Lucky billion players, you've never seen one before / I can accumulate my own luck

No way?

The next second, all three of them, including Xia Li, cast mixed glances at Fan Xiao, filled with questions and strange emotions.

Fan Xiao saw what they were thinking and said calmly, "Fan Xiaoxiao is set up as a 19-year-old female college student."

"...She really is a woman. Did she undergo gender reassignment?" Xia Li asked curiously, "Why?"

"I'm not entirely sure either, that's just how the character is designed." Fan Xiao shook his head: "Maybe the gender of the player and the character won't necessarily correspond."

Hearing him say that, the three of them stopped dwelling on the matter.

"Um... I think my role is also one that can be won over."

White Cat also joined the conversation, but her tone lacked confidence.

After everyone looked at her, she continued, "My character's name is Cat, and the title of the work is 'Would You Like Some Cat Today?' It tells the daily stories of a group of elementary school students at a monster elementary school. The overall style is... cute and adorable, and there's basically no main plot."

“…” Xia Li: “Your character… is a primary school student?”

Oh... has this turned from trying to look young into actually looking young?

“Yes,” White Cat nodded, “and she’s a very cute elementary school student. She definitely won’t come to kill me. I’m confident I can get her to join our team and help us.”

"Is it……"

Xia Li's tone was somewhat subtle.

Even elementary school students came... At this moment, she even felt that Fan Xiao's gender change was nothing.

"It seems this dungeon favors players with good personalities; these players will encounter far less danger than those with a more malevolent nature," Fan Xiao concluded. "Since we can all win them over, let's leave them aside for now. Have you found any other characters?"

"I found it."

Xia Li replied, "The Tu Zheng who is already dead, his character is 'Tu Aotian', from the work 'Spiritual Qi Revival: Awakening S-level Talent at the Start'."

"This character is exceptionally ruthless and vindictive, often killing entire families over trivial grievances."

"Moreover, this character is extremely lecherous. In the work, any woman of the opposite sex with some attractiveness will become his prey and eventually be taken by him."

"And he likes to use brutal methods such as rape to capture and hunt women..."

As Xia Li spoke, his brows furrowed more and more.

I feel a little nauseous.

The Tu Zheng initially appeared to be honest and simple, but I never expected him to be such a disgusting creature behind the scenes.

However, since we were still in the information-sharing phase, she patiently continued, "Tu Aotian's S-rank talent... In the story, S-rank is at most equivalent to B-rank spiritual energy according to the players' spiritual energy level assessment standards."

"In short, his talent has two effects—Thunder Emperor and Fire God."

"As his name suggests, he can control lightning and fire, and can also transform into lightning and fire. As for weaknesses... this type of enemy does not have any obvious shortcomings or weaknesses. If I had to say, mental attacks would be one, but conceptual attacks would be even better."

"As for the other players' characters, I don't know their abilities and haven't been able to investigate them yet."

Chapter 705 Finding the True Myth

After hearing the information shared by Xia Li, Fan Xiao thought for a moment and said, "We can't delay investigating the fan-created characters of other players."

"The joint operation between Dr. Bei and Tu Aotian is a signal. It's possible that our fan-made characters have already gathered and started cooperating in places we don't know about. If they catch a lone player and swarm him, and then repeat this process to defeat them one by one, things will get very bad."

"Go find other players. They must know what abilities they have. By reverse-searching the ability information of the created characters, we can get the answer quickly."

“I agree,” Xia Li nodded. “Our fan-made characters are related to us in terms of name, with some similarities, either in surname or word. They are easy to find.”

"Then... let's gather everyone else here first," White Cat chimed in. "And we can't stay in one place for too long. It's best to keep moving, otherwise it would be dangerous if the other side seized the opportunity to surround us."

Fan Xiao looked at Bei Feng and said, "I'll give you the task of finding the other players, is that alright?"

The fact that the other party was able to pinpoint their previous location and escape all the way here to ask for help means their tracking skills must be maxed out.

Although he is also good at finding people, that requires consuming luck, and it is not the right time for him to use his luck now.

“Okay.” Beifeng nodded.

Suddenly, one of the tattoos on his skin began to twist and writhe.

The tattoo, which looked incredibly lifelike, actually came to life, transforming into a living creature—a large, jet-black dog.

The big dog twitched its nose at the air, and after a while, it tracked the location and relayed the information to Sorrowful Wind.

Taking advantage of the break, Xia Li asked, "By the way, did you investigate the creators of your respective works?"

Fan Xiao replied, "I checked, and it has the same name as the protagonist of the work."

“Mine too,” said the little white cat.

"me too."

"This is what Beifeng said while he was having a special conversation with the big black dog."

“It seems they’re all in the same boat,” Xia Li said thoughtfully. “Fan Jin previously guessed that the players were the creators, but the creation process was completed by the instance, and the players only provided the blueprint information. It seems that this guess is quite likely.”

"Perhaps there really are authors named after their main characters?" White Cat offered a different perspective.

"We can investigate this matter later. If the author doesn't exist, then barring any unforeseen circumstances, the author's identity should fall to us players. The name of the fan-created character is the same as the author's name, and the fan-created character is an extension of our personality, which can be considered a kind of identity hint."

Xia Li looked at everyone and said, "What I want to say is that if we were creators, we could directly test whether we could change the status of the fan-made characters by adding subsequent settings, reducing or increasing their abilities, or even killing them off."

"This is...something Sister Xia Li mentioned before?" White Cat said, "But it seems like all our works have ended. And the work corresponding to mine is an anime..."

“Once it’s finished, we can write side stories,” Xia Li said. “Even for animated works, we can add some follow-up novel chapters. This kind of operation is very common.”

She was actually a little reluctant to let Bai Xiaomao call her "sister." After all... who knew how old Bai Xiaomao really was?

He might be much older than her; he's just good at pretending to be young.

Anyway, she absolutely refused to believe that there were really A-level players who were only ten years old.

Of course, while she might feel resistance in her heart, she wouldn't show it outwardly.

She continued, "I was short on time before and only searched for information about the works, so I didn't contact the platform that serialized them."

"Once we've gathered all the other players together, we can try doing this. If we succeed, we'll gain a huge advantage."

"Well... this is quite troublesome to do and will probably take a lot of time. The whole process of creating, publishing, and gaining recognition from others will take at least a week."

“Hmm…we can try this direction next,” White Cat chimed in again.

Even the mournful wind had no objections.

Fan Xiao... Fan Xiao did not express an opinion.

He wasn't very optimistic when Xia Li first made this guess.

This information about the A-level psionic dungeon is known only to him.

Because the difficulty of the instance was predetermined, he believed that there could not be such a convenient solution to the work's invasion crisis.

Because the solution is too simple.

Either this method won't work—for example, the added settings will only affect the world of the work, and because the characters have already invaded the real world, they will not be affected by the added settings for the time being.

Either the added settings need to be accepted by the audience to be effective, but audience acceptance is hard to obtain—for example, if you write random settings, no one will accept them. You must write settings that are very consistent with the world view, background and atmosphere of the work, and the audience must like to read them. This is the first step. The second step, the release of the new chapter and the fermentation of the popularity, both require a considerable amount of time. If there are fan-created characters causing trouble during this period, things will not go well.

Moreover, this is a dungeon, and players aren't here on vacation; it's impossible for them to remain in a safe state for an extended period.

With just a slight thought, Fan Xiao discovered enormous resistance.

Therefore, he was not very optimistic about this matter.

Trying to pass the level using this method would be extremely difficult...

"Wait a minute! Creators, characters, works... adding settings, changing character status, increasing our chances of winning... isn't that a bit too simplistic?"

Fan Xiao suddenly realized that this logic was a little too normal... or rather, too smooth.

As I said before, he had already anticipated the extremely high difficulty of this dungeon, so he wanted to question everything that seemed like a simple and normal way to clear it.

What if...that's not the case?

Fan Xiao's mind raced, and he began to review the situation.

He brought up the player panel and took a look.

The debriefing naturally begins with the information given at the very beginning of the dungeon.

His gaze eventually settled on the three game hints.

1. Not all myths are false.

2. What you see as the truth may not be the truth.

3. What others give up may be what you need.

After reviewing it once, he felt that the second clue somewhat resonated with his current anxiety.

"What you see as the truth may not be the truth..."

"We started our investigation by going through Mary's identity, then discovered the crisis of characters from the work invading reality, and finally came up with a way to weaken the enemy and strengthen our own side by adding some new settings to the game... It all seemed too smooth!"

"What if... our conclusion was wrong from the start?"

Fan Xiao had a somewhat uncertain guess in his mind.

Because he wasn't entirely sure, he didn't say anything to avoid misleading his teammates.

He planned to observe the situation first.

And one more thing.

Fan Xiao's gaze fell on the first game hint again—mythological stories are not all false.

Their previous approach was to first investigate all existing myths, identify which ones were true, and then extract useful information from the true myths—this approach proved impractical in a short time; it would take about a month just to review all the mythological materials.

Now his views are somewhat different.

The most important thing in mythology is the gods.

What is God?

In a common sense, God can be understood as a being that possesses extraordinary power.

In this way, we can find a counterpart in the current real world.

"The work has invaded reality. In a real world where there is no supernatural power, the characters in the work who have great power are, in a sense, more in line with the positioning of gods."

"From this perspective, if we consider the world of the work as the divine realm and the characters in the work as gods, the current phenomenon can be summarized as various gods and immortals descending to earth to display their supernatural powers, bringing both calamities and salvation."

"Could this be a metaphor?"

Fan Xiao seemed to be deep in thought.

He doesn't actually believe that the works are myths, nor that the characters in the works are gods.

He linked the two mainly to find a comparison and try to come up with a more specific method for searching for true myths.

For example... if the current crisis is a metaphor for mythology.

So perhaps the myth containing the plot of "a large number of gods descending to earth to cause chaos" is the real myth that players are looking for.

If this guess is correct, it will undoubtedly greatly reduce the search scope and workload.

If further information that can provide a comparison is obtained, the search scope will be further narrowed.

Until...the correct myth is found.

This is a good idea.

Fan Xiao decided to give it a try.

At this moment, the Sorrowful Wind said, "We've found them all! Come with me, I'll take you there."

After saying that, he took the lead and walked out of the internet cafe.

Xia Li called out to him, "You traveled through space before, can't you do that now?"

She wanted to save some time.

Beifeng turned his head and said, "Miss Xia Li, are you talking about my insect demon beast? Its way of traveling is by creating tiny and unstable wormholes. Because it is unstable, it can only carry me through space, and each time the distance is very short, and the consumption is extremely high, so it is not suitable for traveling."

"Insect demons... are those creatures that operate around node D07 and attack the time-space train?"

"Xia Li asked."

Having traveled extensively to uphold justice, she had seen and heard similar rumors.