Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 378

July 7st, past 1pm.

Zhong Cheng returned to the ground from the construction site of Tiangong City. When he walked into the residence of Kunlun Building, he found that there was an extra device like a massage chair in the corner of the living room.

He realized that today is the day of the public beta of "Dream World".

According to his prior instructions, Deng Jinhai gave him a luxurious version of the "Second World" access device.

The cockpit access device with the highest configuration is a product of Hongxing Optoelectronics Equipment Manufacturing Company.

Since Red Star Company possesses the most advanced neural sensor technology, currently the world's most advanced metaverse access equipment is basically provided by Red Star Company, and the degree of simulation in the virtual world can reach up to 96%.

And those mid-to-low-end access devices, such as helmet-type access devices, can only reach 80% of the simulation degree, and the market competition is extremely fierce, and the price is low, so Red Star Company is not interested in producing them.

However, it is precisely this type of access equipment that costs less than 1000 yuan that supports 90% of the current Metaverse users.

It can be said that without such cheap access equipment, it is impossible for Metaverse to have the current billions of users.

The public beta started at 12:[-] noon, Zhong Cheng thought about it, and decided to go in and have a look.

He had nothing to do with the Metaverse before, and he never entered it.

Now that "Dream World" is in public beta, he is very curious about how to strengthen the body in the game.

Both 9527 and Liu Zhen reported to him that it was done, but after all, they still have to experience it themselves to be sure.

Zhong Cheng sat in this "massage chair", pressed the start button, and the device closed, wrapping his whole body, but he didn't feel any discomfort.

Isn't this the same as wearing a mecha?

At this time, a prompt box appeared in front of his eyes, "May I ask if the user binds this device as an access device for 'Second World'?"

Zhong Cheng said: "Yes!"

Then a prompt box appears, "May I ask if the user is entering the 'Second World' now?"

Zhong Cheng said again: "Yes!"

As soon as the words fell, a countdown appeared in front of my eyes:
"3!"

"2!"

"1!"

His vision blurred, and he found himself in an empty but crowded square.

This strange feeling was caused by the fact that apart from himself, the dense crowd around him were just overlapping shadows.

He raised his hands, put them in front of his eyes, touched his face with his hands, and stomped the ground under his feet.

He couldn't feel that this was just a virtual body and scene formed in his mind by the optical brain system through sensors.

And a systematic explanation of the surrounding shadows also appeared in his mind: because this is the square where newcomers from the "Second World" enter, it is only the size of a standard football field.

And "Second World" is filled with millions of newcomers at any time, so apart from oneself, others can only be shown by shadows.

Of course, the operator can also choose not to display it, but this will make users feel unpopular.

However, when the user enters the "Second World" next time, he can bind the entry scene to the designated place, so he doesn't need to come to this square again.

Through the shadows of the crowd, Zhong Cheng saw a huge obelisk in the center of the circular square, engraved with a line of words in Chinese and English: "Second World - the spiritual home of mankind."

The square is surrounded by a circle of buildings of different styles, Gothic style with towering spires; Baroque style, symmetrical and neat, with complicated decoration; garden style, pursuing the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, and the graceful oriental palace style and so on.

Dazzling and breathtaking!
Zhong Cheng counted, and there are 36 seats in total, which should be the facades of the 36 founding companies in the "Second World".

Between this circle of buildings, there are 18 long streets extending radially into the distance, with no end in sight. There are a large number of buildings on both sides of each long street.

He walked around the square and found that most of them were game companies, and there were also some tourism, entertainment, media, cultural, and trade companies.

At the entrances of these buildings, the characteristic service content operated by each is displayed, as well as the current number of online users.

Zhong Cheng noticed that there were tens of millions of people, and 300 million people. The 36 companies around the square had nearly 5 million online users.

Zhong Cheng was secretly startled, the "Second World" was even more terrifying than he imagined, and it had already developed to this level in just a few years.

He didn't want to go wandering in the long street anymore, and found the palace-like building of Yunwang Company, and walked in through the open door.

Inside is a huge palace. There are some service personnel in front of it. There are eight round arches on both sides, with service content written on them.

Zhong Cheng glanced at them, they were all games, including "Dream World" and seven virtual reality online games developed before.

However, apart from "Dream World" which has more than 300 million online users, other games have tens of thousands to tens of thousands of people.

"Dream World" just started its public beta today, and other games only have this number of online players, so it's no wonder that Lei Yongzhong and Wang Anlin came to seek cooperation.

From this point of view, "Dream World" should be considered relatively successful.

Zhong Cheng didn't waste any time, he walked into the round arched door with the signboard "Dream the world, the place where dreams start".

There was another flower in front of him, and he appeared in another hall.

This should be entering the exclusive server space of "Dream World".

On the plaque of the main hall, there are three ancient official script characters "Reincarnation Palace", and behind the copybook under the plaque sits a person or NPC who looks like the King of Hades.

Before Zhong Cheng could speak, Yan Wang spoke first.

"Mr. Zhong, welcome to the world of Dream World, please choose your name in this world!"

"Zhong Cheng!"

Zhong Cheng's name is very common, there are many people with the same name in the real world, and he is not afraid of being recognized.

Moreover, a big man does not change his name when he sits and does not change his surname when he does business, so there is no need to hide his head and tail.

"Mr. Zhong, please choose your appearance in this world, but you can only increase or decrease 10% of your original appearance or choose some facial modifications, such as adding beards!"

"No need to change it!" Zhong Cheng said bluntly.

"Mr. Zhong, please choose where you start in this world. Please note that this will determine your future career development direction. Please choose carefully!"

Zhong Cheng asked curiously: "What if I choose the wrong one?"

Hades replied: "After death, you can re-elect, but it needs to be three days later in real time!"

"Real time?"

"Yes, the flow rate of time in the 'Second World' is different from the real time, which is 3 to 1. In the 'Second World', you have spent 3 hours, and the real time has only passed 1 hour."

Yan Wang added, "This is a technology unique to the world of Dream World, allowing you to enjoy three times the life!"

Zhong Cheng was very surprised, no wonder 9527 and Liu Zhen all mysteriously let him enter the game to experience it, it turned out that they also came up with such a time technology.

However, Zhong Cheng thought about it again, this technology is very simple in theory, it is to input all external information to the human brain at three times the speed, so that people can have an illusion.

And the human brain must have the function of accessing such information, otherwise there would be no allusions to Huangliang Yimeng.

Zhong Cheng didn't ask any more questions and made a choice.

Yan Wang said unhurriedly: "Mr. Zhong, I wish you good luck!"

As soon as the words fell, Zhong Cheng saw another flower in front of him, and he had disappeared from the hall of reincarnation.

(End of this chapter)