Chapter 002: Old Humans

Stopping in front of the two, Hong Ye changed the mirror curtain to one shoulder and glared at them, regardless of whether they could see it clearly in the sky at this time.

"At the gate of the White Elephant Courtyard just now, I seem to have heard someone say bad things about me?"

Hearing this, Xiao Shami glanced at each other, and the taller one shook his hand and said vaguely: "How can it, Senior Uncle, Senior Brother Falu and I just want to ask if we need help." ”

Falu nodded in affirmation, his lips tensed, and he only squeezed a soft "um" out of his nose.

Although Hong Ye had doubts in his heart, he was running too fast and the wind was too loud at that time, and he didn't hear the specific content clearly, so he didn't delve into it anymore.

He raised his forearm, and the wrist-like gesture motion capture device he wore on it was the key to operating the computer at the nose, like a keyboard and mouse and a controller in ancient times, and of course, it was also an antique.

The motion capture device provides a scald-fin screen that covers the entire body, allowing you to maintain a colorful image without consuming power. This imaging technique has a long history, dating back to ancient times, and is still used today in some fields.

Flipping his wrist, the current moment was immediately displayed on the scaly wing screen, and the remaining twenty-two minutes from the start of "Curse of the Dead" should be more than enough, and Hong Ye simply stopped chasing the time.

He removed the mirror curtain from his shoulders and raised his chin to the two little novices: "Then come and carry something...... Falu, you stand still, Fakong comes to the back...... What are you doing with your brain, it's uphill......"

Although the volume of a mirror curtain is not small, it actually weighs only a dozen catties with a sheath, and the two guys are lifted under their armpits as if they do not exist, only the winding and narrow mountain road has caused them some trouble.

Fakong rarely walked with Hong Ye, who was closest to the "trend" in the temple, and with his lively nature, he didn't go far and began to talk to Hong Ye: "Uncle Shi, can your glasses play the game of new humans?" Can you let my nephew see ......?"

The tone is full of envy and adoration, and the person who shows off a little stronger may be as he wishes. However, Hong Ye was not fooled, and said honestly: "This nose-end computer is more than 200 years old, and even in terms of computing power, it is the bottom of the market even more than 200 years ago, and it can't play any games." ”

The nose computer is a term compared to the lap computer and the palm computer, and it is named because it can be used as a glasses frame on the bridge of the nose.

The nose computer called "Google Glass X" in Hongye's hand can superimpose up to 4 layers of fixed focal length images on the lens, and switch the picture by capturing eye movements through the laser on the side frame of the eyeball, which is a microcomputer with an integrated augmented reality-type display device.

Limited by the size of the device and the need for light from real-world scenes with sufficient brightness, its entertainment performance was also very low in the old days, and it was expensive, and it was positioned as an office utility for high-end business people.

The game of the new human uses a fully immersive experience mode based on sensory crossover technology.

It can take over all the senses of the human body and make people immersive. It can not only provide a complete field of view and sound field that is theoretically impossible to simulate with external display devices, but also reproduce a variety of simple or complex feelings such as hot and cold touch, taste, smell, overload, weightlessness, hunger, dizziness, etc.

It's like having a lucid dream!

The life you experience in the game with the Sympathetic Mods is the life you will experience after being reincarnated as a Celestial Being. It's so wonderful that the governments of federal member states have set up special departments for internet addiction and rehabilitation, or issued private internet addiction center licenses, to help the new people who are addicted to online games to love reality again.

Hong Ye saw that Fa Kong and Fa Lu, who was silent and only focused on it with his ears pricked up, all showed disappointment, smiled slightly, and said bewildermently: "If you want to play the game of new humans, then go and implant sympathetic modules...... If you don't have enough money, Uncle Shi can help you cushion it. ”

The Federal Celestial Law stipulates that all citizens of federal member states who have reached the age of 12 and are mentally stable can be implanted with sympathetic modules.

Citizens of the Federation are not allowed to use any field of view overlay devices until they are twelve years old. Because the sensory center function of the brain is not completely stable at this time, exposure to an artificial field of view and sound field that is too realistic will have a high chance of inducing visual hallucinations and acoustic hallucinations, or confusing reality and illusion and causing accidents.

This is also the reason for the rapid degradation of the market for civilian external imaging equipment.

In the Human Federation, children under the age of twelve are only allowed to use planar imaging devices such as the Scaly Screen. After more than 300 years of development from ancient times to the old era, this kind of equipment has already reached the theoretical peak of related technology and the most perfect design.

This, combined with the extended life cycle of new humans, the dilution of the number of newborns per unit of time (on average one generation per 100 years), and the massive optimization of customized forms of education and entertainment during childhood, has resulted in little demand or incentive for innovation in these archaic "toy" technologies.

Hearing Hong Ye's words, Fakong refused without hesitation: "Uncle Shi, don't be joking, with that kind of thing, your soul will be polluted, and you will never see the elves anymore." How can we ask for a truly detached monk to touch such a thing? ”

Hong Ye's footsteps paused imperceptibly, and a trace of indescribable emotion rippled in his heart.

Falu and Fakong, all of whom were born to the pious lay monks under the mountain, were sent to Huazang Temple to practice Buddhism since childhood. Although they are required to receive compulsory education in public schools under the Federal Law of Humanity, their thinking is more influenced by the family and monasteries, which is difficult to reverse.

Their parents were old humans, and so are they.

In this new era, the old humans are short-lived ghosts, just like the scorn used by the demon race. From falling to the ground, a lifetime of work, and then returning to dust, but the longest is a hundred years.

Out of moral constraints, the Human Federation could not make a law that would force the children of the old humans to undergo congenital reincarnation, because the old humans were the natural state of mankind. As an unborn child, he has no choice but to passively accept his destiny.

As a result, some people are destined to live for 800 years at birth, while others are born with only one-tenth of their lifespan.

This long-lived person is called the new human, and the short-lived person is called the old human.

There are less than 170,000 old humans left in the Human Federation, and this number is still decreasing, and it may be completely extinct in a few decades.

The reason why they are so firmly convinced that there is a place beyond the human world that is not man-made, but where the soul really belongs, is, in their words, "because we have seen real miracles." ”

Almost all of them claimed to have seen elves, or other transcendent phenomena, so much so that they could only be understood by the power of gods and Buddhas.

The "elves" here are not the "elves" of the human subspecies in the present world, but generally refer to the transcendent beings that exist in the form of spirits between heaven and earth, have no substance, and have unknown powers.