He has just returned to Beijing, which means that he has played in other districts before.

"So what district were you in before?" Autumn Harvest asked with a mocking smile.

It's normal for a beautiful blonde girl to be accosted by a handsome young man. However, Echishi said expressionlessly: "Don't bother, I'm a man." ”

"I know." Qiu Harvest put away his smile and said helplessly, "I just want to know where you came from." I finally got to the top of the list here, and I was overtaken by you in less than a day. ”

"That's really sorry, I'm just brushing up to make some money." Echishi bowed forward slightly, even if it was an apology.

"It's not necessary, it's not your fault that I'm not as good as others." Qiu Harvest hurriedly said, "But where did you practice this, it's so fast." ”

Echishi looked at her again, and then said: "В_Питере (in the St. Petersburg district) ......"

"Are you playing Красный_снег (red snow)?" Autumn Harvest asked with some surprise.

Red Snow is like a winter mod for the old city, the overall structure is similar to the old city, but the ground is covered with snow all year round (the snow will be refreshed at 0:00 every day), players can pick up the cold Red Army coat in the room of the building, and the zombies in the city are wearing **military uniforms. Because the black and purple blood spurts out when killing ** zombies, it will stain the snow red, so this project is called "Красный_снег".

"Played." Echiyo replied, but his next sentence was truly appalling, "I died there." ”

"What is this...... Meaning? Qiu Harvest frowned and asked.

"That's it, I died while fighting zombies there." Echiyo replied calmly.

"Uh...... So this is a bug in the St. Petersburg district? Autumn Harvest tries to explain in a more understandable way, "The player's identity should not be able to die in the brain-like body, and the damage to the virtual body can generally be restored ......"

However, what made Qi Min's heart chill was that Hui Qianshi said flatly: "No, I mean I died in reality." ”

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In the brain-like St. Petersburg district, there are quite a few "dead souls" (Мёртвые_души).

The term "dead souls" originally comes from Gogol's novel of the same name, in which a dead serf can still be sold for a price. The dead souls in the brain-like body are a little similar to this, they are all dead people in the real sense, but they are still in the online state in the brain-like body, and continue to pay the online fee to the brain-like company.

These dead souls used to be normal living people, earning money in the real world and spending it on brain-like bodies. They may have come from all over the world "during their lifetime", among which the largest number were Russians and Chinese. But most of them are due to over-indulging in brain-like bodies, and a few may be due to other diseases, when these people's consciousness is in the brain-like body, their real-world bodies suddenly die. At that time, no one noticed their abnormality, and they were not properly rescued, so the real body really died, and their consciousness was forever trapped in the brain-like body, becoming the revenant soul that only existed in the virtual world, that is, Мёртвые_души (dead soul).

For normal players, if they run out of money, they can also go offline from the brain-like body and return to the real world. But for Dead Souls, once the amount in their account is depleted, they will be automatically deactivated, but the real world no longer has a brain that can hold their consciousness, so it is equivalent to dying - just a little later than the real body.

Players who appear physically dead at the beginning probably don't know that they are dead in the real world, and quit as normal as before, and then they are really dead completely. Later, some of the events where the brain-like body went online and died in reality were reminded by others online, so that they could not go offline, so that they could maintain the state of "dead souls".

For those dead souls with relatively healthy social relationships, their relatives and friends who are still alive will continue to pay them the upper line fee, so they can still hang their lives in the form of consciousness. And those dead souls who are alone in reality, it is likely that no one will find out that he/she is dead, so they can only find a way to make money in the virtual world to pay the online fee.

In fact, the real popularity of brain-like bodies has not been around for less than three years, and people who are often unfortunate enough to become dead souls are all severe Internet addicts. In the past, these people may have been the "three and great gods", working as temporary workers to earn one day's money, and they could soak in the brain-like body for three days; It may also be a low-level abandoned house that can't even be broadcast on the news, and it will be more than 20 hours in a row as soon as it is online in a snail house of less than ten square meters. Once they die suddenly, not only is it difficult to be detected, but there are also few people who will take the initiative to renew their fees. And in the real world, they are already unable to engage in normal and stable work due to psychological or ability problems, or maintain healthy interpersonal relationships, so it is naturally no fun in the brain-like body. Before the advent of the era of brain-computer interaction, such people were secluded in corners beyond the reach of the public's gaze, and they would not attract attention when they died, and now the situation has not really changed.

Still, there are people who will do something about these dead souls who are ignored in reality. In St. Petersburg District, there is a non-profit organization called "Red Snow Rescue Station", which is made up of a number of red snow lovers. Red Snow is the only place where you can exchange points for real money (except that the old city is exchanged for Chinese yuan, and red snow is exchanged for rubles, and the relative exchange rate is the same as the real exchange rate), so the volunteers of the Red Snow Rescue Station earn points when playing games, and then exchange the points for money to donate to the dead souls in St. Petersburg District.

Just like the points in the old city are not worth much, the points in the red snow are not worth much. Therefore, the income of the Red Snow Aid Station is not much, and it will only pay life-saving money to those dead souls, and it will not give them one more son in addition. But almost everything in the brain-like body costs money - even if it's through a wormhole, you have to pay a fee. In this way, the dead souls can only continue their lives in St. Petersburg, and can do nothing but live alone.

But it seems that Echiyo is not quite the same as such a sad dead soul, at least he has the ability to communicate with people.

He told Qiushou that he was born in the old city of Beijing "before his death", and his grandparents were employees of state-owned enterprises. It's just that his parents are bastards, and he hung up at a young age, leaving him an abandoned house with no job, collecting rent once a year, and then playing in the brain-like body for a year.

In order to prevent others from disturbing him, Ei Qianshi always used to use the brain-like body in the basement without a mobile phone signal "before his death". When he died in the real world, his consciousness was fighting zombies in the red snow of the St. Petersburg district. It is said that he felt that his body was dead, so he never went offline. But to Qi Min's ears, he was like he was blindly killing himself.