It can also be called "The Years I Was an Idle Fish in the Cyber World". Lin Xian, a "waste" who has been unemployed for three years, was kicked out of his rental house by his landlord on the last day of 2077. When he was desperate, he received a strange offer: a mysterious agency recruited "human samples". The salary was ridiculously high, but the requirements were suspiciously simple - "Just live like a normal person."
After joining the company, he learned that he had become a "guinea pig" in a subversive experiment: he was implanted with a top-level brain-computer interface, and together with 99 other experimenters, he was dropped into a virtual community that completely simulated life in the "old era" (2024). They have to live here "like real humans" for a year. Whoever has the highest "human index" will get the status of "pure-blood human" and a bonus of one billion.
Lin Xian originally thought this was a good job to make money while lying down - after all, in 2077, he was so poor that he only had the instinct to "live like a human being". But after entering the community, he discovered: Some people are crazy about involution, trying to use cyber-age thinking to "optimize" life in the old era; some people are sabotaging it because there are shocking secrets hidden behind this experiment; and some people are monitoring their every move because this experiment is a "reality show" broadcast live nationwide.
What's even more frightening is that he gradually discovers that this so-called "old-era simulation" is becoming reality bit by bit.
