"The game, I'm working on it, I'm working on it."
Tony Stark took a step back.
Stumbling into the lab table, he almost overturned a metal container, causing the liquid nano armor to start leaking.
"Isn't it… didn't you say the demo would be released next month?"
Tony turned to hold the metal container and asked in a panic.
"Yes, I gave you a month."
"But the problem is… it's already the second month."
Aron made a face.
Seeing Tony's panicked expression.
Nine times out of ten, the holographic game he commissioned was still a new folder!
"Eh, Aron, actually, I... I can understand you."
"For someone as busy as you, there's usually not enough time, I understand you."
Aron patted Tony's shoulder understandingly.
He continued:
"But it's okay, I can figure it out for you."
"I can teleport you to a dimension without the concept of time, hundreds of thousands of years inside, less than a second outside, so you can slowly study it alone inside."
When Aron said that, Tony's face turned green.
A place without the concept of time, where you would stay for hundreds or thousands of years?
Who wouldn't go mad if this isn't madness?
"No, no, I really worked on the game!"
"It's really not a new folder, really, I wouldn't lie to you!"
So that Aron wouldn't send him to some strange dimension,
Tony had to reluctantly present the game demo that wasn't ready yet.
"That super AI called Mother."
"It uses a completely different numerical logic from ours."
"At first I wanted to imitate the matrix world it created and make a matrix empire that would be ours, but as a result…"
Tony paused as he spoke.
He showed Aron to bring over a helmet, a brain–computer interface in the shape of a helmet.
"This launcher is also too ugly."
Aron pushed the helmet away in disgust.
Then he decided to remotely inject his consciousness directly into Tony's console system.
It's kind of like an out-of-body experience.
That is to say…
It's more like the telepathy Professor X uses.
Aron did not simulate this ability using the power of the universal wish machine Morning Star.
Instead, it's a new ability he gained after wearing the Serpent Crown of Set.
It's no exaggeration to say: after putting on the Serpent Crown, Aron directly became one of the strongest telepaths in the Marvel worldview, trampling even those used by Professor X.
Even if he took off the Serpent Crown of Set…
Telepathy in the normal state would not be weaker than that of the White Queen and the like.
"It's ugly, but we're in the testing phase now, it can be changed later."
Tony awkwardly lifted his helmet and started the console.
In the next moment…
Aron felt that part of his consciousness entered another world.
After a period of boring black screen loading.
Blue sky, white clouds, meadows…
Everything is like in the real world.
Aron could even feel the fresh breath coming from the grass.
"Very good, what's the problem?"
In the basement, Aron asked.
With his current strength, it's no problem at all to split his consciousness in two and multitask.
"There really is no problem with the construction of the scene."
"The matrix's matrix world will automatically generate and refine the scene, the level of detail is comparable to the normal world, in any case, it's much better than manual modeling."
"The problem is…"
said Tony Stark.
He opened the operation page on the console and clicked once.
In the next second.
In the game world of blue sky and white clouds, an NPC appeared out of nowhere.
A female character in medieval attire.
"Hello, how can I help you?"
The character came to life.
Her voice was as clear as a bell.
The smile on her face was also kind and sweet.
In any case, Aron didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this NPC character.
Until he moved two steps to the side.
"Hello, how can I help you?"
Aron had already moved aside.
The female NPC was still smiling into the void.
She continued to repeat the mechanical greeting in a bell-like voice.
"What the hell?"
Aron approached her and patted her on the shoulder.
Touched here, touched there, even tapped her on the forehead.
But he still got that mechanical:
"Hello, how can I help you?"
"…"
Aron pulled his consciousness back and exited the game world.
Tony Stark smiled awkwardly.
He explained:
"In the original Matrix there is no NPC setting."
"Everyone inside is real people, only the world is fictional."
"The super AI called Mother wanted to trap human consciousness in a virtual world that way, but we're making a game and can't use real people to play NPCs, so…"
Tony finished.
Roughly meaning that copying the Matrix won't work.
Because he can't solve the problem that NPCs are too rigid and out of sync with the environment.
And the problem gets worse as the environment becomes more realistic.
The more realistic the scene,
the faker the impression created by the NPC's rigid behavior, and it becomes more serious.
The end result is that creepy atmosphere.
"It looks like a problem, but have you thought… aren't the NPCs rigid because the program isn't smart enough?"
"What if we shove the super AI Jarvis into the game and make him play the NPCs?"
"Wouldn't that solve the problem?"
Aron offered a way to solve the problem.
But Tony shook his head.
"I've already tried."
"If we make a small game, even if the number of NPCs is in the thousands, with Jarvis's computing power we can play them like real people, but we want to make a Second World…"
"There are too many units involved."
"Besides NPCs, there are birds and beasts, and even the fish in the sea require a complete action logic set and behavior motivation."
"That's computing large enough to break any super AI."
When Tony finished, he rubbed his eyes, pretending to be tired.
In the meantime.
He secretly observed Aron through his fingers.
He wanted to know whether his words had won Aron's understanding.
However.
After listening, Aron had only one thought.
"One super AI can't calculate it, right?"
"Fine!"
Aron waved his hand and said: "Eternity."
Just as he said that,
the cosmic entity Eternity appeared in an instant.
"I'm here, what are your orders?"
"I remember you said earlier that you can open channels and send people to the universes of all other worlds they've previously had contact with, right?"
"That's right, what do you need?"
"Nothing, I think it's time to go to other works as well."