The tengu appeared two hours before noon.

Cyber electronic video store.

Hugo was locked up in his hut, sitting in front of his computer, eight cyber hands tapping at the keyboard.

The dark circles under the eyes are deep, and the hair is messy like a chicken nest.

The Internet addict girl has been on the computer for three days in a row, squinting on the computer chair for a while when she is sleepy, and typing code for the rest of the time in the eight-line operation.

Brown bottles of energy drinks piled up on the table.

Finally, under the crazy explosion of the coder mode, the 30th version of the mobile game "Tokyo Ghosts" was released.

……

The mobile game program is packaged and uploaded.

Send it to several game communication test groups.

Hugo knocked down the test recruitment announcement

"Tokyo Ghosts" 30 version, action system, face pinching system, task system test, recruit 800 testers, according to the completion of the mission system test, there are bonuses ranging from 200 yen to 700 yen.

Because this "test" is important.

In order to ensure the number of participants, Hugo added a small prize money and recruited up to 800 testers.

Don't think it's a lot.

It seems that 800 players enter the game test, but in fact, it is very likely that half of it will be withdrawn in 5 minutes, and only 400 people remain.

In the end, it is possible to test the content in its entirety, and even only a few dozen or so.

This is the gradual weakening of interest, basic psychological common sense.

Therefore, although Hugo needs more than a dozen people in the end, she has to recruit 800 people at the beginning, and she also has to set up bonuses to increase the probability of retention.

Recruitment information is sent to several game exchange groups.

The background statistics soon filled the number of applicants.

Then, Hugo sent the download link of the game "Tokyo Ghosts" in a group.

……

Hisaku Shimada, an otaku.

Since childhood, my hobby has been playing games.

From childhood to adulthood, after playing all kinds of popular games on the market, I began to go deeper into the game circle, become a hardcore player, and become a well-known game live broadcaster.

As a senior player and game streamer, it is natural to join some game exchange communities, exchange groups of game companies, and various game maker circles.

It's a place where you can master first-hand game information.

Today, a game called Tokyo Onijin appeared in several individual creator groups that I joined, and we are recruiting testers.

This person with the net name "Spider" knows that a technical emperor is said to be doing network security, and the big guy occasionally posts some small games in the group, which is quite interesting.

There are no new games on the market recently, and Shimada is idle for a long time, thinking that there is nothing to do, so I simply try it.

……

After registration.

After a while, the game download link was sent.

The installation package is not big, and it should be a small game again.

Take out your phone and download and install it.

Launch the game.

The name of the game of "Tokyo Ghosts" flashed.,Enter the game.,The picture is as simple as ever.,UI is basically an alternative material used.。

This is normal.,After all, it's made by a person.,And it's a system test.,Texture replacement is generally the game is nearing completion.,The last step.。

Registered users, face pinching interface.

Well? And pinching the face?

It seems to be said in the recruitment announcement.

Shimada Kusaku tried it, and he can pinch it from his face to his body shape, although many parameters are controlled within the normal range and can only be pinched out of a normal person's appearance, but it is very detailed.

The body shape can be adjusted to be fat, thin and tall, and the face can pinch the mouth, nose, eyes, and even eyelashes......

Shimada Kusaku played this, and felt that it was a little wrong, this face pinching system was a little too detailed, and it was like pinching another person.

He has been playing the game for many years, and this intuition is still there, this kind of high-fidelity model polyhedron is put into the game, and how much configuration does it take?

I touched my phone, and it wasn't hot.

Shimada Kusaku wondered, what kind of black technology is this? Is this the horror of technocracy?

……

Where Hisaku Shimada didn't know.

Akihabara, Hugo rented a sealed basement.

There were two rows, dozens of one-person wide platforms.

Each platform has a mobile camera surround.

……

With the launch of the game "Tokyo Onijin".

Players poured into registration, pinching people.

Ritual generation.

White light puppets appear on the platform.

Camera surround shooting.

As the player uses the pinching system, the 'Chameleon' plug-in installed in the white light puppet takes effect, and gradually becomes the player's pinch.

The exquisite scenes in the game are not procedural models, but live shots.

……

As a die-hard player, Hisaku Shimada's focus on the game is naturally different from that of ordinary players, and he pays more attention to the technical mode of the game.

So this face pinching system that feels very black technology, he studied it for a while, and then pinched a character to enter the game.

One on the screen and one on the other.

His character stood in an alleyway.

Well...... What is this Q version of the big head villain?

What kind of spicy character did you just pinch?!

Shimada was stunned for a long time.

Random crying and laughing.,This style of painting mutates.,It's completely two games.,It's like setting up a face-pinching simulator before the real game.。

He also said that when he saw the face pinching system, he was thinking about whether the mobile phone could be moved, but he was worried that it was completely redundant, and the role was for you to pinch and see.

However, there is one thing to say, operate your own game character and walk in the map for a while, the map scene modeling is still very rich, but the quality of the scene texture is very poor, and most places are directly pasted with color blocks, but it does not affect the technical test.

……

Hisaku Shimada continued the operation.

The map that is currently available is of acceptable size, and he was pleasantly surprised that it was a networked game that allowed him to see the characters of other players.

The game's script is presumably a world with ghosts, and the player takes on the role of a fledgling novice investigator who has to investigate ghost incidents.

Horror puzzle game?

Consoles are very common, and online games are quite rare.

A mission pops up on the top left of the screen, presumably to investigate a certain place, and the player controls the character to complete it and gain some experience points that I don't know what it is useful for the time being.

Then the next ring, and then the next ring.

In short, it's just walking around this map, but the story of this script is quite interesting, so with the blessing of freshness, it's not boring to play.

In addition, there is an hourglass-like blurred time timer in the upper right corner of the screen that says "Countdown to Emergency Events".

Does this mean that there will be an event quest for a while?

Kusaku Shimada waited while doing trivial tasks to kill time.

About an hour passed.

Large, rough text suddenly popped up on the screen

"Ghost Catching Event Begins"

A "ghost" with a lamp in his hand suddenly appeared in the middle of the map, and at the same time, a lot of NPs appeared.

The rules of the game popped up at the same time and hidden, so as not to be caught by ghosts.

This should be something like a boss fight or something?

After Shimada Kusaku saw the rules, he began to manipulate the character to stay away from the ghost with the "lamp" while observing from a distance.

Ghosts are not always in their sight, occasionally disappearing and then popping up somewhere else.

The ghost not only catches the player, but also the NP, and every time it catches a person, it will be covered with a lamp, taken to the edge of the map, and pushed out.

After the player is caught pushing out, he dies and the game is over.

Shimada Kusaku looked at the group, and someone was asking, saying that the character died, so he couldn't log in to the game.

The spider replied to the one-life game.

……

Cyber electronic video store.

Several screens in front of Hugo show game data and the public surveillance camera in Ikebukuro that she invaded.

On the camera, it was the Black Gate people who blocked Ikebukuro, and Andersen was holding a lighter box to interfere with his personal thinking and send people out of the blockade area.

Hugo used public surveillance to determine Andersen's location, projecting the location of the lantern ghost in the game.

NP is an ordinary normal human projection.

The ghosts in the game appear and disappear from time to time, not because she deliberately increased the difficulty, but because there are some places that can't be photographed by the surveillance, and they can't correspond to the projection position.

The ghost catching activity in "Tokyo Ghosts" continued until Tengu appeared and Andersen stopped sending people out.

Hugo looked at the data.

"There are 128 players left in the lockdown zone, which is a lot more than I expected......"

She watched the tengu appear on the camera and the fleeing crowd, and pulled out of the backstage to start a new setup.

……

Game content updates.

A new "ghost" has been added to the game, appearing on the game map.

The newly added "ghost" has even more amazing destructive power, and will release the wind blade remotely, and it will be killed in seconds if it is touched.

At the same time, players receive the task of protecting the NP to evacuate to several demarcated safe zones, and each successful protection and evacuation of an NP will be as many points as there are.

Then, there is also a large rescue range around the player, and if the NP dies within your rescue range, he will be punished with 100 times the points!

At the same time, when there are NPs in danger within the rescue range, the player's character may also receive an urgent mission with a good reward.

These are all mechanics that encourage players to save the NP as much as possible.

Investigate the decryption plus rescue type of game? It feels like a novel idea.

Kusaku Shimada thought while playing.

The content of Tokyo Onijin has been interesting and different from what has been shown in the game so far.

But what's different......

Shimada Kusaku thought about it, maybe it's its various designs? It doesn't feel like an ordinary game.

Not to mention that the game must be a monster upgrade.,Even if it's a decryption class.,It's very different from the model of "Tokyo Ghosts".

Its quest system was very similar to the secret type game at the beginning, but after the ghost catching activity began, and then the appearance of the second ghost, the various tasks derived from it made Shimada Kusaku, a veteran player with a keen sense of smell, perceive an indescribable sense of disobedience.

Because normal game designers design the game mission system with logic, "Tokyo Ghosts" is like an emergency, and the tasks that are randomly updated in the background are added to the game, which makes people unable to see the logic, and Shimada Kusaku is curious about how this is done.

But I have to say that this kind of game experience brings him the feeling of being a player, which is really very novel.

……

Of course, Hisaku Shimada didn't know, and he felt that Tokyo Onijin was not like a normal game design idea, and he took it for granted.

Underneath the veneer of the game is a real event happening in Tokyo.

Full of uncertainty? Randomness? Not in line with the design logic?

Of course, because these are accidents and manually updated in real time, they are not pre-designed programs, and of course there is no design logic.

The remaining 100 or so players of "Tokyo Ghosts" are really involved in the Tengu incident in Ikebukuro, Tokyo.

It's just that, except for Su Qi and Hugo.

No one knows.

The people at the Ikebukuro scene still don't know that there are a large number of player-controlled "characters" among the surviving citizens.

Unbeknownst to the players of Tokyo Ghosts, their game is a well-packaged reality.

Su Qi's so-called "resurrection from the dead" before was nothing more than a small fight and a smoke bomb released.

The symphony of virtual and real "Tokyo Ghosts" is the large-scale mystery that 9981 interprets this time.

Everyone became the object of this mysterious fool, and it was not until the mystery was revealed that it dawned on them.

……

Next, Su Qi faked his death, Tengu was fixed by Hans Christian Andersen, and the crisis was pressed the pause button.

Hugo knew that the opportunity had come, and through "Tokyo Ghosts", he gave a new mission at the right time.

Players work together to collect ritual items, hold ghost suppression rituals, and summon 9981 gods to suppress ghosts.

Glowing props began to be marked on the map, and players gathered "ritual items".

The ritual items seen in the game are all small props with mysterious elements, crystal balls, spell crosses and so on.

In fact, it corresponds to the real world, the table, the chair, the script, the light, the camera......

In-game rituals.

In reality, it is the set, and the photo is taken as "evidence......

Through "Tokyo Ghosts", Hugo put a layer of filter on the player's behavior and distorted their cognition.

They think they're controlling the character, squeezing ghosts through rituals, and completing the mission.

In fact, it is manipulating the puppet to create evidence of a decapitation cycle.

In the end, players complete missions, earn experience points, and earn points.

The "evidence" of the photos and videos is in the hands of Hugo.

……

"These should be enough."

Hugo looked at the information he currently had in his hand, directly applied for the server function of the matrix, and called out the virtual panel in front of him.

"Brain in a jar, I'm going to spread this information to the regional network."

A large number of parameter options pop up on the virtual panel.

Select the scope of message dissemination, select the key countries and regions, and select the audience tendency......

Various big data surveys and matches to meet Hugo's dissemination needs, such as the focus of dissemination in Tokyo, the user group covered by the decapitation cycle Tengu incident, related self-media, etc.

The brain in the tank will calculate everything, arrange to contact all media channels, automatically reach intelligence deals, disseminate information, and even invite a water army.

Hugo only had to do one thing, pay.

The low-level plan is 5 million yen, the intermediate plan is 10 million yen, and the high-level plan is ...... Everyone knows the set-and-forget package......

According to the different active dispersal efforts, the price rises geometrically, and the basic zeros behind it cannot be counted, which is astronomical.

Of course, passive propagation, secondary propagation, these are not calculated at a price.

If a piece of news is strong enough, even if you choose a low-cost package, it can achieve a very strong effect under the subsequent fermentation.

In other words, the news that is useless is useless for everyone you preach.

Everyone knows that there are men and women in this world, everyone knows it, is there any use?

The communication channel only allows the message to reach the human ear, and the specific impact depends on the content.

……

Hugo bought the most money-saving one, this is enough, at present, the news of the Tengu incident is flying all over the sky, and the video of the anti-hammer does not lack heat and attention, and the follow-up effect is very large, so there is no need to waste money.

The brain in the jar is still very powerful.

The moment after payment, all media channels are already in place.

In just a few minutes, "evidence" was on the top of the hot search.

The post of "300 photos revealed" directly became a hammer to crush rumors.

Tengu, it's over.

……

Hugo had to do the last thing at this time.

Her "Tokyo Ghosts" game account role, appeared in Ikebukuro for the final curtain call.

That weird, terrifying and cool, full of special effects, the ghost king Spider Girl, a kryptonian who looks like a kryptonian who has paid for skins......

This doll is spawned through the Tokyo Onijin game ritual, not a Frankenstein doll.

The Frankenstein puppet is an entity, and Ikebukuro is blocked by Yamaruzod, and the Frankenstein puppet can't enter.

The game characters of Tokyo Onijin are different, and this one is generated by a signal program, and it can be put into the place covered by the network.

Alibaba's signal blockade was broken by the decapitation cycle with a wishing machine, so the signal can go in and out.

……

At the same time, after the death of the game character of "Tokyo Ghosts", it will not affect the controller's body, but a part of the data will be lost, causing chaos in the character's rituals, and it cannot be reconstructed within three hours.

These game characters look more convenient than Frankenstein dolls.

But in fact, the limitations are significant.

……

Frankenstein puppets can fully replicate the abilities and states of the controller.

For example, if Su Qi uses Frankenstein dolls, his ring virus, and the divine abilities of adolescence can be used through dolls.

The Frankenstein puppet is like an organ of the manipulator's body, a twin monster.

Including the deep sea, anchoring, these are closely related to the two and share, as if the soul is withdrawn from the body and used in another part of the body.

When a Frankenstein puppet dies, it's like a lizard with a severed tail.

……

This is not the case with the Tokyo Oni game character, it is more like a remote-controlled car.

It's just a tool, a toy, and you can only use the functions of this tool.

Of course, it is impossible to use the ability itself, the deep sea, the anchor, the divine object, the ritual and the like.

If the toy is broken, it is good to make a new one.

……

So the "character" of "Tokyo Ghosts" is actually something more suitable for ordinary people.

This is like the original gun theory, it takes ten years to train a knight who can go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, and it consumes a lot of wealth, and it only takes one second to give him a gun so that a child can do the same as a knight to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy.

Tools are always the best fulcrum for the weak to pry the strong.

……

Moreover, the characters of "Tokyo Ghosts" still have room for improvement, after all, this is a program.

Through the ritual of the wisdom system, Hugo can continuously upgrade the programming.

This is how the "chameleon" ability is added.

Invention and creation, this is the knowledge mastered by the wisdom system.

……。