科齋第A072回：瑪麗遊戲模擬 (Player Marie)

早上，李莫和瑪麗變回了老鼠和火柴人。瑪莉開始接受自己身處遊戲世界的事實，她覺得這款網路遊戲是個開放世界。如果是這樣，她身為玩家豈不是可以為所欲為？

她告訴李莫，如果她深入森林，就會發現了一片蝴蝶翩翩飛舞的土地。她跳到一隻巨大的蝴蝶身上，把它從空中拍了下來。然後，這片土地突然出現嚴重電腦故障，把他們兩個都甩了出去。真好玩呀！

晚上，他們變回人類，坐下來回憶檢討各自的經歷。瑪麗想起有一次，她被冤枉在火車上灑了咖啡。她努力為自己洗清冤屈。

如果咖啡灑在她身上，鞋底不可能留下了咖啡味。咖啡的濺點肯定來自一個長三角形，三角形的尖端是灑咖啡的人站的地方。她最終贏了跟清理工的爭論。

但隨後清潔工突然出現故障，變成了一個虛無縹緲的幻像，他忘了之前說過的話，只是再次責怪她。李莫說，這是NPC生命體的案例，科學家懷疑人生遊戲其中有非玩家角色。他們無法思考，因為他們沒有生命。

李莉猶豫了一下，因為這個理論聽起來像是非人化的言論，而李莫則認為這種單一世界觀與現代多元宇宙的觀點相悖。他們躺下來試著入睡，這時那個矮女人突然出現，說道：

「孩子們，時候到了。上帝認為你們已經準備好成為人類的守護者，現在要對你們進行考驗去吧！」

In the morning, Leemo and Marie changed back into a Rat and a Stick Man. But Marie started to accept she is in a game and she though online game is an open world. If so she could do anything as a player, right?

She told Leemo far into the forest and sure there was a land with huge butterflies. She jumped on a huge butterfly and knocked it out of the sky. Then the land glitched hard and sent them tumbling hard. It's fun.

They sat down as humans at night as they tried to relate their experience from those of their past. Marie remembered one time she was falsely accused of spilling coffees in the train. She tried to clear her name.

It's impossible if coffee stink is left on top of her shoe if she spill the coffee. The spill must come from a long triangle where the pointy end is where the spilling person had been standing before. She won the case.

But then the cleaner glitched and became a non-entity that forgot all her words, just blaming her all over again. Leemo said it's a case of NPC lifeform where the scientists suspected there are non-players in it. They couldn't think because they have no life.

Marie hesitated, as the theory seemed like a dehumanizing talk, while Leemo thought the one-world perspective is deviant from modern view of multiverse. They lay down trying to get some sleep when that dwarf woman suddenly appeared, and said,

It's time, children. God thinks you're ready to be a guardian of Mankind with a test!

@2026 NovellaHK 

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