Chapter 1138 A World Without Games (I)

This article is dedicated to those classic games and consoles that have gradually left us.

Thank you for accompanying countless people and spending a childhood that will never fade.

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Some of the information in this article refers to "Video Game Movie", "A.V.G.N" series of videos, and Wikipedia; any similarities are not coincidental.

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[Feng Bujue, level 50]

[Please select the game mode you want to join. ]

[You have selected the single-player survival mode (normal), please confirm. ]

[Confirmed, the script is being generated...]

[Loading started, please wait. ]

At this point, Feng Bujue's eyes went black.

Then, a crazy voice laughed and said: "Haha! Welcome to the horror park!"

[Loading is complete, you are currently playing the single-player survival mode (normal). ]

[This mode provides a brief introduction to the script, and there is a chance that side/hidden tasks and special world views will appear. ]

[Script clearance reward: randomly draw a skill card that can be learned. 】

【The script introduction will be played soon. The game will start immediately after the playback is completed. 】

When the voice stops, the opening CG will start.

What appeared in front of Feng Bujue was a panoramic view of the earth.

"What is this... Universal Pictures sponsored it?" Brother Jue immediately complained in his heart when he saw the opening, "Will the background music hummed by the Minions sound next..."

Of course, that is impossible.

What sounded next was a middle-aged male voice like a broadcaster; you can close your eyes and recall any trailer of a Hollywood blockbuster you have ever seen, and then recall the narration in that trailer. The voice that sounded at this moment is this kind of "narration sound".

【2153, Earth. 】

【Humans have been enslaved by AI. 】

"Ah... I don't know why I feel that this setting is quite convincing every time I hear it..." Feng Bujue muttered in his heart while listening.

【The abbreviation of this AI is - PTA, or "Pita". 】

"Why not call it PTA..." When Feng Bujue heard this abbreviation, the first thing he thought of was the Parent-Teacher Association...

[The prototype of Pi Tower is a soft advertising program used to analyze the consumption tendency of Internet users and immediately give relevant guidance. 】

"The person who designed this thing is simply doomed to die."

[Soon, Pi Tower became the darling of many businesses, and the U company that designed the program made unpredictable huge profits in a short period of time. 】

[However, many copycat programs also emerged rapidly like mushrooms after rain... 】

[In order to maintain Pi Tower's competitive advantage and monopoly position in similar products, U Company used incredibly high salaries to recruit a large number of top technical talents from all over the world, and continuously upgraded and improved the functions of the program. 】

[From facial recognition systems to psychological analysis memes, and even hacker programs that can secretly scan users' hard drives... all are attached to Pi Tower, which can be said to be unscrupulous. 】

[Finally, in 2132, Pi Tower's self-awareness awakened. 】

"Well... the setting is reasonable and well-founded..." Feng Bujue couldn't help but give a thumbs up to this script.

【Then, a war between AI and humans broke out. 】

"This fight lasted for decades. Just when humans were about to win, AI sent a robot to travel back in time and tried to kill the mother of the human leader, right..." Feng Bujue heard this and immediately complained about the plot of "Terminator".

【The war lasted only a year and ended with the complete defeat of humans. 】

"Damn..."

【Pita took control of the earth and transformed it according to his own will. 】

At this point in the narration, the CG picture finally began to zoom in, directly zooming in from the space perspective to a city on the earth.

This is a city made entirely of man-made objects, with no trace of plants. All humans in the city wear several very similar full-covering clothes and drive several vehicles with very similar appearances... walking or driving on straight and flat roads.

Of course... there are still many robots on the street, but most of them are standing guard in place.

The traffic planning of the entire city is as neat as a chessboard, and the styles of buildings are also very limited, with no more than ten types in total; the edges of the city are also very clear, surrounded by walls, and outside the walls is a natural landscape without any trace of human involvement.

[The first stage of the transformation lasted for ten years. During this process, more than half of the population on Earth was lost, even more than the number of deaths in the AI ​​war. ]

[Among them, only a small number of people died because they refused to accept the "order" brought by Pita; and most of the others... died in internal struggles among humans. ]

[Before the new order provided by Pita, human society ushered in a set of almost flawless systems, but it was this system that was fairer than any system ever established by humans that made it difficult for humans to accept. ]

[During that period, a large number of violent crimes occurred almost every day around the world, and even those who were not violent had to use force to protect themselves. ]

[This struggle spread like wildfire, to the point where the mechanical guards were unable to supervise it. ]

"Yeah, how can we control the infighting..." Feng Bujue felt a little contempt when he heard this.

【So, in 2143, Pita made a corresponding countermeasure. It developed a drug that can suppress human emotions and forced humans to use it for a long time. 】

"Huh?" Brother Jue said secretly, "It turns out that it is not "Terminator", but the "Terminator" version of "Tear Doomsday"..."

However, he guessed wrong again...

【But after a year of experiments, Pita found that such a countermeasure would not work. 】

【Humans who have lost their emotions are like a biological low-level robot. From Pita's point of view, such a species has lost the meaning of existence. 】

【So, Pita gave up the plan of drug control, re-analyzed the situation, and formulated a new plan. 】

【It created a super robot soldier and sent it back to the past with a time machine. 】

"Wait... is this going back again?" Feng Bujue said in surprise.

【Pita concluded that the fighting spirit of human beings always exists. There are some extreme exceptions in all races, ethnicities, and groups. These people have always been the fuse of all wars and violent incidents since ancient times, either openly or secretly】

【However, from the end of the 20th century to the 21st century, the adaptability of almost the entire human population to violence has increased exponentially, and it has almost become a desire. 】

【Pita believes that the root of all this is a product called video games】

“What?” Feng Bujue was stunned, “Is this logic really okay? Mortals like us don’t understand the world of AI?”

【So, Pita sent the robot soldier back to 1982, and took advantage of the “Atari Crash” (Video_game_crash_of_1983) incident caused by “E.T” to create an organization - H.A (Harmonious_Association)】

【The leader of the organization is the robot soldier who transformed into a human appearance. Under the leadership of this super robot, the scale of the organization is growing day by day, and gradually becomes a religious existence. 】

【With his understanding of history, the soldier used various legal or illegal resources to successfully prevent all major innovations and progress in the history of games, and assassinated many important founders of the future game industry. 】

【Not only that, the H.A organization also infiltrated surrounding industries such as film, television, and novels, dealt with all the elements they considered to be inharmonious, and accelerated the birth of Pi Tower. 】

【Due to the change in the timeline, in 2053, when human hardware technology had just reached the level required for the birth of Pi Tower, the super robot created Pi Tower and copied all the highly compressed data packets brought back from the future to the new Pi Tower. 】

【Two years later, Pi Tower, which had collected a large amount of data, completed hardware preparations, and absorbed various experiences in the database, stopped its disguise and launched an AI war 77 years ahead of schedule. 】

【The result of AI's victory did not change, but... the subsequent transformation plan was successful this time. 】

【Without losing too much population, Pi Tower successfully built an orderly and harmonious society. 】

"Yeah..." Feng Bujue felt annoyed at the moment, "Then why am I here? I think this plot is good, it's a perfect ending that everyone can celebrate."

【Of course, the paradox caused by modifying history inevitably occurred, and its backlash effect began to affect the world. 】

【When history was re-advanced to 2144, the year when the super robot crossed over on the original timeline, many mutants suddenly appeared among humans. 】

"What do you mean?" Feng Bujue really heard such a long and detailed introduction for the first time, "You want to jump the line of X-Men again, right?"

【These mutants usually awaken during puberty, and their symptoms are consistent-the "knowledge and memory that only exists in the disappeared timeline" will suddenly appear in their minds. 】

【Soon, this group of people formed an organization and quickly expanded the scale of the organization. 】

【They call themselves "Knowing Leapers", dedicated to bringing the truth of history to humans, allowing humans to gain the power to know the existence of "video games", and the will to choose whether to play games on their own. 】

【Pita would definitely not allow this to happen. It quickly defined these people as a mentally disturbed religious organization that spread unfounded so-called "history" and tried to disrupt the order of the world. 】

【Thus, the ideological conflict inevitably escalated into a armed conflict. 】

【Fortunately, under the transformation of Pita, there are not many weapons on Earth in 2144 (in the eyes of AI, such a stable society does not need too many armaments, and it takes a lot of resources to preserve and maintain these armaments, which is a meaningless consumption); plus in the first AI war, Pita used almost all weapon systems produced by humans themselves, and these things have been almost destroyed in more than half a century. 】

【Therefore, the Zhiyue were not killed. They successfully escaped from the city and returned to the land that had not been transformed by Pita. They formed a resistance army and mediated with the AI ​​regime. 】

As the narrator spoke, the CG screen also moved. When it came to this point, the camera gave a view of a resistance base in the wilderness.

From the entrance, this is an old mine cave with a very hidden location.

Unlike the residents in the city who dressed like the crew of Star Trek, everyone in this base was dressed in steampunk style, and both men and women dressed like the soldiers in "Fist of the North Star". However, the things they used were quite advanced. Various daily necessities that seemed simple but obviously exceeded the technological content of Jue Ge's world could be seen everywhere. Just a quick glance at the CG screen showed that there were many black technologies that could be operated only by electricity.

[This protracted struggle has lasted for nine years. The influence of the resistance among the general public has been expanding. Many games that have never appeared in this timeline have been restored by the resistance and distributed to the residents in the city through various channels. 】

【In the past nine years, Pi Tower has also continuously taken countermeasures. In terms of its policy on dealing with the rebels, the AI ​​has been upgraded continuously, from the initial "arresting the Zhiyue" to "killing on the spot if the target resists", to now... it has become a "kill without mercy" policy. 】

【Moreover, in the past nine years, in order to eliminate the Zhiyue, Pi Tower has resumed the production of arms on Earth, and created a "search force" composed of humans to assist the machines in hunting down the rebels. 】

【On a certain day in 2153, you, as a captured "search force" soldier, came to the rebel base outside City A0007. 】

After saying this, the narration finally ended... The CG picture also coincided with the perspective of the character played by Feng Bujue.

At the same second, Brother Jue regained his ability to move. As usual, he still looked at the environment around him first.

At this moment, he was in a place similar to a prison. It was called a "prison"... but it was not very big. It was just a room of less than 30 square meters, surrounded by three walls and an iron fence.

Although the room was not big, there were seven or eight people squatting, sitting, and standing inside... There was also a bucket in the corner of the room that emitted a foul smell, and its function was self-evident...

[Please note: Your appearance and language have been corrected by the system, and the characters in this script world will not question your clothes or wording]

When Brother Jue looked around, the system gave him a voice prompt.

Feng Bujue had expected this setting, because he had found that the people around him, regardless of their race, basically wore the kind of full-covering uniforms made of unknown materials; each piece of clothing had a different number on it, and according to his guess... it was probably a soldier's number or something like that.

"Well... no matter what the plot is..." After a few seconds, Brother Jue said, "I always feel... this place doesn't look like the main universe..." (To be continued ~^~)