Creating a Virtual World

Chapter 20: Throw the blame on someone who doesn't exist

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Jiang Qiao woke up from the world of the Holy Spirit and returned to the real world.

When Jiang Qiao walked into the living room, Hai Lan was curled up on the sofa, holding a bucket of popcorn and watching a comedy movie.

The goddess seemed to not care about her solemn image at all. She changed her original solemn azure robe into a short-sleeved dress and cotton sports pants.

Hai Lan now looks like a homely girl.

When she curled up on the sofa and saw some funny parts in the movie, she would laugh out loud without caring about her image, and after laughing, she would not forget to put one or two grains of popcorn into her mouth.

"Ahem..." Jiang Qiao cleared his throat, hoping to attract Hai Lan's attention so that she would pay attention to her image.

She is at least a creator. God knows what happened during her time on Blue Star that would turn a goddess into this ghostly appearance.

Hai Lan turned her head to glance at Jiang Qiao, then...she continued to look at the TV and laughed out loud without any image again.

She doesn't care about Jiang Qiao's opinion at all!

"Wouldn't it be bad for your image if your former followers saw you like this?"

Jiang Qiao sat down on the sofa next to Hai Lan without any hesitation. After Hai Lan gave Jiang Qiao the status of Creator, there was an ambiguous connection between Jiang Qiao and Hai Lan, and the two of them became familiar with each other very quickly.

"They won't see it now anyway." Hai Lan was not affected at all. "Have you figured out how to increase the number of our warriors...um, players?"

While Jiang Qiao was checking the star map, Hai Lan was busy watching a movie. She felt a little bit self-destructive.

Perhaps it was because Jiang Qiao in the Creator state was too powerful, causing Hai Lan, the Creator himself, to begin evolving into a mascot-like existence.

"I plan to officially release the game Holy Spirit."

Jiang Qiao was holding a VR virtual helmet in his hand. Blue Star's VR virtual helmet was much more advanced than that on Earth. The effect of this virtual helmet was very similar to that in the movie Ready Player One.

The most direct way to explain it is that after the player puts on the virtual helmet, the player's consciousness is still in the real world, but what he sees becomes the virtual world. Combined with the special gaming somatosensory clothing in the game, a semi-immersive gaming experience can be achieved.

Take the most popular VR game Dissidia for example. Players can experience the visual and auditory senses in the game, as well as the tactile sense simulated by the game. However, things like taste and smell do not exist, and the tactile sense will not be that delicate. After all, it is the feeling simulated by the game's somatosensory clothing on the body.

"Are you going to use this to let players log into the Holy Spirit World?" Hai Lan put down the popcorn in her hand, took the VR helmet from Jiang Qiao's hand and looked it up and down. After she put on the helmet, she entered the desktop page like a computer.

"There are two ways to log in, one is a mobile phone, and the other is a virtual helmet. Although logging into the Holy Spirit through a mobile phone is still a bit too conspicuous, let's be conspicuous. Anyway, the trouble will not be blamed on us." Jiang Qiao said.

“Then whose responsibility is it?” Hai Lan took off the virtual helmet on her head. She still seemed a little uncomfortable with playing VR games.

"Tiangong." Jiang Qiao said a word that only existed in myths and legends on Earth. "To be precise, it is Tiangong No. 13."

"You mean this helmet?" Hailan saw a line of small words on the back of the VR helmet, which read 'This product is allowed to connect to the Tiangong network.'

"It's not this helmet! It's the entire smart Internet!" Jiang Qiao took out his mobile phone and waved it in front of Hai Lan. Blue Star's network technology is eight years ahead of Earth, or maybe even more than eight years.

Because Blue Planet has created artificial intelligence! This kind of artificial intelligence is not artificial intelligence that completes any special tasks. Blue Planet's society has completed the interconnection of all things, and a large part of the Internet services are based on a supercomputer called Tiangong 13.

The server of the game Dissidia also comes from Tiangong-13.

"Isn't it a tool you created?" Hai Lan has been familiarizing herself with the information age these days and knows a thing or two about the Internet. "How can a tool help us conceal the truth about the Holy Spirit?"

Although Hai Lan's living habits are a bit sloppy, she is not stupid. She knows that Jiang Qiao wants the game "Holy Spirit" to look more normal in the eyes of players all over the world, at least a game that can be developed in modern society.

"Because Tiangong-13 can think for itself, and it can play games on its own."

Jiang Qiao pulled out a news report from three years ago on his phone. The headline of the news was "Artificial Intelligence Crisis! Is it possible that humans will be ruled by machines in the future?"

This news is an analysis written by an expert from the United States one year after the launch of Tiangong-13. The reason was that Tiangong-13 wrote a VR game by itself and uploaded it to the Internet. The graphics of the game itself were comparable to the 3A masterpieces of that year, but the playability was so low that it could be described as boring. It was just a walking simulator, but it still caused a huge sensation at the time.

But after that, the news sank into obscurity and the Blue Planet was at peace.

"You want others to think that the Holy Spirit is... this... person... what's his... name?"

"AI."

"Yes! Is it done by artificial intelligence?" Hai Lan asked.

"Now all VR game platforms are on Tiangong-13. If we 'upload' the game Holy Spirit, it will also be stored on Tiangong-13 and will have to go through a lot of human review. I can't possibly create a bunch of people in the real world and then build a big game company and say this is the game we made, right?"

Jiang Qiao knew that a game of the level of Holy Spirit could not be produced even if the largest game companies on Blue Star joined forces. The 100% realistic experience and complete immersion were already the biggest technical challenges at present.

At this time, Jiang Qiao came forward alone and said that he had created the Holy Spirit, and he would probably be invited for tea tomorrow.

"No, no, absolutely not! To create a person on Blue Star, you need at least 50,000 or 60,000 energy points. If you want to implant memories in him so that he can exist reasonably in this world, you need at least ten times the energy!" What Hai Lan cares about most is all her own energy.

"So just blame it on Tiangong-13." Jiang Qiao spun the VR helmet in his hand and said, "It was Tiangong-13 that created the game Holy Spirit and put it on the game platform without permission, and those people have no way to delete it."

"That sounds like a good idea." Hai Lan still has limited knowledge about the Internet, but she understood what Jiang Qiao was saying.

The general meaning is to put the blame on someone who doesn't even exist!

"Then I'm going to enter the Creator Mode." Jiang Qiao's pupils gradually turned golden. It was difficult for Hai Lan to modify the reality rules of Blue Planet at her current level, but it was not a difficult task to create virtual data. Jiang Qiao in the Creator State could let Tiangong 13 take the blame without leaving any trace.

(End of this chapter)