Age of the Mist

Chapter 1255 The game that destroys the world, the source universe

The sweeping west wind, the desolate land, the marching caravan.

Shi Tiexin looked at the semi-desert land, his gaze fluctuated slightly.

From the looks of it, it already looks somewhat similar to the appearance of Mars.

I didn't expect that the beautiful blue planet would have such a day.

Where did all this come from and why?Who caused this situation, and how can everything be reversed and changed?These doubts may be initially answered from the female captain next to him.

"First, what's your name?"

The female captain knew everything: "Gong Yudie."

"What organization do you belong to?"

The female captain couldn't stop talking: "Hongliu."

"Why is it called that name?"

The female captain instinctively puffed up her chest, her eyes lit up with determination and pride: "Because we are determined to become a torrent that cleans the world, destroying everything that should be destroyed, and rebirthing everything that should be reborn."

"The torrent flows through the scarred land, and the new spring is born to die!"

Shi Tiexin made a note, and then continued to ask:
"Who is your enemy?"

"Tianluo."

"Tianluo?!" Lao Liu couldn't help but said, "Isn't Tianluo a game company?!" Then his expression changed, and after a while his eyes became gloomy: "It is indeed possible that it is Tianluo, I should have suspected it a long time ago !"

Shi Tiexin made another note, and continued to ask Gong Yudie:

"What is Tianluo?"

"A company, a group of chaebols, a group of politicians, a group of vassals, a huge military, economic and political entity."

"What did Tianluo do?"

"It..." Gong Yudie's eyes showed deep hatred: "It destroyed the world."

The big one is coming!
Shi Tiexin cheered up and continued to question: "As far as I know, Tianluo is a game company."

Gong Yudie: "It's just pretending to be a game company!"

Someone Shi: "From the beginning"

Gong Yudie: "The matter has to start from 11 years ago."

"11 years ago, that is, in 2022, Tianluo Company was established. At the time when the epidemic was prevalent, the electronic market collapsed, the international environment was turbulent, and the economy was in a downturn, the whole world needed a shot in the arm. Tianluo Company's It was established and did not attract much attention. Although it immediately announced that it would launch an epoch-making product, not many people paid attention to it, and only regarded it as a money-grabbing and defrauding investment.”

"I didn't expect that the products of Tianluo Company were not limited to PPT drawing big cakes, but began to be announced in full swing. From the media briefing, to the Wall Street exhibition, to the subsequent technical exposure and celebrity endorsement, it The momentum quickly rose."

"Soon, Tianluo Company announced that it was ready to commercialize the product. They invited the media to experience it first, and all the media who had experienced it began to blow wildly, thinking that Tianluo would open a new era for the whole world. Pingguo's stock price plummeted, Tianluo Luo’s share price skyrocketed, and the whole world was looking forward to it.”

"On December 2022, 12, Tianluo Company officially launched its own holographic login device, and on New Year's Day ten years ago, that is, on January 25, 2023, they opened their immersive holographic game on time—"

"Source universe."

Shi Tiexin: "What is the source universe?"

Before Gong Yudie could answer, the sixth child had already opened his mouth: "It's the online game we played—I mean the online game in the virtual world with another layer of skins."

"I'm so impressed with that."

"In 2023, I will be 20 years old and I have not yet graduated from college. Because I am smart, hardworking, and fond of starting a business, I have already accumulated some wealth when I was 20 years old. I spent a lot of money to buy the landing warehouse of Yuan Universe, which made my classmates envious for a while. That is to say, from the source universe, I embarked on the road of professional e-sports, and because of this, I reached the top of the world."

"But when did I become a brain in a vat?"

"How did Tianluo destroy the world?"

Shi Tiexin relayed the inquiry.

Gong Yudie snorted coldly, and replied with hatred: "2025, April, 4st."

"I will never forget this date."

"In that year, Tianluo was already the company with the largest market value. After two years of publicity and sale, Yuan Universe has become so popular. At that time, Tianluo even seemed conscientious, and with the iterative upgrade of technology , the price of the virtual warehouse has dropped again and again, and it is even cheaper than the mainstream mobile phones that used to be, so that everyone can easily afford it."

"Combined with the general environment of the pandemic of infectious diseases, the whole society urgently needs a convenient and efficient form of online socializing, learning and working. With its excellent simulation and super sociability, the source universe soon became popular all over the world and entered the world. thousands of households."

"The most important thing is that Tianluo Company implements an 18+ rating mode in the game. The holographic somatosensory clips of the source universe make everyone very addicted and greatly promote the popularity of the source universe."

Someone Shi: "Small piece has become the biggest pusher?"

Gong Yudie: "Don't underestimate the power of small movies. Think about it, compared to the reality of all kinds of flaws, all kinds of difficulties, and all kinds of men and women who don't know how many bowls of dry rice they should eat, virtual gods and goddesses It was fantastic."

"Perfect appearance, perfect obedience, and no shortage of physical sensations. Those social fear nerds who don't want to get married are impossible to resist, and they have fallen in love with virtual characters."

Shi looked at the sixth child with false eyes: "You really make sense when you say that!"

The old sixth blushed and coughed in embarrassment.

Gong Yudie continued: "Under the superimposition of various factors, the virtual warehouse has no worries about selling, and sells as much as it is made. In the first quarter of 2025, the installed capacity of Tianluo virtual warehouse has exceeded 40 billion."

"At that time, everyone was celebrating the development of society and the advancement of technology."

"But on April 4 of that year, Tianluo Company suddenly showed its fangs, pushing the whole world down the abyss and trapping it in an illusory cage."

Shi Tiexin: "What did Tianluo do?"

Gong Yudie: "Tianluo makes it impossible for everyone to go offline again."

The sixth child searched his memory and frowned: "How can I remember that I logged off normally... Wait, could it be said!"

Gong Yudie sneered: "Tianluo has created a fully realistic virtual world outside the game world. The source universe game is a semi-cartoon rendering style, while the new virtual world is a full-realistic rendering style. People learn from the game. When you 'exit', you don't actually exit, you enter this world of wrapping."

"Everything in the leather world is almost the same as the real world, so people take it for granted that they have returned to the real world, but in fact, everyone is imprisoned."

Shi Tiexin folded his hands and propped his chin, thinking about Gong Yudie's words.

Technically speaking, this effect is difficult to achieve with technical means.

Because full virtual reality is really too difficult.

Everyone has their own habits, and each different habit will produce different traces.Even if there are two identical cars manufactured on the assembly line, the owner will accurately see which is his own and which is someone else's after a short observation.

The scene where most people use the virtual warehouse is a family. If you want to be completely realistic, you must accurately restore each family.The mosquitoes slapped to death on the wall, the dust left by the mosquito net, the leftovers from the dining table, and the mottled scratches on the wallpaper, all these inconspicuous details must be perfectly restored.

Otherwise, when the inconspicuous details differ to a certain extent, it will naturally make people feel false, which will lead to vigilance and fear.

If it is intentional, it can be done more conveniently.

The easiest way is to let the subject figure out these details by himself.The subject was recalled from his own memory to render the scene, and then compared the scene with his own memory. Of course, no abnormality could be found no matter how hard he checked.

But how can information technology achieve this?

Shi can't think of it for the time being.

He could only ask Lao Liu: "Did you notice anything wrong at that time?"

The sixth child narrowed his eyes: "I haven't found anything wrong until now when I recall it."

"Awesome technology." Shi Tiexin temporarily put aside his research on technology, and continued to ask: "Then, what did Tianluo do?"

"Massacre." Gong Yudie's voice was filled with bloody ripples: "Ruthless, super-large-scale, massacre."

"At that time, Tianluo's actions were divided into three directions."

"First of all, in the developed areas, those who refuse Tianluo, the source universe, or sink into the virtual world for various reasons, Tianluo specially organizes people to hunt and kill those who are too old or too young to log in to the source universe. People, Tianluo also took them all away and arranged them in a unified way."

Gong Yudie raised her prosthetic limb and brushed her hair, her voice was painful: "I am one of the people who have not logged into the source universe. The long-term battle damage has made me gradually inhuman, but I still retain some of my human limbs."

Shi Tiexin nodded.

In his celestial eyes, more than 68% of this girl has undergone mechanical transformation, but compared with the sixth child, she does retain more biological tissues.

Gong Yudie continued: "Secondly, for those who logged into the virtual world, a large-scale decapitation operation began."

Shi Tiexin: "Decapitation?"

"It is to let the registrant be beheaded, skinned, eyes gouged, tongue pulled out, bones crushed, and all limbs except the brain amputated without knowing it, under the condition that all senses are deceived."

Lao Liu immediately touched his neck, his eyes were gloomy.

Gong Yudie pointed to the back: "This is the case for many people in the team. Except for the brain, they are all mechanical bodies. Compared with me, they are easier to fight, easier to survive, and have fewer fatal weaknesses. But the disadvantage is that, Their hearts are more fragile, their self-awareness is easily blurred, and they are more likely to be pessimistic, collapse, and self-loathing."

Shi looked at the sixth child again: "I also deeply sympathize with the pessimistic collapse and self-loathing."

Lao Liuyi stabbed Shi in the ribs with his elbow: "Get out!"

Gong Yudie: "The third aspect is in economically underdeveloped areas. Those places have a large population, but the information is not smooth. Tianluo's actions have maintained a high degree of information silence, and people in underdeveloped areas have not even received any wind. "

"Tianluo divides those regions and prepares them. It is time to do business and sell products. After the penetration rate of the landing warehouse reaches a certain level, the previous operation will be repeated. In this way, by the end of 2025, Tianluo Robin has basically completed the 'virtual enslavement' of the entire world."

(End of this chapter)