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"Hello examiner, I'm Chihiro Asakawa, 25 years old, graduated from ......" In the empty and monotonous room, a well-dressed young man bowed to Zhou Chao, who was sitting on a chair behind the only table in the room, and introduced himself.

It's just that before he could finish speaking, Zhou Chao interrupted him.

"I don't need to know what university you graduated from, you just need to tell me how many years you have been playing, how many years you have been in the game, what games you have played, and pick out a few of the game achievements that you think you are most proud of."

"Yes." Chihiro Asakawa hurriedly answered.

After a pause, he introduced himself again.

"I've been playing games since I was eight years old, and I've been playing a lot of games, from FC to Sony Saturn, to big arcades, from GPA to PS handheld to mobile games, and even online games on home computers. Among them, the impressions are more printed in the Mario series, Contra series, Street Fighter Rift, Tekken series, FIFA football, dance machine, Pokemon, Fire Empals, Monster Hunter, Resident Evil, Heartbeat Memories, Clear Sky, Red Alert, Star Earn, Diablo, Warcraft, Thor's Hammer, CS ......"

"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. Basically, you won't touch a single machine. It's not uncommon for people who are willing to play gal to come across pure RPG, 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? Zhou Chao nodded noncommittally, looked at Asakawa Chiyu and said lightly.

"Absolutely not!" Chihiro Asakawa, who was suspicious, defended with a straight face, "The reason why this is the case. It probably has something to do with my personality. 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. Basically, every time I come back from a business trip, I will buy a gift, and most of them are game software, and they are of different kinds, so I have unconsciously cultivated this state of loving games with no limit to types. ”

"That's why a lot of my friends jokingly call me an omnivore."

Speaking of which, in the end. Chihiro Asakawa couldn't help but laugh.

"Tell me how you understand the role of a game tester." Zhou Chao 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 Zhou Chao with expectant eyes.

"Overall, you're a good fit for our gametester recruitment requirements, so congratulations, you've been accepted." Zhou Chao looked down again and looked at the profile file belonging to Chihiro Asakawa in his hand for a while. Suddenly, he smiled.

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

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

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

"You can go." Zhou Chaodao.

"Yes." Asakawa Chihiro once again bowed to the Zhou Dynasty. 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, Zhou Chao 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 Zhou Chao. At this point, it finally took three days. Zhou Chao recruited 20 people who met his requirements and were willing to comply with the company's rules and regulations. Playtesters who undergo a fully closed playtest.

"The only thing left is to play with virtual reality. These twenty ordinary people were guided and observed in terms of the AIM diffusion force field......"

……

The second day, 9 a.m.

Twenty game testers, who had been selected by Zhou Chao for personal interviews and determined that there was no possibility of spies and intelligence agents inside, came to one of the houses of the industrial building of the Japanese branch of QT Games and met Zhou Chao 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." Zhou Chao'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, they got up and walked in front of Zhou Chao one after another, took out the mobile phone on their bodies, and put it on the table.

“duang。 duang。 ”

In just a few moments, everyone had handed over their communication tools.

"Good." Seeing this, Zhou Chao 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-X1-1 type terminator who had changed into a female Japanese wearing a professional suit stepped forward and handed the bunjiàn clip in his hand to the twenty applicants one by one. The latter reached out and took it, opened it, and looked down.

The Zhou Dynasty did not stop them, and let them check the contract there.

And this process is still not long. In just fifteen minutes, all twenty people signed confidentiality agreements and employment contracts. T-X1-1 then stepped back forward and took the contract back.

"We will send a copy of the text to your home or rented apartment by mail later, so you don't need to worry." Meanwhile. Zhou Chao looked at the twenty people with a smile 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. We at QT Games are not very well-known internationally. But there are also quite a few competitors, such as the well-known Sony. 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 and sign a non-disclosure agreement. The underlying reason for the need for a closed playtest, which lasts from one month to three months, is noted in the hiring conditions. Zhou Chao explained.

Hearing this, although I felt that QT's behavior was a bit of a fuss, I didn't doubt it anymore, and nodded in agreement with Zhou Chao's explanation. Then he got up from his chair and followed the T-X1-1 out of the conference room and went to the locker room to change his clothes.

This process also didn't take much time, and after more than ten minutes, twenty people who changed into simple blue overalls appeared in front of Zhou Chao again. It's just that the room is 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.

Thinking of this, the faces of the twenty people changed at the same time, and they looked at Zhou Chao who was standing in front of them and the female T-X1-1 who was guarding the door.

"Mentally muttered?" Zhou Chao turned around. Looking at the twenty people with interest, he asked softly.

"Gollum." Although the crowd did not speak, the clear sound of swallowing in their throats still revealed the tension in their hearts.

"You've seen the Sword God Domain, right?" Zhou Chao smiled. Said again.

The twenty people looked at each other, feeling a little inexplicable. I don't know how it got to Sword Art Online again.

"Because the new game developed by QT is the same completely immersive virtual reality game that appeared in the animation of Sword God's domain." Zhou Chao 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 possible to implement this kind of technology in reality?"

“……”

"If it's just a simple game test, why are we so scrutinized?" Zhou Chao 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 Zhou Chao 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.

"Just shout to turn on the phone, and then use your mind to operate." Zhou Chao replied.

"Power on." 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. ――Do you want to log in to the game?

"Yes." Although he knew that it was okay to control his mind with his mind, Asakawa Chihiro still involuntarily opened his mouth and shouted.

Immediately, in the next second, Asakawa Chihiro felt that his vision changed again, and his body quickly fell downward 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 outside, 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.

"Really! It's true! I didn't expect that in my lifetime, I would still be able to play real virtual reality games! What a manifestation of Amaterasu! Chihiro Asakawa muttered excitedly like a lottery player who had bought a lottery ticket for many years and finally won the jackpot.

It's just that the good times didn't last long, and soon, Asakawa Chihiro's expression changed again, and he whispered to himself with an ugly face, "Oh no, I forgot to ask how to log out of the game!" ”

Fortunately, Chihiro Asakawa himself is not stupid, and he was born in a country like Japan, where all kinds of fantasy anime and light novels are frequent, so he soon found a way - mind control zhì.

So the next moment, I saw Chihiro Asakawa jump in front of him, and an option box appeared in front of him. Chihiro Asakawa found the logout system from it, raised his hand and pressed it virtually.

"Drip."

Then, immediately after that, the whole world quickly disintegrated and disappeared before Asakawa Chihiro's eyes, turning back into darkness, and once again he felt some kind of white light that penetrated through his eyes.

Chihiro Asakawa opened his eyes and looked around.

"How!?" Seeing Asakawa Chihiro wake up, the same applicant who was recruited hurriedly asked.

"Feeling...... It's amazing! It's true! It's a real virtual reality game! I am very honored to be part of this playtest. Chihiro Asakawa said excitedly.

Of course, the first half is addressed to fellow testers, and the second half is addressed to the Zhou Dynasty who is standing aside.

"Wow."

And as soon as this remark came out, others couldn't help but get excited. After all, what Zhou Chao said was not as convincing as the words of his peers who entered the company with them.

Then the others couldn't bear it anymore, so they ran to the side of the hospital beds, grabbed the helmet strap on their heads, lay down, and logged into the game like Chihiro Asakawa did before.

"Sorry, Mr. Examiner, they were just too excited." Chihiro Asakawa, who was awakened by other people's movements, said to Zhou Chao on the side with embarrassment and apprehension.

"It's okay, I'm not Japanese, so I don't have as many rules as you." Zhou Chao said indifferently.

This situation lasted for more than ten minutes, and the heat of the twenty game testers cooled down a little, and thinking of their faux pas, they all logged out of the game, and stood in front of Zhou Chao with embarrassed and worried expressions.

"I'm sorry we were rude." (To be continued)