Planetary Museum

Wu Qing was taken to a room in a building, and he didn't even know what happened.

Changbai just told him to hide in the game, but in his opinion, he is already in the game now.

"It's not the same," Changbai told Wu Qing involuntarily in a low voice, although there were no other players around, "Strictly speaking, Second Earth is just an entrance...Many games do not comply with federal laws, but here, they It is completely legal, and a completely virtual world itself can create a richer virtual world.”

Wu Qing's first impression was that the building was huge.

Federation people prefer to live underground. Generally speaking, the underground world often feels crowded and cramped to people on earth, but it is different here. The entire space has been completely hollowed out. Wu Qing raised his head and could even see Seeing the lights from other cities overhead, they are dotted over the vast land like a starry sky...

Although this is a virtual world, this underground city is said to be constructed entirely based on the real scene of the First Federation.However, the difference is that in the first federation, the building in the real scene area is the office building of the second federation group, but here, it has become a general entrance for all other virtual games.

"We also call it a game building, or a game maze," Changbai explained to Wu Qing after entering, "Usually there are hundreds of thousands of games in a building. See the front? Those three roads?"

The whole room is huge, but it is not like the earth, or any other buildings that Wu Qing has seen before. The interior is neat, at least it has a shape.The interior of this game building is completely like a huge assembly line factory, and the places that can be seen in the field of vision are all constantly moving conveyor belts.

The biggest difference between the conveyor belt here and the conveyor belt of the earth factory is that parts, products, or luggage are conveyed on the conveyor belt on the earth, while all the people standing or sitting on the conveyor belt here are people.

In front of Wu Qing and Changbai, there were countless people queuing at the gate of the conveyor belt. Wu Qing just followed Changbai and the female People's Army leader leading the way—the name was very strange, Changhong—for Wu Qing, this name There is a sense of intimacy, but he can't remember exactly why it is familiar.

"Why do you like to use long as your surname?"

"Growing up in the culture of the Federation means a lot of things... It is not only a kind of grandeur in shape, but also a continuous continuation in time, and finally the meaning of an interjection..." Changbai paused, looking at the bustling crowd in front of him Said, "The simplest meaning, looking at such a colorful world, who wouldn't want to live longer...Let's go."

Wu Qing noticed that Changhong and Changbai, who were walking in front of him, gave way to him, obviously meaning to let him walk in front.

"Where?"

"Whatever," the other party said, "I want to find you a virtual space as a safe house. The specific type depends on your preference."

"Favorite?" Wu Qing passed through the crowd unconsciously and came to the entrance of a conveyor belt.

It looked like a conveyor belt in the distance just now, but when he got closer, he realized that it was more like the escalator in his memory. The biggest difference was that the shape of the escalator was not straight, but like a playground Like the design of the slide, it is crooked everywhere, like a three-dimensional curve that is randomly drawn and then extended at will.

Wu Qing almost had an illusion at this moment, as if he appeared at the entrance of a huge playground just like a child.Especially the expressions on the faces of people who are already standing, or sitting, or even lying on their stomachs on the conveyor belt...

"What do they seem to be looking at?" Wu Qing noticed the eyes of these people. Their eyes seemed to be looking at the air beside the conveyor belt—they looked to the left for a while, and the right for a while, and sometimes their eyes were fixed in a daze. up.

But the eyes of these people around Wu Qing were the opposite, each of them looked impatient... just like the excitement of many children at the gate of the playground.

"You can see it after you walk up," Changbai said. "In order to protect everyone's privacy, everyone's visual information here is independent."

"independent?"

"Everyone sees different information." While Changbai was speaking, Wu Qing was unconsciously led to the conveyor belt by the crowd. It was at this moment that the world in Wu Qing's eyes changed. changed.

The original factory-like environment was suddenly covered by lingering clouds and mist, and the escalator under his feet became a path through the woods. On both sides of the road were pictures covering the entire sky. Wu Qing saw a strange, mouse-like The horses, and the people riding on the huge mice, they wore golden metal armor, charged and hacked with weapons, turned their heads, and on the other side of the road was a warship sailing in the starry sky, a huge planet surface……

At this time, the forest path under his feet split into two, one leading to the direction of the knight, and the other leading to the starry sky.Wu Qing subconsciously made a choice in his brain, and the direction of the conveyor belt under his feet also turned in the direction of his thinking. Wu Qing suddenly realized a fact, and he turned his head to see another road leading to location - but didn't see any roads.

Recalling the information I saw in the hall just now, in fact, these conveyor belts themselves do not have forks...

"These are game choices. No matter what direction you choose, the road is the one under your feet. The difference is that you feel like you have made a choice through visual illusions," Changbai explained, "What did you see just now?"

"It seems to be... the knights of your era? There are also space battleships."

"Oh, that's divided by time," Changbai said, "History and future...there will be more and more options, this is to help you filter games."

"Are all games history and future?"

"Of course not... These are the matching results obtained from the consciousness scan of your brain. It seems that you should be interested in our history."

Wu Qing admitted—what he was subconsciously thinking about was always this mission.

Even if Wu Qing has realized that he is not Wu Xiaoqing, even if Wu Qing is still in danger—but he always considers the success or failure of this mission unconsciously.But also, in this completely strange world, besides the mission, what else does he have?

"Then can I directly choose the information I am interested in?" Wu Qing said, "Does my choice affect the refuge and the safe house itself?"

"Before you make a final decision, you still have to tell us," Chang Bai said, "We don't recommend any online game with other people... because once we enter the game world, we can't Tracking and control, by the way, you add us as friends first..."

"How to add?"

"Turn your head and look at us, we have options above our heads."

Wu Qing quickly completed these two operations. As Changbai said, the operation in the virtual world is not difficult. Corresponding icons will appear on the top of everyone's head. Although Wu Qing can't understand the text yet, the meaning is still It's easy to figure out.

"Here is the text library that your civilization sent to us..." Changbai patted Wu Qing, and handed over a book in his surprised eyes. Changbai looked at the name of the book, and barely reacted for a while, because it was really It's a bit of a violation——"Federal Chinese Dictionary".

"This is virtual information, remember?" Changbai said, "Take it, open the directory, follow the prompts, and you can use it."

Wu Qing noticed that there were a lot of Chinese characters in the screen he saw at this time, and the names of many games appeared around him, "Star Wars", "Age of Navigation", "Battle of Civilization"...

The demonstration animation of StarCraft is a warship shuttle back and forth on the battlefield, concentrating on the enemy while avoiding damage, it seems to be an action game; the age of sailing is to simulate the construction of warships, and each part of the warship has detailed data; the age of civilization It is to simulate the operation of a civilization. Players can be a country, or the leader of a civilization, such as a consul...

The animations of these demonstrations are obviously the part of information that Wu Qing is most eager to understand.

But Wu Qing didn't rush to make a choice right away.

He let the conveyor belt under his feet continue to send him forward, and at the same time, Wu Qing began to rate these games in his head. These games are either too detailed, or they are online battles, or they are too exaggerated...

By this time, Wu Qing has almost mastered this way of thinking and dealing with games.Soon, on the side of his road, there were fewer and fewer game options. There were many different screens, but now they all gradually turned into the same game.

"This is the result optimized according to your idea..." Chang Bai said, "Of course, if you are not satisfied, you can cancel and start from the beginning, or start from any branch."

Wu Qing began to understand that this was almost equivalent to using his consciousness to continuously propose boundary conditions, and then conduct advanced precise searches.

Unlike the search engine in memory, it is more intelligent here.If Wu Qing wants Baidu's most realistic war game, it is likely that the first dozen options are... Well, it is more likely that the first dozen options are all money-losing web games that have spent huge advertising costs.

But here, to a large extent, the game demo that appeared already met Wu Qing's requirements.

The name of the game is Solar System Wind and Cloud, and it is a simulation of the ongoing war between AI and humans.The game is divided into single-player and online play. Judging from the opinions of many people who have played it, it is obvious that this game is more suitable for single-player.

On Earth, there are eight hundred if not one thousand games about World War II, or even modern military games after World War II... There are obviously more games in the virtual game library of the Federation.But in the end Wu Qing selected it, and only this one he thought might be the most suitable for him.

"The situation in the solar system... can be connected online." Changbai was a little worried.

"I won't connect with other people, and even if I connect, the other party may not be able to confirm my identity?" Wu Qing now has a little understanding of the encryption principle of the game, knowing that in most games in the virtual world, players Information is kept strictly confidential. This kind of secrecy is the rule set at the beginning of the establishment of the virtual community of Second Earth—the purpose is actually to prevent government interference. ——Highly consistent with Wu Qing's purpose at this time.

"The government must have made a behavior template for you... This kind of analysis may not be accurate, but it might work. Once the other party locks you in the game, they can analyze the real storage address based on your performance in the game. "

"The real storage address? Doesn't it mean that the information of all players is strictly confidential?" This is also the technical basis of the entire escape.Otherwise, it will be the same as on Earth, where you escape to the remotest corners of the earth in the computer world, and the government will come to your door directly based on the information on the Internet—as long as you unplug the hard drive, it’s not a dead word.

"The secrecy you mentioned is an old calendar from 200 years ago," Changhong interrupted, who had been silent for a long time. "The government already has the corresponding cracking technology. As long as they lock the game account you are playing, according to your game The distribution of computing resources that need to be consumed can be easily locked... Nominally, Second Earth is an independent state, but sometimes the government only needs to send a repairman to copy your stored information... Their goal has been achieved. "

"Copy it?" Wu Qing didn't understand, "Then we... aren't we in danger?"

"No, copying is just for investigation and evidence collection," Changhong said, "As long as they can prove that you are not official citizens of the Federation, the second earth's protection for you will completely disappear. A large part of the reason why you are here safely now , because the computing specialization you showed is not too abnormal—but if you have not played the game, the low computing resource consumption will gradually expose you."

Wu Qing was so surprised that it was ridiculous: "Is it a mistake not to play games?"

"Of course it's not right...but, for us right now, it is."