"We can't be indifferent to these players. If they are slightly unsatisfied, they will compensate for this bug or that. I will compensate them. Who will compensate me? Besides, have I compensated me? I...I will issue an announcement and say that the players' normal behavior in the game will be correct."
I can’t interfere too much...that’s it!”
"Is the wording too strong?"
"What's wrong with being tough? I can see it. It's hard to choose. No matter what we do, there will be a large group of people who are dissatisfied. Let's just be aloof. If you like to play, you won't play. If you don't play, you will be punished. I don't know how many people are waiting in line.
.”
"Then... like this?"
"that's all!"
The protesting crowd outside the Canaan Company headquarters building has not completely dispersed. Yu Qingdong stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window of his office, watching the traffic police and security personnel maintaining the scene.
"These individuals don't even bother to protest in person, so who are they paying to hire?" Yu Qingdong complained.
The beautiful secretary covered her mouth and smiled, "Every veteran player is extremely rich, maybe even richer than you. In their words, it's hundreds of thousands a minute. How can I have time to come here in person?"
"A few hundred thousand a minute?" Yu Qingdong sneered, loosened his tie, and sat down in his boss chair.
The beautiful secretary came up behind him consciously and helped him massage his temples.
In fact, what President Yu Qingdong Yu is worried about now is not the protests from players. Such protests happen almost every day and are no longer new.
What he was thinking about now was the extremely high-level meeting he attended last night, after the list of people eligible for tourist qualifications was released.
How high was the standard? A chief secretary of the Presbytery was present.
At the meeting, the list issued by Canaan Company was carefully studied and discussed, and almost all of it was rejected.
Yu Qingdong did not expect such a result at all. This list took into account the current situation and needs of all aspects. It can be said that it is perfect. How come it is useless when it comes to the head?
Besides, it is impossible for such a big report to appear out of thin air, and it is also impossible for him, Yu Dazui, to make the decision alone. Before it was formed, this guidance, that principle, etc., the spirit of the instructions from above were all implemented. How?
Just change?
The draw for tourist qualifications that was originally scheduled to be launched today was aborted. The superiors did not explain it clearly. They just asked them to go back and study it again.
Research, research is nothing!
Yu Qingdong didn't know how to do it. He tried every possible means to inquire, but he couldn't get any accurate information.
What does this mean?
Just as he was thinking about these terrible things, he vaguely heard a very special ringtone. He was stunned for a moment before realizing that it was the secret phone in his safe that had never rang before.
He quickly asked the beautiful secretary to go out, opened the safe with the key, and took out a small silver box.
"Hey, I'm...No. 107, Flounder!"
Yu Qingdong stuttered for a moment before reporting his code and code name for Project Zero.
"A helicopter will pick you up in 15 minutes."
The other party had a very dull male voice. After saying this, he hung up the call.
Yu Qingdong looked at the red microphone and was stunned for a while.
Fifteen minutes later, a Z10 armed helicopter landed on the helipad on the rooftop of the Canaan Company headquarters building. Yu Qingdong boarded the cabin alone. He was the only one in the cabin. The pilot said nothing across the cockpit.
Then it's a 5-hour flight.
When the continuous mountains appeared below him, Yu Qingdong shook his somewhat groggy head and saw that among the mountains, there was an airport that had never been marked on the map.
The airport has been carefully camouflaged, with towering antennas and large radar detection devices erected. In order to avoid space satellites, vehicles and buildings have been camouflaged. At first glance, you might think it is an ordinary valley.
After the helicopter landed, the camouflage net above its head covered the airport. Yu Qingdong was shocked by this posture. He got off the helicopter obediently and was greeted by a major in military uniform.
After giving his identity number and code, the major led him onto an electric cable car without saying a word, and then took the elevator all the way down.
A mysterious and huge base.
Walking in the silver-white corridor, the leather shoes stepped silently on the special texture of the floor. Many people in white coats with signs were coming and going in a hurry. They didn't pay attention to him, and no one gave him a second glance.
Suddenly, Yu Qingdong saw an acquaintance who was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He had just come to Canaan Company for investigation last week. Yu Qingdong received him as a leader who came to inspect from his superior unit. I remember the academician’s last serious comment:
, "As an effective combination of scientific research and industry, Canaan's model is successful and points the way for our future path."
At this time, the academician clearly saw him, but he walked past as if he hadn't seen him.
What kind of plane?
Mysterious, where are we going?
Finally, he was taken to a completely transparent, hollow room that was suspended in a huge cave. Through the transparent glass wall, he could see that the cave still maintained its extremely original style. Under the cave, it looked like a valley with water.
, there are forests, stalactites, and a naturally formed pool.
An underground river divides the cave into two parts. On the west side of the bank, a small building stands on a flat stone platform. Yu Qingdong recognized the appearance of this building at first sight.
Isn't this... the building in the manufacturing plant area?
Yu Qingdong guessed something and his body trembled slightly.
Only then did the major say, "Someone claimed to have brought something back from Canaan."
"……ah!?"
Yu Qingdong's first reaction was that he heard wrongly.
"We found new elemental molecules after testing. After the most rigorous testing and inference, we believe that if it does not come from Canaan, it comes from outside the earth... But it is obviously a man-made item, and there are still some human remains on it.
Fingerprints, sweat stains and blood stains, but we couldn't extract what we wanted from these specimens or analyze it more deeply until we brought it here."
"You simulated the restoration of that building?"
"Yes, he taught us the skills and methods of engraving those special stripes and patterns, and left plenty of materials. We think he acquiesced in doing so."
"But those materials are used to make helmets!"
The major said without distinguishing, "The person who brought this thing back was a player. He claimed that he was attracted by a special NPPC in the game and asked him to test various game functions in the game, and learned from this
From the player's mouth, we know what a player is, where the player comes from, and we also know that the world we are in is just a game."
"Four walls, the awakening of intelligent programs breaks the four walls?"
"Maybe, but it's more complicated than this. This 'NPC' seemed to have doubts about Canaan being just a game. To confirm, he let the player swallow a very special item and asked him to complete it.
It goes offline after some special steps and rituals.”
"This... this is impossible, too funny, too, too..."
"We had the same reaction as you at the beginning..."
"What happened next?"
"The next step will exceed your confidentiality level...I came to you today because of the tourist list."
"Ah... in that case, you just have to decide."
"No, we must take his feelings into consideration. As the person who has had the most and longest contact with him, your opinion is very important, but you must pay attention to try to respond to his feelings and judgments as objectively as possible. In reality, you may need to be consistent with him.
Find a perfect balance between attitudes and tendencies.”
"...You want to send a large number of scientific researchers to Canaan to study and analyze it...is it a real world?
"It's not just scientific research... Just prepare yourself. You will be the protagonist in the next seminar."
"I, I..."
"Don't be nervous. You can rest here for 30 minutes. I will call you in 30 minutes."
After the major left, Yu Qingdong fell into deep entanglement.
Reason told him that this was nonsense, but his intuition told him that it was true, because it was the most consistent with... common sense?
Damn it, it's common sense.
Think about it, suddenly there is such an epoch-making game coming out, with that level of virtual reality, instead of believing in unknown black technology, it is better to believe that it is a real world.
In fact, the voice of doubt has never been eliminated as to whether Canaan is a game.
However, in the face of the irrefutable reality, these voices have always been small-scale.
Yu Qingdong had similar doubts at first, but later he gradually agreed after seeing that it matched all the characteristics of the game and had most of the functions of the game.
Maybe at the top, especially among senior professionals, such doubts have never been eliminated?
But, but...
Yu Qingdong hopes that it is just a game, whether it is from the perspective of his interests or his emotional tendencies.
"Why is it so complicated!"
He sat on the sofa, covered his face, and sighed in his heart.
"He doesn't seem to accept it easily?"
"Well...at present, it seems that his reaction is normal."
"We cannot draw conclusions like this. We must know how complex the things we are facing now are, and past common sense and experience cannot be applied."
"I don't see any... unknown influence on him."
"Let's observe and observe first. How about the list of close contacts?"
"All close contacts have been arranged."
"Don't alert those in close contact."
"Don't worry, the comrades in the third department are professionals."
"As for the players, there are 120,000 of them. Apart from benign changes, there is nothing..."
"No, players have only benign effects on their physical, physiological and even mental levels... Some patients have been enhanced in terms of physical fitness, and some have experienced varying degrees of disease relief. It can also treat depression, schizophrenia, etc.
Serious psychological problems..."
"That's good, that's good. Nothing can happen. Once something happens, it will be a disaster that we cannot bear."
"Don't worry, old man, I signed the contract at the beginning. If there is a problem, we will handle it together."
"I'm afraid we won't be able to bear it!"
Yu Qingdong didn't know that every move he made, even a micro-expression, was played on different LCD screens. Many people in white coats whose faces could not be seen came to my work around the data collected from him, and half disappeared in a flash.
Then, he was taken to a lecture theater and faced a group of serious old men and women.
"...His original words were, 'I hope the source of tourist identity will be more comprehensive, and it is best to take care of people from all walks of life', right?"
“There is still fairness”
"Fair enough... What considerations do you think led him to make such a request?"
"Isn't this very simple? The ecology of the game."
"Second Life?"
"Yeah, what other purpose could there be?"
"Do you think his attitude at that time was serious or casual?"
"I...I think he is serious, and there is a vague intention of taking the exam."
"Take the school exam?"
"It depends on what we do, greedy or...ignoring his demands and blindly pursuing immediate interests."
The old men and women whispered to each other for a long time, "Is there any subjective conjecture in what you just said?"
"Aren't you just asking me what I think of him? This is how I feel. Of course, my subjective imagination is involved."
"Okay, you have nothing to do here."
The major appeared and took Yu Qingdong away.
Returning to the all-glass room, Yu Qingdong looked at the replica of the small building in the center of the cave.
After I calmed down a bit, I discovered many details that I had overlooked before.
For example, the mysterious patterns and lines engraved near the small building form a very complex, abstract and mysterious array. There is something shiny flowing on the array, radiating out mist that slightly distorts the air.
Magic environment!
Unexpectedly, the research has reached such an extent. Just relying on the array diagram on the game helmet, his unclear explanations, and the special materials left behind...
The small building seemed to be inhabited by people, just like the object it was copied from, and there were also a group of apprentices living in it. Perhaps the courses of both were synchronized.
The entire base, or the entire laboratory, is built around this small building and the sealed environment in the cave. The so-called Project Zero, this is where Project Zero is located.
"Can I ask, what is the thing brought back by the player?"
Before leaving, Yu Qingdong couldn't help but ask.
"I don't know either!"
The major shrugged his shoulders and said.
I believe you as a ghost!
"Then do you have any conclusions? What exactly is Canaan?"
"I don't know... I really don't know. Just like you, everyone wants to find out what the truth is."
Yu Qingdong got on the helicopter and returned with a complicated mood. He was notified the next day that the rejected plan had been re-examined and approved.
Yu Qingdong, who already knew part of the inside story, was not in a relaxed mood. Doesn't such changes in orders from day to day just illustrate the contradictions, suspicions and indecision at the top?
Maybe that day, Canaan games will be completely banned.
It's not impossible.
"Dear viewers, dear viewers, big news, the identity drawing plan for Canaan tourist qualifications has finally been released. In addition to the 1,000 predetermined quotas, other qualifications are drawn from the whole society. In principle, priority will be given to people with special skills, but this restriction is very loose.
Ah, I wonder if those who can cook instant noodles count, quack quack... everyone, please go to the official website to sign up!"
