Who made her an NPC!.

Chapter 384 The End of Life, the Truth of the Reaper's Coming [4k]

In the pure land of the dark night.

Bai Fu slowly walked to the mysterious code floating in the air.

"Let me see what's so magical about you!"

Bai Fu did not make any move, but calmly threw an Apostle Vision to the mysterious code.

Although both are reconnaissance techniques, Bai Fu's super advanced reconnaissance technique combined with the passive ability of Extraordinary Vision can produce a much more detailed item introduction panel than that obtained by players.

【Mysterious Code】

【Quality】: Color

[Props Description]:
1. (Omitted, same as player reconnaissance results)

2. (Hidden) The shell of this program is made of the crystals of the Old Days of the Void and the Old Days of the Void. It cannot be cracked by brute force. Forcible cracking will cause the data inside the crystal to be destroyed;
3. (Hidden) The seekers of the initial agreement accidentally derived part of the content from the crystal through the apostle's true spirit essence. The content is as follows:

[......]
Bai Fu quickly glanced at the item description, and when she saw the things that came with Description 3, she was stunned.

Although she didn't quite understand it, this code looked very similar to the code of the world she was in before she traveled through time.

"Shit, this isn't the complete code for the game "Above the Stars"?"

If this is true, then the reaper actually refers to the game developer?
It doesn't seem right either.

Bai Fu really found it hard to imagine that the world before she traveled through time was capable of producing such an outrageous game as "Above the Stars".

Not to mention the terrifyingly large map and AI intelligence, the life support system of the game cabin and the huge ratio difference between "game time: real time" are not technologies that could be mastered in the world before she traveled through time.

"We still have to find a way to crack this crystal of some era and see what the complete code is."

Bai Fu's eyes kept wandering between item description 2 and description 3.

She had some vague guesses. In order to crack the crystal of the times, would she need to use the true spirit essence and the core of the Void Lord?

What a coincidence, she not only has these two things, but also a lot of them.

More importantly, she digested these two things directly and turned them into part of her body.

Try it!

Bai Fu placed her hands on the Crystal of the Times and simultaneously called upon the power of the True Spirit Essence and the Void Lord's Core.

When two completely different forces poured into the crystal of the times, ripples suddenly appeared on the crystal of the times, like a stone thrown into a calm lake.

"There is a response... but it seems not enough."

Bai Fu smiled. It was not a big problem. She still had Yulia, Ai Lijie, Fei Ye and Jin Lu on her side.

With the arrival of Yulia and others, the ripples on the mysterious code finally appeared.

Under the cleansing of the ripples, a large amount of information emerged in Bai Fu's mind.

"Is this the history of the Void Civilization and the Void Realm Civilization?"

Bai Fu started watching.

She was not interested in how the void civilization and the virtual world civilization developed and grew in such a vast universe. She had experienced too many similar stories in the process of studying the three major cosmic civilizations.

What she cares more about is the special use of the power possessed by the Void Civilization and the Void Realm Civilization. These things are very helpful for her to improve her own strength.

"The virtual dimension was not a real dimension in the beginning. It was a 'new world' created by the virtual civilization with the power of civilization after it realized the existence of the reapers."

"They plan to upload the 'minds' of the entire civilization to the virtual dimension, leaving only the bodies in the main universe for the reapers to harvest. This way, they can survive the crisis of the reapers' arrival. After the reapers leave, they will collectively return to the main universe from the virtual dimension."

"The eleven apostles in the virtual world were originally the eleven virtual world dimension administrators elected by the virtual world civilization through collective voting. Among them, Apostle No. 1 is the most special one. She is the leader of the administrator team. Before entering the virtual world dimension, she was a genius researcher of the virtual world civilization and was hailed as the first person in thousands of years. The double helix tree, the control center of the virtual world dimension, was invented by her."

Having said this, Bai Fu turned her head and glanced at Ai Lijie who was standing next to her.

"Oh my god, was I so awesome before?"

Ai Lijie felt incredible. Over the long years, she had long lost her memory of the past.

Bai Fu continued, "It seems that the Double Helix Tree is much more powerful than I thought. Fusing with it is equivalent to gaining control of the virtual dimension. And... I understand why you can't continue to fuse with the Double Helix Tree after awakening as a Supreme God. It's not because your path to becoming a god has been cut off. It's simply because you are the creator of the Double Helix Tree and you have a bad feeling towards it. How could the Double Helix Tree allow you to fuse with it?"

Yulia nodded repeatedly: "That makes sense."

Bai Fu smiled and continued to read, trying to see if there was any way to quickly merge the double helix tree.

She looked for a long time but couldn't find it, but she did find a lot of records about the reapers.

The virtual civilization tried every possible means but still could not escape the fate of being harvested.

They acted according to the plan, and one day, a huge black curtain descended from the high-dimensional space, covering all areas where intelligent life existed.

When the darkness dissipated, all intelligent life and all traces of civilization were wiped out from the universe, leaving only a silent dead zone.

Just when the people of the virtual civilization thought they had successfully survived the disaster and could return to the main universe to rebuild their civilization, an extremely terrifying will suddenly descended upon the virtual dimension.

They immediately realized that something was wrong and tried to escape.

However, it was too late.

It took the Reapers a day to harvest the husks left behind in the main universe.

But when harvesting these "hearts" in the virtual dimension, it only took the harvester less than a second.

Coming means death!
In the end, only eleven virtual realm administrators survived.

They didn't do anything special to differentiate themselves from other people, yet they survived.

Apparently, the Reapers had deliberately spared them.

But why would the Reaper let them go?
The surviving administrators were puzzled.

They demanded sharply, but they received no response.

In fact, this is normal.

The reapers are giants, and they are ants. The giants destroy the ants. Why bother about what the ants think, why bother explaining to the ants.

However, understanding the Reaper's thoughts does not mean that one can accept this reality.

The eleven virtual realm managers, led by Ai Lijie, vowed to find out the truth.

They first tried to return to the main universe to see if they could find some clues. However, the virtual dimension had been exiled by the Reapers, and they could not return at all.

Well, since we can't return, then we can just investigate in the virtual dimension.

The Reapers have also descended upon the virtual dimension, and we don’t believe that we can’t find any information here.

As a talented researcher, Ai Lijie's keen perception really allowed her to discover problems during the investigation.

With the Reaper's ability, it is obvious that he can destroy all those bodies in the main universe in an instant just like cleansing the virtual dimension, or even faster, but why did it take the Reaper a day?

Ai Lijie concluded that the answer to this question was very crucial, even more crucial than the reason why the Reapers deliberately let them, the administrators, go.

[They may be looking for something, or collecting something] So, what is it?

Ai Lijie called a meeting of all managers.

The first thing that can be confirmed is that what the Reapers need has nothing to do with souls, otherwise the Reapers would never sweep through the virtual dimension at such a fast speed.

[What they need is our body, and the most valuable thing in our body is...]

It's probably genes.

Ai Lijie concluded that it was genes.

She used this conclusion to infer and gave her own complete inference about the logic of the Reapers' actions -

The Reapers are studying the secrets of genetics. Their purpose is probably to explore the final chapter of life evolution and make themselves perfect. However, genetics is so profound that even with their powerful technology, they cannot calculate a path that can truly lead to perfection.

They had to face an ultimate question.

What is perfection?

The Reapers didn't know and couldn't calculate it, so they changed their approach.

Since I can’t figure it out, I’ll just try my luck!

Among countless experiments, perhaps there will be one time when they are lucky enough to find the perfect way.

The Reaper's experiment is to spread wisdom in the universe, and then let these intelligent lives develop freely, watching these intelligent lives improve their own genes and explore the path of evolution in the long night.

The Reapers are conducting experiments, and they certainly won't sit idly by and watch the experimental subjects kill themselves, so they set a [Crisis Red Line].

When the civilizations created by these intelligent lives they spread, or when one of the intelligent lives has touched the [red line of crisis] that is enough to make them feel uneasy, they will immediately come out to harvest this civilization.

[I think that from the time the dark curtain descended to the day they left, they were reviewing the results of this experiment to see if the perfect gene they wanted was accidentally born in this experiment.]

[Obviously, the virtual civilization still failed to satisfy them, so they quickly started a new round of sowing]

[I speculate that the reason why they did not completely erase the traces of the Void Civilization and our Void Civilization is that they wanted to see whether different generations of intelligent life could create some wonderful sparks in the communication and collision.]

【The evolution of life also requires inspiration】

Ai Lijie's inference shocked the other administrators.

They tried to refute it, but after repeated consideration, they found that this inference was enough to explain all the problems they had encountered so far.

So, that's the truth, they're just a bunch of experiments?

But if that's the case, how can they talk about revenge?

The Reapers have set a red line, and if they cross that line they will die, and if they don't cross that line they can't take revenge.

In this case, doesn't it mean that they have no chance of revenge at all?

This truth is so despairing.

As despair began to spread, Elize came up with a new idea.

No, of course it's not that simple.

The purpose of the Harvesters planting civilizations is to evolve themselves into perfect life. If this is the case, the civilizations they planted could not have been planted randomly.

I don't think they'd randomly spread some intelligent life that's very different from them.

[They don't understand what perfection is in the first place. If they do this, they will lose sight of the future even more. Is the path that is perfect for these intelligent lives they have planted really perfect enough for them?]

[So, I think that their so-called random luck is actually random on a certain "platform" they set up]

【About this "platform" explanation】

[My view is that the intelligent life they spread - including us - must have a large proportion of genetic similarity to them.]

【And this is our chance! 】

Under the leadership of Alice, a total of eleven administrators began to try every possible means to contact the newly born intelligent life in the outside world.

They want to guide these intelligent lives to crack the secrets of their own genes, and then derive weapons that are powerful enough to deal with the Reapers, so that they can attack the Reapers the next time they come.

Even if they cannot completely destroy the Reapers, they must at least let the Reapers see their anger!
Elize's idea is good.

However, when she first came into contact with intelligent life in the outside world, she and other administrators suffered a heavy blow.

An invisible attack descended, and all their related memories were erased, not only those inferences, but also what they originally wanted to do.

From then on, the eleven administrators became the eleven apostles.

It was not until many years later that some apostles left the virtual world under the influence of their subconsciousness and descended into the main universe.

This is the end of the information recorded in the program.

Bai Fu blinked.

After reading the records in the Ancient Relic 003 obtained after defeating the Void Lord, she has been wondering why the Reapers want to plant civilization and what the purpose of setting the red line is. Elize's conjecture can be said to be a perfect answer to her questions.

But even if everything made sense, she couldn't just conclude that Elize's guess was correct.

Because Ai Lijie has no evidence at all.

However, judging from the fact that the memories of Ai Lijie and others were suddenly wiped out afterwards, even if this guess is not completely correct, it at least hits the nail on the head.

"The question now is, why did the Reapers simply erase the memories of Elize and the others instead of directly erasing their existence? Also, why did the Reapers allow this mysterious code that records the truth to exist?"

"Do they think it doesn't matter if they stay? No, if they really don't care, then they wouldn't have gone out of their way to erase the memories of Ai Lijie and the others in the first place. Is there a possibility..."

Bai Fu looked at Ai Lijie.

Alijie blurted out: "It wasn't the Reapers who erased our memories?!"

Bai Fu nodded, she thought so too.

Only by introducing a third party can these unreasonable things seem reasonable.

So the question is, if the truth is really as they think, then they may have a chance to successfully survive the crisis of the arrival of the Reapers and allow themselves and the civilization of the main universe to continue.

No matter what the purpose of that third party is, he is an object worth fighting for.

"Hurry and check if there is anything else recorded in this program!"

Yulia hurriedly urged.

Bai Fu hummed and continued to call upon the Void Lord Core and True Spirit Essence. The next second, a mechanical voice emerged in her mind.

【Insufficient permissions】

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(End of this chapter)