The Fourth Quadrant of Online Games

Pu Yiyang and Ding Miaomiao sat face to face in the coffee shop.

A cup of green tea was placed in front of the goddess, and Pu Yiyang ordered it.He also ordered a can of Coke for himself.One of the male protagonists of the big play has already left the stage, and the enthusiasm of the onlookers has slightly decreased, but there are still people who keep casting glances at the two of them.

But they will be disappointed.The beauty stopped panicking a long time ago, let alone pear blossoms and rain, but calmly drank half a cup of tea, with a trace of exhaustion on her face.

After a while, she raised her head and said seriously, "I'm sorry to trouble you."

From Ding Miaomiao's narration, Pu Yiyang finally knew who the young man who was not easy to mess with just now was.

Xiang Hong, Ding Miaomiao's younger brother in different majors at the same school in the UK, is 22 years old this year. He is a famous playboy. Not only is his family rich, but it is said that he also has some underworld background.He and Ding Miaomiao met at a party two months ago. For some reason, this big brother fell in love with Ding Miaomiao at first sight. After that, he chased and beat Ding Miaomiao fiercely for a while, making the city full of storms. This is not Ding Miaomiao. Returning to the country with the front foot, he followed back with the back foot, and he seemed to refuse to give up until he caught up with him.

Ding Miaomiao sighed: "I really don't know what to do. You have seen him too. If he makes trouble at my house and let my grandfather know, then it's okay?"

Pu Yiyang has a good relationship with Ding Miaomiao, and knows a little about her family's situation.The Ding family is not a wealthy family, but it can be regarded as a scholarly family. Her grandfather was the former head of the Department of History of Jiang University. Mr. Ding has been upright all his life, has a hot temper, and is old. His health has been deteriorating in recent years. If he knew For her granddaughter to be entangled with a black second generation, the consequences would be terrible.

Pu Yiyang nodded thoughtfully: "You must not disturb the old man."

Ding Miaomiao said: "I asked him out today because I wanted to make it clear to him that I couldn't agree to him. But he said that unless I really liked someone else, he would just want to see how long I can be stubborn." .”

Pu Yiyang: "..."

He is not so sentimental as to think that he can really be loved by flowers.So, he, an innocent person who was just passing by, bumped into the muzzle of a gun like this, and got a strong man?

Ding Miaomiao grabbed Pu Yiyang's hand: "Thank you very much today."

The beauty is so grateful, no hard-hearted person will be indifferent, Pu Yiyang is no exception, immediately put aside all kinds of worries, with great pride in his chest, he said casually: "It's a small matter."

Ding Miaomiao frowned: "I'm just afraid that he will trouble you."

Pu Yiyang waved his hand: "Shouldn't that be the case. I'm just nobody, so why should he compete with me?"

Ding Miaomiao took a sip of tea: "I hope."

Pu Yiyang sat with her again, and when she finished drinking the rest of the tea, the two of them walked back to school together.

When they were about to part, Ding Miaomiao suddenly asked, "Are you still playing that game?"

Pu Yiyang smiled: "Hit, nerd, it's just fun."

Ding Miaomiao glanced at him: "You really haven't changed at all."

Pu Yiyang: "Recently, a new map has been released, which is very interesting."

Ding Miaomiao showed no interest: "See you when you have time."

Pu Yiyang: "See you when I'm free."

He didn't know whether this free view referred to online or offline.

He stood at the fork in the road for a while, watching Ding Miaomiao go away, then turned around and wandered back to the mathematics department building with two bags of coffee and the half-drunk can of Coke.

With the big noon incident, Pu Yiyang was a little absent-minded throughout the afternoon, and got several worried eyes from Chang Yuan. When it was time to get off work, he hurriedly cleaned up and rolled back home smoothly.

When he got home, he took another can of Coke from the refrigerator, sat cross-legged on the carpet in the living room, and took the computer on the sofa with him.

Familiar with the road, log in to the game.

The game he has been playing is called DELTA Quadrant, a multiplayer online role-playing game, and the developer is the well-known FREE company in the industry. It has been ten years since DELTA came out. Over the past ten years, it has occupied the top position in the game market revenue every year. Such brilliance can be described as legendary.The reason why DELTA can have such enduring vitality is precisely because it is the first video game that realizes brain-computer docking, allowing players to truly "enter" the virtual world.

At this moment, a dialog box popped up on the game interface in front of Pu Yiyang.

"Please choose whether to connect to the connected device."

There was a pair of dusty earphone-like devices lying under Pu Yiyang's feet, which were already covered with dust. He didn't even look at it, and directly moved his finger to the "No" option.

It's been ten years and I still can't skip this step.Pu Yiyang knew very well that these days, there are fewer and fewer traditional players like him who refuse to connect their brains to computers and insist on sitting outside the screen to control their characters.

One day, there will be no place for them in this game, right?

Not now, though.

After logging in, Pu Yiyang's own character appeared on the screen.

It was a human male youth in his early twenties, with good facial features, ordinary, dressed in mixed equipment from head to toe, carrying a large suitcase, covered with a dirty turban and robe, dressed like a tramp picking up trash Han is almost the same.

He even has a strange name, "passing by".

When I passed by, I was standing on a crowded street.

The street itself can't be said to be narrow, but the road surface is occupied by shops on the left and right sides.Most of those shops are in tents. The tents are high and low, colorful, shoulder to shoulder, winding up along the street terrain. At a glance, it looks like wild flowers blooming on the hillside.

This is Siam City, the most visited town map in DELTA, located on the Puran Star in the neutral area.Planet Puran is a well-known mineral colony, and it belongs to the middle ground of the largest forces in this quadrant. The city is notoriously chaotic with people coming and going.

The most famous street in Siam City is this street, because there is no need to pay taxes to any guild, so regardless of race and occupation, any DELTA player can set up a stall on this street.

When people come, they set up the cheapest tent and put the products they want to sell on the ground, and it becomes a temporary shop for passers-by to choose from.When the goods are sold out and the tents are collected, the empty berths will be filled by the next players waiting in line.The goods sold on the street range from the most common local black gold ore to the extremely rare Shakaka beast brains for race transfer. Old players have a word to describe the Siam market. The things you have lived, here, there are only things you can't think of, and there is nothing you can't find.

And those who pass by come here, there is exactly the "thing" they are looking for.

Pu Yiyang looked at the time in reality, and told the passers-by to walk about ten meters along the crowded street, then turned around and turned into a deeper alley.This place is even more cramped than the outside, and there are still different shops along the road, but the colors of the tents are far less bright than those outside.A tent with holes in it stood crookedly on the ground supported by stones and wood that increased year by year. Most of them could no longer tell the original color. If it was windy and rainy in the game, the whole row of soft The collapsed rotten balloon roof has to fly out.

Passers-by stepped on the dirty muddy ground and continued to walk. Not long after, there was an extra hand on the shoulder.To be fair, in DELTA, non-brain-computer access players can only use the No.1 perspective.He couldn't see what was behind him, only a blue arrow in the air in front of him reminded him that there were other players approaching behind him.

Pu Yiyang put his finger on the button of the attack skill and turned his perspective at the same time.

It was a green-skinned and orange-haired woman from the Biroro tribe, wearing a low-cut tight leather skirt, which clung to her like a snake, and her plump breasts were pressed against the passing arms.

In this narrow alley where you can't even walk with your legs open, who knows how she sneaked in quietly.

"Handsome guy," the woman Biroluo put on a coquettish makeup, quickly piled up a skillful sweet smile, and at the same time took the hand of the human youth and put it on her strong and smooth thigh, "One hundred spars, you will be happy." .”

Pu Yiyang, who was outside the screen, stared at the passing hand that was about to be forced into someone's skirt, moved his empty paw, scratched his eyebrows, and told the woman through the microphone: "Cough, let's say it first, it's not you Not enough charisma...it's the, uh, I don't have that..."

The woman immediately jumped a step away, brushed her arms, and let out a "cut" from her beautiful lips full of disdain: "It turned out to be a waste of my time."

After she finished speaking, she twisted her slender waist, gracefully dodged under the tent on one side, and went to look for the next guest.

Pu Yiyang scratched his eyebrows again with regret, shook his head, and was about to turn around when he found another person standing behind him.

"No? Hahaha, she said you can't..." The visitor laughed out loud, and the laughter shook Pu Yiyang's ears through the earphones, "I said brother, you haven't been able to do it for so long, do you want me to borrow it, brother?" Your sub-equipment makes you officially 'individual'?"

Pu Yiyang made the passerby turn around, tilted his neck, and distanced himself from the laughing man who hooked his shoulders: "Thank you, I'm not like some people, I'm not interested in sleeping with a ladyboy .”

The short Hobbit standing next to him froze for a moment, held back for a while, his face swelled up like a round eggplant, and he gritted his teeth, "Don't mention it, okay? I'm going to lose my face for most of my life."

This hobbit looks like a purple tree stump, but has a very girly ID named "Just a Kitten", known as Brother Cat, and he is the best news dealer in the Delta quadrant.Players in DELTA, some like to live in a corner and farm, some like to gallop the universe to fight and kill, and there are also like Brother Cat, who don’t do production all day long, don’t fight monsters and fight equipment, just hang out with the crowd and sell various colors Messages to exchange resources to gain a foothold in the game.

Brother Mao is also one of the first batch of DELTA players. He has known the passers-by for a long time. He is an acquaintance. He used to be a screen streamer. He didn't buy the first set of brain-computer access equipment until not long ago.Others may not know the reason why Brother Mao changed the equipment, but Pu Yiyang knows it very well. It is not for anything else, but for a "woman".

It was a rare human female, a pure novice, who was passing by and selling things in the No. [-] space station with the old cat, and she ran into her, and was once tightly entangled.Pu Yiyang didn't like to form a team when he played games, so he didn't pay much attention to that girl, until one time in the high-difficulty map Silent Star Zone, he ran into Lao Mao driving the latest miniature battleship with the girl to fight monsters, and he sniffed out a little bit of it. signs.

Lao Mao, the reason why he can play like this in DELTA is because he is known to be budget-conscious and never takes risks. Let alone battleships, he usually refuses to buy an energy gun at all. In his words , Anyway, if you don't go to fight monsters, buying any equipment is pure waste.It is because of a woman that so much blood has been spilled right now, and everyone knows Sima Zhao's heart.

After a while, the old cat happily told Pu Yiyang that he bought a computer-connected device and was going to bid farewell to screen streaming.When Pu Yiyang heard it, he couldn't understand it. It must be because of that incident that allowed a conservative person like Lao Mao to accept brain-computer access.

Pulling hands, kissing, hugging, and even more... Brain-computer access has been developed for ten years, and all the senses in the game can be perfectly simulated. Players who choose to live a couple life in DELTA Not a few, there are even players who come to play games specifically to experience virtual sex.

Pu Yiyang doesn't care about his friend's private life. Judging from the purple and good looks on Brother Mao's face when he saw Lao Mao a few times later, he and that girl must be living in harmony.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, only half a month passed, and Pu Yiyang ran into Brother Mao again in Siam City, and his whole body withered.

"Brother, I will never do such a stupid thing again," the old cat cried on the phone with snot and tears, "This bloody device is harmful."

It was only later that Pu Yiyang found out that it was the old cat who was having too much affection with his little girlfriend in the game, and was unable to hold back his love for a while. He wanted to replicate this good marriage in reality, but ended up flying thousands of dollars. Kilometer went to the door and found that the other party was actually a man.

Not only a man, but also a bean sprouts who didn't graduate from junior high school.

The other party opened an account with his grandfather's ID card. Hearing that girls are easy to get benefits when playing games, he opened a female account. When doing that kind of thing with the old cat, the system will automatically open a system without doing anything. Whoring a bunch of good resources for nothing.

The well-informed master cat will be completely planted at this time, planted in the hands of a little furry boy, lost in life and property, physically and mentally injured, holding the phone and wailing for a long time, turning around and vowing to throw away the connected equipment up.

Pu Yiyang is quite a kind person, knowing that poking someone's scar is enough, so he asked the passerby to pat the old cat on the shoulder, and said, "Okay, let's not talk anymore, let's go to the old place, let's talk about the Star of the Voyage .”

Voyage Star is the new map he and Ding Miaomiao proposed.

He wanted to go to that place to explore, but before he went, he needed some news.

The old cat is also a person who is used to doing business, so he no longer worries about the spring and autumn, and leads the passers-by to the tavern at the end of the alley.

Just walking, Pu Yiyang felt that something was wrong, so he paused.

The old cat asked, "What's the matter?"

Pu Yiyang narrowed his eyes behind the lens, and scanned the screen: "Someone seems to be looking at me."