boom!
After closing the toilet door, Duan Qing picked up the ready-made food on the table and swallowed it all before it was fully cooked.
Fast food in the 22nd century has developed quite maturely, but no matter what, the taste of food that has gone through countless processes is not as good as freshly made food. But the market share of fast food still maintains a high share. On the one hand, they meet the needs of busy people, and on the other hand, because... their prices are also very cheap.
At present, these two characteristics are very suitable for Duan Qing's living conditions at this time, so he did not hesitate to choose these things as his three meals a day.
While chewing food, reading some important news on the Internet, this is what players like Duan Qing often do offline besides resting. Since the development of the virtual game industry, many people have regarded the game world as their second world. In addition to their daily work and life, they spend almost all their remaining time in this virtual world, and this This phenomenon has become more common since the industry chain in the game world matured.
When resources in the game world and the real world begin to trade, a virtual society will truly mature.
However, since the virtual game world has matured, not all games can become a complete and mature world on their own. Many games lack mature conditions and even lack official support from their origins. Since the popularization of the fourth generation virtual technology, the game world developed based on them has become more real and more independent. The world in the game develops its own system and is difficult to be influenced by players. Therefore, when players When the money, manpower and other forces on hand are not involved in the development of a virtual world, it will be difficult to connect the development rules of this virtual world with the real world, let alone the industrial chain that is suitable for the majority of civilian players to "start from scratch and become independent." Entrepreneurship opportunity. Free World is a typical example of this type of game. The development of the world line in the game is extremely independent. Whether it is NPC or system identification, it is difficult for players to start talking about it. Therefore, this game that is popular because of its realism has not been played until now. Qing has never heard of anyone who made a fortune in the game and became rich in the world.
But it doesn't matter - those games with mature industrial chains all collapsed due to capital monopoly and one dominant player. The "corpses" told them that games that can be invested by money can only Just do it to the extent of making a fortune.
As a player who loves games, Duan Qing naturally doesn't want to see good games eventually go extinct, so he likes to see the "survival problems" in the free world. Even for those large guilds, it is unimaginably difficult to maintain the lives of hundreds or even thousands of members. They can survive to this day except for the team members' "do it yourself, have enough food and clothing" In addition, it has something to do with the background of their big guild. Therefore, the superficial glory of the big guilds can at best scare the new players. For veteran players like Duan Qing, there is almost no difference in the difficulty of surviving in a game like the free world.
However, if it takes too long, the situation may be different.
There is very little offline time every day, so Duan Qing takes advantage of the opportunity to replenish nutrition for this real body and look for information that interests him. At the same time, it is also a holiday for himself who has been struggling to survive in the game. , enjoy some leisure time. However, this visit still had some purpose - ever since he heard about the subsequent development of Fenghua Town from Mengzhu, he had become very interested in the reasons behind this development. In his brief thought, Rama's death was certainly deserved, but the cause of his death and the impact it had on their small adventure group may be very far-reaching.
Of course, he is not as worried about his future as Mengzhu. The possibility of doubt is too small.
Ten minutes later, Duan Qing browsed through several large forums. Except for someone mentioning the scene of Jian Beidong's duel in Fenghua Town and the series of chaotic battles that followed, there was very little information about this on the Internet. There were follow-up reports on this incident, and only in today's news section did someone mention the news that the mayor of Fenghua Town was dead. Those good people only speculated on the conspiracy behind this death and the benefits that players can get from it. As for more reasons, or the possibility of the murderer other than Jin, no one can tell one or two. However, Duan Qing knew in his heart that someone must know the truth behind this result. This was not only because he was in it and knew the whole story, but also because of the other parties he met today.
He didn't know the codename Aqiang at first, but now that he thinks about it, he must have known something before he wanted to run the show.
Shaking his head helplessly, Duan Qing crossed out the webpage, stood up and threw the packaging box in his hand into the garbage channel, then walked to the window, looking out at the night sky illuminated by modern lights like daylight, slowly Calm your mind down. Due to various developments in the real world, it is difficult for people to see the beautiful starry sky simulated by the virtual system. However, only when he looks up at the real starry sky can Duan Qing feel the insignificance of human beings.
In any case, I am just a person now.
Time did not allow him to stand there and relax for too long. He shook his head and turned around, walking to his gaming equipment. Before entering the game, he crossed out all the secret chat records on his account - recently, more and more people have sent him messages, including some of his former opponents and friends, but he As usual, no one paid attention.
Thinking about it now, it seems that the only person in the free world who has actually chatted with him in this way is the woman who is temporarily walking with their team.
He smiled and got into the game.
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After the usual cutscene, Duan Qing opened his eyes.
It was also a dark night, but Duan Qing, who was lying in the tent, did not feel the slightest darkness. There was a bright starry sky above his head and a burning bonfire beside him. It was difficult to see nothing in such an environment. . However, such a bonfire is also necessary. According to Xueling Huanbing, entering the scope of Talon County is like entering a high-level map. If you don't use some means to expel the darkness and protect yourself at night, those mutated Warcraft is not easy to deal with.
Of course, she herself said that no matter how strong the wild monsters here are, they are still inferior to places like the Emerald Forest.
Rubbing his eyes and walking out of the tent, Duan Qing looked up and looked around, and then couldn't help but yawned loudly - players in the free world also need some necessary rest, otherwise even if your nervous system can withstand it If you live a high-intensity game life, the system will also give your character some status penalties. Although those slight reductions in attributes and physical strength will not have a big impact on the players, for experts, they will A small gap is still very sensitive, not to mention that these gaps are not clearly written on your character panel - these subtle differences are also summarized by past players in the free world through unremitting efforts, and they are all They are those who have a high sensitivity to subtle data. Without exception, they are the best in the game, but without exception, they have suffered enough because of this hidden setting.
Because those who love to study games are definitely not people who like to waste time sleeping.
Stretching his waist and moving around, Duan Qing looked at the dancing bonfire, then opened his sleepy eyes with some boredom, trying to carefully observe the fire that was constantly swaying in front of his eyes.
"Are flames in the free world the same thing as fire magic?"
The other members of the team were all asleep, and Duan Qing had no choice but to squat in front of the campfire, boringly studying this issue that had been studied in all previous fantasy setting games. Although it is just an idle thought, it is not a stupid question. If you can understand this question, it will not only be of great help to players in learning magic, but also help players understand certain rules in this game. great significance. However, the virtual world is virtual after all. No matter how many players write many articles and want to find out the essence of it, it will ultimately be just the designer’s initial design. Because of this, the design of this aspect in many games , they are all different. Some are simple and ordinary settings, while others require players to go deep into the game world and explore and discover the origins of the magic structure and world view to understand. Duan Qing naturally has many insights into this issue, but those were simple designs of early virtual games, and they were several years ago. Using outdated experience to study the system simulated by fourth-generation technology is obviously Not enough.
The most important thing is that most players who study this kind of thing end up trapped in the endless whirlpool of "game-reality" and cannot extricate themselves, and he is just idle and bored.
After looking at the bright yellow fire for a while, Duan Qing wanted to reach out and touch the dancing flames, but finally held back. In his mind, people who torture themselves in order to do this kind of experiment are crazy people, and he doesn't want to follow in their footsteps and make himself look like a lunatic. But looking up at the sky and looking down at the ground, he had nothing else to spend this time with except the fire in front of him, so he had no choice but to take out his dagger and reach into the fire.
"You won't burn it out..." he whispered to himself.
The flames separated to both sides as the dagger extended in, and then merged together at the top. Nothing unusual seemed to have happened. Duan Qing stared at his dagger for a while, making sure that it would not be burned like a branch. So he stretched forward a little more.
The flames followed the metal sword body and jumped in the direction of Duan Qing.
As if frightened by the sudden beating, Duan Qing retracted his hand, then shook his head and laughed, sighing at his fuss. He swung the sword to the flame again, and looked at it as if it was cut off by the sword, and then again The fire returned to normal, with a self-deprecating expression on his face.
"Human, you always scare yourself..."
He muttered to himself and stretched the sword forward a little again - the flames extending along the sword jumped again.
Duan Qing was shocked, but there was no change in his hand. Duan Qing looked at the flames extending from the sword, which seemed to be about to burn him, and slowly took his hand back.
The fire in front of him returned to normal.
As if he had discovered something surprising, the man sitting by the fire in the middle of the night stared at the fire in front of him, holding a short sword in his hand, stretching and retracting it. From time to time, a man's low laughter came out in the dark night. I don't know what he was laughing at, but if other people saw this scene, they would probably treat this man as a mentally ill player.
Unfortunately, someone nearby did see it.
"puff."
Duan Qing jumped up like a rabbit and looked towards the source of the sound. As a result, he saw the figure of the woman in a black cloak on a boulder not far away. The bright night sky is located behind her higher position, but it cannot block the two shining lights from her black hood.
"You..." In the cold wind, Duan Qing waved around helplessly for a while, and then laughed slightly awkwardly: "Haha, haha, you, you..."
"Why didn't you sleep?"
"Because I'm bored." The woman's still cold voice came from the boulder: "Same as you."
"Ahahaha...hiss——"
Duan Qing wanted to ease this embarrassing situation by giggling, but in the end he forgot that the sword in his hand had just been burned by the flames, and accidentally grabbed it with one hand.
While the man was jumping like a monkey, the woman jumped down from the stone and walked slowly to the fire. Although the night wind was cool, it was not strong, so the fire was not shaking very violently. The woman pressed He picked up his hood, and after thinking for a while, he put it down. There was a teasing smile on that cold and beautiful face.
"I admire you." Then she said, "Man of the Sunfire."
Duan Qing, who was already so hot that he jumped, almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Okay, okay, no more joking." Looking at the other person's expression of not knowing what to do, Xueling Huanbing stopped teasing him: "Since everyone is bored, let's have a chat."
"I know what you were thinking just now."
"oh?"
"That's the question, huh?"
"You actually know that question?"
"...I am also a professional player." The woman walked to the fire, hugged the sword and sat down on her knees: "So you still know what you should know..."
"Hehe, hehe..." Faced with the sadness in those words, Duan Qing could only continue to deal with it with a silly smile.
"So..." Seeing that the other party didn't express anything, the woman's eyes flashed and she continued to ask: "Do you have any answer?"
