"This one on the left, point to the right, and so on and so on and go back......"

Next to the crane machine, Shen Mo bent his legs and stood up to look ahead, staring at the mechanical claw behind the acrylic plate, and kept giving instructions in his mouth.

Next to him, Sun Yan lowered his head and connected the dots on the screen of his fingers, trying to adjust the mechanical claw to the best position to attack.

After fine-tuning four or five more times, she heard her boyfriend's voice shouting to stop: "Okay, here it is, let's claw!"

As Sun Yan pressed the release button, the mechanical claw quickly fell, clasped onto a green doll, and then slowly rose, and then moved in the direction of the exit. The previous tireless adjustments worked, and although it was shaky, the doll never fell off accidentally, and was finally released smoothly, sliding out of the machine and falling into Shen Mo's hands.

When the doll arrived, Shen Mo looked down, its size and shape were close to a single cotton shoe, and the outside was a translucent plush cloth, and it could be seen that it was stuffed with light green styrofoam squares, which looked very peculiar. It is none other than the mascot of the digital bio company, "Little Green", a green paramecium.

Because it is a single-celled protozoan that must be mentioned in middle school biology textbooks, paramecium is very well-known among students, and then it has been borrowed to refer to beginner players. Whenever their teammates don't play cards according to their roles and play nonsense, some of the players who play "World of Tanks" and "War Thunder" will sadly say in the chat channel, "These paramecium, it's really a dog!"

For similar reasons, the digital creature chose this well-known primitive creature as its mascot, and chose the most recognizable paramecium among them. The latter has a symbiosis of green algae in the body, and the body is green in the light environment, from which the name is derived.

In order to highlight the characteristics of the "digital creature", "Little Green" was given a pixel style, and the body is made up of colored squares representing pixels, which was also brought to life by the official doll.

Reaching out and pinching the soft elastic cube under the outer skin, Sun Yan smiled and sighed: "The degree of reduction is so high!"

"After all, it's official. The official is not as good as the copycat, that is, the consortium B can do it. ”

Knocking on the crane grabber next to him, Shen Mo then asked, "How is it, can you catch it yet?"

Based on the concept of fan interaction, the booths in the amusement area are all operated by bee employees, and the owner of this claw catching machine should be from digital creatures, and the prizes inside are all dolls and toys under digital creatures.

Turning his head to look inside the crane machine, Sun Xiang's eyes fell on the colorful butterfly inside, and his expression was full of reluctance.

The butterfly is housed in a transparent box, its wings stretched out like a fashion magazine, and the delicate fluorescent scales on it reflect the sun's rays, like real butterfly wings.

Including Sun Xiang, many people before and after launched an attack on this beautiful butterfly, but the result was that they all collapsed and sank into the sand and became a distribution machine. Over time, everyone will learn to be obedient and know that this box of butterflies is a delicious bait, and it looks good or not.

Finally, she made up her mind to turn her head, "Forget it, let's go play something else." ”

Shen Mo opened his mouth and wanted to say that he would try again, but he swallowed the words when they came to his mouth. He had tried more than a dozen times before, but he was also hit by this slippery butterfly and couldn't find the north.

Looking at the bustling rowing area in the distance, the boy suggested, "Let's go play steam rowing!"

Sun Yan knew her boyfriend's thoughts, and decisively raised her feet and walked towards the rowing booth, "Okay." ”

The rowing booth is located next to an artificial lake, which has a complex water track with tethered buoys, which can accommodate 100 electric dinghys at a time. Players stand behind two railings and use their mobile phones to remotely control their speedboats, as if they have brought a rowing mobile game to reality.

The booth was run by the team of Giant Rat Studios' "Steam Age", whose game was still a long time before it was released, but they started their work early to get the steam boat racing project. The shapes of these speedboat models are all 3D printed game models, all steampunk shapes, with a built-in ultrasonic atomizer at the tail, splashing and surging water vapor when driving, but it is even more imposing.

The rules of the race are also familiar to everyone, gather 100 people to start the race, each drive a speedboat along the track for a lap, reward points according to the final ranking, and then exchange the points for exclusive prizes. The prizes are models of ships of different sizes and models, ranging from small sampan ornaments to electric warships that are more than a meter over, all of which are also full of steampunk style.

The artificial lake is not very large, and the two of them did not wait a few minutes for a notification on their phones that the game was about to start.

After a short time, the speedboats that finished the race automatically returned to the starting area, and the hapless guys who ran aground all over the track were picked up by the staff driving the workboats, and after a brief inspection, they were put back in the back of the starting area.

The speedboat selection interface pops up on the screen, the default is randomly assigned by the system, and you can also pay additional bee points to manually select the designated number.

Sun Yan opened his mouth and asked, "Random?" or hand-picked?"

Shen Mo was prepared, and immediately gave a suggestion: "It's too bad at random, you choose No. 155." ”

"Huh?" Sun Yan looked at the middle of the field, but saw that the position of 155 was very far back, and it was clearly a stranded ship that had just been "rescued".

After choosing this speedboat, she asked curiously: "This boat ran aground just now, and it is still in the last row, why did you choose it?"

"It's just to find a stranded," Shen Mo stretched out his fingers and pushed his glasses, and said in an expert tone: "When stranded, the motor will automatically turn off to save energy." I just looked at it, and I had to rest for a quarter of an hour to replace the battery after this round, which means that the other speedboats are running out of power, and the more power left, the greater the advantage. ”

"That's right," Sun Yan pouted, "But there are stranded ships in every game, how do you know that 155 has the most power left?"

"Because it's the highest jump!"

While other speedboats are either stranded on a plastic track or lost in the lotus bushes, this speedboat hangs on its own southeast branch and happens to get stuck on the branches of a large tree in the lake, and I don't know how the previous player operated it.

This reason is a bit powerful, and Sun Yan can only nod silently.

The mobile phone sounded the password "All in place, ready, go!", and the game officially began.

A hundred steam racing boats rushed forward like a flock of sheep out of the slaughter. At the beginning, everyone was just concentrating on the game, and then some people started to play around, not only taking the initiative to collide and squeeze other speedboats, but also using props along the way to break the board for the opponent, and the scene suddenly became chaotic.

Sun Yan didn't go to join in the fun, just stretched out his ears to listen to his boyfriend's command, let his No. 155 follow closely behind his No. 72, far around the chaotic area and then resolutely accelerated forward.

The two stranded ships did not disappoint Shen Mo, and they accelerated and raced throughout the whole process, and finally won the 20th and 24th places. Although it did not enter the top ten, it was also considered a top result, and Shen Mo was satisfied with this result. What makes him even happier is that his girlfriend seems to like this game, and he will make an appointment for a second one immediately after this game, which is even more enthusiastic than him.

Turning his head to look at the side to redeem the medal, he secretly said in his heart that Hang's mother, I'm here!

After reading the list of prizes on the guide map before, he longed for the steam aircraft carrier. As it stands, there is no need to wait until tomorrow to carry the aircraft carrier home tonight.

Following her boyfriend's line of sight to look at the aircraft carrier model with exaggerated shapes and many chimneys, Sun Yan suddenly asked, "Can the steam engine drive the aircraft carrier?"

Steam power is still the standard equipment of aircraft carriers. Not to mention the four original Soviet TB-12 steam turbines, the nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of the United States also use steam turbines, but the oil-fired boilers are replaced with nuclear reactors. ”

"Huh?" Sun Yan blinked, "Is that the case? I thought that nuclear power was directly propelled by nuclear energy." ”

Shen Mo couldn't help laughing, "Hey, do you dare to think, how can nuclear energy be propulsed? Is it to continuously release small nuclear bombs behind the ship, or to create a high-temperature ion stream?"

Both of these are hypothetical nuclear rocket schemes, which can only be used in outer space without the problem of pollution, and cannot be used in the surface environment at all.

was caught by the loophole and asked a rhetorical question three times, Sun Yan suddenly clenched his small fist in shame.

After smacking someone several times in a row, she quickly corrected: "I said wrong, I mean nuclear power is not nuclear energy!"

"Nuclear power is feasible," Shen Mo stopped pretending to rub his hand on the wound, nodded and said: "But electric propulsion is the trend of the future, and there are not too many of them now, and only the Queen Elizabeth, which is about to enter service in the United Kingdom, uses this technology in the world's aircraft carriers, but it still uses the conventional power of gas turbines." ”

"Why not use nuclear power? Doesn't it mean that nuclear power lasts longer and is faster?"

The reason is very simple, Shen Mo spread his hands and spit out two words: "No money!"

Seeing that his girlfriend was about to glare at him again, he quickly explained: "The biggest problem with the reactor is that it is too polluting, but the disposal of waste is very troublesome. Boilers and gas turbines directly exhaust the exhaust gas into the air, and the waste residue and wastewater are also well treated, but the spent fuel used in the reactor and the nuclear waste manufactured need to be collected and stored, which is difficult to use with the current technology, but the radioactivity will last for a long time, so you can only find a safe enough place to store it centrally, which is equivalent to throwing the pot to future generations. So now there is an argument that if you take into account the cost of harmless disposal of waste, the economics of nuclear power are actually very poor. Lao Mei decommissioned the 'Enterprise' and sent it to the shipbreaking yard in 12 years, and it took three years to dismantle the reactor alone, and it will take longer and money for the follow-up harmless treatment. ”

"Huh!" Hearing this, Sun Yan snorted and said disdainfully.

"Thanks to you, you're just an ordinary person, even I know that Zhenguo can't care about the cost, don't you know when you are a general?"

"The cost issue still has to be noted, the Soviet Union was ...... back then"

As he was talking, Shen Mo's mobile phone suddenly rang.

Turning his head to look at Xiaohu next to him, his face was full of doubt, "Huh, the game has started?"

"No," Sun Yan shook his head, looked at his phone and said, "The people are all together, but the battery is still being changed over there." ”

"Yes," Shen Mo nodded, picked up his phone and looked at it, his face changed again.

He didn't receive a match reminder, but a news feed.

"What's wrong?" Seeing her boyfriend's strange face, Sun Yan asked with concern.

"It's nothing," Shen Mo handed her the phone, "Lao Mei just had a big news." ”

"Big news?" Looking down at the screen, Sun was startled by the headline on it.

On the screen was a picture of passers-by fleeing frantically, with the caption "Suddenly! Crazy shooting in Las Vegas, at least 50 people killed!"

No wonder the boyfriend will look weird, although Lao Mei is about to break out a shooting every three or five times, the form is constantly renovated, a few days ago there was a gamer who reported to the police to play Satting, which resulted in innocent people being shot dead by the police, but the death of 50 people like the news is still unprecedented.

Satting, which refers to the prank of reporting false warnings and murder and terrorist attacks, leaving someone else's address, in order to "call" the SAT (Special Weapons and Tactical Forces) to raid the target's home, is often used against online streamers, especially FPS game streamers. Although it is just a prank, because it involves special police and crisis management, it often causes panic among civilians, and even injuries and deaths after being hit.

In Europe and the United States, guns are generally not banned, and the police can only acquiesce that the suspect has a gun when handling the case, and if something is wrong, they will always fight first and then say, if the suspect does not respond properly, it is easy to cause accidental injury or even manslaughter. In order to protect the police from restraining them, the European and American judicial systems have a high tolerance for incidents of accidental shooting, and it is impossible to modify the norms for the use of guns for this purpose, and can only severely punish the behavior of Satting.

Thinking of the prank, she looked up at Shen Mo, "Is this true? Are you sure it's not a prank or fake news?"

Online media have always sought to reprint news quickly, and if they are not careful, they will be harmed by "onion news".

"I don't know," the latter shook his head, "wait, I'll look for it." ”

This news is compiled from BBC News, and clearly mentions that the name of the murderer is Stephen Paddock (Stephen Paddock), he opened the browser, typed "Stephen Paddock BBC", clicked on the search and quickly got results, not only text content, but also live video, the high speed of European and American reporters is undoubtedly revealed.

"It seems to be true," sharing the news page with his girlfriend, Shen Mo frowned and looked at the video.

Due to the time difference, Las Vegas was still on a Sunday night, and an open-air concert was being held at the site of the incident. Many people hold up their phones to film stage performances, and then the crisp but not very loud gunshots go off, and then the camera begins to shake violently, and then jumps to the interview of witnesses. Because he was a lone wolf, the murderer was quickly found and killed by the police, but the damage he left behind took a long time to undo it.

Looking up at the other side, Sun Yan also happened to look over, and the two of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. The two glanced at each other, Shen Mo intercepted the BBC page and forwarded the scarf, and then he received a prompt from Sun Yan to update the scarf, and opened it with the same content, but the bottom deliberately @ Qi Linlin and Wu Pan who were far away in Chile. When something like this happened, she was naturally worried about her friends who were still abroad.

"It's still midnight in Chile and the two of them should have gone to sleep. ”

"Sleep and sleep, and look at it when you wake up tomorrow. ”

(End of chapter)