This game is too real.

Chapter 295 Players outside the game
“800银币等于四万，8000银币等于40万，80000银币等于400万……400万……”

Ok.

That's actually a big problem.

There is no need for an epoch-making immersive virtual reality online game, but anyone who has played two phenomenal MMORPG games knows what the so-called "G price" is.

When he can really take out hundreds of thousands of silver coins and hang them on the forum for sale, I am afraid that the silver coins will not be so valuable long ago.

but--

If he can train to level [-] or even [-] when others are at level [-], and when others are wearing power armor, he drives a starship and throws down the power armor, even if the silver coins are not so valuable, so what?
When someone else has ten thousand silver coins in his pocket, he may have hundreds of millions in his pocket.

As long as he stays in the first echelon and always walks ahead of the version, even if it costs 50 silver coins, it may not be less for him than when 1 silver coin was 50 yuan.

If a new version is released, new equipment is released, or a large number of players enter the pit, the price of silver coins may increase instead.

At present, there are only 600 players in the beta test of "Wasteland OL", and the number of pre-registrations has already broken through the million mark. The voice of the silver coin has been fried up to the sky.

Where is this?
Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, everyone will have a helmet in their hands, and with their eyes closed they will see the second world, and human civilization will enter a new era.

At that time, regardless of the price of silver coins, his return will be far more than [-], and may even be more than [-] million...

This is just the beginning!
Ye Wei felt his heart beating fast.

This was his first time, and he had the idea of ​​playing professionally.

On the way back to the dormitory from the computer room, Ye Wei, who was carrying a huge sum of money, felt that he was floating, and it was only when he reached the door that he realized that he forgot to eat lunch.

"A Wei, do you miss a girl?"

"Fuck off."

Ye Wei looked up at his roommate lying on the bed.

The little man is called Sun Qian, and he has a very close relationship with him.Before, the two of them often ate chicken double row together, but they have been quitting for a while.

Ordinary games can no longer satisfy him.

"Do you want to eat or not?"

The roommate replied with a hippie smile.

"Go, if anyone asks me to go."

"I'll treat."

The buddy's eyes widened instantly.

"Fuck? Really?"

He jokes every day.

But I never thought about getting out of bed.

I heard that someone invited me to dinner, and the head of the dormitory and Brother Liu also joined in the fun and booed.

"Ah Wei is bullying!"

"Brother Wei is awesome!"

Ye Wei rolled his eyes.

"Don't beep, get up quickly."

The four of them happened to have nothing to eat, so they went to the snack street together.

Finding a grilled fish by the lake with a good reputation, Ye Wei picked up the menu and ticked off a few strokes, and it only cost two hundred.

He usually feels bad for the 20 yuan takeaway, but now he even thinks it is cheap.

After all, 200 yuan is only 4 silver coins...

calm.

Can't count.

Ye Wei took a deep breath, trying to convince himself to calm down.

Because just now, he suddenly realized that he had eaten a bowl of 6 silver coin ramen a few hours ago.

It was probably the most expensive bowl he had ever eaten in his life.

Seeing his good brother taking a deep breath for a while, and giggling for a while, the three roommates looked at each other and made eye contact.

'I feel that Ah Wei is not quite right today... Maybe something happened at home. '

'Good brother, heroes see the same thing!I also think Brother Wei probably got out of the order! '

'It makes sense. When this kid came in just now, I felt that he was in a trance. Maybe he was dumped. '

After some incongruous exchanges, the head of the dormitory's eyes gradually became firmer. He looked at Ye Wei who was sitting there counting fishbone, and held his shoulder with his right hand.

Ye Wei raised his head in bewilderment.

"...what are you doing?"

The head of the dormitory said with a serious face.

"There is still a long way to go in life. There is no hurdle that you can't overcome, and there is no one you can't let go of. If you want to be a brother, you really want to cry. Brother Liu can lend you your shoulder."

Ye Wei was almost stuck in his throat by a fishbone, and brother Liu who was sitting across from him was even more exaggerated and almost spit out a mouthful of tea.

"Get out! You have to borrow it yourself! You want me to sell my body for one meal... unless it's two meals."

"You bastard! How about the relationship that we have been sleeping together for more than a year? Our Ah Wei is like this, what's wrong with you helping him!"

"Are you serious?"

"voo voo."

Ye Wei looked at the three of them in bewilderment.

"What the hell?"

The head of the dormitory said with a dry smile.

"It's nothing, we just see that your mood is not right, and we are a little worried about you."

Ye Wei didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"No, no, you misunderstood. I just... encountered a little good thing, and my mentality was a little impetuous. Give me a little time to adjust, and I will be fine."

Sun Qian asked curiously.

"What's the matter?"

Brother Liu also asked excitedly.

"Tell me, why is my impetuous kidney weak."

"..."

Ye Wei didn't know how to speak.

This topic has been discussed many times in their dormitory, but even if he showed them the official website, none of them believed it.

Show them the bank card balance?
His EQ is not that low.

"If, I mean, if... there is such a [-]% real virtual reality online game, how popular will it be?"

The three roommates looked at each other.

"Brother Wei..."

"What?"

"What if, I mean what if..." Sun Qian said weakly, "One day you will go crazy-oh no, you have achieved great success, can you start killing Brother Liu and the head of the dormitory first?"

Brother Liu: "Damn it! You are vicious!"

"Hey, forget it." Knowing that it would turn out like this, Ye Wei shook his head helplessly, took a sip of beer, "Think your dad farted."

More than two o'clock in the afternoon.

The group returned to the bedroom.

People get sleepy when they are full, and they don’t want to work when they are sleepy. The three decided to eat two handfuls of chicken first to study, and they also called Ye Wei.

Although I know that this guy is probably not interested, and it is useless to shout, but whether to shout or not is another matter.

Standing on the balcony, Ye Wei thought about it, and finally decided to be more conservative, and first transferred 6000 to the old lady's bank card.

Before he could send a WeChat message to explain clearly, his wife called.

"Weiwei, what happened to the 6000 yuan?"

Hearing the concerned voice on the other end of the phone, Ye Wei couldn't help feeling warm.

"Mom, I recently... found a part-time job. I paid the tuition fee for this semester with my salary. If you transfer my tuition fee, I will give it to you first."

In the end, Ye Wei still didn't have the nerve to say that he earned money by playing games, so he could only find a reason to deal with it first, and then explain it a little bit later.

"Part-time job? What part-time job? Why did you suddenly go to work part-time?"

"Electronic product testers... anyway, they are helping to test some new equipment," Ye Wei said with a blushing face.

The voice on the other end of the phone hesitated.

"Testing new equipment... Isn't that being a guinea pig for people?"

"It's okay, it's safe, and it's at night...I mean it doesn't conflict with the class time, and it doesn't affect learning."

so close!

I almost slipped my mouth!
Ye Wei felt that if he said that he worked at night, his mother would have misunderstood something.

There was silence on the phone for a while.

"...Don't tire yourself too much. You still need to learn more knowledge when you go to college. Our family's financial conditions can afford you to go to college easily."

"Don't worry, Mom, a part-time job is also a kind of learning. I learned a lot from the friends who took the test together, and I want to share some for the family? Jiujiu is going to take the college entrance examination in June this year. She still studies Painting, when the time comes, tuition fees, living expenses, paints...there will be plenty of places to spend money."

"That's right, you don't need to call me for living expenses in the future, I have enough money on me..."

Said a lot.

Finally, I finished dealing with my mother's side.

Ye Wei, who put down his phone, took a deep breath, and after thinking for a while, he turned on Goudong, picked out a phone worth about [-] yuan, and sent the link to his sister.

Jiujiu loves pineapple: "?"

Wei: "Like it?"

Jiujiu loves to eat pineapple: "What do you want to do? Let me declare first, I only need a little pocket money. If you can't afford food, I can lend you a little bit, but I can't buy a mobile phone. (Alert.jpg)"

Wei: "Fucking, your brother is the kind of person who eats soft food? Forget it, I originally wanted to send you directly, but after thinking about it, it will affect your studies too much. Let's wait until you are admitted to Humei."

Jiujiu loves pineapple: "NO! Brother!! I was wrong! QAQ"

Looking at his sister's indiscriminate emoji, the corners of Ye Wei's mouth curled up unconsciously.

How will you spend your money after you get rich?
He really didn't think about it carefully.

Although he was an all-powerful T0 player in "Wasteland OL", but with "Wasteland OL" slowly testing the progress, he never expected to rely on this thing for a living.

And now, his previous efforts have paid off.

While playing with your friends, you can also solve your worries and let your family members live a better life.

hateful!

This damn operator is playing the sugar-coated card again!
Turning off the phone, Ye Wei looked at the bedroom behind him.

The roommates were eating chicken three rows, and a fierce gun battle was erupting on the screen, and they kept yelling "pull the gun line" and "fight the smoke".

But after all, it is a game in the "two-dimensional era", and those rough pictures are no longer attractive to him.

Looking at the black helmet on the table, Ye Wei suddenly felt a slight warmth in his heart.

"Thanks, brother."

……

the same world.

The far side of the ocean.

In a house in Virginia, the lights were dark except for one computer that was still on.

This is the only laptop that is not connected to the internet.

Only a string of understated characters remained on the flickering screen.

"Don't try to be smart."

"Don't think that your own rules can solve other people's problems."

"You have your own problems to solve, and you might as well take care of yourself when you have that time."

"This is a warning."

It is also the only progress they have made in the past six months.

Rubbing his messy hair with his left hand, the curly-haired man shook the mouse with a broken expression.

"It's useless...this computer can't be saved either."

This is the office of the CIA's special operations team, code-named "Wasteland", and their goal is a website that "does not exist at all" but can be "normally accessible".

They first discovered the site in a gaming community.

In the beginning, no one took it seriously, but just regarded it as a meme being played by a group of netizens in the Chinese cultural circle.

It wasn't until more and more CGs were released that a senior agent named Fick tried to find the back door of the website out of curiosity, and gradually realized the seriousness of the matter.

This site doesn't exist at all.

But it can be accessed normally.

This abnormal situation made him think that he had discovered an alien.

At first, the Federation didn't pay much attention to such trivial issues. After all, even this kind of thing had to be taken care of, and their grassroots personnel were exhausted.

However, considering that this phenomenon is really abnormal, after reporting level by level, the CIA finally set up a special team in charge of this case.

For Fick, who is in charge of this group, this is a great opportunity.As long as he can complete this task beautifully, he will definitely be appreciated by the minister.

In this way, they worked overtime day and night in this dim room for half a year, and even learned Chinese by themselves, but unfortunately there was no progress.

The other party's server security was impeccable, and there was no flaw at all, which caused a headache for the network information security experts invited by Fick.

However, things finally turned around recently.

The other party released the game currency transaction of "Wasteland OL" in the "Beta0.2 version" update.

As we all know, when a system is just developed, it is often the time with the most loopholes.Haven't the bugs been fixed in the previous version announcements?
Fick has reason to believe that this newly launched "silver coin trading platform" will become a breakthrough to conquer the city wall of Troy!

For the smooth operation of this operation, Fick recruited the strongest information technology team he could find and asked them to hack into the server of the website at all costs to find the location of the anonymous company.

If conditions permit, it is best to get the relevant data of the "dream" system, this will become the key to his meritorious deeds!

Whether you succeed or not, you have to try.

Anyway, the other party had always been very Buddhist before, and did not respond to their frequent temptations. Presumably, he did not dare to offend the powerful Millican.

However, what Fick did not expect was that what he exchanged for the price of one bitcoin was the collapse of the entire system.

The other party not only killed their server, but also deleted all the data in their server.

Looking at the paralyzed computers in the room, Fick felt blood dripping from his heart, his scalp was numb, and his hands and feet were cold.

He seemed to have foreseen that his boss would curse furiously.

"All 147 servers wiped out...it's over."

His hands left the keyboard completely, and another information technology expert sitting in front of the computer finally gave up struggling.

"Our opponents are monsters. What's frustrating is not how clever their methods are, but their technology is beyond my comprehension."

"Do you know what I went through just now? I feel like a primitive man holding a stone spear to defend the city, and in front of me is a giant sent by Odin. I'm not even sure if I provoked it, but It still stretched out its hand toward me..." As he spoke, he showed his little finger on his right hand, and continued to babble incoherently on those difficult words.

"...At most one little finger, no more, and this is already beyond the limit of our server."

Fick swallowed hard.

"Don't scare yourself..."

He admits that there may be some gaps between them in the field of information technology, but at most it is at the level of T64 and Leopard II, and it is not enough to pull the crotch to the level of Xie Mantou.

however--

The lack of self-confidence in his heart made him involuntarily put a questioning tone at the end of the sentence.

The IT specialist shook his head.

"It's not to scare yourself... Forget it, you don't understand. With all due respect, this is an asymmetrical duel. It's disgraceful for them to win, and there's nothing shameful for me to lose."

After dropping these words, he leaned back on the chair exhaustedly.

That expression was somewhat self-defeating.

"Just now I wanted to ask, which of you turned off the light."

Glancing at the extinguished light above his head, and then at the extinguished charging signal light on his laptop, he suddenly frowned.

"power cut?"

What's the use of power outage now.

Fick took out his phone and looked at it, but there was no signal.

At this moment, his subordinates hurried in from the outside, with disbelief and horror written all over their faces.

"Stopped, not just here, the whole state! Damn, no signal at the base station, switching backup generators takes time, and now the whole department is in a mess. I don't want to connect the two things together, but it happened A few seconds ago."

Looking at the man who walked in from the door, the room was deadly silent.

power failure……

And the whole state.

Compared with the economic loss caused by the power outage of the entire state, they broke more than 100 servers, which seems insignificant...

Fick's Adam's apple moved with difficulty. Although it was still March, he felt that the room was suffocatingly hot.

He's out of his mind.

I can't even figure it out.

Obviously, the other party's cyber attacks on them in the past few times were "submissive" and "dare not fight back", why did they suddenly fight back this time?
Thinking about it now, it wasn't that the other party didn't dare to offend before, but that they didn't bother to pay attention at all.But this time, the opponent not only made a move, but also countered without distinction and restriction, directly pulling the electric switch of the entire state.

Would this be too much?

The curly-haired man sitting in front of the computer punched the table angrily.

"This is a terrorist attack!"

Fick shot him a quick glance and coughed lightly.

"Do you have evidence? If there is no evidence...it's best not to connect these two things."

Once the two things were linked, they had to make a formal response.And once a formal response is made, he, as the person in charge, will be responsible for the losses caused by this failure.

Why bother?
No one claimed responsibility for it.

The generator restarted, the communication was restored, and the light in the room was restored.

However, the atmosphere in the room was full of depression.

A detective pinched his brows and said with a headache.

"...What kind of company is this?"

Fick wanted to say the same thing.

With such a heaven-defying technology, they actually used it...to make games?

What is the difference between this and being reborn and running to play DOTA?
helmet……

If only I could get a helmet.

Fick's heart skipped a beat.

If the wallet that received the bitcoin can be traced, at least one player’s identity can be locked. Even if the other party is on the other side of the ocean, it is inconvenient for them to send someone to contact them directly, but there are too many indirect means to win over citizens of third world countries it's -

and many more.

A drop of cold sweat suddenly streaked across Fick's forehead.

Just now, he suddenly realized that he might be planning an extremely dangerous thing.

It's not that hard to get a helmet.

But just getting a helmet won't solve anything.

As for the price, it is still unknown.

Those lunatics have a way to paralyze the power system of a state in a few seconds, and not only can't find the problem on their own side, there is even no evidence to prove that it is related to them.

perhaps……

I should seriously consider the true meaning of that "warning" and the risk of "hidden dangers" spreading from the federal power system to other systems.

After rearranging his thoughts, Fick took a deep breath and looked around at the colleagues in the room.

"The idea of ​​hacking into a server is problematic... I don't doubt that we have the ability to break into their server, but we don't need to take that risk."

"The technical strength displayed by the other party is obviously not owned by organizations or institutions known to our intelligence network, otherwise those people would have used it long ago."

"It's also clear that we don't actually have a direct conflict of interest ... maybe a softer approach will give them a better sense of our honesty."

Although everyone had weird expressions on their faces, no one refuted it.

"Glad we reached an agreement."

Fick heaved a sigh of relief, nodded, and continued in a calm tone.

"My expression just now may be more euphemistic, what I mean is..."

"How about we fill out a form first?"

……

The same thing is happening elsewhere.

Across the ocean.

somewhere.

The spacious and bright room was very quiet, the desk was full of documents, the trash can was full of cigarette butts, and a few of them fell on the ground.

A dozen or so people were busy quietly. Judging from the dark circles on their faces, they had worked hard overtime for several days.

However, tomorrow should be a day off.

Probably because they couldn't stand their days of hard work, there was only one computer left that didn't crash.

Let it be.

In fact, rather than what happened to the "non-existent website", they wanted to know how those "helmets that shouldn't exist" appeared in the hands of players out of thin air.

This is much more serious than economic issues.

"Can you track down that person?"

"I can find it, but I can't find it either."

The old policeman frowned.

"What do you mean?"

The young policeman sighed and said.

"All the information before April last year disappeared. There is no trace of deletion, but nothing at all. He is like a ghost that appeared out of thin air. Our only clues are the Penguin and a few chat records up to April last year. , he didn't deliberately hide it, or he didn't bother to hide it at all."

Another colleague frowned.

"He always has his own social connections, right? What about the friends in the account? What about the registered mobile phone number?"

Compared to the "Xiaoqi" who didn't even have a social account, the project codenamed "Aguang" was probably their only breakthrough.

The young man was silent for a while.

"The most evil place is here."

"We know a lot, but we can't find the place where he worked, nor his parents. We searched the archives of Jiangcheng University and the local talent market, but we can't find any files about him, or those materials. It was faked, or tampered with... He disappeared, never even appeared in front of our eyes, as if a UFO flew from the sky and sucked him away along with the traces of his existence."

However, it is opposite to this strange phenomenon.

It is easy to lock the identities of those players.

The information on the website is shady, but monitoring group chat information can always find some clues.

Their team is very high-level, and the situation in charge of the case is extremely special.

Generally, relevant personnel need to go through formalities to check these sensitive items at home, but they can get them directly.

"In addition to the chat history, there is also bank transfer information. Although the information on the website cannot be locked, all transfers of the same amount at the same time can be locked and then screened. Buying game items does not constitute illegal, but we can ask them to cooperate with our investigation... Do I need to contact them?"

The silent old man suddenly spoke.

"You mentioned the bank. I was thinking just now, what if there is something wrong with the banking system."

The young man froze slightly, and said nervously.

"Silver, the bank? Not so much..."

The old man thought for a moment and said: "It's just a hypothesis, our work may add unnecessary trouble to comrades in the banking system."

The man with the square face who had been silent for a while suddenly spoke.

"Actually, it's not necessary."

See everyone looked over.

He continued slowly.

"First of all, we have to admit that the other party's information technology is superior to ours."

Sitting in front of the computer, a middle-aged man wearing glasses had a look of shame on his face.

"Feel sorry……"

The man with the square face shook his head.

"It's not your fault. They have a technology that we have never heard of. They can interfere with dreams. Using this technology to steal secrets makes me feel like a child."

"I even thought about whether aliens would understand our civilization level and thinking form in this way, and then decide whether to..."

As he spoke, the man with the square face made a gesture on his neck.

Everyone in the office looked at each other.

But soon realized he was joking.

The old man coughed dryly and said calmly.

"No matter how aliens are..."

It's too ridiculous.

Even if this is likely to be the closest guess to the truth.

"It's just a hypothesis. Just now, my colleague informed me that there was a large-scale power outage in Virginia across the ocean...and it wasn't a district, but the entire state. The power grid there was interrupted for a full hour. It’s across the Tomac River. Their explanation to the outside world is that the aging circuit caused the power company’s system failure, and it has returned to normal after emergency repairs, but they are not the only ones who know.”

The man with the square face thought for a while and continued.

"They knew where we were, and even showed a hand card. Leaving aside the dream system built with the help of 'thinking and cognition', their achievements in the field of information technology may be at least half a century ahead of us... maybe even More."

"I'm still reserving the speculation that the game's operators are aliens — or extraterrestrial civilizations. It's not Earth technology at all, and that's not my opinion alone."

It is impossible for any technology to be produced out of thin air without the basis of theory, but the existence of that website is beyond their cognition.

A layman may not be able to see the difference between it and an ordinary website, but in the eyes of those who really understand it, that thing is like an isolated singularity.

The two sides are not on the same dimension at all.

And that's the root of the problem.

The old detective coughed lightly.

"Looks like we need to add a space system comrade."

The person next to him made a joke to ease the atmosphere.

"There is also a budget for increasing the Nantianmen plan?"

The middle-aged man wearing glasses sitting in front of the computer was still a little unwilling.

"This technology that could change the world, if we could—"

The man with the square face coughed lightly.

"Back to the topic just now, I think active intervention is the most unwise choice. Someone has already stumbled for us. We don't need to follow them in the river once."

The old man frowned.

"But just let it go?"

The man with the square face continued.

"We don't know their motives for operating this game, the rationale, or even... Are they Earthlings?"

"However, they obviously knew us, and they launched the MMORPG "Wasteland OL" just a few months after the planner codenamed 'Aguang' disappeared."

"And he explained to other netizens in the group chat that he changed jobs."

"We assume that they come from outside the solar system, so this will be our first contact with extraterrestrial civilizations. We represent not only our own civilization. Compared with the possible consequences of arrogance, I prefer the most cautious contact."

"Why stop watching for a while?"

"The other party has shown us the sincerity of civilization. We should be vigilant while showing the sincerity that civilized people should have."

"No matter what their purpose is, the game has just run to the B round. Maybe they from the distant world are trying to pass on 'games', a cultural form that we can understand, to convey some kind of information or metaphor to us."

"At least for now, it doesn't mean hostility. And if it means aid, we could benefit greatly from that."

The old man pondered for a long time, then nodded.

"It's really rude to interrupt someone in the middle of what they're saying, at least until they've finished."

The person next to him nodded.

"I think so too."

The young man raised his hand.

"I object. I am worried that external forces will attack those players. At least we should protect those 'players'."

The man with the square face didn't speak, but the old man smiled and shook his head.

"You think our opponents are too stupid."

Destroy it if you can't get it?

What kind of plot is this from a third-rate romance drama.

There are really such stupid opponents that they have already won.

As for controlling the player...

There is no need for that.

The number of reservations has exceeded one million, and it is still increasing. Existing technical means can only know who forwarded that link, and do not know who visited that website when, and there is no way to know who the next person to get the helmet is. .

There is a black hole that absorbs information, more mysterious than the world outside the solar system.

The other party chose them.

You can also choose someone else.

The young man sighed.

"If only I could get a helmet."

The man with the square face smiled and said.

"That thing is useless. I have someone study it, and the structure inside is so simple that it makes people feel confused. We haven't grasped the most basic principles. As for the reverse...just listen to it as a joke."

The old man looked at him in surprise.

"Where did you get the helmet?"

The man with the square face smiled shyly.

"It's a coincidence, maybe I discovered it earlier. Just... just fill in the form normally, including age, major, things you are good at, games you have played, and some multiple-choice questions that young people may be more interested in. Then click the YES button."

To be honest, he didn't play many games, most of them were legendary online games from the early days, and he never thought that he could really enter.

The other party didn't seem to care at all.

The helmet was placed directly in front of his house.

In fact, he's been playing for a while.

And this is why the superior transferred him to this group to help from the very beginning.

The old man froze for a moment.

"Did you fill out that form?"

"Does it make any difference whether to fill it in or not? Unless my file is completely deleted from the system, it will be graffiti on the wall for them."

After a pause, the man with a square face looked at the computer with a flickering screen.

"I even have a feeling."

"We have a meeting here today with the door closed, and the audience is far more than ourselves."

-

(This piece recalled several chapter 1 foreshadowings. If you forget the previous one, you can go back and look at it. As for the expensive silver coins, big brother, which game’s transaction price is stable, why don’t you compare it with ramen instead of exoskeleton? You use 1 yuan to buy me a solid hydrogen exoskeleton in reality? Realistic example, is the Kraken Kraken expensive for 1 yuan? You can’t even fly after buying a CG without a real game. But every time it comes out, it’s a second. Yes, I’m talking about citizens who paint cakes. I’m too lazy to cite the example of the metaverse. That’s not as good as cakes. There are pros and cons to logic, but we can’t put aside the reality and talk about it?)

(End of this chapter)