Hogwarts: Wizards of Eternity.

Chapter 178 The Matrix World Line?
"Sorry, Luna."

"Sorry for the waitting."

Originally, Roger and Luna had agreed that they would make an appointment on the weekend of the first week of school to study together what the harassment fly was.

However, due to some unexpected situations, Roger had to make a major adjustment to his entire plan.

All these things combined really kept him busy.

So the matter of harassing horseflies had to be postponed for a week.

"It's okay." Luna didn't care that much, it was just a week.

This isn't an emergency.

"How are you doing lately? Are you getting used to being in Ravenclaw?"

Magical research requires a secluded place. Roger chatted with Luna while walking on the road.

"Fortunately, Hogwarts is quite interesting." These were Luna's true feelings.

In the past, Luna had always lived under the protection of her father and rarely had the opportunity to interact with a large number of peers.

This was a very new experience for her.

After Roger's iron-fisted crackdown on the school's ethos last school year, the entire atmosphere of Hogwarts changed.

As fate would have it, the Ravenclaw students ostracized Luna, a weirdo, and hid all her things, but the cold violence and bullying did not happen.

Although Luna's personality still made it difficult for her to fit in and make friends in Ravenclaw.

But no one dared to do anything excessive.

At most, he just doesn't want to pay attention to her.

"Roger, what about you?" Luna's eyes became strange when asking the question.

There were always so many harassment horseflies circling around Roger that they covered the sky and the sun.

Once you enter the range of these harassment flies, your mind will be infected to a certain extent by Roger's distracting thoughts.

In the past, what Luna felt in it were things like 'strengthening one's own will' and 'pursuing the truth'.

But now there is a slight difference.

So even though she didn't know what had happened, Luna understood that Roger must have encountered something unusual.

"...It's a bit bad." Roger did not hide it.

"But it's only temporary, things will get better in the future."

I had just taken two steps into the path of immortality when I was kicked back. It was not a wonderful experience at all.

But Roger believed that he would be able to enter it again soon.

Of course, although Roger did not hide it, he did not explain the details to Luna.

Roger didn't want to complain to a child. There was no need to share unhappy things.

"What do you think of this place?"

Hogwarts was neither small nor big, and the two soon arrived at their destination.

That is the location of the Forbidden Forest where Hagrid is.

It's different from ordinary magic experiments.

Based on Luna's description of her condition, Roger felt that it would be best to find a very spacious venue.

It would be better if there are other intelligent creatures around for reference.

Luna looked around and felt that this place was indeed suitable: "It's good."

After receiving the reply, Roger took Luna and walked forward for a distance.

Now that the environment in the Forbidden Forest is fine, the next thing to do is to talk to Hagrid.

After all, Hagrid was the warden of the Forbidden Forest, and if he wanted to do experiments in the Forbidden Forest, he had to say hello to him. "Hagrid?" Roger knocked on the door of the hut near the Forbidden Forest.

But no one responded.

Roger relaxed his perception slightly and immediately realized that Hagrid was too immersed in virtual reality.

...Since virtual reality has been fully promoted in Hogwarts, more and more professors and young wizards are becoming addicted to it every day.

Apart from the necessary time for classes, meals, and homework, everyone likes to hang out in there.

Play? Read?

Time is accelerated in virtual reality. The time it takes to read one book in reality is enough to read three books in virtual reality.

The same goes for playing. There are so many more things to play in virtual reality than in reality. With accelerated thinking, people will have more time for entertainment.

After Roger conquered the long-distance online technology level, even if many little wizards wanted to play together, they could connect remotely.

To be honest, this has played a positive role in resolving conflicts among students of the four major colleges.

In the past, if two students from Gryffindor and Slytherin were friends before entering school, they would inevitably be affected by the conflicting atmosphere between the colleges after entering school, and their communication would become less and less, and they would drift further and further apart.

Just like Lily and Snape, Snape did do a lot of wrong things, and that is indisputable.

But it is also true that as a friend, Lily knew very little about what Snape went through later because of their different colleges, and she did not have many opportunities to communicate in depth with Snape, which led to many misunderstandings and estrangement.

But with virtual reality, such things will be reduced a lot.

Students have a private space away from the sight of others.

Of course, this also leads to a series of new problems.

For example, some secret groups began to prevail among students.

What happens inside Hogwarts is just a microcosm of the larger society.

Roger could foresee that when virtual reality was fully rolled out around the world, the various problems that had arisen in Hogwarts would also occur in both the wizarding and Muggle societies.

It is common for people like Hagrid to be so obsessed with the virtual reality world where everything they do is possible and everything they dream of can come true that they sometimes ignore the reality.

Even a flat online game can make some people addicted.

What's more, it is more realistic and may even evolve into a 'real' world in the future.

...While knocking on the door more loudly, Roger thought to himself that it was time to find a way to solve this problem.

Roger developed virtual reality.

It is not to make the world become like "The Matrix" where everyone in the world enters a virtual world.

"You want to do an experiment?"

"Of course!" Hagrid came back to his senses from virtual reality when Roger knocked heavily on the door.

Of course he had no objection to this little matter.

But Roger gave up his original plan to do the experiment directly.

Instead, the conversation turned to Hagrid's addiction to virtual reality.

"Hagrid, I'm thinking about developing some anti-addiction mechanisms recently. Do you have any suggestions?"

"Now inside Hogwarts, more and more people are investing too much energy in this..."

Before Roger could finish his words, Hagrid said, "Roger, maybe you're worrying too much."

“Maybe there’s nothing wrong with that.”

“Virtual reality is also reality.”

"We just put the real-world communication into the virtual world, but it's not a waste of time."

"I don't think there's any need for anti-addiction measures. All I need is a 'reminder' function to prevent the mind from ignoring the dangers of the real world when entering the virtual world."

(End of this chapter)