Although Lao Liu didn't reveal the specific game content to Liu Jianyu, he clearly told him in the subsequent phone call that it was the kind of game he was looking for, and that there would be internal channels for pre-sales, which would save Liu Jianyu's roommates the trouble of scrambling to buy it.
This still left the group both excited and incredulous, but they couldn't get any more information and could only wait for Lingxing Games to make it public.
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Before we knew it, it was Laba Festival, and the school was already on holiday.
The classic old version of Journey to the West, starring Liu Xiao Ling Tong, was playing on TV. It paused to insert commercials when it got to the part about the havoc in Heaven.
"Developed by Lingxing Games, the first virtual reality online game, *Fantasy New World*, is about to be released globally. Yes, you heard right, not that pseudo-virtual reality where you wear a blindfold to watch 3D, but true consciousness login! What are you waiting for? Visit our official website for details! This is our company's only official website."
"Holy crap!"
Liu Jianyu had known about the virtual reality concept for a long time and had logged into Lingxing Games' official website more than once, but it always showed that the website was under maintenance.
Upon seeing the advertisement on TV, he immediately rushed to his room and logged onto Lingxing Games' official website.
After trying twice, the website showed as crashed, indicating that countless people around the world were logging into the site at the same time.
After trying a third time, Lingxing Games' official website finally returned to normal.
The official website, which was overwhelmed by traffic the previous two times, is now running smoothly, which must be due to emergency technical intervention from the company.
At the top, groups of videos are arranged at the very front.
There are records from the research and development phase, tests of the game helmet, and footage of real people wearing the game helmet and entering the game.
There was also a grand CG sequence, and it was announced that online orders for the gaming helmet would be accepted through the official website at midnight on the first day of the Lunar New Year in China.
On this day, the gaming community was hit with a bombshell, or rather, a nuclear bomb.
The virtual reality game "Fantasy New World" spread around the world, and many local TV stations aired its advertisements.
Public opinion immediately erupted in uproar.
In various game forums and game-related groups, countless people were so excited they couldn't sleep, all discussing the game.
The gaming helmets are not cheap. The standard configuration costs a flat rate of 5,000 RMB, which can be converted into any currency in the world at the current exchange rate. The high-end configuration is not yet available for sale.
The game will not undergo any closed beta or internal testing; it will directly launch its open beta on the seventh day of the first lunar month.
Although the price seems quite expensive, it's at least cheaper than the new Apple phone, and many people have already vowed to grab one of the first batches.
Liu Jianyu and his roommates were the lucky ones. One of them had a top-of-the-line helmet, and the others had an inside channel to buy the regular version directly.
In the tense wait that followed, the fierce battle to snatch helmets online on the first day of the Lunar New Year raged, with middlemen and scalpers pulling out all the stops.
But this time, without insiders cooperating with scalpers, even those who were lucky enough to snag a pair hesitated and couldn't bring themselves to sell them.
Every day, people are begging to buy the helmets, driving up the price, but few are actually selling them. The number of helmets available on the game's official website is far from keeping up with the sales speed.
Most people in China received their helmets via express delivery the next day, while those abroad received them two to three days later.
The all-black helmet has a futuristic feel and comes with a professional support pillow.
Weibo, Twitter, and WeChat Moments are filled with pictures of people showing off their helmets, and the comments below are all filled with envy and jealousy.
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On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, five minutes before the server was scheduled to open at midnight, Liu Jianyu took a shower early, took off his clothes, and lay down on the bed.
The login indicator light on the gaming helmet suddenly turned green.
Liu Jianyu immediately put on his helmet, lay down, and pressed the check button. Two seconds later, the health scan and mental status scan were completed, and the login button lit up.
Soon, Liu Jianyu's breathing changed from excited to even, and then he fell asleep.
In the darkness of consciousness, a colorful light approached from afar, and two large login and logout buttons appeared in sight.
Having already read the helmet manual, Liu Jianyu immediately thought about logging in.
A humanoid figure made of faint light is temporarily used as Liu Jianyu's current operating role.
"Please select your nationality and enter your valid identification number as prompted to bind it to your mental wave!"
A voice appeared, and Liu Jianyu immediately read out his identification information and heard a notification sound indicating that the account binding was complete.
Then came the race selection and character creation phase.
The standard version of the helmet has two race options for fast-forwarding: selectable and random. The selectable races are only humans, orcs, and dwarves. Of course, the orcs here are not completely orcish.
Instead, they only have some animalistic features, such as cat-eared girls, and the male characters are similar, only more rugged and with more obvious animalistic features, but overall they are still close to humans.
Both humans and dwarves conform to traditional settings.
Random selection may result in choosing a special race such as elves, goblins, demons, or celestials.
The probability of randomly obtaining a special race is not high. If you do not get a satisfactory race, you can go back and actively choose from those three races.
After selecting a character, the gender is generally based on reality. However, if you are a truly "out" person, you can choose the opposite gender. Other players can also spend RMB to make the opposite choice, which costs ten times the price of the helmet, making it quite expensive.
Even after purchasing gender rights, you still have to fill out a disclaimer.
The top-of-the-line helmet doesn't have these restrictions; it grants the user the option to select all races once, and there are no gender restrictions. However, the disclaimer still cannot be omitted.
The game character will have a range of differences from the player's real appearance. The degree of beautification can only be limited to 10%, and the degree of uglification is also capped at 10%, but it will never be exactly the same as the player's real appearance, so as to avoid being retaliated against in real life during PvP in the game.
Similarly, the top-tier privilege is that the level of enhancement will be assisted by a system sprite. The specific level is controlled by the system sprite and may be very high or very low, but the effect will definitely be the best.
Liu Jianyu discovered that his helmet privileges were so amazing that he couldn't afford to waste them.
What others can't choose, I naturally want to choose.
Hehehe...
Liu Jianyu's light-humanoid form let out two sly laughs, immediately setting the option on the outstanding Elf race, and decisively choosing female as the gender.
A ball of light suddenly appeared in sight.
"Hello dear player, I'm your navigation wizard, my name is Ellen, hee hee hee ha ha ha ha ha~~~ Why didn't you say hello to me?"
Wow, this AI is pretty advanced...
Liu Jianyu muttered to himself.
"Hello Eileen, my name is... uh, I don't have an ID or nickname yet..."
"It's okay, you can set your nickname in advance. None of the players have reached that stage yet, so don't worry about duplicate character names. I have that authority."
"Okay, then I'll call myself Xiaoyu."
"Okay, Xiaoyu, let me help you set up your game character. Wow, a female elf! Ellen's favorite race! Ellen knows what to do~~ Hehehehe~"
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An hour later, in the game's in-game communication, Liu Jianyu and several of his roommates added each other as friends.
Group private chat channel
Silence is golden: "Xiaoyu, where are you? You're not here yet. You're the only one with high-privilege accounts, and you're slower to get in than the rest of us. What's going on?"
Xiaoyu: "Um... I... I'll be there soon..."
At the entrance of the newbie village, a large number of players gathered together with their newbie gear and called out to each other to form teams.
For the first half hour, I was immersed in the game's realism and beautiful scenery.
"Wow..."
"Look over there... someone actually drew a Pokémon!"
"Elves...so beautiful..."
At the spawn point, after a beam of light simulated the scene, a female elf appeared, wearing a light green, slit, tight-fitting short dress, with soft, glowing silk leggings wrapped around her thighs, silver hair tinged with gold, pointed ears, and a delicate yet ethereal face.
Her legs were perfectly proportioned, and her chest had a considerable fullness.
Her long hair swayed gently in the wind, her eyes, a blend of sky blue and fluorescent green, shimmered, and her slightly parted mouth gazed curiously at the lifelike scenery around her.
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