When the prospect of imminent death looms ahead, you don’t really choose how to survive. So I, finding myself on death row after another assassination attempt, grabbed at a straw - an offer to participate in some experiment, the purpose of which is to study the effect of long-term immersion in virtual reality on a person. As a result, he was locked in a virtual capsule for many years. Do I regret my decision? Not at all. Staying in a simulation world full of dangers, adventures and mysteries is clearly better than dying in a prison in one of the countries of Southeast Asia at the hands of hired killers. Even if I was “lucky” to receive a curse at the beginning of my “new” life and become the weakest among all the participants in the experiment.