Chapter 272 Oh My God, a Monument?!
Chapter 1326 Oh my god, a monument? !
"Shua——"
As the "Legendary White Stone" game cabin - although Hayato is more accustomed to calling it "Cocoon" - started up, Hayato's eyes flashed with golden light, and he successfully logged into the virtual world "Duel- Links".
However, unlike the location where Judai and his friends who logged in at the same time appeared, Hayato entered the virtual world and arrived in a valley, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a valley.
"Is this the world of Duel Links?" With a magenta camera hanging on his chest, Hayato took a photo and said to himself.
In addition to the mass-produced game cabins used by students, the game cabins that Hayato and Yugi used to assist Kaiba in testing were specially reserved for them, and special permissions were also opened to Hayato and his friends. It was with this permission that Hayato chose to enter the position closest to the NPC in the game when entering the game, and edited his character model by the way.
The original height of 1.95 meters was cut by more than 1 centimeter to become a standard figure of 1.8 meters. The face was also simply adjusted so that it was impossible to recognize it at a glance. At the same time, Hayato also brought a lot of special accessories to himself, such as the camera with the "absolute focus" attribute hanging on his chest.
But those are irrelevant. The important thing is that Hayato chose the entry point where there are NPCs nearby, but he looked around and saw towering rock walls without any place for people to hide. Is there really someone here?
Or, do you need to move forward a distance along the road in the valley?
Hayato didn't want to choose the latter, because he didn't know which direction he was in. After all, there were roads extending in front of him or behind him. If he chose the right one, it would be fine. If he chose the wrong one, he would accidentally walk on the road to leave and walk out of the valley. Wouldn't he have to walk back again?
He stood there and suddenly said, "Do you want to come out now, or let me raze this place to the ground and force you out?"
There was no movement around, only Hayato's voice echoed in the valley.
[Summoner-Aleister] who followed Hayato into the Duel Link world poked his head out from Hayato's waist: "No one came out, Master? Isn't it a little embarrassing?"
"Anyway, I was just trying it casually. If there were people around, I would have been able to trick someone if I could. But if there were no one around and no one knew what I did, how could it be considered embarrassing?" Hayato blinked at Aleister and took out a card from his body.
(Tarot Card: World)
The card was a tarot card found in the exhibition hall that was attacked by Saiou Takuma. It was undoubtedly left behind by Saiou who liked to use tarot divination. It seemed that he used tarot cards to predict the results of his actions before he acted. Although it is unknown what the result of the divination was, he failed to steal Yugi's card at all, and was beaten up by Jonouchi who mistook it for a monster or something.
When cleaning up the scene afterwards, the staff found this card and handed it to Hayato. Hayato also accidentally completed an achievement at that time.
[Achievement unlocked: Immortality, Undying-Power! ]
[Achievement description: Get the special tarot card that best matches you (revealed: World)]
[Achievement reward: 1000DP, specific [Power of the Mysteries] card (limited to [Power of the Mysteries XXI-World])]
The card that Saiou left behind was the biggest proof that his actions would definitely go smoothly at the time. When it was upright, it meant "perfection", "success", "lucky arrival" and other positive symbols. It was also the number 21 in the tarot card that represented "end" - "World"!
Although Hayato didn't quite understand why this "World" tarot card happened to be the tarot card that best matched him, who would mind getting something for free? He didn't even bother to delve into this and received the reward for the achievement at that time, and got the corresponding [Power of the Mysteries] card - [Power of the Mysteries XXI-World].
He tapped the side of the tarot card in his hand with his fingers, and saw that the pattern on it gradually cracked and turned into ashes, revealing the white background of the card. Then, the whole card was covered by golden light, removing all the cover and revealing its true appearance.
Hayato's card modification, which was the same as that of a shameless con man, was not something worth showing off in his eyes. He just let go of his hand and watched [Mystery Power XXI-World] stop in front of him, and the card started to rotate towards him.
Pointing in a direction, Hayato said, "Is this the right direction?"
The rotating card slowly stopped, but it was in a reversed state, which made Hayato say unhappily, "Tsk, this direction is wrong, I almost chose that direction to move forward."
"If that side is wrong, it must be this side?"
This time, when [Mystery Power XXI-World] was rotating again, it changed from reversed to upright when it stopped.
"Hehe, as expected of me. In fact, I wanted to choose this direction from the beginning." Hayato looked at the direction that seemed to be the correct direction in the divination of [Mystery Power XXI-World], took back the card, and said proudly, "Yeah, my intuition is really good."
"Wow, this is too much--"
"Bang!"
The staff hit [Summoner-Aleister] on the head, knocking him back to his card. [Water Sender of the Temple] leaned on the staff and said angrily: "Urusai! No matter what Lord Hayato does, he must have his reasons. This is disrespectful to Lord Hayato!"
"Okay, okay, don't worry about that guy Alai, I'm here to do business." Hayato patted [Water Sender of the Temple] on the shoulder and asked her to follow him. He began to move forward in the direction he had just chosen. "I'm quite interested in what the NPC in this virtual world is like."
"Yes, Lord Hayato!" After being patted on the shoulder by Hayato, [Water Sender of the Temple] decided to cut off the cloth on her clothes that was tapped and keep it well when she had time. She happily followed Hayato and walked deeper into the valley with him.
Just as Hayato walked around a bend on the mountain road, near where he was just now, a small stone on the ground moved slightly on the ground as if it was blown by the wind at the bottom of the valley.
As he moved forward, Hayato could clearly see that the air around him gradually became humid and full of water vapor from the slightly cool air at the beginning. At the same time, the rock walls on both sides gradually moved closer as he continued to move forward, making the path narrower little by little. At the beginning, the location where Hayato entered the game was like a small square that allowed nearly a hundred people to move freely, but now the road he was walking on was so narrow that only two people could walk side by side.
𝑠𝑡𝑜55.𝑐𝑜𝑚
"It's getting clearer, Master Hayato. I can clearly feel that there is something full of magic ahead." Behind Hayato, [Water Sender of the Temple] reminded him, "It may be dangerous."
"It's okay. This is just a virtual world after all. Kaiba didn't transform the game cabin into a microwave oven that can cook people's brains in reality if they die in the game." Hayato replied nonchalantly, "But don't you feel that there is magic from another world in this world?"
"Well, I'm sorry that I couldn't make Master Hayato's wish come true." [Water Sender of the Temple] said a little disappointedly, "Because there are a lot of students When the living beings enter this world, the vitality they carry and emit can also be used by me as magic for reconnaissance. Although it is not as clear as my own magic, I can use them as my eyes to monitor everything in this world. "
"This virtual world is obviously the so-called digital world, right? But for some reason, in addition to the players played by real humans who enter the game, there are many other beings carrying vitality, and there are even beings that further condense into magic. However, there are no beings carrying heterogeneous magic from another world. "
With curiosity, [Water Sent by the Temple] asked Hayato, " By the way, Mr. Hayato, what is the NPC you are talking about? Why do they have a human-like aura? "
"It is difficult to explain the specific principle to you, but I can roughly explain the general 'creation' process of this virtual world." Hayato walked while explaining to the [Water Dispatcher of the Temple] without looking back, his fingers occasionally running across the rock wall, feeling the weathered rock wall with his fingertips, which was rough at first, but quite smooth when he felt it carefully, "Before, when I, Yugi, Jonouchi and Kaiba entered, Kaiba actually only used two parts of the whole process, namely construction and filling. "
"Restore the original process of the four of us based on real data We will use the common impressions in our minds to restore all the feelings during the airship ride. "
"But this world is different. Kaiba first used AI to automatically select topics on the Internet to complete the proposition he specified - a stage of fate that no one can predict. However, AI seems to be mentally retarded. It is based on the Norse mythology of "fate will definitely come true" to design such a game world that combines duel monsters and epic adventures. "
Looking up and looking out from the valley, even Hayato can clearly see the giant tree with branches and leaves covering the sky - the world tree "Yggdraill".
After a pause, he continued, "AI anchors the theme, then the next step is to use data to build the basic framework of the world based on this theme, such as a ninja continent, a pirate world that is mostly covered by the ocean and divided by a ring continent, or a special world where three worlds exist at the same time and someone needs to maintain the balance of souls. The basic rules of such worlds need to be set with various data."
"As you can see, based on the theme of 'Norse Mythology', this world is set as an adventure world with a super huge world tree in the center, and then a lot of characters are stuffed into this world to create a world where everyone has their own life."
"And those 'Non-Player-Character' non-player controlled characters stuffed into this world are what I call NPCs."
[Water Dispatcher of the Temple] blinked, still not understanding: "But why do non-real beings created by data have vitality and even magic?"
"This is the last step required to create this world, and it is also the most important step to give this world a sense of reality - although some people have said that 'people who look for a sense of reality in a virtual world must have a problem with their brains'." Hayato turned his head 45 degrees like a new house, "That is to fill the skeleton with fantasy, which comes from the fantasy of every player using the virtual game cabin."
"Just a simple action like a human reaching out to pick up a cup to drink water requires a huge amount of computing power. Kaiba is a human after all, how can he create a world with perfect rules that is no different from the real world out of thin air? But the collective unconsciousness of humans can do it."
"The collective unconsciousness of a large number of players superimposed on each other gives real existence and even life to every plant and tree in this world. This is why Kaiba only took me and others to fight on an airship before, because the consciousness of only four people is not enough to support a huge living world, and the world of Duel Link is actually officially completed after the players enter the game."
Although it is said so, in fact, in Hayato's opinion, it is more magical to rely on human consciousness to give life to the world than to use pure data to build a living world. The former may be achieved one day with the development of technology, but the latter is already in the realm of black technology.
What makes people want to complain is that the prototype of the Neurons helmet of the "Legendary White Stone" game cabin that applies this technology was actually developed by Kaiba five years ago, but it was limited by the times and Kaiba sealed it in the "museum" of the Kaiba Group headquarters for a period of time.
(The foreshadowing of the game cabin's startup words, Volume 9, Chapter 127)
At that time, he was also targeted by Sera because the Neurons helmet and the then imperfect "Duel-Links" world, even if it was not a complete body, had the ability to interfere with the "Dimension Ascension" plan implemented by Diva, who was aliased as "Blue God", and Sera and his group of Prana.
"I see, I completely understand!" Although he said so, Hayato could see that the face of [Water Dispatcher of the Temple] was completely dizzy, and it was obvious that he didn't understand anything and pretended to understand.
After all, it was a black technology developed by Kaiba. It was normal for people in modern society not to understand it, not to mention the [Water Dispatch of the Temple]. Hayato did not say anything to her, but continued to move forward, and finally reached the end of his road a few minutes later.
After arriving here, Hayato also understood that the source of the humid air was the surging spring water, but when he looked at the fountain surrounded by a circle of bricks and stones engraved with strange words, and a single scarlet left eye, horns on the head, wings and claws on the back, and sharp hands like a demon, he felt that his PTSD was acting up.
"Oh my god, monument?!"
Everyone, remember, when teaching a newbie, you must not teach her to play with monuments - a bloody lesson