"Give!"
Yan Kai threw something like a potion to Nakiri Erina. Nakiri Erina took it in her hand and asked curiously: "What is this?"
"Stamina potion, you must be tired after walking all the way just now. Drinking the stamina potion can help you quickly recover your strength."
Yan Kai said to Nakiri Erina.
"There is such a good thing? Where does it come from?"
Nakiri Erina was overjoyed and quickly opened the bottle and drank it. Sure enough, her tired body began to become energetic again. The only drawback was that the potion had no taste. Drinking it was like drinking pure water.
"The ones placed at the entrance to the ruins are restricted. One person can only take one bottle."
Yan Kai said to Nakiri Erina.
"Leaving it at the door? Why didn't I see it?"
Nakiri Erina asked doubtfully.
"height."
Yan Kai said to Nakiri Erina.
"?"
Seeing Nakiri Erina's puzzled look, Yan Kai explained: "You are too tall, the stamina potion is placed in a lower place, and the light in the ruins is not good, so you didn't see it before, but the child can It’s easy to see.”
"..."
Nakiri Erina once again felt the malice from the game, and it was a very deep one. A dangerous light flashed in her eyes: "After I get out, I will definitely file a complaint against Schindler Company!"
No matter what American's information industry giant is, this is Japan, Totsuki's territory. Erina Nakiri always has a way to get rid of the Schindler Company, and this time it was obviously the Schindler Company that was wrong first.
"You may not be able to complain at this time."
Yan Kai smiled and shook his head.
"Why? The game experience is so bad, why don't people complain?"
Nakiri Erina said angrily.
"Because this game is no longer under the control of Schindler Company."
Yan Kai replied.
"Isn't it under the control of the Schindler Company?" Nakiri Erina was confused at first, and then quickly thought of something, "Could it be..."
Yan Kai nodded: "Yes, this game has now been taken over by an AI named 'Noah's Ark', and what it said before the game officially started is true. If you don't clear the game, it will release electromagnetic waves to destroy you." All your brains are destroyed."
Nakiri Erina swallowed hard, then forced a smile and said: "You are scaring me, right?"
Yan Kai smiled and said to Nakiri Erina: "I really hope that I am scaring you, but unfortunately, I am not."
"..."
The smile on Nakiri Erina's face quickly disappeared, and she stamped her feet: "What kind of bad game is this!"
She just wanted to try out the food in this virtual reality game to see how good it could be. How could she have imagined that she would suffer such an unreasonable disaster.
Nakiri Erina suddenly looked at Yan Kai: "Yan Kai, you can save me, right?"
Although she often teams up with Kasumigaoka Shiu to speak ill of Yan Kai, saying that Yan Kai is all kinds of weird and has a bad personality, Nakiri Erina knows very well that when encountering danger, Yan Kai is definitely the most reliable existence. .
"Unfortunately, for now, the only people who can save you are those who participate in this game." Yan Kai shook his head and said, "You must successfully pass the game according to the rules set by 'Noah's Ark', so that you can Be saved.”
Nakiri Erina felt a pain in her heart.
It was only the first level now. Without Yan Kai, she would have almost failed here. There were countless more levels to come. She was not confident that she could pass them. The other experiencers... except Mao Lilan, were all a bunch of young boys. Nakiri Erina was not naive enough to place her hopes on them.
She could only say: "Then you can help me pass the customs, right?"
Yan Kai still shook his head: "Miss Erina, unlike you formal experiencers, I came in secretly. If I am too active in the game, it will attract the attention of 'Noah's Ark'. If it It’s a trivial matter to kick me out of the game if you find me. If you are found to be cheating and the table is turned over, the safety of you and other children will not be guaranteed."
"This won't work, and that won't work either. Then what are you doing in the game?"
Nakiri Erina said angrily.
"Come to see your joke!"
Yan Kai said bluntly.
"..." Several veins popped up in the corners of Nakiri Erina's eyes, "It turns out that the laughter before was made by you!"
She was not stupid. After listening to Yan Kai's words, she quickly thought of the laughter she heard on the road before. It must have been caused by this bastard Central Plains man who was hiding aside to watch her embarrassment.
You bastard Central Plains people, aren't you happy to see yourself so incompetent and furious?
"Well, Miss Erina, time waits for no one. Let's hurry up and clear this ruins."
Yan Kai said to Nakiri Erina.
"Don't change the subject!"
Nakiri Erina said angrily.
This time Yan Kai did not reply, but walked forward directly. Feeling that Nakiri Erina did not follow, he reluctantly turned around and added: "Miss Erina, I advise you to leave quickly, this ruins There is a time limit for clearing the level. If you fail to clear the level after the time limit, the treasures in the ruins will disappear!"
After being threatened like this, Nakiri Erina had no choice but to catch up with Yan Kai and walk side by side with Yan Kai.
"Yan Kai, how do you know so much information?"
Nakiri Erina asked Yan Kaidao.
"It's very simple. Just talk to the people in the initial place. Experiencers can collect a lot of useful information from them. You have to understand that although this place is very similar to reality, it is a game after all, and any NPC in the game , their existence has a certain value, and the game will not set up something completely meaningless, so it is always right to talk to NPCs more."
Yan Kai gave Nakiri Erina some common sense about playing games.
The corner of Nakiri Erina's mouth twitched. She also talked to the NPC, but she only talked to the owner of the hotel, asking them to serve the best food. In the end, she just said "poor people are not welcome here" and asked the waiter He drove Nakiri Erina out, which made Nakiri Erina so angry that she was too lazy to talk to other NPCs.
If I had known earlier, I should have talked to those NPCs more, so that I wouldn't have to be despised by this Central Plains man.
Nakiri Erina regretted.
"careful!"
Just when Nakiri Erina was upset, Yan Kai suddenly pressed her head down, and several sharp arrows with cold light passed over Nakiri Erina, who was bending down, and hit the wall with a "thud, thud, thud" superior.
Nakiri Erina felt a chill in her heart. If Yan Kai had not pressed her head down just now, she would have sent it now.
"How did those children pass through such a dangerous ruin?"
Nakiri Erina rubbed her head. Just now Yan Kai pressed her head down, and her head accidentally hit the wall. Now it hurts so much that her forehead is red and swollen.
"It's just dangerous for you."
Yan Kai said with a smile.
"?"
A question mark rose above Nakiri Erina's head.
"If it were a child, the arrow just now wouldn't have been able to hit it, okay?"
Yan Kai said to Nakiri Erina.
"..."
Nakiri Erina recalled, well, the arrow just seemed to be aimed at her head. If it was a group of children who were generally six or seven years old, or at most ten years old, those arrows would not be able to hurt her. If you don't catch them at all, it might just scare them.
So, am I being targeted again?
"Does the developer of this game have any grudge against you?"
Erina Nakiri couldn't help but feel the malice of this game over and over again.
"In a sense, yes."
Yan Kai nodded seriously.
"ah?"
Nakiri Erina was stunned for a moment.
"Do you know the original intention of developing this 'Cocoon' game?"
Yan Kai asked Nakiri Erina.
"Isn't it just about making money?"
Nakiri Erina is very straightforward.
The purpose of the birth of any product cannot avoid the word "making money". As a big capitalist, Erina Nakiri is very familiar with this. As for words such as "benefiting mankind" and "benefiting society", she believes in one. The words are all idiotic.
"Well...this is the reason of Schindler Corporation, which operates the game 'Cocoon', but it is not the original intention of the developers of 'Cocoon' game."
Yan Kai couldn't laugh or cry.
"The developer of the 'Cocoon' game? You mean the programmer named Tadahin Kashimura?"
Nakiri Erina also did her homework before attending the press conference. She knew who the developer of the "Cocoon" game was. She even thought that if she couldn't experience the food in the game, she would go to Kashimura Tadahina. Visiting him, if he is a game developer, he will definitely be able to give her a satisfactory answer.
"To be precise, Tadayaki Kashimura can only be regarded as one of the developers of this game, and he is only responsible for one-fifth of the game's content, and the most important engine part of this game, as well as the other four-fifths The content was developed by another person.”
Yan Kai said to Nakiri Erina.
"who?"
Nakiri Erina asked curiously.
"Hiroki Sawada, the son of Tadahina Kashimura and the adopted son of the chairman of Schindler Company, is a ten-year-old child. He is the real developer of the game 'Cocoon'. He even controls the game now. The AI 'Noah's Ark' was also created by him."
"So, what happened at this press conference was his revenge against his father and Schindler Company?"
Nakiri Erina said immediately.
In Nakiri Erina's view, Kashimura Tadaki is now famous for the "Cocoon" game and has become a hot figure in the gaming industry, but the real developer of the "Cocoon" game, Sawada Hiroki, has not even been mentioned. He must have been deprived of the fruits of his labor by his father and Schindler Company. He must be extremely resentful in his heart, so he launched an action similar to a terrorist attack at this time of the "Cocoon" game conference.
Nakiri Erina is not too familiar with this kind of plot where her father takes away everything, so if it is really Hiroki Sawada who did it, she understands his behavior very well.
"..." Yan Kai looked at Nakiri Erina blankly, "Miss Nakiri Erina, please don't bring yourself into other people without permission, thank you."
At the same time, I thought to myself, does this person have such dangerous thoughts? Will he commit a terrorist attack if his things are robbed?
Nakiri Erina rolled her eyes: "Then what exactly is going on?"
"The developer of the 'Cocoon' game, Sawada Hiroki, is dead. He committed suicide two years ago, so the attack at this press conference was simply the AI 'Noah's Ark' developed by Sawada Hiroki. And judging from what it means, it’s here to avenge Sawada Hiroki.”
Although "Noah's Ark" is said to fulfill Hiroki Sawada's last wish and rebirth Japan, the way it fulfills Hiroki Sawada's last wish is hard not to make people feel that it is revenge.
When he said this, even Yan Kai felt a little unreal.
AI actually helps humans take revenge. This kind of plot that only appears in science fiction novels is actually happening in reality. No wonder even Yan Kai feels it is a bit unreal. Even this kind of plot is not common in science fiction novels. After all, When talking about AI in science fiction novels, the most common plot points are to have emotions with humans or to eliminate humans.
"AI avenges humans? This...how could such a ridiculous thing happen!"
What's even more ridiculous is that he actually got involved in this incident. If he had known better, he shouldn't have been influenced by Alice to attend this press conference!
Nakiri Erina held her forehead and said.
"By the way, what is the original intention of developing this game you just mentioned? You haven't told me this yet."
Nakiri Erina suddenly remembered that Yan Kai had said a lot, but the question he asked at the beginning had not been answered yet.
"I made some inquiries and found out that the developer of this game, Hiroki Sawada, was physically weak during his lifetime, so when other children were playing around, he could only sit and watch them silently, so he wanted to develop this game. A virtual reality game, in which he can have the same healthy body as other children, can explore, drive a racing car, fight pirates, and wrestle with people."
This is the result Yan Kai came up with based on the information he heard from Yakushiji Ryoko before combined with his analysis of the game.
Nakiri Erina felt soft in her heart. Originally, she still had some resentment towards Hiroki Sawada who put her in danger, but now that she heard Yan Kai talk about his experience, she couldn't help but feel a little softer.
"As for the 'Noah's Ark', I think Hiroki Sawada's original purpose in developing it was also to have a friend. When he was alive, he was treated as a good kid by his classmates because he was always holding a computer. There was no such thing. A friend who can talk to him has also lost the ability to communicate with normal children, so I want to create a friend who can fully understand him."
Yan Kai continued.
"..."
Nakiri Erina's heart softened even more. She also had no friends since she was a child, and only Nito Hisako was by her side, so she understood the pain of loneliness, and she also imagined having a friend who could fully understand her, but she just thought about it. , but Hiroki Sawada created one himself.
"Then he designed the game to exclude adults because he regards this place as a paradise for himself and his friends, and refuses adults to enter?"
Nakiri Erina asked.
"I guess so. After all, based on what I know about him, he seems to be very distrustful of adults because of past experiences, especially after her mother died."
Yan Kai nodded.
"Forget it, don't think about it anymore, Miss Erina, you'd better clear this ruins quickly and use the money to buy some food. To be honest, I'm also quite curious about the food in this game."
Yan Kai said to Nakiri Erina.
"That makes sense."
Nakiri Erina nodded. She was not the kind of person who would always indulge in emotions. As the commander-in-chief of Totsuki, she paid more attention to her own responsibilities, so she quickened her pace, then missed the mark and fell into a trap. .
"ah!"
