Liu Wei swore that this was without a doubt the most magnificent and astonishing sight he had ever seen in his life. Even after so many years as a director, after being baptized by the visual pollution of countless special-effects blockbusters, he had never witnessed anything so science-fictional and spectacular.
At that moment, though he was lying in a laboratory at the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study in distant Jinling City, his consciousness was wandering through a virtual reality world constructed by the Star Sea-1 quantum computer hundreds of kilometers away.
Standing within that expanse of azure space, he saw pale silver lines crisscrossing before him. Like spatial guide lines, they divided the entire area he occupied into countless small sections.
Just then, a human figure formed from light, shadow, and numbers appeared beside him.
Lu Zhou glanced sideways at him and smiled.
"Just standing there won't let you experience what this system can do."
Only after hearing that reminder did Liu Wei snap back to his senses. An apologetic smile appeared on his face.
"Sorry. Just standing here... I was already too shocked to say anything."
"Feeling better now?"
"Much better."
Steadying himself, Liu Wei took a simple deep breath. Then, following the program's prompt, he turned over his right wrist. Looking at the interface floating before it, he flexed his five fingers and selected the modeling tool icon.
Almost the instant his index finger touched the icon, pale white particles of light began gathering around him. Like grains of sand freed from gravity, they floated in midair before him.
Feeling that absolute control over the virtual world, he began trying to imagine a scene he had once seen in some science-fiction blockbuster, digging it out from the depths of his memory.
As his consciousness delved ever deeper into