Life and death are inevitable for human beings, but in "life and death", death does not represent the end. Every death is the beginning of life. Between life and death in that world, countless lives are born, and countless lives are also entering another starting point of life. The goal of life is to transcend the laws of the universe to achieve true immortality.

This is the advertising slogan when a holographic virtual online game called "Life and Death" was released.

This was in 2246 AD, a year of breakthroughs in human technology. It was initiated by the Greater Republic of China. The only four remaining countries in the world jointly launched a virtual online game called "Life and Death". The technology used in this game is the ultimate development of holographic virtual technology that humans have studied for more than two hundred years.

According to common sense, it is just an online game. In today's storm online market where new online games are available every day or even every hour, it will only bring people numbness and weakness.

But at this moment, countless eyes around the world are paying attention to the first press conference of the game "Life and Death". If the countless people here are replaced by a rough number, they will definitely be more than one billion, which is more than one-tenth of the world's population.

There are naturally something worth paying attention to if it can attract the attention of such a wide range of groups...

Thirty-six years ago, the entire world's oil stock was exhausted. In order to compete for deep-sea black ice that can replace oil and become the main energy, the Third World War of Mankind began.

The coverage of this world war was so wide, the number of countries involved and the serious consequences were incomparable to the First and World War II. It lasted for five years, and the Third World War came to an end when the entire world was more than ten years behind.

The truth that big fish eats small fish, and small fish eats shrimps is suitable for the space. The Third World War directly led to the reshuffle of the world pattern.

Many big countries with only slightly weaker military capabilities no longer exist, let alone some small countries. There are only four countries left in the world: the Greater Republic of China, the United Nations of Europe and the United States, the United Nations of the Navy and the United Nations of Phili.

Just after the signing of the armistice agreement, in 2216, the four empires reached another secret agreement, which was announced that all the remaining nuclear weapons in various countries were destroyed, and the world officially entered a period of common development without war.

As for why such an agreement was signed explicitly, many people were looking for answers. Some so-called experts discussed it in various media through subjective assumptions or objectively. Gradually, a more popular view emerged.

After five years of destruction of the world war, the Earth has officially entered its 80s and can no longer withstand even a small wave of nuclear reactions.

Thirty years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the shadow of the world war has been far away from everyone's vision. What human beings are pursuing now is how to make a limited life feel the richest and most interesting life.

A game that can play in your sleep naturally becomes something that modern humans are pursuing and enjoying.

"In a broad sense, the game of 'life and death' can extend a person's lifespan."

This is also one of the more attractive advertising slogans of the game "Life and Death". When everyone sees this sentence, they will naturally feel curious.

The interpretation of "life and death" is as follows: "Now the average life expectancy of humans is 90 years old, and the average life experience is only about 16 hours in a day. After all, everyone needs to rest. The ratio of time in 'life and death' to the reality is 2:1. Although the maximum online time per day is limited to the 12 hours in reality, since sleep time can be used to go online, it can be regarded as a game to extend the life expectancy of humans to 36 hours per day..."

This is enough to make everyone crazy. Although before the "Life and Death" is launched, there are still several popular games that can be played in your sleep, but you still have to add three to four hours of sleep every day, which can directly affect the choices of a rational person.

What's more, in terms of "life and death", investment, technical content, etc., which aspects are not the attention that greatly attracts people?

You should know that the money future of online games depends on its lifespan, and the strength of online games is proportional to the developer.

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"Is it really coming out?" A young man who had just taken off his game helmet, his hair was as messy as a bird's nest, and his clothes were extremely sloppy, licked his dry lips, stared at the advertisement on the display screen, and his eyes were filled with a stunning light, just like a bachelor who had been holding it off for a hundred and eighty years saw a big girl taking off his clothes.

It is already late at night, and the whistling wind outside the window is like the whistling of a mare in spring, which seems to have become a symbol of Beijing.

As the capital of the People's Republic of China before the Third World War, it has inherited thousands of years of culture, making it still known as the heaviest city in the East after the Third World War and the capital of the Greater China, which is the world's largest country.

The protagonist of this book, who has not washed his hair for several days, was fortunate to own a small dilapidated house in Beijing and live a life of food and clothing without worries.

I am a little ordinary, but after combed my hair, I can be considered a human-looking person. If I wear a high-end dress, I can even turn into an upper class. When my body shakes, I won’t be able to rush around like a turtle?

So let me introduce myself gorgeously: My surname is Xu Mingfan, I am 22 years old this year, my education level - high school... Isn't that the person who hasn't gone to college these days probably about to be extinct?

When I think of this level of education, I really can't be gorgeous. After all, in this era, even hooligans understand a truth: "I am not afraid of hooligans being terrible, but I am afraid of hooligans being educated."

It’s not that my family’s conditions are not good, but that I really hate school. On the contrary, my family’s financial conditions are pretty good, and my dad is also a “bourgeoisie”. He is the kind who is far from billionaires and Earth to Mars, but has been out of poverty for a long time.

At the middle of the house... I don't call myself the second child, but that's what others call...

My elder brother, who is 2 years older than me, works as an engineer in the "Warsaw Group", one of the top 100 in the world; my younger brother, who is 2 years younger than me, is pursuing a master's degree in law, and a guy of his age is probably still in his sophomore year and junior year.

I left high school before the age of 18 and had been "struggling" in society for four years. I still haven't achieved the goal I set when I first came out. I now live in a two-bedroom apartment that I rented in a month of 2,000 yuan (world universal currency). It's the same as the same living room. I won't mention the apartment type and decoration. I'll cry if I mention it too much.

In addition to a master's computer I bought three years ago, one bed, one table, and one chair... Anyway, it is as simple as it is, and it is as cold as it is. Why do you ask me, you see that there are so many things in your room? Because it is the dirty things and garbage I throw at you casually... Don't pour it out. If you are also a single man, you will not be much better than me.

I have nothing to do in normal times. Apart from solving the sales management problems of my own "net cabinet", the most time I spend is to spend online games.

Note: Internet cabinet, also known as online supermarket.

Since there are too many online supermarkets now, the business is not good. Of course, I don’t deny that I am not diligent enough. The monthly cost is deducted to only make 3,000 to 5,000 yuan, which is a little higher than the salary of an ordinary salesperson.

So, in 4 years, my savings are only 60,000 or 70,000 yuan, which I saved up after I often sell some valuable online game equipment.

Over the past two years, I only had a job that would "show off in public" in the first two years. In the past two years, I have been in the nest for more than 20 hours every day, which is an atypical 23rd century super otakus.

So I didn't make any new friends, let alone any girlfriends. Some of them were just a few hardcore buddies who have been playing with them since childhood.

Now, I just came out of the game and planned to drink a little water to continue chopping monsters. I saw the exquisite thinking advertisement on the international game forum at a glance: "'Life and Death'..."

I have heard that an aircraft carrier-level game is about to be released. I have been looking forward to it. Now that I have seen the advertisement, I naturally didn’t have a careful query. You must know that this is related to whether I can still enjoy it in the future.

If you don’t watch it, you will be shocked when you see it. Isn’t this game “Life and Death” too awesome?

I searched in many aspects in a bit incredible way and finally convinced myself that this was true.

I was a little at a loss as I watched the comments in the irrigation area refresh one by one, and I quickly entered the game I was playing - Tianjie.

Tianjie, this is a love online game in the world with the ancient martial arts world as the background. It is a large online game that can firmly rank in the top two in Greater China. It has had impressive results with 180 million people online at the same time.

Feeling the familiar scene, I couldn't help but sigh: "Brother, goodbye!" I quickly equipped the character "Tianjie" - a level 92 swordsman who had been playing in my "Tianjie" for more than a year, and hurried to the market.

I am also a professional player. Tianjie was the second day of the public beta, and it is also the second online game I can make money from.

The online time is only a lot more and less than some professional players every day, and my luck has never been bad, so the equipment is pretty good. It is better to sell some cash while it is still valuable than to be in vain in the future if no one plays this game.

I quickly found the buyer. Maybe God saw me pitiful and gave me a sucker. After all, the advertising coverage rate of the game "Life and Death" is really too arrogant. Now I don't feel that the person who is going to have another storm in the online game world is not a sucker. What is it?

"Brother, I'm sorry!" While sighing in my heart, I traded the equipment through the online game trading system. I had an extra 42,000 yuan in my account, which was less than half of the value it was. A sour feeling appeared in my heart, and I sighed slightly. I really don't know if I am more unfair than the buyer?

But I am a person who is easy to satisfy, and I also believe in the judgment derived from the experience I have accumulated over the past few years.

The rest of the days are spent in silent waiting.

On this day, I slept with a rare "beauty sleep" that a woman often said. I scratched my fluffy hair, stretched my waist, and prepared to change to a more comfortable position. A harsh ringtone rang.

I tried hard to take a "mirror" on the wall beside me, and a handsome face appeared on the mirror. Don't get me wrong, that's not me. I'm much more awesome than him. He is one of my most loyal brothers - Wang Chen, a man who occasionally wears a pair of glasses to pretend to be gentle and is extremely introverted and sexy inside.

"I, what's wrong?" He was a man who would not enter the Three Treasures Hall without any trouble.

Wang Chen replied with a lewd look on his face: "I miss you, hehe."

"Miss me? Could it be that you are as idle as me now?" I said crossing my legs.

"Why are you idle too? Shouldn't you be squatting in the Black Wind Village at this time?" Wang Chen looked at me with some confusion.

"Tianjie!? Could it be that you are still playing? My equipment was thrown out a few days ago, and I plan to wait for the 'life and death' to be released."

"Tell me quickly, how much did it cost?" Wang Chen asked in confusion.

I gestured.

Wang Chen opened his mouth exaggeratedly: "4200??"

"How could my equipment be so worthless? It's 42,000!" He didn't know that my equipment was very awesome.

At this moment, Wang Chen cried and said, "Oh my God, why is it so unfair? I thought my equipment was worth thousands of dollars no matter how poor I was! Unexpectedly, when I was selling equipment, a man threw a set of equipment like you on the ground. I was so dizzy. I didn't know that the equipment was bought from you, right?" After saying that, his expression was extremely exaggerated.

I was stunned for a moment, and sighed in my heart that it was a thanks to the sale early: "It's not such a coincidence, right?"

"It must be. He told me that he spent more than 40,000 yuan five days ago and thought he had taken advantage of it. Who knew that it was worth it until today!"

"Uh, thank you very much for the gods! Hello, don't your face smell so bad, you don't need this little money anyway!"

Wang Chen sighed and said, "That's all. By the way, you must be better at 'life and death'. I don't plan to enter the life and death for the time being. I can take care of me in the future."

"Why don't you enter the game after half a month?" When did this kid become so honest?

"Do you think I don't want to? But I'm about to graduate. I haven't done my graduation work yet. I don't want to go to college like some senior brothers at the senior level, and I've been studying in college for six or seven years."

I could only give him a sympathetic look: "Okay, I will try my best to do it. After all, this is related to my future financial prospects! Don't worry! If nothing else, just do it. Now the phone bill is very expensive, and the landlines have to be charged in both directions!"

"Sad, I know you are very comfortable, don't stress it anymore, I'm dead!" Wang Chen gave me a blank look and disappeared in the mirror.

You should know that this mirror is the phone, right? What? Don’t you know? Then do you know how pigs die?

After answering Wang Chen's call, I couldn't help but start to have a headache for my future gaming career. Now, as long as I am not an idiot, I know that once "life and death" is opened, the market potential formed in the game will be unprecedentedly huge. If I can stand at the forefront of the game, I will definitely say goodbye to my current miserable life. Judging from the strength of developers, "life and death" is not comparable to that of the games on the market.

However, I am definitely not the only one who has this idea, and I don’t have an advantage over other professional players. This really makes me feel helpless. I shook my head and shook my mind and entered the "Life and Death" forum again.

After browsing a few latest news about "life and death", I found that someone sent me an email: Dear friend: Hello!

The date for the official opening of "Life and Death" has been set as June 1, 2246, and the first batch of "spiritual derivation helmets" will also be officially launched on the market on May 10, 2246.

There are two types of helmets: ordinary type, unit price of 20,000 yuan, realization degree is 90%, pain is 5%; luxury type, unit price of 50,000 yuan, realization degree is 98%, pain is 8%.

The number of helmets to be launched on the market for the first time is limited, and the city you are in, our capital, Beijing, will have 200,000, of which 2,000 are lucky helmets. The account obtained from the helmets will receive coins or equipment rewards in the game. The place for sale is the Capital Library. Good luck!

The signature is "Hualong Group 2246.05.07"

Speaking of this Hualong Group, every citizen of the Greater Republic will feel proud. As the most powerful group in the world, its annual profits even exceed Philia's GDP. Although Philip is the most economically backward among the four countries, it is enough to be proud of the world. "Life and Death" was initiated by Hualong Group on behalf of the Greater Republic of China. The three large online game development companies in the other three countries are just foils.

After reading the email, I took a breath: One is the lucky account; the other is the game helmet. It’s okay to say that the lucky account can really get rewards for changing one’s strength among the 2,000 lucky accounts. For example, the lucky account I have played before, all of them have released lucky accounts, but they just give some money and some garbage equipment that is not much better than the equipment of novices. This helmet is not only ridiculously expensive, but the more expensive it is, the stronger the pain it feels. But I still decided to buy a luxury one, just for the extra 8% mimicry, wouldn’t it be more painful? Isn’t there such an old song that is very old?

He said that this little pain in the wind and rain is nothing, wipe away the tears, don't ask why...

There are 200,000 helmets in Beijing, so how many are sold in the entire Greater Republic? How many are sold in the world? This is the first batch, the second, the third time... I won’t think about it anymore, I can’t calculate it.

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Finally, the day to sell the helmet.

The wind is beautiful, the sun is bright, the birds are singing, the flowers are fragrant, the weather is cold and the earth is frozen... Oh my god, why are there so many people?
To be continued...