Why are there snowflakes?

Something is clearly going on, right?

Suddenly, a fierce cold wind blew mixed with snowflakes.

"Why did it get cold all of a sudden?"

"It seems that the temperature will automatically adjust with the scenery......"

"Is it necessary to do this to this extent?"

It's already a completely snowstorm ice valley, right? It was obviously not friendly weather for the girls who were only wearing light swimsuits, and Saten even rubbed it on Dome altogether.

"Miss Limu, is there such an item in the arrangement?"

"How is that possible? While we do have an order for extreme sports, we don't usually simulate extreme climates. ”

"Huh? Why? ”

"Because I can't do it. The degree to which we are able to simulate the natural environment is the limit of our hardware. The temperature and humidity control system itself is not designed to reproduce the extreme natural environment, and it is not designed to that extent. ”

That said, it is true. Although it was indeed very cold, it was so cold that it was almost freezing. But if it is really as shown in the landscape, the temperature must be at least minus 40 degrees. If they really reproduced that kind of low temperature, they would definitely die with what they were wearing at this time.

"Even so, it's too cold......"

"I know, wait a minute, the shooting scene should be randomly selected from the alternate scenes stored in the computer system, maybe some stupid person mistakenly added other scenes to the shortlist......"

Before the words fell, the scene switched again. This time it's back in the sun, but it's ......

"Isn't this a desert?"

"That's a bit too hot, isn't it?"

"It's about to burn......

"Why do you always like to take extreme routes?"

"Are we experiencing the Extreme Survival Guide?!"

Although their clothing is obviously not suitable for the cold, they are afraid of the environment exposed to strong sunlight. The system also couldn't completely simulate the terrible intensity of sunlight in the desert, otherwise it would have caused serious burns in such a short period of time.

What is such an extreme environmental change going on?

"Hey, you guys, do you think this scene sounds familiar?"

Limu asked with a frown.

"Familiar?"

Dome tilted her head, and she thought it was incredible. Standing Wood as a synesthesia, just like those famous synesthesia cases in history. Due to the multiple stimuli of the senses, the memory is also extraordinarily profound, so her memory is much stronger than that of ordinary people. Therefore, since she felt that this scene was familiar, she must have witnessed the same scene. Even more peculiarly, she even thought that some of them must have seen the same.

It's just so abnormal. Almost all of the girls present could be considered her friends, and from her understanding, they should not have the experience of being in this kind of environment.

"Whatever it is, at least some water!"

As a result, the room tilted more than 40 degrees, as if pouring water and a violent wind mixed together to submerge them.

"There's too much water this time!"

"So, why do you always like to take extreme routes!"

"What the hell is going on with this bombastic ship!"

The shaky ground mimicked the violent shaking of a fishing boat during a storm so realistically that they almost had to rely on a virtual mast to get past them. It's quite strange that the mast that is supposed to be just a fictional mast does resist shaking?

"Calm down, the hull shaking is the illusion that the system is misleading, don't be fooled. Try to let go, no problem. ”

Limu explained in due course.

Indeed, when they let go of their hands slightly, although the sensation of violent shaking did not disappear, they did not lose their balance. This is indeed a rather subtle phenomenon.

Qiong Nao instinctively allowed himself to float in the air just now, so that he could avoid the shaking of the ship's hull from a realistic point of view, but in fact, this shaking sensation did not disappear because of this. This system is indeed quite magical at the level of deceiving the senses.

"Do you think of anything now?"

Just like Limu said, if the desert is still limited and the memory is not clear, this scene is indeed familiar now.

"Do you mean...... Can it be like this? ”

She did guess, though she couldn't believe it.

"It's a little meaningless, but it's really okay."

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"No, actually, ......" Dome looked at Tateki with a cute and helpless expression, and she looked at Tateki, hesitating to explain. After all, this seems to be some kind of system function, and it doesn't seem like much product-related information should be revealed to others without the company's responsible permission.

On the other hand, the marriage and others who understood that shaking did not really affect the balance had even begun to play. After marriage, Photon even hangs a fictional fish from the imaginary ocean.

"It seems that there is no shortage of chaotic people who are happy with their situation at all times."

Shirai Kuroko's complaint made Saten smile wryly.

"But Miss Tateki doesn't seem to be affected in any way?"

"Ah, it's easy." She seemed casual about Zoten's question, "All my senses are linked, and this kind of thing that touches certain senses in an imaginary way makes no difference to me. The craziest madman naturally doesn't have to worry about whether he will become even crazier. ”

This metaphor is quite morbid, but in reality, Limu's ability is indeed so morbid. Unlike most superpowers, multisensory synesthesia has never been a mystical category, but has always been an important object of study in modern medicine. Basically, for more than 100 years, it has been treated as some kind of disease.

"Ah, it's dark?"

"What a beautiful starry sky...... Look, there is the earth...... Isn't this the surface of the moon! ”

"But it's so beautiful, it's hard to believe it's a simulation."

"It's a good thing if the real moon is dangerous, and it can't be fully simulated. So that's it. ”

The dome is the interface channel.

In general, I have somewhat grasped the principle of this system. In addition to deceiving certain senses (mainly touch), the rest of the work still needs to be achieved through physical objects. The limitation in this way is the hardware condition. There is no doubt that this room certainly does not have the conditions to simulate the real lunar surface. As a virtual reality device installed indoors for human use, it is naturally impossible to evacuate air to the extent of the lunar surface. As for the real lunar gravity, it is absolutely impossible to talk about it unless the dome assists.

This kind of unrealistic simulation is one of the few ways to reach the moon so close after excluding the unsafe factor.

"These bastards ......"

The girls suddenly heard Limu gritting his teeth and whispering inexplicably.

"How...... What's wrong? ”

They didn't understand why Limu behaved like this.

"Well, Miss Tateki, don't be angry, after all, it's just relaxing."

Even the Dome was talking to the side that they didn't understand.

At this time, after the marriage, Photon exclaimed:

"Quick...... Look over there! That's ......"

Everyone looked in the direction she was pointing, and suddenly all of them were petrified.

Above the surface of the moon, illuminated by the light reflected by the Earth, stands a black ashlar monument.

"Uh......"

Well, that's outrageous......

"You bastards are watching movies with the company's equipment again, aren't you?!"

Standing wood shouted at the starry sky.

If it can be used to simulate the environment, then in the same way, there is no technical difficulty in watching movies.

In fact, now that they all remember, aren't the scenery they switched before all clips from well-known movies?

"I'm sorry! Something went wrong and it was fine right away. ”

Sure enough, the simulated scene was soon back in the sunlight again.

"Camping grounds?"

"I'm sorry, there was some glitch in the system just now." The person in charge ran over, "Now that it's cut into a manual, the scene won't change anymore." I think it will be repaired soon, so please take a break. Miss Tateki, please come over for a moment. ”

"I'll go for a while."

Tateki put away the camera and handed the tripod to the staff.

"Well, please don't worry about us, Miss Tateki. Serious matters. ”

"We'll take care of it right away. Ah, those ingredients are real, please feel free to use them. ”

_

"What the hell is going on?"

As soon as Limu walked out of the room, he asked the person in charge about the situation.

"It's not too clear for the time being. In fact, there are employees who use the system for entertainment, but they generally don't keep storage and are unlikely to be added to the automatic candidate list. Currently suspected to be a setting error, but ......"

"Setup error?" Kaoru Limu thought about it, and suddenly she snapped her fingers, "Actually, there is another possibility." ”

"What is it?"

"Wait a minute. Now immediately cut off all connections to the terminals of the system, all the links connected to the central computer are all disconnected, the data link sharing is canceled, and all automatic control units must be switched to manual. Tell those bastards that the workload is going to be ramp up. ”

The person in charge of a spirit. The measures mentioned by Limu are obviously not a means to deal with failures, but ......

"We've been hacked?"

"Possibly. It's just my gut feeling though. ”

That's right, Tateki just said intuition. But her intuition is something that must not be ignored.

"I'll do it."

"Ah, wait a minute." As if thinking of something, Limu stopped the person in charge who was about to leave, "Prepare a device for me and tell them not to cut the connection." Is there any room available right now? ”

"Number 6 is now vacant. Miss Tateki, what are you going to do? ”

"Just something, to be sure."

_

As she said, she does have one thing to confirm.

Setting the system to a custom position, she tossed the controller aside.

"Now, no one will know what's going on here. What your purpose is, you may as well state it. ”

She said to the empty room.

There was no response, as quiet as a hollow where nothing existed.

Tateki frowned.

Smack.

The air purifier is automatically activated without anyone operating it.

“……”

Limu didn't speak, and time passed little by little amid the sound of the air purifier running.

It seems, quite a long time has passed. But in fact, it was only 5 minutes.

Very precise timekeeping.

When the air purifier stops, the system starts working.

Empty room, landscape changer.

It's not a real scene, only the alternation of 0 and 1, which keeps lining up in the virtual.

In the unrealistic digital landscape, an image is emerging.

"I had a vision."

Standing Mu said slowly to the image that appeared in the numbers.

"If deception of the senses can create the illusion that a non-existent object is 'here', is it really here?"

"What our senses perceive, becomes all we recognize. If something that doesn't exist in reality uses this system to simulate a person, then does that person really exist? ”

"Our little princess said that if life is regarded as a kind of cellular automata, then consciousness is just that. If we think about it this way, then a system that performs a certain equation can also be considered to have some kind of consciousness, even if it does not have a form that we can access. ”

"At that time, it occurred to me that since the system we developed was already capable of deceiving the senses, the form was something that could be molded."

She paused.

"Suppose some kind of consciousness wants us to perceive it, it can make its own 'form' in this way."

The scenes arranged with 0 and 1 are stacked to form a shape. It can almost be said that the concept of women is embodied in front of our eyes, and the graceful body is gradually and slowly emerging from the bubble of the digital sea.

"Am I right? Little Girl...... No, 'Tree_diagram'. ”

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PS: I don't know why this chapter can't be posted again, but it's finally done.