Saw Cha Cha on TV more than they spent together. The treasurer had a lot of opportunities and different appointments after work from the third time zone, so Jacob always saw Cha Cha always walking out of the interchange door connecting the flying car in his pajamas, and the Maserati-encrusted room was empty most of the time. Jacob was fascinated by the spectacle of the car and the house in one for the first few days, but then his attention turned to Cha Cha's whereabouts. If she keeps showing up like this, how can she help herself find the murderer of Grandpa Lan?

One afternoon, near the end of the 2 time zone, Jacob returned home to find Cha Cha sitting listlessly in the dining room, her mouth stuffed with sweet potato bread, her shirt draped over her shoulders, and her only tank top.

"What are you busy with outside every day?" Jacob couldn't help but ask.

"Meeting! Oh my God, don't you watch the news? "Cha Cha complained.

"I only watch Traveler and basketball leagues."

"yes." Cha Cha remembers, "People your age waste their time fighting and falling in love. ”

Jacob had a fever on his face. "I didn't—" He stammered, not knowing what he was going to deny, but fortunately Cha Cha interrupted him just in time.

"There's been a street trend lately where people have left the Sith Dynamomum Zebra in public places. The media has made things worse. People in all three time zones don't think they did it, and whether it's a hoax or a terrorist, it has had a very bad impact on the market. Shen Zhen, this idiot, actually openly accuses me-" She suddenly stopped, as if realizing that she had said too much.

"Why are they afraid of a symbol?"

"Symbols? It's not just symbols that they're afraid of, brother. It was a memory of an era. In that era of depression, people relied on this marker, and the independence of the planet and the return to Earth were the forks in the road that determined history. They worshipped the Sith as if they were gods. Actually, if the Sith does come back to life on Return Day, I don't mind having a fight with him. ”

"If it's really resurrected, I guess I can eat you."

"In that case, I'll have to eat you before he eats you." Cha Cha shook his shoulders to him affectionately: "Wei'er is pregnant, is no one doing it with you?" Why don't I be merciful and help you? ”

Jacob fled.

For Jacob, Sith Optimus' life is almost a mystery: some worship him as a god, others say he will be remembered for thousands of years. All in all, the Sith is a man who does big things - after all, what does a big man have to do with him? He is different from Cha Cha, whose great-grandfather was Plunder Luke, the man behind the Sith's mutiny. But he, Jacob Lan, doesn't have such a strong sense of historical responsibility, he only thinks about his game account, turning himself into a red lamp and his own children. He is the coordinate origin of his life.

Jacob guesses that he is going to live a life of immersion in the bliss of virtual reality and medicine, after all, "real" is only a luxury that only a handful of nobles can have. And the truth of Cha Cha stems from the fact that she decides the fate of many people of the previous kind - even if the powerful person has lost his power, his spirit is still fuller than that of ordinary people. Jacob suddenly felt that even though life was stable and carefree, and happiness was cheap and easy to obtain, the inequality between people had become deeply rooted in the soul.

Floating outside the window are large slogans that can be seen everywhere in the city, and each holographic word shines:

Binary balance and orderly operation

It's not uncommon to live in two worlds. With the rapid expansion of game equipment and peripherals, the Rasheng world gradually invaded people's lives, dragging nearly seventy percent of citizens into that virtual world, and since then, these people have been bored, working in their own eight-hour time zone every day to make ends meet, but they have pinned all the remaining sixteen hours and all the joys and dreams of life on this game. As a result, Dynamom and the Avengers became the de facto rulers of the planet, selling virtual emotions, lives, and values, and harvesting large quantities of genuine coins and votes. The wool comes out of the sheep, and they raise seventy percent of the people into waste that can only support them.

Jacob took a tactile-depriving puff of hookah and put on his mask ready to step into the waste.

The whole world is turned upside down in an instant, and the illusion behind the mask is full of the excitement of the data age. Even though Jacob knew that Rasheng's world was like a rotten apple, full of decay and puffing, he was still attracted by the intoxicating fruity aroma, and fell in love with the green fields and the unpredictable sunlight that appeared in front of him every time he put on the mask.

Jacob suddenly realized that he had a sun above him that Moorbay would never have. He had been in the world of Rasheng since he was ten years old, and the sun that he was accustomed to turned out to be just a string of code written by someone. And the real sun he had never seen before.

"The man who wrote the solar code must know the earth very well." He said as he blocked the dazzling sunlight of Rasho's world with one hand.

Cha Cha appeared next to him, and her game character was a middle-aged uncle with a strand of silver in his hair, and a leather jacket full of traces of use made him look dusty, completely out of tune with the delicate girl in reality. However, because of this, everyone in the "Rasheng" world knows that this is Cha Cha - everyone wants to be tall and beautiful in the virtual world, only Cha Cha thinks "this is also cool", she has always wanted to be a boy.

"Where are you?" Jacob asked.

"I'm on my way to the company and I'm in the car now." Cha Cha replied in a middle-aged man's deep voice, "I instructed the butler to stew the snails caught in my grandfather's garden for dinner, and you can drink some whiskey." By the way, the sun," she said, pointing to the celestial bodies shining above their heads, "was made by Mr. Ji." ”

"Ji? He wrote this code? ”

"Damn, what did you learn in school?" Cha Cha's game character asks incredulously, looking at his stupid nephew with the expression of his uncle who has experienced the vicissitudes of life. "Half of Rasheng's world was written by Mr. Ji, who was the first true decoder of the planet. He created the world of Rasho, and when he took his game to meet Hemi Qingtian, the two hit it off. ”

"He became the most important think tank of Hemei." Jacob remembered, because they walked through the cobblestone alley, and at the end of the alley there was a statue of Mr. Ji's game account, according to Mr. Ji's own wishes, after his death, his account became the NPC "Yue Guogong" of the Rasheng World King City, and Jacob went to him half a year ago to take over the task. The statue with the golden crown python robe shows the supreme honor everywhere. Below the statue are still those two sentences: duality balance, orderly operation.

Someone in a blacksmith shop on the side of the road recognizes Cha Cha, and a rabid fan follows - luckily Jacob remembers a portal behind the statue, and they teleported to another town, where Cha Cha had changed her clothes and wore a tattered hood.

"Don't you have a decent outfit?" Jacob couldn't help but ask.

"You're still young, you don't know what a sense of story is." Cha Cha squeezed a few words out between her teeth as someone next to her was staring at him curiously.

The greatest freedom that the world of Rashon gives people is to go wherever they want and do whatever they want – provided that they can survive. There are a wide variety of monsters roaming the wild, and each death will plunge the character into a long respawn CD, during which time you will lose access to the world of Rasheng.

In this new area, they can fly. The two of them were equipped with wings made of bamboo as thin as cicada wings, flapping the rapid air currents one by one, and every few hundred meters, they stopped on the suspension bridge connecting the misty cliffs, which was a foothold specially set up for the flyers in the country of Yuren, and from a distance, the fine suspension bridge was like a thread that sewed up these broken continents one by one. Jacob has always disliked the country of Featherlands, and a large part of the reason is that the feeling of these suspension bridges hanging in the air is too realistic, making him feel seasick. The last time he was born a CD was here, he accidentally dropped it, and his friends laughed at him for three months.

Behind the mist, Jacob could see the silhouette of the shadows of the feathered gods, who had made them into huge statues suspended in the air, looking down on the barren fractured lands. This is the Lord of the Sea and Light, the creator of the Feather People, and the legendary god known as the "Holy Lord".

"Why is this guy so big?" Jacob couldn't help but ask.

"Because the feathers have small heads." Cha Cha pointed to his head: "They know that they are not very normal, but they don't know what the normal size of their head is, and they all have some problems intellectually." ”

"Your uncle is a feathered man."

"yes." Cha Cha smiled mischievously: "He's the smartest of them all." ”

"It's scary-big." After the fog cleared a bit, Jacob looked up at the blurred outlines of his features, "Let's go." ”

"What are you afraid of?" Cha Cha smiled, "Maybe you're looking at the ceiling right now." ”

However, they saw a truly terrifying sight: the huge feathered man flying out of the mist, one, two, then a third. Their figures hung in the gray canopy like three "T's", but Jacob understood that this meant that they were speeding towards the dangerous drawbridge.

The three feathered men recklessly crashed into the drawbridge, shaking Jacob's face pale. The feathered man who took the lead pointed at them and laughed: "How is it?" He said cheerfully, "Do you think you are good at flying?" ”

"I can't fly." Jacob wanted to quit the game, but that was too cowardly, so he reluctantly said, "If you want to fly, I'll be a featherman." ”

Cha Cha was smiling while eating. At this time, the three feathered men argued again, because two of them claimed that the other had poor flying skills. The questionable featherman leaped forward, and his massive wings burst through the air as he swooped to incredible heights. As he flapped his wings again and rose into the air, the faces of the two feathered people crouching on the bridge showed a terrifying desire to fight.

"I also seem to have a bit of feather blood, no matter what I do, I always want to win." One of the feathered people said.

"When you have that idea, you're already losing." Jacob insisted.

Yuren was still trying to argue something, but then his companion suddenly said, "Hey, look over there, isn't there something wrong?" ”

Jacob looked in the direction he was pointing, and saw that the "Holy Lord" suspended in the air seemed to become a little bloated, and then, as if the whole world had sunk to the bottom, the air began to ripple. The feathered man flying in the sky seemed to be under some resistance, and the swing of his wings became more and more difficult.

Jacob was stunned. As he watched the space around the drawbridge distort, he suddenly remembered a scene he had thought about when he was bored: what was the first reaction when his life was in danger? At least in Rasen's world, Jacob's reaction is to be in a daze.

He was so engulfed in shock that he couldn't hear Cha Cha's shouts close to his ears.

The drawbridge breaks, and Jacob falls into a bottomless abyss with his character in Rasen's world.