Abyssal Wanderer

Although Jiang Zhou himself has not tried it, in the memories of Liao Qi and Jim, he has had the experience of watching simulator movies.

To put it simply, it feels like being fixed on a first-person perspective, and then experiencing the various perceptions from another person in detail.

Almost all works of art can be divided into two major factions, romantic and realistic, based on their different emphasis on the restoration of the objective world and subjective feelings. But no art form is as distinct as simulator, just because of the different production techniques.

Works starring amateurs without the knowledge of the simulator photographer are realistic works.

The works in which the photographers are informed and proactively cooperate with the directing team are romantic works.

The former tends to focus on real emotional experiences, while the latter focuses more on sensory exaggerated experiences.

Yes, in the simulator experience, the realistic school is more freehand, while the romantic school pays more attention to sensory experience.

As for the pseudo-sensory movie "Doppelgänger", Jiang Zhou was completely unable to tell which faction he belonged to.

The "I" he plays in the simulation, whether it is an emotional feeling or a sensory experience, he can almost completely immerse himself in it.

But this is too strange...

Jiang Zhou thought.

At this moment, the clerk he played was scolded by his immediate superior for his mistakes at work, and returned to his job dejectedly.

Whether it’s your cheeks feeling hot when you realize you’ve made a mistake, or the disgusting feeling when your boss spits on your face, or the tremor in your heart when the other person slaps the table, or the rising anger and helplessness when thinking about a loan... …Those emotions are so real, no different from my own personal experience.

If viewed from this perspective, then this is undoubtedly a realistic work - the actors were implanted with pseudo-sensory recording equipment without their knowledge, and their emotions were recorded in detail.

Because no matter how professional an actor is, even Shelley Duvall (Note*), who was treated by Kubrick for a mental breakdown during the filming of "The Shining", will never seriously equate the movies she shoots with Reality.

But on the other hand, when Jiang Zhou was scolded by his boss before, he had a strange and exaggerated illusion in his senses - he felt like a character in a comic, shrinking under the shower of spit from his boss. In the end, he became a little man who could only tremble and look up at his boss.

Alice Delusion...

Seeing the exaggerated changes in the proportions of the characters, Jim instantly felt extremely familiar.

This is almost exactly the same as the ability "Alice's Illusion" in Orpheus Path Depth 2 - he was the cybermaniac he killed with this ability before.

In addition, as far as he knew, some psychotropic drugs seemed to be able to achieve similar effects. It's just that there's a high probability that this won't be that accurate - the human brain is a sophisticated system that affects the entire body, and it's impossible to create such precise hallucinations simply by relying on chemical drugs.

Even he himself needs to inject the cerebral spinal fluid containing the nanomachine [lyre] into the opponent's body to achieve such precise hallucination control. Without the support of other dark web technologies, it would be difficult to achieve this effect relying on pseudo-simulation shooting technology.

Because of this, Jiang Zhou became increasingly curious about how the pseudo-simulation movie "Doppelgänger" was made.

It's not a fairy tale or a realistic fantasy novel. If it were a realistic work, then no one in their right mind would take it for granted that their whole body shrinks when they are scolded.

Thinking of this, the clerk he played had already sat back in his desk. The colleague on the side saw him and asked in surprise:

"Why are you back so soon? Didn't you just say you were going down to buy coffee?"

Is it the "evil doppelganger" in the plot who is acting as a monster again?

Jiang Zhou thought.

The first half of this simulacra movie is always in a strange atmosphere - there are a few cans of milk missing in the refrigerator; I fell asleep in the middle of writing the manuscript, and when I woke up, I found that the manuscript had been finished; before going to bed, I clearly I turned off the TV, but was woken up by a late-night program in the middle of the night...

It's as if there is another invisible self in my life.

Just like what happened just now, he obviously went to the editor-in-chief's office to get raped, but his colleague said that he was still here before and wanted to buy coffee.

My colleague's words made fear surge into "my" emotions.

In addition to the emotion of fear, there was a feeling that he was being watched.

Jiang Zhou watched the protagonist lead him to the workstation, and then quickly opened the display interface.

As "I" expected, the previous working document showed "Edited".

There is a high probability that it has something to do with the feature article in which the editor scolded him...

Jiang Zhou thought.

His eyes were controlled by "I" to look at the text on the document, and the bold text on it instantly caught his eye.

Then... Jiang Zhou was stunned.

[I don’t know when you will read this, but your soul has been trapped in the virtual illusion of Eden for twenty years. In about one to three days, the entire world will be reset. You can try to leave the Eden resettlement area, so you will find that this world is fictitious and understand that what I say is true]

[I am trying to break the illusion, but I need allies whose consciousness will not be reset every time I reincarnate. If you can still remember the words you read now in the next reincarnation, then please come to me at the coordinates displayed on the website at the end]

[Don’t try to tell other people about this, they won’t believe you, but it may expose your identity and attract the managers here]

[Be careful of those guys with the black sun logo on their bodies. They are the administrators of this illusion. Don’t let them find out that you have learned the truth, otherwise everything in your existence will be completely deprived]

[Please, please succeed]

[In this world with countless reincarnations and no real future, I am very lonely]

Seeing this, Jiang Zhou wanted to take a deep breath.

But under the simulation, he couldn't control the protagonist of the simulation to do this - he couldn't even control the protagonist to look down quickly so that he could see the website.

He complained in his mind, and his eyes moved downwards along with the protagonist of the simulation. But just when he was about to see the URL attached to the article... a sound that sounded like a switch was heard, and his eyes instantly turned dark.

"Click!"

"Fuck! I haven't finished reading yet!"

It's not Jiang Zhou, an older brother sitting in front of him roared.

For some reason, the projection machines in the entire simulator hall stopped. After a moment of silence, complaints came one after another from the entire venue.

Jiang Zhou and the others took off their helmets and looked around.

"What's wrong?"

Fanny asked with a frown.

In response, Jiang Zhou said anxiously:

"I don't know, but in this simulation, did you see a message saying that this place..."

He stopped mid-sentence.

Because there was an exclamation at the door of the screening hall at this moment, he naturally turned his head and looked over.

A group of guys dressed in black and heavily armed were filing in from the gate.

The team was led by an adjuster who was half a body taller than an ordinary person and about 2.56 meters tall. He had completed the transformation of his whole body into a prosthetic body. His shape was bloated and disgusting, and his whole body was covered with spherical metal particles. From a distance, it looks like a walking tumor.

On the man's chest, there is a black sun symbol. (End of chapter)