I slay demons and monsters in a bizarre city.

Chapter 31 Artificial Intelligence Digital Humans

KMS Game Design Company is a standalone building with uniform, bluish-green glazed glass curtain walls. When sunlight shines on it, it reflects off the specially colored glass, emitting an unusual light.

On the big screen, half of the beautiful woman's body was already sticking out of the screen, and her fair and slender legs under her cheongsam were stepping out. Those legs were several meters long, and Li Changgeng felt as if this woman would step on him.

"Do you love me?"

The woman, with her alluring eyes, kept changing into various seductive poses for Li Changgeng.

Li Changgeng had worked at this game company for a long time and hadn't paid much attention to the woman on the billboard.

Upon closer inspection, this woman bears a striking resemblance to Lin Jiuge. Li Changgeng looked up at the spokesperson for KMS Games, who resembled a digital human with implanted memories. She performed the same dozen or so actions every day and spoke in the same predictable pattern. This reminded Li Changgeng of his colleague, number 15, who always used the same few phrases as his opening remarks.

"Handsome guy, welcome to KMS Games. Are you lonely?"

"I'm so lonely!"

"The night is long and I can't sleep. Are you lonely?"

Many colleagues walked past Li Changgeng, all hurrying to work. People are often not familiar with the things around them, but they always feel that the things around them, and even the people around them, are very familiar.

Li Changgeng looked up, observing the electronic digital woman's words, body language, and facial expressions, and found that she only had a dozen or so behaviors, nothing else.

The idea that one can't sleep through the long night is absurd; it's daytime now, so talking about a long night is illogical.

Does he himself make sense?
Li Changgeng cannot refuse to go to work. He seems to have no intention of not wanting to go. He is like a digital human with a fixed program implanted in him, his mind is blank. It seems that he can only have new ideas through reminders from special people or inspiration from certain events. This is very strange. Is he not a human, but a digital human, or does he have a mental illness?

Li Changgeng began to doubt himself, realizing that something was very wrong, and that the entire KMS game company was also acting strangely.

When did all this begin? Li Changgeng couldn't recall when his memories started, which was very strange. The chaotic things he had experienced these past few days were even stranger. Was it possible that he was actually still in the [Mythical Descent] game world, that he had fallen asleep in the game and was dreaming, and that he was dreaming about the game again in his dream...?

This seems to be a vicious cycle. Li Changgeng is confused. He clearly saw the cat Seven Up, but in the end there was nothing. There was also a red countdown. What is going on?

There is another way to prove his idea and indirectly prove whether KMS Games really exists. Li Changgeng has thought about the question of whether the company exists for a long time.

At home, you can summon the Skeleton Reaper and the Golden Revolver using the Bronze Shrine cards in your mind. Is it possible to do this near a game company?

Li Changgeng tried, the bronze shrine with his name on it still in his mind, and the strangely shaped lock. Li Changgeng really wanted to open the lock and see what was inside the shrine.

I tried many times, but it just didn't work. I couldn't summon the Golden Revolver with card #14, nor the Skeleton Reaper with card #15, and the Hearse with card #9.

This is so strange! There's no reason, no logic, it doesn't make any sense at all.

Does this mean that Li Changgeng won't see a red countdown number in front of him near the company?

The buzzing in his ears made Li Changgeng's head throb. He slowly squatted down, holding his head in his hands. Whenever he delved into the logic of real-world problems, his head would ache terribly. It had happened before; he had tried to think about it before, but this time the pain was even worse.

Li Changgeng was about to faint.

"What's wrong, Chang Geng?" A pair of large hands grabbed Li Chang Geng's shoulders and helped him up.

"It's nothing." Li Changgeng's face was pale, and the tinnitus in his head gradually subsided. He could see clearly that the person in front of him was employee number 15. However, today he was wearing a different work uniform, a suit of similar color, with a white and blue striped shirt underneath, the kind worn by patients in mental hospitals.

"You're late again today?"

Li Changgeng shook his head, becoming much more awake. As long as he didn't try to grasp the deep, logical connection between reality, the game, and his dreams, his head wouldn't hurt.

Employee number 15 is an outstanding employee of KMS Games. According to the company's veteran employees, employee number 15 has been awarded the title of outstanding employee for three consecutive years. How could someone like that be late?

"There was a problem with the subway. It seems that a tabby cat was hit and killed. The tabby cat was pregnant and had three kittens in her belly that were about to be born. They were all turned into mincemeat. So the subway was stopped for about ten minutes to deal with the matter."

"Let's hurry up, or we'll lose our perfect attendance bonus and our quarterly bonus."

Li Changgeng followed employee number 15 toward the company gate.

Did he also see that tabby cat, Seven Up?

"The tabby cat you saw at that subway station?" Li Changgeng thought that employee number 15 didn't seem to be lying. No normal person would make such a joke.

"At the Xianhuagang subway station, many people condemned the driver. Quite a few people also took photos and videos," said employee No. 15, her brow twitching slightly with sadness.

That's strange!

Li Changgeng also saw the tabby cat at the Xianhuagang subway station, but after the subway passed over the tracks, the cat's body was not found.

"Which subway line did you take?" Li Changgeng thought it might be a coincidence. Perhaps they took different subway lines, and it just so happened that there was a cat. If they were taking the subway to work at KMS Company, and they were colleagues, they should both be taking the same subway line.

"I've been taking Metro Line 3, from Xianhuagang Station towards KMS Games, for over three years now." Employee number 15 passed through the steel turnstile using facial and iris recognition.

Li Changgeng was struck dumb. This was too strange. In the same place, at the same time, he saw the same tabby cat, but the results were completely different. Could it be that the two of them were in different parallel universes? Li Changgeng went through the turnstile, swiped his card at the elevator entrance to go to the 17th floor, while Lin Jiuge's office was on the 99th floor. Li Changgeng had to go to her office. He had to obey Lin Jiuge's orders unconditionally. This job at the game company was hard-won. Li Changgeng was counting on this job to save his sister, Li Ying.

No one has ever seen the big boss behind KMS Games; the person with the highest authority in the company is Lin Jiuge.

Li Changgeng couldn't remember why he came to work at KMS Games after graduating from university, or even the interview process.

After going up to the 17th floor and arriving at his office, Li Changgeng put down his laptop and prepared to go to the coffee shop to get some coffee.

"Hi!"

The buck-toothed girl suddenly popped out from behind the door.

Li Changgeng was startled, not because of the suddenness of the situation, but because the buck-toothed girl's long, donkey-like face was ridiculously ugly.

"Chang Geng, something's happened! The game company is in big trouble!"

(End of this chapter)