Ten thousand I am across the heavens

Almost every space-time officer will face various problems, especially for officers like Qian Jingge who have a higher rank and are temporarily promoted.

Second-order existence is a valuable variable for any space travel. And this valuable variable is often sent to perform tasks that are relatively more difficult.

Because of this, each of these giants who retired from the battlefield faced the most difficult starting conditions. If there was no base to provide support for them, I am afraid that even they would be helpless when facing such a desperate start.

After observing this world for two days, Qian Jingge also needed to solve his own survival problem. Although this body had been transformed and strengthened, and had physical fitness close to the limit of ordinary people's physical fitness, he had been sleeping in the open air for two days, eating leftovers left by restaurant guests, and sleeping in a corner to rest. The fatigue of the body was accumulating. Over time, various diseases would occur.

During these two days of survival, Qian Jingge had a preliminary understanding of the prices in this area. If the demand was just for survival, then the prices in this area were very low. A considerable number of homeless people were just like him. They went to some fast food restaurants to pick up other customers' leftovers, and when they went to sleep, they would just find a corner and take out their sleeping bag to sleep for the night.

This huge city is located in the coastal area. The climate in the area close to the equator is relatively warm. Although the hot summer does cause physical discomfort to people, compared with the possible life threat caused by severe cold, this place is obviously very suitable for this kind of lying life.

If the goal is just this kind of qualityless survival, then the cost of living here is almost equivalent to nothing. However, after experiencing many reincarnations, he knows very well that as a ruler, it is impossible for him to allow the population in his territory to be idle. Even if these people lying down seem to have no needs, he must create needs for them.

These needs must be what they cannot easily obtain in their daily lives. If this is not done, the people without desires will not be able to provide services to the rulers.

Creating demand is actually very simple. Qian Jingge has seen many homeless people who have no place to stay on the street stuffing colorful pills into their mouths and then showing an intoxicated expression on their faces. He has also seen many people selling these small pills at the doors of some cheap entertainment venues.

He was already very familiar with similar drugs in his previous reincarnations. The working principle was nothing more than affecting the secretion of dopamine and serotonin. These two factors respectively controlled the body's desire and satisfaction. In the face of the chemical bliss created by chemical substances, human willpower was fragile and vulnerable.

He had experienced that feeling before, and even now he was not sure that he could resist that level of physical impact.

And this is only a small part of it, which is said to be the corresponding drugs. Under government control, many such pharmaceutical factories have been closed down recently. But don't think that closing down these pharmaceutical factories is a manifestation of the government's conscience.

The drugs that were seized are all types that can seriously damage the nervous system and affect the user's intelligence. The reason for the seizure is that these drugs can cause the intelligence of abusers to decline, making it impossible to distinguish between them and artificial intelligence in various service industries.

Many people whose nervous systems are severely damaged perform worse than artificial intelligence when dealing with problems. These people are no longer of any value to the upper class and are equivalent to being dead. Naturally, the production of drugs that may cause such serious consequences has been stopped.

The control of the lower classes through psychotropic chemicals was quite popular a few decades ago, but has become less and less popular recently because it will more or less affect intelligence and reduce the quality of services provided by these people.

At present, the government has found a more efficient way to control the lower classes to create demand for them and force them to work, or it can be said that these people have created a direction of degeneration for themselves, and this direction is based on immersive virtual games.

There are more than a dozen Internet cafes on the street where Qian Jingge lives. The existence of Internet cafes in a highly cyberized world sounds counterintuitive. After all, if history develops normally, as the production cost of electronic equipment gradually decreases, personal terminal devices will gradually become popular among the people. The survival space of Internet cafes will become smaller and smaller, and eventually become a retro product that only exists in history.

But here, Internet cafes are still scattered throughout the streets and alleys. A large number of skinny-looking homeless people or workers are crowded at the entrance of the Internet cafes, vying for the seats inside.

He had visited once. It was necessary to have sufficient knowledge about these popular entertainment venues. After visiting once, he roughly understood why Internet cafes were popular in the downtown area. Highly immersive holographic virtual games are still relatively difficult to achieve with the current technological level, especially the simulation of neural signals, which requires the entire person to lie in the game cabin, insert a needle into a specific blood vessel to inject hormones, and stick a patch on the body surface to use electrical stimulation to simulate the senses in order to achieve perfect immersion.

This kind of equipment has obviously exceeded the limits of what personal devices can provide. At least no one here can afford such a large device. There are many holographic virtual games that must use this kind of high-level game cabin to get the best experience. In particular, there are some relatively adult content that cannot be easily achieved through some head-mounted display devices. It must be an invasive brain-computer interface device, and the simulation effect will also be distorted to a considerable extent.

However, according to his investigation, the charges of Internet cafes themselves are actually not high. Even homeless people, like Sanhe Master, can play for two or three days after working for a day. The real demand created is actually the wealth in the game world, which is a bit similar to the world of "Ready Player One".

Because most people have implanted invasive brain-computer interfaces, and their brain waves are absolutely recognizable, for game companies and network operators, everyone's account is completely real-name registered. It is impossible to use modifiers and plug-ins to achieve in-game kills and special kills. Everyone must follow the rules of the Internet to be able to kill in the games they enjoy, or for some paid games, they must pay a fee before they can get the playing time. Compared with the cost of Internet access in Internet cafes, these costs are the bulk of the expenses. Some people even work for others on the Internet, relying on the virtual currency they earn on the Internet to feed back their expenses in reality.

Qian Jingge stood at the door of the Internet cafe and shook his head. Compared with the virtual world, the reality was too cruel for these people. No wonder they wanted to escape to their own paradise on the Internet.

Just as he was about to turn around and leave, to find a job to support himself, an urgent alarm suddenly sounded in the dark downtown area. Amid the shrill beeps, pedestrians on the street panickedly searched their pockets and inserted chip-like things into their electronic devices. Many people who did not find chips on them rushed into the nearby shops in panic, trying to hide but were kicked out again.

Then, Qian Jingge walked around the street holding his head-mounted display, anxiously like an ant on hot pot. He was a little confused about what these people were doing. The fragmented memories in this body's mind seemed to have no memory of the current situation.

Those who found the chip and successfully inserted it into their electronic devices quickly calmed down, restored order, and did what they had to do. However, those who forgot to bring the chip or did not have it at all were still nervous and panicked. Many people took off their electronic devices and quickly looked for trash cans or any metal objects around them, trying to wrap their electronic devices in them. Some people were completely desperate and quickly disassembled their devices, removing some of the parts and throwing away the rest.

Just when she was still wondering, the urgent alarm sounded suddenly stopped, and then high towers rose up in the lower city. These towers looked a bit like the Tesla Towers in Red Alert. The locations with yellow warning signs on the street were where these towers rose. Arcs of electricity jumped between the metal rings on the towers and the spires themselves.

As all the towers rose up, a flash of lightning suddenly burst out from all of them. At that moment, many people showed varying degrees of nausea and vomiting, but it only lasted for a moment. At the same time, Qian Jingge observed that those who did not insert chips into their electronic devices all threw away their electronic products. Then he saw sparks explode on these devices, and they fell to the ground and turned into charcoal, all of which became waste.

Qian Jingge, who was holding his chest and enduring nausea, looked at the scene in front of him in astonishment, and at the same time, he had already guessed something vaguely. The towers protruding from the ground shrank back one by one, and the flash of lightning just now was probably a strong electromagnetic pulse. Unlike a nuclear explosion or an EMP bomb, this level of electromagnetic pulse will not cause a fatal blow to all electronic equipment, but will only cause a destructive effect on relatively sophisticated electronic equipment. Moreover, the electromagnetic pulse should have been modulated in a specific frequency, so those electronic devices with chips inserted can be spared from such destruction, while those without chips inserted will all be scrapped on the spot.

He really didn't expect that when capital completely controlled the entire society, the monopoly capitalists would protect their own copyright in such a violent form.

In his impression, the most effective way to combat piracy was to mobilize the most powerful legal department to sue certain pirated manufacturers until they went bankrupt, but it was ultimately impossible to completely eliminate piracy. He had never imagined that there would be such an operation as directly mobilizing infrastructure and using weapon-grade electromagnetic pulses to directly destroy them at night.

But after a little thought, she understood what was going on. In this cyber-age, technology has actually developed to the point where productivity is quite excessive. Even for highly sophisticated products like chips, which have gone through generations of production, elimination, and replacement, there are too many old models.

It is difficult to prevent these old models of equipment from flowing into the lower city by conventional means. However, if someone specializes in collecting these old devices, it is theoretically possible to build a relatively backward but barely usable local area network in the lower city, and build a server with sufficient computing power to support the operation of some holographic virtual games.

Such a server that is separated from the main server can easily snatch a large number of customers online at a relatively low price. After all, these poor players just want to escape reality in the virtual world and do not care whether the virtual world they are in is the mainstream one.

Qian Jingge knew that in some times, electronic equipment manufacturers would periodically scrap their electronic equipment. Even though the electronic equipment was extremely durable, they would use some easily damaged parts to ensure that it could be regularly scrapped within a certain period of time, so that users could replace the products and ensure the sales of their products. The purpose of this method of sweeping everything directly with electromagnetic pulses was essentially the same as regular scrapping. The main purpose was to crack down on and eliminate the servers privately built in the lower city, and to ensure that other small private Internet networks would be developed outside the main Internet.

Qian Jingge sighed, feeling that his start was becoming increasingly difficult. The depravity of the lower class had already made him sigh, and the rulers had begun to unscrupulously display their power, making him feel that this world was simply hopeless.

And something even more hopeless was waiting for him ahead. It was a special shop similar to an Internet cafe, but unlike an independent gaming cabin in an Internet cafe, the equipment here looked more like a hospital morgue. The space for each person was not even as big as a coffin, and they were densely stacked there, like the neatly arranged cabinets in a Chinese medicine store. When you opened the cabinets, you could see skinny and yellow-skinned people inside. There were tubes attached to their bodies, and their heads were connected by a cable. Their eyeballs were directly cut open, and the display patch was directly attached to the retina, directly stimulating the visual nerve cells through the display, thereby transmitting the clearest patterns to the brain.

The transparent tubes on the body are used to inject the most basic nutrients needed to sustain life into the human body.

[To be continued]

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