District 9, Little Sun Welfare Home.

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The Federation's brain-computer technology matured rapidly with the advent of mechanical prosthetics.

At first, the emergence of the brain-computer was the forcible development of the human brain by the island nation using the condemned prisoner as an experimental specimen to match the supercomputer.

It was precisely because of this inhumane experiment that was exposed that the mysterious hacker's nuclear bomb attack occurred, and then a chain reaction broke out, triggering World War III.

Half a century has passed since the end of the war, and the emergence of a large number of mechanical prostheses after the war has allowed neuromechanism to develop rapidly.

Among them, the scientific research on information transmission and control, especially the matching of human and animal brains with machines and electronic devices, has become the main research direction of the scientific research community.

With the addition of the Bundestag president and the support of the Ideal Foundation, the first portable brain computer was finally launched five years ago.

With the cooperation of human beings and advanced intelligence, Bluestar has truly opened the era of the metaverse.

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"The realm of the Xuanjing, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, and martial arts, the beginning of the awakening spirit, and the path is endless......"

Lin Chuan, who entered the metaverse for the first time, was taken away by the familiar chanting voice before he had time to feel the magic of this virtual space.

That heavy sense of fate gave Lin Chuan the absurd illusion of being played with by the world, as if his life was a script that had been written a long time ago, and no matter how he struggled, he was performing according to the script.

Fortunately, after experiencing life and death, and after a short period of distraction, Lin Chuan still barely calmed down and began to look at this huge palace.

Just two steps away, a beautiful girl dressed very coolly appeared in front of Lin Chuan, and said very enthusiastically:

"Welcome to Xianfan, I'm your game assistant Xiaobai."

[Detected that the player is under the age of 18, the youth mode has been automatically turned on]

However, before Lin Chuan could appreciate it carefully, the rigid system prompt sounded, and Xiaobai immediately added a very conservative long skirt to himself.

A hint of disappointment flashed in Lin Chuan's eyes, but he immediately said seriously:

"Tell me how the game works."

Compared with appreciating virtual beauties, Lin Chuan is still more interested in Xianfan.

"Xianfan is an open game world, and there is no division of professions......"

With Xiaobai's introduction and Lin Chuan's tireless inquiry, he quickly summarized and sorted out the basic information of Xianfan.

1. Every gamer will bind the safe zone where they are located when they log in for the first time, as their own novice village, and the starting difficulty of each novice village is different, such as Lin Chuan's ninth novice village, and the difficulty evaluation given by the system is C, which is the novice village with the highest difficulty system.

2. There is no division of professions in Xianfan games, all players will complete a personal trial when they enter the game world for the first time, and according to the rating of the trial, the initial attribute data of the character is determined, as well as the initial rating, and the highest initial rating is currently known to be D-level.

3. Skills can be learned in the game, but they need to be skillfully operated to use, and specific skills need to be entered into the game to explore.

4. All items, skills, and characters in the game are divided according to the evaluation level of F~S.

5. At present, the game currency exchange has been opened, and the exchange ratio is 1:1.

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"Do you have any more questions?"

Xiaobai swallowed a mouthful of saliva very humanely, and saw that Lin Chuan was about to speak, but he interrupted him directly, and continued quickly: "The novice trial has begun, I wish you a happy game." ”

Lin Chuan looked at the surrounding scenery with some innocence and began to change, he just wanted to say thank you, but the game assistant didn't give him a chance to speak.

"Eh! It seems that he forgot to let him choose the difficulty of the trial...... Forget it, it's a big deal to give him another chance after the trial is over......"

After Lin Chuan entered the trial, the expression on Xiaobai's face was much more vivid, but the review of the self-talk could hear a hint of smugness.

And it's impossible for AI to make mistakes.

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[Trial 1, begins.] 】

As soon as Lin Chuan heard the prompt sound of the system, the world in front of him dimmed, and then a blood-red word "the" appeared in the center of his vision.

Lin Chuan, who had turned into a soul form, looked blankly at the corpse full of arrows under his feet, where is this trial, this is clearly a punishment, but before he could figure out the situation, the system began to count the seconds:

[Countdown to Resurrection: 5.4.3.2.1]

Lin Chuan's virtual body solidified again and appeared in place, this time when he heard the sound of arrows breaking through the air, he subconsciously used an instantaneous step, but he was still pierced into a hedgehog......

[Countdown to Resurrection: 5......]

"The"

[Countdown to Resurrection: 5......]

"The"

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The repeated death did not discourage Lin Chuan, after each death, he would calculate the landing point of the arrow and re-plan a more reasonable dodge direction.

Finally, when he turned into a hedgehog for the seventh time, Lin Chuan increased his survival time to 10 seconds.

This time in the soul state, the system pops up a prompt box:

[Do you give up Trial 1?] 】

Lin Chuan decisively nodded no, although he didn't know if other people's trials were also so perverted, but he remembered that only by completing the personal trials could he get the initial character rating.

If you want to prostitute this latest portable brain computer, you have to raise the character rating to D within two months, so the initial character rating is very important.

Lin Chuan saw the sale price of this brain computer, 58,888 yuan, which is a huge amount of nearly 60,000 yuan.

[Countdown to Resurrection: 5.4.3.2.1]

As his body solidified again, Lin Chuan instantly turned into an afterimage, shuttling through the rain of arrows, but without the support of spiritual power, it was still a little reluctant to rely solely on the instantaneous way of exerting force.

Ten seconds later, he saw the word "should" again.

Lin Chuan's temper has always been very good, even when he bleed the scavengers, he had a smile on his face, but this word "should" was too ridiculous, and Lin Chuan, who had become a soul form, didn't even look at the prompt box that appeared again, and directly clicked "no", and continued to start the journey of masochism.

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[Congratulations to players for achieving the achievement "Ten Dead Without Life", which reduces respawn time by 0.05 seconds and increases mental toughness level +1]

Forty-five minutes later.

[Congratulations to players for achieving the achievement "No Regrets in a Hundred Deaths", which reduces the respawn time by 0.1 seconds and increases the mental toughness growth level +2]

Seven hours later.

[Congratulations to players for achieving the "Reincarnation of a Thousand Deaths" achievement, reducing the resurrection time by 1 second, and gaining Mental Toughness +5]

[The player has been playing for eight hours in a row, the youth anti-addiction mode has been enabled, and the player will be forced offline after three minutes.] 】

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Lin Chuan, who was kicked out of the game, took off the black frame with a blank face, and looked at the lines on the ceiling with blank eyes, only feeling that the word "the" was composed of a ......

After a long time, Lin Chuan calmed down and got up to wash, but before he could stand up, his knees weakened and he knelt on the ground with a "bang".

"What's wrong Chuan'er!?"

Jing Xuan, who heard the voice, ran over in three steps and two steps, but as soon as he pushed the door open, he saw Lin Chuan kneeling on the ground, and the slut immediately straightened his waist, stroked his non-existent beard, and asked in a low voice:

"Why did the emperor make this big gift? Hurry up and flatten down. ”

"! Help me up......"

Lin Chuan now has the heart to kill, Jing Xuan didn't say anything more, and forced a smile to pull him out.

It took more than half an hour for Lin Chuan's legs to gradually regain consciousness, but they were still sore and unbearable, and he also took advantage of this time to listen to Jing Xuan talk about his game experience.

Unlike Lin Chuan, after Jing Xuan entered the game, he didn't listen to the introduction of the game assistant at all, but directly pushed open the gate of the palace and walked out.

Behind the door is the trial venue, there are many kinds of trials for people to choose from, Jing Xuan, the reckless man, directly chose fighting, and after hammering to death 4 mirror characters, he was killed by the fifth mirror in seconds, got an initial evaluation of the E level, and officially started the game.

According to Jing Xuan's description, the ninth novice village in the game is a few thatched houses in a ravine.

Jing Xuan didn't stay in the village for long, so he went out to fight monsters, and this fight was a night, and it was also in the morning, because he was kicked out of the youth mode.

Lin Chuan just silently ate the sweet potato, and did not mention the word "the" that he had read all night.

"It's okay, my game ID is called 'One Punch to the Stomach', you add your friends when you go back, and when I study it, let's go together."

Jing Xuan also thought that Lin Chuan had been silent because he didn't understand the game, after all, it was normal for a person like him to learn very well and not understand the game.

"Well, let's go first, it's half past ten in the car, it's just right to go now, don't bring the sweet potatoes in your pocket, we have to go to the eighth district to find Jiang Yang and the dog first."

Lin Chuan didn't bother to explain, greeted him, and put the little flower on the table that was still stuffy and dry rice into his pocket.

This little milk cat plunged her whole head into the food bowl when she was eating, and just now she directly performed a handstand, if it wasn't for Lin Chuan's quick catch of her, she almost fell off the table.

Jing Xuan didn't have anything to prepare, but he was a little distressed about the bag of sweet potatoes.

After the two went out, they looked back at the place where they had lived for more than ten years, then looked at each other and smiled, and walked firmly towards the intercity air rail station.

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Meanwhile.

In the eighth district, in the room of the "sleep where you want" hotel on the 16th floor of Cointreau Tower, Jiang Yang is smoking cigarettes one after another.

When he fled to the eighth district, Jiang Yang, who evaded the ticket, made up the first-class fare for himself and his dog in order not to be arrested by IPC, so that he was able to get out, but the money on his body was less than 10,000 yuan.

He could only take his dog to live in the small hotel closest to the station, and did not dare to contact anyone.

This week, Jiang Yang would take the dog to the exit of the station every day, and he waited for a day, but he never waited for Lin Chuan and Jing Xuan.

Jiang Yang actually knew very well that those two people might never appear again, but he had nowhere to go now, so he could only wait decadently.

But it's not a way to wait like this, so yesterday Jiang Yang locked the dog in the hotel and went out to work part-time for a day, no matter what, as long as people are alive, life has to go on.

Unlike District 9, Zone 8 is home to the headquarters of the Federal Adventurers' Union.

It's the equivalent of the Federation's House of Everything, and there are many adventurer companies here.

They will take on all kinds of tasks from the union, from finding lost pets to collecting materials in the wilderness, and even as long as the money is given, the head of the federal councillor can be rewarded, but the adventurer union will publish the list of companies that will take the task, and no one dares to take it.

The Adventurer's Guild is jointly run by the Yang Consortium and the Lu Consortium.

Both of them were formed by the civilian class after the nuclear bomb washed the ground, so this place is friendly to civilians, and civilians are not allowed to enter only above the 70th floor.

And the class differentiation below the 70th floor is not so obvious, that is, the involution is too serious.

The development of a high degree of mechanization has caused many manual practitioners to lose their job opportunities, and yesterday Jiang Yang rummaged through the job catalog issued by the adventurer company, and finally only found a part-time job as an electronic miner.

With an old helmet-type brain computer, I dug in the mines of the metaverse for a day, and only earned 400 yuan, at the cost of excessive mental consumption and a headache for a night.

In fact, those virtual minerals do not have any effect, just to keep the brain in a stable and active state, and better help the host to produce electronic tokens under the blockchain algorithm.

In fact, before the outbreak of the Third World War, electronic tokens have become one of the underlying structures in the concept of the metaverse, but security has not been guaranteed.

Especially after the super hacker hacked into the nuclear bomb well, everyone in the major companies was at risk, and all of them built various small local area networks that were physically isolated.

Until the unification of the federation, after the senior artificial intelligence became the chairman of the Senate, he promulgated the network security management regulations and established the God's Domain Firewall.

Since then, hackers have become a term in the history books, no one has been able to break through the network protected by the gods, and the official electronic currency issued by the federal government has also begun to be recognized, laying the cornerstone for the development of the metaverse.

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"Whew......"

"Don't scream, I don't have a headache and don't go to work today, I'll accompany you to the station in a while."

Jiang Yang snuffed out the cigarette butt and waved his hand impatiently.

The dog barked again, and seeing that Jiang Yang was indifferent, he climbed onto the bedside table, took a cigarette out of the cigarette case, raised his head at him, and motioned for him to light it for himself.

"Blanch, why do you still want to smoke a cigarette?"

After this operation, Jiang Yang couldn't be rectified directly, he scolded with a smile, and really lit the fire and handed over the lighter.

Ao Wu stretched out a paw to hold Jiang Yang's hand, and really lowered his head to light the cigarette.

It's just that Ao Wu just took a puff like Jiang Yang, spit the cigarette to the ground, and then shook his head under Jiang Yang's speechless gaze, turned around and climbed to the side......