Chapter 591 - 289: Explanation
Regarding the latter half of Major General Su’s life in the novel—essentially her own later years, in Su Jiameng’s view, it was a joke.
The so-called players descended with the identity of Divine Descent, playfully and frivolously intervening in the progress of this world, looking down at the data with a god-like perspective. The existence of this group almost shattered the beliefs she had held steadfastly throughout her life. After living in this world for decades and paying all possible costs to return from the battlefield, it turned out she was just a BOSS in an online game!
Were those relatives, partners, comrades, and mentors all just fictitious data? Was every intersection between them predetermined by some system at the beginning? Upon learning of those so-called players’ existence, Su Jiameng was in a self-destructive state for quite a while. First, abandoned by the upper echelons of the Alliance, and then disrupted by the players, she managed to hold on without going mad—a testament to her formidable mental resilience.
During her time undercover as a Star Thief, carrying out missions worldwide, Su Jiameng heard many players praising the perfection of this game world; every NPC had absolutely independent intelligence. She still remembers deeply how surprised the players’ expressions were when they talked about this. Yet surprise aside, it was merely the admiration one would have for a fun toy—not even deigning to express disdain.
Ironically, during her period of self-abandonment, she frequently killed players—even lying in wait to downgrade those so-called mythic players from maximum level to Level One multiple times. Her daily interest was killing players, attacking factions, and bullying guilds... After all, they were just players; losing their lives merely meant a drop in experience and levels, which could be regained with some practice...
But having been a Major General rolling off the battlefield, such a phase did not last long, and she gradually emerged from it.
She was just an ordinary person who could only see as far as her own eyes could reach. Her life existed truly, conducted by her own will—not dictated by any system or replaceable by mere data.
The bonds around her and the genuine emotions were not something that a cold system could create.
She adhered to her belief that this was a complete world, from the Earth Era to the interstellar era. The centuries of Insect Race wars, each hero’s name, and their life stories were vivid and full, with the history and technology of every race in the universe authentically present—not something that could be summarized in a few words...
Su Jiameng could not imagine if this really were a game world, why the "real world" technology of those players was still far behind this "game world"? Why did those players look like bumpkins when they saw the conventional weapons used in the Insect Race wars? As if those weapons were high-end and grand in their world?
No matter what, Su Jiameng believed that there was no system in this world capable of simulating such a powerful and realistic world! Having come to terms, she gradually reduced her hunting of players, acting only when someone particularly annoyed her.
Later, she acquired the Plane System and learned of the infinite parallel universes and planes, with numerous bizarre ones.
Su Jiameng would occasionally browse the Plane Store when bored to see if there was anything she needed.
Because of this, she inadvertently discovered many products labeled with "game plane output" and boldly guessed that the world she previously inhabited was actually one of these game planes? Was it real? But somehow connected with the players’ "real world," creating a channel between them? And was this channel what they called the game system?
No matter how much she speculated, Su Jiameng knew those past matters were fleeting memories. Thinking about them now was of no use. She must seize the present life, using her hands to protect everything she wanted to safeguard!
The Major General Su in the novel was truly a reflection of Su Jiameng’s past life; however, the latter half with the game and players had been edited out by her.
To Su Jiameng, those players were anomalies, like junk viruses accidentally infecting a computer system—an eyesore and nauseating. They abruptly popped up in her past life; it was bearable then. But now that it’s her story to tell in this novel, they should not reappear to disgust her.
With a grand stroke, Su Jiameng edited out all the players’ roles. However, without the "player" element, the novel did not write as smoothly as before. While writing, she had to take care not to leave any plot holes, putting thought into revisions. So even by the time she departed, with the story already nearing its end, there were nearly a million words left to its conclusion, conveniently stuck at an awkward point...