Chapter 631: Ga Trailer
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“If you were given a new life in a parallel world, what would you do with it?”
In the darkness, a magnetic voice whispered in one’s ears.
“Whoosh...”
It sounded like the wind or perhaps soone breathing. Then, the darkness gradually brightened and a scene shown from a first-person perspective erged as if soone was slowly opening their eyes.
There was a clouded sky in front. The person raised their hand, rubbed their eyes, and then struggled to sit up.
As their line of sight turned to the side, what ca into view was a dilapidated city under a blanket of dark clouds.
This city was very weirdly built. There were many old thatched cottages on both sides of the street but behind these cottages, there were tall buildings adjacent to each other, just like modern residential quarters.
“Unfortunately, you’ve been reborn in a dark and turbulent era...”
By the ear, the magnetic male voice continued to narrate without any fluctuations in his voice, “You may be a thief or a farr or a wandering bard...”
Imdiately, the person’s field of vision shuddered briefly and then slowly rose as if the person had stood up from the ground.
Next, they looked around and the cara imdiately showed the entire neighborhood. This was a muddy and ssy street and the ground was filthy. At this ti, a few shabbily dressed and sallow-looking pedestrians were walking by, but they paid no mind to the owner of this vision.
“When you wake up from the darkness, the first thing to do is none other than to find ways to adapt to this body...”
The male voice continued to narrate calmly. Following his words, the scene trembled again. It seed that the owner of the line of sight had staggered a few steps forward before standing firm.
The sound of low strings played slowly with the music of a cello, but the tune was as gray and despairing as the city up ahead. The owner of this vision began to stagger toward the nearest dical station.
Imdiately, the screen went dark, but the background music gradually soared...
“This is an era when human lives are as cheap as paper. This is an era of chaos and turbulence. This is an era of a civilization dying...”
The man’s voice beca tinged with inexplicable emotions and the scene flashed again in the next second. A monster as huge as a mountain stood at the horizon!
The body of this monster was wondrously large. Its upper body was like an inverted triangle and its lower body was full of tassel-shaped organs that looked like grapes.
“Awoo—!”
The vertical bloody jaw at the monster’s chest suddenly opened and a roar that shook the world reverberated from the horizon. The sound waves were visible to the naked eye!
“An ancient evil god who enslaved mankind has destroyed the palace of our civilization and humankind descended from glory to its final steps...”
Following that, the scene flashed again and a peculiar church appeared in the picture. This ti, the scene did not adopt a first-person perspective but the regular third-person perspective instead.
One could only see strange patterns and symbols flickering dimly on the church and the more retro dieval buildings by the church.
“Most humans bowed their prideful heads, surrendered to the ancient evil god, and regarded themselves as the god’s clan...”
After this sentence, there was another cut, switching to a scene of a bomber that looked dilapidated. The bomber flew over the city, and then tossed down rust-stained iron barrels.
“Boom!”
“Boom, boom, boom!”
A series of fireballs rose from below the city and the fighter took a turn and flew into the horizon.
“However, there’s still a group of people who are unwilling to surrender. They’ve been fighting for four hundred years and are unwilling to lower their noble heads...”
The voice continued. “The Joint Resistance Army... The Divine Fusion Empire... Who can define the destiny of mankind?”
At this ti, the background music was in full swing as if hundreds of people were singing in anger at the sa ti!
With the swell of the music, the images in the video began to flash rapidly. Each showed a scene — a farr plowing the wheat fields, a thief walking in the crowded busy city, a few burly n in a brawl at a bar...
The screen flashed faster and faster, and more and more magnificent images began to appear. So showed two warriors in iron armor fighting bloodily in the wilderness or black-robed rangers slaughtering soldiers in dark alleys or glistening yellow bullets spat out in the assembly line of a factory...
“When technology and divine power clash, when gunpowder and divine magic attack each other, when death and new life begin to chant...”
“Hum—!”
At this mont, the background music finally arrived at the end, and at the end, a resounding horn began to blare out, and then stopped abruptly!
“What can you do in this age of decline?
“All you can do is try to survive... That’s all.”
The man’s voice gradually beca softer and in the end, there was only a deep echo, like embers slowly dying out.
By now, this three-minute video had ended completely.
“I... F*ck...”
In a university dormitory, a fat man wearing a black T-shirt slowly took off the V.5 Haptic Shock Helt on his head. He leaned back on the sofa and could not recover for a long while.
There was only shock in his eyes.
“How about it, Mike, this ga trailer is truly aweso, right?”
The roommate on the side said excitedly, his eyes flashing like a hungry wolf’s. “Can you believe it? Blackwatch claims that this video is a live demonstration, which ans that when we enter the ga, the scenes we see will be of this image quality!”
“Is this still a ga? I’ll even believe you if you told it’s a film production!”
Fat Mike jumped to his feet. “What are you waiting for, when will this ga be released? How much will it cost? What kind of gaming helt do I need? I’ll get it ready now!”
“Hold on!”
The roommate imdiately laughed dryly when he heard these words and he grabbed the eager little fat man. “How can it be on sale now? Today is just a ga preview. There’s still a month before it enters closed beta testing.”
“What, a month before beta testing?”
The little fat man’s face suddenly crumpled when he heard these words. He collapsed on his bottom onto the sofa, as dejected as if his parents had just passed away. “That’s no good at all. It’ll be three months at least between the closed beta and open beta, right?”
“Duh. I suspect that it won’t even be just three months, more like at least half a year!”
As the roommate spoke, he suddenly raised his right hand and pressed gently on the watch-like device on his wrist. Then, a translucent web page popped up and hovered above the watch.
“Blackwatch’s official website said that this ga is called Ancient Civilization, which is an era-transcending 3S masterpiece. Closed beta testing begins on the 1st of next month. At that ti, 100,000 accounts will be distributed randomly around the world. Matching ga equipnt will be included for free!”
“What?”
The little fat man’s eyes bulged when he heard this. “100,000 sets of ga equipnt given out for free? The best ga helt on the market can reach 100,000 USD. This ga is so realistic, how can the supporting ga equipnt cost any less than one hundred thousand dollars? In other words, they plan to give away ten billion dollars’ worth of ga helts?”
“It’s Blackwatch, after all, this bit of money is probably not a big deal to them...”
The roommate’s focus was not on this. After he saw this promotional video, he notified Mike as soon as possible. Only now did he pay proper attention to the text description under the video. At this point, his eyes were also getting brighter.
According to the description, this ga called Ancient Civilization would use the latest gaming equipnt developed by Blackwatch. It was not a ga helt or a V-series haptic shock chair, but a piece of even more high-end equipnt — a ga chamber!
“It turned out to be the ultimate ga device from web novels — a virtual reality ga chamber?”
The little fat man beside also poked his head over. When he saw this explanation, the fat all over his body quivered suddenly as his face revealed an unbelieving expression. “I’m not dreaming, am I?”
“Sure enough, it’s Blackwatch!”
The roommate on the side was also clutching his face excitedly. “When we were still in elentary school more than ten years ago, Blackwatch first introduced virtual reality helts and haptic shock chairs. Many dia were speculating that Blackwatch was probably about to invent the ga chamber, but there has been no news for more than ten years. I thought that the company had used up all its tricks. To think that after more than ten years, the ga chamber has appeared!”
“This is a big move!”
The little fat man looked up to the sky and laughed three tis, then urged. “Go down quickly, quickly scroll and see what else is said below?”
At this, the roommate used his mind to control the screen to continue moving down. “The ga chamber is currently equipped with constant temperature facilities, imrsion facilities, and life support facilities, which can monitor the user’s vital signs. After the user enters the ga, they can be fully imrsed in the ga. Even if the user has an abnormal physiological reaction due to excitent after entering the ga, the ga chamber can maintain the vital signs of the user and automatically make an ergency call!”
“This technology...”
The little fat man exchanged a glance with his roommate, rather puzzled. Could a ga really terrify a person to the point of causing real health issues?
Imdiately, they continued to scroll down, only to see that the following paragraph turned out to be the background introduction of the ga.
“What! The background of this ga is set in the 24th century on Earth?”
“What! In this ga, mankind encountered an ancient evil god in the 21st century? After a cataclysm, mankind was divided into two camps?”
“What! Under the Joint Resistance Army’s forces in the 24th century, in addition to the forces of the four continents, there’s also a fifth force nad Blacklight City?”
The small, fat Mike could not help yelling. “A self-insert... I’m losing it, Blackwatch has put itself into the ga, and set itself as the fifth force of the Joint Resistance Army on the sa level as the four continents...”
“But as the description says, there are two major camps among the human beings. The Joint Resistance Army is just one of them and the other is the Divine Fusion Empire that has joined the troops of the ancient evil god?”
The roommate wore a contemplative expression. “Blackwatch Corporation is sothing else. This ‘fusion’ is the ‘fusion virus’ epidemic from more than ten years ago, right? It was the epidemic that created countless psionicists in our human society. Now Blackwatch Corporation has put a diabolic spin to everything, demonizing the epidemic as a kind of evil god?”
“It would seem so...”
The little fat man nodded but did not have much of a response. “This isn’t a big deal. I’m okay with it. After all, Blackwatch Corporation contributed greatly during the epidemic.”
The two of them beca increasingly engrossed in their discussion and could not wait to play this ga right away. After all, based on the description, this ga would have the world’s first physics engine that fully replicated reality. Any man who harbored the dream of rushing gallantly into a battlefield would be tempted, especially in this era when the virtual reality industry was extrely developed.
The conversation between the two was just a microcosm of the ten billion people on the planet. At this ti, on the Internet, with the release of the ga trailer of Ancient Civilization, the entire world was plunged into a tsunami of astonished cries...
[What? A 3S-level virtual reality masterpiece? 100% imrsive simulation? The world’s first era-transcending online ga?]
[Following the V-series virtual reality helts and haptic shock chairs, has Blackwatch finally begun working on the concept of gaming chambers?]
[Surely I’m not dreaming? I’ve been waiting for this kind of 100% imrsive ga chamber to appear, thank God, it ca out in my lifeti. And it’s already so complete the mont it appeared!]
[Blackwatch’s developnts cannot be missed!]
[Why do we have to wait for a month? Why is there a closed beta? I won’t stand it! I want to play Ancient Civilization, I’m about to die of boredom otherwise!]
While countless people exclaid in glee, there were naturally the sa amount of voices opposing it, and most of these people opposed it because this ga turned out to be an online ga.
[It’s an online ga? Never mind then. Bye! I’m a cultured stand-alone ga player!]
[Blackwatch Corporation isn’t afraid of failing to deliver? They brag so much and I believe it if it’s a stand-alone ga, but this ga is an online ga? You can all forget about it. Online gas are always about ten years behind stand-alone gas, whether in terms of graphics quality or story.]
[OP, stop being ridiculous. You can assu so much just by watching a promotional video? What’s wrong with online gas, when has Blackwatch disappointed us?]
[Is this because they have no money to build the Dyson cloud? So, they co up with an online ga to scam money from people? Blacklight: first they get you hooked, then they make you open your wallets!]
[Stop arguing, I believe in Blackwatch. If you don’t believe that an online ga can be a high-quality product, then judge the ga when it cos out. Anyway, 100,000 devices will be given away in the first round of closed beta testing. We’ll see how good it is then!]
In addition to the voices of support and opposition, there were many voices of doubt and the point brought up by these people was that the promo was too exaggerated. It did not look like a ga at all, but more like it was shot directly with high-definition equipnt.
So people also questioned the safety of the ga chamber, believing that this kind of imrsion would endanger the player’s ntal health. In particular, the ga was also set in a dark and bloody era, so that fighting and conflict were almost inevitable.
In accordance with Blackwatch’s consistent style, the bloody images in the ga must be extrely real. If minors were playing this ga at that ti, would it not harm their frawork of values?
Countless people hold different opinions. During this period, the entire Internet beca a battlefield...
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