The girl stopped, pouted and stared at Qiu Yu for a long time, and after a long time, she suddenly realized, "Have you never even been on the Internet before?" When Qiu Yu didn't know how to answer, the girl said to herself, "It seems that the remote mountains still exist, so we have to teach them from scratch." ”

"Actually......"

"Okay." The girl interrupted Qiu Yu's words in a determined tone, "It's dangerous to enter the rules without even knowing the basic online world, so take a little time to explain." ”

The girl pointed to the shop full of mechanical products, "That's the store, you can buy all kinds of things." ”

"That's the grocery store." The girl pointed to another shop, "Although they all sell things, they have different emphasis, so if you want to buy things, you have to find different stores according to your needs." In addition......"

"Are you making fun of me?"

The girl first looked at Qiu Yu blankly, and after a few seconds, she began to laugh dryly, "It was a joke just now." ”

"No, I think you're kidding right now." Qiu Yu seems to feel that the girl's lack of common sense has to fight with herself.

"I'm the boss." Even after saying this, the girl still felt that her momentum was insufficient, and she was quickly defeated by Qiu Yu's back-gaze, "You can ask......"

Qiu Yu, who gained the initiative, had a clear understanding of the world very much.

In the past, the so-called Internet access was indeed a combination of a chassis and a monitor. But since ten years ago, a company called Creator suddenly rose to monopolize the world's online market in a short period of time with virtual reality technology.

Enterprises with such monopolies generally have a close relationship with the government, otherwise they will never get policy support. However, the creator company, with its independent identity, not only did not get the support of any government in the world, but also under the joint suppression of various governments, miraculously went farther and farther, with virtual technology that no one can crack as the core, and easily penetrated into all business fields in this global information age.

"You're saying we're in a product of the creator corporation's monopoly on global commerce?"

"Yes." As if to let Qiu Yu have a more intuitive understanding, the girl walked into a clothing store, although the clerk immediately came up to introduce the goods, but under the girl's ignorance, she quickly retreated with a black line on her head, "The so-called virtual reality technology is not simply to create a virtual world, but a technology based on actual objects." To put it simply, computers in the past were just empty shells of models based on real-world objects. However, the virtual reality of the creator company completely digitizes the information of matter from the atomic level, and establishes a perfect physical architecture. Therefore, any virtual object seen in it, from the appearance to the internal nature, from the attachment of dust to the washing left by time, is no different from the real object. ”

The girl picked up a goose-yellow dress and handed it to Qiu Yu, who hesitated slightly and then took it into her hand, the soft texture and the folds caused by holding it in her hand made Qiu Yu unable to see the slightest difference from the real thing.

"The reason why there is no difference between it and the real world is not only the technology of the virtual reality, but also the business methods of the creator company." The girl picked up a scarf with a cartoon pattern and put it in front of a dressing mirror, on which not only did a mirror image of the girl appear, but also a long list of codes appeared next to the scarf, "Although any object can be perfectly created in this world, the creator company is not satisfied with a virtual world." They also sell in reality an instrument called the Item Virtualization Terminal, which can differentiate each item on the basis of the basic template of the item. So the scarf I have in my hand now still exists in the real world, and it's exactly the same. The code in the mirror is used to correspond to the real body, once I choose to pay, when I get this scarf in the virtual world, the scarf in the real world will also be sent to me. ”

Qiu Yu was once again shocked by the world.

The replacement of the traditional network by the virtual reality is at most equivalent to the replacement of the traditional information transmission method by the network, although the strength of this only network company will reach a level of terror beyond the state, but after all, this is only a monopoly in one field. But it's completely different when they use the monopoly of information to convert it into commercial sales.

The advantages of ordinary online shopping have been quite obvious, but who will be the opponent of this shopping model by using virtual reality technology to combine the infinite choice of online shopping, affordable and immersive shopping in shopping malls? Any merchant can only rush to enter this virtual mall even if they don't want to, and consumers have no possibility of refusing this model. Now, even if the girl said to herself, the physical store sales have been completely crushed, and Qiu Yu will not think that there is anything incredible...... Of course, there may be one last constraint that is not a constraint, leaving the last glimmer of life for store sales.

"For time-sensitive things, this sales model should still not work, right? If you buy this scarf, it takes ten days and half a month to deliver it, but if I want to eat a bowl of noodles, after eating it in this world first, it is impossible to wait for a few days in the real world, right? ”

"I want this." The girl wrapped the scarf around her neck and walked out of the store directly, "There is no such thing as theft in this world, as long as you take anything out of the store, the system will buy it by default, and it will be delivered to your door in the real world after deducting the corresponding fee." ”

"What if the money isn't enough?"

"I can't take it out." After the girl walked forward for a while, she walked into another store that sold accessories, "As for timeliness, as long as you don't deliberately find a store from other places, it won't be a problem." The street we are in now is divided according to the real area, and most of the shops you can see are actually local shops in the real town. Of course, there are also stores that have purchased multiple parallel points at the same time, such as the one we are entering now. This kind of store will show the item code along with the actual location of the item and the time of arrival. ”

"What do you mean by parallel points?" Although he had already guessed the answer, Qiu Yu wanted a definite affirmation.

"No matter how similar it looks to the real world, it's still a convenient virtual world. The entrances to the stores that have been purchased in parallel can be accessed both within the confines of our real town and at the same time from different locations in Kyoto, Kaijo and even foreign countries. However, the parallel connection point can be expensive depending on the flow of people and the characteristics of the region. A small store like the one we are in now has parallel points in a few nearby towns at most. ”

No one wants to be underestimated, and the owner of the jewelry store heard the girl's words, his face turned red and shouted, "Don't underestimate me, I'll buy a parallel point in Kyoto next year." ”

"The profit of this kind of small shop is to buy in Kyoto, and at most it is in the suburbs of the slums."

Qiu Yu discovered for the first time that the natural girl was still a bit of a poisonous snake, and when the shopkeeper was angry, she pulled herself and left.

"Then on to the question of what to eat. The people in the real town don't want to play the rules, and even the restaurants in the evening are not in business, so almost all of them close before the early hours of the morning. As she spoke, the girl had already walked to a closed shop with Qiu Yu, "If it's daytime, you can order something to eat here, or you can come from the real world yourself, this restaurant is only thirty meters away from my Internet café, although the owner doesn't play the rules, but he won't scribble in the Internet café." ”

Qiu Yu looked around and found that there seemed to be only one restaurant related to the restaurant, "Is the solution here to solve the problem of hot food not being delivered to the destination quickly is the opposite of the parallel point - restaurants are not allowed to have parallel points in different places?" ”

The girl continued to take the lead and walked forward, "Business is free, whether there is a parallel point or not depends mainly on whether the store will buy it, and whether it has the ability to deliver it quickly after purchase." Generally speaking, for food and other goods, the system will have a strict time limit, if it cannot be delivered within the time frame, it will compensate you for the loss of two times to no upper limit according to the store's own settings. Keep in mind, though, that this only works within the boundaries of this street. Oh, and by the way, things like food are free to taste in this world, although the more you eat, the hungrier you get. ”

In a place that resembled a bus stop, the girl stopped, "This is the area switching point, and the Internet is still open and open can be quickly reached through here." ”

Qiu Yu looked intently, and the station sign was lined with countless strange place names, and with the sliding of the girl's finger, more place names appeared. Qiu Yu was not in a hurry to take a clear look, and then he heard the girl's urging, "Let's go, this is nothing to see." ”

"Aren't we going through here to somewhere else?"

"We're in the heart of Kyoto now."

"What?"

Qiu Yu understood the meaning of the girl's words very well, but her thinking was a little out of step with the situation. After taking his eyes off the stop sign, he suddenly realized that the scene around him had changed drastically without even noticing.

It is surrounded by towering buildings, and countless roads connect them in a three-dimensional shape. The abundance of shops is like a bountiful fruit hanging from a giant tree, occupying every prominent spot in the building.

Strangely shaped vehicles are speeding on the road, and whenever they approach pedestrians or buildings, they will always make strange evasive actions, as if they are blocked by invisible forces, even if they are intentional, it is completely impossible to cause a car accident.

The girl quite understood the shock of a hillbilly who had never been on the Internet when she saw these things for the first time, so she generously gave Qiu Yu two seconds to adapt, for fear of being laughed at by the people around her, and dragged Qiu Yu off the platform.