Infinity through different life

Chapter 362 It's Difficult to Pick a Name (Two in One)
Wade Watts, as usual, condenses entities outside the gates of Public School No. 1873 on the planet Ludus, appearing like a ghost.

As soon as he got online, there was a malicious greeting behind him: "Ha, isn't this Wade?"

It was Mark, who was at odds with him, who was standing with a few upstart friends, all of them wearing expensive store suits, with contempt on their faces.

Wade didn't want to pay attention to the other party, but Mark insisted: "This beautiful dress on you is really handsome, where did you get it?"

As soon as the words fell, Mark's friends all laughed out loud.

Wade was wearing a black T-shirt and dark blue jeans. This was a free suit given when he created the account. He turned his head and said with a blank expression, "Your mother bought it for me. Next time you go home to drink milk, Please pass on my thanks."

He knew it was childish, but in the virtual world, sometimes speaking sharply would be effective.

Sure enough, there was a burst of laughter around, which made Mark flushed with anger, and wanted to open his mouth to fight back, but Wade had already blocked the other party's voice, and walked indifferently towards the school.

This sound-blocking function is very useful, especially in a PVE area like Planet Ludus. After scolding the other party, it is blocked, and the other party can only stare blankly if they hear it.

Wade uses it frequently and never suffers a loss. His skills have long been perfected.

But in reality, he is a person who lacks social skills.

Unfortunately for him, when he was still a baby, his father ate a dark gun for robbery and died on the spot. He was raised by his mother Lota alone, and gave him a name like a superhero.

In order to make a living, his mother was busy with work, and helped him set up an oasis account since he was only a few years old, and then threw him in the oasis, letting him explore this brand new world alone.

There is an interactive educational program in the oasis. This system is free of charge, easy to use, and accessible to all children. It can almost be said that he was brought up by this program.

Wade still remembers that almost all of his childhood was spent in the virtual community of Oasis. In addition to playing with him and singing to him, there were also various interactions that taught him to walk, count, read, and write. game.

There is the largest public library in the world. Even if he is penniless, he can read almost every book in the world, hear every song, and get in touch with every film and television drama.

The happiest memory of his childhood is closely connected with the oasis, but on the contrary, as long as he quits the Internet, he has to face the terrible real world.

In reality, Wade became very lonely, shy, unsociable, without a sense of existence, and out of tune with his surroundings.

Especially when his mother died when he was eight years old, it became even more polarizing.

He moved to the house of his aunt Alice. Of course, Alice was not a philanthropist. The reason for taking him in was to get extra monthly relief money from the government.

At his aunt's house, except for the right to live in a small utility room, he even has to deal with the food himself. Fortunately, he is very talented and taught himself to repair computers and game consoles, and then dug out the old machines from the garbage dump and repaired them. Then sell it.

But even so, if his aunt and the other party's non-stop scumbag boyfriend find out that he has valuables, they will snatch them away without hesitation.

Wade once thought that his life could not be changed. He was immersed in despair and self-pity until he was 13 years old, Halliday's egg saved him, and he found a dream worth chasing.

In a few months, he will graduate from high school. He knows that his grades are not enough to get a college scholarship to continue his studies, so during this time, he is already planning his life.

There is no doubt that he chose to be a full-time hunter, which was the only way for him to escape from his aunt's house, and since the moment he decided, his character name has never been changed - Parsifal, and King Arthur legend Like the knights looking for the Holy Grail.

It's not that he doesn't want to use the more popular Percival or Percival, but these names have long been registered and occupied.

"After graduating, I can take Ai Qi's ride and leave the Ludus planet, and then find a place to upgrade to earn gold coins, get my equipment, and take the rest slowly."

Wade planned in his heart, he and Ai Qi had known each other for almost three years, and the other party was one of the most powerful fighters in the entire oasis, with an extremely resounding reputation.

The two met in a certain hunter chat room. Once they talked, they became acquainted immediately, as if they were born confidants.

Ai Qi never discriminated against him, nor did he despise him because of his low rank and poor strength, and the two became best friends.

Wade knows that this is because they have a common characteristic, that is, their understanding of Halliday. In terms of knowledge in all aspects, what they have mastered is not only old things that are echoed by others, but also a lot of things that are so remote that almost no one knows about them. detail.

Over the past few years, their relationship has become closer, discussing and studying Halliday together, and they have been secretly competing with each other in various ways.

Both of them are very confident. If one day there will be the first person to reach the top of the standings, it will be him.

Another coincidence is that Aiqi also goes to school on the planet Ludus. The two schools are half a planet away. Wade has never met Aiqi in real life, and Aiqi has no idea of ​​coming to meet. After leaving the school and changing to the original character appearance, the two sides carefully maintained this tacit understanding.

Wade entered the school hall and looked around as a habit, but his eyes suddenly froze and stayed on the robot NPC behind the bar for a few seconds. The latter had his eyes closed and was in a "leave" state.

He was immediately surprised. As a hunter who can be recognized by Ai Qi, in addition to the knowledge he has acquired, he also has very keen observation skills. In the three years of school, he has never seen such a situation when receiving NPCs.

"Aiki, look at this."

Wade took a photo while no one was paying attention, then quickly pulled out the chat window and sent it to Ai Qi.

Almost in the blink of an eye, Ai Qi replied: "Isn't this the school's NPC reception?"

"That's right." Wade asked: "You go out often, have you ever seen an NPC appearing in this state of leaving like a player?"

"Really not." Ai Qi was puzzled, "It's strange, let me go and see the NPCs in our school."

Ai Qi didn't reply to the message for a while, and Wade didn't want to attract the attention of the surrounding students, so he pretended to be nonchalant and went to the classroom on the second floor.

There were already students sitting around, and when class was about to start, Ai Qi finally replied: "There is no problem with our school, I really want to go to your side to see the specific situation."

"No way!" Wade became excited, "This may be a mission, I found it."

"Fucking stuff." Ai Qi showed some disdain, "Ludes won't have a mission."

"Let's see." Seeing the teacher walk into the classroom, Wade added, "I'll let you know if I find anything."

As long as it doesn't involve the discovery of easter eggs, everything else is fine.

He couldn't listen to the class anymore, all his thoughts were on the NPC in the lobby on the first floor, and he wanted to find a chance to find out right away.

It is recognized that there is no mission on Ludes planet, but a weird NPC suddenly appeared, and he would not believe that there was no trick.

Could it be a hidden mission?

Wade gets excited just thinking about it. He has been in various forums and chat rooms all year round, and has heard many similar things. Those players who discovered and completed hidden missions all received huge benefits, and some even obtained artifacts.

After finally surviving get out of class and waiting patiently for everyone else to leave, he couldn't wait to run downstairs to the hall.

The hall was empty, except for the robot NPC, no other students came.

Wade was overjoyed, and ran to Xu Jing in a few steps, coughed, and looked over with piercing eyes.

Xu Jing was still in the state of leaving, but he could see and hear, and he had noticed the students in front of him long before the last class. There were so many people, only the other party noticed his abnormality.

He canceled the status of leaving, and said calmly: "Student, do you have any questions?"

After all, he is still a school NPC, and his scope of duty is to help students with problems. Of course, he is limited to inquiring about courses, competitions, or finding classrooms.

Wade said anxiously: "My name is Wade, what I want to ask is, is there anything I can do for you?"

Xu Jing realized in an instant, and understood that the other party had mistook his abnormal state for triggering some kind of mission.

He subconsciously wanted to deny it, and just found a reason to prevaricate it, but suddenly his heart moved, and he said, "How do you play games? I mean arcade or cassette games from a long time ago."

Among Halliday's hobbies, games account for a large part. He can watch movies, TV, and books by himself, but for games, it is easy to waste time after reading the strategy and groping. It is best to find someone who is proficient and take it directly. It saves a lot of time, and for some battle games, it is more suitable to hone skills by finding powerful players to play against.

Wade was overjoyed when he heard the words. When it comes to other tasks, a person like him who is only at the third level probably has no chance, but when it comes to playing arcade or cassette games, he immediately feels like he can’t give up on me, because that’s what he studies. Even Ai Qi is not as good as him.

Although he felt weird about the NPC in front of him, he still patted his chest and said, "I'm very good at playing that kind of game. I believe there are few people in the whole oasis who are better than me."

"Oh?"

Xu Jing was taken aback for a moment. Although his spirit ability was temporarily restrained by the system due to the factor of character level, he just couldn't release it, and his senses were still very keen.

He could sense Wade's self-confidence at the moment, it was only because he was really good at the game, not just pretending, and from his clothes, he was probably a very ordinary poor man in reality, and he didn't use his emotions at the moment Controlling the software, it is impossible to lie in front of him without being discovered.

Xu Jing suddenly had a flash of inspiration. The system should not throw him to school No. 1873 on Ludes planet for no reason. Maybe the protagonist is here.

Couldn't he be the kid in front of me?

He looked at Wade carefully, and imagined a story of a persistent and hard-working poor boy who passed various tests and won Easter eggs.

It is very possible, because this is very consistent with the consistent plot in the movie.

He made a decision in his heart, whether it is or not, it is better to seize this opportunity first, if he guesses correctly, Mission 2 may be fulfilled.

Xu Jing didn't think that he would be able to find clues if he memorized all of Halliday's hobbies. He found that it would be a waste if the guy suspected of being the protagonist didn't use it. He immediately said: "Very good, Wade, right? Come back after school Find me."

"Yes!"

Wade was ecstatic, shouted to answer, then tried to calm down, said goodbye and ran back quickly, the second class was about to start.

Xu Jing closed his eyes again, and re-entered the away state.

In front of him, on an interface invisible to outsiders, ten movies were fast-forwarding at a dizzying speed. At the same time, he divided his mind and summoned the system.

On the system interface, a progress bar appeared after task 1, and the progress bar showed the progress from LV0 to LV1. At this time, there was still 12.7% left to upgrade, and every time he finished watching a movie, he would move forward 1%-2% or so.

A few minutes later, as he finished watching eight of the movies in progress, the progress bar slowly rose to the top, and then with a sudden jump, his authority became LV1, and a new progress bar was replaced at the same time.

Xu Jing shut down the system, opened the character panel, and after obtaining the first level of authority, there was a change on the panel.

In the first column, there is an extra name item, and it is still unnamed, and the data is connected to the player character data.

In addition, his scope of activities extended to ten miles outside the school.

But that didn't seem to help, as far as he knew, Ludes had nothing but thousands of schools, separated by green spaces, parks, rivers, grass, or woods, without castles, dungeons, or monsters , except for some small wild animals, but don't expect to get any experience, gold coins and equipment by killing these small animals.

Xu Jing thought for a while, and began to name his characters. As a result, he tried dozens of characters in a row, and all of them showed that they were already occupied.

There are billions of players in the world, and those interesting or cool character names that people can remember at once have basically been registered.

In addition, all the names of fruits have been registered, and the names of vegetables have also disappeared. The names of movie characters that have some meaning have also been registered.

after an hour.

Xu Jing was going crazy. After trying countless names, all of them were taken, even his real name was taken.

Unless the registered person actually dies, Oasis will eliminate the corresponding character.

He reluctantly opened the webpage, and after searching, he found a website that sold character names.

The top character names here are all expensive, worth tens of millions of oasis points, and most of them are listed for sale after being squatted. In addition, there are various information about buying a certain name at a high price , Many of the buyers are celebrities.

"It's crazy."

Xu Jing was helpless. The existence of the oasis had already been related to all aspects of human beings. The second world was not just for nothing. Of course he could choose a name like "XX+alphanumeric", but he was always unhappy.

"Buy one."

He browsed through the names one by one, flipping through several pages in a row, and finally a name that fit his current race caught his eyes, and the price of [-] oasis points was acceptable.

"That's it."

Xu Jing confirmed the purchase, quickly completed the transaction, and obtained a verification code.

Returning to the naming interface, he used the special method of adding a verification code to his name to directly complete the registration and obtain the purchased name.

This gave him the feeling that Oasis Company was selling character names. Even if it wasn't, the name-selling website and Oasis were definitely in a cooperative relationship.

Sure enough, it is to use salary to create happiness, no money to play with cats...

(End of this chapter)