After a period of darkness, I gradually regained consciousness. Opening my eyes, the first thing I saw was a huge gray screen with the words "Game Loading" written on it.
This blue square space I was in is called the "Game Waiting Room". It's also the game's loading interface and the game start interface. When the game finishes loading, this screen in front will switch to the login or registration interface for entering the game.
A few seconds later, the text on the screen began to blur and disappear. I thought the login or registration interface for "War Simulation" would appear next, but instead, a video started playing on the screen...
"2036"
"Beichuan Middle School"
After these two lines of text fragmented and vanished, a light and cheerful background music started playing.
Various school scenes flashed by in sequence: the whiteboard in the classroom, neatly arranged desks and chairs, the red rubber running track, the spacious air-conditioned auditorium, and so on.
After a brief black screen, the scene settled on a robot clad entirely in light gray armor.
Alarm sirens blared!
"This is a report from the Discipline Office. Recently, there have been frequent incidents of robots attacking students in the school. Please pay attention to your safety and minimize activities outside the classroom..."
After the voiceover finished, the volume of the background music gradually decreased. Then, the robot in the scene made "thud, thud" footsteps as it walked towards the camera.
The robot raised a red lightsaber and slashed at the camera. The screen went black. In the darkness, four different voices sounded:
"No matter what method, I want to become stronger!"
"I'm a genius, I don't need practice."
"No matter how hard I try, everyone only sees how good my younger sister is."
"I'm afraid of failure, so I hate competitions."
Then, the rhythm and volume of the background music began to rise. Various battle scenes flashed rapidly across the screen, showing people holding different weapons unleashing various skills towards the camera.
"The beautiful campus is now in a time of crisis! Students, quickly find out the reason why the robots have appeared at the school, and become the heroes who protect it!"
After the voiceover finished speaking, the screen paused on the back view of a giant robot.
The tense music stopped abruptly. Then, a line of white text appeared on the black screen: Tian Xiang Company.
When a game requires a longer loading time, the waiting room occasionally plays promotional ads for other games. So, was that an ad for a new game from Tian Xiang Company?
Before I could think it through carefully, the game was about to start. The entire waiting room began to pixelate and disappear.
The system's voice sounded in my ear: "Game loading complete... New face detected... Virtual character created based on facial scan... Bound account detected... Now entering the game..."
Wait a moment, why was a bound account detected?
To ensure the security of my game account, I always enter my username and password every time I log in to a game, and I never check the "Remember Me" box (which automatically saves the player's account, allowing automatic login without entering credentials). Besides, I'm not even using my own smart glasses right now, so how did it skip the login interface and go straight into the game?
Could it be that this newly launched X Series Fantasy Glasses can determine my account information by scanning my body?
And so, I entered the game with my head full of questions.