Chapter 28

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

On Orange Planet, White Milk had yet to recover from the endless dream until now. She would recall the torture of being drowned in the ocean no matter if she opened or closed her eyes.

Those ferocious marine animals were a nightmare that she could never forget.

She looked exhausted as she sat on the chair. She sat there blankly and looked into the sky.

Ding, dong!

“There’s a guest visiting outside the door, master.” 

White Milk heard the home robot’s gentle female voice. She nodded and asked, “Who is it?”

“It’s Miss Sweetness,” the robot said.

Very soon, two exhausted girls sat on the balcony. They sat under the sunlight and felt slightly warmer now.

“You dreamed of the same thing too?” White Milk paused and spoke very slowly. She did not use to speak so slowly. However, since experiencing the terrifying dream, she was mentally weak. She did not have the strength to speak at all.

“Ocean water, endless ocean water. I dreamed of myself falling into the ocean water. I was dead, and revived, and dead again.” Miss Sweetness, who was sitting across the table, attempted to recollect the terrifying memory. She felt disgusted with every sentence she spoke. The reason being she recalled what happened when she died in the dream.

Without knowing why, Miss White suddenly felt invigorated. When she heard her friend having the same dream, she felt she was not alone.

However, the invigoration was fleeting, and she became pessimistic again.

The both of them had the same dream, which proved that it was not a coincidence. It was not her imagination either, but something that really had happened.

Since it had happened once, it might happen again.

“Why did we encounter such a terrifying thing? We were just sleeping in the game,” White Milk said while frowning.

“We were stuck in the ocean, and there was no logout button. It was frustrating.” The both of them were more and more stirred as they chatted. They found resonance for their souls.

“Let’s report the game company together. A mere game package can’t remedy our mental damage! We need bigger compensation!” Miss Sweetness was pissed. Anyone would feel pissed if they encountered such a crazy thing.

At the same time, she was very scared too.

‘Why would the game company do that? It’s impossible that such a torturous dream passed the company’s review.’

She realized a logical mistake she had made as she thought to this point. The game company would not do that—they would not dare to do that!

Her rage was gone as she came to her senses. Miss Sweetness frowned deeply as she realized the incident was definitely not as simple as they thought.

Such a dream definitely would not pass the company’s review.

Since Orange Planet was developed, they were perfect when it came to everything related to the law. They prohibited any organizations from harming the legal citizens’ personal safety.

The powerful AI monitored the entire planet at all times. Nobody could do anything illegal under the AI’s watch. Moreover, sleeping pods were something that was full of AIs. It would be as difficult as reaching for the sky to add a terrifying dream into the game.

As they chatted for a while, they decided not to report the game company. Instead, they would contact the researchers at the institute.

The researchers would be much more useful than the game company. Since they both had happened to drop by the Omnic City Institute two days back, they had their contact details.

Very soon, they arrived at the institute. They reported the dream, hoping the researchers would report to the headquarters to get to the bottom of it, as well as giving them a reasonable explanation and sincere compensation.

The researcher responsible for the virtual reality game field met with the two girls himself. He listened to the two girls’ complaints in the interview room. At first, he thought they were kidding.

In such a scientific world, who would dare to do something like that?

VR games with reincarnation as the theme existed, but game companies would definitely have a logout setting instead of forcing the players to stay and be tortured.

An AI’s monitoring was countless times more powerful than people monitoring. In the world of the internet, nobody could bypass the monitor of the control center.

The two female players sent the mental state verification data that came with the sleeping pod to the researcher. The researcher was doubtful; he still had yet to believe them completely.

The verification data only proved they were mentally exhausted. They needed more quality sleep, and they could not be overly stimulated. They were not recommended to play horror VR games. At the moment, the medical control center recommended them to play leisure VR games.

Nothing could be proved since the mental state verification data showed that it was not severe.

It was a result of being anxious and under pressure for a long period of time. They would recover as soon as they got enough rest.

However, considering there was a mutated AI that existed recently, the Omnic City Institute researcher speculated the error might be caused by it. He chose to believe the reincarnation dream that they described for now.

“How about you guys tell me about the nightmare? I’ll take note of it and get people to enter the game ‘World’ to test it. Let’s see if they can recreate the same nightmare. About the compensation, we’ll have to re-evaluate it based on the severity of the incident on our side.”

The two girls did not think too much. They told what they had been doing before the nightmare and everything they had encountered in the nightmare.

The researcher listened to their nightmare content. He heard about the blue ocean, the ferocious animals hiding in the ocean, being revived after death, the terrifying monster passing by the sky, and so on.

The researcher was enjoying the story as the reincarnation dream sounded pretty magnificent. However, it was just a few things repeating themselves. It sounded rather shabby since they were speaking to a VR game researcher.

The modeling scenario seemed to be small in his preliminary speculation. The ocean should be the only scenario while the modeling resources were repeating. 

The underwater animals’ modeling was simple too. There were no amenities, such as a giant floating city in the sky. There was only the sun.

Following Orange Planet’s technology standard, such design could be done by an entry-level VR game engineer. The engineer would be responsible for designing, while the AI would perfect and develop it. 

“Our institute has received both complaints. Please wait patiently for the verification,” the researcher replied in an official manner.

The two girls felt much better after letting out all the accumulated rage. They were walking at brisk compared to before as they left the institute.