casket of old days

Chapter 891 Paradise World
"Mr. Chu, the news of Emperor Datai's entry into your sect has spread all over the west. I'm afraid that if he shows up in the past, the battle to conquer the west will be decided in one battle."

"The Ministry of War is already discussing how to plan for the garrison in the West. Do you have any suggestions?"

"I see, I will let them know your opinion."

Ember girl reported to Chu Qiguang the situation of the Western War. .

After all, Emperor Datai was the most powerful man in the Western world for nearly a hundred years. He was considered a saint-like existence and had an incomparable reputation in the local area.

Over the years, the western world has always resisted the Han's offensive, one of the reasons is that the emperor of Taitai has not been arrested for a long time.

There are always some diehards who are still waiting for the return of Emperor Datai with just in case.

The impact of the failure of the Great Thai Emperor this time can be imagined, and it will greatly accelerate the trend of the Han Dynasty unifying the world, which can be described as a huge turning point in history.

Ember continued: "The feedback from the Gate of All Wonders is very good, with a favorable rate of over 99%, and experts from all over the world are actively participating."

"Those who failed to obtain the test qualification are currently rushing to Night City from all over the place, hoping to trade for a test qualification."

The Gate of All Wonders can allow ordinary martial arts masters to borrow the transformation of the realm of Tongsheng. This kind of performance against the sky immediately attracted the attention of all masters.

After all, it is the transformation of the realm of Tongsheng, and mastering one at will is like turning a person into a god.

Over the years, the total number of Daoists in the world today has only increased from dozens to hundreds. Most of the remaining testers are masters of the fifth realm, and a small number are also the existence of the fourth realm.

And an excellent Tongsheng transformation is enough to make them surpass the fighting power of a martial god and an immortal. The temptation is too great.

Countless people have seen the huge value and the trend of the future era in it, and they all want to get a share of it and become the pioneers of the new era.

Hearing this, Chu Qiguang frowned, and sighed softly: "Mistake."

Jhin Girl questioned, "What?"

Chu Qiguang shook his head and said: "The test qualification should not be free, forget it, let's fix this bug in the next test."

Ember hesitated for a moment, and then said: "The second phase of the Zhuxian Project has officially completed, and the bidding for the third phase has also been completed, but the cement used in the second phase of the construction site has a quality inspection fraud incident, and the cat factory is currently investigating Related situation..."

"The major corruption case in the Dragon Clan Special Zone has been uncovered. The Canglong King, who is mainly involved in the case, seriously violated the law and discipline. He took advantage of his position, power, and status to illegally accept property from relevant personnel directly or through others, equivalent to Qi and blood. It's worth 3000 million..."

"Manager Jiang Longyu officially broke through the realm of supernatural powers. He set up a water table in the Zhaixing Building and invited the people of the city to celebrate. The sales volume of the Qi regulating products he was dealing with soared that month..."

"The eight Xinghan generals trained by Master Qiao have all stepped into the fifth realm of martial arts. After using the door of wonders, he himself seems to have realized something, and decided to formally attack the realm of Tongsheng...

However, recently, several dog monsters from the cat factory broke the news that Master Qiao used his position to bully them and insulted the dog monsters all the year round, the dog factory and the cat factory almost got into a fight, which caused a storm in Night City..."

Chu Qiguang frowned again when he heard this, and said slowly: "Let the Propaganda Department be refreshed, and don't just think about fooling around all day long."

"I will make a special report on the conflict between cats and dogs. The focus will be on how Emperor Tian secretly interferes with the major powers in the world, how he secretly provokes conflicts among various ethnic groups, and how he provokes mutual fighting between experts from all sides..."

"Nowadays when the enemy is at hand, the people of all ethnic groups should be united. In this regard, the Propaganda Department must do a good job in popularizing science, so that everyone in the world understands the evilness of Huangtian and the persecution they once did to the world..."

Ember nodded and wrote it down, and then said: "The "Book of Heaven" has not found any clues for a long time, and the cat factory and the dog factory are still trying their best to search..."

"The report on the results of the national tax reform has been sent, the cabinet asks you to have a look..."

"The Fudi real estate market in various states is extremely hot. The area of ​​Fudi and the real estate market still have huge rigid demand. The Ministry of Household Affairs proposes to start promoting Tianxiatong to overseas..."

After learning about the current general trend of the world from Jin Nu, Chu Qiguang confirmed that there is no problem for the time being, and arranged the development plan for the next stage.

Then he said: "Next, I will spend a lot of energy here. There are no important things, or the few things I told you to focus on have not changed, so I don't need to report to me every day."

Ember asked, "How long will you be busy?"

Chu Qiguang shook his head: "It's really hard to say."

"After all, it's a world with 'evil gods', I'm afraid it will be quite interesting."

With the progress of the deep space ceremony, all kinds of intermittent information jumped out of the void, and were collected by Chu Qiguang into the sea of ​​consciousness.

While collecting information, Chu Qiguang tried to examine and combine the information.

It is all information about the target world this time, scattered wantonly in the void, as if waiting for people to read it.

So with the passage of time, a strange picture of the world gradually unfolded in front of him.

It is a magical world called Paradise. The local humans seem to have eliminated famine, disease, war and various natural disasters. It is a world like paradise in various descriptions.

It took Chu Qiguang several hours to gradually learn the characters of that world and some common sense.

But before he had a deep understanding of this world, a call from the void came into his sea of ​​consciousness, and it turned out to be a call from Paradise.

……

Paradise Calendar, 9358.

Gray Valley District, 323rd Floor, Qiming Apartment, Room 03230013.

This is a room of about ten square meters. Messy bloodstains are scattered all over the floor, forming a twisted magic circle.

In one corner of the room were empty blood bags. Obviously, the blood used to draw the magic circle flowed out of these blood bags.

A middle-aged man lay down on the ground in the center of the magic circle. He looked unharmed, but he had lost his breath.

After a long time, the middle-aged man slowly opened his eyes and subconsciously groaned.

A trace of Chu Qiguang's consciousness has been summoned by the ceremony, and temporarily took over the body across the void.

This is a sliver of consciousness that he arbitrarily separated, allowing him to collect void information while...by the way, come to this world to have a look.

After all, the void information contains everything, and the relationship between time and space is chaotic. In many cases, it is complicated and numerous, but it is more intuitive not to come in and see it directly.

He touched his head and looked at the scene around him: "What's the matter with this man? He is willing to sacrifice his life and body to summon an existence from outside the sky?"

"Oh?"

Chu Qiguang soon found that there were bloody writings on the floor under him.

He stood up and took a look, only to find that it read: The evil gods beyond the sky!At the cost of my soul and flesh and blood, please destroy this crazy world!
Chu Qiguang tilted his head: "What is this? An anti-social cultist?"

There was a burst of doubt in his heart, Chu Qiguang temporarily ignored the handwriting on the ground, but cleaned the floor first, and dealt with the traces left by the ceremony.

Immediately afterwards, he began to search the room, looking for clues to his identity.

But there is nothing in the room of only ten square meters except for a bed, a pillow, a toilet, a T-shirt and shorts.

A faint halo shrouded the top of the head, and the surrounding walls were also white, which looked extremely simple.

And when he wanted to leave the room, he found that the door was directly locked, and he couldn't get out at all.

Just when Chu Qiguang was at a loss, a holographic projection jumped out: "Mr. Matt, we have detected that your rent has been in arrears for a month, and the bank deposit is insufficient. Do you need me to introduce a loan to you? As long as you apply, it will be sent to your account within three seconds..."

Chu Qiguang asked: "Do you want to pay it back?"

"That's it."

"Are you looking for a job?" Another female projection flashed out: "To find a job, please go to Tezhuan.com, you can choose your future..."

In addition to renting a house, getting a loan, and recruiting, Chu Qiguang also encountered sales in marriage and love, making friends, fitness, gambling, psychological counseling, and even spiritual treatment.

The major companies in this world are obviously more unscrupulous in using big data than in his previous life. They simply checked the middle-aged man's data to the bottom, and then carried out all-round advertising sales.

And there are also ads that follow you everywhere, can't be closed, and can't be fast-forwarded.

At least he can't close it now, and he can't fast forward it, because this kind of operation requires money, and the middle-aged man he manipulates is already penniless.

Originally, Chu Qiguang thought that web advertisements with fake close buttons were disgusting enough, until he was bombarded by these advertisements all the way today.

He also discovered that the technology in this world is very advanced, even if he closes his eyes and covers his ears, those advertisements will be directly projected on his retina, and the sound will be transmitted to him through bone conduction.

"The capitalists in this world are so impolite."

After being harassed by the bursts of advertisements for more than an hour, the door of the room suddenly opened.

Chu Qiguang walked out immediately, feeling much more comfortable without the bombardment of advertisements all over his body.

As soon as he left the room, he saw a long corridor outside, with rows of similar doors on both sides of the corridor.

At this moment, all the doors opened together, and all kinds of men, women and children came out of it.

Chu Qiguang didn't know what was going to happen, so he followed them along the corridor, and soon came to a special office.

There were things like steel coffins inside. Men, women and children took turns to get in and lie down, and closed their eyes.

Just when Chu Qiguang didn't know where to lie down, a cursor appeared in front of his retina: "Mr. Matt, you are going to be late, please arrive at your work place within 1 minute..."

Chu Qiguang immediately followed the cursor to find a steel coffin and lay down in it.

As soon as he entered it, he felt that there were many wire-like things connected to his body.

Then with a flash of light and shadow... what appeared in front of him was an endless grassland.

Just when Chu Qiguang was in a daze, one hand patted him on the body: "What are you doing in a daze? Hurry up and get ready, today is the day to fight the boss."

Chu Qiguang never imagined that such a labor-intensive project involving so many people... turned out to be a game.

In the next few days, Chu Qiguang quickly got along with his colleagues and leaders by virtue of his excellent social skills, and kept collecting information from them.

The more he understood the world, the more confused he became.

This is a closed world, and everyone Chu Qiguang knows lives in the so-called Qiming apartment.

All the staff live in separate rooms like him, and besides eating and sleeping, the most important thing is to work.

And there are countless staff members in the entire apartment. After so many people gather together, the daily work they have to do is to play games.

In Chu Qiguang's view, the content of the game is very boring. It is to lie in the steel coffin called "virtual warehouse", and then enter the world of virtual games, go to various maps with different styles to fight and kill, collect material.

Depending on how many tasks are completed, workers can get paid in money.

Although the special effects of the virtual game are good, the game itself has no gameplay in Chu Qiguang's view.

And the remuneration is also very cheap in his opinion. Often working 40 hours a week, he can only buy enough basic nutrition cream to get enough food and clothing.

Working 60 hours a week to get a few fresh meals.

And working more than 80 hours a week, can eat all kinds of chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, all kinds of vegetables and fruits.

But there are still many people who work more than 100 hours a week because they can buy various value-added services.

Such as expanding the room to 30 square meters, such as changing the environment of the room, such as buying various furniture, watching movies and TV, buying other more interesting virtual games, buying bionic robots...

There are so many types and huge quantities of these value-added services that Chu Qiguang was secretly surprised after seeing them.

It is said that someone once saw... the person with the highest performance on this level, behind the door of his room is a manor of a thousand square meters, with rows of bionic maids, and even lakes, yachts, and endless fun. Games, endless entertainment works.

This is the goal of most people in the apartment.

In addition to this, there is also a very expensive value-added service, which is upgrading.

It is said that the apartment has a total of 9999 floors, and every time you go up one floor, you can enjoy more and better value-added services.

It is said that there are more than 9000 floors, and there are even value-added services for changing appearance, changing body shape, immortality, and becoming a god.

But even in Qiming Apartment, not everyone can live a good life.

For example, Matt, the former owner of Chu Qiguang's physical body, didn't know where he spent all the money, and only left Chu Qiguang a small white house of ten square meters.

And Chu Qiguang even saw that a colleague's room was only one square meter in size, and the whole body was dark, which was extremely depressing.

It is said that the room size has been continuously reduced because he has continuously owed rent after purchasing value-added gambling services.

Chu Qiguang could feel that all the rules and systems in the apartment were trying their best to force everyone to play games hard.

According to his calculations, if you want to have a room of more than 2 square meters, a little furniture and life, eat some real food, and have 130 hours of movies, TV or animation games for entertainment every week, you need to play at least 18.5 times a week. Hours of games, an average of [-] hours per day.

Even Chu Qiguang felt chilling when he saw this scene: "It's too miserable, these bosses should all be arrested and hung up the street lamps." '

At first Chu Qiguang wondered why people in this world were so obsessed with playing games, but he soon realized the reason.

It was a blissful time after another day of late night work.

He was already about to leave work, but was pulled by his team leader to work overtime for the second time.

They appeared on a map with an ancient style, and wanted to slaughter the people who looked like cultists on the map, and took all the books on the bookshelf.

And those so-called 'cult members' have something that Chu Qiguang is very familiar with, which is the mark of the emperor.

The cultists they are attacking are the worshipers of Huangtian, and the books they collect are the knowledge handed down by Huangtian.

For the first time, Chu Qiguang realized that the game in front of him might not be as simple as a game.

Later, after several confirmations by him, he finally understood that the game was not a real game.

The game-like picture is just a disguise. In fact, they are remotely manipulating some kind of monster to control them to attack one planet after another, and one civilization after another.

And when he tried to flip through the books in those games, he found that most of the information on the books was blocked.

Most of the people in this world are like parts of a huge machine, repeating work day after day, spending a lot of time and energy, harvesting the knowledge of various worlds for the upper class, but they can only get some bits and pieces .

Just when Chu Qiguang thought this was the truth, he realized that he still underestimated the capitalists in this world.

Another day after get off work, Chu Qiguang saw a projection appearing in front of him not long after he returned to his room.

"Mr. Matt, your life-support supplies will be exhausted within three days."

"Biological maintenance materials?" Chu Qiguang was slightly taken aback, feeling some bad premonition in his heart.

The next moment, the projection changed, and what appeared in front of him were rows of brains placed in the solution.

As the camera zoomed in and moved, it was placed in front of one of the brains, and the life support device beside the brain emitted a faint yellow light.

"Sir, please see that your vitamin supplements have issued a warning. If you don't buy them again, there will be health risks."

Chu Qiguang sighed: "Matt is now... also in the virtual world?"

"Yes sir, you have a cognitive bias? I happen to know a reliable psychiatrist, do I need to introduce you? Buy ten teletherapy sessions and get three free..."

Chu Qiguang knew that this was triggering the advertisement again. While listening to the advertisement, he reorganized the structure of the world in his mind.

Originally, he thought that it was bad enough for the people in this world to play games every day in order to get some normal food, entertainment and living environment.

The reality turned out to be worse than he imagined. It was after all the people had worked so hard that they could get some virtual food, entertainment and living environment. They used their own labor to buy a bunch of codes that could be copied at will.

"Since it's already a virtual world, why don't you give us a little more space?"

Originally, he was just trying to ask casually, and didn't expect the advertising projection in front of him to answer him.

In the end, the other party actually answered: "Do you want to know the rules for using the virtual world, and do you have the historical record of the park's operation?"

Chu Qiguang's eyes moved: "Can you provide it?"

"The usage rules for virtual world users, the fee is 10."

"The operating history of the park is 2 yuan per year."

After being silent for a while, Chu Qiguang said with some admiration: "You still need to charge money for reading the user rules?"

The other party said: "Mr. Matt, please note that this is a code that you signed after you agreed."

Chu Qiguang didn't spend the money.

Because when he manipulated Matt's body to observe the world, he was also collecting information in the void.

This information about Paradise further improved his understanding of the world.

……

More than 200 years after this planet entered modern society.

The technology of the whole society has been highly developed, and most of the jobs have been replaced by machines.

At this time, the technology called virtual world was jointly created by dozens of multinational companies, and jointly established a super multinational company called Paradise.

At the same time, the virtual world has been favored by people from all over the world, and many people want to pursue their second life in it and pursue easier enjoyment and entertainment.

The virtual world originally launched by the park is considered a paradise for human beings by all users who have entered it.

The entire virtual world is free to use, in which you can enjoy a large manor of several square kilometers, you can enjoy delicious food from all over the world, you can have all kinds of men and women that have appeared in history, you can create your own space as you like, and formulate yourself like a god the rule of.

Once this heavenly virtual world was launched, it immediately became popular all over the world.

Almost ninety-nine percent of people want to enter it to start their new life, and some countries are worried about the side effects of the virtual world, trying to legislate to prohibit people from indulging in it, and immediately encountered numerous protests, opposition, and demonstrations at home and abroad.

In less than a year, the number of online users in the park has exceeded [-] million.

At that time, the park, which has always been free, transformed some free services into value-added services.

Many players immediately objected.

The reason given by Paradise is that as the number of users increases, the pressure on the server increases sharply.

In particular, the park official pointed out that a large number of users create the world unscrupulously and enjoy various services, which consume a lot of server computing power, storage space, and electricity every day...

And Paradise said that in order to maintain the authenticity of the virtual world, the consumption of computing power and electricity is originally a super big household.

In addition, there are supporting heat dissipation, maintenance of consumables, etc., as well as the resulting greenhouse gas emissions, water resource consumption, and environmental pollution caused by discarded equipment...all of which are terrible figures.

According to many paradise experts, after entering the paradise, human beings have entered an unprecedented era, and their every thought is consuming a huge amount of resources in this world.

There is the craziest player in the folklore paradise, who would cause the server to burn a hundred graphics cards every day.

Of course, this is just a folklore. Some players pointed out that its authenticity is not high, saying that the graphics card used by the park server has a perfect parallel operation mechanism and will not burn up.But the legend itself also illustrates many ideas at that time from the side.

According to a large number of news reports, the development of the real society has also deviated from the original track. A large number of supporting industries for the maintenance of the park have flourished, and a large number of resources have been used to maintain the operation of the virtual world.

In short... According to the Paradise, if it continues to be free, it will go bankrupt. This Paradise can no longer accept the unscrupulous squandering of human beings.

At that time, although some players objected, most of them did not have much resistance to the park’s value-added services. Some fanatical fans were even afraid that the park would go bankrupt, and had already started advocating that the park charge a full fee.

After the park launched value-added services, the first month's revenue has already broken the record in human history.

Paradise is like a huge black hole, crazily devouring the wealth and resources of the world.

(End of this chapter)