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Is This Really A Game? - Chapter 213

Published at 27th of June 2023 06:56:44 AM


Chapter 213

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It is impossible to try it yourself.

Lucius is such a cautious person, how can he treat himself as a guinea pig?

Apart from anything else, a little player from the intelligence department was called, and Lucius backhanded the things that Tom threw to him, and threw it to this little player.

"Try it on."

Although Big Eyes in Debt who received the earphones was confused, he quickly reacted and hung the earphones on his ears excitedly.

Hidden missions!

And it still looks like the kind of gift equipment!

Can he miss such a good thing?

Putting the equipment on, he immediately asked impatiently.

"My Dear Manager, what's the next step? What should I do?"

Lucius looked at Tom.

Although he felt helpless for Lucius's overly cautious move, the guy didn't say anything, turned around and walked into the nursing home, found a flat enemy, put the robot down, and then turned on the power switch behind it.

After clapping his hands and getting up, Tom made a gesture of invitation, and said in a way he thought was concise.

"First flip the switch on the connected device, then you try to imagine that you are a... er, a four-legged animal, and then use a strong mental urge to swing your limbs forward, trying to project your thoughts as hard as possible. on the machine."

Lucius: "...?"

Due to too many slots, he didn't know where to start complaining for a while.

Boss Sumeria was straightforward. After listening to it, she let out a laugh and crossed her arms and made a joke.

"Do you mean to say imagine yourself as a dog?"

Tom shrugged, but didn't take this ridicule to heart.

"Although I have added a gait adaptive program to the robot, the basic instructions still have to be conveyed by nerve signals. Directly waving the limbs is the most convenient choice, if you really can't master the knack of mind-driven."

Sumeria made a complaint and said.

"I always feel that you are doing superfluous things. It is better to give me a tablet operation."

Of course she couldn't afford such expensive equipment, but some mercenary regiments in Boulder City still had this requirement.

Although she has never touched it herself, she has seen others use it, and it seems very simple.

"What do you know?" Tom said with a smile, "Once you master the tricks of using it, the complex operations it can achieve are far beyond your imagination!"

Looking at the expectant little player, Lucius was silent for a while, and decided to express it in a more euphemistic way.

After adjusting the look on his face, he said with a serious expression.

"Turn on the switch on the earphone and feel it with your heart."

Big Eyes in Debt stared blankly.

What does it mean to feel with your heart?

However, although he was confused, he reached out and pushed on the earphone, and pressed the switch.

The signal light flickered slightly, and the red light turned into a green light.

Immediately afterwards, an incredible scene happened!

As if the robot had come to life, it jumped up from the ground with a jerk, stomped its four mechanical legs on the spot, and dragged its square-headed and square-brained body around.

With his big eyes covering his ears with his right hand, he was startled, and stared at the quadruped robot with a surprised expression.

"F*ck! F*ck! What's going on?!"

This feeling is amazing!

It was as if part of his thoughts were projected onto the circuit board, and the circuit board converted part of the electrical signals into nerve signals, creating a "Mirror image" in his brain!

He can perceive the existence of the robot, and even the rotation of the motor, but this is not based on a series of perceptions in the conventional sense such as touch, vision, etc., but a kind of perception that is closer to "Intuition". exist!

Slowly, he began to find the knack of controlling this machine, and the four-legged robot that was flailing its limbs gradually became more honest.

Those who are indebted can simply close their eyes, keep in mind the "Teaching" of the manager, and feel the unprecedented sixth sense with their hearts.

When he began to try to understand this feeling, the quadruped robot seemed to become his arm, a part of his flesh and blood!

The "VM same model" laser sensor distributed on the robot can continuously survey and map the space within 5m by intermittently emitting lasers of a specific frequency, scanning the surrounding terrain, doors, windows, obstacles, bunkers, etc. A three-dimensional image of the network structure.

He could clearly see that picture in his mind!

Although not through the eyes, it is more accurate than the eyes!

Standing aside with arms folded, Tom looked at the little player who was getting familiar with the operation in surprise, with a look of interest in his eyes.

"Huh? This person's nervous system is a little high."

"To be honest, it exceeded my expectations. I thought he would have to work hard to lift a mechanical leg."

It turned out that this guy had fully mastered the tricks of using the neural access device in less than a minute!

This is too incredible!

It was so unbelievable that Tom felt a little outrageous.

Even in the pre-war society, such a talent is definitely one of the best geniuses! If it was in the academy, there would definitely be someone willing to accept him as a disciple and train him as an F-level researcher or prospector.

Lucius smiled lightly, thinking that he still had a dozen of such small players.

After a pause, he ordered.

"Move the robot into the room fact."

Lucius needs to understand the ability of this robot to move outside the field of vision.

"Okay!"

I've wanted to do this for a long time. After getting the order, Big Eyes in Debt with eyes closed immediately controlled the quadruped robot, flapping its four legs, nimbly sneaked into the room next to it, and nimbly crossed the ground obstacles, completed the scanning of the environment in the room.

The scanned images will be synced to the VM and contributed to nearby teammates.

If it is within the signal coverage area of ​​the shelter, it can also be uploaded to the shelter server and shared with other players simultaneously.

During the two-minute test, Lucius gave an evaluation in his heart.

This thing is simply an artifact of detection!

It would be even more perfect if you could weld an LD-47 on top of your head!

"That's enough, let him stop. I'm worried that his brain won't be able to take it anymore. Any nerve connection equipment will put a load on the nervous system, especially the external connection equipment." Tom looked at Lucius and reminded Said.

Lucius asked.

"How long is the limit?"

"Limit?"

Tom froze for a moment, hesitated for a moment, and continued.

"I don't recommend using it for more than 60 seconds, but what is the specific limit...I don't know, this varies from person to person. Some people have an active nervous system and can last longer, but if there is a congenital nervous system defect, maybe Can't even last 60 seconds."

Lucius checked Big Eyes in Debt's attribute panel, and found that his level was LV7, intelligence sequence, and his attribute was 10 points.

According to statistical observations, from LV0 to LV9, the 9-time sequence level upgrade, the rule of adding points is usually 5-6 points for the main attribute and 3-4 points for other attributes.

Generally above LV6, the main attribute can break 10.

This player called Big Eyes in Debt has an intelligence attribute of just 10, which is quite a reference.

Lucius wanted to know where his limit was.

"It's okay, I want to see how long he can last."

Tom looked at Lucius in surprise, as if he was looking at a lunatic.

Sumeria didn't feel anything, after all, she was already used to it.

As she often comes into contact with corpses, she can somewhat sense that these players may be clones, or something similar.

But so what?

Clones are no big news in the wasteland.

To this day, she still believes in certain rumors—that there is some kind of technology in this wasteland that can synthesize a normal person in one day, and such technology is probably hidden in the small boulder city.

Otherwise, it is completely impossible to explain why so many people die in the slums every year, but the population never decreased, but increase.

This is too strange!

Regardless of what the two of them thought, Lucius was very calm in his heart.

Not only does he know all the secrets of these players, but he also knows that they are not afraid of pain, and theoretically they can withstand damage better than ordinary wastelanders.

Sure enough, the little player in front of him did not disappoint him, and he persisted for a full ten minutes before he began to feel a sense of dizziness hitting his brain.

Noticing his trance, Lucius immediately ordered him to turn off the power of the earphones and disconnect the link with the little robot.

After losing the link, the quadruped robot did not shut down immediately, but entered the standby mode. According to the preset command, it gathered its four fragile mechanical legs and disguised itself as a square-headed, square-brained, ordinary metal Block - although anyone with a discerning eye can see that this thing is not simple.

"My head is a little dizzy, Mr. Manager." Big Eyes in Debt shook his head, worried about the failure of the mission, and looked at Lucius nervously, "...I think I should be able to hold on for a while, May I try again?"

Lucius looked at him encouragingly and said.

"No, you've done a good job, let's rest for a while."

"OK."

The little player nodded, he really needed to take a break.

Just a moment ago, he actually disconnected and bounced out of the game.

If he hadn't logged in quickly enough, he would have been lying on the ground by now.

"Unbelievable... ten minutes!"

With an expression of disbelief on Tom's face, he looked at Lucius in surprise, and couldn't help asking, "Could it be that his pain nerve has been removed?"

Neural connection overload, the first symptom is a headache, the brain starts to sound an alarm, followed by unbearable pain, and finally a trance or even a coma.

Almost no one can make it to the end, and they often take off the earphones when the pain becomes unbearable.

However, that person completely skipped the first two stages!

Honestly, he doesn't think that's a good thing.

Losing the sense of pain will also mean losing the early warning.

However, Lucius, who was standing next to him, was thinking about something completely different from him at the moment.

Obviously, the higher the intelligence attribute of the player, the longer the ability to manipulate and control the neural connection device.

If so...

It should be more reasonable to set the minimum attribute requirement of this piece of equipment to 10 intelligence points.

Touching his chin, Lucius answered Tom's question perfunctorily.

"It's possible, but my guess is that it's not that he doesn't feel pain, it's just that the transmission of pain signals to the conscious body is blocked, so he simply doesn't feel 'Pain'... But let's not discuss this right now question."

Pausing for a moment, he looked away from Big Eyes in Debt who was shaking his head against the wall and stood firm, Lucius looked at Tom and continued.

"Your battery life is still a bit worrying. What can you do with ten minutes? Can't you find a way to make the time longer?"

Tom was speechless.

"What are you not satisfied with if you can get ten minutes of pseudo-intellectual AI?"

"Intellectual AI?"

"Singularity technology is very troublesome to explain... All in all, the original meaning of the neural access device is not to allow you to turn it on all the time, but to directly operate the device instead of AI at critical times, and complete some tasks that AI cannot. The operation or judgment realized.”

After a pause, looking at the robot on the ground, Tom continued.

"This thing is just an experimental machine, and I will develop a set of practical elementary AI for it in the future, so that it can recognize a few simple instructions, return to the original path, stand by in place, follow the target, etc. when the neural connection is interrupted. Operation. Well, I plan to put a camera on it in the future, and use it in combination with laser mapping."

Hearing this sentence, Lucius's heart moved, and he asked immediately.

"Do you have a way to make a video camera?"

Tom gave Lucius a strange look.

"Of course, it would, what's so difficult about it? Security cameras can be found in many facilities, of all sizes and resolutions, some are still working two hundred years later...although most of them are broken, but it’s not too much trouble to find some parts and repair it.”

The communication chip is also easy to handle.

VM is like a miniature computer. Many components are integrated into the graphene circuit board, and many things can be used by changing them.

Including the processor and laser mapping system on this quadruped robot, they were all removed from the VM.

Lucius stared at him with straight eyes, and spoke for a while.

"It's that simple?"

Tom scratched the back of his head.

"Uh, a little basic knowledge is needed, but not too profound knowledge. The academy will send each prospector a 1.2G "Wasteland Survival Guide", which will record some wasteland in the form of pictures and texts." Easy to obtain and useable parts and more advanced transformation knowledge, such as making some simple weapons, explosives, fuel, and emergency medicine. The use of optical components and graphene circuit boards may be a little more advanced, which requires Some basic tools, but it is still not a big problem for prospectors above E level."

Lucius: "..."

MMP!

Why didn't you tell me about this good thing sooner?

It's not that Lucius hadn't thought about recycling the cameras in the bank building and other facilities before, and even asked knowledgeable players to pick up two and study them, but after taking them apart, he looked confused.

In the electronic equipment of pre-war civilization, carbon-based chips have a high penetration rate, and have even replaced traditional silicon-based chips to a large extent. And this kind of camera adopts neither the CMOS device in the traditional sense nor the CCD component.

Many players on the forum have communicated about this problem and tried to fix it, but the final conclusions are nothing more than "A design that seems to have a lot of brain holes" and "operators don't know how to edit it".

After all, there is a generation gap in science and technology, and the difference has been more than a century, and there may even be a "Technical explosion" in the middle.

This is far from being able to understand by picking up two things and taking them apart.

In the end, only the coated lens of the lens part of these cameras can be recycled. In the weapon shop of the outpost, many optical sights come from this way.

Sumeria, who used to be a mercenary, is very good at making this kind of thing, and his proficiency is probably similar to Tom's proficiency in the work of "analyzing pre-war civilization data".

Looking eagerly at Dr. Tom, Lucius immediately asked: "The skill book... I mean, do you have the "Guide to Surviving the Wasteland" with you?"

Tom was stunned for a moment, nodded, and said.

"That thing? I haven't used it since I was promoted to D-level. I guess it's still at home... But if you need it, I can sort it out for you, but it may take some time."

Lucius's eyes lit up.

"It's okay! I can wait!"

Scavengers skill +3 - oh no, it might be a +5 skill book!

How could he let go of such a good thing!

Not only the player can be used as a reference, but his NPCs can also be used as teaching materials.

It doesn't matter even if you can't learn the essence of it, at least you can know what kind of garbage in the wasteland is valuable, and what is the use of picking it up.

That alone is worth it!

The little player standing next to him watched the exchange between the manager and Dr. Tom, with a confused expression on his face.

Since there were no subtitles, he didn't understand the cutscene after watching it for a long time.

In other words, is this mission completed?

Finally unable to hold back anymore, Big Eyes in Debt cleared his throat, and was about to ask.

However, at this moment, the two NPCs seemed to have reached a consensus. Among them, Dr. Tom hugged the robot, and the manager looked at him seriously.

"Thank you for your assistance!"

"Thanks to your help, we now have a new understanding of neural access devices, and a new batch of equipment will hit store shelves in the near future."

"The task reward has been distributed to VM, I wish you a happy life today!"

Big Eyes in Debt: "???"

This is gone?!

Seeing that the manager took back his earphones, turned around and was about to leave, Big Eyes in Debt suddenly became anxious, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his heart, and he shouted out of haste.

"Master Manager, I think that equipment has serious design flaws!"

Hearing this sentence, the manager stopped in his tracks, turned around and looked at him strangely.

"What design flaw?"

Big Eyes in Debt said immediately.

"Dropped! No, it should be dizzy! When I was operating that robot just now, I suddenly felt a strong dizziness and almost passed out!"

Hey.

I thought it was something.

Lucius smiled, looked at this warm-hearted little player and said.

"Neural access devices are all like this. Prolonged use will cause a certain degree of load on the brain, let alone the equipment that has not yet been developed—"

"I would like to be a tester for new equipment!"

Before he finished speaking, the little player said solemnly.

"Dear Manager, as a member of shelter 404, I am ready to sacrifice for our cause! For the revival of the People's Federation, please allow me to contribute to the research and development of the shelter Army equipment. strength!"

Seeing the longing expression on the face of the little player in front of him, Lucius was slightly stunned, and instantly understood what this guy was thinking.

Good guy.

After laying the groundwork for so long, it turned out that I wanted to prostitute a godly costume for nothing!

But……

It's not impossible.

Lucius was also very curious about how the little guy in Tom's arms performed on the battlefield.

Since someone volunteered to be a guinea pig.

It also saves him to post the task especially.

After pondering for a while, Lucius looked at Tom.

"Do you need an equipment tester?"





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