Hearing the barrage messages coming through her ear, Jenny finally came to her senses.
"Huff... huff... huff..." She finally began taking big gulps of air. While breathing, she couldn't help exclaiming, "Damn it, I almost suffocated myself to death. Fuck!"
Even so, her body continued sinking steadily until she landed on the shallow reef.
"User's oxygen levels are critically low. Please surface immediately!" Gaia's voice sounded with a warning at this moment.
Jenny glanced at the lower-left corner of her vision and saw that the oxygen bar, which had been at 45, had now dropped to 25!
"Surface? But I don't know how to surface!" Jenny grew nervous again.
"Please immediately follow the movements shown in the image. First, keep your torso and head level while alternating your arms in a steady paddling motion."
Gaia began explaining. At the same time, the bracelet on Jenny's right wrist projected a beam of ultraviolet light, displaying a virtual image in front of her.
The virtual image showed the correct posture for underwater swimming.
[Holy shit, it even has visual teaching?]
[Damn, it has explanations and video tutorials? This detailed?]
[This is seriously high-tech!!!]
The viewers were all shocked by this scene. Jenny quickly began imitating the projected image.
She lifted her legs and extended her arms.
Meanwhile, Gais's voice continued guiding her in detail.
"Your arm strokes are too high. Please lower them slightly."
"When paddling, lift your head slightly to help you rise."
[This Gaia is actually teaching pretty well. Is this for real? She's not just bullshitting, right?]
In the barrage, seeing Jenny trying hard to learn swimming under Gaia's guidance, some viewer couldn't help but question it.
But someone quickly replied:
[As a professional swimming coach, I have to say here that the instructions are completely correct!]
[Yeah, I love scuba diving too. Everything Gaia's said is spot on. Every step is perfectly standard!!]
[So does that mean playing this game can actually teach you how to swim?]
[From what we've seen so far, yes. I'd say Gaia's teaching is even more professional than many real swimming coaches!]
[Holy crap, so Subnautica is also a swimming tutorial simulator!]
[Amazing. This is the kind of game New World Studio makes. It teaches through entertainment. You won't play it for nothing. You'll actually learn something.]
[Haha, I finally found a reason to tell my mom to buy Subnautica. I'll just say I want to learn how to swim!]
After receiving confirmation from professionals, the livestream room exploded with excitement!
Have you ever seen a game where you can learn actual swimming techniques while playing?
Subnautica could!
However, although Gaia gave very professional guidance and was an excellent coach, Jenny was not a good student. Her learning ability was quite poor.
As someone who had never learned to swim before, she had to start from scratch. On top of that, watching her oxygen level constantly dropping in the lower-left corner made her extremely panicked.
The more panicked she became, the more chaotic her movements grew. She couldn't even focus on Gaia's instructions!
As a result, after flailing around for a long time, she still hadn't managed to surface and was only struggling in place.
In the end, her oxygen level dropped all the way to zero right before their eyes. Bloodshot lines began appearing in Jenny's vision.
At the same time, her character let out a muffled, suffocating groan.
"It's over, I'm gonna die!!!"
Accompanied by Jenny's loud scream, the screen gradually dimmed before turning completely black.
[You have died.]
These four large words appeared before Jenny.
"..."
The trolls immediately burst into laughter:
[Jenny, you should just leave the group. Getting drowned right at the start is way too embarrassing!]
[This round can only be described as Gaia's doing her best while Jenny completely messed up!]
[The AI was explaining for so long and you didn't listen to a single word, did you.]
[She definitely didn't. I saw Jenny panicking like crazy, flailing around like a frog the whole time!]
"It's not my fault!" Jenny said pitifully.
"The underwater environment is too realistic. The water resistance is really strong, and oxygen gets consumed so quickly. I've never learned how to swim before. How could I possibly master it on my first try!"
"When the game officially releases, you'll understand once you play it yourselves. It's really not that simple!!"
Jenny felt that this wasn't because she was too bad, but because the game itself was too hardcore!
That's right, it was hardcore. What kind of game makes you learn scuba diving right from the beginning!
And if you don't learn it within a few minutes, you die immediately!
That was way too much!
"Whatever, restart! Restart!" Jenny shouted while clenching her fists and selected to start over.
After reloading the game, Jenny was back to the moment right before jumping out of the escape pod into the water.
Looking at the ocean below, she thought for a moment before saying to Gaia:
"Gaia, how about you teach me how to swim here first? I'll go into the water after I learn it?"
The viewers immediately burst into laughter upon hearing this.
[Tsk tsk, Jenny, you're way too much of a coward!]
[Jenny, this is just a game. You won't actually drown if you go in the water. Why are you being so timid!]
[You're playing it way too safe!]
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