Inner Test Player

In the game, Qin Shaoze held a sharp sword and lay silently hidden beneath the fallen leaves, his breathing long and slow as he waited for some lucky audience member.

At first, he had not believed in virtual reality at all. But as a well-known game streamer, he could choose not to believe in something, yet he still had to ride its hype.

So during one of his streams, he publicly signed up for an internal testing slot and declared that he wanted to sound out the waters for himself.

He had originally assumed that, unless the game company had water on the brain, a falsely advertised product's so-called internal testing sign-ups would merely be a gimmick. The testers might seem randomly selected, but in reality, they would all be company insiders.

There was no shortage of precedents for that sort of thing.

Then, a week later, he received a call from the game company. They confirmed for a second time whether he truly agreed to take part in the internal testing, then sent him a statement of responsibility.

Not a disclaimer, but a statement of responsibility. Roughly speaking, if he was injured or died in an accident during the internal testing, the game company would provide his family with sufficient compensation.

When he received the call, he had been livestreaming. At first, he assumed it was a scammer, so without even looking at the documents, he immediately nodded and said he had no objections—planning to have a little fun with the scammer.

Naturally, this drew the attention of countless popcorn-munching netizens. So he played along with the "scammer" every step of the way, cooperating to the fullest. He had been waiting for the scammer to ask for personal information or something similar, so he could run circles around them.