Hearing his own name, Wang Dongsheng was stunned for a moment and blurted out: "How do you know my name?"
After saying that, he finally raised his eyelids for the first time and looked carefully at the person in front of him.
It's too dazzling.
Wrapped in fluorescent green, Wang Dongsheng squinted his eyes and finally saw his appearance clearly.
He has never seen this person before!
Judging from this kid's face and outfit, he would have recognized him at a glance if he had seen him before.
Have I suddenly become famous
Of course, it doesn’t matter whether he is famous or not. Just by looking at the way Jie Fangcheng is carrying the sword, you can tell at a glance that he is not a good person.
After asking this question and getting no response, Jie Fangcheng took two steps forward as if threatening: "Come on, tell me how this copy of yours…"
Before Xie Fangcheng finished speaking, Wang Dongsheng screamed and rushed out of the room, crawling.
Jie Fangcheng hurriedly took two steps forward, opened the door and exclaimed "Huh".
Outside the room is a corridor made of transparent glass. At a glance, you can see the beautiful starry sky outside the glass and a huge thing that looks like a wing.
They are traveling in the universe.
In the blink of an eye, Wang Dongsheng had disappeared, and Jie Fangcheng could only turn around and go back.
Although Aunt Li was already like this, after Jie Fangcheng drove Wang Dongsheng away, she couldn't help but smile on her haggard face.
Jie Fangcheng exchanged for a bottle of system potion and handed it to her while asking, "What's going on in this instance?"
As a result, Aunt Li looked at the medicine in front of her, shook her head weakly, and said briefly: "How much."
Jie Fangcheng was not stupid, and he immediately realized that she was talking about the conditions for passing this copy.
Those with a weight below average or receiving 10,000 “beauty thin points” in tips from viewers.
Obviously, it is more difficult for Aunt Li to get 10,000 "beauty and slimming points" from the audience. Although she doesn't know what this is, it looks similar to the tips from the audience after the anchor starts broadcasting.
But given Aunt Li's condition, her weight shouldn't be below average, right? She's already so thin that she's completely unrecognizable.
Since the other person didn't want to drink, Jie Fangcheng didn't know what to do.
So at this moment when he had nothing to do, Manager Xie finally vaguely remembered that he seemed to have agreed to something.
He reacted suddenly and hurriedly used the summoning prop. Soon, a white light flashed and Zhang Daoan appeared before him.
After landing, Zhang Daoan looked around: "Interstellar?"
The furnishings in the room are very futuristic and technological, and it is obvious that the copy is in an interstellar era with a higher level of technological civilization.
Aunt Li was of course also very impressed with him and nodded weakly at him.
Zhang Daoan saw her like this, then looked at Jie Fangcheng standing beside him, and thought about the conditions for passing the copy, and immediately understood.
He walked over to Aunt Li, squatted down, and also exchanged for a bottle of system potion.
"If there is any situation that requires action, you will just have to wait for death in your current condition."
Aunt Li looked at him and felt that her numb head seemed to turn slowly.
She recalled how the two of them had operated in the [Fulai Inn] copy before. They were obviously not players who could pass the level step by step.
Looking at the system potion in front of her at this time, Aunt Li finally reached out to take it hesitantly, raised her head and drank it all in one gulp.
The medicine produced by the system was very effective. Aunt Li's originally shriveled body seemed to be blown up and quickly grew back to its original appearance.
As the lost things returned, the weak feeling as if she was about to die was relieved, and Aunt Li felt that her strength had returned.
Only at this moment did she have the strength to thank Jie Fangcheng and the others first.
"Thanks."
Nie Shuangshuang prepared summoning props for her, asking her to use them in the copy to summon herself, because Nie Shuangshuang had a good relationship with her.
But Jie Fangcheng was not like that. He only completed a dungeon with her once and ate two pancakes.
At this moment he really appeared, and Aunt Li felt a little choked up in her throat.
Such strangers would help her, but her son...
Jie Fangcheng's question interrupted Aunt Li's thoughts.
"What's going on with this copy?"
Aunt Li smiled bitterly and pointed her finger in the air. Soon, a projection screen appeared on the wall.
There are many small windows on the screen, similar to many live broadcast apps.
Now some windows are black, which means the host is not broadcasting live.
Some of them are still open, but at first glance they all look very similar, with similar backgrounds and even the people broadcasting the live broadcasts.
They were skinny bald heads.
Aunt Li randomly clicked on a live broadcast room and explained, "Players usually broadcast live at night, and now the broadcasters are all NPCs. This is the live broadcast room with the highest audience popularity in the live broadcast competition."
As soon as I turned it on, the huge BGM resounded throughout the room.
"Dear ones, please follow me and don't get lost. I am the little sheep who is best at losing weight. I also hope to pass on this 'slim spirit' to everyone in front of the screen!"
Compared to Aunt Li who couldn't move at all, the "little sheep who is best at losing weight" in the live broadcast had sunken cheeks and was so thin that her bones were visible. It seemed that she didn't have any meat on her body, but she looked energetic.
There were constant comments floating around the lower left corner of the live broadcast room. At first glance, it looked like an ordinary live broadcast room, with quite a few banners for rewards.
"A friend asked me how much I weigh now, so I'll give you a real measurement!"
As she spoke, she pressed a button, and soon her weight was announced in the room.
"24.72 kg."
Almost 25KG, it’s hard to imagine that this is the weight of an adult woman.
But "Xiao Meiyang" was stunned for a moment after hearing this number. Before she could say anything, the barrage of comments in the live broadcast room immediately surged.
"You gained 0.2kg! What happened? Aren't anchors supposed to keep losing weight? You can't manage your body properly!"
"That's too much. You've gained weight but you still want to share your 'slim energy'. Isn't that bad luck?"
"The anchor has been really lazy lately. He even ate some cookies during the live broadcast yesterday..."
"Biscuits? Oh my god, in this day and age, are there still people consuming carbs? Don't want to be in shape? Don't want to lose weight? Carbs are the enemy of life!!"
The anchor came to his senses and quickly explained: "Yesterday a fan gave me a box of cookies. As everyone knows, we have been away from carbs for many years. I have never eaten this stuff since I was born, and I don't know what it tastes like, so I took a sip, but I vomited immediately after taking a sip! I hope everyone can discuss rationally. Today, it may be because the hair on my head has grown, so it is a little heavier. After I shave it off, I will be the 'little sheep' that everyone keeps losing weight!"
This explanation was obviously not enough to appease the audience, and soon, under the watchful eyes of Jie Fangcheng and the other two, the number of viewers for this anchor plummeted, and countless viewers left after saying “this anchor is not thin enough”.
"Xiao Meiyang" sat in front of the screen blankly. Not long after, the screen went black and the anchor went offline.
Aunt Li's voice came at the right time.
"People in this era have a fanatical worship of weight loss. No matter how much they weigh, even if it's 25kg, they still want to keep losing weight. Everyone thinks thinness is beautiful. Public opinion channels are also promoting that the thinner the better, and only skinny beauty is real beauty... In fact, because of this pass condition, we have also tried to broadcast other things to earn points for beauty and thinness, but the audience didn't buy it. They just want to watch people lose weight."
The players discovered the problem after they came in.
In this era, people are morbidly pursuing thinness. If you are over 100 pounds, you will be looked at strangely by others.
Various types of weight loss live broadcast rooms have also emerged, or it can be said that now the only hot topic in the entire live broadcast industry is "weight loss", and there are basically no viewers for other live broadcasts.
And the players... this is the bad thing about the game. Your appearance will not change after you enter the game. Even if you become as thin as a lightning bolt in the dungeon, as soon as you leave the dungeon, everything will be reset to zero.
The players all had the same body shape as before they died. Among the sixteen players who entered the dungeon, the thinnest one weighed over 100 kilograms, and there were two 1.9-meter-tall strong men who weighed nearly 200 kilograms.
But now, the players who are still alive basically weigh less than 80 kilograms.
Like Aunt Li, she now weighs only 62 kilograms.
You have to know that it has only been less than ten days since this copy was opened, and she has lost weight too fast.
She didn't need to say anything. Zhang Daoan looked at her like this. She was so thin that her weight couldn't be below the average. And if the condition for passing the level was her own weight loss, what was the point of summoning Jie Fangcheng? He couldn't help Aunt Li lose weight.
"In the clearance condition, 'weight is lower than average', whose weight is it? Whose average?"
Aunt Li finally came to her senses as her body recovered. She explained, "We were divided into groups after entering the dungeon. Originally, each group had more than ten people, but now only about half of them are left. My group has seven people, two NPCs and five players. The weight refers to the average weight of our entire group, and it is compared with all the other groups."
"As long as it's lower than the average of all groups?"
Aunt Li nodded, then shook her head: "This is difficult. There are six groups in total. Two groups have players, and the remaining four groups are NPCs. Those NPCs have lower starting values than us, so it is difficult for us to catch up with them."
Zhang Daoan repeated: "It's hard to catch up? Why do you say that?"
Aunt Li sighed.
"People in this world have gone crazy trying to lose weight. Their medical system is very developed. Most people's first surgery after adulthood is gastrectomy... total gastrectomy. They get their nutrition through direct injections of nutrient solution. Many people have their bottom two ribs removed to look thinner. Liposuction can be done at any clinic on the street. When we entered the dungeon, these NPCs had already undergone many organ removal surgeries, and their average weight was less than 70. Now, many of them weigh around 60."
"As for the two groups of players, we are all normal people. Not to mention 60, our group is relatively light after entering the dungeon, with an average weight of over 120. Therefore, after entering the dungeon, if we want to lose weight quickly, we have to undergo various resection surgeries like NPCs, but the cost of these surgeries must be paid by "MeiShouDian". And our body shape is completely unpleasant to the audience of this world. It was only on the third day after entering the dungeon that we gathered enough points to have a total gastrectomy."
This operation is just the beginning. Once the operation is done, it means that players can no longer use system potions to restore their bodies.
Save up some beauty and get some skinny, have surgery, lose weight.
This has become the top priority for all players.
But losing weight is not something you can do just by wanting to, like those two 200-pound strong men.
The medical level in the interstellar world is far beyond that of reality, and this world is so crazy about weight loss that operations like liposuction are even more skilled. Liposuction can be performed without limit, and there is no need to worry about life-threatening situations.
But even if we can extract subcutaneous fat without limit, what about the fat in other parts of the body? And what about the important muscles that support human activities
After liposuction, the two strong men still weighed over 120 kilograms. They couldn't lose weight no matter what they did, so on the fifth day, the players in their group threw them out of the spaceship.
This is the first wave of players to be "eliminated".
Everyone quickly realized that the players were all very heavy and it was really difficult to lose weight even after undergoing various surgeries, but it was different for NPCs.
These NPCs are very adept at this kind of competition. Even though they were already skin and bones when they arrived, they were still able to continue to lose weight.
Therefore the fewer players there are, the lower the average weight in the group.
Once such a mindset is formed, it is difficult to break.
The players were wary of each other and suspicious of each other, and each wanted to push the other to death, but this was very difficult given their current situation - the rapid loss of fat and stomach had greatly reduced the players' strength, and some players could not even use their skills.
So after being wary of each other and suspicious of each other, the players can only embark on the second path: try to lose weight for themselves and their teammates.
There are regulations for weight loss competitions. In order to promote the concept of healthy weight loss, it is prohibited to remove parts of the body that may affect appearance, such as limbs.
In other words, as long as it is not noticeable on the surface, you can cut anywhere else, so the players started to think about the organs in the stomach.
Like Aunt Li, now there is only a short piece of intestine left in her stomach, and the rest of the people are similar.
By hollowing out their stomachs to lose weight, their group's weight has been getting closer to the average.
But... I can't lose any more weight.
Aunt Li clearly felt that this was everyone's limit.
The abdomen is empty, and there is no place to cut. Their beauty is not enough. The audience is not interested in their listless and skinny faces. What these audiences want to see is the kind of "thinness" that is skinny but still radiant.
It is logically impossible to lose weight to this extent, but just like the anchor that Jie Fangcheng and the others saw just now, Meilei Company’s new product “Meile Yeast” has achieved it.
This product is very expensive and players cannot afford it at all.
But other NPCs with audiences can afford it.
"It is said that this product is the latest generation of magic weight loss drug. After taking it, all the fat and muscle in the body will be burned, and it will not harm the body." This kind of thing sounds like a fantasy, but just look at those anchors. The anchors who took this drug are really losing weight, and their faces look rosy and shiny.
It doesn't work.
Aunt Li quickly realized that if she relied on the current players, it would be a dead end to clear this dungeon.
She can realize it, and so can the other players in the group.
What if... one person is sacrificed
The abdominal organs were not completely removed.
In fact, the players have already departed from the realm of normal humans. Even if their heart is broken, they can still live for two or three days... If they lose necessary organs, the players will not die immediately.
So under the "choice" of the players in the same group, Aunt Li was forced to "voluntarily" be the guinea pig in the experiment.
There was no other way. If she wanted to survive, she had to ask for help from outside.
At this time, the external help arrived, and Aunt Li felt a little relieved.
“We’ve reached a dead end.” She looked at the tiny screens, some of which would never light up again.
The most terrifying thing is not that you have reached a dead end, but that after reaching the dead end, Aunt Li tried hard to think of a way to pass this copy, but she had no idea at all.
If they don't lose weight quickly, no one will watch their body shapes in these live broadcast rooms.
If you want to lose weight quickly, you can only have surgery.
But once the operation is done, the combat power value will decrease, and it will be impossible to resist. You can only act like an ordinary NPC and follow the script set by others step by step.
Then when you get to the end, you will find that if you follow the path others have taken, you will never be able to catch up with the people ahead of you.
Dead end.
No matter how you calculate or think about it, this copy cannot be completed.
The historical records also prove this.
The clearance rate is 13%, which means that only two players have ever completed this level in history.
If the players are also divided into two groups, will these two people kill all the other players
Some players are already hesitating... But what's the point of hesitating? No one dares to drink the system potion to restore their fat and strength.
Zhang Daoan thought for a moment and said, "Is that so?"
He didn't say anything, but the two people who had completed the dungeon twice with him knew it somehow. He must have had a plan in mind.
"How do I pass the level?" Jie Fangcheng asked directly.
Zhang Daoan asked a question: "Do the indigenous people of this world have a high average life expectancy?"
"Ah?" Aunt Li was stunned.
This kind of question is too out of scope. After entering the dungeon, all they think about is how to pass the dungeon. Who would have the time to think about those NPCs
But this question is also easy to answer.
Aunt Li clicked on the AI assistant.
Numbers soon appeared on the assistant's screen.
Forty-seven years old.
This number is too low!
Aunt Li immediately realized something was wrong.
The average life expectancy of a society's residents is most likely linked to medical conditions. With the level of technology in the real world, the average life expectancy is over 70 years old. The interstellar world is so developed and the medical level is so high, the average life expectancy should be higher.
"Being too fat or too thin is harmful to the body. This is determined by the genes of carbon-based organisms." After that, Zhang Daoan suddenly asked, "Then how long is the longest-lived person in the world in the past ten years?"
The AI assistant’s feedback was quick.
Aunt Li looked at the answer and had a vague feeling in her heart.
"One hundred and fifty-seven years old..."
The person in the photo also looks thin, but this kind of thinness always feels very strange.
It looks like the picture was photoshopped, not that thin naturally.
After looking through this person's personal entry, Zhang Daoan searched for the ten longest-lived people and soon made a new discovery.
"These ten people are all wealthy. And eight of them are related to Meilei Company."
"ah… "
Zhang Daoan has a strong learning ability. After Aunt Li operated it only once, he started to use the Star Era search engine on his own and quickly traced the source.
"The concept of 'beautiful slimming' was proposed by the Meilei Company, and each generation of the company's successors and their relatives have a long life span - this is what they themselves advertise, saying that it is because of the use of their company's products that they are getting thinner and healthier."
Zhang Daoan had already said this, and Jie Fangcheng reacted: "Actually, it's not. Being too thin is harmful, and the managers of Meilei Company also know it. But in order to launch their new products, they have been pushing them behind the scenes?"
"Yes." Zhang Daoan finished his search and curled his lips, but there was no smile. "In such an advanced interstellar age... no one has ever proposed that being thin is unhealthy. All papers and scientific research point to the harm of obesity."
Why is this happening
Everyone knows the answer.
In order to sell products and make money, "thinness" has become a trend that blows towards everyone.
"What should I do? Will it help if I just go to Meilei Company and kill the person in charge?"
Jie Fangcheng asked.
Such an absurd question made Aunt Li want to laugh. The next second, she saw Professor Zhang, who had always been a little serious in her mind, actually nodded in agreement.
“I think this is a good idea.”
"Then how do we get there? Can you fly a spaceship?"
"No, but there seems to be a tutorial on flying a spaceship on the Internet. It won't be a problem if I learn it."
“Reliable!”
Aunt Li couldn't help but: "Wait!"
She was a little confused: "Why do we have to kill the boss of Meilei Company? What does this have to do with us clearing the dungeon?"
This time, Jie Fangcheng answered her question.
"Yes, I have."
"What's the relationship?" Aunt Li was very confused.
Jie Fangcheng repeated the conditions for passing the dungeon: "Weight below average?"
"right."
"If our average can't be lowered, why not let others' average go up?"
Jie Fangcheng asked calmly.
Humans tend to seek benefits and avoid harm. They didn’t know that losing weight had such side effects before, so the NPCs in this world have been trying desperately to lose weight.
But if they knew that losing weight is harmful to health, would these NPCs still be as keen on losing weight as they are now
(End of this chapter)