Hidden moth

Chapter 347 All kinds of delusions are not unfounded

Sure enough, in the next instant, Huang Sijia, who had disappeared, reappeared not far away... Perhaps he should no longer be called Huang Sijia. Judging from the notification icon above his head, it means that Huang Xiaopang himself has come online.

Huang Xiaopang possessed the highest technical access to the internal testing system. He could see He Kao's virtual coordinates, so after going online, he immediately appeared in front of He Kao with the image of a digital human.

As soon as Huang Xiaopang appeared, he yelled, "I was just about to log on when I found that my virtual avatar had been called up by the system. What did you do to me?"

He Kao: "I just chatted with Huang Sijia and asked him how far your relationship with Meng Ya has progressed recently?"

Little Fatty jumped up and down, shouting, "Disgusting! Shameless! Our system doesn't have that kind of function..."

Currently, the peripherals for the Digital Life project have not yet been developed with a jumping function; operators can only wear motion-sensing and protective devices to walk on the smart carpet.

However, the system can also judge a user's emotions based on their tone of voice and thus make corresponding actions in the virtual world, such as Huang Xiaopang's jumping-legged gesture at this moment—which is already a remarkable achievement.

He Kao interrupted him with a smile, asking, "What function?"

Huang Xiaopang was speechless for a moment, then said indignantly, "It's that kind of function, isn't it? I know what you're thinking!"

He Kao shook his head and said, "I really don't know what you're thinking. Listen carefully, I just asked Huang Sijia—how far has your relationship with Meng Ya progressed? Not how far has the relationship between Huang Sijia and Meng Yajia progressed!"

I asked about real-world issues, not virtual ones, and Huang Sijia couldn't answer. He just rambled on for a while about how young people build intimate relationships... Who input this text data?

Huang Xiaopang: "Isn't that even more ridiculous? What kind of relationship do I have with Mengya? How would a virtual digital person know that? And how could I let him know?"

At this point, he suddenly looked up and shouted, "Qian, Lao Qian, Boss Qian, He Kao is up to no good, he's feeding my digital manipulator illegal data..."

At this moment, Qian Guran's image suddenly appeared beside the two of them, and he said with a smile, "What illegal data? Don't you and Xiao Meng often log into your respective digital human accounts and agree to meet here?"

When Xiaopang called for money, he had already activated the call system embedded in the Digital Life project. This system is compatible with Weixin, a social software developed by Tengxin Group, and allows users to leave messages for friends.

Normally, Qian would only see Huang Xiaopang's voice messages on his phone, but at this moment, Lao Qian happened to be logged into his digital human account, so he refreshed the page directly.

He Kao and Huang Xiaopang were both surprised. Xiaopang said, "You don't go home after get off work, you're still playing games in the office?"

Qian Guran: "What game? This is a project we developed ourselves. I'm just working overtime!"

He Kaochong said to the chubby boy, "Since you've already summoned Lao Qian, try summoning Meng Ya and see if she's online."

Even if He Kao didn't mention it, Xiao Pang would still summon her. Originally, she logged into the virtual town after get off work under the identity of a digital person to meet Meng Ya.

After calling Mengya, another digital person appeared out of thin air next to them. It was Mengya, whose appearance and clothing were almost identical to those of a real person.

Qian was about to make a joke, but quickly stopped himself because Lin Qingshuang had also logged in—she had logged in along with Meng Ya.

The digital life project of Qiyuan Branch of Tengxin Group has begun to be promoted in a limited area. Although it has not been officially publicized, it has already acquired its first batch of customers, including Lin Qingshuang, Li Chun, Shi Haotu and others.

Mengya wasn't a client; she was a tester invited by Huang Xiaopang.

Xiao Pang's actions weren't considered abusing his power for personal gain, because the project itself required recruiting various personnel for testing and generating different digital humans; it didn't matter who he recruited.

Users log in to their digital persona using different peripherals.

The simplest setup only requires a pair of VR glasses with a headset and a controller. You just need to find a comfortable chair to sit in. Scene movement is achieved through the controller, and the purchase cost is only a few thousand yuan.

The most complex equipment, including wearable motion-sensing devices, smart movable floors, and protective devices, requires at least 3 by 3 meters of space to place, and the most expensive can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Old Qian has one in his office, mainly for showing to his superiors and clients.

Lin Qingshuang was wealthy and powerful; she purchased four sets of the most expensive landing equipment at once and placed them all in the Qihuang Lingyuan villa.

After taking on a disciple, breaking through to a higher level of cultivation, and consuming the Pure Yang Pill, this senior described himself as becoming younger and younger, with a more youthful mindset, and showing great interest in this new phenomenon.

Qian Guran and the others quickly stepped forward to bow to Lin Qingshuang, but Lin Qingshuang waved her hand and said, "No need to be so polite!"

Then he exclaimed, "This place is really great! You're all so busy with work that it's not easy for you to get together, but when we arrange to meet here, it feels almost like we're face-to-face."

Their ability to bow and wave indicates that they were wearing full login equipment in reality.

Little Fatty spoke up, "Master, you've come at the right time. I have something to discuss with you. Does Qihuang Lingyuan have any alchemy cauldrons?"

Lin Qingshuang: "Of course we have the alchemy cauldron, but you've only broken through to the second level of cultivation, so you don't need it at all... Don't be too ambitious. At least wait until you break through to the higher level of cultivation before talking about it."

Little Fatty: "It's not that I need to use it, but someone asked me to ask if they could borrow it for a bit."

Lin Qingshuang: "This is a special magic artifact, and a very important one at that. How could it possibly be lent out? What kind of shady friends have you been making lately that you even dare to covet something like this?" Xiao Pang: "He Kao wants to borrow it. There must be one in Fengwei Township, but that place is too far away and inconvenient, so he came to ask me. We just talked about it at noon today."

Upon hearing this, Lin Qingshuang changed her tone and turned to He Kao, saying, "Little Kao, with your cultivation level, you can try to study alchemy, but you must not become too obsessed with it and delay your own cultivation."

Elixir, artifact, talisman, and array are all very useful methods. Each has its own system and they are interconnected. The more you study them and the more you achieve, the more fascinated you become. Even if you use up all your energy in your life, you will feel that there is no end in sight.

However, don't forget that your own cultivation is fundamental; these methods are merely supplementary. If your cultivation is difficult to improve in the short term, it's fine to do some supplementary research, just don't put the cart before the horse.

"These techniques can only be mastered by those with higher cultivation levels..."

What she said was exactly what her master had instructed her to do. He Kao nodded respectfully and said, "I have remembered it all. Thank you for your teachings, senior!"

Lin Qingshuang: "I do have a pill-refining cauldron here. If you want to study pill refining, you can take it and use it."

He Kao quickly replied, "I won't take it. I just need to borrow it when I need it. I'm letting you know in advance."

Lin Qingshuang shook her head and said, "Running around is too much trouble. I have some spare ones here, I'll have someone deliver them to your house later. You don't need to rush to return them, just make sure they don't get damaged..."

After thinking for a moment, he added, "It's not easy to break that thing."

He Kao said shyly, "I can't accept this!"

Lin Qingshuang: "What's there to be embarrassed about with me? Actually, this alchemy cauldron has some connection with the Huiming Shi family, so it can be said that it's destined to be with you."

What could the alchemical cauldron she lent to He Kao have to do with the Huiming Shi family? Lin Qingshuang explained again.

Qihuang Lingyuan is a medicinal herb base that cooperates with Guanshenmen. Many medicinal herbs have time limits for harvesting, meaning they must be processed immediately after being picked. Of course, on-site processing is the most convenient.

There is a pill room in Qihuang Lingyuan, and the pill cauldron in the pill room originally belonged to Lin Qingshuang.

The Guan Shen Sect often organizes its young disciples to come to Qihuang Lingyuan to learn how to identify, cultivate, harvest, and refine spiritual herbs. They always borrow Lin Qingshuang's alchemy room for processing, but Lin Qingshuang herself almost never uses it.

Because she was unable to break through to a higher level of cultivation for a long time, apart from some simple spiritual extraction, she was unable to truly refine spiritual pills. Therefore, the pill room and pill cauldron were almost all used by the Guan Shen Sect.

Although Lin Qingshuang herself didn't mind, over time the others also felt a little embarrassed.

After the Huiming Shi family was destroyed, many inherited magical artifacts were found in their secret treasury, including a very high-quality alchemy cauldron. The Zongfa Hall assigned it to the Guanshen Sect, which then transported it to the Qihuang Lingyuan.

Therefore, Lin Qingshuang could lend her alchemy cauldron to He Kao, since he was not an outsider.

Around noon today, He Kao asked Xiao Pang about it. Since there were many spiritual herbs in Piaocai Cave, and he had also received the inheritance of alchemy from Li Xiuyuan, he could try to refine various spiritual pills on his own.

He Kao's original idea was just to borrow the alchemy room when needed, but he didn't expect Lin Qingshuang to be so generous and send someone to deliver the alchemy cauldron directly to his home, which is his old family home in Pugang Town.

Meng Ya, standing to the side, quietly pursed her lips, thinking to herself that her master was biased, treating Xiao Pang and He Kao with completely different attitudes.

However, no one could see the pursed lips gesture because the digital human in the virtual world didn't actually make it. The device Mengya wore couldn't capture her own facial expressions; the digital human's expressions were automatically generated based on the tone of voice.

Meeting in a virtual setting as a digital human feels similar to meeting a real person face-to-face, but there are also significant differences.

For example, in this situation, the Xing Shen Men masters' ability to "see people's hearts" is greatly reduced, and the Wang Qi Men masters' supernatural ability to detect "people-to-people" relationships is even more ineffective.

Because that requires meeting real people, not virtual digital people.

If one pays attention to the tone of voice, even Elder Li Xiuyuan would likely find it difficult to judge the true emotions and the authenticity of the expressions in this situation.

In fact, He Kao had noticed this phenomenon long ago, but he was more concerned about another phenomenon. The group of people who had appeared before him just now were directly refreshed to this virtual coordinate location by the system, and it seemed as if they had appeared out of thin air.

People in different locations can suddenly appear in the same place to meet—isn't that equivalent to the ability of a hidden moth? In this virtual world, everyone is a hidden moth!
This is a virtual world, or even a kind of illusion, but we cannot say that everything we see is illusory, because virtual things do not arise out of thin air; they all have their own real-world causes and conditions.

Even if it's just a personal fantasy, it still stems from one's emotions and perceptions...

Lin Qingshuang was indeed decisive. The next day, she sent someone to deliver the pill to Pugang Town in a small truck. She even specially chose the evening so that He Kao could receive it after get off work.

This is a medium-sized alchemical cauldron, about 1.2 meters tall and weighing 500 kilograms. When it was unloaded into the yard, the small hoisting equipment that came with the vehicle was used.

After the deliveryman left, He Kao closed the door, turned around, grabbed the handle of the cauldron with one hand, and lifted it upstairs. It looked like he was carrying it by hand, but in fact he used his magical ability to manipulate objects.

He Kao carried the elixir cauldron into the secret chamber upstairs, and in the next instant, he appeared in the Floating Color Cave.

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