In today's games, especially large-scale games, the quality of graphics is a crucial factor. Take the online game market, for example. World of Warcraft dominates half the market, not only because of Blizzard Entertainment's excellent game development standards and superior gameplay and balance, but also because of its stunning graphics.
However, it must be said that compared to games on the BC platform, World of Warcraft is utterly trash! Even the best single-player games today can't compare to the immersive experience of a virtual reality game! It's far inferior!
If it weren't for the unique nature of the BC platform—that is, the need to enter a hypnotic state when brainwaves communicate with the host computer—then PCs would essentially be obsolete.
Chen Xu is now completely engrossed in this ultra-realistic game, and being able to compete against the world's top superstars is an incredibly exciting experience.
Yeah, it was really satisfying to be tortured like that.
Imagine this! First, you get smacked hard by Uncle Pelé a few times, then Maradona dribbles the ball around like a chick, leaving you with a mouthful of grass before you even touch the edge of the ball; then Cruyff plays with his effortless lob shots, each time watching helplessly as the ball rolls into the goal line just centimeters away from your fingertips...
Then came Beckham's stunning free kick, followed by Roberto Carlos's powerful S-curve shot... To be honest, at the moment Carlos shot, Chen Xu initially thought the ball was heading for the corner flag, but two seconds later it landed in the net behind him...
In a fit of grief and indignation, Chen Xu couldn't help but maliciously speculate that Carlos's footwork was actually about as bad as the Chinese men's national football team's. The only difference was that Carlos was self-aware enough to aim for the corner flag every time he shot, ensuring the ball flew into the net. The national team, on the other hand, lacked even that self-awareness, always insisting on shooting straight at the goal, resulting in the ball ending up at the corner flag…
Chen Xu finally realized that top superstars are indeed top superstars! Playing alongside these football legends, especially as the most pitiful goalkeeper... he felt like dying!
The FIFA games on the BC platform are not only highly playable, but also offer a wide variety of gameplay options.
There are special training programs for newcomers, ways to lead a team in matches, and the "Legend of the Green Field" mode where you start as a newcomer, work your way up to a higher level, or even a top club, and win honors in various competitions.
This game is far more replayable and fun than current game modes, not to mention its futuristic virtual reality system that allows for a truly immersive experience.
For a dedicated football game player, what could be more meaningful than exploring the game itself?
Chen Xu quickly selected a friendly match and discovered that the team selection here was much stronger than in the current game. In addition to major clubs and national teams from various countries, there were also many classic teams... such as the Dutch national team composed of the Dutch Three Musketeers in 1988, Brazil with the 3Rs in 2002, Manchester United, the treble winners in 1999, and so on...
In addition, there are teams with the best reputation and teams with the worst reputation. Among the teams with the worst reputation, Chen Xu discovered that the team that topped the list was actually the 2008 Chinese national team!
Very good and powerful!
These pigs were still like this until 2008? And it seems they were getting worse and worse!
Chen Xu shamelessly chose the 20th Century World All-Star Team as his team and the 2008 Chinese Men's National Football Team as his opponent, and set the match's realism to...exaggerated.
According to Xiaomin's explanation, if the realism is exaggerated, some very strange and funny things will happen in the game... This situation is basically an exaggeration of what might happen in real games, thus achieving a kind of bad taste effect, because many players especially like this kind of bad taste.
The problem is that when Chen Xu entered the competition, he was quite frustrated to find that he had somehow become part of the Chinese national team!
At this point, it must be emphasized that Chen Xu is absolutely not a person who worships foreign things. For example, one of his criteria for finding a girlfriend is: I can take you on a trip abroad in the future to see the scenery of different countries, but you must believe that your country is the best, and that the moon is not rounder in America.
But when it comes to Chinese football... that's a very delicate matter.
Chen Xu wore goalkeeper gloves and acted as the goalkeeper for the Chinese national team, but at that moment, his biggest thought was how to end the game as quickly as possible!
My God, the worst Chinese men's football team in the world, facing the strongest star lineup of the 20th century... It feels like a three-year-old child facing a burly man, and this burly man is carrying a Green Dragon Crescent Blade!
That's just asking for trouble!
Chen Xu quickly confirmed his suspicions. In just five minutes, his team, China, conceded three goals, one of which was an own goal… Of course, Chen Xu, the goalkeeper, bore some responsibility, arguably the greatest responsibility! But Chen Xu still stubbornly believed that this team was utterly terrible—truly the worst team in the world!
Chen Xu felt he couldn't continue like this. If he played two more matches like this, he might develop a psychological aversion to football.
But at this moment, the fans in the stands started to unleash their fury. They booed loudly and chanted slogans in unison. Upon hearing these slogans, Chen Xu almost smashed his head against the goalpost and died...
Because the fans were chanting in unison in Chinese: "Xie Yalong, step down!"
When the fans chanted "Xie Yalong, resign!" for the first time, Chen Xu couldn't help but shudder. Just then, Pelé took a shot, and the ball easily rolled into the net. Okay, 0-4.
Chen Xu believes that if this were a real match, then Pelé would probably say in an interview after the game: "Chinese fans are so enthusiastic! I believe their passion for the game transcends national borders! And I've also learned how to say 'Go Pelé!' in Chinese."
When the reporter asked him to say it again, Uncle Pele smiled slightly, revealing a mouthful of snow-white teeth, and said a single syllable: "xieyalongxiake!"
Chen Xu knew who Xie Yalong was—the chairman of the Chinese Football Association! He never imagined Xie Yalong would do so poorly, and even end up in FIFA's 1980s-era books?!
However, Chen Xu misunderstood this point. After all, a large company like EA, while incorporating humorous elements into its games, wouldn't dare to make fun of the Chinese Football Association chairman. The real cause of this situation was the hardcore gamers who created numerous patches and mods for the game, and Chen Xu's grandson conveniently cramed all of these mods into his computer. And that's how the scene just now unfolded…
However, the fact that fans still hate Xie Yalong so much 80 years later shows that this Chinese football leader who invented the "hip flexor muscle" in the future really doesn't have a good impression on fans!
Ten more minutes passed, and the score had become 0-9, just one goal away from double digits. This large deficit was partly due to Chen Xu's goalkeeper being practically a third post, scoring every time the opponent shot, and partly due to the national team's incredibly poor performance. Facing opponents far superior to themselves, they couldn't even pass the ball properly, and it would simply fall to the opponent's feet.
At this point, the fans on the sidelines were no longer just hurling insults; they angrily threw tomatoes, cabbages, and all sorts of other things from the stands. Chen Xu finally understood—this was what they called "exaggerated effect"!
These things were everywhere, and they really hurt when they hit you. So Chen Xu couldn't help but howl, abandoning even the goalposts to dodge the falling tomatoes and cabbages... At that moment, how much he wished he had an umbrella!
While Chen Xu was constantly dodging and fighting with tomatoes and cabbages in the virtual world, in the real world, he was acting like he was having a nightmare and had a seizure, shaking and shaking on the bed!
"Third brother! Are you alright?! Third brother?!" Chen Xu's behavior terrified everyone in the dorm. Wu Yuan, who was closest, ran over and slapped Chen Xu's face repeatedly, thinking he was having a nightmare and was trying to wake him up. But the problem was that Chen Xu was currently struggling in a virtual illusion. This hypnotic feeling was just like having a nightmare, and the slaps on his face were interpreted in his brain as being hit on the face with tomatoes and cabbages.
So Chen Xu frantically waved his hand to block, and this wasn't just in the illusion; in reality, he also waved his claws. At that moment, Wu Yuan pressed his face against Chen Xu to see if he was alright, and then "slap slap," Wu Yuan was unfortunately hit by Chen Xu's chaotic punches, and his glasses were knocked off.
"Holy crap!" Wu Yuan picked up his glasses and yelled, "Old Dong! Xiao An! Come help! Third Brother's having an epileptic seizure!"
Chapter 19 of the main text: Why do people get epilepsy?
When Chen Xu was awakened from the virtual illusion by Xiao Min, he found himself lying on a clean white hospital bed. Wu Yuan, Qin Xiao'an, Dong Qingjie, and another guy wearing a white coat, who looked no older than him, were sitting at the table next to him, playing cards without a care in the world.
Chen Xu pressed the unlock button on his earphones, took them off, rubbed his slightly dizzy head, and said, "Oh my god, where am I? It looks like a funeral home."
Upon seeing Chen Xu wake up, Wu Yuan and the others put down their cards and walked over to ask, "Third brother, are you alright?"
"Something wrong? What could possibly be wrong with me?" Chen Xu asked curiously.
"Damn it!" Wu Yuan was furious when he heard this. He pointed at his own nose and said, "Third brother, did you have a nightmare or something? You were writhing around on the bed like a dead fish. I kindly went to wake you up, thinking you were dreaming that Sister Furong had raped you, but instead you slapped me a few times and knocked my glasses off!"
"Damn!" Chen Xu sat up. "No way? Boss, I didn't know. Uh, I was having a nightmare. I dreamt I was fighting someone, and it felt like someone was hitting me, so I fought back. I didn't expect it to be you?!"
Hearing this, everyone laughed and said, "You didn't dream about competing against Gao Xiaojie, did you? I think it was more than just a competition. Or did you do something heinous to that girl in your dream?"
Chen Xu gave them the middle finger without hesitation, then looked at the cards scattered on the table and said irritably, "Then why did you bring me here? This is supposed to be the school hospital, right? Did you have to drag me into the school hospital just because I had a nightmare? Besides, since I'm already here, I'm a patient, right? Look at you guys, you're having so much fun playing cards, you have no conscience at all!"
Wu Yuan exclaimed "Damn!" and then said, "Who knew you were having a nightmare? We all thought you were having an epileptic seizure, so we carried you all the way here. Turns out the doctor checked you out and you were perfectly fine, just asleep? But seriously, we carried you all the way here and you didn't wake up at all. There's really no one who can sleep like that, you're practically a sleeping god!"
Chen Xu thought to himself, "I'm not unconscious; I'm just still in the game." He then looked at the seemingly polite guy in the white coat next to him and said, "You're a doctor? Nice to meet you, so young!" Actually, Chen Xu was inwardly cursing the school for being so irresponsible! They'd hired a fresh graduate as their school doctor. What if something happened to a student later? Could he really save them?
The man pushed up his glasses and quickly waved his hand, saying, "What kind of doctor am I? If I were this young and capable of handling things on my own, I wouldn't be wasting my time here!"
Then he seemed to frown slightly in discomfort, pressed his hand below his left chest, and then smiled and said, "Let's get acquainted, Wu Zhong. I'm also from Hexie University, from the medical school, a senior this year, and I'm doing my internship here."
"Oh, it's you, senior!" Chen Xu subconsciously reached into his pocket for a cigarette, but then realized he was only wearing a pair of shorts and his upper body was bare, so he gave an awkward smile.
Wu Zhong smiled, took out a pack of cigarettes from his white coat and tossed it to him: "Here, have a smoke, but not here. Come on, let's go to the door."
Chen Xu picked up the cigarette pack and exclaimed, "Damn! Soft Zhonghua?! I mean, senior, you're living the high life these days!"
Wu Zhong laughed and said, "Damn, how could I afford to buy these cigarettes? I usually smoke five-yuan Huangshan cigarettes, and when I'm short on cash, a pack of Daqianmen cigarettes for one yuan is enough. These cigarettes were brought to me by my roommate. He's living the good life, interning at a top-tier hospital. What kind of good cigarettes doesn't he have on his desk? Take whatever you want!"
Everyone broke out in a cold sweat, asking, "Is that a hospital or a cigarette factory? Could it be a joint venture?"
"So, it's obvious you guys have never been to a hospital before." Wu Zhong lit a cigarette and laughed. "These days, even if patients don't dare to openly give red envelopes to doctors, they still have to give something, right? Some hospitals are quite strict about red envelopes and don't allow doctors to accept gifts... Of course, I don't know what happens in private. But offering cigarettes isn't illegal, is it? Many patients bring a lot of good cigarettes, offering them by the pack, if not by the carton. And since smoking isn't allowed in hospitals, doctors just throw them on the table. Then my buddy, who's doing an internship, can easily grab a few packs."
The group broke out in a cold sweat again. Chen Xu saw Wu Zhong press his left chest after speaking, as if he was in some discomfort, and asked, "Senior, are you alright? You don't seem to be feeling well."
Wu Zhong chuckled and said it was nothing. He explained that he'd been rushing over to his night shift and had been hit by a car; it hurt a bit, and he figured it was swollen. He'd just apply some medicated plaster later. "But you," he added, "you're really something else! Sleeping so soundly. Was it because you overdid it with exercise today and got too tired?"
That statement was actually quite ambiguous. However, Chen Xu didn't see the wicked smile on Wu Zhong's face, so he nodded and said, "Yeah, senior, you don't know how that woman killed me today! My back! It's almost broken!"
Wu Zhong's face immediately glowed with a radiant sunset.
Seeing that the other three only looked at him with sympathy, Wu Zhong couldn't help but shake his head and sigh. They really are freshmen; they can't even understand this joke.
However, his left chest started hurting again. Had he been hit really hard? Wu Zhong thought he couldn't be that unlucky. Seeing the large headphones Chen Xu was holding, he laughed and said, "By the way, how come you couldn't get those headphones off your ears earlier?"
Chen Xu knew he couldn't take it off, because he was using a special locking mode... just like a watch; once you use this mode, you can't pry it off even if you try, so there was no need to worry about it falling. However, he was puzzled as to why he was having a nightmare. Was it because of what happened in the virtual reality? Did it make him look like he was having a nightmare to outsiders?
Damn, how can we use the virtual reality system if this continues? He only played one match. If he were to actually practice Sanda (Chinese kickboxing), he'd be getting beaten so badly he'd be screaming all night long!
Chen Xu wanted to ask Xiao Min what was wrong immediately, but then he saw Wu Zhong clutching his chest and plopping down in a chair. He couldn't help but exclaim, "Senior? Are you really okay? You look really strange. Should I take you to the hospital?"
Wu Yuan and the others said the same thing, saying they should take a look quickly, just in case there's something wrong with him.
"It's nothing, it's nothing," Wu Zhong waved his hand. "I was bumped, but it wasn't serious. I'll put some ointment on it."
Seeing his insistence, Wu Yuan and the others didn't say anything. At this moment, Chen Xu suddenly said, "I need to use the restroom. Where is there a restroom?" After Wu Zhong pointed it out to him, he immediately darted inside like a rabbit.
"Xiaomin, Xiaomin!" Chen Xu turned his earphones into a watch, called out to Xiaomin in a low voice, and asked, "I'm so dizzy, what's going on? Why do people in the real world think I have epilepsy when I'm training in the virtual world? I'm convulsing like I'm having a nightmare, and I can't wake up no matter what I do?"
“That’s because you haven’t activated the full hypnosis mode,” Xiaomin explained. “Virtual illusions are actually a process of communicating with the human brain using radio waves, using hypnosis to put people into a virtual illusion program, similar to a human dream. Under normal circumstances, the BC platform does not activate the full hypnosis mode, because when a person enters this mode, they will not be able to perceive any external information, and no matter what process takes place in the illusion, it will not be reflected in external physical manifestations.”
"Why couldn't they wake me up no matter what they did?"
"Because you are too mentally exhausted. You just had a long day of fatigue, and you ignored my advice and forced yourself to enter the virtual reality system, so your mental energy was over-exhausted, leading to a deep sleep. I originally wanted to send a hypnotic signal to put you directly into a deep sleep when your mental energy dropped to above the critical point, but I didn't expect it to have the following effect."
"Deep sleep?"
"Yes, according to scientific research and analysis, the actual amount of sleep a person gets each day is only a little over two hours. During the rest of the time, the brain is mostly in a working state, such as dreaming. If hypnosis is used to induce a deep and complete sleep, it is enough to solve the problem of drowsiness within two and a half hours."
Chen Xu's eyes lit up: "Does that mean I only need to sleep for two and a half hours every day? Then I can enter the virtual reality game?" If that's the case, the dormitory lights go out at 11:30 every night, so he only needs to sleep until 2:00 in the morning to be fully energetic, and then enter the virtual reality to play games or do other things, which can continue until 6:00 in the morning!
After listening to Chen Xu's idea, Xiao Min said, "Yes. However, playing games in the virtual world also consumes mental energy. So, according to our information, after you rest at 11:30, I will wake you up at 1:30 in the morning. Then you can play the game until 5:00 in the morning, and then go into deep sleep for half an hour to restore your mental energy. After that, you can get up at 5:30 to exercise, and then go into deep sleep for another half hour at 12:30 at noon. This way, you can ensure that you have plenty of energy throughout the day."
"Will I stop twitching when I play games after entering deep sleep?"
"Of course not, you don't need to worry about affecting others."
"That's great!" Chen Xu waved his hand, unable to contain his shout. Qin Xiao'an outside immediately yelled, "Third brother?! What happened? Did he fall into the toilet?!"
Chen Xu ignored him. He was even thinking that if he went to bed at 10 o'clock every night, he could get up at 12 o'clock just when the boss and the others were sleeping, and then he could have an extra hour and a half to play games.
After returning home tonight, Chen Xu thought about Wu Zhong clutching his chest earlier and asked, "By the way, Xiao Min, if I want to treat someone's illness, and the symptom is in their chest, how do I do it?"
Chapter 20 Spleen Rupture
Chen Xu walked out the door and saw Wu Zhong shirtless, with Qin Xiao'an applying ointment to his chest.
"Get off, get off, let me see!" Chen Xu walked over, pretending to be nonchalant as he lowered his head and stared at Wu Zhong's right chest. Then, he pretended to pinch it with his left hand: "Hmm? Doesn't it hurt here? Hmm, what about here? What about here?" Chen Xu turned the LCD screen of his watch downwards, so while he was pretending to pinch Wu Zhong's chest, the screen began an ultrasound scan and quickly wrote the results on the watch.
"Damn it, third brother, stop showing off!" Dong Qingjie gave Chen Xu a disdainful look, then said, "Senior, the dorm lights are about to go out, so we'll be leaving now. If you're not feeling well, go to the hospital and get checked out. Don't force yourself to stay awake."
Wu Zhong smiled and waved his hand: "It's nothing, it's nothing. I feel much better after applying the ointment!"
"What the hell? Nothing's wrong!" Chen Xu jumped up suddenly, grabbed Wu Zhong and shouted, "Big brother, second brother, fourth brother, you son of a bitch, call 120 right now! Hurry up!"
Seeing Chen Xu looking like his pants were on fire, Wu Zhong laughed and said, "What's wrong? I'm really fine!"
"He's alright?!" Chen Xu's face was extremely serious: "Damn it, boss, don't just stand there, hurry up and fight! Senior has a ruptured spleen and internal bleeding. If he's not taken to the hospital right away, he's done for!"
Upon hearing this, everyone's face turned deathly pale. Wu Yuan glanced at Wu Zhong, immediately took out his phone and dialed 120. Wu Zhong's lips trembled, and after a long while, he waited until Wu Yuan hung up the phone before saying, "No, no way?"
Unlike Chen Xu and the other laymen, Wu Zhong was a medical student. Although he often skipped classes and didn't pay attention, and usually crammed before exams, forgetting everything afterward, he still had some medical background. He hadn't considered the serious possibility before, but now that Chen Xu brought it up, Wu Zhong immediately thought of that possibility and then, in a flash of inspiration, remembered some symptoms described in his books... which perfectly matched his own!