Volume 9: Molten Mine Chapter 411: Playing Video Games
"But what if technology develops fast enough to enable us to build a Dyson sphere before the sun explodes?"
"It seems that you have read so many books that you have become a nitpicker..." Ke Lan couldn't help but hold his forehead and said, "If the speed of technological development is that fast, there will inevitably be more and more serious new problems... Just like the wave of industrialization in the 19th century of the Old Era, although the Industrial Revolution greatly promoted the development of human science and technology. But the unrestrained development brought serious environmental pollution and waste of resources. At the same time, the Industrial Revolution also led to the imbalance of capitalist political and economic development, which in turn became the fuse of the world war..."
Ke Lan sighed and continued, "If the two world wars had occurred later and human technology had been more advanced, I'm afraid the human race would have ceased to exist."
"but……"
"But, although you have read many books, the knowledge and concepts contained in these books are still very scarce and one-sided, and some of them are even outdated or simply wrong. Even if you read all the books in the Ark database, you can't get a perfect answer - because the humans who wrote these books still have a lot of problems that cannot be solved."
Seeing Ze Luo's serious and well-behaved look, Ke Lan boldly reached out her hand, touched her head, and said, "There is an old Chinese saying, 'It is better to have no books than to believe in them completely', do you know that?"
"I know. This sentence comes from the third chapter of the second volume of the seventh chapter of Mencius, "Exerting One's Mind." Ze Luo said. She did not react to Ke Lan's touch on her head, but she did not show any resistance either.
"...You have actually finished reading the Four Books and Five Classics?" Ke Lan was a little surprised. In this era, few people would read ancient books like this. Except for scholars in history or other related majors, and amateur enthusiasts like Ke Lan, many people couldn't even name which four books and which five classics were among the Four Books and Five Classics.
(Surprise check: Which are the Four Books and Five Classics? No Baidu or Sogou allowed.)
Even Ke Lan himself only knew that this sentence came from "Mencius", but he couldn't remember which chapter and which part it was.
"Well, I'm currently reading Capital and Selected Works (Note 2), as well as Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time and The Universe in a Nutshell," said Ze Luo.
"...I suggest you take a break. How about trying something else? After all, this isn't the way you experience human life. Wouldn't you be tired holding a tablet and reading a book all day?"
"During my breaks, I read some old-time geography magazines and a type of literary work called 'novels'. Just fifteen minutes ago, I finished reading 'Wasteland Survival Guide' and 'Alien Ruins Hunters'. Although I think the story structures of these two books are OK, the author's description of the emotional lines is a mess. I think he must be a virgin who has never been in a relationship."
"You sound like you've been in love before?"
"I haven't, but I've read the works of other authors, and there's a very obvious gap between the two, especially some female authors who are married or have had love experiences, their emotional descriptions appear very real and delicate, while some authors who don't have much emotional experience write plots that you can tell at a glance are impossible to happen in reality."
"Stop, stop, stop... Stop for now. I don't want to discuss these things with you. What I mean is, why don't you try some entertainment activities other than reading?"
"Any entertainment activities besides reading?" Ze Luo raised his head, his pair of pure black crystal eyes staring straight at Ke Lan.
"Like, playing video games?"
"Playing video games? Do you mean electronic games?"
"Yes, playing games for a while can be considered a rare change in life, especially for a serious internet addict like me who stays at home all day. The happiest time of the day is probably playing games."
When saying this, Ke Lan suddenly felt a little guilty - he had been on missions quite frequently recently and hadn't played much of this season's pass. If this girl liked playing games, asking her to play for him would be a good choice.
In addition, if the virtual world of the Internet can "imprison" this horrific existence for all mankind, it would be a good deed.
After all, a demon king who has the power to destroy all of humanity at any time, coupled with the attribute entry of "Internet addict girl", does not sound so scary.
"Come here, let me show you something good." Ke Lan brought Ze Luo to the computer and clicked on the icon with a white triangle symbol on a red background on the desktop.
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"Look, this is the character selection interface. In each game, you can choose a character you want to play. Each character has different abilities and skills..."
"You will form a team with two teammates you match with. What you need to do is to search for weapons in this map and eliminate all other players except your teammates."
"The circle on the map is the safe zone. Outside the safe zone, you will lose health points every second. When the health points reach zero, the character will be seriously injured and fall to the ground. The later the game progresses, the more health points you will lose."
"As for the operation method, see? This is the crosshair. Some guns may have a triangular shape. You can aim it at a person and then you can hit the person, you know. A square one is also OK. You just need to frame it, it's even simpler. Just move it over, and then you click to shoot. You don't need to do mental arithmetic or math problems or anything like that, and you don't need to charge money. You can just shoot directly. There are not so many other things for you to worry about, you know?"
"As for walking... ah, yes, those four keys are WASD. Yes, yes, yes, see that guy? Shoot him. Yes, okay, that's it..."
