[Congratulations to "Dog's Before" for becoming another new leader in this book. I bow to thank the rich people~~~

Every day, I feel like I give rewards from the rich, it's so cool……………………】

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In a tavern shop.

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

The waiter brought a plate of peanuts, two stir-fry dishes, then a few bottles of beer, and two wine glasses.

Chen Xiaolian poured himself a glass of wine and glanced at the middle-aged man. The middle-aged man smiled slightly and put his glass on the table.

"My carrier is not alcohol-friendly. This body is allergic to alcohol."

Chen Xiaolian glanced at the other party and tried hard to digest the amount of information in this sentence.

"Carrier?" Chen Xiaolian pointed at the middle-aged man: "In other words, you are not the usual identity of the person sitting in front of me?"

"No, I just borrowed this carrier temporarily." The middle-aged man smiled slightly.

"Just like those people I met along the way today? The owner of the tavern, the aunt buying groceries on the road? And the taxi driver?"

"Yes, that's it."

Chen Xiaolian drank a glass of wine silently, then poured another glass, and breathed: "Who are you...?"

"This question is not accurate, you should remove the last word 'man'."

"...Haha." Chen Xiaolian smiled bitterly: "Yes, if you can do this, you really can't be a human being. Okay, I'll correct the problem: What exactly are you?"

"Manager, calculator, maintainer of order, arrange everything to function normally... From the perspective of you humans, I am everywhere, I can do everything, maybe... these are very consistent with the words of your human beings... God? God? Lord of all things?"

Chen Xiaolian drank another glass of wine: "I don't like these metaphors... You should know that I am a writer."

"Okay... no such metaphor." The middle-aged man smiled and looked at Chen Xiaolian's eyes: "You can think so... I am the system."

Chen Xiaolian's hands trembled when pouring wine.

"What is the system...?"

He stared into the middle-aged man's eyes.

The middle-aged man smiled: "Why do everyone ask this question when talking?"

Chen Xiaolian didn't speak, just looked at the other party, waiting for the answer.

"You have a profession, a writer." The middle-aged man smiled: "If you write a story, there will often be such stories. One or a group of people, because of some strange power, travels to another world. In another world, these time travelers experience adventures..."

"What do you mean by this?"

“These… are systems.”

Chen Xiaolian's face tightened and he drank another glass of wine.

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

"I don't think I understand very much. Can you speak more carefully?" Chen Xiaolian pinched the wine glass, his eyes hiding behind the cup.

"You usually like to play online games." The middle-aged man smiled faintly.

His words were not questions, but statements. He just seemed to simply say a fact - a fact that he knew very clearly and well.

"Yes." Chen Xiaolian nodded.

"Don't you think... the form of online games is very similar to time travel stories? The players in the game are like time travelers in novels. They enter another world and then experience many adventures in another world..."

"Wait, what you mean is... the world we are in now... has been traveled in by others? Newton, Damon, Saro, poisonous fangs, patterned men... the wind-slaying group... are all people who travel to this world? They don't belong to this world?" Chen Xiaolian immediately said what he thought was the most critical point.

"That's right." The middle-aged man chuckled slowly, "They do belong to another world."

"..." Chen Xiaolian suddenly felt a little confused: "But...why, I saw them on the plane? Yes! Right! Carrier!! The key is the carrier!! What exactly is the carrier?"

"If you think of this world as an online game, then the carrier... is the login account." The middle-aged man smiled.

“…Login…Account?”

Chen Xiaolian let out a long sigh, his voice trembling a little.

"You mean, we... these living people... are logged in accounts? But... But why can they use us as carriers? Use them as login accounts? Why can they... take over the body at will? Yes! It's like taking over the body!!"

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

"What?"

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "Where do you think the world we are in now originated from? How did it come about?"

"The Big Bang...and the Solar System...the Earth..." Chen Xiaolian said what he knew, but after saying a few words, he suddenly closed his mouth and looked at the middle-aged man nervously.

"Why don't you continue talking?"

"I... think, maybe you have a better answer."

The middle-aged man slowly said: "There is a novel in this world called "Journey to the West", do you know?"

"Know."

"In "Journey to the West", the world was written by Pangu creating the world."

Chen Xiaolian was stunned: "No... that's just the background in the story...or, the author who created the story, set the background. What is Pangu creating the world is just myths and legends, and it's unscientific."

"What is science?" the middle-aged man shook his head: "Then, what you call the Big Bang, the birth of the solar system, the birth of the earth, the origin of biological organisms, and human evolution... can't these be also a 'background setting'?"

Chen Xiaolian's hands holding the beer glass began to tremble.

He drank a glass of wine very slowly.

Putting down the wine glass, he took a breath: "You mean...we... this world is 'created'? Is it virtual?"

"Why do you think that what is created must be virtual?"

The middle-aged man said with a smile: "Human reproduction, ten months of pregnancy, childbirth... Isn't this essentially a kind of 'creating' life?"

He stared at Chen Xiaolian: "You have bloomed a piece of land, planted many flowers and plants, and created a garden... This garden was created by you, so can you say that this garden is virtual? Those flowers and plants are also life.

From a macro perspective, this world, thousands of years of civilization history, even the Big Bang, the origin of life, the Jurassic dinosaur era, the primitive human era, Greek civilization, Roman civilization, Eastern civilization... the modern human era... these are all ‘background settings’. From a small perspective, everyone, modern people, people in history, I mean every one, birth, experience, love, hate, occupation, family, life... is also the personal ‘background settings’.”

Chen Xiaolian added: "It's like...every character in a movie? Or an NPC in a game?"

"That's about that."

"But in the movie... how many characters can there be? One protagonist and a few supporting characters? Are billions of people all over the world here..."

"First, this is a world. There is no distinction between the so-called protagonist and the supporting role. Everyone, you and the others, are just part of this world, just one of them, one of them, one of them. Second... That's right, billions of people are, and each one is."

"But...even if it is a game made with a computer, there are only a few NPCs at most, dozens of them." Chen Xiaolian smiled bitterly: "Billions of NPCs... If this is a program, how much code will be needed? Can it be calculated??"

"Programs and codes are just metaphors that you use your cognition to make." The middle-aged man's smile remains unchanged: "But that's the truth. 'They' created this world, and then there are life in this world, reproduction and humans appear."

Chen Xiaolian continued to drink: "Then... create billions of NPCs... How do they manage them? How do they set up these billions of NPCs to do what should be done and what should not be done? And the operation, changes, country, civilization... My God, if all this is just a created 'game', how much data will the game be?!"

"That's why there is 'I'." The middle-aged man's last sentence surprised Chen Xiaolian!

He stared at the middle-aged man with his eyes.

"If this world is compared to a 'game world', then I am GM."

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