The girl stopped and stared at Qiu Yu with a pout for a long time. After a long time, she suddenly realized, "Have you never been online before?" When Qiu Yu was not sure how to answer, the girl said to herself again. He said, "It seems that remote mountainous areas still exist, so we have to start from scratch."
"Actually..."
"Okay." The girl interrupted Qiu Yu with a determined tone, "It is very dangerous to enter the rules of the online world without even knowing the basics. Please spend some time explaining it."
The girl pointed to a shop filled with mechanical products, "That's a shop where you can buy all kinds of things."
"That's a grocery store." The girl pointed to another store. "Although they all sell things, they have different focuses, so if you want to buy things, you have to find different stores according to your needs. In addition..."
"Are you making fun of me?"
The girl looked at Qiu Yu blankly at first, then started laughing dryly after a few seconds, "I was joking just now."
"No, I think you are joking now." Qiu Yu seemed to think that the girl's lack of common sense was as bad as his own.
"I'm the boss." Even though she said this, the girl still felt that her momentum was not enough, and she was quickly defeated by Qiu Yu's glare in return, "You ask..."
Qiu Yu, who gained the initiative, soon had a clear understanding of the world.
In the past, the so-called Internet access was indeed a combination of a chassis and a monitor. But starting ten years ago, a company called Creator suddenly emerged and monopolized the global online market in a short period of time with virtual reality technology.
Enterprises with a monopoly nature like this generally have a close relationship with the government, otherwise they will never receive policy support. However, as an independent company, Creator Company not only did not receive support from any government in the world, but also miraculously went further and further under the joint suppression of governments. With virtual technology that no one can crack as its core, in this The era of global informationization has easily penetrated into all business fields.
"Are you saying that what we are in now is the product of the Creator Company's monopoly on global commerce?"
"Yes." As if to give Qiu Yu a more intuitive understanding, the girl walked into a clothing store. Although the clerk immediately came up to introduce the products, under the girl's ignorance, she quickly wore a black head and The line receded, "The so-called virtual reality technology is not a simple creation of a virtual world, but a technology based on real objects. To put it simply, previous computers only built a virtual world based on real objects. The empty shell of the model. But the virtual reality of the Creator Company completely digitizes the material information from the atomic level to establish a perfect physical structure. Therefore, any virtual item seen in it, from the appearance to the interior Its properties, from the attachment of dust to the erosion left by time, are no different from the real thing."
The girl picked up a goose-yellow dress and handed it to Qiu Yu. Qiu Yu took it in his hand after hesitating slightly. The soft texture and the wrinkles caused by holding it in his hand made Qiu Yu unable to see any difference from the real thing.
"The reason why I say there is no difference from reality refers not only to the technology of virtual reality, but also to the business methods of the creator company." The girl picked up a scarf with a cartoon pattern and put it in front of a dressing mirror. Not only did it appear on the mirror He saw the girl's mirror image, and a long string of codes appeared next to the scarf, "Although any item can be perfectly created in this world, the Creator Company is not satisfied with a virtual world. They are still in reality. We sell an instrument called an item virtualization terminal, which can differentiate each item based on the basic template of the item. So the scarf in my hand now still exists exactly the same in the real world. In the mirror The code is used to correspond to the real body. Once I choose to pay, when I get this scarf in the virtual world, the scarf in the real world will also be sent to me."
Qiu Yu was once again shocked by this world.
The replacement of traditional networks by virtual reality is at most equivalent to the replacement of traditional information transmission methods by the Internet. Although the strength of this only network company will reach a terrifying level that transcends the country, after all, it is only monopolizing one field. But it's completely different when they use their monopoly of information to convert it into commercial sales.
The advantages of ordinary online shopping are already quite obvious, but using virtual reality technology to combine the unlimited choices and affordability of online shopping with the immersive experience of shopping in a mall, who else can be the opponent of this shopping model? Even if any merchant is unwilling, they can only rush to enter this virtual mall, and consumers have no possibility of rejecting this model. Now, even if the girl says to herself, physical store sales have been completely squeezed out, Qiu Yu won't think it's weird... Of course, there may be one last restriction that is not a restriction, leaving the last remaining gap for store sales. A glimmer of life.
"For time-sensitive things, this sales model shouldn't work, right? If you buy this scarf, it doesn't matter if it takes ten days and a half to arrive. But if I want to eat a bowl of noodles, I have to eat it in this world first. From now on, it’s impossible to wait for a few days in the real world, right?”
"I want this." The girl wrapped the scarf around her neck and walked out of the store directly. "There is no theft in this world. As long as you take anything out of the store, the system will default to the purchase. After deducting the corresponding fees, Home delivery in the real world.”
"What if the money is not enough?"
"I can't take it out with me." The girl walked forward a short distance and then walked into another store selling jewelry. "As for timeliness, as long as you don't deliberately find a store in another place, it won't be a problem. We are now in The street we are on is divided according to the actual region. Most of the stores you can see are actually local stores in the real town. Of course, there are also stores from other places that have purchased multiple parallel points at the same time. For example, we are entering now This store. This kind of store will not only display the item code, but also display the actual location and arrival time of the item."
"What does parallel connection point mean?" Although he had already guessed the answer, Qiu Yu wanted to be sure.
"No matter how similar this place looks to the real world, it is still a convenient virtual world after all. By purchasing multiple parallel store entrances, you can enter not only within our real town, but also in Kyoto, Haicheng, and even foreign countries at the same time. You can see them in different locations. However, the parallel points may be very expensive depending on the flow of people and regional characteristics. For a small store like the one we are in now, at most there are parallel points in a few nearby small towns."
No one wants to be underestimated. When the owner of the jewelry store heard what the girl said, his face turned red and he shouted, "Don't underestimate me. I will buy a parallel connection point in Kyoto next year."
"The profit of such a small shop is only if you buy it in Kyoto, or at most on the outskirts of the slums."
Qiu Yu discovered for the first time that the naturally stupid girl was actually a bit venomous. When the shop owner was so angry that he pulled her and left.
"Then let's talk about food. People in Reality Town are not willing to play by the rules, and even the restaurants at night have no business, so basically they will all close before early morning." As he spoke, the girl was already carrying Qiu Yu walked to a closed shop and said, "If it's daytime, you can order something to eat here, or you can come here by yourself from the real world. This restaurant is only thirty meters away from my Internet cafe. Although the shop owner doesn't know how to do it, Yes, but at least I won’t graffiti in the Internet cafe.”
Qiu Yu looked around and found that there seemed to be only one store related to restaurants, "The solution here to solve the problem of hot food not being able to be delivered to the destination quickly is the opposite of the parallel point - restaurants are not allowed to have parallel connections in other places. point?"
The girl continued to take the lead and walked forward, "Business is free. Whether there is a parallel point mainly depends on whether the store will buy it and whether it has the ability to deliver it quickly after buying it. So as long as you see a restaurant on this street Just go in. Generally speaking, for products such as food, the system will have strict time limits. If it cannot be delivered within the time range, it will compensate you for the loss from twice to no upper limit according to the store's own settings. . But remember, this is only valid within the scope of this street. Oh, by the way, things like food can be tasted for free in this world, although the more you eat, the hungrier you will become."
At a place that resembled a bus stop, the girl stopped and said, "This is the area switching point. You can quickly reach all online and open locations through here."
Qiu Yu looked closely and saw that the stop sign was filled with countless strange place names, and as the girl's fingers slid, more place names appeared. Before Qiu Yu could take a closer look, he heard the girl's urging, "Let's go, there's nothing interesting about this."
"Aren't we going to go somewhere else through here?"
"We are now in the center of Kyoto."
"What?"
Qiu Yu understood the meaning of the girl's words very well, but his thinking was a little unable to keep up with the situation. After looking away from the stop sign, I suddenly realized that the surrounding scene had changed dramatically without me even noticing.
It is surrounded by towering buildings, and countless roads connect these buildings together in a three-dimensional shape. A dazzling array of shops occupy every eye-catching location in the building like fruit hanging from a giant tree.
Strangely shaped vehicles are speeding on the road. Whenever they approach pedestrians or buildings, they will always make incredible evasive movements, as if they are blocked by invisible forces. Even if it is intentional, it is completely impossible to cause a car accident.
The girl quite understood the shock of a country bumpkin who had never used the Internet before seeing these things for the first time, so she generously gave Qiu Yu two seconds to adapt, and then dragged Qiu Yu away from the platform for fear of being laughed at by the people around her.
