After Reborn, I Became the Bigshots’ Beloved
Chapter 445: There Is Absolutely No Second Map Fragment

Chapter 445: Chapter 445: There Is Absolutely No Second Map Fragment

As Lu Sheng finished speaking, all the audience in front of their screens suddenly widened their eyes.

It was impossible not to be shocked. Just because of the girl’s words, almost everyone got goosebumps all over.

What did Lu Sheng mean by saying "you’ve always been watching us, right"?

Could it be that she knew their every move was being watched by netizens?

How did she know?

Meanwhile.

Lan Yu and the others were completely baffled by what Lu Sheng said.

Only Lu Youming seemed to have realized something, and like Lu Sheng before, suddenly widened his eyes, turning to Lu Sheng and taking a deep breath.

Lan Yu couldn’t help but ask, "Shengsheng, who are you talking to, who’s watching us?"

Lu Sheng turned around and calmly said, "Lan Yu, do you remember when I told you before, I always felt something was off when I came to this island?"

Lan Yu nodded, "I remember."

"Now I know the reason."

Lu Sheng raised her eyes, looking determined, "The reason I always felt something was off is because we are not in the real world right now."

—What?

Immediately, Lan Yu, Lu Youye, and Han Jing all widened their eyes.

Lan Yu stammered, "...Not in the real world? What does this mean?"

Lu Sheng paused and said, "These days, I couldn’t figure it out. The production team went to such great lengths and cost to send us to a deserted island just to broadcast our lives on the island."

"But this island is so big, no matter how many cameras there are, it’s impossible for the whole island to be covered with cameras."

"So if all of us stayed in places where the cameras couldn’t reach, like where our camp is now, what would the audience watch?"

"But I just figured it out. If this isn’t the real world but some kind of virtual world, then broadcasting our lives doesn’t need cameras at all."

"All the viewers can see us in real-time, those cameras are just there to confuse us."

Lu Sheng’s words overturned Lan Yu’s understanding, "Shengsheng, you mean...this isn’t the real world, it’s a virtual world?"

"But how is that possible, we were indeed knocked out in the Great Hall of Qingmang Tower."

"Moreover, if I pinch my thigh it hurts, everything I see and feel is incredibly real. If this is a virtual world, how can we have such a real sensory perception?"

Lu Sheng said, "This sensory perception, I don’t know how the production team did it, so I guess, could it be some kind of holographic game, although current technology shouldn’t be able to reach this level."

"And I suspect that when we were knocked out in the assembly hall, we actually already entered this holographic game. Because they used anesthetics on us, and it’s illegal for the production team to use anesthetics on so many people, how could they dare to really do that?"

"Of course, if the production team really did illegal things just for the sake of attention, it’s not impossible. So it was only just now that I confirmed we are not in the real world."

Confirm? How to confirm?

Just as Lan Yu was about to ask, Lu Youming suddenly spoke, "...It’s these fruits."

"Yes, it’s these fruits." As she spoke, Lu Sheng pointed to the fruits she had arranged in three rows on the ground, and everyone else looked in the direction she was pointing.

"That night, it was too late when I picked the fruits, so I just put them directly into my backpack, and I hadn’t looked at them again in the past few days."

"But just now, Lan Yu’s words reminded me. The fruits have been sitting in the backpack for so many days in this heat and they look just as fresh as the new ones, which is very unusual."

"Then I poured the fruits onto the ground and discovered their most unusual trait. Look - "

"At first glance, the fruits here seem to vary in size, but if you look carefully, all the fruits in the large row are identical, so are those in the middle row, and the small row too."

"There can’t be two completely identical leaves in the world, yet on this island, there are so many identical fruits, how is that possible?"

Lu Sheng said, "So I think, this is not the real world. These three sizes of fruit were pre-set in this holographic game."

As Lu Sheng spoke, the others finally realized that it was indeed so.

Three rows of fruits, each row truly identical!

While Lan Yu and the others were still in shock, Lu Sheng continued, "Have you ever heard the saying that computers can only generate pseudo-randomness?"

Lan Yu, Han Jing, and Lu Youming, who usually don’t play games, asked, "...Pseudo-randomness? What does that mean?"

Lu Sheng explained, "For example, take the act of flipping a coin. If I flip a coin in the real world, the heads and tails sequence I get are truly random. Even if I know the probability of heads or tails each time is 50%, how many times it lands heads or tails in ten thousand flips is completely unpredictable."

"But if I flip a coin in a game world. Assuming I flip the coin enough times, I can find this cycle sequence of heads and tails, thereby predicting whether a future flip will be heads or tails. In other words, this seemingly random event isn’t random at all, the pattern was set by the system beforehand."

"So, true randomness is uncontrollable, whereas pseudo-randomness is controllable. Fruit in the real world can grow in all sorts of strange ways, but fruit in the game world grows according to the templates given to it."

"One template means one shape of fruit. Two templates mean two shapes of fruit. Three templates, just like what we’re seeing now."

"Of course, the game creator can set countless templates for fruit shapes, making each one look different. But that’s too costly, no one would put that much effort into fruits."

"I never considered the possibility that we’re not in reality, so I never paid detailed attention to my surroundings."

"But if we start looking carefully now, trees, bushes, and stones on this island may all have exact duplicates. The feedback and results we get from doing certain things also follow certain patterns."

Heavens.

Hearing Lu Sheng’s words, netizens felt their scalps tingle.

And the person hiding in the bushes eavesdropping showed an expression of disbelief.

However, Lu Sheng didn’t stop there and continued to analyze.

"So I wonder, since this is a game world, and the game author created such an awesome and realistic world, does he just want us to search for some map fragments and treasure? How is that different from regular games?"

"If it were me, I wouldn’t set the rules so that when someone pieces the map together and finds the treasure, the game ends. I would set it so that when someone discovers this world is not real, the game ends."

"So, why can’t we find the second map fragment no matter what... Could it be that there never was a second map fragment on this island at all?"