"Tomorrow is the birthday of the daughter of the fringe area, do you want to buy a gift?" Lu Chengke struggled inwardly.

In this way, after a complicated battle in his heart, he involuntarily came to the ATM, trembled and took out the golden magnetic card, and stuffed it into the machine.

"Ding Dong!" With a single sound, a city made of gold coins appeared on the screen. Immediately afterwards, a gentle female voice came from the ATM: "Welcome to the universal credit card in the marginal area, do you want to withdraw money?" ”

“YES！” Lu Chengke frowned, hesitated for a few seconds, and then pressed the confirmation button tremblingly.

"You can withdraw 10,000 yuan that month, do you want to withdraw it?"

“YES！” At this time, Lu Chengke's eyes seemed to be shining with golden light, completely fascinated, and he pressed the confirmation button without thinking.

Immediately afterwards, the cash withdrawal slot of the ATM machine opened, and 10,000 yuan poured out in an instant. Then, Lu Chengke stretched out his excited hands and picked up the money.

"Congratulations, Mr. Lu Chengke, you have become a member of our marginal areas."

"Who?" Lu Chengke turned around and saw that it was the fringe poet, and he was immediately startled.

At this time, the marginal poet did not move at all, and looked at the money in Lu Chengke's hand with a strange face and smiled: "Since the money has been taken, I am your agent, please give me more advice in the future." ”

"What's the situation? Big deal, I'll give you the money back! Lu Chengke said with some excitement.

The fringe poet shook his head lightly and said, "As long as you use this card, you will be a member, and your future has begun to be bound to the fringe region." ”

"Oh my God, what have I done?" Lu Chengke sat on the ground with his butt, as if he had lost his soul.

At this time, the marginal poet approached Lu Chengke and prepared to put on a strange pair of glasses for him.

"What is this?" Lu Chengke asked, pointing to the glasses on the edge poet's hand.

"Virtual reality head-mounted display devices, referred to as VR headsets."

"Huh? What is that? ”

"You'll know when you put it on!"

So, Lu Chengke had no choice but to put on the VR headset tremblingly. For a moment, he felt dizzy, and then found himself in a stretch car, with the Edge Poet sitting next to him and holding the steering wheel.

"Marginal poets, where is this going?"

"O on the edge!"

"The fringe?"

Just when Lu Chengke was puzzled, the edge poet stepped on the accelerator, and the car flew up with a "whoosh", and then he saw a strange channel with a shining light appear in his eyes.

After the light cleared, Lu Chengke found himself in the city of gold coins displayed on the ATM.

"This is the fringe?"

The Marginal Poet smiled and nodded.

"It must be a dream!" Lu Chengke said, pinching his arm violently.

"Oops, it hurts, it looks real." Lu Chengke shouted and rubbed the pinched place.

However, the Marginal Poet patted him on the shoulder and said, "All right, let's go to battle." ”

"Fighting?"

"Don't worry, you're a newbie now, just against AI intelligence, you'll be fine."

"Then I'll be relieved." So Lu Chengke patted his chest and followed the poet on the edge to the fighting arena.

Coming to the fighting arena, after making a brief battle rule, Lu Chengke picked up a light blade and fought with AI intelligence.

At the beginning, it went smoothly, and the AI intelligent humanoid fighting NPC was easily killed by Lu Chengke, and he broke through 3 levels in a row. But when it came to the 4th level, as soon as the NPC appeared, Lu Chengke broke out in a cold sweat. It turns out that level 4 is about fighting against three NPCs at the same time.

"Hey, I'm not playing the Edge Poet!" Seeing this scene, Lu Chengke prepared to withdraw from the fighting ring. But it was too late, and just when he wasn't paying attention, an NPC immediately rushed up and stabbed him.

"It hurts! I ......" Lu Chengke was just about to say something, but he was stabbed by the other two NPCs who rushed over.

In this way, under the severe pain, Lu Chengke gave up resistance and fell heavily to the ground. At this time, the three NPCs stopped attacking and disappeared into a cloud of smoke.

After the NPC disappeared, the edge poet came to Lu Chengke's side, squatted down and shook his body, and said, "Get up, don't play dead." ”

"Huh?" Lu Chengke reacted at this time, sat up, looked at the poet on the edge in surprise, and asked, "I'm not dead?" ”

"Of course not!"

"But I was stabbed just now, huh? And it hurts! ”

The edge poet smiled disdainfully when he heard this, and then told Lu Chengke: "This is a VR intelligent system designed by the edge area, and the human sensory system can be controlled through the VR headset, so that it has an immersive feeling." ”

"What? Why didn't you say it earlier? Lu Chengke complained.

But the fringe poet grinned and said, "Wouldn't it be less fun to say it early in the morning?" ”

"Get out! I'm not playing now, so take my VR headset off! Lu Chengke said angrily.

"Of course, this good fight is over, you can go to the break room and log out of the system."

"The best." After speaking, Lu Chengke walked into the lounge quickly with a straight face, and sure enough, he saw a terminal, so he immediately logged out.

A few seconds later, with a burst of dizziness in front of him, Lu Chengke returned to reality, he looked at the ATM, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

When he took off the VR headset, the fringe poet said goodbye to him and reminded him in particular: "Have a good time, see you in a month!" ”

"I've seen the sunset on Ceres, I've seen the edge line here, day after day, year after year, I've walked for six years and five days."

Lu Chengke got on the motorboat and couldn't help but sing this song again.

His surroundings were filled with tiny Xiaoice objects and some huge stars, but why, he still felt a sense of emptiness.

Sitting in the motorboat, many large ships whizzed by, and the hulls of those ships were stamped with the logos of the large fringe spaceship groups, and he recognized those logos, a sphere, red, as if it were about to breathe fire, it was simply the embodiment of the sun. That's an edge search company that invests in exploring here. A long time ago, he could still hear the companies advertising on the radio, "Want to know about the origins of the periphery?" Want to see the sun up close? Join us as an edge search company dedicated to exploring the mysteries of the edge. ”

However, since human beings stopped the plan to explore the edge area, the edge search company began to withdraw from the edge area step by step, and the employees of the edge search company withdrew from the edge line in batches. Lu Chengke's friend, Kuiper was the most prominent, and he withdrew from the marginal line in the last batch.

"Miss you." Lu Chengke looked ahead, the endless darkness, the darkest place in the edge area.

If she knew that he was missing her at this time, she would definitely say, "The biggest mistake in my life was not to listen to my parents and come to this marginal area." ”

"Now, it's time for you to get your wish, you're back on the edge." Lu Chengke thought to himself.

These large ships are rarely seen in orbit unless they are rescued.

"According to the latest news, there has been a security incident in the fringe area, and the relevant parties said that the plan to return to the fringe line continues to be postponed until further notice."