“I concede defeat. According to the previous rules, I am willing to obey ICE’s orders and work together to meet the challenge from the Koreans.”
Squad leader: "I also admit defeat. I am no match for ICE. The difference in strength is too great. ICE deserves to be the leader of the alliance."
Chuojiao Daiyinlou: "I second that too."
"I have nothing to say, I'm completely convinced."
"I second that."
When he arrived at Bajiquan, although he was unwilling, he was a man who could let go of what he had lost. He challenged Chen Xu several more times, but all ended in defeat, a complete and utter loss. He couldn't even touch the hem of his opponent's clothes, which was a disgrace to Bajiquan. However, seeing that everyone else had suffered the same fate, Bajiquan could only accept it. So he typed on the keyboard: "I am also convinced."
Soon, the chat room was filled with expressions of admiration. The squad leader said, "Then you can make the arrangements. What should we do next?"
But at this moment, Chen Xu did not respond at all.
At this moment, Gao Xiaojie and Guan Yi, who had been waiting anxiously next door and were sweating profusely, rushed to Chen Xu's room and knocked hard on the door, but no one answered... Chen Xu had said earlier that he wanted to focus on the battle, so he locked himself in his room and wouldn't let anyone disturb him.
Without a word, Guan Yi told Gao Xiaojie and Zhan Jing to step back, then kicked the wooden door open with a beautiful roundhouse kick. Rushing inside, he saw Chen Xu tumble off his computer chair and lying on the floor, wearing large headphones. His face was deathly pale, and his lips were frighteningly white. His clothes were completely soaked with sweat. Lying on the floor, his hands were trembling uncontrollably.
Guan Yi was the first to rush in, letting out a scream as she pulled Chen Xu into her arms and ripped off his headphones. Chen Xu could feel his head pressing against something soft, but at that moment, he was oblivious to everything else; he felt like his body no longer belonged to him. His hands trembled, and he had no strength left.
With the last of his strength, Chen Xu said, "Quickly, reply in the chat room that everyone should rest for today and we'll discuss it again tomorrow." After saying this, Chen Xu had no more strength left.
While Gao Xiaojie and Guan Yi were still stunned, Zhan Jing rushed forward and typed out these words on the keyboard, then turned to look at Chen Xu. A hint of worry appeared in the calm girl's eyes: "How are you? Are you alright?"
Chen Xu shook his head weakly. Guan Yi looked anxious and said, "How did it turn out like this? It's just a competition."
Gao Xiaojie also said, "He looks like he's completely exhausted. We should get him to the hospital as soon as possible, even just an injection of glucose would be good!"
Guan Yi nodded and quickly dialed 120. Before the ambulance arrived, the two women chattered away, while Zhan Jing stood by, occasionally showing concern but not participating in their discussion, which made Chen Xu feel much more comfortable.
Sigh, one woman has five hundred ducks. Two women have a thousand! Luckily, Zhan Jing is very obedient. Otherwise, fifteen hundred ducks, especially for someone who just wants to lie down and sleep and doesn't want to think about anything else, would be more agonizing than the eighteenth level of hell!
No wonder Chen Xu was so tired, because he had exhausted a lot of his physical and mental strength in the battle just now... to a degree that far exceeded the values of similar individuals.
Chen Xu had Xiaomin apply electrical stimulation to her brain, a type of stimulation that is generally harmless to the human body. This is because research on electrical stimulation of the cerebral cortex has reached a remarkably advanced level… just look at virtual reality; the principle behind virtual reality is using electrical stimulation of the cerebral cortex to hypnotize the body and transmit fixed image and sound information… If such technology can be achieved without harm, then using electrical stimulation to significantly enhance a person's neural reflex speed and processing speed in a short period of time is absolutely achievable.
However, you should be careful when doing this. Increased processing speed of the brain requires more energy, and over time it can cause some damage to the brain... This is because excessive consumption leads to brain hypoxia.
However, Chen Xu's battle just now only exhausted his physical strength, but fortunately, it did not cause any damage to his body. He only needs to sleep to recover.
The ambulance arrived quickly. After Chen Xu was lifted into the ambulance by a flurry of hands, Gao Xiaojie and Guan Yi tried to squeeze in as well, but the nurse wouldn't let them. The nurse, whose face was covered in freckles, looked at the two stunningly beautiful women and couldn't help but feel jealous, saying, "What's your relationship with him? It's okay, he won't die!"
Hearing this, Guan Yi got angry, puffed out her chest, and said, "I'm his girlfriend, can I get in the car?!"
Luckily, Chen Xu was strapped to the hospital bed at that moment, otherwise he might have bumped his head on the door upon hearing those words. The freckled nurse rolled her eyes, muttered under her breath that this guy was quite the ladies' man, then tilted her head and said, "Come on up!"
Guan Yi got into the car triumphantly, and Gao Xiaojie followed behind her, trying to slip through the cracks, but was stopped by the freckled nurse: "Why did you follow me in? What's your relationship with him?"
Gao Xiaojie originally wanted to say they were classmates, but seeing the nurse's arrogant attitude and the pimples on her face that almost looked like a cactus, she knew that saying they were classmates wouldn't work. So she raised her head and said very proudly, "I'm his girlfriend too!"
The nurse nearly fainted, exclaiming, "Damn, do you think I'm stupid? You're all her girlfriends?"
Gao Xiaojie glanced at her and said, "What's wrong with that? It's our mutual consent, it's our business, why are you interfering? And there's another one, Jingjing, get in the car. What are you looking at? She's his girlfriend too, all three of us are happy, what's wrong with that?"
Then the nurse fainted on the spot. Gao Xiaojie pulled the wryly smiling Zhan Jing into the ambulance, which sped away. The freckled nurse was left behind, staring blankly into space. After a long while, she screamed, "Ah! I completely forgot to see how handsome that man was. How could he find three such enchanting girlfriends at the same time?!"
Ignoring the freckled nurse, Chen Xu was taken to the hospital for a checkup. They found he was perfectly fine, but he was utterly exhausted. The attending physician was startled and exclaimed, "No way! Did this guy just finish a marathon? How can he be this tired?"
After hanging up a glucose drip on Chen Xu and leaving him in the hospital bed, Gao Xiaojie finally had a chance to interrogate him: "Hey, when did you become so amazing? And also, weren't you helping Nangong Lan learn Baguazhang moves? How come you're using Tai Chi, Wing Chun, and other styles of moves today? Using their own methods against them! How did you do that? Did you cheat?! Did you use a cheat engine?"
Chen Xu rolled his eyes decisively. He felt much better after resting for a while. A cheat engine? If there really was a cheat engine, would he be exhausted like a dead dog?
He fought against more than twenty masters in a row! Every move and every technique took a lot of his energy!
Is it really that simple?
The moment Chen Xu put on the headset, he felt himself instantly enter a very strange state.
What he saw was no longer an image; it was a series of fragmented images!
The human eye can be deceived. The so-called "visual persistence" refers to the phenomenon where a visual image lingers on the retina for 0.1-0.4 seconds after it disappears. However, after the brain was stimulated, Chen Xu saw images that resembled individual pictures!
At this moment, he could feel his brain processing information with the precision of a computer. Whatever move his opponent made, he could react within a fraction of a second and counter it with the absolutely correct method! If his opponent showed even the slightest flaw, he could immediately detect it!
With this kind of play, it's hard not to win!
Of course, the premise is that the actions must keep up with the thoughts.
Furthermore, one needs to be extremely familiar with the moves... An Yi estimated that even a genius would need at least several months to master all of them!
Chen Xu wasn't a genius, although he was indeed very intelligent, but he was far inferior to those child prodigies who could enter the University of Science and Technology of China's gifted youth program in their teens. However, Chen Xu had one thing in common: hard work could make up for any shortcomings!
Moreover, he has another powerful tool: a supercomputer!
Although the Earth only rotated once, for Chen Xu, at least a month had passed.
Because Chen Xu used the Virtual Illusion System!
Virtual reality systems are one of the greatest inventions in human history. Not only because they allow people to enter another beautiful world—allowing the blind and deaf to see, hear, and speak—but also because they enable the creation of virtually anything within the system. A more important reason is that virtual systems have accelerated the pace of human learning!
The transmission of knowledge is both very important and difficult, because people's time is very limited. In a 24-hour day, at least a quarter of the time is spent sleeping, so what can be done with the remaining time? It's easily wasted.
Human scientists have advanced human scientific and technological research to a level that was unimaginable hundreds of years ago. However, how many people can even learn about or access today's advanced technologies, let alone master them?
Humans are born knowing nothing but instincts, especially the vast and complex knowledge at hand. Just learning from textbooks, from the simplest 1+12 all the way to calculus, takes over a decade. Even the geniuses in the University of Science and Technology of China's gifted youth program are only a few years ahead of the average person in those crucial years.
Not having enough time is a very important issue!
Many people will never learn about relativity in their lifetime, nor will they understand the mysteries of space technology, because they don't have the time or energy.
Many people dream of dividing their time into several parts, or having forty-eight hours in a day... I, Xiao Bing, was thinking, how wonderful it would be if there were forty-eight hours in a day! That way, I wouldn't feel so frustrated when I was writing!
The emergence of virtual reality has solved this problem.
Scientists have discovered that the "time" that the human brain experiences is different from that of the body.
Or to put it another way, the lifespan of the human brain is far longer than that of the body!
If in 2086, with the advancement of science and technology, the average human lifespan reaches nearly 80 years, then the lifespan of the human brain would be five times that number… four hundred years!
Of course, this is just a theory. And this theory was proposed a long time ago... People tend to forget things in their later years. Poor mental function isn't because the brain's lifespan ends as quickly as the body's, but rather because physiological functions decline significantly, leading to excessive brain cell death and consequently a decrease in mental capacity.
But in reality, a person's spiritual power remains immense even when they are on their deathbed.
Of course, even with technology in 2086, it's impossible to remove a human brain and store it in a container for four hundred years. However, virtual reality can achieve this goal indirectly... The passage of time in a virtual reality is entirely controlled by computers. The time a person spends in a virtual reality is deducted from the brain's lifespan.
If time in the virtual world is the same as real time, then it doesn't matter; life goes on as usual.
But what if time were slowed down by half in a virtual reality?
One hour in reality is two hours in a virtual world. If a person spent 24 hours a day in a virtual world, it would mean that a person's day would be twice as long, which is equivalent to doubling human lifespan!
What if we slow it down by half...?
Of course, such behavior will be strictly regulated in future societies. Under normal circumstances, time in virtual reality will be limited to three times that of real time. This is because if virtual time progresses too slowly, it will severely deplete the human brain's lifespan; three times the time is more than enough. Anything exceeding this limit will only be available to a select elite group under special circumstances.
Chen Xu transformed 24 hours into a virtual reality time of 360 hours, effectively slowing time down by thirty times. This would be an absolute violation of the rules in the future. Because doing so would mean Chen Xu had overdrawn his brain's lifespan—a one-time, massive overdraft. The damage to his brain's lifespan would extend far beyond a month, potentially reaching a year, ten years, or even more…
Of course. Compared to the long lifespan of four hundred years of the brain, this amount of time is nothing, and Chen Xu doesn't plan to do it again.
Because you need to know. For the past month, aside from his regular two-hour "daily" deep sleep illusion time, Chen Xu has been diligently training his skills in this game; he's practically obsessed!
It can be said that Chen Xu trained diligently for more than 600 hours, and he devoted all of that time to the game!
Keep in mind that even professional players only train for eight hours a day, totaling over 600 hours, which is equivalent to nearly three months of training for a professional player!
Moreover, Chen Xu started training systematically and specifically based on the information from this martial arts school! But even so, if he wanted to defeat his opponent with an absolute advantage, he still needed to use Xiao Min to stimulate his brain's processing speed... Of course, as Chen Xu gradually trained and became more and more familiar with the game, he no longer needed Xiao Min's help.
There was no one else in the virtual world, it was all Chen Xu himself. Apart from Xiao Min occasionally chatting with him in some mechanical language to prove that he was still alive, the loneliness was enough to drive a person crazy!
For the past month, all he's done is play games, spending 22 hours a day in front of the computer. Now, Chen Xu feels nauseous whenever he sees a computer.
This kind of thing absolutely cannot be done a second time, or Chen Xu will go crazy!
This time, if it weren't for the huge trouble his martial arts style had caused, and the arrogant provocation from the Koreans, which made Chen Xu determined to stick to one direction, he probably would have given up long ago...
This can be considered as compensation from Chen Xu.
Down with the Korean bastards, regulate the attitudes of gamers... these are all things Chen Xu needs to do, and it's his responsibility.
Ultimately, the quality of a game depends on the players. If players have low moral standards and create a poor gaming environment, it will affect other players and may even ruin the game.
Audition Online, one of the earliest street dance games in China, was originally a very casual and relaxing game that attracted a large number of players. However, this game, which was originally free of any hostility, is now filled with countless insults and vulgar language as soon as you open it, even more so than the once-famous and highly competitive PK game, Legend of Mir.
Chen Xu naturally didn't want his game to become like that in the future. This time, he used the "Shifting Stars" method to painstakingly practice the ultimate skills of the ten major schools, and that was his purpose.
Defeating the Koreans is only the first step, and it's not difficult at all. The Koreans, who have only gained some minor advantages, are not worth putting too much effort into.
After defeating the Koreans, Chen Xu will begin to reorganize the game!
Chapter 159 Kick JJ to Death
The next day, when the Korean expert logged into B again, he found that a game channel was now displayed.
"What's going on?" JION asked his teammate in confusion. "Are the Chinese planning to gang up on us in one channel?"
FLY licked his lips lewdly and said, "That's even better. Anyway, the level of Chinese players varies greatly, and there are many novices. Apart from a limited number of people who can pose some obstacles for us, we can ignore the others. They're just here to give us points."
His words elicited chuckles from the group. Their strategy this time was to exploit the lack of organization among the Chinese players, then use this method to snatch points and secure first place—a rather opportunistic approach.
But when FLY and his team entered the channel, they found it deserted. Although there were many people, there was only one game room with a sign in Korean that read: "Korean experts please enter."
"Something seems wrong. Is there an ambush?" JION said curiously. "It's obvious the Chinese want us to go into that room to fight. Do they have experts lying in ambush inside?"
Rain, ranked second, glanced at the screen and said, "Whatever, if the Chinese want to play like this, we'll play along. Even the strongest Chinese player is still a step below us. What's there to be afraid of? This is online, not in real life. Boss, are you afraid of being ambushed and ambushed?"
The Koreans laughed, saying their boss was probably terrified of being ambushed in real life. But when JION coughed, they immediately fell silent.
"Okay, let's go in and see what they're up to. We're not afraid of them playing any tricks."
Finally, JION entered the room and immediately saw that the spectator platform was crowded with people. When JION entered, an ID named ICE typed: "Welcome, welcome. We've been waiting for you all for a long time."
This ICE, of course, refers to Chen Xu. Because Chen Xu and his team were well-prepared, they had dedicated personnel to translate the conversations between the players from both countries. So, as soon as Chen Xu finished typing a sentence, Korean text quickly appeared in the chat room.
JION replied: "What do you mean by this today? You already put up a truce yesterday, do you want to continue the truce today?"
Normally, the room would have erupted in chaos by now, filled with a torrent of profanities that would have made JION wish he could disappear back into his mother's womb. But now, the chat room was quiet, without any disorderly comments. Only ICE said, "We would also like to ask you, what is the meaning of your provocation? Do you really think you are invincible and can do whatever you want?"
JION smiled and typed on the keyboard: "The Chinese are incredibly arrogant, always boasting that their martial arts are the best in the world. Many of our masters have come to China to challenge them, but they have all avoided fighting. It's a pity that many Chinese are still living in the dream that their martial arts are the best in the world. We are here to prove a truth: Taekwondo is the strongest kung fu in the world!"
"Pah!" The squad leader, An Yi, Bajiquan, and the others couldn't help but curse, especially Bajiquan, who was already itching to type. But remembering what Chen Xu had said earlier, he couldn't help but slam his fist on the keyboard in a fit of rage... Bajiquan was so powerful that his blow would shatter even the best keyboard. Fortunately, the people around Bajiquan knew he would do this and immediately sighed and replaced the keyboard for him.
Yesterday, when Chen Xu was assigning tasks, he said that during tomorrow's battle against the Koreans, no one is allowed to speak without permission. What kind of order would it be if there was no organization or discipline?