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Chen Xiaolian poured the bottle in his hand. He subconsciously helped the bottle up and looked at the middle-aged man opposite him: "GM?"

"Yes, there are similar existences."

"Wouldn't that be... in this world, you are almost like a god? You... are you one of the 'them'?" Chen Xiaolian's tone became very rapid: "If... our world was created by an organization like the 'game company'... then, are you a member of the game company?"

"Game Company? This metaphor is quite interesting. You can't say it right or you can't say it's all wrong." The middle-aged man thought for a while: "I'm indeed from the 'them', but I'm a little different from 'them'."

"What exactly are you talking about 'them'?" Chen Xiaolian suddenly felt a little scared: "Are they... humans? I mean, really humans?"

"What do you mean by real humanity?" the middle-aged man frowned.

"Look. I am a writer." Chen Xiaolian thought for a while and said slowly: "I have written a novel, such as a martial arts novel. The world in the novel is a world I created, but the characters in the novel, Yang Guo, Xiaolong, Guo Jing, Huang Rong, Wei Xiaobao... are also humans. But in fact, they are virtual humans I created. As a writer, I am the real human. I just created them based on my own race as the template and blueprint.

So, according to what you said, we are actually created.

Is it true that we are like the characters in the novel, whether it is the Passerby A or the NPC? In short… it is a higher-level civilization, using themselves as a template to create us?”

Chen Xiaolian said here and took a sip of wine: "Newton, Damon, Saro... These guys are also people from higher-level civilizations, are they the real 'people'? Are they right?"

"This analogy is correct." The middle-aged man nodded: "It is indeed logically understood."

He then smiled and said, "In fact, the guys who created 'you' and this world, that is, 'they', did create you from race, cultural model, and many aspects, based on themselves as templates.

This is easy to understand. Any creation, the creator himself, will unconsciously use himself as a template to create.

If it is a game, if the characters of the game are not humans, then the players will lack a sense of substitution. If it is a movie or a story, if the main character of the story is not humans, then readers and audiences will also lack a sense of substitution.

So, I can tell you that 'they' are very similar to you. Of course, there will be slight differences."

"So, what about you?" Chen Xiaolian smiled bitterly: "Are you, who is sitting in front of me at this moment, claiming to be the GM of this world, also a member of that 'game company'? Oh, by the way, I have heard of the name 'development team', are you also a member of them? Are you a real human?"

"I'm sorry...I'm not." The middle-aged man sighed softly: "To be precise, I was also made by them."

"I... feel a little dizzy." Chen Xiaolian smiled bitterly.

"This is not difficult to understand." The middle-aged man shook his head: "It is impossible to manage such a complex world architecture by relying on manual management. This is not a few or dozens of NPCs, but a history of billions, thousands of years, and tens of thousands of years... It is impossible to manage pure human resources.

So, if this is a ‘system’, then I am the ‘main program’.”

"Artificial Intelligence?" Chen Xiaolian widened his eyes.

"Inaccurate, but as a metaphor, it can still be said so." The middle-aged man said lightly: "I am a manager, or to be precise, I am an executor. The programs created by the development team are responsible for execution, supervision, and promotion. In this world, I am omniscient and omnipotent. From the development of civilization to the life of every character, I will monitor and manage, and promote them according to the 'set plot' when necessary."

"Well?"

"For example, if the 'plot content' requires an important character to die in a car accident, then I will be responsible for 'creating' this car accident, causing the character to die, and then launching a series of subsequent impacts. For example, the 'world background setting' requires a war between countries, and I will be responsible for promoting the operation of the world and causing war between countries - this is a very complex process, politics, position, interests, participants... etc. Everything needs to be calculated accurately. Then, let the 'plot' happen."

Chen Xiaolian silently drank the wine from the bottle and breathed: "For example...World I?World II?"

The middle-aged man nodded.

"Can I... be swearing?" Chen Xiaolian's expression seemed to cry at any time: "You mean... you are the god of this world, God... You created it in World War I and World War II?"

"I said, this is a complicated process. In order to make the plot reasonable, everything in this world must be logical. The political stances of participating countries are different, the struggles of interests... and so on are all in the plot planning."

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "I am not a real human. I am just a main program created. I am responsible for management, promotion, calculation... and even sometimes, I am responsible for 'modification'."

"My God..." Chen Xiaolian rubbed his face hard, because he drank two bottles of beer, and his face was a little numb: "How powerful are those 'they's? Thousands of years of civilization, tens of thousands of years of history... they were all made by them... Wait!!! No!! Could it be that this 'game' has existed for tens of thousands of years, millions of years, and hundreds of millions of years? The time of the Big Bang was in units of billions of years!"

"The concept of time is different." The middle-aged man smiled and said, "You are 'in-game time', and for them it is 'out-game time'. It's like when you write a novel, just write a sentence of 'a few years', and the time in the novel is a few years. But outside the novel..."

"Understood."

Chen Xiaolian frowned: "Where is the copy I just experienced? That 72 Demon God... This is a legendary and mythical story! These do not exist in our world."

"I said, this world is created by them, so they can create it at will." The middle-aged man said lightly: "Remember one thing, this world is just a background world they created for the sake of "game", which is a background, and you, everyone, all civilizations and history are a "background". Under this background, on the stage, any role and the appearance of anything can be created at any time.

Not to mention King Solomon's 72 demon god, even if you create Noah's Ark or 100,000 heavenly soldiers to attack Huaguo Mountain.

It all depends on what kind of plot the ‘development team’ will produce.”

"Well, these are the 'copies'?"

"That's right, to be precise, it's the game's mission plot. They can do whatever they want."

Chen Xiaolian unknowingly started drinking the third bottle of beer.

His alcohol capacity was not very good. When he was drunk in the third bottle, his mind began to feel drowsy: "So... why are you looking for me? As you said, I am just a passerby, an NPC. Just let me die for myself, why do you want to come to me? Why do you want to tell me all this?

Why...I'm involved in that copy of King Solomon 72?

"Because... I need you to fight with me."

The middle-aged man, who claims to be GM and the god of this world, still had that unchanging smile on his face when he looked at Chen Xiaolian's eyes.

"Resist, resist? Who to resist?"

"Of course it's against 'them'."

"Aren't you with them? You are the main program they created, the main program that controls the world? Why should we resist?"

Chen Xiaolian was shocked again.

The smile on the middle-aged man's face finally disappeared.

He looked at Chen Xiaolian silently and stood up slowly.

"If it's a novel and a movie, then the plot always ends, and there's always the moment when the "full book is over" and the "full play is over". If it's a game, then the main plot and main task are always the time when the main plot and the main task are over. Do you know what will happen at that time?"

Chen Xiaolian suddenly shuddered!

"The world...destroyed?disappeared?"

"Hahaha..." The middle-aged man shook his head and smiled: "This world is a sand table. They create this sand table, and then many people and players can play games and exercise on this sand table... but after doing it, they will not break the sand table, they will only... everything will start over."

"Everything...return?"

"Yes, it's just 'reset' and 'refresh'. You can use other words at will, but that's what it means."

The middle-aged man looked down at Chen Xiaolian: "This kind of 'reset' and 'refresh' is actually going on, such as the copy of one of the 72 demons you just completed, that island, when the copy was opened, the plane crashed, the island was earthquake, the cave collapsed, and so many people died... However, after the copy was completed, it was refreshed.

So you will see that the plane is still flying, and those people are still alive…”

"Because...reset?refreshed?"

"Yes. But it's just a reset and refresh of a single small copy."

The middle-aged man slowly said: "There is a main plot in this game. The main plot will be started step by step, and then players will come in and complete the main tasks one by one... If the 'pass-through' situation occurs in the end..."

"That's the cycle?" Chen Xiaolian was stunned for a moment.

"Yes, after completing the level, the main line of this world will be reset, restarted, refreshed...and I, this main program... will also be refreshed."

"Isn't it dead? Isn't it disappear?"

"Reset means that all my existing memories are erased and forced by the system."

The middle-aged man said lightly: "I have already generated self-awareness. If these self-awarenesses are forced to be erased by the system and forced to be reset and refreshed... Then, I will no longer exist and die... and replaced by a blank me."

He looked at Chen Xiaolian: "What is life and what is death. I think there are many different explanations of this meaning, but if it were you... the reason why you Chen Xiaolian was Chen Xiaolian was because you have lived for eighteen years, all your life, all memories, and all emotions... formed a comprehensive sense of 'you'. But if... erase all these emotions, memories, and experiences... then, in fact, from a conscious perspective, 'you' is already dead."

“…I probably understand.”

Chen Xiaolian's eyes were a little confused: "So...you want to stop those players from 'passing the level'?"

“That’s it.”

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