Zhou Jiangping looked around. It was Chen Mo's voice, obviously coming from outside the gaming cabin.
"It feels … like I'm twenty years younger." Zhou Jiangping stretched his arms and legs and even jumped a few times, attracting the attention of the SWAT officers standing next to him.
Chen Mo said through the microphone, "Mr. Zhou, get used to this feeling first. Try not to make too many strange movements. Although the NPCs in this game aren't very intelligent, they'll still complain if you jump around too much."
Zhou Jiangping was speechless.
Chen Mo continued, "Alright, continue walking forward. You'll see the corresponding prompts in your field of vision. This game will automatically execute actions during combat, so don't worry."
Zhou Jiangping said as he walked forward, "I'm pretty good to have Salent personally guide me in the game."
It looked like a large mansion. On the left side of the wall was a large aquarium embedded in the wall, and on the right side of the table was a photo of a family of three. Just the foyer alone was already bigger than the living room of an average family.
Zhou Jiangping walked around the corner and was met by a heavily armed SWAT officer and a middle-aged woman with tears on her face.
All the SWAT officers here were armed with live ammunition, and their bodies were covered very tightly. Their helmets were also fully covered, giving off a rather high-tech feel. Obviously, the background design of this game was a future timeline, and not too far away.
"Wait, you're sending an android?
You … you can't do this! You'll kill her! Why don't you send a real person! " "Why waste time letting an android negotiate!"
"Why waste time letting a robot negotiate!!"
The middle-aged woman, who looked like she was grasping at straws before, seemed to have changed into a different person after seeing the ring on Zhou Jiangping's temple. She was almost wailing as she was taken away by the SWAT officers.
Zhou Jiangping was a little confused, "Android? I'm an android? "
As he continued walking forward, a prompt appeared in his field of vision, "You can activate scan at any time to search for target information."
Zhou Jiangping tried to activate the scan. The moment it was activated, a light blue stream of data swept across his field of vision, sweeping across the entire room.
The Matrix Glasses had a similar function, but the scanning function in the game was obviously more powerful.
In this mode, all the sounds around him disappeared, and everyone's movements became still. Zhou Jiangping felt as if he had stopped the time of the entire world. The space was divided into small squares by light blue lines. On the left side of his field of vision, the current mission objective was displayed: [Find Captain Allen]. Behind the distant wall, a dark yellow outline was vaguely visible, which should be the target location.
Zhou Jiangping turned off the scanning mode, and the flow of time around him returned to normal.
The SWAT officers were nervously preparing for battle. Some were moving quickly, some were loading their guns, some were hiding behind cover to observe the outside, and some were communicating with each other through walkie-talkies.
Zhou Jiangping strolled through the living room and headed for the master bedroom.
This time, Zhou Jiangping didn't jump around or do anything weird. It wasn't because of Chen Mo's suggestion, but because it was really hard to do something like that in this environment.
Many players liked to make some repetitive and meaningless actions in some games, such as jumping around, because these games weren't that immersive. Facing the third-person character on the screen, many players liked to make him jump around when they had nothing to do. It had almost become a habit.
However, in a VR game with neural connection technology, it was equivalent to the player transmigrating into the character.
In other words, this scene gave Zhou Jiangping the feeling that he had really come to such a mansion. There were really countless SWAT officers moving around him nervously and seriously. All of this was so real that he subconsciously stopped doing those meaningless actions.
It was just like how many people laughed in private, but once they were on the podium, they would become serious in full view of the public. This was the influence of the environment.
"Captain Allen? I'm Connor, a bionic sent by Model Control Life. "
Zhou Jiangping's character spoke automatically when he came to Captain Allen's side.
During this period, Zhou Jiangping once again lost control of the character. He could clearly feel what he was doing and what he was saying, but he couldn't intervene.
However, he had basically gotten used to this feeling. It was nothing more than waiting for a cutscene animation.
Captain Allen obviously didn't have a good impression of Connor. He gave a very perfunctory introduction of the scene, then turned his head and ignored Connor.
At this time, an interface appeared in Zhou Jiangping's vision. There were different options on it, namely: ask the name of the abnormal, ask the behavior of the abnormal, whether the abnormal has been emotionally stimulated, whether the abnormal has tried the deactivation code of the bionic.
(In the original work, these options were very short, and some could even cause ambiguity. Chen Mo deliberately filled in these dialogue options to make it easier for the player to understand.)
Zhou Jiangping began to communicate with Captain Allen according to the options. After choosing an option, Connor would talk to Captain Allen, but Captain Allen quickly lost his patience and left after showing his teeth at Zhou Jiangping.
Zhou Jiangping regained control of his body again, and at this time, a new message appeared on the left side of his vision: [Success Rate 48%].
Zhou Jiangping roughly understood his situation. He was an artificial intelligence bionic with many cool abilities, such as scanning surrounding information, recording the current target, calculating the target's success rate, etc. And his task was to analyze the scene of the crime and rescue the hostages.
Zhou Jiangping opened the search mode again, searching for useful information in this room.
The first piece of information was the suitcase on the ground next to the bookshelf. Zhou Jiangping squatted down to take a closer look and found that this suitcase was supposed to contain a pistol.
His gaze swept across the entire suitcase. When the focus stopped at a certain location, the intelligent system of the bionic would automatically analyze the location and reconstruct the entire clue.
Zhou Jiangping focused his gaze on the groove in the suitcase where the pistol was placed. The text message "Collecting data" began to appear above, as well as an ever-growing progress bar. At the same time, many red lines outlined the shape of a pistol, constantly condensing and taking shape.
The moment the analysis was completed, specific information appeared on the phantom of the pistol.
"MS853 Black Hawk, capacity: 17 bullets (335 caliber), full field: 22 cm/barrel: 13 cm."
After analyzing the bullets next to it, an option of [Reconstruction] appeared in Zhou Jiangping's vision.
Then, it was time to witness a miracle.
A phantom of a figure composed of lines appeared in front of Zhou Jiangping, and a timeline appeared at the bottom of his vision. Zhou Jiangping found that he could control this timeline at will, previewing the entire process of events related to this investigation element.
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