When: Winter 2052

With the realization of virtual reality technology, the cultural life of human beings has been further enriched, especially the development of the virtual online game industry is particularly rapid. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info A variety of virtual online games have entered people's lives and attracted a large number of gamers.

However, with the advent of the winter of 2052, many virtual online games have entered a state of imminent closure, and even those new online games that have only been running for less than a year have announced on their official websites that they will be closed.

Although such an approach will cause the performance of the global online game industry to drop to a freezing point, another announcement that followed has attracted the attention of the majority of gamers.

The Genesis virtual online game [Strange Dreams] will be launched on Christmas Eve in the winter of 2052.

This is a holographic virtual online game led by the world's largest online game company "Mewtwo", developed by 256 online game companies around the world, and invested a lot of money, integrating combat, life and entertainment.

Night, December 24, 2052.

Countless players across the globe are waiting to enter the game.

At 23:30, Wang Yan, who had just come out of the bathroom, dried his hair with a hair dryer, ate something, and then lay on the bed, took out the virtual game holographic helmet that he had purchased for 100,000 RMB a month ago, connected it to the power supply and wireless network, turned on the switch, put it on his head, and then closed his eyes.

"The virtual link has been established."

"Perform identity verification, identity confirmation, number Y521262."

"Welcome to [Strange Dreams], and I wish you a happy game."

"The game is loading, please be patient."

Wang Yan has been waiting like this many times, since he bought this game helmet a month ago, Wang Yan has tried to enter the game many times, but the result is obvious, the game that has not yet started, is not accessible.

The first few times he entered the game, Wang Yan's eyes were a black screen, on which was a countdown number, showing how long it would take to enter the game, but this time it was a little different, when there was still a minute in the countdown, Wang Yan entered a white space, and an attribute panel appeared in front of him, with information about the attributes of the characters.

As a veteran of virtual games, Wang Yan certainly knows that this is the character design part, that is, "creating characters." ”

Isn't it the same as the games you've played before? I thought there would be anything special about this game, and I didn't even have a decent promotional CG, so I jumped straight to the creation of characters.

Helplessly complaining about everything in front of him, Wang Yan began to design his own character image.

Wang Yan set his game ID to [Forget to Say], which is the ID he has always used, because it can be renamed, so unless there are foul or sensitive words, or the characters are super long, the ID is generally available.

Next is the appearance setting, because of different personal hobbies, so it takes a lot of time to set the appearance carefully, and the game is about to start with less than a minute, plus Wang Yan is already confident in his appearance, so he uses the appearance plus fine-tuning five percent.

After the appearance is set up, it is the fashion design, looking at the modern fashion in front of him, Wang Yan understands that the cultural background of the next game should not be much different from modern culture.

Choosing a set of black casual clothes, Wang Yan clicked to finish. At this time, there was a game prompt in my ears.

"The basic setup is complete, the player is waiting to enter the game, the countdown is 25, 24 ......"

Wang Yan thought that there were some other settings, such as racial occupations or something, but found that there was nothing at all. No wonder only a minute was given to set it up.

For old players, it is a great advantage to enter the game first, so when Wang Yan is very simple about the settings, it is to be able to enter and understand the game as soon as possible.

With a flash of light, Wang Yan entered the game, not the novice village that was crowded with people as he imagined, but an empty room, with only a bed and a table in the room, and Wang Yan was lying on this bed at this time.

Wang Yan got up and walked out of the room, and then he saw an empty living room with no furniture.

Although there was nothing here, Wang Yan still found out for the first time.

"Isn't this my home? It's just a lot less. ”

Wang Yan looked from room to room and found that there was nothing except the bed and table in his room.

Wang Yan walked to the window and looked out, and sure enough, this was the community where he lived.

Wang Yan didn't plan to stay in the house for a long time, he was going to go out and have a look.

After walking out of the door, Wang Yan found that there were many people like him coming out of the room in the corridor. Wang Yan didn't choose to do the elevator, because his house was on the third floor, and it wouldn't take long to take the stairs, and, if he guessed correctly, the elevator was estimated to be overcrowded now.

Soon Wang Yan walked downstairs, looking at the familiar building in front of him, the familiar flowerbed rockery fountain, Wang Yan was even more sure, this is his community. Because there is no transportation, Wang Yan can only walk out of the community, because of the low floor, Wang Yan is considered to have gone downstairs relatively early, so there are not many people on the road.

Walking to the door of the community, Wang Yan suddenly remembered something, and did not go directly to the street, but walked to the security room next to him.

"Is Uncle Li here?" Wang Yan asked one of the security guards who was born.

Uncle Li is a security guard downstairs for Wang Yan, because he is familiar with Wang Yan after meeting him many times, but the security guard inside told Wang Yan that there is no security guard surnamed Li here.

If you exclude the lying of the group of security guards in front of you, then there is only one answer, that is, the game world in front of you is still different from the real world, and people are the most obvious one.

The people in the security room just now, obviously, are NPCs.

After walking out of the community, Wang Yan chose to go to the nearest commercial street to see what the difference was, the nearest commercial street Wang Yan's community is about three or four hundred meters, that is, a matter of a few minutes, sure enough, walking on the street, looking at this familiar and unfamiliar commercial street, Wang Yan understood, this dream world is modeled after the real world, Wang Yan just is in the community, is considered the player's space, that is, belongs to the player's own territory, the reason why there is only a table, a bed, because, The layout of this space will be up to the player, but of course it will cost money.

The difference between the dream world and the real world is that it is a place for players to explore.

Wang Yan found a different store at this time, the reason why it is different is because, in his memory, there is no such store, he remembers that this store should be a clothing store, he remembers that he also bought a dress in this clothing store the day before yesterday, and now, this store has four strange words written on it, and there is a strange logo in the lower right corner, if Wang Yan remembers correctly, this logo also has one on his game helmet, the logo of the dream game. Sure enough, is this the breaking point for this game?

After looking at this shop for a while, Wang Yan found that he really didn't have the impression of those four words in his memory, so he didn't think much about it and walked into this strange store.

"Is there anything you can help me with?"

As soon as he walked into this store, Wang Yan heard a soft female voice, Wang Yan looked around the space, and found that this space was smaller than he imagined, and the sound just now seemed to be a machine in the corner.

Wang Yan walked to the machine in the corner and found that this was a console similar to artificial intelligence, and the sound just now should have come from this artificial intelligence.

"What kind of place is this?" Wang Yan asked the artificial intelligence.

"Hello, this is the ninth 'Strange Home' in Lancang City, and Smart 1432 is serving you."

"What is the House of Abilities?"

"The House of Abilities is a place to help people with abilities awaken, improve their abilities, and learn skills."

Hearing this, Wang Yan generally understood the combat method of this game, unlike Western fantasy online games that have warriors, knights, magicians and other professions, some are just superpowers, of course, there are other types of professions Wang Yan doesn't know, but so far, he has found his first goal - to awaken and become a supernatural.

"Can I become an Adept, then?" Wang Yan asked.

"The Awaken ability requires the payment of the corresponding amount of Dream Coins, and the system has detected that you are not carrying enough Dream Coins, so you cannot awaken the ability."

"What is Dream Coins, the universal currency of this world?"

"Dream Coin is a general term for the currency of the Alternate Dream World, which is specifically divided into Cloud Coin and Star Coins, of which Cloud Coin is used for the underlying currency exchange, and Star Coin is used for the top-level currency exchange, and the exchange ratio is 1 Star Coin = 100 Cloud Coins."

Wang Yan didn't ask how to earn Dream Coins, because this is a very idiotic question, the world is so big, there is always a way to make money.

"And how many Dream Coins do you need for an awakened ability?" This is the answer to the question Wang Yan wants to know most so far.

"Awakening costs 5 Dream Coins."

Wang Yan still doesn't know how much 5 dream coins are worth in this world, but Wang Yan knows that as a game, the game currency exchange system is a very important part, but the game that has just started to run, according to the principle of fairness, this system is definitely not open, so now everyone is on the same running line.

Wang Yan didn't ask for too much information, because in the early days of the game, time was money, and maybe now it seems that he has obtained very important information, but in fact, this has no practical effect, just a piece of information.