As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 252 Water Element

Many times, the so-called random draws are arranged in advance.

But this time the lottery is not like that. Ke Chuang Future has enough confidence and there is no need to do these little tricks.

They are confident that their products can win the recognition and respect of users, and there is no need to stage a press conference in such a low-level way by arranging agents in advance.

Therefore, Lawrence and Jim were the lucky audience members randomly selected to come to the stage.

Lawrence had tried to find traces of magic since his freshman year, but he found nothing because Herman was not strong enough.

Although they knew the actual route that Rowling took from Manchester to London, they did not complete the entire route at that time, or even walked one-tenth of it.

Later, even after they got their driver's license, they never had the opportunity to go through it again.

This time I came to London to attend the launch of Science and Technology Future because it happened to coincide with the Christmas holiday.

Both he and Herman are big fans of brain-computer-connected VR.

“Now we would like to invite you to experience our fighting game, the VR version of The King of Fighters, jointly developed by SNK and Tencent.”

The King of Fighters is also a classic of the era. It was very popular at the time because it allowed online battles.

This game is mainly popular in the three East Asian countries of China, Japan and Goryeo.

Fortunately, it is a classic game and almost everyone has heard of it even in Europe and the United States.

The reason why Tencent developed VR King of Fighters is because it bought the adaptation rights of King of Fighters back then and has not been able to recover the cost.

This time, the brain-computer connection has achieved a higher degree of freedom, so Tencent is thinking of taking out the King of Fighters and refurbishing it.

Let’s see if current players will buy into it. Anyway, the characters and combat mechanisms are already there, so we just need to make some changes accordingly.

Lawrence on the stage did not care too much about winning or losing, because in his opinion winning or losing did not matter. The most important thing was that the second-generation brain-computer connection VR could meet his expectations.

Herman in the audience was very nervous and prayed in his heart: You must win, to get a 500-euro voucher.

After a special staff member put helmets and gloves on Lawrence and Jim, Song Zhiwen said, "You two can choose the King of Fighters mark, and then choose the network fighting."

The wifi7 on site is fully capable of allowing the two to fight with ultra-low latency.

After Lawrence put on the helmet and entered the VR system interface, he found it was smoother.

Not only is the system optimized to be smoother, but the brain-controlled display interface is also smoother.

The large screen behind is showing the character selection screen, with all the classic characters from The King of Fighters.

Unlike other game manufacturers who always try to add their own things into their collaborations, Tencent has always done whatever it can to make money.

In a model like this, which involves buying the copyright of classic games and redeveloping and operating them, Tencent will respect the successful elements of the classic games as much as possible and will not make major changes to these elements.

“What’s coming next is exciting.”

Before Song Zhiwen could finish his words, a noisy sound came from the southeast corner of the entire venue, and the sound was loud enough to be heard throughout the venue.

"Sorry, everyone please leave in an orderly manner!"

A water element appeared out of nowhere in the southeast corner. Unlike the blue water element summoned by the Archmage's first skill in Warcraft, the water element in the southeast corner was a little black.

There is still a certain difference between water and air, which allows Song Zhiwen to clearly see that it is a humanoid monster made of water.

Warcraft is a strategy game that was once popular all over the world, and Song Zhiwen is naturally no stranger to it. He was a good player of human-computer interaction back then.

He felt that the monster was very similar to the water element in Warcraft.

The monster is about 2.5 meters tall and is walking towards the center from the edge of the southeast corner.

"Damn it, I'm so unlucky that something like this happens." Song Zhiwen felt really pissed off.

I have traveled all over the country for so many years, and when I was working at Black Shark, I also held many press conferences. This is the first time I have seen the water element causing trouble.

"Please pay attention to your own safety and leave in an orderly manner. Your personal safety is the most important thing now. If you want to take photos or videos, please ensure your own safety before taking them."

What made Song Zhiwen even more speechless was that there were exclamations from all around, but no one ran away. Instead, everyone was taking photos and recording videos.

There were even spectators around who tried to attack the water element, but were knocked down by a water ball thrown from the backhand.

The water element has shown strong aggressiveness and is constantly gathering water balls in its hands to attack the audience around it.

Even so, as long as they were not attacked, the audience was taking pictures and no one knew to leave.

The water element was constantly attacking the crowd around it, walking in a straight line towards the stage of the venue.

After Song Zhiwen finished speaking, he instructed his subordinates: "Take the two guests on the stage away from the scene, and then send security personnel to call the police and contact the Chinese embassy."

Song Zhiwen knew that everyone could panic now, but he couldn't.

The water ball gathered between the water element's hands exerted a powerful impact force, and several spectators who were hit fainted.

Song Zhiwen knew that he must not run at this time, even if the water element was coming directly at him, he could not leave until all the spectators had left safely.

If he leaves, Ke Chuang Future's corporate image will be greatly affected, and God knows how the Western media will criticize them.

Song Zhiwen has been engaged in marketing for many years. He is well aware of the difficulties faced by Chinese companies in expanding into international markets and the double standards they often face.

If it were a European or American company, even if the executives on the scene ran away at the first moment, it would not cause any ripples, but he could not do that.

"Please leave in an orderly manner! Ensure your personal safety."

The footage from the event has been uploaded to social media by thousands of spectators present.

Magic, giants, water elements, the new generation of brain-computer connection VR, all kinds of the hottest elements are intertwined together, making the event ferment quickly on the Internet.

Waterelement directly topped the Twitter trending search list throughout England and even the Europa League region.

Related words such as Warcraft, scientific and technological future, and press conference all became hot searches.

People who live near the press conference are rushing here, as this excitement is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

The incident escalated quickly. After the water element rushed onto the stage, it knocked down all the staff on the stage who did not have time to escape.

As soon as Lawrence took off his helmet, he saw the water element rushing up, and then he lost consciousness.

Later, when he woke up at the Royal London Hospital, he found out what happened from the mobile phone video shot by Herman.

"The water element wreaked havoc at the launch event for the next-generation brain-computer-connected VR by Kechuang Future, causing hundreds of injuries."

"Major incident occurred at the tech giant's press conference"

"The first large-scale mass magical event"

"Downing Street is lying!"

London reacted quickly, sending police and ambulances there immediately. But it was not fast enough. When they arrived, the water element had already made a mess of the scene, with many people injured. The water element was left with only a pool of water on the ground, as if mocking their efficiency.

The relevant personnel in Number 10 Downing Street were even more shocked.

It's not just because of the magic incident, but more importantly, they just refuted the rumor this morning, saying that the previous video on FB was fictitious with props.

As a result, the water elements staged a big scene in the most prosperous core area of ​​London in the afternoon.

Once the media or political opponents link these two things together, no, they will definitely be linked together.

Once people determine that a lie is being told, the credibility of this government will be seriously challenged, and even its subsequent policies will be affected.

At this time, the entire social media in England was in a frenzy, especially when the media reported that there were only injuries but no casualties at the scene, the discussion became more heated.

There are casualties, so we may need to take them into consideration.

The on-site video and related samples were sent to the designated location as soon as possible.

Wiles had just started learning magic from Charles when he encountered this kind of thing.

After the two of them sat in front of the monitor and watched the entire video, Wiles asked, "Can you summon this water element?"

Charles shook his head repeatedly: "This is beyond my ability. Maybe I can do it in the future, but obviously not now."

"And from what I remember, there are water element spells on the dark web, but I don't have the permission to learn them."

Wiles was thoughtful. After they learned the ins and outs of Charles's learning of magic, they had been trying to find the dark web he had entered, but to no avail.

Therefore, the internal cybersecurity department was skeptical about what Charles said.

They believe that there is no such website and that Charles deliberately made it up to confuse people.

England even wanted to borrow a polygraph from China.

After China's truth system was launched, it has achieved good results and formed a healthy public opinion supervision mechanism at the grassroots level.

The situation of the media making up stories at will has improved.

Small self-media bloggers cannot be controlled for the time being, but basically licensed media cannot fabricate news at will.

Although the system has been attacked internationally for violating freedom of speech, senior American officials have publicly stated that they also need to introduce the truth system:
“The ubiquitous fake news needs to be rectified.”

Governments around the world have also heard about China's lie detection equipment based on brain-computer connection technology.

Wiles speculated that there were similar public websites for learning magic, and that magic was learned by more than one person in London.

It’s just that this method of online learning is very similar to Merlin’s, and he wonders if it is Merlin.

If it was Merlin, what was Merlin's purpose in doing this?
"What we need to do now is to find out how many mages there are in London.

Who was the earliest mage? And what is the upper limit of power among wild mages at present?

The best news from this incident is that there were no casualties, just some minor concussions.

This is determined by the water element, and the power needs to be achieved through kinetic energy.

But what if this time it was magic of the element of lightning? What if there were casualties?"

"Does Charles know about the existence of wizards other than himself? And is there any related wizard organization in London?"

"Charles said he had only mastered magic a short time ago and had no idea about this."

"Check today's live video frame by frame and confirm today's water element spellcaster first."

"Also, let the European Union send an investigation team over. This matter has fermented to this day and it is no longer something we can handle alone."

"Before we let them come, we need to agree that England has a right to know and at least more than half ownership of whatever is found."

The water element caused a huge disturbance at the press conference, and the news quickly became a hot topic in global public opinion that day, and the English government could no longer suppress it.

The video has gone viral.

"What the fuck, who summoned the water element? There really is a magician in London."

"Aren't you interested in why the launch of the brain-computer interface VR was chosen? And from what I saw in the video, it's obvious that they were targeting the future of science and technology."

“Science and technology innovation has affected the interests of too many people. Just look at how many VR manufacturers have closed down since the advent of brain-computer interface VR.

You should know that before Ke Chuang Bio entered the market, these VR manufacturers could get tens of millions of euros in venture capital as long as they had a little bit of powerful technology.

There are basically no startups in the VR industry that can get venture capital. I don’t care about these, I only care about what the magic is.

Didn’t Downing Street say this morning that the magic video on Facebook was a prop?

Today's water element can't still be a prop, right?

Which company has this technology?

"Science Biotech was also unlucky. The press conference that they had worked so hard to organize was ruined. I was shocked when I watched the live broadcast at that time."

"The English government needs to step down and take responsibility for this incident!"

"How cool! It's been ages since I last saw magic."

This incident instantly sparked a new wave of searching for magic.

Currently, the only city that can use magic is London, which is still under lockdown, so there haven’t been any large-scale gatherings.

At the same time, thousands of miles away in Suzhou, Kechuang Future held a board meeting overnight to discuss countermeasures.

The entire magic network was set up by Zheng Li, and the backend management authority was also firmly in his hands.

After some research, Zheng Li found out what was going on. A user who had been exposed to Magic Network earlier was a victim of globalization and was also an extreme conservative.

After the other party mastered magic and thought he had reached a certain level of power, he wanted to cause trouble. Anyway, no one would be able to detect him if he used the water element to cause trouble.

In addition, there were more than 5,000 viewers at the Science and Technology Future press conference, so he thought that no matter how they checked, he would not be the one to be checked.

Zheng Li sneered that this conservative had actually obtained his first "magic wand" which he had cast over the entire England.

It is precisely because of the possession of a magic wand that such a large-scale spell can be cast.

In the crude magic net constructed by Zheng Li, the water element has already become a large-scale spell.

The entire magic network can be used by the entire London area, but its power is at most at the level of a hand-rolled fireball for most people.

In order to cast spells with a certain degree of destructive power, one must obtain a "magic wand", which means greater access to the magic network.

For example, for the same network, some can reach a download speed of 1000m/s, while others can only reach 10m/s. This is the difference in permissions.

(End of this chapter)