With this in mind, Chen Chen had already mapped out a reasonable path in his mind.
Thus, Chen Chen began downloading the movie Ready Player One.
As the signal in the industrial park was not strong enough, Chen Chen waited for half an hour before he finished downloading the entire movie.
However, Chen Chen did not drag the movie into the USB drive immediately. Instead, he opened the movie and reviewed the original plot twice.
In the movie, there were a total of five game peripherals.
The first was the combination of the cheap "VR goggles", "motion-capture gloves", and a "pressure-sensitive omnidirectional treadmill" that the protagonist, Wade, used in the opening scene.
The second was the "X1 Tactile Suit" that the protagonist purchased after obtaining the reward of the first stage. This allowed the player to experience tactile sensations in the game.
The third was the "OAR9400 Haptic Shock Chair" used by the antagonist boss in the movie. It allowed the player to play the game while lying on the chair. Not only that, but this chair also had a mature holographic projection function that could directly generate images in the void.
It was obvious that the haptic shock chair was more advanced than the first two.
As for the fourth and fifth devices, they were simplified versions of the first and second devices.
In addition, there were also gaming devices such as the hanging rope that appeared at the end.
However, apart from the highest-grade "OAR9400 Haptic Shock Chair", the rest of the devices required corresponding actions in reality to control the character.
Therefore, it went without saying that Chen Chen should be able to instantiate the chair in reality.
However, Chen Chen did not think that his chances were high.
Since Chen Chen obtained the USB drive, he had instantiated a total of four objects. The first two were the Pikachu cap, the third was the ZNT-48 pill, and the last was the immunity shot that he had just instantiated.
These four objects had a common characteristic, which was that they were light and compact, something that could be held in one hand.
Chen Chen was not sure if he could still instantiate the hemispherical chair that weighed more than a hundred kilograms in the movie.
If the instantiation failed, would it consume the USB drive's energy?
These were all unknown for now.
However, Chen Chen would not give up trying just because he was afraid of failure. It was just like how humans would not discover the New World if they did not explore the Great Voyage.
Chen Chen still needed a lot of experiments to test the capabilities of the USB drive. This was the first quality he had as a researcher.
It could be said that exploring the unknown was always the only way for mankind to progress.
With this in mind, Chen Chen no longer hesitated. He dragged the movie into the USB drive and clicked play.
After that, Chen Chen dragged the progress bar to the "OAR9400 haptic shock chair" used by the villain Nolan in the movie.
After that, Chen Chen pressed the pause button.
"Come out!"
Chen Chen said in a low voice. At the same time, he stretched out his right hand and imagined pulling the chair into reality.
Boom!
However, the moment Chen Chen felt that he was about to touch the huge throne, the screen went black again.
At the same time, a piercing pain shot through Chen Chen's index and middle fingers!
Chen Chen withdrew his hand as if he had been electrocuted, only to see that a large chunk of flesh, nearly half a centimeter thick, was missing from his two fingers!
He could almost see the bones.
Chen Chen scowled and looked at the computer screen again, only to find that the movie had been turned off again. At the same time, a dialog box popped up – insufficient energy.
"It really is a problem of energy."
The corner of Chen Chen's mouth twitched. Although his fingers were in excruciating pain, under the effects of NZT, this pain was quickly blocked, so Chen Chen's thoughts would not be affected by the pain.
Chen Chen took out some toilet paper to staunch the bleeding. Then, he looked at the USB drive. It seemed that because nothing had been instantiated, the USB drive did not change this time.
"No, that's not right."
Suddenly, Chen Chen seemed to have thought of something. He raised his head abruptly. "If every item needs to be instantiated by the USB drive, why can I touch these items before they are instantiated?"
Chen Chen still remembered that this was not the only time. Half a year ago, when he first instantiated the "immunity shot", the instantiation failed due to insufficient energy in the USB drive. Even so, Chen Chen clearly touched the "immunity shot" at that time!
If the ability of the USB drive was to instantiate the items in the movie, why could he still touch them when there was insufficient energy?
Since he could touch them, did that not mean that the instantiation was successful?
However, if the instantiation was successful, why did it say that there was insufficient energy?
Could it be...
Chen Chen frowned. This was a detail that he had never thought of — the ability of the USB drive was not to instantiate objects, but to connect reality with a virtual space, allowing him to bring items from that world into reality!
This was the truth of the USB drive.
In other words, the energy required by the USB drive was not used to create items out of thin air. It was only used to provide energy for the passage connecting the two spaces.
This also explained why a mere few hundred thousand kWh of electricity, which was converted to an energy unit of one trillion joules, was able to instantiate the paradox of matter out of thin air.
After all, one kilogram of helium produced by a hydrogen bomb could produce one trillion joules of energy. The amount of mass lost was almost negligible. It was enough to show that the value of matter being converted into energy far exceeded the order of "trillion joules".
After silently memorizing this rule, Chen Chen no longer bothered with the high-end and imposing haptic shock chair. Instead, he made a new copy of the movie and went straight to the beginning of the movie.
The beginning of the movie was the scene of the male protagonist, Wade, putting on the game equipment.
The motion capture gloves and omnidirectional treadmill did not have much technical content and were automatically ignored by Chen Chen. What he cared about was the VR glasses that the protagonist, Wade, was wearing.
The VR glasses were different from the chair. They were only the size of a palm. The USB drive should have enough energy.
With this in mind, Chen Chen fixed the image at the beginning of the movie. At the same time, he stretched out his left hand and touched the VR glasses bit by bit.
It was another familiar touch. Chen Chen's left hand seemed to penetrate space and touch the existence of another world.
Immediately after that, Chen Chen gritted his teeth, grabbed the thing, and yanked it out!
"Dong!"
The movie automatically closed again!
At the same time, a pair of strange-looking glasses appeared in Chen Chen's hand.
The main body of the glasses was white with many yellow and red cartoon characters pasted on it. The tail of the glasses was tied with an elastic band to help secure the glasses on the head.
In the center of the glasses was a black strip-shaped lens.
Although it was called a lens, its function was not to see through the lens. The function of this lens was to project a omnidirectional image onto the user's retina through the principle of projection, forming an omnidirectional visual effect that made the user feel infinitely closer to reality.
Looking at the VR glasses in his hand, Chen Chen secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Now, he was not afraid that the USB drive would not be able to instantiate anything. Instead, he was afraid that if he retracted his hand a little too slowly, the USB drive would cut off his finger.
"Looks like I'll have to find a way to make a mechanical arm to retrieve things for me in the future..."
Chen Chen thought silently while turning to look at the USB drive.
Sure enough, after instantiating the VR glasses, the USB drive once again became dilapidated.
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