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Chapter 852 New Year's Eve
Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, so of course Lin You's training will come to an end temporarily.

The space center needed a break, and so did he.

Today is a busy day, and I have finished communicating with Si Si's parents. The process is actually very simple: Lin You explained the situation clearly, and they agreed.

Because they didn't have a second choice.

Afterwards, they hurried back to the hospital, and with the help of the little princess, Lin You finished the low-end version of the hibernation cabin—or the upgraded version of the game cabin, for one thing.

Lin You also transformed the most sophisticated medical robotic surgery equipment for Xiaomeng.

——Related technologies actually exist in reality, but they are still in an auxiliary position.

But that's because the equipped AI is not capable enough.

The small minimally invasive surgery of implanting a neural prosthesis can be done by Xiaomeng—she can precisely control the nerve signals and provide targeted stimulation to specific areas of Lin You's brain, thereby stimulating a state of high concentration.In contrast, implanting a neural prosthesis is not a very complicated operation.

Before going to the space center for training, Lin You also optimized the automatic production process of the consciousness chip again to facilitate Zhu Cixia's operation.

After he left for training, the little princess still stayed in the laboratory, repeating the boring scientific research work over and over again, but she was extremely patient and meticulously completed every step. go home.

After all these things were done, Lin You was already confident enough to solve Sisi's problem, and with the consolation from the little princess, his mentality completely turned around, and he felt in the mood to take a good vacation for himself.

As for the delayed New Year holiday?
Just make up for it after the New Year.

Anyway, in reality, he was alone, and it didn't make any difference if he couldn't pass the New Year.

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The next day, the number of Daxia players online fell to the bottom.

Most players have returned to their families, even if they have nothing to do, they will not go to the virtual world to play games.

In fact, this phenomenon has already begun, but it is only because the release of "Chang'an" has covered up this point to a certain extent.

If "Chang'an" is left aside, the online rate of players in other games has already begun to decline significantly.

During the special period of the New Year holiday, due to a certain traditional inertia, the people of Daxia have become more or less more family-oriented than usual, and the game time has been significantly reduced.

——Of course, "Pokemon" is an exception.

Now on the streets of Daxia, people wearing headbands and pets on their shoulders are everywhere, similar to the young people who used to wear earphones around their necks when traveling, and passers-by are no strangers to it.

In this case, the online rate of "Pokemon" players is really of no reference value.

On the contrary, the difficulty and intensity of the [Battle for Tavern] has been significantly reduced. It can be seen from the side: the current main energy of the players is not on the game.

But leaving the territory of Daxia, it's another world——

The popularity of "Pokemon" overseas has been rising steadily. With the development of logistics, the number of overseas players has finally ushered in an explosive development.

Even in terms of player base, even "Chang'an" has been suppressed.

Even though "Pokemon" is a free game, and the ratings are for all ages, the audience range must be much wider than "Chang'an", and the popularity it has achieved today is still amazing.

This game not only boosted the sales of [Bafang Head Ring] by leaps and bounds, it even boosted the sales of [Mirage 2.0] consoles!
Almost all players who like "Pokemon" cannot resist the temptation to hold the little monster in their arms.

Even the British players who have been on strike and parade, many people don't even go to protest and demonstration, and wear headbands to catch little monsters all over the world every day, having a great time playing.

There are also a large number of partners who have sent applications, hoping to hold various business activities based on "Pokemon"...

However, Lin You just glanced at him and then glanced over.

Now he's not in the mood to watch this at all.

Xiao Meng noticed that Lin You was in a bad mood, and gently shook his hand and said, "Master, why don't Xiao Meng tell you some interesting things?"

Lin You rubbed Xiaomeng's head: "Thank you, Xiaomeng, but there is no need."

But staying at home has nothing to do. After thinking about it, he suddenly realized that he had to play every game Yunmeng released before, but he hadn't played much of "Pokemon".

Thinking of this, he simply took Xiaomeng out to catch little monsters, wanting to change his mood.

The weather was fine, the sun was shining and the sky was blue.

It's just that the street is obviously lonely.

Xia Jing's population reaches an exaggerated 2000 million on weekdays, but during the New Year holidays, there will often be an astonishing wave of returning home, and in recent years it has even reached tens of millions.

The city is still the same as before, and the various facilities are also designed for 2000 million people. Now it has shrunk by nearly half in a very short period of time, and the atmosphere on the streets is inevitably deserted.

Lin You ran to the nearest small park for a walk, and found that the number of people running around had decreased significantly.

Only at the [Monster Tavern], there are groups of players waiting around, planning to seize the time to steal chickens.

——Before this, this kind of thing was basically impossible to do. Even if they ran over in the middle of the night, when the original faction occupation time was about to end, some players would come over to defend in advance.

Lin You didn't join in the fun, and left with Xiaomeng after watching it for a while, and then went to catch the spirit beast.

But it was mainly Xiaomeng who was playing, jumping and jumping happily, directing the little tiger to pounce and bite, capturing spirit beasts one after another.

Anyone who appeared in front of her would not let go of one, and she had a great time playing.

When Xiaomeng was satisfied with playing and the sun was about to set, Lin You took her home.

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After finishing dinner, Lin You returned to a paralyzed and bored state.

He and Xiaomeng were leaning on the small sofa in the virtual world, clicking the remote control in their hands continuously.

——But in fact, he didn't know what he wanted to see.

There is not even a Spring Festival Gala in this world. Although there is a New Year's Eve Gala, it is completely different from the Spring Festival Gala in Lin You's memory, so he lacks interest.

In exchange, not only is there nothing to see, but it is even more boring.

After lying still for a while, Lin You really couldn't lie down, so he stood up from the small sofa and logged in "Chang'an", ran to the highest floor of the meditation tower overlooking the entire Chang'an city, leaned against the railing and began to blow in a daze.

Hearing the jingling of wind chimes on the corner of the eaves, his heart finally calmed down.

Also suddenly understood:
I feel sluggish today, and I can't find the energy to do anything. It's not because I'm tired, nor because I'm bored.

But it's just... a little homesick.

Xiaomeng is of course very caring and cute, but it is difficult for Lin You to tell her about those depressed feelings.

On New Year's Eve, when thousands of families were reunited, he felt a little lonely for the first time.

And suddenly a little craving for a drink.

He tapped the railing lightly with his finger, and a glass of beer appeared out of nowhere, and Lin You picked it up and took a sip.

As soon as he put down the glass, he saw Xiao Meng beside him holding a large glass of beer, looking up and about to pour it down.

"Wait!" Lin You quickly stopped.

Xiaomeng's movements stopped in mid-air, and she turned her head to look at Lin You with a guilty conscience.

But Lin You's hand also stopped in the air. He hesitated for a moment, and then stretched out his index finger to make a comparison: "Just this cup!"

"Yeah." Xiaomeng nodded again and again, raised her head and took a big gulp, when she put down the wine glass, there was still a trail of beer foam on her lips like a white beard.

Lin You stretched out his thumb, wiped off the foam for her, cleaned his fingers, and rubbed her pink head.

"Hey." Xiaomeng smiled openly, raised her head again, and drank down a big glass of beer boldly.

Then he said in a daze, "Xiaomeng is drunk."

Then she couldn't stand upright, her body fell back, and she fell straight down.

Lin You quickly reached out to pick it up, but it was empty.

——Xiaomeng fell directly out of Chang'an and fell on the small sofa on the bridge.

"?"

Lin You blinked, a little confused, what does Xiaomeng mean?
But when he was in a daze, a familiar figure appeared under the tall meditation tower——

Zhu Cixia.

The little princess appeared here at some point, smiling and waving to him.

(End of this chapter)