Mr hell
Chapter 63 Soul Fire
Huai Qi didn't feel cold at all.
Jian Yisu's arms were like a small Garden of Eden that belonged only to him. When he fell into it, the warm body temperature drowned his consciousness, making him forget the concept of time for a moment.
He figured he wouldn't complain if he let himself curl up in it all day.
But the creator of "Eden" took him out because Huai Qi hugged him for nearly 10 minutes without saying a word.
While picking him up, Jian Yisu asked strangely, "Are you asleep?"
"No," the cold wind dispelled Huai Qi's dreamlike state, and he regained consciousness temporarily, and said, "I'm just cold, big liar."
Jian Yisu let out a crisp laugh.He predicted that he would probably have to deal with this new name in the next few days, so he raised his eyebrows and dragged the large down jacket to Huaiqi, as if wrapping him with a quilt.Then, from bottom to top, he zipped up the long zipper, retaliated: "The collective public beta is about to start, and I won't be with you for the time being. You idiot."
"Hmm." Huai Qi grabbed his sleeve and asked, "What's the content of Soul Fire?"
"You'll get to it in a while," Jian Yisu said, "I won't spoil it."
Huai Qi lowered his eyes and said, "The family members can't do it either. "
"Families can use the Wuxian system at will, and all the equipment of Deep Blue is permanently open to him." Jian Yisu smiled, "Isn't that enough?"
Huai Qi blinked, thought for a while, nodded, and stopped asking.
Jian Yisu reflected the softness in his eyes, he rubbed the broken hair on Huaiqi's forehead, and said, "Then, I wish you a happy game."
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When Huaiqi returned to the hall, the participants assigned to this place had already entered the cabin one after another.
The cabin carrying the Infinity System is oval-shaped, one person high, and falls on the fixed base at a soothing angle. If it weren’t for the switchable transparent wall above the cabin, and the lighted display on the white shell Fluorescent logo and machine model, it really looks like a perfect "egg".
There are interface slots on both sides of the base, and the cabins of the three of them are connected together through it, so as to realize the offline connection of the game.
Most of the cabins present are not independent, and everyone has one or two online "teammates".Because the dark blue meson stated at the press conference in the morning that multiplayer play is conducive to reducing the "uncanny valley effect" of pan-body sensation.
Jiang Xiao and Gu Qian who were present were obediently listening to the staff's instructions and wearing equipment.Seeing Huaiqi in a large down jacket coming, Jiang Xiao hurriedly greeted him, and patted the other one next to him that was connected to his game cabin.
Huai Qi hugged the clothes he had taken off, and watched the two enter the cabin from the side.Afterwards, the free staff took the neatly folded down jacket in his hand, and scanned Huaiqi's electronic invitation letter.After seeing Huaiqi's number, he looked at him intentionally, and there seemed to be some admiration on his serious face, and he deliberately squeezed out a polite smile at Huaiqi.
The dull Huai Qi didn't notice anything unusual until the staff was about to finish equipping him, and inserted a blue chip half the size of the palm of his hand into a groove in his helmet.
Huaiqi heard a "beep", and the machine automatically swallowed the card core slowly.
"What is this?" Huai Qi remembered that this operation was not performed on Gu Qian and Jiang Xiao's devices.
"Mr. Huai, this is arranged by Mr. Jian." The staff patiently said, "If you feel confused during the game, tap the right temple three times in a row, and Assistant Wuji will help you solve everything."
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Huaiqi: "Solve everything?"
"Yes," the staff said, "it can introduce you to the Boundless system, provide you with all the game information of Soulfire, and even if you want to skip the tedious process and get through the ending directly, it can help you achieve it. Oh, don't worry, These operations of yours have nothing to do with non-online players, and will not affect or destroy the game experience of other participants."
To put it bluntly, Jian Yisu installed a full-process guide plus mods for him.
Huai Qi just wanted to know a little bit about the inside story, but he didn't want to just "enter the room" without any effort.
He thanked the staff calmly, and independently completed the follow-up operation according to the steps he had seen and remembered just now. Before the hatch closed, he took out the chip and handed it to the staff, smiling cautiously. , Said: "Thank you, but Jane always worried too much" My game ability is at least a little better than his. "
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At this time, Guo Qiaochu's laughter came from the listening room.
Under the huge tiled screen, Guo Qiaochu took off his headphones, patted Jian Yisu on the shoulder, and made up an epilogue on the spot: "Look, brother Jian opened the back door for Xiaohuai—it's unnecessary."
Fu Xi's expression was indifferent, with his hands folded around his arms, staring at the screen in front of him, he also said: "Jian Shuo sent a hang to Huai Qi—fuck you."
Hearing Huai Qi's teasing and the expected reaction, Jian Yisu's mouth curved slightly.He put his legs together casually, resting his chin with one hand, tapped the earphone case a few times with his fingers, pointed to the two talented people beside him without looking back, and said, "You two, next month's salary assessment .”
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Although Huaiqi knows that everyone's game live will be recorded, but he has no idea that he has become the "key observation object" of the three of them.
He lay in the egg-shaped cabin, waiting for all the lights in the hall to go out, and everyone kept silent and held their breath in the dull darkness, until the gentle female voice and the countdown sounded by his ears.
When the ears of the participants stayed on "1" at the same time, Huai Qi felt the fluctuations like electric current penetrate his whole body, making his body numb. When the "current" passed through the eardrum, it turned into an ethereal and low " The "hum" sound, like a detection sonar, spreads from near to far, and the edge of the collision outlines the shape of a wide world. The blue grid lines extend with the vibration, and everything that passes through emerges.
Huaiqi looked at the scene of "creation" in front of him, and was shocked for a while, and the aftermath of vision and hearing took a long time to dissipate.
He regained his composure and looked around, as if he was in medieval Europe, and what he saw when he looked up was a huge Gothic building, its spire pierced into the sky, and the gray sky curtain around him seemed to be falling down, giving people a feeling An indescribable sense of oppression.
There is epic and magnificent music in my ears, it does not come from a certain place in the scene, as if the entire symphony orchestra originally existed in Huai Qi's head.
Standing beside him, Jiang Xiao and Gu Qian said "wow" at the same time - they still have a sense of direction for the sound effects in the scene.
Huai Qi stretched out his hand, turned his hand a few times, and grasped it with five fingers at the same time.The delay between the character's movements and his conscious control was so low that even though Huai Qi knew that this was a virtual world, he was still in a daze for a moment in the near-perfect sense of reality.
Jiang Xiao's exclamation was not over yet. When he looked at Huaiqi, the sound wave went up to a higher level: "Huaiqi? Are you Xiao Huaihuai?"
Huaiqi: "?"
Huai Qi turned his head to look at the two of them, and found that apart from the big changes in clothing and makeup, the appearance of the characters of the two had also undergone some changes on the basis of the original ones, but they were still recognizable upon closer inspection.
Huai Qi said, "It's me."
Jiang Xiao opened his mouth and looked him up and down suspiciously.
Huai Qi couldn't see his own image, thinking he was similar to them.But Jiang Xiao's pupils clearly reflected a delicate and handsome nobleman with an indifferent expression - he had long blond hair, was dressed in light luggage, his head was covered by a large windproof hood, and behind him was a bow covered in dust. with sword.The most striking thing is his eyes, the blue that originally belonged to the sky, as if the gray clouds above his head are just the shadow of the sky, and it itself is hidden in the eyes of the person in front of him.
Huai Qi's appearance is very good, but his daily grooming is very casual, and his fear of people makes him have a low sense of existence, which blunts his attractiveness on the outside.And the character model generated by the system "polished" his face again.
Huai Qi took off the hood on his head, Gu Qian walked around him, touched his blond hair that was braided at the sideburns curiously, and said: "This is the first time I found out that "Student Huai, you look very good-looking." of. "
Jiang Xiao just witnessed the staff's rejection of Huaiqi's "going through the back door", and he had just learned about the relationship between Huaiqi and Jian Shuo, so he curled his lips and said, "There is something about Brother Jian in your senior face-squeeze Personal feelings."
Huaiqi: "..."
He held out a finger and said, "Appearance generation like this is not a new technology. You should care about other places."
Huai Qi didn't have time to say more, after the music faded, he heard a question.
"The three of you are the guests specially invited by the master."
A carriage drove in front of them. The harness and carriage were exquisite and gorgeous. Its owner should be of good background.The gentleman who got out of the car took off his hat and bowed to the three.
At this time, Huai Qi saw a badge on the man's chest emitting a conspicuous blue light, and the cloth bag on his waist also emitted such a blue light.Huai Qi recognized at a glance that this was a guide design, so he opened the package.The blue light jumped to a yellowed sheepskin scroll inside again, and a line of words "a token from the temple" emerged on it - this is probably the mission item.
Huai Qi took out the scroll, and he saw that the hot stamping on it was the same as the badge on the man's chest.
The man took it respectfully, and returned it to Huaiqi after checking it out. After confirming where the three of them came from, he said, "What should I call the three honored guests who are blessed by the temple?"
Jiang Xiao couldn't wait to go forward, wanting to argue with this NPC who was indistinguishable from a real person, but he opened his mouth, but no sound came out.Huai Qi looked at the dancing Jiang Xiao, wondering.Suddenly, a voice came from his mind, like the monologue of the character he played——
"When I have a body, my memory gradually fades away from me."
"Who am I and what am I here for?"
"I don't seem to belong to this land, or I don't belong to the world. It is difficult for me to communicate with the creatures on the mainland, because I am cursed and blessed by the Lord of Soul Fire, and I cannot tell them the extra secrets."
"The man in front of me is asking my name."
"my name? "
These are the plot guides, Jiang Xiao and Gu Qian probably heard it too.But none of them could talk to the man in front of them. They tried it, but they were all "silenced", so that they felt that the current situation was a bug.
But Huai Qi understood for a while, and then said out loud, "Hi, my name is 07."
"Hello, Mr. 07. You are an excellent hunter." The man followed up, and he bowed, "I am the butler of Kingsley Manor. The master has been waiting for three distinguished guests for a long time."
As soon as his words fell, the voice in Huai Qi's heart sounded again——
"I remembered something. The name of this body is 07."
"My current identity is probably a soul hunter belonging to the Temple of Tana."
"My companion and I were sent here to carry out an unknown mission."
Jiang Xiao poked Huaiqi and said, "Why can you talk to him?"
"Because in the setting of the plot, we players cannot 'reveal extra secrets'. That is to say, you can only answer what the NPC asks. If you try to chat with the NPC about things that have nothing to do with the main story, you will be 'silenced' by the system .”
From "thinking" in the brain to expressing aloud, there is a short and negligible reaction time. During this time, the Infinity system can quickly and accurately judge whether the player's words "meet the requirements". A thing that surprised Huai Qi very much.It is not surprising that people who are in contact with it for the first time regard it as a bug.
Jiang Xiao suddenly realized that he and Gu Qian had each "given" a name for themselves.They are "a healthy 20-year-old programmer" and "Xigu".
So the butler bowed and said hello to them respectively.
"Hi, Mr. Programmer, a 20-year-old in good health. You are an excellent hunter"
"Hi, Ms. Hunter. You are an excellent hunter."
The butler continued apologetically, "I hope the three of you can forgive me for being a few quarters of an hour late, because there were some unexpected situations that needed to be resolved in the manor this morning."
"I understand," Gu Qian said with a slap in the palm of her hand after listening to the follow-up of her inner monologue, "Because the identities of the players belong to the so-called 'blessed and cursed by the Lord of Soulfire', they are of the same kind, so the relationship between the three of us You can communicate freely, but not with NPCs."
The essence of Soul Fire is an AVG game with a degree of freedom close to reality. Unlike the open world games on consoles, there is also a high degree of freedom in the voice communication between players and characters in the game. However, NPCs are not human after all, and can only communicate with players. Carry out limited communication set in advance, which will greatly reduce the reality and immersion of "Soul Fire".
And if all the control systems behind these ubiquitous NPCs with different personalities are replaced with artificial intelligence that can pass the Turing test, it will be another big project.
The designer Jian Yisu is very smart, he made up for this deficiency with the setting of the world view.Just like in rouge games, the world view design with "rebirth" is often used to match the game features of "permanent death".Jian Yisu uses "the curse of the Lord of Soul Fire" to reduce the conversation between players and NPCs with this more reasonable logic.
However, this gap in technology may become the future research direction of Deep Blue Meson, Huai Qi thought expectantly.
He has just entered the game and has not fully immersed in the plot, or due to occupational diseases, Huai Qi can't help but want to pay attention to and admire all aspects of the design of "Soul Fire".Little did he know that while trying his best not to show his admiration and joy, and at the same time praising the details of the game with his companions, Jian Yisu, who was in the monitoring room, saw the contradictory demeanor.
Huai Qi and his companions boarded the carriage. Through the window of the carriage, he watched the medieval buildings that coexisted with the sacred and the decayed. He felt the real bumps on the carriage, and his mood was mixed with indescribable excitement and amazement.
The inner monologue sounded:
"The Kingsley family? I have some vague impressions."
"In a trance, my soul tells me that my past has an inseparable connection with this family."
"I want to know more..."
Jiang Xiaoxue was smart this time, following the lead of the plot, he asked aloud, "Hey brother, can you tell us about the Kingsley family?"
"Of course, it is my honor to introduce this great family to an excellent hunter," this question triggered the butler's response, he said, "After arriving at the destination, the three of you can come to the library on the second floor in the north of the manor to look for me. It will be described in detail."
At this time, the sheepskin scroll in the Huaiqi bag emitted blue light again, and after opening it, two quest lines appeared on it——
[-]. Go to the reception hall in the south of the manor and look for Caton Kingsley to accept your task of coming to the manor.
[-]. Go to the library in the north of the manor to find the butler and learn about the Kingsley family.
It turns out that this parchment is the mission note of the game.
Huai Qi checked it over and over again, only the locations and characters were marked in red in the descriptions of these two missions.According to the usual practice, this is only the foreshadowing of the main story line, and it does not indicate the order of completion, which requires the three of Huaiqi to independently decide on the exploration route.
Soon, the carriage passed through the busy city and drove into a sparsely populated place, and a huge manor surrounded by greenery appeared in front of my eyes.The sturdy body of the gatekeepers was wrapped in platinum armor. If they hadn't opened the iron gate of the manor, Huai Qi would have thought it was two statues.The carriage approached them, and Huai Qi noticed from a close distance that the faces of these two soldiers were also covered by thick and exquisite helmets, without any gaps, as if they didn't need to use their eyes to perceive the world.
"They're a little strange." Gu Qian also sensed it, and whispered to Huai Qi.
After the turbulence ended, the three were asked to get out of the car.In this world, soul hunters seem to be a respected profession. The servants who were cleaning the house and pruning the green plants all looked in the direction of the three of them, and whispered to each other.
Along the long, gently sloping steps, they climbed up to a majestic and splendid building.After walking for a while, when he was about to reach the top, the housekeeper frowned and looked at the servants around him, so that the latter lowered their heads.
"Where's the silk for the guests?" the butler asked.
Someone said obediently: "Sameer is responsible for the preparations, she hasn't been here yet."
"Stupid and lazy foreigner." Hearing this name, the butler snorted disdainfully.He pointed to a servant at random and said, "Go and wake her up, and let her appear before we enter the hall. If the master can't see the silk hanging around the neck of the distinguished guest, then let her go to the slop bucket." Let's find today's lunch!"
"What silk?" Jiang Xiao, who saw all this in his eyes, pointed his head slightly to the people around him in doubt, and whispered in his ear.
"Probably something like a Tibetan hada" for welcoming guests? " Gu Qian replied with the same volume.
Jiang Xiao, who was too focused, didn't expect that the person next to him became Gu Qian, so he quickly distanced himself, said "Oh" a few times, scratched his head and laughed, "Classmate Gu is smarter than me."
And the person Jiang Xiao wanted to ask - Huaiqi, was on the first step behind them at the moment, staring at its edge intently.
After laughing, Jiang Xiao finally found out where Huai Qi was, stepped back and patted him on the back, and asked, "What are you doing?"
Next to the steps is a sink with the same length, and there is clear water flowing in it. Because it is too clear, people who don't care will feel that there is nothing in it.
"Look." Huai Qi grabbed a handful of water and watched it flow through his fingers.
Jiang Xiao reached out and poked his palm, the fingertips clearly felt the touch of water, looking at the natural state of the water flow, he couldn't help sighing: "It's so true."
"Yes," Huai Qi was not in a hurry to praise "Soul Fire", but put his hand in the sink again, he said, "but" you pay attention to this. "
Due to the blocking of his fingers, there were some waves in the shallow water. Jiang Xiao, who bent down, saw it clearly, and frowned and said, "Backflow?"
The water in the sink was flowing backwards from the bottom up.
Inertial thinking made Jiang Xiao understand this phenomenon as a bug again, and he joked: "Excellent physics engine."
"It doesn't seem like an unintentional move to let the water flow backwards, but it will increase the workload." Gu Qian objected, "Could it be a deliberate design?"
"I don't know..." Huai Qi shook his head.He stood up and said, "I haven't fully understood the worldview of this game yet."
Jiang Xiao patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, we are too."
The three of them were chatting when they suddenly heard a female scream not far away, and then, like a frightened baby, the earth trembled and fluctuated, like a harbinger of disaster.
"Sameer, what are you doing!" The housekeeper was very dissatisfied with the man's rude yelling.
"My lord! The captain of the patrol soldier has not returned to normal!" Sameer had short brown-red hair that was scratched by her, and she was wearing a dirty black and white dress. She panicked, "I listen to the person you invited this morning. According to the repairman, I replaced it with parts and fuel, but it suddenly went crazy!"
The butler's face turned livid in an instant.Her words made the surrounding servants look worried, but because of the steward's presence, no one called out.
The butler asked, "Where is it now?"
"According to the past, he should be patrolling this area this morning. It has already come. I have exhausted all methods, but I can't stop it—"
Before Samuel finished speaking, the three of them heard the sound of metal scraping not far away, as well as the unique footstep vibration when the giant moved.
Sure enough, under the marble archway carved with angels and snakes leading to the back garden, there appeared an iron lump head—it was an enlarged version of the soldier at the gate, and it grasped the pillars on both sides with its hands wearing iron gloves. He was bending over to pass through the narrow stone gate, his slow movement carried the bulkiness of a large object, his whole body exuded a blue-black substance, it was a colored gas, and it was like fragments of the soul, faintly foreshadowing With a kind of ominous.
The butler hurriedly shouted to the three of them: "Guests, please be careful! The out-of-control manor patrol captain will attack unrecognizable outsiders!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the captain of the guard locked on the three of them, and the music in Huaiqi's ears suddenly became sharper. After hearing the iron man's low growl, a circular blood spot appeared in Huaiqi's perspective. The name of the boss is exactly "Patrol Captain".
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Jiang Xiao took a step back and said in shock: "Damn it, "Soul Fire" won't be an AAVG, right? How do you fight hand-to-hand combat with this thing!"
"Don't worry, it shouldn't be difficult." Gu Qian calmed down after listening to her inner monologue and seeing the text guidance that appeared in front of her at the same time.But she didn't know it in her mind, and said with a little hesitation in her voice, "This is just a novice teaching."
Because "Soul Fire" did not disclose any relevant information before the open beta, the gameplay, plot, and everything that appeared were unknown to players.
Huai Qi remained calm, and quickly listened to the "operation method" told him by his inner monologue.He used to play games only by pressing the keys of the keyboard and the controller. Huai Qi has never experienced this kind of fighting method that requires the coordination of the whole body.
The patrolling soldiers didn't wait for them to understand, and waved their hard iron arms.Although the three of them managed to dodge, they were still injured by the spray and felt no pain. Huai Qi only felt a numbness from the "injured" body part.
The worst of the three was Jiang Xiao. He was hit in the leg by an iron arm, and he lost consciousness for a short time after being numb, which made him panic for a long time.Most of his health had dropped, and Huai Qi dragged him to a safe side in an emergency.
Huai Qi stared at this huge iron man, his brain quickly searched for the solution from his messy thoughts, he took a step back unconsciously, and knocked his waist against a wooden box in the manor.
He found a dilapidated shield in the wooden box, and the guiding light that appeared just now was shining on the handle, so Huai Qi picked it up.
At this time, the inner monologue said: "Raise the shield and push half an arm away when the opponent is about to attack, and the damage can be reflected."
Shield against?
Huai Qi looked at the dilapidated wooden shields of the audience with dubious faith. The fragility and hardness of the iron guy in front of him almost formed a contrast.
Not to mention whether this armor is good or not, but in terms of my own strength, can I bounce back the attack of this thing?
However, the enemy did not leave any room for Huaiqi to hesitate, Jiang Xiao reminded him loudly.Fortunately, Huai Qi's reaction speed was fast enough. At the moment the iron arm was swung, he quickly closed his eyes, raised his shield, and pushed it away!
Suddenly, his body seemed to resonate with some kind of force. After the combined operation was judged successful, a burst of blue light burst out from his arm holding the shield, and it took only a little effort to block the iron arm. go back.
The force of the impact caused the captain of the guard to fall to the ground with a bang, and the dust on the ground even shook.
Sure enough, it was the same as what Gu Qian said, this is the boss of the novice teaching concept, the behavior pattern is very simple, just a simple counter-reaction can cause a long gap in his actions.
"Damn, you did a great job." Jiang Xiao, who had just recovered from leg numbness, exclaimed.
Inner monologue:
"The Lord of Soul Fire blesses me, so that the Soul Hunter has strength and skill that ordinary people can't match."
"The Lord has given us the hunting instinct. When I enter into a strong focus, I will burst out with deadly power."
"When the attack comes, try jumping up + leaning back."
Boss is struggling to stand up.During the time it resumed its action, Huaiqi tried the operation guided by the inner monologue.Unbelievably, when he performed a simple jump and backflip, the control of his body seemed to be entrusted to God in an instant, and he actually performed a perfect backflip in the air.
When it landed, Huai Qi wobbled, but then stood still.
He was surprised to find that the Boundless system greatly simplifies the player's operation steps, which is essentially no different from the console game's combination of buttons to achieve complex actions-he only needs to remember simple body movements and catch the timing combination to trigger. Some of the most difficult stunts that a professional can do in real life-these "key combinations" are even very similar to some games he has played recently.
Therefore, the action part of the soul fire is still a test of the player's reaction ability, and it does not need to have very superb martial arts skills. The powerful infinite system—that is, the "lord of soul fire" in the plot setting will help you Complete these actions.
And dynamic vision and reaction speed are exactly what Huaiqi, who has been dealing with games all year round, is best at.
Huai Qi felt a certain nerve driving the blood in his whole body to boil.
The strong wind blows 07's long golden hair. I don't know if this is the setting. The haze in the sky has drifted away a little, and the sun's beams flow from the gaps in the dark clouds, covering the majestic and towering buildings and the mysterious and complicated reliefs with a layer of sacredness. filter color.
Gu Qian and Jiang Xiao, who were watching, couldn't help but look up at the sky with a bit of divinity.
"If you want to say the biggest shortcoming of "Soul Fire", it is probably that there are too many shocking points in a scene, which makes the player overwhelmed, so that the central task will be blurred.
But the designer of this world probably also thought of this, so that this amazing dawn was mainly concentrated on the patrol captain.
Huai Qi didn't say a word, he drew the sword behind him.
In Jiang Xiao's eyes, Huaiqi flashed in front of the iron man in an instant, and before its arm swung down, his figure appeared on the iron arm at an incredible speed.
The inner monologue said: "Jump up + speed up movement, trigger teleportation sprint, and avoid damage."
With the help of this iron arm, Huai Qi jumped to the level with the iron man's head, sprinted, and drew his sword at a place close to the iron man's mask.
"Airborne sprints and combos can be used to achieve short-term airborne attacks."
When Huaiqi held the hilt of the sword, he saw the light from just now again. When attacking, the damage will gradually increase with the number of combos, and the blue light will become brighter and brighter.Until the time of staying in the air was over, Huaiqi turned over to the ground after using it, avoiding the high-altitude landing damage, and the whole set of movements was smooth and smooth. After the end, most of Iron Man's blood bars had dropped.
After the frightening monster in front of him suffered a heavy blow, he could only simply sweep with his iron arms.When its blood volume dropped to one-fifth, and Huai Qi's combo accumulated to a large value, Huai Qi, who stayed in the air, felt that everything in front of him became very slow.
"Trigger the 'Concentration Area', and with a high degree of concentration, the Lord of Soulfire will help me deliver a fatal blow."
Huai Qi took out the bow on his back, and when the arrow was on the string, an aiming cross appeared in his view.Locked on the back of the dull monster's neck, and shot.
After a loud bang, the blood bar was cleared to zero.
The iron man fell apart with a loud noise, and the blue-black "steam" on his body spewed out, like ashes after a fire.Jiang Xiao's voice became hoarse when he shouted for him, and he completely forgot that he was also one of the players. For this kind of physical battle, the audience's perspective should be more exciting and gorgeous.
Huaiqi walked towards the pile of scrap iron in front of him, and under the drifting blue-black mist, a conspicuous game logo slowly appeared in the air. The sky and the oppressive feeling of the building in the background echoed these two characters— —
soul fire.
The game has just begun.
And the figure of the handsome young man holding the sword, against the background of the iron ruins and large characters, shows a kind of frailty and unyielding.
like a knight.
Outside of the game, 07, Xi Gu, and the vigorous 20-year-old programmer were ranked tenth in the ranking of the progress of the main line.In other words, Huaiqi was the 10th person to pass the novice tutorial among [-] people.
Jiang Xiao couldn't wait to come forward and retell Huai Qi's perfect battle just now.It takes a little time to adapt to this kind of pan-sensory system. Huaiqi was a little dizzy after finishing the operation, and Jiang Xiao's slap almost didn't spit out Huaiqi's lunch.
"Are you okay?" Jiang Xiao patted his back.
"It's okay..." Huaiqi supported his knees with his hands, and his brain consciousness almost derailed from his body in an instant.This seems to be part of what Jian Yisu called the "uncanny valley effect" of pan-body sensation.The overly realistic and smooth virtual world just now caused his brain to resist and resist.
He retched for a while, and said: "It will be better if you run in more."
The system seemed to sense his discomfort and suggested that he turn on the steady state mode. Although the acuity of his movements had decreased, Huaiqi's dizziness was greatly relieved.
"As expected of the soul hunter of the Temple of Tana!" The butler praised, while asking the servants to clean up the broken pieces of iron.He and the three of them bowed and apologized, and said, "The broken machines in the manor have caused you trouble."
machine?
Huai Qi looked at the pile of human-shaped iron sheets on the ground, wondering what their driving force was.
Could it be these blue-black fogs?
Just as he was thinking this way, these "fogs" hovered from the sky like a flock of birds returning to their nests, and penetrated into the bodies of the three of them.
Huai Qi looked around him, listened to his inner monologue and continued:
"I successfully captured the Soul Fire, which is the fuel and power of the world, and also the source of life for Tana Temple and Soul Hunters."
"I think the reason I lost my memory when I was '07 was because I was sorely lacking in that stuff."
"The moment when the rain of life moistened my chest, I only recall some emotions."
"It grew in my breast like a half-extinguished coal in an empty hearth, and sick smoke and lung-piercing smoke clung to his mouth."
"It's a dull, bad, angry mood."
"I" came for revenge. "
Huai Qi suddenly woke up.He found that the parchment in his bag lit up again.On the other half of its page, the words "entry included" appeared, and the first noun included was "soul fire".
Gu Qian and Jiang Xiao looked up at each other.
"Soul Fire" is the fuel and power of the world, and also the source of life for Tana Temple and Soul Hunter.Similar to the "qi" in ancient oriental culture, it is a kind of mysterious energy that exists in the world in three states of solid, liquid and gas. It is usually blue, and the high-purity soul fire will condense into black.
"That is to say, this thing..." Gu Qian pointed to the broken "Patrol Captain" on the ground, "And the soldiers who greeted us outside the door were all driven by soul fire? Then what we saw just now The backflow canal, does the driving force also come from it?"
What she said triggered the butler's lines, and he said respectfully: "Yes, the terrain of Kingsley Manor is complex. Using the soul fire to drive irrigation can easily let the water flow through all the vegetation on the terrain, saving the cost of manpower The secret that the Kingsley family is so powerful and rich also comes from the soul fire."
"Then Kingsley is similar to an oil tycoon in modern society," Jiang Xiao looked at the parchment and thought for a while, then said, "It's just that this kind of energy is more mysterious and complicated."
The butler just smiled, and he continued: "Please come to this hall to rest first, and I will inform the master. But if you want to visit the manor, you can walk around as you like."
"So where are we going?" Jiang Xiao couldn't help but look forward to it, "The main line is to travel around the mountains and rivers."
"The world of Soulfire is too big and too real. I even feel a little alienated now" and wonder if I am a person on Earth.There are probably many players who will be held back by this novelty," Gu Qian looked up at the stained glass above the palace, stretched out her hand towards them, and sighed, "If Brother Jian revealed a little information about "Soul Fire" before
Jian Yisu's arms were like a small Garden of Eden that belonged only to him. When he fell into it, the warm body temperature drowned his consciousness, making him forget the concept of time for a moment.
He figured he wouldn't complain if he let himself curl up in it all day.
But the creator of "Eden" took him out because Huai Qi hugged him for nearly 10 minutes without saying a word.
While picking him up, Jian Yisu asked strangely, "Are you asleep?"
"No," the cold wind dispelled Huai Qi's dreamlike state, and he regained consciousness temporarily, and said, "I'm just cold, big liar."
Jian Yisu let out a crisp laugh.He predicted that he would probably have to deal with this new name in the next few days, so he raised his eyebrows and dragged the large down jacket to Huaiqi, as if wrapping him with a quilt.Then, from bottom to top, he zipped up the long zipper, retaliated: "The collective public beta is about to start, and I won't be with you for the time being. You idiot."
"Hmm." Huai Qi grabbed his sleeve and asked, "What's the content of Soul Fire?"
"You'll get to it in a while," Jian Yisu said, "I won't spoil it."
Huai Qi lowered his eyes and said, "The family members can't do it either. "
"Families can use the Wuxian system at will, and all the equipment of Deep Blue is permanently open to him." Jian Yisu smiled, "Isn't that enough?"
Huai Qi blinked, thought for a while, nodded, and stopped asking.
Jian Yisu reflected the softness in his eyes, he rubbed the broken hair on Huaiqi's forehead, and said, "Then, I wish you a happy game."
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When Huaiqi returned to the hall, the participants assigned to this place had already entered the cabin one after another.
The cabin carrying the Infinity System is oval-shaped, one person high, and falls on the fixed base at a soothing angle. If it weren’t for the switchable transparent wall above the cabin, and the lighted display on the white shell Fluorescent logo and machine model, it really looks like a perfect "egg".
There are interface slots on both sides of the base, and the cabins of the three of them are connected together through it, so as to realize the offline connection of the game.
Most of the cabins present are not independent, and everyone has one or two online "teammates".Because the dark blue meson stated at the press conference in the morning that multiplayer play is conducive to reducing the "uncanny valley effect" of pan-body sensation.
Jiang Xiao and Gu Qian who were present were obediently listening to the staff's instructions and wearing equipment.Seeing Huaiqi in a large down jacket coming, Jiang Xiao hurriedly greeted him, and patted the other one next to him that was connected to his game cabin.
Huai Qi hugged the clothes he had taken off, and watched the two enter the cabin from the side.Afterwards, the free staff took the neatly folded down jacket in his hand, and scanned Huaiqi's electronic invitation letter.After seeing Huaiqi's number, he looked at him intentionally, and there seemed to be some admiration on his serious face, and he deliberately squeezed out a polite smile at Huaiqi.
The dull Huai Qi didn't notice anything unusual until the staff was about to finish equipping him, and inserted a blue chip half the size of the palm of his hand into a groove in his helmet.
Huaiqi heard a "beep", and the machine automatically swallowed the card core slowly.
"What is this?" Huai Qi remembered that this operation was not performed on Gu Qian and Jiang Xiao's devices.
"Mr. Huai, this is arranged by Mr. Jian." The staff patiently said, "If you feel confused during the game, tap the right temple three times in a row, and Assistant Wuji will help you solve everything."
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Huaiqi: "Solve everything?"
"Yes," the staff said, "it can introduce you to the Boundless system, provide you with all the game information of Soulfire, and even if you want to skip the tedious process and get through the ending directly, it can help you achieve it. Oh, don't worry, These operations of yours have nothing to do with non-online players, and will not affect or destroy the game experience of other participants."
To put it bluntly, Jian Yisu installed a full-process guide plus mods for him.
Huai Qi just wanted to know a little bit about the inside story, but he didn't want to just "enter the room" without any effort.
He thanked the staff calmly, and independently completed the follow-up operation according to the steps he had seen and remembered just now. Before the hatch closed, he took out the chip and handed it to the staff, smiling cautiously. , Said: "Thank you, but Jane always worried too much" My game ability is at least a little better than his. "
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At this time, Guo Qiaochu's laughter came from the listening room.
Under the huge tiled screen, Guo Qiaochu took off his headphones, patted Jian Yisu on the shoulder, and made up an epilogue on the spot: "Look, brother Jian opened the back door for Xiaohuai—it's unnecessary."
Fu Xi's expression was indifferent, with his hands folded around his arms, staring at the screen in front of him, he also said: "Jian Shuo sent a hang to Huai Qi—fuck you."
Hearing Huai Qi's teasing and the expected reaction, Jian Yisu's mouth curved slightly.He put his legs together casually, resting his chin with one hand, tapped the earphone case a few times with his fingers, pointed to the two talented people beside him without looking back, and said, "You two, next month's salary assessment .”
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Although Huaiqi knows that everyone's game live will be recorded, but he has no idea that he has become the "key observation object" of the three of them.
He lay in the egg-shaped cabin, waiting for all the lights in the hall to go out, and everyone kept silent and held their breath in the dull darkness, until the gentle female voice and the countdown sounded by his ears.
When the ears of the participants stayed on "1" at the same time, Huai Qi felt the fluctuations like electric current penetrate his whole body, making his body numb. When the "current" passed through the eardrum, it turned into an ethereal and low " The "hum" sound, like a detection sonar, spreads from near to far, and the edge of the collision outlines the shape of a wide world. The blue grid lines extend with the vibration, and everything that passes through emerges.
Huaiqi looked at the scene of "creation" in front of him, and was shocked for a while, and the aftermath of vision and hearing took a long time to dissipate.
He regained his composure and looked around, as if he was in medieval Europe, and what he saw when he looked up was a huge Gothic building, its spire pierced into the sky, and the gray sky curtain around him seemed to be falling down, giving people a feeling An indescribable sense of oppression.
There is epic and magnificent music in my ears, it does not come from a certain place in the scene, as if the entire symphony orchestra originally existed in Huai Qi's head.
Standing beside him, Jiang Xiao and Gu Qian said "wow" at the same time - they still have a sense of direction for the sound effects in the scene.
Huai Qi stretched out his hand, turned his hand a few times, and grasped it with five fingers at the same time.The delay between the character's movements and his conscious control was so low that even though Huai Qi knew that this was a virtual world, he was still in a daze for a moment in the near-perfect sense of reality.
Jiang Xiao's exclamation was not over yet. When he looked at Huaiqi, the sound wave went up to a higher level: "Huaiqi? Are you Xiao Huaihuai?"
Huaiqi: "?"
Huai Qi turned his head to look at the two of them, and found that apart from the big changes in clothing and makeup, the appearance of the characters of the two had also undergone some changes on the basis of the original ones, but they were still recognizable upon closer inspection.
Huai Qi said, "It's me."
Jiang Xiao opened his mouth and looked him up and down suspiciously.
Huai Qi couldn't see his own image, thinking he was similar to them.But Jiang Xiao's pupils clearly reflected a delicate and handsome nobleman with an indifferent expression - he had long blond hair, was dressed in light luggage, his head was covered by a large windproof hood, and behind him was a bow covered in dust. with sword.The most striking thing is his eyes, the blue that originally belonged to the sky, as if the gray clouds above his head are just the shadow of the sky, and it itself is hidden in the eyes of the person in front of him.
Huai Qi's appearance is very good, but his daily grooming is very casual, and his fear of people makes him have a low sense of existence, which blunts his attractiveness on the outside.And the character model generated by the system "polished" his face again.
Huai Qi took off the hood on his head, Gu Qian walked around him, touched his blond hair that was braided at the sideburns curiously, and said: "This is the first time I found out that "Student Huai, you look very good-looking." of. "
Jiang Xiao just witnessed the staff's rejection of Huaiqi's "going through the back door", and he had just learned about the relationship between Huaiqi and Jian Shuo, so he curled his lips and said, "There is something about Brother Jian in your senior face-squeeze Personal feelings."
Huaiqi: "..."
He held out a finger and said, "Appearance generation like this is not a new technology. You should care about other places."
Huai Qi didn't have time to say more, after the music faded, he heard a question.
"The three of you are the guests specially invited by the master."
A carriage drove in front of them. The harness and carriage were exquisite and gorgeous. Its owner should be of good background.The gentleman who got out of the car took off his hat and bowed to the three.
At this time, Huai Qi saw a badge on the man's chest emitting a conspicuous blue light, and the cloth bag on his waist also emitted such a blue light.Huai Qi recognized at a glance that this was a guide design, so he opened the package.The blue light jumped to a yellowed sheepskin scroll inside again, and a line of words "a token from the temple" emerged on it - this is probably the mission item.
Huai Qi took out the scroll, and he saw that the hot stamping on it was the same as the badge on the man's chest.
The man took it respectfully, and returned it to Huaiqi after checking it out. After confirming where the three of them came from, he said, "What should I call the three honored guests who are blessed by the temple?"
Jiang Xiao couldn't wait to go forward, wanting to argue with this NPC who was indistinguishable from a real person, but he opened his mouth, but no sound came out.Huai Qi looked at the dancing Jiang Xiao, wondering.Suddenly, a voice came from his mind, like the monologue of the character he played——
"When I have a body, my memory gradually fades away from me."
"Who am I and what am I here for?"
"I don't seem to belong to this land, or I don't belong to the world. It is difficult for me to communicate with the creatures on the mainland, because I am cursed and blessed by the Lord of Soul Fire, and I cannot tell them the extra secrets."
"The man in front of me is asking my name."
"my name? "
These are the plot guides, Jiang Xiao and Gu Qian probably heard it too.But none of them could talk to the man in front of them. They tried it, but they were all "silenced", so that they felt that the current situation was a bug.
But Huai Qi understood for a while, and then said out loud, "Hi, my name is 07."
"Hello, Mr. 07. You are an excellent hunter." The man followed up, and he bowed, "I am the butler of Kingsley Manor. The master has been waiting for three distinguished guests for a long time."
As soon as his words fell, the voice in Huai Qi's heart sounded again——
"I remembered something. The name of this body is 07."
"My current identity is probably a soul hunter belonging to the Temple of Tana."
"My companion and I were sent here to carry out an unknown mission."
Jiang Xiao poked Huaiqi and said, "Why can you talk to him?"
"Because in the setting of the plot, we players cannot 'reveal extra secrets'. That is to say, you can only answer what the NPC asks. If you try to chat with the NPC about things that have nothing to do with the main story, you will be 'silenced' by the system .”
From "thinking" in the brain to expressing aloud, there is a short and negligible reaction time. During this time, the Infinity system can quickly and accurately judge whether the player's words "meet the requirements". A thing that surprised Huai Qi very much.It is not surprising that people who are in contact with it for the first time regard it as a bug.
Jiang Xiao suddenly realized that he and Gu Qian had each "given" a name for themselves.They are "a healthy 20-year-old programmer" and "Xigu".
So the butler bowed and said hello to them respectively.
"Hi, Mr. Programmer, a 20-year-old in good health. You are an excellent hunter"
"Hi, Ms. Hunter. You are an excellent hunter."
The butler continued apologetically, "I hope the three of you can forgive me for being a few quarters of an hour late, because there were some unexpected situations that needed to be resolved in the manor this morning."
"I understand," Gu Qian said with a slap in the palm of her hand after listening to the follow-up of her inner monologue, "Because the identities of the players belong to the so-called 'blessed and cursed by the Lord of Soulfire', they are of the same kind, so the relationship between the three of us You can communicate freely, but not with NPCs."
The essence of Soul Fire is an AVG game with a degree of freedom close to reality. Unlike the open world games on consoles, there is also a high degree of freedom in the voice communication between players and characters in the game. However, NPCs are not human after all, and can only communicate with players. Carry out limited communication set in advance, which will greatly reduce the reality and immersion of "Soul Fire".
And if all the control systems behind these ubiquitous NPCs with different personalities are replaced with artificial intelligence that can pass the Turing test, it will be another big project.
The designer Jian Yisu is very smart, he made up for this deficiency with the setting of the world view.Just like in rouge games, the world view design with "rebirth" is often used to match the game features of "permanent death".Jian Yisu uses "the curse of the Lord of Soul Fire" to reduce the conversation between players and NPCs with this more reasonable logic.
However, this gap in technology may become the future research direction of Deep Blue Meson, Huai Qi thought expectantly.
He has just entered the game and has not fully immersed in the plot, or due to occupational diseases, Huai Qi can't help but want to pay attention to and admire all aspects of the design of "Soul Fire".Little did he know that while trying his best not to show his admiration and joy, and at the same time praising the details of the game with his companions, Jian Yisu, who was in the monitoring room, saw the contradictory demeanor.
Huai Qi and his companions boarded the carriage. Through the window of the carriage, he watched the medieval buildings that coexisted with the sacred and the decayed. He felt the real bumps on the carriage, and his mood was mixed with indescribable excitement and amazement.
The inner monologue sounded:
"The Kingsley family? I have some vague impressions."
"In a trance, my soul tells me that my past has an inseparable connection with this family."
"I want to know more..."
Jiang Xiaoxue was smart this time, following the lead of the plot, he asked aloud, "Hey brother, can you tell us about the Kingsley family?"
"Of course, it is my honor to introduce this great family to an excellent hunter," this question triggered the butler's response, he said, "After arriving at the destination, the three of you can come to the library on the second floor in the north of the manor to look for me. It will be described in detail."
At this time, the sheepskin scroll in the Huaiqi bag emitted blue light again, and after opening it, two quest lines appeared on it——
[-]. Go to the reception hall in the south of the manor and look for Caton Kingsley to accept your task of coming to the manor.
[-]. Go to the library in the north of the manor to find the butler and learn about the Kingsley family.
It turns out that this parchment is the mission note of the game.
Huai Qi checked it over and over again, only the locations and characters were marked in red in the descriptions of these two missions.According to the usual practice, this is only the foreshadowing of the main story line, and it does not indicate the order of completion, which requires the three of Huaiqi to independently decide on the exploration route.
Soon, the carriage passed through the busy city and drove into a sparsely populated place, and a huge manor surrounded by greenery appeared in front of my eyes.The sturdy body of the gatekeepers was wrapped in platinum armor. If they hadn't opened the iron gate of the manor, Huai Qi would have thought it was two statues.The carriage approached them, and Huai Qi noticed from a close distance that the faces of these two soldiers were also covered by thick and exquisite helmets, without any gaps, as if they didn't need to use their eyes to perceive the world.
"They're a little strange." Gu Qian also sensed it, and whispered to Huai Qi.
After the turbulence ended, the three were asked to get out of the car.In this world, soul hunters seem to be a respected profession. The servants who were cleaning the house and pruning the green plants all looked in the direction of the three of them, and whispered to each other.
Along the long, gently sloping steps, they climbed up to a majestic and splendid building.After walking for a while, when he was about to reach the top, the housekeeper frowned and looked at the servants around him, so that the latter lowered their heads.
"Where's the silk for the guests?" the butler asked.
Someone said obediently: "Sameer is responsible for the preparations, she hasn't been here yet."
"Stupid and lazy foreigner." Hearing this name, the butler snorted disdainfully.He pointed to a servant at random and said, "Go and wake her up, and let her appear before we enter the hall. If the master can't see the silk hanging around the neck of the distinguished guest, then let her go to the slop bucket." Let's find today's lunch!"
"What silk?" Jiang Xiao, who saw all this in his eyes, pointed his head slightly to the people around him in doubt, and whispered in his ear.
"Probably something like a Tibetan hada" for welcoming guests? " Gu Qian replied with the same volume.
Jiang Xiao, who was too focused, didn't expect that the person next to him became Gu Qian, so he quickly distanced himself, said "Oh" a few times, scratched his head and laughed, "Classmate Gu is smarter than me."
And the person Jiang Xiao wanted to ask - Huaiqi, was on the first step behind them at the moment, staring at its edge intently.
After laughing, Jiang Xiao finally found out where Huai Qi was, stepped back and patted him on the back, and asked, "What are you doing?"
Next to the steps is a sink with the same length, and there is clear water flowing in it. Because it is too clear, people who don't care will feel that there is nothing in it.
"Look." Huai Qi grabbed a handful of water and watched it flow through his fingers.
Jiang Xiao reached out and poked his palm, the fingertips clearly felt the touch of water, looking at the natural state of the water flow, he couldn't help sighing: "It's so true."
"Yes," Huai Qi was not in a hurry to praise "Soul Fire", but put his hand in the sink again, he said, "but" you pay attention to this. "
Due to the blocking of his fingers, there were some waves in the shallow water. Jiang Xiao, who bent down, saw it clearly, and frowned and said, "Backflow?"
The water in the sink was flowing backwards from the bottom up.
Inertial thinking made Jiang Xiao understand this phenomenon as a bug again, and he joked: "Excellent physics engine."
"It doesn't seem like an unintentional move to let the water flow backwards, but it will increase the workload." Gu Qian objected, "Could it be a deliberate design?"
"I don't know..." Huai Qi shook his head.He stood up and said, "I haven't fully understood the worldview of this game yet."
Jiang Xiao patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, we are too."
The three of them were chatting when they suddenly heard a female scream not far away, and then, like a frightened baby, the earth trembled and fluctuated, like a harbinger of disaster.
"Sameer, what are you doing!" The housekeeper was very dissatisfied with the man's rude yelling.
"My lord! The captain of the patrol soldier has not returned to normal!" Sameer had short brown-red hair that was scratched by her, and she was wearing a dirty black and white dress. She panicked, "I listen to the person you invited this morning. According to the repairman, I replaced it with parts and fuel, but it suddenly went crazy!"
The butler's face turned livid in an instant.Her words made the surrounding servants look worried, but because of the steward's presence, no one called out.
The butler asked, "Where is it now?"
"According to the past, he should be patrolling this area this morning. It has already come. I have exhausted all methods, but I can't stop it—"
Before Samuel finished speaking, the three of them heard the sound of metal scraping not far away, as well as the unique footstep vibration when the giant moved.
Sure enough, under the marble archway carved with angels and snakes leading to the back garden, there appeared an iron lump head—it was an enlarged version of the soldier at the gate, and it grasped the pillars on both sides with its hands wearing iron gloves. He was bending over to pass through the narrow stone gate, his slow movement carried the bulkiness of a large object, his whole body exuded a blue-black substance, it was a colored gas, and it was like fragments of the soul, faintly foreshadowing With a kind of ominous.
The butler hurriedly shouted to the three of them: "Guests, please be careful! The out-of-control manor patrol captain will attack unrecognizable outsiders!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the captain of the guard locked on the three of them, and the music in Huaiqi's ears suddenly became sharper. After hearing the iron man's low growl, a circular blood spot appeared in Huaiqi's perspective. The name of the boss is exactly "Patrol Captain".
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Jiang Xiao took a step back and said in shock: "Damn it, "Soul Fire" won't be an AAVG, right? How do you fight hand-to-hand combat with this thing!"
"Don't worry, it shouldn't be difficult." Gu Qian calmed down after listening to her inner monologue and seeing the text guidance that appeared in front of her at the same time.But she didn't know it in her mind, and said with a little hesitation in her voice, "This is just a novice teaching."
Because "Soul Fire" did not disclose any relevant information before the open beta, the gameplay, plot, and everything that appeared were unknown to players.
Huai Qi remained calm, and quickly listened to the "operation method" told him by his inner monologue.He used to play games only by pressing the keys of the keyboard and the controller. Huai Qi has never experienced this kind of fighting method that requires the coordination of the whole body.
The patrolling soldiers didn't wait for them to understand, and waved their hard iron arms.Although the three of them managed to dodge, they were still injured by the spray and felt no pain. Huai Qi only felt a numbness from the "injured" body part.
The worst of the three was Jiang Xiao. He was hit in the leg by an iron arm, and he lost consciousness for a short time after being numb, which made him panic for a long time.Most of his health had dropped, and Huai Qi dragged him to a safe side in an emergency.
Huai Qi stared at this huge iron man, his brain quickly searched for the solution from his messy thoughts, he took a step back unconsciously, and knocked his waist against a wooden box in the manor.
He found a dilapidated shield in the wooden box, and the guiding light that appeared just now was shining on the handle, so Huai Qi picked it up.
At this time, the inner monologue said: "Raise the shield and push half an arm away when the opponent is about to attack, and the damage can be reflected."
Shield against?
Huai Qi looked at the dilapidated wooden shields of the audience with dubious faith. The fragility and hardness of the iron guy in front of him almost formed a contrast.
Not to mention whether this armor is good or not, but in terms of my own strength, can I bounce back the attack of this thing?
However, the enemy did not leave any room for Huaiqi to hesitate, Jiang Xiao reminded him loudly.Fortunately, Huai Qi's reaction speed was fast enough. At the moment the iron arm was swung, he quickly closed his eyes, raised his shield, and pushed it away!
Suddenly, his body seemed to resonate with some kind of force. After the combined operation was judged successful, a burst of blue light burst out from his arm holding the shield, and it took only a little effort to block the iron arm. go back.
The force of the impact caused the captain of the guard to fall to the ground with a bang, and the dust on the ground even shook.
Sure enough, it was the same as what Gu Qian said, this is the boss of the novice teaching concept, the behavior pattern is very simple, just a simple counter-reaction can cause a long gap in his actions.
"Damn, you did a great job." Jiang Xiao, who had just recovered from leg numbness, exclaimed.
Inner monologue:
"The Lord of Soul Fire blesses me, so that the Soul Hunter has strength and skill that ordinary people can't match."
"The Lord has given us the hunting instinct. When I enter into a strong focus, I will burst out with deadly power."
"When the attack comes, try jumping up + leaning back."
Boss is struggling to stand up.During the time it resumed its action, Huaiqi tried the operation guided by the inner monologue.Unbelievably, when he performed a simple jump and backflip, the control of his body seemed to be entrusted to God in an instant, and he actually performed a perfect backflip in the air.
When it landed, Huai Qi wobbled, but then stood still.
He was surprised to find that the Boundless system greatly simplifies the player's operation steps, which is essentially no different from the console game's combination of buttons to achieve complex actions-he only needs to remember simple body movements and catch the timing combination to trigger. Some of the most difficult stunts that a professional can do in real life-these "key combinations" are even very similar to some games he has played recently.
Therefore, the action part of the soul fire is still a test of the player's reaction ability, and it does not need to have very superb martial arts skills. The powerful infinite system—that is, the "lord of soul fire" in the plot setting will help you Complete these actions.
And dynamic vision and reaction speed are exactly what Huaiqi, who has been dealing with games all year round, is best at.
Huai Qi felt a certain nerve driving the blood in his whole body to boil.
The strong wind blows 07's long golden hair. I don't know if this is the setting. The haze in the sky has drifted away a little, and the sun's beams flow from the gaps in the dark clouds, covering the majestic and towering buildings and the mysterious and complicated reliefs with a layer of sacredness. filter color.
Gu Qian and Jiang Xiao, who were watching, couldn't help but look up at the sky with a bit of divinity.
"If you want to say the biggest shortcoming of "Soul Fire", it is probably that there are too many shocking points in a scene, which makes the player overwhelmed, so that the central task will be blurred.
But the designer of this world probably also thought of this, so that this amazing dawn was mainly concentrated on the patrol captain.
Huai Qi didn't say a word, he drew the sword behind him.
In Jiang Xiao's eyes, Huaiqi flashed in front of the iron man in an instant, and before its arm swung down, his figure appeared on the iron arm at an incredible speed.
The inner monologue said: "Jump up + speed up movement, trigger teleportation sprint, and avoid damage."
With the help of this iron arm, Huai Qi jumped to the level with the iron man's head, sprinted, and drew his sword at a place close to the iron man's mask.
"Airborne sprints and combos can be used to achieve short-term airborne attacks."
When Huaiqi held the hilt of the sword, he saw the light from just now again. When attacking, the damage will gradually increase with the number of combos, and the blue light will become brighter and brighter.Until the time of staying in the air was over, Huaiqi turned over to the ground after using it, avoiding the high-altitude landing damage, and the whole set of movements was smooth and smooth. After the end, most of Iron Man's blood bars had dropped.
After the frightening monster in front of him suffered a heavy blow, he could only simply sweep with his iron arms.When its blood volume dropped to one-fifth, and Huai Qi's combo accumulated to a large value, Huai Qi, who stayed in the air, felt that everything in front of him became very slow.
"Trigger the 'Concentration Area', and with a high degree of concentration, the Lord of Soulfire will help me deliver a fatal blow."
Huai Qi took out the bow on his back, and when the arrow was on the string, an aiming cross appeared in his view.Locked on the back of the dull monster's neck, and shot.
After a loud bang, the blood bar was cleared to zero.
The iron man fell apart with a loud noise, and the blue-black "steam" on his body spewed out, like ashes after a fire.Jiang Xiao's voice became hoarse when he shouted for him, and he completely forgot that he was also one of the players. For this kind of physical battle, the audience's perspective should be more exciting and gorgeous.
Huaiqi walked towards the pile of scrap iron in front of him, and under the drifting blue-black mist, a conspicuous game logo slowly appeared in the air. The sky and the oppressive feeling of the building in the background echoed these two characters— —
soul fire.
The game has just begun.
And the figure of the handsome young man holding the sword, against the background of the iron ruins and large characters, shows a kind of frailty and unyielding.
like a knight.
Outside of the game, 07, Xi Gu, and the vigorous 20-year-old programmer were ranked tenth in the ranking of the progress of the main line.In other words, Huaiqi was the 10th person to pass the novice tutorial among [-] people.
Jiang Xiao couldn't wait to come forward and retell Huai Qi's perfect battle just now.It takes a little time to adapt to this kind of pan-sensory system. Huaiqi was a little dizzy after finishing the operation, and Jiang Xiao's slap almost didn't spit out Huaiqi's lunch.
"Are you okay?" Jiang Xiao patted his back.
"It's okay..." Huaiqi supported his knees with his hands, and his brain consciousness almost derailed from his body in an instant.This seems to be part of what Jian Yisu called the "uncanny valley effect" of pan-body sensation.The overly realistic and smooth virtual world just now caused his brain to resist and resist.
He retched for a while, and said: "It will be better if you run in more."
The system seemed to sense his discomfort and suggested that he turn on the steady state mode. Although the acuity of his movements had decreased, Huaiqi's dizziness was greatly relieved.
"As expected of the soul hunter of the Temple of Tana!" The butler praised, while asking the servants to clean up the broken pieces of iron.He and the three of them bowed and apologized, and said, "The broken machines in the manor have caused you trouble."
machine?
Huai Qi looked at the pile of human-shaped iron sheets on the ground, wondering what their driving force was.
Could it be these blue-black fogs?
Just as he was thinking this way, these "fogs" hovered from the sky like a flock of birds returning to their nests, and penetrated into the bodies of the three of them.
Huai Qi looked around him, listened to his inner monologue and continued:
"I successfully captured the Soul Fire, which is the fuel and power of the world, and also the source of life for Tana Temple and Soul Hunters."
"I think the reason I lost my memory when I was '07 was because I was sorely lacking in that stuff."
"The moment when the rain of life moistened my chest, I only recall some emotions."
"It grew in my breast like a half-extinguished coal in an empty hearth, and sick smoke and lung-piercing smoke clung to his mouth."
"It's a dull, bad, angry mood."
"I" came for revenge. "
Huai Qi suddenly woke up.He found that the parchment in his bag lit up again.On the other half of its page, the words "entry included" appeared, and the first noun included was "soul fire".
Gu Qian and Jiang Xiao looked up at each other.
"Soul Fire" is the fuel and power of the world, and also the source of life for Tana Temple and Soul Hunter.Similar to the "qi" in ancient oriental culture, it is a kind of mysterious energy that exists in the world in three states of solid, liquid and gas. It is usually blue, and the high-purity soul fire will condense into black.
"That is to say, this thing..." Gu Qian pointed to the broken "Patrol Captain" on the ground, "And the soldiers who greeted us outside the door were all driven by soul fire? Then what we saw just now The backflow canal, does the driving force also come from it?"
What she said triggered the butler's lines, and he said respectfully: "Yes, the terrain of Kingsley Manor is complex. Using the soul fire to drive irrigation can easily let the water flow through all the vegetation on the terrain, saving the cost of manpower The secret that the Kingsley family is so powerful and rich also comes from the soul fire."
"Then Kingsley is similar to an oil tycoon in modern society," Jiang Xiao looked at the parchment and thought for a while, then said, "It's just that this kind of energy is more mysterious and complicated."
The butler just smiled, and he continued: "Please come to this hall to rest first, and I will inform the master. But if you want to visit the manor, you can walk around as you like."
"So where are we going?" Jiang Xiao couldn't help but look forward to it, "The main line is to travel around the mountains and rivers."
"The world of Soulfire is too big and too real. I even feel a little alienated now" and wonder if I am a person on Earth.There are probably many players who will be held back by this novelty," Gu Qian looked up at the stained glass above the palace, stretched out her hand towards them, and sighed, "If Brother Jian revealed a little information about "Soul Fire" before
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