Interactive Fiction: The Right Choice After Unemployment

Chapter 262
Option 12.5 12.5%, Option 75 [-]%, Option [-] [-]%.

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【Option [-]】

[Continue to ask for leave, but go to the company, and at the same time investigate Shen's holographic glasses and the utility room where he found the abnormality]

……

Zheng Zhuo thought for a while and said to Old Xiong.

"I will continue to ask for leave tomorrow, but I will go to the company."

"what?"

The old bear who was walking out was startled and stopped.

"Are you all right? Do you want to see a doctor?"

"..."

Zheng Zhuo really didn't know how to answer this question.

In a sense, he wasn't completely fine.

But the doctors couldn't save him.

……

Back home, Zheng Zhuo cut off the 3th call from his supervisor after he forcibly submitted the 20-day extra leave application, and threw his coat on the back of the chair.

"How's it going with you?"

He pulled off his tie and asked the young woman sitting cross-legged on the bed.

"The key of [Paradise Project] can't be found, and the executives of Fox Corporation are going crazy." The young woman stared at the interface of the holographic glasses, and said, "They even found [Night Street], and told Fox executives Everyone who has slept has been checked."

"Hey, such a big battle."

"Isn't it? This is not the attitude you should have towards an ordinary deep-diving game. At least, they don't seem to have considered reporting to the Security Bureau at all, and then making a new key."

"That's interesting."

Zheng Zhuo straightened his coat while talking, and after a while, he took out a small holographic glasses from inside.

"In the past, I seemed to be convinced that the secret of the disappearance of the 'key' was hidden in these glasses."

He waved at the young woman and said.

"Let's take a look?"

……

The holographic glasses were activated again after a day.The green light flashed a few times, and shaking figures began to appear in the sky.

"...It's been 27 hours and 48 minutes since the last start...Detected battery loss rate...34%...The cause of the loss...Low temperature..."

Deep appeared.She slowly made some stylized calls, then moved into a human routine.

"I'm sorry the battery went out last time. Let's move on this time. Where did I get?"

The tone became natural in an instant.Zheng Zhuo stared at Shen's face, feeling a little creepy.

But he thought that in [Cyberpunk World], he would have to get used to it sooner or later.

"You said you killed Fosse."

said the young woman.

"Yes. I killed Foss. Knowing I was going to die, I uploaded my consciousness into my holographic glasses before I died."

Exactly the same conversation as last time.Zheng Zhuo suspects that she didn't really forget what she said last time, but just asked some psychological statistics to make the listeners get into the topic faster.

"I can't just die like this. Because I have to stop [Paradise Project]."

"So you stole the key of [Paradise Project]?"

Zheng Zhuo asked about the depth on the holographic projection.

"Yes. Immediately after killing Foss, I used his terminal to recover all the keys that were issued. I wanted to destroy them, but I found that even Foss did not have permission to destroy them. So I transferred them all Into my own holographic glasses."

"Wow."

Hearing this, the young woman glanced at the small thing in Zheng Zhuo's hand.

"How much do you think the key is worth now that I saw on the black market?"

"How many?"

The young woman uttered an astronomical figure.Zheng Zhuo thought, that would definitely be enough to fill him with all levels of strengthening components.

"Okay. No wonder I was crazy in the past." Zheng Zhuo shrugged.

"If you help me stop [Project Paradise], I can give you more money...give you the secrets of the entire Fox Corporation."

Deep uttered a heavyweight statement.

"Wait, wait, there are too many benefits, take your time one by one."

Zheng Zhuo never thought that he would choose between two assets worth hundreds of millions.He pressed his forehead and asked again:

"What is [Paradise Project]? It sounds like a game project...Why do you want to stop [Paradise Project]?"

"That's not an ordinary game project." Shen said what Zheng Zhuo could think of.

"On the surface, it is a deep-diving game that allows players to play deep-diving rides in their sleep, just like those common deep-diving games on the market. Its micro-innovation is that it introduces Read the brain memory and thinking circuits, and simulate a personality similar to the master responsible for simple daily life."

"In other words, this time, everyone doesn't even need to wake up from the game for a short time to deal with real affairs. They can sleep forever, play in dreams, work in dreams... managed by the virtual personality their flesh."

Zheng Zhuo and the young woman glanced at each other.

"Everyone thinks this is another ordinary innovation, just like they invented the deep dive game back then. But in fact, Fox executives are planning a more far-reaching conspiracy."

"They want to make subordinates who don't need promotion, salary increase, rest, employee care, no demand at all, and can work strictly like parts in a machine. They have already planned to use all means internally. Promote this technology, get everyone addicted to it...then, open up only a small part of the brain to people's 'dream entertainment', let avatars replace them to do permanent work."

"Under the current Brain and Nervous Law, this is a serious violation. But they obviously paid off those corrupt officials."

The shaking virtual personality continued.

"My... Shen's ex-lover was named Qin. He participated in the initial development of [Paradise Project]. He realized that it was a demon game and tried to stop the development process. He was dragged from his home by several unknown people on a rainy night. After going out, Shen never saw him again.”

"After that, Shen tried many methods. And finally came to this step."

The deep virtual personality didn't have any emotional fluctuations when reading these words.Zheng Zhuo noticed that the "emotional module" on the holographic panel was OFF.

He didn't open it.Instead, he continued to ask.

"You were activated after a real deep death, didn't you?"

"Correct."

"How much do you remember after that?"

"The first order I got after I was activated was to save these keys. The second order was to shut down. After that, I have been hibernating."

"I was briefly awakened in the middle. My interface recorded that the location where I was awakened was the debris area on the 14th floor of the Flowserve building. The employee who woke me up was Zheng Zhuo."

"He tried searching for my codes and touched the area where I kept the keys. After that, I was shut down again."

"The next time it is turned on, it will be an automatic low temperature alarm. All my external port data will be cleared. In order to prevent myself from being completely damaged due to low temperature, I can only send out a call for help through the previous [Zheng Zhuo] access channel."

"I see."

Zheng Zhuo said.

No wonder he gets headaches.Now, everything makes sense.

In the past, Zheng Zhuo was an employee of the technical support department.After he came into contact with those encryptions, he should understand that the keys of the [Paradise Project] are stored in them.

So I thought about selling it.

"I understand the situation. How should I stop [Paradise Project]?"

he asked deeply.

"Hasn't this been stopped by you?"

"Do not."

deep answer.

"Theoretically, [Paradise Project] no longer has any keys. But in fact, through the analysis of Fox's information flow, I found that part of the company's server group is still working for this project."

"Working overtime on a project that's no longer salvageable...it shouldn't be like this."

Zheng Zhuo said.

"I'll go see the situation tomorrow."

……

【problem】

[Decided to go to the company tomorrow.Who are the accompanying people? 】

【Option [-]】

[I wear deep holographic glasses, so that the young women can keep in touch with the outside world to prevent accidents]

【Option [-]】

[Let young women wear deep holographic glasses to communicate with themselves remotely]

【Option [-]】

[I wear deep holographic glasses and help young women to sneak into the company building]

【Option [-]】

[Let the young woman wear dark holographic glasses, and help her also sneak into the company building]

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