January 1st, 344, 8:00 AM.
As soon as the metaverse officially launched, Tang Li put on her brain-computer interface helmet and entered the metaverse world.
Upon entering the metaverse's initial interface, the first step was to set up a virtual avatar.
The metaverse was a virtual world, and once entered, everything was the same as in the real world.
Everyone had their own body, with sight and hearing, as well as smell, taste, and touch.
Of course, the body could not be identical to the outside world.
In the metaverse created by Song Pinxuan, while everyone's face had to be their own, it could also be adorned and modified. Although gender was fixed, body height and build could all be set by the individual.
Currently, once set, it could not be modified.
The metaverse was bound to each person's brainwave frequency, and each person could only use their own avatar, not another's.
Tang Li made no modifications, entering with a bare face and filling in her own body dimensions.
After entering the metaverse, Tang Li still felt that this virtual body felt different from the outside world.
However, compared to the infinite brain-controlled robot avatars, the control was more agile.
Upon entering the metaverse world, she was greeted by a vast plaza.
Tang Li had arrived relatively early.
The first batch of people entering the metaverse numbered over 400,000. Upon entry, everyone would appear in this plaza.
But now, there were fewer than 100 people in the plaza.
Tang Li immediately saw that Song Pinxuan and the research and development team were already present in the plaza.
"How does it feel?"
Seeing Tang Li enter, Song Pinxuan came over to ask.
The children in the artificial wombs had not yet been born, and they remained confined to the research pods, only able to meet Tang Li in the metaverse.
Tang Li heard him and smiled, "Didn't we use it before? It's good, everything is normal."
"There are more people online this time, I'm worried about malfunctions," Song Pinxuan explained.
Tang Li, being the person with the strongest mental power, had frequently participated in experiments during the research and development of the data brain and the metaverse, so she had naturally used it long ago.
However, the metaverse used at that time was very simple, and she was the only one inside, so it couldn't be called a world.
The metaverse currently in operation was the true virtual world.
It could accommodate one million people online simultaneously.
The quantum computer, developed before the apocalypse, was used to run this metaverse.
Tang Li had scoured many laboratories and, of course, had not missed the quantum computer.
Thus, at the end of 343, using the quantum computer, the first complete metaverse world was built in the underground city of G City.
Furthermore, in four other underground cities, 100,000 people each were selected to access the metaverse remotely.
Today was the day the metaverse officially launched.
"Shall I show you around the metaverse?" Song Pinxuan asked.
With a metaverse designer offering to be a guide, Tang Li gladly agreed.
Two flashes of light, and the two immediately disappeared from the plaza.
At the same time, in the plaza, lights continued to flash, with more and more people setting up their avatars and descending onto the plaza.
Song Pinxuan taught Tang Li how to create her own room—a private virtual space—and design the decor with her thoughts.
Then, he took Tang Li to the metaverse mall to sample various delicacies, to the amusement park to see different entertainment attractions, as well as various ancient and modern master paintings, and all sorts of natural and man-made beautiful scenery from before the apocalypse.
In the apocalypse, the metaverse was a harbor of solace for humanity's spirit.
In her previous life, due to the scarcity of resources in the real world, people relied on the metaverse to experience the beauty of human civilization and gain spiritual fulfillment amidst the apocalypse.
However, the metaverse in her previous life was invented more than 20 years after Tang Li's death.
Furthermore, it had only been opened on a small scale in the Shan City underground city.
In this life, the metaverse served another purpose: allowing people separated by thousands of miles, even in different underground cities, to meet in the metaverse.
As more and more people joined, the functions of the metaverse would become even more refined.
"The next step is to develop consciousness transfer technology and the cloud world, right?" Tang Li asked.
"Yes."
Song Pinxuan nodded and said, "However, the subsequent research won't be as fast."
"These two technologies, even in precognitive dreams, were not conquered."
"But once realized, it will be possible to extract human consciousness into machines, allowing people to achieve mechanical ascension and gain eternal life within machines."
"Moreover, once consciousness extraction is achieved, the problem of people with weak mental power being unable to control machines remotely will also be solved."
Non-invasive brain-computer interfaces still had not solved the problem of enhancing mental power.
Because people with weak mental power still could not persist for long when simultaneously receiving sensations transmitted from themselves and the machine.
However, virtual signals like those in the metaverse could already be accepted by the human brain.
Tang Li comforted him, "No rush, we still have plenty of time."