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"Is this....real or fake?"

By the next day, a group of people were arranged to visit the lab, where on a large screen under the interface of a supercomputer, in the world they had been creating for five years, a three-year-old child, attended by a group of pretty maids, was living a life just like in the TV shows.

"Damn... if this is real... think about it, it’s pretty cool..."

"It looks cool, but I couldn’t last a day without my phone..."

"What’s so good about a phone? Watching female streamers with eight layers of filters on? Look at those maids around President Pu, are any of them worse than the current major broadcasters? They’re as good as celebrities."

"You just think about women..."

"Better than you thinking about fictional characters..."

"Aren’t those just fictional characters in there?"

The group watched the screen, chattering excitedly, filled with curiosity.

"But... is this real?" Ziyue was the first to interrupt everyone’s trivial discussion of envy, speaking coldly, "A terminally ill person can, just by using a neural interface, transfer their memory into it, and achieve eternal survival in another space?

How can we be sure that he is actually Pu YunChuan and not just a smart pet you created? "

"He has all of Pu YunChuan’s memories and behavioral traits..." the presenter said with a smile, "You have also experienced brain-machine games, debating whether the digital life is really you is actually easy because Pu YunChuan’s body isn’t dead yet!"

"Oh?" Everyone was startled, even Ziyue was stunned; she thought, by this time Pu YunChuan with terminal stage esophageal cancer, should have passed away, given the time, he should have been gone.

"Since Mr. Pu YunChuan is currently the only successful experimental subject, and the investors naturally are worried about the issues you raised, whether the uploaded data is just a bundle of data or if it’s really them, they need to get this clear because the future experiments could cost several times more. "

"Master is not dead? Then... what’s in the computer now?"

Everyone swallowed nervously, initially, when talking about digital life, most didn’t take it seriously; it still sounded too much like science fiction. Those willing to believe in it were usually the wealthy who didn’t quite want to die.

For them, it was truly about seeking a better job.

No helping it, the coding industry is too saturated.

Many of them were already in their thirties, close to the age of being let go, so they had to find the best job possible in their last few years.

Not to say making enough for financial freedom, but at least to make enough to buy a house back home, right?

These kind of big scientific research projects that fools were willing to invest in were very desirable, typically if they could get in, they’d conservatively make upwards of 40K a month, and sticking with it for a few years would pay off.

But no one expected that this so-called lab wasn’t just bluffing the investors, was it actually real?

"Inside the computer is your boss, and the body that is temporarily preserved in the cryogenic chamber is also your boss." The person in charge opened a sealed basement, and everyone was surprised to see, in a very advanced cryogenic freezer, the body of Pu YunChuan really lying there.

Although... the current Pu YunChuan looked rather awful due to the chemotherapy, but everyone could still recognize that it was him!

"This is the latest hibernation cabinet; the human body inside only needs the minimum amount of glucose to maintain vital signs, and the cancer cells won’t spread too quickly, if nothing unexpected happens, he can still last for a year."

"Eh..." Everyone swallowed again, looking at the sleeping Pu YunChuan and then at the computer screen, where a chubby boy surrounded by maids was living a very comfortable life, their expressions were peculiar.

"Are you suggesting that Pu YunChuan’s consciousness is in the game, while his body is still alive..." Ziyue frowned, "How do you plan to prove this?"

"Let him return!" The person in charge declared confidently.

"Ah?" The group opened their mouths, feeling like they were listening to a science fiction story.

"Data life is a complete structure, and this structure can naturally be housed in any container, be it a data disk or inside a human body. By restoring the data back to Pu YunChuan’s body and waking him up, as long as he can remember the events from the game, wouldn’t that prove that his data life is himself? "

"This...." Everyone looked at each other, as if... that made sense.

"Can this.... be done?" Wenshanshan couldn’t help but ask.

"That’s why we’ve invited you here." the person in charge said gravely.

"Us?" Everyone was startled, weren’t they holding them in too high regard?

After all, they were just a group of gamemakers; they had no understanding of scientific research and thought they would have to start as interns here.

Ziyue smiled and said, "I was saying, logically speaking, Jinshan isn’t lacking in programmers, especially those with experience in scientific research projects.

Why go to all the trouble of inviting a group of foreigners who work in gaming, help them with work visas, and all sorts of hassles?

It’s unreasonable, are you bringing us here to be experimental subjects? "

Everyone: "!!"

"Eh?" Wenshanshan was the first to exclaim, "I’m not doing this!"

"Exactly, damn it, we thought we were here to find jobs, turns out it’s human experimentation? Have I gone mad? You better not mess around, we’re registered with the Foreign Affairs Office, it’s no joke if so many of us disappear together."

"Just so, don’t think you can do whatever you want here, we are thirty-something people, if we all disappear together that would be a major diplomatic incident, don’t think this is Southeast Asia....."

"Folks..." the person in charge gave a wry smile and gestured to calm everyone down: "Don’t be nervous, we’re a legal entity, and although it’s not the city center, this is an official research institution of the university, how can we forcibly take people for experiments?

It’s election time, and as an institution run by Chinese, daring to do this now would be folly. "

"You know it!" One young man snorted.

Ziyue glanced at him, her expression slightly strange. That man was standing very close to Wenshanshan. She knew him, although she couldn’t quite remember his name, but she knew him, this guy had always been infatuated with her, and the two of them did have that connection, only it didn’t end well.

Yes, this guy was the one whose heart and liver were eaten by Ali, the third top scholar from Chen Qing’s scientific examination batch: Cui Yan!

"Folks, please calm down a bit... We won’t mess around, such human experiments naturally require your consent, with video verification and notaries present when signing."

"Who the hell would sign this?" The crowd suddenly became noisy: "Refund our plane tickets, we want to go home."

"Wouldn’t you want to hear the offer first?"

"How much money doesn’t matter, you need to be alive to spend it, we came out to make money, not to gamble with our lives..."

"Our technique is already very mature, and we also have the example of Pu YunChuan..."

"Ha... mature my ass, if it really were mature, you’d use Master Pu as the example for those financiers, why choose us? Isn’t it because you’re uncertain?"

Many people weren’t fools and could see what was happening right away.

"One billion!"

"Uh?"

"I said... one billion!" the person in charge emphasized seriously: "One billion US dollars, just sign, and it will be transferred to your account immediately. If the experiment is successful, there are even more rewards!"

Everyone: "....."