Virtual space "second world".
The once prosperous Internet has experienced two setbacks and has now long since disappeared from the stage of history.
The first was the "Great Nirvana Period", when the world entered the end of the world. This was the collapse of order, and even more deadly was the emergence of the "second world", from the "Internet" to the "virtual world", which was a technological innovation.
The "Second World" is closely related to the lives of people on Earth.
This virtual space was originally built on a virtual host purchased on Qiulong Star. Virtual world technology is very mature in the universe and is not a scarce item, especially within the scope of the earth. The purchase price at that time was only 100 million Black Dragon Coins.
These include various functions, including learning, martial arts training, financial transactions, trial grounds, shopping, food, virtual games, etc.
However, this ordinary virtual host is inevitably a bit crude, and the homemade consciousness sensing helmet used is even more inconvenient.
Therefore, more resources were available afterwards, and this virtual host also underwent two upgrades.
The current version of the "Second World" virtual host is priced at three thousand Hunyuan units, which is comparable to the total wealth of many ordinary immortal gods, and the area it covers is only a radius of ten light years.
The previous primitive consciousness sensing helmets have long been abandoned. Now people on Earth use auxiliary optical computers, or more advanced "intelligent optical computers" to access the second world network.
The fact that a virtual host can reach such a price shows its quality. Even intelligent life cannot crack the detailed data in it, and the security of information can be guaranteed. The most noteworthy feature is the "Trial Field" function.
It is no exaggeration to say... before comprehending the laws, it is not inferior to the "killing field" in the virtual universe.
Looking at the entire universe, there is only one virtual world that allows people to practice the laws, and that is the "virtual universe" of the original universe.
Those who can comprehend the laws at the cosmic level can be called "galaxy-level" geniuses. Among the domain masters, those who cannot comprehend the laws are the majority, so this has no impact on the current Earth.
At this moment, a storm of discussion has been set off in the "Second World".
"Wow, did everyone see the fireworks outside?"
"That's not fireworks. It lasted for a long time. There was no smell of gunpowder. It must be a special secret method."
"Secret method? Oh my god, what secret method can cover the entire world?"
"Who do you think did this?"
Above the sky, the colorful lights flash in people's eyes, which is a very beautiful scene.
What makes everyone more interested is, who did this?
Some people guessed it was the country, because it is hard to imagine someone who has the ability to do this, but yesterday was definitely not a holiday, and there seemed to be no special reason.
Others confidently speculated that it was Luo Yanchang, the son of the Luo family, who was proposing to marry his girlfriend.
The Luo family is now the most famous family on earth.
In contrast, Thor has only one daughter. When she was young, she had a big gap with Thor and ran away from home. They reconciled only 16 years later, but she has become accustomed to an ordinary life.
Hong's descendants do not have outstanding talent as warriors. Hong himself has experienced the era of the world's strongest people and the ultimate martial arts school, so he does not care much about this aspect.
Lin Yan still has no children.
Therefore, the Luo family has many children and is the most powerful.
Xu Xin and Luo Hua both hold important positions in Jiuzhou Company and do not need Luo Feng's help. As department heads, their dividends are already very high. If they just invest a little in the development of the family, they will do very well.
Luo Yanchang is the eighth-generation grandson of Luo Feng.
This statement does make sense to many people.
but--
In a residential building in Tianjing City.
A young girl in her prime sat by the windowsill, looking up at the fireworks in the sky. The gorgeous light and shadow floated in her pupils. The basic information of the famous biologist Wen Zhian emerged in her mind, and she had a more certain answer in her heart.
"That person today really is the legendary Speaker Lin Yan."
"The man who, at only 21 years old, became the strongest in the world and dispelled the darkness when mankind was in despair."
She blinked and unexpectedly felt an inexplicable sense of happiness.
They have long been legends and myths, but with an unintentional glance, I actually witnessed their romantic story with my own eyes.
…
The heavy snow fell silently on their shoulders and hair. The moonlight was mottled, and the lights in the villa also cast a gentle halo.
Lin Tangtang quietly made a face for him, without disturbing the moment, and turned and walked into the house.
In the silver-white world, there are only lovers embracing each other.
The dense vines in the backyard quietly poked their heads out, their colors constantly changing, and the leaves swaying happily.
Wen Zhian didn't say anything, but just hugged tightly the person in front of him whom he had been thinking about day and night, feeling the warmth of his breath and listening to his strong heartbeat.
Lin Yan hugged her quietly with pure eyes.
In front of the balcony on the second floor of the villa, the whole family was watching this scene, with joy on their faces but tears flowing silently.
"Xiao Yan is back..." Qiu Baihui's eyes were red and her voice was a little dry.
Although it can be seen in the virtual universe, it is different. As a mother, how can you feel at ease if your child does not return home?
Lin Yuanhe stared at his son, who had grown to a level he could hardly imagine, lowered his head and sniffed.
He paused and said, "Let them stay for a while. We'll wait a little longer."
Wen Xiuyong's eyes were bright and he nodded.
This brat is finally back.
He was very satisfied with Lin Yan in other aspects, but there was only one thing that made him resentful, and that was that he was not at home.
After devouring the beast, he counterattacked the wilderness area. Wen Xiuyong thought that this kid had finally accomplished his mission and would settle down with his precious daughter. Unexpectedly, he went to the universe in the blink of an eye, and then participated in the Universe Human Genius Competition, won the first place in the universe, left the earth, and went to the biggest stage in the vast universe.
The father-in-law is feeling miserable.
But watching the development of the earth over the years, he also knew the reasons for all this, and he couldn't complain.
Because he understood that the man they had placed high hopes on since his youth had always been doing the right thing.
…
Lin Yan gently sniffed the fragrance of Wen Zhian's hair with a gentle look. At this moment, he remembered a long time ago when he dealt with the golden-horned beast and came back two years later.
It was snowing that day, and there was also such a beautiful moonlight.
Back then it was two years, but this time it has been more than two hundred years. What kind of longing must she have accumulated?
Different from yourself.
Besides her, there are many more things in Lin Yan's heart, including the earth, the universe, and a grander and more brilliant world. He will not stop for someone.
But for Wen Zhian, she is the most important part of her life.
Lin Yan's mind flashed back to when he first came into this world, that midsummer when he first met her as a young girl, and he recalled every little detail between them.
He hugged her tighter.
Lin Yan felt a little grateful in his heart, thanking her for her silent and firm choice.
"I have already arranged other things in advance when I come back this time. I will probably stay on Earth for a long time." Lin Yan said softly, "It will be longer than the time I am away."
Wen Zhian gently raised his head, looked at the man's face with clear eyes, and said in a dreamy voice: "Bad guy, I miss you so much."
"So I came back." Lin Yan rubbed her long hair.
He leaned close to her ear and whispered, "Zhi'an, do you remember what I said to you before I left?"
"Which sentence?" Wen Zhian showed a slight smile on his face, looking innocent but pretending not to know.
"What do you think our future child should be named?" Lin Yan's eyes were bright, and he boasted, "I've been thinking about this recently. After much thought, I finally came up with a few good names. You can choose one."
Wen Zhian looked at Lin Yan and felt a sense of security in his heart.
Because as long as he promised himself, he would definitely do it.
She didn't say anything, but her eyes flickered as if they could speak, fully conveying the meaning of "don't keep me in suspense".
So Lin Yan stopped hiding himself and began to show his amazing talent for naming in front of her.
I won’t pretend anymore, I’m going to reveal my cards!
I am the naming master!
Lin Yan laughed and said, "Although these names are all good, the name I am most satisfied with is 'Lin Teng'. I'm sure you will like it too."
He smiled smugly.
My son Lin Teng will definitely have the potential to become an emperor.
Wen Zhian looked at his smug look and felt a little confused.
Seeing that her reaction was not enthusiastic enough, Lin Yan thought that perhaps this name was not protagonist enough and could not carry the destiny of the most talented son of mankind, so he continued to test: "Lin Fan?"
"Think about it again." Wen Zhian shook his head, obviously dissatisfied.
Seeing this, Lin Yan quickly realized the mistake he had made. How could he allow someone to be blamed for something?
“Lin Dong!” He was full of confidence and pulled out his trump card, thinking that he would definitely get this name.
The ultimate in martial arts can shake the universe!
This is the sincere love of a father. If you can't become the master of the universe, don't come to see me.
"You should focus your efforts on other aspects. You have worked hard enough. Leave the name matter to me." Wen Zhian thought carefully and finally made this decision.
Upon hearing this, Lin Yan suddenly became anxious!
It turns out that novels are all lies. I still have to believe in my own wisdom as the greatest genius in human history.
He struggled desperately: "Lin Guaiguai!"
This name will surely awaken a woman's natural maternal love.
The last bit of reluctance in Wen Zhian's heart was cut off by Hui Jian. After friendly negotiations with Lin Yan, he cruelly deprived Lin Yan of the right to name the child.
She looked at Lin Yan with full vigilance. This man was very dangerous!
…
In the blink of an eye.
It's already the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month.
Lin Yan did not practice for a few days after he came back, but stayed with his family. From his family, he learned that Luo Feng's art had only been passed down for more than two hundred years, and it had already been passed down to the eleventh generation grandson. Lin Yan did not feel envious, but was secretly proud of himself.
My original decision was indeed the right one.
Thinking back to when they left, Luo Feng's family only had a few people, and his two sons were only 11 years old. Now, more than two hundred years have passed, and Luo Feng has not returned home, but he already has eleven generations of grandchildren, and the Luo family has a total of nearly two thousand people.
Luo Feng might think it’s a good idea, but Lin Yan has a different idea. If this happened to him, he would still be very troubled.
I'd better just give birth to my little Superman.
Lin Yan had just returned and would stay on Earth for a long time, so he was not in a hurry to upgrade Wen Zhian's genes to ten times immediately. He had to wait for some time, but in the past few days, he had been persisting in his ineffective efforts.
He is holy at heart.
Everything is for the great rejuvenation of the human race!
On the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, an uninvited guest appeared at home.
"Hello, Mr. Lin Yan."
"According to our investigation, your act of setting off fireworks has violated Article 8 of Chapter 2 and Article 30 of Chapter 5 of the Tianjing Public Security Management Regulations. We will implement administrative detention of not less than three days but not more than fifteen days in accordance with the law, and provide you with safety education and legal education."
Standing outside the villa, the man in uniform looked at Lin Yan with a serious expression.
"Bang!"
The door was immediately closed.
Wait for the door to be knocked again.
"Fuck you." Lin Yan cursed with a smile, "You are so good, Liu Mingxuan. You used to be so cold in front of me, but now you can even make jokes. People who are ancestors are different."
He called out, "Sister-in-law, please sit inside."
Standing in front of the door was a handsome man who looked unapproachable, but at this moment, a faint smile appeared on his face.
Next to him stood a beautiful woman.
It was Liu Mingxuan and Wang Xinyue.
In today's Earth, because all other countries have immigrated to the new planet, there is only one country left, and the former Federal Parliament has been abolished. The person in front of him was the one who stood in the highest position for a long time.
The current political system is ultimately decided by the "Central Court", of which Lin Yan is still a figurehead for the time being. Among the others, he knows three people, namely Liu Mingxuan, Chen Lian and Zhu Xi.
Jia Yi devoted himself to his position as president of Xinghe University. Deng Jun, who created the "Pojun Sword", also taught at Xinghe University.
It is not nonsense for Lin Yan to say that he is the ancestor.
Liu Mingxuan was born into a military family and his family tradition is strict. Although he is different from the Luo family, he also has many children and grandchildren. He is an orphan and has no elders in his family. He did have a father-in-law, but he was sentenced to death for assassinating Lin Yan in the wilderness.
Lin Yan led them into the villa and Wen Zhian made tea for them.
"Mingxuan wanted to come and see you a few days ago, but I stopped him. Lin Yan, you just came back and you had to reunite with your family. I didn't want to disturb you, so I waited until now." Wang Xinyue glanced at Liu Mingxuan and said gently.
In fact.
The outermost area where Lin Yan lived had always been protected by the military, with soldiers on duty and patrolling. On that day, Lin Yan started setting off fireworks from here, and this was quickly reported.
This matter caused such a big commotion that it was actually easy to guess. Xu Xin had already asked Wen Zhian, and she was still looking forward to Luo Feng's return.
"It doesn't matter." Lin Yan smiled. "I should stay on Earth for at least a few hundred years this time. Speaking of which, when I first came back and saw the changes in the Earth, I felt that I could hardly recognize it."
He smiled and joked: "Captain Liu is indeed capable."
"This has nothing to do with my ability." Liu Mingxuan shook his head and said, "From ancient times to the present, the development of human civilization has been limited by productivity and means of production . Now that we have gotten rid of these restrictions and have endless resources to utilize, it would be strange if someone couldn't do it well."
Lin Yan laughed.
According to the contract signed with the Virtual Universe Company, Jiuzhou Company will only distribute dividends to shareholders after a hundred years when its operations are relatively stable.
At that time, he had just left Chaos City, and the first dividend was a total of 540,000 Hunyuan units.
At that time, the Qianwu branch also explained to Lin Yan that the consumption of virtual games was not high. This was because of Lin Yan's influence in the Qianwu Universe and the Muxing Universe, so he occupied the largest game market size , and many people had the habit of recharging large amounts, and a single recharge was enough for tens of thousands of years of consumption.
So it will be very popular at the beginning, but afterwards unless the user base continues to expand, the revenue will be relatively flat.
According to estimates, the dividends to be distributed over the second 100 years will not exceed 100,000 Hunyuan units.
This number is already scary.
But...the user base has been growing wildly.
This is because, after that, Lin Yan's performance became more and more extraordinary, and he has reached the level where he is very likely to become the overlord of the universe. With this kind of talent, this kind of status, and this kind of attention, it is not surprising to know his future identity and status in the virtual universe company.
Apart from the two major cosmic countries Qianwu and Muxing, the directors of the virtual universe company branches of the other 1006 cosmic countries are also experienced and are also interested in promoting "Kunlun" as a gesture of goodwill. Anyway, this kind of thing does not violate the rules, and they do not seek to make any achievements, but only to avoid mistakes.
Virtual Universe Company also doesn't mind giving geniuses some benefits in this way.
Although the promotion effect is far less than that of Qianwu and Muxing Universe, but based on the 1006 Universe, the growth of user scale is still extremely terrifying.
Zi Dian Hou also told Lin Yan that they had done a data evaluation and that within 20,000 years, Kunlun would be ranked among the top ten virtual games.
As a result, dividends were distributed successively afterwards. In just over a hundred years, the amount had reached 5.62 million Hunyuan units, of which Luo Feng, Hong and Lei Shen each got 10%, and the remaining 70% belonged to Lin Yan.
For example, Xu Xin and Luo Hua received dividends from online catering and financial investment respectively.
Apart from the first dividend at the beginning, Lin Yan did have the need to cultivate the plant life of the world master. Later, his net worth exceeded hundreds of billions, so he really didn't look down on these millions of Hunyuan units, even... Hu Yanbo's inheritance was not that much.
The money was given to Wen Zhian, who was also specifically told... "Spend it quickly, or you won't be able to spend it all."
So Liu Mingxuan only needed to come up with a reasonable plan and never worried about money.
The only one who needs to worry is Wen Zhian, because he really can't spend it all.
If many of the things we need were not for the pursuit of high standards, such as the virtual host of 3,000 Hunyuan units, the Earth's own industry would be fully capable of promoting development.
"Mingxuan, speaking of this, I do have something to tell you." Lin Yan said.
Liu Mingxuan nodded seriously: "Just tell me straight."
Lin Yan said solemnly: "After getting rid of the restrictions of productivity and means of production, you have a goal that must be achieved... to cultivate talents, not just warriors, but talents who can reach the extreme in various fields."
"So we need to make some reforms in education. I will notify Jia Yi to come here later and we will discuss this in detail."
He looked serious.
This is also the goal he must achieve during his time on Earth.
Lin Yan does not advocate promoting martial arts on Earth and squeezing out the living environment in other areas. It is not only because Earth is a civilization and a race, and if it does not pursue diversified development, it will appear deformed, but there is another more important factor.
The Earth lineage was created by the Hermit, and is destined to be a very powerful lineage with amazing potential, which is mainly reflected in the soul.
Throughout the five thousand years of brilliant Chinese civilization, countless outstanding figures have emerged.
During the period of national awakening, when the country was facing foreign aggression and internal humiliation, many outstanding figures were able to achieve the greatest success in history despite the greatest difficulties in history for the sake of their ideals. Their wills were so firm that can't it be said that "their hearts are like knives that can cut off all obstacles"?
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, various schools of thought questioned and debated each other on ideas and culture, which created an unprecedented academic situation and a glorious and star-studded era. Many of them could be hailed as "sages".
Their thoughts even guided Hong and Lei Shen's path forward thousands of years later. Can't this be described as "harmony between man and nature, and a pure heart of a child"?
However, Hong's situation is special, and it is difficult to determine whether any ancient people have reached this level.
Lin Yan never favors the past over the present. If so many talented people with extremely strong wills and high mental states have emerged in the past five thousand years, why can't there be any more now?
They may be studying academic subjects, or may be granted titles or become prime ministers, or may be emperors, or may even be just old farmers tilling the fields. Each of them has achieved amazing achievements in his or her own field or achieved inner contentment.
They may be brilliant throughout the ages, or they may be unknown.
Is talent important?
Of course it is important.
Under normal circumstances, a galaxy can have one cosmic-level being, and the entire Qianwu Universe Kingdom has tens of thousands of immortal gods.
Their outstanding talents can enable them to become domain masters, world masters, and may even make them immortal.
Is talent important?
It doesn't matter at all.
Lin Yan popularized the planetary level in order to promote the overall progress of the human bloodline on Earth, so that the bloodline that is currently at the ninth level in the universe can reach the fifth and sixth levels of "maturity as a planetary level" as quickly as possible.
But this refers to overall progress.
If it happens to a single individual, the Virtual Universe Company has developed a "bloodline evolution agent" that can transform the bloodline, making it easy to grow to the domain master level, and it is not particularly difficult to cultivate to a higher level.
Including the very important degree of compliance with the laws, there are also a large number of treasures to make up for it.
Hong and Lei Shen's talents are not considered good, but they have abundant resources and are still qualified to gain a foothold in the virtual universe company where geniuses abound.
So... in Lin Yan's opinion, the most important things are will, character, and the potential and value you can demonstrate!
If a figure comparable to "Li Er" or "Confucius" could appear on Earth, even if his talent was so low that he could not practice at all, how could Lin Yan give up carving beautiful jade because he was stingy with resources?
He doesn't even need to invest anything, as the huge profits gained by Jiuzhou Company can be put to good use.
China has five thousand years, but these five thousand years are history. In the future there may be another five thousand eras or even fifty million eras!
In those histories, we can clearly see that due to the limitations of productivity and means of production, it is impossible to achieve teaching according to the aptitude of students and teaching without discrimination.
Those poor people, let alone studying and having food to eat, let alone gaining knowledge and culture, were trapped in that narrow village and could never get out for the rest of their lives.
Now it is completely feasible, it only depends on one thing, that is, whether Lin Yan wants to do such a thing.
Lin Yan wanted to give it a try.
Because he really didn't believe that Hong, Lei Shen and Luo Feng could possess the willpower comparable to that of immortal gods when they were weak, and that others were destined to be inferior to them.
They may emerge in various fields and show their shining points. At this time, their character has already settled down, and if they continue to practice, they may achieve great success later in life.
Of course, the core is still to promote martial arts.
What Lin Yan wants to do is to let them continue to learn, continue to think, and continue to realize the high value of life through their own choices.
That is…let them shine.
In this greatest historical change in human civilization on Earth, he will personally create a more glorious era, let the stars shine together in the sky, and let their voices echo in history and the future.