Three hours later, Pandora's Tokyo branch, cocoon playroom testing area.

"This time there shouldn't be any more problems like before, right?" Sitting in the cocoon game pod and looking at the helmet in her hand, Ayumi asked with some concern. "The ...... last time It's scary. ”

"No, the situation was special last time, and there will definitely be no such thing this time." Chiba had already put on another helmet that was exactly the same as the one in Ayumi's hand. "Okay, you put your one on first, I'll confirm one more thing, and I'll come in right away."

"Okay." Ayumi nodded, then obediently put on her helmet and lay down on the armchair in the game compartment with her eyes closed, watching the egg-shaped pod of the cocoon gradually close in front of her eyes.

"......" Seeing that Ayumi had already logged into the game, Qianyu pulled out a data cable from the game cabin he was riding on, and inserted it into the auxiliary unit. Hoshino, are you ready? ”

"No problem, it's time to start rendering." The other party's words came out of the loudspeaker.

“Ok.” Pressing the button, Chiba pressed the button to close the game pod from the inside, and then lay down in the armchair.

"Huh......" In the central control room, Hoshino Kaede looked at the two game pods and breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly heard the door behind him being opened. Who!? ”

"I," Gray Hara walked in, looking at the flash of surprise in Hoshino Kaede's eyes. "Why, can't I come?"

"This ......" Kaede Hoshino turned his head to glance at Chiha's game pod on the screen, as well as several screens that were loading game screens. How do you ......"

"I've never seen him so eager to figure out how to make excuses to get me away," Gray Yuan frowned and sat down in a chair next to him. "Really...... He came here with Ayumi, but why did he ask me to go so far away to buy food, and then told me to go home and not wait for me? ”

"Uh......" The corners of Kaede Hoshino's mouth twitched, and he could only nod helplessly. Also...... It's okay, but it's going to take a lot of time, are you sure you'll be able to make it through? ”

"It's okay, I'm just going to see what he's going to do." Gray Yuan nodded and signaled that it was okay for him.

"Okay then...... I'm going to get some drinks, what do you want? ”

……

Of course, Chiba doesn't know about these things, because he is now exploring this cocoon world with Ayumi.

In front of them was the interior of a church, where some dark-skinned clergy were praying something to the crucifix behind them through the bodies of Chiba and Ayumi.

"It's ...... Church? Ayumi looked at the scenery and speculated. Black churches? ”

"This is Rwanda in May, in a church next to the experimental center codenamed [Insecticide]." As Chiba introduced this, she motioned for Ayumi to follow him forward - it was only then that Ayumi realized that they didn't seem to be in the same situation as in the previous game, and the clergy didn't seem to be able to see them at all.

"They...... Can't you see us? Ayumi said with some uncertainty.

"Well, they can't see us, it's just a game after all......" Qian Yu shook her head.

Those NPCs are definitely not going to respond to them...... In other words, if these characters are really pressed to respond, it is really too difficult for Qianyu's auxiliary unit - of course, this is not to say that the auxiliary unit is not good enough, but even the most exquisite program is difficult to do better in such a situation.

Because now Qianyu's auxiliary unit is already under great pressure in the process of calculating everything around it.

Everything around you, including the interior of the church, was restored from the photographs with an auxiliary unit from the photographic materials, and then the live output was sent to the central processing unit, which then put it into the helmets of Ayumi and Chiba. (Something similar, if it's to be expressed...... The auxiliary unit is the actual CPU, while the titular CPU of the cocoon plays the role of a data cable, while the gaming pod is the display. ）

In order to be able to immerse Yumi, the depth of field of the surrounding scene is quite deep, and the detail is also an order of magnitude higher than the limit of what can be recognized by the naked eye, and this rendering work makes the work of the auxiliary unit extremely stressful at this time, and there is no room to create a reaction model for NPCs when talking to them.

In fact, if Ayumi had looked closely at the praying priests, she would have even found that the natural shaking of their bodies during the prayer process was highly regular, because Chiba did not have time to assign values to them with a very irregular sequence of pseudo-random functions, but hastily superimposed several simply processed sine and cosine functions to produce the current "random" body swings.

Of course, just before Ayumi realized this, she suddenly heard the sound of a door being opened from the inside of the church. "It's ...... The sound of a wooden door? ”

Immediately after, there was a cry for help in Japanese.

"Priests! Priests! Such a sound was accompanied by the sound of a hurried run.

"Is this Japanese?" Ayumi reacted immediately when she said this. "Ah...... This is supposed to be a Japanese treatment of 'cocoon', right? ”

"Hmm," Chiba nodded. "It's ...... You'll find out later. ”

While they were carrying out such an exchange, the clergy had already heard voices and looked at each other with some uneasy expressions.

"Shall I take a look?" One of the clergy made such a suggestion.

"Go and see, don't let him run anywhere to hide, it's not going to be easy." One of the elderly clergy who looked like the highest-ranking priests nodded.

With that, the clergyman who made the suggestion stood up and walked in the direction of Ayumi.

"There's no need to hide," Chiba stopped Ayumi from trying to dodge the clergy. "To us they are just illusions, don't be afraid."

Immediately afterwards, Qian Yu took two steps forward by himself, and rushed in front of Ayumi, who was still a little uneasy, and made contact with the clergy who came on.

Then Ayumi saw that Chiba's body suddenly submerged into the clergy's body, and the next moment appeared behind the clergy. Immediately after, Ayumi's body was about to submerge into the clergy.

At this moment, he suddenly heard Qian Yu make a somewhat surprised voice. But before she could ask what was going on, she let out the same cry of surprise.

As her body was pierced by the clergy's body, her whole body felt as if it was slicing through a large leaf, and it was still wet.

But almost instantly, the feeling disappeared, and the faculty member passed through Ayumi's body.

Chiba looked at Ayumi with a somewhat guilty look. "That...... Something seems to have gone wrong, but now it's fine, so let's catch up and take a look. ”

……

In the central control room, Gray Yuan's brows were already furrowed.