by <unknown>
"It's not bad inside, it looks pretty luxurious."
Shi Yangyu nodded in satisfaction. He simply took off his slippers and lay down directly. Then he pressed the button to close the door inside and suddenly the lid of the game compartment closed again, shutting him inside.
"Beep…"
"User entry detected, identity verification in progress…"
"Identity verified, matching user's brain waves…"
"The temperature is a little high. Do you want to turn on the thermostat?"
A sweet female voice slowly resounded within the game compartment.
"Not for now."
Shi Yangyu did not enter the game right away because he was still waiting to have a meal first and then use the bathroom so that he could enter the game in a prepared state. After all, he had waited for so many days, so it did not matter if he waited a little longer.
Thinking of this, he asked again, "Game chamber, what's your name? In addition to being able to enter the game Ancient Civilization, what other functions do you have?"
"Mr. User, I'm a smart game chamber, Model X1118, produced by Blacklight Biotechnology. My property number is xxxxxxxx. I don't have a name at present. You can name me.
"At the same time, my function is limited to entering the game Ancient Civilization. Apart from this function, I have no other functions for the time being."
The voice said suddenly.
"What?"
Shi Yangyu was a little taken aback. "You mean you're an exclusive game console? This is too extravagant. Don't you even have the function of playing other games?"
"I'm sorry, it's true."
The voice continued to explain, "The reason for this is that Blacklight Biotechnology uses the most advanced consciousness immersion technology at present, abandoning the traditional VR technology of retinal imaging, but directly transmits vision, hearing, smell, touch, and such into the player's brain. Besides Ancient Civilization, no other games support this technology."
"So, that's it…"
Shi Yangyu was a little disappointed at once. He had wanted to use this game chamber to visit the high-heeled shoe store in GTA 8…
"In that case, I'll just call you… Lili."
"Yes, Lili is pleased to meet you, Master…"
After a conversation between Shi Yangyu and the game chamber's intelligence, he gradually learned more about the characteristics of the game. In particular, besides vision and sound, this game chamber could make people feel the sense of touch and smell, which shocked him to no end.
After all, for so many years, the so-called in-game tactile sensation was just a gimmick. Most game companies wrapped the user's entire body with the electrode technology of the "tactile suit" and used electricity to stimulate people's nerves to produce corresponding feelings. This feeling was stereotyped and repetitive. It could not be compared with the original senses of human beings.
Now, this technology could finally be realized through brain waves…
Blacklight Biotechnology had been holding back an ace…
Shi Yangyu could not help sighing.
Soon, the android Tsunade made a bowl of egg noodles. Shi Yangyu quickly left the game room and devoured the noodles, then went to the bathroom to wash up again, before he returned to the game room and lay down comfortably inside.
"Lili, start the game, my broadsword is already thirsty!"
"Got it. Entering the game — loading… Connecting consciousness… Three, two, one!"
"Rah!"
Following Lili's words, Shi Yangyu only felt that his vision suddenly turned black. His consciousness seemed to have passed through a narrow and dark tunnel. When he regained consciousness again, he found that he was standing in an illusory space surrounded by white light.
"Huh? What's going on?"
Shi Yangyu spoke and then he realized that he could not feel his own body as if he had become a ghost, only wandering in an empty world.
"Master, don't worry, you're now at the game entry interface."
What reassured him was that Lili's voice came at the same time and then an illusory figure appeared in front of him. It was the appearance of a person without facial features.
"What's this?"
"This is the character you created. Now it's the customization stage. After you enter the game, you'll use this character to move around in the game."
Lili reminded. After she spoke, Shi Yangyu only saw a customization panel appear in front of him out of thin air, on which there were facial features, body shape, hairstyle, skin color, and other options.
Seeing this familiar stage, Shi Yangyu's initial flustered mood due to his not being able to sense his body was now completely relaxed. He smirked and a bold idea gradually emerged in his mind…
Three hours later…
A beautiful blonde girl with silky smooth hair and a high nose appeared in front of Shi Yangyu. The girl was about 1.7 meters tall and looked like a Persian cat. Although her face was expressionless, her body exuded amazing charm, especially those eyes, which were even more alluring.
"Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! The heroine of Fate/Stay Night is so beautiful!"
Shi Yangyu exclaimed in praise. He looked at the naked blonde girl in front of him, his gaze was intoxicated. "Of course, I have to use a female character to play the game. The name of this character should be called Saber."
"Sorry, this name is already in use."
Lili immediately notified, "Please change to another one, Master."
"???"
Shi Yangyu widened his eyes and he said with a bit of sorrow, "It's over, I forgot about that… If that's the case, I'll name her Artoria Pendragon…"
"Sorry, this name is already in use."
"Then, name her King Arthur!"
"Sorry, this name…"
"Saber King Arthur!"
"Sorry…"
"…"
After some trials, Shi Yangyu finally gave up. He gave himself a conventional name of [span]"Juyang Jushi"[/span], and then he created the character successfully.
Then, a character attribute card appeared in front of Shi Yangyu.
"Name: Juyang Jushi."
"Gender: Female."
"Age: 18."
"Race: Human."
"Attributes: Strength 8, Constitution 10, Size 9, Agility 11, Charisma 14, Intelligence ?, Perception ?"
"Occupation: None."
"Professional skills: None"
"Special skills: None."
Looking at these stats, Shi Yangyu suddenly wondered aloud, "How are these attributes determined, did you roll a dice?"
"No, this is automatically judged based on the character you created."
Lili replied, "After the attributes of each character created are digitized, it would be about 10 points. This is an average value. The character you created is a female character with a thin body, so her strength is slightly weaker than the average. But this comes with an advantage too. Your agility is slightly higher than the average. Plus, according to the system's judgment, your appearance is extremely attractive, so it's judged to be 14 points after digitizing.
"As for the intelligence and perception attributes, because it depends on the player, it's temporarily impossible to determine."
"In other words, if I design my character as a three-meter tall man, can my strength be further enhanced?"
Shi Yangyu suddenly seemed to understand something.
"Of course, but the maximum height of the character created by the system is limited to 230 cm, so your strength can reach up to 15 points, but your agility will also be reduced accordingly."
"Then, how do I improve my attributes? Through upgrades?"
"All the physical rules of this game are based on reality, so there's no upgrade system."
Lili replied, "But all attributes can be enhanced through training, that's for sure."
Hearing Lili's words, Shi Yangyu could not help being a little disappointed. Although this game was fun, according to the expl
anation of the intelligent AI, it was a little too hard-core…
Thinking of this, Shi Yangyu no longer deliberated over this. He immediately chose to enter the game.
Immediately, the progress bar that lasted for half an hour began to load…
[ol][li data-annotation-id="93d2d924-6329-d627-21df-b0af4be43b23"]A literal translation would be "Householder of the Mighty Sun". This is a common form of an art name, which is an East Asian concept. To read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_name[/ol]
Chapter 633: Patch |
Shi Yangyu did not quite understand why it took half an hour to load the game for the first time.
Still, in this half an hour, he got a grasp on the rules of the game.
To put it simply, the designer of this game seemed to have extreme perfectionism. All the details in the game functioned 100% according to reality. For example, in the game, one needed to eat and drink, take baths, wash up, and even use the restroom.
Not only that, but players also had to sleep and rest, and needed to recover if they got injured.
He could still understand these restrictions, but the main thing was that players could not just go offline anytime and anywhere? This was a little strange.
According to the Game Rules, to go offline, a player had to return to their dedicated room to do so. If they did not, they would have to bear the consequences.
Moreover, if the character was seriously injured, their mobility would be greatly reduced, and they might even die due to wound infection. This was unlike ordinary games where one could still leap around actively as long as there was a trace of life left.
If the player's character died, the player had two choices — either rebuild the character or choose to respawn. However, when respawning, they needed to wait for half an hour, and all their equipment and previous physical attributes they had trained would be lost. The respawn point would be at the beginning location.
To put it simply, this game was completely designed based on reality. Whether in terms of its physics engine or chemistry engine, it was the same as reality.
Finally, the right to final explanation of the game belonged to Blacklight Biotechnology.
After reading these rules, Shi Yangyu could not help feeling a little speechless. He did not know how fun the game could be if it was designed like this, but was this not the world's first game with all five senses incorporated? Since the players had no other choices, this game would probably be sought after by a considerable number of people anyway.
However, fortunately, at the bottom of the game rules, there was an option to leave a comment. Seeing this, Shi Yangyu immediately left a message: "Although I haven't entered the game yet, according to the Game Rules, I hope to make the following suggestions:
"1. Can you cancel the setting that players can't just go offline anywhere? After all, the game is just a pastime. Although it claims to be 100% faithful to reality, there's no need to be too rigid.
"2. Can the death penalty be reduced? The penalty of clearing out the player's account after death is too harsh. I personally recommend that the physical attributes of the player be retained, otherwise, this setting will discourage a considerable number of casual players.
"3. The setting of pooping and peeing must be removed, it's disgusting!
"4. I wonder if there's a function to do 'that'? I strongly request 'that' be added in! Please make it happen, boss!"
After writing this carefully, Shi Yangyu felt that his suggestions were fairly pertinent. He glanced at the progress bar and it had reached the end. Seeing this, he immediately clicked the send button and submitted his suggestion.
Then, Shi Yangyu's vision went black again.
"Ugh…"
An indescribable sensation washed over him. Shi Yangyu only felt that he had regained his sense of the body, but his entire body was limp. His nerves felt weak and powerless, making it difficult for him to even open his eyes.
"Wake up, wake up!"
There was a female chirping voice in his ears. Shi Yangyu tried his best to open his eyes, but only saw a blur in front of him. He could only see the light on the top of his head and there was a figure sitting in front of his bed. After he had opened his eyes, the figure stood up excitedly and kept nagging him.
"Juyang Jushi, you're finally awake!"
He only heard the female voice saying, "You fainted in front of my pub two days ago and had a very serious fever. I thought you wouldn't survive, but to think that you've stubbornly made it through. How delightful! "
Shi Yangyu opened his mouth, but he felt a burning dryness in his throat, and he could not even say a word.
"Goodness, look at me chattering on. Have some water first…"
The figure quickly walked off and when she came back again, she had already brought a bowl of water. She helped Shi Yangyu up and he gulped down the whole bowl of water.
"Phew…"
Shi Yangyu heaved a sigh of relief, but his body still felt extremely weak. This incomparably real sensation even caused him a little panic because it was too real. Whether it was his limp body or the bowl of water he drank, it was just like reality!
At this moment, he even wondered if he had transmigrated to another life.
He slowly opened his hands and placed them in front of him, looking at them with a somewhat blurred vision, only to see that they were a pair of pale, slim hands, with thin fingers, slender joints, and fair skin. This was not a man's palms at all…
What shocked him the most was that these hands were full of minuscule details. Whether it was their fingerprints or palm prints or the hairs on the back, so thin they were almost invisible, they were all very lifelike. He tried to clench his fists and his hands correspondingly produced the same tactile sensation…
"This, this, this…."
Shi Yangyu looked at all this in a blank daze. The astonishment in his heart was beyond words.
Was this a game? This was not reality? Could it be that he had transmigrated?
"Alright, you're a little weak now. I'll bring you a bowl of food."
The woman next to the bed continued. "When you can get out of bed, you can be a dancer where I work. After all, you have amnesia. You have no support in Blacklight City, which you aren't familiar with. If you leave, with your appearance, in less than two days, you'll be seized by human traffickers and sold to the rich…"
With that, the woman turned and left.
Shi Yangyu listened to all this silently. His vision became clearer and gradually, he could see everything around him. At the same time, there was a "ding" notification sound in his mind and there appeared a translucent interface in front of him that only he could see. There was a prompt on it:
[Task notification: This task is a novice task. Player "Juyang Jushi" can choose to temporarily stay in "Madam Mi's Pub" as a dancer and gradually become familiar with Blacklight City or choose to leave at any time and give up the novice task.]
[However, please note that any action will have a chain reaction. After choosing to leave "Madam Mi's Pub", "Madam Mi's Pub" will no longer be a shelter for the player "Juyang Jushi".]
Seeing these two prompts before him, Shi Yangyu could not help frowning and murmured, "This is the novice task of the legend? And my life experience is reduced to an unidentified memory loss? I'm currently being adopted by the proprietress of a pub?"
However, after saying this, Shi Yangyu got a fright because he realized that although his voice was a little hoarse, it still sounded a little melodious. It was a woman's voice…
Thinking of this, Shi Yangyu immediately moved out of the bed. He braced his somewhat sore and feeble body and came to the mirror, and suddenly saw the figure of a beautiful blonde girl!
"My gosh…"
Shi Yangyu's mouth suddenly twitched and a sense of absurdity seized him. Although he did take the initiative to build this female character, he never expected that the sense of immersion in this game was this godlike. Everything that this body conveyed was almost no dif
ferent from reality!
No wonder the game stated that this game would be the player's second life…
Shi Yangyu's mouth kept twitching and the "her" in the mirror was doing the same. As the character was too gorgeous, even this kind of absent-minded expression was fascinating.
"Wait!"
A deranged idea suddenly flashed across his mind. Once it occurred to him, it could not be suppressed, growing like mushrooms after rain. His breathing became more and more rapid, and at the same time, he raised his hands tremblingly, and with a tentative gesture, slowly reached out to his chest…
"Ah~"
…
Five days later, the game Ancient Civilization did not become less of a hot topic just because there were only 100,000 closed beta players. On the contrary, the popularity of Ancient Civilization was through the roof and all of this was thanks to the 100,000 closed beta players who were madly bragging giving feedback on the Internet.
At the same time, many closed beta players also keenly sniffed out the possibility of business opportunities. They made the gameplay into videos and sent them to major video websites in the world, which also attracted an astounding wave of response from the world —
The ultimate degree of freedom, the game graphics that were as real as reality, the incredible immersion, and even the feedback from the NPC were like that from a real person…
Countless advantages piled together to form a strong wave, intensifying the storm of hype surrounding Ancient Civilization.
At this time, Chen Chen was sitting at the desk, listening to Little X's report.
"At present, 100,000 closed beta players have entered the game."
Little X reported, "The average online time of each player is 14 hours per day, accounting for 58% of the time each day.
"The probability of players entering the game in the closed beta is 100% for the first time, 95% for the second time, 93% for the third time, 92% for the fourth time, and as for the fifth time, which is today, the number of players entering the game is 91,300, which is 91.3%. The player retention rate exceeds 90%."
"That's not a bad figure."
Chen Chen nodded, somewhat satisfied.
