Lieutenant was puzzled, enemy? What does that mean?

Hou Wan waved his hand, and the waiter who walked by put a laptop on the table in front of them.

This is probably one of the funniest things that Wei Chiran thinks, taking out a computer in a virtual world built by computers.

However, when he saw the computer, Wei Chiran thought of the most realistic thing: "Is there a computer in the world that can run this kind of virtual world?" Today's technology simply can't do it, right? ”

Hou Wan looked at Wei Chiran and said: "Smart, you talked about the key issues, but it really can't be reached, and even we spent a lot of money to build these scenarios." ”

Wei Chiran thought about other questions in his heart, who provided the funds? To build this kind of virtual world, it takes at least 100 million yuan to invest, right? And more than 100 million is still the most basic, not to mention building this kind of virtual world that even pays attention to details, and even integrating people's consciousness into this virtual world, it is not easy to do.

Hou Wan didn't open the laptop, but said: "Among the twelve sects of the different paths, you have some understanding of the lonely army, sewing a thousand corpses and the iron-clad gate, the treasure of sewing a thousand corpses is the Seven Spirits, the Zhenbao is the Three Soul Box, the iron-clad gate's treasure is the secret armor, and the Zhenbao is the wordless heavenly book." ”

Wei Chiran smiled and asked, "What about the lone army?" ”

Hou Wan didn't answer, but said, "One of the twelve sects is called the corpse painter. ”

Wei nodded hesily: "I know, but I don't know what it does." ”

Hou Wan still didn't explain, but said to himself: "The treasure of the corpse painter faction is called Weaving Dreams, and Zhenbao is the Qiankun Mirror." ”

Wei Chiran smiled, laughed for a while and said: "Minister Hou, you are so hypocritical, you clearly said before that this mission is not only the mission of the lone army, but also the task of PW, I want to tell me, it seems that it has nothing to do with your lone army, and there is no such thing as your selfish desires, but what you said before let me know that this mission is aimed at the treasure of the corpse painter faction, right?" ”

Hou Wan tapped the keyboard of the notebook with his hand, and the screen then lit up, and a text appeared in the screen, with three words written on the top of the text - "Pillow Notes"

Wei Chiran looked at the three words and said, "I read this story when I was a child. ”

Hou Wandao: "This story was included in the "Taiping Guangji", written in the Tang Dynasty Kaiyuan period, a person named Lu Sheng was depressed, and failed to take the exam in Beijing, when he went back, he passed by Handan, and met the Taoist priest Lu Weng, Lu Weng took out a pillow for him, he fell asleep on the pillow, married a beautiful and gentle wife in a dream, and also won the Jinshi, became a big official, and was prosperous and wealthy all his life, and died of illness at the age of 80. This is the origin of the dream. ”

Wei Chiran asked, "Do you want to tell me that the treasure of the corpse painter is that pillow?" That is, weaving dreams? ”

Hou Wan shook his head: "We don't know, but the corpse painter faction is different from other sects, they have never looked for the treasure, in their concept, they even think that the dream weaving is the treasure of the whole world, and it should not be monopolized by them, so let the dream weaving thing fall on the people." But there are also rumors that Dream Weaving doesn't exist at all, it's just a story made up by a corpse painter. ”

Wei Chi asked, "What about the results of your lone army's investigation?" ”

Hou Wan turned on the computer, and a photo appeared on the computer, which showed a stone that looked like obsidian, but the size and shape of the stone was like an ancient pillow.

Hou Wandao: "This is based on the information collected from many aspects, the appearance of the dream weaving is drawn, that is, a stone, and the dream weaving should be this thing." ”

Wei Chi asked, "And then?" What does Dream Weaving have to do with this projection world? ”

Hou Wan pressed the keyboard again, and this time a promotional poster of the game appeared on the computer screen, and the background of the painting was a photo of the central city of Chinatown, with four big characters written in the center - real world.

Wei Chiran immediately said: "I know that this game was launched by an independent game studio in country T about seven years ago, a realistic simulation game set in Chinatown, I bought it at that time, but the computer can't do it, and the price of the computer configuration to run this game is not affordable for ordinary people." ”

After the game "Real World" was released in the game trailer, it immediately attracted the attention of gamers all over the world, and they all called it simply the 3A of 3A, the so-called 3A game, which means "high cost, high volume and high quality".

To become a triple-A game, it must meet ten demanding conditions - high quality; Huge market prospects; Large-scale development teams; high development budgets; a high degree of visual and auditory effects; The perfect combination of art and technology; Passed rigorous testing with few problems; Outstanding handiwork; enjoyable gameplay and balance from start to finish; Good graphical user interface.

In the trailer, "The Real World" seems to have all this, so it immediately attracted everyone's attention. Because the game is so realistic that it's like watching a high-definition video recording, but all of this was wiped out in the first user beta.

First of all, it's a problem with computer configuration.,The average civilian computer has no way to run this game at all.,Generally speaking,Normal games can adjust the picture quality and so on.,But this game can't be modulated at all.,There is no optimization that users think,And the basic configuration of the game officially announced,It also costs 20,000 dollars。

Who would spend $20,000 on a computer? This minimum configuration is equivalent to setting a threshold for the player to climb.

Therefore, at that time, there were only 100 users in the world, but the feedback of these 100 people was that the game was extremely real, so real that it was shocking, but there was no sense of immersion.

In other words, although you can switch between first person and third person, it feels scary and uncomfortable, and although you can use VR glasses to solve all this, it gives people the feeling that you are trapped in a certain body, forced to manipulate this body to do other things, and there is no sense of immersion, but a sense of being bound.

What makes closed beta players feel most bored is that this game has no so-called process, no quests for you, no upgrade system, and basically the same as your daily life.

Why do players play the game? To put it bluntly, it's entertainment, detaching from the original real world, or doing things that the real world can't do in a game environment similar to the real world.

Since life is the same as on weekdays, then who still plays with you?

The game disappeared from the public eye before the second closed beta began, and some good people launched an investigation, and finally were surprised to find that there were only five people in the so-called independent studio of this game!

After this news was made public, it was also questioned by everyone, after all, everyone is not an idiot, it is absolutely impossible for five people to develop a game of this level, just collecting the data and details of the entire Chinatown, even if five people do it without eating or drinking, day and night, it will take at least several years to complete, and the studio claims that it only took them a year to develop.

Just after this news was revealed, the studio disappeared without a trace, after all, it was the age of the Internet, and the game eventually became the talk of everyone's after-dinner conversation, and no one cared about it anymore.

However, a lot of the big game companies have always been interested in the studio, not to be precise, but to know how they did it, because it's absolutely impossible to make this kind of game with the existing technology.

However, no matter how they investigated, the studio and the five men disappeared without a trace, leaving not even a trace behind.

Wei Chi heard this and asked, "The projection world we are in now is part of the game of the real world?" How did you get your hands on it? ”

Hou Wan Zhengse said: "The next thing is highly confidential, and few people know. ”

After Wei Chi nodded, Hou Wan said in a deep voice: "After the trailer of this game was released, in fact, not only game companies, but also the relevant departments of many major countries also attached great importance to it, especially the United States, so in the first internal test users, they found a way to stuff their own people, these people are all affiliated with DAPRA, you are not unfamiliar with this name, right?" ”

DAPRA is the abbreviation of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, an administrative agency under the U.S. Department of Defense, responsible for the research and development of high-tech for military use, founded in 1958.

The reason why DAPRA attaches so much importance to this game is that this game can be used for military simulation, and it is the most realistic military simulation, and the first thing they need to understand is how this group of people managed to collect relevant data about Chinatown in a short period of time, and then what kind of engine was used to build this game system.

The most puzzling thing is that in order to run this game, you can't use the computer operating systems that are used in the world today, such as Unix, Windows, and Mac, but use their own operating system, Real.

“Real？” Wei Chi repeated, "Real? ”

Hou Wandao: "That's right, this system is called real, this game can only be installed on this system, and cannot be run on other systems, and this system is very conservative." ”

Wei Chiran asked: "It's the same as Windows and Mac?" ”

Hou Wan shook his head: "No, it's different, it seems that the existence of this system is to run the game in the real world, and not for other purposes, do you understand what I mean?" ”

Wei Chi shook his head: "I don't know much about this. ”

Hou Wandao: "It doesn't matter if you understand these or not, the important thing is that the United States has not found these five people, and even can't do it with hackers, you also know that there is no absolutely safe system in this world, but this system seems to be absolutely safe." ”

Wei Chi nodded and quietly listened to Hou Wan continue to speak.

Hou Wan said: "A year ago, someone came to PW to report the crime, claiming that he had killed someone, and he had killed more than one person, and he elaborated on the place and time of the crime and the person who was killed, however, the police did not receive a report and thought it was a prank, but a month later, there was a homicide, and the victim was exactly the same as the person who reported it, and the time and place were exactly the same. ”

Wei Chi came to be interested: "And then? ”

Hou Wan looked at Wei Chiran's eyes: "At that time, the police didn't pay attention to it, after all, there was no need to notify PW in general cases, and in the next few weeks, there were successive death cases, which became serial homicides, and the police were forced to notify PW, PW found after investigation that all the cases were the same as what the reporter said at the beginning, so it was considered to be a predicted murder, and the person was immediately arrested, but it was found that the person had died at home, and the time of death was more than half a month." ”

Wei Chiran said: "In other words, except for the first murder, the subsequent murders should have nothing to do with this person, right?" ”

Hou Wandao: "Yes, we finally caught the serial killer, but this person chattered and said a lot of strange things, he even thought that he was a policeman, he only killed those who escaped, but when we identified him, we were sure that he had no mental illness, and the case was shelved at the time, and the follow-up investigation found that he had a connection with the person who reported the case before." ”

Wei Chiran asked, "What connection?" ”

Hou Wandao: "They were all invited to participate in the testing of a game, and that game was "Real World". ”