This Game Is Too Realistic

In the temple at the root of the sacred tree in Doma City, fireflies flying in the air are like a pair of eyes that gather, disperse, and combine.

Sitting cross-legged on the rattan wooden bed, I stared at the sky with my eyes wide open all night. My eyes seemed to have passed through the flickering fireflies, and also through the rattan wall that could block all light.

It was something he had never felt before.

It was like when I was flipping through a book about little people, I suddenly caught my eye with the little person in the book.

But what was different from the past was that this time he was not the one reading the book.

The eyes that met his gaze were those outside the pages of the book as thin as cicada wings.

"……so it is."

In an instant, he finally understood why He said that Gaia and the Insofia tree were both Him and not Him.

Even more than that -

He also understood why He said that the answer was meaningless to them.

"You broke the 'fourth wall'..." Ye Shi blurted out something.

That is a vocabulary that the forest people will never understand, just like the theory of dimensions.

After all, their cultural progress has only reached the primitive tribal period, and those brilliant ideas have not yet been born.

There was a chuckle from somewhere, and the sound seemed to come from the firefly.

He is here for everything.

And it's always been there.

"That's right, clever little clever guy... Congratulations on finding the answer, but it's a pity that there is no trophy."

Ye Shi's eyes widened.

A thrilling feeling gradually crawled up the back of his head, as if someone from a TV series had suddenly crawled into his living room through the screen.

He wanted to take off his helmet immediately and make sure there was no second person in his bedroom.

But he soon realized that this was stupid...

This is just a game.

Even if it is very realistic in every aspect.

"...What's behind the wall?" Ye Shi stared at the mural intently and asked aloud.

Suddenly, Yinghuo answered in an inaudible voice.

"Nothing."

Ye Shi was stunned.

"...Nothing?"

The voice answered slowly, or maybe all the answers had already been written on the wall.

It's just that he reads too slowly.

"Yes, there is nothing here, but it also has everything. Beyond matter, we have become eternal, our destiny is no longer at the mercy of possibility, and we have completely left this wild universe... And this is exactly what we are doing here After knowing everything about this universe, I am willing to devote all my life to pursuing it.”

Reading this information from the flickering light, Ye Shi was so shocked that words could not describe it.

so it is.

Whether we use Gaia or the Insofia tree to describe His existence, there is a lack of rigor.

Human beings have only been to the world outside the Nanmen II system, so they subconsciously believe that His footprints only appear on the third planet in the sequence star of Nanmen II AB.

Gaia is just a trace of Him left on this planet, including the later appearance of the "Insofia tree", which may be some kind of "self-aware ecological maintenance system".

The three-year war was never a war between humans and Gaia, but an upgraded version of the war between forest people and valley people. Gaia was at best the trump card in the hands of one of the two warring parties.

The weapons used by both warring parties have also changed from spears and bows to "neutron torpedoes" and "Gaia species".

The so-called mother nest of mutant slime mold is the product of artificial cultivation from the beginning.

Regarding this matter, a researcher named "White Pigeon" from the academy has provided abundant experimental evidence to support it.

Even including the Athea nest in the center of Qingquan, it cannot fly to the earth on its own without interstellar navigation capabilities.

From the beginning, it was a biological weapon developed by the colonists using the technology learned from Gaia, and even its memory was most likely artificially instilled.

This is actually not difficult to prove. Xiaoyu is the best example.

It's still an alliance of memories and people teach it, but teaching is something completely different.

That catastrophe ended in the destruction of both parties. Both the colonies and the Awami League were submerged in the dust of history due to their own limitations, and could only be commented by future generations.

Nowadays, a new civilization has been born on the planet Gaia, and the fire of civilization has been rekindled on the earth in the solar system.

As for Him -

Calling Him Gaia is indeed one-sided, including the Gemini crew's discovery of the Insofia tree.

If Ye Shi were to rename him, perhaps it would be more appropriate to call him "Pioneer".

That is a civilization that has a history far older than human beings. The time span between the two existing in this universe may be counted in hundreds of millions of years or tens of millions of years.

Due to their own reasons, they chose the latter between material and spiritual matters. After both material and spiritual prosperity reached their peak, they completed the dimension ascension within the scope of civilization and ascended to another dimension.

No--

Maybe it's not just another dimension.

Using dimensions to describe their existence is one-sided. After all, both the low-dimensional universe and the high-dimensional universe are part of this universe, and they break the fourth wall.

Defining their existence may require a new vocabulary.

For example, "void".

That is the world outside the horizon of all living beings in this universe, which is also the world outside the "fourth wall".

If this universe is compared to a computer game, then the screen they pass through is the monitor screen.

They drilled a small hole in the screen, or opened a big hole, and they always went to another universe with a completely different Planck constant.

But then again, does this make any sense?

Going to another universe, they may have lost their former form, and even their mass no longer exists, leaving only a beam of light or a section of electromagnetic waves.

And outside the "event window", the universe might also have its own "world window", which exists in its own void just like a matryoshka doll.

Compared with the universe they once lived in, there is no doubt that they have completed the final dimensionality and seen their own "creation".

Compared with their own infinitely prosperous existence, it is not a kind of collapse.

They turned from giants to dust.

Ye Shi couldn't understand why they did this. From his answer, he could feel that he knew the outcome of everything from the beginning, and he knew it much better than an ant himself.

He doesn't care.

If you want to ask why——

Because that's what they want all their lives.

They burned all the selves in the original universe and turned into the light outside the universe...

"We passed through the 'Vision Window', found our creation, and said hello to him."

"Although he can't see us, we all see him... and that's enough for us."

"Since then, our story has not been in this universe, and even what you see now is just the echo after the 'Big Bang'."

"As for Gaia, the branches and buds of the Insofia tree...are just traces of our existence left by us."

"Your compatriot is very smart. He discovered the answer, and I believe you must have noticed it. As I said, 'It's not like you have failed anyway.'"

"The answer was on the mural in front of you from the beginning. The child Dora read it to you, the part that she could understand. And what you see now is the part that she couldn't understand."

After thinking about everything, Ye Dou heard this voice in his mind.

Both seemed to happen at the same time.

While studying the murals, he gradually "saw" everything that the crew member had experienced, and everything that was completely recorded on the growth lines.

That unbelievable thing made him even more shocked, and he even couldn't help but doubt the nature of this game.

Staring at the increasingly bright fireflies, he couldn't help blurting out a question.

"How did you do it? That kind of ascension...including going to the void."

The dark voice didn't answer.

Or maybe He actually gave an answer, but he couldn't hear it, let alone understand it.

After all——

They are having this conversation, but they are separated by who knows how many thousands of years.

The experience aboard the Orion has proven that information transmission across time and space is not omnipotent.

They can only press the teleprompters in each other's hands to remind each other that they understand each other's existence.

He spoke slowly and left the last message.

"We have communicated enough. I know too much will not do you any good."

"If you have to say anything, I have only one piece of advice -"

"Unless you make exploring the spiritual world your lifelong pursuit, don't try to break the fourth wall."

"Not everyone can pass through there smoothly. There are also a lot of messy things trapped in the wall. Even just taking a look at it from a distance will cause you huge trouble... You should be lucky that you met "It's me."

"By the way, there was a fool among you who begged me to take him to 'Heaven', but he didn't realize that 'Heaven' also has a 'Heaven' labyrinth. As you have already realized, there are other things beyond the universe.䜥㱕Universe, there is 䜥㱕horizon beyond the horizon...The truth is infinite㱕.”

"Anyway, good luck to you, stupid materialists."

"Maybe we'll meet again."

The sound disappeared.

Ye Shi stared blankly at the fireflies above his head, feeling a sense of loss in his heart that he could not let go for a long time.

After spending nearly a month in this temple, he thought he had successfully broken the fourth wall, but he didn't expect that he was still a little short.

What he saw or heard was just that an unknown number of thousands of years ago, a certain pioneer civilization shattered into the void and left the world with explosions and echoes.

There is only so much information left on this planet.

The crew of the Gemini has studied them and recorded them on the temple's murals.

If you want to find more clues about the Pioneers, you may have to go to other galaxies in the universe.

"...Although it is a bit far-fetched to consider the destruction of the People's Federation as the pioneer behind Gaia, the price of digging this ruins must be too heavy."

Thinking of all the past experiences, Ye Shi couldn't help but smile bitterly, and couldn't comment for a while.

Of course.

㱗Human civilization has not gained nothing in this process.

In addition to the gains in the fields of biotechnology and aerospace engineering, their gains in the field of sociology are equally rich.

When they regain their lives, they will be more resilient and stronger than they were before.

As for himself, he also gained a lot from this adventure.

Although it was impossible to determine the sequence level without VM, he could clearly feel that his perception attribute was much stronger, at least he had jumped up three or four levels.

And it's more than that.

Ye Shi suddenly found that he could fluently read the growth patterns on the walls of the temple.

In addition, those fireflies also became able to understand his voice, as well as those insects like crickets.

His "spiritual power" seems to have awakened.

…

Just when Ye Shi was surprised by the changes happening to him, the war between the forest people and the valley people also entered its final climax.

The tribes in the forest formed a coalition force. Under the leadership of Tun Nan, they fought successively and made many ingenious plans. They deployed defenses along the ridge, but the defenders of Qiu State were defeated one after another and fled in the hope of wind.

Especially in the recent battle, Tunnan, who was wearing power armor, was like an ancestor descending to earth. He was invulnerable with copper skin and iron bones, and was riding a giant bear. The Qiu army was in a deserted land. Even the most courageous warriors of the Qiu army were in a state of invulnerability. Beheaded on the battlefield.

Countless soldiers did not dare to look at him, let alone stop him, so they abandoned their helmets and fled.

When powered armor appears on the battlefield, it can undoubtedly be called a "dimensionality reduction strike."

As for how Tun Nan mastered the use of power armor, it was not a difficult matter.

As long as he establishes contact with the past through "psychic energy", it is not a problem for him.

That battle became the Battle of Tunnan to Confer Gods, and he defeated thousands of Qiu soldiers with his own strength!

The situation on the battlefield was precarious for the Qiu State, but the elders had no choice but to pray for the blessing of their ancestors.

Seeing that the Qiu people were about to be destroyed, at this critical moment, a warrior named Qiu Ling suddenly stood up.

He had previously appeared at a meeting of the Council of Elders with the prophecy of the ancestor, and went to the depths of the Forbidden Forest on behalf of the Qiu people to find the lost sacred object of the ancestor.

Although the holy object was not found, he had passed the test of the ancestor and brought back the prophecy left by the ancestor.

The ancestor named Qiu Shiye told them that their mission was to go to the end of the world and to keep walking until there was no more way to go.

The will of the ancestor is like the rain after a long drought, which makes the people who can no longer support the Qiu breathe a sigh of relief.

They have always been charged with the mission of guarding the Forbidden Forest Valley. Now they can finally leave this land of right and wrong, which is becoming increasingly difficult to survive.

Qiu Ling brought back not only the prophecy of the ancestor, but also the hope of escape.

Not only did he reorganize the Qiu State's army, he also led the revitalized soldiers to defeat several attempts by the forest tribes to encircle and annihilate them. He also protected the old, weak, women and children of the tribe, and crossed the mountains and ridges with livestock and production materials to break out of the encirclement. Escaped into the deserted eastern mountains.

There is the lower reaches of the nameless river, connected to a windy and calm sea.

According to what the ancestors in the sky said, as long as they climb over the mountains at their feet, cross the hot rainforests, go eastward, and pass through the vast deserts and grasslands, they will find a land far more fertile than the Forbidden Forest Valley.

That was the resting place given to them by their ancestors.

They built countless cities on that land and established an infinitely prosperous kingdom, where they lived and worked in peace and contentment, and explored a world far wider than the Forbidden Forest Valley.

Qiu Ling persuaded his people to go on the road with peace of mind, and then led 500 cavalry to stay behind at the passes of the eastern mountains.

Although Tunnan had already obtained the Forbidden Forest Valley, the high-spirited man was obviously not satisfied with the victory in front of him and wanted more.

Ignoring the prophecy brought by the temple maid, he led the 3,000 elites of the Duoma clan and the 2,000 young and middle-aged warriors of the most elite tribes, and followed the retreating footsteps of the "sinful people" to the foot of the eastern mountains, and Launch an attack at dusk.

Qiu Ling has been waiting for this for a long time.

He ordered his soldiers to cut off the vines wrapped around the rolling log and let the stones and rolling log roll down the hillside.

The rocks and rolling logs poured down like a mountain torrent, instantly overwhelming the five thousand tribal warriors under Tun Nan.

The residents in the forest had never seen the horror of landslides. They only thought it was a heavenly punishment sent by the ancestors. They were not hit by stones and their heads were bleeding, but they were frightened by the scene of the sky collapsing and the earth splitting, and they fled in all directions.

With the organizational capabilities of the tribal era, once morale collapsed, it was almost impossible to reorganize.

Not letting go of this golden opportunity, Qiu Ling led his 500 lizard-riding warriors to immediately launch a charge.

Immediately after the gravel and logs poured down, the wild lizards became a lingering nightmare for the forest people.

Looking at the pile of scattered soldiers, Tun Nan wished he could break his teeth.

Although he knew that his defeat was certain, he still refused to give up. Instead, relying on his invulnerable "iron armor", he rode a giant bear and rode towards high places alone.

At this moment, a crisp sound broke through the air into his ears, followed by another crisp sound of "dang".

Before he could recover what had happened, an arrow penetrated his kneecap.

That was Qiu Ling shooting an arrow.

At this moment, he is holding the divine bow given to him by his ancestor!

As for the arrow, it's nothing special. It's just an arrow made of dark green crystals.

Tunnan screamed and fell off the back of the giant bear, rolling down to the foot of the mountain.

Only then did he remember the prophecy that the temple maid named "Dora" brought back from the forest!

Although he misunderstood the true meaning of the "punishment arrow" in various senses, at this moment, it seemed to him that the arrow that shot through his knee was undoubtedly a warning to him.

"retreat!"

After swallowing the humiliation, he finally gave the order to retreat and retreated into the forest with less than 300 remaining soldiers.

At the same time, Qiuling, which shot Tunnan down the hillside with one arrow and blocked "hundreds of thousands of troops" without wasting a single soldier, became a myth in the eyes of Qiu people and a legend in this land.

However, he did not stay in this land of right and wrong to continue entangled in this land of right and wrong out of greed for victory like Tun Nan.

They are going further afield.

They want to set foot all along the coast of the ocean and sow the seeds of civilization in every corner of this land.

"Forward!"

He raised the long bow in his hand high, roared at the high-spirited soldiers, strangled the wild lizard's neck under him, turned around, and led them away towards the depths of the mountains.

Although he didn't want to let these guys go, Tunnan still swallowed his hatred.

The sudden defeat completely shattered his plan to unify the forest.

Even if the Duoma tribe succeeded in retaking the Holy Land, their vitality would still be severely damaged.

After that, he and his people had to face the punishment from their ancestors.

When his subordinates helped him stand up, he felt weaker than ever before, and the swelling and pain in his wounds even made him feel like he didn't have much time left.

There was only regret in his heart, regret for why he insisted on being alone in the first place, regret for why he didn't listen to advice, regret for why he didn't let those "sinners" have a way out and give himself a chance.

But now that the matter is over, it's too late to say anything.

After the sun set, both parties declared their victory and headed for a future they each agreed on.

As for what happens after that, it will be another tortuous and long epic...