Chapter 409: Life is a Ga
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The river of life flowed ahead.
Without his noticing, it seed that many years had passed.
Planet Haierfa, which had once descended into devastating war and been razed into a barren hell, now had blue skies, blue oceans, and was flourishing in lush greenery. Every corner of the planet was full of vitality.
Viewed from space, this planet was as gorgeous as a luminous sapphire.
By the coast, on a rock on a white sandy beach, there was a man wearing beach pants, a straw hat, and a sleeveless shirt. With a fishing rod in his hands, he was enjoying the sea breeze while fishing for marine creatures. Next to the man were two won in bikinis. One of them had blonde hair, blueish-green eyes, and refined facial figures; the other one had dark hair resembling the color of twilight and an exquisite petite figure, and exuded the gentle aura of Eastern beauty.
“How peaceful.”
The man sighed. “Starting when I announced my retirent, I think it’s been more than three decades that I’ve lived my life like this. I’m an eighty-year-old geezer now, am I?”
“It will be your 80th birthday in three days, master.” The blonde on his left said. “I wish you a happy birthday in advance, master.”
“That won’t be necessary.” The man shook his head. “This is not sothing worth celebrating, and I’m not gonna be happy, either. I think I’m growing a little sick of this quiet life. Look at this youthful body of mine—if I return to Earth, I bet my children and grandchildren won’t be happy either. They will be wondering: why am I not dead? How long do I intend to hold onto Xing Hai Technologies’s equity? Why am I always blocking their ways?... I bet only a few of them would truly wish a happy birthday.”
“Master, you are too negative,” the blonde woman said. “Aside from those several core products that remain unstripped, Xing Hai Technologies has distributed almost everything else, including the hundreds of desert free cities and space cities. This enormous wealth is enough to fulfill anyone’s needs and be exchanged for reliable and solid kinship.”
“Only the Knowledge Bank and the virtual ga Galaxy Era remain in your hands, as both are not to be given away. You’ve already handed out everything you could.”
The man, however, sighed. “The problem is that knowledge is priceless. The economy driven by Galaxy Era now accounts for almost 30% of the global GDP. Those two are the treasures with the highest value, for heaven’s sake. Alice, do you think that humanity can be trusted?”
This...
The blonde woman on his left beca silent, unable to answer his question.
Suddenly, his hands sank as the fishing rod bent down intensely.
“Eh, a fish, it seems.”
The man was happy as he reeled in his line with all his might. After more than five minutes of wrestling with the creature on the hook, he caught a colorful ocean fish. Weighing it in his hands, he guessed it to be at least 20 pounds.
He looked at the fish bucket at his foot, which was already full of fish.
The man could only release the fish that he just caught back into the sea. “There are too many fish in the sea. I’ll fill up a whole bucket with them in no ti. I can’t even finish a conversation before that happens.”
Oh well, forget fishing.
The man put down his rod, headed under a parasol on the white, sandy beach, and lay down on the comfortable recliner.
The blonde woman, on the other hand, took the fish bucket and used so tools to deal with the fish inside. Then, she brought the grill over, ignited the charcoal fire, and began roasting those ocean fish.
“I might have rested a little too much recently. Nuwa, give a brief report about what has happened over the past few years,” the man on the recliner said to the dark-haired woman that stood beside him, his eyes half-closed.
“Nothing significant has really happened, master.” The dark-haired woman began. “First of all, environntal transformation on planet Haierfa has been fully completed. The planet’s natural ecology has been restored to a perfect state.
“In science and technology, two major developnts have been realized. Firstly, we have entirely assimilated the Crystal Brainers’ tech, and are now basically on par with them.
“Secondly, courtesy of Galaxy Era, we successfully produced our first C-class battleship last year. We are now in possession of a powerful enough main battleship.”
“Many aspects of developnt went much faster than we expected. Master, the moves we’ve made are excellent.”
“That’s for certain!” The man nodded. “Just look at how many resources we expended on Galaxy Era. Data on the entirety of human civilization, the super-server host computer that covers more than 100 square kiloters of land—just the power consud by these remote servers every year alone would suffice for the needs of ten billion human beings... in order to build the most authentic ga and filter out the most intelligent players, we’ve used almost all of the most precious resources we have here on planet Haierfa.”
Back on Earth, even superpowers could not build such a massive and complex ga.
“But what followed was that the ga has caused troubles on Earth that are way bigger than what we expected.” The dark-haired woman said. “First is the wife withdrawing crisis. More than 50 million male players around the world want the female characters in the ga extracted into reality with the help of the genetic coding technology. More than 10 million female players as well want their ideal husbands in-ga to beco their partners in reality.
“WBy the appeal of countless players, in the face of the morality’s resistance, a democratic country in the West finally opened up the first pathway which allows humans produced by genetic algorithms to beco humans in the real world once their character information is keyed in.
“Subsequently, a few desert free cities also passed this law in order to increase their population and boost their economy.
“NPCs manufactured via the genetic coding technology began to erge in reality. Swiftly, their numbers exceeded one hundred thousand, a million, ten million... gradually becoming a special group that can no longer be ignored. It has triggered a variety of issues involving taboos.
“The community even sparked a small-scale ard rebellion. Galaxy Era was almost banned by the Federal Parliant several tis.
“After more than a decade of turmoil, the withdrawal of ga NPCs was completely banned, and the storm gradually subsided.
“Of course, Galaxy Era did not only bring about the so-called “love crisis.” In financial terms, it has profoundly altered the global economic structure, allowing the proportion of the economy that is virtual to gradually rise. In science and technology, ever since 100% Science Lab was integrated into Galaxy Era, almost all scientific experints can be transferred into and conducted in the ga. A considerable number of players have beco tech streaming players, while their performance in the ga remains on par with that of serious contenders.
“All in all, Galaxy Age has beco an indispensable part of civilization on Earth—and moreover, the core support of planet Haierfa. It is like a powerful heart that outputs endless nutrition and energy.
“Hence, master, I’m starting to believe that gas are not a distraction to real life, but an artifact that can bring ceaseless benefits.”
“You’re right.”
The man nodded. “Life is a ga. Everything is in gas. Who dares to assert that he or she is not a character in a certain ga?”
As long as one’s ntality was correct, and they took the ga they were playing seriously, anyone could excel in it.
Suddenly, a fragrant scent drifted by.
The man whiffed and smiled. “Alice’s fish should be ready. Let’s go feast on the catch, Nuwa.”
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