Wade Watts, as usual, condensed the entity outside the gates of Public School 1873 on the planet Lutus, appearing like a ghost.

As soon as he went online, there was a malicious greeting behind him: "Ha, isn't this Wade?" ”

It was Mark, who was not dealing with him, who was standing with a few nouveau riche friends, all dressed in expensive store suits and full of disdain.

Wade didn't want to pay attention to the other party, but Mark didn't relent: "This beautiful dress on your body is really handsome, where did you get it?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, several of Mark's friends burst out laughing.

Wade, who was wearing a black T-shirt and dark blue jeans, a free suit given when he created his account, turned his head and said expressionlessly: "Your mother bought it for me, please convey my thanks the next time you go home for milk." ”

He knew it was naïve, but in the virtual world, sometimes speaking sharply would work well.

Sure enough, there was a laugh around, which made Mark blush with anger and wanted to open his mouth to fight back, but Wade had already blocked the other party's voice and walked indifferently towards the school.

This function of blocking sound is very useful, especially in the PVE area of Planet Ludes, after scolding the other party, it will be blocked, so that the other party can only stare dryly when they hear it.

Wade often uses it, never suffers, and his skills have long been perfected.

But in reality, he is a person who lacks social skills.

Unfortunately, when he was still an infant, his father was killed on the spot for robbery and ate a hidden gun, he was raised by his mother Lota alone, and gave him a superhero-like name.

In order to make a living, his mother was busy with work, and helped him set up an Oasis account when he was only a few years old, and then left him at Oasis to explore this new world on his own.

There is an interactive educational program in the oasis, which is free of charge, easy to use, accessible to all children, and it can almost be said that he was brought up by this program.

Wade remembers that he spent almost all of his childhood in the Oasis' virtual community, where in addition to playing with him with the puppets that sang to him, there were various interactive games that taught him to walk, arithmetic, read, write and other functions.

There is the largest public library in the world, and even if he is penniless, he can see almost every book in the world, hear every song, and be exposed to every film and television drama.

The happiest memories of his childhood are tied to Oasis, but instead, he has to face the terrible reality of the world as soon as he quits the internet.

In reality, Wade becomes lonely, shy, unsociable, non-existent, and out of place with his surroundings.

Especially when his mother died when he was eight years old, it was even more polarizing.

He moved to his aunt Alice's house, which, of course, was not a philanthropist and took him in to get extra monthly relief from the government.

At his aunt's house, he had to take care of his own food except for a small utility room, but fortunately he was very talented, taught himself to repair computers and game consoles, and then turned the old machine out of the garbage heap, repaired it and sold it.

But even so, his aunt and the other party's non-stop scumbag boyfriend will not hesitate to snatch it if they find that he has something valuable.

Wade thought his life could not be changed, and he was immersed in despair and self-pity until he was thirteen years old, when Halliday's Easter egg saved him and he found a dream worth chasing.

He was just a few months away from graduating from high school, and he knew that his grades would not be enough to get a college scholarship to continue his education, so he was already planning his life during this time.

There is no doubt that he chose to become a full-time hunter, which was the only way for him to escape from his aunt's house, and his character name has not changed since the moment he decided - Parsifal, like the knight in King Arthur's legend who searched for the Holy Grail.

It wasn't that he didn't want to use the more popular Parcival or Passiva, but these names had long been registered and occupied.

"After graduation, I can take Edge's hitchhike away from the planet Ludes, and then find a place to upgrade and earn gold coins, get equipment, and take your time with the rest."

Wade had a plan in his heart, he and Aitch had known each other for almost three years, and the other party was one of the most powerful fighters in the entire oasis, and his reputation was extremely loud.

The two met in a hunter's chat room, and as soon as they talked, they immediately became acquainted, as if they were natural confidants.

Aitch never discriminated against him, nor did he look down on him because of his low rank and poor strength, and the two became best friends.

Wade knew that this was because they had in common a common trait, which was their knowledge of Halliday, and that they had not only the old stuff that everyone knew about everything, but also a lot of details that were so obscure that almost no one knew about them.

Over the years, they have grown closer, discussing and researching Halliday, and have been secretly competing with each other in various ways.

Both are confident that if one day there will be the first person to reach the top of the standings, it will be themselves.

In addition, it is a coincidence that Aitch also attends school on the planet Ludes, the schools of the two are half a planet away, Wade has never seen Aitch in real person, and Aitch has no idea of coming to meet, even if they meet, it is after leaving school and changing to the original character, the two sides carefully maintain this tacit understanding.

Wade entered the school hall and habitually looked around, only to suddenly freeze his gaze and linger for a few seconds on the robot NPC behind the bar, who was in a state of "leaving" with his eyes closed.

He was immediately surprised, as a hunter who could be recognized by Edge, in addition to the knowledge he possessed, he also had a very keen sense of observation, and in his three years at the school, he had never seen this happen to the reception of NPCs.

"Edge, look at this."

Wade took a picture while no one was paying attention, then quickly pulled out the chat window and sent it to Edge.

Almost in the blink of an eye, Aitch replied, "Isn't this the school's NPC reception?" ”

"That's right." Wade asked, "You go out a lot, have you ever seen an NPC in the same state of departure as the player?" ”

"Not really." Aitch was puzzled, "Weird, wait until I go see the NPCs in our school." ”

Aige didn't reply to the message for the time being, and Wade didn't want to attract the attention of the surrounding classmates, so he pretended to be casual and went to the classroom on the second floor.

It was already full of classmates, and when it was time for class, Aiqi finally replied with a message: "There is no problem with our school, I really want to go to your side to see the specific situation." ”

"No way!" Wade got excited, "It could be a mission, and I found out. ”

"Pen thing." Aitch was a little dismissive, "Ludes won't have a mission." ”

"We'll see." Seeing the teacher walk into the classroom, Wade added, "I'll tell you if I find out." ”

As long as it doesn't involve the discovery of easter eggs, the rest is easy to say.

He couldn't listen to the lecture anymore, and all his thoughts were on the NPC in the hall on the first floor, and he couldn't wait to find a chance to find out about it immediately.

It is recognized that there is no mission on the planet of Ludes, but suddenly a strange NPC appears, and he is not believed to say that there is no cat.

Could it be a hidden mission?

Wade was excited when he thought about it, he had been wandering around various forums and chat rooms all year round, and had heard a lot of similar things, and those players who discovered and completed hidden tasks all got huge benefits, and some even got artifacts.

After patiently waiting for the others to run out, he couldn't wait to run downstairs to the hall.

The hall was empty, and no other students had arrived except for the robot NPCs.

Wade was overjoyed in his heart, ran to Xu Jing in a few steps, coughed clearly, and looked at him with blazing eyes.

Xu Jing was still in a state of leaving, but he could see and hear, and he had noticed the students in front of him long before the last class, so many people, only the other party had discovered his abnormality.

He canceled his departure and said calmly: "This classmate, do you have any questions?" ”

After all, he is still a school NPC, and his scope of duty is to help students with problems, of course, limited to things like inquiring about classes, competitions, or finding classrooms.

Wade said worriedly: "My name is Wade, and I want to ask, do you need my help?" ”

Xu Jing reacted instantly, and understood that the other party had mistaken his abnormal state for triggering some kind of task.

He subconsciously wanted to deny it, and casually found a reason to prevaricate, but suddenly his heart moved, and he said, "How are you playing the game?" I mean arcade or cassette games from the early days. ”

In Halliday's hobbies, games account for a large part, movies, TV, and books he can watch by himself, but in the case of games, it is easy to waste time to look at the strategy and then grope around, so it is best to find someone who is proficient in it and bring it directly through, which will save a lot of time, and some battle games, or find a powerful player to play against more suitable for honing skills.

Wade was overjoyed when he heard this, if it was to talk about other tasks, a person like him who was only a third-level strength would probably not have much chance, but when it came to playing arcade or cassette games, he suddenly had a feeling that he was inferior to him, because he was studying this, and even Aitch was not as good as him.

Although he felt strange about the NPC in front of him, he still patted his chest and said confidently: "If you want to play that kind of game, I am very good at it, and I believe that there are few people in the entire oasis who are more powerful than me." ”

"Oh?"

Xu Jing was slightly stunned, although his divine soul ability at the moment was temporarily restrained by the system due to the level of the character, but it just couldn't be released, and his sense was still very keen.

He can sense Wade's confidence at the moment, it is really very good at games, not pretending, and judging from the clothes, the other party is likely to be an extremely ordinary poor person in reality, and he is not using emotion control software at the moment, it is impossible to lie in front of him without being discovered.

Xu Jing suddenly had a flash of inspiration, the system should not throw him to school No. 1873 on the planet Ludes for no reason, maybe the protagonist is here.

It can't be the kid in front of you, right?

He looked at Wade carefully and imagined the story of a persistent and hard-working poor boy who passed all kinds of tests and won the easter egg.

It's very likely, because it's very much in line with the usual plot in the movie.

He made a decision in his heart, whether it was or not, it was better to take advantage of this opportunity first, in case he guessed correctly, Mission 2 might have been settled.

Xu Jing didn't think that he would be able to find clues if he memorized all of Halliday's hobbies, and found that it would be a waste if the guy suspected of being the protagonist didn't use it, so he immediately said: "Very good, Wade, you can come to me after school." ”

"Yes!"

Wade was overjoyed, shouted in reply, then tried to calm down, said goodbye and ran back as fast as the second class was about to begin.

Xu Jing closed his eyes again and re-entered the state of leaving.

In front of him, on the interface that outsiders can't see, a whole ten movies are fast-forwarding at a dazzling speed, and at the same time, he distracts himself and summons the system.

On the system interface, a progress bar appears after task 1, and the progress bar shows the progress of upgrading from permission LV0 to LV1, at this time there is 12.7% left before the upgrade, and every time he finishes watching a movie, he will advance by about 1%-2%.

A few minutes later, with eight of the ongoing movies watched in a row, the progress bar crept up to the top, and then with a sudden jump, his authority changed to LV1 and replaced it with a new one.

Xu Jing closed the system, opened the role panel, and after obtaining the first-level permission, sure enough, there was a change on the panel.

In the first column, there is an extra name item, and it is still unnamed, and the data is connected to the player character data.

In addition, the scope of his activities has expanded to ten miles outside the school.

But it didn't seem to be of much use, as far as he knew, Ludes didn't have anything but a thousand schools, and the different schools were separated by green spaces, parks, rivers, meadows, or woods, no castles, dungeons, or the like, and no monsters, except for some wild critters, but killing these critters didn't mean to gain any experience, gold, and equipment.

Xu Jing thought about it for a while and began to name his character, but he tried dozens of them in a row, all of which showed that they had been occupied.

There are billions of players around the world, and the names of characters that are interesting or cool enough to be remembered at once are basically registered.

In addition, the names of fruits have also been registered, the names of vegetables have also been lost, and the names of movie characters with some meaning have also been registered.

An hour later.

Xu Jing was almost crazy, after countless name attempts, all of them were occupied, and even his real name was occupied.

Unless the registered person dies, Oasis will eliminate the corresponding character.

He reluctantly opened the webpage, and after some searching, he found a website that specialized in selling character names.

The names of the characters in the front of the list here, each of which is sky-high, worth tens of millions of oasis points, most of them are preemptively registered and put up for sale, and there are also various high-priced information about buying a certain name, and many of the buyers are celebrities.

"It's crazy."

Xu Jing is helpless, the existence of the oasis is already related to all aspects of human beings, the second world is not in vain, of course he can take a name like "XX + alphanumerics", but he is always unhappy in his heart.

"Buy one."

He browsed through the names and flipped through several pages in a row, and finally a name that matched his current race caught his eye, and the price of 30,000 oasis points was acceptable.

"That's it."

Xu Jing confirmed the purchase, quickly completed the transaction, and then obtained a verification code.

Back to the interface of taking the name, he used the special way of adding a verification code to his name, and directly completed the registration and obtained the name of the purchase.

It felt like Oasis was selling character names, and even if it wasn't, the name site and Oasis were definitely in a partnership.

Sure enough, it's a salary to create happiness, and there's no money to play a meow......