There's something wrong with me

Chapter 190: The Virtual World Created by Zhang Feng

An hour later.

The train stopped.

This is the City.

From outside the train window, one could even see station staff driving a rare small flying car, patrolling above the station.

The sci-fi scene made Liang Haozhi feel a bit lost.

Because currently, in other cities, it's difficult to see flying cars.

Although the construction of the ground rail has been completed, it is precisely the current reconstruction of computing power buildings and virtual buildings, as well as the continuous paving of Z1 Superconducting, and the renovation of some heavy industrial enterprises, that have caused the production of flying cars to slow down.

Currently, only some official personnel or staff from large organizations can purchase the scarce flying cars to facilitate their work.

In short, the popularization of 'three-dimensional transportation' is currently stalled.

But here in the City, as Liang Haozhi walked out of the station, he saw many flying cars.

Compared to regular vehicles, the ratio was about 10:1.

1 flying car, 10 cars.

Including these 10 cars, most of them were also Z1 cars.

Of course, there were also gasoline cars.

Gasoline cars are now a rarity in the City.

Because if you want to drive a gasoline car, you have to provide your own fuel and also pay a fine for 'air pollution'.

This fine in the City increases geometrically.

However, it cannot be ruled out that these gasoline cars were driven in from other places.

After all, train and plane tickets are hard to buy now, so some people driving over is unavoidable.

Including under such special circumstances, the current fine regulations have also been temporarily adjusted.

For example, when law enforcement officers confirm that you are a vehicle and personnel from out of town, the penalty can be waived.

And temporary gas stations have also been opened at several locations in the City.

Especially the official authorities of the City are also urging everyone not to come anymore.

The City's traffic pressure is very high now.

On the other hand, the scarce flying cars produced in various places are also being transported here, indirectly allowing some people to replace their cars.

This also led to Liang Haozhi seeing the sci-fi scene with many flying cars upon his arrival, which was completely different from the 'ground crawling' scenes in other cities.

This also subtly raised the prestige of the City a lot.

"We arrived so quickly..."

While Liang Haozhi was looking around.

The other passengers were also surprisingly looking at the surrounding flying cars and marveling at the speed of the maglev train.

Some of them, who seemed like 'social elites', were actually riding it for the first time.

They didn't expect the nearly one thousand kilometer journey to be completed so quickly?

One must know that this crossed three provinces.

The huge technological revolution, and such a high-speed revolution, has actually made many people feel like they are 'living in a different era'.

Seriously, if someone had been in prison for ten years, completely isolated, not allowed to watch TV news, or contact the outside world or anything.

And then suddenly released now.

It's no exaggeration to say that it would really feel like 'traveling to the future'.

The scenes from complete fantasy science fiction would really make people feel a strong sense of disconnection and being out of place.

Although Liang Haozhi didn't feel this way, when he saw the starting price of one hundred yuan for a taxi nearby, and the fifty yuan for a flatbread sandwich with vegetables over there.

He felt there was still a sense of disconnection.

The consumption in the City is really as terrifying as what is said online.

Coupled with the flying cars occasionally passing by.

He even felt like he had traveled through time.

...

According to the address on the alloy box.

Liang Haozhi walked completely on foot to a suburban area in the south.

There is a large area of newly built residential buildings here, which were originally going to be sold, but are now considered for holders of the City Card.

It's considered a housing distribution, directly distributed in the City.

This was also the initial policy, which had to change according to the specific actual situation.

So it indirectly became a welfare.

After all, the housing price in the suburbs is now 800,000 yuan per square meter.

Their standard 100 square meter housing is 80 million yuan.

The increasingly serious economic island effect has caused the prices in the City to rise all the way.

But the Planning Department has also analyzed that the price will peak at 90-100 times.

If it goes any higher, it will not be a sustained normal increase among ordinary people, but rather the joint intervention of some super organizations.

If this situation occurs, the Federation will definitely intervene in the investigation, and it will not be a matter of laughing it off and letting these people go with just a word or two.

These matters have also been made public online, and the Federation has also issued similar statements.

Liang Haozhi likes to surf the internet and knows a bit about these things.

But if he were asked to sell his house, he wouldn't sell it.

Even if it were his own, he wouldn't sell it.

Because as long as he lives here, it is indirectly 'settling down' in the City.

'I wonder if there's a gold farming function in the virtual world...'

Liang Haozhi, who had arrived at house number 666, looked at the scenery of the City outside the window, and the occasional flying car flashing in the air.

He was even thinking about supporting himself by playing games and achieving basic survival within the City.

After all, besides the official supermarkets and restaurants.

He would need a certain amount of money if he wanted to learn at a Martial Arts Hall, or if he got married and had children in the future, so that his descendants could enjoy the top educational resources within the City.

...

About ten days later.

Except for eating, Liang Haozhi stayed in the house and didn't wander around the City.

Instead, he spent more time practicing and watching some apocalyptic horror movies.

Because during this time, as more and more news was released by the authorities, he also knew that normal people would gain a physical attribute bonus upon entering the virtual world. Therefore, practicing in a last-minute effort, although not much, was always correct.

Especially since the virtual world also has a 'personal ranking' function.

The top three hundred people receive one Ling Stone as a daily reward.

He was interested in this.

...

On the day it was about to launch, at eleven in the morning.

'There's still an hour until the "server opens".'

Liang Haozhi confidently encouraged himself and signed an agreement with his neighbor.

Basically, the two of them would meet offline every evening to ensure that both their mental state and behavior were normal.

Including his dad, who would also call him occasionally.

Even in the game, it was fine, he could still receive calls.

Because the chip could connect to the phone, allowing players to see outside calls and messages.

Including if someone from the outside touched him, he would still have sensation and could exit the virtual world at any time.

And if he suddenly had to go offline temporarily or had other problems.

There were two situations for going offline.

One, you could choose for your character to disappear to avoid being found and killed by other players.

Two, your character would not disappear, but while the player is offline, they would be taken over by the quantum computer and preferentially hidden.

If you had teammates, the character would follow the teammates, and replicate the player's habits and normal logical thinking to cooperate with teammates in killing zombies.

When the player logs back in, relevant memories of hiding would also appear in their mind.

Of course, if you encountered a terrifying zombie, or offended other players, and then suddenly went offline wanting 'custody'.

Then, under the disparity in strength, you would definitely be killed.

Liang Haozhi often read these basic game introductions and even memorized them.

He also knew that the authorities wanted to ensure the players' physical and mental health while maintaining game fairness.

However, in Liang Haozhi's view, this 'custody' had some issues.

'The saying "You're just like a bot" might even become a reality, perhaps even less reliable than a bot.

What if some people are usually smart, but always deliberately make mistakes in crucial matters? It might really be better to hand it over to the computer.

At least the computer analyzes according to normal logic.'

Liang Haozhi felt this custody was a bit outrageous, because some people are really less reliable than bots at critical moments.

For example, in a normal cooperative game, like the zombie type.

When several players see zombies, some unreliable people will definitely mess around.

But a bot won't. Instead, it will directly go forward with something, focusing on win-win cooperation.

Even if you ignore it, it will still go, very loyal.

But a person, not necessarily.

However, if the bot also replicated that person's unreliable personality, and fear and running away, then he would take back what he said.

Liang Haozhi thought to himself, and when he saw the time was approaching, he lay down in the specially made virtual pod.

According to the instructions, he put on the virtual chip and glasses.

They had a very strange ability to fit snugly and wouldn't fall off even with movement.

...

Unconsciously, Liang Haozhi fell asleep.

He had been too tired these past few days, completely in a last-minute sprint practice, so he was definitely physically and mentally exhausted.

But just as he was in a daze.

(Welcome to the virtual world)

An electronic voice suddenly sounded.

He opened his eyes and saw that he was in an unfamiliar room, also maintaining a sleeping posture.

'Is this the virtual world?'

He was a little excited, and his sleepiness completely disappeared.

Because there was no panel or operation box in his field of vision, just like normal.

As he touched the soft bed and pinched his hand, the sensation was the same as in reality.

Only the smell of blood and decay in the air made him feel a bit nauseous.

He felt this was the most disgusting smell he had ever smelled in his life.

'System, adjust taste perception, 50%.'

Feeling uncomfortable, he silently said a sentence in his heart.

The next second, his senses felt much better.

This was the sensory setting, which was introduced on the official website, but not here.

This was the authorities trying their best to increase immersion.

Even if it weren't to give everyone psychological preparation, even the initial (Welcome to) would have been omitted.

'According to the background, it should be the fifteenth day since the disaster outbreak, and I'm also very hungry now...'

He pondered, quickly got into character, and walked to the window nearby.

Outside was a street with overturned vehicles, and a group of zombies with rotten skin.

Not far from them, there was a small convenience store.

What he needed to do now was to find something to eat.

If he could get to the convenience store, it would be a permanent solution, not worrying about food for several days.

However, he had read the information and knew that some zombies had high physical attributes and were not something ordinary martial artists could deal with.

This required a certain amount of strategy, as well as testing the physical attributes of the zombies below.

However, when he saw these zombies, a wave of nausea rose in his heart again.

'I thought that after watching so many horror movies during this time, I would have some psychological adaptation...

But now it seems it was completely useless...'

He now found that reality (the virtual world) was different from movies.

But for the sake of experience, for the sake of relying on training in the virtual world to make himself stronger, increase various practical combat abilities, and then rush the rankings.

So, he made a decision not to adjust the pain level, not to turn on blurred vision, and even restored the sense of smell he had turned off earlier.

"Gag..."

The intense taste hit him again, coupled with the visual impact of the zombies downstairs and the severed limbs on the street, etc.

It made him vomit instantly.

A normal person couldn't stand it.

Whoosh—

But just five seconds later, as he slowly accepted it.

"Die!"

With a fierce roar, a burly man holding a steel pipe rushed out from the second-floor window opposite, then like a Martial Saint reborn, directly charged into the zombie horde below.

This scene startled Liang Haozhi, knowing that the food stronghold below was likely about to be taken.

This burly man's physique is at least 40!

It was just as he expected.

The burly man, covered in black blood, quickly cleared the zombies and shouted around, "Are there any other players? Is anyone hungry?

Let's form a team and walk outside the street. I want to see what kind of zombies are outside."

Powerful players like to flatten maps, explore maps, and look for more interesting things.

"Me!"

"And me!"

Before Liang Haozhi could react, voices also sounded from the surrounding windows, and several martial artists climbed out of their respective windows and agilely climbed down the outside of the building.

It wasn't the real world, allowing them to unleash their martial prowess without restraint.

But if it were in reality, daring to climb out of windows and jump off buildings like this would surely earn them a few days of 'education' in the Martial Department.

"Fifty Federation Currency per person per day."

Seeing everyone coming over, the burly man showed his white teeth and said, "I'll protect you, so you should pay some 'protection fee', right?"

The burly man seemed to want to explore the map, but in reality, after luring people down, he wanted to do business.

There are thirty people downstairs now, which is forty-five thousand a month.

For the burly man, it was free money since he was practicing combat anyway.

"Damn, you came here to do business?" Everyone was stunned when they heard the burly man's words.

They didn't expect that as soon as the virtual world opened and everyone was excited, someone had already started 'gold farming'.

The burly man said naturally, "I know it's hard for me to rush the individual kill rankings.

But in the individual tasks, as long as you 'kill 20 or more zombies with physique 20 or higher in melee combat' each month, you will receive five Transforming Force pills every month.

As long as you obey, I guarantee each of you will receive the task reward.

Five Transforming Force pills are three thousand yuan.

Fifty a day is only fifteen hundred a month, you still make a profit."

Perhaps to encourage, or perhaps to fight war with war and allow high-end martial artists to buy more Ling Stone, the official side tacitly allowed this 'gold farming transaction'.

...

Finally, Liang Haozhi also joined and transferred the money to the burly man.

Now, Liang Haozhi just wanted to say, damn it, he had prepared for so long, wanting to make a big splash, but he didn't expect something like this to happen as soon as he logged in?

What ambition, what burning the midnight oil.

Facing this burly man he had just met, Liang Haozhi knew that although he seemed to be a hard worker, he was still too far behind professional martial artists.

Entering with physique gave professional martial artists an inherent advantage.

The burly man was a professional martial artist, but not yet top-tier.

However, he felt it was pretty good to follow the burly man and flatten the map. He'd just go with the flow, get a month's worth of pills first, and get familiar with the situation in the virtual world.

Getting familiar with it, logging in and out repeatedly, took a month.

In reality, Liang Haozhi spent most of his time at home, except for buying groceries, he would greet his neighbors every day to ensure his mental health.

In the virtual world.

He had become unkempt, much like the burly man and the others.

However, they had established a stronghold and even acquired several guns. The complete realism gave them a thrill.

And during this time, Liang Haozhi also counted the burly man's melee kills, even if the final blow was given to others.

But based on the number of zombies the burly man crippled, Liang Haozhi found that the burly man had 'killed' at least 700 zombies.

The burly man's physique wasn't 40, but at least 45, and he had not only activated Visualization but also opened twenty meridians.

Such a person was already very strong.

He even asked the burly man, 'Brother, with your strength, why are you taking care of us newbies instead of rushing the kill rankings?'

Other players also had questions about this.

The burly man just smiled without speaking.

But on the fortieth day, when last month's rankings were released on the official website.

Liang Haozhi understood.

Because the 1000th place had 1202 melee kills, including 3 zombies with physique 40~50.

The first place had a terrifying 2813 kills, including 2 small zombie leaders with physique 50~60.

Such physical ability made Liang Haozhi realize that there were already many, many experts in this world.

It was only the suppression by the Martial Department and the military and police that kept things calm in reality.

If it were the apocalypse, just the thousand people on the rankings alone would have a total of about 1.5 million melee kills.

Furthermore, the official side explicitly stated that official personnel and professional personnel had not participated.

These professional personnel were Gym Owners and coaches from large institutions.

Official personnel were the head Gym Owners and coaches from official Martial Arts Halls in various places, as well as special personnel, and even more terrifying bodyguards.

These bodyguards were Liu and the guards around some important figures.

The military and police and the Martial Department also didn't participate, otherwise, they wouldn't be hacking and slashing like everyone else, but would cooperate, find firearms, and directly flatten this City within two days.

This had already been rehearsed in the internal test, with no pressure.

Ten thousand people cooperating with one hundred special personnel was sufficient.

Especially when players were still figuring out the zombies.

The Data Center and official bodies in various places were already conducting internal drills and starting a new virtual world.

It depicted alien civilizations and some supernatural phenomena as much as possible.

Military and police from various places cooperated, and scientific researchers joined, fully simulating 'interstellar warfare' against alien civilizations in a realistic setting.

The official virtual simulation and the civilian 'everyone playing house together' were completely different.

...

Two years later.

Compared to the civilians having fun, shouting excitedly, and being endlessly entertained in a small world,

the official side had drafted many plans for dealing with foreign civilizations in the virtual world.

Including the fact that controllable nuclear fusion had long appeared with the support of Superconducting, Z1, and Rune Technology.

All super-standard weapons that could not be spoken of publicly, such as the Spiritual Energy Superconducting Structure Cannon and the Superconducting Grid Global Precision Strike Device, were also quietly appearing.

Especially the even more terrifying railgun, officially named (Z1 Superconducting Energy Interstellar Railgun), was also quietly being calculated using the computing power of the Superconducting Quantum Building and the Virtual Building.

These dozens of buildings were equipped with independent Z1 energy sources separate from the power grid and were not connected to any system.

Their location was at the very bottom of the Data Center and various bases, in absolute secrecy.

Besides relevant scientific researchers and Federation council members, fewer than three hundred people globally knew of their existence.

Of course, this railgun was super dangerous.

When it was to be built, all parties unanimously voted to build it on their own planet.

It was impossible to build it on Mars or the Moon.

In case of actual interstellar migration, and then the 'Lord of Mars' or 'Lord of the Moon' suddenly decided to attack.

Then, theoretically, the energy attack fired by this type of railgun could resonate with the Z1 on one's own planet.

Thus, a single shot could 'plow' the surface of the planet.

Even if there was no resonance, it could cause a massive impact similar to the extinction of dinosaurs, or even change the stratosphere and atmosphere, plunging the planet back into an ice age.

This thing is very dangerous, but for some reason, everyone still wanted to build it.

It was also to guard against the possibility of a real alien civilization.

And in the official research of the virtual world.

Zhang Feng also gained a large amount of neuron data.

This spiritual data, correlated with their corresponding behavioral data,

Zhang Feng also obtained the neuroscientific information he wanted from it.

Through this knowledge,

and after two years of sorting and learning,

Zhang Feng increased his Spiritual Sense again, from 2 Strokes to 4.6 Strokes.

It was a complete qualitative change!

The range of his Spiritual Sense also changed from over twelve meters two years ago to ninety-five meters now!

Planned technological advancement, pooling global strength,

pushed the path forward very quickly.

Furthermore, now that his Strokes were higher and reality's neuroscience was more developed, Zhang Feng also decided to release these technologies, handing them over to official bodies and institutions in various places to enrich the 'more ecosystems' of the virtual world.

As for the related ecosystem games, they would be handed over to the relevant units for supervision.

He wouldn't manage that anymore.

Now that material Superconducting, energy Z1, and spiritual virtual were all completed, it was considered that a sufficiently fertile vegetable garden had been laid for reality.

All that remained was harvesting.

...

And in the third year after returning, in December.

Before entering the next world.

He would collect and study the meridians and Inner Force accumulated during this period.

Zhang Feng roughly estimated that in another two years, he could achieve 100% overclocking and Inner Force circulation, which would be just before the seventh-level world.

His foundation was extremely solid.