2052, Thirty Years Of Sleep

Early the next morning, Yan Muyun lay on the bed early and put on a virtual reality helmet.

It wasn't nine o'clock yet, but since he had nothing to do anyway, he planned to log in first to spend time with his parents.

His vision went dark, and as the electronic beep sounded in his mind, his vision gradually became clear again. What appeared in front of me was a room with a warm interior, which looked like the reception room of a luxury hotel.

It was raining lightly outside the window. Yan Muyun walked over and looked outside, only to see blue pipes as thick as spider webs extending in all directions, covering the entire city within sight.

This is the virtual community established by the Chinese government, "Fengdu".

It is a homophone taken from the ghost town "Fengdu" in myths and legends, which seems appropriate, because the permanent residents here are basically dead in the real world, and only their brains are left soaked in nutrient solution.

Just as Yan Muyun's thoughts were drifting aimlessly, a soft "ding" sound suddenly came from behind him. When he turned around, he saw a fluorescent blue light screen opening behind him at some point.

The face of his father, Yan Guocheng, was shown over there. He looked like he was in his twenties or thirties, with black hair in his prime. "Here you come? You play by yourself first. Your mother and I are playing mahjong with friends here. Come on." Time comes back.”

"Okay, you guys play." Yan Muyun smiled.

This is the benefit of having a legal identity. People can freely travel through this huge virtual community, have fun, socialize, and do whatever they want, just like they are in a carefree Garden of Eden.

In the past few years, although their father Yan Guocheng and mother Li Hui also had access to the Internet, they were limited to limited entertainment such as watching videos, checking information, and playing games. The actual scope of activities was only that wide, and the functions they could use were Also very limited.

However, when their consciousness was merged into "Fengdu", they could truly enjoy all the facilities in the virtual world. You can chat face to face with residents who live here in the same situation, meet up to play together, participate in activities, etc.

The difference is like a stand-alone game and an online game. Although the former is exquisite enough and the gameplay content is not much different from the latter, it is still a small personal world isolated from the world.

Yan Muyun was lying on the sofa, and with a thought in his mind, a row of dazzling game interfaces immediately appeared in front of him. He swiped randomly on it twice and found a retro-themed adventure game in another world.

As the electronic synthesized sound counted down, his vision blurred, and when he came back to his senses, he found that he was already in a world that was too beautiful and a bit too beautiful.

There are two suns hanging in the sky, one big and one small, one golden and one purple. The towering ancient trees are taller than the mountain peaks. From time to time, giant dragons fly overhead, casting large shadows on the ground.

After following the tutorial and selecting the initial weapon, Yan Muyun walked towards the chubby slime not far away, carrying the wooden sword and buckler.

...

After about half an hour, Yan Muyun was already a little tired. This game, which is famous in various forums for its sense of impact and monster difficulty, except for giving him a novel feeling at the beginning, is not interesting later on.

My real life is much more exciting, what’s so fun about games?

He was about to quit, but the system prompted that a new player was joining the game.

Each residence in Fengdu can be regarded as an independent individual. Except for people registered in the system, anyone who wants to enter needs the owner's consent.

My parents are playing mahjong with friends, and my nephew is squatting in the juvenile detention center. Naturally, there is only one person who can enter the room and join the game without my consent.

As expected, a figure appeared next to Yan Muyun after a while, but he was stunned for a moment.

It was a young man who looked to be about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a thin build and a shy and evil smile on his face. This was the younger brother Yan Muyun remembered, not the calm and experienced deputy director of the Special Branch in reality.

The young man waved the dual-wielding giant swords in his hands and said with a smile: "Let's see who kills more monsters."

However, Yan Muyun struck him in the head with a sword: "That's so boring."

Yan Yiming raised his hand and swept backhand one after another to force his brother back: "Then come on!"

When these two brothers played two-player games when they were children, their favorite game was the battle game. Even in cooperative games, as long as they can inflict damage on their friends or can harm each other, they will stay together most of the time.

...

When the time came to 9:10, Yan Guocheng and Li Hui returned from their friends' place.

The way they appeared was very interesting. In the arm-thick blue pipe outside the floor-to-ceiling window of the room, two light spots flying from the distance suddenly stopped, and then turned into two streams of light that passed through the virtual glass and fell on the floor. Became two living people.

The family of four happily chatted about their current situation, and the topic quickly developed in a direction they liked.

"Muyun, you've been in college for so long, do you have any girls you like?" Perhaps it was because her younger son's "beauty comes first" that Li Hui was very worried about her eldest son's life-long events. Asked last time.

"No, we only have classes and training in school, so there is no time for love." Yan Muyun said perfunctorily as usual.

Yan Yiming, who looked like a young man, glanced at his brother with a helpless expression. He knew the real situation of this guy. He slept almost every day, so how could he get so many classes and trainings.

Li Hui sighed: "You are already over fifty, why don't you start a family as soon as possible..."

Yan Mu interrupted his mother with a black line on his face: "Please, don't calculate my age like this."

Yan Guocheng cheerfully made a stab at the side: "Then you are already in your twenties, and you are about to retire soon."

"I'm only twenty-two! How can I count twenty!" Yan Muyun slapped the table and pointed to his brother next to him: "This guy is really at the age of five. You can urge him more when you have time."

"Him?" Unexpectedly, my parents rolled their eyes at the same time and snorted: "This guy is already hopeless, so we don't bother to care about him."

Yan Yiming scratched his head in embarrassment and looked at his brother with a dangerous look: How dare you divert misfortune?

Yan Muyun glared back: What?

Then he saw his younger brother coughing dryly and said, "Well... when you went to school before, wasn't there a girl who accompanied you specially? She should be the senior sister. Is there any story about you two later?"

Upon hearing this, Yan Guocheng and Li Hui's eyes lit up and they looked at their eldest son expectantly.

However, Yan Muyun was confused: "Ah? Who are you talking about?"