68: Chapter 68 is so realistic, it's suicidal! Doraemon video released!

Lu Li saw the familiar thirty-second countdown on the system panel.

With a thought,

Extract!

Buzz—

An almost imperceptible ripple seemed to spread through the air, and in the next second, a silver-white helmet with a highly futuristic, sci-fi design appeared out of thin air in his hand.

Neural Mesh Virtual Helmet.

It felt icy cold to the touch, made of a material that seemed both metallic and non-metallic, carrying a minimalist aesthetic that transcended the era.

Lu Li's fingers gently brushed over the sensor ring on the edge of the helmet, his fingertips trembling slightly with excitement.

In his past life, as a pioneer of Blue Star's technology, he had gone from the most basic VR to five-sensory VR devices that simulated touch, smell, and taste, and then to helmets that could project images directly onto the retina.

He had spent his entire life, up until the moment he died suddenly in the lab, without ever touching the threshold of the ultimate field of "Neural Mesh."

It was scary to think about; he could easily handle controllable Nuclear Fusion, yet the Neural Mesh Virtual Helmet was stuck halfway on the progress bar.

In his view, that was a technological barrier that would take two generations, or even longer, to overcome.

It was the most insurmountable chasm lying before the uploading of human consciousness.

And now, the future was in his hands.

At this point in time, just as they were about to enter 2018.

Lu Li could not wait to connect the Virtual Helmet to the power supply. Lying back in his ergonomic chair, he took a deep breath and slowly put on the helmet.

His consciousness was pulled away in an instant.

There was none of the dizziness or weightlessness he had imagined.

The study in front of him slowly dissolved in an instant, like a dream in water.

In its place was a landscape of lush greenery.

A vast grassland stretched to the horizon, and a stream meandered at his feet, so clear that he could see the rounded pebbles at the bottom.

A gentle breeze brushed against his cheek, carrying the damp scent of green grass; he could even smell the unique fragrance of soil after rain. Bending down to touch the blades of grass, the slightly cool and damp sensation was so real that it made his scalp tingle.

Lu Li took two steps forward. The soft sensation under his feet was exactly the spongy feeling of real grass.

He reached his hand into the stream, feeling a bone-chilling coldness.

The resistance of the water flowing through his fingers was also incredibly realistic.

There was even that unique, fresh earthy scent when wet mud was stirred up.

Perfect.

It was too real.

This wasn't just visual deception; this was a sensory rewrite directly targeting the cerebral cortex.

If this were to be released, existing VR equipment would probably only be fit for the trash, not even worthy of being called electronic waste.

Lu Li stood up and looked around.

Even this blue sky, along with the scenery of the grassland and the stream, was clearly the default desktop background of his retinal helmet from his previous life...

However, when he excitedly looked up, wanting to see what applications this perfect world had, he only saw a solid blue background and two softly glowing white icons—[minecraft] and [World Settings].

"..."

Lu Li twitched the corner of his mouth.

Well, well.

Giving me a top-of-the-line supercomputer and not even installing Minesweeper?

Is this supposed to let him play out "Robinson Crusoe" in a world of nothing but grass?

He tried to operate it with his mind, but found that he couldn't do anything other than exit the Virtual Helmet.

However, he could change the desktop in [World Settings], so he changed the desktop background to a lunar base.

Stepping on lunar soil, the silver-grey lunar base stood quietly not far away like a menacing giant beast. Looking up, in the pitch-black, lonely space, the azure Earth hung in the sky, wrapped in light clouds and full of life.

"Not bad, I designed this background back then too."

Lu Li nodded slightly, but remembering that he had found nothing just now, he frowned again:

"There isn't even a single application or game. What's the point of this broken helmet?"

If it is manufactured in the future, wouldn't it still require a massive amount of manpower to develop virtual games?

For games like this, without a company of several thousand people and several years of development, they just can't be made.

This kind of work would definitely have to be taken on by a top-tier game company.

"With such a realistic scene, you could at least give me a game!"

Lu Li lamented.

[Ding!]

[Strong desire detected from the host. Side quest triggered: New Ambitions]

[Background: Tianqiong Technology is pressing hard. Its behind-the-scenes boss, Tianqiong Interactive Entertainment's CEO Fan Yu, has a ruthless personality and has already posed a massive threat to the host and Guanghui Technology.]

[Objective: Completely crush Tianqiong Technology and kick them out of the tech industry entirely.]

[Reward: Fully immersive game resource pack—1: Core code, core scenes, and character models of "resident evil 25: Virtual Remastered Edition." 2: Core code, core scenes, and character models of "world of warcraft: Virtual Remastered Edition." (Note: Audio and details must be configured by yourself)]

The system's notification sound rang out like heavenly music.

Lu Li raised an eyebrow.

Just when he wanted to sleep, someone handed him a pillow.

"resident evil", "world of warcraft".

These two top-tier games had been incredibly popular for nearly over a decade after VR technology became widespread in his previous life.

One was the ultimate single-player horror survival experience, and the other was an epic online world that created a second life.

In this year of 2017, where people could only tap and click on screens, if someone were thrown directly into Raccoon City, holding an M416 to face zombies and Lickers, or thrown into Azeroth to ride dragons and fight the Lich King Arthas with magic and greatswords...

That wouldn't just be a game.

That would be a dimensional strike.

That would be a miracle.

Lu Li exited the virtual space, took off the helmet, and casually locked it in his wardrobe.

As for the technical files of the synchronized rewards, he gently massaged his temples, feeling a bit of a headache.

"I'll wait for No. 18 to come back and have her transfer these into the computer..."

Lu Li thought about the system quest again.

It could be said to be extremely simple; in fact, this quest was somewhat redundant with the previous one.

To crush Fan Yu's garbage tech company, he didn't even need the Virtual Helmet. In the smartphone field, they were already on their last legs.

Once pioneer s1 was released in December, they would have no chance to catch their breath.

Right now, many users, baited by pioneer s1, chose not to buy Tianqiong's phones and decided to wait instead.

After some thought, Lu Li sent a message to the head of his game studio, telling them to immediately recruit another batch of top-tier game voice actors and special effects artists.

It so happened that during these past two months, another battle royale mobile game he had secretly tasked the studio to develop had already entered its late-stage testing phase.

His "minecraft" had cost less than four million in total to develop, including labor and servers.

In just two months, it had already brought him over 130 million in net income.

This speed of making money was faster than robbing a bank.

Therefore, he wanted to get another piece of the pie in the gaming industry, using it to build a foundation for his technological future.

In the current Chinese gaming market, Tianqiong Interactive Entertainment dominated, while Penguin Games could only eat its dust.

That was just perfect.

He, Lu Li, would act as the catfish in this market. No, a shark.

After sending off Chief Engineer Zhang Jianguo and the others, who were so excited they could barely walk straight, the villa finally returned to peace.

Chen Shuyu shamelessly stayed the night, on the pretext of needing to coordinate with "Blue Fatty" to shoot new material first thing tomorrow.

Lu Li was too lazy to expose her little scheme of wanting to play with the Robot, so he let her be.

Inside the master bedroom, the lighting was dim and romantic.

Having finished her bath, Su Qingxue curled up in Lu Li's arms like a lazy ragdoll cat.

Her fingertips traced mindless circles on Lu Li's chest, but she keenly noticed that although her husband's gaze was fixed on the empty air, it seemed to pierce through the ceiling, looking toward a much more distant future.

"What are you thinking about?"

Her voice was soft and sweet, carrying a trace of moisture from her recent bath.

Lu Li pulled back his thoughts and looked down, gazing at his wife's exceptionally beautiful face and her clear eyes that reflected his own image.

He was thinking about the "Neural Mesh Virtual Helmet" he had just obtained.

It was a technological creation capable of overturning human cognition.

"I was thinking, if one day I create a world as real as reality, would you like to go and see it?"

Lu Li said, half-jokingly.

Su Qingxue was slightly taken aback, and then her eyes curved into crescents as she smiled brightly:

"Are you talking about the Doraemon Robot? It really does seem like a creation that doesn't belong to this world."

She had clearly misunderstood.

She thought her husband was talking about that Blue Fatty Robot.

Lu Li smiled and did not explain.

One was tangible companionship, an extension of the real world.

A real virtual world, on the other hand, was the other shore of human consciousness.

He knew what a magnificent sight it would be when these two worlds converged one day in the future.

Meanwhile, his wife clearly hadn't realized yet that Lu Li was preparing to completely revolutionize the entertainment methods of the entire world.

...

The next morning.

Chen Shuyu, sporting dark circles under her eyes but in high spirits, dragged in bags from various clothing brands filled with all kinds of women's apparel, and rushed straight into the nanny's room.

"Time to work! Time to work!"

"Doraemon, today big sister is going to change you into a few highly difficult outfits!"

The shooting process went exceptionally smoothly.

Or rather, they were shocked by Doraemon's astonishing level of intelligence.

An hour later.

A video titled "How Does This Doraemon Even Have a Sense of Shame?" was pushed to the entire internet with the highest priority by Guanghui Technology's publicity department.

Millions of netizens who had already been following Guanghui Technology's movements received the push notification almost at the same time.

Countless fingers clicked the play button.

The video footage began.

There was no high-end BGM, only real live audio recording.

The camera angle was clearly from a recorder installed on top of the Robot's head.

At the bottom of the screen, two round little white hands could occasionally be seen waving.

At the same time, a childish voice carrying a hint of grievance and a touch of innocence could be clearly heard:

"Oh, really!"

"Even though I'm a cat-type Robot, I'm not a housekeeping Robot!"

"Nobita... oh no, Master is really too lazy!"