Chapter : 159
“Right now, imdiately, send these ga helts for inspection to see if there are any dangerous factors, and then send them to the advance team!”
“Yes!”
The operational capability of the state departnt was very strong. With a single command from the leadership above, the officers below began to act, each fulfilling their duties and taking action.
In a short while, the delivery boxes that had suddenly appeared in front of the Special Incident Handling Departnt were all dealt with.
The official beta test of the ga was less than three days away.
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Having gotten the ga helt, Cheng Tianyu studied it over and over. To be honest, he wasn't very educated.
He was just soone whose family had financial difficulties, whose parents didn't love him and couldn't afford to let him continue his studies, so he dropped out of high school and barely supported himself by boosting gas.
He knew nothing about high-end brain-computer interfaces, virtual reality, or the taverse. At most, he would see them ntioned in the news and barely rember a few fancy terms.
Occasionally, when the topic ca up in the group chat, he could follow the conversation so that he didn't seem too out of touch.
At this mont, Cheng Tianyu was playing with the ga helt in his hands, feeling its heavy touch.
He couldn't even co up with any extra adjectives, only able to exclaim that it was truly aweso.
In the group chat, [No 8 AM Class Today] was already excitedly praising how cool the ga helt was and how much he was looking forward to experiencing the ga.
However, there were still two days until the official beta test of the ga. Even if they put on the ga helts, they couldn't enter the ga.
Cheng Tianyu took a look and saw that [No 8 AM Class Today] said there was text displayed inside the ga helt, so he quickly put on the helt.
In an instant, Cheng Tianyu felt as if his entire being had plunged into a dark universe. He couldn't see his hand in front of his face. Specks of light surrounded him, like cosmic dust.
Cheng Tianyu was startled and quickly reached up to touch his head. When his fingertips touched the cold surface, he breathed a sigh of relief.
He had indeed just put on a ga helt, not suddenly transmigrated.
However, the sensory experience brought by this ga was indeed very real and shocking, otherwise Cheng Tianyu wouldn't have suspected for a mont that he had transmigrated.
He just wore the helt and looked around. It was pitch black, and he couldn't see anything other than the starlight.
Cheng Tianyu thought: The sensory experience is indeed very good, but if the holographic ga that has been hyped for so long is just this, then it's too much of a scam.
After all, this kind of sensory experience could be achieved by so aweso 5D movies. If it was just this, then this ga helt was impressive, but not to the point of being cross-era.
Just as he was thinking this, a white light suddenly appeared before his eyes, and a line of text appeared in front of him.
[Ti until beta launch: 59:35:21]
The countdown numbers kept ticking. Ti flowed like quicksand through his fingers. Cheng Tianyu's eyes widened.
He turned his head, and the line of countdown seed to be fixed on his retina. No matter how he shook his head, the countdown remained in the center of his vision.
Cheng Tianyu subconsciously reached out to touch it and was shocked to find that his fingertips felt the sensation of quicksand.
His whole body trembled. He tried to take off the helt, and his vision instantly brightened. The surroundings were still the cheap rental room he had rented for a few hundred yuan. He reached out and touched, and there was nothing in front of him.
He put on the helt, and darkness descended again. He reached out to touch the countdown, and the sensation of quicksand appeared at his fingertips.
“This is really impressive.” Cheng Tianyu took off the helt, a sowhat dazed expression on his face, and muttered to himself, “Is this deceiving the five senses, or so other advanced technology?”
He glanced at the group chat. [No 8 AM Class Today] was still excitedly sharing his discoveries. The group mbers were chatting happily. Even Big Bro A, who hadn't gotten a beta test slot at first, had joined the discussion—he had actually spent five thousand yuan to buy Ming's beta test slot.
Ming had never believed that Guitu was a real holographic ga from the beginning and had always suspected it was a pig-butchering scam.
Now that he saw the ga helt experiences shared by the group mbers, did he feel a hint of regret?
Cheng Tianyu speculated with a wicked sense of humor, and at the sa ti, he was glad that he hadn't sold his beta test slot.
[Ming]: Hmph, you guys be careful this helt doesn't have so kind of mini microwave in it. Once you enter the ga, your brain will be kidnapped.
Regarding Ming's sour remarks, everyone in the group naturally laughed it off and ignored him.
Ti flew by, and the beta test countdown decreased bit by bit. When there were only ten minutes left, Cheng Tianyu was fully prepared.
He even went to the bathroom specifically to avoid feeling the urge to pee in the ga and wetting his bed.
Cheng Tianyu mimicked the posture of the male protagonist in an ani, lying straight on the bed, and put on the helt.
Speaking of which, isn't this a bit unlucky?
This thought flashed through his mind, and Cheng Tianyu was once again imrsed in the pitch-black starry sky.
The countdown was down to just a short five minutes.
Cheng Tianyu adjusted his sleeping position. He didn't know how this ga helt was designed, but lying on the bed with the helt on wasn't uncomfortable at all. It was as comfortable as lying on his own pillow.
Everything was ready. Cheng Tianyu excitedly waited for the official launch of the ga's beta test.
10, 9, 8...
3, 2, 1!
The countdown gradually decreased until it reached zero.
A prompt box suddenly appeared before his eyes, and an ethereal voice sounded in his ears.
“Welco to "Guitu," a world of infinite possibilities awaits your exploration. Before you begin your adventure, please create your character na, which will be your identity in this world.”
『Your na is _______』
Cheng Tianyu thought for a mont and entered his most commonly used ID, [He Kou Wang], and clicked confirm.
“Please note that your na is an important identifier in this world and cannot be changed during the ga. Please consider it carefully.”
Cheng Tianyu clicked confirm again.
“You have successfully entered your character na. Now, let us embark on a journey to the unknown world and unveil the mysterious veil of the Ailman Continent.”
“The adventure is about to begin. We wish you a pleasant journey in "Guitu," and may the stars guide your way.”
These white characters turned into a white light and swept him up in the blink of an eye.
Cheng Tianyu's heart began to beat faster.
Thump, thump...
He seed to be passing through a white spatial tunnel. He didn't know how long had passed before the white light in front of him gradually faded, turning into a blue sky. A sll of earthy soil after rain perated the air...
Blue sky?! The sll of earthy soil???
Cheng Tianyu's eyes widened, and his whole body jolted. He instantly jumped up, "Holy sh*t!"
He looked around and found that there were several other 'people' around him who had scrambled up from the ground just like him, looking around with excitent and shock.
Cheng Tianyu sat on the ground in a daze, reaching out to poke the muddy ground he had just been lying on.
It was indeed in a state of just having rained. His finger sank into the muddy ground, and the touch was identical to reality.
This, this...
Isn't this really transmigration?
Cheng Tianyu rolled over and lay flat on the ground. He brought his nose close to the soil and sniffed. The unique sll of soil, mixed with the sll of grass, entered his nostrils.
It was a sll that was difficult to describe. In short, after entering his nostrils and being analyzed by his brain, the final conclusion was that this was the sll of soil.
A guy next to him grabbed a handful of soil and stuffed it into his mouth. He chewed it a couple of tis and spat it out:
"Pah, pah, pah! This is amazing. It really tastes the sa as real soil. Now I have to admit that this is truly a cross-era ga."
Cheng Tianyu dazedly sat up. Hearing the words of the guy next to him, his eyes slowly widened. He looked around at the 'people' making all sorts of strange movents, and his heart beat even faster.
Yes, this was a cross-era ga.
A brand new, infinitely vast world was about to unfold before him, and he would be one of the first participants in this new era.
Perhaps in future history books, a paragraph like this would be written:
『Since the beginning of the "Guitu" ga's beta test, history has opened a new chapter of the holographic virtual world. And the three thousand first batch of beta players, led by Cheng Tianyu, Bai Ye, Lin... embarked on the exploration of a new world at that mont.』
Cheng Tianyu excitedly imagined.
There were many players like Cheng Tianyu. As streak of white lights appeared, one player after another appeared on this open land.
“Holy crap, it's a real holographic ga!” Soone looked left and right, trying to do a handstand.
“This is too real. It's not an excuse to transmigrate us, is it?” Soone tried to dig through the earth with their bare hands.
“No, can't you choose your gender in this ga? You can't even customize your face. It can't be all random, can it? I wanted to play as a female character!” Soone was dissatisfied.
“No, where's the exit button? It can't be that you can't really exit, right? If it's really a brain microwave, I'll really be honest.” Soone was uneasy.
“You're so dumb. Didn't you read the helt's user manual when you entered the ga? You can exit by swiping down with your right hand or by opening the system interface with your mind. But you can only enter the ga once a day, and there's an anti-addiction restriction. Any player can only be online for 8 hours a day. When the limit is reached, you will be forcibly logged out. The online ti will be refreshed at 8 AM every day.”
“I'm already an adult, why do I still need an anti-addiction system!” soone wailed, “Don't I know if this ga is harmful or not?”
“Alright, but I read the ga helt's manual. When players are playing the ga, their bodies are in a dormant state, equivalent to deep sleep, while their consciousness enters the ga. Office workers are blessed. Now they can really evolve past sleep.”
“……”
The players who entered the ga were all chattering excitedly, and so had already started trying out the various operations in the ga.
Cheng Tianyu was one of them. As a young man who made a living by boosting gas, he was very quick to get the hang of any ga. After being excited for a while, he got up and started studying the ga's built-in system.
“Normal online gas give out initial weapons when the character logs in, which basically go directly into the inventory. But this "Guitu" ga is very realistic, so there should be other ways to get the initial weapon...” Cheng Tianyu muttered to himself and soon figured out how to open the ga's inventory.
“As expected.” Cheng Tianyu figured out most of the basic ga operations, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face. He was full of a sense of accomplishnt, and when he looked at the people around him, he couldn't help but feel a touch of superiority.
His gaze swept across a group of players who were still screaming about how real the ga was. Just as Cheng Tianyu was about to retract his gaze, he saw a figure that stood out in the crowd.
Among a group of excited players, that person was calmly rotating his wrist, skillfully making a few gestures.
Cheng Tianyu, who had already figured out most of the ga's operations, recognized at a glance that the other party was checking the ga's personal panel.
Black hair and red eyes, exquisite face customization data—Cheng Tianyu rembered that the ga helt's instructions said that all players' character data was based on the data collected by the real ga helt.
However, to protect the players' information security, all collected information would only be used as a basis for generating ga character data.
To put it bluntly, the character's appearance was established on the basis of the player's real appearance.
If you put the ga character and yourself together, you could see a slight resemblance, but you would never be recognized as the sa person.
Cheng Tianyu was skeptical about the helt's ability to collect player's appearance data. He had never seen such an advanced technology before.
But on second thought, since the holographic ga had already been made, any other unscientific technology had also beco scientific.
Getting off topic, Cheng Tianyu carefully sized up the player in front of him. His facial features were very exquisite, and his coarse linen clothes couldn't hide his temperant. It was clear that he was also good-looking in reality.
He didn't show any excitent at seeing such a realistic holographic ga, and at the sa ti, his various operations were extrely skilled, not at all like soone entering this ga for the first ti...
Based on the above speculations, Cheng Tianyu concluded that the other party was either a professional QA (ga tester) or an official GM (ga master).
Thinking of this, Cheng Tianyu's eyes lit up. Whether it was a professional QA or an official GM, in a cross-era ga like this, the other party's status was not sothing that ordinary people like them could reach.
With almost no hesitation, Cheng Tianyu decided to go over and strike up a conversation with the other party, preferably to add each other as friends. If he could get on good terms with a big shot like this, his future would be limitless!
As long as the other party could reveal so inside information about the ga, it would be enough for him to make a fortune.
Of course, with so many players logging in at once, not all of them could be fools. There were also so who reacted as quickly as Cheng Tianyu.
Just as Cheng Tianyu was approaching the player with black hair and red eyes, another figure had already appeared beside him.
“Bro, are you a GM?” A man with a sowhat cheeky voice approached the other party and asked in a low voice.
Yan Yunqing, who was in the middle of confirming his own panel, paused and looked up at the player who had approached him.
The player had the ga ID [Big Bro A] above his head. Although his tone was cheeky, his ga character looked very upright, with sharp features and a righteous aura.
Seeing Yan Yunqing look at him without speaking, [Big Bro A] imdiately made an understanding expression.
He made an OK gesture and nodded, "I get it, I get it. You're testing in a hidden identity, right?"
Yan Yunqing blinked, only then realizing what this [Big Bro A] had imagined. He had mistaken him for a hidden ga administrator.
“I’m not.”
[Big Bro A] nodded repeatedly, "Understood, understood. You're not, you're not. I was wrong."
Yan Yunqing: ……
Forget it, this wasn't a big deal.
He glanced at the still excited players around him without a trace and frowned. This ga's launch really just threw the players into this world, without even providing a guide NPC?
Were they just going to let the players explore and ss around on their own?
Yan Yunqing sighed inwardly. Fortunately, he already had a contingency plan for this possibility.
If the ga's guide NPC still hadn't appeared after a while, the people he had arranged would appear and act as the ga's guide NPCs.
“Big shot, how about we add each other as friends?” [Big Bro A] was very enthusiastic. “If you need anything from in the future, just let know. Don't look at like this, I'm actually a sowhat famous ga strear on Bilibili. I can help you promote the ga for free.”
His voice wasn't loud, but Yan Yunqing could hear it clearly. "As long as you give a heads-up about any ga benefits or inside information in the future, that's all I ask."
Yan Yunqing was silent. He paused for a mont and brought up the ga's friend list. “Okay.”
Anyway, that Guitu Studio had recorded him and released it as an in-ga recording for players to watch without his consent. What was wrong with him impersonating a ga GM to tarnish Guitu Studio's reputation?
Maybe he could even make use of this identity in the future.
After successfully adding the other party as a friend, Yan Yunqing saw that a [Big Bro A] had been added to the friend list on his player panel. He could initiate private chats, form teams, trade, mail items, and so on.
Yan Yunqing discovered this just as the ga's beta test was about to launch. His ga system had been split into two panels, an NPC panel and a player panel.
At the sa ti, the ga system also prompted him to create a new player identity.
It was as if it had finally discovered that this poor child who had been thrown into the ga early didn't have an official player identity yet.
Yan Yunqing didn't hesitate at all and directly entered the ID [Ri An]. He also created a new face for himself, only keeping the features of black hair and red eyes, and adjusted all the other details.
It was just that after creating the new player identity, both of his panels were locked. It wasn't until ten minutes before the players logged in that the player panel showed that it was unlocked.
After Yan Yunqing clicked on the [Ri An] identity card, his vision went black. When he opened his eyes again, he was at one of the 'newbie village' locations he had previously speculated that players might log in to, becoming one of the many players who had logged in.
Just now, he was checking his ga panel. After confirming that his personal panel had completely inherited his previous panel data and that the points he had grinded for hadn't been cleared, Yan Yunqing was relieved.
At the sa ti, he also discovered that after his player identity was split off, he basically had an extra controllable clone.
His consciousness could freely travel between the 'player' and 'NPC' bodies, but he couldn't control both bodies at the sa ti. Otherwise, he could even have himself et himself.
This was truly a strange thing.
With an extra clone, he could do many things. Many things that were not suitable for his main body to do could be handed over to the player body, which was much more convenient.
Thinking of this, Yan Yunqing couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
[Big Bro A] had added the big shot as a friend and originally wanted to say a few more words to him. But seeing the big shot suddenly start thinking for no reason, his words got stuck in his throat, and he didn't know whether to speak or not.
Why hadn't this GM made a move yet? Shouldn't he be conducting the ga test now? Could it be that there was still so ga content that hadn't been unlocked? Would new players get achievents or hidden quests for staying at the initial point for a certain period of ti?
Before [Big Bro A] could figure out why this big shot had stopped here, another player ca over and asked with an uncertain tone, "Big Bro A? Is that you?"
[Big Bro A] instantly put on a bright business smile and t the eyes of the player [He Kou Wang]. "That's right, that's right, it's . Are you a fan of mine? Haha, what a coincidence. I didn't expect there to be a fan of mine among the three thousand beta testers."
[He Kou Wang] was speechless for a mont, but he did recognize [Big Bro A]. “It's , Orange.”
[Big Bro A] was about to say sothing else, but he was stunned when he heard [He Kou Wang]'s words. He looked [He Kou Wang] up and down and had a sudden realization: “So it's you, Orange. I almost didn't recognize you with your new ID.”
Cheng Tianyu was speechless: "Co on, I use this ID for basically all my gas. You're the one who rembered it wrong!"
[Big Bro A] scratched his head, “Oh? Is that so? Haha…… I really can't rember clearly. Mainly because you've played on too many accounts, it's a bit confusing for a mont.”
Cheng Tianyu: “……That's because I'm a booster.”
Forget it, there was no point in dwelling on this. He secretly glanced at the black-haired young man standing next to him and was taken aback by his dazzling appearance. He quickly averted his gaze.
“Big Bro A, let's add each other as friends. We're quite lucky to be assigned to the sa starting point. I wonder which starting point Xiao Ba and Old Wang were assigned to.”
[Big Bro A] readily agreed, "No problem, no problem."
With his previous experience, [Big Bro A]'s friend-adding operation was even more skilled. Cheng Tianyu looked at the [Big Bro A] added to his friend list and then cautiously glanced at Yan Yunqing, who had no ID above his head.
“Big Bro A, do you know this person too?” Cheng Tianyu's gaze fell on Yan Yunqing.
[Big Bro A] looked at Yan Yunqing, then at Cheng Tianyu, and imdiately showed an enthusiastic smile, "Yeah, my brother, he's a big shot. I just happened to run into him at the starting point."
The way he said it, it was as if Yan Yunqing was a brother he had known for a long ti.
Hearing this, Yan Yunqing couldn't help but glance at him, lanting that people who could make it in self-dia these days were all super extroverts, with quick minds and active brains. Look at his rhetoric. If Yan Yunqing wasn't the person involved, he would have believed this guy's nonsense.
But it was just as well. Being on good terms with a well-known small-ti ga strear would also be convenient for him to subtly manipulate information within the player base through this person.
Yan Yunqing tacitly accepted the reason of being his brother. Seeing that Yan Yunqing didn't deny it, [Big Bro A] beca even more confident.
He spoke eloquently, weaving a complete story of his ten-year acquaintance with Yan Yunqing. Cheng Tianyu was almost fooled by him.
Cheng Tianyu looked at Yan Yunqing with suspicion. Could it be that he was really just a rich young master from a wealthy family who had bought a slot to experience the ga? His temperant did seem to fit the bill.
Cheng Tianyu hesitated for a mont, but still decided to build a good relationship with the other party.
"Then, Brother An, let's add each other as friends too. I usually make money by boosting gas. I'm quick to learn any ga. If there's anything you need, you can tell anyti. Things like running dungeons, doing quests, I can research them."
Cheng Tianyu was indeed exceptionally talented when it ca to gas. In terms of ga operation, even [Big Bro A] couldn't compare to him.
[Big Bro A] wanted to refuse on behalf of Yan Yunqing, but after seeing Yan Yunqing's interested expression, he very consciously shut his mouth.
“This holographic ga might be a little different from the gas you've played before.” Yan Yunqing sized up the [He Kou Wang] in front of him.
“While the ga has a high degree of freedom, it also ans that the difficulty of controlling the ga increases exponentially.”
“Just like casting a ga skill. In other gas, you can successfully cast it just by pressing a key, but in this ga, it requires complex incantations.”
Yan Yunqing casually summoned a fist-sized fireball and waved it in front of the two of them, "Just like this."
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