Unseen ceiling.
Roland opened his eyes and saw a huge female stone statue diagonally above his head. There seemed to be a faint green light flowing on the black rock surface, but when he looked carefully, he couldn't see anything.
He sat up and found that he had just been lying on a blue stone platform, which was a bit like a medieval sacrificial ritual platform. The surface was cold and rough.
There was a strange fragrance in the air. He looked around and found a bunch of strange grass burning under the statue of the goddess not far behind him. It looked a bit like wormwood, but on the edges of the leaves, there was something strange. There are more jagged edges.
Wait... Taste
Does it really taste good? And the touch? Roland touched the sacrificial altar again, feeling the roughness and coldness of its surface, and sniffed it hard. Not only did he smell the strange aroma of burning grass, but he also smelled the slightly astringent smell of stone construction in the air.
Is this really a virtual online game, rather than being hypnotized? And it was so real... Roland looked at his hands, which were white and slender, fitting the image of a spell caster.
He pinched his arm again. There was pain... but it wasn't obvious. This is not surprising, after all, before entering the game, the official announcement has said that the pain in the game is only one-tenth of that in reality.
Roland stood up on the stone platform and looked around. It was a stone building, a goddess statue, a sacrificial altar, and several neat rows of stone chairs in front. Judging from the layout and furnishings, it should be a small church.
Jumping off the altar, Roland looked at his body. He was wearing a set of gray-brown linen clothes, which were very rough and made his body very uncomfortable. On his feet, he wore a pair of ugly linen shoes with extremely thin soles. When he stepped on the ground, he could feel the cold and biting stone.
It's very real... Roland sighed and stroked the sacrificial altar. The stone felt really real, and his fingertips could touch the particles on the surface of the stone. It was no different from reality. He did not expect that the game was a real virtual game as Penguin advertised, rather than an inferior VR product that deceived the senses.
When did our country have such exaggerated black technology... and Penguin was the first to apply it in the game. Roland sighed deeply in his heart. The virtual cabin that cost 50,000 yuan was not in vain. It was indeed worth it.
When he was about to continue observing the surrounding environment and adapting to his new body, the old wooden door of the church opened.
Amidst the creaking sound of the rotten wood, a stooped old man walked in. His eyebrows were white and very long, hanging diagonally to the edge of his thin cheek. His eyelids were so high that they almost covered his pupils. He was also wearing a white robe with a green tree logo embroidered in the middle of the robe.
Before entering the game, Roland went to the official website to learn the basics of the game world. If he remembers correctly, this dress is the standard dress of the Cult of Life, and is generally worn only by priests of the Temple of Life.
When the old man saw Roland, he was surprised at first, and then looked relieved.
In just a short moment, his expression changed. Whether it was the muscle movements on his cheeks or his eyes, they were all the same as real people, not like an NPC in a game at all.
In previous VR games, no matter how realistic the characters are, facial expression changes have always been a flaw in NPC behavior. Even if muscle texture capture is used, no matter how rich the NPC's expressions are, it will always feel like the uncanny valley when switching expressions. Feel.
But now, Roland felt that he had met a real person... It couldn't be another player.
He quickly dismissed the idea. He is one of the first to enter the game. It is impossible for players to become a priest so quickly, and the most important thing is... players can only enter the game as a young human being, and the person in front of them is an old man in his twilight years.
But the other person looked so much like a real person that even if the other person didn't speak and just stood there quietly looking at him, Roland felt that the other person was a real person.
Eyes, standing posture, the tightness of the skin when the muscles pull when blinking, age spots, yellow skin that seems to have little moisture, and even the temples of the old man can be seen faintly jumping due to the flow of blood.
Roland is not a professional in game production, but he has played many games, from Pac-Man back then to today's high-quality VR games. Even though today's games can make the appearance of NPCs lifelike, they are still Missing the most critical content.
soul!
Just standing there and watching, this old man gave people the feeling of a living person, a living person with a soul, rather than a cold data NPC wearing an anthropomorphic skin.
Is this a guide NPC? The official website of the game does not say that there are NPC guides... Roland, who was confused, took the initiative to talk to the other party: "Hello, old man, where is this place?"
The old man opposite heard Roland speaking and was stunned for a moment. Then he waved his hand and slowly spoke a language that Roland had never heard before.
Even if he doesn't understand, Roland can hear the meaning of the other person's words from his expression. It must be like this: I don't understand what you are talking about!
I go! Roland felt a toothache, and then he cursed the game production company in his heart. They were too pursuing perfection. Did they really set different languages for the NPCs in this world? If the introduction on the game's official website is correct, there are dozens of human countries and dozens of different races in this game world. If each country and each race has its own language, how much workload will it take
If this is the case, Baoshuang Game Company and Bizheng Game Company are all trembling little newbies in front of the big penguin.
Roland was scolding in his heart, but he thought of a way. He remembered that when he created the game character, he learned a second-level magic for himself in advance: proficiency in language.
Because he has played many sandbox games before. In the game, everyone obviously uses the same language and text. However, due to the game settings, when players from different countries or different camps in the game communicate, if they do not understand If the other party's country has language skills, or does not have proficient language skills, then the text you see will become garbled, and the sound you hear will become like 'beep beep beep'.
The rich game experience worked, which made Roland shout lucky. He exhaled the system in his heart. It was a little awkward at first. After all, virtual games and VR games were a little different, but he soon found the magic book option with ease. I opened the magic skills inside, found the proficient language, and locked it with my mind.
Then a strange number line graph appeared in front of me, with many blue nodes on it.
There is a blue node similar to the starting point that starts to glow, and then a red light bursts out and shoots to another node. It was very fast, in the blink of an eye.
Is this a spellcasting roadmap
When Roland was thinking about this possibility, he saw the red silk thread between the two nodes suddenly vibrating, and then the vibration frequency became faster and faster. As the vibration became faster and faster, Roland felt his head hurt more and more.
what's going on
Roland has been playing games for twenty years, but this is his first time playing a virtual online game. He has no experience at all, and he doesn't know how to deal with this kind of thing.
After a few seconds, the red line was finally interrupted by violent vibrations. Roland's head had already hurt as if a needle had penetrated his scalp, which was a bit unbearable.
The moment the red line broke, Roland's consciousness was ejected from the game's body, and he was surprised to see that after a crisp snap, the head of his game character exploded.
The headless corpse fell heavily to the ground, and 'mosaic' splashed everywhere on the screen.
Roland's consciousness was as transparent as his soul. Standing next to the corpse, his face looked numb because he was too surprised and he didn't know how to react.
The old man's hair, face, and clothes were covered with 'mosaic', and his old mouth with few teeth was open with a confused look on his face.