Chapter 1: The Glorious Tester
Lu Qingru woke up in a shaking, and he carefully identified the figure in front of him. This is...... Own boss. Lu Qingru is a college student who found a part-time job some time ago, and this job is a tester.
SpaceXXI, the world's largest internet service provider, is about to launch a virtual world called The Second Realm. SpaceXXI has rich experience in the operation of virtual worlds, and most of the world's top virtual worlds are developed and operated by SpaceXXI.
But this "Second Realm" is even more different. Lu Qingru feels that this virtual world is an epoch-making product, a product that will really change this world. Because Space received a large incentive in Congress. This incentive is mainly used to support the gold coins of the Second Realm, which has the function of a general equivalent. This is the first of its kind in the world.
In the past, those virtual worlds were for people to go in and consume, and Second Realm will be a place where a large number of reservists will earn extra income. SpaceXXI is well prepared for this project. The company's state-of-the-art AI, Asinna, has planned a complete resource circulation system, which may not be accurate.
The resources in the Second Realm grow, and the goods produced by the mining and processing of the resources are consumed. The condition for resource regeneration is the injection of external funds, that is, the incentive funds allocated by Congress. Resources are collected and processed by "laborers", and the profits earned by laborers in the process can be exchanged for real-world Asian dollars at the banks of the Second Realm.
The entire operation of the Second Realm is in charge of Asina, and it will not be controlled by any group or person, and there will be no such incidents as favoritism and enrichment.
The plan is bold, but the Federation of Greater East Asia is willing to take the risk. There are not so many jobs in the real world, and except for a few fields such as scientific research and art, most industries are produced by AI-operated machinery. Incentives were one of the largest fiscal expenditures of governments in the past two centuries, but the results achieved were completely unsatisfactory. The vast majority of the people are drunk and dreaming of death with the salary of the reservists. Society as a whole depends on only a handful of elites...... The future should still be stagnant.
SpaceXXI hired a large number of testers out of their own pockets in the process of approving incentives, and the seriousness and rigor of the AI is unquestionable, but their logic and aesthetics in some things are quite speechless. These testers entered the Second Realm mainly to find out if there was anything too strange about this world. And Lu Qingru easily became a tester with his high education. After all, there is no employment pressure, and there are not many people who are willing to spend time and energy to study with peace of mind.
"Boss." Lu Qingru said hello to his boss, whose name is Stepper Charge and runs an online studio. However, Lu Qingru has not seen his other colleagues.
The step charge gave Lu Qingru a few things, rings, shields, books and the like. "What is this mirror for?" "This mirror is for pinching your face, that is, you can change your appearance." Lu Qingru was stunned when he heard this, this is an ancient surgical plastic surgery? Seeing Lu Qingru mention this mirror, he remembered something, so he opened his mouth and instructed: "You will change your appearance in a while." Lu Qingru knew that the few things he had just gotten were the focus of his next work. Lu Qingru has never done this work, so he doesn't know whether the next step is to get a few targets for himself to test, or find a few of his colleagues to test. "By the way, what am I going to become? Is there a template requirement? "There seem to be a few templates in the mirror, you can see for yourself in a while, anyway, it's not the same as now." Space claims that "The Second Realm" strives to restore the real world, but I didn't expect the props to come out are also some marginal things, can it be said that plastic surgery is plastic surgery in ancient times more than a thousand years ago? Is it reasonable to put on the cloak of the wizarding world? If several other objects are also such extremely convenient tools, this "Second Realm" is probably no different from other virtual worlds, Lu Qingru thought of this, and felt a little disappointed in his heart.
"Remember?" Lu Qingru came back to his senses and looked at the step charge with shame and said, "I'm sorry, boss." What did you just say? Lu Qingru is really ashamed, he is not the kind of person who likes to be rude, and he doesn't know why he deserted so naturally today.
"Go to the Clear Spring, it's an elven town, in the north, find someone, be a little patient, if you don't have it in the city, look for the surroundings." Stepper Charge carefully repeated it.
Lu Qingru didn't understand a little, gave himself a bunch of things, and then asked himself to find someone? "What's that man's name?" Stride Charge: "Can you see someone else's name?" Lu Qingru looked up at his boss. I can't see the name, I can ask, I need to know the name. Tread Charge shook his head and said, "I don't know the name either, anyway, you will know when you see him, don't forget to learn those books." ”
Lu Qingru is a little inexplicable, what does it mean to know when you see him? Could anyone really put a name on their head? Or do you get a tattoo and get your name tattooed on your face or chest? That's not right, you didn't tell me what the man's name was.
Lu Qingru looked at himself without saying a word when he saw the step-by-step charge. I had to take the initiative to speak, "And then?" "And then? You find someone first. As soon as Lu Qingru heard this, it was quite difficult to find this person. Is that elven town too big? Too many people in there? "What about the time limit?" "The sooner the better."
Lu Qingru felt that this task didn't seem to be easy to do, the clues were too vague, and the content was too different from what he imagined. The tester goes to find someone......
Seeing his boss's anxious look, Lu Qingru also had to get nervous. Lu Qingru, who came out of the cabin, took out the map and studied it. This is a small village not far from Lionheart, the capital of the Rocky Empire, although there is no teleportation array, but fortunately, there are carriages.
Lu Qingru, who was sitting in the carriage and swaying, took out a few things that the boss gave him, and then checked them one by one. A round shield, less than a meter in diameter, oddly enough to have a long chain on the edge of the shield, at least two meters long, and an iron ball at the other end of the chain. "Yamane? What's the name? ”
Lu Qingru has always paid close attention to "The Second Realm", and after applying to become a tester, he got a lot of information about "The Second Realm". "The Second Realm" draws on the worldview of ancient Norse mythology, a world where there are elves and dwarves. The most important thing should be said to be magic, which can give the experiencer a completely different experience from the real world.
But anyway, the shape of the item should be more reliable, right? What is the situation with an iron chain dragging on the shield? Wrap the chain around your waist when you fight? There is a big problem with the design of the shape of this item, and this shape seriously affects the use of the item. You should write it down in a small notebook.
When Lu Qingru thought of this, another question mark popped up in his mind. How could you fall asleep in the virtual world? The virtual world is originally called "lucid dreaming", and the user enters the virtual world in a state of dream sleep. Wouldn't it be better to fall asleep yourself...... Comatose?
If you are unconscious, you will be forced to quit by the terminal and send a call for help signal to the health bureau, how can this happen? If the supposedly state-of-the-art Second Realm could even have such a loophole, how could it impress Congress and get incentives? That's a big problem, and that's what you should find as a tester, right? This needs to be written down quickly. Lu Qingru waved his pen excitedly on the small notebook.
Lu Qingru felt that he was a serious person, and he should take everything he handled seriously. For example, the money bag that the boss gave himself, this thing can't fit into the backpack, it can only be hung around the waist or stuffed in clothes. SpaceXXI said that after the Second Realm was put into operation, the initial price of gold coins was 1:200 Asian dollars, and they could only be exchanged in one direction. Doesn't that mean that you have 20,000 Asian dollars in your hands? It's just a test kit, but it's fun to think about.
How does Asina margin the value of coins? It can predict the production capacity and consumption capacity in the Second Realm, and can be adjusted at the beginning. But what if there is a forced intervention by external forces? The incentive money of the Federation of Greater East Asia is an astronomical amount that cannot be shaken by individuals and small groups, no matter how hard they try. But what about mega organizations? For example, the United States of America, the European Commonwealth. What if an organization hoards a large amount of gold coins by killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 themselves? That would inevitably have an impact on the Greater East Asia Federation's incentive program, whether it was the efficiency of the funds or the fluctuation in the value of the gold coins in the Second Realm. What's more serious is that there is really no risk that this money will flow abroad?
The carriage swayed, and Lu Qingru felt that he was about to fall asleep thinking about it. Well, this should also be written down, although it will not be reported, but I should study it when I have time and find a way to figure out how to deal with Asinna.