On Saturdays and Sundays of the second week of June, Shi Qingsheng chose to log in to the 'Dream Game' in the morning, and he still worked in the carpentry shop in the morning. Accumulated, he has earned 3 silver and 5 bronze coins.

According to his plan, he was going to wait until he had saved up enough 5 silver coins before going to the martial arts hall to learn martial arts, because he heard that after consuming one silver coin an hour in the practice room, he hoped to save up to 4 silver coins in the practice room in addition to one silver coin for passing on the gong; Just not to waste, half a day's time.

Regarding his plan, "Peacock" persuaded him and told him that with his current mental strength and physical strength, it was possible that he would be persuaded to retire and rest after practicing for less than 4 hours; But he still insisted on trying, after all, it was possible and not to waste time entering the 'dream game'. Shi Qingsheng fell asleep again after breakfast; For the past two days, he still can't enter the game in a sober state.

His parents were still very worried that he would start sleeping again in the morning, and asked him to go to the hospital for another check-up; He said that he had checked it and it was definitely fine, and now he is a little tired because of the amount of exercise he has exercised a lot every day, morning and evening, so he wants to sleep more in the morning. He told his parents that he was now practicing martial arts and had already achieved some results, and said that his body was getting stronger and stronger now.

In addition to worrying about his weekend sleep, his parents could see that his physical condition and appearance were stronger than before, and his meal was larger than before; Therefore, he can only be suspicious and remind him that if he feels unwell, he must go to the hospital for examination again.

For the "Peacock" and "Camel" reminders, when entering the game in the morning, due to the fact that the time is too close to the time and the game time at night, there is a possibility that the mental power will be reduced, Shi Qingsheng specifically looked at the personal information when he logged in to the game, and there was no change; However, after half a day's work, I do feel more tired than when I entered the game in the afternoon; He couldn't figure it out, whether it was really or if it was just a mental effect.

…… On the morning of June 8, when Xu Ran entered the game, he received a notice from the system prompting him to renew the fee within 10 days; Now he knows that at least one month in the game is counted as 30 days. As long as there is not much difference between the moons in the game, like the world he is in, there is not much difference; It is impossible for him to save enough for the annual fee of 20 gold coins this month, and he is now determined to strive to complete the payment for one year at a time when he renews next month.

Xu Ran continued to work at the blacksmith shop twice a day this week, and when he entered the game on the afternoon of Friday (that is, June 12), the personal information displayed in the login information changed again: mental power: 7; Strength: 10; Stamina: 10 (from 9); HP: 70. By the Sunday of the second week of June (June 14), the game currency on Xu Ran's account had accumulated: 13 gold coins and 8 silver coins; Xu Ran paid the monthly fee of 3 gold coins to renew on June 14, and after paying the fee, Xu Ran accumulated the remaining game coins on his account: 10 gold coins and 8 silver coins.

…… Kong Xiuying told Xu Ran and Shi Qingsheng about what she learned from the sheep herding base on Wednesday and weekends in the QQ private chat window; Shi Qingsheng didn't care much, but Xu Ran asked in detail about the situation of herding sheep, hoping to have a general idea of the method of exercising mental power in the game.

Xu Ran also asked very carefully, in a private chat with Kong Xiuying, about the original conversation between Kong Xiuying and the ranch owner about the game character being bitten to death by a wolf; I want to deduce from this what will happen in this situation for people like him and Kong Xiuying. Kong Xiuying also told him that she herself had pondered it well, and what the ranch owner said was only for the situation of gamers, and she didn't say a word about those who were brought in like them; However, since the gamers and mental power will be damaged, the mental power of those who are brought in will also be damaged, and perhaps even more serious; Otherwise, how can it act as a 'fuse'.

Kong Xiuying believes that if you want to quit the game in this way, let alone whether you can or not, and completely withdraw from the game, but you don't dare to take the risk of mental damage. Kong Xiuying may not have paid much attention to the fact that Kong Xiuying mentioned on Saturday night, the owner of the sheep farm said, that 'Dream Game' temporarily stopped applying for new game accounts, but Xu Ran was very concerned; that night, before logging in to the game, Xu Ran tried to click on the registration window and was told to 'temporarily suspend the service of registering a new account'; this can be regarded as verifying what the NPC said in the game.

However, why the registration of new accounts is suspended for the game that is running, Xu Ran really can't understand; In a private chat on Sunday night, he told Kong Xiuying about his inquiries about this matter; Kong Xiuying thinks about it and can't understand it, but she just thinks that even the NPCs in the game know that there is such a thing as reminding players, so the suspension of new game accounts and applications should be a big deal for game developers.

On the afternoon of Monday (June 8) in the second week of June, Li Xin was called to the office by the section chief, who said to him: "The problem mentioned in your report is indeed a bit strange, and this matter must continue to be investigated." For the time being, there is only one person in charge of the investigation, and if there is something to come to me, don't talk to outsiders. You will write an application form later, and you will also have to monitor Xu Ran and Shi Qingsheng's QQ. Others need to be investigated, you think about it yourself; At present, do not contact me directly, mainly to investigate from the side. For the relevant content, a special file is established, and the name of the file is named after "Dream Walker". ”

Li Xin said: "I want to check first, after Shi Qingsheng entered the dream at that time, he was sent to the hospital for examination, one is to implement it, whether there is such a thing as being sent to the hospital, and the other is to check the examination report at that time." The section chief said, "Yes, you can arrange the relevant matters yourself." ”

The morning after talking with the section chief, Li Xin took a train to Nanyuan City; After arriving at the place in the afternoon, he first went to the security section of the "Eastern Machinery Factory". After showing his National Security Bureau documents to the section chief of the Security Section, Li Xin said his intention for this trip: "I want to inquire whether a person named Shi Qingsheng was sent to the hospital because of a sudden coma in the previous paragraph." ”

When the chief of the security section heard this, he said directly: "There is this, and I have heard about it." The hospital did not find out the reason at that time, and the director of their workshop was still worried about whether he was too tired from work, and said that he should rest for two days; But he rested all morning, and then went to work in the afternoon" "Can you help me find out, what day and which hospital he was sent to?" It's best not to let me know about this. The security section and section chief thought about it and said: "On a specific day, I can go to their workshop to check the attendance sheet, which is in April; As for which hospital, I'll go around their workshop and ask around. ”

The chief of the security section went out for about half an hour and came back, telling Li Xin what he knew: "Shi Qingsheng suddenly fell into a coma on the night of April 17 when he was singing in the song hall with several colleagues; Later, he was sent to the emergency room of the Second Municipal Hospital, and it should have been in the early morning of the 18th when he was sent to the hospital. ”

After Li Xin came out of the "Oriental Machinery Factory", he went directly to the Second Municipal Hospital; Li Xin still came to the security department of the hospital first, and after finding the other party's section chief, he showed the other party his own documents; Then he told the other party that he was going to check on a man named Shi Qingsheng, who was sent to the emergency room because of a coma in the early morning of April 18 or on the night of April 17, for examination and diagnosis. ”

The head of the security section of the hospital went to the hospital's payment office to check, and after about ten minutes, he took back Shi Qingsheng's payment record printout; Li Xin took a look, and in addition to the routine examination items, there was also a CT examination of the brain.

Li Xin told the section chief that he wanted a CT examination photo, and he also found the doctor on duty at the time to ask about the diagnosis of Shi Qingsheng. The chief of the security section led Li Xin first and went to the CT room to find Shi Qingsheng's photo, and the CT room promised to get relevant photos before getting off work.

Li Xin went to the emergency department with the head of the security department, and they were told that the doctor on duty was on the night shift today and could only come at night; Li Xin and the chief of the security section made an appointment to meet at 8 o'clock in the evening, and after paying a visit to the family and putting away the CT photos on their behalf, they went to the hotel to book a room. Li Xin deliberately invited the head of the hospital security department to dinner in the evening, after all, if people accompany him to the hospital to inquire at night, it is already overtime, and there will be no overtime pay; But it was politely declined by the chief of the security section.

Speaking of which, Li Xin's trip was quite smooth; Since it was inconvenient to ask himself, he originally planned to ask from Shi Qingsheng's factory first, and if he couldn't find it clearly, he would first have to find the emergency payment records from the hospitals around the factory one by one. It is really worry-free to be able to inquire about the time of admission and inspection directly from Shi Qingsheng's factory. The reason why Li Xin went directly to the security section to inquire was because the people in the security section were all educated in the secrecy regulations and subject to professional constraints, and they all knew that they could not talk nonsense about the matters under investigation.

After Li Xin came to the security department in the evening, the section chief invited the doctor on duty that day; After introducing Li Xin, Li Xin asked people about their views on Shi Qingsheng's diagnosis that day. The doctor on duty described: "I still have the impression that the patient that day was in a coma when he was brought in, but his blood pressure and heartbeat were normal; Although he drank some beer, the alcohol content in his body was not high, so he was not drunk; Later, I did a CT and the results were normal. The patient was in a coma until 4 a.m. before waking up, and after waking up, his blood pressure and heartbeat were checked, and everything was normal. At that time, the patient was advised to do another MRI examination, but the patient was discharged from the hospital because of the high cost and did not want to stay in the hospital for observation. ”

According to the doctor on duty, after that, he also pondered for a while, and in the third week of June, Xu Ran continued to work in the blacksmith shop every afternoon and evening; On the afternoon of Thursday (that is, June 18th), when entering the game, the personal information displayed in the login information has changed again: mental power: 8 (originally 7); Strength: 10; Stamina: 10; HP: 80 (was 70).

For the mental power value to rise to 8, Xu Ran is really happy; Calculated from 7 to 8, the mental power value has gone through 88 times of 'dream game' time, which can be regarded as a not short game process; And this time, the upgrade time can be longer than the last time when the mental power value was increased from 6 to 7, and that time was only used for 24 game times.

I just don't know how long it will take for each level to upgrade the mental power value again, and if it takes the same time as this upgrade, it will be a long process to upgrade the mental power value to 11. It can also be seen from here that only after leaving the 'Novice Village' can players make their mental power worthy of rapid improvement in the new environment.

When the mental power value reaches 8, it also means that Xu Ran can learn intermediate martial arts at any time; However, he still has to concentrate on paying the annual fee for the game first, so that in the long run, he should be able to save some expenses. As of the end of the third week (that is, June 21st), Xu Ran's account has accumulated 12 gold coins and 9 silver coins, and if this game month is still calculated as 30 days, he can pay the annual game fee within the next payment time limit.

Xu Ran's renovation construction this month, every day just to go to the construction site in the morning to say hello, when there is really something, you can also communicate and arrange by phone in the evening. It should be because his mental strength is higher than before, he now arranges his work, his mind is very clear, and his memory is good, although he only works half a day a day, his work is arranged in an orderly manner; The things that need to be coordinated and coordinated have been considered and implemented in advance, and the construction progress is also in line with the requirements; The boss, Party A, and supervisor are all very satisfied with his work; He himself is responsible for managing the decoration team in this project, and he is also full of praise for having a capable project leader like him.

…… Kong Xiuying's efficiency in the company is now significantly higher than that of ordinary people; Work is the main force, and the work at hand can always be completed in advance; So when she asks for leave, the director of the room is granted leave every time as long as it is within her authority.

On Tuesday afternoon of the third week, Kong Xiuying took leave to enter the 'dream game' once, and then on Saturday afternoon, and then entered the game again, these two times she still only herded one sheep at a time, and each time she practiced being able to give instructions to the sheep during the march, and by Saturday afternoon, she could occasionally concentrate and give instructions to the sheep while on the march.

On Sunday afternoon, when she logged in to the game again, she saw that her personal information had changed: Mental Power: 7 (it was 6); Strength: 5; Stamina: 6; HP: 70 (was 60). Kong Xiuying counted that her mental power value had risen from 6 to 7, and she had only experienced 15 'dream games', which was indeed a lot earlier than the 24 game experiences Xu Ran needed when he was upgraded; This made her even more satisfied with her choice.

This time she went directly to the clothing store, and took out the 1 silver coin and 5 copper coins that she had deposited in the boss at one time, and took them to the sheep farm together, and today she asked the boss for two sheep, and after paying a deposit of 10 copper coins, the rest of the money was deposited with the owner of the sheep farm.

If she followed the normal steps, she should wait and be able to skillfully direct a sheep on the march, and then practice herding two sheep at the same time; But Yun Zhongyue's situation, which could enter the 'Spiritual Force Field Space' at any time, made her a little impatient, so after thinking about it, she decided to start training and herding two sheep immediately, so as to increase the pressure on herself, maybe it would help to improve her mental strength.

(End of chapter)