"It's a time of the jungle."

I still remember the day nine months ago, sitting on the rooftop of the main building of the school, Nolan stared at the arc in the sky with her arms crossed, and finally fell into the lawn behind the flowerbed phalaenopsis, and sighed. Her golden curls fluttered slightly in the air, her light brown eyes were full of energy, and her fair skin looked particularly bright under the clear sky.

"Hey, hey! How can you just throw a book? In this age of over-tech, you know how valuable paper books are...... How are you preparing for the physics exam in the afternoon, and you won't be ready to hand in the blank paper again, right? He closed the book in his hand and turned his head to teach. Compared with Nolan's petite figure, Mo Mo is like a full brother, 1.8 meters tall, slender and handsome in appearance, and always has a serious expression on his face.

"Exams? Who cares about exams in this day and age, there are so many things to worry about. ”

"Today, NOW! - I'm worried that if I don't do well in the exam, I will be thrown at the tigress by Sun Gui, and I will be taught by her every time, don't you hurt? I always can't learn well, and I don't know how you have so many things worth thinking about the country and the people. If you put 10% of your energy into studying, you will suffer less scolding. Let's be pragmatic and solve the physics exam in the afternoon. ”

Silent reached out and habitually rubbed Nolan's fluffy blonde curls, and said with a frown.

He and Nolan have known each other for as long as they can remember.

This year, he's eighteen, she's sixteen.

The two grew up together in the March Grass Orphanage, and their life trajectories have overlapped for 16 years, and they are closer than their brothers and sisters.

"What's the use of studying physics, I just need to know that the omega value is equal to one, and the universe today will not have a big bang. I almost fell asleep after reading the materials given by the teacher, but it was quite interesting to read an online paper recently, which said that since the beginning of the 21st century, some scientists have speculated that "origin" may be repeated in the endless ocean of "nirvana". According to this theory, our universe is like a bubble floating on a huge "ocean", on which new bubbles are constantly formed, according to this theory, the universe is like a bubble formed in boiling water, constantly creating and floating on a larger stage, that is, an 11-dimensional hyperspace "Nirvana". More and more physicists believe that our universe came out of a fire, from a big bang, but it also coexists with the eternal oceans of the other universes. So...... As the earth, the galaxy, and the universe we live in grow older and colder, life can no longer be sustained, and we will have to leave it and flee to another universe, a universe of different dimensions. Getting rid of the demonic hand that Void Silence had placed on his head, Nolan covered his messed hair and pouted in a pout, "How's it going, Void Silence?" Let's abandon the present four-dimensional space and escape to a new world. ”

Silent laughed helplessly: "Where can we escape, you are really a child who can't grow up...... You've seen too much of the 'SOS' alien colonization project news that has been boasted on the Internet lately, right? ”

Of course, it wasn't that he couldn't understand where Nolan's bizarre ideas came from.

"Escape the old world and find the new world." Isn't that the main theme of this era? It is only because mankind has come to this stage that it has begun to devour the evil fruits that have been planted for centuries......

Perhaps, each world will always plant the cause and effect of its own termination at the time of creation, just like the 5,000-year cycle of reincarnation believed in the ancient Mayan culture, the world is constantly born to death and then revived, and the endless cycle of creation and destruction. And human beings are the cause of the destruction that the earth has planted for itself. After thousands of years of evolutionary foreshadowing, in recent decades, human beings have finally begun to accelerate this feast frantically, the increasing development of medical technology has extended the average life expectancy of human beings, more and more people, disproportionate birth and death rates, and in contrast, the earth is facing endless resource consumption. The global green area has shrunk by 75 percent in the past 50 years, global warming, desertification has intensified, soil erosion is serious, air quality has declined, the urban heat island effect is obvious, and rare species have been continuously extinct...... Not so far off, the Earth was literally left with only man and his food and pets. In addition, the gradual upgrading of the intelligent era has led to the further improvement and evolution of artificial intelligence, even to the point of self-operation and self-creation, combined with the creative sublimation of hardware and software, most of the coolie jobs have been replaced by machines and computers, and the global unemployment rate continues to hit new highs every year, so that the current government has to start implementing a series of alien colonization plans codenamed "SOS", because this plan carries the fantasies of the world's top richest people.

Whether it is the Kepler immigration program that started after the discovery of Kepler-186f (Kepler-186f), which is known as another Earth, in 2015, or the "Noah's Ark 1" artificial planet creation project that I don't know how many years of manpower and material resources will take to see results, the high price of seat reservations is only exclusive to the 1/10,000,000 rich people who can afford. Most of the people have understood their situation, and they can only stay in this declining world, surviving on their own weak strength.

"That kind of alien colonization plan is too far away from us, let's think about it, such as the physics exam in the afternoon......" pulled back his thoughts, and began to be the materialist pragmatic persuasion that he was best at.

"Silence!" Nolan pouted a little angrily, "We can't lose hope just because we don't have money!" …… Also, it takes a lot of money to go to college now, doesn't it? ”

Pointing to the topic, one arrow through the heart, lack of money is really a life-threatening weakness, no matter what era it is.

"Leave the money to me, you can concentrate on your studies." He swore silently. As an elder brother's duty, he must bear it.

"No, I'm so smart, I can handle it myself. Didn't I earn my own living expenses in the past few years? Nolan said, stood up, patted the ash on her skirt and said, "In order to prevent Coach Sun from getting angry when he sees my exam papers, I decided to skip the exam gorgeously!" ”

"Where are you going?! Don't go out and do strange work! Silence frowned and stood up. He knew this stubborn sister too well...... The personality of not hitting the south wall and not looking back, relying on ordinary persuasion will not work.

"Not really." Nolan walked forward, his back to his right hand and a V-shaped gesture as he stretched out his right hand, "The annual Phantom Ranger License Exam is about to begin." ”

"Phantom Hunter?"

"Yes, Phantom Hunter! I turned sixteen last month, and I'm going to be a Phantom Hunter! Fighting！！！ -" Nolan turned his head and announced loudly.

Yes, this is another great choice in life, why didn't I think of it in the first place. The imaginary default really thought about it......

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the majority of the public's favorite form of electronic interactive entertainment - games, the VR virtual reality technology has evolved from a simple three-dimensional vision, hearing, smell, touch, force and motion perception and other multi-sensory display to the field of brain waves, during which the research and trial took a full 50 years. As a result, even emotions and feelings can be simulated and controlled, and the era of real game entertainment has really arrived, and the younger generation of the whole world is excited.

The initial attempt ended at the brainwave movie, the user can play the whole process as the protagonist in just 90 to 180 minutes, because the simulation of emotions through the brain is too direct, and can even affect the user's memory, leaving a lot of psychiatric sequelae, this technology has been repeatedly overturned and suppressed in the scientific community, and various countries have introduced corresponding laws to restrict the development of this technology. Due to the rise of leftist forces, Europe has become the first region to break the stereotype and popularize brainwave movies on a large scale, of course, the government still makes extremely strict classifications for this type of film, and requires and warns the public to receive professional psychological counseling and training, but no amount of restrictions can prevent the growth and reproduction of brainwave technology in the entertainment field. Since 2073, InYourBrain, a company based in Redwoods, California, has produced the first commercially available brainwave game controller, and its low cost and affordability have made this form of entertainment the best way for people to escape reality and spend time.

Besides, the reality is too cruel -

The depletion of the earth's resources, the society with such a difficult job, was ...... by the old-school government in power for 10 generations Regardless of whether they have a passable mentality or a radical forward mentality, the young people of the new 30s and 40s generation are not favored by the times, and in this high-pressure environment, brainwave games are like a spiritual lifesaver, firmly grasping the hearts of young people.

No one can stop this era of entertainment.

At first, it was just a few small VR game entertainment companies that converted some of the best-selling real-life games produced earlier into brainwave games, and then some listed game companies reacted one after another, releasing various brainwave game masterpieces one after another. However, the actual rollout was slower and more difficult than expected. Technical research and familiarity are one thing, but the more stressful reason is that the brain-computer games on the market continue to break out all kinds of accident news, although most of them are not caused by the quality of the game, but by the user's own choice - the information conveyed directly through the brain is too realistic, and the world in the game is too interesting and idealized, causing many players to abandon their identity in reality and choose to stay in the game forever, that is, to abandon the real body of complete suicide......

Of course, this is not a completely unsolvable puzzle, otherwise the brainwave game is a form of entertainment in disguise, and it will definitely be banned by the government. After many attempts and accidents, scientists have found that as long as users who have lost themselves in the game recognize their virtual identities in the game, and produce an irresistible virtual death event to destroy their prosthetic bodies in the virtual world, they can awaken their consciousness in the real world. Because the slightest carelessness in this process will cause the user's cognitive chaos, and thus fall into the endless state of brain damage vegetative state, the game company does not dare to use code to force the implementation.

So, in order to save these lost souls, a new class was born, the "Phantom Hunter".

At first, it was just a phantom hunter hired by the game operating company to deal with various accidents in the game, but unfortunately the number of addicted people was too large, the demand was overwhelming, and the game company's public and private orders could not be digested at all. Soon, there were non-governmental organizations, and the largest fantasy hunter intermediary company, "Moon Hunter Technology", had a monthly profit of nearly 10 billion, which finally attracted the attention of the government. Policies and regulations were introduced in a very short period of time, requiring hunters of all professions to undergo professional training and pass exams to obtain a government-issued license, and this hot and disorderly market finally had standardized intervention, and effectively linked the government, game companies, victims, and phantom hunters together.

"Tell him the truth, kill his illusions, awaken his consciousness, and become his savior."

The Phantom Hunter's recruitment advertisement is constantly projected in the sky of Times Square, which is a 24-hour and seven-day rolling advertisement that Moon Hunter has spent hundreds of millions of packages. Such a large-scale publicity campaign is not just a simple investment promotion, but also to attract the world's top hunters to invest.

It's hard to find—that's the current state of the entire Phantom Hunter world.

After the entire hunter market was regulated, the difficulty of the profession suddenly appeared. In the past two years, the number of applicants to participate in the Hunter Beginning has increased significantly every year, but all humans over the age of sixteen are eligible to apply, but the pass rate is very low. From more than one million people the year before last year to more than 10 million people last year, the pass rate in the two years did not exceed 1 in 1,000. In addition, the difficulty and time of each mission becomes another factor that can be difficult to control, and sometimes an elite mission can take months or more to complete, leaving hunters unable to compete in various games. With more than 10,000 certified hunters circulating in the market, but countless players waiting to be saved, it's not hard to imagine how popular this profession is - Phantom Hunter became the hottest career choice in the 70s of the 21st century.

After pulling back his thoughts, he was silent for three seconds, and then he made up his mind - he would get the license of the Phantom Ranger Hunter sooner and faster than Nolan, the girl!