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Prologue The pain of anticipation

In 3007 AD, the earth entered global informatization, but the development of science and technology did not bring substantial changes to society. The large-scale use of artificial intelligence brought convenience to life and also brought high unemployment rates. A large number of unemployed people brought great pressure to social security, various crimes emerged one after another, and people became increasingly degenerate. In this case, countries have all supported online games in unison, allowing people to enter the game world, thereby reducing the pressure on society.

"Jianghu", "War of Kingdoms", "Elf Fantasy"... Countless games are rushing into the market, and people are constantly being eliminated by cruel market competition, but more companies are joining in crazily. A large amount of capital investment has enabled the rapid development of hardware technology, brain and nerve control systems, virtual sensory simulation, and breakthroughs in various new technologies have made the game world more and more perfect. In a blink of an eye, the "virtual world" and the "new economy era" are in a hurry, as if humans have entered the world of Datong inadvertently.

However, game companies pursue interests, constantly repeating game modes, uninnovative game content, and online company power and money transaction scandals that are exposed from time to time have gradually made people tired of all this. The bubble in the new economic era is gorgeous and short-lived!

Just as people are tired of online games and the market is getting sluggish, a news appears like thunder. "United Company and China Military Technology Brain Research Institute have joined hands to create a new era of online games"

People have seen such advertisements for a long time, but this time it is a bit different, because in the previous tide of online games, Chinese online companies did not participate, let alone the Chinese government. People all know that China has always been in the world's leading position in the field of brain and sensory simulation, and the market for Chinese online games is also the largest in the world. Therefore, people have been puzzled and discussed by Chinese companies that did not participate in competition. Some people even indignantly denounced China's unwillingness to make progress. Now the market has obviously begun to decline, but China plans to produce a big production and has an official background, which makes people feel very strange, but it also makes people look forward to it.

In July 3007, the hot summer came again. Although technology has been advancing, people still have no way to make summer not hot, winter not cold. At most, what they can do is to continuously strengthen research on air conditioners, so that people can consume less resources and enjoy a little cold wind in summer.

"If you don't feel the heat in summer and don't taste the cold in winter, then what's the truth in life?" Wang Dafu fell on his small bed and comforted himself breathlessly. In fact, two days ago, he said with confidence: "The reason why human beings are great is that we can feel winter in summer and we can embrace summer in winter." However, when the air conditioner broke down in the past two days, he immediately returned to the reality, and his face changed quickly was ashamed!

Wang Dafu, male, 27 years old, unmarried (non-virgin), bachelor's degree, no career, monthly income (personal privacy refuses to answer). In this era of handsome men and beautiful women running all over the streets, few people would call such a vulgar name like "Dafu". Wang Dafu's genius father, for Zhang showing his personality, gave his son such a name, and built his fun on his son's lifelong pain. In order to change his name, Wang Dafu made countless efforts, but each was violently suppressed by his father, and in the end, Wang Dafu surrendered...

"The heart is calm, it will be cool, and the heart is calm..." Wang Dafu lying on the bed and muttered, while looking at the official homepage of "Life" on the huge display screen on the bedside. Three days ago, Wang Dafu suddenly received a call saying that the big production online game "Life" he applied for half a year ago finally started public beta after it was delayed and he was delayed. His light-brained helmet will be delivered in three days, asking him to prepare for acceptance. At this time, he discovered that his old air conditioner suddenly announced his retirement and refused to be exploited by him again. However, his welfare point this month can only choose one between the new air conditioner and the light-brained helmet. He absolutely cannot have both. This cruel fact made him sigh to the sky. In the end, he could only look forward to the new helmet in three days, and look forward to the new air conditioner in one month, while feeling the reality of life.

Lying on the bed and slowly watching the information introduction on the homepage of "Life", Wang Dafu found that the useful information was minimal, with only some simple background introductions and general settings, with almost no specific content. The official also explained that this was not their pretense, but because they didn't know it either! In fact, the development process of "Life" was very interesting. The official just developed a super computer, then entered all the relevant information into the host, and then provided it with a large amount of information such as various historical materials, myths and legends and even science fiction novels.

Network literature, etc., and then the host automatically generates the game and lets it play its own way. This method has caused great debate in society, and people are very suspicious of the possibility of its success. However, no matter how others discuss it, the United Company does not explain it. It only takes out the latest information from time to time to tell the consumers the progress of the game. The host seems to be constantly striving for excellence, and each time it comes out a relatively complete version. After people discuss it online, it will take it back and continue to improve it, and keep refusing to make everyone complain.

If you look closely, the biggest feature of this game, which was developed entirely by artificial intelligence for the first time, compared with previous games is meticulousness. Because a human-developed game is limited after all, it is impossible to cover everything, and no matter how tacit a development team has tacit understanding, it is impossible to completely understand it. This makes previous games have some flaws. This game is developed by a "person" with infinite energy and can be said to be comprehensive, so it feels very meticulous.

The second feature is its huge size. The computer host seems to have designed an extremely huge world. There are as many as 12 smart races, on 4 continents. In addition to these 4 birth continents, their locations are known. The detailed content requires players to explore the three continents themselves. In addition, there are vaguely mentioned 3 mysterious continents. I don’t know if there are any hidden continents. The area of ​​each continent is twice as large as the total of all continents on the earth! Seeing this setting, Wang Dafu’s first thought was: “We will definitely be exhausted by this damn computer. I don’t know if all continents have been explored by the end of this damn game… As for the specific situation of each continent, there is no doubt that it will never be explored clearly!”

The third setting aroused Wang Dafu's great interest: "This game is divided into two major routes, the classic personal adventure mode and the original business management mode." Simply put, the classic personal adventure mode is similar to the previous online game settings, which is the mode of killing monsters and hunting treasures for tasks.

The 12 intelligent races in "Life" are: humans, elves, dwarfs, orcs, giants, winged people, sea races, undead people, demons, demons, titans, and specials. Each race has many branches, such as humans divided into three main distribution centers, such as the East Continent, the West Continent, and the New Continent; the elves are divided into grassland elves, forest elves, dark elves, blood elves, etc., and dwarves are also divided into mountain dwarves, hilly dwarves, dwarves, goblins, halflings, etc. In addition, like orcs, the sea races are even a very large group. In short, the number of races available in "Life" has exceeded people's imagination, but the official has stated that there is no setting for hidden races, so everyone does not need to explore this aspect.

The situation of the professions in various continents in "Life" is different: there are no professions in the East Continent, only skills and sects, and skills are all-encompassing. They include combat skills such as internal martial arts, as well as medical skills, and life skills such as painting. Of course, learning conditions are different, but in general, as long as someone teaches them, everyone can learn them, but the learning effect is not certain. It all depends on personal talent and personal efforts. As for sects, like ordinary martial arts online games, including Shaolin Wudang, etc., there are a lot of sects, but the specific number is asked to be explored by players. In addition, the official pointed out that there is no hidden sect, please do not have fantasies! In addition, non-human intelligent creatures can also enter sects to learn martial arts, but the effect cannot be guaranteed, and the entry conditions are also relatively strict.

The Western Continent is a traditional profession setting, including six basic professions, including warriors, knights, thieves, archers, magicians, priests, etc. Each profession has several advanced professions to choose from, and you can advance across professions, but please let players explore the specific effects yourself. There are still no hidden professions in the old rules! These professions can be taken as well as non-human races.

The New World is a family setting. Each family has different bloodline inheritances, such as the Superman family, Batman family, Spider-Man family, etc. Each family has different bloodline inheritances, their abilities are also different, and the inheritance methods are also different. Bloodlines can be integrated with each other, but players are asked to explore the specific effects themselves. There are also no hidden families, and other races can also join the family, but the effect cannot be guaranteed!

The subcontinent is the main gathering place for non-human races (but not the only gathering place). The setting here is race. Different races can find learning skills here (including humans, as long as you can come). This is also the main skill learning area for non-human races. Of course, this is not the only learning area. Other places such as the Elf Kingdom, the Orc Kingdom, the Undersea Continent, etc. can also learn skills. These will be guided by the system after the player enters the game.

The above is the main setting of the so-called classic personal adventure mode. Apart from being bigger and more complicated, it has nothing new and does not arouse Wang Dafu's interest. He likes another model - the original management model. In short, this model is to build a city, just like the previous single-player game "Simulation City" series. Of course, the specific content is different, but the idea is the same.

In this mode, players will have their own territory as soon as they are born and become the head of a low-level village. The purpose of the player is to continuously build small villages to upgrade them, and finally become a large city or even a royal capital! However, players who choose this mode also have many restrictions. First of all, players can only move in the sphere of influence of their territory. The lowest-level village sphere is 100 square kilometers around, and the highest-level 5 village is 500 square kilometers; the sphere of influence of level 1 towns is 1500 square kilometers around, and the 5 town is 5500 square kilometers; the sphere of influence of level 1 cities is 15500 square kilometers around, and the 5 cities are 55500 square kilometers; the 5 cities can continue to upgrade. Please explore the specific content in the game. After reading this introduction, Brother Dafu secretly cursed: "OOXX, can't you write it all honestly? You have to make a fool of yourself, XX, you OO"

Each village has a population upper limit. When the population upper limit is reached, the population cannot be increased (only for permanent residents, and the migrant population is not counted). Among them, the upper limit of the population of the first-level village is 50 households (the upper limit is not calculated by people, but by households. Even if there are 50 people in a household, it is still considered one unit), 100 households in level 2 villages, 200 households in level 3, 500 households in level 4, 1,000 households in level 5; 5,000 households in level 1 towns

, Level 2 10,000 households, Level 3 20,000 households, Level 4 50,000 households, Level 5 10,000 households; Level 1 city 50,000 households, Level 2 100,000 households, Level 3 200,000 households, Level 4 500 households, Level 5 1,000 households; the upgrade of the villages in the game is related to the population and construction degree, please explore the upgrade methods above the town. ‘XXOO! Can you not adjust people’s appetite! ‘Wang Dafu is already out of anger!

The population includes the settled NPCs in the territory and the settled players. The ratio of the number of NPCs to the number of players in this game is 1000:1, that is, each player creates characters at the same time, and 1000 NPCs are generated. Players and NPCs can fully interact. "I don't know if I can communicate in depth." Looking at the appearance of several NPC beauties on the homepage, a certain man began to drool.

Please note that no matter how much your territory develops, it is possible to destroy it at one time, rather than downgrading at one level at a time. If the territory is destroyed, the player will automatically delete the account, so please carefully manage your territory. Looking at the several methods of destruction flashing on the screen, Wang Dafu's cold sweat came down: "Are you wrong? Even Mushroom Clouds. Is this a martial arts fantasy online game or a modern technology online game!"

"I have never introduced that this game must be a martial arts fantasy. It is not impossible to have an atomic bomb." The sudden sound from my ears scared Wang Dafu to the ground from the bed!

"Who are you? Why are you here without saying hello? How did you come in!" Wang Dafu's forehead was covered with black lines, and he looked at the guy in front of him and growled.

"I knocked on the door, you didn't hear it, and it seemed that you didn't lock the door!" The guy in front of him said with a relaxed look on his face.

At this time, Wang Dafu remembered that because the weather was too hot and he was waiting to receive the helmet, he didn't close the door at all.

"Can you just enter with the door open? You are too rude. What's wrong with you?" Wang Dafu said angrily.

"I'm looking for a public toilet, I'm looking for it as the smell." The person who came in looked honest.

"What do you say? You dare to say it again!" The honest man angered another lazy guy, and Wang Dafu was furious: "How could I smell from a public toilet here? It should be the smell of a garbage dump! I want to sue you for slander!"

The honest man was immediately defeated by this sentence, and a string of black threads flowed down from his forehead: "Just kidding, I am the second sales service representative of the fifth division of the Customer Service Department of Lanhai Branch of the Western Branch of Lianfang Company. My name is..."

"You can shut up, just say you are here to give me a helmet, but then you have so much nonsense, give me the stuff, you can leave." Brother Dafu was immediately knocked out by a series of titles. It took him a long time to figure it out. It turned out that he was a young man who delivered goods to his door.

"Oh, okay, please sign here... Okay, congratulations on becoming our company~~~~~~~" A series of standard business congratulations popped out of the delivery brother's mouth, and Brother Dafu once again angrily said: "Shut up, don't waste my time on the game"

"Okay, I wish you a happy game." Tang Seng's younger brother walked to the door and suddenly turned around and said: "By the way, because the console wants to improve the game again, this game will officially start public beta next month."
Chapter completed!
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