There's something wrong with me

Chapter 261 The New World [Hibernation Highlight]

Open your eyes.

Dizziness, a feeling of oppression, and complete darkness in my field of vision.

Zhang Feng couldn't see anything clearly, and when he tried to explore his surroundings, he found that he couldn't move and was instead fixed to some kind of device.

'Is this another case of being buried alive?'

Just thought so.

Suddenly, a light, though not dazzling, appeared before my eyes.

Even though it felt like I had been in the dark for a long time, my eyes felt perfectly fine; instead, it felt like I was back home.

next second.

The quilt, pillow, and bed beneath her had a realistic feel, and a familiar scene from her own memory appeared.

This is the home of this body.

What's going on? Could it be virtual reality technology in this world?

Faced with the sudden 'real scene switching' in the adventure world, Zhang Feng immediately thought of the virtual world.

But these are small things.

The most important thing right now is the real world within the adventure.

Because there is always a crisis at the beginning.

If you try to figure it out on your own, you might end up 'resurrected'.

at the same time.

Under the premise of safety, Zhang Feng wanted to try switching out.

But it had no effect.

In particular, there is no spiritual energy or internal energy in this virtual world.

Or rather, even if it existed, it wouldn't be of any use.

Because the central nervous system in one's brain has lost all connection with the external body.

Now, the game is played entirely through a 'brain-computer interface'.

Even if one becomes a god within this virtual world, it will be meaningless, because all of this is 'data' calculated within the virtual world.

It's a kind of 'box theory'.

My own power is all governed by the rules of the game provided by the box, which I can take back whenever I want.

Like now.

He imagined himself becoming a god, and then he actually became a god.

Everything is under its control; there is absolutely no logic involved, it's just a simple backend command.

It's a permission, not any knowledge.

It's also a matter of authority; they can just take it back whenever they want.

But it's fine if you can become a god just like that.

This virtual world seems to be all about making people feel good.

This completely 'cut-off' realistic experience is very appealing to many players who want to experience the virtual world.

But Zhang Feng now feels it's all rubbish.

Even though he had become a god in the command, he couldn't break any of the items in this 'home'?
They can't even leave their homes.

You can only become a god in this house.

Zhang Feng felt this was somewhat illogical, but now there was no logic to it at all.

Unless one possesses an outrageous 'brainwave deification technology,' it is impossible to transcend the underlying code of this virtual world.

at the same time.

This virtual world suddenly gave a notification and even issued a task to its god.

(Main quest: Go to your neighbor's lunch party, remember to bring the steak from the fridge)
The mission is imminent.

Zhang Feng glanced at it a few times, then used his divine power to teleport to the door and forcefully open it.

However, the system repeatedly prompted:
(Please bring your steak)

(Is there anything you've forgotten?)

(Take the steak with you, it's in the fridge.)
(Task instructions: The refrigerator is 6.2 meters away from you...)
"Okay." Zhang Feng was somewhat speechless.

And in his own memories, that is, in the 'real memories within the adventure world'.

I only have fragmented memories of this 'home', and all I know is that I was born here.

Aside from that, I have no other memories of this adventure world.

To Zhang Feng, this memory was quite outrageous.

If this body was truly 'placed in a virtual world' at birth, how could an infant remember that this was their home?

If it weren't for the baby, then the baby would probably remember more.

Or perhaps, the body's memories were erased, leaving only the most profound memories of home.

Or perhaps it's a long-held thought, or being trapped in this virtual world for a long time.

Make yourself feel like this is your home.

Anyway, seeing that he couldn't figure it out, Zhang Feng first looked at his own information.

【Age: 127】

[Physique: 3.5]

【Root bone: 7.1】

[Martial Arts: 7.5]

[Spiritual Roots: 7.2]

He is very old.

But the moment I arrived in this world, it was a real adventure world, not the virtual world I am in now.

With Zhang Feng's understanding of the human body, even if it was only a brief moment of reality, he could clearly tell that the body was 'young'.

However, he looks young.

However, Zhang Feng sensed a kind of 'weakness and decay'.

Similar to the old man's body being damaged in the previous world.

However, this body is in much better condition because it is free of any illnesses.

He was simply declining in health.

This refers to the 'deterioration' of various bodily functions.

Does prolonged exposure to the virtual world weaken human capabilities?

Thinking.

Based on the information he had obtained, Zhang Feng then looked at the world and introduced it.

[Resurrection Chance: 5]

[Adventure Level: 8]

[Adventure Genre: Growth, Survival, Crisis]

[Identity: Dormant worker aboard Voyager 168]

Main Quest: Survive for 50 Years

[Non-Main Mission: Kill at least one 'Interstellar Creature']

[Note: New enhancement options will be available for each year of survival, up to a maximum of 22 times.]

After reading the information.

Based on his previous experiences, Zhang Feng probably had a better understanding of his situation.

This must be a spaceship in space.

I should be the human resources inside the 'hibernation pod'.

For example, once the spaceship reaches a designated location, some people will wake themselves up and ask them to sweep the floor or wipe the table.

Such hibernation schemes also exist in interstellar warships within their own world.

But the moon and Mars are not far from Earth.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, this hibernation method is not used to save on the consumption of resources inside the warship.

Furthermore, their own warships have a cyclical planting ecosystem, so there's no need for this.

Zhang Feng thought to himself, and also looked at the first enhancement.

【1: Radiation resistance】

【2: Intermediate Highlight Moments】

【3: Growth Physique】

Take a glance.

Zhang Feng first looked at 1.

Radiation Resistance: Epic, Rare

[Effect 1: Constitution +1, Physical Strength +2]

[Effect 2: Increases resistance to all radiation by an additional 10%, and skin strength by an additional 5%]

This is a very useful 'percentage resistance' combat power.

But for me now, it doesn't seem to have much meaning.

What I need now is more about breaking the deadlock, or at least having a solid, developmental start.

Although it doesn't seem to have any spiritual energy now, as long as it returns to the real world, it will be able to obtain any biological energy.

For example, after taking medicine or having a meal, you'll have the strength and energy to gather.

Then the transformation of the Three-Part Return to Origin Qi can be performed.

Of course, with the current level of ordinary people, it is impossible to dismantle and transform internal energy into spiritual energy.

However, with my current knowledge and understanding, I can use internal energy to replace the function of spiritual energy, and then try to build a foundation.

Thinking it over, Zhang Feng looked at 2
I saw this entry a very, very long time ago.

Back then, it was at the beginner level, and it seemed to only improve all qualifications by about 10%.

The memory was too distant, and Zhang Feng had forgotten it.

But now it's intermediate level.

[Highlight Moment: Epic, Epic]

[Effect: Increases all talents by 50%]

It's very brief, just this one attribute.

However, with all three of my current scores around 7, that's a total of approximately 3.6 points across all three categories.

Furthermore, this talent also includes memory correction and digestion/absorption.

It's just not listed.

That's how writing works; the ability to memorize, modify, and digest is clearly one of our innate talents.

However, its text is sometimes incorrect.

Zhang Feng knew that talent included these two aspects because in many previous enhancements, both were categorized under 'talent'.

After that, there's no need to look at the '+5 physique per year' growth stat anymore.

As long as I don't die, I can reach the Golden Core stage in a few years. At that time, I will have no shortage of the physique required for the K-level.

Next, select 'Highlight Moment'.

In the next options, Zhang Feng selected 'Daily energy requirement for those with a constitution below 50' and 'Fire Spirit Root +0.2'.

Otherwise, with an initial hunger level of nearly 'two kilograms'.

In addition, I can't return to reality.

Assuming the nutrient tank doesn't know if it will give itself a nutrient injection, then it'll be over in no time.

Of course, if it's a world where you start with food nearby, then you can choose other options.

Select all.

Zhang Feng began to examine this incredibly realistic virtual world again.

"exit the game."

Zhang Feng didn't want to explore this place either, but instead tried to issue commands, but the entire space remained unresponsive.

And afterwards, Zhang Feng also tried to bring up the control panel and the like.

But none of them had any effect.

Only that blatant "participate in lunch mission".

This made Zhang Feng realize that he had been passively subjected to a forced virtual experience similar to a 'brain-computer interface'.

That technological model, coupled with this world that has already begun to become interstellar.

It can forcibly bring a person's brainwaves into the virtual world.

Even one's own thoughts and ideas will be known to this host.

However, when making text selections, the outside world has no way of knowing what one is doing.

Even when I can record it, I feel like I'm 'dazed'.

Even the earliest thoughts.

Zhang Feng was also thinking using a language he had created himself.

Even if others can see into your mind, they will only get a bunch of messy and irregular thoughts, like a dream.

This was all intentional on Zhang Feng's part, and he had prepared for it.

Because this is at the Nascent Soul level of difficulty, there might be some mind-reading abilities and psychological detection devices at the start.

Zhang Feng naturally took precautions.

Now, it actually comes in handy.

After all, this virtual world actually has the technology to read minds.

It's similar to virtual technology in the real world.

Now it seems we can't get out.

Zhang Feng then went to the refrigerator to get the steak.

Let's just follow the tasks in the virtual world for now.

After obtaining the steak, a notification appeared in the lower right corner of your field of vision: 'Money +15'.

At the same time, I also got the wallet icon.

'Does following the quests mean more options will gradually appear?'

Zhang Feng was secretly pleased, as he recognized this game mode.

Then continue with the game tasks and see if the system icon appears.

This time.

When Zhang Feng got the steak and went to the door, he found that the door had been easily opened.

There is also a short memory of the virtual world, which appears in one's field of vision like a slideshow.

These slides are also like 'game memory logs', consisting of lines of text.

After reading it, Zhang Feng learned that his neighbor was a man named 'Da Gao'.

I've known him for over ten years.

We sometimes eat together.

His home was right next to his own.

It is similar to a Western-style suburban cabin.

Zhang Feng left the house while thinking about these things.

Looking around, this is the outskirts of a small town modeled after those in the West.

There are only a dozen or so households on both sides of this dirt road.

But all the doors were tightly shut.

I have no memory of anything about these neighbors.

Only the Gao family next door had their courtyard gate open, wafting out the aroma of roasted meat.

What's particularly interesting is when I step out of the room.

The instruction to 'be a god' was abruptly withdrawn by the virtual world.

It seems this area belongs to the 'public area within the game'.

At home, I am invincible from beginning to end.

No matter who comes, they can kill them instantly without saying a word.

This model is very Western.

But when they arrived at the front and back of the tall courtyard...

Zhang Feng discovered that Da Gao was not a Westerner, but an Easterner like himself.

"Zhang Feng?"

The man, nearly 1.8 meters tall, was somewhat speechless when he saw Zhang Feng, who was rather short, approaching.
"Damn it, I just woke up from the sleep pod and was forcibly pulled into a crappy game."

"You want a stranger to grill meat for you, otherwise you won't be able to leave your house?"

"Are you a player too?"

Zhang Feng initially thought he was an NPC, but upon hearing his words, he realized that he shared the same identity as himself.

“It’s definitely a player,” Da Gao replied first, then looked at Zhang Feng more closely with some doubt.
"Don't you have any memory? Can't you tell the difference between players and NPCs?"
Are you a 'frozen person'?

He shook his head speechlessly as he said this, "I thought I could meet someone and chat with them."

I never expected them to be cryogenically frozen individuals with no memories, only capable of simple communication and basic common sense.

"Frozen people?" Zhang Feng was intrigued by his topic. "What do you mean by that?"

"It means exactly what it says." Da Gao didn't want to chat with someone with such a blank memory, so he dismissed him with just that one sentence.

But in the next few seconds...

Realizing there was no one to talk to, and given it was a mission, he continued:
"It means that after you were born on your home planet, you were abandoned."

As he spoke, he flipped the meat on the grill a few times.

"Afterwards, relevant personnel found you and rescued you, but kept you in a nutrient tank and used the virtual world to cultivate some basic common sense and language communication skills."

You probably can't find those memories anymore, because they were deleted to prevent you from getting overwhelmed with information.

It's like how almost everyone can speak, but they don't know how they learned to speak, and they have very few childhood memories.

"I see." Zhang Feng understood.

I also understand why that house feels so familiar.

In short, I grew up studying in that house, so I developed a sense of home there.

This is a deep-seated childhood memory.

As for daily learning and the like, the virtual world automatically deleted the learning process, only retaining the common sense of imprinting itself.

To avoid overloading the brain with information.

In a sense, the virtual world is also for one's own good, giving one a 'blank' foundation of a good mind.

At the very least, there aren't so many distracting thoughts.

This memory also includes some basic math and physics calculations.

That's roughly the level of a normal university student.

Zhang Feng understands now, but he really didn't know this knowledge before.

Because it's too low, and it overlaps with my own knowledge.

Without being enlightened by outsiders.

Zhang Feng couldn't tell.

This is the downside of carrying a large amount of memories in the 'ordinary human realm'.

Sometimes, it's not that the virtual world is deliberately deceiving us, but rather that we can't handle it all, so we selectively deceive ourselves.

Otherwise, I would really have to dig out my knowledge of various worlds and all of humanity from nearly a thousand years ago.

With the current brain processing speed, even if one's thinking is already far beyond that of ordinary people.

But whenever I try to use brainstorming to carefully search for the answer in my memory, the end result is that my brain short-circuits.

Zhang Feng was an expert in neurology and knew that this concealment was an instinctive 'brain self-protection mechanism'.

"You said... your name is Zhang Feng?"

At this moment, seeing that Zhang Feng remained silent and sensing the awkward and quiet atmosphere, Da Gao took the initiative to speak.
"My name is hard to remember, so just call me Da Gao."

As he spoke, he chuckled and said, "Dude, actually your name isn't very easy to remember either. How about I call you Da Zhang?"

"Either is fine." Zhang Feng didn't care about the form of address.

Anyway, as long as it's not about insulting yourself or taking advantage of you.

They are all good friends.

'That's great...' Seeing Zhang Feng's nonchalant attitude, Da Gao was actually a little envious of Zhang Feng.

"It's better to be a 'freezer' (someone who's not actively involved in social interactions). Since you're already mentally blank, you don't need to worry about interpersonal relationships or awkward silences..."

But as a normal human being, I need to consider many things to avoid an awkward atmosphere.

Da Gao thought to himself, feeling very tired.

Having just been asleep for twenty years, I woke up today to find myself being pulled into a virtual world for 'mental rehabilitation'.

Such as 'mandatory tasks' in virtual worlds, as well as social interactions and the like.

It's about getting people out of their slumber as quickly as possible and gradually adapting to the environment step by step.

Otherwise, if someone were to actually storm out, such a 'volatile person' would never be brought back to reality.

Da Gao just felt he didn't need to, because he was a normal person.

But when he saw Zhang Feng, he felt that this must be an arrangement within the virtual world, so that he could guide this 'frozen man, Da Zhang'.

"Give me your steak."

When Da Gao thought of this, he quickly stepped into the role of the older brother.

Because fundamentally, he and Zhang Feng were the same, both being the lowest-ranking staff members on the interstellar spaceship.

It must be good to make friends with a person who is emotionally empty and out of touch with reality.

To put it bluntly, even if he gets into a fight with someone later, at least this hothead might just go for it.

Zhang Feng didn't care about what he thought, and even if he wanted to know, he could only ask him, not see it through the formula of destiny.

After all, this is a virtual world, and I don't have any spiritual energy at all.

Therefore, talismans cannot be drawn.

Unless one has partial access to this virtual world, one can simulate causal equations by arranging signals.

But if I do that, something bad will definitely happen to me.

The principle of "possessing a treasure is a crime".

Zhang Feng understood.

So, relying solely on verbal questioning, Zhang Feng also pretended to be a cold person and asked the seemingly talkative Da Gao:
"Where are we going now?"

“Actually, I don’t know either.” Da Gao shook his head. “But I do know that our physical bodies in reality must have been in the warehouse for a long time.”

If you want to get a job, you'll probably need some training.

So hurry up and do the game tasks, get out of here as soon as possible, and start your rehabilitation exercises sooner.

(End of this chapter)