2025, Shenzhen, China

It was already ten o'clock in the evening, and Li Yufan finished his work on the construction site and walked back to the dormitory with his tired body. He looked up at the stars in the sky www.biquge.info he was a little distracted for a while.

Li Yufan is a senior student, and now he is in the graduation internship stage, he is only studying in a second-class university, which is better than Pheasant University, and he is not famous. Approaching graduation, the school is very irresponsible to arrange a job on the assembly line for nearly half a year for those graduate interns who have no way, the salary is very small, but the advantage is that the working hours are short, and accommodation is also provided, and it is a good place to stay more freely, which is a good place to mix internship ratings.

Li Yufan belongs to the group of people who have no connections and no access, and he will be thankful that he can find a free place to live after leaving the school gate, so he has little resistance to this job, and by the way, he found a short-term temporary job on a nearby construction site, and took advantage of the summer to earn some money to remit to his family to help his family survive the upcoming increasingly difficult winter.

Five years have passed since the earthquake of the century in 2020, but its impact has not only not subsided, but has intensified, and even Li Yufan sometimes wonders if it is possible that a more terrible change is quietly brewing in places that people have not paid attention to.

The disaster known as the earthquake of the century is simply unparalleled, as many as 9 earthquakes of magnitude 8 or higher broke out all over the world in 15 days, Asia, Africa, Europe and the United States have not escaped the doom, among which Japan is the most serious, the earthquake and tsunami have affected almost one-third of Japan's territory, and nearly 3% of Japan's territory has been swallowed up by the sea, and countless deaths and injuries have been innumerable, and Japan's economy and people's livelihood have suffered heavy losses. China is relatively unaffected, but the border area between China and India has been affected by the main earthquake in India, but the casualties are small.

The earthquake of the century seems to have opened the abnormal pattern of the earth, the abnormal climate of the earth has broken out year after year, the winter is getting colder and colder, the ice cover of the North and South Pole is gradually increasing, and there have been a large number of residents near the polar regions suffering from low temperature and freezing to death for several consecutive years, and winter heating in high latitudes has become the main force of energy consumption for a time. On the other hand, the summer is getting hotter and hotter, with temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius near the equator for several months, power and water shortages in many countries, and deaths due to heat are frequent. And not only that, droughts, floods, hurricanes and other extreme weather are frequently wreaking havoc all over the earth, causing more serious damage than before, and human beings are in dire straits for a while.

Scientists from all over the world have expressed their opinions, and optimists believe that this extreme climate will not last long, and soon the earth will be able to return to that suitable home, citing various historical facts. Pessimists argue that the Earth's climate may have entered another new normal and will remain that way for a longer period of time, and that it may recover in the future, but more likely to get worse, while they are concerned that there is evidence that volcanoes around the world seem to be active at the same time, and that if so many volcanoes erupt at the same time, the consequences would be dire.

The serious deterioration of the natural environment after the earthquake of the century has made the lives of the people of all countries even worse, and residents in high latitudes have moved to lower latitudes on a large scale, with and without conditions, resulting in a sharp rise in housing prices and a sharp decline in people's living standards. Eventually, various government decrees restricting the movement of residents without reason were urgently issued by various countries, and the increasing tide of migration was quelled.

Li Yufan's family is an ordinary working family, his parents are workers, and a younger sister is in high school, his father was disabled due to an accident a few years ago, and lost his ability to work, and the family only relied on his mother to survive, that is, part of his college expenses are also loans, and he has not yet graduated with tens of thousands of yuan in debt.

Originally, Li Yufan didn't plan to go to this second-rate university, but his parents were very insistent, and the reason for going to college was not within the scope of restricting migration. He had a plan to go to school in the south, find a well-paying job, and buy a house, so that he could bring his parents who lived in the north to live here.

However, reality proves how naïve he is, with the rapid increase in the population of the south, housing prices have reached the point where ordinary people are desperate, Li Yufan simply calculated, with his current income, the plan to buy a house in this life must be in vain, the only consolation is that there are more job opportunities here, which can allow him to maintain his livelihood while setting aside more than half of the subsidy for the family, so that the family can survive in this harsh environment.

Whew, Li Yufan breathed a long sigh of relief, shook his head, put aside the messy thoughts in his mind, and realized that he had arrived at the door of the dormitory building unconsciously, so he didn't hesitate, pushed the door and walked in.

Li Yufan's dormitory is on the third floor, it is a standard four-person room, one of them is his classmate named Jiang Fei, and the other two are locals, who generally live at home, and they haven't been to the dormitory a few times since the internship is a month, but this just provides a more comfortable environment for the two.

When he entered the dormitory, Jiang Fei was busy playing with VR glasses, and he didn't know that someone had entered the door.

After more than ten years of development, virtual reality technology has become relatively mature, and the price has been reduced from tens of thousands of yuan to a few thousand yuan for civilians. The visual immersion effect is closer to reality, and at the same time, with the help of various auxiliary equipment such as handles, gloves and some wearable devices to achieve some simple tactile simulation, virtual technology is not only widely used in the field of games, but also in the field of film and television, and the works known as 5D6D are endless.

However, the more advanced consciousness immersive virtual technology has not made the slightest progress, and the kind of virtual fantasy that seems to travel through the soul still exists only in science fiction.

The craze for discussion about conscious souls took off two years ago, when an organization that was so inconspicuous that almost no one knew its name claimed to have discovered software for the human brain, named Conscious Body, and claimed to have invented a device that could test the strength of the conscious body, and set up free testing sites in some locations for people to test themselves for free. However, within a short period of time, there were reports in the press that this was another major case of cross-border and cross-border pyramid schemes, and various sites were blocked and disappeared at almost the same time. The craze lasted less than ten days before it was forgotten.

Coincidentally, there was a station in Shencheng at that time, and Li Yufan also went with a few classmates to experience the "epoch-making" machine, which was very much like a helmet, and an inexplicable number was obtained in a short time after wearing it, Li Yufan remembered that his measurement value at that time was 27, which was about twice as high as the single digit of several classmates who came with him. At that time, after seeing the results, the staff also issued him a membership card full of metallic texture with only a special symbol engraved on the front, and told him that they could use this card to receive a free gift when they launched their products in the future. And that card is lying quietly in Li Yufan's deflated wallet at the moment, and it has not played a role once in two years.

When Li Yufan came out of a shower happily, Jiang Fei had already taken off his VR headset and was staring at the computer screen looking at something seriously.

"Why don't you play your "Three Kingdoms" so early today, didn't you say that you have to trade union activities every day, why did you rest today?" Li Yufan said curiously. Jiang Fei has recently become obsessed with a virtual reality online game "Three Kingdoms", and he is almost immersed in it except for work hours, and he is tired of all kinds of union activities, and it is very rare for him to go offline so early today.

Jiang Fei glanced back, and said with a depressed face: "Don't mention it, this game is estimated to be yellow, the game giant Tengyi Company is going to launch a new online game "Martial Arts World" recently, the absolute big production scene, it is about to be open beta, what is said that the realism is a grade higher than the existing game, the characters are more realistic, the content is richer, the degree of freedom is higher, etc., all of a sudden pulled away a lot of players in "Three Kingdoms", the popularity of "Three Kingdoms" plummeted, and our president said that he would immediately dispose of the property in the game and enter the "Three Kingdoms" World of Martial Arts. Didn't I check the specific information of "Martial Arts World" on the Internet, it is estimated that the VR eyes will have to be upgraded to another level before they can play, my money。。。。。。 ”

Li Yufan chuckled when he heard this, and quipped: "What have you found out, which big guilds have settled in, or which goddess you like wants to endorse a certain role." ”

Jiang Fei couldn't hear it, and replied: "Several big guilds are planning to settle in, and several trade unions that have been mixing in the foreign game industry all year round have also expressed their intentions, and they all said that the production level of this game has caught up with foreign countries such as the popular game "Magic World" of Blizzard Group, of course, the most important thing is Kexin, the two goddesses of Yarong not only endorse but also declare that they want to play this game seriously, I finally have the opportunity to meet the goddess!" Hahaha。。。。。。 ”

Li Yufan ignored his cheap look, stretched his waist, and said, "Is there any other interesting news, I have been busy with work recently, and I feel that the whole person is about to get out of society." ”

"There's no major news anymore, it's just that some game gods have spoken out, wanting to defeat so-and-so in the game and teach so-and-so a lesson. Oh yes, there are a few more games that are going to be released at the same time, but I think they're throwing money away, how can those small productions compete with Tengyi, the funniest thing is a company called Tianwai, it's the first time I've heard this name, and they're going to release a game, and it's the same day and time as "Martial Arts World", and it's a gimmick that has long been played out, do you know what it is-'Full Consciousness Immersion Experience, 100% real feeling', the advertising slogan is very good, but they don't know if this is a stalk that has been played by a web game for a long time, hahaha, laughing at me. Jiang Fei pretended to exaggerate and laughed three times, fully expressing his contempt for this bragging company.