Goose City, Sarankang Prefecture, Donghuang Empire.

Huang Zhiyu doesn't know if loneliness and loneliness can kill a person, as a 40-year-old man, he is mediocre in appearance, introverted, not good at socializing, and has no friends, doing boring and complicated procurement work in a large company, changing hands back and forth on the keyboard and phone all day long, a pair of constant panda eyes hidden behind thick spectacle lenses, most of the white hair is messily pressed on the oval face, fast food, takeaway, fat house water can not bring him happiness, can only hoard useless fat on his waist and abdomen, dragged him deeper and deeper into the quagmire of life.

Every breath is full of decay on the verge of death, and if there is still a breath of hope for freshness, I am afraid that there is only a new tour recommendation that is constantly refreshed on the computer but seems to have no new ideas.

Creativity, what a precious thing, but it's a pity that all game manufacturers have fallen into the eyes of money, coupled with the continuous persecution of ZZZQ, Huang Zhiyu feels more and more like a salted fish that has no hope and is exposed to the sun.

After checking the last account in the office, Huang Zhiyu took off his glasses and rubbed his sour eyes, reached out and turned off the computer, wiped the lenses with his sleeve a few times, and then put on the coat hanging on the back of the office chair and locked the door and left.

It was already moonlit and starry outside, he drove on the bustling street, the lights outside were red and drunk, and the drunken gold fans could not arouse his unfazed heart at all, he couldn't be restless when he was young, and after the forty mark, he became more and more lifeless, he didn't even want to turn on the car radio to listen to the old melody and flattering lyrics of the song, so he silently drove back to the "lantern community" on the edge of the city.

The lantern community is located on the side of the red sandalwood highway in the west of the goose city, along the highway and further west there are only two residential areas, the rest are all kinds of car sales facades, repair shops, tire shops, car beauty, gas stations and roadside restaurants standing in light steel plants, and then go west is a photovoltaic power plant that covers a large area, followed by Qinglongshan Park, which covers a larger area, and then go out on the highway, and endless fields and woods on both sides.

Next to the access control of the lantern community is a security room, the sheriff sent by the local security office sits in the narrow security room, staring at the vehicles entering and leaving the community with bright eyes, Huang Zhiyu parked the car in front of the access control, ticked, the vehicle started slowly, the speed was put at 20 yards, turned straight and then turned and slipped into the parking space of the small square of the lantern community.

Looking at the children chasing around under the windshield headlights, skateboarding, and stepping on electric wheels, the young adults sitting on the stone bench smoking cigarettes and drinking cans of beer and chatting and farting with cold dishes, the middle-aged couple walking the dog and walking the baby, the uncle and aunt dancing in the square, and the battery cars flashing with various LED lights scurrying around, the lantern community is still as noisy as before.

Everything noisy made Huang Zhiyu feel extremely irritable, he talked about several girlfriends when he was young, and the longest one didn't last for three months, his girlfriends always felt that he was silent, and he was a migrant worker with no car, no house, no future, and no windfall, he seemed to be a mom boy, and he had almost no own opinions when chatting, and after finding out his details, a breakup call often smashed on Huang Zhiyu's head, making him at a loss.

After thirty-five, his parents no longer worry about his future, he is not an only son, his two younger brothers can continue the incense, and his eldest brother will completely let himself go.

seems to be heartless, but he is also a human being, and he also has the instinct to comfort and continue the offspring, especially in the face of those babbling dolls and bouncing children, he will always imagine that he once had a good partner, a lovely son and a daughter, and a perfect and complete family.

Unfortunately, that's just a fantasy,

Huang Zhiyu opened the car door and walked to the express supermarket on the edge of the small square, there was still a queue at the door of the supermarket, not as long as when he got off work on the hour, he only swiped the toast station video on his mobile phone, and after queuing for more than two minutes, he showed the pickup code to the boss, and the boss searched for a while on several rows of shelves, and took out a large square box from the bottom shelf.

The big box was tightly wrapped in plastic wrapping paper, there was no trace of squeezing and breakage, the box was very square, it looked like it was lined with plastic, and Huang Zhiyu's face was half soothed.

A year ago, when he was cruising in the ocean of games, he stumbled upon a new immersive game called "The Afterlife", crowdfunding was 666 yuan, each person was limited to one number, raising 30,000 internal accounts, and the total funds were less than 20 million.

However, Huang Zhiyu, who was bored at the time, had a little spare money in his hands, and saw that the crowdfunding number had reached 29,291, so he got together a copy and became the 29292nd beta player of "The Afterlife", Huang Zhiyu, who had no expectations for this thing, received a text message from the "Afterlife" distribution company "Providence Technology" three days ago, informing him that he had delivered the special portable login for the internal beta of "The Afterlife" according to the address he had filled in, which made Huang Zhiyu's numb heart hot again, and he had invested for so many years. It's a kickback.

He searched Tianyi Technology on the Internet, and found that it was just a leather bag company with a web page introduction, and the game in the afterlife had almost no popularity on the Internet, only occupying a corner in the crowdfunding area of the largest game platform.

Until today, the moment he received this square box, his palm was inexplicably sweating, a palpitation that he had never had before made him carefully look at the shipping address on the box, and only the recipient's address and phone number were on the box, and he asked the owner of the express supermarket, and the boss also scratched his head, only saying that he vaguely remembered that someone brought it over, and said that he lost the express bill on the road, since the storage fee was given, it didn't matter what the warehousing procedures were.

Huang Zhiyu drove back to the door of his unit building with a full face of doubt, there was no parking space downstairs, he could only drive the car in front of the building and behind the building for two laps, parked on the edge of the green belt of the fence far away, picked up the box in the co-pilot position, the weight of the box was very heavy, and he couldn't hear the sound inside after shaking it, he walked back to the unit building with the box, brushed the door to enter the elevator, pressed the 15th floor, and stretched out his right index finger to wipe the fingerprint lock before walking to the door of his house, and the door automatically bounced out a crack.

The classic small apartment of 68 square meters can be seen at a glance, a small kitchen, a small bathroom, a decent living room, a study, and two small bedrooms are all he has.

"I'm back."

He reflexively shouted, but as usual there was no response, he shook his head with a wry smile, and shouted again:

"Lick the dog, turn on the lights!"

"Yes, master."

The intelligent housekeeper licked the dog elf and turned on the slow light in the living room after replying, under the milky white light, there was a marble table in the center of the small living room, surrounded by a mid-range fabric sofa, and a 64-inch flat-screen TV hung on the TV wall opposite, next to the TV wall was a huge fish tank, and several of the best koi fish hit the wall back and forth in it.

Huang Zhiyu looked at the wall clock on the wall of the living room, it was exactly 20:51, he didn't care about eating instant noodles, and entered his warm little study with the box.

In the study, a wooden computer desk is placed with his updated computer and chassis last year, with Razer headphones hanging next to it, a lazy sofa placed in front of the computer desk, and a two-person sofa behind it, and a row of bookshelves against the wall on the side, on which some old books that have not been touched for more than ten years are placed, and a business hot and cold direct drinking water machine is stuffed between the bookshelf and the computer desk, and there are unopened cigarettes on the windowsill.

This is the standard gentle township!

Huang Zhiyu quickly closed the window with his hands and feet, closed the curtains, turned around and sat on the sofa chair and held the square box and opened it, the outer packaging was very tight, and after cutting it with a utility knife in the drawer, he found that there were six layers of plastic seals, and he ripped off the plastic seals with his hands, and a black box with a line of words printed in white Song characters appeared in the field of vision.

"All my colleagues in the afterlife, thank you for your support! Everything you do, will be etched in the history of the afterlife. ”

The two sentences made Huang Zhiyu uncomfortable, he didn't like these two sentences, as if he wanted him to charge into battle, he has always been a person who puts safety first, never contaminated with external cause and effect, hides when he sees trouble, goes to work happily, and goes home safely and securely It has always been the principle he upholds, forget it, but two unlucky words, the money has been spent, and you have to see what moths are in it.

He opened the black box with his hands, and inside was a layer of square foam pads, took out the foam pads, and a pitch-black helmet appeared in the innermost, the helmet, which was designed to resemble a motorcycle helmet, and then dragged out a data cable.

Huang Zhiyu looked for a long time and didn't find the instructions for use, so he could only put the helmet on his head and experience it, the size was right, the lining was comfortable and breathable, the workmanship was excellent, and there were no obvious flaws and burrs.

Seven seconds later, the computer turned on,Skillfully log in to the game platform interface,Look for the afterlife in the inventory,The main interface of the game in the afterlife is a little crotch-pulling,A white-clothed beauty with an irregular figure and cool clothes and a black-clothed beauty with the same illegal figure and even cooler clothes are just like this in front of the big screen,Holding a sword in one hand,Holding the countdown box in the other,Keep squeezing your eyebrows at the player,At a glance, the content is not enough to worry about refunds,Beauty to make up low-level fun operator routines。

Taking advantage of the 1 minute and 11 seconds of countdown time, Huang Zhiyu got up and ran to the bathroom to put some water, then took off his full-body coat, changed into pure cotton black and white plaid pajamas, and sat back on his seat comfortably.

"Wow!"

Countdown 10 seconds, a burst of electric sound came from the top of the head, a pure white plexiglass screen slowly fell from the gap on the edge of the helmet, Huang Zhiyu's eyes widened, I didn't expect it to be a high-tech toy, Providence Technology don't play games with your feet, make helmets with your heart, right?

He was a little more serious, his originally limp body sat up straight, his eyes staring closely at the reddening countdown through the glass, and then, his whole body softened backwards, as if he was asleep in an instant.