Prologue is like returning from an old friend
In a psychiatric clinic in Lington, a handsome and calm face is reflected on the neat coffee table in the center of the clinic.
With a white coat, black lining, gold-framed mirrors, elegant temperament, and deep eyes, he looks like an elite medical community in Lington City.
The license plate on the man's chest reads in conspicuous letters: Psychiatrist - Arill.
This outstanding spiritual worker has just finished his work for the day.
As the door closes, he sends off his old client, Mrs. Rice, a middle-class young woman who is empty of body and mind because of relationship problems, with a commercial smile on his face.
Using professional psychological skills, Arel skillfully filled the empty heart of the other party through simple induced hypnosis, and rejected the other party's request to fill the empty body.
Of course, it's the kind of disconnected refusal, and his various suggestive behaviors leave enough room for the other party to reverie so that Riel can continue to grab a steady stream of money from her on an hourly basis.
It's a fair deal, and in an age where morality has become a tool of profit, there's nothing wrong with doing it compared to the countless flies and dogs.
At least it's a legitimate business.
During the long waiting time, Arrail stared intently at the silver dial.
Watching the hour, minute, and second hands turn little by little, you can empty your mind and think about nothing, but simply feel the passage of time, remove all the shells of desire, and make the waste of time pure to the extreme.
In short, he's waiting to get off work.
In this highly entertaining world, the gaming industry is extremely developed.
A variety of games are interspersed in people's daily life, and professional gamers and streamers guide the traffic like stars.
Driven by this atmosphere, most people choose to fill their free time with games.
But Ariel is different, he has severe high-play cancer.
Any game in his hands will immediately be seen through by him, and then he will get the best solution to the most tedious.
He once used the ID [Fike] to dominate the top positions of major popular competitive games.
As a passer-by, he has played fifty versions of the game ahead of all professions, and he always gives people the amazement of returning to the basics.
Nearly all of the top professional gaming clubs have reached out to Arrail, only to receive a polite refusal.
For Rare, playing games is just a means to understand ordinary humans and pass the time, and he has never thought of making it his main job, let alone dreaming of it.
The joy of play is the happiness of the ignorant fool.
Riel's high-play cancer is an ability to see through everything, bordering on a curse.
Having fun with the game is an impossible thing for this man.
As the minutes tick by, Riel is about to return to his residence at the end of the day.
Knock, knock, knock.
A calm and gentle knock came from the door, which did not make people feel bored, but was somewhat pleasant, and people couldn't help but have a good impression of the visitors outside the door.
Each knock is made at exactly the same interval.
A thoughtful look flashed in Rare's eyes.
This kind of mechanical precision behavior shows that the visitor outside the door may not be an ordinary counselor.
"Please come in."
Perfectly proportioned, a black dress that fits like a natural growth from the body, a handsome young man with a temperament as cold as steel appears in front of Riel.
Analyzing a person's inner essence based on words and deeds is Ariel's basic ability.
After a deep look at the other party, Riel came to a conclusion.
I'm afraid this guy isn't human anymore.
Human beings are social animals, and behind all behaviors and behaviors are the appearance of the accumulation of various social experiences.
Ordinary human beings, no matter how perfect they are, will always reveal traces of the past in various details.
However, the young man in front of Riel behaved almost in a cohesive manner, as if he were machine-invulnerable.
No inclination can be discerned.
Just as Riel was figuring out what the other party was coming to, the young man in the black dress had already spoken.
"Mr. Riel, are you interested in surreal games?"
Hearing this, Rel silently turned off the hourly timer.
"Is it the kind of virtual reality game in the novel? It's interesting, but I don't think I've heard of any tech company developing this technology. ”
The young man replied indifferently without a trace of emotion.
"That's just the result of the backward creatures of your society not wanting to make progress, and 'we' have already broken through the technical limitations."
Hearing this, Riel still looked unfazed on the surface, but there were slight ripples in his heart.
He probably understood the identity of the other party.
[Inside], the legendary existence of the Blue Star World where Riel lives.
Some people say that these people have crossed over from other worlds and have mastered black technology beyond the surface society, some people say that these creatures are not human beings at all, and others say that this world has been manipulated by the [Li Society].
However, the nature of these rumors is still officially defined by Blue Star as a rumor chasing after the wind, and Riel has not paid much attention to this kind of urban legend.
But now that the other party has jumped on his face, he can only silently take out his smartphone to make up for the class......
In order to drag on for a moment to understand what the other party really is, Riel caresses the fluorescent screen while talking nonsense that he knows by heart.
"I think with your company's scientific and technological strength, you don't have to go directly to the door to publicize, right?"
The young man glanced at him and looked calm, as if he was using his mobile phone to handle business, and replied with a word.
"It's an attitude to come to the door in person, and we need advanced players like you to lead the game, Mr. Fick."
Hearing the other party's title, Riel once again understood an easy-to-understand truth.
In this era of data, there is no privacy at all for personal information.
The major Internet companies can always package and sell your full set of information to all kinds of people in need according to terms that you don't even read carefully, and then you will find out through all kinds of small advertisements that there are a large group of people in the world who know themselves better than you......
However, when contacting the information searched on the mobile phone, considering the mysterious identity of the other party's black technology group and the mastermind behind the human world, they probably won't do such a low thing as buying information.
Well, they should have hacked into the information database and grabbed it directly......
"Okay, send the game pod to my residence, you should know the address, right? I'll try it out when I have time. ”
"Game pod? Hehe, you don't need that kind of thing...... So you'd like to participate in the game? ”
Riel nodded, because he knew that a person with the other party's status might as well just say that he was willing to save trouble.
"By the way, before the game starts, I wonder if you can agree to a private request from me?"
Private request?
"If you can, please ......"