Chapter 1



In 2044, high-tech life becomes widespread.

Holographic games are popular all over the world, and various holographic devices have attracted much attention. Every household wants to have a holographic game that can take them to a new world at any time.

Downtown Electronic Game City, Holographic Game Experience Area——

A little girl holding her father's hand came to the window.

Her eyes swept across the exhibits inside one by one, finally landing in the center, on the latest holographic chip being promoted globally.

This is a new product developed by the world's largest holographic gaming company. It is the smallest, most effective, and most convenient holographic device that technology has been able to achieve so far.

It has super black technology that constructs the game world in its brain.

It can also send weak electric current signals to the human nerves, stimulating the body to produce various real reactions, making people feel as if they are in the game.

The little girl stared at the chip and pulled her father's hand.

"Dad, I want to try this chip!"

The girl's father touched the wallet in his pocket and his face looked a little unhappy.

"We're a bit pressed for time today, so let's forget it. Don't we have to go back and make soup for Mom? I'll bring you here next time if I have the chance."

The little girl shook his arm reluctantly: "No, no, we finally got to the city once, what's wrong with letting me experience it?"

"I haven't played a holographic game yet. My classmates all have equipment, but I don't. I want to try it too!"

My father grabbed his trouser pocket again, very hesitant.

But looking at the child's thin and sallow face, only his eyes had some spirit. The man gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, we'll try it for half an hour, but we can't buy anything because we need money recently, okay?"

The little girl nodded: "Yes!" and ran in.

There was a very beautiful older sister inside, wearing salesperson’s clothes, but she didn’t look like a salesperson at all.

She is very beautiful, like the female stars on TV, with glowing white skin.

He was also a little indifferent, staring straight at the products in front of him, and no one knew what he was looking at. In short, he was different from other enthusiastic salespeople.

But the girl still mustered up the courage to walk over and said, "Hello, sister!"

Si Lan then turned around and saw a little girl of about six or seven years old. She replied calmly, "Hello."

The little girl pointed at the chip and asked carefully, "Can I try this?"

Si Lan looked in the direction of her gesture.

Seeing that it was the new chip, she paused for a moment before looking away and looking at the little girl in front of her: "Okay."

Her voice is also very nice, light and gentle. Although it does not have any emotion, it gives people an inexplicable sense of security.

The little girl looked at her in surprise: It turns out that her sister is not fierce.

He was even happier, jumped up, turned around and called his father in.

Her father was very embarrassed and nodded repeatedly to Si Lan: "Excuse me, young lady. Excuse me, please."

Si Lan said nothing. She took out the chip and the disposable chip experience slot and asked the little girl, "Shall we start now? What game do you want to play?"

The girl thought for a moment and pointed to a poster in the store. "Let's play this one! It's called 'The First Empire,' right?"

Si Lan nodded and instructed her how to choose a game after connecting the device.

At this moment, the girl’s father said: “Wait a minute.”

Looking at Si Lan, he said, "Miss, this is my child's first time playing a holographic game. She doesn't understand anything. I heard that your chip is still new technology. I'm worried that she won't be able to play it or will break it. So... could you please play with her for a while?"

This requirement is reasonable in the experience area, especially for young players, whose parents usually ask staff to accompany them.

Si Lan looked at her cautious father, then at the girl with an expectant look on her face, and agreed.

"good."

She helped the little girl deal with the chip and activated the chip that had already been implanted behind her ear.

The two sat on the sofa in the experience area.

After entering the game, the two people's consciousness was separated from the outside world.

The child's father sat stiffly on the sofa opposite, waiting for his child to leave the game. The girl followed Si Lan into the game, and soon appeared together in the initial area of ​​"The First Empire".

"The First Empire" is a free infrastructure game jointly created by a chip company and a game company based on chip functions.

Due to its ultra-high degree of freedom of operation and immersive and extremely realistic experience, it became popular all over the world as soon as it was launched on the market.

The game can be played in stand-alone mode, online mode and global networking mode.

You can also choose from four difficulty levels: easy (dream infrastructure), normal (easy life), hard (experience life) and hell (beyond reality).

When players enter the game, they will first appear in the initial area. After completing a simple tutorial, they can freely build their own empire.

At the beginning, everything went smoothly for the two people who entered the game.

But when the two walked through the basic tutorial and came to the initial base given in the simple mode, suddenly, the game field began to flicker!

The girl was startled and asked Si Lan: "What's wrong, sister? Why is it flashing here? Did I do something wrong?"

Si Lan glanced at the unstable game interface, fixed her eyes, and summoned the game menu.

Seeing that everything was normal, she said to the girl, "Maybe it's just a little unstable. It's okay. You can go ahead and play."

The girl said "oh" and continued playing with half belief and half doubt.

At this moment, the game field flickered again, and this time, both of them saw clearly that the three small huts given in the simple mode disappeared out of thin air in front of them!

Girl: "Ah? Where's my little house?!"

Si Lan looked at the main menu again. This time, she saw the network signal light was on and kept jumping.

But they chose the offline two-player mode.

Looking at the small house that had disappeared before her eyes, Si Lan, who was used to this kind of scene, sensed something was wrong and said to the girl, "Quit first. This is a new game and the program may be unstable. We'll come back later."

The girl was a little reluctant to leave, but she was also afraid of something going wrong, so she obediently followed Si Lan out.

Who knew that after clicking the exit option, they were still in the game.

Si Lan tried twice without success, and then activated the chip's emergency disengagement procedure.

This method was useless. The two tried everything but couldn't get out of the game. Finally, the game field shook again. In this game field that was supposed to be a two-player game, many people suddenly appeared out of nowhere!

Various characters continued to appear in the surrounding area. As the players' questions erupted, they could clearly hear the mechanical game prompts in their ears and a floating light screen appeared before their eyes:

[Ding! The game has been locked, and the global network (hell difficulty) mode has been activated! ]

Dear players, welcome to the infrastructure game "The First Empire"! Based on your choices, the game will enter an immersive lock mode. You can only leave the game after reaching the highest level!

[To prevent accidental entry into the mode, players are requested to select again: Are you sure you want to enter immersive lock mode? □/□]

【Select countdown: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! 】

[Ding! Player selection is complete, welcome all immersive players! Next, please experience the difficult life of hell and work hard to achieve your goals!]

After the prompt tone was finished, it disappeared from everyone's sight along with the light screen.

Everyone was shocked: "What? What immersive mode? I didn't choose it?!"

"The font isn't showing in the place I just checked, right?!"

"I clicked the second box, so that's normal, right? I didn't seem to deviate from the program. Is this a blind selection?!"

“I clicked the first box, and I didn’t leave…”

"I even used voice control to quit! This game clearly supports voice control!"

"I even tried the emergency exit procedure, but it didn't log me out. What's going on? Is this game bugged?!"

Everyone fell into chaos and found that they could not exit the game, and the so-called "initial base" was empty, and everyone began to panic.

Seeing this, the little girl subconsciously moved closer to Si Lan and pulled her sleeve: "Sister, what's wrong?!"

Si Lan watched the scene silently.

She had just tried all the ways to leave the game and exit the chip program, but none of them worked.

She clicked on the two blank selection boxes that appeared on the system, but it was useless - it seemed that they were trapped in this game for some unknown reason.

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