Chapter 51: The Tester

"The proudest achievement is probably winning the championship of the shooting game held in the neighborhood." Speaking of this, Asakawa Chihiro's face showed a little shyness and nostalgia.

"I played a lot of games. However, as far as I know, the average player is more inclined and willing to play online games, so they basically won't touch a single machine. It's not uncommon for people who are willing to play GAL to come across pure RPG role-playing, but you say you dabble in all genres, can I think you're lying to me in order to get a position as a game tester? Lin Yiyan nodded noncommittally. Looking at Asakawa Chiyu said lightly.

"Absolutely not!" Chihiro Asakawa, who was suspicious, defended with a straight face, "The reason why this is the case is probably also related to my character." My personality is the kind of person who likes to chase new things, so I am more receptive to new things, especially in games, basically whenever a new game comes out, I will try to buy it and experience it. Coupled with the influence of the family environment - when I was a child, my father was busy, but he was very fond of me, and basically bought me a gift every time I came back from a business trip, and most of them were game software, and they were of different kinds. So before I knew it, I was cultivated into this state of loving games with no limit to genres. ”

"That's why a lot of my friends jokingly call me an omnivore." At the end, Chihiro Asakawa couldn't help but laugh.

"Tell me how you understand the role of a game tester." Lin Yiyan still nodded noncommittally, and asked instead.

"I think ......" Chihiro Asakawa turned straight and hurriedly recounted the words he had prepared. It wasn't until a moment later that he stopped and looked at Lin Yiyan with expectant eyes.

"Overall, you're a good fit for our gametester hiring requirements, so congratulations. You've been admitted. Lin Yiyan pretended to look down at the personal information file belonging to Asakawa Chiyu in his hand for a while, and suddenly smiled.

"Yay!" Chihiro Asakawa said excitedly, "Thank you, thank you, Mr. Examiner." ”

"Remember to report to the company at ten o'clock tomorrow morning." Lin Yiyan stood up and said.

"Okay. I'll be sure to report on time. Chihiro Asakawa responded.

"You can go." Lin Yiyan said.

"Yes." Chihiro Asakawa bowed to Lin Yiyan again. He walked out of the room with a happy smile on his face and disappeared into the hallway outside the door.

"Whew...... It's finally done. At this time, Lin Yiyan also picked up all the materials on the table, turned around and left the room.

That's right. Chihiro Asakawa was the last candidate interviewed by Lin Yiyan. So far, after spending three days, Lin Yiyan has recruited 20 people who meet his requirements. Playtesters who are willing to comply with company rules and regulations and undergo a fully closed playtest.

"Next, all that remains is to use the virtual reality game to guide and observe these twenty ordinary people in terms of the AIM diffusion force field......"

The second day, 9 a.m.

Twenty game testers who were selected by Lin Yiyan for personal interviews and determined that there were absolutely no spies and intelligence agents inside came to one of the rooms of the industrial building of the Japanese branch of LY Games and met Lin Yiyan who appeared in front of them again.

"Since you came to apply for the job, and you persevered to the end, and showed up here on time, it means that you agreed to the remarks posted by our company on the job posting, so the first thing you have to do now is to hand over all the communication tools you use." Lin Yiyan's gaze slowly swept over the nineteen men, one woman, and a total of twenty people in front of him, and said lightly.

Suddenly, the expressions of the twenty people present changed in unison, and they subconsciously glanced at the people beside them. However, there was no refutation, or the Japanese were accustomed to following power and respecting the rules, so after a moment of silence, under the leadership of a certain person, they got up one after another and walked in front of Lin Yiyan, took out the mobile phone on his body, and put it on the table.

“Duang、Duang~!” In just a few moments, everyone had handed over their communication tools.

"Good." Seeing this, Lin Yiyan nodded with satisfaction, and then continued, "The second thing is to sign a confidentiality agreement and an employment contract. ”

As his words fell, a T-X-S type terminator who had changed into a female Japanese in a professional suit stepped forward and handed the folders in his arms to the twenty applicants one by one. The latter reached out and took it, opened it, and looked down.

Lin Yiyan didn't stop them, and let them check the contract there. And this process is still not long, only fifteen minutes, all twenty people signed the confidentiality agreement and employment contract. T-X-S then stepped back and took the contract back.

"We will send a copy of the document to your home or rented apartment by mail. You don't need to worry about that. At the same time, Lin Yiyan looked at the twenty people with a smile on his face and stated, "Then there is the third thing, change clothes." Please follow my secretary to the locker room. ”

"Sorry, excuse me, I don't really understand, why do you have to change clothes for playtest?" At this moment, the only woman among the twenty raised her hand and said.

"To guard against spies. Although our LY Games company is not very well-known internationally, it also has many competitors, such as Sony, which you are familiar with. So in order to avoid some unnecessary misunderstandings between us, please also change the work clothes that we have prepared especially for you. Of course. That's why we're asking you to hand over your phone, sign a non-disclosure agreement, and include a closed playtest that lasts from one month to three months. Lin Yiyan explained.

Hearing this, although I felt that LY's behavior was a bit of a fuss, I didn't doubt it anymore, and nodded in agreement with Lin Yiyan's explanation. Then he got up from his chair one after another, followed the T-X-S model out of the conference room, and went to the locker room to change clothes.

This process also didn't take much time, it was still ten minutes later. Twenty people who changed into a simple blue overalls appeared in front of Lin Yiyan again, but the room was no longer a conference room, but a room with an area of more than 100 square meters, with ten beds in a row. An eerie room arranged in two parallel rows, with metal beds connected to various instruments next to it.

The lights were bright, shining on everyone's hearts. Could it be that this is not a game test at all, but some kind of black research institute. Come to think of it. The faces of the twenty people changed at the same time, and they looked at Lin Yiyan who was standing in front of them and the female T-X-S who were guarding the door.

"Mentally muttered?" Lin Yiyan turned around, looked at the twenty people with interest and asked softly.

"Gollum." The crowd did not speak. But the clear throat swallowing sound still showed the tension in their hearts.

"You've seen Sword Art Online, right?" Lin Yiyan smiled and said again. The twenty people looked at each other, feeling a little inexplicable, and they didn't know how to pull it to the Sword Art Domain again.

"Because the new game developed by LY is the same completely immersive virtual reality game that appeared in the anime of Sword Art Online." Lin Yiyan revealed the answer. Then, as if a bomb had been dropped in the calm waters of a lake, the expressions of the twenty people changed again in unison, and they let out one another exclamation of disbelief.

"What!"

"How is that possible!?"

"Is it already possible to achieve this level of technology in reality?"

"I thought that the duel game with duel cards was the most advanced game at the moment! It's a pity, that's not the type I like~! ”

"Do you have anything to do with Deby Luke's Future Entertainment?"

Soon, someone guessed something and muttered bluntly.

"If it's just a simple game test, why are we so scrutinized?" Lin Yiyan chuckled. After speaking, he ignored the reactions of the twenty people, walked straight to a hospital bed with a fully submersible game helmet near the door, picked up the helmet placed at the head of the bed, and showed it to everyone present.

"This is the landing device for a completely submersible game, whether it's real or not, just give it a try." The expressions of the twenty people froze, and their faces showed hesitation. It wasn't until a moment later that someone took the initiative to say, "I'm coming!" ”

- It was Chihiro Asakawa. I saw him walk up to Lin Yiyan with a firm expression, stretched out his hands to take the helmet, reflexively sat on the hospital bed next to him, brought the helmet to his head, and lay down on the bed.

"What's next?" Chihiro Asakawa asked.

"It's the same as in the anime, just shout Link Star! The rest is to do what you want. Lin Yiyan replied.

“Link Star!!” Chihiro Asakawa took a deep breath and shouted in a deep voice. The next moment, the warning light on the helmet on his head changed, from a red standby state to a green power-on state, and then Asakawa Chihiro's gaze changed, and the familiar Japanese dialog box jumped.

- Whether you want to log in to the game.

"Yes." Although he knew that he could control it with his mind, Chihiro Asakawa involuntarily opened his mouth and shouted. Immediately, in the next second, Asakawa Chihiro felt that his vision in front of him had changed again, and his body quickly fell down in a weightless state. Affected by this, Asakawa Chihiro instinctively let out a long shout.

"Ahh Of course, this sound is only present in his consciousness, but it cannot be directly expressed, because the moment he chooses to enter the game with his mind, his consciousness is disconnected from his body and enters the virtual game world.

Immediately afterwards, Chihiro Asakawa's gaze changed again, and an image of blue sky and white clouds appeared. As if he hadn't yet adapted to this abrupt change in time and space, Chihiro Asakawa looked stunned, and it wasn't until a moment later that he came to his senses, and quickly got up from the ground full of excitement and looked at the world in front of him.