[Online Games] The world is your enemy

Xue Pei didn't know when he regained consciousness.

His first reaction was surprise—hey, are you still alive?Originally thought that forced offline might lead to direct erasure...

The second reaction was still surprise.

Because the scenery in front of him was extremely familiar.

Familiar buildings, familiar quiet bamboo forests, looked up, and saw Liangyi Bagua Taiji diagram on the high platform not far away... and the sculpture of Xuangui next to it.When he realized where he was, he could hardly close his mouth from ear to ear.

He is looking too empty now.

He wasn't wiped out, nor was he forced to go offline...he returned to Tai Xu Guan.

what happened?Who brought himself here?Xue Pei stood up dazedly, trying to figure out the situation, but at this moment, he suddenly felt something was wrong around him.

Xue Pei blinked.

He found that Taixuguan had become a huge architectural planning map, and every tree and every building was marked with their original models and the textures on them.

This kind of vision made him feel a little uncomfortable... It seemed that what he saw was not the real world, but more like a manufactured sandbox game.

He walked along the familiar road and found that every building had become like this.

It was not until he walked all the way to the high platform in the front yard of Taixu Temple that he finally saw living people in this strange world full of grids.

Not Jin Yuanshu.

In fact, Xue Pei was actually looking forward to seeing Jin Yuanshu pack up his things in the old place, and see everything as usual.He even hoped that someone would tell him that it was a dream since the Great Escape, and that the Great Wilderness was another real parallel world—and there was no game company or the shackles of heaven here.However, when he raised his head, what he saw was beyond his expectations.

There are many people in front of you.

There were about a dozen of them, and each of them was a completely unfamiliar face.Most of them are men, with a few girls among them, and at the end of the line, there is actually a chubby... panda.

He didn't understand what he was seeing. Is this still too illusory?Where are these visitors coming from?Where did the people who were too emptiness go?

And... where did Yu Jizi go?

"Hey." At this moment, he suddenly heard a cheerful girl's voice behind him.

Xue Pei turned his head.

What he saw was an ordinary looking girl, at first he thought it was Yihan, but then he realized that it was not someone he knew.This strange girl looked to be in her twenties, wearing a plain plain gown.

The girl looked him up and down, and greeted him with interest. "Intern?" she asked.

Xue Pei wanted to say "No, what are you asking" at first, but then he realized what he heard.

He immediately swallowed what he was about to say, then he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, nodded as usual: "Well, yes."

"Oh, I think so." The girl nodded, and said without any suspicion, "No wonder I haven't seen you before... My name is Su Ran. Are you new here?"

"Uh... yes." Xue Pei said cautiously.

When he said this, his complexion didn't change, but his mood had already started to overwhelm uncontrollably.

He finally understood what these sudden strangers were all about.

Who are these people?The answer is actually quite obvious.

The normal players are all offline, and the game company is down for maintenance... These are people from the game company, and what he sees is that the gods are creating and modifying the world.

——These strange visitors who appear in Taixu Temple are the gods of this world.

For a moment, Xue Pei suddenly felt a huge absurdity. In this world, isn't it the game company that formulates and modifies the rules for players?The so-called gods are just a group of nerds and a few little girls.In a place like a game company, there must be more men than women, and the entire team he saw just now were almost all men.The gender is female, and there are only a few people in front of me, such as the girl who calls herself Su Ran.

These people are just ordinary human beings in real life, who worry about prices, overtime and all kinds of trivial real life.

However, in the wild world...they are the gods who control everything.

As long as they don't violate the needs of the business and the rules of the boss, these people can make any changes to this world.

Looking at this ordinary girl who is a "god" in front of her, Xue Pei felt that she suddenly wanted to ask something.

He kind of tried to curb the urge, but he still found he couldn't control his voice. "That..." He took a deep breath and asked the question softly, "Do you think...the virtual characters you created may be real?"

Su Ran blinked: "What role?"

"These virtual characters whose stories have been written... are like these little bosses who suddenly disappeared from Taixuguan..." When Xue Pei said this, she felt that her voice was a little strange.

However, what he didn't expect was that this girl named Su Ran was quite calm about his strange question.

"Of course." Su Ran actually gave an affirmative answer, "I always believed that they were all true."

She spread her hands and said frankly, "Writers of novels often have the situation of 'taking the protagonist of the novel as their own son'. Have you heard of this? I was originally a novel writer. I’m a copywriter again. Of course I believe that the characters I create are actually living in some world, and I’m just a person who records their stories.”

When Miss Su Ran said these words, Jin Yuanshu appeared.

Xue Pei saw the appearance of Jin Yuanshu out of the corner of his eye... He was refreshed on the high platform all of a sudden, and the process of appearing was as sudden as Yu Jizi's disappearing out of thin air.Undoubtedly, the current Jin Yuanshu stood there motionless, looking like a large puppet.

In his heart, he was expecting Jin Yuanshu to move, or Yu Jizi would suddenly fly over and fall from the sky.

But after several seconds of silence, nothing happened.

how can that be possible?This is the game company shutting down for maintenance, and these programs and plans are the spokespersons of Heaven and the gods.

He realized that he seemed to be recognized as a colleague by the Su Ran girl in front of him... She seemed to regard him as a new intern in the working group.But it's no wonder that normal players have been forced to go offline.According to common sense, there should really be no inexplicable outsiders here.

But Xue Pei has never belonged to "common sense", he is not clear what kind of existence he is.

He suddenly had a strong urge to rush up immediately.

Rushing forward, pulling away Jin Yuanshu, and then repeating Tai Xu Guan's Great Escape...Xue Pei wanted to do this a little bit, but at the same time he knew that it was of no use at all.

In the wild world, the strength of Yu Jizi and his many disciples should not be considered weak, right?But after a shutdown for maintenance, everyone will still be refreshed, and there is no way to even resist.

He suddenly felt a kind of fateful sadness.Yu Jizi's wish is to truly control his own destiny, and for this he will not hesitate to kill the gods against the sky-but what's the point?This whole world is a game that can be modified at will, and any resistance looks like a ridiculous joke.

And he was in the middle of the joke.

Xue Pei was silent for a while in the extremely complicated mood, and then changed his previous statement: "It's not in that sense... I mean in the real world." He raised his head and looked at the girl in front of him, earnestly asked, "Do you believe that, in a realistic sense-the people in those games are also real? In this game, there are people with free will, who can be happy, sad, and joke with others artificial intelligence?"