164 The Ninth Store
◎It's like the flu.◎
Song Wen looked gloomy, he couldn't figure out the store owner's intentions, nor did he feel that he had the ability to help her.
She could still call him via video in the game, but if his body hadn't allowed it, he would have been scared and fled.
In his eyes, the current store owner was even more unfathomable than the one in Ghost Street.
But she was different from that one. Song Wen had communicated with Lu Yao several times in Ghost Street. She was gentle and rational in her words and deeds, not like what people speculated on the Internet.
Song Wen felt that Lu Yao was not a robot, and combined with the current situation, her existence was even more creepy.
Song Wen prepared a plan in his mind and tried to decline: "I just woke up, my body is still very weak, and I can't move easily, so I can't help you."
Lu Yao didn't mention helping, and said with concern: "You have been in a coma for too long, your body needs time to recover, don't worry. Is Grandma Xu okay?"
Speaking of grandma, Song Wen felt bad.
Before entering the Ghost Street, his parents were busy with work, and it was his grandma who took care of him.
At first, he was really addicted to the virtual world. Not long after he accidentally entered the Ghost Street, his grandma actually came in.
Later, his grandma told him that she called him to eat, but there was no movement in the room. She pushed the door open and saw him lying on the table with a communicator on his ear.
At that time, there were many reports about Internet blindness on the Internet. Many young people were addicted to the virtual world and were unwilling to come out.
Grandma Xu was very anxious and immediately prepared to contact her son and daughter-in-law, but she accidentally entered the ghost street.
Grandma Xu was older and didn't know how to use the latest communicator. She could only make calls through voice commands at most. She couldn't explain why she entered the ghost street in the end.
Song Wen: "The hospital contacted the family not long ago, and grandma has woken up. But she is old and has slept for so long, so she has to stay in the hospital for observation."
Lu Yao: "Don't worry, Grandma Xu will be well soon, and so will you. By the way, after all the players logged out, what's the situation at the game company?"
Song Wen was feeling aggrieved, and he could hardly control himself when talking about this matter: "She's pretending to be dead. Most of the players who woke up in the morning were making noises on the forum, and there were news everywhere, but the game company did not make a statement or apologize. The most outrageous thing is that nearly 100,000 players were trapped in the virtual world. After so many years, Qimingxing didn't even find it. "
Lu Yao didn't know what Qimingxing was, and sighed: "Qingmingxing..."
Song Wen didn't care what Lu Yao said, and vented his dissatisfaction crazily: "Seven years, Ghost Street has been online for seven years, and in the first year, there were players trapped in the game world and couldn't get out. Qimingxing, as a super intelligent computer that monitors the virtual world in real time, didn't notice anything abnormal. I think it's ridiculous, and it still claims to be the maintainer of order in the virtual world? What can it protect?"
It turns out that Qimingxing is the name of artificial intelligence.
Lu Yao listened to Song Wen's complaints quietly, and selected useful information fragments from them.
After about 20 minutes, Song Wen was a little dry-mouthed and stopped to drink water. She glanced at Lu Yao on the small screen and felt a little embarrassed: "Sorry, I made you listen to so many complaints."
Lu Yao shook his head: "I'm fine anyway. After the players left Ghost Street, the store had no business."
Song Wen thought of the live broadcast in the morning. After the players left, Ghost Street was empty. She had to fight the boss alone.
The boss was killed. How hard it must be for her to guard the empty street alone.
Although there were still many mysteries about the shop owner, Song Wen couldn't help but feel compassion: "You just asked me to help you with something? If it's not too urgent, I can help you when I can walk."
Lu Yao: "That's troublesome."
Song Wen nodded: "Please go ahead."
Lu Yao: "In addition to you, there are four other players who took the ghost bracelet from Ghost Street. I would like to ask you to meet."
Song Wen: "Just that?"
Lu Yao's expression was very sincere: "Yes. I will contact you through the bracelet for follow-up arrangements."
Song Wen: "I see."
After chatting with Song Wen, Lu Yao's list still had four players, the former church security guard Ren You, the shop assistants Cai Yuxing and Chen You, and the customer Xing Yong.
Tomorrow City, District A50.
The thin young man sat on the edge of the bed, with a bowl of vegetable porridge on the folding table. He drank slowly with a spoon, and every sip required great courage.
The people watching next to him couldn't stand it: "Is it so bad?"
Ren You frowned and smacked his lips: "It's as bad as the food on Ghost Street, with no taste and texture."
Ren You's mother didn't quite understand: "Did you sleep too long and have a problem with your sense of taste? I think this porridge is delicious, so I went downstairs to get it when you woke up."
Ren You: "...I seem to get used to it after eating a few more mouthfuls, and it's not that bad."
Ren You's mother The mother pointed at the silver ring on Ren You's hand and asked, "When did you buy this ring? It wasn't there when I changed your clothes this morning."
Ren You also found it strange, took it off and looked at it, his face was surprised: "This ring... seems to be bought by me in the game..."
Ren You's mother frowned, a little heartbroken: "What nonsense are you talking about? Your mind is not clear yet."
Ren You was about to retort, but he felt a sharp pain in his fingers.
He subconsciously called out the storage panel and saw the ghost bracelet stored in the storage compartment.
Like Song Wen, he hesitated for a moment before taking out the bracelet. He saw the small dots flashing on the inside of the bracelet, touched it, and the bracelet turned into a watch.
Lu Yao's voice came from the dial, and Ren You was startled. Ren You's mother was also terrified.
Lu Yao explained the purpose of his visit. Ren You was surprised, but did not ask too many questions and readily agreed to her request.
After her son hung up the video call, Ren You's mother said, "Did you meet this girl in the game?" Ren You
was relatively lucky. He had not been in the Ghost Street for a long time, only a few months.
He himself is very young, only twenty-three years old this year.
Hearing the gossip in his mother's tone, he held his forehead and said, "Mom - don't let your imagination run wild."
Ren You's mother sighed and asked, "What's the matter with your ring? It can hold things."
Ren You didn't understand how the props in the game followed him into the real world. He didn't know how to tell his mother for a moment. He was afraid that she would worry if he said too much. He drank a bowl of porridge in a hurry, pushed away the folding table, pulled up the quilt and lay down: "Mom, I'm going to sleep for a while."
Lu Yao contacted Cai Yuxing, Chen You and Xing Yong in turn, and persuaded them to meet. Cai Yuxing
and Chen You were store clerks. They trusted Lu Yao more. They were surprised when they received the video call, but they didn't refuse and agreed to help.
It's just that they are both in the nursing home and have to do rehabilitation training. They are not able to move in a short time.
Xing Yong is also in the nursing home. He talked to Lu Yao for a long time and finally agreed to her request.
Three of the five people are in a sanatorium, and one is unable to move around at home.
Only Renyou's condition is slightly better, and he will probably be able to move freely after resting for two or three days.
Lu Yao urged them to add each other as friends, close the store in advance, and return to the shopping street to analyze the information they had just received.
Tomorrow City is a world where the level of technological civilization is far higher than that of Shake Light City. This world has very mature research in the fields of holographic technology and artificial intelligence, and the construction of the virtual world began about ten years ago.
In addition to holographic games, they also have rich and extensive virtual social platforms, all of which support holographic technology.
Users only need a Bluetooth headset-sized communicator to surf the Internet. They have even developed a special communicator that can smell, taste, and feel in the virtual world.
This communicator is widely used in the field of online live broadcasting and online shopping platforms.
The rapid development of the virtual world has brought convenience and rich entertainment experience to people, but it has also led to a large number of ordinary people losing their jobs and a surge in cybercrime. Soon after, the official launched the super artificial intelligence computer, Qimingxing.
Qimingxing has strong computing and learning capabilities. Its appearance has successfully curbed cybercrime. Users call it a star that will never fade in the virtual world and a guardian of order in the lawless world.
In recent years, thanks to the supervision of Qimingxing, the virtual environment has gradually become unified and stable, and the real world has also been affected by it. Construction in all aspects has become more stable and orderly.
In the past few years, players trapped in Ghost Street were called "Internet blind" patients in the real world, and most of them were transferred to nursing homes by their families for recuperation.
Because in recent years, the number of "Internet blind" patients has increased sharply, like an infectious disease, the number is huge and widespread.
Most families regard it as a sequelae of technological development, just like the flu, because their lives can no longer get rid of the convenience brought by the virtual world.
But the situation of Ghost Street players may expose the problems that the residents of Tomorrow City have tried to turn a blind eye to to the public again. They have always thought that the virtual world that is safe and secure may not be that safe. The
situation in Tomorrow City is actually far from Lu Yao's guess. She originally thought that the existence that can trap the Dream Fulfilling System must have a power close to that of a god, or at least a child.
But in the civilization of Tomorrow City that she knew, there was nothing close to it.
Not being able to go to Tomorrow City was indeed a serious problem for her.
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There were no players in Ghost Street, so naturally there would be no customers in the store.
Lu Yao did not guard the store in Ghost Street in the afternoon, and returned to the nail salon to rest for half a day after a long absence.
The little guys in the store were very happy. Merulu, Pushu and Mumu had no intention of working, and they pestered Lu Yao to play with them.
In the evening, Harold and Tina came back from Dragon Valley, and with them came more than a dozen little dragons, all of whom were Harold and Tina's classmates in Dragon Valley.
Harold saw Lu Yao when he entered the store. He walked over quickly, circled around her twice, and made sure she was not injured before saying, "You had a fight today."
At this time, there were no customers getting their nails done in the store. The clerks who were finishing up stopped what they were doing and all looked at Lu Yao. Lu Yao said
casually, "I just had a fight with the little boss."
Harold's classmates came over and said, "It was a big monster. I could feel it."
Tina: "But Lu Yao won easily."
Lu Yao realized later, "You can feel such a small piece of scale?"
Another classmate of Harold was particularly excited, "The battle in the other world is so interesting. I'll give you a new scale next year.
" The first little golden dragon suggested: "When the time comes, ask the dwarven craftsman to make a dragon scale sword, and Lu Yao will be the most powerful magic holy dragon swordsman."
The young green dragon hugged Lu Yao's thigh and said: "Next year, I will also shed my scales, and give you the heart-protecting scales. You are not allowed to lose in a fight!"
Lu Yao: "..."
The young dragon cubs came to Lu Yao to ask about fighting, and asked Lu Yao to take them to fight more often in the future, and also did some nail care.
When they left, the night had gently embraced Emerald Town.
Lu Yao and Harold were talking in the lounge, and Edward and Ambrose knocked on the door and came in.
Edward: "What interesting things are you plotting again?"
Harold raised his head and said proudly: "Lu Yao wants to go to Tomorrow City, and I am the only one who can take her there."
Ambrose knocked on the door: "The bloodline inheritance of the dragon clan is always so enviable."
[Author's words]
Lu Yao wore dragon scale armor, as if he was carrying dozens of dragon cubs on his back...
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