"Jiang Zhuo, hand over that thing, maybe Boss Chai is kind and will let you and your brother die!"

A young man with a hideous scar on his throat said viciously, in front of him, Jiang Zhuo, who was dyed with most of his blood in a white T-shirt, was holding his younger brother Jiang Yao, who was suffering from ALS and could still move freely with only his eyes left on his body.

"I've even handed over the guild to you, what else do you want?" Jiang Zhuo's eyes were full of blood and tears, blaming him for being too naïve, not only did he suffer a group of brothers who followed him, but even the last hope of curing his brother's terminal illness was about to be lost.

"Hmph..."The wicked man snorted coldly, and with a wave of his hand, two people behind him stepped forward to drag Jiang Zhuo away, and then forced Jiang Zhuo to wear a virtual helmet to log in to the game, "Trade that thing to me, or I'll let you see it with your own eyes, I'll cut your brother to pieces with a knife, a knife!" ”

The evil man licked his lips excitedly, not only Jiang Zhuo was terrified in his heart, but even the few people who came with the evil man were also cold in their hearts, and the evil man was indeed carrying several lives on his body. Seeing that the evil man was about to attack, Jiang Zhuo had no choice but to put on a helmet and traded the treasure to the evil man's subordinates in the game.

"Hahaha... The mission is complete, and the brothers can go to heaven and earth together at night! Hey, last time, Lao Tzu had to hide abroad for a few more years..."

The wicked man laughed and stabbed his younger brother Jiang Yao in the heart. Jiang Zhuo's eyes were about to split, and his eyes were bloodshot at the evil man, but he only saw a flash of swords...

......

"Ahh Jiang Zhuo on the white hospital bed woke up suddenly, his face frightened, wheezing non-stop, and his whole body was covered in cold sweat.

His gaze slowly focused, and Jiang Zhuo saw the electronic clock hanging on the white wall opposite the hospital bed, the time displayed at 12:27:52 noon on January 3, 2025, and his memory gradually fell into confusion.

"Is this a dream or is it real..."

Jiang Zhuo muttered in his mouth, looking at the time, he should have been in a coma for a day and a night, but in his memory, it seemed that three years had passed. Moreover, it was an extremely tumultuous three years.

"Lao Jiang! You're finally awake! Your hospitalization fee is from Lao Tzu, remember to pay me back. ”

A flat-headed fat man who looked like he had just been released from prison walked to the door with a stainless steel food box, and was slightly stunned when he saw Jiang Zhuo who had woken up.

"Like a flower..."Jiang Zhuo's eyes narrowed slightly, and the handsome guy in front of him, who often called himself a handsome guy in the fat world, was his roommate friend, Huang Ruhua.

A vague figure appeared in front of Jiang Zhuo, slowly overlapping with Huang Ruhua, he will be much more handsome in the future, far from being comparable to the black fat man who has just undergone military training in this new semester.

"How did you know I had that name?" Huang Ruhua looked at Jiang Zhuo in a daze, at this time he did not have the nickname "Ruhua". It's just because he gave the ID of [Ruhua] in the game [Three Kingdoms], and he couldn't get rid of this nickname in the next few years.

[Three Kingdoms] is a game that integrates high and new technology, and is known as the first game that opened a new era of online games - the era of virtual online games.

The open beta of this game has ended the life of countless shoddy mini-games, browser games, and mobile games, and gathered a large number of game-loving players into one game, making the virtual industry burst out of another spring after Fantasy Journey to the West, Warcraft, DNF, and League of Legends.

A large number of studios are invested in this game, and whether a game has a business opportunity depends on whether the game attracts enough players.

Jiang Zhuo's family is poor, his younger brother suffers from ALS, and his mother ran away from home in the early years because she was overwhelmed. And his father, after supporting Jiang Zhuo to go to college, also exhausted his body and died suddenly on a windless and rainless night, leaving behind two brothers who received subsistence allowance and charity fund assistance.

On New Year's Day, Jiang Zhuo learned that there were more than 50 million people who had pre-ordered this game, and he felt that it would definitely be easier to earn more than part-time jobs in a few months by playing gold coins and equipment to sell in the game. So he spent 300 yuan to buy a game activation code, and went to the Internet café with the other three people in the dormitory, preparing to fight the entire New Year's Day holiday.

The four of them nested in the Internet café for a day and a night, and when Jiang Zhuo went out of the Internet café in the morning to buy breakfast for a few people in the dormitory, he was blackmailed by a few gangsters. Jiang Zhuo knew very well that these gangsters ate soft and were afraid of hard, so one person fought with five people. He remembers that the results were good at first, with two punches, and later... And that's it...

"Ahem... I think the name suits you. Jiang Zhuo cleared his throat, he remembered that he had teased Huang Ruhua's game name many times, and now he didn't feel funny.

Huang Ruhua glanced at Jiang Zhuo suspiciously, always feeling weird, but he didn't know where the weird was. Huang Ruhua took out the porridge and side dishes from the food box, he usually cooked porridge and noodles in the dormitory in order to save money, and helped the injured Jiang Zhuo cook some light meals.

"I remember that I was at the door of the Internet café..."Jiang Zhuo came back to his senses, raised his eyes to look around, and saw his wallet on the bedside table. The seventh-generation ID card was still inside, and Jiang Zhuo breathed a sigh of relief. With the development of modern technology, an ID card contains a large number of information and functions, the game account is recorded in it, and the bank card is also replaced by an ID card.

Although it doesn't matter if he loses it, this ID card can't do anything without his retina in a conscious and voluntary state to cooperate with the scan. But to reapply for a redo ID card, it costs 500 soft sister coins, which is a lot for him.

"Oh... You're a tough kid too! If there are five on the other side, you can't run back to the Internet café to find us? Do you have to fight them alone? If it weren't for the security patrol nearby, you kid would have to break a few bones if he wasn't killed.

I said, don't you know those ones? When a few of us reported that we came out for supper on the first day, didn't we see a few of them robbing the students of our school? Some people were not convinced, and those few people casually called dozens of people. How many people have to swallow their anger, but you can't bear it? You see, now you..."

Huang Ruhua took the chopsticks and soup spoon, poured hot water from the kettle to rinse and disinfect, and the movements in his hands were orderly, but he couldn't stop thinking about a broken mouth at all.

Ay... Who doesn't have a Tang monk-like friend?

Jiang Zhuo didn't interrupt Huang Ruhua's words impatiently as before, and slowly heard what happened after he fell into a coma from his fragmented thoughts. The five thugs were unlucky to be caught by the security patrol, but they seemed to have a background, and Huang Ruhua came out half an hour after hearing that they had entered the bureau.

It was as if nothing had happened, and no one even came to Jiang Zhuolu to make a confession, determine the extent of his injuries, and so on.

However, Jiang Zhuo was not surprised, those gangsters were the subordinates of that evil man... With that person's energy, it was nothing to save the two thugs who beat people. It's just that... If the memory is true, then who is the person who leaked the news of his acquisition of Chongbao to Chai Xin and Scar Man.

The gang of friends at home who help me take care of my brother? The brother who was born and died with himself in the game? Or, the one she has a crush on?

Ay... blames himself for not having a doorkeeper on his lips, and he has hurt so many friends in vain.

"This matter, it's not over..."Jiang Zhuo muttered in a low voice again, not knowing whether he was talking about being beaten by the thugs, or the fact that he was betrayed and finally murdered in his memory.

Huang Ruhua glanced at Jiang Zhuo strangely, remembering that the doctor said that Jiang Zhuo had a slight concussion, so it was not surprising.

After a while, Wu Junxuan, Hong Xin, and Jiang Zhuo's other two roommates also rushed over when they heard the news that Jiang Zhuo had woken up. They were originally working in shifts, Wu Junxuan guarded Jiang Zhuo until midnight last night, and Hong Xin came over to replace them. In the morning, Jiang Zhuo hadn't woken up yet, but the doctor said that it was almost over, so Huang Ruhua made some porridge and side dishes to come over and prepare to replace Hong Xin.

Jiang Zhuo was actually woken up from his dream by the sound of Hong Xin closing the door when he went out, and Huang Ruhua came in more than ten seconds later, he also lacked tendons in his brain, and it took more than ten minutes to remember to inform Hong Xin and Wu Junxuan. As a result, Hong Xin had just run back to the dormitory from the school hospital, and she ran directly over again.

Several people helped Jiang Zhuo be discharged from the hospital, and this trip cost a lot, more than 1,300 yuan. Jiang Zhuo and Huang Ruhua's family background is not good, Huang Ruhua is rich only because his father gave him 3,000 yuan at one time as a year's living expenses.

Wu Junxuan and the others discussed it, and felt that Jiang Zhuo was beaten for helping them buy breakfast, so they decided to share it. Jiang Zhuo refused, saying that he would pay it back, but he would just owe it for a while.

A minor concussion is not a serious injury, you don't have to shake your head hard and feel dizzy, even if it is a minor concussion. So that night, Jiang Zhuo followed Wu Junxuan to the Xintai Internet café near South China University. The activation code that I spent 300 yuan to buy can't be wasted.

In the four-seater Internet café box, there are no computers, only four helmets and four card booths for swiping ID cards. This kind of camera was modified by the major Internet cafes after [Three Kingdoms] announced the end of the internal beta a month in advance and the news that the public beta will be released in January.

In the new era of games, the era of virtual online games, there is no need for manual operation, but through brain waves.

"Logging in..."

"Please point your right eye at the camera..."

"Please point your left eye at the camera..."

"Identity confirmed! Welcome to the Three Kingdoms! ”