forget the river mirror

Chapter 27

District [-], Little Sun Orphanage.

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

In the beginning, the brain machine appeared because the island nation used executed prisoners as experimental specimens to forcibly develop human brains as biological processors to match supercomputers.

It was precisely because of the exposure of this inhumane experiment that the nuclear bomb attack by the mysterious hacker triggered a chain reaction that triggered World War III.

Half a century has passed since the end of the war, and the emergence of a large number of mechanical prosthetics after the war has led to the rapid development of neuromechanics.

Among them, 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 joining of the Federal Speaker and the full support of the Ideal Foundation, the first portable brain computer finally came out five years ago.

With the cooperation of human beings and advanced intelligence, Blue Star truly opened the era of the metaverse.

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"In the realm of the mysterious mirror, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and martial arts, enlightenment is the beginning, and the road has no end..."

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

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

Fortunately, after experiencing life and death, Lin Chuan barely calmed down after a brief absence, and began to look at this huge palace.

Just two steps away, a beautiful girl in very cool clothes appeared in front of Lin Chuan, and said enthusiastically:
"Welcome to Xianfan, I am Xiaobai, your game assistant."

[It is detected that the player is not yet full, and the youth mode has been automatically turned on]

But before Lin Chuan could appreciate it carefully, the rigid system notification sounded, and Xiao Bai immediately added a very conservative long skirt to himself.

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

"Tell me how to play the game."

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

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

Following Xiaobai's introduction and Lin Chuan's tireless inquiries, he quickly summarized the basic information of Xianfan.

1. Every player will be bound to the safe area they are in when they log in for the first time, as their own novice village. The difficulty of starting each novice village is different. The difficulty evaluation given is C level, which is the novice village with the highest difficulty system.

2. There is no professional division in the Xianfan game. All players will complete a personal trial when entering the game world for the first time. According to the rating of the trial, the initial attribute data and initial rating of the character are determined. The highest initial rating is currently known. It is grade D.

3. You can learn skills in the game, but you need to be proficient in operation to use them. You need to enter the game to explore specific skills.

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

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

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"Do you have any questions?"

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

Lin Chuan looked innocently at the surrounding scenery and began to flip and change. He just wanted to say thank you, but the game assistant didn't even give him a chance to speak.

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

After Lin Chuan entered the trial, the expression on Xiaobai's face became much more vivid, but the self-criticism, no matter how he listened, he could hear a hint of complacency.

And it is impossible for artificial intelligence to make mistakes.

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[Trial 1, start. 】

As soon as Lin Chuan heard the system's notification tone, the world in front of him dimmed, and then a blood-red "should" appeared in the center of his field of vision.

Lin Chuan, who had turned into a soul form, looked blankly at the corpse full of arrows at his feet. This is not a trial, it is clearly a punishment, but before he could figure out the situation, the system started counting down the seconds:

[Resurrection Countdown: 5.4.3.2.1]

Lin Chuan's virtual body solidified again and appeared in place. This time, when he heard the sound of the arrow piercing through the air, he subconsciously used Shunpo, but he was still tied into a hedgehog...

[Resurrection countdown: 5...]

"Should"

[Resurrection countdown: 5...]

"Should"

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Repeated deaths did not discourage Lin Chuan. After each death, he would calculate the arrow's landing point and re-plan a more reasonable avoidance direction.

Finally, when he became a hedgehog for the seventh time, Lin Chuan increased his life time to 10 seconds.

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

[Do you want to give up trial 1? 】

Lin Chuan decisively clicked No. Although he didn't know if other people's trials were as perverted, he remembered that only by completing personal trials could he obtain the initial character rating.

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

Lin Chuan saw the sale price of this brain machine, 58888 yuan, which is a huge sum of nearly 6 yuan.

[Resurrection Countdown: 5.4.3.2.1]

As his body solidified again, Lin Chuan instantly turned into an afterimage, shuttling within the rain of arrows, but without the support of spiritual power, it was still a bit reluctant to rely solely on Shunpo's method of exerting force.

Ten seconds later, he saw the word "should" again without any surprise.

Lin Chuan has always had a good temper. Even when he was bleeding the scavengers, he always had a smile on his face, but the word "should" is so ironic that Lin Chuan, who had become a soul, never saw it appear again. In the prompt box, I just clicked "No" and continued the journey of masochism.

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[Congratulations to the player for achieving the achievement of "Ten Dead and No Life", the resurrection time is reduced by 0.05 seconds, and the mental toughness growth level +1]

45 minute later.

[Congratulations to the player for achieving the achievement of "Hundred Deaths Without Regrets", the resurrection time is reduced by 0.1 seconds, and the mental toughness growth level +2]

seven hours later.

[Congratulations to the player for achieving the "Thousands of Reincarnation" achievement, the resurrection time is reduced by 1 second, and the mental toughness growth level +5]

[The player has been playing for eight hours in a row, and the youth anti-addiction mode has been activated, and the player will be forced to log off after 3 minutes. 】

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Lin Chuan, who was kicked out of the game, took off the black frame with a blank face, staring at the lines on the ceiling with blank eyes, only feeling that the word "should" is formed by the strokes and strokes...

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

"What's the matter, Chuan'er!?"

Hearing the voice, Jing Xuan ran over in three steps at a time, but as soon as he opened the door, he saw Lin Chuan kneeling on the ground. The bitch immediately straightened up, stroked his non-existent beard, and asked in a low voice. :
"Why did the emperor make such a big gift? Hurry up and get flat."

"Get lost! Hurry up and help me up..."

Lin Chuan now has the intention of killing people, Jing Xuan didn't say anything more, and forced him out with a smile.

After more than half an hour, Lin Chuan's legs gradually regained consciousness under the repair of spirit and darkness, but they were still sore and unbearable. And he took advantage of this time to listen to what Jing Xuan said about his gaming experience.

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

Behind the door is the trial site. There are many kinds of trials for people to choose from. Jing Xuan, a reckless man, chose fighting directly. After hammering to death 4 mirror images, he was instantly killed by the fifth mirror image, and got a The initial evaluation of E-level officially started the game.

According to Jing Xuan's description, the Ninth Novice Village in the game is just a few thatched huts in a ravine.

Jing Xuan didn't stay in the village any longer, and went straight out to fight monsters. This fight lasted for one night, and he was kicked out because of the youth mode in the morning.

Lin Chuan just ate sweet potatoes silently, without mentioning that he had read the word "should" all night.

"It's okay, my game ID is 'One Punch to the Stomach', you can add your friends later, and when I figure it out, let's go together."

Jing Xuan thought that Lin Chuan kept silent because he didn't understand the game. After all, it's normal for a person like him who is a good learner to not understand the game.

"Well, let's go first. The 10:30 bus is right now. Don't bring the sweet potatoes. We have to go to the eighth district to find Jiang Yang and Gouzi."

Lin Chuan didn't bother to explain, and after saying hello, he put Xiaohua, who was still on the dining table, into his pocket.

The little milk cat stuck its whole head into the food bowl when it was eating, and even performed a handstand just now. If Lin Chuan hadn't caught her with quick eyesight and quick hands, she almost fell off the table.

Jing Xuan didn't have anything to prepare for, but he felt 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 at the same time, then smiled at each other, and walked firmly to the intercity air rail station.

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at the same time.

In the eighth district, in the room of the "Sleep wherever you want" hotel on the 16th floor of the Cointreau Tower, Jiang Yang was smoking one cigarette after another.

When escaping to the eighth district, in order not to be caught by the IPC, the fare evader Jiang Yang made up the first-class fare for himself and Gouzi. to 1 yuan.

He could only live in the small hotel closest to the station with his dog, and dared not contact anyone.

This week, Jiang Yang took his dog to the exit of the station every day, and waited for a whole day, but he couldn't wait for Lin Chuan and Jing Xuan.

In fact, Jiang Yang 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 there is no way to wait like this, so Jiang Yang locked the dog in the hotel yesterday, and went out to work part-time for a day. No matter what, as long as people are still alive, life has to go on.

Unlike the ninth district, the eighth safe district is the headquarters of the federal adventurers union.

It is equivalent to the Federation's master house, where there are many adventurer companies.

They will accept various tasks from the trade union, ranging from looking for lost pets to collecting materials in forbidden areas in the wilderness. Even as long as the money is paid, the head of the federal councilor can offer a reward, but the adventurer union will make it public The list of companies that accepted the task, no one dared to accept it.

The Adventurer's Union is jointly managed by the Yang's Consortium and the Lu's Consortium.

Both of them are conglomerates transformed from the civilian class after the nuclear bombs wiped out the land, so this place is very friendly to civilians, and only those above the 70th floor are not allowed to enter.

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

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

With an old helmet-mounted brain machine, I dug in the mines of the metaverse for a day and only earned 400 yuan. The price was excessive mental exhaustion, and I suffered from a headache all night and it still hasn't healed.

In fact, those virtual minerals have no 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 had already become one of the underlying structures in the metaverse concept, but the security has not been guaranteed.

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

Until the federation was unified, after the high-level artificial intelligence became the chairman of the Senate, he promulgated the network security management regulations, and at the same time set up the God's Domain Firewall.

Since then, hackers have become a term in the history books, and no one can break through the network protected by God's Domain. The official electronic currency issued by the federal government has also begun to be recognized by people, laying the foundation for the development of the Metaverse. cornerstone.

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"Ouch..."

"Stop barking, I don't have a headache today and I won't go to work, I will accompany you to the station in a while."

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

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

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

After this operation, Jiang Yang couldn't fix it directly. He smiled and cursed, and really lit the fire, and handed over the lighter.

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

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

(End of this chapter)