(It is recommended to watch the movie "Ready Player One".)
When Wu Siyuan's consciousness woke up from chaos, he had completely absorbed all the memories of the original owner.
His current location is in the stacked area of Columbus, Ohio.
The duplex area can also be said to be a slum area.
It was a residential building made of various prefabricated houses stacked on top of each other, like an old tin box that was worn out and worn out.
The prefabricated house has no real foundation and is connected by recycled iron pipes, beams, steel brackets and pedestrian bridges. Oh, by the way, there may be a few old-fashioned cranes.
The top floors of these [residential buildings], or [roofs] if they look like that, are covered with a layer of worn-out solar panels, providing the users of the [residential buildings] with what little energy they have left, a bundle of
Bundles of crumpled hoses are tangled in every building. They are pipes for water and sewage.
The sunlight barely reaches the bottom of the stacked buildings. The dark and narrow gaps between the buildings are filled with abandoned cars and trucks. Their fuel tanks are empty and the paths forward and backward are blocked.
These [residential buildings] stand directly on the ground, or are built on the original concrete foundations. Over the past few years, reinforced by scaffolding, they have been added haphazardly and slowly extended toward the sky.
Because, now in 2045, the rich are getting richer, while the number of poor people is increasing.
This is a chaotic, painful, and fallen world.
In the 24 years after 2021, the world has not turned into the imagined utopia. On the contrary, because the energy required to maintain a huge world civilization is an astronomical figure, even if the earth has accumulated countless resources over the long years, this [inventory]
, and due to human beings' constant demands over the years, most of them have been consumed, even reaching a critical situation.
This is the global energy crisis that occurred before the male protagonist Wade, possessed by Wu Siyuan, was born, and it has been going on for a long time.
The world has not developed more efficient energy utilization methods, and the fossil fuel (boiling water) model is still the mainstream energy source in this world.
Because the world does not have enough energy to enable this civilization to maintain its previous operations, human civilization has regressed.
In addition, burning fossil energy also brings strong side effects, such as rising temperatures and environmental damage.
Polar glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, the climate is becoming more and more abnormal, animals and plants are becoming extinct at an accelerated rate, and there are countless victims who are homeless and starved of food.
And for the few remaining resources, humans are still fighting endlessly.
This is an energy war.
Human beings cannot feel happiness in the real world, so they have devoted themselves to the virtual world.
Yes, in the world that Wu Siyuan traveled to, virtual technology is powerful.
Human beings can enter the virtual world anywhere on the earth through VR equipment, and can do whatever they want, as long as there is network, electricity, and virtual currency.
Yes, the virtual world Wu Siyuan mentioned is [Oasis]!
After he received the memory of the male protagonist Wade, he knew what kind of world he had come to!
The world of the movie "Ready Player One"!
Interestingly, after Wu Siyuan absorbed the memory of the male protagonist, he discovered that it was the operation of global virtual technology that caused the demand for energy to increase exponentially. However, humans in this world have not developed a more efficient way to utilize energy, so they
leading to a serious energy crisis.
The energy crisis has in turn caused a social crisis.
But it is the serious social crisis that makes more people choose to escape reality and enter the virtual world, consuming more energy.
Of course this is off topic.
The development of virtual technology has also promoted the development of society in many aspects.
For example, the male protagonist Wade, possessed by Wu Siyuan, lost his parents when he was young. He stayed at his aunt's house and slept on the front-loading washing machine. He was brought up by the interactive education program "Oasis". This system is free and easy.
Get started and accessible to all children.
It was a virtual community called [Sesame Street]. In addition to puppets that sang with him, there were also a variety of interactive games that taught him how to walk, arithmetic, read, write and share with others - this is Jiuzhanque
The information Wu Siyuan of Chao obtained from the memory of the male protagonist Wade.
Let’s talk about [Oasis].
[Oasis] is a huge multiplayer online role-playing game. This global online virtual world has gradually become an indispensable part of the daily lives of most people in the world.
[Oasis]’s unprecedented success has made its founder [Halliday] the richest man in the world.
The company he founded with his other partner Moreau is now the world's largest company by market capitalization.
Halliday had no descendants. Until his death, he was an introverted bachelor who was addicted to the game world.
Before he died, he sent a deathbed video to [Oasis] users around the world.
In this video, Halliday said that before he died, he created what the industry calls an "Easter Egg"!
It is an item hidden in a game. The person who finds it will gain special powers. The first person to find the Easter egg I have hidden somewhere in the oasis will inherit the shares of the social game company he holds, which currently exceeds
Five hundred billion US dollars.
Yes, Halliday is the richest man in the world, with assets exceeding US$500 billion, which is more than 3 trillion yuan.
In the real world, Wu Siyuan's nominal assets combined cannot compare to him.
The real richest man!
In addition to more than $500 billion in social gaming company stocks, whoever discovers the [Easter Egg] will also have complete control over [Oasis].
Halliday used his game character in [Oasis], the omniscient and omnipotent Arnock, to create three keys.
Three keys correspond to three secret doors.
The quality of the players will be tested here. Only those who ride the wind and waves and overcome many difficulties can reach the other shore and obtain all their wealth.
It's a Halliday Easter egg hunt.
And those who participate in this competition are called [Easter Egg Hunters]!
But that was five years ago.
So far, only one person has discovered clues to Halliday's treasure, and then a portal appears in the virtual world.
Entering the portal, you will come to a deadly racing track.
Only those who clear this racing track can get the first key.
And now there is no one!
no one!
Can you successfully pass this track filled with [T-Rex], [King Kong] and other disasters!
But the temptation of 500 billion US dollars makes some people in this world still enjoy it!
Wu Siyuan had watched this movie before traveling through time.
He naturally knows how to pass this track, and he also knows how to get Hades’ easter egg!
But what he wants is not the 500 billion US dollars!
Wu Siyuan is not interested in money!
He still misses the days when he could earn thousands of dollars a month and after paying the rent, all that was left was money for food.