Chapter 978: Housework Simulator
This long flowchart appeared directly in front of Zou Zhuo, suspended in the air.
Zou Zhuo could freely adjust the size of the entire flowchart with hand gestures to examine certain details.
The flowchart was very long, with many branches. Some of these branches had blue backgrounds with white text, representing storylines Zou Zhuo had already unlocked, with key scene nodes accompanied by illustrations. Other branches had gray backgrounds with no text, and a small red lock in front of them, indicating that branch was not yet activated.
Zou Zhuo had chosen the ending where Connor shot and killed the deviant android, but besides that, there were at least five other endings.
This was something everyone had already known from the earlier trial play, but it was still unclear whether each ending in the flowchart would affect the subsequent storyline.
The scene shifted again. This time, Zou Zhuo found himself seemingly inside a store.
He couldn't move. Lines of program code in English appeared before him. After displaying 【】, Zou Zhuo realized he could move his field of view, but his body still couldn't move.
It felt a bit strange... as if... his chest... had something extra?
Wasn't this pectoral muscle a bit too prominent?
Just then, a store clerk and a fierce-looking white uncle came up to Zou Zhuo, talking about repairs, car accidents, system resets, and such.
"AX400, log in your name."
The fierce-looking uncle approached Zou Zhuo: "Kara."
Zou Zhuo clearly heard a female voice coming out of his own mouth: "Hello, my name is Kara."
Zou Zhuo: "?????"
Yes, that sentence was indeed spoken by him. He was now playing as a female...
The fierce-looking uncle led her out of the android store, got into a car, and started driving home.
Zou Zhuo was completely dumbfounded. Where was the handsome, cool negotiation expert Connor? How come, right after the prologue, he had suddenly undergone a gender swap? Become a woman?
Even after getting into the car and looking at the streetscape of Detroit through the window, Zou Zhuo still hadn't adapted to this change. He secretly touched his own chest.
This action was clearly seen by the barrage viewers, and instantly a flood of "?????" scrolled across the screen.
Because Zou Zhuo's perspective was first-person, he couldn't see himself secretly touching his chest, but the viewers had a cinematic perspective. From outside the car window looking in, they could see Kara's face clearly, so this little move was naturally caught in full view.
"Whoa! Little fatty, are you feeling yourself up??"
"Otaku are disgusting!!"
"6666, I just want to ask, little fatty, does your own chest feel good to touch?"
"The little sister that little fatty turned into is so pretty, cute, want to f*ck!"
"What a terrifying thought! But I like it!"
Zou Zhuo was speechless watching the barrage flooding the screen. He had been passively turned into a cross-dressing man...
Strictly speaking, it wasn't even cross-dressing—even his damn body had been swapped! No wonder in many movies about body swaps between men and women, the first thing the male protagonist does is grope his chest. The feel, hmm...
Zou Zhuo was still immersed in the sensation from earlier, but considering his image in the eyes of female viewers, he obediently put his hands down.
Inside the car, he watched the scenery of Detroit: factories belching thick smoke, bustling skyscrapers, high-tech overpasses, airships, small flying vehicles, crowded crowds, classical-style churches...
At some point, the air suddenly became humid. Light rain began to fall from the sky, and the daylight dimmed. Pedestrians on the road opened their umbrellas, and a homeless person by the roadside held up a cardboard sign that read: "Androids took my job, help me!"
This journey was neither long nor short. Zou Zhuo sat in the car, watching the scenery outside the window, unable to take it all in. From the bustling city center, to the surrounding industrial areas, then to the overgrown, dilapidated suburbs—the entire Detroit, from prosperity to decline, from wealth to poverty, was all laid out before his eyes.
Accompanied by the faint piano melody of the background music and the staff credits appearing at the edges of his vision, this car ride was like the opening scene of a movie, instantly painting a vivid picture of a future world.
Finally, the pickup truck stopped in front of a rundown building in the suburbs.
Zou Zhuo got out of the car and followed the white uncle, Todd, into the house.
Even after stepping inside, Zou Zhuo still felt very uncomfortable. Not just because of the gender change, but also because of the body shape. Kara's figure was tall and slender, very thin, while Zou Zhuo's real-life physique was on the heavier side. Suddenly switching to a thin, beautiful female body was really hard to get used to.
Just the lightness of walking gave Zou Zhuo an illusion—as if being a woman wasn't so bad?
Zou Zhuo quickly shook his head to dispel this dangerous thought.
Inside the house, Todd introduced his (her) tasks: cleaning the room, doing laundry, cooking, and taking care of the little girl, Alice.
In short... housework.
After giving the instructions, Alice quickly ran upstairs, while Todd flopped onto the sofa and started watching TV.
Corresponding task objectives appeared in Zou Zhuo's field of view, including picking up trash, clearing dishes, collecting laundry, and so on.
Zou Zhuo was completely bewildered: "What the hell? I'm in a virtual game... doing housework???"
Although Zou Zhuo was a million times unwilling, the task objectives were clearly written there.
He had no choice but to follow the instructions and start cleaning the entire house.
"To put it mildly, this place is a pigsty," Zou Zhuo complained.
In the game, all dialogue was only spoken by the character after the player made a choice. Zou Zhuo's current complaints could only be heard by the live-stream audience and wouldn't affect the game itself.
He casually turned on the floor-sweeping robot on the ground, walked over to the coffee table, and began clearing away old bottles and pizza boxes.
Suddenly, Todd, sitting on the sofa, roared: "You're blocking my view of the TV, you idiot!"
Kara quickly said: "I'm sorry, Todd. I won't make that mistake again."
Zou Zhuo: "?????"
The little fatty was completely stunned. You come home, flop onto the sofa like a dead pig to watch TV, and then I'm cleaning up for you, and you're yelling at me?
If the little fatty had been controlling Connor, he probably would have kicked him over. But since he was living under someone else's roof, he had to suppress the urge to flip him off and started cleaning the house.
He threw the trash into the bin, then picked up the garbage bag and took it out.
He cleared the dishes from the table into the sink, squeezed dish soap onto the sponge, turned on the faucet, and started scrubbing the plates...
Yeah, very realistic...
Instantly, another wave of question marks flooded the barrage.
"?????"
"Housework simulator?"
"Damn, little fatty is playing with a 300,000 yuan VR gaming pod, and in the game, he's washing dishes. Too damn real!"
"So, this game was made to let rich people experience the life of the poor? 2333"
Zou Zhuo was completely speechless. While scrubbing the dishes, he questioned his life.
In real life, he rarely did this much housework, and now, in a game, he had to wash dishes for a virtual character???