Volume 10: Ancient Battleship Chapter 523: Fully Immersed System
"If they were killed instantly, then it would only be a moment of pain... But I'm afraid of the situation where they are seriously injured but still hanging on to their last breath but can't die, and their mental state is also clear... Just the thought of it makes my heart tremble."
If your heart is not in good condition, it's because you are overweight... Ke Lan complained in his heart. Even if this kind of immersive device in the virtual world can restore the real feeling 100%, the protection mechanism of the human brain can still take effect. If you really suffer unbearable pain, this protection mechanism will automatically take effect -
First, a sufficient amount of "endorphin" is secreted. This is a biochemical synthetic hormone similar to morphine that can bind to morphine receptors to produce analgesic effects. It is a "painkiller" produced by the human body itself.
If the situation is so serious that even endorphins cannot solve the problem, the brain will directly choose to "unplug the network cable", which is commonly known as "protective syncope". This situation is reflected in the virtual world, which is almost the same as the game character being disconnected.
In any case, at least the user's body will not be harmed in the real world. Compared with fighting with real swords and guns, this fully immersive system is much safer.
At least there won't be vicious incidents like Mann's, who tried to use loopholes in the game to kill people and silence them - even if someone wants to torture the opponent, the tortured party can disconnect by voluntarily giving up... and in reality, giving up resistance will only make you die faster.
"I just don't know how realistic this device is..." Ke Lan can be sure that the operating cost of this platform must be extremely high at this stage. It is not cost-effective to use it to train ordinary soldiers, but if it is used to train elite pilots, special forces or warship pilots, then this deal is definitely a win-win - after all, it is obvious which is more valuable, a piece of data or a real warship.
With the subsequent development of the virtual immersion system, this thing can even be used for battle simulations... With the computing power of the Ark's core brain, it should be more than enough to handle the data streams of several fleets and hundreds of thousands of ground troops.
"Well, no matter what I say, you can only know that feeling if you experience it yourself, so I used all the connections and resources I could to get you an immersion chamber in advance. By the time you receive this email, the stuff should be almost delivered to Fleet Zero."
Seeing this, Ke Lan couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth - this fat man was taking credit for himself again. If it weren't for the tacit consent of the Ye Group, with his resources, it might be okay to send himself two prototype skeletons, but this kind of immersion cabin involving core secrets would absolutely not be taken out of the competition venue, let alone transferred to others in a private name.
This immersion cabin was probably sent by the Ye Group specifically to show goodwill to me. After all, both parties are now in the "honeymoon period" of cooperation, and I have just given them such a big gift. Naturally, the Ye Group would understand the principle of reciprocity.
Ke Lan quickly finished reading the instructions attached to the email, and at this moment, the phone on the desk rang.
"Mr. Ke Lan, there is a shipment of supplies sent by the Ark that needs your personal signature. The sender is Ye Yan from the Ye Group."
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"New Dawn", Medical Room No. 1.
Although Ye Yan repeatedly assured in the email that there was absolutely no problem with the safety of the immersion chamber, to be on the safe side, Ke Lan still chose the medical room as the testing location.
If he is lucky enough and something unexpected happens, it would be easier to rescue him here.
It's never wrong to prepare for the worst in everything.
The immersion chamber was placed in a standard freight container. Although the main body of the immersion chamber was just a "metal coffin" more than three meters long, the attached terminal server was enough to fill up the originally spacious Medical Room No. 1.
This big guy reminded Ke Lan of the first electronic computer in human history - the "ENIAC" which weighed more than 30 tons and occupied 170 square meters.
The size and weight of the auxiliary equipment of this immersion chamber are even greater than those of ENIAC.
The internal structure of the immersion chamber is divided into two sections. A baffle with a silicone sealing ring separates the user's head and body. In order to minimize brain damage, the user's head is completely immersed in the LCL life-sustaining liquid. The effect of this thing is equivalent to a miniature medical cabin. As for why the entire body is not immersed in it, one is that it is unnecessary, and the other is to save costs.
High-quality LCL liquid is a luxury product that is as valuable as gold.
"How about I do the test?" Cheng Dong, the leader of the Security Bureau's special agent team, looked at the "metal coffin" in front of him, then looked at Ke Lan who had changed into a special immersion suit, and couldn't help but speak.
His main mission in being sent to Fleet Zero was to protect Ke Lan's safety. If anything happened to this "important person", he would probably not be able to continue his job as team leader.
"It's okay. This thing is not a test model. When the competition officially begins, the immersion chamber used by the contestants will be exactly the same as the one in front of us." Ke Lan said, then pulled up the hood of the immersion suit.
This special immersion suit was a bit like the tights worn by acrobats. Ke Lan's fingers, feet and head were tightly wrapped in the thin rubber fabric. As long as his face was exposed, his skin could even clearly feel the extremely fine metal wires embedded in the fabric.
When Ke Lan lay in the immersion chamber and the baffle on his neck fell, he suddenly felt a bit like King Louis XVI of France who was sent to the guillotine.
The only difference was that Louis XVI was beheaded face down, while he was beheaded face up.
The sealing rubber ring of the baffle fits tightly into the groove reserved for the shoulder and neck of the immersion suit. The assisting staff first connected the cardiopulmonary monitoring equipment to the interface on the immersion suit, and then attached nearly a hundred electrodes of different sizes to Ke Lan's head one by one.
"Prepare for the connection test." The guy who arrived at Fleet Zero with the immersion chamber and wore a work badge from the Ye Group Research Institute said in a deep voice, "Once the equipment is connected, you will feel an electric current flowing from your brain and spinal cord to your limbs. This current will not make you feel painful, at most it will just make you feel numb... But people who are connecting for the first time will definitely feel a little uncomfortable. Apart from that, if you experience any discomfort that exceeds your tolerance, just press this button and the connection will be disconnected immediately."
As he spoke, he stuffed a wired remote control into Ke Lan's hand.
The light yellow LCL liquid has gradually poured into the "head tank". Ke Lan did not speak, but stretched out his other hand and gave a thumbs up.
"Connection started." The staff member stared at the control background of the terminal server and the screen of the vital signs monitoring device, and turned the button carefully.
The row of red indicator lights on the immersion chamber turned into orange-yellow, representing "test", and at this moment, Ke Lan clearly felt "the electric current" that the other party had described.
He did not feel any discomfort, but instead felt a sense of comfort - just like when he was peeing and as the urine in his bladder was emptied, he suddenly felt a shock and all the muscles in his body trembled.
From a certain perspective, the principles of both are the same, and what is stimulated is the human cerebral cortex, but the stimulation source of the former is an external discharge electrode, while the latter is the human's own sympathetic nerves.
"The heart rate and pulse rate increased briefly, but have returned to normal values. This is normal... Mr. Ke Lan, you don't feel unwell, do you?"
Ke Lan raised a finger and shook it twice.
If his whole body was immersed in a medical cabin filled with LCL liquid, Ke Lan could speak normally with his lungs and trachea filled with LCL liquid. But the LCL in the immersion cabin was simply used to protect the user's brain, so his breathing could only be maintained by the trachea inserted in his nose. Similarly, his mouth was blocked by the "plug" on the immersion suit.
It sounds a bit obscene, and I don’t know who is the talented designer of this immersion suit. The plug used to "seal the mouth" is actually similar in appearance and structure to a special toy called "Kouwangqiu".
If, during the live broadcast of the competition, the players have to have such a toy stuffed in their mouths... just thinking about that scene is enough to make them feel terrible.
Ke Lan didn't know whether the organizer of the competition would change the design of this "plug" by then, but he had already made up his mind that when the official competition came, he would bring his own breathing mask with him. After all, the size of the mask would be just about the same as the edge of the immersion suit, so there would be no interference between the two.
If he really had to go on TV with a "Kou Wang Qiu" in his mouth, he would rather choose to abstain directly...
"The test is complete, everything is normal." After staring at the dense data on the screen for a long time, the staff member finally breathed a sigh of relief, "Mr. Ke Lan, we can now officially start the immersive mode."
Ke Lan nodded slightly.
"Connect your consciousness to the data network in five seconds. Countdown five... four..."
Ke Lan closed her eyes silently.
"Three... two..."
He took a deep breath, and a thin layer of white mist instantly covered the inner wall of the plastic trachea.
"……one."
A little white light suddenly lit up in the originally black vision, and a large number of brilliant colors spread out like an overturned paint can - seeing this scene, Ke Lan subconsciously popped up a somewhat childish line in his head:
"Lincoln, damn head!"
The chaotic colors quickly converged, and the white light instantly covered the "virtual space" where Ke Lan's consciousness was located - this was an enclosed room with a length, width and height of ten meters. The ceiling, walls and floors were covered with one-meter square white tiles, and an old solid wood chair was quietly placed in the center of the room .
Although the style of this chair is completely different from the entire sci-fi room, everything looks so real, even the unique texture of the wood on the chair and the traces of wear and tear on the edges due to years of use are carefully portrayed.
Ke Lan reached out and touched the back of the chair. The unique feel of solid wood, a blend of roughness and smoothness, was perfectly fed back to his tactile nerves. He could even feel the body temperature on his palm, which was slowly transmitted to the inside of the wood through contact.
He pinched the wood lightly with his fingernails, and a tiny dent instantly appeared on the surface of the wood. The cracked paint fragments turned into powder and fell off, revealing the original light beige color of the wood inside.
Apart from anything else, the realism of this chair alone is impeccable.
But for some reason, Ke Lan always felt that this virtual space gave him a vague sense of familiarity.
He felt like this wasn't his first time here...and the last time he had a similar experience was in the cockpit of the Blasphemer mecha.
Could it be that the fully immersive system developed by the research institute uses the technology of the Alpha civilization?
Ke Lan recalled that in the numerous records of ruins exploration, nothing like the Blasphemer Mecha had ever been discovered, and he didn't know where the technology mastered by that group of lunatics came from. If they said that it was developed by the research institute itself, Ke Lan would never believe it.
They couldn't even make the most basic consciousness immersion system, but now the finished product is perfect. Isn't this too ridiculous? It's like a child who hasn't even learned to walk yet breaks the Olympic 100-meter record in his first run - who would believe it if they told others?
With the idea of giving it a try, Ke Lan followed the instructions in the manual, used specific gestures to call out the operation interface, and opened the "Experience Project List".
The first item on the list is the "Battle of Mogadishu".
" Ha, I know this!"
Ke Lan showed a knowing smile on her face - Battle of Mogadishu is a VR shooting game released sixteen years ago. Its game process basically reproduces the plot and scenes of the old era classic war movie "Black Hawk Down". Compared with those FPS games controlled by mouse and keyboard, the operation of Battle of Mogadishu is more realistic - in order to give players a better experience, the game publisher even released 17 game controllers with real gun proportions and appearances.
