Deadpan Nonsense
"Hello everyone, I'm Katarina. As my regular viewers probably know, I had Ghost Encounter a couple of days ago. But today, I found a professional, and after some discussion, he agreed to livestream the ghost-hunting."
Miss Katarina stood in front of the holographic Live Broadcast Drone, speaking with great poise about the theme of today's live stream.
Although Feng Xue could clearly hear her fear with her Mirror of Clarity, she couldn't see it on the surface.
However, Feng Xue was playing a ghost hunter today, so he didn't show any on-screen affability. While Katarina was narrating, he was sitting on the sofa, quietly flipping through the documents in his hands.
"Mr. Simone, what are you doing now?" As if she had finished her opening remarks, Katarina approached Feng Xue like a reporter and asked in a curious but unpretentious voice.
"I'm looking at the ghost reports here. Of course, if you weren't live-streaming and were communicating directly, I think we could move on faster."
Who is this guy?
How dare they say that about my Katarina!
[What's with this conman pretending to be so high and mighty!]
[Puxin man really lowered his head!]
Feng Xue secretly opened the Live Broadcast Room and saw a bunch of negative comments, but her mindset didn't change at all. Haters are fans too, and she was afraid of not having any fans. The more people who cursed, the more traffic would naturally increase.
Katarina was clearly a veteran in this game; instead of responding to those comments, she quickly adjusted her tone and said:
"So what do you want to know?"
"The specific time and place of the ghost, and what you did before it happened," Feng Xue said, spreading out the documents in her hand without looking up.
Although Katarina felt a little embarrassed, she also knew that this kind of livestream might actually be more effective if she cooperated. Suppressing her displeasure, she subtly adjusted her facial expression and then revealed a hint of fear, saying:
"The ghosting started three days ago. I had just finished my live stream, which consisted of singing a few songs and reading some comments. Afterwards, as I was getting ready to wash up, I suddenly felt a gaze on me, but I couldn't find it. At the time, I thought it was just my imagination, but yesterday during my live stream, the camera drone captured an eyeball."
At this point, Katarina's voice trembled at just the right moment, and Feng Xue took out a photo from the data. It was an ordinary screenshot of a live broadcast, but if you looked closely, you would find a bloodshot scarlet eyeball in the corner between the cabinet and the wall behind the streamer.
"Is this it?" Feng Xue asked, pointing to the eyeball in the photo. Katarina took two steps back before replying timidly with a hint of embarrassment:
"Well, I only found out after being alerted by viewers in the Live Broadcast Room. I called security to search with me, but we found nothing. But ever since then, I've always felt like someone is watching me."
"Hmm, it looks like it belongs to the simpler category." Feng Xue examined the photo, looking at the various comments on the screen criticizing him for showing off, waiting for Katarina to chime in.
As expected, given the live broadcast format, Katarina naturally mastered the art of conversation and almost immediately followed up with:
"Why do you say that? Are there simple and complex ghosts as well?"
"Of course there are. The so-called ghosts are not actually souls or anything like that. They are a kind of information. Simply put, they are data generated by humans' observation of themselves or something else, which are formed under the influence of the observation effect. If you want, calling it a 'Quantum Ghost' is more appropriate than calling it a 'ghost'."
"Things that can be truly captured in a photograph are actually quite good, which means that it is a weak observer. As long as it is observed, it will appear, so photos and videos can capture its existence."
"The truly troublesome kind is the one that is itself Strong Observer. Its observation of itself is superior to how others observe it, so it can freely make itself appear or not appear, exist or not exist, through its own observation of itself."
At this point, many people in the live stream immediately started to think of the ghostly hand in Burrlett's Live Broadcast Room, which made Katarina a little angry. The reason she used phrases like "three days ago" and "two days ago" was to avoid mentioning Burrlett and reduce the fact that she was "following the trend."
While she was indeed just following the trend, as long as Pollitt doesn't admit to the existence of ghosts, she'll be the first streamer to admit to ghosts and hire someone to catch them.
But now that the comments are saying this, the popularity of the "first person to Ghost Encounter" has started to shift again, which means that they have actually given Burrlett more attention.
However, she also knew that the transition at this point couldn't be too abrupt, otherwise it would still easily attract the audience's attention, so she asked a question that everyone was probably curious about:
"So how do we deal with this kind of ghost?"
"It's very simple. Once this kind of ghost is observed, its form of existence collapses. So as long as you find it and keep staring at it, you can catch it."
As Feng Xue spoke, she opened her suitcase and took out something that looked both familiar and unfamiliar.
Constantine K-729 head-mounted visual aid system.
This thing is widely known because it was one of the few failures in Konstantin Company's history. As a vision aid system, its large weight, high energy consumption, and poor center of gravity were minor issues. What truly made it a complete failure was that it integrated too many functions: infrared vision, ultraviolet vision, magnetic field vision, an automated microscope system...
If these features were placed separately on individual products, they would likely sell well. The problem is that since it's integrated, those who actually use it often only use one or a few of the features.
Seeing Feng Xue pull out this thing, many guesses immediately popped up in the comments section. Katarina picked the one Katarina seemed the smartest and asked:
"Mr. Simone, has this visual assistance system been modified? For example, can it see ghosts?"
Upon hearing Katarina's question, Feng Xue simply shook her head and said:
"In fact, it is very difficult for humans to see ghosts because what the human eye sees is actually a very blurry array of dots. The clear image you see is actually imagined by the brain through the array of dots. Therefore, the intensity of the information received is not high, and the disturbance to the ghost is also very small."
"However, in modern times, the rise of electronic prosthetic eyes and visual assistive devices has led to increasingly stronger human abilities to capture information and improve observation capabilities, which has made these things easier to see."
Feng Xue's seemingly serious nonsense carried a sense of compassion and empathy, and Katarina immediately realized what she meant:
"So, as long as you wear a high-intensity visual aid system, you can see ghosts?"