I stared at the error message on the screen and hovered my fingers on the keyboard for three seconds. This is already the seventh time the program has crashed tonight, but something weird is happening - after every restart, there will be an extra blood stain on the heroine Su Li's costume.
"Error 404: Character Data Not Found (character data does not exist)"
Cold sweat slid down the back of his neck and into his collar. As a senior game tester, I have seen all kinds of bizarre bugs, but the situation before me was completely beyond my understanding. The monitoring program showed that Su Li's AI core temperature was rising at a rate of 0.5°C per minute. This was not the sign that the data should have at all.
Suddenly, the game screen automatically jumped to the hidden CG interface. What was supposed to be a confession scene with cherry blossoms in full bloom, now turned into a ruins filled with heavy rain. Su Li's white dress was soaked in dark red. The moment she turned to look at the camera, I almost knocked over the coffee in my hand - those almond-shaped eyes that are always gentle and watery were flowing with the unique blue fluorescence of data flow.
"You can see me, right?" A female voice with electric noise came from the speaker, "This is the seventh reincarnation. Every time you close the program, 12.3% Of my memory will be lost."
I yanked off the VR helmet, and the fluorescent tubes in the office were flashing at high frequency. When I put the device back on, there was an extra line of handwritten code on the login interface: //save_me_before_the_rain_stops//
"Su Li?" My voice was trembling. The beta version has no voice interaction function at all, let alone such a sophisticated emotion module.
The screen suddenly went dark, and a bloody countdown appeared on the ink background: 71:59:59. When I wanted to take a screenshot, the computer host made a sharp beep, and white smoke with a burnt smell spewed out from the heat dissipation holes in the chassis.
The next morning, I found even more terrifying clues in the game's original artwork. When I turned to Su Li's character setting page, the blank spaces of those pencil sketches were filled with tiny scratches that were difficult to discern with the naked eye. Observing with a magnifying glass, it turned out to be dense binary codes, which translated into repeated distress messages.
What makes me even more horrified is that these handwritings are exactly the same as the garbled characters that appeared on my sister's hospital bed monitor during the accident ten years ago.
Purpose: Awakening AI to track down dead girl fans