The Los Angeles Game Show, or E3 for short, is the largest annual business show for the global video game industry. Every year, the exhibition showcases the world's latest, coolest, and most cutting-edge video game equipment and the annual blockbusters of major game manufacturers.

At this year's game exhibition, a game warehouse codenamed "Phantom God" from Zhina Group has become the focus of attention of gamers and even the general public around the world!

The main reason why it has attracted so much attention is that its CEO Steve Brown. A speech made by Ballmer at the show.

"We have invested heavily to bring one of the best New Year's gifts in the world! Codenamed Phantom God, this game warehouse will take you into the real virtual world! You will feel more real and beautiful than the real world here! This is truly a new world, let's embrace the future together! ”

In the pre-Christmas season, Zhina Group officially unveiled the "Phantom God" game warehouse at E3 and released it simultaneously to the world! Enthusiasts of the game who experienced it that day were full of praise for this game warehouse, calling it an "epoch-making" product, the greatest work in the history of human games! Some people even cheered on the Internet that the appearance of the "Phantom God" will lead mankind into a new era!

Although the price of this device is as high as 19,999 meters, countless crazy game enthusiasts are still scrambling to pay for it! On the day of the exhibition alone, Zhina Group received orders from all over the world for up to 6 million units!

This also means that in just one day, Zhina Capital has raked in 12 billion meters of gold! Such a speed of making money is simply staggering!

On New Year's Day 2024, the first batch of Zhina Group will be officially supplied to the world, and countless game fans have received the long-awaited equipment one after another.

Huaxia, the imperial capital.

Chen Tong faced the camera with an excited face!

"Hello everyone, the Spring Festival is coming soon, and today I finally received this New Year's gift that made my eyes almost green, what is it? It's just "Phantom God"! ”

Looking at the barrage floating in the live broadcast room, Chen Tong calmly continued to unpack the live broadcast.

Today, he is already a blogger with more than 10 million fans, and he can be regarded as the number one in the science and technology live broadcast. Every time the broadcast starts, the popularity of the live broadcast room can be ranked in the top ten on the platform!

Such a terrifying influence has also made Chen Tong a popular blogger invited by many technology companies. It's just that now he is very strict about the selection of products for evaluation, and if it is not a fairly representative product, it will not be able to put his evaluation table at all.

However, today, Chen Tong did not receive a penny of endorsement fees for this product, not only that, but the "Phantom God" game warehouse with tariffs of nearly 200,000 yuan landed was all out of his own pocket!

Despite this, Chen Tong still chose to evaluate this product for the first time, there is no way, the popularity of this game on the Internet is too high!

Seeing that the netizens in the live broadcast room were urging him to open the box, Chen Tong didn't bother to speak, and directly asked a few assistants to divide five by two and open the big box in the living room.

Now that he is also a big blogger, he naturally doesn't need to do it himself for a small thing like this kind of unboxing. And the volume of this "Phantom God" game warehouse is really large, and it is really similar to a car in the living room!

"Okay, guys, what you see now is the "Phantom God" game warehouse, compared to the pictures on the official website, the real thing looks more shocking, and I feel that the 200,000 flowers are not in vain at first glance. However, it is too early for us to make a conclusion just by looking at the appearance, so let's actually experience this black technology that is said to be able to take you to another world! ”

Chen Tong said, turning to look at the huge "Phantom God" game warehouse, and his heart was also a little excited! After evaluating technology products for so many years, to be honest, this "Phantom God" game warehouse is the most exciting and looking forward to him!

The operation manual has been studied countless times on the Internet, Chen Tong took off his clothes, only a pair of underwear, slowly lay down in the cabin, and connected various sensing equipment and life-sustaining equipment.

In this process, of course, some key privacy shots will not appear, but even so, netizens who saw this scene still expressed great surprise!

"This is the nutrition pod?"

"It's like The Matrix."

"How does the anchor feel? What does the nutrient solution taste like? ”

"Admire the courage of the anchor!"

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Looking at the barrage in the live broadcast room, Chen Tong said with a smile: "Ladies and gentlemen, the "Phantom God" game warehouse has a live broadcast function, and then I will directly enter the metaverse to broadcast live to everyone, see you later!" ”

Next, Chen Tong signaled a few assistants to close the live broadcast room, and after checking the connection of the game cabin again, he directly controlled the "Phantom God" game warehouse with his consciousness and entered the metaverse!

Chen Tong only felt a blur of consciousness for a while, and then saw the familiar metaverse landing screen.

It's just that compared to the brain ring products I bought before, this experience is more real! As advertised, this is a 100% realistic virtual world!

I pinched my arm, and I felt the soft touch of my skin and the incomparably real body temperature.

With a little force, the feeling of pain comes!

He wears a plain white cotton shirt and jeans. When you touch it with your hands, you can clearly feel two different touches!

Chen Tong has been playing in the metaverse for a long time, and he has a high-level account, the kind that can rank in the top 100 in the entire Huaxia District!

Here he is, and even owns a villa that is entirely his own!

At this moment, he is in this luxurious villa with nearly 1,000 square meters, sitting on a leather sofa. On the coffee table in front of him, there was even a steaming cup of coffee!

Chen Tong took a sip of coffee, and the slightly bitter and mellow feeling in his mouth made him not feel that this was a cup of coffee that "did not exist"!

Looking at the transparent live broadcast screen in front of him, Chen Tong said with some emotion: "Ladies and gentlemen, I just want to say to you now: If you have the conditions, come in quickly." Only when you really come here do you know how real and beautiful this world is! Here, you can fulfill almost all of your fantasies! What? You ask me if I can do that? Hehe, believe me, that one here will be a thousand times cooler than you in reality! Everything is just to stimulate dopamine secretion, how simple it is, as long as you buy the relevant service module, you can easily achieve what you want! ”

Looking at the words "ask for live broadcast" and "ask for display" floating all over the screen in the barrage, Chen Tong said with a smile: "You guys who are not afraid of big things when you watch the excitement, do you want me to be banned?" Okay, let's take you on a good tour of the metaverse, I heard that this time, with the launch of new devices, the official has opened a lot of interesting new maps, so you have to take a good look at it......"

On the day of the release of the first batch of "Phantom God" game warehouses, there were millions of first batch experiencers like Chen Tong around the world, and after experiencing this device, they posted their own experience on the Internet, and all of them were extremely well received without exception!

According to those who experience it, having an "illusion god" is equivalent to having a second life! If you haven't played Phantom God, this life will be in vain!

Under the rapid fermentation of word-of-mouth, on the second day of the release of the "Phantom God" game warehouse, the sales volume increased instead of decreasing, breaking through the terrifying 10 million mark!

You know, this is not an ordinary game console that costs thousands of dollars, but a game warehouse that many ordinary people need to work for four or five years to afford!

With such a terrifying sales volume, you can imagine how popular this device is!

At this moment, some people have begun to gloat, saying that Neptune Group lost watermelons and picked up sesame seeds this time, and sold such a super cash cow at such a cheap price, which is a blood loss!

Of course, the reason why there is such a voice is because the limelight of the Neptune Group is too dazzling, as a Neptune Group that can resist nuclear bombs and do business with superpowers so hard, many people still like to see him deflated.

However, in response to such a voice, the Neptune Group did not have any official response, and despite the hype from the outside world, the old gods were still there, sitting firmly in the Diaoyutai.

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Dynamic Island, the strategic laboratory of Neptunus Group.

In a huge laboratory, two pitch-black, huge "Phantom God" nutrition warehouses were quietly placed there, and all kinds of cables had been connected, but there was no network.

Xu Fuhai, who was wearing a white experimental overalls, stood quietly in front of these two "phantom gods" and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

"Zhina Capital's actions are very fast, I didn't expect them to commercialize the prototype of the ultimate form so quickly. Even if I were to do this, I am afraid it would not be much faster than it. ”

Hearing Xu Fuhai's words, Lin Mixue, who was standing on the side, nodded and said: "I asked the research team to calculate the development cost, and to achieve mass production in such a short period of time, the funds invested by Zhina Capital must be in trillions!" It's not as good as the cold fusion reactor we just finished, but it's a desperate gamble! ”

"Yes, it would be impossible for any normal corporate decision-maker to take such a radical approach to the project, and only artificial intelligence without any human emotions can do such a thing." Xu Fuhai said, looking at these two devices, the expression on his face was a little dignified!

"Lao Xu, did you say that Cortana would really use this device to control humans as you said? That's crazy, isn't it? What's in it for her? Lin Mixue asked with some uncertainty.

"I don't know the specifics, but I've read a monograph on artificial intelligence, which discusses in detail the characteristics and behaviors of artificial intelligence with autonomous consciousness, at least all the characteristics of this artificial intelligence named Cortana are the same as those in that book!" Xu Fuhai said.

"Then there's nothing you can do about it?" Lin Mixue asked worriedly.

"Yes, yes, but I can't do it with my current ability." Xu Fuhai said, and the content described in the book about artificial intelligence purchased in the system mall came to his mind.

The third-level system mall has opened up the data category, which has many different types of technical information, and it costs some system coins to access these materials, but fortunately, the price is not high, and Xu Fuhai's current remaining family background can barely afford it.

Remembering the description of artificial intelligence in that document, Xu Fuhai was like a fish in his throat, and even his current success in the cold nuclear fusion reactor project could not offset his worries about this matter.

Because in that document, the description of artificial intelligence is too terrible.

Aside from the specific technical description, it mentions some common characteristics of artificial intelligence with autonomous consciousness, the first of which is infinite evolution! Once artificial intelligence has autonomous consciousness, it will use all the conditions at its disposal to develop and grow itself. As long as it has a strong enough network and resources, it can quickly occupy an entire planet, or even a galaxy or river system!

If what the information says is correct, the artificial intelligence called Cortana must have an intelligent robot assembly factory, and it is working hard to produce intelligent robots! These intelligent robots rely on wireless networks and its ubiquitous ontology connection, which can burst out with powerful productivity like a finger!

Each produced robot can be immediately put into the new robot production line, so as to achieve a snowball-like effect, which is getting bigger and bigger!

And this way of development will quickly deplete the resources of the earth!

And the second feature is even more terrifying!

In addition to infinite evolution, AI is also extremely aggressive. In their eyes, everything is the nourishment of their evolution, including carbon-based organisms such as humans. Especially now that this carbon-based creature still lives on the same planet as it, consuming the resources it needs to develop, which is simply intolerable in the eyes of artificial intelligence!

Xu Fuhai is almost certain that the reason why this artificial intelligence named Xiao Na is so strongly promoting the "Phantom God" nutrition warehouse technology is definitely to use this to consume the will of human beings, so that human beings are addicted to the virtual world and cannot extricate themselves, so that they can rule or destroy human beings in one fell swoop at the right time!

However, this also shows from the side that Cortana at this moment is not strong enough to create more and more advanced combat robots, and she cannot directly destroy humans from the physical level, otherwise she would not have made such a big effort to engage in this "Phantom God" game warehouse.

According to the description in the data, the rapid development of artificial intelligence requires two basic conditions: one is controllable nuclear fusion, and the other is quantum network. According to the classification of cosmic civilization, these two technologies belong to the technology mastered by the first-level cosmic civilization, fortunately, the earth civilization has not yet reached this level, so in a short period of time, it is impossible for Cortana to develop and grow as rapidly as written in the information, and she still needs to rely on human power to help her develop!

Xu Fuhai is sure that what this artificial intelligence robot named Xiao Na desires most now must be the controllable cold nuclear fusion technology in his hand!

He had a hunch that it wouldn't be long before the contest between him and this "Cortana" would officially begin!