One day later.
The hibernation pod doors slowly opened, and the first batch of three small players opened their eyes.
Unbelievable, there really is such a game in the world!
Consciousness controls the body, perfectly simulating the five senses, including touch.
And, this graphics, is it really not a joke?!
Li Shen stepped out of the pod door, subconsciously pushed up his non-existent glasses, and stared at the wall next to him for a long time.
The modeling showed no polygons or jaggies, and the textures showed no pixels.
Which game company's work is this?
His game character name is Shenceng Jubian, male, medium build, Scholar sequence, initial attributes: Strength 5, Intelligence 10, Agility 4, Constitution 5, Perception 5, Spirit 7.
Originally, after getting off work, Li Shen had almost forgotten about the game Xing Hai, however, after returning home, he saw the box containing the game equipment at the door...
On the other side, Zhao Kai's character's body trembled slightly.
It's been three years, and he can finally feel his two legs again!
Although it's only in the game, he has become a healthy person again! This feeling is real!
His character name is Caoyuan a Caoyuan, same as in reality, male, large build, height 192, Soldier sequence, initial attributes: Strength 8, Intelligence 5, Agility 8, Constitution 6, Perception 5, Spirit 5.
"Two brothers, are you also selected internal test players?"
Yang Rui, the last one to walk out of the hibernation pod, asked tentatively.
He found that this game had no quest guidance, no red dots prompting you to immediately click them away, and the character names would not be displayed directly above the characters' heads.
Everything was exactly the same as the real world.
These two people in front of him, he didn't know if they were players or NPCs, and he didn't know if they were men or not...
"Yes, hello!"
Caoyuan a Caoyuan shook his hand in a friendly manner.
"Hello, hello!" Shenceng Jubian also came over, "I thought the email was all nonsense, but after returning home, I put on the equipment with a try-it-out attitude, and I didn't expect the game company to actually make it! This is simply a miracle of virtual reality technology!"
"Hmm, yes, a miracle..."
Yang Rui nodded.
His character Jin Yi Ye Xing, in order to enhance the live broadcast effect in the future, chose to scan his own body shape and appearance, height 174, weight 66 kg, Investigator sequence, initial attributes: Strength 5, Intelligence 5, Agility 6, Constitution 8, Perception 8, Spirit 5.
Compared to marveling at technology, Jin Yi Ye Xing, being a semi-professional player, was more concerned with how this game should be played and if it was fun.
The three introduced themselves to each other in the cargo bay of the spaceplane and chatted for a while.
A moment later, the cargo bay door next to them opened.
Lu Yuan saw the players summoned from his hometown universe for the first time.
He had already read the information of the three of them in advance.
The tall, strong man with a righteous look was the Soldier player Zhao Kai.
He was skilled in fighting, cross-country, special driving, parachuting, sniping, and infiltration operations, and he had received a personal first-class merit while alive, which was enough to explain everything.
After retiring due to injury, Zhao Kai could have gotten a good job guarantee, but he refused, saying he didn't want to trouble others and wanted to rely on himself to become a useful person to society again.
The one with a hint of arrogance and a slightly refined perverted temperament was the Scholar player Li Shen.
Despite often skipping evening self-study to play games, he ranked 9th in the provincial science college entrance examination, won countless honors during his undergraduate studies, and the same was true during his master's and doctoral studies at MIT. After graduating, he returned to China and held a key technical position in a major aerospace equipment project.
Finally, the one with eyes full of curiosity was the Investigator player Yang Rui.
He had successfully passed the tryout for a large e-sports club, but because he felt being a streamer was more interesting, he didn't join.
Reaction speed 104 milliseconds, human limit.
There was no game genre he didn't like to play, and his learning ability was heaven-defying. He could master any game shortly after starting it. For soul-like bosses that others took several hours or even a day to beat, he only needed three attempts, witnessed by countless netizens.
First attempt to test the moves, second attempt to find the rhythm, third attempt to pass.
A Celestial.
His powerful strength combined with his talkativeness resulted in a considerable number of fans.
Lu Yuan exchanged glances with the three of them one by one, nodded slightly in greeting, and then, as an NPC, spoke the lines he had prepared long ago.
"Hello, the first batch of awakened Cangyuan Future Technology employees! I am your Executive Officer."
"Employees? Are you talking about us?" Jin Yi Ye Xing tilted his head and asked in a low voice.
"Probably." Shenceng Jubian said, "I speculate that in this game, it's not just national governments conducting cosmic colonization and development, but also giant corporations with strength comparable to that of nations. Prototypes of such companies already exist in the real world."
Having played many space-themed games, he was no stranger to similar settings.
"Similar to the Megacorps in Stellaris?"
As a veteran Paradox war criminal, Jin Yi Ye Xing immediately thought of this.
Those were corporations that could eventually develop into an entire interstellar civilization, completely beyond the normal concept of a "company".
"Is it a private company?"
If he had a choice, Caoyuan a Caoyuan would prefer to work for a state-owned enterprise or a central enterprise.
Lu Yuan left a little time for the three players to discuss.
Then, he began to introduce the game's background setting.
These "settings" were actually the history of this world, which he had only read from the computer in the player's hibernation pod a few hours ago, and he was now merely repeating them.
"It is now the year 3200 AD. In the past 1000 years, human technology has made great progress."
"We once conquered the stars, conquered the universe, and our footprints not only stepped out of the solar system but also far beyond the Milky Way. We established a great civilization spanning hundreds of millions of planets."
"However, more than 300 years ago, a series of wars and catastrophes destroyed humanity. Humans are no longer the dominant species in the universe, and the vast imperial territory has been torn apart and encroached upon."
"Some star systems have completely lost contact with the outside world, becoming isolated islands in the universe; residents on some planets have lost space travel capabilities, are confined to the planet's surface by gravity, and their technological level and culture have regressed to the World War II era."
"Meanwhile, more planets have become wastelands."
"Some have suffered decades of continuous nuclear bombardment, some planets' atmospheres have been completely stripped away, others have become living hells under the devastation of biochemical viruses, and some have even had their cores pierced by giant weapons of unimaginable power, causing decades of continuous lava rain from the sky..."
"But the spark of civilization remains, and most of the former crystallization of human civilization is now forgotten, scattered throughout the vast universe."
This background introduction left the three players stunned.
Humans once established a cosmic empire?
What kind of glorious, prosperous golden age must that have been?
And what kind of force could pull such a powerful civilization down from its pedestal?
As a cosmic colonization and development game, the background was not set in the early stages of interstellar civilization expansion, but directly from the era of post-apocalyptic survival.
It must be said, this was a bit fresh.
This meant that according to the setting, countless civilized worlds, along with those top-tier technological creations, already existed before the game began and could appear at any time during the subsequent gameplay.
It contained infinite possibilities!
The entire universe was already a wasteland, and for the players, this did not make them feel frustrated, but rather made them feel their blood boiling!
We are the rebuilders of human civilization.
Starting from scratch, we will recast all the glory!
The remnants of civilization from the human golden age are now like treasures among the star sea, waiting for players to discover them!
"Um, I have a question!" Jin Yi Ye Xing raised his right hand high.
Lu Yuan nodded.
"Speak, Investigator."
"Executive Officer, what is the specific gameplay of this game? I mean, what should we do next to contribute our strength to Cangyuan Future Technology?"
Such high awareness!
Lu Yuan barely managed to keep a straight face, maintaining his authoritative persona without showing his joy.
"Currently, there are five major types of missions: combat, exploration, research, gathering, and construction. More mission types will be added later," he answered.
"In addition, in the short term, our goal is to establish a reliable power generation system, otherwise, without sufficient electricity, subsequent work will be difficult to carry out."
"The long-term goal is to establish a self-sufficient base, accumulate resources, and awaken more Cangyuan Future Technology employees from hibernation."
Oh, so, the game currently has five basic gameplay types.
For a game that is still in its first test, that's quite a lot.
Jin Yi Ye Xing quickly understood this sentence from the perspective of game mechanics.
Shenceng Jubian also raised his hand.
"What is the current situation of the Novice Village ? I mean, how many resources can we use?"
Xing Hai currently has no quest log, so to get information, you can only ask the NPCs.
"Unfortunately, the current situation is not optimistic," Lu Yuan said solemnly.
"Cangyuan Future Technology's extraterrestrial colonization plan was launched in 2095. At that time, humanity did not have faster-than-light travel technology, so we missed the golden age of humanity during our long hibernation, but correspondingly, we also avoided the apocalypse."
"Now, the journey is over, and we have finally awakened from hibernation, but the colonization plan has not gone smoothly."
"The spaceplane we were traveling in malfunctioned and made an emergency landing on the surface of this wasteland planet, and Cangyuan Future Technology's colonization ship also disintegrated in an unknown accident, with its various parts lost in space."
Caoyuan a Caoyuan seemed to understand.
"So, as long as we can repair the spaceplane, we can fly into space, find the company's colonization ship, recover the resources inside, and even head to more distant planets?"
"You are absolutely right, Soldier."
Lu Yuan affirmed.
"The colonization ship is quite large, and recovering it will greatly improve our situation and reduce the difficulty of building our base."
"But before that, these limited resources around us are all that we can use."
Actually, Lu Yuan didn't know what was in the colonization ship either.
But in order to make the players work harder, the vision had to be painted first.
"Next, I will assign your first mission based on your profession. The mission has a certain difficulty, and I hope you will take it seriously."
The three players couldn't help but stand at attention, looking forward to it.
