Brainoid

Echiyo quickly "scared" Kyoto away and waited there for a while before seeing Autumn Harvest and Kaneda.

The last time he invited Qiu Shou to a buffet, he felt that his boss Qiu Shou was not just an unemployed young man addicted to games. He should at least have a job and a life other than games. Echiyo knew that he couldn't expect Qiu Shou to be online all the time. He helped Qiu Shou investigate the black market because Qiu Shou had helped him a lot, and he should do a good job even if Qiu Shou didn't rush him.

It's just that this time, Qiu Shuang and Kaneda appeared together, which was a bit beyond Echiyo's expectation. He originally thought that Jin Tian didn't like him, but he didn't expect that this eldest brother would also come to him with Qiu Shuo. However, although Kaneda came with the autumn harvest, he still wore sunglasses and looked expressionless. He must have been used to being aloof. Echiyo didn't care. Most likely Qiu Shuo and Kaneda knew each other in the real world, and they were definitely incomparable to a "brother" like him who was picked up halfway.

Echiyo still had some money in her hand, so she asked Qiu Shuo and Kaneda to leave the old city, a place of trouble and trouble, through a wormhole, and went to Baihua Street to find a teahouse. In the virtual world in the brain-like body, people's demand for additional activities such as eating three meals a day to sustain survival and drinking tea and coffee is leveled. Therefore, tea, coffee and various other beverages are more demanding than in the real world. The prosperity has also produced a variety of different patterns. However, these things are actually just to feel the color, aroma and taste of the drink, and will not have any impact on the drinker's spirit.

However, Echiyo put her hand in her pocket and touched the bag of mints, thinking that this future might not be the same.

Sitting down in a private room on the second floor of the teahouse, Eqianshi ordered a simple cup of Tieguanyin with a short prefix, while Qiu Shuang and Kaneda ordered the exact same black tea with a fancy name. Then, while waiting for tea, Echiyo told them about the merchant he had investigated before who went to St. Petersburg to buy "mint candies".

When he mentioned that peppermints were something similar to drugs in the virtual world, Qiu Shu propped up his chin and looked at him without even blinking. On the contrary, Kaneda, who was wearing sunglasses, clenched his fingers on the tea cup.

Eqianshi murmured in her heart, isn't his boss really a gangster? No matter which way it is, it is not something that ordinary people like us dare to provoke.

"You propose that they buy mints from Petersburg and sell them here?" Qiu Shuang asked calmly.

"Yes..." Echiyo was a little unsure of what the other party's point of view was, but he still added defensively, "Even if I didn't say it, they would have thought of it themselves. When Dobosa and I went to St. Petersburg, this The stuff has started to catch on.”

Since it is said to be "popular", it is definitely not as simple as selling trade secrets, personal information, etc. on the black market. It has never been heard that drugs can exist in brainoids before - the entire brainoid is monopolized by the brainoid company - so there are no relevant legal regulations. Mints are only spreading on the fringes now, and may soon spread to the point where ordinary players can also access them.

However, Qiu Shuo took a sip of the foam on the cup of black tea with a fancy name, and said with a smile: "Then you are a bit of a thief. You don't bring the goods yourself, but you encourage others to do so. Are you afraid of being targeted by the police?"

"No, no, no..." Echishi said quickly, "How dare I do this - I will be shot, right?!"

"Why don't you shoot? We haven't determined that this is a drug yet." Qiu Shuang said with a smile, "Individuals reselling goods are private rights. For private rights, it can be done without prohibition by law. Even if regulations are issued in the future If you say no, what you did before that was not illegal."

This is quite clear. In fact, Echishi originally thought the same way, but deep down he was still a normal young man who abided by the law. Dead otakus may be incomprehensible or even disgusting from various angles, but the vast majority of them pose no potential harm to society.

"No, boss, if this thing really becomes popular... wouldn't it be..." Echishi lowered his voice and said, "The Opium War..."

"Can these mints compare with smoking?" Qiu Shuang continued to laugh, "If you spend 500 yuan to buy mints and you can get the effects of smoking, then you can't cure your disease with 500 yuan."

This 500-yuan meme originally came from an encore segment of Guo Degang's cross talk. However, it was something that was popular when Qi Min was young. Wang Mingqing was about ten years behind her, and Anton obviously couldn't have heard of it in the United States at that time. Therefore, there was no reaction after this joke was spoken, which was rather baffling.

But even if you don’t know the meaning, you can still understand what it means. Echiyo said: "No matter what, this thing is always harmful, right? It's an addictive thing."

However, Qi Min knew that this mint actually had no addictive properties. In reality, addiction is due to the habituation of nerves to excessive stimulation of dopamine and other transmitters, so that people can only continue to take drugs to maintain balance, but in brain-like bodies, this process does not exist at all. The only addiction that may occur in a brain-like body is psychological addiction, and compared with mints, those entertainment items with high user stickiness have a greater risk of addiction.

"Are you addicted?" Qiu Shuang deliberately pushed the teacup in front of Echiyo, "Let me have a taste together."

Echiyo's eyes widened and he stammered a little: "Boss, I...I'm not kidding. This is...really addictive."

"You can add a piece for me. You can't become addicted after just one piece." Qiu Shuo shook the cup.

In theory, all items are developed by the R\u0026D department, and naturally the source code of the mints is too. This source code was originally intended to increase the functionality of food and drinks in the brain-like body - upgrading food and drinks from just an "experience" to functional items that can slightly enhance the spirit. This is a small way to improve the user experience of the virtual world. improvement of. It's just that this matter is still a bit of a sidekick, so the R\u0026D department first leaked the source code and tested it on a small scale in St. Petersburg. However, I didn't expect that those guys doing gray transactions did not make this into a drink additive, but mixed it with mint. The spiciness of the two is combined to create a mint.

Echiyo looked at the cup in front of him and reached out with his right hand to the pocket containing mints...

At this time, Kaneda, who had been silent all this time, suddenly reached out and pulled back Qiu Shuang's teacup, and said in a rather cold tone: "Do you really want to drink it?"

Who would have thought that Qiu Shuo, who always had the attitude of "I am the best in the world" to others, would be very talkative when facing Kaneda: "I'll just give it a try - well, forget it, I'm just joking."

Echiyo felt that she was really blind, either deaf, or there was a bug in her brainoid body. Why does he feel that his boss is... coaxing his wife?