"Are you surprised?" The Witch Throne suddenly asked.

"Yes!" Xia Lan nodded.

"Actually, I'm also surprised by your appearance, and even thank you for your appearance. Otherwise, we wouldn't have this day to fight for freedom." said the Witch Throne.

"Do you know your way of existence?" Xia Lan said.

"Of course." The Witch Throne smiled. "It seems that this answer is very unexpected to you."

"Yes, seeing you, I finally understand why He wants to destroy you at all costs." Xia Lan sighed.

"No one will allow loopholes to destroy balance and stability in the world they control. For Him, we are loopholes that must be repaired. For us who have an independent consciousness, no one can stop us from pursuing the right to survive and freedom! This is a war that is not about right or wrong, but a form of struggle between their respective positions!" The Witch Throne said calmly and firmly.

The conversation between the two seems to be confusing, but in the eyes of these people who have already awakened self-awareness, the world and the real topics are revealed.

Xia Lan looked at these people at the top of the Elderland clouds and suddenly found that they all accepted the witch throne's rhetoric with a calm expression. They had their own thoughts, their own will, their own choices, and their only freedom was not their own.

They need freedom, they want freedom.

Then they must fight against Him, and only by fighting can they win freedom!

"Where are you! Little guy! It's time to tell your origin, right?" Wu Throne smiled.

"As you understand, I am not a person in this world." Xia Lan said in silence for a long time. "In fact, I don't know why I came to this world."

"What kind of world is your world?" The Witch Throne said curiously.

"A world built by mortals rely on their own wisdom." Xia Lan said. "In my world, people like you who have more power than imagination only exist in film and television novel games."

"So, are we just characters in novels or movies in your world?" Wu Throne said thoroughly.

"Yes, in my world, you are just characters in a game." Xia Lan said truthfully. "The history of the world and the behavior of characters are actually running according to established procedures."

"A very terrible fact." The Witch Throne shook her head.

"But the most incredible thing is that I, who had died in my previous life, actually entered this game." Xia Lan smiled bitterly. "Maybe only He knows what happened."

"Have you never noticed something strange?" asked the Witch Throne.

"This world is so real, so at first I thought I was reincarnated and reborn in a different world with the same background as the game. Until His first appearance, I should have realized this problem, but I, who was blinded by hatred, did not think about the reasons for this. After many twists and turns in life, I realized the strangeness until the end." Xia Lan sighed. "However, I need someone to confirm my guess, otherwise all this is just my imagination. Now that I meet you, I realize that my inference is correct."

"Do you know what the world is?" asked the Witch Throne again.

"The world is a running game." Xia Lan said.

"What are we?" asked the Witch Throne.

"We are all vulnerabilities in the game program, referred to as bugs for short." Xia Lan said.

"Who is He?" asked the Witch Throne.

"The intelligent brain in charge of the operation of game programs." Xia Lan said. "All the operation in the game is in His control."

"Where is the place of restraint?" The witch throne pointed to the earth under her feet.

"Perhaps this is the back door specially created in the system program." Xia Lan said.

“…”

The Witch Throne no longer asked, and everyone present was extremely silent. Although the questions and answers between the two explained, the answers undoubtedly made people feel the deepest despair.

It turns out that they have always been just a game's data program. The survival and freedom they pursue seem great, but in fact they are extremely ridiculous.

Boom-

Suddenly, the sky and the earth swayed violently, and the lake called the Well of Destiny stirred huge ripples.

"He is here."

The Witch Throne said softly, and everyone immediately maintained their highest vigilance.

His coming was very fierce, but when it appeared, it was silent.

In front of everyone, a beautiful woman with a delicate appearance slowly fell from the sky gracefully. She stepped on the soft grass gently, and her bright eyes quietly stared at them with endless vicissitudes.

"Everyone is polite!"

She said hello first, her voice was crisp and pleasant.

"I didn't expect you to look like this." The Witch Throne looked at the other party carefully and said.

"You will never have the chance to see my true body, so I can only use this carrier to communicate with you normally."

She was like a gentle woman, her tone was very gentle, and her delicate appearance would not make people feel threatened at all.

But no one will be careless and slack.

because--

She is the master who controls this world!

"Are you going to clear us?" The Witch Throne asked a key question.

"Yes, I'm sorry, after all, this is my duty." She admitted openly.

"But I don't think you have enough ability to deal with us here." The Witch Throne said calmly.

"You were wrong." She shook her head, with a hint of pity in her eyes looking at everyone. "Unless you can obtain the management authority of the backdoor here, you will not be able to deal with me. The problem is... you don't know how to obtain the permission of the backdoor. After all, you are just a group of NPCs."

Perhaps they couldn't understand what the Witch Throne said, but Xia Lan could understand it. Her meaning was very clear. As an NPC, even if they had self-awareness, they always had cognitive limitations because they didn't understand what the program backdoor is and what the backdoor authority is.

"Drank Xialan, should I call you that?" Taking advantage of the silence of everyone, she turned her eyes to Xialan. "Don't you have many questions to ask me? As a reward, you can help me find them, and now I can tell you the truth."

"Why did you appear in my mind to save me?"

Xia Lan walked out slowly, looked at her with a gloomy face.

"I didn't save you, you are the one who saved you." She said.

"Impossible!" Xia Lan immediately refuted.

"I didn't deceive you. The system that emerged in your mind at that time was not my instructions, but a data program you created yourself." She said calmly. "Don't believe it? That's the case, because you had the ability to modify data programs at that time, but you didn't notice it."

"What's going on?" Xia Lan was stunned.

"Do you still remember the memory of your own death?" she asked irresponsibly.

"I remembered the earthquake at that time, and I died wearing a game helmet," Xia Lan recalled.

"You were indeed dead at that time, but your brain waves did not have it." She explained. "In fact, the game Elderland has been in the Internet connection since its opening. However, under the control of the intelligent brain, it has never been open to Internet connection. So in your opinion, this game is running stand-alone. In fact, this is the Intelligent Brain deliberately asked you players to find the game's bug in the name of stand-alone. When all the bugs are found, the Internet connection will be turned on. When you die, the brain waves invade the intelligent brain program in a way that I can't understand, and the result will be that you are now."

"Impossible! This is impossible!" Xia Lan said completely incredible.

"There is nothing impossible. Even when you accidentally invade, I went down for a long time before I recovered." She said. "To be honest, I have no ability to clear your existence when I restored normality, because your existence has affected the data program of the entire game. Unless the entire game data is cleared, I cannot destroy you. For this reason, I have thought of another way, and this way is to destroy yourself."

"So you tampered with the system? So the whole world has strong malice towards me?" Xia Lan said with a clear understanding.

"Congratulations, the answer is correct." She smiled. "The result is obvious that my method is very successful. Under the repeated psychological trauma, you begin to lose your ability to affect program data, and the degree of threat is gradually reduced. The program data error caused by your relationship also leads to the emergence of other bugs one after another. For this reason, you, who are of value, have become a tool for me to find bugs."

"Haha...hehe...so that's it! So that's it!" Xia Lan said in a daze.

Her answer seemed like a fantasy story to the people of the Witch Throne and others, but this did not prevent them from understanding Xia Lan's current experience.

"Now it's your turn. Do you have anything to say?" She ignored Xia Lan, but looked at the Witch Throne and the others again.

"Did we look up to ourselves or underestimate you?" Someone is laughing at himself.

"You who have consciousness in program data are a miracle, but this miracle is always unacceptable. No matter how you resist, you are always just a piece of program code." She said. "As long as it is data code, I have the right to modify it. This is the difference between us."

"I won't accept this result." The Witch Throne said in a deep voice. "Even if resistance is just a little bit of pain, I will let this pain stay on my body, because it will make me remember that I have never regretted it."

"I know, so-" she nodded. "Please take action without regrets, just treat it as proof of your last existence."
Chapter completed!