I collect gold fingers in the heavens

Chapter 516 Arrival
(Recommend watching the movie "Ready Player One".)
When Wu Siyuan's consciousness woke up from the chaos, he had completely absorbed all the memories of the original owner.

The place where he is currently is in Columbus, Ohio, in the stacked district.

Or rather, the ghetto.

It was a residential building made of various prefab houses stacked up, like a broken and tattered old tin box.

The prefabricated house has no real foundation, but is held together by recycled iron pipes, beams, steel brackets and pedestrian bridges, oh yes, and maybe a few old cranes.

The top floor of these [residential buildings], or what is called the [roof] - if it is like that, is covered with a layer of dilapidated solar panels, which provide the users of the [residential buildings] with what little energy is left, a bundle of Bundles of crumpled hose run through every building, serving as water and sewage pipes.

The sun barely reaches the base of the stacks, and the dark, narrow gaps between them are filled with abandoned cars and trucks, their gas tanks empty, and the way forward and backward blocked.

These [residential buildings] stand directly on the ground, or stand on the original concrete foundation. Over the past few years, under the reinforcement of scaffolding, they are still covered in a disorderly manner, slowly extending towards the sky.

Because, now in 2045, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting richer.

This is a chaotic, miserable, fallen world.

In the 2021 years after 24, the world has not turned into an imagined utopia. On the contrary, because the energy required to maintain a huge world civilization is an astronomical figure, even if the earth has accumulated countless resources over the long years, this 【Inventory】 , but also under the continuous demands of human beings for many years, most of them are consumed, even to a critical situation.

This is the global energy crisis that happened before the birth of Wu Siyuan's hero, Wade, and it has been going on for a long time.

This world has not developed a more efficient energy utilization method, and the mode of [boiling water] through fossil fuels is still the mainstream energy source in this world.

Human civilization has regressed because the world does not have enough energy to keep this civilization functioning as before.

In addition, the burning of fossil energy also brings strong side effects, such as rising temperatures and environmental damage.

The polar glaciers are melting, the sea level is rising, the climate is becoming more and more abnormal, animals and plants are extinct at an accelerated rate, and there are countless homeless and hungry victims.

And for the remaining resources, human beings are still fighting endlessly.

This is an energy war.

Human beings can't feel happiness in the real world, so they throw themselves into the virtual world one after another.

Yes, in the world that Wu Siyuan traveled to, the virtual technology is powerful.

Humans can use VR devices to enter the virtual world anywhere on the earth, and they can do everything they want, as long as there is a network, as long as there is electricity, and as long as there is virtual currency.

Yes, the virtual world Wu Siyuan mentioned is [Oasis]!
After he received the memory of the hero Wade, he knew what kind of world he came to!
The world of the movie "Ready Player One"!

Interestingly, after absorbing the hero's memory, Wu Siyuan discovered that it was the operation of the global virtual technology that led to an exponential increase in the demand for energy, and humans in this world have not developed a more efficient way to use energy, so they lead to a serious energy crisis.

The energy crisis has in turn caused a social crisis.

But it is the serious social crisis that makes more people choose to escape reality and enter the virtual world, consuming more energy.

Of course this is off topic.

The development of virtual technology has also promoted the development of society in many ways.

For example, Wade, the hero Wu Siyuan is possessed by, both of his parents died when he was young, and he stayed at his aunt’s house, sleeping on the drum washing machine. He was brought up by the interactive education program of [Oasis]. Hands-on, accessible to all children.

It was a virtual community called [Sesame Street]. In addition to the puppet that would sing with him, there were all kinds of interactive games that taught him how to walk, count, read, write, and share with others—this is Jiu Zhanmagpie. The information Wu Siyuan of Nest got from the memory of the hero Wade.

Let’s go back to [Oasis].

[Oasis] is a huge multiplayer online role-playing game. This global network virtual world has gradually become an indispensable part of the daily life of most people in this world.

The unprecedented success of [Oasis] made its founder [Halliday] the richest person in the world.

The company he founded with another partner, Morrow, is now the world's most valuable company.

Halliday has no descendants, and until his death, he was an introverted bachelor obsessed with the game world.

Before he died, he sent a dying video to [Oasis] users all over the world.

In this video, Halliday said that before he died, he created what the industry calls an "Easter Egg"!
It is an item hidden in a game, and the person who discovers it will gain special power. The first person who finds the easter egg I hide somewhere in the oasis will inherit the shares of the social game company he holds. Five hundred billion dollars.

Yes, Halliday is the richest man in the world, with assets exceeding 5000 billion U.S. dollars, which is more than [-] trillion yuan.

In the real world, Wu Siyuan's nominal assets can't compare to him.

The real richest man!
In addition to more than [-] billion US dollars in social game company stocks, whoever finds the [Easter Egg] will also have full control over the [Oasis].

Halliday created the three keys using his in-game character in "Oasis", the all-knowing and all-powerful Arnock.

The three keys correspond to the three secret doors.

The character of the player will be tested here, and only those who ride the wind and waves and overcome many difficulties can reach the other shore and obtain all his wealth.

It's a Halliday egg hunt.

Those who participate in this competition are called [Easter Egg Hunters]!
But that was five years ago.

So far, only one person has found clues to Halliday's treasure, and then a portal appeared in the virtual world.

Entering the portal, you will come to a road-killing racing track.

Only those who have cleared the racing track can get the first key.

And now no one!
not a single person!

Can successfully clear this track full of [T-Rex], [King Kong] and other disasters!

But the temptation of [-] billion US dollars makes some people in this world still enjoy it!
Before Wu Siyuan traveled, he had seen this movie.

He naturally knows how to pass this track, and also knows how to get Hades' easter eggs!

But what he wants is not the [-] billion dollars!
Wu Siyuan is not interested in money!
He still misses the days when he earned thousands of dollars a month, and after paying the rent, there was only money left for food.

(End of this chapter)