“...tell me what you really want”

“No, I don’t have to read it. This makes no sense and when it makes no sense I have to pass. Why don’t you quit fooling around and tell me what you really want.”

“I want to be immortal”

“Excuse me?,” Mark asked. “What does the fantasy room have to do with being immortal?”

“What’s the current time dilation in your virtual environment, something like 100 to 1, so for every real time hour fully immersed it would be like 100 hours in the fantasy.”

Mark wondered how he knew that but answered, “Yes, something like that.”

“What if I live in the virtual environment. What if you put me into there forever.”

“You can’t live there, you have to eat, you have to take care of your body.”

“I've already thought that through and I have a solution,” said Mike.

“12 hours in and 12 hours out, so every day starts off with one hour of exercise and a good meal. Then I go into immersion for 8 hours. then another meal, and more exercise, than the last four hours of full immersion, then I come out and sleep for eight hours. I stay healthy, but I live in the fantasy room for 12 hours of each day. If I live 30 more years that's 1500 years in the virtual environment. Plus don’t tell me you are not going to speed up the time dilation. My people tell me it could get to a 1,000 to 1 or even more.”

Mark looked at him, a stunned look on his face. “That could work," he finally said at last. "That could work. Let me see the agreement.”

Mike slid the agreement over to him and waited.

Mark quickly read the agreement. "So I have to work for you for five years and show your people everything about my work. You will control the patents that make the system work.”

"That’s correct, for 5 billion dollars I get everything. After five years you can go do whatever you want, even open another company using the same technology that I will license to you . You get an unlimited budget to perfect your system. I get to live forever, what's not awesome about that for both of us?”

“Nothing,” said Mark and he signed the agreement.

Then he continued to talk to the man who now owned his company, “You need to understand what you are asking dwarfs anything I’ve done before by a factor of millions. It will take me six months to a year to complete the initial project study. the programming needed to allow you to be in the virtual suite for so many hours. Plus I need to get your people up to speed. Plus, we need a super computer, probably the fastest one that’s ever been built.”

Mike answered quickly, “No problem, I already have the computer project underway. It will be complete in the next few months and the total resources of this equipment will be yours to use."

Mark smiled, "This is going to be amazing. I’m going to be able to do things I have only dreamed of. To get you prepared to do this I need detailed brain scans. I need you to test our new VICKI sim to see how she does. It will allow me to get brain measurements you personalized to the smallest detail. I will need to know every cell of your brain to get this to work seamlessly.”

Mark heard his phone bing and saw the billion dollars hit his account. He was still stunned by the whole thing.

Mike stood up and said, "Just call me when you are ready for my first test immersion. Vicki sounds like fun, I’m ready to meet her."

"No that’s not a name, it stands for Virtual Interactive Constructed Kinetic Immersion. Basically, you have, what will be in your case a woman, who will do anything for you sexually. She will also guide you through a number of other exercises so we can get an accurate scan to create the fantasy. Then after Mark thought about it for a bit he said, “No this is not a fantasy, more properly I should say it is creating a world for you to explore. You can call the sim Vicki though, it will work as a name.