Chapter 060 "Another Possibility" Promotional Video 2
He originally thought that this special mission to find the homeless man was personally assigned by the Red Priest and should be extremely important. So after the mission failed, he was mentally prepared to bear the consequences.
But unexpectedly, the red priest did not punish him.
Grantham was not sure whether it was because the task itself was not particularly important and there were other alternative options, or because Grantham had more important tasks to do and so the matter was not pursued.
But no matter what, the last words of the red priest made Grantham feel extremely excited.
The position of the chief priest of the Knights of Time and Space has always been vacant. This is because the most powerful red priest in the sect has never intended to become the chief priest, and has always believed that Epsilon will return.
In this case, as long as Grantham can actually obtain some tools and then get the nod from the red priest, he will become the new black priest, there is great hope!
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Wednesday, May 7th.
The rebel wilderness base.
Du Guanqi woke up on time at 7 o'clock in the morning.
He had a very regular schedule and biological clock. Although he had been worried all day because of being hunted by the Fujido Group some time ago, which prevented him from getting enough rest, he had gotten enough rest after arriving at the rebels' base in the wilderness, so he quickly adjusted his schedule.
What's more, these rebel soldiers have a more regular schedule than him.
After a simple wash, Du Guanqi went to the barracks which served as a restaurant through the underground passage connecting the barracks.
In the wilderness, water is not a big problem, especially if you have a base vehicle.
Although time snow contains a certain amount of space-time particles, which are harmful to ordinary people, these space-time particles will gradually disappear with the passage of time. Apart from the space-time particles, time snow is no different in essence from ordinary snow.
Due to the special technological line in this world, there is no serious pollution in the wilderness.
After being purified by special equipment in the base, the time snow can be turned into daily living water and drinking water.
Food was a big problem in the wilderness, but the rebels had already purchased a large amount of portable rations from Dawn City. Although the taste was not very good, at least they would not starve, and the basic nutrition required by the human body could still be guaranteed.
The base vehicle is equipped with a miniature tunnel boring machine that can build narrow underground passages between buildings.
Although the space-time particles in the time snow will continue to penetrate into the ground, causing a certain degree of corrosion to underground buildings, the degree of corrosion is still much weaker than that of the time snow on the surface.
Therefore, most field bases have intricate underground passages that connect barracks and various key buildings, allowing maintenance personnel in the base to easily travel to various buildings in the base.
After arriving at the restaurant, the resistance fighters greeted him one after another: "Good morning, Mr. Guanqi."
Du Guanqi also smiled and nodded: "Good morning, everyone."
Although Du Guanqi had some estrangement towards these resistance fighters at the beginning, after all, he had never really dealt with the resistance before, and only heard about some attacks on large conglomerates by the resistance in the news. Under the distortion and smearing of the media, it was difficult for Du Guanqi to know the true appearance of these resistance fighters.
After spending a few days together, Du Guanqi discovered that these rebel soldiers, like himself, were idealists who were willing to sacrifice their lives to change the world. Although the two sides might not agree on some concepts, this similarity in belief still allowed the two sides to get along very well.
Everyone was eating portable food that tasted pretty bad. There was no enjoyment of fine food at all, so they all chatted to kill time.
A resistance fighter reminded: "Mr. Guanqi, the convoy delivered another batch of supplies this morning. Among them are some new Super Dreams developed by our Lishan Technology called "Another Possibility."
"The games in these game pods are all training versions of "Ember of the Dead". They are completely difficult and the negative emotions are set very high. If you are not used to it, you can also play the new Mewtwo. It is said that there is no combat content in it."
"But we still have to use "Ember of the Dead" and "Desperate Struggle" for daily training, so we haven't played this new Mewtwo yet. You can try it if you are interested."
"Oh, by the way. It is said that the physical version shipped this time seems to be a 100% emotional transmission version. If you are afraid that the negative emotions are too strong, you can also download the digital version from the Internet to experience it first."
The Internet in this world is built on hash space, and transmits data through the magical properties of space-time particles. Therefore, the biggest advantage is that you don’t have to worry about being out of network no matter where you are in the world.
After the Super Dream Game Cabin is pulled to the base in the wilderness, you can connect to the Internet for the experience as long as it is powered on.
Of course, for safety reasons, the field base is full of shackles and game cabins. And some settings for connecting to the hash space are restricted to minimize the risk of being found along the network cable.
Du Guanqi nodded: "Okay, I'll try the digital version first in a while."
During this period, he had nothing to do all day so he played "Ember of Demise ", but the progress was very slow.
After all, Du Guanqi is an ordinary person without any special abilities, and he is not a master of cold weapon combat like Li Yunhan. His only advantage may be that he has a strong will and can endure suffering, and he can persist even if he dies hundreds of times in Mewtwo.
But even so, Du Guanqi was still deeply attracted by the unique world view of "Embers Are Going Out". At this time, his attention was all focused on the Mewtwo in "Embers Are Going Out", and he was not very interested in the so-called new Mewtwo.
What's more, when Du Guanqi heard that it was 100% emotional transmission, he felt a little scared.
Because only Black Mewtwo dares to do this, the law stipulates that the negative emotion transmission of a regular Mewtwo can only be 30%. Although the transmission of positive emotions is a little higher, it cannot reach 100%.
The reason is simple: Repeatedly experiencing some strong positive emotions, such as extreme dreamlike happiness, can also have some negative effects and is risky.
If we deliberately emphasize the transmission of positive or negative emotions, it will dilute Mewtwo's technicality to a certain extent, and enter a vicious cycle of mindlessly stacking pleasure.
So when Du Guanqi heard that the physical version of Mewtwo that was delivered was 100% emotional transmission, he was a little repulsive. He thought about trying the online version of digital Mewtwo, which has less negative emotions, first, and if he felt that the content was okay, then try the physical version.
The resistance fighters also talked about other things, such as daily patrols, maintenance of field bases, development plans of Lishan Technology, whether the new shackles bracelets were easy to use, and when to attack the big consortium, etc.
After the meal, the rebel fighters who were responsible for patrolling and reconnaissance nearby put on their combat uniforms and left, while the others returned to their respective posts. Those who had no tasks for the time being came to the training area with Du Guanqi.
The so-called training area is actually a barracks, but it is filled with game cabins.
The rebels experience "Out of this World" and "The Last Embers" in it every day to hone their combat skills.
The "Desperate Struggle" used for resistance training is an unmodified version, which is closer to the real war, so it still has certain training value for the resistance fighters.
Du Guanqi also came to the Super Dream game cabin that he often used and lay down in it.
I have to say that the shape of this high-tech coffin is a bit strange. Du Guanqi was not used to it at first, but he got used to it after playing with it more.
After searching, Du Guanqi quickly found the new digital version of Mewtwo "Another Possibility" which was just released by Lishan Technology not long ago.
This name made Du Guanqi feel a little confused. It was different from the style of other Mewtwo, which made people ask: What kind of possibility is this?
This Mewtwo is classified as an experience-type Mewtwo, and experience-type Mewtwo and role-playing Mewtwo are two completely different categories, with many differences in relevant operating rules and specific standards.
The same is true for publicity methods.
The promotion of role-playing Mewtwo is mainly to quickly show players the world view constructed by this Mewtwo through a special space. Because role-playing Mewtwo often does not have a specific plot, how to act depends on the player himself.
As long as the world view is presented, players can roughly imagine themselves fighting bloody battles in this world, thus achieving the effect that Mewtwo's developers want.
The promotion of the experiential Mewtwo is to show the audience some clips from Mewtwo in a form similar to a promotional video.
Because the main goal of experiential Mewtwo is to tell a good story and allow the audience to experience the entire story from the protagonist's perspective.
Therefore, showing the world view like the role-playing Mewtwo may have a spoiler effect and fail to show the excitement of the plot. It is necessary to use some exciting clips to make the audience have enough expectations for this Mewtwo.
Soon, Du Guanqi traveled to the promotional video of Mewtwo as if in a dream.
His first feeling was cold, very cold.
The homeless man was shivering with cold all over, with only very thin clothes that were completely unable to keep out the cold, and in the iron barrel in front of him, there seemed to be some garbage burning, with a pungent smell wafting in. But the blazing flames could provide some warmth in this biting cold.
Du Guanqi soon discovered that this Mewtwo was completely different from other Mewtwo because it was not a first-person perspective.
The vast majority of Mewtwo on the market are in the first-person perspective, because this can enhance the player's or audience's sense of immersion.
If it was a first-person perspective, Du Guanqi should have possessed the beggar at this time, rubbing his hands helplessly while warming himself by the fire.
But at this moment, Du Guanqi seemed like a ghost or camera floating in the sky. He could see the homeless man warming himself by the fire next to the iron barrel, the homeless man shivering from the cold, and many details about his body, but he was not really possessed.
As for the homeless people in this world, they obviously cannot see the existence of Du Guanqi.
However, although it was a third-person perspective, Du Guanqi could still feel all the negative emotions of the homeless man.
Whether it was the biting cold, the despair about the uncertainty of tomorrow's life, or some scattered good memories in his memory that kept flashing in Du Guanqi's mind.
Of course, since the online version of Mewtwo can only transmit up to 10% of the emotions, this emotion is not strong, but it serves as a background that subtly influences Du Guanqi's inner world.
Then, the homeless man looked outside while warming himself by the fire.
He was in a bridge tunnel, and there were many homeless people like him living there.
Outside the bridge, snowflakes were falling, and many pedestrians were walking in the snow in ordinary clothes. Snowflakes piled on their heads and shoulders, and they patted them off lightly, as if it was a natural and reasonable thing.
No one took a second look at the homeless man under the bridge, and when the homeless man looked at the outside world, he seemed to feel that there was an invisible barrier cruelly separating them.
Du Guanqi was shocked as soon as the promotional video opened.
Because this Mewtwo is obviously very different from other Mewtwo, and it can even be said that it is completely different from most of the role-playing Mewtwo on the market.
The opening was a thunderbolt, using the negative emotions of beggars to discourage many people from entering.
The use of the third-person perspective deprives the audience of their sense of immersion, but at the same time still transmits negative emotions to the audience.
Of course, what shocked Du Guanqi the most was that this world looked somewhat similar to the real world, but in fact it was completely different.
In the real world, snow is a very scary thing, because time snow can quickly corrode the human body and make people age. So in big cities, under the cover of energy barriers, you won't see snowflakes.
In the wilderness, for those wanderers who have experienced life and death, time snow is also a very scary thing. They must take adequate protective measures every time they go to the wilderness.
The people in Mewtwo are obviously not bothered by the time snow. They just calmly shake off the snow on their bodies.
There were even some children making snowmen and having snowball fights in the snow.
In the real world, these scenes are distant memories that existed in textbooks or images from old times before the Silver Star Calendar.
Before Du Guanqi had time to think carefully, the scene of the promotional video changed again.
He saw a small vendor working hard to run his bar, but a group of thugs broke in and not only smashed his shop, but also beat him up.
The negative emotions of being beaten and the feeling of despair were also transmitted to Du Guanqi, who of course still witnessed the whole process from a third-person perspective.
Then, Du Guanqi saw a group of thugs lying in the snow after being hacked to death in a street fight.
I could feel the pain from the knife wounds on my body turning into numbness, and my consciousness was becoming blurred as the blood continued to flow out.
A complex emotion filled with confusion surged into my heart.
As the gangster lying on the snow gradually closed his eyes, the promotional video ended here.
At the end of the promotional video, Mewtwo's name and slogan appeared in Du Guanqi's vision.
"Another Possibility": Exposing the ugly "pastoral world"!
Seeing this slogan, Du Guanqi instantly understood the meaning of the name of this Mewtwo and felt a little uncomfortable.
In the trailer, there are scenes of snow and some daily details in this virtual world, which are enough to show that the world in Chaomeng is different from the real world where Du Guanqi lives.
The biggest difference is that there seems to be no time snow and space-time activities in this virtual world, which also means that there are no space-time particles.
Then the whole world will inevitably look different.
So "another possibility" actually means what the world will be like if there are no space-time activities and space-time particles?
Isn’t this what everyone calls the pastoral era?
Moreover, compared with the pastoral era that everyone imagines, the technology in this world of Mewtwo is more advanced.
Because the pastoral era of this world refers to more than 150 years ago, when time and space activities had not yet begun.
In 1900, mankind had just entered the so-called electrical age. The emergence of the internal combustion engine allowed people to quickly reach every corner of the earth through transportation such as airplanes and ships. The emergence of the telephone also changed the way people communicated. Everything seemed to be moving towards a perfect script.
But then space-time activities appeared, and this wonderful trend was completely interrupted. The time was changed from 1900 in the old calendar to the first year of the Silver Star Calendar.
In the 153 years since then, the original technology has been completely overturned. People have turned their research back to space-time particles. Frequent space-time activities and various drastic changes have also caused earth-shaking changes in the original world structure.
The old land eventually became an old land ruled by plutocracy.
And those who lived on the old land also faced a different fate.
Although many people in this era have completely forgotten the history before the Silver Star Calendar, after all, there is a barrier called "wealth" to the acquisition of knowledge. But everyone still thinks that it was a beautiful pastoral era, and everything remained in its most perfect state.
However, this Mewtwo mercilessly mocks that idyllic era.
Mewtwo's promotional slogan describes this world as a pastoral world, that is, the world after normal development in the pastoral era of the past.
Indeed, although the skyscrapers and some technological products in this world do not contain space-time particles, they are still incredible enough compared to the technological level of the pastoral era.
But in this idyllic world, the homeless are still poorly clothed and hungry, and can only burn garbage under the bridge to keep warm and prevent themselves from freezing to death.
Pedestrians on the road are still indifferent, street vendors are still bullied by gangsters, and those gangsters who are desperate have lost their lives in gang conflicts again and again.
Except that people can shake off the time snow on their bodies at will, everything seems to be no different from the real world where Du Guanqi lives.
This obviously made Du Guanqi feel unacceptable.
Even the producer of "Embers Are Going Out" can't talk nonsense.
Obviously, "The Embers Are Going Out" is set in a fictional world, so there are no major problems with the world view. This time, the world view was changed, and many common sense mistakes were immediately made.
Du Guanqi was not convinced, but he still decided to enter this super dream to experience it and criticize it.
