Volume 10: Ancient Battleship Chapter 522: Delayed Finals
"The reason why you refused so straightforwardly, could it be because..." Dr. Renee's eyes, which had been fixed on Ke Lan's face, gradually moved downwards, "Your promotion system has a pathological disorder?"
"Are you kidding?" Ke Lan suddenly had the urge to give this woman a head-crack...
"I'm not kidding. According to the information I have, you have been engaged to Zofia Soma of the Soma family for several months. However, Zofia Soma's latest physical examination report shows that she is still a virgin, so I have every reason to doubt this."
"Routine physical examinations don't include this kind of items, right..." Ke Lan stared at the other party and asked in a deep voice.
"Of course not." Dr. Renee said, "The Undead Crew only forbids us to conduct research on you, but Miss Zofia Soma's name is not included in this ban."
"What did you do to her?"
"It's just a routine physical examination, with a few additional gynecological examination items. All operations were carried out in accordance with rules and regulations. There was no overstepping of authority during the entire examination process, and Miss Soma herself was completely unaware of the real purpose of the physical examination." Dr. Renee replied.
"Hehe..." Ke Lan sneered, "I haven't touched her, so your 'examination' seems to be similar to a routine physical examination. If I had sex with her, things would not be so simple, right? Suppose... I mean suppose, if she was pregnant with my child, you would directly cut open her belly and take the embryo away, right?"
"Even among the many backup plans, this is the worst option that is least likely to be used." Dr. Renee said, "As long as Miss Soma is willing to cooperate, she will not be harmed in any way."
"Do you think I will believe you?"
"Since you have never had sex with Miss Soma, the above assumptions are completely invalid." Dr. Renee shook her head. "In addition to dysfunction, we have a second guess."
"Second guess? What does that mean?" Ke Lan looked at her with a smile and asked patiently.
"You may have already experienced reproductive isolation from ordinary humans. In order to prevent this secret from being exposed, you have never had any relationship with Miss Soma."
"???" Ke Lan felt that if there was a glass of water or coffee on his desk, he would definitely splash it on the face of this beautiful female doctor without hesitation...
"Are you done? If you are, please leave. Otherwise, I will ask the guards to take compulsory measures." Ke Lan adjusted her emotions and said coldly to Dr. Renee, "Just now, the young man turned his head and glanced at you several times. I think he will be very happy to carry out this order."
Ke Lan paused, lowered his voice slightly and said, "I can't guarantee that he won't 'accidentally' offend the doctor when he carries out the order."
"If you change your mind, you can come to me anytime." Dr. Renee looked at Ke Lan deeply, and after saying this classic line, she turned and walked out of the office.
Seen from behind, Dr. Renee had a perfect buttock shape, and her legs wrapped in black stockings were straight and slender. The lace edges of the stockings tightly hugged her plump legs, perfectly poking Ke Lan's XP system - however, at this moment, Ke Lan had no thoughts of that kind at all about this woman. He even hoped that this woman would disappear from this world as soon as possible and never appear again.
Thinking of this, Ke Lan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he was not the kind of person who would lose his mind after being possessed by the golden bug - if something really happened between him and Zofia, Zofia would probably be in danger at this time.
Although the Undead Crew can protect himself, his companions and friends are not included in this list. This time, the Research Institute can modify Zofia's physical examination items at will, and next time they may use other people as bargaining chips to threaten himself - what Ke Lan has been worried about has finally happened.
With his current abilities, he would never be able to compete with the institute unless he controlled "Aguna Tor" to crash into the institute's headquarters. The only way to protect the people around him is to rely on the power of the Undead Crew.
Or, just become a member of the Undead Crew.
The secrets of those members of the Undead Crew are no less than their own, but the lunatics in the research institute never dare to take advantage of them.
"The Undead Crew will probably know what the research institute has done, but I still have to protest to them, at least to get them to express their stance." Ke Lan thought to himself. No one could be sure what measures the research institute would take to force him to "submit" after the "seduction" failed.
You have to know that he is now a reserve member of the Undead Crew. If he is manipulated by a group of lunatics in white coats, it will be a loss of face for the Undead Crew... Although he is not sure whether these people in the Undead Crew care about the thing called "face".
He took out his cell phone and planned to call Demeter to complain, but as soon as he turned on the screen, Ye Yan's email came.
Although the official account of the Ye Group was used, the tone between the lines immediately revealed that the email was written by the fat man. In addition to a copy-and-pasted notice of the finals and semi-finals, there was a detailed explanation of the competition system of more than a thousand words written below, and a large number of pictures, videos and modeling files were stuffed in the attachments.
Only then did Ke Lan remember that the mecha competition finals, which had been forced to be suspended due to trouble caused by Mann and the Dark Crow Club, would be re-matched soon.
In addition to Ke Lan, other clubs and teams that qualified for the finals also received notification emails from the Ye Group - the rematch system that had been kept secret was finally made public today.
"The final rematch will be held on the virtual battle platform." Ke Lan was stunned when she saw this line of words. "Virtual battle platform"? Are they planning to use the mecha battle game to decide the winner? Isn't this a bit too hasty?
Could it be that the Ye Group’s budget was insufficient, so they had to make concessions? After all, rebuilding a finals arena would require a lot of resources.
But when Ke Lan continued to watch, he found that he was wrong - the cost of this virtual battle platform was not less than that of building a real finals arena. The Ye Group, together with the military and the research institute, developed a new simulated battlefield training system, and this final rematch was the first time this training system was unveiled to the public.
Unlike previous virtual training programs that were closer to games , this training system used a "mind immersion" access terminal. Just like the "trial" that Ke Lan conducted using the Blasphemer mecha under the bottomless cemetery, people who accessed this training system would be completely immersed in a virtual world - this scene that had appeared in many science fiction works had finally been put into practical application.
In the old era, from the 20th century to the 21st century, a large number of such themes appeared on the screen. Ke Lan alone has seen more than a dozen films such as "The Matrix", " Ready Player One", and "Sword Art Online". In that era, people thought that after AR and VR, human consciousness would soon be fully connected to the virtual world...
But after a series of painful lessons, people gradually realized that true "total immersion" is completely different from AR, VR and other virtual reality effects that rely solely on external devices. The human brain is too sophisticated and complex. Among the first group of people who participated in the immersion experiment, only three people successfully woke up, but even so, their brains suffered irreversible damage.
To this day, the brain is still a forbidden area in human body modification surgery. Although many modified humans have installed a "brain-computer interface", this "brain-computer interface" cannot connect human consciousness to the virtual world. It is just a more complex "control switch".
The so-called "brain-computer interface" relies on capturing the special neural current signals emitted by the brain to control the devices or instruments connected to it, while the "full immersion" technology is exactly the opposite. It not only needs to receive feedback signals from the brain, but more importantly, it needs to input the things written in the computer program into the human brain, while blocking the real senses, allowing the person to "see" things in the virtual world, "hear" sounds in the virtual world, and "smell" tastes in the virtual world...
If it were just pictures, sounds and smells, the difficulty would not be too outrageous, but when various factors in reality are added together, the information flow is very terrifying. If the output is not well controlled, it will easily burn the user's brain directly as described in "Sword Art Online".
Ke Lan knew that the research institute had been conducting experiments in this regard, but he did not expect that this thing would be brought to the forefront in such a way.
I just don't know how safe this "virtual battle platform" is... But considering that this is an important game with a viewership rate of over 70%, if there are safety risks in this thing, the Ye Group should not agree to complete the rematch in this way.
It would be hilarious if a contestant's brain got fried by a machine during a live broadcast of the competition.
Ke Lan continued reading. In addition to the official equipment parameters and functions, Ye Yan also attached his own feelings in the email.
As early as when these devices were just delivered to the Ye Group, this fearless fat man had already volunteered to experience them.
"Brother Ke Lan, there is one thing I must tell you. This thing... is really fucking life-threatening." Ye Yan wrote in the email, "Although I am afraid of pain and have only adjusted my sensory sensitivity to 15%, the moment I was hit by the bullet, I almost went into shock from the pain."
As if afraid that Ke Lan would not believe it, Ye Yan also attached a video shot from a first-person perspective: after a loud gunshot, his perspective suddenly shook violently, and then it stopped as if the camera had jammed, and it took several seconds to recover.
There is no health bar in this virtual world, but when a bullet hits a part of the body, the effect of the bullet will be calculated comprehensively based on multiple factors such as bullet speed, bullet diameter and kinetic energy, incident angle, and hit location, and the result will be fed back to the user.
The person who is shot will not only feel great pain, but his physical movements will also be restricted accordingly. If the wound is not treated in time, various conditions such as blood loss, ulceration, infection, etc. may occur... until the character dies.
According to the Ye Group’s promotional content, this kind of calculation can even be accurate to every muscle and every blood vessel, and the characters in the virtual world are almost indistinguishable from real people.
In this way, the situation in the game where "you are beaten to only 1 HP left, but you are still alive and kicking, and finally rely on positioning and operation to counterattack and escape" will never happen.
"Brother Ke Lan, there is one thing I must emphasize again. During the official competition, the sensitivity is set to 100%... and in the virtual battle, contestants are allowed to kill their opponents."
