Earlier, before any anomalies had appeared in the detective game, Little Peach alone had shown signs of breaking free of the program's control.
The computer's backend could not monitor those changes in the data. Someone proposed a rather far-fetched idea: whenever someone observed the true data behind it, the data would behave normally.
When no one observed it, the data would behave abnormally.
The idea was rather far-fetched, but it highlighted the difficulty they currently faced: they could not see the program's data.
Without access to the data, they could only analyze what was visible on the screen.
Everyone wanted to see the deeper changes, so they thought of a controlled experiment.
They would turn on eight more computers, spread the nightmare to the little girl, and create a second anomalous game, then change one condition while keeping all the others constant.
Last time, the power had been cut to seven of the eight players' computers. Now, the authorities wanted to send eight researchers into the anomalous game for a controlled experiment. Perhaps they could identify a bug or something similar.
But the situation had changed again. Little Peach's parents displayed unusual concern and held strange conversations, deviating from the fixed paths established by the program. Everyone wanted to investigate further and find out what kind of changes had occurred in them.
Had they developed human thought, or had something else gone wrong?
"Liu Siting, can you eavesdrop on their whispers through the wall?" Li Shen asked.
"I'll try," Liu Siting said softly.
At that, everyone craned their necks and focused intently.
Liu Siting clicked the mouse, directing her character away from Little Peach's parents. She took a roundabout route and slipped around to the outside of a wall.
She clicked along the edge to walk beside the wall. Clicking