Chapter 58: Parallel Imports

The university town is located far from the central district.

It takes about two hours to take the bus, and it takes an hour to take a taxi, although it is said that it is in the same metropolitan area, but it is as big as the distance between the two cities, and Shi Min only came once when the class organized an event. Century Plaza is located in the middle of this most prosperous area, which is a typical super-large commercial district.

Jumping off the bus and stepping on the stone pavement of this square covering an area of nearly 1,000 acres, Shi Min felt as if he had stepped into a shopping mall, an opera house, a movie city, a food street and a variety of video game buildings.

The public TV in the square is broadcasting the news channel of a foreign TV station, and the blonde and blue-eyed white host is chattering quickly and quickly speaking bird language that ordinary people can't understand at all, looking at the picture It seems that the news of the military parade in the first party is in the middle of the picture, but Shi Min can't understand a word because of his extremely bad English level

"The military parade scheduled for the National Day holiday has been postponed, and the military spokesman has not explained the reason, so suddenly it looks like the decision made in the last two or three days, dear, what do you think?"

Xu Yan put his hands in the pockets of his jeans, easily translated a long list of foreign languages into understandable Chinese like a recitation, and finally ended the inquiry with a rhetorical question.

Shi Min laughed.

"I feel that your translation level is quite good, and you are also a language major?"

"Whew, I guessed it right, the 13th Business English major."

Xu Yan smiled freely, not at all impressed by Shi Min's pretending to be stupid. Leading the way directly in front, walking towards a round arch style door, she is wearing a cotton long-sleeved top composed of gray tones and black and white sleeves today, and black jeans on the bottom, with a neutral dress style and a neat action style, Shi Min feels that she can definitely play the image of a hip-hop teenager by chewing a piece of gum.

The size of the arch is very large, it is more than enough to put the elephant in, Shi Min thought it was a shopping mall at first, and after entering, he found that it was a separate space, paved with black marble, very large and spacious, and there was a large door in front of it.

"This way."

Xu Yan pointed to the counter on the right, Shi Min walked up with her with curiosity, the location of the counter was in the corner, and there was a thick curtain package, only revealing a line of related expressions, which felt very strange.

Seeing the two of them coming in, the waiter in a standard brown vest quickly stood up and said.

"What do you need?"

"Two 20-point cards, and at the same time register an account for this one."

Xu Yan generously took out a fifty yuan bill from his leather bag and handed it over, and after the waiter checked it, he respectfully repeated:

"Charge you fifty, two twenty-point cards, and charge you ten yuan for the registration fee, this gentleman, please enter your login name."

A ten-inch LCD screen and a small keyboard were flipped out at the counter, and Shi Min felt that this thing was quite fresh.

"Don't knock on the name of the street that is too bad, it is generally preemptively registered."

Xu Yan, who has long experience in registration, reminded.

Shi Min scratched his head, the words in his stomach were not right, he thought for a while and crackled the words "MiG-25" on it, and then clicked the OK button.

"Your name is not registered, it can be used, please make a note here."

Shi Min never expected the registration process to be so smooth, and was surprised to press it on the fingerprint scanning panel next to the keyboard, and the system automatically saved it, and then poked out two translucent light white cards from the card slot.

"MiG-25? If I'm not mistaken, it should be the former Soviet model, the one that Belenko defected and piloted. ”

"Well, that's right, that's the model."

"Aren't all MiGs out to 35 now? Why do you still use such an old model? ”

"Ah, that thing is a broken thing with fashionable materials all over its body, and it is a heresy of the MiG family, stainless steel + triple speed is the romance of air combat weapons! Oh yes, sorry, I just made you pay. ”

Xu Yan shrugged his shoulders, expressing his incomprehension, and at this time, the waiter turned out two cat face masks, one black and one yellow, in the drawer, and respectfully handed them to the two of them with both hands.

"I'm sorry two, according to the regulations, in order to protect your ** rights, please wear this during the battle in the hall, and you can only take it off when you return here, otherwise you will be disqualified from re-entering."

Shi Min felt that this statement was really inexplicable, and it wasn't any illegal activities, so it was interesting to hide it? The boss here shouldn't be a police movie, right?

Xu Yan also looked confused, it seemed that he had not experienced this kind of thing in the south before, but since it was inconvenient to say more on other people's territory, fortunately, the man-machine design of the two masks was very reasonable, and the materials were also very advanced, and there was no uncomfortable feeling after wearing them, so the two of them would be settled.

But at first glance, Shi Min was startled, it turned out that he didn't know when he was standing in front of him, a guy with a pointed head, a white robe, and a guy who looked like a medieval heretical inquisitor, at first glance he thought it was haunted.

"Whew, it seems that it is not just a simple mask, but also a built-in 'visual interference device'."

The Inquisitor spread his palms and glanced at it, and said with a slight surprise.

"Xu ...... Xu Yan? ”

"Nonsense, who do you think it is, okay, let's go quickly."

The two left the counter with doubts and went straight to the main entrance, the seemingly heavy door is actually a fully automatic sensing goods, sensing that the two are approaching, it will automatically open to reveal the hall laid out in the deeper part of the building, the hall is very spacious and beautiful, the interior is neatly placed with a familiar metal shell cabin, there are thousands of secret hemp divided into several blocks, the scene is very spectacular, like a clone production center in a science fiction film.

"This is ....... simulator cockpit?"

Shi Min was surprised.

This kind of thing is prepared in the control room, to be precise, this thing is also a patent of the Electrician, although it is very convenient to use, but the cost is high, it is said that almost one million RMB can be bought one, so Nortel is not very prepared.

"Well, it's basically so, but the performance has been simplified a bit, and the degree of realism is much worse."

"This....this is ...... Playing a game? ”

This scene made Shi Min suddenly feel a sense of déjà vu, and after thinking about it carefully, isn't this Internet café that arranges his grandmother? It's nothing more than a different kind of machine.

Xu Yan glanced at Shi Min with some surprise and said:

"The response is very fast, and it seems that I have explained more, to be precise, this is a game that has only emerged in the first half a year in first-tier cities, although the peak game has attracted a lot of attention and enthusiasm, but after all, the qualifications for participation are very limited, not everyone has the opportunity to get started with the mecha, so the merchant is based on the simulation cabin, through the simplification of materials and functional components, developed such a set of virtual battle equipment, don't look at so much, the cost of each is only half of the standard goods we use, it is an advanced version of the game console."

"Dizzy, it's too good, alas, is this thing just ......."

"Well, that's what the ad says, oh, of course you don't have to promise me right away, you can experience the feeling first."

Xu Yan tilted his head and looked at those machines:

"Alright, we'll meet here in an hour."

After exchanging mobile phone numbers, the two went their separate ways. The fiery pomp and circumstance of the game hall was unexpected, the venue was full of a sea of various mask brothers and mask sisters, crowded with people, rubbing shoulders one after another, shouting and shouting wave after wave, the temperature in the city was more than four or five degrees higher than outside, as long as a simulated cockpit opened the door, it would immediately be a mess of you pulling me, Shi Min took a lot of effort to get the seat from the hands of a dejected teenager.

"Ahh

The cabin door made a familiar lock sound, so that all the hustle and bustle was blocked, Shi Min let out a long breath, unscrewed the power start switch, and lit up the display screen one by one, with the light of this screen, he glanced at the cockpit and found that the equipment of the special mecha was basically continued, and there should be no major problems in operation.

The first thing that pops up on the main screen is a pair of interfaces similar to the battle game "choose a room",Dozens of pages of options continue to refresh at a frequency of fifteen seconds,Every time the room pattern will change greatly,Shi Min found that there are three kinds of rooms,Diamond,Gold,White,The difference in the middle is not difficult to guess,It should correspond to the powerful version,Local tyrant version,And sling silk version。 On the far left is the personal information display block, with the "MiG-25" iron-gray name printed with the obscure symbol "LV0".

Seizing the opportunity, Seok Min noclips into one of the rooms where the number of opponents is limited to 2.

The options bar disappeared, and the basic mecha selection menu popped up on the screen, and on the other side was the vacant "Battle Points" column, there were not many types of basic machines to choose from, but Shi Min still easily saw the [Crossbow], [Yuheng] and other familiar models, for the sake of insurance, the first-grade rookie still chose the most familiar [Tapir C1], and entered ten points on the column.

Try the water first.

The first-year rookie was cautiously calculating

The moment the finger left the screen, the image changed again, and there were dilapidated and towering buildings all around, and below was a street full of abandoned vehicles and garbage, and plastic bags of dust flew everywhere when the wind blew, like a city that had just finished a nuclear war.

The word "Ruins" on the display is supposed to be the name of the map.

There is also a mecha standing five hundred meters away, judging from the style, it should be a [crossbow] produced by Huagong, but the guy in the mecha's hand is obviously not a standard assault rifle, but a big guy that needs to be held with both hands, Shi Min has never seen this kind of firearm, maybe it is a local tyrant equipment added by the game developer privately.

The image scanner automatically checks and separates out the identification information: a 105mm heavy assault rifle.

105mm!How powerful should that be?!

"Hey, the tease over there, I'm still scared when I die, come here!"

The opponent marked with the words "Crazy Cool Guy DT" shouted wildly.

According to experience, those who shout and provoke at the beginning must have a conspiracy, and grandma's must not be fooled.

Shi Min immediately began to check the weapon system, and when he swept the weapon menu, he couldn't help but curse his mother, this developer is too ruthless, except for a 90mm assault rifle and a high-vibration saber on the basic machine, there is nothing on the basic machine.

Pit daddy, this is!

"Haha, I really don't dare to come, the big garbage thinks it's safe to stand there, and grandpa will kill you with one move."

The other side shouted louder and louder, no, there was a problem, there must be a problem.

Shi Min was alarmed, secretly equipped the assault rifle with a manipulator, and pulled the bolt, and at the same time untied the bolt of the high-vibration saber, driving the mecha to put on a posture.

"Trash teasing, it's still pretending, pretending to be your sister, go die!"

There was a sudden shout from the opposite side, and the [Crossbow] slammed into the ground with all its strength and rushed up, and the garbage and abandoned vehicles on both sides were swept away by the strong impact force brought out by the mecha, and smashed into the buildings on both sides.

"Tom Tom"

[Crossbow] In the fast gallop, the 105mm heavy assault rifle in his hand continued to spray ferocious artillery fire, and the extra-long fire harness thicker than any standard assault rifle violently penetrated the buildings on both sides, and the masonry exterior wall did not play any blocking role, it was easily shattered like a sand wall, and the [Tapir C1] in the lower position was almost knocked down by the falling smoke and rubble.

"Boom"

The heavy assault rifle also has a large-caliber semi-automatic grenade launcher with an astonishing size, and with the fire of the assault rifle, large-caliber heavy bullets are fired one after another, is it a high-explosive shell...... No, it's not.

The Tapir C1's armor was hit, and deformed steel balls ejected from under the side display.

It's a more powerful multi-purpose high-explosive bomb!

The power of the gun is terrifying, and it is even comparable to a support mecha in terms of its ability to damage building targets, but Shi Min is not surprised by this, but by the opponent.

There are too many bugs in the action, from the action to the shooting action, it's all bugs, or the guy is a bug himself!

Is there any mistake, this is also a mecha?

Could it be that there is some conspiracy? Shi Min was not sure, and immediately raised the mechanical arm to protect his head, and at the same time set up a 90mm assault rifle, and used the observation gap of the electronic camera to aim at the lower position of the [crossbow] and fired several shots in a row.

Let's be honest. Shi Min's blow was just a disturbance, and there was no intention of paralyzing the target with one blow, and when the last cannonball shot out of the barrel, it immediately drove the mecha to jump to the side, ready to resist the opponent's counterattack.

"Bang Bang"

Unexpectedly, the lower limbs of the [Crossbow] immediately erupted with the fire of a bullet, one of the mechanical legs was swept out by the impact of the explosion, and the other was also crossed by the metal jet, and the unbalanced mecha rolled and smashed into the road, completely incapacitated.

It's over?

Is this the end of it?

Shi Min was stunned and didn't react, and "You are shameless" jumped on the screen. ”

The "Crazy Cool Guy DT" who lost the game shouted angrily.

The first-grade rookie who was suddenly shot was even more depressed, so he had to innocently defend himself:

"How can I hang up, it's right to shoot a few shots, is this also called hanging?"

"Fart, you just keep farting, you, there is a kind of one more plate, all the net worth in the scorecard is pressed, this time it doesn't matter what you use to blow you up!"

The other side continued to yell wildly, could it be that this kid had something else to hide?

The first-year rookie with a good temper didn't get angry, but was a little interested, and I don't know why, anyway, I just felt a little interested.

Anyway, it's only thirty points on the card, and it's not all your own, so it doesn't matter if you lose it.

The screen refreshes quickly, removing all the damaged mechs and broken buildings from the scene, but the "ruins" map is messy enough, and even if it is refreshed, it still looks tattered.

After reading for ten seconds, the battle started again, but the screen showed that his opponent was no longer a [crossbow] but a heavy mecha with a heavy mecha full of rocket launchers, medium-caliber automatic cannons, assault rifles, anti-shields and other weapons, and the important positions of the whole body were covered with composite armor, and the posture was extremely powerful.

Shi Min was shocked when he saw this thing.

This...... Isn't this the heavily armed version of [Tapir C1] he drove before, and even this set of things has been made in the game!

"I'm afraid! This is grandpa, my strongest invincible mecha, eat and tease! ”

With a shout of "Crazy Cool Guy DT", the artillery and machine rifles equipped by the mecha opened fire like a volcanic eruption, spreading out a full coverage to the same type of machine on the opposite side, and all types of shells hit the flames around the [Tapir C1], and the rubble was splashed everywhere.

It's not the first time to be covered by this kind of full barrage, but this is the one Shi Min is least afraid of, and he's still a little depressed.

"Please, with so many weapons firing together, can your fire control system be able to control it?"

[Tapir C1] fell to one knee, raised his assault rifle smoothly with both hands to aim, and then shot the heavily armed [Tapir C1] in the head.........