This Game is Too Real

  Chapter 434 A completely real game, you can even play games in the game

   The slowly setting sun is merging into the horizon of Luoxia Province, but at this moment the ideal city has already been enveloped by the curtain of night.

   on the translucent observation elevator.

   Fang Chang glanced at the business card in his hand, and then turned his attention to the holographic screen on the viewing window.

  Behind the beating floor numbers are colorful neon lights, and if you look under your feet, you can see the bottomless abyss.

   The building at his feet is called Yunjian University.

  Although it sounds a bit outrageous to integrate the entire university into one office building, it seems that the students here are all employees who clock in to work, but in a place like the ideal city, it is unexpectedly not inconsistent at all.

   After all, the people who live here are nominally employees of this "indescribably huge" company.

   Most of the students who graduate from here will become engineers and enter various departments of the company, as well as subsidiaries with specific functions.

   It would be easier to understand if the title of the university was replaced with "Induction Training Section of the Human Resources Department".

   But there is one thing to say, although this university is named after the province, the feeling of riding the elevator through the clouds is indeed a bit like being in the clouds...

The number    is fixed at 227.

   With a ding sound, the alloy door behind Fang Chang was like a subway arriving at the station, sliding to the sides to open.

   Looking back at the layered neon lights outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, Fang Chang turned and left here, looking for the address on the business card, and kept walking along the corridor.

   Soon, he came to a silver door.

   His hand was almost on the button of the doorbell when the door in front of him opened with a bang, and a smiling face full of enthusiasm appeared behind the door.

"Welcome! Dear friend, are you the one who is popular all over Duanyun? Haha, please come in! I don't know what made you, a big celebrity, interested in me, or is it my research field that you are interested in? ?"

  Fang Chang was slightly stunned, looking at the man with a warm and exaggerated smile in front of him, and then at the business card in his hand, his expression couldn't help but become a little weird.

  【Ai Chen, male, 55 years old, Professor of Neural Algorithms and Bionics at Yunjian University, Technical Consultant of the Product R&D Department of Kangmao Group, his main research directions are logic operation, fuzzy algorithm simulation and thinking uploading, etc. 】

   There is no doubt that it is him, and he has not found the wrong person.

  If he didn't have a twin brother...

   "I take the liberty to interrupt at this time. I hope my visit didn't interrupt your rest."

   "How dare you! What could be more enjoyable than the fact that 'the heroes of the alliance are interested in my research direction'?"

   With a happy smile on Ai Chen's face, he invited Fang Chang into his office and continued.

   "And it came at the right time. If it were an hour earlier, I would still be in the laboratory."

  The office is very spacious, and the decoration is simple and stylish, but Fang Chang's attention is not on the room in front of him, but on the man in front of him.

  Different from those sloppy scholars and professors in the impression, he is dressed in exquisite clothes. Although he is in his 50s, he looks only about 30 years old.

   He looks like a suit and leather shoes, and the big back with his hair combed behind his head makes him not look like a professor, but like a lawyer or a bank or financial practitioner.

  Since he came to the Ideal City, Fang Chang has been cooperating with Ambassador Shuyu to attend various occasions, attracting investment and sponsorship for the alliance.

   In addition, he did not forget another purpose of coming here - to find a way to upload the thinking to the circuit board.

  The player has countless lives, but the NPC has only one life. Although this may sound whimsical, he feels that since the game background is set in the future world, there should be a way to permanently retain human consciousness.

   is like a game in a fantasy setting, storing props similar to the soul's Horcrux.

  Fortunately, being a war hero helped him a lot, and the popular video on Endpoint Cloud made him a star or "Internet celebrity" in the ideal city.

   When he learned that he was interested in his research direction, the professor immediately set up a meeting time with him.

  The two took their seats on the sofa.

   Fang Chang complied with his request for a group photo, and after a simple greeting, he said his intention.

   "…I wanted to ask you if there is a way to upload your thoughts to a cloud or something like that."

   Maybe because he talked about his field of expertise, the middle-aged professor put away his exaggerated smile and showed a thoughtful expression on his face.

   But that's not like thinking about academia itself, but more like thinking about how to speak.

   After about 5 minutes, he sighed softly and said.

   "Want a coffee?"

   Fang Chang was slightly stunned.

   Intuition told him that the expression should not look like he was going to say something optimistic.

   "No...just give me a glass of water, thank you."

   "A cup of coffee, a cup of lemonade." Ai Chen gestured towards the android assistant beside him.

   The assistant nodded slightly, turned around and went to the next room. After a while, he came back with the tray, and respectfully placed the silver teacup in front of the two of them.

   "Please take your time, sir."

After    left this sentence, it turned around and stood quietly by the wall.

  In order to avoid the uncanny valley effect, most androids will either make the facial features exactly like people and install an almost realistic transmission system, or they will simply omit the facial features or make the facial features very exaggerated.

   And this android belongs to the former, not only like the real person, but also very beautiful.

   "I'm sorry about you, I know what you're thinking, but...that's not something science can do."

  Ai Chen picked up the cup and took a sip of coffee to moisten his throat, his eyes stopped on the beautiful android assistant not far away, and after a moment of admiration, he continued suddenly.

   "My wife left three years ago."

   Fang Chang nodded slightly and hesitated.

   "Can't even the medical conditions in Ideal City be cured?"

   The bionic technology here can even replace a complete set of parts on his body. He really can't imagine any disease that cannot be cured.

  Professor Ai Chen coughed in embarrassment.

   "When I say go, I mean to leave... She followed the traders outside and went to seek the adventure and excitement of her dreams."

"…Feel sorry."

   "Don't be sorry, it's nothing, and it's all in the past. Everyone has the right to choose how to live, and where she goes is her freedom.

   Gently placed the coffee cup on the tray, Ai Chen smiled and nodded to the android beside him, motioning for it to take the cup away.

   His eyes stayed behind the android, and his voice seemed to be caught in a long-term memory.

   "Actually, I once thought about making it her appearance, not just the shape, but also her memory and thoughts... make a copy together."

   keenly captured the key words in this sentence, Fang Chang held his breath for a moment, and grabbed his knees subconsciously with both hands.

   As if holding on to hope.

"and after?"

   Ai Chen smiled lightly.

   "Later, of course I succeeded."

   Fang Chang looked at the android in surprise, and then glanced at the professor sitting opposite.

   "Then it is now..."

   "Now it's just an ordinary android assistant. Because later... I deleted its data again."

   Fang Chang was stunned.

   It took him a long time before he opened his mouth and continued.

"…why?"

   "I've already told you the reason, because that's not something science can do."

   Without waiting for Fang Chang to speak, Professor Ai Chen continued.

"The person I love, she is gentle and kind, beautiful, generous and passionate... But in fact that is just my imagination. There are no perfect people in this world. Brave is inevitably reckless, caution is inevitable, and wise people are often arrogant. And arrogant people can't see their feet. She's never perfect, she's just a filter of love."

   "So when I tried to write her into an algorithm based on my memory, I quickly realized that the fictional personality I created was not her at all... Do you understand what I mean?"

   Fang Chang nodded silently, but soon shook his head again.

   "I know what you're trying to convey...but I don't quite understand it. Can't you just add those shortcomings as well?"

   Ai Chen smiled lightly and said.

   "Because that's the question, are you sure you know a person completely? Even yourself."

   This sentence stopped Fang Chang from asking, and he was speechless for a while.

   Looking at the young man who fell into silence, Professor Ai Chen leaned back on the sofa, slowed down his speech, and gave him enough time to think.

"Uploading thoughts to the cloud is not impossible. As long as a person is not isolated from society, there will always be several brains backing up his memories. Convert these third-person memories into first-person, and then convert these collected memories. Fragments are programmed into intelligent algorithms, and you can get a person who is almost exactly like her... Even if it is not the same person objectively, she can roughly match your imagination of her."

"However, the replica is not the person after all, just a doll that speaks and happens to look alike. If that's what you want, of course I can help you, as long as you fill out a long form. But based on your description, I have to ask you again, is that what you want?"

   Looking at the middle-aged man leaning on the sofa, Fang Chang was silent for a long time, and the thoughts in his mind became a mess.

   If it was in real life, there would be nothing wrong with saying this, but it sounds like something serious in the game.

  A piece of data is copied from one hard disk to another, why is it not the same piece of data?

   And didn't Vault 101 have a successful precedent? They not only reduced their consciousness to the virtual world, but even reproduced in the eternal virtual world!

   This is clearly something that can be done!

Fang Chang felt that his request was not excessive at all, he just wanted to keep a backup of Dolly's data, but was reminded by the operator through the NPC's mouth, "Even if you recreate an NPC with the backed-up data, it will still be the same. The original NPC is not the same NPC".

   Then what am I? !

  A completely real virtual reality game, even the extra details have to be simulated real...

   Fang Chang felt a dull pain in his forehead.

   He suddenly regretted why he didn't choose the intelligence department.

   "I just want to reserve a chance to revive someone important, please, even once..."

   There was a hint of pleading in that voice.

   This sentence was not aimed at the NPC in front of him.

   But to that Aguang who doesn't know where he is, but keeps an eye on them all the time.

  Professor Ai Chen stared at the young man in front of him for a while, his eyes suddenly moved slowly and drifted to the colorful neon outside the window.

  The gorgeous light and shadow make people indulge in it, and all human thoughts can be satisfied in the prosperity visible to the naked eye.

   There seems to be everything here.

   but also nothing.

   It’s like a hologram of that era, impeccably real, but it’s not.

   reached out and touched the bridge of his nose, he sighed softly, and rarely did he follow the fashion and learn to speak to young people.

   "…Many people have said this to me, but few realize that life is precious because it only comes once."

"If that person is really important to you, be nice to her for the time you have left. Don't let her go away from you, don't let her get hurt, and don't start regretting things until they're irreversible. ...let alone, like me, try to find comfort in memories."

   "That's the right thing to do."

  …

   Expectations were lost.

  There is another sad person in the ideal city tonight.

   However, Fangchang's loss is just an example, the vast majority of people in the city are still very happy, especially when the nightlife begins.

   An office building on the edge of the ideal city.

   In a small and light-tight studio, there are simply a few worthless sofas, tables and chairs and simple office utensils.

   Bathed in the light of cheap incandescent lamps, a mole and several employees of the newly established [Skull Studio] were dancing excitedly.

   "Mom... This game is so fun!"

   took off his virtual reality glasses, and Mole's face was full of excitement and excitement.

  Some time ago, everyone on the forum joked and planned to go to the ideal city to play games. Only he took action and really got the game out.

  The studio directly used the logo of the Skeleton Corps, and the name of the game is "Battle Royale".

   just switched to a virtual reality platform.

  Although it's not as real as "Wasteland OL", but the degree of completion is already very high!

  If it doesn't fire, he invites Fang Chang to eat Xiang!

   After all, he is someone who has seen the world. The technical director and CEO Xue Hongliang he hired did not react so much. After taking off his glasses, he simply sighed.

   "...The only pity is that there is only one life, and it will be gone if you die."

   was in the game just now.

   Not long after he landed, he was taken away by the man-machine he designed.

   Mole laughed and said.

   "You don't understand this, the essence of this game is here! Even if the equipment is dead, the search will be in vain, but if you think about it from another angle, isn't the person you killed with the same mentality?"

   The employees sitting in the room looked at each other, and after exchanging glances, they thought it made sense.

  The Mole paused for a while, then continued slowly.

"Especially when you make it all the way to the finals, waiting in the grass for the final battle, when you think that half an hour of hard work will come to nothing with a small mistake, your adrenaline will soar and your hands will be so nervous. Sweat! And if you eat chicken successfully, all of those hormones will be converted into happy dopamine in an instant—"

   "Wait a minute, there is a problem." The employee in charge of programming raised his hand.

  Although he was very upset to be interrupted, the Mole generously gave him a chance to speak.

"Say."

   The programmer said solemnly.

   "The virtual reality system will sensory shield the excessive stimuli that may cause health risks, the adrenaline rush and sweaty hands are impossible..."

   Mole rolled his eyes.

   "I'm just making a metaphor! Don't be so rigid, there will always be tension, right?"

  The programmer scratched the back of his head.

   "Uh, there is..."

   Mole glanced around at the dozen or so employees present, and continued to beat them up with energy.

   "Anyway, the selling point of this game is here!"

   "There is only one life, only one chance! Whether our studio can occupy a place in the ideal city depends on this release!"

After a week-long development, the trial version of "Battle Royale" has now been completed, and the game platform on Endpoint Cloud has just been logged in. It is open to users to download and play for free, and the trial will be charged after more than two hours. 20Cr buyout fee.

   In the follow-up, functions such as selling boxes and extracting out-of-print skins will be updated. Mole not only copied the game itself, but also copied the method of cutting leeks.

  Because there are ready-made development tools available, there are also ready-made virtual models on the endpoint cloud that can be purchased, and those that cannot be purchased can be outsourced, so the development is not very difficult.

   As for the rent of the company's premises, 1200Cr per month is not very expensive. Labor is a little more expensive, and it is impossible for skilled employees to pay a minimum hourly wage of 1Cr, and 8000~10000Cr a month still has to be paid.

  The main part of the expenditure is not rent or labor, but the cost of purchasing the right to use development tools, purchasing technical services and virtual models, and leasing endpoint cloud computing power.

   A series of expenses are all calculated, up to 1 million Cr!

   This money is enough to buy a "Cerberus" unmanned car plus an airborne missile!

   As for where did the money come from?

   is of course in exchange for silver coins.

   A few days ago, with the efforts of the administrator and ambassador Shu Yu, the alliance and the enterprise reached two key and important agreements.

   One of them is the currency swap agreement.

  According to the agreement, the two parties exchanged currencies with a total value of 300 million Cr at a fixed exchange rate of 3:1.

   That is, 1Cr to 3 silver coins.

  Because there is no fixed and stable market, the conversion of purchasing power is difficult to directly convert. After all, the price of the same commodity in the river valley province and the cloud province may be one in the sky and the other in the ground.

   This exchange rate actually includes the meaning of a part of the subsidy, and the content of the subsidy is the "technical added value" provided by the enterprise to the alliance.

   In addition, currency swaps are obviously not enough. In addition, the two parties have also agreed on how to use the money.

   And that comes to the second trade deal.

   In principle, only the residents of the ideal city can register companies and trade equity, so the residents of the alliance cannot work in enterprises or operate industries.

   But this is not without room for workarounds.

   And this newly signed trade agreement is one of the workarounds.

   As a permanent partner of the enterprise, companies registered in the alliance and endorsed by the alliance can also enter the whitelist of the enterprise.

   After entering the whitelist, you can set up a branch in Ideal City to invest in non-core industries other than electricity, transportation, energy, etc.

  Because the credit of the alliance is used as an endorsement, the whitelist that wants to enter the alliance needs to be approved.

   But the approval process is not complicated.

  A company that has made outstanding contributions to the alliance, or is itself a collective holding company of the sanctuary, can quickly be approved, get a foreign exchange quota and a ticket to the ideal city for investment.

  The former such as Goblin Technology, Liszt Factory, etc., the latter such as Niuma Brick Factory, No. 81 Factory, Bachi Aluminum Factory, etc.

   1 million Cr, converted at a fixed exchange rate, is 3 million silver coins.

   So much money Mole certainly doesn't have.

   Besides, this is just an initial investment, and the actual capital required is definitely far more than that.

   However, after all, he is the "second smartest" boss of the server. After he used his brain, he quickly thought of a solution.

  According to the rules of the alpha version, he took out all his belongings and collected 1.5 million silver coins with his good brothers, and registered a company called the Skeleton Group.

   Then he successfully raised 12 million silver coins for the start-up capital at the expense of a beautiful business plan and sacrificing 80% of the shares.

  4 million Cr.

   is always enough for a while.

  The remaining 20% ​​of the shares were split with several investors such as Irena, Elf King Fugui and so on.

  Although evacuation took up the majority, there were also a lot of shares to be distributed.

   For example, if he owns 8%, as long as the game sells for 100 million, that is 8 million!

   After deducting costs and taxes, he has at least six or seven million Cr in his hands!

   If this is exchanged for silver coins...

  The Mole no longer dared to think about it.

   It's only been a while since he was YY, but he couldn't hold back the halazia, and he was worried that if he continued to make up for it, he would be excited to the high court.

   In short, he took everyone's hard-earned money, shouldered everyone's expectations, and opened the Skeleton Studio, which is wholly-owned by the Skeleton Group.

  Under his unremitting encouragement, everyone finally restored this virtual reality version of the skydiving masterpiece in "Wasteland OL".

   had to blow a wave of light.

   "Wasteland OL" can not only play games in games, but also play games in games.

   This idea is simply blown away!

Although the trial version of "Battle Royale" only has the size of an island, it is a little bit inferior compared to the "Super A-level" masterpieces that are popular in the ideal city and restore a world, but he believes that the gameplay and fun are the only one The core of the game.

  This market, which is still a blue ocean, is destined to have his place!

However-

  The unforgiving reality quickly hit him hard.

   The "Battle Royale" that was just put on the shelves did not become popular on the Internet as soon as he was uploaded, and it was even unknown like a piece of dust falling into a pond, and he couldn't even see a single wave.

   So far, the only few visits to the server are contributed by the employees in the studio.

   Looking at the motionless downloads, the moles who danced with excitement dozens of minutes ago, are now sweating in a hurry.

   The only thing that brings him some comfort is that the lack of big sales seems to have nothing to do with the game itself, just not enough exposure.

   Maybe wait for the exposure to go up.

   It might be on fire all of a sudden…

  Standing next to the boss, staring at the data on the screen, several employees of the studio also looked regretful.

   "It's a pity... such a fun game is not popular at all."

   "Yeah... Obviously it's quite fun."

   "We'd better not delay it for too long... No matter how good the soup is, it will be spoiled if it is left for too long."

   The development tools on the endpoint cloud are very mature, and it does not take long to develop a game. However, it is precisely because of this that the highly introverted environment causes most games not only to be seriously homogenized, but also to have their lifespan shortened.

  Except for those open-world games that focus on virtual community development, with huge and non-repetitive content, the lifespan of most games is only one month, and the average game time of players often does not exceed 24 hours.

  Xue Hongliang, CEO and technical director of the studio, frowned and said after thinking for a moment.

   "We should increase our investment in marketing."

   "Recently, there is a very popular game promotion program on Endpoint Cloud. Although the cost is a bit high, I think we can try it."

   Hearing that the fee is a bit high, Mole's eyebrows twitched.

"How many?"

   "Around 1.2 million Cr?"

   When he heard this number, he almost spit out a mouthful of old blood.

  1.2 million? !

   Can buy six missiles!

   "Our development cost is less than 1 million... Isn't this price too expensive?" Mole couldn't help but complain.

  Xue Hongliang was stunned.

   "Isn't it common sense that the cost of publicity is higher than the cost of development?"

  The Mole was also stunned.

   But looking at the other employees around him with an expression of approval, it didn't seem like he was bullying him for not knowing how to do it.

   took a deep breath, and the Mole spoke in control of his emotions.

   "Anyway... let me see what that show is like."

  Xue Hong nodded, walked to another desk, and turned on the holographic TV placed there.

  Light blue light and shadow appear, the current channel is broadcasting news.

   He was about to switch channels when his boss suddenly stopped him.

   "Wait...I finished reading this news."

  Xue Hongliang was stunned for a moment, then retracted his index finger and stepped aside.

The pictures in the    hologram continued to play, and the news that was being broadcast seemed to be interviews and reports on the situation on the Western Front.

   "...In order to reverse the decline of the frontal battlefield, the Legion is deploying a million-ton nuclear weapon to Luoxia Province."

"The Minister of General Management Yue Qian emphasized that nuclear weapons of more than 100,000 tons should be strictly limited. If those alien species continue to mutate and the fragile ecosystem continues to evolve in an extreme direction, this planet will become unviable in the future. !"

   "The administrators of the Alliance also spoke in public speeches, strongly condemning the Legion's deployment of nuclear weapons to the battlefield and stating that the inhabitants of the Alliance would not succumb to the nuclear threat."

   "A meeting of the Supreme Council is currently being held to discuss a more specific response plan. According to people familiar with the matter, if the situation is true, the Supreme Council of the Enterprise will approve the use of the sealed weapons stockpile..."

   in a hologram.

  The council representative, surrounded by interview drones, said firmly.

   "...There is no doubt that those weapons are prepared for this moment!"

   Looking at the news in the hologram, the employees in the studio looked at each other in dismay, and after they recovered, they all gasped.

   "Hush... a million-ton nuclear bomb!"

   An employee asked curiously.

   "What is that concept?"

  Another employee thought about it and replied.

   "If it is an ideal city, everyone in the city can get an average of 100 kilograms or 10 kilograms of equivalent. If it is an alliance with a population of about 100,000 people, everyone can get about 10 tons."

The sound of    "hiss" became a piece.

   The cool air in the whole room was exhausted.

   Everyone couldn't help but take a peek at their boss.

   They knew that the man was stumbling and stumbling, and the man named Mole came from the Union in the southern part of the River Valley Province.

   To their surprise, they didn't see the fear on the man's face.

   That expression was pure surprise.

   And it was true, Mole stared at the hologram with blank eyes.

   He had seen the news on the official website that the Legion was deploying nuclear weapons to Luoxia Province, and even the announcement clearly mentioned that the Legion intended to use it in the fertile capital of the Lion Kingdom.

   However, looking at the news, the manager's serious wording and tone...

   It feels like this nuclear bomb is going to be thrown on the top of the Alliance.

really?

   Seeing everyone looking at him, Mole coughed lightly and said in a serious voice.

   "Your boss's house is on fire... I'll probably have to go back in two days."

  If the news is true, the mobilization order is expected to come down soon. As the corps commander of the Skeleton Corps, of course he can't stay behind and let his brothers do it for him.

  Xue Hongliang was stunned.

   "You...going to the front?"

   Good guy.

   They are eating chicken in the game.

   I didn't expect their boss to eat chicken on the front line.

   No wonder you can come up with such an interesting brain hole, it turned out to be a real experience!

   "That's for sure! In fact, to be honest, driving a tank is your boss's job, and running a company is just a side job."

   Mole smiled embarrassedly, coughed and continued.

"But don't worry about me. Working hard is the greatest support for me! In fact, I never told you that most of the income from this game will become the military expenses of the alliance against the legion. For every 10,000 you sell, One more game, and one more missile will be fired at the Legion."

   "When this battle is over, I will come back to fight with you!"

   After listening to this speech, almost all the employees in the office looked at him with admiration.

  Xue Hongliang stepped forward with an excited look and held his right hand tightly.

   "Boss, don't worry, the company will leave it to me... We will definitely live up to your expectations! Realize your dream of millions of sales!"

   Mole smiled and patted his right hand.

   "Okay! I'm relieved to have you!"

   I have a stomach problem again... I've made everyone wait for a long time. The feelings in the second half feel a bit under-drawn, so let's continue to write later.

   (end of this chapter)