Just as excitement filled Kairos's heart, a system notification appeared before his eyes:
[Detected that your selected unit has activated game connection. Use monitoring function to view their game status?]
Seeing this notification, Kairos was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses.
It seemed that while the invitation card couldn't view the "player's" surroundings in real-time, the player's situation within the game could be clearly observed. This was a good thing.
And if this was possible, he could undoubtedly more smoothly execute his plan to disguise as game "customer service" and guide Mewtwo.
He directly clicked confirm on the floating window before him.
The next moment, Kairos felt his consciousness blur as he entered a peculiar state.
A black panel floated before his eyes - obviously, that was Mewtwo's game interface.
Unfortunately, he still couldn't see Mewtwo's current condition or hear sounds and movements from Mewtwo.
But actually, this was already sufficient.
Kairos waited quietly.
Before him, the black window soon suddenly lit up, and Emerald's CG began playing.
Watching the familiar scene before him, Kairos couldn't help feeling emotional.
He never imagined that after crossing into this world, he'd have the opportunity for his childhood hero to personally play his own game.
And it was Ultimate Emerald too - It almost seemed unreal.
Indeed, people can never imagine where they'll be standing or what they'll be doing a year from today.
Meanwhile, on the other side, in the laboratory.
Mewtwo only felt his consciousness sink into another world as bizarre images began unfolding before him like before.
Only this time the images were clearly visible - on a verdant lawn, a human girl was riding a bicycle, dancing in sunlight, with several different-looking Pokémon following beside her.
"These... should also be Pokémon."
Looking at those life forms, Mewtwo narrowed his eyes slightly.
But these didn't seem very similar to the Pokémon in his understanding.
Why did they all look so joyful?
According to the information and memories in his mind, Pokémon should be tools controlled by humans, existing to serve humans, with no reason to possess their own consciousness and emotions.
This was one of the reasons Mewtwo was troubled by his own existence. From the moment he heard that voice, even from the moment his consciousness was first born, he had felt the emotion of "confusion."
But as a Pokémon, shouldn't he not possess these things?
What was the situation with these fellow Pokémon?
While Mewtwo's heart was filled with confusion, the animation before him continued playing. Finally, the perspective pulled back, and in brilliant white light, a huge window appeared -
"Pokémon Emerald" - accompanied by the sudden appearance of a dragon-like phantom.
The moment he saw that phantom, Mewtwo's pupils couldn't help but contract sharply - his instincts felt a powerful sense of oppression and force from this phantom, making every newly born gene and cell in his body jump violently.
Since his birth, this was the first time he'd felt such a thing.
But before he could think more, his vision went black again. That green phantom disappeared along with everything else, replaced by a familiar voice and two lines of golden text:
[Welcome player to the world of Emerald. Please choose your playing method.]
[Playing Method 1: Virtual Desktop.]
As Mewtwo gazed at this text, the scenery around him began changing rapidly. The surrounding temperature seemed to drop quickly, and he found himself in a wooden cabin with dancing winter snow outside the window.
In the fireplace before him, crackling flames emitted warm light, making his body feel somewhat comfortable.
Before him, that series of notifications continued refreshing:
[Selecting this gameplay, we will create your ideal gaming environment. You can play the game sitting before a computer screen in such an environment.
Using this gameplay allows you to freely enjoy various different gaming environments for a more comfortable experience, but will reduce some immersion and realism.]
As soon as these words finished, the appearance of the wooden cabin around Mewtwo began changing rapidly again - from a treehouse in the forest to a high-rise villa under neon lights in the city...
Though he had never seen these scenes before, somehow they instinctively gave him a comfortable feeling.
After the surrounding scenery changed rapidly, it finally settled on the initial winter cabin. What emerged next was another notification before Mewtwo:
[Gaming Method 2: Virtual Immersive Play.]
[After selecting this play method, you will enter the character's perspective as a player, join the game world, and clearly and intimately enjoy the entire game process. This play method is recommended to let you more closely feel the game's charm, immersively enter the game, and enjoy everything.]
[Now, you may freely choose between these two play methods.]
...
Meanwhile, in the villa, Kairos, in monitoring state, naturally saw the scene before Mewtwo and couldn't help being stunned.
Was this invitation card so advanced?
Being able to create illusory gaming scenes out of thin air was already outrageous enough, but it could also let units receiving invitation card connections play games immersively?
Wasn't that no different from virtual reality?
But on second thought, given the system's capabilities, perhaps such things weren't difficult for it.
After all, those heaven-defying modules on his panel only showed levels of intermediate and low.
The system could even distribute rewards that didn't exist in the real world out of thin air, so compared to that, this really wasn't much.
But honestly, the scenery of those rooms the system created earlier was quite tempting, especially the snowy cabin Mewtwo was in now - living there would definitely be very comfortable.
He should ask the system if it could make one for him too when he had the chance...
While Kairos was somewhat distracted, Mewtwo also faced a choice.
Although he still didn't quite understand the situation, in those previous words, he had clearly caught key words - "immersion," "involvement," "better understanding and comprehension."
The reason he appeared here was precisely to pursue the answers in his heart. That being the case, which option to choose was without question.
He used his psychic power and immediately chose the latter.
The next moment, Mewtwo felt his consciousness being pulled from his body again. His vision brightened, and when he opened his eyes again, he was standing in darkness, surrounded by various scattered objects.
When he looked down, he couldn't help being startled -
His original body had disappeared, replaced by human appearance.
[So this so-called game has turned me into a human.]
Mewtwo frowned slightly, but his psychic power could still sense that he was only in an immersive experience state, while his true body remained soaked in that laboratory's cultivation tank, unable to move.
After confirming this point, Mewtwo withdrew his consciousness. Though he had just been born into this world and didn't understand much about it, his powerful psychic abilities gave him an instinct to comprehend and master this force.
One of psychic power's strongest effects was making others sink into illusions created by psychic force, producing hallucinations and losing control of reality.
Looking at his current state, it was indeed somewhat similar.
This made Mewtwo feel somewhat uneasy and uncomfortable.
But thinking that the question might get an answer from this, he silently endured and reinvested his consciousness into that illusory world.
At this moment, a gentle female voice came from outside the darkness, attracting his attention:
"Dream, moving was hard work. We've arrived at our new home, come upstairs and set the alarm clock."
At this moment, Mewtwo's Emerald journey officially began.
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Mewtwo, Kairos was witnessing his Emerald gameplay through the invitation card function.
It had to be said, Mewtwo's IQ was indeed quite high.
Even having just entered the game, he performed much better than some novice players who had never encountered this game before.
He quickly followed the system's guidance to successfully reach the second floor and set the required clock.
He even vigilantly searched around the room and quickly discovered the Potion and Poké Ball that Kairos had left in the computer.
This surprised Kairos somewhat:
Mewtwo bro really was Mewtwo bro!
The game had sold over 300,000 copies, and it seemed that before he started livestreaming, no one had discovered that this computer contained directly obtainable items.
But Mewtwo found them right away!
While thinking, Mewtwo had already controlled his character to visit the neighbor's house and was walking toward the grass above the town, about to trigger the "save Professor Birch, choose starter Pokémon" segment.
However, at this moment, Kairos glanced at his panel and discovered that in Mewtwo's emotion values, the "confusion" indicator was rising sharply.
The data from this emotion showed capture time when Mewtwo's character noticed that in the town above, there was a fat man with a Zigzagoon following behind him, leisurely strolling around town.
This was originally an ordinary NPC, but the moment Mewtwo observed him, Mewtwo's emotions fluctuated violently!
Only then did Kairos suddenly realize a huge problem:
When he originally created this game, since the players were all people from the Pokémon world, there was naturally no need like in the original for Professor Birch to jump out with a Pokémon at the game's start, telling everyone "this is a world where humans and Pokémon live in harmony" and "what Pokémon are."
So Kairos had directly deleted and simplified this segment when making the game.
But obviously, for Mewtwo, he knew almost nothing about the world he was currently in. Those Team Rocket people might even instill strange knowledge and information to better control him.
Now this deleted tutorial was especially important for Mewtwo, at least letting him understand what kind of world this was.
His confusion was probably due to everything he saw being different from his understanding.
Thinking of this, Kairos directly sent a message to Mewtwo through the invitation card.
The next moment, the electronic synthesized voice sounded again beside Mewtwo:
[Welcome player to the game. I am your game assistant. If you have questions about situations within the game, you may inquire with me.]
Sure enough, after hearing this, Mewtwo spoke directly after brief silence - or strictly speaking, he used his psychic power to connect with this voice, like telepathy:
[I am human now, correct?]
[Strictly speaking, the character you are currently playing is human.]
[Then I should possess my own tools. Those Pokémon - they should become my possessions, enslaved by me, correct?]
Hearing this, Kairos couldn't help his mouth twitching - indeed Team Rocket hadn't instilled any good thoughts in Mewtwo.
Fortunately, he had discovered this timely enough. Mewtwo hadn't been completely brainwashed yet, so correction was still possible.
After brief consideration, he directly input a reply:
[I apologize, but as a game player, you have the right to your own subjective thoughts. I cannot answer this question for you - you need to explore the answer yourself.
If you believe Pokémon should be tools enslaved by humans, then you may act accordingly; but if you believe what you've seen is completely different from this idea and can be practically implemented, then that is the true answer.]
This response style really sounded like artificial intelligence, but its most crucial aspect was giving Mewtwo complete respect.
After all, for him now, everything he saw was completely inconsistent with the knowledge in his mind.
Forcible denial wasn't the most appropriate approach - instead, like he had considered before, he should let Mewtwo see for himself.
Sure enough, upon hearing this, Mewtwo fell into contemplation again.
His character turned to look at the NPC playing and frolicking with that Zigzagoon, and only after a while did he step forward toward the upper part of town.