The Chosen One experience store Yimo has also seen many times, and the C1 logo full of technology at the door seems to be seen everywhere recently, not only VRI equipment, but more and more high-tech products are brought to people by C1, and the company's territory is also expanding at an incredible speed.

The experience store is full of people, and you can see how hot the business is. The two parked their bikes and pushed the door to enter the experience store, which was like entering a new world of high-tech. The store displays a variety of products that were previously only seen in science fiction movies, and each product demonstration stand is crowded with onlookers, cheering for every incredible effect.

Hou Xuan took Yimo to the VRI equipment area, there are more people here, in addition to the counter of VRI products, the most conspicuous thing is the four egg-shaped recliners suspended in the air, this is the initialization area, a bunch of people who have just purchased VRI equipment are waiting in line for initialization.

Imo looked at it for a moment and thought it was amazing. I saw that the customer who was in turn excitedly and nervously came to the recliner, sat down carefully, put himself in the most comfortable position, buckled the seat belts on both sides according to the instructions of the staff, and then put on the VR equipment, and began to carry out some strange movements, after a while, the whole person was shocked, and collapsed on the recliner, and then the monitor next to it lit up, and a virtual figure appeared on the screen, and at the same time there was an irrepressible cheer from the customer.

Hou Xuan saw that he was fascinated by it, and pulled him, "Don't look at it, you can experience it yourself for a while, and we will pick out the equipment first." ”

Yimo nodded, and came to a display stand, where a nearby shopping guide immediately greeted him.

"Welcome, is this your first time using our products?" The shopping guide smiled perfectly.

"Yes, I'd like to buy a VRI that can play with the Illusory Arm." Imer looked at the various devices and was a little dizzy.

"Okay, so let's take the liberty of asking, does the smart host at Mr.'s house meet our minimum needs?" The shopping guide took out a piece of paper and pointed to a table on it to show him, "To run IAO smoothly, you need a processing center with a minimum of SuperCore9 or above Tianren Angsu, and at least 120TB of reserved storage space, and if you have a rendering center with polygon3000 or more than the real illusion TI80 produced by our C1 company, it can also greatly improve the game experience of Mr." ”

These are the more popular configurations, and Yimo recalls that the configuration at home should be a little higher than required, so he nodded.

"Okay, so how does the gentleman usually play the game? Do you sit on a gaming chair, on a sofa in the living room, or in bed? The shopping guide continued.

Without waiting for Yimo to speak, Hou Xuan snatched the conversation, "Oh, don't say so much, we are students, and we usually play at night, just give him a fully immersion type with the best configuration!" Yimo shrugged, looked into the inquiring eyes of the shopping guide, and nodded.

"In that case, I don't recommend the portable and sports models." The shopping guide took two VRI devices and introduced, "These two are new products that our company has just launched, the target group is students who are going to spend the summer vacation, one is the eyepiece model, and the other is the all-inclusive model, both of which have excellent immersion performance, and can minimize unnecessary interruptions when playing games." The eyepiece version is suitable for sleeping, and the all-inclusive version is suitable for use in the living room or on a gaming seat. Sir, you can put it on and try it. ”

Imo took both devices. The eyepiece model is a bit like windproof goggles used on snow or sand, which only covers the upper half of the face and the door of the head, and at the ear is a pair of in-ear headphones, the whole shape is very cool. The all-inclusive model is more professional, looking like a fighter pilot's helmet, but the mouth and jaw are exposed, and the all-inclusive model can not only isolate the outside world, enjoy a better visual and auditory experience, but also effectively prevent the outside world from disturbing.

"The eyepiece model is a little less functional than the all-inclusive model, and when using the load mode, the all-inclusive model has only one-third the number of unnecessary interruptions as the eyepiece model. And when using the panorama mode, the all-inclusive model is also more complete than the eyepiece model,"

The so-called panorama mode is the usual VR mode, which allows you to use phantom limbs to control the game while eating, drinking, and lazing. The loading mode is to fully immerse yourself in the scene through phantom limbs, at this time, the body will be immersed in a sleep state, and the body's response to the outside world will also be taken over by the VRI device and generate physiological data monitoring, you can check your physical state at any time in the game, and you can also interrupt the loading at any time.

"What else do you want!" Hou Xuan couldn't wait to take the all-inclusive model and put it on Yimo, and then patted the top of his head, "It's all inclusive, I've always wanted this one, but if you want to buy it, you have to wait for the unified examination to finish, isn't it just right for you to buy this directly." ”

Imo tried it, and it did feel comfortable, there was nothing awkward, but he had his ideas. After all, he didn't play games professionally, he bought VRI just to find clues and truths, and he didn't care about how the game was at all, so he took off the all-inclusive model and tried the eyepiece again, and he thought it was good, and he looked much more handsome.

"Please get me the eyepiece, thank you!" Ignoring Hou Xuan, who tried to make him change his mind, he followed the shopping guide to pay the bill.

At the cashier counter, the shopping guide gave him a number plate with a smile, "The warehouse staff is sending your equipment over, you and your companions can rest in the initialization area, and there will be staff to assist you in initialization when it is your turn." ”

After thanking the warm and thoughtful shopping guide, the two came to the initialization area to wait. There are a lot of people in front, and the waiting time is quite long, but fortunately, there are drinks and snacks in the initialization area, and the two are chatting, eating and drinking, while watching the people in front of them to initialize the operation.

"At night, you have to remember that you must come to the Eight Desolations City, and don't run to other places. Although you can move freely in the Illusory Arm, if you are born in the wrong place, you will have to waste a long time running away, so you will have to stay longer in the novice period! "Hou Xuan told him thousands of times, but he was afraid that Yimo would run away. There's no way, he's seen how powerful Yimo is, and he's been playing the game for so long, and he can see at a glance that Yimer's skills are very suitable for this kind of virtual game. Give Imer some time and he can definitely grow into an extremely good IAO player.

Yimo didn't have any self-awareness, and while dealing with Houxuan casually, he was thinking about the monster and thinking about how to start.

After waiting for more than half an hour, it was finally Yimer's turn.

"Mr. Yi from No. 174, please go to the unpacking area to prepare! Mr. Yi at No. 174, please go to the unpacking area to prepare! A call came over the loudspeaker.

"It's your turn." Hou Xuan nudged him, and Yimo nodded. Walk over with the number plate.

The staff took back the number plate, then put the box on the table and began to unpack, while installing some small parts, while explaining to Yimo, making sure that Yimo understood the precautions, reached out and invited him into the glass room with four egg-shaped suspension seats he had just seen.

Imer walked over with his equipment, and a usher's lady came over to take him to his seat.

"Sir, please sit in the egg chair and make sure you are seated and in the most comfortable position."

Imer handed the VRI to her, and sat down carefully on the egg chair. Although the levitation technology has been out for several years, Yimo has never used this kind of equipment, and has only seen it on TV, and he is a little panicked, afraid that he will fall to the ground with a floating butt. After sitting on it, you can adjust the height and swing amplitude of the egg chair, which can simulate the vibration of the sofa, waterbed, swing, water surface, etc., and will not throw people out when you lean back, which is much more comfortable than the traditional chair. He kind of wanted to buy one and use it at home.

Imer adjusted his position and listened to the guide say, "Sir, please sit tight and fasten your seatbelt just in case." Imer obediently fastened his seat belt, and then the guide lady pressed a button, and the egg chair changed from upright to slightly backward, and his posture changed from sitting to lying down.

Miss guide put on a VRI for him, and asked him to fix the equipment by himself, Imian did not leave a gap in the eyepieces, and the headphones were also fixed, at this time, he could still see the outside through the eyepieces, and when he saw the inquiring eyes of Miss guide, he made an OK gesture.

The guide lady nodded, and then said, "Sir, please pay attention, VRI is about to start, please be quiet and act according to the instructions during initialization, please do not make noises or move your body on your own until the initialization is successful, thank you for your cooperation!" There may be a slight discomfort during the process, which is normal and will not cause harm to your body, please rest assured. Well, I wish you all the best and we'll see you soon! ”

The guide smiled and beckoned, and then Imer's vision became darker and darker, and finally there was only darkness, nothing could be seen, and the egg chair began to play a special role, and he gradually could not hear the outside world, and was in a state of absolute silence. Suddenly, a light flashed in the darkness in front of me, forming the logo of C1 and the logo of VRI, and VRI has begun to start.

"Dear users, please stay calm and perform a series of actions according to my guidance." There were words floating through the darkness, and Yimer moved his neck slightly, and found that the words were flickering right in front of him, not moving, and the words were very clear, like someone writing on an invisible wall.

"First, we're going to record the nerve signals in your left arm and left hand." A hand appeared in the darkness, which Imer thought was his own, but moved his fingers and realized that it was nothing more than a projection.

A schematic diagram appeared in the darkness, showing several movements.

"Please move your left arm and hand according to the diagram." Imer raised his left hand and followed the illustrations, which turned green one by one.

"Thank you for your cooperation."

"Now you can control the virtual limbs with the movements of your left hand."

"Please repeat each dismantling movement slowly until the virtual limb can perform the same movement."

Yimer hesitated and raised his left hand, which he immediately noticed in the darkness that the hand trembled slightly, which startled him.

"Please remain calm and patiently repeat the decomposition action."

Imer settled down and slowly began to move his left hand according to the diagram. At first, the virtual limbs only trembled slightly, and slowly with his movements, the movements of the virtual limbs became larger and larger, more and more fluent, and after a while, he was already able to control it smoothly. Curiously, he raised his left hand and held the virtual limb in front of his eyes to look at it, although the details were rough, but there was no doubt that he was controlling the movement of this hand.

"Congratulations, you've completed the first step of the exercise."

"The next steps require more patience, so please remain calm."

"Please use nerve signals to move the virtual limb without moving the real arm."

"It's time to use your imagination!"

"......" Yimo was a little speechless for a moment, but he still understood the meaning, in easy-to-understand words, isn't it just moving objects through his mind! You can't do it in the real world, but VRI devices can do it in virtual reality.

It took him more time to control the virtual limbs through his mind at this step, and looking at the arms flying under his mind, Yimer's heart was full of admiration, did it turn out that technology could already do this kind of thing?

What he didn't know was that the average person takes 10 to 15 minutes to complete this step, and he only took 5 minutes to do it, which can no longer be described as fast.

The system prompt is also full of amazement.

"Well done! You're a genius! God-like synchronization rate!'

"Next, your right hand."

『……』

As instructed, Imer did the same with his right arm, left leg, and right leg.

"Congratulations, you've mastered the basics of VRI."

"Next, use your virtual body to complete the following tasks."

"Task 1, staggered running test. Use your left hand to grab the ankle of your right leg and your right hand to grab the ankle of your left leg and run 50 meters in the virtual scene."

Strange tasks, it's easy to give chaotic commands when your hands are crossed, but Emer quickly adapts to it and runs 50 meters in the scene.

"Great, you've mastered the tricks of using virtual limbs!"

"Task 2, color-changing catch test. From now on, your virtual limbs will change color irregularly, please do not grab the ball of the same color. Crawling errors will be penalized by three seconds of paralysis, please grab more than 400 within 60 seconds.'

Imo almost collapsed, and by the standards of ordinary people, I can only grab more than 300 without the color-changing link, and now I actually want 400, are the players in this game all monsters? And it also adds the thinking trap of not being able to grab the same color.,Don't think that 7-color balls remove 1 and 6,It's almost the same as grabbing directly.。 In fact, it takes more time to avoid thinking than to choose thinking, and you can find out by doing your own thought experiment, is there less "red, red, red, blue, green, blue" or "no red, no red, no red, no blue, no green, no blue"? Obviously, the same is true of thinking.

Imo gritted his teeth.

The first time, paralyzed once in 10 seconds, paralyzed once in 23 seconds, and it's over!

The second time, 19 seconds paralyzed once, the last 370, failed.

For the third time, Yimo held his breath and completed the round with the highest concentration, 434! Finally worked!

It's so hard to test, is there really so many people rushing to this game? Imer couldn't help but wonder.

"You're amazing!"

"Mission 3, Climb and Jump Test. Now that your body has the ability to ignore the laws of Newtonian mechanics, your current space will be filled with filler in a moment, so grab the fill from both sides and climb upwards, and climb to the 600-meter platform in 60 seconds."

In the first round, Yimo was caught between two boards at 200 meters. Fortunately, with the plug-in of Dead Newton, the second round was a risky success.

"Mission 4, this is a three-dimensional maze, you can flip and move it with virtual limbs, please draw an escape route."

"......" Yimo thought to himself, this is not a high-tech product, and it is really not easy to obtain the qualification to use it.

This three-dimensional maze is a bit difficult, don't look at it as just two-dimensional to three-dimensional, but the complexity is more than ten times, and it took nearly ten minutes for Yimer to complete it after trying constantly.

"You're done!"

"This stage is complete."

"Please relax, the next picture is to soothe your nerves."

The dark space was gone, and the streamer could be seen flickering, at first he couldn't tell the difference between distance and near, but gradually it became clearer, and he felt that he was slowly moving forward. Countless points of light began to shine, building strange patterns along inexplicable trails, polyhedra that grew larger and smaller with the change of perspective, spinning Klein bottles, and many more constructs that Emer had never seen before, and he could only follow his vision forward, watching as they swirled around him before falling behind and disappearing.

There were more and more streamers, and gradually the vast Milky Way was formed in front of his eyes, and this large and magnificent scene shocked Imer to forget to breathe.

Gradually, the points of light scattered, forming a white space with no edge in sight.

"Next, we'll take the final step of initialization."

"Like a butterfly breaking its chrysalis, a new world is not far away."

"There may be some discomfort or pain next, but don't worry, it's just an illusion caused by a nerve connecting to a phantom limb."

"Ten seconds later, the phantom limb will be connected."

『10』

『Nine』

『Eight』

"Let's go!"

Yimo, who was choked, didn't have time to complain, he was overwhelmed by the sudden feeling, he felt like a high-speed train crashing over his head, and the feeling of his head being crushed made him almost scream, but in the next moment, there was no feeling at all, as if the pain just now was his delusion.

"Illusion loaded!" A soft and intense light swept through.

The last hint I saw was this, and I lost consciousness.

……

I don't know how long it took, but Imo regained consciousness, he felt like he was lying on the ground, but he couldn't feel his hands, he couldn't feel his feet, he didn't have a nose, mouth, or ears, and he was a little frightened when he realized this, and he didn't know what was happening. At this time, the words that could not distinguish the source of the sound sounded loudly.

is a soft mezzo-soprano.

"Hello customer friend, congratulations on the initialization of the VRI device, now please extend your phantom limb according to my instructions."

"You may be in a bit uncomfortable right now, so please recall the previous manipulation exercises and shrink you into a solid, you can imagine that you are a slime or jellyfish, or other soft moths that you are familiar with."

Imer, who realized what was happening, was a little speechless, and although he wanted to complain, he didn't have a mouth now, so he still had to restrain himself first.

He thought of the slime or the jellyfish, and he refused, but said that the mollusk was ...... He remembered a certain masterpiece in the last century that he had seen when he was a child, and there was a creature with very powerful combat power in it, although it was not very in line with his aesthetics, but it was ...... That's you! Majin Buu!

Under the restraint, he felt clear about his existence, no longer a scattered consciousness, and gradually he could feel that his own form was changing, from nothingness to liquid, and then from liquid to viscous, a humanoid shape stood up from it, from the hands and feet, to the body, to the head, and finally to the facial features. When there was no longer a trace of liquid, a whole little Buu stood in this space!

Yimo slowly opened his eyes, looked at his arms, body, and feet, and then touched his head, huh! It seems that the transformation has been successful!

"Congratulations, congratulations, customer friend...... You have learned, have learned how to manipulate your own, phantom, phantom limbs. I don't know if there is a problem with my hearing structure, but Imer feels that the sound he hears is a little choppy.

"Please, how are you feeling now? Any discomfort? The mezzo-soprano asked.

"I feel...... Very good! Imer smiled, but on Majin Buu's face, the smile looked so hideous and terrifying, "I feel as if I've been freed from the shackles, I've never been so relaxed and free!" ”

Yimo moved his hands and feet, then squatted slightly, jumped hard, actually jumped more than ten meters high, squatted slightly after falling to the ground, and then ran forward violently, so fast that it even left an afterimage in the eyes of people! Yimo excitedly made all kinds of striking and fighting moves, he hadn't let go of his combat power for a long time, many movements he couldn't do in the real world, but in the virtual world, he felt a self that was unshackled, and he felt that he seemed to be omnipotent at this moment!

Looking at Sam Huan's Yimo, the invisible instructor also seemed to be frightened, "First, sir, please stop, stop!" ”

Yimo obediently stopped, and touched his head embarrassedly, "The first time I came to the new world, I was a little out of shape, I'm sorry." "I have to say, this seemingly innocent action is also terrifying in the state of Majin Buu.

The instructor froze and said, "Congratulations on successfully completing the first retraction of the phantom limb, this form is unstable and cannot be directly used in the game, so please follow my guidance for the second retraction." The mezzo-soprano read it from the script, and as for what it actually was, only God knows.

"We've generated the shape of your body based on the scanned data, so let's do a second round in the projection." As the instructor spoke, the phantom of Emer's body was projected in front of Emer.

Yimo looked at his projection with some novelty, and really scanned all the details of himself into virtual reality. According to the instructor's words, he took control of his Majin Buu's body, stood in his projection, and began to close it a second time. This time it was much faster, and Imer felt that his body was getting more and more solidified, and he no longer needed to restrain his spirit at all times to maintain his form. However, with the completion of the second restraint, he no longer has the feeling of omnipotence in his first form, although this body is still strong, much stronger than reality.

"Now you can connect it directly to the game, and you can also use it in a virtual mall or other social center. Congratulations, the doors of a new world have opened to you. ”

Feeling this different body and different world, Emer's heart was also inexplicably filled with joyful feelings, and he felt as if he was transforming.

"Do you need to see the outside world on video?"

Imer remembered what he had just seen the customers in front of him do, and he felt quite interesting, so he nodded.

A screen opened in front of him, and after the screen was loaded for a few tenths of a second, a picture of the outside world appeared, and at first glance, he saw Hou Xuan beckoning there, and Yimo also waved in response. Think about it, you are now in the virtual world of VRI, and Hou Xuan is in the real world, and he shouts to Hou Xuan through the speaker, "Hey! How are you friends outside!? ”

Hou Xuan looked disgusted, "What are you talking about, come out quickly, go back!" ”

Imo laughed, didn't look too much, turned off the screen, and asked, "How do I go out?" ”

"Where the screen is off in your field of view, there's a point where all system operations can be turned on from there, including body monitoring systems, PDA systems, and so on. This point is in your blind spot, and you can't see it if you don't usually stare at it. ”

"There are blind spots in virtual reality too?" Yimo asked curiously.

"Of course, the world built by VRI is completely virtual reality, 99% of which simulates the real world."

The so-called blind spot is the point where the retinal nerves in the human eye meet, and the image reflected on this point is not visible, and to Imer's surprise, VRI can even simulate this. There should be many ways to find blind spots on the Internet in reality, and if you are interested, you can look for it yourself.

Imer fumbled to this point, opened the VRI menu, found the logout button, and said via voice command: "Log out!" ”

In the next moment, Yimer woke up on the egg chair, the eyepiece gradually changed back to translucent, he reached out and unfastened his seat belt, and the egg chair also changed back to sitting upright.

Imo took off his VRI, rubbed his head, moved his hands and feet, and then stood up. He felt a strange sensation in his head, as if there was something more, or something missing, and imagining what it would feel like after cutting off an arm, and that was probably it.

He knew what he was feeling missing, and after initialization, he had an invisible organ called a phantom limb, which could only be used in VRI, and he would naturally feel uncomfortable when he couldn't use it.

Imer shook his head, smiled, and walked towards the exit with the VRI.