Unlike Lin π ke's conservative behavior, which only changed the appearance of his skin, Shi Qingyue underwent a full set of body and brain modifications, and he has been learning to adapt to this enhanced configuration of the body for the past few days.

His energy is noticeably more vigorous than before, and there is no longer any possibility that he will be tired from ordinary exercise and study; His body also has more strength, quicker reflexes, and stronger resistance to blows than before. In fact, in this modern society with strict laws, there is not much room for courage when he is physically strong, and he even needs to learn to control his strength larger than ordinary people to avoid accidental injury. Compared to Kong Wu's powerful body, Shi Qingyue was more intoxicated by the changes in his brain-

Because he has obtained more CPU computing resources and has been allocated more memory space and hard disk space, his thinking has changed from chaos to high-definition. Even though he was no longer stupid among his classmates before, when he was thinking, he could only calculate two-digit addition, subtraction, multiplication and division operations per second, and could only read 64KB of brain data, but now he can calculate 16 bits of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division on average per second, and can read 1M of brain data. This is only abstract thinking, let alone figurative thinking, in the past, his brain recalled a picture he had seen when the compression rate was amazing, he could only remember some vague outlines and approximate color information, but now he can see a 1G picture, can reproduce 8M in the brain, and the shape, line, light and shade and color that the human eye can distinguish are almost no loss.

In terms of instantaneous memory and long-term memory, it has also been upgraded from a noble person's forgetfulness to an unforgettable memory. These changes allow him to lie in bed and comb through all the information he has received that day after a day of work, study, and communication, and select the meaningful parts to compress and store them permanently on the hard drive. Whenever he wanted to read his memory, a virtual mental curtain would be created in his body for replay.

Shi Qingyue eagerly studied "Thinking Programming Language", "Peak: Design, Principle and Implementation" and "XOX Operating System Design" in the office assigned to him and Lin π by Yun Mengze, hoping to learn to program with Si Voice under the XOX operating system and share the burden of Yun Mengze writing code alone.

Lin π Ke is not often in the office, and Shi Qingyue is responsible for doing outreach work with Qiao Sasa, Si Chenxin, Du Yu and Wen Di to select suitable reserve forces for the group. They have now started to go out and contact their classmates who know their roots, and they are ready to develop new members from them.

Shi Qingyue is a person who is addicted to technology and doesn't like to socialize, so even if there are Qiao Sassa in the External Relations Department, he has little communication with their work. In addition to programming every day, he would go to Lu Haoyue and Luo Lang's office to teach them to program in Si Language - none of them had undergone brain modification, so they learned relatively slowly, but Lu Haoyue and Luo Lang's mathematical, physical and chemical grades were good, so they still learned basic sentences and structures after a few days.

Shi Qingyue once asked Yun Mengze why he didn't remodel the brains of the members of the test department, and Yun Mengze explained: "Although the smarter the members, the stronger the group will be, but the wisdom of the members will also threaten the leadership of the group managers, we are still in the early stage of development, so the release of authority and the training of members need to be tested step by step." ”

Shi Qingyue tried several times to teach Qiao Sassa to learn the language, but she was always not very happy: "I'm so tired after a busy day, why do I still have to learn programming, isn't it good for everyone to work together?" ”

As the only college student in the team who is not controlled by his family, Qiao Sassa does not need to clock in and go home every night, and has a cold relationship with his roommates, so he will spend the night in the office when he is too tired from work. Shi Qingyue's first thought of language was to write her a delicate and beautiful champagne-colored single bed with an opaque mosquito net.

Shi Qingyue also stayed in the office until late every day before returning home. Relative to his current brain performance, he had access to too few books from the real world, so he could only spend a lot of time thinking about the only three books he had in his hands while assisting Yun Mengze in developing new features. Shi Qingyue had learned programming principles, C language, C++, etc. from his cousin before, so "Thinking Programming Language" and "XOX Operating System Design" are not difficult for him, and his programming paradigm is the same category as the programming paradigm of this game world, of course, the programming principles and languages used by NPCs in the game world are the previous generation concepts that have been eliminated in the real world. Technology and principles are always boring, and the only surprise is that Si Language is a Chinese programming language, which suggests that the game world and the real world use the same language, and Chinese is most likely their lingua franca.

It didn't take him a few days for Shi Qingyue to learn the language of thought and the XOX operating system, but he would go back and forth in his mind to think about the game design documents in the book "Peak: Design, Principles, and Implementation" every time he went to the quiet of the night.

It turns out that this world is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, players can set their own character appearance, voice, gender, personality, intelligence, physical strength, occupation, etc. at the beginning of the game (once the game is started, it cannot be changed), there are three kinds of characters in the game: player, system self-built NPC (ANPC), player-created NPC (MNPC), each player can create up to ten NPCs. The player's goal is to be known by 10% of the NPCs in the game (by matching their name, appearance, and class) and loved by the 1% of the NPCs in the game (if the NPC has a favorable opinion of a player greater than 60%, the player is loved). Players who achieve this goal will be awarded the title of Patriarch, and the Elder can export the brain data and memories of the MNPC he created in the game to his computer for saving.

The reason why the name of this game is "Peak" is because in the game, if the player reaches the top of the world, that is, at a certain point in time, becomes the person with the most NPCs in the world, then the player can not only export the NPCs he created to his own computer, but also be allowed to import the data of these NPCs into the robot provided by the game company, enjoy the embracing of materialized NPCs in the real world, and get the peak experience that a mediocre person should not be able to obtain in the real world.

Although it is difficult to have the most NPC love in the world at a certain time, a player has an infinite number of lives, and if one dies, he can be reborn immediately, and all the data will be reset to zero, so the player has countless chances to reincarnate and turn the tables.

Shi Qingyue thought of this and suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the NPC was designed so carefully, this game seemed to allow players to find a sense of superiority in front of a large number of characters who were only a little less intelligent than them, if the difference in strength was too much, it would be like a night walk.

Shi Qingyue also summarized some basic rules in the game:

1. The player's perspective can see more details than the perspective of the eye of the sky, the player can locate the direction of his MNPC, and cannot define the NPC orientation that comes with the system, the player can receive a reminder of the ultimate intention and reason for his speech when the NPC speaks, and the level of detail that players at each level see is different, and the higher the level, the more detailed.

2. There are no restrictions on how players can play, they only need to abide by the laws and regulations of various countries and regions in the game, and players can be tried and sentenced by the court just like NPCs.

3. If a player sentenced to imprisonment by the court is imprisoned like an NPC, imprisonment is a specific amount of time spent in prison for the NPC, and from the player's point of view, the account is frozen for XX years.

4. The account of the player sentenced to death will be destroyed, and the data will also be destroyed, and it shall not be exported.

5. Players can choose careers such as business, politics, literature, art, charity, and scientific research (humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences).

Sixth, players can have countless trumpets, and they can form a union to play games (only by forming a group can they play well, and a solo fighter has never reached the top in history).

7. It doesn't matter if you get too many NPCs, but if you get too many players, you will be wiped out, but NPC hatred points may also be converted into hatred points for you by other players through the interaction between NPCs and players.

8. When MPNC is a child, it is best for players to let him develop on his own to grow the best, and after the age of eighteen, he should limit his development direction.

9. Players are not allowed to hunt other players, nor can their own NPCs hunt other players, but they can use their own NPCs to induce other NPCs to hunt another player (physical assassination was common before the Industrial Revolution, and mental torture is common now).

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Shi Qingyue couldn't help but question the source of this book in the face of the rules that were so easy to summarize, who was providing this book to NPCs, who was providing brain-computer interface code to NPCs, and who was providing plug-ins to NPCs?

He could have asked Yun Mengze these questions, but his intuition told him that it was better not to.

Shi Qingyue pondered these rules alone for several days, although Yun Mengze said that he could only read these books by himself and not reveal too much to others, he still couldn't help but carry everyone behind his back, and asked Lin π Ke to the stadium of Beiyuan High School one night and told him all this.

Lin π Ke was very excited after hearing this, and he discussed with him while eating the skewers brought by Shi Qingyue. They felt that these rules could perfectly explain the elusiveness of Lin π's mother. The reason why his mother is often not at home must be because he has created more than one MNCC in this game, and a careful analysis of the rules of the game shows that a person can only build a maximum of ten MNPC, but to get 10% of the NPC know, it is too fantastic, so they not only have to play games in groups, but there may be many people who have more than one trumpet.

"The most extreme case is ......," Lin π said, looking at the hazy moon overhead, "my mother is not only an MNPC of me, but she may also be a small trumpet ...... herself."

Shi Qingyue felt that Lin π Ke might be crying, so he hurriedly handed him a napkin.

Lin π Ke heroically flicked his hand out, and said in a loud voice: "I'm not sad at all! As an MNPC, I've been much luckier than you ANPCs, at least...... There's someone outside me! However, as an ANPC who knows the secrets of the world's operation, you are luckier than other ANPCs who have lived a foolish life......"

Shi Qingyue was about to talk to him about this topic: "I think there should be a lot of NPCs who know about these things now. The books I read are written in such detail, I think they are the result of the efforts of many NPCs, right? It's just that Yun Mengze doesn't seem to want to tell us the truth. ”

"We don't need them to tell us the truth!" Lin π Ke took Shi Qingyue's paper and blew his snot that was spicy from the skewers, and said: "From the beginning, I thought it was strange for Chi Xingmang to pull me into this matter, and today I think the most reasonable explanation is that they didn't lie to us too much, it is very likely that they accidentally got a brain-computer interface and a hard disk with plug-ins and books, but there was no player in the outside world to answer, and I, as the only MNPC among his friends, he felt that the one who created me was probably the player of my mother, It is possible to agree when we are externally answered. ”

Shi Qingyue was shocked: "I didn't expect you to be able to understand better than I thought if you didn't accept brain transformation!" ”

Lin π threw the paper that wiped his nose into the trash can more than ten meters away, and said slowly: "This has nothing to do with brain performance." You didn't ask Yun Mengze, but you came to ask me, just because you no longer believe that he is the same Chi Xingmang before, but you won't be able to accept it for a while, but I accepted it calmly, so I naturally thought clearly. ”

Shi Qingyue buried his head in his knees sadly: "I always feel that the stars are already stars in the sky, and now this is someone we don't know...... He went to Starlight's funeral yesterday disguised as me, and he said that he had deleted the beautiful memories of Starlight's parents and relatives and friends about him through a brain-computer interface, saying that it would alleviate their pain......"

Lin π patted him on the head: "Don't be sad, he may not have any malice, and he may even have good intentions for the entire NPC world, but we sometimes can't understand his realm." ”

Shi Qingyue said: "He said that he would back up all the members' brain data in the future, and I think that if I don't back it up, anyone's death will make my conscience uneasy...... We have to work hard to learn how to code and keep the encryption key of the data in our hands...... There are so many funeral people, he must not have used a brain-computer interface at that time, but directly hacked into the game's database, and we have to learn it. ”

Lin π Ke thought it was reasonable, so the two went to Yun Mengze the next day to upgrade Lin π Ke's brain and body. Shi Qingyue quickly glanced at the most important data in Lin π's brain during the operation, and saw that a "business idea" was implanted in it, and thought that Lin π ke's mother's profession is an illustrator, and it doesn't have much to do with business, so Lin π Ke may be used to assist Lin's mother's tuba when he is a businessman?

"Ling Yi came to see me yesterday." Yun Mengze suddenly said: "He already has a lot of experience in the research of the XOX system, we also have to work hard!" ”

Yun Mengze returned the passing by to Lin π, telling him that passing by can already be fake, although it looks more energetic than before, but even if a player looks at its information, it will be displayed exactly the same as before, and there is no trace of changing the body at all from the data.

After Lin π Ke went home with a passerby, Shi Qingyue called him downstairs and told him not to do anything important in front of the passerby, he didn't have a brain-computer interface in his hand, so he had to hack into the system database to find the data passing by to see if any monitoring code had been implanted, which could take several days.

Shi Qingyue has been very busy these days, Qiao Sassa occasionally idleness to greet him, he looked at the girlfriend in front of him who had actually only known him for a year, but he didn't know where to reveal it to her, so he simply didn't reveal it at all, but the feeling of not saying something in his heart was too tormenting, and Qiao Sassa was so naïve and direct, which made it difficult for him to feel that he was a good person and a good boyfriend even when he was patient with her violent temper.

From the moment Chi Xingmang became Yun Mengze, Shi Qingyue and Lin π Ke lost their brother who was also a teacher and friend, and they also lost their unreserved trust in this world, Shi Qingyue was like this to Qiao Sasa, and Lin π Ke was the same to Lin's mother.