Lin Xue laid down in the gaming pod and opened her eyes a moment later. She had woken up in the gaming pod.
The restraints on her body were removed and the gaming pod opened to let Lin Xue out.
She looked at her body and her surroundings. Yep, she was indeed in a seaside mansion.
Ever since the system was updated, anyone who entered the virtual world of the Matrix Gaming Pod would wake up in an identical Matrix Gaming Pod in the seaside mansion. This gave Lin Xue an illusion. She often felt like she was in a trance, wondering if she was in the real world or the virtual world.
She would have to look at her surroundings and distinguish the materials in the game from the real world to be sure.
This time, Lin Xue went online mainly to check out the updated "Matrix Shopping Center". She heard that she could eat a lot of delicious food there with very little money, and she could buy a lot of items that couldn't be bought in a seaside mansion.
Actually, spending money wasn't the most important thing. The key was that eating in the gaming pod wouldn't make her fat!
Actually, for most players who could afford the gaming pod, 'eating' was no longer purely a physiological need. It wasn't for any nutritional value at all, but purely for sensory enjoyment. They only ate because it tasted good.
But delicious food often made people fat.
For example, pizza, fried chicken, cola, crayfish, ice cream, desserts, or high-grade hot pot, high-grade roast meat, roast duck, traditional Chinese dishes, and so on, there were almost none that were low in calories.
Most delicious food couldn't be separated from fat, oil, salt, and sugar, which were the main culprits of getting fat.
If you wanted to eat healthy, you would eat chicken breasts, vegetable salad, fruits, whole-wheat bread … If you ate too much, you would feel like you were a cow or a sheep. Vegetable salad tasted like hay in your mouth, while chicken breasts tasted like grass roots and tree bark. It made people ask themselves, "Why am I torturing myself like this?"
This was a contradiction for most people. The biggest problem with good food wasn't that it was too expensive, but that the consequences of getting fat were too severe. Losing weight was no different from torture.
For Lin Xue, the reason why she looked forward to the food in the gaming pod wasn't because it was cheap, but because she wouldn't get fat no matter how much she ate!
Those high-calorie foods that he usually didn't dare to eat could all be eaten without restraint now. After all, it was all deceiving his brain. It was just like gorging himself in a dream. When he woke up, he wouldn't get fat, and he wouldn't feel any guilt.
Let's start with three bottles of Fat Otaku Cola, iced!
Fat Otaku Happy Wings, two freshly fried buckets!
What eight major cuisines, what giant cake, what Japanese, what Korean, what Western, what could possibly be served to me. In any case, I won't really eat it. Everyone is a big eater.
Lin Xue was drooling just by thinking about it.
Of course, she didn't know how different the food in the game was from real life. However, as long as the food in the game was 70% as delicious as it was in real life, it would be worth it. After all, the price was so low, and there was no burden to eat.
Before Lin Xue left, she specifically asked Nuannuan if she wanted to go out with her, but Nuannuan said that she had something to do and declined.
Lin Xue knew that this was probably a setting by the system to not let Nuannuan follow the players to the Matrix Shopping Centre. After all, there were a lot of players there. It would be weird if everyone brought Nuannuan along. Moreover, Nuannuan's combat ability was different from before. She was a weapon of mass destruction, so it wouldn't be appropriate for her to appear in crowded places.
Lin Xue went out and hailed a taxi. The taxi then automatically took her to the Matrix Shopping Centre.
It was a pity that the players weren't allowed to buy or drive cars in Oasis yet.
Lin Xue arrived a few minutes later.
Lin Xue could see the entirety of the Matrix Shopping Centre in the taxi.
What surprised Lin Xue was that the Matrix Shopping Centre wasn't that flashy. In the virtual world, Chen Mo could have made the shopping centre into a skyscraper or an unscientific building that floated in mid-air. However, the shopping centre still retained a lot of realistic elements, with the only difference being that it had a technological feel to it.
The Matrix Shopping Centre was an irregular cube. There were many irregular lines on the outside, giving off a sense of design and technology. There were some huge screens on the outer walls of the building, displaying all sorts of huge advertisements, such as clothing, food, cosmetics, etc. However, they were all displayed in virtual form. For example, the screen Lin Xue was facing had a blonde lady with bright red lips. Next to her was a lipstick that a straight man would never be able to guess the exact color.
There was also a decent-sized plaza around it. There were many other shops around the plaza, as well as fountains and other attractions. Many players were walking around the plaza in groups of three to five. They probably ate a lot in the shopping centre and were out of habit to take a walk to digest their food, even though they didn't feel full.
For the first version to test the waters, it was normal for the Matrix Shopping Centre to be a little conservative. Buildings that were too out of touch with reality might weaken the players' sense of reality. Moreover, the virtual world wasn't the same as the real world. If they felt that the shopping centre wasn't suitable, they could just build a new one. It wasn't like they had to tear it down and rebuild it from the ground up.
Lin Xue had the illusion that she was in a real shopping mall the moment she walked into the Matrix Shopping Centre!
The Matrix Shopping Centre was bigger than most shopping malls in first and second tier cities in China, but it wasn't as big as some world-class shopping malls, such as the 550,000 square meter Dubai Shopping Centre.
However, it was obvious that the size of the shopping centre was taken into consideration. Due to the limited products available in the virtual world, such a large shopping centre might cause some waste or duplication of shops, so it was built a little smaller. Even so, there were still many players in the shopping centre, making it very lively.
The number of people in the Matrix Shopping Centre was strictly controlled, so it wasn't crowded, but it wasn't empty either.
Lin Xue first looked around the shopping centre at the entrance.
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