"The world is fake." Chi Xingmang looked at Lin π Ke and said, "I mean, the entire universe we are in is virtual, a bunch of data. We live in an online game. ”

"Don't laugh." Ji Xingmang pushed the glasses that didn't exist: "I'm not saying that the universe, the earth, and humans don't exist, it's just that they exist outside of us - the developers designed a role-playing game based on their universe, and we're in this game now." ”

"You must think this game is not fun." Ji Xingmang took a big sip of Coke and continued: "This is normal, because you are not a player, you are being played, you are an NPC...... Don't be sad, I'm actually an NPC too, and most of the characters in our game are NPCs. The NPCs are made so many and elaborate because the game is developed for the bottom of the society in the real world, so that they can enjoy the thrill of being in the game, and the more real the NPCs look, the more fun the game will be. ”

"Unbelievable, huh? I used to think this was a lie, until I equipped my mentor's studio with this invisible eye plug-in...... Don't stick to me so closely, what you can't see is said to be invisible. Chi Xingmang rubbed his eyes and ate a french fry: "After the Tianyan plug-in is equipped, you can see the personal information of players and NPCs in the game. Let me take a look at your profile – name: Lin π Ke; Date of manufacture 20001126; ID:MMMSC5329874563201； Wait, you didn't turn out to be automatically generated by the system, you were pinched by the player! ”

Chi Xingmang's eyes lit up and said: "If the first letter of the ID is A, it is automatically generated by the system, such as me; If the first letter is M, it's manually pinched by the player, like you! There are two possibilities, one is that your immediate family is a player and pinches you as a descendant, and there is another possibility: the player pinched your family as a helper for himself and a subservient for the enemy......"

Lin π Ke looked at Chi Xingmang, who was talking serious nonsense, and couldn't laugh more and more. According to the plan, he and Shi Qingyue, Luo Lang and Lu Haoyue were going to the blast furnace country to participate in the summer camp tomorrow, so today he was picked up by his father early in the morning to pack his luggage, and it didn't take long to receive a call from Shi Qingyue, saying that his cousin Chi Xingmang was admitted to a mental hospital, and strongly asked Lin π Ke to see him. Chi Xingmang is Shi Qingyue's cousin, and Shi Qingyue is Lin π ke's classmate from elementary school to high school. Chi Xingmang was five years older than the two of them, and he often took them around naughty when he was a child. Although the three of them sometimes quarrel and fight, in general, the relationship is as good as that of brothers. However, since Chi Xingmang went to Xingguan Country to go to college five years ago, he has had little contact with them when he was not in the summer vacation.

But every summer vacation before, he looked like a normal science and engineering otaku student, Lin π Ke looked at Chi Xingmang suspiciously: let's not talk about the nonsensical cowhide he blows, let's just say that his appearance has changed drastically from before - his greasy long ponytail is now cut into a spiritual short haircut, and every hair is in the right place; The glasses under the old wine bottle are also gone, well, according to him, he put on the eye of the sky; He used to have strawberry-shaped blackheads on his nose and countless pimples on his cheeks, but now his skin is as white and flawless as a girl; He used to have a gray complexion, but now he has red lips and white teeth, and his face is radiant, and his figure is taller and stronger than before.

"Don't get distracted." Chi Xingmang shook his hand in front of Lin π Ke's eyes: "You must be watching my appearance change, right?" That's right, I've changed from top to bottom, inside to out, from bones to skin...... Let go of my arms, you can't feel any different from you low-level NPCs......"

"Forget it, you won't believe me if I don't show it to you." Chi Xingmang propped his hands on the table, leaned his face close to Lin π's face and said, "Look into my eyes and tell me what changes you see?" ”

"It's become handsome...... Lin π Ke leaned back desperately.

"Look at the size of your eyes, it's changing." Chi Xingmang prompted: "There are also the height of the eyebrows, the height of the bridge of the nose, and the size of the mouth, you see, you can change." ”

Lin π Ke looked at it fixedly, it was really changing, and he shook his head and looked again, feeling that there was not much change.

He said bottomlessly: "If you don't prompt me, I can't see the change, and if you prompt me, I feel that there is a change, you must be brainwashing me!" ”

"I forgot you're face blind!" Chi Xingmang patted his head: "Come, show you my brother's complexion." ”

Lin π Ke looked intently at Chi Xingmang's skin, watching it change from yellow to black and then to white and back again.

"Don't be afraid, the situation is urgent, you have to be calm!" Chi Xingmang checked the doors and windows, and whispered to Lin π ke: "Last fall, our mentor didn't know where to get a batch of brain-computer interfaces, this is not the kind of immature brain-computer interface I am studying in the laboratory where I stayed in Xingguan Country to operate prosthetics, it is a new type of interface that can transfer our data to the hard disk after being connected. I'm sure there is no one in our world who can develop such an advanced interface now, and I guess my mentor must have thought the same way, he hid these interfaces for research, and when he went on vacation, I stumbled upon the brain-computer interface. I also found out that he had a strange computer with a different system than the one we normally use, and there was a lot of code, software, and information in it that I couldn't understand. I took the computer and an interface home, and I couldn't study it, so I had to tell my doctor's brother Wu Shiqi about it, and we figured out the usage together, it turned out that there were a lot of plug-ins stored in the computer, and the brain-computer interface input could transform the body and improve combat effectiveness or something. While we were doing these things, we were somehow discovered by another doctor from Qi Liguo in the laboratory, who stole all the brain-computer interfaces left in the laboratory and escaped overnight. No one knew where he had gone, and his roommate had reported missing. After the mentor rushed back, we didn't dare to tell him that the computer was in our hands and one of the brain-computer interfaces was in our hands, and the mentor didn't suspect us two honest Chinese, thinking that Dr. Qi Li stole the computer and all the interfaces, but he didn't dare to tell the police, just secretly went to Qi Li country, and there was nothing to gain. After the mentor came back, he was depressed every day, and we didn't dare to talk to him for fear of being exposed. ”

Speaking of this, Chi Xingmang's expression was a little annoyed: "Wu Shiqi and I have been discussing how to find an opportunity to confess to the teacher, but then I was really afraid of affecting my studies, so I had to decide never to confess, so I buried the interface and the computer separately for the time being, and then quietly sent back to the teacher when I got the degree." ”

"Who knew it wasn't that simple." Chi Xingmang sped up his speech: "A few days ago, I suddenly found that someone was following me, and I finally got rid of that person and called Wu Shiqi, and he said that he was almost kidnapped. Our respective roommates all called us to say that the rented house had been burglarized and everything had been turned upside down. We didn't dare to go back, we discussed it that night, these things happened almost at the same time, there must be a big organization looking for us, it felt like a gang, apparently the South American doctor had grown into a gang or a religion or something. We decided to flee immediately, we waited until after dark to take out the brain-computer interface and computer that had been buried before, and prepared to flee from the country of Xingguan separately, Wu Shiqi was going to go to Europe with his mentor for an academic conference recently so he applied for a Schengen visa, he decided to go to the blast furnace country first to transfer the machine, get rid of the tracker and then return to China, I decided to go back to China directly. In the early morning of the next day, I took my computer on the plane back to China, and when I arrived at the customs in China, I always felt that someone was following me, but he was stopped by the Chinese customs, and probably did not enter the country in the end, but I didn't dare to look there more, so I left quickly. Later that same day, Wu Shiqi got on a plane to the blast furnace country. He was not as lucky as me, after passing the security check in the United States, he was blocked in the toilet by three people and beaten and searched, but he was the same as me, he was a modified body, the brain-computer interface was very small, hidden inside his body, those people couldn't find it, and his so strong body Those people couldn't kill him, he had the upper hand, but he didn't fall in love, and quickly got out of the customs and slipped on the plane. ”

Chi Xingmang took a sip of Coke and continued: "After I returned to China, I quickly found someone to buy an overseas mobile phone card, and Wu Shiqi also bought a mobile phone card without his real name in the blast furnace country. The mentor said that he had just found out that things had reached the point where they were out of control, and he saw that there were already people selling human modification and human brain backup services on the dark web black market, and it must be that Dr. Qi Liguo who regarded this as a business....... This matter is a bit out of control, Dr. Qi Liguo originally only had a brain-computer interface, and he needed another computer to provide these services, and there may be a larger organization behind it...... However, the teacher also said that he no longer wanted to participate in this matter, and he felt that we would definitely be tracked down by the gangs when we came back, although he would not let us graduate because of this incident, but he suggested that we stay in China with this secret and not return to Xingguan Country, and he himself plans to retire and live on Hawahe Island for a long time. ”

"Then you're just like that, don't you plan to study?" Lin π asked.

"Look at your vision!" Chi Xingmang patted Lin π Ke on the shoulder and said, "Brothers, you can do a big deal like that Dr. Qi Li!" ”

"What are you doing, big or small?" Lin π rubbed Chi Xingmang's oily and slippery hair and said, "Wake up, you are in a mental hospital, what else can you do besides bragging?" ”

"Listen to me." After Chi Xingmang straightened his hair, Zhengse said: "I took the initiative to pretend to be crazy and let my parents be sent to a mental hospital for the sake of insurance - the most difficult place in the world to be kidnapped is a mental hospital and prison, I can't commit a crime and go to prison, so I still choose a mental hospital, think about it, if the people from the South American doctor are still following me, I enter here, and the idle people can't get in at all, take a step back and say, even if you come in, you can't take people away." I called you here today, just to discuss with you: Aren't you and Qingyue going to the Blast Furnace Country Summer Camp tomorrow? When you are about to go back to China, find a chance to meet with Wu Shiqi, let Wu Shiqi pinch himself into Qingyue, take Qingyue's passport, and return to China with your classmates, as for Qingyue, stay in the blast furnace country for two more days, and when Wu Shiqi goes out of customs, Qingyue can take his ID card to the Chinese embassy to expedite the replacement of his passport, so that even if Dr. Qi Li invades the boarding system at the airport, there is no way to find out that Wu Shiqi has returned to China. ”

"Can you disguise it?" Lin π Ke asked: "It's good to say at the airport and the teacher who led the team, I don't know us very well, but my classmates and parents can't see it?" ”

"It's okay, we can still pinch a person who is very similar, and Qingyue has always been a person who doesn't have a sense of existence, and classmates won't feel strange if they don't talk, his parents are so busy, they will definitely not come to pick up the airport, if his aunt at home comes to pick up, you will tell her that Qingyue is going to your house to play for a few days." After two days when Qingyue comes back, Wu Shiqi will pinch himself into whatever he wants, bring your dog to see me, and then use the skin props on my hard drive to pinch the dog into my appearance, and then you can change me out. ”

Lin π Ke was anxious when he heard this: "Why is it my dog?" ”

Chi Xingmang smiled and said, "It looks like you finally believe it." ”

Then the nurse knocked on the door and said, "The visiting time is almost over." ”

Chi Xingmang hurriedly said: "You go back and discuss the details with Qingyue, I told him in detail yesterday." By the way, don't worry that you will be exposed, you see that there are still some relatives and friends waiting outside who have come to visit me, and even if Dr. Qi Li's people find here, they will not be able to find out one by one. ”

After Lin π Ke left the visiting room, he met a few people who came to see Chi Xingmang, and one of them pulled him anxiously and asked, "How is it, does it matter?" ”

Dad Chi also came over and said to him: "I just called Xingmang's tutor, the tutor may be too stressful to study, let us help him with the suspension materials, the doctor also said that it is best to suspend school, how can it be like this?" ”

Lin π comforted him and said: "It's too tiring to study in Xingguan Country, don't worry, it will get better after resting, there are a few students in our school this year who have mental and spiritual problems that seem to be serious before the college entrance examination, and this is almost better in just a few months." ”

Father Chi's face was slightly relieved: "Borrow your auspicious words...... Then you have time to come and see him, he likes to talk to you, he doesn't like to talk to us. ”

Lin π agreed and got out of the mental hospital.

At noon on July 16, 2019, it was 33 degrees Celsius, and the scorching sun was in the sky. On the track of the stadium of Lidu Beiyuan High School, Lin π Ke walked round and round, thinking back to Chi Xingmang's words just now, his thoughts were confused, and he felt that his intelligence was not enough to deal with this problem.

He sent a WeChat message to Shi Qingyue: "What do you think about your cousin?" ”