"Qi Mi, do you want to go to the chemistry lab?" Liu Yan, who was at the same table, patted her.

Ever since he started taking chemistry classes in junior high school, Liu Yan has been obsessed with doing chemistry experiments, wasting countless reagents every week. However, because most people now go to school in the virtual world, the funds of physical schools are surplus and there are not enough students, so there are so many things for them to waste.

"No, I'm going home." Qi Mi refused. She didn't want to die at the age of twelve from an ill-controlled thermite reaction.

"Hey, don't mind." Liu Yan tugged at the sleeve of her school uniform, "Today I plan to dissolve a little zinc, what do you think?" ”

"Not good." Qi Fan was a little annoyed with him. In fact, Liu Yan is still a good person, but she always feels that he is a bit of an Asperger's tendency, very interested in what he is interested in, and does not listen to classes that he is not interested in.

"Then I'll go myself." Liu Yan gave up encouraging her, and thought that he was "handsome" and threw up his schoolbag and left the classroom.

There were only thirteen students left in the classroom, scattered among the seats that could have sworn forty. Except for Liu Yan, there shouldn't be a few people who will come to play with Qi fans. It's not because they don't like Qi fans, but because they all know that Qi fans can't be brain-like.

Who doesn't have a brain-like body among today's young people? The virtual world is exactly like the real world experience, and you can do almost anything in the virtual world.

Of course, it costs money. But why don't you spend money this year? Take the escape room that was popular among the previous generation of young people as an example, the physical escape room cost at least one or two hundred per person, but the escape room project in the brain-like body is much richer than the physical one, and the price is less than half of it.

Some people may say that it doesn't cost much to develop a similar entertainment project in the brain-like body at all, just to find two architects to do a day's work, and you don't even have to pay the store rent. But who cares about you? The brain-like body is a monopoly, but what about monopoly, for ordinary people, as long as it is cheaper than in the real world, there will be a huge market.

Therefore, even the classmates in the physical school are not very able to understand that Qi is obsessed with brain-like bodies.

The reason why they come to physical schools is partly because the physical schools that are still alive are all public schools, while virtual schools are privately subsidized, and there is still a little gap in cost. The reason why more people choose physical schools is based on a certain nostalgia of parents. But even with nostalgic parents, these students are all stuck in the brain-like body as soon as school is over. Some people even eat dinner in the virtual world, but the virtual dinner is only virtual after all, and they have to eat again to replenish their energy after they come out, but then they can be filled with cheap and simple food.

Qi Fan heard a few classmates on the other side of the window discussing the theme park in the virtual world on the weekend, and some people were discussing the real-life CS who stayed up late yesterday. She didn't listen carefully, but just packed her bag and left the classroom.

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Compared with Qi Fan's "back to basics", Qi Min was participating in a zombie hunt in the "old city" of the brain-like Beijing district at this time.

The Old City is the circular city created by Qi Fan when he first entered the Brain-like Body, with a central dome in the middle that allows zombies to enter, and surrounded by blue-purple odd-shaped buildings. Zombies spawn randomly in urban areas, they move slowly, but they are attracted to "living people". The premise of the game is that players arriving in the Old City must destroy as many zombies as possible, "keeping their numbers within a reasonable range, so that they don't leave the Old City and interfere with other entertainment facilities in the surrounding area".

Qi Min is also familiar with hunting zombies, but her main purpose is not to experience the thrill of blowing zombies' heads with one shot, but to keep her score in the top ten of the standings.

Although the brain-like body is a virtual world, there is no such thing as "open-hanging". The semi-mounted callosum interface used by ordinary players will be turned off and on repeatedly at a frequency of 100-500Hz to keep their consciousness data constantly oscillating between their own brain and the brain-like body, so that their consciousness will not stay in the brain-like body for a long time and be difficult to go offline. Therefore, in fact, they only absorb relevant data from the brain-like body, and the real thinking activity still takes place in their own brain, so they have no opportunity to actively change the scene in the brain-like body through consciousness.

Constructors with management privileges need to use the fully mounted interface chip when Qi Min and Qi Mi were connected to the brain-like body at the beginning. Once the chip is connected, the constructor's consciousness is directly sucked into the brain-like body, where the scene can be constructed and maintained, and then come out after the work is over. However, given that early experience has shown that there are obvious sequelae of staying in the brain-like body for a long time, the constructors of the brain-like company are now forced to leave the brain-like body for ten minutes every hour of work.

For ordinary players, there is no time limit for going online. Theoretically, Brain-like Inc. doesn't recommend that the average player be online for more than eight hours, but those who are online 24 hours a day are actually everywhere in reality. Hunger and exhaustion are not felt in the brain-like body, so some players even rely on glucose infusion to maintain "battery life", and there have been cases of sudden death, but even news reports are of little use.

Those who are addicted to entertainment can be addicted to game consoles forty years ago, and the Internet ten years ago, and now there is nothing special about those who are addicted to brain-like bodies.

However, Qi Min is not yet to the point of indulging in brain-like bodies—at least she doesn't think so. She was crouching on top of the tall building closest to the central dome, waiting for the joke team below to gather the zombies and snatch the points with a grenade while they weren't looking.

There are no complicated rules in the Old City, and you can get valid points just as much by killing zombies yourself as you do taking advantage of others. The only taboo is inflicting damage on other players - this doesn't just mean deliberately aiming at other players to shoot or throw grenades, as long as your weapon causes damage to other living people, even if it is a misfire or accidental hit by a missile, it will be considered intentional damage. Once it is judged to be intentional injury by the old city monitoring system, this month's points will be cleared, and you will not be able to enter the old city for thirty days.

Therefore, players who don't know each other in the old city generally pay attention to keeping their distance, and only a person as bold as Qi Min dares to be so deliberately scheming the list.

It's just that when she calculated the timing and was about to throw a grenade, a gunshot suddenly rang behind her.