Great Place

Good, not 'Amuro', not 'blond hair and brown-skinned', it's very different from the characteristics of the snooper Suzuki Sonoko mentioned.

Out of a simple shock that an ordinary person feels, Ichijō Mirai temporarily stopped considering the disguise operation and just nodded calmly, "Please keep it for now, Auntie."

He turned his head even more calmly and left, escaping the already unclean kitchen as quickly as he could.

The incident was so shocking that not only Ichijō Mirai and Ishida Eiko, who were humans, but also the customer service fell into a long silence. When Ichijō Mirai turned on his computer again, he found a long ellipsis on the computer screen.

The customer service was stunned and shut up: [...]

"Japanese people are really amazing, right?" Ichijō Mirai sat down at the desk and took the initiative to speak, reviewing his almost unthinking judgment and confirming, "Are you human or AI?"

Some players who spend a lot of money have private human customer service, who can respond in seconds at any time 24 hours a day, and will receive a friendly reply no matter what you send.

[…Yes, I was deeply shocked by the brilliant operation of the Japanese.]

It's 'brilliant', it's 'shocking'.

Customer Service: [I'm not human...]

It was silent for a few seconds, with a long ellipsis frozen on the screen. When the dialog box popped up again, it was a few seconds faster: [The game is undergoing maintenance and bug fixes, please wait a moment before logging in.]

[Please do not intentionally reload too often. Whether it is reloading, getting injured, dying, etc., it will not affect you. However, when you reload too many times, the interface will become slightly hot when you first enter the game.]

It's the wound on the back of the neck.

Ichijō Mirai ignored it, and it stayed like a red mole, heating up every time he logged in or out of the game.

He rubbed his finger over the cut on the back of his neck and asked perceptively, "You're playing the dialog box very fast, are you trying to put something dirty on it?"

[Regarding the question of time you just raised, there can be a more complementary answer...]

The customer service popped up the dialog box faster and faster, getting closer and closer to the goal of making the long 'Shut up' ellipsis pop up on the screen.

[Although the game has a basic plot and a new plot that players participate in, when the player starts to touch time to change the past, the memory of the person involved will be temporarily overwritten, and he will not be able to recall the basic plot for the time being, and only remember the new plot that the player has started.]

That is to say, when a player loads the game on Monday and plays his game, and then immediately loads it on Friday and encounters the NPC that existed on Monday, the NPC will only remember the player's behavior on Monday, and will have no memory of the player on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

[This is the beginning.]

In the beginning, when the player is less involved and it is easier to block the memory, the NPCs will blank out Tuesday through Thursday.

However, if they continue to be involved, and gradually deepen to the point where they simply can't go on, the NPCs will remember the player's playthroughs on Monday and Friday, and the basic plot of Tuesday through Thursday, but will be more vague about some of the key links.

The customer service explains it this way: [Because of your contribution, this game is a game with infinitely close to 100% realism, and the NPCs have a high intelligence level.]

[Excessive intelligence brings not only convenience, but also inconvenience. A long period of no memories will make them confused.]

This explanation makes sense, but, uh.

"This game of yours," Ichijō Mirai crossed his arms, "I'm not going to think about whether it's scientific or not, whether it's up to date or not."

"...But it's not like it's going to cause problems like 'artificial intelligence awakening' at the end of the 20th century, is it?"

That's too much!

Customer Service: [...]

[Of course not.]

[Please don't worry, no matter what, there will be no problems such as 'AI awakening'.]

[You have more to worry about than the 'AI awakening' problem...]

Similar to Ishida Eiko's performance, the speed of the customer service dialog box popping up began to slow down: [Because this game is an adult game, there are not many restrictions on players, only some restrictions, and the display of blood and other things also refers to reality and is in line with reality.]

High EQ: refer to reality and align with reality.

Low EQ: No coding at all.

Ichijō Mirai raised an eyebrow, "So?"

[For your efforts,] the customer service emphasized, [When the NPC was initially set up, it was set up to imitate real humans. Human society is a spider web, and one action will cause a chain reaction.]

[NPCs will react accordingly to your behavior. Please be careful during the game and do not act too weird and out of human nature. Try to hold yourself to human standards to avoid yandere-like romance, being chased, and other outrageous plots.]

Also avoid from encountering former classmates from the police academy who hacked into your account and performed outrageous operations in broad daylight. It sounds outrageous at first glance, and it is even more outrageous when you analyze it carefully. When you think about it again and again, you will find it even more outrageous.

Seeing the example given by the customer service, Ichijō Mirai narrowed his eyes, "Are you trying to say..."

"The outrageous plot of 'colleagues wish they could kick the player into the police camp and never let him come back to harm the organization again'?"

Customer Service: [...]

It's really quite outrageous.

There are all sorts of reasons why an undercover agent on the black side goes into the police force, but 'being kicked out by a coworker for being too black' is still too far out of the realm of possibility.

Especially when the coworker is Gin.

It can only answer in a friendly way: [Yes, dear.]

"I personally think that some of the plots in the game are still not very reasonable," Ichijō Mirai said seriously, "The most unreasonable thing is that the black side is too soft-hearted."

He combined the above with the text, "He was so kind and soft-hearted that he actually became a 'bright place for further study'."

Moreover, "It's obviously a black organization, shouldn't it have all kinds of people? Shouldn't it have seen all kinds of cruel darkness?"

"How can you target players just because they're a little bit good."

Customer Service: [...]

Suggest you to reflect on yourself.

It ignored Ichijō Mirai's serious complaint in a long silence, and only said: [Player, please regulate your game behavior, be sure to perform some human behaviors, and try not to perform non-human behaviors.]

[Please act like a human being when going through the storyline.]

[Like...]

It politely, yet not politely, said goodbye. [The game is being updated. Please wait a moment before entering the game. If you need anything, you can use your watch to call customer service.]

The time now is afternoon.

Without correcting himself, Ichijō Mirai closed the computer and opened the window, looking out.

He controls his expression, controls his thoughts, and refrains from defining everything for the moment, sighing only, "Japan is a great place."

A great place with a lot of mysteries.

  1. 'black', 'red', and 'gray are commonly used in Chinese Conan series for camps, 'black' refers to the lawless, 'red' refers to the lawful, and 'gray' refers to the neutral, commonly used for characters that belongs to neither