Chapter 154: The Reaction of the Real World (Chapter 2 in One)
“…… Hello everyone, I'm your new friend Yu Tu. Recently, a virtual reality game "Journey to the Other World" has become popular on the Internet, because the game is in the beta stage, many netizens only know about this game with a few videos officially released, as well as information from some social media on the Internet.
As the first player of the Natural Awakening Transcendent Seed in "Journey to the Otherworld", this blogger spent a reputation that can almost be exchanged for a 'transcendent potion', and became the first player to turn on the video recording function, well, I should be the first (laughs), okay, I'll introduce you in detail now......"
First of all, this virtual reality online game of Journey to the Atlas is set in a fantasy world similar to the apocalyptic setting of the fantasy world, and players will be born directly into a city of despair built around the walls of despair.
The city of Despair is quite large, with a total of thirteen districts, and the city lord forces have occupied three districts from the seventh to the ninth districts. If you understand it in terms of virtual reality, you can basically think of it as the area range of a second- or third-tier city. The city is currently located on a large map in the Forgotten Lands, and many of the natives of the City of Despair call themselves 'exiles' or 'exiles', and the game arranges the identity of the player directly as a visitor from another world, who came to this world at the call of the city lord to help him fight against all kinds of monsters......"
"Is this game streamer really verbose, rookie?"
Wang Liao stood in front of the computer desk with one foot, looking at the video he had just clicked on, a man's voice Rory talked a lot, but the picture only shook slightly, and he couldn't help but pout and curse.
This blogger's video explanation really made him a little unacceptable, the tone was flat and not frustrated, it seemed to be a little pressed throat, and there was a heavy dialect accent, and the recorded microphone and equipment were estimated to be relatively poor, and the sound was a little harsh and vague, and the background sound seemed to be a little noisy, just click on the video and listen to a few words casually, it makes people feel extremely irritable.
"It's really any cat or dog that can be the anchor and commentator."
Wang Liao moved the mouse and dragged the progress bar, this video was the popular top he saw on the official website, the title is very large and long - "The world's first virtual reality game "Journey to the Other World" all-round analysis and monster wonderful battle video highlights".
If it weren't for the keywords "virtual reality game" that attracted Wang Liao's attention, he wouldn't have bothered to click on this video.
Recently, he has been in a few groups, and he seems to have heard someone mention such a game, and he saw a GIF in the group, which seems to be a female shooter, and it looks like it was deduced in a live-action movie, which is really cool.
But he hasn't had time to dig deeper, well, this time I'll click on this video, in fact, I want to understand what this game that is touted as "100% real virtual reality" is really like.
However, after opening it, he was a little bored to listen to the broadcaster talk a lot about Rory from a somewhat shaky dark picture.
"Give me dry goods directly, let me see how real it is, and the rest is still useful for you to force yourself."
Wang Liao continued to complain in his heart, watched the length of the video for almost thirty minutes, dragged the progress bar along the small window screen that appeared in the progress bar, and jumped to seven minutes later, the video was still a little black and shaking, but Wang Liao roughly estimated the small window picture that he saw below, and he thought that he should have received the follow-up picture.
“…… I'm going to rush out here soon.,It would be nice if this would be live.,Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have this feature for the time being.,But don't worry.,I've decided to upload this paragraph directly without cutting.,Good luck to me......"
The voice of the broadcaster with a very strong accent in the video came out again, Wang Liao followed and clicked on the barrage again, this is his habit of watching videos, generally the first action of watching a video is to close the barrage first, so as not to be affected, and then wait for the video to finish watching before opening the barrage to see the messages of other netizens.
But this time he felt that the anchor was obviously a dish, and the series of nonsense at the beginning didn't know how to edit a wonderful video footage to attract attention, but looked at a swarthy still picture, which really made him want to see if other people had the same impression as him.
As soon as the barrage was opened, there were some barrage messages in the video where the black was slightly shaky, and there were some barrage messages, as Wang Liao thought, most of them were complaining about the broadcaster's voice, and they didn't dare to show their faces, and there was a video screen that I didn't know what the hell it was.
"The eyes of netizens are bright, and this kind of broken video can also be pushed up, what a hell!"
Wang Liao saw a lot of messages from netizens in the barrage like him, and laughed in his heart, and then felt that the editor recommended on the video was not funny.
Reach out and move the mouse, ready to move back down the progress bar, look at the video content behind, if it doesn't mean anything else, he's going to close.
As soon as the pointer of the mouse moved to the progress bar, suddenly several eye-catching blue and red barrages began to appear:
[I never thought that I could record a video like this, the broadcaster is really a talent! ] 】
[Great God takes my knees!! 】
[I want to have fun!] 】
[Attention, 7 minutes and 32 seconds start to stimulate!] 】
[Tremble, mortals! 】
[Thirteen seconds left for the enemy to appear on the screen......]
……
Wang Liao looked at a few lines of eye-catching barrage, and the movements in his hands stopped.
On the computer screen, the entire game video suddenly began to shake, and light began to enter a dim screen.
"Huh?" Wang Liao's eyebrows were lightly raised, and he was a little interested.
A small bright opening appears in the middle of the video feed, which appears to be in a small cave.
With his long-term experience in playing various games and watching movies, Wang Liao can already roughly see the situation at this time, as if it was a subjective shot of him playing a certain shooting game before.
"That shaky dark picture just now, is it ......?"
Wang Liao had some guesses in his heart, and then with the pull of the subjective lens, it seemed that the picture came to the mouth of the cave, and the screen was completely lit up.
It seems that something began to appear in the picture, like rocks and grass, but at this time, a series of barrage messages suddenly appeared from the right, filling his 32-inch computer screen, which was dazzling, completely blocking Wang Liao's desire to see clearly what the picture was.
"So many barrages!"
Wang Liao was also a little surprised, but at this time, he had no intention of paying attention to the content of the barrage, and quickly operated the mouse to close the barrage as soon as possible.
What then appeared on the screen was an unimaginably large two-headed monster that looked like the corpses of the two-headed monsters, and then on the bodies of the two monsters, there were lizardmen with gray skin and four arms jumping back and forth, as if they were gnawing on the corpses of the two monsters.
The entire ground was completely soaked with the blood and unknown liquid of the two monsters, and at the same time, there was no longer the sound of the broadcaster speaking in the video frame, but the sound of snorting and wheezing.
The content shown in the picture is completely exquisite to the point that Wang Liao can hardly imagine, and even with the change of the subjective lens, Wang Liao saw the anchor's fingers and the rocks he touched, so delicate that there was almost no difference between the real one, the fine particles of the soil, and the unknown weeds seemed to be hanging with dewdrops, and there was no falsehood at all, as if it was the real world.
", this broadcaster is awesome! This game can be like this. ”
Wang Liao, who had already come back to his senses, suddenly withdrew his feet on the table and couldn't help screaming.
Wang Liao fully saw the intention of this video, this video is not what he thought before, the broadcaster just commented and did not play the picture, but started from the beginning, this video was recorded by the broadcaster in the game.
It's just that the previous broadcaster is hiding in a dark cave, so what he sees is only a dark picture that occasionally shakes, and listening to the anchor's voice, it doesn't seem to be so stable, there is a deliberate suppression of the component.
When the broadcaster starts to really move, and the whole video begins to move with the anchor's subjective lens, everything can be considered alive.
"Margo, this host actually scared my brother and me. This is the method used to make the first DV movie before! ”
Wang Liao thought of a few DV horror movies he had seen before, which seemed to be like this, but he didn't expect that a game could be recorded like this.
But this time he didn't have time to complain, the sound in the entire video screen, in addition to the heavy wheezing sound of the broadcaster, he was able to see the threat faced by the broadcaster at the moment through the first-person lens.
He probably saw the two huge monsters that had died, one of which looked like a giant lizard, and the other that looked a bit like some kind of insect. Whether it is the huge size or the ferocious appearance, people can't help but gasp.
And those lizardmen who are eating the corpses of two monsters and have four arms look extremely hideous and ferocious, and it seems that they occasionally compete with each other for food and attack each other, and from the first perspective, it can be roughly judged that these lizardmen are also not small.
"It's kind of exciting!"
Wang Liao's heart gradually rose with the slight footsteps and wheezing sound of the broadcaster's movement, as if he was not sitting in front of the computer watching the video at the moment, but experiencing all this himself, and the strong sense of substitution from the first perspective made him worry about the danger that the broadcaster encountered at this time.
Suddenly, a lizardman with four arms turned around and seemed to look towards the position of the anchor, and the whole moving perspective suddenly froze, and in the picture, Wang Liao could vaguely feel that the anchor's muscles seemed to be tense all over his body.
Fortunately, the four-armed lizardman just glanced at it casually, and did not deliberately look for it, and almost at the same time, Wang Liao and the broadcaster seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.
Seeing that the first perspective gradually widened the distance between him and the lizardman, and began to run towards the outside of this valley that seemed to be a troubled world, Wang Liao's mood that had just relaxed became nervous again.
The footage in the video began to shake, and the first-person viewer seemed to be running away, and suddenly, the bright picture seemed to become hazy and dim.
"Well, what's going on?"
Wang Liao looked at the video screen and the anchor seemed to have stopped running, and he was a little puzzled.
Following the first turn of the anchor, Wang Liao almost once again let out an exclamation of "" with the anchor in the video, only to see that above the sky, an incredibly huge dragon flew over the valley.
This giant dragon is so huge that Wang Liao can only follow the anchor's perspective to turn back and forth to see the whole picture, and then he sees that the dragon's wings suddenly retract and fall from the sky.
The whole ground rumbled like an earthquake, the dust flew up, and the picture suddenly swirled, and then suddenly went black.
Wang Liao's whole person suddenly fell backwards with this picture, and the computer chair slid out half a meter away before stopping the momentum.
"Hoo ......"
After more than ten seconds, Wang Liao breathed a long sigh of relief, and at this time, he felt relieved from extreme tension.
Wang Liao dragged the computer chair back to the computer desk, and this time when he opened the video barrage, he saw the dense text paving his screen again.
[Anchor Saigao, a game is just a movie. 】
[Scared Lao Tzu, what is that thing in the end, dragon?] That's a big deal! 】
What is this game called? It's fun to watch! 】
【Four-armed lizardmen】
[It feels really like the movie, it's so exciting, and it's really nervous after bringing it in]
[I can't tell it's a game at all.,It's like it's a person's real survival]
[No face, bad review! ] 】
[Stupid, this is recorded by the anchor from the first point of view, how to show your face]
[Is the anchor dead in the end?] Such a big movement, it seems that he was directly shocked to death]
[Scared Lao Tzu, Yu Tu, right, waiting for me to go to the game and you find you! ] 】
……
Wang Liao looked at a large number of barrages that appeared on the screen, and casually followed and said, [This is not a game, this is a movie, don't lie to me, the broadcaster! ] 】
After typing this sentence, he found two other videos through the broadcaster's page, one with the title "I was chased by the bone monitor lizard and fled in a hurry with the city lord", and the other was "The battle between the bone monitor lizard and the insect monster, I tried my best].
The popularity in the two videos is very high.,It's not worse than the one he saw when he clicked on the homepage.,It's still a dense barrage when you open the barrage at one point.,
Wang Liao first opened the video of [Fleeing in a Hurry], this time it was almost nonsense as soon as he opened it, and went straight to the point, and a hideous giant beast pounced on the screen at one point, with a passionate background music, which made people's spirits suddenly burst for a while.
Then, in the rapidly rotating perspective, countless bones of giant beasts that seemed to be like towering trees appeared in the picture, and the rumbling sound seemed to explode the sound.
This time, Wang Liao can obviously see that the video screen has been edited, but it is still very exciting, it looks not inferior to any monster movie, the scene is grand, the special effects are realistic, and it makes people addicted to it.
And at the same time, he also saw some pictures of other players, among which there is a character who seems to be dressed slightly differently from ordinary players, which should be the city lord in the title, but the face that appears in the video seems to be a little blurry, and it is not particularly real.
"Damn, how do I feel about this recorded picture, I can just take it to the cinema and show it."
Wang Liao was no longer complaining this time, but exclaiming, these players he saw seemed to be the kind of little superman of the American team, although the bone monitor lizard chased very closely, but these people reacted very quickly, stretched out their hands flexibly, and shuttled between the bones of various giant beasts in the forest of bones, very fast. The tension with the background music makes people's blood boil.
Then Wang Liao clicked on another video of the giant beast fighting, and the picture was still connected to the escape shot above, it seemed that when the player and the monster fled, this lizard monster invaded the territory of another monster, causing this monster to break out of the ground and start an earth-shattering battle with the monitor lizard.
The fierce and real sense of the picture made Wang Liao so excited that he couldn't help himself, and almost as soon as he watched it, he quickly gave the two videos to a series of processes such as collecting, coining, and sharing.
At the same time, he watched several other game videos about "Journey to the Other World" through relevant recommendations, each of which made him excited, and the more he watched these videos, the more he felt frightened, these videos and the game CG he had seen in the past, not only the beauty of the picture was much higher, but it really made him subvert the idea of "virtual reality game".
In the related video, Wang Liao saw the provenance video of the gif picture of the goddess archer that he noticed in a group before, and the brute crocodile dragon in it was much more rookie than the bone monitor lizard, insect monsters, and dragons released later by Yu Tu.
However, the calmness, sensitivity, and amazing archery skills displayed by the female shooter still fascinated him deeply.
There is also a video of players rushing towards monsters like ant colonies, watching it is like a real war drama, and he can feel the thrill of adrenaline rush through the screen.
At the same time, after Wang Liao shared the video to several previous game groups and other classmates and friends, it also exploded.
Many people who are familiar with Wang Liao or unfamiliar with them have come forward to chat, and a few of them said that there was a time before, and when these videos were circulated, there was a lot of storm on the Internet.
Later, I don't know what the reason is, these videos seem to have been blocked for a short time, and then even if they can appear again, they can be clicked, and the spread continues, but the popularity seems to have decreased a lot.
After all, the circulation of several videos is still an edited version, which looks a bit similar to a movie, and the main attraction is also the group of people who play games, watch CG and find blockbuster movies.
"Otherworldly Journey, Otherworldly Journey......"
Wang Liao didn't care about him at this time, and after he shared the video, people in various groups kept coming up, asking for sources, seeds or other things.
After watching a few videos, he switched the browser interface as quickly as possible and searched for the game's official website in the search engine.
He was really shocked, and even his body trembled a little.
Now there is only one thought in Wang Liao's mind, "I want to play it too, I want to join it, such a game, God, if I don't play it, I think I will die, this life is meaningless." ”
I rummaged through the links one after another in the browser, some of them were analytical article introductions, and they were long-winded, and he didn't bother to open them first, but just reopened a new interface. Some are popular pages made by following the trend keywords, and for him, they can basically be analyzed at a glance.
It wasn't until he opened the homepage of a somewhat copycat page game in the search engine that he subconsciously wanted to close it, and suddenly his actions stopped.
Quickly switched back to the video I saw on the video site before, and then noticed the anchor called Yu Tu, who said a website introduction on the video introduction, and there was no link to the natural website, only the social media account of the broadcaster.
He followed the social media account and looked for it again, and finally found the game website on a picture shared by the other party's social media account.
"These search engine companies are really sick, and the official website of such a game is not in the first place. And what kind of broken company, can't do official website, can't do SEO optimization, want to give me money, ranked first in minutes......"
With this complicated feeling, Wang Liao began to browse along the official website.
The official website is very rough and rudimentary, except for a few videos he has watched before, there is only a simple one thousand people to test the second and third batches are open, and the button to sign up first.
He clicked on the button to participate in the test registration, and first an application form popped up, which did not require real-name authentication and ID cards, but only roughly required players to introduce their own professions and the professions they were good at.
Wang Liao graduated from a pheasant university in China majoring in fashion design, although he was unemployed after graduation, he still did not hesitate to fill in the "tailor" in the occupation column.
Then soon a large list of terms and conditions that made people dizzy to look at came out, and he pulled directly to the bottom column without looking at it, first checked the Read, and then pressed the OK button.
After completing this series of steps, Wang Liao then checked the configuration requirements of this virtual reality game, which was surprisingly simple, only requiring a virtual device to log in through the official website.
"I don't know if I'll be drawn, but let's buy one first!"
Wang Liao has no virtual equipment at home, which will be enthusiastic, and regardless of whether he will be selected to participate in the second or third batch of 2,000 test qualifications, he quickly picked up his mobile phone, placed an order on the app of a certain mall, and looked at the notification that it will arrive tomorrow, Wang Liao breathed a sigh of relief.
"Bless bless, I'm sure I'll be drawn."
……
At the same time, on a social media platform on the Internet, a battle is in full swing.
Since two days ago, the competition between a certain king singer's "Sunset Red Fan Group" and a top traffic fresh meat has kicked off.
Tang Man is a fantasy writer, after coaxing the child to sleep, patting his beer belly, with the memory of his former youth, he consciously joined the "Sunset Red Fan Group", and began to brush up on social media for the king singer.
He used to act as a spectator for this kind of thing like brushing up on the Internet to make all kinds of celebrities talk hot, but this time he was just idle and bored, and it was probably a kind of nostalgia, not wanting the superstars who were once all the rage to be flattened by the later hairy boys.
"You have one vote, I have one vote, Tianwang milk tea is all-you-can-drink, and it can't be more low-key!"
After several days of fighting, finally at midnight, at 0:00, the king suppressed the flow of fresh meat and reached the top position.
Tang Man yawned, the years are urging people to get old, and he used to be a teenager who couldn't sleep at two or three o'clock in the morning when he was rushing to write the manuscript, but now he has become a middle-aged man who can't stay up all night.
Just as he was about to launch the super talk list, he accidentally saw a hot topic.
[A real virtual reality game, "Journey to the Other World" I blew up!] 】
The popularity of this hot topic is rapidly climbing, and new posts appear almost all the time, as well as screenshots and videos, which are constantly being retweeted and shared.
"Huh? This game video is popping up again? ”
Some time ago, Tang Manke watched a video shared by others, and he was quite tempted to watch it at the time, but after all, he was a middle-aged uncle, he had to support his family, he had to write articles to catch up, and he just looked at some things, and he really let him get involved, but he still couldn't lift his spirits......
Well, like this time, it is completely a sentimental bonus. In general, even if you can hook up his interests, it is really difficult to get him to spend time paying attention.
It's like a movie adaptation of a game that has been played for many years, although it has many shortcomings, but in fact, buying tickets is purely to pay for the memories of past youth.
However, the king's super talk has reached the top, and he, a member of Sunset Red, no longer needs to continue the cumbersome process of playing the list, he clicked on this hot topic casually, and soon saw the video shared by some netizens.
Tens of thousands of retweets and comments can be seen under almost every video.
He clicked on the page of one of the videos, and he didn't immediately look at the content of the video, usually on social media, he habitually looked at the comments first, and then read the content of the video.
"Mom, it's a game, it's really a game!!"
"Uncle, I'll kneel, you say, how do you want to play, how much money to give!"
"Ten seconds, please DM me the name of this game!"
"Yu Tu, blogger Yu Tu is a player, are you sure you're not engaged in CG special effects?"
"Hurry up, don't be verbose, I'll be waiting for you in the City of Despair."
"Leave it to me to save the world!"
"Extraordinary, potions ......"
"Give me the account, I want to play!!"
"I can't imagine that such a technology has really been realized!!"
"That's another world, a real different world!"
"As long as you can play virtual reality games, the Sprinkle family will be worth it in this life!"
"Idols can't replace games, I want games!!"
……
Soon, the comments of netizens made Tang Man can't help but pay attention to the content of the video again.
Seeing this, Tang Man almost forgot the time, from the first video and then to the second video, even including the last few videos.
In the last few videos, he still looks a little like a trailer for a movie, the scene is grand, but there is not so deep a sense of substitution. This time it was completely unexpected, the scene was wonderful, and the picture quality was so real that it was exciting.
Tang Man went from lying on the bed watching videos at the beginning, to unconsciously crawling in front of the computer at work, starting to search for videos, then looking for the official website, and then filling in the information to apply for the test.
He didn't know how to get fazed, found the game's official forum, and began to rummage through the posts from beginning to end.
It's like writing a manuscript once in a while, and you have a weird idea, and then you start looking for information, read discussions, and before you know it, you get hooked on it.
Tang Man didn't know how long it had been, but as he read more and more posts, his heart became more and more excited.
And then ......
Wow –
A cry suddenly came from the small cradle bed next to the bed in his bedroom.
Tang Man was suddenly startled, and while his daughter-in-law hadn't woken up yet, he hurriedly walked to the side of the cradle bed, looked at the little person, shook his head and smiled bitterly:
"Alas, my little ancestor, am I waking you up?"
……
And just when Tang Man began to coax the child again, on social media, this time ushered in a discussion about a certain virtual reality game, which began to ignite the discussion of the whole network.
This time, no one seems to limit the popularity, more and more people are attracted by the content shown in the video, and a certain player who is aiming to become an Internet celebrity V, almost a position on the celebrity list for a few seconds, and quickly became popular.
He was the first to post a video of the game from the perspective of a gamer, and the content shown in the video content was almost indistinguishable from a real-life movie, which attracted the most attention.
More and more people are also joining the discussion about this virtual reality, about the origin of this game, the implementation of this technology, the content of the game, the background gameplay, etc.
It's just limited that "Journey to the Other World" is a virtual online game, and it is in the closed beta stage, and it is not like other PC games that can record videos casually, and the information that can be obtained from the whole network is already limited.
However, the number of visits to the official website and forums has risen rapidly.