The Pentium Era - South to North

"Xiaoshu, do you want to play "Legend"?" Zhang Chen asked Xiaoshu.

"Don't play." Xiaoshu shook his head and said, "If we don't have that time, there are people in our class who play. After playing that, people are basically useless."

"Why?" Liu Ligan asked.

"I don't even have time to draw properly, let alone conceive. I'm all focused on games. All day long, I just want to run to the Internet cafe outside the school gate. I went to that Internet cafe. Oh my god, there's a whole Internet cafe. There are more than a hundred people, all playing "Legend", or in the same guild.

"At eight o'clock in the evening, the sand attack operation started, that is, everyone collectively attacked the Shabak Palace. Good guy, it was like a war in the Internet cafe. That should be the leader of their guild, holding a loudspeaker and shouting He directs everyone how to act, where to attack, and how warriors, Taoist priests and mages cooperate with each other.

"After two hours, some attacks were successful, and it is said that some attacks failed. Whether it was success or failure, the excitement and frustration of everyone in the Internet cafe was beyond description. At that time, everything except the game, I can guarantee, They have all been forgotten." Xiaoshu said.

"If I go, that's equivalent to two hours of meetings and study every day. Who can stand it?" Liu Ligan said.

"It's not just two hours, we have to concentrate at basically seven o'clock, and it's not just sand attack operations." Xiaoshu said, "You also have to do tasks, dig mines and fight monsters. Some monsters also require everyone to fight together. After you die, things will explode after you kill them. Everyone grabs them. Whatever you grab depends on your luck. If you don’t spend a long time, how will you upgrade and how will you get the equipment? Unless you are very rich."

"Playing a game, what does it have to do with whether you have money or not?" Zhang Chen was puzzled and asked. He remembered that he didn't spend any money.

"Of course it costs money. It sounds like a game, but it's actually about money. Only rich people can show off their power in it. It's more realistic than the real world. I heard them say that those who are in the limelight in the game are all spending money. Tens or even hundreds of thousands." Xiaoshu said.

"So much? How was the money spent?" Zhang Chen was surprised and asked quickly.

"Buy some cards. It seems like you need to pay a few dollars every hour you play, but this is the most basic and cheapest option. The bulk of it is finding someone to train and buy equipment."

"What do you mean?" Zhang Chen asked.

"You want to upgrade, but you don't have that much time to complete tasks. If you want to build equipment, you need to kill monsters and mine. Equipment is dropped from monsters after killing them, or dug out from mines. , if you don’t have time to be online all day long, just ask someone to help you level up and play online 24 hours a day instead of you. This way you can level up quickly.

"The equipment inside, whether it is clothing, weapons, a ring, a glove, or a belt, anyway, everything has offensive and defensive power. If you want to live a long time, you can't be attacked. Damn it, if you want to be popular in there, your equipment must get better and better. There is actually no limit to this.

"Especially some equipment is difficult to obtain. You can't even buy it. So what should you do? Just buy it. Top-quality equipment, rare equipment, the asking price is tens of thousands. Think about it, you have to get it from start to finish. How much does it cost to fully equip yourself?

"So, this game is very boring. If you have money, you want to level up quickly, find someone to train for you, think about the equipment, and buy it. Rich people are in it, and they can get ahead quickly. People without money, Don't be stupid. It's useless to fight and practice every day on your own. When you can't get ahead no matter how hard you try, isn't it crueler than reality?"

Liu Ligan and Zhang Chen looked at each other, and Liu Ligan said, "Not bad, Xiaoshu, you don't play with this, but you still know a lot about it."

"I told you, my classmates were playing. I went to watch it with them. After watching it for two nights, I realized that this is such a boring thing. Once you get involved in it, it will be like taking drugs, and you will be led away by it. No, it's a waste of money and time, and you're useless.

"It will also give people a false feeling. You are majestic inside and think you are a big shot. But when you come out, you are actually nothing, just a waste that has wasted everything. I don't even know. When these people return to reality, will they feel lost, and will they immediately want to run back to the game?

"After I understand this, I will never touch it again. However, I might draw a series of paintings of Internet cafes. I would like to draw the faces of all living beings in the Internet cafes. It is so interesting. I want to paint them all with red and swollen eyes and messy hair. Isn’t there a big contrast between the picture of a depressed-looking person and his all-powerful image on the Internet?”

As Xiaoshu said, Liu Ligan and Zhang Chen nodded constantly, feeling that Xiaoshu really wanted to understand, but it would be too difficult for Zhang Xiangbei to understand this. At the same time, what Xiaoshu said, once he gets involved Once you get on it, you will be led by it. Zhang Chen felt that it was really true that he was in the game and was being directed to go here and there, as if he could not help himself.

After eating, Liu Ligan said he would go to the bowling alley owned by Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, to play bowling. Zhang Chen said he was a little tired and wanted to rest for a while, so you go first.

Liu Ligan and Xiaoshu left.

As soon as they left, Zhang Chen immediately returned to the computer and re-entered the game. He was a little surprised by his move. He was a little tired in some way, and he was completely thinking about the game.

Zhang Chen smiled bitterly. While lamenting his lack of self-control, he comforted himself that he was not playing a game, but wanted to figure out what the game was about for Zhang Xiangbei.

When he was thinking like this, he felt weak in his heart. Do you want to understand? Xiaoshu has already made it clear to you, what else do you want to find out? Figure it out, it’s just a cover to deceive yourself, right?

Zhang Chen resisted feebly, and finally had to admit that he just wanted to play. After admitting that he just wanted to play, when the addiction was so strong, Zhang Chen thought again, it seems that Zhang Xiangbei is the one who inherited it from him. This is the style of having a father.

Zhang Chen broke into a cold sweat. He wanted to stand up from the computer immediately, but there seemed to be an invisible force that made him unable to move or stand up. His mind was thinking wildly, but his hands were never idle. He kept clicking the mouse to complete the task. One mission after another.

"One hour, another hour of playing, and I won't play anymore."

Zhang Chen set a time limit for himself. After the time limit, he suddenly became more relaxed. He looked at his watch and saw that he could play freely within an hour.

Soon, he reached the seventh level. After reaching the seventh level, if he continued to play, he would have to pay. Zhang Chen looked at his watch. There were still more than forty minutes left before the hour he agreed to. Zhang Chen took the money from his wallet. I took out my bank card, followed the path indicated above, step by step, and paid two hundred yuan into my account.

Zhang Chen was lucky. When he was fighting scarecrows in the Woma Forest, he got an ebony sword. This sword assisted him and upgraded quickly. However, the hour he had set was almost up, and Liu Ligan called. Come over and ask him why he hasn't come yet.

Zhang Chen wanted to say in his heart that he would do it right away, but when he said it, he said, "I'm too tired, forget it, you guys can play, I can't come over."

After hanging up the phone, I told myself that since I was no longer going, I would play for another hour.

Having made up his mind, he started visiting weapon stores, clothing stores, and jewelry stores in Beech City, and changed everything on his body, not just once, but several times. He had to visit almost every time he leveled up. See if there are more powerful weapons suitable for this level, and if so, replace them immediately.

At this time, he could enter the Centipede Cave to fight monsters. If he died in the middle of the fight, he would die and return to Beech City, and then he would run hard there again. Time was wasted on the road. He realized the little tree's In short, if you want to live for a long time without being beaten to death, you must have good equipment. Really, change it.

The money was soon running out, so he added another five hundred. At this time, the hour he expected had already passed. Since he has such good equipment, wouldn't it be a pity not to play for a while? Isn't the money wasted in vain? He kept comforting himself with such words.

The sound of people talking came from the yard outside. Zhang Chen was startled and stood up quickly, minimizing the game interface. He looked at the time and saw that it was already nine forty. He thought it was Xiao Zhao and Tan Shuzhen who were back. He walked to the door, opened it, and Zhang Chen breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out to be Xu Qiaoxin and Ge Ling, not Tan Shuzhen and Xiao Zhao.

At ten o'clock, Zhang Chen's cell phone rang. He picked it up and it was Xiao Zhao. Zhang Chen quickly asked: "Have you finished watching the movie?"

"It's over, we are all home." Xiao Zhao said.

"Are you home?" Zhang Chen asked strangely, "What about Tan Shuzhen, why didn't you see her?"

"We sent her downstairs and then came back. She should have gone back to her room." Xiao Zhao said.

Zhang Chen responded with "oh oh".

"Dear, are you still in the office?" Xiao Zhao asked.

Zhang Chen said yes, he was working on something and I might come back later.

“From Target?”

Zhang Chen answered vaguely.

"Okay, I'll wash up and go to bed first." Xiao Zhao said.

Zhang Chen quickly said: "Okay, you go to bed first."

Putting down the phone, Zhang Chen felt his face burning. He remembered what he said in the office that morning, "The worst-case scenario is that he lies randomly because he wants to avoid this matter." Zhang Chen didn't. Thinking of it, it was not Zhang Xiangbei who lied randomly, but himself.

"Zhang Chen, you are really rotten." Zhang Chen scolded himself, but a voice in his heart immediately said: "If you are rotten, just rot, just for one day."

Zhang Chen walked to the door again, opened the door, and looked towards the dormitory building. He saw that the lights in Tan Shuzhen's room were on, and Liu Ligan's room was still dark. This guy hadn't come back yet. After closing the door, Zhang Chen thought After thinking about it, he reached out and turned off the lights in the office. In the whole room, there was only a little light from the computer screen.

In this way, when Liu Ligan comes back, he will think that there is no one in the office, otherwise, this guy will come in and refuse to leave.

Zhang Chen sat back in front of the computer, preparing to enter Centipede Cave again.

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