Echo by Douglas MJ

Author:Douglas, MJ
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dragon Tomes Publishing
Published: 2024-03-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

"Horn, Pik, you both experienced his lab. He had what, thirty, forty people in there total? I saw my daughter. I saw the four of you."

Pik agreed. The lab had been almost full, with eight to ten rows of five tubes each.

"Do you remember anything about the people? Did anything about them stand out?"

Horn’s reply was a non-answer. "I wasn't paying attention to them. I spent most of my time trying to code us out of that trap, allowing us to keep our memories."

The entire team turned to Pik, and she suddenly grew self-conscious. What could she say about the people? There wasn't anything special about them. "They were ordinary. Like in ways that you don't see in the Metaverse. Each person was ugly."

Timmic snorted. He considered himself the ugliest in the group and kept it as a point of pride.

"No, Timmic, not ugly like you.” Pik realized that sounded bad but quickly continued, “Like, you're a great comparison. You consider yourself an academic. There is no need to worry about appearances and the rest. But strip away the absentminded professor look, you're still handsome—gorgeous even. Even your receding hairline isn’t too much; it’s just enough to make you look distinguished."

Timmic blushed.

"But these people had pimples, smudged faces, and noses too big." Pik thought hard about the people she'd seen. At the time, she couldn't rip her eyes away. "They had grey hair, not the sexy salt-and-pepper look that's in style right now, but literal patchy grey hair, and one guy was completely bald."

Brit nodded. For the first time in a while, Pik thought she might have contributed something truly valuable to the conversation, even if she didn't really know what.

"Yeah, this has been bothering me about the four of you. You're too perfect. You’re like game avatars. When we loaded in here, you all retained your base look from the command pod, so I know it's not the skin of the game. I think you're the simulation. You’re part of his game."

The statement was idiotic. Pik had been waiting for the big reveal and was astonished that she’d come up with this.

Horn was the first to reply. "Absolute rubbish. I can interface with the game and see the code and how it interacts with us. We're not a part of this simulation. This code is very different than what makes up the Metaverse."

"Why are we wasting time on this lunatic? I was suspicious of her when she swapped out with Trick, and now she's trying to convince us that we're some illusion and she's the real thing? This is ridiculous." Timmic wasn’t having any of it either; he was the least flexible of the four of them, right up there with Horn.

Pik waited to speak. She wanted to see Junip's response. They were the most flexible in mind and a good study of humanity. Or, according to Brit, good studies in the simulation of humanity.

"I want to hear her out. It doesn't make sense to me, but our entire existence in the Metaverse is also an illusion.

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