Alien paradise

ingJoy venue in 2024.

Every year on the opening day, this place is extremely lively. Game giants take turns to set up the stage to promote their latest masterpieces, and the number of onlookers can roughly determine which work is most anticipated by players. However, the situation this year is indeed a bit special. There are few people around the stages of many big companies. A large number of people gathered at the venue of an unknown company, blocking the aisle.

"Please make way, please!" Lu Ming pushed through the dense crowd and finally squeezed to the side of the stage. He raised the trial qualification ticket in his hand to the official staff, "I'm here to try it!"

This sentence immediately attracted countless envious eyes.

"Fuck, he actually has a qualification ticket!"

"Why can't I draw it?"

"How can it be drawn? The lottery activity is clearly a monkey trick! This kind of thing has been divided up by those big ups."

Feeling the envious and jealous eyes of the onlookers, Lu Ming felt indescribably proud. Although he has many fans online, few people know him in reality. Being envied by so many people with a trial coupon like this is much better than the fans bragging about you through the Internet.

"Did you bring your ID card? Please verify your identity for us." The receptionist said with a smile.

"Yes," Lu Ming handed her his ID card, "It's really not easy to play your game. I have participated in so many trial sessions, and none of them are like yours."

Most game trial sessions will open the booth to GJ players. In other words, as long as you are willing to come and queue up, you can basically play the game you want to experience first. The official doesn't care who you are, let alone check your ID card.

"Sorry, this is also a requirement from above." After confirming his identity, the other party pointed to the stage, "Teacher Lu, please come on stage."

Lu Ming walked up the three steps to the booth, and in an instant he seemed to be the center of the world. A small number of people gathered below the stage, four or five thousand people. Although this was less than one percent of the number of his fans, it was a large black mass in reality, which made people's hearts pound.

There were another nineteen people standing on the stage, and it was obvious that they also obtained the trial qualification.

Unlike other booths, it was clean, with no game consoles or computers, only ten chairs.

"Look at this... they are serious." Lu Ming muttered.

That's right, he was going to experience a brand new VR game called "Misty Phantom", developed by Paradise, a small company he had never heard of before. But having said that, the previews they released were more terrifying than the last, with extreme graphics, realistic physics engine, and incredible hit feedback, which were simply movie-level special effects.

Moreover, the development progress of the game was frighteningly fast. In the past, the essence of such works was often stuffed into a 30-second PV, which was either made for seven or eight years and then disappeared, or was released after the appetite was whetted and it was found to be a cyber fraud. But Phantom was obviously different. It was first noticed by players four months ago, and the first PV immediately caused a sensation. Just when everyone was discussing how good it was, it released several movie-level real machine pictures in succession and opened an invitation beta test a month ago.

The players who were lucky enough to participate in this internal test reacted extremely enthusiastically, almost like going crazy.

This further raised everyone's expectations for the game.

Then there is the global trial that will be opened in June.

According to the park's official statement, they will hold trial games in 16 cities in four countries around the world at the same time, with a total of 320 places available. Players can get the qualification to experience it first by forwarding the lottery. Obviously, this kind of publicity has a great effect, but Lu Ming also knows that the discussion of bystanders is not aimless, because he is an invited guest, and he guessed that the 19 people on the stage are probably his peers.

The only thing that bothers him is that no matter how exciting the VR game is, he can't record the video to share with his fans.

It seems that he can only rely on his own eyes to record it well, and then produce a review with the official promotional video.

"Dear guest teachers, please sit down on the chairs, the game is about to start." The host reminded.

Lu Ming found an empty seat and half-lay down, and then someone handed him VR glasses.

The biggest doubt about this game is how to get a completely immersive gaming experience with a pair of glasses. Since the beta testers have been hyping it up as being as close to reality, the debate on the Internet has basically revolved around this point - after all, brain science has not yet developed to the point where it can directly change brain waves, and it is very mysterious to want to depict reality with eyes alone.

However, this is the most anticipated game in the world after all, and whether it is red or black, it can get huge traffic. All he has to do is to quickly send out the first-hand information, and the quality of the game itself is not his focus.

Even when Lu Ming put on the VR, he had already thought about how to refute the crazy remarks of the beta testers - VR is VR, how can it be completely like reality? This is just an official exaggeration.

"Game starts."

With a soft moan in his ear, Lu Ming saw a white light appear in front of him.

Hmm... white light plus startup, he has already thought about how to edit the opening.

But then came a strong dizziness, weightlessness and rotation, which almost made him vomit!

What the hell is this? Is it a mental attack!

Lu Ming raised his hand to take off the VR, but found that there was nothing on his face. When he opened his eyes, he was shocked to find that the venue had disappeared, replaced by a dark land. Heavy rain poured down all around, pulling him from reality into the game world.

Damn, damn, damn! This was the only word left in his mind.

What the hell is this technical level! ?

Lu Ming could not only see his hands and feet, but also smell the smell of soil in the air - that was the unique smell emitted by the heavy rain hitting the earth, which perfectly matched the rainy scene around him.

At this time, someone around him woke up, and his expression was also dumbfounded.

Only then did Lu Ming notice that he was lying diagonally in a metal groove. There were hundreds of grooves like this. They were lined up in a row, and each groove contained a living person.

"Get up, what are you still dawdling about!" A furious roar sounded in front of him, "Wake up and get your guns, otherwise I'll kill you first!"

From the attitude of the person shouting, it was most likely his "superior".

Although he had never heard that language before, he unexpectedly understood its meaning.

Lu Ming immediately entered the state-oh my god, this is the novice guidance level! He immediately jumped out of the groove, came to the gun rack on the edge of the awning, and picked up a gun. The moment he got the gun in his hand, the heavy grip made him shiver! Not only was the touch amazing, but even the weight of the weapon was simulated faithfully. Is this really something a pair of VR glasses can do?

Then, a row of words appeared in front of Lu Ming: Weapons 1/1, find and equip the following equipment: Magazines 0/5, Grenade: 0/2, Fog Lights: 0/1, Game Countdown: 1 hour.

This line of prompts brought him back to the real world.

Shit, does this planner understand? With such realistic art design and modeling, you gave me this kind of web game prompt that makes people feel distracted? Can't you make a complete guide and a more vivid performance?

Although he was complaining, Lu Ming was not idle, because he saw more and more people gathering around the gun rack. In order to prevent the shortage of weapons, he quickly followed the text prompts and found the corresponding equipment in the weapon box next to him. Lu Ming even secretly took two more grenades to see if it would trigger a bug, but the system number only changed to 4/2, and there was no reaction other than that.

It turns out that the guidance task is just a bait!

The planner has some skills, the degree of freedom has increased immediately!