Chapter 27: Students Addicted To Star Net
However, when he left, he touched the medicine packet, his steps light and cheerful, secretly laughing in his heart. He took the military training mission and exchanged it for this packet of calming medicine packet. This deal wasn’t a loss, hahahaha!
Life on the starship wasn’t boring at all, for Shi An’an!
Because on the starship, she and Lele heard a lot of gossip together, and also learned about the rich virtual world in the training room.
Put on the helmet, and enter the virtual world. Oh no, here everyone doesn’t like to call it virtual, because here, everyone can really feel and experience the reality of this world.
Shi An’an experienced it once, and she felt like it was her soul experiencing life in the spiritual realm, while her body fell into sleep.
How to put it, this technology can simulate everything imagined in the human heart, it’s just expensive!
Shi An’an logged in a few times and didn’t want to go on anymore. The reason was simple: she personally felt it was a bit of a waste of time. After all, it was virtual, not real. Spending money on virtual things, she felt it wasn’t worth it.
After all, when arriving in the real world, the things bought in the virtual world can’t be taken out at all.
This was merely Shi An’an’s own opinion.
Since there were no teachers or class advisors on the starship, and the instructors hadn’t shown up, no one was restraining them.
So many students became addicted to it. In just one short week, she saw many students all looking like they hadn’t woken up, like walking corpses.
Shi An’an shook her head. If they continued like this, these students’ mental energy would soon be depleted.
There were also some self-disciplined students who, caring about their grades, trained every day in the physical training room or mecha training room… doing various trainings in order to achieve good results in the military training.
This included Shi Anxin.
After losing interest in everything on the Star Net. Shi An’an calmed her mind and began day after day of cultivation.
Now her cultivation level had reached the ninth layer of the Qi Refining stage.
Looking at yet another space button that was stuffed full, Shi An’an sighed. This space button was really too small!
Each space button’s size was thirty cubic meters, and she had ten on her!
From cultivating these past few days, she had already filled six space buttons. Of the other four, one held plant seeds, various flowers, grasses, and trees; one held food items, like grains, vegetables, fruit.
Another held some daily necessities, and the last one held… uh, also seeds, but some… uh, small seeds convenient for self-defense that she collected on the Star Net!
Looking at the space buttons placed in front of her that were stuffed full, Shi An’an had a bit of a headache. She picked one up, took out a bag of raw sunflower seeds from inside, and with a face full of worry, grabbed them and started cracking them.
“Ptoo ptoo…” The more Shi An’an cracked, the more uncomfortable it got. Looking at the raw sunflower seeds in her hand, these were all peeled from catalyzed sunflowers without being dried.
Cracking them wasn’t satisfying at all.
She took out a pot of strawberries that already had more than a dozen ripe ones hanging from another space button, and casually picked one to eat.
“I can’t finish eating this myself!” Shi An’an felt depressed.
Right now on the starship, they were about to arrive at the destination for military training, and she couldn’t mail it.
Her small shop that she opened on the Star Net had long passed the review and could sell goods, but since she couldn’t mail, she hadn’t put any goods up.
She couldn’t send it to family, nor share it with classmates.
These things, if she casually took out even one, she was afraid it would cause unnecessary trouble…
“Sigh…”
“One space button costs 100,000 star coins. Can’t buy another ten, right…”
Shi An’an calculated the money, and no matter how she calculated, it wasn’t worth it. She hadn’t even earned any income yet, and had already spent so much…
In the end, Shi An’an decided to go find Shi Anxin and have her think of a solution for her.
Mainly, her cultivation required spiritual energy, and there was no spiritual energy in this universe, so she could only obtain spiritual energy by catalyzing plants.
Besides that, in this world, she had only seen dense spiritual energy on that star beast’s body, but she couldn’t just go find a star beast directly, right? With her trash combat power, she’d be instantly killed if she went.
After contacting Shi Anxin, she learned she was resting right then, so Shi An’an started heading to find Shi Anxin.
“An’an, where are you going?” Shi Lele came back looking haggard, preparing to go back and sleep.
“Lele?” Seeing Shi Lele’s state, Shi An’an frowned tightly. “Have you been playing on the Star Net? Do you know your current physical condition?”
Shi Lele looked guilty. She had indeed been a bit indulgent lately. Mainly at home, with family and the robot butler watching, she could never play to her heart’s content.
This time on the starship, it was really too boring, so she let loose. Mainly everyone was doing it, and she couldn’t hold back…
“An’an, I promise, before arriving at the military training base, I won’t go on the Star Net to play anymore! I’ll definitely rest well!” Shi Lele raised her hand, guaranteeing to Shi An’an.
“If you continue like this, your body probably won’t make it to the military training base before collapsing!”
The virtual world on the Star Net not only consumed mental power, but also affected the body outside.
If only online for one or two hours, it was fine, but some people were heavily addicted, sometimes forgetting time, and the body outside wouldn’t eat, drink, defecate, or urinate for a day, two days, three days…
When consciousness returned, the hunger, fatigue, pain… on the body would instantly assault, and many people couldn’t endure it.
Severe cases directly led to loss of bladder and bowel control, requiring direct entry into a treatment pod for healing.
Although the treatment pod could heal physical pain, it couldn’t heal mental power pain.
“Go rest quickly.” Shi An’an looked at Shi Lele. “Forget it. Right now, your body is fatigued, but your mental power is in an active state. You probably won’t fall asleep even lying down. Come on.”
Shi An’an sent a message to Shi Anxin, telling her she might need to wait a bit longer before coming over, and to handle other matters first without waiting for her.
Shi Anxin immediately replied with an “Okay”.
Shi Lele carefully watched Shi An’an, and seeing her full serious expression, felt like she was being scolded by her older brother, dad, and mom…
“An… An’an… you don’t need to worry. I’ll go back and drink a dose of sleeping pill and I’ll fall asleep…”
Hearing this, Shi An’an’s face turned cold. Standing at the door, she looked at Shi Lele expressionlessly. “If you consider me a friend, don’t drink that sleeping pill anymore. If you don’t see me as a friend, then pretend I didn’t say that.”
Once before in the restaurant, she saw someone drink it once. After drinking, that person fell asleep immediately, but when she discovered that person woke up again, their mental power was a bit unstable, with a trend of regression.
She didn’t know about the physical conditions, but since mental power was affected, the body probably had some bad effects too.
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