Gate of Apocalypse

“Osgilia Rudolph? Duke of Tulip?” Chen Xiaolian thought about it and shook his head: “I've never heard that name before. ”

“Of course you haven't heard of it.” Miaoyan stood up and looked tranced: “Because he was not a man of your time, but a legend 5,000 years ago. ”

“5,000 years ago?” Chen Xiaoliang frowned: “Your history... how long has it been? ”

“Looks like… in this lower world, neither you nor I will be systematically regulated.” Miaoyan lightly took a breath: “Didn't you always wonder what the upper world was like? ”

“So you can tell me now?” Chen Xiaolian's eyes shine.

Although he has interpreted the information contained in the wings, it does not include anything about the upper world.

Chen Xiaocai has been curious, or... every awakener wonders what the upper world in which the player lives is really like.

But in the lower world, no one can know about the upper world.

Miaoyan answered this question once in London. But Chen Xiaoliang, even as a loophole, was trapped by the laws of the system and lost all memories.

But here, in the lower world created by the seeds of the world tree, it seems that… is out of the control of the development team!

“Actually, if you've noticed the time, you should know that the answer is not too complicated, it only took me five minutes to tell you.” Miaoyan slowly said: “The upper world and your world are not much different. ”

Chen Xiaolian stared at Miaoyan, not letting go of any word in her mouth.

“You must have heard that something happened when a player fell in love with an awakener, right? ”

“Yes.” Chen Xiaoliang nodded. He remembers the rumors he heard when he first became a loophole.

“So it should be easy for you to guess that we look exactly like you. After all... if you enter a different world and face a monster with seven heads and eight hands, you won't have any love for each other, will you?” Miaoyan smiled lightly.

“Exactly.” Chen Xiaocai laughed too.

“Apart from the differences in writing and language, our two worlds are almost identical, even at the same level of science and technology. We'll probably be a little bit... taller, but transportation is also an airplane car and communication is also a cell phone.

But the biggest difference is… the history of the upper world is much longer than yours!

The upper world has 20,000 years of history since it was recorded.

From about 10,000 years ago, the upper world evolved to modern times —— computers, phones, planes, cars, etc., almost exactly the same as Earth.

But the problem is that since then, there has been no progress in science, and the world has stagnated and become a dead water tank. ”

“10,000 years… no progress?” Chen Xiaolian is a little incomprehensible to hear here: “This doesn't make any sense! ”

“When something has been around long enough, everyone gets used to it.” Miaoyan sighs softly: “In the upper world, perhaps many years ago, there was a profession of researchers. Perhaps because, at some stage of historical development, none of the studies can make any further progress, the status quo has gradually been recognized over time. ”

“So… what does it really mean for you to participate in a copy?” Chen Xiaocao continued: “If you die in a copy, will you die too? ”

“Of course.” Miaoyan nodded without hesitation: "Otherwise, why do you think all the players have to work so hard in a copy? ”

“Then why did you take part in the copy?” Chen Xiaoliang asked the most important question in a hurry: "What exactly is our world to you? ”

“Actually, I'm not quite sure about that.” There was a bitter smile on Miaoyan's face: “Even no player could really figure it out.

First of all, not all the inhabitants of the upper world are players, and the vast majority are just ordinary people, living at sunrise and at sunset, just like the ordinary people of your world.

And we, the players, are very few in the upper world, and like you awakeners, are not known to others.

And we don't know why we're going to be players, like you're going to be awakeners, just one day, suddenly there's a system in your consciousness, like a 'dingy' sound.

Then we get a message from someone who calls himself the development team, telling us that we've been chosen to be part of the game.

Apart from releasing tasks, the development team does not interact with us much, it merely mechanically releases tasks on a regular basis to solicit copies.

So we know as little about them as you do. ”

“So you players and us awakeners… don't really make much of a difference.” Chen Xiaocai chewed Miaoyan's words: “You also don't know the identity of the development team, don't even know the significance of participating in this game, and risk your life at any time. Seems...”

He suddenly laughed: "You don't have a point, you deserve the word 'upper’! ”

“There are still.” Miaoyan shook his head: “At least one thing we can be sure of is that your world will be refreshed regularly, and ours will not.

As I said, players are rarely present in the upper world, and unlike you awakeners, we don't have any interaction in real life.

No player reveals who they are in real life. The names we use in the lower world are pseudonyms. I'm in the upper world, of course, not Miaoyan.

In addition to co-participating copies, even teammates of the same team communicate only on team channels in reality. Attempting to find out who other players really are in real life, even teammates, is the biggest taboo in the upper world.

Instead of among players who are teammates, some intelligence and information is shared through networking and communication.

Players are killed when they play in the lower world, but new players are constantly joining them, so this underground network of players has been running for 10,000 years.

So we can trace history back to 10,000 years as well.

And that's why we're able to keep track of what's happening in the lower world.

As we can see, your world has been refreshed! After each refresh, it will be completely reset!

So the vast majority of players are convinced that this world for us to come and participate in copy games is a virtual world created, our lower level! ”

“Refresh… how many times has it happened?” Chen Xiaoliang took a deep breath.

“Five.” Miaoyan's expression is very pungent: “But the strange thing is that the interval between these five refreshes is not even. ”

“When, respectively? ”

“Refresh for the first time, 5,000 years ago, then every millennium.” Miaoyan looked deeply at Chen Xiaolian: “Not so absolute, there will always be a few years of fluctuations back and forth, but it's basically this number. It's been 992 years since we last refreshed. ”

“That means our world could be ready for the next refresh, right?” Chen Xiaocai sighed with a bitter smile: "Aren't you players in danger at any time? ”

“Not at all.” Miaoyan Shakes Head: "Before each refresh, the development group stops publishing copy calls, while also forcing all advanced players logged in at non-copy times to go offline. So refreshing the lower world does not pose any danger to us except…"

“Except for what?” Chen Xiaocao asked hastily.

“Except for the first refresh.” Miaoyan Phantom: “It happened 5,000 years ago, it was refreshed for the first time. ”

“Related to this guy?” Chen Xiaolian sensed the connection sharply and looked over his head at the tombstone on the floor beside him.

“I don't know. Nobody knows.” Miaoyan shook his head: “But... the first refresh was indeed after the disappearance of the Duke of Tulip. ”