Yu Tang sat on the sofa.
He watched the mecha model walk back and forth a few steps, stretch its legs on the sofa, bend its waist, and stretch its metal arms flexibly twice.
The mecha jumped onto the pile of pillows and calmly sat cross-legged: "Mr. Yu?"
Yu Tang was a little shocked: "..."
It was the first time he had heard of this emergency plan.
It was also the first time I knew that the mall actually had such a simple and crude promotion where you could directly give away a game console.
"It's a commemorative promotion of the mall. It happens once every ten years."
The mecha seemed to know what he was thinking: "Don't worry, there is no need to buy cards or unlock them later, and there are no additional expenses."
The substitute system from the mall is very professional: "The game card is built-in, and if you have any new games that you are interested in, you can also download them online."
Yu Tang finally felt relieved and nodded: "Thank you..."
Before the voice fell, there was a loud "boom".
In front of him, a luxurious top-level game console equipped with the latest holographic projection screen, the latest VR glasses, and the latest virtual reality sleeping cabin had fallen.
The goods were so genuine that they shook my entire sea of consciousness.
Shi Ji noticed something strange outside: "Mr. Yu?"
Yu Tang: "… It's okay, I just won a promotional prize."
Shi Ji was taken to the night market by the captain and also participated in the promotional lottery at the entrance of the mall. He nodded with relief: "Oh."
Yu Tang regained his composure and looked at the game console in front of him.
…Except for the timeless logo of the game console manufacturer, there is nothing about this game console that can be associated with “classic”.
Yu Tang always felt that this was a new model of telephone shopping scam.
Although you don't need to apply for a card or unlock it, you may need to purchase a membership.
When the screen opens, he will be able to choose between an annual card, a quarterly card or an automatic monthly subscription.
Even if you become a member, the clients for the projection screen, VR glasses and virtual reality sleeping cabins are not common. If you want to upgrade your membership, you will have to pay twice the price.
Yu Tang has been falling into human’s sinister traps frequently recently. He specially got Pu Ying’s anti-fraud teaching materials to make up for his lessons, but he was still a little cautious: “It’s like this, I’m not very interested in the new games now…”
“This game console retains the classic socket and the classic game card slot, which can fully connect to old-fashioned game cards and provide an immersive new VR experience.”
The mech jumped onto the screen and explained kindly, "It can still use the old-style controller, and you can choose the color."
The mecha asked: "Do you want to try a round?"
Yu Tang stopped looking for the return slip.
He had already made up his mind not to fall into the ever-changing money-stealing traps of these merchants, but when he heard this, he paused involuntarily.
Yu Tang asked: "Can any old-style game cartridges be inserted?"
The mecha nodded humanely: "All is fine."
"If your game card is damaged, as long as the core area of the storage card is not completely damaged, it can also extract the internal data and automatically repair it."
The mech's headlights lit up, and it projected a promotional video for him: "In many technologically advanced interstellar worlds, this game console is a hot seller, suitable for all ages and easy to use..."
Yu Tang returned to the sofa.
He looked closely at the classic game card slot: "Is there a controller?"
Yu Tang said, "I want a red and black color combination, something cooler."
Mecha: "Yes, please wait a moment."
Yu Tang nodded.
He put away the anti-fraud teaching materials and once again jumped into the trap of consumerism with unclear purposes, and dug out an extremely old game cartridge from the warehouse.
It has been so long that the name of the game can no longer be seen clearly, and the colorful stickers on it have long faded into a grayish-white outline.
The original yellow plastic shell had been broken several times, but was barely intact and was stuck together with tape.
"Just insert the card." The mecha handed him the cool red and black controller. "Please rest assured, we don't need to register any membership."
Yu Tang inserted the game cartridge and said, "It's OK to become a member."
Yes, this game is still playable, and you can also become a member.
… After all, two years ago, that old second-hand PSP game console could no longer read the cartridge, and he was so bored that he had to rely on programming and making skill cards to pass the time.
Yu Tang held his breath and carefully adjusted the contact angle between the cartridge and the socket. He suddenly understood the sinister intentions of these merchants: "Sentimentalism, they can obviously make a replica, a remastered version, or a high-definition version, but they don't, they just want players to squat on the ground to insert the cartridge..."
The mecha didn't hear clearly: "Mr. Yu?"
Yu Tang adjusted the angle, and the cassette that was originally vaguely connected was finally read successfully, and the green light flashed.
The screen lit up, and the game's opening graphics and music popped up.
…
Yu Tang stood up and just as he sat back on the sofa, he suddenly shook heavily without realizing it.
Yu Tang stopped and asked, "Shi Ji?"
"It's okay." Shi Ji's voice came back with the sound of explosions, "Mr. Yu, take some motion sickness medicine..."
"We must have been ambushed," the mecha said. "I detected radiation from depleted uranium materials."
Yu Tang looked at the light screen next to him.
The drop location has been carefully calculated, and it will take the trainees at least 12 hours to find their own mechas and wingmen.
Although the battlefield is open, those who are not selected can enter at any time in principle. Even those who are a little arrogant will not choose to come in at this time.
All active military commands did not deploy any mechas to the battlefield. The person Shi Ji encountered was a military academy student, who probably had his eyes on the lone trainee and wanted to seize this rare opportunity to take action.
The mecha said, "I'll go out and take a look."
Yu Tang and Shi Ji had already agreed that they would not help except to stop the anti-ooc program. He did not want to interfere with Shi Ji's exercise by any means, so he looked at the light screen and said casually: "Wait a minute..."
The mecha stopped and turned back.
Yu Tang lowered his head and looked at the small mecha model that was only half the size of a palm: "..."
It seemed that he couldn't interfere with Shi Ji's exercises by any means.
Yu Tang took the water cup and swallowed a motion sickness pill: "... Be careful."
Mech: "Okay."
Inexplicably, Yu Tang always felt that this mechanical voice was particularly human.
For example, at this moment, although the mecha has no expression, the mechanical sound seems to have an imperceptible smile.
"It'll be fine." The mecha said, "You can play the game without worry."
The mecha said, "I will monitor the anti-OOC system at all times and report to Mr. Yu if there are any changes."
Yu Tang nodded.
Although the corresponding effects between the body and the sea of consciousness have been weakened to the greatest extent, Shi Ji will still be affected unavoidably when he moves around outside.
Yu Tang staggered back in his shaky sea of consciousness, sat back on the sofa, and took the cool red and black controller.
The mecha turned into a data stream and temporarily left the sea of consciousness.
Yu Tang sat on the sofa that looked like a pirate ship and opened the game homepage.
According to an unknown shopping mall substitute system, the game console in front of him is a prize for a commemorative promotion held by Chuanshuju every ten high-dimensional years.
Yu Tang had read in the employee handbook that the "higher-dimensional year" mentioned by the substitute system refers to the true flow of time in the higher dimension where the bookstore is located.
Normally, when a regular employee is assigned to a role, the flow of time will automatically adjust to the higher dimension where the Book Bureau is located - in other words, he is in charge of four books at the same time in this world, the longest one being five years, and five years have also passed in the Book Bureau.
If you complete the task well enough and accumulate enough experience points, you will have the opportunity to exchange them for the opportunity to adjust the time dimension.
Yu Tang had roughly listened to the system's explanation that different experience points were required depending on the adjustment method.
If you want to compress time, for example, ten years have passed in the book's timeline, and you want to compress it to three years after returning to the bookstore, you will probably need as many experience points as a company.
If an employee successfully owns a company and chooses to redeem it, the headquarters will create an unforeseen situation and cause the company to go bankrupt and be liquidated.
If you want to stop time, no matter how much time has passed in the book, after returning to the bookstore, you will just take a nap in the sleeping cabin. It will cost as many experience points as a consortium.
If you want to turn back time, you need to resell as many experience points as an asteroid.
…
Yu Tang was in charge of four books at the same time and was still a long way from leaving the world. There was no need for him to understand these things for the time being. He just listened roughly to the system introduction.
He couldn't help himself, and unwrapped a lollipop while the game's introductory music played, and played with the shiny little 10th anniversary badge for a while.
The game's graphics have been reprocessed and clearly projected through holographic projection.
Shi Ji sensed the changes in his sea of consciousness. He dodged an armor-piercing bullet and discussed with Yu Tang: "Mr. Yu, I think I have played this game before..."
Yu Tang nodded: "You have played the real version."
Shi Ji: “?”
"Dolphins catch small fish." Yu Tang said, "Happy fish pond."
Shi Ji: “…”
Yu Tang was surrounded by holographic projections, controlling the little man sitting on the dolphin's back, swinging the fishing hook down.
Just like a miner who loves to dig for gold, this is a very simple and easy to understand puzzle game that you can get started in seconds and is both entertaining and educational.
The whole way to play is to exchange fishing for points.
The little man sitting on the dolphin has a fishing rod. The hook swings at a constant speed. After determining the direction, press the handle and the hook will pop out in a straight line to catch the fish passing by on the line.
The rarer the fish you catch, the higher the points you can get. If you happen to hook a clam with pearls, your points can be directly increased by two zeros.
If you catch a crab, your hand will be pinched, and if you catch a squid, you will be sprayed with ink. If you catch a heavy fish, if you don't have enough stamina, it may drag you into the sea.
If you accumulate enough 1 billion points, you can enter the hidden level. It is said that there is a sunken ship in the hidden level, and there is a treasure chest inside, which contains the final reward of the game.
Yu Tang was so addicted to this game that he would hold the light screen and play for the whole night.
"It's a pity that my micromanagement was average at that time."
Yu Tang said: "He made a button for me. Every time I saw a fish swimming towards me, I would press it and the hook would have already been cast over."
Shi Ji couldn't quite understand this kind of distress, but he still tried his best to cooperate: "It's just that the game is quite difficult."
Yu Tang was very pleased and nodded, his face was sprayed with ink by the squid that had just been caught.
…
When he was still a ball of light, Yu Tang’s gaming talent wasn’t that strong.
Very addictive.
He resisted the temptation of food, and only came to get cookies and milk secretly every day, and left immediately after taking them. He also resisted the temptation of watching movies, and only hid outside the curtains every day, secretly following the man through the gap, and ran away as soon as he saw the ending song.
But the game was so much fun that by the time he realized what was happening, he was already wrapped in a small blanket, eating cookies and drinking milk, and playing among the pile of pillows for several hours.
On the old game console screen, the fish were not optimized to be so high-definition, they were just motionless cartoon pictures.
At that time, he didn't quite understand the human concept of "game" and thought that if he caught the fish, it was really caught. So he went to the man under the lamp to ask for his fish with his game record.
The man was stunned for a long time, laughing so hard that he couldn't sit still and had to raise his hand to hold the edge of the table.
Under the desk lamp, he found that the man's face was much paler than usual, and his forehead was covered with cold sweat.
"Wait a minute, I'll draw you a fish."
The man's expression was still gentle, with the same smile in his eyes as usual: "I need to resist a set of programs first. It is trying to control me... I need some time."
He dropped his game console and tried to help the man.
He also didn't understand the "program", as long as there was enough time, the electronic storm could decompose and devour anything.
"That won't work. A program has no entity. It's just a set of data."
The man patiently explained: "You have no way to solve it yet."
The man said, "In the future, if you read a lot of books, maybe you can help me."
He followed the light of the desk lamp and floated to the bookshelf.
"These books are not enough," the man said. "This is the most advanced technology at the current scientific level, and it requires a huge amount of relevant knowledge."
The man leaned back in the chair, his face pale from the pain, but his handsome features remained calm and unmoved.
The man took several attempts to regain his strength, and finally sat up. He smiled and encouraged him earnestly, "Come on, learn a few more words. Maybe when you evolve, you'll become an elite programmer who specializes in cracking these bad things that harm people..."
…
Yu Tang didn't think about it any further. He put down the game controller and looked up at the screen.
Even when facing mechas, Shi Ji was not at a disadvantage at all.
The man on the other side was just a military academy student who was not very proficient in operating mechas. The majestic humanoid mechas did have strong combat power, but their large and heavy bodies seriously weakened their mobility and flexibility.
-Especially in this complex jungle terrain with trees and rocks everywhere, and swamps occasionally hidden under the meadows, where it is impossible to fly and walk steadily.
The competition arena provided by the military academy does not have this kind of realistic and changeable on-site experience.
The huge mecha rashly entered the battle, but apart from seizing the initial advantage and bombarding Shi Ji with a cannon, it failed to gain any advantage at all.
Shi Ji calmly took it for a spin in the woods.
All the roads he had just walked were firmly memorized in Shi Ji's mind. He didn't need to think about it too much to determine which tree could just block the huge body of the mecha, and which branch could use the speed of the mecha to directly cut off half of its arm.
No matter how advanced or sophisticated a weapon is, it can only be considered a powerful tool.
Shi Ji grabbed the branch, and his body steadily passed over the thick branch. After landing, he rolled over and hid behind the bushes sideways.
The heavy mecha couldn't stop its momentum and with a loud bang, it crashed heavily into a giant tree that several people had to hug.
…
The red warning line of the anti-ooc program suddenly lit up.
In the sea of consciousness, the substitute system reminded almost at the same time: "Mr. Yu."
"I see." Yu Tang said.
He bit a lollipop, sat up straight, pulled over the keyboard and typed rapidly, and the intercepted data network spread out across the sky.
This time, Yu Tang did more than just block the program's warning.
As soon as the data network came into contact with the newly generated strange data, it immediately recorded the path intactly. The specially processed virus program that had been prepared for a long time quietly mixed into the data flow and was encoded into the intercepted anti-OOC program along this path.
A few days ago, Yu Tang downloaded thousands of computer viruses from the mall, imported them into his sea of consciousness, and ran them all.
He would no longer be affected, so to be on the safe side, he did not inform Senior Zhan and the system in advance.
After completing the operation analysis and completely removing these viruses, Yu Tang was still worried for a while whether he had not done a thorough job of virus removal, and he also missed a one-click cleaning applet that could fold the quilt into tofu blocks.
Finally, there was some gain.
This is a brand new virus created by Yu Tang.
This virus is only effective against man-made programs and has no effect on the human body. Its triggering node is the moment when the logical closed loop is formed and locked.
Once the logical loop is locked, the anti-OOC system will automatically close for half a minute and re-organize the program.
Within this half minute, the viruses lurking in the data will be triggered, forming a miniature data storm that will completely eliminate and devour these bad things that harm people.
"I'll fix it."
Yu Tang: "I read a lot of books and can solve it."
Shi Ji could tell that Yu Tang was not talking to him. He collected the useful items from the wreckage of the mecha, put them into his backpack, and said softly, "Mr. Yu."
Yu Tang broke the lollipop into pieces, chewed it into powder, swallowed it, and closed the computer.
Yu Tang: "Don't worry, it won't hurt anymore."