People are in Type-Moon, but they practice science

"Industry iteration..." Although Matou Shinji was too lazy to deal with the family's economic situation, it didn't mean that he didn't understand it. He could learn programming by himself and win prizes in competitions, and he could also learn some business principles by analogy under the guidance of a tutor. Obviously, the competitiveness of a product depends on whether it can quickly adapt to changing needs. In the current sluggish economic environment, Academy City is developing rapidly with product versions that are always ahead of others and even look down on others.

Matou Shinji picked up his phone and could operate various applications by sliding and clicking on the touch screen. The interface and system were extremely smooth. "No, they are already guiding and creating user needs."

It was as if... Academy City had already witnessed the future, and every step was in the right direction. In this case——

So why not join them?

"Hey, Shinji, why should I worry about this? I'm still a high school student. This kind of thing... I'd better let Uncle Kariya worry about it."

Matou Shinji stretched his body and lay on the bed. He raised his foot and kicked something.

"Oh, by the way, there's still that gift that hasn't been opened yet," Matou Shinji originally suspected that this was some toy given by the organizer of the programming competition, so he didn't pay too much attention to it.

"Let me see what it is—a helmet?"

Shinji Matou looked at the plain black helmet in his hand. It looked nothing special. He even turned on the flashlight and shone it inside the helmet, but he couldn't find any switch buttons or anything like that.

The whole thing is so smooth that it is simply a useless decoration.

“emmmm…” Could this be a lie?

Shinji Matou checked it over and over for a few minutes but couldn't figure out anything.

He held up the helmet with both hands again.

The cold touch was like a dark, edgeless face looking at him.

Suddenly I had an urge to wear it.

"How about...try wearing it?"

While saying this, Matou Shinji had actually already put it on.

【Welcome to log in, the adventer who has come from afar. 】

"Wow—who!? Who's talking?"

Matou Shinji suddenly heard a voice in the helmet speaking to him, as if it came directly from his mind - the people in the programming competition didn't tell him that the prize would be a Harry Potter Sorting Hat? ?

Or was he hallucinating?

Shinji Matou hurriedly took off his helmet, but what appeared before him was not the room he was familiar with.

——And in space.

"Impossible—is this an illusion?"

How could he survive in space? Or was it a holographic image like in science fiction?

There seemed to be an invisible barrier in front of him. When Shinji Matou ventured out, he found that he couldn't breathe, so he quickly retreated.

The view is downward.

The starry sky in the dark night is twinkling, and the lights lit by the dim human cities, from a grand perspective, look like exquisite patterns carved on a water-blue glass ball.

[The universe has a beginning and an end. It goes to the other side of destruction and is then reborn.]

The voice said, and change was born.

The planets rotate and revolve rapidly, particles move arbitrarily and change in myriad ways, and the entropy value continues to increase dramatically. As a result, the planets are like stumbling old men, suffering frequent disasters, falling out of orbit, the sun expanding, and once the galaxy is destroyed, more and more stars fall into eternal extinction, and the universe dies in a tragic heat death, and then enters its end and the next rebirth.

"Ah...what happened..."

The amount of information happening before his eyes was so dense that Shinji Matou was a little overwhelmed.

[Now, let’s look elsewhere. Other worlds, other universes.]

The perspective was infinitely raised, as if his body was constantly rising, the galaxy was shrinking, the world was like tiny dust, and different forms of civilizations were struggling and searching in it - countless scenes flashed before his eyes -

Matou Shinji's brain tried hard to capture the scene, but unfortunately he only saw a few fragments: a meteor shower burning with green flames, scorched earth and black ash all over the sky, and a disaster falling from the sky...

[The thread of fate tightly entangles them, pulling them into the abyss of destiny.]

The voice became low, but burst out with power. At the same time, Matou Shinji felt his body thrown away from where it was. The face of the world changed rapidly, and countless colorful universes flashed by.

A familiar aqua-blue planet reappeared, rapidly enlarging in the field of vision.

[And you, the one who descends, are an unpredictable variable...]

call--

The fierce air currents blew past my ears, and it was so real. I could see the majestic Mount Ebifu below, the Mesopotamian plains, the dense forests in the south, and the reddish brown, reddish gold, and blue... like a tide of beasts marching.

Shinji Matou fell to the ground, unharmed, like a real being, but he found that he was wearing a set of ancient armor and holding a spear.

Before he could think about the reality of the scene before him, the chaos and screams in his ears stimulated his nerves.

A flood of ferocious beasts came towards him.

[——Can you break the thread of fate? ]

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At the same time, Shirou Emiya also saw an incredibly real scene through his helmet.

Unlike Matou Shinji, Emiya Shirou is a half-baked magician. Even so, because his father didn't teach him, his knowledge of magic is pitifully small, and he doesn't quite understand whether such a thing can only be done by magic -

After all, it's too real.

"Synchrony, start——"

Shirou Emiya clenched the spear in his hand and said to himself, Strengthen. This is the only magic his father taught him.

Incredible, the most realistic thing is that he can actually "strengthen" the objects in his hands. It is really hard to understand. Maybe this is not just a magic illusion?

[The horn of war echoes in the wilderness, and the old avengers return to the earth. ]

There was no time to hesitate as the huge lion pounced on him in the next second.

blah-

Blood gushed out, and the spear was suddenly strengthened to an incredible level, and the bright flash pierced the beast.

“Huh——?” Is he that powerful?

But Shirou Emiya soon discovered that this power was insignificant in front of dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of wild beasts.

All around was a ruined city, with countless old, weak, women and children fleeing or falling, while the soldiers ran forward to block the beast tide's attack.

[The flames of war ignited, engulfing the world, thousands of troops and horses, blood-stained the battlefield. 】

"It's no use..."

When Shirou Emiya climbed up to the high platform, he realized that the beast tide was simply endless, coming from the other side of the horizon. This ruined city was like a lonely island, with no defenses and nowhere to defend.

Even so, with his overflowing sense of justice, he still rushed down to resist together with the soldiers. At the same time, Shirou Emiya also persuaded several injured soldiers beside him to leave quickly.

No one paid attention to his advice. Instead, the soldiers moved forward. When they passed by him, Emiya Shirou was stunned for a moment. Their eyes - as if they already knew their own fate, they walked towards death angrily and determinedly.

While Emiya Shirou was stunned, he was pierced by a sharp claw that came from nowhere.

"Hiss... I'm..."

Shirou Emiya was speechless. In fact, he didn't feel a huge pain, but the sight of half of his body being penetrated by a beast the size of a building gave a student a great stimulation.

[Mortals blindly rush towards their own doomsday, but you, the Advent One, do not have to follow the old rules——]

Time is frozen.

Shirou Emiya saw the splattering blood drops suspended in mid-air, the stagnant ferocious aura of the beast, and the grainy dust kicked up by the falling bodies of the soldiers.

Time began to go backwards.

Blood beads rolled back, wounds healed, and the tide of the monsters continued to retreat. Soldiers returned to the trenches, the collapsed walls were reassembled and restored to their original state, the dead came back to life, the fleeing people walked back, and the men, women, and children who were originally sad and desperate returned to their normal expressions of joy and laughter.

Then the surrounding scene became blurred and turned into a piece of light and shadow.

[Where will your destiny lead you? ]

"boom!"

Like a sudden impact, Emiya Shirou was pushed away from his original position and his vision became dark. He touched the side of his hand and found the familiar bedding. Then he reached up and took off the black helmet. His surroundings were still in his bedroom.

"..."

Shirou Emiya's eyes widened, and he didn't say anything for a while. He seemed to have not yet recovered his breath.

Then he began to feel the floor of his own house, stepped on it again, and found that it was real - but it seemed that the previous scene was also quite real?

It's bad, he's a little confused.

After staring at the helmet for a while, Shirou Emiya decided to put it on again. However, this time there was no special "real experience".

After putting it on, Shirou Emiya could only see two lines of words from the black.

[Holy Grail War: Infinite Universe is in free internal testing...]

[Countdown to the beta version opening: 48 hours]

"? What is this?"

Shirou Emiya took off his helmet in confusion and decided to ask Shinji Matou what this thing was.

But I didn't expect that they would call me first.

"——This is very interesting, Emiya! I didn't expect it to be a game that uses virtual reality technology. I guess the sponsor of that programming competition must have some connection with Academy City!"

Chapter 477 Jill Jiao Yulu sits up in shock in the middle of the night

"Huh? Academy City?"

Shirou Emiya opened his mouth. He was about to ask if it was some kind of magic, but he didn't expect his classmate's guess to be completely contrary to his own idea... That's right, Shinji probably doesn't know or understand magic.

"Yes!" Matou Shinji's tone was high on the phone, and his excitement could be felt even through the microphone. "--Emiya, you don't know, do you? 'The electronic equipment in Academy City is 30 years ahead of the outside world, and even virtual reality equipment has been popularized', this saying has been circulating for a long time!"

"Ah, let's not talk about the authenticity of the virtual reality equipment. How did they calculate the claim of '30 years ahead'?" Emiya Shirou couldn't help but complain, "Or has anyone seen the future development trend?"

"No, no, no, that's hard to say, Emiya. You still haven't paid much attention to Academy City, especially their product layout in recent years. I dare say that every step here is full of groundbreaking. It's not an exaggeration to say that they foresee future trends..."

"Really... No, that's not right." Emiya Shirou suddenly remembered that he was not here to ask this. "By the way, Shinji, where did you get this helmet? Seriously."

“It’s a gift.”

"No no no - Shinji I'm not kidding seriously..."

"That's the gift I got for winning the competition. I'm serious. I called the organizer before, but they said, 'Remember to give the gift to the winner, but I don't remember who sent it.'" Matou Shinji's tone in the microphone was indeed not joking. "To be honest, this is really incredible, isn't it? After all, even Academy City has no reason to let us try out such advanced things."

"By the way... speaking of Academy City," Emiya Shirou suddenly remembered that Matou Shinji's family was engaged in business, "Did their company reveal any news about selling similar virtual reality products?"

"No, Emiya, you underestimate the influence of Academy City. Any company under their control will attract a lot of attention from social media if even a little bit of information is leaked."

The two had a meaningless conversation, but ultimately failed to figure out where the helmet came from.

After hanging up the phone, Emiya Shirou let out a long sigh.

However, within two minutes, the phone rang again.

"Hey--"

"Hey, my friend, you're finally here," a male voice with a very strange accent came from the microphone, "Remember, you must be careful and alert to gifts from unknown sources--"

"Ah, it's Goto. What ancient film have you been watching recently?" Emiya Shirou immediately recognized that the other person was Goto Kei, his classmate in Class C of the second year. This person would watch ancient dramas when he had nothing to do, and after watching them, his wording and tone would often become strange.

"Absurd, absurd, this is elegance... My friend, be careful with a black helmet of suspicious origin. Once you put it on, you will have hallucinations and be careful not to suffer from amnesia..."

“——That one, I’ve already worn it.”

Shirou Emiya was sweating, what was wrong with this world? Even Goto Kakui received this helmet, could it be that everyone in the class received it?

"Ah!?"

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Downtown Fuyuki.

This is the private residence of Mayor Fuyuki. The study is filled with famous books from ancient and modern times, both Chinese and foreign, as well as historical research, humanities and customs books, art collections, etc., filling up several bookshelves.

A high school girl with grey hair and grey eyes was quietly reading in the study room. Her name was Himuro Chung, a student in Class A, the second year of the private Hogunhara Academy High School.

dong dong dong.

"—Please come in."

"Miss, guests are here."

The man who came was dressed in a butler's uniform. He was the old butler of high school student Bingshiro Zhong.