Li Gaoliang swore that this was without question the strangest mission he had taken part in since enlisting.
It had been a month since he joined this top-secret research project.
What they needed to do was simple.
Including himself, their daily work consisted of taking shifts lying in one of the mere dozen or so machines, then cooperating with the researchers here to carry out simple movements under various strange commands in the virtual reality environment, as well as making judgments similar to multiple-choice questions...
Honestly, the experience of immersing themselves in a virtual reality world was extremely strange.
Aside from the relatively common scenery at first, such as grasslands and oceans, the places they entered later could not even be called worlds. They were fragmented spaces made up of a string of shards, impossible to describe in words—and those shards seemed to be formed from his own memories.
The feeling was difficult to put into words.
Sometimes, it even caused psychological discomfort.
However, just as Academician Lu had guaranteed, the doctors who gave them regular physical examinations had indeed found no adverse reactions or illnesses caused by side effects.
There was nothing to complain about regarding the mission. Besides, Li Gaoliang sincerely respected Academician Lu, who had done him such a great favor. Without his neural-interface prosthetic limb, even getting out of bed to use the bathroom by himself would have been a luxury.
Still, Li Gaoliang did not quite understand what these experiments were supposed to mean.
As he patrolled the corridor outside the laboratory, he suddenly heard several soldiers discussing something in Laboratory No. 1 beside him.
"...I feel like every time I activate this thing, the back of my head or somewhere around my neck hurts for a moment."
"You call that pain? At most, it's