diskusbooks #304 - Cyber's Wife Is Getting More and More Wrong (2 in 1 Order Request)
#304 - Cyber's Wife Is Getting More and More Wrong (2 in 1 Order Request)
"Shouldn't be... right?" Tao Xueran said hesitantly.
"Are you sure? Even accidentally getting spores or pollen from those plants on your clothes is a no-go."
"P-Probably didn't get any."
Wang Fanqie breathed a sigh of relief.
If it constituted a species invasion, that would be terrible. Just that Devil Vine alone could stir up a huge mess.
Tao Xueran muttered, "The metaverse you created has a far greater impact on humanity than a single Devil Vine."
Wang Fanqie stared at the girl's soaking wet appearance, and urged her to take a shower first.
"What are these?" Tao Xueran asked curiously, seeing the bottles and jars in the bathroom.
"Don't you future people even know how to use shower gel?"
"In the future, many city dwellers have never enjoyed bathtubs or shower gel. The 'Cocoon's' cleaning function is enough for them.
In that era, the lower and middle classes had given up on real-world enjoyment, investing all their income in upgrading Cocoon equipment and spending on virtual items in the metaverse."
The comments section lit up:
"That sounds like some people who would rather eat instant noodles in real life to spend money for their waifu in the game."
"Oh my god, that's me."
After fiddling with things for a while, the girl asked:
"How do you wash your hair?"
"Huh? You wet your hair, then use... shampoo."
Wang Fanqie was stunned. Could his cyberpunk wife be genuinely retarded?
The girl seemed a little embarrassed:
"So in the 21st century, you humans don't wash your hair upside down?"
"Why do you think humans would wash their hair upside down? That's not common sense."
Tao Xueran said confidently:
"I'm not just making things up. Our historians accidentally unearthed a machine used for washing hair while conducting ancient site research in northern China.
It was this machine that led historians to propose this bold hypothesis."
With that, she began to gesture to the appearance of the machine: a large iron bed, paired with a device like a front-loading washing machine.
"Oh, I get it."
Wang Fanqie used the computer in the game to open D station and searched for a video of Geng the Handyman's upside-down washing machine.
"Yes, that's the machine! It's exactly like the one in the history textbook. You still say you don't wash your hair like that."
Comments: "Hahahaha, my stomach hurts from laughing."
Wang Fanqie rubbed his temples:
"Let me put it this way, making this machine wasn't really for washing hair; it was just for entertaining the public.
Logically speaking, entertainment should be more developed in your era. Aren't there any professional comedy bloggers?"
Tao Xueran shook her head:
"In our era, other than the two-point line of commuting to work, everyone's entertainment is lying in the culture pod manufactured by the Peach Blossom Garden."
Peach Blossom Garden again...
Wang Fanqie:
"In short, many archaeological discoveries in your era may not reflect real life.
Let me give you an example: some YouTubers like to dig holes by hand in uninhabited areas.
You know digging holes, right? The outrageous thing is that they don't build simple little caves, but things like underground palaces, with living rooms, bedrooms, and even swimming pools and gardens.
If these things are unearthed in the future, they will probably mislead your archaeological direction again."
Tao Xueran nodded, seeming to understand.
"But what is their purpose in doing this?"
"..."
Wang Fanqie really didn't know how to explain the concept of "fun-seekers" to her.
...
In the following days of the game, the girl slowly settled down in Wang Fanqie's house.
However, she was still full of fear and defensiveness towards Wang Fanqie.
She secretly observed Wang Fanqie's life with a diary, and continued to look for opportunities to eliminate Wang Fanqie several times, but in the end, they all turned into giving Wang Fanqie benefits.
Wang Fanqie followed the game prompts, constantly performing actions such as [Cooking], [Housework], and [Gifts] to increase the girl's favorability.
After a week, he finally managed to reduce the killing intent by 10 points and increase the favorability by 5 points.
However, Wang Fanqie still discovered during the game that there was a very big problem in trying to capture this girl and reduce her killing intent!
This girl knew absolutely nothing about many things in this era, such as clothing, food, housing, and transportation, and needed to be taught from scratch.
Comments: "So it's a raising simulator game, interesting."
On the weekend of game time, Wang Fanqie bought a burger and cola combo from the game.
Tao Xueran tasted a bite of the burger, her beautiful eyes wide.
"So, people in the 21st century are so happy to be able to eat such delicious things."
"How should I put it, quite the opposite. What we're eating tonight is considered high-calorie junk food by many people.
Don't you 24th-century people eat similar fast food? Logically speaking, after 300 years of development, the food industry should be more developed.
For example, the shining pearl of the modern fast-food industry—the hamburger—is the result of technology and 'ruthless additives'."
"We have nutrient paste."
Tao Xueran gestured to him.
It was a type of compressed food similar to fruit puree, with no taste or texture, but it could supply the necessary nutrients for the day.
"People who live in the Cocoon don't even eat nutrient paste. All the necessary vitamins and minerals are injected intravenously."
Wang Fanqie sighed:
"Listening to you, wouldn't that kind of life be too boring, like zombies locked in a narrow culture pod, unable to eat, unable to experience various sports, unable to hold the hand of the person you like, and unable to take an impromptu trip."
"No, quite the opposite."
Tao Xueran shook her head:
"I ask you, what is the principle behind why we feel something is 'delicious' when we eat it now?"
"Hmm... let me think. It's probably because the taste buds are stimulated by the food, transmitting electrical signals to the brain's nerve center, guiding the brain to secrete dopamine and produce a sense of pleasure."
"Yes, so you should understand the brain-computer interface principle of Peach Blossom Garden.
It directly intercepts the transmission of nerve signals from the back of the neck.
In other words, the game pod replaces the original body, transmitting all sensations to the brain, and these sensations are no different from the body's signals."
Wang Fanqie understood the general idea and explained in the live broadcast:
"If that's the case, then indeed, people living in the metaverse will truly feel like they are living in a real world."
Comments:
"I didn't expect Peach Blossom Garden to do such a terrible thing in the future."
"Wake up, upstairs, this is just a game setting, you're getting too into it."
Tao Xueran continued to recall:
"The allure of Peach Blossom Garden's metaverse is more than just that. If it were just simply simulating another real world, then why bother?
Its magic lies in the fact that all of humanity's feelings are higher than reality! After all, biological electrical signals are controlled by programs and can be freely modified."
She finished the fries and licked her lips contentedly:
"For example, you can modify your appearance, age, and even gender. You can do many things that you can't do in the real world, such as falling in love, getting married, and all the experiences are no different from reality, even better than reality.
After all, you can customize the abilities of virtual characters at will, one-click recharge."
"Tell me more about one-click recharge..."
Wang Fanqie wanted to ask further, but ultimately held back.
"You can even provide a picture to customize your wife, and she will live with you like a real person for hundreds of years...
This function is not limited to humans. For example, the most popular in the Peach Blossom Garden metaverse are fox girls and cat girls. The NPC force 'Qingqiu Country,' which operates the metaverse, is a bunch of charming fox women."
"If what you're saying is true, no wonder humanity will perish."
Wang Fanqie thought, compared to the world of Peach Blossom Garden, the real world is indeed too boring.
He sighed, "I still don't want to believe that Peach Blossom Garden Company would make such a terrible thing..."
The reason he used the word terrible was because he understood that once humans truly lived forever in Peach Blossom Garden in the form of digital life, they would fall into an endless cycle of hell.
Because there are no new unknown mysteries in it. Even the smartest scientists will not have any scientific achievements.
Immortal humans can only indulge in the past thousands of years of civilization accumulation, constantly repeating the single life of enjoyment, and the civilization's technology tree is equivalent to being directly locked.
Tao Xueran quite agreed and continued to stab him in the back:
"More importantly, you are the creator of this terrible world."
"I don't admit it. I think your chuunibyou needs to be treated quickly."
In fact, Wang Fanqie had also been quietly observing Tao Xueran in the past week.
According to the information on her special forces dog tag, she was three years younger than him, 163cm tall, and her estimated bust, waist, and hip measurements were 88-59-89.
He sighed in the live broadcast:
"Although this girl claims to be a special forces soldier, I can feel that she is a girl who lacks a sense of security in her heart.
I saw her with tears in the corners of her eyes when she was still asleep when I passed by the bedroom door before.
Although she usually gives a feeling of icy distance from her attitude and behavior, she occasionally shows shyness.
For example, when it comes to mealtime, no matter how unhappy she was before, she will smile through her tears when she smells the aroma of the food.
In short, other than being a bit clumsy and silly, there are no other shortcomings in her personality."
The live broadcast room started to stir up:
"It's over, Teacher Fanqie is completely moved."
"Wake up, this is just a cyberpunk virtual person."
"But from another perspective, the fact that it can make players truly feel emotional shows that this game is indeed well made."
Wang Fanqie:
"The reason I think she lacks a sense of security is because I noticed the special forces belt that Tao Xueran wears.
In addition to the laser sword and the strange egg-shaped gun, I also saw other strangely shaped items. But she doesn't want to mention these items in front of me.
Anyway, it's probably cosplay props bought online, right?"
...
Wang Fanqie didn't want to delve too deeply into it.
However, that night, as he sat in the living room, the corner of his eye caught something unbelievable outside the window!
If he had to describe it, its appearance was a bit like a "tentacle," similar to the metal mechanical prosthetic limbs used by Doctor Octopus in the sci-fi movie "Spider-Man."
When he caught sight of it, its slender spherical joints at the end were twisting flexibly.
Wang Fanqie's face turned pale. He rubbed his eyes and looked out the window again, but found nothing.
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Unwilling to give up, he directly pushed open the window and looked around, but to no avail.
"Oh my god, did you just see that, a tentacle!"
When Wang Fanqie turned around, he found Tao Xueran holding her hand in the air, seemingly remotely controlling something.
Unexpectedly, Wang Fanqie turned around so quickly. Tao Xueran smiled awkwardly, pretending to wipe her mouth with a tissue.
"I didn't see anything. Are you just working too hard and seeing things?"
"Ah? Really..."
...
At first, Wang Fanqie also thought it was his imagination,
Until two days of game time passed,
He and the girl were happily eating and improving their favorability when they suddenly heard a crackling sound outside the window again.
"What the hell is that noise..."
Looking intently, he saw the mechanical tentacle dancing madly outside the window again.
He immediately shouted, "Miss Tao, look outside the window!"
Tao Xueran's expression obviously tightened.
Soon, the tentacle disappeared into the dense night.
"Are you too nervous? It's so late, it might just be branches blowing in the wind."
Wang Fanqie also fell into self-doubt. Once was fine, but how could he be wrong every time?
Comments: "Streamer, pay attention to moderation, don't reward yourself so frequently."
...
On Thursday, when Wang Fanqie was drying the girl's clothes on the balcony, he suddenly caught sight of that mechanical tentacle poking its head in from outside the window, twisting into an S-shape arrogantly in front of him.
This time, with the help of the sunlight, he finally saw what that thing was.
This was a mechanical device with a very sci-fi appearance, but from Wang Fanqie's perspective, he could only see the tentacle part and could not see the whole picture.
The surface of the tentacle had a metallic matte texture. At the spherical joint at the very end of the tentacle, there was a miniature camera, looking face to face with him.
"Holy crap!"
Wang Fanqie's first reaction when he saw this thing was to swing the clothes drying pole at it.
Clang!
The clothes drying pole slammed heavily on the anti-theft bars. The tentacle was more agile than imagined and quickly disappeared without a trace.
Wang Fanqie stared blankly at the bottom of the balcony, his heart full of doubts.
"What happened?"
Tao Xueran heard the sound on the balcony and hurried over.
At this time, she was wearing the pleated skirt and knee-high socks that Wang Fanqie had bought her in the game's clothing store, and she was wearing white rabbit slippers on her feet. The sunlight penetrated the black stockings, and her jade-like toes were faintly visible.
But Wang Fanqie was not in the mood to appreciate those silk stocking-covered beautiful feet right now.
"I... saw that tentacle again."
Wang Fanqie rubbed his eyes, his face full of lingering fear. He didn't want to put down the clothes drying pole, in case that thing launched a sneak attack.
"Ah? I didn't see anything. Are you having heatstroke?"
Wang Fanqie waved his hand. Such a real texture, how could it be a hallucination.
He finally couldn't help but ask, "Miss Tao... are you... hiding something from me?"
Tao Xueran's pupils suddenly shrank, and a look of panic flashed across her face for a moment, but she quickly regained her composure.
"What are you talking about? Nothing's going on."
Wang Fanqie looked at Tao Xueran's eyes and felt that her performance was a bit unnatural, but he didn't want to press her too much.
After all, he had no evidence in hand. Not to mention questioning Tao Xueran, even if he called the police now, the police would at most treat him like a lunatic and send him home.
So, he decided to first find a way to launch a sneak attack on this tentacle to see if he could capture it.
...
The game time came to late Friday night. After Wang Fanqie waited for Tao Xueran to fall asleep, he forcibly stayed awake.
He rubbed his sleepy eyes and walked to the bathroom.
Moonlight shone in from the window. When he turned on the faucet to wash his face, suddenly, a familiar clicking sound came from outside the window, instantly waking him up.
He cautiously approached the window and saw the tentacle sticking its head in from outside.
A gleam of excitement flashed in his eyes.
The audience was shocked: "Holy crap, it's really there!"
Before, every time he saw this mechanical tentacle, it disappeared without a trace under Tao Xueran's cover.
This time, he decided not to alarm Tao Xueran.
"Good, good, don't move ~"
Wang Fanqie operated the VR sensing glove, raised his hand to appease it, just like coaxing a husky. The camera at the end of the mechanical tentacle turned around, but it did not immediately escape, but stared at Wang Fanqie curiously.
Wang Fanqie quietly picked up the mop he had prepared from the corner. He gripped the mop, his palms sweating nervously.
"Good, let me see..."
Taking advantage of the tentacle approaching the window again, he suddenly swung the mop and smashed it hard with a nimble movement.
Crackling!
The opponent was hit instantly, and dazzling sparks began to appear on its body.
The tentacle made a panicked twist, quickly sank, and disappeared from the window.
However, the attack just now caused a small part to fall from the tentacle.
Wang Fanqie picked it up and checked it, and found that it was the spherical camera at the end of the tentacle.
[Obtained item "Damaged Eyeball Part", maybe a technician can analyze it]
He glanced at the direction of the bedroom and silently put the camera into his pocket.
Then, he pretended to go to sleep, quietly put his ear close to the bedroom door, and peeked inside through the crack in the door.
Tao Xueran was half-lying on the bed, her cheek resting against the pillow.
Soft silk sheets gently covered her curvy body.
She was not asleep, a pair of pupils nervously staring at the half-open door, observing every move in the living room.
Her eyes flickered with a dark light, like a cat at midnight, biting her red lips tightly, for fear of making a sound.
"Heh, this man is smarter than I thought. I originally wanted him to slowly accept reality and trust me, but I didn't expect things to progress faster than I thought. It seems I need to speed up the repair progress."
Wang Fanqie's face turned pale when he heard this.
The audience laughed: "Hahaha, your cyber-wife is playing tricks on you."
...
The next day, during breakfast, neither of them mentioned what happened last night.
Wang Fanqie's gaze involuntarily drifted to the window, looking at the place where the tentacle appeared last night, and a sense of inexplicable unease surged in his heart.
Tao Xueran suddenly said:
"The weather is nice. If you have time, I'd like to go shopping."
This surprised him, because this girl rarely took the initiative to go shopping before.
"Is there anything you want to buy?"
"No, I just want to familiarize myself with the neighborhood."
A sly light flashed in the girl's eyes.
Wang Fanqie's expression was complicated.
"Brothers, the girl's expression feels like she's saying, it's time to strike..."