The pre-sale price is five thousand US dollars, which is enough to buy a good car in today's era, and Skynet is currently only open to the New York city area.
The pre-sale quantity of the holographic VR helmet has exceeded 100,000 in less than ten minutes after its release, and the number is still increasing rapidly!
Chapter 371 Entering Skynet
On the outskirts of New York, there is a vintage villa hidden in a birch forest.
Squeak—
Two bodyguards wearing sunglasses pushed the door open and walked in, holding two well-packaged, square boxes in their hands. The cover had the Stark Industries manufacturing logo and a series of printed small explanations in English.
As soon as they walked into the hall and took off their coats, one of them reported loudly to Jillian who was sitting in the hall: "Boss, we finally bought it back! We got two in total!"
"What took you so long? It's been almost half a day."
Jilian's face was gloomy and uncertain. He looked at the two of them coldly, and his gaze subconsciously shifted to the product packaging.
"Hey, don't mention it."
The leading bodyguard sighed, wiped the sweat from his forehead, put the box on the table, and explained with grievance: "Boss, you didn't go to the central city of New York, especially the main road to Stark Industries. Pedestrians and vehicles almost blocked the streets and roads. People were fanatically queuing up for a kilometer just to buy this holographic VR helmet."
Another bodyguard agreed, "Yeah, we bought these two things from a scalper for two thousand dollars."
"I heard that not only New York, but also nearby cities and other countries have many people rushing to New York just to try out the Skynet game, which is said to be a cross-century platform."
"The whole of New York City is boiling. Now, everyone who goes out is talking about Skynet and holographic VR."
The two bodyguards started talking to each other, their words were filled with strong curiosity and excitement, and they talked more and more excitedly with gestures. When they noticed that Killian's face next to them was getting uglier, they shut up tactfully.
"Correct your attitude. I don't believe that a little kid can create a revolutionary technology product from scratch in just three or four days and directly put it into mass production and sales."
Jilian scolded them a few words, pointed at a box, and signaled to a bodyguard: "You, take it to the research room in the basement and let the staff disassemble and scan it."
"Tear it down?" The bodyguard's tone was filled with reluctance and regret when he heard this.
"What? You still want to play?" Killian raised his head, his anger on the verge of exploding.
"I'll go, I'll go right away!" The bodyguard shuddered, picked up a box with both hands, and ran to the basement.
Jillian's expression finally eased a little. He looked at the boxes on the table, raised his chin, and ordered the remaining bodyguard, "Open them."
"Okay, boss."
The bodyguard moved quickly, pulling out a folding knife from his trouser pocket and quickly opening the box, revealing a black and gold helmet-like object inside.
The holographic VR helmet is made entirely of aluminum and tempered glass. Its semi-circular shape presents an assembly line with a strong sense of craftsmanship. It looks very cross-century technological and fashionable, and it flashes a faint and cool light under the light.
Even the demanding Gillian couldn't help but praise it inwardly. At least judging from the appearance alone, it gave him a feeling that it was good value for money.
"How do I do it specifically? Just put it on?" Jillian asked thoughtfully.
The bodyguard held the manual in his hand and said as he read it: "Boss, it's written here. Currently, Skynet only covers New York City. As long as you plug in the holographic VR helmet anywhere in New York, put it on your head and say the command 'Start connecting', you can connect to Skynet."
Kilian waved to the blonde beauty not far away, and immediately two beauties came forward and powered up his holographic VR helmet for him.
When the green light of the holographic VR helmet lit up, Jillian was about to put it on when the bodyguard suddenly reminded him: "Boss. When you first enter Skynet through the holographic VR helmet, there will be a scan and analysis of the user's body. The user needs to pass the real-name authentication of the ID number to register for a Skynet account that will be unique to him for life."
“Do you think I only have one identity?” Jillian snorted coldly. Without a pause, he put the VR helmet on his head with both hands and leaned back in the leather chair, half sitting and half lying.
"Beginning to connect—"
After registering a Skynet account with a fake identity and creating a customized character, Killian's consciousness was transferred to a mysterious and unknown place.
At first, there was silence and the vision was filled with dazzling light. Gradually, numerous noisy sounds were heard, and soon even the eyes could vaguely see a blurry and strange figure flashing in front of them.
Jillian rubbed his eyes subconsciously, and when he opened them again, he stood there in a daze.
Clearly in the real world, his body was still lying on the chair in the villa's lobby, but at this moment, he was clearly in another vast and magnificent place.
Behind him is a huge light column as tall as a building, with shadows constantly flickering in it, followed by strange-looking giants, orcs, aliens, or beautiful movie elves, celebrities, stunning women, and even some anime and cartoon-style characters. These are all character avatars carefully selected and created by players.
Kilian looked out and saw transparent rainbow bridges extending in all directions. Below were lawn fountains, paradise gardens, and tropical grasslands. The sky was a brilliant river of stars and an inverted sea. On the other side of the rainbow bridge were the pyramid civilizations, suspended sky fortresses, super-century future cities, space fortress battleships, etc. that had appeared in movies and novels. Fantasy elements such as fairy tales, myths, and the second dimension were blended into one, flickering with brilliant light. Everywhere he looked, there were scenes and things that should only exist in dreams.
"Sir, get out of the way."
A one-eyed man accidentally bumped into Jillian's shoulder, turned around and said something, then excitedly ran towards a rainbow bridge.
"I don't feel any pain. It's really just a virtual space, but it's too real..."
Killian stood still in shock and looked down at his hands. The character he created was a tall and mighty strong man, whose appearance and looks were not much different from a real bodyguard.
A voice behind him came closer as if to answer him: "Yes, it is too real, although Stark Industries claims that the first generation of holographic VR helmets only open 70% of the simulation degree."
Jillian looked back and saw a punk-style ragtag youth. The punk youth also looked at him and said with a familiar smile: "Hello, I'm Z. Of course, this is just a game name. No one in Skynet wants to talk about reality."
"Eren." Killian replied coldly.
Z laughed and said, "Don't be like that, Brother Eren. I just registered and logged into Skynet, too. I'm a complete newbie. Do you want to team up together and learn more about it?"
Kilian thought about it and nodded, "Okay."
"Then come with me. I couldn't help myself just reading the manual just now. There are a few places I want to take a look at first." Z reached down and slid down, awkwardly pulling out the floating pop-up window, inviting Eren to join a team, and opened the navigation map option.
"Where?" Jillian suddenly felt a little regretful. He came in without reading the instructions. Now he was a newcomer who didn't even understand the specific operations.
"Didn't you carefully read the detailed introduction of Skynet on the official website?"
Z waved his hands excitedly. "In addition to the social networking platform in this leisure area, the creator Caesar created two special game areas for Skynet. One is the World War II battlefield for shooting and strategy enthusiasts, and the second is a virtual city based on New York - Gotham City."
Chapter 372 Gotham City, the Dark Wind of Eternal Night
In the Skynet virtual world, Caesar not only has a social and leisure area full of entertainment and fantasy, but also has the Lord God create two special game areas with AI characters, PK battles, plots and tasks.
The first space is the early stage of World War II battlefield, and players can randomly choose a national camp to join.
Players can control their own characters to join the army, undergo rigorous recruit training and assessment, follow highly realistic intelligent AI troops, use retro strategic weapons of the time, and throw themselves into the world battlefields of Europe and the Pacific. The war map in the virtual world may move towards a completely different future from reality due to the participation of players.
(Here, Caesar specially set up a game easter egg. Players can join the Hydra organization, but once joined, they will not be able to leave. The system will also issue bounties and hunting missions to all other camps of players. Hydra camp players will be chased or assassinated to death, and a game item called Red Skull Underwear will be revealed - this is also the dark side of Caesar's repeated whipping of the Hydra organization.)
Players can also play the role of a businessman, doctor, civilian, etc. who are fleeing from the world, and personally experience the disaster and sorrow brought about by the world war half a century ago. They can even smuggle into some countries that are not affected by the war and explore the world scenes with almost 100% freedom.
The player character has only one life in this type of special area space. Once the health bar is reduced to zero and the player dies, all items and money on the player's body will be dropped, all attributes and skills will be initialized, the rank and title in the special area will be recovered, and the player character will be resurrected at the platform where Skynet's initial light column was born.
It can be said that this play space satisfies all the pursuits of all gun enthusiasts. It is also a trace of Caesar's nostalgia and remembrance of the Second World War. After all, that was the starting point of his journey from nothing to something, from a rookie to a legendary hero.
The second play space is Gotham City.
The time setting of this area is the same as the real 2009, and even the basic modeling of the map is modified according to the real New York city. Compared with the first World War II area space which is more combat-oriented, Gotham City will be more neutral in gray tones - doing illegal things will make you a criminal and be wanted by the police and special people.