Gate of Apocalypse

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Chapter 34 [I'm GM]

In a tavern shop.

Chen Xiaoliang sat face to face with the middle-aged man.

The waiter brought a plate of peanut rice, two stir-fried vegetables, then a few beers, and two glasses.

Chen Xiaolian poured himself a glass of wine, looked at the middle-aged man, and the middle-aged man smiled slightly and snapped his glass on the table.

“This carrier of mine doesn't drink. This body is allergic to alcohol. ”

Chen Xiaocai glanced at each other and tried to digest the amount of information in this sentence.

“Vector?” Chen Xiaoxiao pointed to the middle-aged man: “In other words, aren't you the usual person sitting in front of me at this moment? ”

“No, just borrowing this carrier temporarily.” The middle-aged man smiled lightly.

“Just like the people I met on the way here today? The owner of the tavern, the grocery shopper on the street? And taxi drivers? ”

“That's right, that's it. ”

Chen Xiaocai silently drank a glass of wine, then poured another, sighed: “Who are you…? ”

“This question is not accurate, you should remove the last word ’person'. ”

“... heh.” Chen Xiaocai smiled bitterly: “Well, if you can do this, you can't be any human. Okay, I'll correct the question: What are you? ”

“Administrators, calculators, order-keepers, arrange everything to work… From your human point of view, I am everywhere, I am omnipotent, perhaps… these fit very well in your human mouth… God? God, lord of everything? ”

Chen Xiaocai drank another glass of wine: “I don't like these metaphors... you should know that I am a writer. ”

“Well... don't use that analogy.” The middle-aged man smiled and looked into Chen Xiaolian's eyes: “You can think so… I, the system. ”

Chen Xiaoliang poured the wine and his hand shook.

“What is the system…? ”

He stared into the eyes of a middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man laughed: "Why does everyone ask this question when they're talking? ”

Chen Xiaoliang did not speak, just looked at each other and waited for the answer.

“You have a profession, you're a writer.” Middle-aged people smile: “You write a story, and it often comes up, one or a group of people, because some strange power, goes through another world, and in that other world, these passers-by go through an adventure...”

“What do you mean by that? ”

“These… are the systems. ”

Chen Xiaolian's face was tight and had another glass of wine.

This time, this cup, he drinks very, very slowly, as if trying to digest something.

“I guess I still don't get it. Can you say it more carefully?” Chen Xiaoliang pinched the glass and his eyes hid behind it.

“You usually like to play online games.” The middle-aged man smiled lightly.

His sentence is not a question, but a statement, as if he had simply stated a fact - a fact that he knew very well.

“Mmm.” Chen Xiaoliang nodded.

“Don't you think… this form of online gaming is similar to crossing a story? A player in the game is like a novel crosser. They enter another world and then, in another world, experience many adventures…"

“Wait, you mean... the world we're in... has been penetrated by others? Newton, Damon, Sharon, Poison Tooth, Pattern Man... Chopping Wind... are all people who have crossed the world? They don't belong in this world?” Chen Xiaoliang immediately said what he thought was most critical.

“Exactly.” The middle-aged man smiled slowly: “They do belong to another world. ”

“…” Chen Xiaoliang suddenly felt a little confused: “But… why,. I'll see them on the plane? That's right! Vector!! The key is the carrier!! What exactly is the carrier? ”

“If you look at the world as a web game, then the carrier… is the login's account.” Middle-aged people smile.

“… login… account? ”

Chen Xiaolei sighed a long time and his voice shivered a little.

“You mean, we... these living people... are logged in? But... but how can they use us as carriers? Use as login? Why can't you just... take possession? Yeah, it's like taking a ransom! ”

The middle-aged man still smiled: "Let's talk about another issue. ”

“What?”

The middle-aged man laughed: "Where do you think the world we live in today originated? How did it happen? ”

“The Big Bang of the Universe… Then the Solar System… Earth…” Chen Xiaocai said what he knew about common sense, but after a few words, he suddenly closed his mouth and looked at the middle-aged man nervously.

“Why don't you go on? ”

“I... think maybe you have a better answer. ”

The middle-aged man slowly said, "There's a novel in the world called Journey to the West, you know? ”

“Yes.”

“In the Journey to the West, the world was created by Pangu. ”

Chen Xiaocai stuck: “No... that's just the background in the story... or, in other words, the author of the story, set the background. What Pangu opened the heavens and the earth, it was a myth and legend, not science. ”

“What is science?” Middle-aged man shook his head: “So what you call the Big Bang of the Universe, the birth of the solar system, the birth of the Earth, the biological origin, the evolution of mankind… these, can't they also be a 'background setting’? ”

Chen Xiaoliang began to tremble with his hands squeezing the beer cup.

He drank a glass very slowly.

Drop the glass and he takes a breath: “You mean... we... the world was created? Is it virtual? ”

“Why do you think it must be virtual to be created? ”

The middle-aged man smiled and said: "Humans reproduce, October conceive, give birth... Isn't this essentially a ‘make’ life? ”

He stared at Chen Xiaolian: “You opened up a piece of land, planted a lot of flowers and grass, and created a garden... you created this garden, so can you say that this garden is virtual? Those flowers and plants are also life.

The world, in macroscopic terms, is the history of thousands of civilizations, even the Big Bang of the Universe, the origins of life, the Jurassic dinosaur era, the primitive human age, the Greek civilization, the Roman civilization, the Eastern civilization… the modern human age… these are all 'background settings’. From a small point of view, every person, modern person, historical person, I mean every person, birth, experience, love of vengeance, profession, family, life… are also personal ‘background settings'. ”

Chen Xiaocai added: “It's like... every character in a movie? Or is it an NPC in a game? ”

“That's pretty much what I meant. ”

“But how many characters can there be in the movie? How many characters do you have? Are billions of people all over the world here...”

“First, it's a world. There is no so-called distinction between the protagonist and the protagonist, and all the people, you, the others, are just a part of this world, are just one of the characters, an ‘individual’. Second... yes, billions of people are, all of them. ”

“But… even if it's a game made from a computer, NPC can be as many as a few or dozen.” Chen Xiaocai smiles bitterly: “Billions of NPCs... if this is a program, how much code do you get? Can you calculate it? ”

“The program, the code, is just a metaphor you make with your cognition.” Middle-aged people smile the same way: “But that's the truth, ‘they’ created the world, and then there's life, and there's life, and there's life, and there's life, and there's people. ”

Chen Xiaocao continues to drink: “So... how do you manage to get billions of NPCs... ‘they’? How do you set what to do and what not to do for these billions of NPCs? And how the world works, changes, countries, civilizations... My God, if all this is just a ‘game’ made, how much data does this game have?! ”

“That's why ‘I’ exists.” The last words of the middle-aged man surprised Chen Xiaoliang!

He stared at the middle-aged man.

“If you compare this world to a ‘game world'. Well, I'm GM. ”

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