An infinite journey starting from paradise

"Oh, you're awake already?"

The girl put her face close to Lin Shangren who was lying on his back.

The girl in the white research coat had the exact same appearance as Hokariya, the only difference being that she had a mocking and bad expression on her face.

"Where am I? Haven't I already... I... Ababa Ababa Ababa..."

Looking at Lin Shangren, who was so confused that he couldn't even speak clearly, Fan Kariye smiled slightly. "It looks very chaotic. How do you feel, Mr. Lin, the unknown? It must feel good to vent your desires and violence in a fake world?"

"Not bad."

"what?!"

In the moment Fan Qiye was stunned, Lin Shangren suddenly reached out and grabbed her neck, instantly activating the Eagle Finger, with the effect set to "stunning pleasure." The next moment, Fan Qiye's legs were pulled out, her eyes rolled back, and she collapsed to the ground with saliva spitting out.

"Whew~ Although the virtual world is nice, I still prefer living in reality."

Lin Shangren sat up from the coffin-like sink, rubbed his neck which had become stiff from lying down for three days, and untied the collar around his neck using the method that Hehuan taught him in the virtual world.

"Can't you leave me some clothes? A pair of shorts would be fine... And the nutrient solution in this tank is so sticky and disgusting."

Complaining in his heart, Lin Shangren left the sink and accidentally stepped on a pool of warm yellow liquid that had just flowed out of Fan Qieye.

"Fuck, this is even more disgusting! Is this guy prone to incontinence?"

Lin Shangren rubbed his feet on Fan Qiye's chest with disgust, and then began to examine the pure white room.

This room is similar to the virtual world's white room, or rather, it is modeled after this one, except that the real-world white rooms do not have identical floor tiles.

The room held three transparent tanks. Besides the one Lin Shangren lay in, the other two held Aoi Nagetsuki and Shiwa Rika. Like Lin Shangren, these two were also naked, soaking in nutrient solution. However, they hadn't yet regained consciousness.

Several dark black data cables extended from the top of the transparent tank to the center of the room, ultimately connecting to a strange device. This uterus-shaped object was probably the so-called Paradise System.

Lin Shangren took a few steps closer and through the translucent culture dish of the Paradise System, he saw the Albizia julibrissin, which was curled up upside down like a baby in the womb.

"There's still one person missing... Where's Rin? Could she be this uterus-shaped petri dish?"

My Lord, please carefully examine the wall in front of you on the right.

"wall?"

After hearing the system mother's prompt, Lin Shangren walked to the front of the pure white wall. The entire white wall seemed to be a whole, but a closer look revealed that it was full of very small cracks.

"There seems to be something out of place here. Is it a switch?"

He reached out and pressed a hard-to-find bulge on the wall. Then, accompanied by the "buzzing" sound of the machine running, the white wall slowly opened along the tiny cracks, revealing the hidden things inside.

"Rin...Rinyin?"

The person who entered Lin Shangren's sight was the almost invisible Bai Ye Lin Yin:

The lower half of her body was buried in the massive structure, as if she had been built into the wall. Her necrotic and deformed arms were clearly artificial, like a BJD doll with broken ball joints.

Her thin and skinny chest revealed delicate ribs, and her waist was so thin that it was impossible to tell whether any human organs were still inside her body.

Of all Rin's body, only her head still looked alive. Her long, smooth black hair coiled around her body like a snake, cascading down naturally from top to bottom.

No...that's not hair, it's just a black data cable and infusion tube, connecting Bai Ye Linyin's body to the device buried behind her, barely maintaining her life.

"Ah...you escaped...Isn't my current appearance scary?"

Lin Yin stretched out her arms towards Lin Shangren, but due to the aging of her prosthetic joints, her hands eventually fell down helplessly.

"I...it hurts...no...I'm so happy, so happy, so happy..."

Mumbling strange words, Linyin slowly closed her eyes and fell into sleep again.

"..."

Although he had already deduced that Hehuan and Linyin might have suffered a lot of inhuman treatment in the virtual world, after actually seeing her miserable appearance, Lin Shangren... was extremely angry.

"That's why she longs for freedom and wants to experience all kinds of feelings..."

Lin Shangren clenched his fists.

At this moment, the sound of sails slicing leaves came from behind him:

"I say, why did you wake her up? As a failed waste, her performance has almost reached its limit. It's better for us not to disturb her."

"Sail mori leaves!!!"

"Ah la~ How could Shangren-kun be so mean to his childhood sweetheart?"

Fan Kariye smiled and raised his pistol towards Lin Shangren.

"Luckily, I took precautions against the accidents that happened during the previous game and installed a function on my collar that would forcibly wake me up after a nervous system overload. Otherwise, I would have fallen into your trap."

She approached Lin Shangren step by step. "Controlling someone's nervous system through physical contact? What kind of thing is that? A superpower? The data clearly shows that you are just an ordinary human. Hmm~ It seems I'll have to do a thorough dissection of your body later."

Facing Fan Qiye's gun, Lin Shangren was not afraid.

Just now, when he left the water tank, just in case, Lin Shangren had already launched a set of "left straight kick, right whip kick and left jab". In other words, he had already stored up a sure-shot attack: just a flick of his finger would make Fan Qiye fall into coma again.

However, now is not the time.

"You did all this? Who are you?" Lin Shangren asked angrily.

"Me? I'm Fan Kariye, your favorite childhood sweetheart, hehe."

She looked at Lin Shangren with a playful smile: "Yes, I did everything. However, in the world of Paradise, the most outrageous person should be your He Huan, even though I am the victim."

"You... you really did. I filled you up like a cream puff, then strangled you and electrocuted you. How does it feel to be pounded into you? Do you like it?"

"Oh, it's just an experience in the virtual world, no different from a dream."

Even so, Fan Kariye's expression turned noticeably unfriendly: "Oh, come to think of it, all of this stems from a dream over twenty years ago."

"A dream from twenty years ago? What does this mean?"

"Huh?" Fan Qiye covered his face and laughed, "So you really don't know anything. It seems... Hehuan just recognized the wrong person. Haha, this is really funny."

"What are you talking about? What on earth does this even mean?!"

"Hehe... Well~ then I'll let you be a fool." Fan Qiye looked at Lin Shangren provocatively.

[Okay, it's time for my favorite villain to die from talking too much.]

Faced with the System Girl's sudden upstage, Lin Shangren complained in his heart, "Hey, could you please not spoil the fun at such a serious moment by jumping out? Your role isn't to just be the one making complaints, is it?"

【Sorry～(￣▽￣～)】

Fan Qiye naturally didn't know what Lin Shangren was thinking about, "human-computer interaction." She narrated slowly:

"Decades ago, a girl who attempted suicide fell into a vegetative state. She continued to live in her own dream world.

However, her family spent all their money to send her to the Hospital affiliated with the Center for Comprehensive Research in Life Sciences for treatment so that she could wake up one day.

Many years later, a researcher named Hokari Ei, my father, successfully visualized the girl's dream.

The girl’s dream was so happy that it was beyond words. Anyone who saw it would be deeply attracted.

Then my father suggested that using this girl might help him realize his imagination, and then put his real self into hibernation and live there forever, in a world of eternal happiness, which is called Paradise.

Many years later, the entire theme park system was finally completed.

With the girl as the core of the living body, her brain wave state is directly transmitted to the successor through technical means, so that the successor can also experience the girl's incomparable happiness.

The girl who is the core of the body is also called "Sleeping Beauty"

'name.

But all we can see now is Sleeping Beauty’s dream. The next step is to virtualize everything in Sleeping Beauty’s dream and create a customizable paradise world.

A few years later, a brilliant programmer emerged who successfully used a computer to materialize the imaginary reality of dreams. This person was Suzumoto Emi, who later became Hokari Ei's wife and my mother.

Soon, the Paradise system began to spread and gain popularity among the upper classes. After all, no one could resist a virtual reality world where they could do whatever they wanted. In Paradise, people could freely unleash their desires and violence, and things they would dare not do in reality could be easily realized in Paradise.

By using the park system, my father gathered a large number of powerful connections and built a community of interests with the park system as the core.

However... Sleeping Beauty, the core of the Paradise system, is a human being after all. She will age and deteriorate. Therefore, before she completely breaks down, the organization must find or create a perfect replacement.

So, those powerful people began to set up various experimental institutions in secret: this island, that abandoned research institute, and here, Liuqingguan Academy, and many other places.

Then, ten years ago, the long-running research finally bore fruit..."

Chapter 25: When did you get the illusion that I was caught in a mirage?

"The so-called results are Hehuan and Rinyin?"

"No, the result is just a happy marriage."

Hokariya looked at Rin'in on the wall, his eyes filled with disdain and contempt. "Bai Ye Rin'in, that name doesn't actually belong to the defective product behind you. It's the name of the Sleeping Beauty. And she's just a useless clone."

"Clone?"

"Yes, she's just a clone. Since the original Sleeping Beauty will gradually deteriorate due to aging, using her cells to clone a younger version of her should be the simplest and most direct solution. However, it doesn't work."

Fan Qiye shrugged and continued, "Like the cloned sheep, clones will soon die from rapid organ failure. Furthermore, while clones have the same brain structure as humans, they lack the same independent consciousness as humans. They can't even develop the two most basic instincts of eating and reproducing.

Dying quickly wouldn't be a big deal, just clone yourself a few more. But failing to generate independent consciousness is fatal: after all, the core of the Paradise system is Sleeping Beauty's consciousness, and without consciousness, you can't become a Sleeping Beauty replacement.

Come to think of it, my parents were pretty stupid. The Paradise system was clearly built based on Sleeping Beauty's consciousness, but they were obsessed with replicating her body. My idiot mom even lost her life because she was electrocuted by a malfunctioning petri dish while trying to save the last cloned embryo.

The final product they made is what is on the wall.

She doesn't suffer from premature organ aging, and despite having a lower sensitivity to emotions, she possesses human consciousness. However, she can't fully access the Paradise system. Because she doesn't possess the unique consciousness of Sleeping Beauty, she can't completely indulge in a beautiful dream.

At this point, Fan Kariye couldn't seem to contain himself and smiled crazily, "How foolish they are! They worked so hard for so long, risked their lives, and in the end, all they got was a piece of completely useless garbage.

Even more ironic is that this piece of junk was created by accident and cannot be replicated. In other words, not only can she not become the next Sleeping Beauty, but she can also not be used as a reference for perfecting human cloning technology.

But, this is not the funniest thing, Shang Renjun, do you know what the funniest thing is?"

Lin Shangren looked at Fan Qiye quietly. Through her previous discussion, Lin Shangren had confirmed that this woman was a complete anti-human pervert. In other words, he didn't need to show mercy to her later.

"Let me tell you," said Fan Kariye, "the funniest thing is, when he realized everything he did was futile, Fan Kari Ying went crazy and madly beat up the clone, which had been accelerated to about five or six years old. Beating, electric shocks... Under the intense pain, the clone's adaptability to the paradise system actually increased!

"Only after experiencing terrible pain can one become addicted to paradise." The original Sleeping Beauty chose suicide out of utter despair of the world. Unwilling to return to reality, she wove a world of absolute bliss in her mind, hiding there and never emerging. This is how she became a vegetable. Therefore, she became the core of the paradise system."

"Is it because of this discovery that he turned Rin into what she is now?"

Hokariya nodded. "Electric shock, amputation, vivisection... My father tortured her in the most brutal ways, making her experience unimaginable pain. But even so, she still couldn't become the perfect Sleeping Beauty.

Because simple pain is not enough, she must be made to despair, completely despair of this world.

However, this clone has never experienced even the slightest hope and happiness, so how could she be desperate? She is just living according to her biological instincts.

By the time that idiot realized this, it was too late. The clone had already been overwhelmed. The organization had no choice but to transform her into what she is now, hanging on to her life, barely able to serve as the secondary core of the Paradise system, assisting Sleeping Beauty's operation.

"Beast."

Lin Shangren clenched his fists. But he couldn't act yet. He hadn't yet learned the most important information.

"Hey, hey, hey, stop glaring at me like that. It's not me who made her like this." Fan Kariye said frivolously, "She should be thanking me. If I hadn't needed her for this experiment, if I hadn't asked the organization to transfer her, she would have been thrown into the trash long ago."

"This experiment refers to the series of perverted games in the virtual world just now. I'm curious, what is the purpose of your designing these? Why do you want me to violate you? It can't be that you just want to have wormwood, right?"

Facing Lin Shangren's provocation, Fan Kariye was neither angry nor annoyed. She just smiled and said, "How pitiful, Shangren-kun. You clearly know nothing, yet you still want to use vulgar words to regain some self-respect?

What you got was just a piece of fake data code, but I really fooled you. You promised me with a solemn oath to protect me, fought like crazy for me and others, and ultimately helped me accomplish everything. Hehe, you really are a reliable tool.

"what do you mean?!"

"Everything just now was done to make Hehuan the perfect Sleeping Beauty. Thank you, Shang Renjun. Thank you for killing the girl who had always regarded you as her spiritual support with hatred, making her completely despair of this world."

"Me? Her spiritual support?"

"Pfft hahahaha..."

Hearing Lin Shangren's question, Fan Qiye couldn't help but burst into laughter: "This is the funniest part, she, that idiot Zhenzhong Hehuan, she mistook you for someone else... Hahaha, she actually chose to bet with me for your life, hahaha..."

"Whoo~"

Tired of laughing, Fan Qiye let out a long sigh. She looked at Lin Shangren jokingly and said slowly, "Shangren Jun, do you know what Hehuan means to me? She is the murderer of my father.

Although my father invented the Paradise system, he wasn't the only one in the organization responsible for researching it. Just as he and my mother were on the wrong path of cloning Sleeping Beauty, another group of people had already realized that the key point was Sleeping Beauty's consciousness.

Through research and investigation, they finally found a little girl in an orphanage whose consciousness and brain waves were extremely similar to Sleeping Beauty. They brought Hehuan back to the organization and began to study and train her, hoping that she could become the next generation of Sleeping Beauty.

Although Hejuan was highly adaptable to the park system, she still couldn't completely replace Sleeping Beauty. The researchers couldn't find the reason, so they could only raise Hejuan while continuing the experiment.

It was at this time that my father discovered the power of pain and despair. He handed over the clone that could become the secondary core to the organization, hoping that he could take over the research on Hehuan.

However, the organization rejected him.

The cloning program consumed a huge amount of financial and material resources, but in the end all that was obtained was a useless defective product. The organization no longer trusted him.