After confirming that Wu Shiqi had entered the Chinese Customs, Shi Qingyue, who stayed in the blast furnace country, immediately went to the police station near the hotel to report that his wallet had been robbed and his passport had been lost. Three days later, Shi Qingyue got a travel permit and immediately bought a plane ticket to fly back to China.

When leaving the customs of the blast furnace country, Shi Qingyue was very worried that the customs officers would check the entry and exit records online and find abnormalities, and the half minute that the travel permit stayed in the other party's hand seemed longer than a lifetime, but fortunately, the other party did not suspect anything, and finally went out of the customs smoothly. After arriving in Lidu, probably because he was a citizen of his country, the entry into the customs was smoother.

In the past few days when he was alone in the blast furnace country, Shi Qingyue was not in the mood to visit the beautiful scenery of the city, but he was just surfing the Internet in the hotel, and the contact with Lin π Ke was compressed to a minimum, let alone Qiao Sasa.

Shi Qingyue spent a small part of the day worrying about whether the plan would succeed, and most of the time he missed Qiao Sasa.

In those days of the summer camp, because of the hectic heart and jet lag, Shi Qingyue rarely chatted with Sasa, I wonder if she was a villain in the dormitory to vent her anger? It's been a long time since she has resolved the conflict between her and her roommate for Sasa, have they already quarreled? Instead of him, it was Wu Shiqi who went back, would Sassa find out that something was wrong?

Usually a little scared, but Shi Qingyue now misses that glamorous, angry and adorable face. Qiao Sasa is to Shi Qingyue, neither a small fresh star and moon, nor a mild sunrise, but the scorching sun at noon in midsummer, which ordinary people avoid for fear of being burned, and the lonely and cold child who was born with a piece of black ice in his heart hopes to be illuminated by it.

"A computer that doesn't get hot won't be too well configured." Every time he was bullied by Qiao Sasa, Shi Qingyue comforted himself like this.

"Have you arrived?" As soon as Shi Qingyue got out of the airport, he received a call from Lin π: "We are about to be tortured by Qiao Sasa and go crazy!" ”

Shi Qingyue rushed to the movie theater where they were, bought a ticket to enter the venue and met Lin π Ke in the bathroom, only to see Lin π Ke's gray face and unshaped.

"She looks so tough, why is she super clingy?" Lin π Ke complained to Shi Qingyue: "After teaching the children every day, she has to eat and watch movies together, she has to get angry if the food is not delicious, and Wu Shiqi is to blame for the bad movie...... I've never been in love, are girls so scary? ”

"How do you know?" Shi Qingyue said: "Are you all with them?" ”

Lin π was stunned: "Of course I want to be with them...... I'm afraid that she won't be able to answer what Wu Shiqi will ask. ”

Shi Qingyue asked, "Then she didn't suspect anything in the past two days, right?" ”

Lin π Ke said: "I don't know if it's a suspicion, she always says that you have changed, you are not the same person as before, you are full of routines, and you don't love her anymore, is this a suspicion?" ”

Shi Qingyue's heart fell: "Oh, this is a daily performance. ”

Lin π Ke and Shi Qingyue briefly explained the matter of Du Yu and Lu Haoyue, and added: "I said that Sasa has this temper, should we not tell her these things first, and wait for Chi Xingmang to come out and everyone settle down?" ”

Shi Qingyue said: "Let's discuss it tomorrow and then decide." ”

Lin π Ke said: "Then I'll let Wu Shiqi change clothes with you, you go and continue to watch movies with her, let Wu Shiqi take a break, we have to be busy with Chi Xingmang's affairs in the past two days, and we have to accompany your girlfriend again, and we are almost tired." ”

A minute after Lin π Ke went out, Wu Shiqi entered the bathroom, Shi Qingyue looked at his walking movements and talking expressions, and felt that there were still many different details from himself, Qiao Sassa didn't have a particularly strong suspicion, and he was faintly a little lost in his heart. Shi Qingyue and Wu Shiqi changed clothes, Wu Shiqi fine-tuned himself, and he no longer looked like Shi Qingyue, but he was not like Wu Shiqi before. From now on, there will be no more Wu Shiqi in the network and documentation of NPCs.

"Call me Ling Yi in the future, since there are only zero and one in this world." Wu Shiqi said to Shi Qingyue.

Shi Qingyue took his mobile phone and ticket from Wu Shiqi and walked into the theater. There were very few people watching the movie, and in the dim light, Shi Qingyue quickly recognized Qiao Sasa, he walked over quickly and sat next to her, grabbed her shoulders and hugged her, with a lot of strength.

"What are you doing?" Qiao Sasa almost shouted so much that the rest of the people heard it.

Lin π Ke said to Qiao Sasa: "My dad has something to look for me, I'll leave first!" Then he quickly left.

Shi Qingyue hugged Qiao Sassa tightly and didn't let go, thinking of the worries and thoughts he had experienced in the past few days, his snot and tears cried.

"What's wrong?" Qiao Sasa wiped him and nagged: "I have just stabilized a little in the past few days, and I also said that you have matured when you go to Europe, why are you like a child today...... Don't cry, you didn't like to cry before, and when you went to the blast furnace country, you suddenly wandered, and I felt that something was wrong with you, and said, do you like someone else! ”

After watching the movie, Shi Qingyue sent Qiao Sasa back downstairs to the dormitory, and he grinded downstairs to prevent Qiao Sasa from going upstairs.

"My parents are not at home, and Aunt Wang does not live at home at night." Shi Qingyue said: "You go to live in my house." ”

Qiao Sassa said angrily: "Don't go!" ”

Shi Qingyue lowered his head and kicked the stones on the ground: "Don't be afraid, I just have a lot of things to say to you, you sleep on the third floor and I sleep on the second floor, I promise not to disturb your sleep." ”

Qiao Sasa said: "You want to be beautiful! ”

Shi Qingyue was anxious: "Aren't you very clingy these days?" I've done so much with you, you can talk to me! ”

Qiao Sassa touched his head: "Good! I still have to prepare for class, tomorrow I have to give Feng Lan and Long Lang a lesson, you go back to play the game first, and come out to play tomorrow afternoon. ”

After saying goodbye, Shi Qingyue suddenly turned around and hugged Qiao Sasa from behind: "I know you are insecure sometimes, but you have to remember that no matter what the world becomes, I will not like others, and it will never change." ”

Qiao Sasa turned his head, his eyes and the tip of his nose were red: "You tell me honestly, you date Lin π Ke every day, do you want to force me to break up?" ”

Shi Qingyue couldn't cry or laugh: "Where did you think of going?" In the past few days, a girl has been chasing Lin π Ke closely, let's help him hide! Don't worry, it won't be in the future. ”

Qiao Sasa said: "Words count! ”

After seeing Qiao Sasa go upstairs, Shi Qingyue returned home slowly alone, but found that Lin π Ke had already taken Wu Shiqi with him, no, it was Ling Yi now, waiting for him at the door of the house. Shi Qingyue rubbed his eyes and thought: Whether you hide or not, the new world has long been a part of life.

After the three of them entered, they closed the doors and windows and began to discuss.

"Let me start by talking about the world I saw with the eyes of the sky." Ling Yi said to Lin π Ke and Shi Qingyue.

Lin π Ke asked: "Even Chi Xingmang also has the one that can see NPCs and player profiles?" ”

"Yes, this plug-in is very useful, and the degree of physical transformation is small, so you need to equip it as soon as possible." Ling Yi said: "Before you went to Europe, I observed on the streets, and found that there are very few players in this world, only about one percent, most of them are NPCs, and they are ANPCs automatically created by the system, only about one-twentieth of people are MNPCs created by players, for example, in your summer camp, Lin π Ke among Chinese students, and Petra among foreign students, you two are MNPCs created by players, and the rest of the teachers and students are ANPCs automatically created by the system. ”

"And what's the difference between these two NPCs?" Shi Qingyue asked.

"I've been watching for a long time and I haven't seen a difference." Ling Yi said: "But I guess that it is very likely that the data of the MNPC created by the player can be saved when the MNPC dies, and if the player wants, maybe they can be resurrected, maybe their memories can be replayed, and the data of the ANPC that comes with the system will be zeroed after death." ”

Lin π Ke asked, "Why do you guess so?" ”

"Because I witnessed a terrorist attack in Europe." Ling Yi said: "I saw a player-created MNPC die with lines of code that flicker for a long time, and it looks like a special effect played when data is saved in the game. And the other systems built their own ANPC, they did not have such special effects when they died. ”

Lin π sighed: "After death, it is really ashes!" ”

Ling Yi said: "We won't have such a tragic fate, now the brain-computer interface in my hand and the computer in Chi Xingmang's hand have allowed us to do data storage for ourselves." We can at least be like the NPCs created by the player, where the memory is still alive when the person dies, and it is not impossible to resurrect it. ”

Shi Qingyue said: "I am also more interested in human brain data storage than body modification, which seems to be a good medicine to solve the ultimate problem of life, if we can develop another data output function, it may be forever ...... Far away lives in this game. ”

"Immortality in the game is just the first step!" Ling Yi said: "Although I don't know where the mentor got the brain-computer interface and hard disk, I speculate that this should be a plug-in developed for the game to make the game more fun." It's not for our benefit, but we can use them to make backups in the game to make sure our data isn't destroyed, and then find ways to use the player to get them to export our data to an outside computer, and then input our data into a machine, if they have it. In this way, we can be considered to have escaped from this game. ”

"Why run away?" Lin π asked.

Ling said with a heavy face: "If we don't escape, even if we back up our data a thousand times in the game, our fate is still in the hands of the developers, even if it is an NPC created by a player like Lin π ke, as long as they change the code, they can wipe out any character from this game cleanly, and there is not a single byte left!" ”

Shi Qingyue and Lin π Ke glanced at each other and deeply understood their fate.

"I just said that there are very few players on the streets of Europe." Ling Yi said: "After coming to China, I saw a little more players, but they only accounted for about 30 to 50 of the crowd, some of them occupied high positions, some of them had ordinary occupations, and some of them were marginalized people in society, and they seemed very casual. I have a bold guess - the game we are in may not be very popular in the outside world, which is good, if it is not popular, players will not care about the cooperation of NPCs, and the developers may not be so diligent in fixing loopholes. ”

Lin π Ke came to the spirit: "What is the difference between players and NPCs?" Do NPCs also have any class? Can you be a big official? When to be a CEO? To be president? ”

Ling Yi smiled: "The world seen by the Tianyan plug-in is so complicated, it's hard for me to explain, tomorrow we will get Chi Xingmang out, you can put on the Tianyan and figure it out yourself." ”

That night, Ling Yi slept in the guest bedroom of Shi Qingyue's house, and Lin π π Ke slept on the small bed in Shi Qingyue's study.

"What do you think?" Shi Qingyue asked Lin π.

"What can I think?" Lin π Ke stretched his waist and said, "If these are true, let's follow them and mix up the middle and high-level levels." ”

"Can they really do it?" Shi Qingyue's heart became more and more bottomless: "They are not the smartest kind of people in the world, right?" ”

However, Shi Qingyue thought about it again, and felt that since even the body could be transformed, the intellectual transformation technology was not a problem, and he felt a lot more relieved, probably he could expand the memory of the brain and feel the genius thinking.

"When I was a child, when I read popular science books, I always thought that I wanted to solve the mysteries of the universe when I grew up," Shi Qingyue said, "I didn't expect the mysteries to be placed in front of me, and I really couldn't bear it." ”

"It's fine!" Lin π Ke said sleepily: "When the eyes of heaven are opened tomorrow, the fighting spirit will come up." ”

Early the next morning, Lin π Ke took advantage of his father's going out and pulled the passerby out to meet Ling Yishi Qingyue.

Shi Qingyue communicated with Chi's father for a long time before persuading him to communicate with the psychiatric hospital and ask Lin π to take the dog to visit Chi Xingmang.

Ling Yi and Lin π Ke entered the visitation room with the passing and brain-computer interface, and Shi Qingyue waited at the door, sentry by the way.

In the middle of the night, Ling Yi and Lin π Ke came out with the dog as it was, and the three of them exchanged a few words with Father Chi and left with the dog.

The three of them and one dog took a taxi back to Shi Qingyue's house. The dog kept humming in the car, and Shi Qingyue had to pet it gently, but it didn't work very well.

Shi Qingyue looked at this husky who was much more lively than passing by and muttered: "Is this really a star?" ”

Finally getting home, the husky ran into the bathroom and closed the door, and came out again in a blink of an eye.

Shi Qingyue looked at Chi Xingmang, who had a full beard and a full tail, and was so excited that he didn't know which sentence to start with for a while.

"Brother!" Shi Qingyue got up from the sofa to greet him.

"From now on, I'm Ling Er." Chi Xingmang said to everyone.

Lin π was puzzled: "Didn't you say that there is only zero and one in the world?" ”

"But the real world must be full of infinite non-cyclic decimals." Ling Er said: "We circled the earth so much in order to escape from this virtual world where there are only zeros and ones. ”

"I have a big question I want to discuss with you." Ling Yi said to Ling Er: "One day I was wandering around the streets of Europe when I met a player, and just as I was reading his profile unscrupulously, he suddenly said to me, 'Plug-ins are good!' ’”

Ling Er was taken aback: "Players can see our plug-ins? ”

Ling Yi said: "Maybe he also used some kind of plug-in to see my plug-in, but we have to assume that all players can see our plug-in." I just looked at the computer in your hand, there is a compiler hidden in it, and I found a book called Si Language, I took a cursory look, probably the language used for programming in the outside world, let's learn it tonight, the top priority is to develop a hidden plug-in function first and then do something else, otherwise we will just walk around the street, it will be too dazzling. ”

Ling Yi and Ling Er immediately decided to work overtime to learn knowledge. Shi Qingyue arranged them in a wooden house on the roof where he used to store his childhood toys, so as not to be discovered by his parents, who did not know when they would suddenly return home. Ling Er also followed Ling Yi's example and pinched a five-point face for himself, and the two burned their ID cards and passports, pretending to have erased the two of them, Chi Xingmang and Wu Shiqi, from the world of the rest of the ignorant NPCs.

"In a few days, I'm going to write a code to my friends and family that erases my memory." Ling Er said to Shi Qingyue.