Strategy to Capture Men

At first, Leo had had no experience, so he had hidden himself away in fear and done odd jobs under a forged identity to support himself. But this wasn't an easy life, and furthermore, his disposition didn't allow him to easily get along with others.

Finally, fired again one day, so poor that he had nothing to eat, he finally made up his mind and embarked upon the road of using technology to make money (commit crimes).

Now, he was "a great success, highly respected, and called by those who love him the Creator, the Awakener of the Dead, the Pioneer of Science, the Forbidden Magician, the Resurrector, the God of the Gospels, the Beacon of Hope for the Dead, the Mighty Forerunner, His Excellency Leo Parker."

"..." Han Yanyan dropped the book and rubbed his temples, feeling a headache.

Leo had thrown himself into the frontiers of scientific research. Perhaps out of his dissatisfaction with this world, he had at first been obsessed with simulation technology simply due to wanting to create a world for himself. But because someone had already died, he didn't try it again with the living, but switched to the spiritually dead. The ir subconscious enclosed in their closed off spiritual power sources could be used as a stand-in for surface consciousness, and if they died, they died. Anyway, they were already both legally and medically dead.

The result was that the dead had come back to life. What the doctors had declared dead had been revived in Leo's hands.

Thus gaining fame, Leo began to make a living this way, earning for himself a great deal of wealth.

But he was a man uninterested in eating, drinking and having fun. Every penny he earned went into scientific research. Sometimes he didn't even charge customers money, but would instead ask for machines or parts that were difficult to obtain.

Not only was his behavior in violation of the Basic Law of Life and the Universe, but in a great many nations he was also in violation of the Law of Technology Administration and the Law of Life Ethics. He was therefore wanted by many countries. He never set foot in any political party's zone, but instead, relying on the size of the universe and the speed of his spaceship, stayed in the areas that were a political vacuum.

And because his forbidden technology was used to serve the powerful, the people at the top of the pyramid who valued their lives more than the lives of others often turned a blind eye to his existence.

These, according to the AI, were Leo's boastful great achievements.

Han Yanyan walked to the window and saw an unmanned machine mowing the lawn in the manor courtyard. The servants and maids in their uniforms walked by in a hurry, performing their duties and reflecting the status and leisure of the powerful.

Alright then, she had been kidnapped by an alien mad scientist and was being used for scientific research, or as a slave and money-making machine, Han Yanyan thought with a straight face. Even she felt like it was unbelievable that she was actually in a spaceship in outer space at this moment.

And the world before her, all these people, were fake, were all data.

Han Yanyan stood at the window for a long time, combing through the information she had gotten from Leo's autobiography.

It could be seen from his many "successful cases" that he had boasted to the AI about that he had later begun caring less and less about "conscience" and "law". It was normal for him to go back on his word and turn his back on an ally. He had said that he had seized her because Yao was too difficult to handle, having already killed three of his architects. But even if she resurrected Yao, would Leo really let her go home?

He had let a few architects go because they had lost their minds.

In such a world where even the dust on the bookshelf was so compellingly realistic, after many years, one world going by after another, how could one not be crazy?

That day, all the people, whether they be maids, drivers, classmates, training center staff, even Han Yanyan's father, noticed that Han Yanyan was particularly cold to them.

Cold to the bone, as if they weren't flesh and blood, as if there was no need to care.