我在無限遊戲裡封神 (Eng)

11. Reality

Chapter 35: Reality

Sure enough, the game had a higher authority than the real world and could tamper with facts in the real world. This was a world that had been tampered with and the selected players discovered this reality, but were forbidden to reveal the truth.

He just didn't know how far it went. It was easy to falsify and erase objectively existing things such as deleting words written on paper or a Weibo post. This degree of erasing could be done by humans in the real world.

Bai Liu found his mobile phone with the broken screen that he wasn't willing to change and called a friend. Before the other person could react, he quickly said everything he encountered. The friend listened and once Bai Liu finished, he put his hand on the table and knocked, counting down casually, "7, 6, 5..."

"Why are you counting down? Continue telling me about what happened to you! F*k, is this true? You didn't make it up? It is too exciting-"

Bai Liu looked down. "-3-2-1."

His friend's voice abruptly stopped before sounding confused. "Eh Bai Liu, why are you calling me? Huh? When did I answer your call? I have no impression at all!"

"It's nothing." Bai Liu spoke casually. "I was just thinking of you and gave you a call."

Seven seconds was the time from when Bai Liu sent the Weibo post to when the last word completely disappeared. He made a special note of it but he didn't expect that the game could easily tamper with non-objective things like human memory. Moreover, it only took seven seconds to complete the tampering. It seemed that tampering with a person's memory was no more difficult for the game than tampering with a piece of data.

"I'm nauseous. Bai Liu, people like you can only think about money. Don't make me sick." This friend obviously understood Bai Liu very well. He joked before asking, "Seriously, why did you think about calling me. Is there something?"

"I was thinking about a question. Lu Yizhan, do you think a person's memory is only seven seconds?" Bai Liu tapped his fingers on the table as he wrote down his experiences in the game on a piece of paper. Then he watched the words disappear one after another.

Lu Yizhan's voice sounded a bit confused. "Why are you suddenly thinking about this type of philosophical question? In addition, isn't your question wrong? Isn't the original saying that a fish's memory is only seven seconds?"

"Did I remember incorrectly?" Bai Liu lazily stretched his body. "Perhaps. After all, there are only seven seconds of memory and it is normal to remember things incorrectly. Eh, is it possible that the original sentence is 'a human's memory is only seven seconds' and it was tampered into 'a fish's memory is only seven seconds' by something to fool us humans who only have seven seconds of memory?"

Lu Yizhan was accustomed to Bai Liu saying strange things after becoming unemployed and didn't know if he should laugh or cry. "What are you thinking about after becoming unemployed? In any case, I was paid today. I will invite you to dinner. Don't think about humans, fish and seven seconds of memory. If everyone only has seven seconds of memory then what to do when you ask us to recite French clauses every day?"

"If you are inviting me to dinner then I will naturally come." Bai Liu casually threw the coin around his neck back into his shirt and was chilled by the cold touch that was different from the coin. It was the Siren King's scale pressing against his heart. Before Bai Liu hung up, he couldn't help asking, "If a person's memory is only seven seconds and a fish's memory is only seven seconds, tell me, how many seconds is a merfolk's memory?"

"Why are you still struggling over this question and even pulling out the merfolk?" Lu Yizhan let out a helpless laugh. "According to your hypothesis, the memory of a human and fish is only seven seconds so the memory of a merfolk must definitely be shorter. Perhaps only a few tenths of a second?"