64 The Mysterious Interstellar Evolution
Qi Mi first learned about "Interstellar Evolution" from the mouths of several classmates. Another unique feature of the game is that it regularly sends account registration invitations to new students from the world's top 100 universities. However, no one knows where they got the students' email addresses. Due to the special circumstances, Qi Mi did not pass the general admission procedure to enter the school, so he did not receive an invitation letter at that time.
At the beginning, Qi Mi was just curious about "Interstellar Evolution". So, he signed up for a gaming account. As the legend goes, the test questions are not simple, but they are not a problem for Qi Mi. Qi Mi divided five by two, quickly completed the test, and casually gave himself a screen name called "Xuanmy" and completed the registration. Since then, "Mystery" has held the record of the fastest registration of "Interstellar Evolution", and no one has ever been able to break it.
Qi Mi clearly remembers that when he successfully registered as a Star Evolution player, he was asked to fill in the delivery address for receiving the game device, because this game can only be played with a special wearable VR. To Qi Mi's surprise, the delivery address can be filled in with coordinates, and there are two options for picking up the goods: "face-to-face verification of receipt" and "non-face-to-face password receipt".
Therefore, Qi Mi deliberately chose a grove in the school, which was overgrown with thorns and difficult to reach by manpower, as the place to receive the goods, and used a number theory topic as the password.
After the password is set, the system will prompt: "The goods will arrive at the delivery point within 30 minutes, after taking out the goods, please close the container and put it back in place." ”
That system prompt surprised Qi Mi, because it was impossible for ordinary couriers to deliver the goods to the remote location he designated within 30 minutes. However, when he arrived at the location on time after 30 minutes on a homemade flight balance scooter supplemented by a full-body enclosed stab-proof suit, there was actually a box labeled "Interstellar Evolution" placed on the coordinate point where the surrounding vegetation was unscathed.
After picking up the goods, Qi Mi deliberately stayed for a while, wanting to see how the box was recycled. Unexpectedly, a few minutes later, the box melted in front of his eyes and quickly evaporated.
The Interstellar Evolution game itself was just as surprising as Qi Mi, with its VR device having two wearable modes: a sitting mode and a sports mode.
There is not much difference between the two modes when it comes to answering mental activities.
However, during fighting-type physical activities, the various movements in the sit-down mode are performed by statically placed joysticks; In the sports mode, the joystick is the embodiment of the weapon in the game, and the attack power of each swing of the joystick is based on the lethality of the static mode, and the strength of the swing is added, which greatly enhances the attack power of the weapon, and can carry out more accurate attacks, producing better killing effects.
In order to match the fighting effect of the sports mode, "Interstellar Evolution" also specially made a set of gimbal motion instruments. To enter the sports mode, in addition to wearing a VR headset and a full-body sensor, you also need to stand on the gimbal motion device to play the game.
The gimbal can not only bring players a realistic sense of walking, running, and bouncing, but also simulate the feeling of earthquakes, explosions, falls, and even flights.
Of course, there are also disadvantages to the sports mode, such as the pain of the injury in the sports mode will be stronger, and the physical strength of the player will also be higher.
In addition, "Interstellar Evolution" uses a special server that is different from general online games to play, not only is it completely unblocked by the firewalls of various countries, but also whether it is in the deep mountains and dense forests, or in the desert Gobi, as long as the VR is electrified, you can play the game online.
Moreover, game companies will also regularly upgrade VR, and by the time Qi Mi goes abroad, the new VR set can already be folded into the size of a notebook, and it is completely made of nanomaterials, as thin as paper.
It's not enough to have exquisite hardware support, the soul of the game is the game itself, "Interstellar Evolution" in addition to the huge game map that claims to be the same size as the entire planet Ace, there are also different game progressions in different eras, isolating players of different ability levels.
These game progressions roughly simulate the evolution of human civilization, and are divided into 9 stages: "Savage", "Horde", "Liberation", "Dynasty", "Empire", "Enlightenment", "Republic", "Orbit", and "Interstellar", and only players who complete all the tasks in one stage can move on to the next stage. Otherwise, no matter how much wealth the player has and how high the player's level is, they will only be able to wander in one process.
In each game progression, players can choose different classes based on their interests, but the door to the next stage will only open until all the tasks of all player classes have been completed. In other words, if you rely only on your own strength, you will have to wear many hats to hope for the next stage. This was relatively easy to achieve in games before Empires, but it became almost impossible after that. Moreover, when the gate of the stage is opened, only the first players to complete a character's quest will be able to move on to the next era.
However, there is also the possibility of the game being cleared by force. The so-called force clearance is to directly attack the space-time guardians guarding the space-time gate without completing the customs clearance task, and after defeating the defenders, and then break through the gate, you can clear the customs and enter the next stage. However, the defenders to be dealt with by force far exceed the combat power of gamers, and fighting them is no different from suicide.
Although no one has ever successfully cleared the game by force, and some people have even directly pointed out that the so-called force clearance is just a despicable trick by game companies to change their direction to attract money, but this way of clearing the customs is still particularly attractive to players who are too lazy to use their brains and have money, and players who like martial arts. Some players even spent tens of millions of harmonic yuan to clear the level by force and were unwilling to give up.
The 9 stages of the game in "Interstellar Evolution" are like 9 dimensions, they do not interfere with each other, and new players must go backwards from the initial stage to stage by stage, and if they unfortunately die, after successfully resurrecting, they can only start the game from the stage of death.
It stands to reason that players should all work together to move on to the next era, but there are two anti-evolutionary quests in the game, "Devil's Call" and "Retro Degradation", "Devil's Call" can be released artificially or systematically, and often have a rich reward, and the goal of the mission is usually to assassinate someone who is about to complete the level, or a group of people.
Since the "Interstellar Coin" in the game can be exchanged for real money, there are also many players in the game who are not interested in clearing the customs at all, and are keen to complete the "Devil's Call" mission, or even directly use the "Devil's Call" mission to earn the necessities of life, thus further hindering the development of the game.
The difference is that players who evolve to the next stage may change from kings to civilians, while players who degenerate to the previous stage will definitely change from commoners to kings.
The temptation to gain supreme power has led many people to choose to complete the degradation mission in the Enlightenment and Empire chapters, which also makes Dynasty the era with the most gamers.
Before Luo Ning entered Qi Mi's life, Qi Mi spent most of his spare time on "Interstellar Evolution", and he never died in the game, becoming the first batch of super players to enter the "Republic" chapter, and he received millions of interstellar coins. This money is enough to support Qi Mi and Luo Ning to continue a prosperous and comfortable life in a coastal city after traveling around the world several times.