3 A Game Mirrors the Player

After he made sure that he had really gone back in time, Fatty's eyes immediately lit up.

"Wow, this is awesome!" Fatty touched his face and said in a great mood, "Don't tell me I have the potential to become the protagonist of a novel? Otherwise, how could this incredible thing have happened to me?"

"So what can I do?" Fatty piled onto the sofa and began to think happily.

It didn't matter to him whether this was time travel. Anyway, he lived alone so he had suffered no loss. However, because of the time travel, Fatty felt that he could live four more years. He had earned it!

Therefore, he very soon accepted this reality. For the first time in history, he thought very carefully about what he should do in the future.

"Stocks? Hmm… This is a bit difficult. I have never played with that and I don't have the capital…" Fatty mumbled on the sofa alone. ​​"Lotteries… It seems like I can't remember the numbers that won four years ago… Movies… There have been many box office blockbusters in the past four years, but… I can't be a director!"

Financial trends, future exchanges… Fatty thought about everything he could come up with. Finally, he realized sadly that he couldn't even get involved in the things he had thought of.

"This is terrible! I'm still useless, even after traveling back in time!" Fatty felt so depressed that he turned on the TV to see if he could find something to inspire him. As soon as he turned it on, he saw the advertisement for the Chaotic Era…

The computer graphics of the Chaotic Era's advertisement were magnificent. However, he had seen the ad many times, so it did not appeal to him. Then, an abrupt idea made Fatty freeze.

"That's right. I couldn't have gone back in time inexplicably!" Fatty thought. "Aren't all the protagonists in novels given a chance by God to be reborn to make up for a certain idea that has yet to be realized? So… what do I want the most?"

After Fatty remained silent for a long time, he exhaled deeply. He then turned off the TV, walked into his room, and took the credit card in his hand!

"It's the Chaotic Era! It definitely is!" Fatty was a little excited. "Luo Moling just moved in, which means that the Chaotic Era has been in closed beta mode for half a month. In two weeks, the game will be open for beta players. I traveled back to this point in time so that I can replay the Chaotic Era!"

Although this had happened just so that Fatty would go back in time to replay the Chaotic Era, this purpose did not sound so majestic. However, Fatty had finally discovered what he could do, so he stubbornly believed his guess was right.

Even though Fatty was a cleric, in fact, he only regarded this profession as a real profession. It did not mean that he had devoted religious beliefs. However, Fatty was somewhat afraid this time.

"Amitabha, God, rest assured. I will be dedicated to my work in the future!" Fatty secretly assured himself.

If other religious people heard this assurance, they would probably faint… Hey, did he know what kind of God he was serving?

Now that he was sure of his goal, Fatty made a call to order his holographic projector.

In fact, a game like the Chaotic Era was also a virtual reality game. Players connected to the game through electroencephalogram headsets, so why did Fatty have to use a holographic projector that was about to become outdated?

One must know that the holographic projector was indeed the first choice of game players decades ago. The image effect produced by the holographic projection was three-dimensional, and the game characters were as tall as real people. Game manufacturers had also developed holographic projections of virtual girlfriends, which were very popular among otakus.

However, the authenticity of such a holographic projection could still be seen at first glance. Therefore, when a higher-tech virtual reality technology appeared, holographic projection technology gradually disappeared.

Fatty was not a retro lover. The reason he had abandoned virtual reality devices and chosen an older holographic projector to play games was simple. He was afraid of pain!

Virtual reality technology was indeed high-tech, and the degree of simulation was very high. However, the higher the degree of simulation, the more pain was involved. After all, pain response already existed in reality. If virtual reality couldn't achieve pain response, could it still be called virtual reality?

Besides, some studies had shown that if a virtual reality game did not include pain response, after playing for a long time, one would experience a numbing effect to pain response. In other words, if one was often cut by a sword in the game without the pain stimulus, then in reality, the player would very likely ignore the dangerous cutting tool, which might hurt them.

Pain response was achieved by stimulating the nervous center of the human body through a game device. Although the intensity of stimulation could be adjusted to reduce the degree of pain, it couldn't be completely turned off. Those days, most players who played virtual reality games were sensitive to pain response and they had adapted. As long as they adjusted it to a withstandable degree, they could enjoy the fun of the game without any hindrance.

However, this was not the case for Fatty, who had a low level of pain tolerance. He even felt that an electroencephalogram sensor device might turn him into an idiot by accident. Hence, he had refrained from using such a device to access the game. He would rather use an older holographic projection!

Of course, in order to be able to play better games, the set of projectors that Fatty intended to customize had also been improved. This set of devices was mainly divided into two parts: character projection and environmental projection. The environmental projection was divided into close-range and long-range projection. In other words, this set of devices could perfectly display the same image as the human eye!

Although it was still a bit different from virtual reality, the difference was actually not big…

For the sake of 200,000 Credits, the manufacturer contacted by Fatty agreed to his request, saying that he would send the device before the open beta mode of the Chaotic Era went live.

After doing this, Fatty felt relieved. The house he lived in and the 200,000 Credits in his credit card were the legacy of his deceased parents. The house was still there, but the Credits were almost gone. The salary he earned by working at the church was only enough for him to survive. This was also why when he sold pieces of equipment in the game, he would find a way for the buyers to pay with their Credits. He wanted to earn some money to supplement his real-life income…

To be honest, Fatty didn't necessarily have to replay this game. He had made this choice because of his memory of the past four years of gaming experience. They were filled with surprise, depression, ups and downs, and stories. That was life experience with games as the central theme. Just like people who graduated from college would miss their high school life from time to time, Fatty was also reminiscing now.

When he was done sighing, Fatty started thinking about another problem. Since he had time-traveled, what kind of class should he choose in the game now that he was replaying the Chaotic Era?

Although he had chosen a holographic projector to play because of his fear of pain, Fatty also knew that such a game mode operation would always be inferior to accessing the game with electroencephalogram sensor devices. The biggest difference was his response speed. If he used the electroencephalogram sensor devices, he would just need a thought to do whatever he wanted. However, Fatty would have to use a lot of operations to achieve that.

His eye-catching speed was a result of him being forced. In order to be able to keep up with the players who used electroencephalogram devices, Fatty had made a lot of effort to increase the speed of his hands. He had a training tutorial for the set of fingering techniques found on the Internet. It was rumored to be a fingering tutorial specially designed by Bester Corporation for the Chaotic Era.

Fatty didn't know if this was true or not, but this set of training methods was indeed effective.

In fact, before traveling back in time, Fatty had operated the characters with the speed of his hand, which was no different from the players who used an electroencephalogram device. However, for some reason, Fatty couldn't play or mingle well in the game.

Right now, he calmed down and thought. Finally, he understood that he had chosen the wrong class!

People said that a game mirrored the player. Fatty knew his own personality very well. He was somewhat timid and frivolous. Such a personality was probably not suitable for playing a brave, fierce class like the Berserker!

The so-called Berserker needed to have the most fearless grandeur and use the fiercest attacks to tear the enemy's line of defense. It was a class that needed to be on the front line of a battle. This was a class that Fatty didn't seem able to play well. When he went into the dungeon with a party each time, he wished he could hide behind to stab the monsters…

Thus, after understanding his shortcomings, Fatty had to calm down and think about what kind of class he would choose this time…

While he was having this thought, dozens of days had passed. The device that he'd ordered finally arrived and was installed.

It was also time for the open beta mode of the Chaotic Era…