Chapter 118 Virtual World

It was getting dark, and Qin Muxue and the others were about to go home. When she looked up, she saw Sheng Xingyuan standing in front of the stall, looking at her thoughtfully, "Stall owner, I want that bag."

"Uncle, are you giving it to your girlfriend? I'll help you pick out a nice one!" Nian Nian volunteered to look through the remaining ones. Unfortunately, there were not many nice ones left. "It's just that the remaining ones are just ordinary ones."

"It doesn't matter. I want them all. No need to choose."

Qin Muxue did not stop him, "As a thank you, please have some shaved ice!"

"Shaved ice?" Sheng Xingyuan had never eaten anything like this before, so Qin Muxue's words aroused his curiosity. "You can try it."

"Okay, okay, let's eat shaved ice!" the two children cheered.

Several people came to the stall. The so-called shaved ice was now made using the most primitive method, a homemade shaved ice machine. The temperature here was low and the ice was easier to preserve.

Pour the homemade syrup directly on the crushed ice, and add some fruits as needed, but fruits are very expensive and relatively simple, with only apples and pears available at the moment.

Qin Muxue only asked for a simple version, the two children asked for the deluxe version, and Sheng Xingyuan had never eaten it before, so he also just asked for the simple version to try.

It tasted cold and sweet when I put it in my mouth, and there was no special taste. "This tastes just average, right?"

"Professor Sheng, don't you know what kind of environment we are in now? Although these foods are simple, they can already meet our basic needs. This is already very good. Be content! Not everyone can afford it." Qin Muxue said after finishing her shaved ice.

She cherishes food very much. Even though the shaved ice tasted ordinary, Qin Muxue still finished it. The two children ate it with gusto. This was the unique pleasure of childhood.

The only time Qin Muxue ate shaved ice when she was a child was when she went out with her mother. The fruit shaved ice her mother bought for her is still an unforgettable thing in her childhood.

Sheng Xingyuan nodded thoughtfully, "Speaking of which, I have developed a special game and would like to invite you to try it out. Are you willing?"

"Uncle, can we play games?" The two children were very interested and wanted to try it.

"You are too young. Only adults can play. Your bodies cannot currently withstand such a strong electric current." He said seriously, which scared Wu You who was standing beside him.

"Uncle, your game requires electricity. You're not going to shock people, are you?" Wu You had a fear of the electric chair.

"Haha, silly kid, what are you thinking about? It's just a little bit of current that won't affect human health. It's not suitable for minors to use at the moment."

Qin Muxue replied: "Games? If this is a work requirement, I will agree. If not, I will not accompany you."

“Call it work!”

"That's fine."

Qin Muxue sent the two children back and gave them the points they deserved. These points were enough to buy food for several months. The two children naturally thanked her happily.

"Before I go, let me go back and have a meal. I'm hungry." Man is iron and food is steel. Qin Muxue was already very hungry.

"Can I come and eat?"

Qin Muxue looked up at him. Half of his face was in the shadows, so she couldn't see his full expression. "Of course you can. Come with me!"

Of course, we still went to Grandma Qu's house to eat. Grandma Qu just learned two new dishes. "This is the stir-fried pork with farmhouse style and the shredded pork with fish flavor. Manman taught me before. You can try them and see how they taste. Oh, Professor Sheng is here too. Come sit down and eat."

Seeing the guest coming, Grandma Qu found another set of bowls and chopsticks and placed them in front of him. "The dishes are relatively simple, so don't be disgusted. Oh, by the way, this is your first time coming to my house in the New Year. Come and have some brown sugar water. May the new year be smooth, happy and sweet." She also said some auspicious words.

Sheng Xingyuan drank some brown sugar water. He didn't usually drink this kind of thing. In addition, his family relationships were relatively distant. He was usually alone during the New Year. This was the first time he heard such auspicious words. "Thank you, Grandma Qu."

"You're welcome. Thank you for taking care of our children." Grandma Qu brought the soup with a smile.

"I didn't take care of them, they are all excellent."

The chicken soup this time was still filled with orange oil, and it looked very delicious. "I also added mushrooms to it, it's so fragrant, come and eat it!"

"Eat quickly, Qu Yanbai is still on duty and probably won't be back tonight." Ever since he became the captain of the Ability Team 3, he has been busy like a top all day long. He was even on duty outside on the second day of the New Year.

Qin Muxue was very hungry and devoured the food in no time. The stir-fried pork tasted very good and went very well with rice. After finishing the meal, Qin Muxue drank a few bowls of soup as usual, and then she felt satisfied. "It's delicious. You guys eat first. I'll go see Baozhu."

Sheng Xingyuan asked curiously, "Who is Baozhu?"

Manman explained: "It's the dog we raised."

Sheng Xingyuan walked behind Qin Muxue and looked at her holding a few puppies. There was a loving expression on her face that he had never seen before.

"Baozhu, how was your day? Did the cubs bother you?" The newborn cubs had not opened their eyes yet and could only wriggle around under Baozhu's belly.

There was another puppy hidden under Pearl's belly. She felt relieved only when she saw that the puppies were healthy and lively.

"I feel like you're more friendly to cats and dogs than to me."

Qin Muxue stood up and said, "They are like family to me." Baozhu had once saved her life, and Zhenzhu had been through thick and thin with her, and they had long since developed a deep affection for each other.

This is probably a kind of feeling that Sheng Xingyuan cannot understand. After all, there has never been anyone around him who can treat him sincerely.

He looked at his watch and said, "It's already eight o'clock. Let's go to the lab!"

"good."

Qin Muxue followed him to the scientific research department of the base. The location of the scientific research department was far away from here, and it was also troublesome to enter and exit. No dangerous items could be brought in, and disinfection was required before entry.

"The innermost one is my laboratory."

Qin Muxue walked through the corridor and saw many different laboratories filled with various instruments, but she could only glimpse some of them and not see the details until she walked into Sheng Xingyuan's laboratory.

Judging from the appearance, this is probably the largest laboratory here. There are many advanced equipment inside that he can't name. Sheng Xingyuan directly took her to the innermost instrument and introduced it: "This is a machine I have been developing. At first, everyone was not optimistic about it and thought it was just a game console, but I don't think so. I think it may become one of my greatest inventions."

Qin Muxue looked at the huge computer in front of her that was connected to the chair. There were indeed a lot of wires on the chair, and it did look a bit like an electric chair. "You don't really want to electrocute me, do you?"

"If I want you to die, I don't have to do it this way." Sheng Xingyuan turned on the supercomputer. "This is a system that can upload human consciousness to the cloud. The cloud is a virtual world I constructed based on the human world. As long as consciousness is transmitted into it, can we live in that world?"

“It’s a lot like a game.”

"Yes, it is very similar. However, after uploading your consciousness, you will not die or age. You can stay young forever and enjoy your life as you wish. There will never be a disaster in this virtual world..." Sheng Xingyuan said as he introduced his invention. There was a gleam in his heart. "Even if all the human bodies on Earth die, as long as the consciousness exists, they will not be extinct."

Qin Muxue smelled a different scent from it, "You mean there will be disasters in the future that humans cannot avoid."

Although she also knew that disaster was inevitable, Sheng Xingyuan's actions showed that the final outcome for mankind would only be death.

"This is just one of my many plans. If you're not afraid, just treat it as a game now." He smiled and put the helmet on her.

Qin Muxue stared at him with doubt in her eyes. Sheng Xingyuan continued, "Don't worry, I will go with you."

He put on a helmet and lay on another chair. The two of them lay side by side on the chairs. Sheng Xingyuan reminded them, "Relax your body and close your eyes. Soon you will see the world of my imagination. It will definitely exceed your imagination."

Qin Muxue closed her eyes as he instructed. As her consciousness entered a white area, she saw a tall figure holding her hand, "Follow me."

Following that figure, they seemed to be traveling in the sea. Everything in front of her eyes gradually became clear. It was the seabed. They were now at the seabed.

But she could breathe freely without any feeling of suffocation, and she could even speak. The sea water did not flow into her mouth, but when she touched the sea water around her, she did feel a flow.

Next to me are colorful corals and all kinds of fish that I have never seen before. It may be a game, but it is too real.

A huge shark swam towards them with its mouth open. Sheng Xingyuan pulled her to the side. It turned out that the shark just wanted to eat other fish around her and was not going to attack her.

Here she could not release her supernatural powers and could only swim around with Sheng Xingyuan on the seabed. It was not until the two of them gradually surfaced that Qin Muxue realized that this was indeed an ocean.

The city they live in is a coastal city, so it is no wonder that Sheng Xingyuan chose to let his consciousness enter the sea first.

Sheng Xingyuan chuckled and asked, "How does it feel to dive?"

"Not bad." She had never experienced diving, but she had to admit that the ocean was really beautiful. It was such a pity that so many beautiful creatures had disappeared in their era.

"Look over there." Following the direction he pointed, Qin Muxue realized that the place they were in was one of Xuanwu City's former scenic spots, Phoenix Bay. The water here was very blue, the beach was fine, and there were some yachts floating on the sea. Qin Muxue could also see tourists playing in swimsuits. For a moment, she couldn't tell whether this was a virtual world or reality. The tourists looked no different from real people.

They walked onto the beach, and even the feeling of stepping on the sand was no different from the real thing. No wonder those wires were clamped on her hands and feet. I guess that was their purpose, to simulate the sense of touch.

Knowing that everything here is virtual, Qin Muxue still felt a little emotional when she stood here, "It's so similar, so similar."

Sheng Xingyuan squatted down and touched the sand. "This is the Phoenix Bay I constructed. Isn't it beautiful?"

"It's really beautiful. How did you do it? Even the tourists look exactly like real people. Can technology do this now?"

Qin Muxue could even feel the sea breeze passing by her cheeks when she closed her eyes. There were many tourists around basking in the sun on the beach. When they saw them, they actually automatically walked around them, as if they were real people here.

Sheng Xingyuan's eyes sparkled. "I bought a future-oriented gaming company at a low price and found the best programmers in the world to develop this device. Do you think it was worthwhile?"

"It reminds me of the past. Is everything here in proportion to the original world?"

"At least that's the case in Xuanwu City. After all, this is where I grew up. If you want to visit other places, I'll take you there!"

The two arrived at the entrance of the scenic area. Qin Muxue looked at the blue sky and the sea in the distance that merged into one, and for a moment she was a little dazed.

"Come and take a taxi!"

Sheng Xingyuan actually took a taxi, and the two sat in the back seat. Along the way, Qin Muxue kept staring at the scenery outside. It can be said that it was really no different from the Xuanwu City in her memory, even some familiar stores were still there.

"How do you do this?"

"Big data, satellite maps, these things are very simple, and there are secret weapons." He showed a mysterious smile.

Qin Muxue could never see through Sheng Xingyuan. He was actually a genius with an extremely high IQ.

"Where do you want to go?"

"Building 32, Golden Sunshine." Qin Muxue couldn't help but shout out. This was her original home. She had sold it long ago in the real world. It was probably destroyed in the tsunami. She came back here not because she missed it, but just wanted to see the place where she used to live with her mother.

Since her mother passed away, only some sad memories remained here, so she sold it. Standing in front of the villa again, she looked up at the window of her room.

Originally she lived in the room with the best sunlight, but after Qin Jia arrived, she moved to another small room with less sunlight.

"Is this your original home?" Sheng Xingyuan stood beside the tall camphor tree, the mottled shadows of the tree shining on him.

"Well, it's just not anymore."

"That's not necessarily true." Sheng Xingyuan stepped forward and prepared to knock on the door.

"What are you doing?"

"I remember when I was collecting information from the satellite map, this place was set four years ago. You should still be living here, right? This is your home, so you should have relatives here, right?"

Qin Muxue's expression instantly became lonely, "Four years ago, this was no longer my home." The home she was talking about was the home where her mother cared for her, not the home where her stepmother bullied her.

Sheng Xingyuan knocked on the door, and the hostess who opened the door was based on Xia Qiaoyun. "Who are you and who are you looking for?"

She seemed not to recognize Qin Muxue in front of her, and stared vigilantly at the two strangers who came knocking on the door.

"Why do you look a bit like that little bitch?" She muttered to herself, but Qin Muxue heard it.

Qin Muxue was a little annoyed, but she didn't know why she was getting angry at a pile of data. Thinking about Xia Qiaoyun coming to trouble her in broad daylight, she was already in a bad mood.

Qin Muxue didn't say anything and just left.

Sheng Xingyuan followed her quickly, "What's wrong? Are you angry?"

"You may not have said that the people in the virtual world are so similar to real people in terms of personality. It's disgusting."

"I'm sorry, if you don't like it, I will change her character and make her gentler." Looking at Qin Muxue who was inexplicably angry, Sheng Xingyuan seemed to feel that he had done something wrong.

"No need, it's just a bunch of data. No matter how real it is, this place is fake." She murmured. Even though she could feel the warmth of the sun shining on her body, but heard the sound of leaves rustling in the breeze, everything here was still fake.

"Let's go, get out of here."

"Don't you want to go and see the school?" Sheng Xingyuan asked in a deep voice behind her.

Qin Muxue stopped and asked, "Our school?"

"Because I'm familiar with the place. All the classmates should be the same batch from four years ago. If I remember correctly, you are a freshman at this time, and I should be a sophomore, right? Don't you want to go and take a look?"

Qin Muxue, who had an angry expression just now, calmed down instantly, "Okay, let's go and take a look."

When she arrived at the university, everything was still the same as it was four years ago. She was still childish at that time. Qin Muxue's purpose was not to see the non-mainstream herself, but to take another look at Shi Yan.

When she saw Shi Yan, her heart started beating fast and her vision started to blur. In order to prevent Sheng Xingyuan from noticing anything unusual, she could only suppress the sadness in her heart.

Until she saw Shi Yan sitting at the table, looking at a certain direction seriously. She followed his gaze and saw her back as he was taking notes, and saw Shi Yan drawing something on the book.

"This person is drawing you." Sheng Xingyuan reminded softly.

Shi Yan seemed to have heard their conversation. He quickly covered the book and pretended nothing had happened. It turned out that Shi Yan could be so shy.

If at that time, she had discovered his feelings earlier and recognized the scumbag earlier, they might have had a chance to be together. But everything can never happen again. Even in this life, Shi Yan and she finally parted ways. She didn't even know whether he was still alive.

Looking at the boy's thin back, she felt extremely distressed and wanted to hold him in her arms. Tears fell from her eyes unknowingly.

Sheng Xingyuan saw her sad expression and thought she was reminiscing about the past. "You used to dress really weirdly. Every time I saw you dressed so ostentatiously, I found it a little funny."

He didn't know that during her most immature, stupid and ugliest years, there was a young man who had been silently protecting her.

Qin Muxue wiped away her tears. Even now, she found it a little funny when she saw herself as a freshman. "It's really funny."

"You're not angry?" he asked cautiously.

"No, how could I be angry? I just remembered some things from the past. Oh, I apologize for being rude to you before. I was indeed ignorant."

Sheng Xingyuan was speechless for a moment. She actually apologized to him, "It's okay, I didn't take it to heart." At that time, he just treated it as a small episode.

He was a nearly perfect person in school. He was a top student and a handsome school idol. However, he was scolded by a girl in strange clothes. At first, he thought that the other party was trying to attract his attention, but he didn't expect that she really hated him. Sheng Xingyuan found it a little funny when he thought about it now.

Just then, Qin Muxue, who was wearing heavy makeup, turned around, glanced at the two of them, and turned away as if nothing had happened.

Everything in the school is a replica of the most realistic one. The satellite once replicated everything here, providing the foundation for the construction of Sheng Xingyuan's virtual world.

"Can even these be so real?"

"Why, are you surprised to find someone has a crush on you? In fact, I should thank you. Without you, there would be nothing in this world."

She understood what he meant. It was Qin Muxue who saved him, which led to everything that happened now. If things had developed along the same trajectory as in the previous life, Sheng Xingyuan would have died in a foreign land, and the important data from that research would no longer exist.

"If you want to come to this world, you only need to transfer your consciousness to the model of the person you want to be. Then you can restore your freshman appearance and live your life again. Alternatively, you can become anyone you want here."

Re-live a new life? Isn't she re-living a new life now? Then could the world she exists in now also be a virtual world?

There is no way of knowing all this, she can only do her best in the present.

Suddenly, Qin Muxue felt an electric current stimulating her body, and everything in front of her eyes gradually became blurred. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to her original world, lying on a recliner.

Sheng Xingyuan beside him had already woken up, with a confused expression on his face, "That's not right, I didn't set up the program just now, how did we get out?"

He sat in front of the computer, opened a complicated program, and began to modify it carefully, as if he had forgotten Qin Muxue's existence.

Qin Muxue could only unplug the wires connected to her body and take off her helmet.

Sheng Xingyuan said as he typed, "There are snacks in the refrigerator next to you. If you are hungry, you can eat them. There are drinks in the cabinet. You can take them. Don't be polite. This will be our office from now on."

Qin Muxue had just arrived here in a hurry and had not yet had a good look around the place.

She walked around, looking at the expensive-looking precision instruments, until she saw a naked person in a tall culture tank, with tubes inserted all over his body.

Qin Muxue transferred to another year. After seeing that face, she showed an expression of disbelief, "How could it be him?"