God created the world in seven days, and how long do we need?
The quantum age has given us the answer.
2025 is the fifth year for quantum technology to achieve revolutionary breakthroughs, and also the year when the immersive VR (virtual reality) technology becomes a reality.
Quantum technology has made the external receiver of human brain neurons a reality, realizing the perfect interactive experience of "consciousness" and "virtual".
——So far, we have ushered in a new world.
April 29, 2025
"The world's largest virtual reality game platform (VR · stm) will jointly launch hundreds of sub era VR games with game manufacturers by the end of the year."
"VAL, the game company affiliated to VR · stm, took the lead in launching the first VR game," The End of Life ", and began to recruit VR internal testers on May 4, all of whom enjoy regular employee treatment..."
"After entering the VR era, a professor surnamed Yang expressed great concern about the impact of VR games on the lives of young people..."
"Some experts said that the technology of submersible VR is very risky, especially related to the most sophisticated brain of our human body..."
……
"What the hell, Professor Yang electrocuted himself last year because of his mistake in playing electrotherapy? Why did another Professor Yang appear?"
Lying on the bed, Li Tianxiu looked at the holographic projection screen in front of him and browsed the information casually.
Then he raised his arm and fingered the hanging light blue "screen".
After opening the icon named "Stm", I performed some skilled operations, and could not help murmuring: "The email has been sent, but the probability of being selected by V News Agency is about the same as winning the lottery. I became a professional tester of V News Agency, and all Stm games are free to play. It's a feeling to think about it!"
Li Tianxiu twisted his slightly sour neck and rolled up. Regardless of the fact that his head "broke" the virtual projection screen, he hurried to the bathroom.
At this time, the mobile phone placed on the bed, or the micro holographic projection device, sent out a pleasant bell prompt.
A kind of inexplicable touch came into being, which made him stop. Did he really win the first prize? No, no, no, how can I reply to the email I just sent so quickly.
Moreover, his face has been dark for more than 20 years, and he has won the title of "the great chief of Africa" no matter what game he plays. But what is the inexplicable excitement now?
Just like the wonderful illusion and illusion that makes people's hearts beat before buying lottery tickets and drawing lottery prizes, Li Tianxiu's body honestly leads him back to bed at this time.
The projection screen automatically flipped. Li Tianxiu, wearing only one pair of underpants and standing against the head of the chicken coop, stared at the email logo with white logo on the green background at the top right corner of the Stm interface.
Guji... He swallowed and vomited, his hands trembled, and his thin chest kept rising and falling.
Forget it, he felt that he was almost shaking like Parkinson, and randomly opened a somewhat dry voice: "Open... mail."
This is a voice command that is worse than crying, thanks to the accurate recognition of mobile phone AI.
Stunned in place for ten minutes, whoosh... Li Tianxiu took a deep breath, only feeling that he had not woken up from his dream last night.
From the beginning to the end, Li Tianxiu carefully turned over and over word for word, and finally determined that this was a genuine Chinese congratulatory letter from V Club and congratulated him on becoming a professional game tester.
Then he couldn't wait to get through to the official unique communication number at the end of the email as required... The sweet sounding customer service lady helped him verify all his personal information.
Then came the request for holographic communication dialogue. Li Tianxiu, who was still in a state of great excitement, accepted it without thinking.
A flash of light and shadow, the projection beam from the "mobile phone" on the right began to build a virtual scene in front of him.
Then a big sister with blonde hair and blue eyes in OL uniform, who claimed to be the head of the personnel department of Society V, suddenly appeared in front of him.
Looking at the strange, half smiling appearance of the other party, Li Tianxiu realized how embarrassed he was now.
Fortunately, Li Tianxiu, who just got up slovenly and even wore only one pair of underpants, was not rejected by the other party on the spot.
When Li Tianxiu hurriedly wrapped a blanket on his body, an electronic contract was already in front of him.
Although this scene is really strange now, Li Tianxiu, who has calmed down slowly, began to reconsider the terms of the contract after getting it, first to make sure that this is not a new type of fraud, and then to ensure that he is not sold as a fool.
At this time, Li Tianxiu frowned and was particularly careful. Even the nervous and uncomfortable expression when talking to a girl at ordinary times has disappeared. He can communicate with the other party smoothly and freely (real-time voice, text translation) about the terms in the contract that he does not understand.
The beautiful blonde OL did not urge him until nearly an hour later, when he firmly signed his name and entered fingerprint and iris information.
Finally, the two sides held a virtual handshake over a real distance of tens of thousands of kilometers, and the other side welcomed him to join the V Club.
The rest of the specific affairs still need him to go to the headquarters of Society V after the first test, so now he just needs to wait for Society V to deliver the VR equipment to his door.
Hehehe, the giggling Li Tianxiu sat on the bed, pinching his face, and he was sure that it was not a dream! He has become an employee of V Club and a "pioneer explorer" of cross era VR games!
However, he was careless and did not notice that the recruitment of internal testers published on the Internet officially started on May 4, but now it is April 29.
So, is it doomed to be just a perfect fraud, or a fool's dream?
But who knows how strong his yearning for the virtual world is, even if there is a slightest possibility, he will try without hesitation.
……
May 4, 2025
The VR equipment sent by V Society arrived as scheduled, which is a VR helmet with a sense of science and technology. After simple debugging according to the operating instructions, he couldn't wait to lie on the bed and wear it.
Then the electronic synthesis voice sounded in my ears.
"The only qualified carrier has been confirmed"
"Unique auxiliary system is bound"
"The world starts to build"
"The world is built"
"Please enter the 'Link Start' voice command"
Li Tianxiu closed his eyes and suddenly thought of something. He bent his mouth and read
——“Link start！”
……
"Here, where is this?" Li Tianxiu opened his eyes. He was lying on the ground feeling dizzy, but his hands and feet did not obey.
I only remember that after taking the VR helmet, I lost my consciousness when I was in darkness.
"The End of Life has been loaded, and the game has officially started. Please assign the initial ability points to the host." A slightly mechanical and emotionless female voice rings in my mind.
Li Tianxiu's consciousness gradually became clear, and the blurred scene in front of him gradually focused, breathing like a nightmare when he first woke up. To tell the truth, this feeling is really terrible. It's much more terrible than the ghost pressing the bed.
At that moment, he felt that his soul had been pulled out of his body, but fortunately, he has now fully recovered, and his hands, feet and limbs are also free.
Then the three-dimensional virtual operation interface attracted his attention, which was much simpler than the traditional PC game operation interface.
The character status bar in the lower left corner and the number "0" in the lower right corner have no other fancy icons or decorations.
Looking around, it seems to be a storage room, with some metal boxes on several rows of shelves, and then a metal table beside the wall, which seems to be a pistol and some ammunition clips.
The dim light on the roof flickered from time to time, and the whole room was dull and depressed except for the pricking sound of current.
Li Tianxiu suddenly remembered that this game seemed to be called "The End of Life", which seemed to be a remake of a classic horror shooting game used by V Club.
So far, everything around seems very real.
Li Tianxiu looked at his palms curiously and found that even pores, fingerprints and nail lines were clear.
Then he clenched his fingers, raised his arms and made several fist movements towards the air, then his feet touched the ground and jumped on the ground for several times.
The contraction and stretching of muscles, the change of breathing, and the acceleration of heartbeat are all similar to the reality. Even the damp and musty smell in the air was constantly stimulating his nasal cavity.
Li Tianxiu turned to face the shelf beside him, and felt a little cold when his fingers touched the silver metal box.
Then he suddenly wanted to scratch the surface of the box with his finger, and then put his finger in front of him. There was a little dust accumulated there.
"Drink! The live simulation of the game has achieved this level." Li Tianxiu couldn't help sighing, but he didn't know why he was a little worried.
He was a little curious about what was in the box, but found that it seemed impossible to open or even move it, so he gave up.
"How should I operate?" Li Tianxiu was determined.
"For the first operation, please call up the basic menu through sliding gesture or voice, and then reset it in the menu bar."
Li Tianxiu subconsciously made a volley of his right index finger, and a row of virtual menus with light blue as the keynote were displayed in front of him from top to bottom.
It is similar to the traditional RPG (role playing) games in equipment, backpack, role, system, etc.
In view of some "lessons learned", Li Tianxiu directly clicked out of the system and locked his eyes on the last "logout" button.
The box of "Excuse me if you want to log out" appears. Neither "yes" nor "no" has been deducted by some crazy guy.
Whew... Li Tianxiu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Well, is it in the role column to upgrade?" After putting down his psychological burden, he finally plans to start to experience the game.
"Yes."
"I'll go!" However, after calling out the character information, he was really jumped, and piles of data boxes were distributed in front of his eyes, even completely blocking his vision.
"Why are there so many data! Sex, age, height, weight... heartbeat, blood pressure, blood lipids, blood sugar... physical examination data are not so detailed, are they?"
Li Tianxiu can't understand how to play a game. Is it so complicated?
And more than that, almost from head to foot, from hair volume to body hair coverage, from skin to fingernail characteristics, as well as muscle strength and bone density, in the state of various internal organs, there are everything.
In general, Li Tianxiu was "unscrambled" in front of himself from the inside to the outside. This strange feeling even made him feel a little afraid.
"Hey, the system? I feel that I have no privacy when you do this!" His mood is somewhat complicated.
"The system will not disclose any private information of the host, and in theory, quantum encryption does not have the risk of cracking the intrusion."
"Well, well, even if you are reasonable, what kind of UI (user interface) you are designing is for ordinary people to understand? How can I increase it?" Li Tianxiu felt that he was finally useful as a tester.
But on second thought, how could programmers not think of such a simple and particularly serious problem when designing? It's really strange.
"It can be simplified according to the needs of the host. Do you want to simplify?"
"Of course."
That is, in the blink of an eye, those rules and regulations are instantly "integrated", and finally a relatively simple interface appears.
In the middle is a virtual image of Li Tianxiu, which is scaled down equally, while those complicated data on the right are all reduced to several pieces.
[Strength] (8) Physiological system and sports system maintained by the muscle group composed of the host's myocardium, smooth muscle and skeletal muscle fibers, including various functions of the whole skeleton combined with neural network... (It's still too long to see!)
[Sensitive] (9) Control human activities quickly, accurately, coordinately and flexibly based on the host cerebral cortex neural network and neural reflex activities
[Constitution] (8) According to the relatively stable characteristics of the host's body shape, structure and functional activities, and the physiological state's response and adaptation to external stimuli
[Intelligence] (11) Dominated by the spirit of the host, recognize and understand the objective things and use knowledge and experience to enhance observation, memory, imagination, analysis, thinking, strain
[Strength, agility and intelligence are all based on the basic value (10) of normal healthy adult males.]
[Belief] (?) -
[Lucky] (?) -
Li Tianxiu was embarrassed when he saw the simplified data. Indeed, the decadent house, which lacks exercise all year round, can only live by brain holes
But fortunately, the system gave him 5 basic ability points, and he allocated them without too much consideration. He thought that finally he did not pull back healthy adults.
"Are you sure about the capability value assignment?"
Li Tianxiu confidently clicked the "OK" button.
Hum... At the moment when his finger touched the button, an electric energy suddenly appeared from his fingertip and swept his whole body.
So that his whole body could not help starting to twitch, spasm and even tremble, but this process did not make him feel too much pain.
Instead, it is like immersing the exhausted body in the hot spring in the cold winter, and the whole body is wrapped in warmth after a short period of discomfort.
His pores relaxed and his spirit lifted, as if his soul was sublimating at the moment, which made him so comfortable that he could not help but snort.
After a while, everything returned to normal. Li Tianxiu never felt that his body was so powerful and light as he does now. He felt that his whole body was inexhaustible, and even made him want to shout a few times to release the energy in his body.
The originally thin body now also has strong muscles, and even the height of the body has jumped up several centimeters.
Call up the role data again, and the force, sensitivity and body reach 10 points. From the perspective of their virtual projection, the whole figure contour becomes more and more perfect, that is, how to look at it, how to look at it.
After patting his strong chest and doing several body-building postures, Li Tianxiu couldn't help sighing: "How wonderful it would be if I could have this body shape in reality. It seems that I need to know something about swimming and body-building after playing the game."
……
With Li Tianxiu's eyes moving to the metal table.
Weapons found [Glock 17 pistol with slight damage]
Quality: Normal
Diameter: 9mm
Shooting: semi-automatic
Bullet capacity: 17 rounds
Mass: 880g
……
(Some parts are made of polymeric materials, and the gun body is light; the similar double trigger mechanism is reliable and fast. Although it shows slight wear, the internal parts are well maintained. I think its former owner loved it very much.)
Acquire the skill [Pistol Beginner Level Mastery]
Completion degree from next level [0%]
Load, load, aim, fire! Look, you've learned to shoot pistols
... Li Tianxiu was unable to complain, but he could not help shaking his wits with the knowledge of pistol use that came out of his mind.
Find Equipment [Old Tactical Vest]
Quality: Normal
(Don't be afraid of it being worn through. It can carry many life saving things, including bandages, ammunition, tactical grenades, tactical daggers, communicators, etc.)
It is obvious that Li Tianxiu needs it, because a Glock pistol and five cartridges, 85 rounds of 9mm bullets, must be taken with him.
When Li Tianxiu weighed the Glock pistol loaded with more than one and a half kilograms of bullets in his hand, he could not help feeling a little excited. This was the first time he touched the "real gun" (in a sense, it was fake).
According to the gun knowledge in his mind, he knew that the quasi double trigger mechanism used in this pistol did not have a safety button. After loading, it could be aimed and fired.
Items Found [First Aid Bandage]
Quality; ordinary
effect; Stop bleeding and slowly restore a certain amount of HP
(It's just a roll of ordinary medical bandage)
Found article [adrenaline]
Quality; ordinary
Effect: comprehensively improve all attributes except belief and luck. The value and duration of improvement vary from person to person.
(You dare to fight against the brown bear with one shot! Of course, you can't beat the brown bear after the attribute is improved.)
So far, the preparation is complete.
"I'm ready, can the game begin?" Li Tianxiu put on a tactical vest, held the gun in both hands, and was eager to kill the four sides.
"The game has started for thirteen minutes and twenty-five seconds."
"... Well, what is my task?"
"The role bar can be viewed. Open it?"
"Of course."
[Task objective]: eliminate the infected and find the safe house of the hotel.
"Well, it's really simple." Li Tianxiu chose voice commands instead of gesture operations.
He felt that he had to find something to say, even if the other side was an AI with no feelings, because the excitement of the game had just passed, he realized that it was a horrible game!
"Is the infected person a zombie or a zombie?" Li Tianxiu asked.
"Game background setting: The epidemic of variant rabies broke out in Shawar and New Orleans, Georgia in the southeast of the United States, with more than 90% of the infected people having a strong desire to attack and eat meat..."
Li Tianxiu's face darkened as he listened to it. It seems that here is really a doomsday world with death but no life.
"By the way, the game should have fidelity control? Otherwise, what should I do?" Li Tianxiu felt that he was very smart.
"Turn on fidelity control?"
"Hurry up!"
All right, Li Tianxiu is dumbfounded next second.
Scene simulation 100% (gray)
Tactile fidelity 100% (gray)
Smell simulation 100% (gray)
Taste
Bloody simulacrum 100% (gray)
Residual limb simulation 100% (gray)
……
Pain simulation 100% (gray)
Let Li Tianxiu touch all the fidelity control keys in different positions, but nothing has changed, and it has been in a gray and inoperable state.
"Hey, this is a bug. See if you can fix the system!" Li Tianxiu shouted.
Unable to receive the operation request
"... Can you help me change a normal game?"
The operation request cannot be accepted
"Can you quit the game?"
"Yes."
To tell the truth, Li Tianxiu has been a little bit counseling. According to his speculation, the monsters of infected people may not be very beautiful... more than not!
A game that even dust is 100% simulated, and he was given a Glock 17 instead of a pea shooter, so maybe it will really scare people!
The horror shooting game of V Club scared him pale and almost vomited even when he played it on an old PC for the first time that year.
He fully anticipated the fear that would await him behind the door.
When the scenes of cruelty and blood, broken limbs and bones, broken skulls and internal organs are displayed on those humanoid monsters, human instinct will make people feel extremely afraid and spiritual impact.
Although many people in this era can get this kind of stimulation from various games, movies and television works. But for now, Li Tianxiu will face the "truth" that is infinitely close to the truth.
What's more, he is just an ordinary person who has never experienced any training, has never killed a fish, and is too ordinary to be ordinary.
Although now he told himself countless times in the bottom of his heart that it was just a "game" and he dared to play it!
However, his subconscious has fully recognized that this is a real world, and it can even be said that this VR technology completely deceived his brain.
He can't move any more... Exit?
If he quits the game now, it means that he will violate Article 99 of the contract, "If he cannot complete the first task, he will be deemed as incompetent for his job, and will be dismissed..."
So, just because of fear, I lost my dream job as one of the few VR testers in the world? Hehe, what's the difference between this and Ye Gonghao?
Suddenly, a sense of humiliation came to his chest, almost choking him. He could not help feeling ashamed of the idea he had just retreated.
The door that was close at hand seemed to be separated from him at some time.
Li Tianxiu has been ordinary for more than 20 years, and has been strangers to "Xiu" for more than 20 years. He may have some misgivings, but he will never admit that it is cowardly!
"Yes, this is not a game. This is redemption, this is the redemption I want." He told himself quietly, as if praying, as if saying goodbye to the past.
Every ordinary person has a madman living in his heart... Just think about the time when everyone is suffering, sad, frightened, joyful, joyful, angry or even crazy about something.
They will always become another self, releasing the most instinctive potential of human origin.
Only those who can savor the fear and excitement are truly alive, Li Tianxiu told himself.
This will be his world, his world!
Li Tianxiu, who opened the door, resolutely decided that he would not only "show", but also "show"!
