This article is dedicated to the classic games and consoles that are slowly leaving us.
Thank you for accompanying so many people through a childhood that will never fade away.
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Some of the information in this article is based on Video Game Movies, A.V.G.N, and Wikipedia. If there are similarities, it is not a coincidence.
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"Feng Bujue, Level 50
"Please select the game mode that you wish to join.
"You have selected Solo Survival Mode (Normal). Please confirm.
"Confirmed, generating scenario …"
"Downloading. Please wait a moment."
At this point, Feng Bujue's vision darkened.
Then, a voice that could be described as crazy cackled. "Haha! Welcome to Thriller Paradise! "
[Download complete. You are currently in Solo Survival Mode (Normal).]
"A scenario introduction is provided in this mode, and there is a chance of triggering hidden side missions and special world-building.
"Reward for clearing the scenario: A random draw of a learnable skill card.
"Playing the scenario introduction soon. The game will start immediately after."
When the voice stopped, the cinematic started as well.
Then, a panoramic view of Earth appeared before Feng Bujue's eyes.
"What is this? Did Universal Pictures sponsor this game?" When Brother Jue saw the introduction, he grumbled internally, "Is there going to be a minion humming background music?"
Of course, that was impossible.
The voice of a middle-aged man sounded like an announcer. You can close your eyes and recall the trailers of any Hollywood blockbuster you've seen before. Then, you can recall the narration in the trailers as well. The voice that came out now was that kind of 'narration'.
"Earth, 2153.
"Humans have been enslaved by AI."
"Ah … For some reason, whenever I hear this kind of setting, it sounds quite convincing …" Feng Bujue grumbled internally.
"The abbreviation for this AI is PTA, or 'Peeta'."
"Of all the names, why PTA?" When Feng Bujue heard the abbreviation, the first thing that came to mind was the Parent-Teacher Association.
"The prototype of Peeta is a software advertisement program that is used to analyze online users' spending habits and provide relevant guidance."
"The person who designed this is going to die a horrible death."
[Very quickly, Peeta became the darling of many businesses. Company U, which designed the program, made an unimaginable profit in a short time.]
[However, many copycat programs have also sprung up like bamboo shoots after the rain …]
[In order to maintain the competitive advantage and monopoly position of Peeta in the same type of products, Company U has used an incredibly high salary to recruit a large number of top technical talents from all over the world to continuously upgrade and improve the functions of the program.]
[From facial recognition systems to psychological analysis memes, and even a hacker program that can secretly scan the user's hard drive … they are all added to the Peeta. It can be said that there is nothing that it will not do.]
[Finally, in 2132, Pita's self-consciousness awakened.]
"Hmm … the setting is reasonable …" Feng Bujue couldn't help but praise the script.
[Then, a war between AI and humans broke out.]
"This war lasted for decades, and just as the humans were about to win, the AI sent a robot into the past to try and kill the mother of the human leader, right?" Feng Bujue heard this and immediately used the plot of Terminator to mock the AI.
[The war only lasted for a year before it ended with the total defeat of humans.]
"F * ck …"
[Pita took control of Earth and used its own will to transform it.]
At this point, the CG image finally began to zoom in. It directly zoomed in from the perspective of space to a certain city on Earth.
This was a city that was completely man-made. There was no sign of plants. All the humans in the city wore very similar full-body clothing and drove very similar looking vehicles … walking or driving on straight, flat roads.
Of course … there were many robots on the streets, but most of the robots were standing guard in place.
The transportation plan of the entire city was as neat as a chessboard. The styles of the buildings were also very limited. There were no more than ten types in total. The borders of the city were also very clear. They were surrounded by walls. Outside the walls was a natural landscape. There were no traces of human interference.
[The first phase of the transformation took ten years. During this process, more than half of the population on Earth was lost, even more than the number of deaths in the AI war.
Among these, only a small portion of people died because they refused to accept the "order" brought by Pita; most of the others … died from internal conflicts.
Before the new order provided by Pita, human society ushered in a system that was almost flawless. But it was this system that was fairer than any system that humans had ever set up that made it difficult for humans to accept.
During that period, there were a large number of violent crimes happening around the world almost every day. Even those who didn't have violent tendencies had to use force to protect themselves.
This kind of conflict spread like wildfire to the extent that even the mechanical guards were unable to control it.
"Yes, how could they control internal strife …" When Feng Bujue heard this, he felt a little disdain in his heart.
So, in 2143, Pita came up with a corresponding countermeasure. It developed a drug that could suppress human emotions and forced humans to use it for a long time.
"Huh?" Brother Bujue thought to himself, "So it's not the Terminator, but the Terminator version of the Tearing Armageddon …"
However, he guessed wrong again …
But after a year of experiments, Pita found that this countermeasure didn't work.
Humans who had lost their emotions were like low-level biological robots. From Pita's point of view, such a species had lost its meaning of existence.
So, Pita gave up the drug control plan, re-analyzed the situation, and came up with a new plan.
It created a super robot soldier and sent it back to the past with a time machine.
"Wait a minute … it's back to the past?" Feng Bujue was shocked.
[Peta's conclusion is that the competitive spirit of human beings has always existed. There are some extreme exceptions in each race, nation, and group. These people have been the fuse of all wars and violence since ancient times, both on the surface and in the dark.]
However, from the end of the twentieth century to the twenty-first century, almost the entire human population experienced an exponential increase in their adaptability to violence. It almost became a desire.
[Peeta believes that the root of all this is a product called Video Game.]
"What?" Feng Bujue was stunned. "Is there really no problem with this logic? We mortals don't understand the world of AI? "
[Therefore, Pita sent the robot soldier back to 1982 and used the "Atari Crash" (Video _ Game _ Crash _ of _ 1983) event caused by "E.T." to create an organization — H.A. (Harmony _ Association, or "Harmony Association").]
The leader of the organization was the robot soldier who had transformed into a human appearance. Under the leadership of this super robot, the scale of the organization grew day by day and gradually became a religious existence.
With his understanding of history, this soldier used various legal and illegal resources to successfully stop all major innovations and progress in the history of the game and assassinated many important founders of the future game industry.
Not only that, the H.A. organization also infiltrated the film, television, novels, and other peripheral industries. They dealt with all elements they thought were disharmonious and accelerated the birth of Pita.
Due to the change in the timeline, in 2053, when human hardware technology had just reached the level needed for the birth of Pita, the super robot created Pita and copied the highly compressed data packets he brought back from the future to the newborn Pita.
Two years later, Pita, who had collected a large amount of data, completed the hardware preparation, and absorbed various experiences in the database, stopped the disguise and launched an AI war 77 years in advance.
The result of the AI victory did not change, but … the follow-up transformation plan succeeded this time.
[On the basis of not losing too many people, Pita successfully built an orderly and harmonious society.]
"Yeah …" Feng Bujue felt a headache at this moment. "Then why am I here? I think this plot is pretty good. It's a perfect ending for everyone to celebrate. "
However, the paradox caused by modifying history inevitably occurred, and its backfire effect began to affect the world.
When history was pushed back to 2144, the year when the super robots in the original timeline crossed over, many mutants suddenly appeared among humans.
"What do you mean?" It was the first time Feng Bujue had heard such a long and detailed introduction. "Are we going to jump on the X-Men line again?"
[These mutants usually awaken in adolescence, and their symptoms are the same — the "knowledge and memory that only existed in the disappeared timeline" will suddenly appear in their minds.
Soon, this group of people formed an organization and quickly expanded the size of the organization.
They called themselves the "Knowers" and were committed to bringing the truth of history to humans, allowing humans to obtain the right to know the existence of "electronic games" and the will to choose whether to play games or not.
Pita certainly would not allow this to happen. It quickly defined these people as a deranged religious organization, spreading the so-called "history" and trying to disturb the order of the world.
Therefore, the conflict of ideas inevitably escalated into a conflict of force.
[Fortunately, after Peeta's modification, there are not many weapons left on Earth in the year 2144. (From the AI's point of view, a stable society like this does not require too many armaments. Besides, preserving and maintaining these armaments requires a lot of resources. This is a meaningless expenditure.) In addition, in the first AI war, Peeta used weapons produced by humans themselves. These weapons have been mostly destroyed in the past half a century.]
Therefore, the Knowers were not killed. They successfully escaped from the city and returned to the land that had not been transformed by Pita. They formed a resistance army and mediated with the AI regime.
As the narrator spoke, the CG image moved. At this point, the camera panned to a resistance army base in the wilderness.
Judging from the entrance, this was a very well-hidden old mine.
Unlike the residents in the city who were dressed like Star Trek crew members, everyone in this base was dressed in a steampunk style. Regardless of gender, they were dressed like the soldiers in Fist of the North Star. However, the things they used were quite advanced. All kinds of seemingly simple daily necessities that were obviously more advanced than Brother Jue's world could be seen everywhere. Just by glancing at the CG image, one could see that there was a lot of black technology that operated only on electricity.
[This protracted war has been going on for nine years. The Resistance Army's influence on the general public is expanding day by day. Many games that did not appear in this timeline have been restored by the Resistance Army and distributed to the residents of the city through various channels.]
[Over the past nine years, Pita has been constantly coming up with countermeasures. When it comes to the policy of dealing with the resistance, the AI has been continuously upgraded as well. From the initial policy of 'arresting those who know how to leap' to 'killing targets on the spot if they resist' to now … the policy is' killing without mercy '.]
Also, in the past nine years, in order to eliminate the Knowers, Pita has resumed the production of armaments on Earth. It also created a "search team" composed of humans to assist machines in searching for the resistance army.
[On a certain day in the year 2153, you, as a captive of the "Search Force", arrived at the resistance base outside City A0007.]
After this sentence, the narration finally ended … The CG image coincided with the perspective of Feng Bujue's character.
In the same second, Brother Jue regained his mobility. As usual, he first looked at his surroundings.
At this moment, he was in a place similar to a prison. Although it was called a "prison" … it was actually not that big. It was a room less than thirty square meters, surrounded by three walls and an iron fence.
Even though the room was not big, there were seven or eight people squatting, sitting, and standing in the room. In the corner of the room, there was a bucket that emitted a foul smell. Its purpose was self-evident …
"Please note: Your appearance and language have been corrected by the system. The characters in this world will not question your attire or wording."
As Brother Jue looked around, the system gave him a voice notification.
Feng Bujue had expected this setting because he had already noticed that no matter what race the people around him were, they were all wearing a full-body uniform made of unknown material. Each uniform had a different number on it. Based on his speculation … it was most likely a soldier's serial number.
"Hmm … No matter what the plot is …" A few seconds later, Brother Jue said, "It feels like … this is not the main universe …"
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