie Liuying: "You seem to have a deep understanding." ”

Me: "That's right, you didn't see it when I was addicted to games in junior high school." ”

At that time, "Title of the Book" was in the limelight, but the academic pressure was very high, and although my enlightened parents did not send me to Professor Yang, they still strictly limited the time I spent playing games online. However, the scariest thing about games is that once you get addicted, it has nothing to do with how long you play.

You can't help but think about eating, sleeping, going to class, and doing your homework. Thinking about which copy to play the next time you play the game; where to strengthen the next equipment; What combo can you use in the arena next time to increase your score again; In the next game, whether the Tianyuan Relic team can win or something.

Addicted to addiction, even if the person is not in the game, the soul is there. During that time, my mind was full of games, and my mental state was very bad, and my academic performance naturally plummeted. It took a lot of effort to overcome this in the first place.

Me: "This Chinese New Year, my cousin at home was envious of me when he saw that I was a professional player, and it seems that he still hasn't gone through the most difficult stage." You see that the person who died suddenly playing the game today must be so addicted that he can't extricate himself, and I'm a little worried about him going on like this. ”

Xie Liuying said with a smile: "You go and inquire about what game he plays, and then find a master to abuse him one hundred and eighty times, and the Internet addiction will naturally be stopped." ”