After arranging his leave, Gao Jian picked up the pumpkin-sized, heavy-duty helmet and examined it carefully. He found no power supply, only a charging port. He hefted it a few times and estimated its weight at around twelve kilograms.
"Why did they make it so heavy?"
How heavy was twelve kilograms? A full water-cooler jug commonly weighed only eighteen kilograms. Wearing this helmet was undoubtedly like carrying more than half a jug of water on your head. It would probably snap a frail adult's neck, and even a healthy young adult's cervical spine would struggle to support it for long.
Gao Jian searched again. Sure enough, this oversized helmet came with a supporting frame. The frame resembled an exoskeleton, fixed in a corner of the room. The user climbed inside and sat down, secured themselves in place, then slipped their head into the helmet.
It looked a little...
A little like an electric chair?
It could also be used without the frame. After putting it on, the user could lie flat on a sofa or bed. It worked just the same, though their neck would get a little sore after prolonged use.
But Gao Jian had no need for all that trouble. Even if the helmet's weight increased to a metric ton, he could still hold it up.
The lack of a built-in power supply meant all the helmet's weight came from its internal components.
Gao Jian scanned it with his divine sense. The helmet's internal structure was extraordinarily intricate and complex, with circuits crisscrossing everywhere. Expensive RAM sticks were piled inside as though they cost nothing. It even contained a top-of-the-line graphics card for computing and rendering... It was practically a head-mounted virtual reality computer.
The helmet's technical name was the "External Brain-Computer Interface."
*Was that two hundred thousand