The more he understood the world, the more he became confused.

This is a closed world, and everyone Chu Qiguang knows lives in the so-called Qiming Apartment.

All the staff live in separate rooms like him. In addition to eating and sleeping, the most important thing every day is to work.

There are countless staff members in the entire apartment. After so many people gather together, the work they have to do every day is to play games.

The content of the game seems very boring to Chu Qiguang. He just lies down in the steel coffin called the 'virtual warehouse', then enters the world of the virtual game, and goes to various maps with different styles to fight and collect.

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Depending on how many tasks are completed, workers can receive monetary rewards.

Although the special effects of the virtual game are good, the game itself has no gameplay in Chu Qiguang's opinion.

And the remuneration seemed to him very cheap. He often worked 40 hours a week and could only buy basic nutritional supplements to make ends meet.

You have to work 60 hours a week to get a few fresh meals.

And if you work more than 80 hours a week, you can eat all kinds of chicken, duck, cattle and sheep, as well as all kinds of vegetables and fruits.

But there are still many people who work more than 100 hours a week because they can purchase various value-added services.

For example, expanding the room to 30 square meters, changing the room environment, buying various furniture, watching movies and TV, buying other more fun virtual games, buying bionic robots...

The variety and quantity of these value-added services made Chu Qiguang secretly surprised when he saw them.

It is said that someone once saw... the top performer on this floor. Behind the door of the room he lived in was a manor of thousands of square meters, with rows of bionic maids, and even lakes, yachts and endless entertainment.

Games, endless entertainment works.

This is the goal of most people in the apartment.

In addition, there is also a very expensive value-added service, which is upgrade.

It is said that the apartment has a total of 9999 floors. Each time you upgrade one floor, you can enjoy more and better value-added services.

It is said that there are more than 9,000 floors, and there are even value-added services such as modifying appearance, changing body shape, immortality, and becoming a god.

But even in Qiming Apartments, not everyone can live a good life.

For example, Matt, the former owner of Chu Qiguang's body, didn't know where he spent his money, leaving Chu Qiguang with only a small white house of ten square meters.

Chu Qiguang even saw a colleague whose room was only one square meter in size, and was completely dark and extremely depressing.

It is said that he continued to owe rent after purchasing value-added gambling services, so the size of his room was continuously reduced.

Chu Qiguang could feel that all the rules and systems in the apartment were trying their best to force everyone to play the game hard.

According to his calculations, if you want to have a room of more than 20 square meters, some furniture and life, eat some real food, and have 2 hours of entertainment per week with movies, TV shows or animation games, you will have to make at least 130 calls per week.

For games that last more than 1 hour, the average is 18.5 hours a day.

Even Chu Qiguang felt chilled when he saw this scene: 'It's so tragic. These bosses really should all be arrested and hung up street lights.'

At first, Chu Qiguang was confused as to why people in this world were so obsessed with playing games, but he soon learned the reason.

It was a happy time after another late night of overtime work.

He was already about to get off work, but was pulled by his group leader for a second overtime shift.

They appeared on an ancient-style map, trying to kill the people dressed as cultists on the map, and collect the books on the bookshelves one by one.

There was something very familiar to Chu Qiguang about those so-called 'cult members', which were the marks of Emperor Tian.

The cultists they are attacking are worshipers of Huangtian, and the books they collect are the knowledge passed down by Huangtian.

For the first time, Chu Qiguang realized that the game in front of him might be more than just a game.

Later, after several confirmations from him, he finally understood that the game was not a real game.

The scene that looks like a game is just a disguise. In fact, they are remotely controlling some kind of monster to control them and attack planet after planet and civilization after civilization.

And when he tried to read the books in the game, he found that the information in most of the books had been blocked.

Most of the people in this world are like parts on a huge machine. They work repeatedly day after day, spending a lot of time and energy to harvest the knowledge of various worlds for the upper class, but they can only get some fragments.

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Just when Chu Qiguang thought this was the truth, he realized that he still underestimated the capitalists in this world.

It was another day after get off work. Not long after Chu Qiguang returned to his room, he saw a projection appearing in front of him.

"Mr. Matt, your maintenance supplies will be exhausted in three days."

"Sustaining supplies?" Chu Qiguang was slightly stunned, with some bad premonitions welling up in his heart.

The next moment, the projection changed, and what appeared in front of him were rows of brains placed in the solution.

As the camera zoomed in and moved, it was placed in front of one of the brains, and the life-support device next to the brain emitted a faint yellow light.

"Sir, please see, your maintenance supplies have issued a warning. If you don't buy them again, there will be health risks."

Chu Qiguang sighed: "Matt is... also in the virtual world now?"

"Yes, sir, you have a cognitive bias? I happen to know a reliable psychiatrist. Do you need to introduce it to you? If you purchase ten remote treatments, you will get three free ones..."

Chu Qiguang knew that this was triggering another advertisement. While listening to the advertisement, he reorganized the structure of the world in his mind.

Originally, he thought it was bad enough that the people in this world had to work hard to play games every day just to get some normal food, entertainment and living environment.

The reality turned out to be worse than he imagined. Only after everyone worked hard could they obtain some virtual food, entertainment and living environment. They used their own labor to buy a bunch of codes that could be copied at will.

"Since it's already a virtual world, why don't you give us a little more space?"

Originally, he just asked casually, not expecting the advertising projection in front of him to answer him.

As a result, the other party actually answered: "Do you want to know the rules for using the virtual world and the history of the park's operation?"

Chu Qiguang's eyes moved: "Can you provide it?"

"Virtual world user usage rules, fee 100,000."

"Historical record of park operation, charging 20,000 yuan per year."

After Chu Qiguang was silent for a moment, he said with some admiration: "You still need to charge money for reading the user rules?"

The other party said: "Mr. Matt, please note that this is the code you signed after you agreed to it."

Chu Qiguang did not spend the money.

Because when he controlled Matt's body to observe the world, he was also collecting information in the void.

This information about paradise further completes his understanding of the world.

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More than two hundred years after this planet entered modern society.

The technology of the entire society has been highly developed, and most of the jobs have been replaced by machines.

At this time, a technology called virtual world was jointly created by dozens of multinational companies, and a super multinational company called Paradise was jointly established.

At the same time, the virtual world has received enthusiastic support from people from all over the world. Many people want to pursue their second life in it and pursue more relaxed enjoyment and entertainment.

The virtual world initially launched by the park was considered a paradise for mankind by all users who entered it.

The entire virtual world is free to use, in which you can enjoy large estates of several square kilometers, enjoy delicacies from all over the world, have various men and women who have appeared in history, and create your own space as you like, making yourself like a god

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Once this paradise-like virtual world was launched, it immediately became a hit around the world.

Almost 99% of people want to enter it and start a new life. Some countries are worried about the various side effects of the virtual world and try to legislate to prohibit people from indulging in it. They immediately encountered countless protests, opposition, and demonstrations at home and abroad.

In less than a year, the number of online users of the park has exceeded 500 million.

At that time, the park, which had always been free, transformed some of its free services into value-added services.

Many players immediately expressed their opposition.

The reason given by the park is that as the number of users increases, the server pressure increases sharply.

In particular, the park official pointed out that a large number of users create worlds unscrupulously and enjoy various services, which consume a lot of server computing power, storage space, and electricity every day...

The park stated that in order to maintain authenticity, the virtual world consumes a lot of computing power and electricity.

In addition, there are supporting maintenance such as cooling and consumables, as well as the resulting greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption, and environmental pollution caused by abandoned equipment...all are terrible figures.

According to many paradise experts, humans after entering paradise have entered an unprecedented era, and every thought they have is consuming a huge amount of resources in this world.

There is a folk legend that the craziest player in the park caused the server to burn out a hundred graphics cards every day.

Of course, this is just a folklore. Some players pointed out that its authenticity is not high, saying that the graphics card used by the park server has a complete parallel operation mechanism and will not burn up. However, the legend itself also illustrates many ideas at the time.

According to a large number of news reports, the development of real society has deviated from its original track. A large number of supporting industries for maintaining the park have flourished, and a large amount of resources have been used to maintain the operation of the virtual world.

In short... According to the paradise, if it continues to be free, it will go bankrupt. This paradise can no longer accept human beings' unbridled squandering.

At that time, people did not have much resistance to the park's value-added services. Some fanatic fans were even afraid that the park would go bankrupt and had already begun to advocate for the park to charge a full fee.

After the park launched value-added services, its revenue in the first month broke the record in human history.
Chapter completed!