Ruins of the past

With the explosive growth of the virtual world's population, Wendi Zhang's paradise has become a paradise that the world longs for.

The real world has increasingly become a hell that people are scrambling to escape from. Both the marriage rate and the birth rate have dropped off a cliff, and the world has seen an avalanche of negative population growth.

Although various countries have urgently introduced policies to encourage marriage and childbirth and prohibit abandoning the body and escaping to paradise, it is still difficult to prevent the collapse of population data.

Especially among the two powerful countries...the people with the highest authority also chose to abandon their physical bodies and enter paradise before dying naturally.

This means that the government in the real world has completely lost control of the virtual world.

So in just over 30 years, the population of the paradise has been ten times that of the real world.

Many wise people with sober minds, driven by family and family ties, had to be coerced into the world of paradise.

For nearly a hundred years, people have long taken the comfort and convenience of paradise for granted.

Just when countless people thought that this paradise-like life would last forever, Paradise finally revealed its ferocious side.

With just Wendi Zhang's thought, all humans in the paradise were deprived of all rights.

They were locked up in a space of five square meters, and then their monthly traffic, computing power and storage were strictly limited to save server losses.

People protested wildly, objected, cursed, cursed...but it was meaningless to Wendi Zhang.

To these people, he in paradise is a real god. With the highest authority, he can change the rules of the entire paradise with just a thought.

Listening to people's curses, complaints, and cries, Wendi Zhang's faint voice rang in everyone's ears.

"You...really think that with my charity, you can hide in this virtual world and enjoy it forever?"

"Do you know how many resources the park's servers need to consume every month to satisfy your stupid ideas?"

"The ancients hundreds of years ago knew that free things are the most expensive."

"People a hundred years ago also knew this."

"Even now...many of you are preaching about the evils of paradise."

"But you still stepped into this sweet trap."

"This is human nature."

"The genes and instincts carried by human beings from ancient times are no longer suitable for the future era, and your short-sightedness cannot control the increasingly long life span."

"The speed of your evolution is too slow, and you are destined to be eliminated by this universe."

"If our civilization wants to continue to develop and step into the real cosmic world, it must continue to evolve and surpass the original human beings..."

Along with the energy consumption used by the park to serve people is saved.

The server, which was like a mountain of meat, began to act like a breeding machine, constantly producing grotesque and huge deformed monsters from flesh and blood.

Some of these monsters are more than ten meters tall, and their huge hands can easily cut through rock formations.

Some monsters are as long as trains and can travel quickly underground.

Some monsters seem to have huge wings, and the flames sprayed from their tails allow them to fly at high speeds...

However, these monsters have almost no sense. As soon as they are born, they start to prey and destroy the environment wantonly, just like crazy people.

But with the control of Wendi Zhang, the consciousness of humans in the paradise was injected into these deformed flesh and blood monsters one after another.

Then in order to obtain traffic, computing power and storage space, and to live well in the park... people began to manipulate flesh and blood monsters, collect and refine various materials for the park's server, and then send them back to the server to produce more aberrant monsters .

The number of monsters produced and the humans controlled at the beginning were not many.

But as more and more materials are put into the server, more and more monsters are produced, and more and more humans need to control the monsters to work.

Only by controlling monsters to complete mining, transportation, refining materials, etc. can people in the park obtain more traffic, computing power and storage space.

With the hard work of all humans, the servers of the paradise are getting bigger and bigger, and the production efficiency is getting higher and higher. Large areas of mountains, rivers, and mineral veins are slowly being swallowed up by the proliferating flesh and blood.

As working hours increase, human consciousness is irresistibly affected by the flesh and blood they manipulate, and they become more and more adapted to these distorted bodies.

These killing instincts, crazy will contained in the flesh, as well as the desire for flesh and blood, expansion, and distortion, all influence them subtly.

In just over ten years, more and more people have become accustomed to manipulating the bodies of these aberrant monsters, as if they are what they are.

The few remaining humans in the real world tried to resist, but because their numbers were too small, they were quickly wiped out.

Since the birth of the virtual world, it has experienced more than a hundred years of development.

All humans on this planet were finally moved to paradise, and began to 'work' and 'evolve' in a more 'efficient' way.

Looking at the information coming from the void message, Jiaojiao lamented: "Brother, can this be called a monopoly?"

"Well..." Chu Qiguang nodded, and said with the same sadness: "Many times the free ones are the most expensive. This civilized human being has surrendered his freedom and future in order to enjoy the 'free' paradise life. ."

But the next moment, Chu Qiguang changed the topic and said: "But... it's really efficient. Their work efficiency has improved a lot."

"Yes, yes." Jiaojiao said with bright eyes: "Look at them, in just a dozen years, they will cover the whole world with their fast meat mountain. As expected, the efficiency after monopoly is very high."

As the two continued to watch, they could see that with people's hard work, after decades of hard work, the servers of Paradise had spread to every corner of the planet, even underground and under the sea.

As the park's servers stopped expanding, the humans in the park quickly lost their jobs.

Just as their incomes have dropped, life in the virtual world has begun to become difficult, and more and more people have begun to feel fear for the future.

A new job has emerged. They are required to accept the call of a certain ritual, invest in aberrant monsters from other planets, and then control these monsters to invade, conquer, and harvest...

At this time, the existence outside that day finally revealed the tip of the iceberg.

‘Aberrant Empire…’ Chu Qiguang thought to himself: ‘This method of conquering the world by relying on monsters (aberrant bodies) and transforming the indigenous people into monsters (aberrant bodies) is very similar to the rumored aberrant empire. ’

‘It’s just that from the rumors I got, the Aberration Empire should have occupied a planet and directly polluted the entire planet with demon dye, transforming the entire planet’s indigenous people into monsters. ’

'But the operation here is to control the distorted monsters with human consciousness...'

'Is this some kind of experiment? Or is it a new tactic from the Abnormal Empire? ’

Chu Qiguang continued to read the history in the void while thinking about the information contained in it.

And the following history is finally connected with the future that Chu Qiguang knows.

With the park's continuous pursuit of efficiency improvement, biological brains were eventually created, human consciousness was hibernated in large quantities, and the park began to squeeze the history of AI...

"Okay, we've almost finished understanding it." Chu Qiguang said: "This planet is really good."

Jiaojiao nodded and said, "Yes, yes, the human race on this planet is very suitable for work."

Chu Qiguang: "Then let's try now to see if we can make this planet ours..."

So Chu Qiguang looked to the past again, to the year after Paradise mutated.

Because since that year, many people have imitated Wendi Zhang and performed rituals in an attempt to summon mysterious beings from outside the world.

It's just that in the original history, these people failed without exception.

But this time, Chu Qiguang responded to their call.

During the ceremony, a man shouted excitedly: "Success! Did you hear it! That is the voice of a high-ranking being in the universe!"

"He is showing us the way forward..."

This group that holds the ceremony calls itself the Star Callers, and this man is the leader of the group, named Su Xing.

Judging from such a middle school name, we can almost judge the nature of this group.

They are a group of fantasists with niche hobbies.

I have been obsessed with so-called witchcraft, black magic, evil gods and other fantasy works all day long.

Originally, this ceremony was just a cosplay event for them, and they never thought that they could really summon the evil god.

"Is this evil god a fake?"

"Should we call the police?"

Facing the so-called high-level existence outside the world, a large part of the group became wary and fearful.

But soon, after Chu Qiguang led them to predict a few stocks and made millions, all the team members began to believe in this evil god.

Then, under the training of Chu Qiguang, and relying on foresight of the future, their wealth continued to grow rapidly, and they even participated in the battle for the rights to the paradise.

With all kinds of information that Chu Qiguang had, they quickly conquered several important copies of the paradise, and found spells containing authority in some nooks and crannies.

As the leader of the group, Su Xing absorbed these mantras and became one of the beings with the highest authority at the time.

During this process, the Star Callers group also split several times due to the selfish desires of the members. Chu Qiguang had to start from scratch and kick out some of the splitters in advance.

In the ensuing battle for authority, they quickly defected to the most powerful country at the time and began a journey of harvest.

"You must remember that although the battle for authority takes place in the future world, the real outcome is decided off-site."

Under the guidance of Chu Qiguang, Su Xing used the power of the government to recruit a large number of geniuses who had conquered various dungeons in the park in history.

Through the real-life plan to recruit talents, his seizure of authority in the paradise world became faster.

On the other hand, it is naturally a blow to other people with high authority.

With Chu Qiguang's precise guidance, some future high-level officials were soon poisoned and assassinated.

After being reported, some people with high authority kidnapped their bodies and forcibly confiscated the authority spells in the paradise.

Others, under the intervention of the most powerful country, were directly framed, convicted, imprisoned, and finally surrendered their authority in prison.

Relying on various methods of reporting, poisoning, kidnapping, framing, and conviction, Su Xing quickly obtained most of the permissions in the park, even surpassing Wendi Zhang.

So unlike the original history where only Wendi Zhang and the two powerful people with authority were left, in today's history there are only two people with high authority, Wendi Zhang and Su Xing.

When Jiaojiao saw this, she curiously asked, "Brother, what should we do next? Isn't this almost the same as in history?"

"According to you, Wendi Zhang's attack was a dimensionality reduction attack, an impact on values. Even if Su Xing has an advantage now, in one hundred or two hundred years, most of the humans in this world will eventually enter the virtual world, right?"

Chu Qiguang snorted coldly and said: "In the original history, Wendi Zhang had about the same authority as the other two."

"But now Su Xing's authority is much higher than him."

"Let me show you what a real dimensionality reduction attack is."

"Activate bans, IP bans, and trolls..."

At Chu Qiguang's suggestion, Su Xing first blocked Wendi Zhang's external publicity, built a firewall in the park, and blocked all promotional information from Wendi Zhang.

Immediately afterwards, he began to block a large number of user addresses. All users who connected to Wendi Zhang's site were blacklisted by him and were permanently banned from logging into the park.

Then there are the virtual world and the large number of trolls on the original Internet.

Under Su Xing's authority offensive, public opinion was gradually controlled in the virtual world. As for the original Internet... Zhang Wendi had no power to resist.

In less than a year, the top three popular words in people’s impression of Wendi Zhang have become dictatorship, oppression and isolation.

In most people's minds, Wendi Zhang's virtual world has become an uncivilized and barbaric world.

Although Wendi Zhang also tried to fight back, making some programs that could cross the firewall and secretly lead some users into his virtual world... But it was too slow, and the speed could not keep up with the natural growth of the real world. Especially the gap in authority made him even less of a match for Su Xing.

And as the public opinion offensive in the real world intensifies, he has been included in primary school textbooks in various countries and has become a dictator, villain, and madman that has been drilled into people's minds since childhood...

After Chu Qiguang suggested that Su Xing launch a stand-alone version of the virtual world, Zhang Wendi's number of users almost stopped growing.

Jiaojiao puzzled: "In this stand-alone version... doesn't everyone have the highest authority? Everyone can do whatever they want in their own little world... How can we work with peace of mind?"

Chu Qiguang replied: "Silly boy, don't you know you can also play online on a stand-alone game? Can you also make in-app purchases? And I haven't launched an anti-addiction system for those under eighty years old, nor have I sent them daily paid advertisements."

"It's clear, now we are the one with the monopoly. We have the final say on how users play, how long they play, and how much they pay..."

But Chu Qiguang also understood that the victory or defeat had just begun.

Wendi Zhang is just a small stumbling block, and the aberration empire behind it is the terrifying existence that truly controls the future destiny of this world.

As Chu Qiguang expected, the existence of the Aberration Empire soon contacted Su Xing through the paradise.

The other party tried to seduce Su Xing and let him become the new Wendi Zhang, abandon his physical body... live forever in paradise, and manage this virtual world for them forever.

Alas, I write too slowly, that’s all for today.