Pokémon Dev Chapter 144: [145] : Mewtwo's Confusion, Customer Service

Just as excitent filled Kairos's heart, a system notification appeared before his eyes:

[Detected that your selected unit has activated ga connection. Use monitoring function to view their ga status?]

Seeing this notification, Kairos was stunned for a mont, then ca to his senses.

It seed that while the invitation card couldn't view the "player's" surroundings in real-ti, the player's situation within the ga could be clearly observed. This was a good thing.

And if this was possible, he could undoubtedly more smoothly execute his plan to disguise as ga "custor service" and guide wtwo.

He directly clicked confirm on the floating window before him.

The next mont, Kairos felt his consciousness blur as he entered a peculiar state.

A black panel floated before his eyes - obviously, that was wtwo's ga interface.

Unfortunately, he still couldn't see wtwo's current condition or hear sounds and movents from wtwo.

But actually, this was already sufficient.

Kairos waited quietly.

Before him, the black window soon suddenly lit up, and Erald's CG began playing.

Watching the familiar scene before him, Kairos couldn't help feeling emotional.

He never imagined that after crossing into this world, he'd have the opportunity for his childhood hero to personally play his own ga.

And it was Ultimate Erald too - It almost seed unreal.

Indeed, people can never imagine where they'll be standing or what they'll be doing a year from today.

anwhile, on the other side, in the laboratory.

wtwo only felt his consciousness sink into another world as bizarre images began unfolding before him like before.

Only this ti the images were clearly visible - on a verdant lawn, a human girl was riding a bicycle, dancing in sunlight, with several different-looking Pokémon following beside her.

"These... should also be Pokémon."

Looking at those life forms, wtwo narrowed his eyes slightly.

But these didn't seem very similar to the Pokémon in his understanding.

Why did they all look so joyful?

According to the information and mories in his mind, Pokémon should be tools controlled by humans, existing to serve humans, with no reason to possess their own consciousness and emotions.

This was one of the reasons wtwo was troubled by his own existence. From the mont he heard that voice, even from the mont his consciousness was first born, he had felt the emotion of "confusion."

But as a Pokémon, shouldn't he not possess these things?

What was the situation with these fellow Pokémon?

While wtwo's heart was filled with confusion, the animation before him continued playing. Finally, the perspective pulled back, and in brilliant white light, a huge window appeared -

"Pokémon Erald" - accompanied by the sudden appearance of a dragon-like phantom.

The mont he saw that phantom, wtwo's pupils couldn't help but contract sharply - his instincts felt a powerful sense of oppression and force from this phantom, making every newly born gene and cell in his body jump violently.

Since his birth, this was the first ti he'd felt such a thing.

But before he could think more, his vision went black again. That green phantom disappeared along with everything else, replaced by a familiar voice and two lines of golden text:

[Welco player to the world of Erald. Please choose your playing thod.]

[Playing thod 1: Virtual Desktop.]

As wtwo gazed at this text, the scenery around him began changing rapidly. The surrounding temperature seed to drop quickly, and he found himself in a wooden cabin with dancing winter snow outside the window.

In the fireplace before him, crackling flas emitted warm light, making his body feel sowhat comfortable.

Before him, that series of notifications continued refreshing:

[Selecting this gaplay, we will create your ideal gaming environnt. You can play the ga sitting before a computer screen in such an environnt.

Using this gaplay allows you to freely enjoy various different gaming environnts for a more comfortable experience, but will reduce so imrsion and realism.]

As soon as these words finished, the appearance of the wooden cabin around wtwo began changing rapidly again - from a treehouse in the forest to a high-rise villa under neon lights in the city...

Though he had never seen these scenes before, sohow they instinctively gave him a comfortable feeling.

After the surrounding scenery changed rapidly, it finally settled on the initial winter cabin. What erged next was another notification before wtwo:

[Gaming thod 2: Virtual Imrsive Play.]

[After selecting this play thod, you will enter the character's perspective as a player, join the ga world, and clearly and intimately enjoy the entire ga process. This play thod is recomnded to let you more closely feel the ga's charm, imrsively enter the ga, and enjoy everything.]

[Now, you may freely choose between these two play thods.]

...

anwhile, in the villa, Kairos, in monitoring state, naturally saw the scene before wtwo and couldn't help being stunned.

Was this invitation card so advanced?

Being able to create illusory gaming scenes out of thin air was already outrageous enough, but it could also let units receiving invitation card connections play gas imrsively?

Wasn't that no different from virtual reality?

But on second thought, given the system's capabilities, perhaps such things weren't difficult for it.

After all, those heaven-defying modules on his panel only showed levels of interdiate and low.

The system could even distribute rewards that didn't exist in the real world out of thin air, so compared to that, this really wasn't much.

But honestly, the scenery of those rooms the system created earlier was quite tempting, especially the snowy cabin wtwo was in now - living there would definitely be very comfortable.

He should ask the system if it could make one for him too when he had the chance...

While Kairos was sowhat distracted, wtwo also faced a choice.

Although he still didn't quite understand the situation, in those previous words, he had clearly caught key words - "imrsion," "involvent," "better understanding and comprehension."

The reason he appeared here was precisely to pursue the answers in his heart. That being the case, which option to choose was without question.

He used his psychic power and imdiately chose the latter.

The next mont, wtwo felt his consciousness being pulled from his body again. His vision brightened, and when he opened his eyes again, he was standing in darkness, surrounded by various scattered objects.

When he looked down, he couldn't help being startled -

His original body had disappeared, replaced by human appearance.

[So this so-called ga has turned into a human.]

wtwo frowned slightly, but his psychic power could still sense that he was only in an imrsive experience state, while his true body remained soaked in that laboratory's cultivation tank, unable to move.

After confirming this point, wtwo withdrew his consciousness. Though he had just been born into this world and didn't understand much about it, his powerful psychic abilities gave him an instinct to comprehend and master this force.

One of psychic power's strongest effects was making others sink into illusions created by psychic force, producing hallucinations and losing control of reality.

Looking at his current state, it was indeed sowhat similar.

This made wtwo feel sowhat uneasy and uncomfortable.

But thinking that the question might get an answer from this, he silently endured and reinvested his consciousness into that illusory world.

At this mont, a gentle female voice ca from outside the darkness, attracting his attention:

"Dream, moving was hard work. We've arrived at our new ho, co upstairs and set the alarm clock."

At this mont, wtwo's Erald journey officially began.

anwhile, unbeknownst to wtwo, Kairos was witnessing his Erald gaplay through the invitation card function.

It had to be said, wtwo's IQ was indeed quite high.

Even having just entered the ga, he perford much better than so novice players who had never encountered this ga before.

He quickly followed the system's guidance to successfully reach the second floor and set the required clock.

He even vigilantly searched around the room and quickly discovered the Potion and Poké Ball that Kairos had left in the computer.

This surprised Kairos sowhat:

wtwo bro really was wtwo bro!

The ga had sold over 300,000 copies, and it seed that before he started livestreaming, no one had discovered that this computer contained directly obtainable items.

But wtwo found them right away!

While thinking, wtwo had already controlled his character to visit the neighbor's house and was walking toward the grass above the town, about to trigger the "save Professor Birch, choose starter Pokémon" segnt.

However, at this mont, Kairos glanced at his panel and discovered that in wtwo's emotion values, the "confusion" indicator was rising sharply.

The data from this emotion showed capture ti when wtwo's character noticed that in the town above, there was a fat man with a Zigzagoon following behind him, leisurely strolling around town.

This was originally an ordinary NPC, but the mont wtwo observed him, wtwo's emotions fluctuated violently!

Only then did Kairos suddenly realize a huge problem:

When he originally created this ga, since the players were all people from the Pokémon world, there was naturally no need like in the original for Professor Birch to jump out with a Pokémon at the ga's start, telling everyone "this is a world where humans and Pokémon live in harmony" and "what Pokémon are."

So Kairos had directly deleted and simplified this segnt when making the ga.

But obviously, for wtwo, he knew almost nothing about the world he was currently in. Those Team Rocket people might even instill strange knowledge and information to better control him.

Now this deleted tutorial was especially important for wtwo, at least letting him understand what kind of world this was.

His confusion was probably due to everything he saw being different from his understanding.

Thinking of this, Kairos directly sent a ssage to wtwo through the invitation card.

The next mont, the electronic synthesized voice sounded again beside wtwo:

[Welco player to the ga. I am your ga assistant. If you have questions about situations within the ga, you may inquire with .]

Sure enough, after hearing this, wtwo spoke directly after brief silence - or strictly speaking, he used his psychic power to connect with this voice, like telepathy:

[I am human now, correct?]

[Strictly speaking, the character you are currently playing is human.]

[Then I should possess my own tools. Those Pokémon - they should beco my possessions, enslaved by , correct?]

Hearing this, Kairos couldn't help his mouth twitching - indeed Team Rocket hadn't instilled any good thoughts in wtwo.

Fortunately, he had discovered this tily enough. wtwo hadn't been completely brainwashed yet, so correction was still possible.

After brief consideration, he directly input a reply:

[I apologize, but as a ga player, you have the right to your own subjective thoughts. I cannot answer this question for you - you need to explore the answer yourself.

If you believe Pokémon should be tools enslaved by humans, then you may act accordingly; but if you believe what you've seen is completely different from this idea and can be practically implented, then that is the true answer.]

This response style really sounded like artificial intelligence, but its most crucial aspect was giving wtwo complete respect.

After all, for him now, everything he saw was completely inconsistent with the knowledge in his mind.

Forcible denial wasn't the most appropriate approach - instead, like he had considered before, he should let wtwo see for himself.

Sure enough, upon hearing this, wtwo fell into contemplation again.

His character turned to look at the NPC playing and frolicking with that Zigzagoon, and only after a while did he step forward toward the upper part of town.