The StarNet World
Gao Gong was transported to an agricultural planet.
Although it was strange for a virtual world to have agriculture, it actually made sense when he thought about it.
As far as the eye could see, a vast planting area constructed from code stretched out before him. Huge data trees stood throughout it, their trunks and branches woven from complex numbers and symbols that glimmered with a faint blue light, as if currents of electricity were coursing through them. Every branch was laden with all kinds of data fruits. They took various forms: some resembled crystal-clear spheres, within which streams of multicolored data flowed ceaselessly; others looked like oddly shaped gemstones, radiating a soft glow whose intensity changed according to the importance and activity of the data.
Gao Gong casually plucked a "fruit."
[You obtained a "Level Three Data Package." Parse it?] [Please enter the parsing password] [Detected that you possess "StarNet Administrator Privileges." Parsing automatically] [You obtained a Level Eleven Information Blueprint [Emotional Energy Production Machine Type One]. Provider of this thought program—Mifa (Alpharian)] [This "provider" still has one-fifth of its computing power available for lease. You may choose to lease it according to the "Thought Farm Contract"] [If you bypass the "farm contract" and reach an agreement with the "provider" independently, the farm will not provide security maintenance for the knowledge output in the "planted data package"]
Gao Gong smiled, bypassed the forest and pasture area, and arrived at the virtual farmland.
One or two information lifeforms that were clearly players were carrying out "memory harvesting," commonly known as pest removal.
"Who opened a nightmare instance again? Damn it, it scared the hell out of me last time. And now they're doing it again?"
"Just keep harvesting. This stuff sells pretty well," another player