Player Reload
Chapter 421 - 389 VR

Chapter 421: Chapter 389 VR

Another quiet afternoon, the phone vibrated with a WeChat message from Han Letian, "Online? If you’re a brother, come attack the castle."

Li Cheng, who was screwing bolts in the three-dimensional warehouse, scratched his head and typed, "Attack the castle? Can’t we play some trendy games that fit high school students, like Original, or Wa?"

"You mean the 2014 PC game Divinity: Original Sin by Larian, and the 1994 Nintendo GB game Wario Land?"

Han Letian replied with a nose-picking emoji. Thanks to his geeky parents, Han Letian had been exposed to loads of games since he was a child.

Three Kingdoms 11, Red Alert, Diablo 2, these are considered new. Before that, his family had a huge collection of game consoles, like psv, psp, gbc, gba, nds...

They even had five fire extinguishers at home to protect their long-collected game consoles, figurines, toys, BD discs, etc.

"Stop dawdling, come quickly. We’re just waiting for you."

Han Letian sent a location, and Li Cheng sighed, slid out from under the tank chassis, took off his oily gloves, and walked out of the warehouse.

Since becoming a player, he’s been busy killing, setting fires, and screwing bolts,

reversing time and screwing bolts,

saving the world and screwing bolts,

and indeed had not had any team-building with friends for quite a while.

He rode his bicycle to a large shopping mall, where Han Letian, Mu Yulu, and Shao Wangshu were already waiting at the designated location on the first floor.

It was a shop named "Oasis," a subsidiary of Prometheus,

with a futuristic and minimalist decor. The entrance was bustling, with online celebrities, game bloggers, and self-media groups forming long queues outside.

And what they were waiting for was, of course, the latest generation flagship VR system inside the Oasis shop, which was not yet for sale and only on display.

"The VR system is composed of a omnidirectional treadmill, full-coverage helmet, haptic spandex suit, and local server, together forming a VR that needs an entire living room to fit. It’s said to present effects that far surpass any previous games, catching up to ’Ready Player One,’"

A live-streaming influencer talked eloquently to the mobile phone camera, eyes sparkling, when suddenly noticing Shao Wangshu and the others stride past the queue,

directly heading to a vacant VR device in the back of the store to try it out.

Seeing this, the streaming influencer hurriedly shouted to the store manager, "Hey, hey, hey, someone’s cutting the line!"

The manager glanced at him and said nothing, continuing to look down and adjust the equipment.

"Are you just going to ignore the line cutter?" The streaming influencer shouted, theatrically showing indignation in front of the camera, "Did she own this mall or something?"

The manager, having been briefed by the mall’s management, shrugged, "Well, you guessed right, she does own the entire mall."

As they spoke, Li Cheng had already been pulled by Han Letian to put on the full-coverage helmet and stand on the omnidirectional treadmill.

The slum already had quite mature real brain-jack technology, as well as a plethora of illusion and dream experience services, so Li Cheng didn’t find this VR game particularly special.

But when the full-coverage helmet officially started up, Li Cheng was amazed and raised an eyebrow.

"This effect is pretty good."

The vibrant pink and green, the chirping of birds and fragrance of flowers, and the clarity of the scene made it almost indistinguishable to the naked eye. Meanwhile, the smell release device in the helmet generated just the right floral fragrance.

This was even without Li Cheng wearing the haptic suit; if he were wearing it, he could even feel the breeze on his skin.

Thump, thump, thump!

Han Letian, Mu Yulu, and Shao Wangshu three of them fell to the ground out of nowhere, their virtual avatars were classic warrior, mage, and priest.

Once the four of them stood still, a novice guide also appeared in the void.

How should I say... The sense of déjà vu was too strong.

[Currently a four-player squad, you can choose one of the following task options to execute]

[Task Name: Zombie Apocalypse]

[Task Objective: Play the role of a special zombie, escape from the city amidst the pursuit by the US Army, Biochemical Weapons Manufacturing Company, survivors, mercenaries, and other groups]

[Task Reward: Random Item *1, Quality Depends on Completion Evaluation, Bound to Personal Beta Account]

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[Task Name: Break-and-Enter]

[Task Objective: Play the special police team, charge into the secret stronghold of a cult, rescue as many normal survivors as possible. Note: There may be supernatural creatures in the stronghold]

[Task Reward: Random Skill Scroll *1]

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[Task Name: Evil Spirit Must Die]

[Task Objective: Play as monk, Taoist, priest, shaman, using a specialist consultation form, to kill, drive away or spirit away the evil spirits haunting the midnight building]

[Task Reward: Random Item *1, Random Skill Scroll *1]

Uh...

Li Cheng scanned the déjà vu-filled task list and rolled his eyes hard under the helmet.

Good gosh, these are all player tasks in the Slaughter Field Game.

Prometheus, what a lazy bum! They directly took player guide posts on the forum and first-person guide videos online, bought the rights, made them into a game, and copied them into VR.

How’s this different from a game company eating free mods from the community and selling them as paid DLCs?

The most crucial thing is...

[Task Name: Death Curse]

[Task Objective: Play as a TV station reporter, head to Shuijing City to investigate paranormal incidents]

??? How did you even upload the tasks I’ve completed? Are you serious? Have you ever met the Underworld Hand!

Wait a minute, didn’t I actually agree to Stack Soldier’s proposal back then, selling off the first-person guide video’s rights for the Death Curse task? Earned one hundred or two hundred Game Coins.

Then it’s all good.

Shao Wangshu and the others, who had never played such high-fidelity games, screamed in excitement. Li Cheng restrained his operational instincts, dedicating only one-twentieth of his mind to accompany his friends,

while the rest of his mind casually pondered.

The brain-machine interface technology in the slum was quite mature, but there were still a few challenges waiting to be overcome for it to be fully promoted (Transcendents could use it freely, while ordinary people playing virtual games with brain-machine interfaces could put their brains to a halt or even lead to brain death),

And this entire VR system’s cost price is at least 500,000, Prometheus only sells it for 500,500, almost selling at a loss,

which is probably not for making money, but to promote VR as soon as possible, to stir up a craze for VR game internet cafes,

Then through [assigning ordinary people player-level difficult tasks], to sift out potential talents, finally recruiting talents.

Even more sinisterly, on the surface letting ordinary people play games, but actually building humanoid robots behind the scenes,

letting players unknowingly remotely control robots, performing gray tasks in the real world.

By then it will be,

"Hello, customer service, is this game’s effect so realistic?"

"Hello, customer service, why is there an NPC kneeling and begging for mercy in the game?"

"Hello, customer service, why is someone sending me US Dollars?"

"Hello, customer service, what does it mean when Blackwater International Private Security Company wants to award me a medal?"

Li Cheng thought erratically, when suddenly his friend panel vibrated with a message from Zhangsun Yao, "I’ve got a job here, interested?"