The valiant sniper was eager and couldn't wait to set off.
But he still remembered that he had an appointment to visit the Dream Building Jinghu office building.
He asked one more question: "If I go to the experience store, what about the scheduled visit?"
"It doesn't matter." Xiao Qing reassured him, "It was just a simple tour of the office building, and we didn't prepare anything. You can make another appointment whenever you want to come."
"Anyway, there are only two honorary players now, so it's easy to make an appointment."
"Really!" The valiant sniper was pleasantly surprised.
He didn't expect that there were so few people with this status!
"Can I ask who the other one is?"
"No, no." Xiao Qing immediately shook her head.
"How can user information be disclosed casually? Unless the honorary player makes it public themselves, we will not announce it to the public. What if it causes trouble for the player?"
"Yeah, that's right!" The valiant sniper nodded in agreement.
He himself opened the box during the live broadcast, and it was entirely his fault for leaking it.
Otherwise, he could have done a lot of interesting things.
"Then I'll go directly?"
"Let's go, I'll take you there." Xiao Qing turned around and told another receptionist, then took the valiant sniper out the door and headed to the experience center.
On the way, the valiant sniper couldn't resist his curiosity and asked again: "Can I ask what the selection criteria for this [Honorary Player] are?"
"Many players online want to get this status, including many super-rich whales!"
"Um... this." Xiao Qing pondered and said, "I don't know."
"The boss personally led this matter, and after the decision was made, he directly gave us the final result, without mentioning any selection criteria."
"So... the standard is Xu's boss's mood?" The valiant sniper guessed.
"Of course not!" Xiao Qing defended her boss, "It must be someone who has made important contributions to the game and really likes the game!"
"Of course, of course." The valiant sniper said this, but in his heart, he was complaining: As expected, it's Xu Meng's style.
Both reasonable and chaotic.
...
The office building and the experience store were very close, and it took just over seven minutes to walk there.
A layer of rainproof cloth covered the door, shielding the signboard.
But pushing open the door and walking in, the inside was spacious and clean, and there were no traces of decoration.
Because there were no guests, the first floor lobby looked empty.
The sniper's first glance was at the bamboo forest landscape in the center of the round platform in the lobby, and the 1:1 scale figures of Tongque, Heyin, and Xiao Ningxi in the bamboo forest.
"No." Xiao Qing shook her head, "I heard my colleagues complain that the artists of 'Frost Snow Project' are all crazy. They drew a lot of original paintings and wanted to change their daughters' clothes every day. The modelers can't keep up, so they stuffed them here."
"If there are no accidents, the characters on this platform will change every once in a while."
"Change clothes every once in a while?" The valiant sniper suddenly became excited.
"Not necessarily, it may be a change of characters." Xiao Qing explained to him a little speechlessly—
"Actually, at the beginning, the 'King of War' project team wanted to put a retired tank here."
"Ah?" The valiant sniper was directly stunned.
Can anyone buy that thing?
"But the employees of the 'Frost Snow Project' insisted on putting characters."
"So, under the coordination of the boss, the two project teams selected people and played a BO3 in [Dragon Palace Treasure]."
"The 'Frost Snow Project' development team won, so the characters were placed here."
"Then the 'King of War' project team felt it was unfair."
"The boss then scheduled a second game for them - another BO3 in two months, and the winner will be determined by 'King of War'."
The valiant sniper was eye-opening: "Boss Xu... really knows how to play."
After admiring, a thought came to his mind: "Speaking of which, can your internal competitions be made public?"
"What do you mean?"
"Can I come and watch next time you play? It would be even better if I could broadcast it live!"
Xiao Qing blinked, "I don't know, I'll ask you later."
"Thank you, thank you." The valiant sniper thanked him repeatedly.
"Okay, come here to register and play the game."
...
Registration was very quick. The valiant sniper swiped his honorary player ID card and then his ID card, and the registration was completed.
Then, under the guidance of the staff, he learned about the facilities, received the somatosensory synchronization suit and the conjoined stockings, and entered the second floor private room to experience the game.
The valiant sniper took a lot of effort to set up the sports camera and mobile phone, and got a dual-camera setup for himself, before finally starting the game - he had been envious for two and a half days!
The first thing, of course, was to see Huo Huo!
In the VR perspective, there were only two options in front of him: "Frost Snow Project" and "King of War."
He raised his index finger and clicked on "Frost Snow Project", and two more options popped up:
[Corruption Calamity] and [Huo Huo's Yoga Class]
The valiant sniper entered the yoga classroom with satisfaction and saw the lifelike Huo Huo appearing in front of him.
—He listened to Huan Yue's suggestion and wore a tighter pair of underwear.
But soon, he realized that he had been tricked by Huan Yue!
It's useless at all!
Besides, he wasn't really playing in the Dream Building office, and there was no one else on the second floor of the experience store, so who could he embarrass?
He left the yoga classroom, sat on the omnidirectional treadmill and calmed down for a while, then switched to [Corruption Calamity] to fight the BOSS.
The fully upgraded BOSS felt familiar to him.
—The prototype of this boss is very old. Before the remake of "Frost Snow Project", the valiant sniper had also released a video guide to kill this BOSS in seconds.
But now... the pressure of this BOSS is completely different from before!
Before, when playing with PC and mobile phone, the BOSS was a rookie and a target, and could be sent away with a round of burst.
But now...
Standing here in person, watching the massive creature, over 7 meters tall, roaring and hissing at him, the violent breath rushing towards him, sweeping over his body, under the psychological effect, the Heroic Sniper almost felt like he could smell that terrible bad breath.
“This is all an illusion.”
He consoled himself.
Then, the BOSS slammed down with its huge claws wrapped in dark tentacles, the air behind the claws distorting!
“Damn it!” The Heroic Sniper instinctively dove!
Then he was suspended in the air.
—His feet were off the ground, held up by the safety rope of the omnidirectional treadmill, his vision also switching from the game screen to reality, to prevent accidents.
However, with the cooperation of hardware and algorithms, the camera captured his body dynamics, and the character in the game continued to move according to his posture, allowing him to dodge this slap.
When his feet touched the ground again, the Heroic Sniper realized: actions like [Dive], which carried some danger, couldn't be used.
For these unsolvable problems, ArchDream compensated with [safety rope pulling] and [software algorithms].
While thinking about these random things, he sprinted while holding his gun, dodging the BOSS's attacks.
At the same time, he was also thinking: how should the Investigator be played?
Everyone has a warehouse full of girls; who would use the protagonist to fight the BOSS?!
Plus, the BOSS's attack modules and special skills were also enriched a lot. By the time the Heroic Sniper finally took down the BOSS, it was already his sixth life, and he had used up more than 20 minutes.
He exited the game, took off the VR glasses, and sat on the omnidirectional treadmill to rest, panting.
After resting for a while, he got up to check the camera's battery and memory.
After confirming it was okay, he continued to put on the VR glasses and started playing 《King of War》.
After opening 《King of War》, there were two more options than in 《Frost Snow Project》—
[New Recruit Report]
[Narrow Encounter]
[Hell on Earth]
[Under Development]
“?”
“There's new content???”
The Heroic Sniper was stunned for a moment.
On the way here, he had also paid attention to Illusion Moon's live broadcast.
In the Cologne Game Show's exhibition hall, 《King of War》 only had one trial content—a tutorial level containing three stages.
It should be [New Recruit Report].
Then what are [Narrow Encounter] and [Hell on Earth]??
“Is this… an internal trial version for the development team? Or will Cologne unlock it in the next two days?”
The Heroic Sniper couldn't be sure.
But since no one gave him a time limit anyway, he planned to play through all of them before telling the staff about this situation.
Afterwards, he and his three computer teammates leisurely played for an hour before completing the three stages of [New Recruit Report].
Even though he had been holding back, he still broke into a sweat after finishing, and his throat was a little hoarse.
—This was the price of too much immersion: on a battlefield filled with artillery fire, it's hard to control your volume.
He felt a little tired.
But before resting, he still clicked on [Narrow Encounter] to see what it was about.
Unexpectedly, this option actually required him to choose a class!
[Engineer]
[Special Forces]
[Assault]
[Medic]
Choose one of four.
“Is there even a need to choose? Of course, it's [Special Forces]!”
The system prompted again:
[Please select two starting items]
Before him appeared [Climbing Claw], [Camouflage Cloth], [Telescope], [Scope], and [Silencer].
This made the Heroic Sniper a little confused—
“Doesn't it include a sniper rifle?”
“And… two items? Do the scope and silencer count as two items?”
Confused, but he still chose the scope and silencer and proceeded to the next step—
[Would you like to choose classes for your teammates?]
[Yes/No]
The Heroic Sniper was already very tired, and he only wanted to see the new content at the moment, and didn't really plan to start playing immediately, so he chose [No].
[Randomizing your teammate classes]
[Random results are: Medic A, Medic B, Medic C]
[Skirmish is about to begin, please be prepared!]
“?” The Heroic Sniper was stunned for a moment, and the game started.
He seemed to have returned to the forest of the second level again, but it was a little different—
There were more buildings.
But he was in no mood to collect items now, just silently watching his three medic teammates.
All three of them were carrying large backpacks, holding small pistols, looking at him innocently.
The only one in the entire team with a Mosin-Nagant rifle was him—and it was thoughtfully equipped with a scope and silencer for him.
But…
“An assassin and three healers? What the hell am I supposed to do!”
He didn't want to play in the first place, and now he directly rage-quit.
Clicking on [Hell on Earth] again directly popped up [Development Incomplete].
After confirming that this couldn't be played, the Heroic Sniper breathed a sigh of relief.
He took off the VR glasses, stepped off the omnidirectional treadmill, and went to the shower in the private room to take a shower.
At first, he found it outrageous: why did the store clerk of a game experience store emphasize that the store had showers?
Now he knew.
Because when playing this, it's really hard not to sweat!
When he finished showering, threw away the disposable unitard stockings, put on new ones, and walked out after putting on the haptic feedback suit again, he happened to hear a knock on the door.
He walked over to open the door and saw Song Zhicheng.
Song Zhicheng had only appeared once on the preview program, but the Heroic Sniper still remembered him.
“Is there anything I can do for you?”
Song Zhicheng smiled slightly: “Are you interested in playing a friendly match?”
“A friendly match? Playing what? With whom?”
“《King of War》, with us.”
“With you? Why???” The Heroic Sniper didn't understand.
Song Zhicheng couldn't help but sigh, “This experience store is going to open early.”
