174: Chapter 174 The Carefree Chronicles of Kyushu

kyushu xiaoyao zhi did not require a download; it was already pre-installed on the free-to-apply game helmets.

Once you applied for a game helmet, you could enter the game interface.

Currently, no one knew exactly what was inside this game.

However, the fact that game currency could be exchanged for xia country currency at a one-to-one ratio was attractive enough.

This was a dream job for many people.

Zhou Lang was a doctor, but he had recently reached the brink of unemployment because the emergence of Life-Sustaining Base Fluid meant that the vast majority of patients no longer needed to go to the hospital.

Zhou Lang felt very conflicted. Back when there were many patients, his work pressure was high, and he had to deal with all sorts of patients' families.

He often had to work overtime, and having just passed forty, he was already balding.

He had imagined countless times before how nice it would be if the world didn't need doctors.

Then he could have a good rest.

But when Life-Sustaining Base Fluid appeared and he truly faced the risk of unemployment, his heart was filled with infinite panic.

Without an income, what would happen to the mortgage? What would happen to his child's schooling?

The cosmetics his wife wanted, the game console his son wanted, the bottle of good wine his elderly father wanted to drink, and his own desire to upgrade his fishing gear...

Zhou Lang began to hate Gao Yuan.

He was going to become a pauper.

There were many others around him in the same situation.

Initially, he also wanted to follow the crowds and cause a scene in the streets, but he felt it wasn't right in his heart. Was Life-Sustaining Base Fluid good? It was excellent, exceptionally good—practically a miracle drug. Once this medicine came out, it could alleviate so much suffering in the world.

But...

Why did it have to impact him specifically?

Later, Zhou Lang saw an article circulating online and suddenly woke up. It wasn't just him being impacted; before him, tens of millions of people had seen their industries collapse, especially those who had spent a lifetime immersed in a specific field, only to see it become a sunset industry...

What else could be done?

It turned out everyone was in the same boat.

According to the news, people in many countries had already started starving to death!

Xia Country was doing better because it had grain reserves.

Now that Black Fish Technology had directly announced the sale of Nutritional Paste, Zhou Lang suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. There was still no sign of the blight being resolved, and grain reserves were limited. If it dragged on for another year or two and the reserves were exhausted, Xia Country would likely collapse as well.

Without food, not even an immortal could save them.

Now that Black Fish Technology was selling Nutritional Paste, at least there was no need to worry about having nothing to eat in the future. Regardless of whether this Nutritional Paste tasted good or what it even was, it could at least guarantee rations.

So, after seeing the announcement from Black Fish Technology, Zhou Lang immediately applied for game helmets for everyone in his family through Black Fish Home.

He thought he would have to wait a few days.

But the very next day, the game helmets were delivered to his door.

There were five people in the family in total: himself, his wife, his son, his father, and his sister-in-law, who was about the same age as his son.

His parents-in-law had died in a car accident two years ago, leaving behind his lonely sister-in-law. Zhou Lang couldn't bear to see his wife struggle, so he resolutely brought his sister-in-law home.

Now his son got along very well with his aunt, who was his peer. Since he only had one son anyway, he treated her like another daughter, which was quite nice.

Five game helmets were laid out before him.

His son and sister-in-law hadn't come home from school yet.

Zhou Lang decided to try the game himself first to see what it was like. If it was like previous online games, he would never let his son and sister-in-law play it, even if it killed him.

“Honey, the helmets are here. Let's try them out. We'll have to rely on this to make money in the future!”

His wife used to work in R&D at a pharmaceutical factory. After the Life-Sustaining Base Fluid came out, the pharmaceutical factory began bankruptcy liquidation, and she lost her job as well.

They used to have no time, but now that they were both at home, they had rediscovered a bit of the warmth of their two-person world.

Lin Mo walked out wearing her pajamas.

“Life is becoming impossible. It's all Gao Yuan's fault; everyone online is cursing him! But... sigh, what's the use?”

“Don't talk about that. Let's enter the game and see. Black Fish Technology said game currency can be exchanged one-to-one for xia country currency! Let's go in and take a look...”

He helped his wife put on the helmet.

Zhou Lang also put on his own helmet.

They glanced at each other and then pressed the switch!

Immediately, the scene before his eyes changed, and he found himself standing in a novel world.

Before him was a large city, with an architectural style resembling ancient Xia Country.

Zhou Lang walked into the city in confusion. The city gate was inscribed with the name 'Jizhou'!

Inside Jizhou City, buildings towered into the clouds, and people dressed in ancient costumes drove flying cars, zooming back and forth on the streets. Shops along the way were hawking their wares. Zhou Lang took a look and saw that there was actually a Black Fish Technology shop here, and many big brands on the market were also selling their goods here.

There weren't many people on the street yet. Zhou Lang looked back and saw that his wife had also followed him in.

“This is too realistic. If I hadn't seen the Black Fish Technology Constant Temperature Clothing shop, I would have thought I'd really traveled through time!”

“Yeah, it's too realistic!”

Zhou Lang was currently only concerned with how to make money here.

He checked a guide; there were three ways to make money. First was clearing stages. Every big city had 108 mission points. Every person could attempt each mission once a day. The mission types were varied, but generally divided into two categories: technology-based and lifestyle-based!

Besides clearing stages, another way to make money was through commerce—opening a shop in the city to sell various goods. The goods in the game were linked to the Real World; if you placed an order in the game, it could be delivered directly to your door in reality.

Spend money once and enjoy it twice, in both the game and reality!

Zhou Lang thought about it; this way of making money wasn't suitable for him. He didn't have any goods. This method was set up for major manufacturers to set up shops directly in the game, having the same effect as an online store. In fact, it was even more effective than an online store!

The final way to make money was to use various props in the game to produce different scenes and videos.

After reading through, Zhou Lang discovered that there wasn't even a single way to make money by killing monsters and leveling up.

Such a realistic scene was actually an alternate world connected to the Real World. In this world, people could do as they pleased, touring the game, and the experience was even better than visiting a real ancient city.

...

Different ways to make money were set up for different people. Ordinary people could clear stages, those with resources could open shops, and those with creativity and ideas could generate income by producing various scenes and videos.

Gao Yuan was also looking at the newly launched game at this time...

He had mobilized thousands of robots to adapt this game from a future title.

The intention was to add a new, free world that was connected to the Real World, even allowing for dream-like interactions.

As long as you were a normal person, you could obtain a basic income by clearing stages to maintain your livelihood.

This stage clearing had no age limit and no educational requirements.

Everyone could do it.

Beside him, Zhang Baiyi was also wearing a helmet, experiencing the new game.

He took off the helmet now, his face full of excitement: “Old Gao, is this a game? This is a damn virtual world! Is everyone playing at time-traveling now? The stage clearing in the game is also very interesting!”