The eight hundred helmets were quickly distributed to everyone.
Under the staff's guidance, Wang Lihui impatiently plugged in the power, lowered the back of his chair, leaned back, and put the helmet over his head.
The soundproofing was excellent, and the helmet came with active noise cancellation.
The moment Wang Lihui put on the helmet, the noisy din around him seemed to recede like a tide. Then a clear female voice sounded beside his ear.
"Please set a custom startup passphrase."
The voice came so suddenly that the excited Wang Lihui failed to react in time and blurted out instinctively.
"What?"
"Custom passphrase set successfully. The passphrase is 'What?' You may change it under Personalized Settings in the Settings menu if necessary. The visual interface is starting."
Hearing the system prompt in his ear, Wang Lihui could neither laugh nor cry.
If he had known, he would have read the manual before putting it on.
But never mind that. This was not the time to worry about such trivial details.
Filled with excitement, he leaned back in his seat and began counting down.
Soon, he felt something like an ant bite the back of his neck. Then a hazy white light bloomed across his pitch-black field of vision. It was as though he had broken through a nightmare shrouded in black fog and arrived at a vast beach.
The golden beach shimmered faintly. Sunlight filtered through the coconut trees, stretching their mottled shadows, and the breeze blowing toward him felt so real that he could even smell the salty tang of the sea in the wind tousling his hair.
"Dear user, welcome. You are currently at the Phantom System startup interface. There are currently four free startup scenes available for selection. You may change them in Personalized Settings."
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