2301 of the Gregorian calendar, Nova City.

The translucent light traverses the whole magnificent city, and all kinds of aircraft shuttles quickly on it, bringing up bursts of brilliant sparks. People flow to and from the streets, metal-colored precision buildings glow in the sun, and a huge three-dimensional bust stands on top of the center of the city, allowing people to see the images and sounds very clearly no matter where they are.

"the city of Nova, the dream and the future, are shaped by you."

It was a projection of a virtual woman. Half a month ago, at the top of Nova City was the international superstar Alan Noble, a super king who was handsome enough to make women and some men scream all over the world. He seemed to have signed a long-term contract with Nova City. He shot dozens of different images of the giant city and flashed in the sky for half a year, but just more than ten days ago, he disappeared. It was replaced by a bust of a nun.

She wore a snow-white veil of everlasting veil, covered her eyes and forehead with intricate white lace, and could not see a trace of the hairline, but even if she only showed half her face, the bridge of her nose, rosy lips and white skin were enough to show what kind of beauty she was.

The nun's slender hands were folded on her chest, and the bright red and complicated lines like cinnabar were painted on the back of her white hands. After hundreds of millions of lights converged into her face in the air, she said in an empty and divine voice, "good day, my brothers and sisters, the kingdom of the Father come, and the will of the Father be done on earth as it is in heaven." I am Saint Theresa, your eternal guide and companion. "

And then, it hangs to this day.

Smell the broken willow standing at the entrance of the street below the statue of the nun, her slender fingertips flipping an electronic nameplate.

He has been waiting here for a long time, so long that his lips are a little dry. He sighed, turned and walked across the brand-new zebra crossing. He walked around the busy street corner and found a beverage shop.

"A glass of lemonade, please."

"six copper coins."

As he counted out the six copper coins, he noticed a man in black sitting on the chair next to him, wearing a mask that covered half his face, looking at the beverage shop and touching his hands on his waist.

Did you forget your wallet? Listening to the flute, he thought, what a beautiful eye.

After thinking about it, he counted out six more copper coins and gave them to the shopkeeper.

"another drink, please. Thank you."

Suddenly there was a cold and moist touch on his shoulder. The man turned his head and smiled at him at the smell of the broken willow, holding a cup of cool water in his hand.

"dude, don't you have your wallet?" He smiled heartily. "it's hot today, so the real-time temperature will be adjusted accordingly. Let's have a drink. I'll buy you a drink."

The man was stupefied for a moment, a pair of pale peach blossom eyes followed with a smile, he was also impolite, simply took over and said: "Thank you."

Smelling the broken willow, he waved to him and continued to walk to the same place, drinking lemonade and so on.

"smell the flute!" Suddenly there was a voice shouting behind him. Before he looked back, he was hugged by a man on his shoulder and pressed into his arms for a good rub. "you guy, why are you standing here?"

Smelling the broken willow head without turning back, he bumped his elbow back on the bearer's chest and made a dull metal sound. He laughed and said, "come on!" I just have no idea where I'm going! "

The man put his arms around his shoulder, but he was a tall, old-fashioned robot with a steel chest sprayed with red and white lacquer lines mutilated by wear and tear. As he spoke, he could even see the gears of his cheekbones creaking under bundles of rust-mottled wire. He glanced at him and said strangely, "what kind of skin are you painting?" Why is it weirder than the other? "

The robot proudly put up a finger, and the rust stain on his knuckles broke apart. "you don't understand, now this feel, is called nostalgic steampunk, specially for players who have certified their mechanical identity, and want to hire people to design it!" I waited a month to get in line for me. What do you think? is it a unique feeling? "

Wen Yiliu looked at his friend in disgust and said, "just don't be swept away by the cleaner robot as scrap."

"screw you!" White patted him angrily, and while the two were talking, they had already passed by many pedestrians of different shapes, a tall girl with a pair of golden pupils with a bow quiver on their back, a naked, muscular primitive warrior with animal bones and fangs on his shoulders, a teenager who flew over the street on a jet skateboard, and a mechanical life that traversed the street at the same speed at every step.

When a blue-skinned sea tribe disappeared from their sight on a heavy and gorgeous beast, the two men uttered a chorus of admiration.

"it's a sea dog tag and [the Soul of Atlanta]. That's a class b watch mount at the mall for 888 gold coins." White shook his head slowly. "that's a lot of money, man."

Wen Ziliu also shook his head: "Tuhao's life, happy ah."

Gregorian calendar 2301, Nova City, virtual paradise.

In the world hundreds of years later, with the rapid development of science and technology, holographic devices have replaced electronic devices and become an indispensable part of people's lives. With the development of holographic games, n-star has established a virtual domain called Nova City on the optical network. this giant city, which is known as "across time and space", has undergone a long period of development and changes, and has now become a general network with dozens of major functions, such as gaming, social networking, shopping and so on. It uses precious metal gold and silver as the currency and copper as the conversion point under gold and silver. Now, the currency of Nova City can be exchanged one-to-one with the currency of the real world. As a result, hundreds of millions of professional players have emerged as the times require. Active in Nova City.

People living in this era usually have three most important documents, one is an ID card, one is a permit to connect to a virtual network, and the last one is the electronic nameplate of Nova City, a race certificate and residence permit that players call a dog tag.

People who own property in the air in the real world can be certified as feathers and dragons in Nova City, those who own property at sea can be certified as Hai, and those who own property in the mountains can be certified as elves and tree demons. People's living address determines what kind of fantasy ethnic groups they can become in Nova City, although most people still choose more comfortable humans, or more wild aliens, goblins and orcs, but there are still rich people who choose specific ethnic groups that can symbolize status, such as the Hai people they have just seen.

As for Mr. White, a robot race designed by n-star for patients with surgery and people with disabilities, he can change his appearance for free every month, and now his skin is the nostalgic style that is now popular among robots.

"forget it," White turned his head. "what are you waiting for?"

Wen Zailiu chose the most common Terran appearance, and of course, given his family conditions, he could only choose this one. Fortunately, he is tall and handsome, tall and straight, and his skin is fair and warm. He laughs like a little sun, and his heart is warm. If he chooses other races, he will not show his advantage in appearance. He sighed, looked at the magnificent building not far away and complained, "Don't mention, I went online early this morning to make some lunch money in the world, but when I came up to take a look, I had nothing to say."

The game he mentioned is a shooting escape game developed by n company six months ago, the full name of which is "Survival World". Because of its intense and exciting game mode and the design of cutting-edge avant-garde weapons and equipment, it has been enthusiastically sought after as soon as it is launched. The popularity has not faded, and every day there are a large number of players shuttling back and forth among them, including teams specially born for this purpose.

Compared with single-player players, teams that work out tacit understanding and tactics in multiple games obviously have an advantage, which creates a situation: whenever a game is on fire, a team takes advantage of the opportunity to fish in troubled waters, relying on the influx of people to bring new people.

Most of the players who can form a team are old players with high levels, rich experience and long game time, and novices are not qualified to go where they can go. Therefore, when it comes to the need for fresh blood, there will be a team chartering the venue in the current hot games, specializing in low-level players who are not familiar with the rules of the game, sending people to new players and brushing experience.

In particular, the game mode of "Survival World" is very special, which opens the door to this kind of behavior and makes idle players dare not speak angrily. Even if it is reported to the regional administrator, it is impossible to completely block them, and the punishment is even more innocuous-after all, these are the rules of Nova City, and freedom without prohibition itself provides enough loose conditions for players' disputes.

"wait and see," White disdained. "when the Valley of Terror goes on sale, who will remember what the world of survival is?"

Smelling the broken willow, she glanced up at the nuns in the sky. All kinds of aircraft and mounts passed her, and some even deliberately passed through her eyes, mouth or chest.

"you mean the holy nun Theresa?" Smell fold willow way, "it is said that she is the main brain image of the horror valley, really?"

"eight | Nine is close," White said. "come to think of it, this is the product that New Star is going to sell at the centenary celebration, and it will definitely be praised with unprecedented resources, and then all the games will be number two in front of it. You have to give in."

"so you're already getting ready?" Wen Ziliu ridiculed him amusingly.

White slapped his chest with a bang and rustled with rust. "of course, I've been spinning around the horror zone since the press conference, and I've basically got a thorough understanding of the existing game mode. By the time Horror Valley opens, I will definitely be in the top 10!"

He said that the ranking list is that every big game will make a statistical ranking for the player's combat strength and performance, in addition to individual costly main game battlefields, unexpected popular games such as Survival World will also set up a ranking list. Seeing the fighting spirit of his friends, he smiled and encouraged: "come on, I don't appreciate the horror game, so I won't work hard for it."

While the two men were talking, they heard a loud noise coming from the portal hall in front of them, and the spirit of the broken willow was invigorated: "here we go!"

"do we have to wait for them to come out? why don't you go to the other hall?" White wondered, "there are eight thousand portals in the survival world. Why are they fixed in this one?"

Smell fold Liu helplessly said: "it is not because I have taken a gold task, as long as kill 500 enemies in this room, there will be a gold coin in the account, these days, such easy money is hard to see!"

According to the exchange rate between the virtual currency and the real world, Wen Zailiu finished this order, which is equivalent to an income of 10,000 yuan in the real world, which is indeed very rare when silver coins and copper coins are generally used as rewards for the tasks of the system.

"good luck with that, too!" White waved to him. "after the mission, we'll meet at the revolving restaurant!"

Smell folded willow head also did not return, two fingers together, unrestrained to mid-air a lift, along with the flow of people walked into the hall.

White whistled: "Cool."

When walked into the hall and heard the broken willow, found that the situation did not seem to be as easy as he thought.

A red-haired woman in military boots and sleeveless camouflage, who made her hair into the latest mystery girl on the mall, and another orc-looking man were stuck next to the portal, surrounded by angry players.

"I've made it very clear," the woman said helplessly. "it's just that the two of us have something to do, so we decided to quit automatically after one game is over. It doesn't mean our team will quit in the next game. What's the use of blocking us? Do you want to gather a crowd to provoke and fight in the peace district? "

"what you are doing is clearly fraud!" One player said angrily, "it was you who said you wanted to quit, so everyone went in, but in the end, only the two of you left, and the rest of you were tricked into it!"

Smelling the broken willow, she roughly understood what was going on, and the woman smiled again, her amorous eyebrows and eyes showing an arrogant sharpness. The orcs around her were moving two curved fangs coming out of her nose and spurting two streams of heat from their nasal passages. In a rough voice, she said, "if you have any opinions, leave the star net id, and we'll see you at the slaughterhouse!"

The players around were suddenly quiet.

Different from the arena of formal competition, the slaughterhouse is a private fighting ground for players. Voluntarily stepping into the portal of the slaughterhouse is tantamount to signing a certificate of life and death. Gold coins and experience levels are in danger of being cleared. In addition to the risk activities set up on a regular basis, few players who play games in Anan are willing to go there.

The woman is a senior player at level 55, and the orcs are only two levels below her. There are at least tens of thousands of large-scale game worlds in Nova City, which naturally cannot be calculated by a regular hierarchical system. Get rid of the highest-level world you have participated in, then get rid of the lowest-level world you have participated in, and take the average of the rest. Is the overall level of the player. Level 50 says whether it is high or not, it is already difficult for many people to cross the threshold.

"Lei Xiao team, listening to the wind at night and crossing the street with wild knives." Hearing the broken willow frowned, a player next to him said, "Brother, do you know these two people?"

Wen Ziliu smiled and shook his head: "Survival is the 32th team in the world. You can see it at a glance."

The player said: "only ranked 32 and still dance like this." If you only know how to bully small players, why not find a team in front of the platoon to pick a field? "

Hearing the time displayed on the terminal, Xindao could not control so much. Before the start of a game, he squeezed away several players in front of him, saying, "excuse me, excuse me," and walked in the direction of the portal.

"Oh, big brother!" The player behind him wanted to stop him, so he stepped over to the door, took out a thin translucent dog tag, raised his hand and brushed it in the card slot on the side of the door.

I was surprised to listen to the wind in the evening, but when I saw that the player named Wen Di had only a poor level of 15, he only regarded him as a strong hothead, so he could not help but sneer: "Little weak chicken."

Smell the willow not angry, but at her good temper smile, at this time, suddenly stretched out a slender and powerful arm from the oblique thorn, and then smelled the willow's card slot "Ding" to brush.

Smelling the broken willow, he turned around and found that, I don't know when, behind him stood a tall man, the player he had previously invited to drink lemonade. He already has a height of nearly 1.8 meters, but now he only goes to the tip of this man's eyebrow. I don't know if it is the real data or pinched it out.

"is it you?" Smell fold Liu is surprised, the man is very familiar with his shoulder.

After a while, the man's star network id flashed in the air and slowly emerged from his line of sight.

[chin]

"what, look down on low-level players?" He said that his tone was smiling and his voice was very magnetic, but he seemed to be born with a frivolous romance. "come on, I'll take you to paint this bureau."