Chapter 225 Steel Factory (Update 1)
After Fei Shao calmed down, Fang Cheng returned to his studio and began to find games with exploration, unknown and stealth elements, and then played them one by one.
Later, Fang Cheng discovered that even with three qualifiers, there were many games of this type, and they had different gaming experiences.
"Metal Gear Solid" is a typical stealth game. Although I don't understand why a cardboard box can block the enemy's sight, I can understand it if I understand that there are spells on the cardboard box.
"Suicide Squad" is also a stealth-type game. Although when you play it, you become a group of people standing together and shooting and killing all the soldiers in a military camp. However, some levels are still a bit challenging when there are not many people.
Board games such as "Cthulhu Mythos" also have exploration, unknown and other elements. Although Fang Cheng doesn't understand why those ancient gods make people fearful, they obviously taste good.
After playing these games, Fang Cheng found that games are indeed all-inclusive, and all kinds of experiences can be found in the game.
It can be said that games are the limitations of human fantasy and a collection of dreams. Decades of dreams have been concentrated in this field, making games broad and profound.
So, where is the relevant point that makes you feel happy?
Finding that he could not find the answer for the time being, Fang Cheng felt that it was still necessary to let the person who owed him a debt explore the way.
"Xuan Jing, please come here."
When he was summoned, Xuan Jing was chatting with Gao Tianyun and formulating an experimental plan.
Hearing Fang Cheng's voice, Xuan Jing immediately chose to resign, returned to the studio like a wind, then came to the conference room to find Fang Cheng, and asked excitedly: "Boss, what are you going to do? Have I finally been used?" Who do you want to kill?"
"Don't be too murderous. Please go on a business trip."
"Go somewhere! I can leave at any time! Anywhere is fine!"
"Another world."
"Hey!"
Xuan Jing The hair on his body stood on end as more than a dozen last words emerged in his mind, causing him to immediately choose the most economical one.
"Boss, have mercy!"
"Go."
Xuan Jing only felt the surrounding environment change, and the next second he returned to the shadow world and came to a laboratory.
Lowering his head, he found that his body had turned into a teddy bear again. Fortunately, the one here was his clone, not his true body. This made Xuan Jing realize that Fang Cheng wanted to use him instead of using him.
This discovery made Xuan Jing breathe a long sigh of relief, and then lamented that the boss spoke too directly and it was too troublesome to understand.
But the next moment, he panicked again.
A group of squirrels who were not players were not surprised by his appearance. They put on a special spacesuit for him, then dragged him to the black hole and threw him in with force.
"Hey!"
The spacesuit he is wearing is already specially made. This suit can resist the erosion of the black hole and allows him to smoothly pass through the black hole called the slide rail.
Floating in the black hole, he finally heard Fang Cheng's voice: "Hey, can you hear it?"
"Boss!"
"Next, your mission is..."
"Wait a minute, where am I going? Ah! Don't just send me to this hellish place without saying a word!"
"You can say it anywhere, anytime."
"I'm just being polite to you, don't be so rude. !"
"Hmm... Okay. The place you are going to is the Steel Fortress. There is a group of weapon spirits like you there. They call themselves the Steel Guards. Originally, another weapon spirit volunteered, but the other party's death If you are too angry, you will die if you come in."
After trying to figure out Fang Cheng's meaning, Xuan Jing said expectantly: "Then you mean, I won't die?" "
No, you can survive if you die. "
Boss!"
"It's good for you to die more often. Each death is equivalent to paying off a debt. If you die more than ten times..." "It
will be paid off?"
"You can pay back some interest."
" ...How much do I owe?"
"You want to know? I can calculate it for you." "
...No, just give me some hope."
Thinking about it with his own CPU, Xuan Jing knew that he probably knew it I owe so much that I have to die more than a dozen times to pay back the interest.
In order to allow yourself to live happily, it is better not to ask about some things.
Knowing that he would be stabbed more than a dozen times anyway, Xuan Jing simply accepted his fate.
"Then boss, my mission is..."
"Go to the Steel Fortress and find out what's going on there, so I can make a game based on the situation." "
Then why don't you do it yourself?"
"I can't send you here with too strong thoughts. , otherwise the weapon spirit light here will explode when it senses my thoughts. So I can only suppress the power, and then attach it to your body. This also makes my feelings a bit vague, so most of them need you to express them. Okay , here we are."
Xuan Jing felt that the surrounding darkness disappeared, and he, wearing a space suit, fell directly to the steel floor.
Getting up, he saw bright lights all around, and then saw a truck full of materials rushing towards it.
He quickly dodged and watched the material truck fly into the distance. Just as he was about to see what was going on, another material truck flew over silently and knocked him into pieces.
"I'll choke you!"
Two seconds later, Xuan Jing, who had been smashed into pieces, climbed up from where he just landed, clutching his chest with lingering fear.
He quickly touched his body and breathed a sigh of relief when he found that he was intact. He turned around and saw the material truck rushing towards him again.
"Come back!"
After being smashed again, Xuanjing resurrected, and Fang Cheng's voice rang in his ears: "Why don't you hide?"
"There's no sound and it's so fast, you can't hide, boss!" "
Then you You can use palm thunder to knock it away."
"Do I have this function?" Xuan Jing asked expectantly.
"No, but I think you can learn it. It's very simple, as long as..."
After hearing Fang Cheng explain how to use the palm thunder, Xuan Jing felt that he and his boss were definitely not of the same species. No, they are not the same species.
But after dying twice, Xuan Jing probably understood the current situation.
In order not to be discovered here, the squirrel scientists changed the foothold on this side of the slide rail to allow Xuan Jing to sneak in smoothly.
The changed position happened to be in the logistics pipeline, so he had to avoid the material truck as soon as he appeared, so that he could continue smoothly.
Fortunately, although the material truck is silent and extremely fast, when the material truck is approaching, the corresponding track will light up red, and you can easily avoid it as long as you notice it.
As a tool spirit, Xuanjing learns new things very quickly. After observing the things in the material truck a few times, he knew that the bottom is the raw material end and the top is the processing plant end.
After thinking about it, Xuan Jing decided to go to the raw material side to take a look first.
The material pipeline is very dark, only the lights above the head are shining with various colors of light.
Some areas also have their own forks, which should lead to different areas, and there are many of these areas.
Although it was nominally a factory, Xuan Jing felt that the scale of this place was already comparable to that of a large city.
The builders of the factory used an extremely rough management style, which was to add whatever was available.
Through the analysis of raw materials, Xuanjing discovered that there can be metal ores and petroleum resins here. As long as they are industrial-related raw materials, you can also see various semi-finished products being continuously transported on the material boxes.
This factory seems to be able to process all products. The management and personnel training of an ordinary factory will cause great internal friction, but the factory of the Steel Guards obviously cannot be managed like this.
According to another weapon spirit, Fei, although the weapon spirits within the Iron Guard all evolved from puppets, these weapon spirits do not feel that they are the same kind as the puppets.
Puppets are just machines. These machines can understand commands, but they have no autonomous consciousness and are just tools.
Only those who awaken their own consciousness and are promoted to weapon spirits are the real steel guards and their compatriots.
But because they awakened their self-awareness, they developed human desires and began to divide themselves and fight among themselves.
In this factory, Xuan Jing also saw many puppets working.
They were all born in this factory, and after being assembled, they were sent to work on their respective assembly lines.
The bodies of these puppets have been specially processed, and the shelf life of each one is not long. If the parts are broken, they can be directly dragged down, recycled and replaced, and then replaced with new puppets.
When he came to the raw material area at the bottom, Xuan Jing peeked for a while and found that the raw materials here were transported by spaceships, and these spaceships were actually puppets. It can be seen that the puppet technology here has been very developed.
After some estimation, Xuan Jing discovered that the factory alone had tens of billions of puppets of various types, and there were only thousands of weapon spirits among these many puppets. It was obvious that the weapon spirits were really too rare.
After observing the raw material area, Xuan Jing was about to leave when he turned around and saw a huge mechanical eye hanging in the air, staring at him.
After standing still for a while, Xuan Jing immediately turned around to run away, but a dozen mechanical arms reached out from behind the mechanical eyes, grabbed Xuan Jing, and then dragged Xuan Jing away from here.
He thought he was going to die again, but what Xuan Jing didn't expect was that he was dragged into a room.
The lights were brightly lit here, and ninety-nine colorful teddy bears were locked together with him, watching each other in silence at the electronic display in front of them.
"What is this place for?" Xuan Jing couldn't help but ask.
"It looks like a test room." Fang Cheng said, "Let me ask Fei... Well, I understand, your appearance is a bit similar to some kind of mechanical bear product. This kind of product needs to have a certain degree of intelligence and cute appearance. , and it needs to go through layers of screening before it can be produced. The whole process is cumbersome and inhumane. The failed products will be automatically sent back to the original place to continue testing and training." "Why is
this kind of thing needed?"
"Fei doesn't know either. This Once the equipment is built in the factory, it will not be dismantled. It should be that the Steel Guards back then needed the help of mechanical bears to complete certain tasks. But with the changes in the environment, this task is no longer important, but the related production lines have been retained, and then Continue to produce mechanical bears."
"Then what should I do?"
"It doesn't matter. According to Fei, because there are no relevant indicators at present, all the mechanical bears will only rest for a period of time after being screened out, and then they will They were sent back to their original positions and continued screening. If one of the mechanical bears fails, then just replace it with a new one."
"Do the Steel Guards like to waste production capacity so much?"
"They don't want to either. But the entire steel factory is. A huge mountain of redundant code. When it was first built, I never thought it would become such a big place, so optimization was never considered. Any small deletion will cause irreparable consequences. This is The lessons of blood and tears that the Steel Guards have learned over thousands of years."
Other Xuanjing didn't understand, but after knowing that this was a "hill of shit", Xuanjing understood the thoughts of the Steel Guards.
In fact, the steel guards who originally built the factory cannot be blamed for this incident.
After all, over thousands of years, no matter how perfect the system is, it will produce a lot of redundancy. These redundancies will pile up and form a building that is difficult to modify, delete, and replace, just like now.
Just as Xuan Jing was communicating with Fang Cheng, numbers finally appeared on the electronic display.
After the countdown was completed, he discovered that a digital equation appeared on the electronic display:
[sinx+cosx=1].
Under the electronic display, two doors appeared. The door on the left was printed: [√].
The door on the right has [X] printed on it.
After looking at it in confusion, Xuan Jing found that some teddy bears had begun to walk towards different rooms, and he also followed the crowd and walked towards the [√] room.
Walking in, when the number of teddy bears around reached fifty, the baffle in the middle of the two rooms was opened, and the floor of the room on the right was opened, allowing all the teddy bears inside to fall down.
Although he knew that the other party was just sent back to the initial room, Xuan Jing still couldn't help but become nervous.
Since he had made teddy bears before, Xuan Jing couldn't help but insert himself into these bears, and began to imagine what would happen if he fell into this situation.
The never-ending cycle of reincarnation can be completely freed only after being broken. Just imagining this Sisyphean-like ordeal is enough to break one's defenses.
In this hell-like place, only enlightened sages can find happiness in this kind of thing.
However, the situation did not allow Xuan Jing to continue thinking. The electronic display in front of him had already lit up, and a new topic appeared again.
He had no choice but to read the questions, then choose and continue running.
After leaving the second room, Xuan Jing discovered that the back was not a question and answer room, but an obstacle course.
This link requires the balance ability of the mechanical bears to be tested. They need to jump on various platforms to enter the next room as quickly as possible.
The room door will automatically close after the number of people reaches twelve, and the remaining bears will fall to the bottom of the platform again.
This time, Xuan Jing did not move forward.
He watched indifferently as the bears followed one after another, even framing each other in the process, just to reach their goal.
They don't know why they want to go to the next room, and this is their most tragic place and their luckiest place.
After the ten bears passed, Xuan Jing felt that the floor under his feet was empty. He fell directly into the pipe below, returned to the initial room through the pipe, and began to count down and wait for the start of the next reincarnation.
Sighing, Xuan Jing said to Fang Cheng: "Boss..."
"Come back."
Just like that, Xuanjing's first exploration came to an end.
(End of chapter)