Chapter 1148 A World Without Games (XI)

Now that Feng Bujue has decided to fight back, his action pattern must change.

The combat method during an assault is definitely different from that during a detour; before that, in order to attract the enemy's attention and maintain the enemy's desire to pursue, Brother Jue did not go too far...

But now, he doesn't need to be polite anymore.

Although his skill bar was locked after entering this dimension, his luggage, equipment, specialization, and physical abilities were all in a normal state.

Feng Bujue, who has A-level equipment specialization and B-level shooting specialization, effortlessly mastered the usage of the weapons and equipment dropped by the Kestrel soldiers... He picked up two charge guns and rushed back.

Marksmanship, vision, reaction, movement speed... In terms of overall quality, Feng Bujue is definitely a veritable Contra (the name of the game Contra means people with excellent combat abilities and qualities). Basically, the characters in the game can He can do anything he can...

For example - jumping several feet high on the spot, curling up into a ball in the air while firing at the surroundings... If necessary, Brother Jue can do it.

In addition, Feng Bujue has another advantage, that is... he is not like the characters in the game who can die at the first touch; Brother Jue's defense is very high, he has grown up for a long time with [I_WANNA_BE_A_BELT] and [19/20's mean battle] A] are equipment with extremely high defensive power. Normal bullet damage is nothing in front of these two pieces of armor. Furthermore... with zero-day calculations and amazing physical abilities, it is impossible for him to do so. Hit by a bullet.

To sum up, the moment Feng Bujue decided to rush all the way, the fate of the Kestrel Army was almost doomed.

After fighting like this for five minutes, Brother Jue fought his way from one side of the camp to the other, and successfully joined Isaac and the other three.

Naturally, those three are not cheap. As elites who have fought with the Terminator troops of the Pita Army for many years, the guys who beat the Kestrel... for them, it is just a training intensity at best.

Of course, their kill count and efficiency are definitely not as good as Feng Bujue...

To make a long story short, when the four reunited, Kestrel's camp was considered to have been captured; the other side's soldiers were dead and running, and they no longer had the will to fight.

It was at this time that the system prompt rang in Jue Ge's ears: [The main mission has been triggered]

"Huh?" Feng Bujue thought in his mind as soon as he heard this, "Branch line?"

No, that's not a branch main line... to be precise, it should be called a parallel main line. Because the content of the task does not conflict with another main line task.

[Enter the "Eight Underwater Levels" of the Contra area]

"Oh, it's a prompt." After opening the taskbar and taking a look, Feng Bujue immediately understood what the system meant.

To put it bluntly, this task is a "direct prompt" plus a "reward"; it not only tells the player what to do next, but also increases the number of task completions and increases the final reward when the player clears the level.

Here, I still have to say... the normal difficulty script is really too friendly.

"Well...but..." After a few seconds, Brother Jue had another thought, "The system should also know very well that this so-called 'eight underwater levels' does not exist, right? Then the meaning of this mission is..."

(Note: Contra's "eight underwater levels" can be said to be one of the most famous and longest-lasting rumors in the history of Chinese games; the content of this legend is roughly - in the sixth level of the game, in an appropriate At the right time, you can enter a hidden level by jumping on a soldier who cannot display his own graphics due to a bug.)

"Mr. Feng, are you okay?" Just as Feng Bujue was thinking, Isaac came over with a gun in hand.

At this time, Isaac could be said to be armed from head to toe, with a human-shaped ammunition depot.

"Ah... of course I'm fine." Feng Bujue still gave people the feeling of traveling lightly. Although he also had a submachine gun in his hand, he could stuff ammunition and other things into his bag without taking up any weight or space. .

"Haha... He is indeed the savior." At this time, the bearded man holding a small steel cannon also came over and looked at the corpses behind Brother Jue that were gradually disintegrating into pixel fragments, "You It seems like one person can kill more enemies than the three of us combined.”

"That doesn't matter..." Feng Bujue said, "This camp in front of you is just an appetizer. There is still a long battle to go through... You must be mentally prepared."

"No problem." At this time, Lightning Head also walked over with two big guns on his back. "We are always prepared to deal with this situation."

"Yes, compared with the mechanical troops of the Pita Army, these little brats are very young." The bearded man also answered quite proudly.

"That's good..." Feng Bujue said and glanced at Isaac again. The legendary hero of the resistance was still the same, with a resolute and calm expression, giving people a very reliable feeling, "Then... If you don’t have any objections, let’s move on..."

"Do you know where you are going?" Isaac asked immediately.

"Hmph..." Feng Bujue smiled, "Contra, just move forward..."

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Brother Jue's words were undoubtedly correct. After the four of them obtained the equipment, they continued to move in the direction they left the beach.

Not long after, a metal door connected to the mountain appeared in front of them. There were several soldiers guarding the door on both sides.

It took Feng Bujue a few seconds to let those soldiers fall to their posts forever...

Then, the four of them entered the mountain tunnel behind the metal gate.

The top of the tunnel is a black metal plate, and the lighting equipment is embedded in the ceiling, like a white snake of light, extending into the distance; the walls on both sides of the tunnel are gray and the ground is painted blue.

Since there was no fork in the road, Feng Bujue and the others walked down the only road.

Along the way, the four of them encountered many Kestrel soldiers dressed in green; the combat effectiveness of these soldiers was obviously higher than the ones they encountered in the camp before, but they still could not pose much threat to Jue Ge and the others.

In addition to more advanced soldiers, there will be a red "defense wall" appearing every other section of the tunnel; there are machine guns and turrets on the wall, and the bottom of the wall will continuously generate a kind of fire that rolls along the ground. Rolling thunder also blocked the power grid within a certain distance from the defense wall.

Fortunately... these walls all have a common weakness - as long as the "energy core" on the wall is destroyed, the entire wall will lose its function and explode.

Therefore, it's not too difficult to break through these walls as long as you take your time and aim your energy core shots outside the grid.

Just like that... the four of them fought their way through the wall and reached the depths of the tunnel.

In the center of the mountain, they found a huge earth-yellow machine. This machine seemed to be some kind of power supply and control device. It was as big as an apartment. The machine was equipped with six energy cores and had its own turret function. .

The difficulty in breaking through this machine is... the space it is in is quite spacious and there are no bunkers around it. If you approach rashly, you can easily become a target.

Fortunately, this machine does not have the same AI as Pita, which means... its attack mode is fixed. Feng Bujue took advantage of his speed and went out to show off his moves for a few rounds, and quickly figured out the enemy's tricks.

After mastering the rules, even ordinary people can dodge all attacks, so it took everyone about two minutes to work together to defeat this little BOSS.

What surprised Brother Jue... was that after the machine exploded, a piece of equipment actually dropped...

[Name: Energy Gloves]

[Type: Armor]

[Quality: dilapidated]

[Defense: Weak]

[Attribute: None]

[Special effects:? ? ? 】

[Can the script be brought out: No]

[Note: I heard that there is a geek who wears this NES peripheral as equipment. I think this person must be crazy. 】

Although this piece of equipment is called a glove, it is not a pair of gloves, but a glove (the energy glove is only available in the right hand).

Compared with ordinary gloves, energy gloves are very thick and wide. At first glance, they look like part of an astronaut's uniform. They can almost cover the entire forearm after being put on. The palm part of the energy gloves is made of black cotton material, and the back part of the hand is made of black cotton. It is made of white leather with a fixed texture; on the back of the hand, there is a black sensor, which is connected to the controller on the arm, and there is a power light, ten Seven buttons arranged in three groups, and a cross-directional key.

From the above description, you should know...yes, this is a standard energy glove (Power_Glove).

As for the history of this thing, Feng Bujue knew it very well...

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1 The company released this NES peripheral. It was the first gesture-operated device to be mass-produced and sold. It can also be said that in the field of games... it was the first to lead people into the field of artificial reality (VR is a similar product , but 25 years later) equipment.

The prototype of the glove was created by Thomas Zimmerman (well, another one from MIT). In 1982, he applied for a patent for his invention and named it "Optical_Flex_Sensor"; after that, Zimmerman went through several years of twists and turns... first the patent was almost bought by Atari's development department. , and then experienced a collapse in the game market, and finally... At an electronic concert, Zimmerman met Jaren Lanier (the father of virtual reality, computer scientist, artist, and philosopher); the two hit it off immediately. , joined hands to establish VPL (the first company to propose the concept of virtual reality).

VPL hired a large number of senior engineers and programmers to improve the graphical programming language designed by Lanier and the gloves designed by Zimmerman. They added ultrasonic tracking systems, optical fiber sensing technology, magnetic sensing systems, etc... Created a product called "Data_Glove".

This product was originally used by NASA and some medical research institutions as a data interaction device. It was not until 1987 that A.G.E. purchased the technology license of the data glove and made adjustments in various aspects such as appearance and cost. Finally, through Mattel and Nintendo, Contact... "Energy Gloves" were officially launched in October 1989.

Once launched, the Energy Glove immediately became the hottest Christmas product of that year (in North America). In just six weeks, 654,000 sets were sold. Due to the shortage of supply in some areas, its price was once hyped up to $139, almost catching up with the console itself (an NES sold for $199.99 at the time, which is equivalent to about $430 today according to the exchange rate between the 1980s and the present). However...

The civilian "Energy Glove" is not as reliable as the military-grade hardware made by VPL itself. Soon, players found that the performance of this glove in various games was generally very poor. Children did not understand what "technology cannot keep up with the concept" meant, but there is a more popular saying - this thing is shit.

So, like many products with too advanced concepts, because the technology level at that time was not enough to support the excellent virtual reality experience like today, this product was discontinued and withdrawn from the market one year after it was launched, and the impression it left in our minds was roughly: "not easy to use", "cheating", "not as good as the handle", etc.

In the end, as an invention of great significance in the history of virtual reality development in the gaming industry, the energy gloves, like the later Virtual_Boy (Nintendo's own black history console), have been helplessly reduced to the tears of the times.

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"Well... this is rare." Feng Bujue picked up the glove and read the item description, then muttered softly, "Equipment like this that 'cannot be taken out of the script' should usually be very strong..."

This is indeed the experience of Brother Jue. For example, the [Blood Corpse Must Die] he got in the training mode of Horror Paradise and the [One-shot Kill Pistol] he got in the script of "Despicable Me" are all special equipment of this type. However, those two things have the ability to kill the big boss of the script in seconds... and the glove in front of him is only "broken" in quality, and the special effects are still unknown, which is really a bit strange.

"Eh? Isn't this an energy glove?" When seeing the thing in Brother Jue's hand, Lightning Head quickly recognized it.

"Oh? Do you even have a restored version of this?" Feng Bujue asked.

"No." Lightning head shook his head, "Engineers said that this thing has no meaning to restore, because the technology is too backward; if we really want to do it, with our current technology, we can make a device similar to Wii_Remote and compatible with FC, but in that case... it would be meaningless." He spread his hands, "After all, in terms of the function of FC, it is best to use a handle to control it. Using gloves and other things to play pseudo-3D games on an 8-bit machine is not as good as buying an Apple II..."

"Then how did you recognize it..." Feng Bujue was about to ask.

"Is there any need to say it?" Lightning head interrupted with a matter-of-fact tone: "Because it is very COOOOOOOOOL!" (To be continued ~^~)