Confronted by the three people before her, Elise QD continued to speak slowly.
Though just a boy, his tone was extremely old and strange.
"Gosh, I spent a lot of money and pestered her for ages before she agreed to sell them to me, but later I found out these three sets of memories were fake." As the other party spoke, his tone became increasingly angry.
"Do you know how she did it? Because this guy just stuffed some consciousnesses from some homeless people into some AI-simulated ancient memories, aging the memories and consciousnesses!"
Sun Jack and Tapai looked incredulously at Xiao Ting beside them, thinking this operation was just too wild.
Tapai even complained, "What era are we in to still have fake antiques sold? Look at how angry you've made this treasure of our nation, almost to the point of a brain hemorrhage, it's just too hateful!"
Sun Jack paused for a second but then quickly came to his senses and hastily started distancing himself from this person.
"Mr. Elise QD, I have absolutely no relationship with her. You can bother her however you want today! I'm definitely not helping, and we can talk about that technology when you've calmed down!"
"Don't give me that crap! You just said she was a friend!!"
Elise QD forcefully waved the folder in her hand, and it directly transformed back into a book, returning to the bookshelf.
Xiao Ting reacted very quickly as well. As soon as Sun Jack finished speaking, she immediately slid to the ground, embraced Sun Jack's legs with both hands, and said with tears in her eyes, "Husband!!"
"Fuck off! Who the hell is your husband!" Sun Jack struggled to clear any relationship with Xiao Ting, but obviously, Elise QD didn't buy it.
Once again, with a wave of his hand, the closets around them began collapsing, and the stone walls hung with various terrifying torture devices instantly surrounded them.
"No one is leaving today! I'm going to torture you until you completely lose your minds here!"
Looking at everything around him, Sun Jack couldn't help but remark, it was true to a nostalgist to have all these old torture devices with not a single piece of high-tech equipment in sight.
"Husband! Save me, husband!!"
"I'll save your ass!" Sun Jack frustratingly prepared to remove the external device from his head and think of other methods.
If it really wouldn't work, then he'd have to play hardball, even though he didn't want yet another enemy, he had to get his hands on that technology.
But just as he was about to lift his right hand, his arm went limp and drooped down.
With a furrowed brow, Sun Jack tried to lift his hand again, only to find that his body was completely paralyzed, like a vegetative person!
"What's going on?" Sun Jack hadn't had time to react when he was forcibly tied to the wall by two virtual world NPCs, and a red-hot iron claw pressed against his chest, hissing with steam.
"My nervous system is all external, you can't possibly—" Sun Jack didn't finish his sentence before intense pain twisted his features, an experience of burning pain like fire was all too real.
"What's happening?!" At this moment, Sun Jack could care about nothing else and immediately activated his modified DNA abilities, trying to shut off the pain.
"Pfft," a barbed long spike pierced directly into Sun Jack's viscera, then was violently yanked.
The sensation of tearing and shifting organs caused Sun Jack's body to convulse uncontrollably, a feeling that should be virtual but was actually happening to him.
Not only was his body completely numb, but he also couldn't use any of the abilities he'd gained from DNA programming!
"This is impossible! How is this done? It's just an image! My nervous system is external! How can he affect the perception of my body?!"
Truth be told, Sun Jack was really panicked. This was the first time he had encountered an incomprehensible situation.
"Hey, great acting," Tapai, who was completely oblivious, commented with a look of amusement.
"Act my ass, this is real! Help me out here!"
He then yelled at the boy next to him, "Shouldn't you be torturing that woman first? After all, it was she who deceived you, not me, right?!"
"Don't worry, no one is getting away!"
With Elise QD's command, two more NPCs ran out and approached Xiao Ting.
Xiao Ting tried to exit the game, but she couldn't. She was quickly grabbed, hung on a wall, and the torture began.
At that moment, Tapai also realized something was wrong with Sun Jack and quickly mobilized Utopia Security's entire network security division to launch an attack on the Oasis network's servers.
As Tapai took action, the environment became unstable, and the walls and torture devices even began to show various graphical bugs.
Just as everything seemed about to collapse and he was about to regain his freedom, there was a loud bang, and everything instantly returned to normal. Tapai's network attack had failed!
"I'll help you out," the Digital Personality said immediately upon noticing the abnormal data in Sun Jack's body.
But just as the Digital Personality was about to do something, a "wait" from Sun Jack stopped him.
"What's the matter?"
A sharp hook pierced through Sun Jack's clavicle and hoisted him up. "Don't move! Let me think, I think I know who did this!"
Although the pain in his body was increasing, Sun Jack's mind was becoming clearer.
This kind of pain couldn't possibly be produced by a virtual image. He had been distracted by Elise QD's actions before.
To paralyze his body instantly, even causing him to feel the same pain in sync with the changes in the virtual image.
If Elise QD was ruled out, there was only one other person who could do this: Guan Sanke, who had planted a bomb in his DNA!
He had paralyzed Sun Jack's body a few times before, but that didn't mean he could only paralyze it. Now, it seemed he had root access to his body!
"But why would he do this?" Tapai joined in the conversation.
"Yeah, why would he?" Sun Jack's expression turned excited.
"Guan Sanke wouldn't bother to put on such a boring show with a Holy Grail Person unless he had a reason, and that is to stop us from getting the Clone Personality Overlap Technology! He is scared!"
With that, Sun Jack instantly understood the cause and effect. This was the only reason that explained why the other party suddenly took control of his body.
"If it's not a virtual game issue, then I'll go unplug your data cable."
"Hold on!" Sun Jack yelled to stop Tapai. "No rush, if he wants to play a part, then let's go along and act with him!"