This Game Is Too Realistic Chapter 433: Completely real games, you can even play games in the game
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The slowly setting sun is blending into the horizon of Luoxia Province, but at this moment, the ideal city has already been covered with the curtain of night.
On the translucent observation elevator.
Fang Chang glanced at the business card in his hand, and then turned his attention to the holographic screen on the viewing window.
Behind the jumping floor numbers are colorful neon lights, and if you look down below, you can see an abyss with no bottom.
The building under his feet is called Yunjian University.
Although it sounds a bit outrageous to integrate the entire university into one office building, making it seem as if the students here are all employees who clock in to work, but in a place like Ideal City, it surprisingly does not go against the grain at all. .
After all, the people living here are nominally employees of this "indescribably huge" company.
Most of the students who graduate from here will become engineers and enter various departments of the company, as well as subsidiaries with specific functions.
It would be much easier to understand if the title of the university was replaced by "Induction Training Section of the Human Resources Department".
But there is a saying. Although this university is named after a province, the feeling of riding an elevator through the clouds does feel a bit like being among the clouds...
The number is fixed at 227.
With a ding, the alloy door behind Fang Chang slid to both sides like a subway arriving at the station.
Looking away from the layers of neon outside the floor-to-ceiling window, Fang Chang turned around and left, looking for the address on the business card, and continued walking along the corridor without stopping.
Soon, he came to a silver door.
As soon as he put his hand on the button of the doorbell, the door in front of him opened with a bang, and a smiling face full of enthusiasm appeared behind the door.
"Welcome! Dear friend, you are the Fang Chang who is popular all over Duandianyun, right? Haha, please come in! I don’t know what makes you, a famous person, interested in me, or is it me you are interested in? research field?"
Fang Chang was slightly startled, looking at the man in front of him with a warm and exaggerated smile, and then looking at the business card in his hand, his expression showed a hint of weirdness.
[Ai Chen, male, 55 years old, is a professor of neural algorithms and bionics at Yunjian University, and a technical consultant of the Product R&D Department of Kangmao Group. His main research directions are logic operations, fuzzy algorithm simulation, and mind uploading. 】
There is no doubt that it is him, he did not find the wrong person.
If he didn’t have a twin brother...
"I'm sorry to bother you at this time. I hope my visit will not disturb your rest."
"How can I be presumptuous! What could be more pleasant than the fact that the heroes of the Alliance are interested in my research direction?"
With a happy smile on his face, Ai Chen invited Fang Chang into his office and continued.
"And you came just in time. If it had been an hour earlier, I would still be in the laboratory."
The office is very spacious, and the decoration is simple yet stylish. However, Fang Chang's attention is not on the room in front of him, but on the man in front of him.
Unlike those slovenly scholars and professors in my impression, he was dressed very delicately. Although he was in his 50s, he looked only about 30 years old.
With his suit-like appearance and his slicked-back hair, he doesn't look like a professor, but rather like a lawyer or a bank or financial practitioner.
Since arriving in Ideal City, Fang Chang has been cooperating with Ambassador Shuyu to attend various occasions to attract investment and sponsorship for the alliance.
In addition, he did not forget the other purpose of coming here - to find a way to upload thoughts to the circuit board.
The player has countless lives, but the NPC only has one life. Although this sounds a bit whimsical, he feels that since the background of the game is a future world, there should be a way to permanently retain human consciousness.
Like a game in a fantasy setting, it stores props similar to horcruxes for souls.
Fortunately, his status as a war hero helped him a lot, and the viral videos on Endpoint Cloud made him a star or "Internet celebrity" in Ideal City.
When he learned that he was interested in his research direction, the professor immediately made an appointment with him.
The two sat down on the sofa.
Fang Chang complied with his request for a photo, and after a brief exchange of greetings, he revealed his purpose.
"...I would like to ask you if there is a way to upload thoughts to the cloud or a hard drive or something similar."
Perhaps because the conversation came to his professional field, the middle-aged professor put away his exaggerated smile and showed a thoughtful expression on his face.
But it was not like thinking about academics itself, but more like thinking about how to speak.
After about 5 minutes, he sighed softly and spoke.
"Would you like a cup of coffee?"
Fang Chang was slightly stunned.
His intuition told him that that expression probably didn't seem like he was planning to say anything optimistic.
"No...just give me a glass of water, thank you."
"A cup of coffee, a cup of lemonade." Ai Chen gestured towards the android assistant beside him.
The assistant shook his head slightly, turned around and went to the next room. After a while, he came back with a tray and respectfully placed the silver teacup in front of the two of them.
"Please use it slowly, sir."
After leaving these words, it turned around and stood quietly by the wall.
In order to avoid the uncanny valley effect, most bionic people will either make their facial features exactly like humans and install an almost realistic transmission system, or they will simply omit the facial features or make the facial features very exaggerated.
This bionic man belongs to the former group. Not only is it the same as a real person, it is also very beautiful.
"I'm sorry for what happened to you. I know what you're thinking, but...that's not something science can do."
Ai Chen picked up the cup and took a sip of coffee to moisten his throat. His eyes stopped on the beautiful android assistant not far away. After admiring it for a moment, he suddenly continued.
"My wife left three years ago."
Fang Chang hesitated for a moment.
“Can’t you even cure the medical conditions in Ideal City?”
The bionic technology here can even replace a complete set of body parts. He really can't imagine any disease that cannot be cured.
Professor Ai Chen coughed sheepishly.
"When I say leave, I mean leaving... She ran away with the merchants outside to seek the adventure and excitement of her dreams."
"...Sorry."
"Don't be sorry, it's nothing, not to mention it's all in the past. Everyone has the right to choose how to live, and she is free to choose where to go, but I am a little petty because I keep thinking about it, haha."
Putting the coffee cup gently on the tray, Ai Chen smiled and nodded to the android beside him, signaling it to take the cup away.
His eyes stayed behind the android, and his voice seemed to be caught in a distant memory.
"Actually, I have thought about making it look like her, not just in appearance, but also in her memories and thoughts... and make a copy of it."
Knowing the key words in this sentence, Fang Chang held his breath for a moment and subconsciously grasped his knees with his hands.
It seems that what is grasped is hope.
"What happened next?"
Ai Chen smiled lightly.
"Later, of course I succeeded."
Fang Chang looked at the android in surprise, and then at the professor sitting opposite.
"Then it is now..."
"Now it is just an ordinary android assistant. Because later... I deleted its data again."
Fang Chang was stunned.
It took a long time before he continued.
"...why?"
"I have already told you the reason, because it is not something that science can do."
Before Fang Chang could speak, Professor Ai Chen continued.
"The person I love is gentle, kind, beautiful, generous and passionate... However, in fact, it is just my imagination. There is no perfect person in this world. Bravery will inevitably lead to recklessness, caution will inevitably lead to hesitation, and smart people will inevitably lead to recklessness. People are often arrogant, and arrogant people cannot see their feet. She is never perfect, just because love puts a filter on her."
"So when I tried to write her into an algorithm based on my memory, I quickly realized that the fictional personality I created was not her at all... Do you understand what I mean?"
Fang Chang nodded silently, but quickly shook his head.
"I know what you want to express...but I don't quite understand it. Can't you just add those shortcomings as well?"
Ai Chen smiled lightly and said.
"Because here's the problem, are you sure you completely understand someone? Even yourself."
This sentence stopped Fang Chang, and he was speechless for a moment.
Looking at the silent young man, Professor Ai Chen leaned back on the sofa and slowed down his speaking speed, giving him enough time to think.
"It is not impossible to upload thoughts to the cloud. As long as a person is not isolated from society, there will always be several brains that have backed up memories about him. Convert these third-person memories into first-person, and then collect these By programming the memory fragments into intelligent algorithms, you can get a person who is almost exactly like her... Even if they are not objectively the same person, she can roughly match your imagination of her."
"However, after all, the replica is not the real person, just a eloquent doll that happens to look exactly like me. If that's what you want, of course I can help you, as long as you fill out a very long form. Enough. But based on your description, I have to ask you again, is that what you want?"
Looking at the middle-aged man leaning on the sofa, Fang Chang was silent for a long time, and the thoughts in his mind became a mess.
If it were said in reality, there would be nothing wrong with it, but in the game it sounds like there is something serious.
When a piece of data is copied from one hard drive to another, why is it not the same piece of data?
And isn’t there a successful precedent for Vault 101? Not only did they reduce their consciousness to the virtual world, they even reproduced in the eternal virtual world!
This is obviously something that can be done!
Fang Chang felt that his request was not excessive at all. He just wanted to leave a backup of Dolly's data, but the operator reminded him through the NPC, "Even if you use the backup data to make a new NPC , and it is not the same NPC as the original NPC."
Then what am I? !
A completely real virtual reality game, even such superfluous details must simulate reality...
Fang Chang felt a dull pain in his forehead.
He suddenly regretted why he didn't choose the intelligence department.
"I just want to save one chance of resurrection for the important people, please, even once..."
There was a hint of pleading in that voice.
This sentence is not directed at the NPC in front of me.
But to A Guang, who didn't know where he was but was watching them all the time.
Professor Ai Chen stared at the young man in front of him for a while, then his eyes suddenly slowly moved towards the colorful neon lights outside the window.
The gorgeous light and shadow make people unable to help but indulge in it, and all people's thoughts can be satisfied in the prosperity visible to the naked eye.
There seems to be everything here.
But there was nothing.
It is like a holographic image of that era, impeccably real, but not in the end.
He reached out and touched the bridge of his nose, and sighed softly. It was rare that he did not follow the fashion and imitate the speech of young people.
"...Many people have said this to me, but few realize that life is precious just because it comes only once."
"If that person is really important to you, then be nice to her in the time you have left. Don't let her leave you, don't let her get hurt, don't let things get irreversible I just started to regret it...Don't try to find comfort in memories like me."
"This is the right thing to do."
……
Expectations were dashed.
Tonight there is another sad person in the ideal city.
However, Fang Chang's loss is just an exception. The vast majority of people in this city are still very happy, especially at the beginning of this nightlife.
An office building on the edge of Ideal City.
In a small and light-tight studio, there are simply a few worthless sofas, tables, chairs and simple office equipment.
Bathing in the light of cheap incandescent lamps, a certain mole and several employees of the newly established [Skeleton Studio] were dancing excitedly at the moment.
"Oh my god...this game is so fun!"
Taking off the virtual reality glasses, Mole's face was filled with excitement and excitement.
Some time ago, everyone on the forum joked that they planned to go to Ideal City to make a game. Only he took action and actually made the game come out.
The studio directly used the logo of the Skeleton Corps, and the name of the game is "Battle Royale". The gameplay cannot be said to be very similar to the game of chicken, it can only be said to be almost exactly the same.
Just switched to the virtual reality platform.
Although it is not as realistic as "Wasteland OL", the level of completion is already very high!
If it’s not popular, he invites Fang Chang to eat!
After all, he is a person who has seen the world. The technical director and CEO Xue Hongliang he hired did not react so much. He simply sighed after taking off his glasses.
"...The only pity is that you only have one life. If you die, you will be gone."
Just in that game just now.
Not long after he landed, he was taken away by the man-machine he designed.
Mole chuckled and said.
"You don't understand this. The essence of this game is here! Although the equipment is searched for in vain if you die, but if you think about it from another angle, wouldn't the person you killed have the same mentality?"
The employees sitting in the room looked at each other, and after exchanging glances, they thought that it seemed to make sense.
The Mole paused for a moment and continued slowly.
"Especially when you have made it all the way to the finals and are waiting in the grass for the final battle. When you think that half an hour of hard work will be in vain with just a small mistake, your adrenaline will surge and you will I’m so nervous that my hands are sweating! And if you successfully eat chicken, all these hormones will be converted into happy dopamine in an instant——”
"Wait a minute, there's a question." The employee in charge of programming raised his hand.
Although he was unhappy about being interrupted, Mole graciously gave him a chance to speak.
"Say."
The programmer said seriously.
"The virtual reality system will shield the senses from excessive stimulation that may cause health risks. It is impossible to have adrenaline surges and sweaty hands..."
The Mole rolled his eyes.
"I'm just making a metaphor! Don't be so rigid. There will always be tension, right?"
The programmer scratched the back of his head.
"Well, that's true..."
Mole glanced around at the dozen or so employees present, and continued to inject them energetically.
"In short, this is the selling point of this game!"
"You only have one life, and only one opportunity! Whether our studio can occupy a place in the ideal city depends on this sale!"
After a week-long development, the trial version of "Battle Royale" has been completed and has just been logged into the game platform on Endpoint Cloud. It is open to users to download and try it for free. The trial version lasts more than two months. After hours, a 20Cr buyout fee will be charged.
Further functions such as selling boxes and drawing out-of-print skins will be updated in the future. Mole not only copied the game itself, but also copied the method of cutting leeks.
Since there are ready-made development tools available and ready-made virtual models available for purchase on the endpoint cloud, and those that cannot be purchased can be outsourced, development is not very difficult.
As for the rent of the company's premises, it is 1200Cr per month, which is not very expensive. Labor is a bit more expensive, and it is impossible to pay the minimum hourly wage of 1Cr to technically savvy employees. They still have to pay 8,000 to 10,000 Cr a month.
The bulk of the expenditure is not rent or labor, but the cost of purchasing the right to use development tools, purchasing technical services and virtual models, and leasing endpoint cloud computing power.
All the expenses are calculated up to 1 million Cr!
This money is enough to buy a "Cerberus" unmanned vehicle and an airborne missile!
As for where the money comes from?
In exchange for silver coins, of course.
A few days ago, with the efforts of managers and ambassador Shuyu, the alliance and the company reached two key important agreements.
One of these is a currency swap agreement.
According to the agreement, the two parties exchanged currencies with a total value of 300 million Cr at a fixed exchange rate of 3:1.
That is, 1Cr is worth 3 silver coins.
Since there is no fixed and stable market, it is difficult to directly convert purchasing power. After all, the price of the same product in the Valley Province and the Cloud Province may be one in the sky and the other in the earth.
This exchange rate actually includes part of the subsidy, and the content of the subsidy is the "technical added value" provided by the enterprise to the alliance.
In addition, currency swap alone is obviously not enough. In addition, both parties also have an agreement on how to use the money.
And this involves the second trade agreement.
In principle, only residents of Ideal City can register companies and trade equity, so residents of the alliance cannot work in companies or run industries.
But there is no room for flexibility.
This newly signed trade agreement is one of the solutions.
As permanent partners of enterprises, companies registered in the alliance and endorsed by the alliance can also enter the enterprise's whitelist.
After entering the whitelist, you can set up a branch in the ideal city and invest in non-core industries other than electricity, transportation, energy, etc.
Because it is endorsed by the alliance’s credit, approval is required to enter the alliance’s whitelist.
However, the approval process is not complicated.
Companies that have made outstanding contributions to the alliance, or are themselves collective holdings of shelters, can be quickly approved and receive currency exchange quotas and tickets to invest in the ideal city.
The former is like Gojing Technology, Lister Factory, etc., and the latter is like Niuma Brick Factory, No. 81 Factory, Bach Aluminum Factory, etc.
1 million Cr, converted according to the fixed exchange rate, is 3 million silver coins.
Mole definitely doesn’t have that kind of money.
What's more, this is just an initial investment, and the actual funds required are definitely far more than that.
However, after all, he is the "second smartest" boss of the server. After using his little brain, he quickly came up with a solution.
According to the rules of the alpha version, he took out all his belongings and collected 1.5 million silver coins with his brothers to register a company called Skeleton Group.
He then successfully raised 12 million silver coins in start-up capital at the cost of a beautiful business plan and the sacrifice of 80% of his shares.
4 million Cr.
It's enough for a while.
He divided the remaining 20% shares with Irena, Elf King Fugui and other investors.
Although the shelter occupies the majority, there are also a lot of shares that can be allocated.
For example, if he owns 8%, as long as the game sells 100 million, it will be 8 million!
After deducting costs and taxes, he will have at least six to seven million Cr in his hands!
If this were exchanged for silver coins...
Mole no longer dared to think further.
After only having **** for a while, he couldn't help but lose his temper. He was worried that if he continued to fantasize about it, he would be so excited that he would reach high court.
In short, he took everyone's hard-earned money and shouldered everyone's expectations to open this Skeleton Studio, which is fully owned by the Skull Group.
Under his unremitting encouragement, everyone finally restored this virtual reality version of the skydiving chicken game in "Wasteland OL".
I have to blow a wave of Aguang.
"Wasteland OL" not only allows you to play games within the game, you can even play games within the game.
This idea is simply awesome!
Although the trial version of "Battle Royale" is only the size of an island, and is a bit smaller than the popular "Super A-level" masterpieces in Ideal City that restore a world at every turn, he believes that the gameplay and fun are the only It is the core of a game.
This market, which is still a blue ocean, is destined to have its place!
However——
The ruthless reality soon gave him a heavy blow.
The newly released "Battle Royale" did not go as he expected. It became a hit all over the Internet as soon as it was uploaded, and even became unknown like a piece of dust falling into a pond, without even a single wave.
So far, the only visits to the server have been contributed by employees in the studio.
Looking at the motionless downloads, the mole, who was dancing excitedly a few dozen minutes ago, is now so anxious that he is almost sweating.
The only thing that brought him some comfort was that the lack of big sales seemed to have nothing to do with the game itself, but just insufficient exposure.
Maybe wait until the exposure increases.
Maybe it becomes popular all of a sudden...
Standing next to the boss, staring at the data on the screen, several employees in the studio also had expressions of regret.
"What a pity...such a fun game is not popular at all."
"Yeah...it's obviously quite fun."
"We'd better not delay it too long... No matter how delicious the soup is, it will go rancid if left out for too long."
The development tools on Endpoint Cloud are very mature, and it does not take long to develop a game. However, it is precisely because of this that the highly involuted environment has led to the serious homogeneity of most games, and their lifespan has also been shortened. .
Except for those open world games that focus on the development of virtual communities and have large and non-repetitive content, the lifespan of most games is only one month, and the average game time of players often does not exceed 24 hours.
Xue Hongliang, CEO and technical director of the studio, frowned, thought for a moment and said.
"We should increase investment in marketing promotion."
"Recently there is a very popular game promotion program on Duandianyun. Although the cost is a bit high, I think we can try it."
When Mole heard that the fee was a bit high, Mole's eyebrows suddenly twitched.
"How much?"
"Around 1.2 million Cr?"
When he heard this number, he almost spit out a mouthful of blood.
1.2 million? !
You can buy six missiles!
"Our development costs are less than 1 million... Isn't this price too expensive?" Mole couldn't help complaining.
Xue Hongliang was stunned for a moment.
“Isn’t it common sense that publicity costs are higher than development costs?”
The mole was also stunned.
However, looking at the other employees around him, they also had expressions of approval, and it didn't seem like they were bullying him for not knowing what he was doing.
Taking a deep breath, Mole controlled his emotions and spoke.
"Anyway... let me see what that program is like first."
Xue Hongdian nodded, walked to another desk, and turned on the holographic TV placed there.
Light blue light and shadow appeared, and the current channel was broadcasting news.
He was about to change the channel, but his boss suddenly stopped him.
"Wait...I've finished reading this news."
Xue Hongliang was stunned for a moment, then took back his index finger and moved it aside.
The picture in the holographic image continues to play, and the news being broadcast seems to be interviews and reports about the situation on the Western Front.
"...In order to reverse the decline in the frontal battlefield, the legion is deploying nuclear weapons with a yield of one million tons to Luoxia Province."
"Minister of the Department of Comprehensive Management Yue Qian emphasized that nuclear weapons of more than 100,000 tons should be strictly restricted. If those alien species are allowed to continue to mutate and the fragile ecosystem continues to evolve in an extreme direction, the planet will change in the future. It’s impossible to survive!”
"The administrators of the Alliance also spoke in public speeches, strongly condemning the Legion's deployment of nuclear weapons to the battlefield, and stated that the residents of the Alliance would not succumb to the nuclear threat."
"The Supreme Council meeting is currently being held to discuss a more specific response plan. According to people familiar with the matter, if the situation is true, the Supreme Council of the enterprise will approve the use of the sealed weapons inventory..."
In holographic image.
The council representative, surrounded by interview drones, said firmly.
"...There is no doubt that those weapons were prepared for this moment!"
Looking at the news in the holographic image, the employees in the studio looked at each other, and when they came to their senses, they all gasped in unison.
"Hiss...a million-ton nuclear bomb!"
An employee asked curiously.
"What is that concept?"
Another employee thought for a while and replied.
"If it is an ideal city, each person in this city can receive an average of 100 kilograms or 10 kilograms equivalent. If it is an alliance with a population of about 100,000, everyone can receive about 10 tons."
The sound of "hissing" was heard.
The cold air in the whole room was sucked out.
Everyone couldn't help but steal a glance at their boss.
They knew that the man named Mole came from the alliance in the southern part of the River Valley Province.
What surprised them was that they did not see fear on this man's face.
The expression seemed to be pure surprise.
And this is indeed the case. Mole's eyes were blank as he stared at the holographic image.
He had seen the news on the official website that the legion was deploying nuclear weapons to Luoxia Province. The announcement even clearly mentioned that the legion planned to use them in the fertile capital of the Lion Kingdom.
However, look at the serious words and tone of the managers in this news...
It feels like this nuclear bomb is going to be thrown over the heads of the alliance.
Fake, right?
Seeing everyone looking at him, Mole coughed slightly and said in a serious voice.
"There's a fire at your boss's house...I'll probably have to go back and take a look in two days."
If the news is true, the mobilization order will probably come out soon. As the leader of the Skeleton Corps, he certainly cannot wait behind and let his brothers do it for him.
Xue Hongliang was stunned for a moment.
"You... want to go to the front line?"
Good guy.
They are playing chicken in the game.
I didn’t expect their boss to be eating real chicken on the front line.
No wonder you can come up with such interesting ideas, it turns out they are all real experiences!
"That's for sure! In fact, to be honest, driving a tank is your boss's job, and running a company is just a side job."
Mole smiled sheepishly, coughed and continued.
"But don't worry about me. Working hard is the greatest support for me! In fact, I have never told you that most of the revenue from this game will become the alliance's military expenses against the Legion. Every time you sell If you buy 10,000 copies of the game, there will be one more missile fired at the Legion."
"When this battle is over, I will come back and fight alongside you!"
After hearing this speech, almost all the employees in the office looked at him with admiration.
Xue Hongliang stepped forward with excitement on his face and held his right hand tightly.
"Boss, go ahead with confidence and leave the company to me... We will definitely live up to your expectations! Realize your dream of millions of sales!"
The Mole smiled and patted his right hand.
"Okay! I feel relieved with your words!"
————————Digression——————
The stomach bug happened again... I kept everyone waiting. I feel like the emotions in the second half are a bit under-depicted, so I’ll continue to write about it later.