Eryi, who was in the research institute, received a system reminder.
Reclaim a movie ticket coupon and load user information.
Eryi clicked on the details: "It's her..."
Lin Shu [Spirit Rating A-]
HP 100% Fatigue 158/200 Orange-red
Mental damage: 893
[Mental confusion][Medicine]
There weren't many A-level psychic students at H Academy, and Eryi had some impression of a junior named Lin Shu. She had a beautiful smile, but the smile didn't reach her eyes.
She personally handed the movie ticket to Lin Shu.
"She's in worse shape than when we last met."
"What's this? A road movie?" Lin Shu's choice didn't surprise her. "She seems a little confused about her current life. To make her experience better, perhaps she should temporarily forget about her current life."
…
Lin Shu, lying in a medical sleep pod, had just closed her eyes when she found herself standing on an open lawn. Across from her stood a tall, casually dressed woman. It was the heroine she had seen in the movie preview.
The woman said, "From now on, you are me."
"You will watch the video you selected from my perspective in immersive mode."
This is the technology used.
Lin Shu hadn't had much entertainment since she was a child, but she had heard of a certain film playback technology. It was a completely immersive experience.
Very niche.
This mode requires a special nutrition capsule, which is significantly more expensive than a typical home nutrition capsule. The presentation method is also different from that of a typical film, not using a bird's-eye view, but rather a fixed perspective of a specific character.
This projection method allowed viewers to immerse themselves in the film's story, allowing them to experience the world from that character's perspective. However, this technology quickly fell out of favor with the market for a simple reason: viewing the film from a single character's perspective didn't allow for a complete understanding of the story, and it wasn't as satisfying as normal film viewing.
Furthermore, if the switching of perspectives is done too quickly, the story becomes unclear. If the film is stretched out to improve the story, the story becomes dull and tedious, like a chronicle.
This technology is only suitable for use in puzzle games or suspense films.
Lin Shu saw the woman opposite her walking towards her, her body overlapping hers, and her mind was still randomly thinking, if I had known she would have chosen a suspense film...
In a blink of an eye, the scene changed.
[Mode - Role Immersion, Memory Replacement System Activated.]
"Who am I?" Lin Shu looked around at the unfamiliar environment, and memories flooded into his mind.
"I'm Lin Shu."
She had just made an appointment with her friends to go out for a trip to relax, so she had to pack her luggage quickly.
When Lin Shu awoke from the sleeping pod, just four hours had passed. Yet, in a trance, she felt as if she had been in another world, spending a month-long vacation. From what she'd felt upon waking, it seemed the pod hadn't even used time-stretching technology; it had simply played a two-hour film. She'd even been mostly asleep for over an hour.
But time gave her a feeling of being too ambiguous, and the scenes in the story were still crystal clear.
The protagonist's emotions seemed to have really existed in her body, but they were vague and unclear.
She remembered that she had used the character immersion mode to watch the film. However, after leaving the sleeping cabin, the memory left in her mind was the story from the perspective of a normal film.
But if she thought about it more deeply, she clearly had memories of immersive experiences, but they were fragments that could not be connected together.
Lin Shu left the viewing room with questions in her mind. The scenes she had seen in the film lingered in her mind, and she had already decided where to go next.
Lin Shu opened the terminal and clicked on the description of each airship ticket route: "A travel planet rich in natural scenery, where you can rent old-fashioned pilots..." Unconsciously, some of the things that had troubled her before were temporarily put behind her.
When Lin Shu left the dimension viewing room, another customer passed by her.
Eryi is checking Lin Shu's information.
Three hours later, her mental damage had dropped by 216 points, her fatigue had dropped by 108 points, and her fatigue status had returned to normal. The color of the [Confusion] status had faded from orange-red, and a new [Calm] status had appeared in the status bar.
[Host, Lin Shu left immediately and didn't buy the next set meal.] Ling Lingba said that the movie tickets given by Er Yi were a waste of energy, but he immediately comforted himself, "Forget it, the system's products must be high-quality. She will come back soon."
Soon, Ling Lingba's attention was attracted by the next customer who came in.
They're back again, returning customers.
Eryi opened the customer list of the Plane Healing Station branch, and the latest customer from the interstellar plane [Yang Bai] entered the station. She also had a deep impression of this customer.
…
Yang Bai walked straight to the counter and said, "I want the movie with the lowest ticket price."
[Searching... Based on your personal situation, we recommend you watch this video together for 3,000 credits.]
Yang Bai paused and said, "Okay."
This was his second time coming to this dimensional screening room, and in a sense, it was also his first time, because the first time he came, he didn't come on his own initiative.
Yang Bai has schizophrenia.
In the interstellar age, there are solutions for most physical ailments, but there hasn't been much progress in addressing mental health issues.
His schizophrenia had persisted for years, with no significant effect from medication or counseling. It was said that he hadn't managed to control it in time as a child, and that errors in his mental development later in life had led to the formation of his secondary personality, making it incurable through conventional treatment.
Yang Bai is a reserved individual. When he encounters something that causes him to experience extreme emotional fluctuations, his secondary personality emerges. According to those who have met his secondary personality, it is violent and unreasonable, and whenever it emerges, it only causes destruction.
His mental strength rating was originally good, at B, but due to his extreme instability, he had difficulty finding a suitable job.
Yang Bai had never actually seen his secondary personality. But occasionally he would suddenly fall into a deep sleep, and when he woke up, he would find himself in a place he had no previous impression of, and doing things he had never done before.
The same is true for coming to the plane projection room.
The first person to move here was not him, but his secondary personality.
After entering the storyline in the sleeping pod, he saw his alter ego for the first time and communicated with him for the first time in his life. From that day on, he could occasionally communicate with his alter ego in his dreams or while awake.
But true face-to-face one-on-one communication still requires external help, which is why he came to the plane screening room again.
But what he didn't expect was that the robots here did not treat them as one person, but as two separate individuals.
"No wonder you asked me to come over again..." Yang Bai murmured.
Yang Bai, the main personality, used the medical sleep pod for the first time. He had only been focused on ordering the cheapest movie, not yet figuring out what it was.
When the promotional video started, he realized that he had chosen a topic that is still controversial today - cloning.
"Just now, I think they suggested I use the free mode." Yang Bai tried to move his body: "I don't know what it means."
"What it means is that you can ignore the main plot and do whatever you want." A man who looked exactly like Yang Bai said next to him, "But since this experience is so rare, let's just follow the prompts and go through the plot."
Yang Bai was stunned for a moment. His secondary personality seemed to be more communicative than usual today, like an ordinary person.
An hour later.
Yang Bai emerged from the medical sleep cabin and headed for the counter. "I need to contact your master. Key: ****."
The robot emerged from behind the counter. "Connecting you now. Please follow me and wait elsewhere." As it spoke, what looked like a wall behind the counter automatically parted, revealing an entrance.
"Okay." Yang Bai responded, walked into the room, sat on the sofa and waited.
This wasn't Yang Bai's first time in this room; the last time, he was invited. As a secondary personality, while he could clearly see what the primary personality was doing daily, he didn't have much time to move freely. He could only find a moment of freedom when the primary personality was in high spirits.
He knew that the main personality wanted him to disappear, and he could do it, but he didn't want to.
【Connection successful.】
A voice with a distinctly different tone from that of an ordinary robot rang out: "Have you thought it through?"
"certainly."
"After separating you, your main personality will be partially damaged. I can repair this damage in some way, but it will be expensive. Have you told him?"
Yang Bai spoke the lines he had prepared: "You told me before that you would sign an agreement with me. You can provide me with an independent body, so that I can break free from his body and gain freedom. And I must work for you until the debt is paid off."
"Then I'll pay back his share as well."
Normally, splitting a complete soul into two and repairing each separately would consume a considerable amount of energy, conservatively estimated to be over a million. However, Yang Bai's two personalities were relatively complete, so the cost would be less.
Yang Bai's secondary personality emerged due to his intense desire for survival, but he lacked the tendency of ordinary souls to disintegrate. Furthermore, his personality was well-suited for more extreme yet lucrative missions. Unfortunately, his special status meant he couldn't be deployed immediately after signing the contract and required systematic training.
Eryi thought for a moment. "You really don't need to discuss this with him?" She didn't have many contracted taskers right now, so she could sign as many as she wanted. A loan wasn't out of the question. However, the taskers required an initial investment, and if the mission failed, she would have to recover their souls and repair them. It wasn't exactly a sure win.
So, she would have to charge interest: "The profit-sharing method will change until you pay off your debt. The energy value will change from the original 55% to 46%, 60% for me and 40% for you."
"Can."
"Since you have confirmed, please sign here." A contract appeared out of thin air.
'Yang Bai' picked up a pen and signed his name on it - Yang Liu.
He needs a name of his own.
Yang Bai woke up and walked two blocks away from the projection room, preparing to book a mini-flyer to leave. As soon as he opened the terminal, his eyes fell on the time displayed.
"How did it already take five days?!" Remembering what he was doing before, his heart sank, and he quickly checked his account balance. Fortunately, it hadn't decreased.
He was a little confused: "What's going on?"
"Hey, you know what?"
No response.
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