When Sun Ran came back from his trance, he found himself leaning against a billboard at a bus stop, holding a thin, wide electronic communication device in his hand, and the color LCD screen of the instrument showed text on a wood-colored background to browse the web.

He knew that this thing was called a touchscreen phone, and the person he possessed was reading a novel with this thing a moment ago, while waiting for the bus.

Background information keeps flowing through my head.

His body name is 'Gu Cheng', and a romantic poet in this world has the same name, twenty-three years old, just graduated from college for half a year, is working in this big city in southern China 'Jiangcheng', the job has not stabilized, often moves, no fixed residence, belongs to the drifting family.

This body does not belong to the player, but to an NPC, which is also a feature of "Strange Earth", which never takes away the player's body for order tasks.

In the Alien Earth, the population is more than 5 billion, of which more than 100 million are players, and the NPCs that are the background and foreshadowing of the world are 5 billion, accounting for more than 98% of the population of the world, and belong to the civilian class of this world.

The so-called people, the so-called vast sentient beings, are talking about NPCs like 'Gu Cheng'.

They live a lifetime, and to live is to live simply, and to die is to simply die, and there are very few traces left in the world. After death, within a year, all traces of existence will disappear without a trace.

For game companies, the only reason for NPCs to exist is to provide players with a sense of superiority.

Sun Ran felt that his eyes were a little blurry, and he squinted, it turned out that it was because of a pair of myopic glasses on the bridge of his nose.

I felt my body again, and the muscles of my whole body contracted and distressed in turn under his command. Along the vibration order of the muscles, the mana with a strength of the third level in the body appeared from the limbs and hundreds of remains, and with the strength of the body, it rose from the soles of the feet, from the tips of the fingers and other limbs, like flowing water. Towards the three inches of the lower abdomen of the dantian qi sea converged, the most reluctantly the sea embraced all rivers, into a scorching golden pill.

This Jindan Avenue is the door of all the wonders of the law, and Sun Ran has fine-tuned it according to the rules and parameters of this world, which can be regarded as an original trick for the use of force.

With this avenue, it is as quiet as a leisurely virgin, and the traces are hidden; The hair is like a thunderbolt in the nine days, and the ghosts and gods are easy to change. As the saying goes: 'If you swallow a golden pill in your stomach, my life will be up to me!' ’

After the golden pill was completed, Sun Ran exhaled a long breath and spit out all the turbid qi in his chest and abdomen.

This is a quasi-technological world, and it is inevitable that it will be attacked by hot weapons, and Sun Ran has blessed himself with the Taoist technique 'Viewing the Sea'.

With all this done, he put his phone in his pocket and raised his hand to take off his glasses. Thrown into the trash can on the side, provoking several people nearby to look at him with neurotic eyes. I've never seen a myopic eye throw his glasses, this guy thinks he's Spider-Man?

Throwing away his glasses, Sun Ran turned around and walked to the stainless steel guardrail on the side, used the stainless steel as a mirror, and looked at his appearance and dress.

He lived for tens of thousands of years and developed a habit. I like to appreciate beautiful things, and naturally I won't allow myself to be ugly.

Because it's an NPC, the appearance is very well arranged, except that because of health problems, the face is slightly sallow. The rest are almost identical to his real life, but the rest... It's unsightly.

Hair, hairstyle not to mention, there is no such thing, there is still a trace of oil on the hair, at least three days have not been washed, now it is the middle of summer, it is really difficult for this guy.

Eyes, a lot of bloodshot inside, there are dark circles under the eyes, last night must have stayed up late, recalled, this stay up late is not because of work, but because of playing games, playing a tower defense game, playing until three o'clock in the morning, this is in the case of going to work at eight o'clock the next day.

Regarding this point, Sun Ran, who is a game maniac himself, said that it is understandable.

Clothes: A white shirt, wearing a bow tie, a pair of black trousers, dressed as an ordinary office worker, looks very bright, but Sun Ran knows that the clothes have not been washed for several days, and the collar is full of sweat stains.

I touched my trouser pocket again, and took out a wallet inside, which contained four red tickets and several loose tickets, totaling four hundred and forty-three yuan and five cents.

The peculiar thing is that there are six bank cards in this wallet, Sun Ran knows that in this era, bank cards are used to store money, which is the prototype of the future development of electronic money.

There are eight bank cards, is it that one is full, and another one is done, and there are six of them? This should be a local tyrant, why do you still make a bus?

Sun Ran was confused.

He browsed through the memories of this NPC, but was stunned to find that these bank cards were purely decoration, five of them were discarded, three of them were run at the school, and the other two were salary cards for the first two jobs, which were not completely out of money, but not more than a hundred, and they were reluctant to throw them away, and they were embarrassed to take them, so they put them away.

The rest was a payroll card, and if I remember correctly, there were eight dollars in it, because yesterday the kid had bought all his savings for the touchscreen phone with an apple in his pocket.

Sun Ran was very strange, took out the mobile phone in his pocket, looked left and right, studied it carefully, and found no reason why he had to buy it.

After that, he came to the conclusion that it was purely an entertaining phone.

There is no perfect welfare in this society, this kid actually spent most of his property, and bought such a thing, isn't he afraid of accidents such as illness?

This concept of consumption is difficult for Sun Ran to understand.

And according to the memory of this young man, a large number of people in this world are like this, and they also specialize in credit cards that can be overdrawn for consumption......

To sum up, Sun Ran came to a conclusion: "The Strange Earth Game Company has infused NPCs with a peculiar way of thinking, stimulating NPCs' desires through colorful materials, making them willing to pay or even advance their own labor for the gamers in the upper echelons of the world world to enjoy, which is really treacherous!" ’

After reading himself, Sun Ran turned his gaze to this bus stop.

Because it is now work time, there are a lot of people at the bus station, and there are about 80 people in the small place, and most of them are eating breakfast. It was also the morning rush hour on the road, and the road was almost blocked.

The smell of gasoline from car exhaust, steamed buns and green onions for breakfast, and rancid stench wafting from garbage cans on hot weather floated in the air. There is also the smell of men's sweat and the smell of perfume on women's bodies, all mixed together, and when they are exposed to the morning sun, they become a peculiar, fiery atmosphere unique to the city. made Sun Ran have to sigh at the creativity of the Alien Earth, even the smell is so impressive.

After a few glances, Sun Ran was amazed by the intelligent NPC technique of the Alien Earth.

These more than 80 people, each with their own unique expressions, very smart eyes, and their own souls, almost no different from real people.

'I heard that this game world has adopted a new technique called virtual soul, and every NPC can pass the Turing intelligence test, and now it seems. That's true. Sun Ran nodded secretly.

The Virtual Soul Technique, developed six years ago, creates a virtual consciousness by simulating the data structure of human consciousness, which is infinitely close to the real human.

Artificial intelligence experts have debated fiercely because of this technology, and the core is: 'Virtual soul, is it life?' Can life be created by human hands? ’

The debate was fruitless. In the end, it was gone, but the virtual soul technique remained. After putting it into use, several years have passed, and there have been no side effects, and everyone is used to it.

Sun Ran looked at the performance of the NPCs around him, and knew that this was actually a life, but it was not an independent life. Rather, it is a living entity that is controlled by the game brain.

In other words, the game brain is the mother earth goddess Gaia, and all life in this game is a part of her, and they themselves don't feel controlled at all, they only think they are independent.

What are the consequences of this technique? Where will it go in the end, Sun Ran doesn't care, he is not a philosopher, but an order, he comes to do tasks to make money, there is no need to be idle.

He began to take a closer look at his surroundings again.

To his right, there is a middle-aged obese woman carrying a bag and wearing bright red lip gloss, she is a self-contained data body, an NPC.

On the left-hand side, there is a pair of young lovers, who are hiding in the shade of the canopy of the station and whispering, smiling softly from time to time, looking very pleasant, but they are also NPCs.

The young lover used to be an old woman with silver hair, dressed very modestly, holding a little girl with a schoolbag in her hand. The little girl was about seven or eight years old, with an old schoolbag on her back, and several sewing repairs, and her clothes were fat school uniforms.

This little girl made Sun Ran take a second look, because her eyes were black and white, moist and moist like a puddle of black mercury, and she was very smart.

At a glance, he found that there was a faint data link on this girl's body that connected to the void, and it was actually a player.

"It's really funny, a player turned out to be a child of a poor family, is this to play the counterattack rhythm of the golden phoenix flying in the grass nest?" Sun Ran thought.

The little girl was very sensitive, and when she found that Sun Ran was looking at him, she quietly turned her head, glanced at him timidly, and then shrank into the old woman's arms and hid. The old woman sensed the little girl's movements, and habitually raised her hand and combed the little girl's hair a little loosely.

"Like a little rabbit, and an ability, well, it's a solidified zero-level small spell with keen perception" Sun Ran smiled.

According to the world, the zero-level plug-in is a small D-level ability, and it is also a universal ability, which every player has, and with the blessings arranged by the game company for players, it is enough for a person to achieve the achievement of looking down on most of the NPCs in the circle of life.

From such a bird's eye, a sense of superiority naturally arises, which is the biggest selling point of the game.

He looked at the others again, and all of them were NPCs.

This is also normal, in this world, players are better mixed, and they will not come to crowd the bus if they have nothing to do.

All in all, the bus stop in the morning was calm and exactly the same as usual.

Sun Ran grasped the surrounding situation, and once again leaned against the advertising curtain wall, thinking about this maintenance task.

Although the main purpose of his trip was to paralyze the Buddha, since he had taken on the task, he always had to do it.

There are very few clues in this order mission, only that there is a pseudo-girl who calls herself 'Ice Prince' in Lu Dao is hiding in City A.

He is also a player, with A-level abilities, which is equivalent to a third-level plug-in, and his power level is the same as Sun Ran's now, and he is the top person among the abilities. For 100 million players, there is no more than 10,000 A-level abilities, a 1 in 10,000 probability.

His last appearance was three months ago, when he used his ice ability to freeze another player in Jiangcheng with the B-rank ability 'Body Regeneration' to pieces. But where is he now, and what does he want to do? Sun Ran didn't know anything.

"It seems that I have to go to Lan Xin's apartment where they had an accident to check and check, three months, if the evidence is not destroyed, if you look at it with the eyes of heaven, you can barely trace back to the original situation."

Sun Ran thought so, so he didn't plan to go to work, because his job was still in the internship stage, and leaving directly would not attract anyone's attention, and this kind of thing was common in Jiangcheng.

He straightened up and contacted the game administrator: "I need a three-dimensional map of Jiangcheng." ”

After the map was handed down, Sun Ran had an additional database in his mind, which could be found in the streets and alleys of Jiangcheng, underground waterways, and the internal distribution of each floor.

Along with the database, there is also a message from the game administrator: "Dao Chief, your past dimensional order style is too dazzling. We hope that this time, you can keep a low profile and not discourage those players with a sense of superiority. You know, this stuff is the biggest selling point of our game. ”

"I see." Sun Ran replied.

"Thank you." The gamemaster is gone, with a very humble attitude.

To be strong is to be respected, and this is true in any worldly realm.

Sun Ran took his heart in, and soon found the apartment where Lan Xin and the others were kicked in the map, stood up straight, and prepared to investigate.

"The car is coming!" Suddenly, someone shouted.

The bus stop suddenly became agitated, and the crowd rushed to the side of the road, predicting where the bus would stop.

There's no way, it's not okay if you're not nervous, there are too many people, if you don't grab it, you have to wait for the next shift, and then you may be late for work and school.

Sun Ran saw that there was no peace on the old woman's face, she protected the little girl with both hands, and also tried to squeeze forward, looking anxious. But at this time, few people had the feeling of humility and respect for the elderly, pushing the old man to the ground, and the body was completely involuntary, while the little girl held the old woman's hand tightly, her face was nervous, and her little face was full of sweat beads.

'Do a good deed. Sun Ran decided not to leave for the time being, he walked up to the old woman, stretched out his hand, and as soon as his waist sank, he protected the two of them behind him, no matter how others pushed him, he didn't move.

"Old man, you follow me." Sun Ran said.

"Hey, thank you." The old woman showed a smile on her face, her face was full of wrinkles, and she lowered her head and patted the little girl's shoulder, and said, "Xiao Nan, thank you Uncle Xie quickly." ”

"Uncle Xie Lu, Xie." The little girl shouted crisply.

Sun Ran smiled, and when he saw that the little girl was cute, he leaned over slightly, ready to pat the little girl's head.

At this moment, he suddenly felt a fluctuation of energy, his body instinctively flashed to the side, and then he heard a 'bang' sound, and then a blood hole appeared on the head of the old woman beside him, white and red, splashed out, splashed on Sun Ran's body, and also splashed on the little girl's face.

"Grandma'!!!" The little girl screamed bitterly. The crowd at the bus stop screamed and fled in all directions in a panic.

Mess up.

Sun Ran was stunned for a moment, then raised his head, looked at the shooting position along the trajectory, and saw not far away, a middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses was standing next to an off-road vehicle, holding a pistol in his hand, and the muzzle of the gun was smoking, and the other party was looking at him, ready to shoot again!

This shot was manslaughter, and it was originally aimed at me. Sun Ran understood. (To be continued......)