Chapter 89 It's about killing the master.
He kept repeating these words over and over: "I could never kill the director."
Later on, Nangong Qi got a little annoyed. She even didn't understand why he kept emphasizing this.
Where is your room?
"Go straight to the second room." Hmm, why does this feel a bit too obedient?
She asked tentatively, "What do you like best?"
Aji was a little confused, but her eyes shone brightly when she answered the question: "Life."
Nangong Qi suddenly realized this was a good opportunity to get information out of him! "So what do you think? Why didn't you kill the director?"
"No, I just won't."
"What do you mean 'just'? No way! Let me put it another way: If you ultimately win everything, and you hate the director to the core, what would you do?"
“I will not hate the director!” Aji said firmly.
"I mean, if, and do you remember the director?"
"The director... the director is..." This cannot be said.
"Look, look, you've even forgotten who the director is. How can you guarantee anything?"
Aji stopped talking; his current intelligence was insufficient for him to explain.
"Let me put it another way. If everything were over, what would you want to do?"
"Nothing will happen. I faked my death to escape, no work, no worries. Even if I can't go out, I'll still be happy..."
"Nangong Qi!" A voice interrupted their conversation.
The voice sounds like that of the tall man.
Upon their appearance, they discovered that there was a grown-up version of Hōji and a smaller version of Hōji. They appeared naturally beside Aji, and Aji immediately quieted down and stopped talking.
Hongji greeted her, "Hello, Nangong Qi, let me introduce myself again, I am Hongji."
"Huh? You... and him?" Nangong Qi's mind was in a mess and she couldn't quite process it. She looked at the two people who looked very similar.
One is just more mature and the other is younger.
“Okay, you’re very perceptive. I am Huji, and so is he,” Huji No. 1 explained. “However…” He detached one of his hands. “My body is made of machinery.”
"So you're fake?"
“We all have our own lives and our own thoughts; no one is fake.” Da Huji smiled and refuted Nangong Qi’s idea.
"Then what about him? He's flesh and blood, so why hasn't he grown up all these years?" Nangong Qi stared at Hongji and vaguely felt that she had touched upon a truth.
“Okay, I’m his clone,” Xiao Xiji laughed.
"Then... who is that black-robed person who's always been by Aji's side...?"
"It's me..."
Nangong Qi suddenly understood why: the one who had always been by Aji's side was a clone.
The real Xūjī died while shielding the director from an attack, turning into data. When he returned, he found that his position had been replaced.
He was unwilling and angry, so after taking control of the base, he continued all of the director's wishes, but drove out the clones.
In the novel, these two characters are portrayed as one person. Both believe that the second male lead has an excellent mind and the ability to control machinery. What if they were both people with their own thoughts?
Do the clones know the truth? Perhaps if they did, they would sympathize with each other? They aren't vying for the title of the true immortal.
In Zhen Huiji's eyes, he had gone through countless hardships to shield the director from a knife and then returned with even greater difficulty, but that hard-won pity had been replaced by a clone! How could he accept this!
The director did not modify the clone's memories at all; he simply copied the emotions and thoughts of the clone verbatim. The clone knew that he was an imposter, but he still worked diligently and remained loyal to the director.
However, the real Hōji tasted the sweetness of power. He quickly took control of the research institute by using technology, and it was during the time when the director was in a coma that he realized the importance of power.
Perhaps it was Aji who saved the clone, which is understandable given Aji's power; Huji had no room to argue. Shaoji forcibly detained the director because she was confident she could handle everyone and thus protect him.
He can do nothing; he is just a virtual person. He can't even be called a real person; he's more of an imposter than his clone.
So he rapidly developed technology to make himself more powerful, all in order to increase his leverage.
Therefore, Shao Ji may never have given up on the director from the beginning. Everything Shao Ji did was simply because she knew that if she continued to stay in the research institute, she would not be able to grow and would be left far behind by the director.
They weren't saying they were sad or disappointed in the director; they just suddenly realized that to the director, they would always just be tools in the research institute.
So all of this is actually traceable.
“This world is already taking shape.” Silence 1 sighed.
"The world?" Shao Ji asked in confusion.
"Yes, it's the world. This world is evolving faster than the other world. The difference is that this world is 'just right,' while our world has given rise to too many unexpected events."
"What do you mean?" Shao Ji was a little confused.
"For example, do you think our world is real?"
"Of course." Although she once felt that something was wrong with this world, after so many things, she could no longer treat this world as fake.
"So what do you think of the world right now?"
"Of course it's fake."
What evidence do you have?
"certainly......"
"Of course there's no evidence. Weren't the people you saw along the way living, breathing people?"
"I....."
"You think this world is fake just because you met us first. If you had come here from the beginning, wouldn't you have thought of this place as 'traveling into a novel'?" Huji No. 1 smiled and realized that he himself was a little confused about the "world".
If his life in this world is being watched by others, is there any point in continuing? The ending is obvious.
"What was your initial purpose? Do you remember?" Huji No. 1 looked at Nangong Qi.
"...to change the tragic lives of the male and female protagonists." Nangong Qi stated her initial purpose.
"And now?"
"I... want to go home."
"Then you must remember that you are not from this world, and you must remember your original name."
What? Nangong Qi hadn't even realized what he had said before the topic was changed.
"This world is in line with the original plot you saw. Even at the end, have you ever thought that this place can also be considered a 'world'? Even if they didn't exist before, they exist now. The plot, the protagonist, and the deities are all in place, so they 'come alive'."
"Divine power! The director brought it!"
"Isn't our world existing because of the 'Author'? It was originally a dream, but now it's a world. And now, the director's divine essence, combined with Aji's, has brought a piece of his own divine essence into this world. At first, this world was just imitating the real world outside, but now it can extend its own storyline." He told Nangong Qi about the formation of this world, half-truthfully and half-jokingly.
"So, from the moment you arrived in this world, it possessed a complete divine nature, a complete storyline, and even the protagonist came to this world? Then... what about your world?"
"We can hold on for a while, but it's uncertain in the long run."
The sheer volume of information left Nangong Qi feeling dizzy; she couldn't quite grasp it all.
"There are two ways to get out now."
Nangong Qi stared at Hongji with a questioning look in her eyes: what method?
“One possibility is killing the mastermind, but we can’t find them right now and they might not even be in this world, so that’s basically impossible. The second possibility is killing the protagonist.” Hōji’s gaze drifted toward Aji.
Nangong Qi instinctively stepped in front of Aji, only to find that Aji showed no reaction to what Huji said.
"The third is the divine essence. Just take away the divine essence, and this world is like a simple triangle. Once you remove one, the remaining two sides will naturally collapse."
"That's good. Where should the divine essence be?" Nangong Qi asked.
"I don't know. We still need to look for it. You should first observe how this world differs from our world or from the novel."
"And what about you?" She turned around and saw the three of them standing together. She suddenly realized that this was just an excuse to get her out of the way so they could talk. So Nangong Qi didn't say anything more and ran out.
She got a rare chance to breathe some fresh air after going outside.
I was in too much of a rush and panic and didn't look around properly.
It looks like a place that has just been through a war, but everyone is filled with happiness, which is a sign of hope for the future.
Many of them are still living in temporary tent houses, but everyone is helping to build new houses and rebuild their new homes.
But while everyone else was busy, she had nothing to do. Suddenly, she realized a question: Where had Shao Ji gone?
"Nangong Qi?" A melodious voice echoed.
This was Shao Ji's unique voice, "Shao Ji! You've arrived? Everything here is so strange. Do you know how we're supposed to leave?"
Shao Ji replied expressionlessly, "I don't know."
"That's true. Everyone here is new, and everything is in chaos. The plot is useless." Nangong Qi was a little frustrated. She felt useless and couldn't help at all.
"Where are Aji and Huji?" Shaoji asked.
"They..." She realized they were talking, and if she went back now, she might run into them! So she quickly led Shao Ji outside.
"Haha, I just discovered something amazing here. Let's go take a look." As Nangong Qi spoke, she suddenly saw a familiar person in front of her.
"Are you Li Daniu?" Nangong Qi asked impulsively.
"Oh, you know me?" The middle-aged man scratched his head sheepishly.
"Yes, I heard you have a beautiful wife and a smart daughter? How are they doing?"
Li Daniu smiled and said, "Of course, they're waiting for me to come back for dinner."
It's so good that this Li Daniu is the uncle who died protecting her when she escaped, and here he is living a good life with his wife and daughter without her.
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