In the first year of Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty (627 AD), the 25-year-old monk Xuanzang (commonly known as Chen Yi) secretly set off from Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, to ancient India, the birthplace of Buddhism, for academic exchanges. After this devout Buddhist sneaked through the Yumen Pass, he passed through Gaochang, the Sogdian states, Tocharian (present-day Afghanistan), passed through Kashmir, and finally entered northern India, where he arrived at the famous Nalanda Monastery in the fourth year of Zhenguan to study, and eventually became the most learned Buddhist scholar in the region.

Then in the seventeenth year of Zhenguan (643), Xuanzang embarked on the journey back to China with the collected Buddhist books and Buddha statue seeds, and arrived in Chang'an two years later. Later, under the will of Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, he dictated his travelogue and was recorded by the monk of the debate, and finally became a 12-volume "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty", which recorded in detail the geographical features and other information of more than 100 countries.

Xuanzang's oral account of the Western Regions is still reliable, and later people used it as a guide to excavate many cultural relics and monuments in the 7th century. But when it came to Xuanzang's apprentice Huili compiling the "Three Tibetan Biography of the Great Ci'en Temple", it began to add stories and mythological colors.

As the story of the Tang monk learning the scriptures became more and more widespread, the narrators intentionally or unintentionally added new content and unique imagination to it, integrating various strange legends and religious stories into it, and finally became the "Tang Dynasty scriptures and poems" in the mouth of the Song Dynasty storytellers.

As a social animal, chasing public opinion is a common trait of human beings. Such a behavior pattern will naturally be fed back to the market, so today's jokers talked about small goals the day before yesterday, and yesterday said blue thin mushrooms, and storytellers in ancient times liked to let popular characters appear in the stories they told, so there are Nezha and Yang Jian, who have left an important mark in Journey to the West and Fengshen.

Nezha was originally a Buddhist story character, and his popularity rose because of his iconic baby-faced appearance, and then he was borrowed by Taoism to be the Jade Emperor to drive down the Great Luo Immortal, and also arranged for the local famous general Li Jing to be his father. The deity, whose popularity and popularity have further increased, has been thoroughly localized, in addition to a name full of foreign flavor.

However, the origin of Erlang God Yang Jian is more traditional, the most common saying is that Li Bing's father and son or Li Bing's second son who controlled the flood in Guan County, Li Bing presided over the construction of the Dujiangyan Water Conservancy Project still plays a role after two thousand years, and it is natural for this merit to be admired by all the people.

If it weren't for the fact that the difference in time and painting style is too big, it is very likely that the famous generals of the Water Margin and the Three Kingdoms will also have to go through the story of Journey to the West and Fengshen.

Eventually, in the Ming Dynasty, some readers began to reorganize and recreate stories such as "The Poetry of the Three Tibetan Scriptures of the Tang Dynasty", and engraved and sold them through private booksellers, and then there were various versions of Journey to the West. These characters appear in poems and sing songs at every turn, which is the traces left by the original script.

The situation of "Fengshen", "Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin" is similar, which was also circulated among the people in the teahouse of the wine shop and gradually formed, and then through the cooperation of readers and booksellers in the Ming Dynasty, it became a popular book with similar content. And what we see today is actually only the most widely circulated of the various editions.

Usually the ones that have survived to this day are the ones with huge sales and wonderful stories, so that they can survive the erosion of time. As for telling the same story of Journey to the West, the "Journey to the West Biography of Tang Sanzang" edited by Zhu Dingchen and the "Journey to the West Biography" edited by Yang Zhihe, except for the scholars who specialize in editions, no one generally cares about them.

But these things are not completely useless, for example, they can be used to show off in front of Americans.

In half a month, the United States will hold a grand ceremony to celebrate the 240th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. As the saying goes, what is lacking is what is made up, the founding of the country is too short and the ancestors are all poor people who cross the sea to make a living, so that many sisters have a deep fascination with the word historical heritage. Although with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States has become the real captain, and it is rare for Americans to go to Europe to buy short titles to continue their family tree with a lot of money, and even epic films with ancient costumes have quickly fallen out of favor, and mainstream commercial films are all about the US military fighting aliens, and superheroes cooperating with the US military to fight aliens, but the habit still exists in many people, such as Clavenberg.

Because of the recommendation for Daddy to watch football in VR, his N3 headset and Pisces controller were requisitioned by Old Bell, and Craven could only play with his phone lonely on the side.

As for the "Monkey King" game that has been qualified for internal testing, although he has used the activation code and downloaded the game client for the first time, but because the dedicated peripherals are still on the way, he still can't enter the game to play happily, so he can only play the game homepage over and over again, and chat with other equally anxious netizens.

Fortunately, Bee Games also knows that everyone has a window period, and every few hours it will release a small video to help everyone understand the game.

What he saw just now was a video introducing the history of "Journey to the West". Although I already know a little about this story, I still gain a lot after reading it, and my heart is surging.

As soon as he refreshed it, he saw a new video on the page, titled R&D Interview.

It's pretty much the usual routine of game developers, every time a new game or expansion is released, the head of the planning, art, sound and other departments will tidy up themselves and their desks, and then talk to the camera. In short, it is to talk about the work and blow the effect, and try every means to arouse the interest of potential players, and it is not novel for Journey to the West Studio to use this set, but the narrator who appears in front of the camera is a little rare, and it is his acquaintance.

If you are an ordinary player, you may wonder why the Group Chairman appears here when you see the label at the bottom left of the screen, but Kraven will not, after all, he has a friendship with Atletico Madrid, and naturally knows how "buangchuxin" or "qipa" this young rich man is.

He listened to these two words from Oriental netizens, and he couldn't write them, but he could say them and roughly understand the meaning. In his opinion, this self-made young man who made his fortune from games and mobile phones is really peculiar enough, at least he has never heard of a game company owner so keen to conquer the charts of his own game, and persist for several years.

Of course, in addition to acting as a superplayer and part-time customer service, Atletico sometimes put on the title of game chief planner and guide the development of some heavyweight games, such as this one.

Standing in front of the huge bookshelf that reaches to the ceiling, the bookshelves behind the fingers of the chief planner Atletico Madrid, talk eloquently in a skilled New York accent: "In order to make the background of the game credible, we have made a lot of preparations, and here is a part of the books we have specially collected, including various versions of the Journey to the West stories from different eras, as well as scriptures that are believed to have been retrieved by Master Sanzang himself, as well as books related to other characters, as well as a large number of geographical and historical materials. We spent a lot of time reading and sorting them out, and finally formed the current Journey to the West Encyclopedia, which is placed in the game for everyone to consult at any time. ”

Then his voice changed, "Of course, you also forget their existence, and only make choices based on your own heart to create your own Journey to the West story." Because this is an open world with infinite possibilities, as long as you dare to think and dare to do, it is possible. ”

"The reason why I emphasize the original mind is not only because spiritual awareness and detachment are the most prominent labels of Buddhism, but also because emotions are one of the most important ways to play this game. ”

Saying that Atletico had an extra golden ring in his hand, "This is an auxiliary peripheral that we developed specifically for this game, we call it MindHoop, it can feel your emotions and feedback to the game characters, thus bringing some wonderful changes to your gameplay process." Please experience the specific content in the game. ”

Seeing this, Clivenbell couldn't help but grin, knowing that what he needed to wait for to be sent was about this.

The appearance of the ring was not unfamiliar to him, it was the Golden Hoop worn on MonkeyKing's head, except that it was a little thick and made of shape, it was exactly the same, but he didn't know if this thing would get tighter and tighter after wearing it, and he would never be able to take it off.

Immediately he laughed, it must be impossible to get tighter and tighter, this thing should be a device to help read brain wave signals, and it was just made to sell merch.

Atletico's introduction to the emotional headband was very brief, and it didn't even mention the question of whether it was compatible with the HMD headset.

The game's lead artist, the bearded man with long hair, is tasked with introducing the art team's journey to Central Asia.

At the same time, the actual operation screen of the game was also shown in front of Kravenbel's eyes for the first time, which immediately shocked his spirit.

As a veteran player, Little Bell has seen many magnificent scenery, and compared to those beautiful wallpaper-level scenery, the game scene in front of him is actually not outstanding. However, it was the ordinariness and ordinariness that caught his eye, the rocks, weeds, rabbits and wild asses that looked very natural, and felt exactly like the mountains of Afghanistan on TV.

"I see! they must have updated the game engine, the geosphere plugin alone doesn't work so well!"

While thinking about it, he nodded heavily, echoing his opinion with his actions.

The Geobiosphere plug-in is a major feature of the Bee VEE engine, which emphasizes the use of ecology and geography theory to guide the arrangement of animals and plants in the scene, so that the number and distribution of species can be more reasonable and natural. The environment created with this plugin is not necessarily the most beautiful, but it is certainly the most harmonious and natural.

What he didn't know was that in addition to upgrading the engine to improve performance, Bee also used a new "client burn-in" technology for the creation of the Monkey King's scenes. The client is placed on a special device to speed up, and after a long time, the environmental parameters that have been "aged" are extracted, and after inspection and modification, they are used in the new beta version. After a few cycles, its environment will look natural and harmonious, full of the flavor of time, and will not seem new and fake like the usual game scenes.

According to the Buddhist scriptures, Dongsheng Shenzhou is 9,000 years long, round like a full moon; Beiju Luzhou is 10,000 years long, and the four squares are square; Nanzhan Buzhou is 7,000 years long, north is wide and narrow; Xiniuhezhou is 8,000 years long, like a half moon. In India, the unit of length is converted from ten to metric, and there are various sayings such as 11 kilometers and 20 kilometers, and no matter which algorithm, the four continents are larger than the earth, because the circumference of the latter is only 40,000 kilometers.

Although the world of "The Monkey King" does not need to be so big, there must still be four or five million square kilometers, otherwise it will seem too small.

This is also a consistent feature of bee games, and the games they have launched will have a very, very large area as long as there is a wild scene. Anyway, the scenes are all generated by software, and the engine also supports on-demand loading in chunks, so you are not afraid of any area.

In the past, large maps still had the problems of repetitive scenery, monotonous monsters and plants, and empty content, but fortunately, with the continuous optimization of related algorithms, the function of automatically generating landscapes, characters, animals, and stories has become more and more perfect. Two years ago, Beegame organized a double-blind test with more than 6,000 people around the world, and the results were so satisfying that the average player simply couldn't tell the difference between auto-generated content and human content.

Coupled with the steady increase in PT's sales, Atletico finally made up their minds to start a project to create the first AAA-level stand-alone masterpiece of Bee Games, and after two years, there was finally this "Monkey King".

After all, the town of Kelvin is not far from New York, and the next day UPS's delivery truck drove up to the door of Bell's car repair shop and brought a cardboard box to Bell Jr.

Returning to the store with the box, he took out the box containing the N3 headset and the largest Pisces handle and set it aside, which were to be given to the old man, and he would have to wrap them separately later. The other is a flat box containing a mysterious device, and when you open it, you can see a touch of gold.

When he got it in his hand, he found that the golden hoop was actually made of plastic, and the tentacles did not have the cold feeling of metal, and there was a certain elasticity that could be stretched and pinched so that the brain electrodes arranged in the inner ring could be close to the skin of the head. In addition, he also found two pairs of smaller gray rings from the box, and after reading the manual, he realized that they were actually put on the wrist and ankle to assist in positioning, so that the system could quickly recognize the action of punching and stomping the foot as a new input method for the game.

Pressing a button to activate them, Kraven quickly put five loops on his hands, feet, and head, and then eagerly sat into his chair and entered the magical world of TMK.

As he thought before, this golden hoop is not compatible with the N3 headset, but fortunately, this year's new version of the headset can support emotion detection as long as the MD version of the firmware is flashed, so you don't have to worry too much. The only problem is that Old Bell's gift is probably going to be dropped.