129: Chapter 129 Abstract Basketball Boy, Welcome to Raccoon City

The Virtual Helmet visor closed completely.

Everyone's vision plunged into a brief, pure darkness.

A few seconds later.

Their visual nerve centers received a soft light.

The sensation of weightlessness vanished instantly.

They found themselves standing in an endless, pure white space.

A semi-transparent, light blue floating window popped up before them out of thin air.

It clearly read: [Virtual Avatar Setup Interface]

Option A: Capture real-life facial features and physique to generate an exclusive virtual avatar.

Option B: Browse the preset character library and select your virtual avatar.

At this moment, clear voices could be heard all around.

"Wow! Bro, this voice system has absolutely no latency!"

"It even perfectly simulated your spatial position behind me to the left!"

Wang Peng's voice, distorted with excitement, echoed wildly throughout the pure white space.

Lu Li looked calm.

He raised his hand, gently touched the floating light screen with his fingertip, and pressed Option A.

A fine blue scanning grid flashed across the surface of his body.

In the next second, a virtual avatar wearing a casual hoodie, identical to him, materialized.

Lu Yaoguang, Yang Yueru, Chen Shuyu, and Su Qingxue also chose to bind their real-life selves without hesitation.

For girls, using their own faces to experience this unknown world provided the strongest sense of immersion.

"Bro, this update added quite a lot of content!"

Lu Yaoguang remarked with emotion; the experience during the New Year was still fresh in her memory, and clearly, those virtual avatar options hadn't existed then.

"Don't be surprised too early. Once we enter the game, there will be even more..."

Lu Li's calm voice replied.

It also raised the anticipation in the hearts of the girls to the maximum.

Meanwhile, Wang Peng hadn't made his choice yet; his restless desire for exploration was taking over.

He rubbed his hands together and tapped Option B with his chubby fingers.

A huge, three-dimensional holographic display cabinet instantly unfolded in the air before him.

Numerous lifelike 3D character models rotated slowly, set against a backdrop of glowing halos.

The female character area had four exquisite preset options.

Lu Li had kept a little personal bias during development.

The avatar codenamed "Lingling" wore a high-slit red dress, had short, capable hair, and eyes filled with lethal charm—it was a 1:1 replica of the legendary Ada Wong from his past life.

The avatar codenamed "Feifei" wore a white, ancient-style long dress.

This was the officially licensed image of Liu Yifei, which Guanghui Technology had signed following the conclusion of the "dorami" product launch.

She hadn't even asked for extra copyright fees and had signed the exclusive virtual avatar contract very readily.

The choices in the male character area were equally rich.

There was the debonair swordsman image like Old Hu.

There were also some rugged Western men clad in heavy armor and wielding broadswords.

However, Wang Peng's gaze was locked onto an extremely abrupt model in the corner.

It was a young man with a gray center-parted hairstyle, wearing black suspender trousers.

In his hands, he was incongruously holding an orange basketball.

The entire figure exuded an indescribable, abstract aura.

This parallel world did not have the famous "Kun Kun".

This was a piece of mischievous personal content Lu Li had added on a whim to relieve boredom after visiting the studio and finding the characters generated by the art team too stiff.

Wang Peng stared at that avatar, his eyes sparkling with excitement.

He realized that this guy with the basketball perfectly matched his own maverick, silly soul.

He pressed the confirm button heavily.

A flash of light passed by.

Wang Peng's originally round and chubby body instantly grew taller and slimmer.

He transformed into that abstract young man with the center-parted hair and suspender trousers.

Even that basketball was firmly stuck to his palm.

Chen Shuyu, looking at the brand-new Wang Peng, couldn't help but burst into laughter.

She covered her mouth, her shoulders shaking.

"Pengpeng, your taste is truly... unique."

Lu Li cleared his throat nearby, suppressing his laughter. He hadn't expected that even in this parallel world, Kun Kun would still be the top choice for the post-00s generation.

He began to briefly explain the rules to everyone.

Currently, the system is still in the home testing phase, so the model library is not very extensive.

Once it officially launches in the future, it will introduce a massive number of classic anime characters.

However, due to limitations in the underlying logic, once a player enters a realistic-style surreal game, all anime-style avatars will be forcibly converted by the AI into a unified, realistic appearance.

This is what is called "breaking the dimensional wall and reshaping."

Naturally, if playing in a Virtual Reality anime-style game, real-life avatars will also become anime-style avatars.

After everyone confirmed their avatars.

The pure white space began to collapse like shattered glass.

In the blink of an eye, they found themselves standing on a vast, boundless green grassland.

A gentle breeze blew past.

The tips of the grass blades brushed against their ankles, bringing a slightly itchy, realistic sensation.

They could even smell the fragrance of soil and fresh grass in the air.

This was the main desktop of the "Magic" system for Virtual Reality.

Regarding the system equipped on the Virtual Helmet, Lu Li had hesitated for a long time, but still chose the name Magic.

It was also his way of slightly commemorating Tech Director Dou Bao changing its name to Stupid Girl in 2060.

Su Qingxue and the others' expressions hadn't changed much.

After all, it was just a grassland; they had already experienced it during the New Year in the Virtual Reality version of minecraft.

But Chen Shuyu was not as calm. She stood to the side, outwardly trying her best to maintain her cool, mature demeanor.

But inside her mind, a magnitude-ten tsunami was already raging.

An epoch-spanning direct neural connection! Absolute, one-hundred-percent realism!

Even if he just sold the data for this grassland, tech giants from all over the world would be lining up overnight to offer him money!

What kind of monster is Lu Li, exactly?

How many more black technologies capable of overturning human civilization are hidden in that seemingly lazy brain of his?

She really wanted to let out that surge of emotion right now.

But seeing her best friend Su Qingxue looking so indifferent, she forced herself to hold it in, which made her feel uncomfortable inside.

Wang Peng, holding the basketball, hopped around excitedly on the grass.

He turned his head, his side-swept center-parted bangs fluttering in the wind.

"Bro! I can't wait anymore; this tactile sensation is amazing. Let's get into the game!"

Lu Li nodded and pointed at several huge application panels floating in mid-air.

"Click on that dark red icon."

Everyone looked up.

It was an umbrella-shaped logo composed of red and white colors.

Below it, four large characters were written in dripping, bloody cursive script — "resident evil".

This icon, filled with implications of blood and horror, made Chen Shuyu's brow furrow slightly.

But that was all.

No one took it too seriously.

After all, with six people playing online, there is strength in numbers, and even the most terrifying atmosphere would be diluted.

This is the fatal misconception that all newbies entering the virtual world will have in the future.

They locked their thoughts onto the icon and clicked to enter directly.

The massive game main menu descended.

The options were divided into three sections: [Single Player Story], [Multiplayer Online], and [Left 4 Dead].

Lu Li signaled everyone to select the [Multiplayer Online] option in the middle.

As for the [Left 4 Dead] next to it.

It was entirely a bonus that Lu Li had packed and tossed in to enrich the gameplay.

It was also that famous first-person shooter zombie game from his past life, "Left 4 Dead".

After all, the underlying shooting frameworks of both games were completely compatible.

A few months ago, Genesis Studio didn't even spend much money; they just took a few infrared environmental scanners and panoramic cameras.

They found a dilapidated hotel on the outskirts of Mingzhu City that was about to be demolished.

They paid the owner over a hundred thousand in venue fees and rented it for seven days.

They directly performed millimeter-level 3D point cloud mapping of the entire internal and external structure of the hotel.

They forcefully turned the rundown hotel from reality into the starting point for the first level of [Left 4 Dead].

Everyone reached out and pressed the [Multiplayer Online] button.

Data streams washed over their retinas like waterfalls.

The system's loading speed was extremely fast; there was no loading screen at all.

The next moment.

The sky was overcast, and thunder rumbled.

Raindrops as big as beans pelted down on everyone's heads and shoulders.

Cold, biting water vapor, mixed with the pungent smell of gunpowder and the acrid stench of rot, poured frantically into their nasal cavities.

They had arrived in the uptown area of Raccoon City.

All around them were skyscrapers that towered into the clouds, yet half of them had collapsed.

Burning, abandoned cars were parked haphazardly on the asphalt road, and billowing thick smoke shot straight into the sky.

At the intersection in the distance, the ear-piercing sound of sirens was still ringing tirelessly.

Scattered on the ground were blood-stained newspapers, torn police uniforms, and... unrecognizable severed limbs.

resident evil 3 was also the generation in gaming history with the most oppressive atmosphere and the densest horror elements.

Due to the limitations of early 3D technology in his past life, it could only use fixed camera angles to render fear.

But in this world.

Lu Li had directly endowed it with a holographic, immersive, and realistic dimension.

The absolute, realistic sensory stimulation dragged the nightmare that once existed only on a monitor into reality.

The game officially began.