Recap
He wiped his tears and cursed them several times more, “It’s okay, Zhe-ge, it’s not ugly, you’re not ugly at all. If you care a lot about this, we can get you a prosthetic eye in the future, put it on and it’ll be fine.”
“I-You-I, I feel so fucking upset!!!”
Shen Xiuzhe has never seen anyone who can cry so much. He can cry better than him. A single person can cry as much as two people.
Now Shen Xiuzhe is not worried that his wife thinks he is ugly. He is worried that Ah Ci will faint from crying.
It would be great if Ah Ci had a body, so that he could wipe Ah Ci’s tears and not worry about water getting into the small speaker.
Chu Shici was so dizzy from crying, when he vaguely heard a background sound, his eyes were too swollen to see what was written on it.
After the two of them calmed down, Shen Xiuzhe continued to listen to the recording.
Listening to the male protagonist’s recount, Chu Shici finally understood what the cycles in this prison were.
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In this world’s country, after it was announced that the holographic technology will be used by the New Entertainment prisons, this prison also received a holographic capsule issued by the government.
As this prison enters its second stage, transitioning from reality to virtual reality.
While this prison changed their inner workings to make money, the outside world is also constantly changing.
Since the New Entertainment law came into being, it has attracted a large number of opposition.
After a series of death row inmates could not bear the torture, suffered mental breakdowns and resorted to extreme means to self-harm during the live broadcast, the number of opposition began to increase rapidly.
Scholars and experts from all areas also began to take sides, the conflict intensified and became more serious.
Even if this is just a world in a novel, the indigenous people in it are not fools.
Someone directly lifted the cover and said that this is a game for the rich. No matter what it is, once money is a fuel, a slippery slope can happen.
She found that the total number of missing persons in the country in recent years was a lot more than the previous ten years combined. After the New Entertainment law was implemented, the number of missing persons increased sharply.
There must be some prisons making use of the New Entertainment Law to dip their hands in illegal business behind the scenes, the state was requested to conduct a thorough investigation.
At the same time, she questioned the Moral Schools; why does it only eats but does not spit. The schools have enrolled thousands of students a year, but only one or two people come out each year.
Where have the other students gone? How are their moral reforms going? And why has there been no news?
This woman who dared to raise her voice is Dr. Sun’s mother and one of the founders of Dr. Sun’s organization.
Not long after, a drunk driver ran the woman over and she was declared dead on the spot.
Dr. Sun can be regarded as inheriting her mantle and tasked with completing this unfinished inquiry of her mother.
Her mother is not a special person, she is just a retired policewoman. She took care of Officer Li in the police station and after her apprentice disappeared, she was not able to uncover the truth until after she retired.
In the beginning, the organization was just a gathering of people who had lost their relatives and friends to help each other find their families. Eventually, more and more people joined in and it gradually grew in size.
After confirming that the missing people’s profiles matched that of those suspected criminals taken in by the New Entertainment prisons, this group of people was completely outraged.
They made a big fuss and attracted a large social attention, but it was limited to heated discussions on the Internet.
The real turning point was when the case of the corpse in the trash can finally came to light a few years ago.
The deceased was a policeman, and the person who killed him was a former death row prisoner.
The death row prisoner’s crime was the crime of murder of his neighbor’s entire family, a family consisting of a couple and two children, all of whom were chopped into pieces by him.
In defense, he had said that he had been molested by his neighbor and his neighbor’s son for a long time when he was a child. They subjected him to emotional abuse and endless verbal humiliation.
The mother and daughter not only did not stop it, but also helped them to cover it up. When he had grown up, they continued to threaten him with videos and asked him to give them 10,000 yuan a month.
After a police investigation, it was found that what the death row inmate had said was true. Not only was he sexually abused by his neighbors, but his biological father also subjected him to domestic violence.
In the end, he was sentenced to death because the method of killing was too cruel.
A family of four, chopped into a pile of dumpling fillings. When the police arrived at the scene, the bloody murderer was eating dumplings. When he saw the police coming, he asked them if they wanted a bite. They were pure human meat.
When his sentence was given out, many people felt that he was really pitiful.
The victims were surrounded by netizens, their secret was exposed, and their family members were unable to redress their grievances.
A handsome man who is good in studies but has a miserable life experience yet is perseverant is often seen to be someone to look up to.
While other criminals kowtow to apologize in prison, he plays and sings live in prison. The criminal next door slapped himself in remorse while he shared his learning experience with the audience.
In less than a year, his fans exceeded 100 million and, in the year-end poll, with an absolute lead, he became the most popular criminal who everyone hoped would have his sentence commuted.
After a year and a half in prison, the man was successfully released from prison and became an Internet celebrity.
This matter originally ended here.
However, during his time in prison, he established a good cooperative relationship with a scum here.
After he was released from prison, he quickly marketed himself and became a public figure. He met up with and chose the right fans, tricked them into the New Entertainment Prisons and earned commissions by trading them.
A former detective felt something was wrong with him and secretly observed him. In the end, he was also thrown into prison, beaten up and thrown into the monster room, where he was bitten to death by vicious dogs.
His body was thrown into a trash can and was discovered the next day.
After solving the case of the corpse hidden in trash cans, the police followed the clues and found the transaction records between the death row inmate and the prison.
The horrible things done in the New Entertainment Prison were finally exposed, and nearly a thousand victims were found inside, igniting a global outcry.
The country conducted a thorough investigation of all New Entertainment prisons. The male protagonist was also rescued. He, along with the other victims, was released.
Not all prisons are so messy. Most of them are honest, but a few of them are rotten to the core. But even so, there are many victims.
Those who supported the New Entertainment law became silent. The voice of opposition reached its peak in an instant.
After discussion, the country finally decided to abolish Moral Values, shut down the Moral Observation Network, and conduct a thorough investigation of all Moral Schools.
At the same time, with the push by Imagine Life, the idea of the New Entertainment Prisons was remodeled.
A law was established that the real names of every individual purchasing a holographic capsule will be recorded, and each prison holographic capsule is supplied in limited quantities by the state. In addition to the staff’s holographic capsules, there are several cabins reserved solely for death row inmates, so that there is no fear of the prison secretly capturing people and trafficking them for money.
In many horror games on the market now, players are attacked by NPCs. Letting a condemned prisoner take a few beatings in the virtual world doesn’t seem to be a big deal in their eyes.
It not only punishes criminals, but also respects human rights.
The opposition thought about it and felt that there was nothing wrong with it.
There is indeed nothing wrong with people supporting it.
Both parties reached a consensus and the virtual New Entertainment prison was officially launched.
The mastermind was caught and the accomplices were imprisoned. The truth was revealed and the victims were rescued. The advancement of technology has also successfully closed off the loopholes in the New Entertainment Law.
This was originally a happy event, but a negative side effect resulting from this advancement in technology sprang up in the periphery where people do not see.
Ordinary people would never imagine that someone would use the holographic capsule at home to send their relatives and friends to a virtual prison for reform in order to satisfy their own selfish desires.
Humans in this world did not realize that with the advent of virtual living, it has inadvertently created a brand new conundrum.
Holographic technology indeed opened a new era, but humans at that time were not yet qualified to become gods.
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With the support of the state, Imagine Life Company gradually became bigger and more influential, and holographic technology is constantly updated.
This technology can be applied to many fields, but in gaming, its main selling point is its realism and immersion.
The first batch of holographic capsules launched by Imagine Life include several built-in games.
City walking, medieval simulator, tomb exploration.
Before the launch of the holographic capsule, VR (Virtual Reality) had been updated to the sixth generation. Players have long been accustomed to holographic games, and what they want is the experience of reality.
The first batch of holographic capsules failed to do this, as the NPCs inside were dull. For players, there is no difference between this and a VR helmet.
After experiencing a failure, Imagine Life learned from this experience and began to study how to make NPCs more intelligent.
But no matter how they simulate it via complicated algorithms, the artificial person is obviously different from the living person.
Due to pressure from all parties, the company decided to launch an internal beta test, allowing employees to enter the holographic capsule to play the NPCs.
This real-person role-playing effect is remarkable, players did not notice any abnormalities, and the reputation of Imagine Life has rebounded again.
But paper cannot contain the fire, and the internal staff all know that this is not a long-term solution. Moreover, if employees stay in the holographic capsule 24 hours a day, even if they can maintain their lives through the nutritional supply in the capsule, they will still develop mental problems.
Over time, many employees began to be unable to distinguish between virtual and reality. An employee received many gifts and was sought after by many people while playing as an NPC in the game.
Returning to reality, he instantly became a small transparent person in the vast sea of people. Some employees couldn’t come to terms with reality, some had their families broken up, and some chose to end their lives.
Imagine Life knows that if this continues, if this secret is exposed, the company will be finished.
Someone in the company then came up with a suggestion to add a function to the holographic capsule. Record user data in real time, use that data to continuously simulate and train the algorithm to learn human behaviors. This finally generated the first artificial person.
An artificial person has the real user’s way of thinking and behavior. In theory, however, he is still made of data and cannot think like a human.
The more data collected, the more real and human-like he becomes. When the technology matures, they will look exactly like real people.
This does not require employees to act as NPCs, and can also meet the needs of players.
Imagine Life thought it to be wonderful, and didn’t realize anything was wrong. They first entered employee data and then created a new batch of artificial people.
The first batch of artificial people was put into use, and the number of players who felt that it did not look like real people was one-third less than before.
After the technology was updated, the second batch of artificial people was released, and this time only a small half of the players still felt that it was too stiff.
When the technology was updated to the sixth generation, players were pleasantly surprised to find that they really seemed to have entered a whole new world through the holographic capsule.
The characters in it can cry and laugh, no different from real people. Even if you bump into passers-by on the street, passers-by with different personalities will have different reactions.
Here they are able to relieve their fantasy.
At this time, some employees had already faintly noticed that something was wrong.
Some artificial people will react completely differently from their template originals when faced with a choice.
As a shy and timid female employee, the artificial person generated from her data was put into a game to be a princess.
She grew up in this world, and everyone treated her as a meek Princess of the country. In the early stages of the game, she was still as cowardly as her original self, but when the game progressed and the country was in danger, she acted contrary to the original settings.
She overthrew her father’s tyranny and ascended the throne as Queen. Using what she learned to start reforms and work hard to recruit talented people. There are players who didn’t know the truth and mistakenly thought that this was a faction in the game, so they joined in and worked diligently for the Queen.
Living in an environment completely different from the original one, she has the ability to learn and imitate. She turned from a cowardly princess to a queen.
Another incident was an artificial person generated from an employee with a bad temper, who was put into a game to be the school bully.
His template had an irritable character and is good at fighting, so as the artificial person generated from that data, he is also very suitable for this identity. But not long after, he fell in love with another artificial person who had a gentle temper.
Being around that person for a long time, he changed from a school bully to a scholar.
Originally, the player was going to be bullied in the game and was supposed to retaliate and turn the tables on the school bully in this game. After the original settings changed, the school bully sticks to his artificial lover all day and only has eyes for his wife. Even when the player went up to provoke him, he didn’t bother to take a look.
The employees looked at the report with questions in their heads.
He hasn’t even been in love yet, but his artificial counterpart already has a partner?
That’s not what’s written in the script.
However, they discovered it too late. The holographic capsules were already in the market for a long time and there are at least one billion players across the country using their holographic capsules.
The state also purchased large quantities and distributed them to major prisons.
There are so many holographic capsules flowing out, used by tens of millions of people every day. The program continuously captures data and continuously learns and imitates.
After a technical error, the holographic capsule malfunctioned, the data was confused, and the situation was completely out of control.
Someone discovered another version of themselves in the game. They looked exactly alike and it was impossible to tell who was the real person.
The artificial person was even more shocked than the real person. He didn’t even know that he was living in a virtual world.
He has his own parents and his own dreams. He will think about the meaning of life, and will also be curious about whether there are other life forms in the vast universe.
No matter how the player explains to him, the artificial person does not believe that he is a fake. He thought the player was crazy and called the police to arrest the madman.
Although Imagine Life quickly made amends and restored the data to normal. Game screen recordings posted online by players still caused an uproar.
People in this world began to think.
Is the world they live in real? What is the difference between these artificial people and themselves?
Having learned a lesson once, the nation responded quickly this time.
As soon as it appears that the idea of a virtual world began to show signs of things going south, senior management immediately reacted.
They specially set up a group to investigate and organize discussions among experts and scholars. Finally,they made one point clear: from a scientific point of view, artificial people do not count as human beings.
But artificial people themselves have all the characteristics of a human. The only difference between them and humans is that they live in a different world.
After many investigations, they came to a sad conclusion.
Because artificial people seem too real, players who kill artificial people many times begin to disregard life in the real world.
Since the popularity of hologram capsules, crime rates across the nation have been increasing year by year.
It’s as if they have inadvertently created a new crisis. However, human beings are not God.
They can’t coexist with artificial people.
In the end, the nation decided to clear all data and destroy all holographic capsules before the situation escalates any further.
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Through the male protagonist’s recount, Chu Shici now knows what happened to the male protagonist back then.
At that time, there was still a lot of commotion outside, the case of the body in the trash can had not yet been solved, and the state had not yet started a thorough investigation of the New Entertainment prisons.
The prison where the male protagonist is imprisoned in took precaution beforehand. Just as an improved version of the holographic capsule was on sale, they bribed the employees of Imagine Life and secretly bought a few.
The employees told them that the holographic capsules can record user data and generate artificial people created from these data.
The prison packed the victims in one by one and recorded their information. Then, they used their data to generate artificial people from the memories of dead people.
After the male protagonist finally escaped from the devil’s cave. The adoptive father had been hidden so deeply that no one noticed that he was one of the accomplices of the crime.
He pretended to take the male protagonist home. The male protagonist has experienced the dangers of the world and is no longer the simple college student he was before.
It didn’t take long for him to figure out that he had been locked up for so long because of his adoptive father’s conspiracy. He didn’t show it and wanted to take revenge secretly.
But he searched for a long time and couldn’t find any evidence.
It happened that the New Entertainment Prison had used holographic technology. The male protagonist listened in to the servants moving the holographic capsules and suddenly realized that this was an opportunity.
His adoptive father never touched games and would not let him play them. This holographic capsule must be a trap for him.
The male protagonist first secretly contacted Dr. Sun’s organization and found that the purpose of the organization had changed.
Some people in the organization are relatives and friends who were persecuted to the point of mental breakdown, or even died without their bodies intact. Some just can’t stand this kind of thing and chose to join because of their beliefs.
They hate the New Entertainment Law and feel that this thing is not only against human rights, it is simply a crime against humanity.
The organization does not believe that the New Entertainment Law will be improved after its implementation using high technology.
Does emotional abuse not count as abuse? Abuse is still abuse regardless of what the adjective is in front of it.
After confirming that this group of people were still fighting, the male protagonist decided to cooperate with them.
He knew that his adoptive father would not let him go. He wanted to use himself as bait to prove to the world that no matter how the New Entertainment Law was reformed, it would not work.
Just as the hero expected, his adoptive father knocked him unconscious and sent him inside again.
Due to certain configurations, the male protagonist was unable to see anything after he entered the prison.
On the surface, Dr. Sun and Brother Liu, as the backbone of the organization, sneaked into the prison to assist him. Dr. Sun works as a psychiatrist, and Brother Liu as the manager.
Secretly, the note man and Xiao Jinzi became his hidden leads.
At that time, the prison had just been turned into a virtual prison. Except for the staff, only the chickens and death row inmates were real people, and the rest were artificial.
Dogs and monkeys are subjected to violence every day. Only some rats are safe.
Afterwards, the organization found the technicians of Imagine Life, they successfully replaced some artificial humans and rats with real people.
Allowing people within the organization to act as eyes inside the prison.
What the hero got was evidence that the prison cooperation agreements with several bigshots in the real world to imprison real people in the virtual prison through the holographic capsule.
He needed access to contact those chickens.
Unlike games, these virtual prisons are built based on real data. It is a crude finished product generated by a program. It does not belong to the game, and no one will update or optimize it.
What happened in the real prisons is the main plotline that this prison will follow. Random things done by artificial people and real people will create some branches that were not originally there.
When the main plot is over, the prison will return to the main scene all over again. All artificial and real people’s memories are cleared, and the main plot line starts from the beginning again.
The male protagonist doesn’t know much about the other cells in the prison.
But after he regained his freedom, he went out of his way to learn more about the past in Room 3. He knew all the victims in Room 3.
It is not known if it was a coincidence or someone did it deliberately.
After he was sent to the virtual prison through the holographic capsule by his adoptive father, he happened to live opposite Room 3.
The room numbers occupied by real people are scrambled and repeated to make it easier for the staff to confirm that there is a real person in the room. Two duplicate Room 3s were arranged together.
There is no sun or moon in the prison, and the flow of time between the holographic world and the real world is also different.
If the male protagonist wants to move around, he must find a reference for time.
Lest his plan coincides with an important plot point in the prison when he is carrying out his plan. Not only will his efforts be in vain, but his plan may also be discovered.
The male protagonist thought twice and decided to use Room 3 as a reference.
In Room 3 on the 12th floor of the real prison, a total of four people were imprisoned.
The first tenant was a lawyer, one of the people in the first batch of goods illegally brought into the prison.
His appearance signifies the beginning of the main plot of the prison.
As the last tenant, the male protagonist managed to survive until the prison collapsed.
His rescue signifies the end of the main plot of the prison.
When the plot ends, the events in the virtual prison will rewind and start again. For people living here, this is a cycle.
Before the end of the fourth cycle, the male protagonist secretly collected evidence with the assistance of the fat steward Brother Liu and the note man.
Following instructions from the staff of Imagine Life, he put the evidence in a black box and prepared to send it out. But at this moment, the fat steward Brother Liu rebelled.
The male protagonist didn’t know what the fat steward was thinking, or where he hid the black box after tricking him.
He was caught off guard and in the act. The fat steward used external power to change the positions of him and his artificial person.
He was put into the original Room 3 and forced to follow through the main line of the prison.
The artificial person generated from his data became the fat steward’s tool to delay time.
Now it is finally the male protagonist’s turn to appear in the main plot. He successfully contacted the note man and asked him to exchange the two people back in order to remove the control of the cycle.
In fact, Shen Xiuzhe’s consent was not needed. It was just out of empathy that he was informed that; it didn’t matter whether he cooperated or not.
A few days after they were made aware of the hero’s plan, rats caused a riot and scattered the people everywhere. His informant took the opportunity to disconnect all surveillance and unlocked the doors.
Shen Xiuzhe and the male protagonist took advantage of the chaos to exchange rooms.
There was a lot of talk about the subsequent follow ups to the plan, and Chu Shici listened very seriously.
But the more he listened, the more he felt that in the eyes of the male protagonist, Zhe-ge was just a tool.
Every sentence he said that sounded like a consultation, was actually an order. After all, in his eyes, Shen Xiuzhe, as his artificial person, should listen to his instructions and help him with what he needs to do.
Chu Shici narrowed his eyes.
Considering the overall situation, they must help.
He was just a little unhappy.
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