Originally, Fang Zheng wanted to teleport Nymph directly over, but for some reason, this place blocked all teleportations. So Fang Zheng had no choice but to evacuate the area with the others, and returned to the foot of the mountain through the thick fog. Then he successfully used the summoning technique to summon Nymph over.
Originally, Fang Zheng had not planned to bring Nymph with him on this adventure. Firstly, the little angel's features were too distinct. The collar around her neck was enough to attract attention. And the relationship between Fang Zheng and the little angel was almost known to everyone. Therefore, once the little angel appeared, it would be useless for Fang Zheng to disguise himself.
Secondly, Nymph is currently working with other children in the "Synaps" Academy to digest the Forerunner knowledge they have obtained from the Halo World, in order to raise the level of the entire Tiandao Palace to the complete second level as much as possible. Although Fang Zheng had a fleet that could compete with the Forerunners in the Halo World, it was only a fleet. In addition, in other aspects, Fang Zheng's Tiandao Palace is not as good as the Forerunners.
If the Forerunner was not immune to magic and was arranged by Fang Zheng with the help of the "Whispering Volume", it would probably take Fang Zheng a lot of effort to get rid of him.
But Fang Zheng didn't have it easy either.
Although the Forerunners themselves are not immune to magic, they are actually on the verge of becoming immune to magic.
Just like when the Forerunners were in the Shield World, Fang Zheng had almost no way to deal with them. The isolation space invented by the Forerunners to place the stars was almost equivalent to a world barrier, completely cutting off the influence of all magic on it. Otherwise, Fang Zheng would not have played 007 and climbed on the Star Alliance battleship to get away with it.
Although the Forerunners were as vulnerable as ordinary people in front of Fang Zheng after losing the protection of the Shield World, this also reminded Fang Zheng that when technology develops to a certain level, it can "resist" and "be immune" to magic.
Fortunately, all the Forerunners in the Halo world died and the Pioneers were destroyed. Otherwise, Fang Zheng really didn't know how confident he would be if his mission was to destroy the Pioneers.
But now, Fang Zheng needs the little angel's help.
"……is that so?"
After listening to Fang Zheng's story, Nymph, who was summoned, frowned and thought for a moment.
"Then please take me to that village to have a look."
"certainly."
Fang Zheng nodded, and then took Nymph along the mountain path again.
The journey was a bit boring, but no one backed down. Fang Zheng wanted to ask Hu Tao and Kuang San if they wanted to go back to Tian Dao Palace to rest, but they both refused. They were obviously very curious about what happened in the village, and they naturally wanted to know the cause and effect of this matter. Fang Zheng didn't say much about it. Anyway, whether it was Kuang San or Hu Tao, their strength was enough to face the threat of the general level. If it didn't work out, Kuang San could just run away with Hu Tao.
Led by Fang Zheng, the group walked into the thick fog again. At the moment they walked into the thick fog, Nymph couldn't help but let out a soft cry.
"Alas?"
"What's wrong? Nymph?"
Fang Zheng turned around and looked at the little angel behind him, while Nymph opened her eyes wide and looked at the mist in front of her, frowning.
"The information and data here are... somewhat unusual."
"oh?"
Fang Zheng certainly understood what the little angel was talking about, and he raised his eyebrows when he heard this.
"What do you mean?"
"I don't know yet... I need to analyze and process it... It may take some time, so let's move on."
"OK."
Fang Zheng was not surprised by the little angel's performance. In fact, Fang Zheng had discovered problems from the performance of the Annunciation. The seemingly confusing and contradictory information almost made the Annunciation crash. Obviously, for the little angel, this part also made her feel a little tired.
Therefore, Fang Zheng did not say much, but continued to move forward with the little angel and others, until they walked out of the area covered by the thick fog. Then, the village appeared again in front of them.
only……
"Eh? Changed again?"
Looking at the village burning in front of them, Walnut opened her eyes wide in surprise and screamed. At this moment, they suddenly saw a figure covered in flames, stumbling towards them.
“Help! Help…!! Aaaaaaah!!”
The figure raised his hands in despair towards Fang Zheng and the others, as if asking for help. However, before he could finish his words, several zombies suddenly jumped out from all around and pinned the figure to the ground. With screams, the figure was quickly torn into pieces by the zombies.
However, these zombies were obviously not satisfied with this. Soon, they turned around and set their sights on Fang Zheng and others.
"Get ready, Kurumi, Kurumi."
Looking at these ghouls, Fang Zheng snorted and summoned the black giant sword again, while Kuang San and Kurumi were also ready for battle. However, compared with before, the expressions of the two were obviously much more relaxed this time - it was still this group of ghouls. They had killed these guys once before, so why couldn't they kill them a second time?
But this time, they don't have to do it.
"I found it! Master!"
At this moment, Nymph, who had been silent all the way, suddenly shouted with joy, then she opened her arms, and soon, crystal clear wings emerged from behind Nymph, and then a circular crystal composed of equilateral triangles began to rotate around Nymph.
"Domain expansion! Restructuring begins!!"
Along with Nymph's clear voice, Fang Zheng saw the surrounding environment suddenly begin to change, and the next moment, everything began to change rapidly.
The burning houses, zombies, corpses, and even everything around them, seemed to be decomposed into star-like balls of light as if they were turned into sand, and then rearranged themselves. Fang Zheng and the others only felt a flash before their eyes, as if a gust of wind blew past their eyes with dust, and the next moment, the quiet and peaceful village before appeared before them again.
“This…what on earth is this…”
Although Kuang San, Fina and the others had encountered many surprising things today, the scene before them still left everyone stunned. At this moment, Nymph slowly came down, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and looked at Fang Zheng with a smile.
"Analysis completed, Master."
"Thank you for your hard work, Nymph."
Fang Zheng reached out and touched Nymph's little head, then he quickly raised his questions.
"But then again, what on earth is going on?"
“It’s a simple question.”
Hearing Fang Zheng's question, Nymph smiled slightly.
"Because the place you are currently in is just an incomplete abandoned space."
"Abandoned space?"
"Yes."
Hearing Fang Zheng's question, Nymph snapped her fingers. Soon, everyone saw light particles gathering around Nymph, and then formed into ghouls, villagers, and cultists. However, at this time, they looked like puppets, standing there stupidly, without any reaction at all.
"Wait, you mean..."
Looking at the people in front of him, Fang Zheng suddenly felt something in his heart.
"We are in a copy now?!"
"That's right."
Nymph nodded.
"Strictly speaking, this is a... 'recycling station'. Everything here is discarded fragments and data. So the place where you are currently located, Master, is not the real world. It is just a man-made... copy space."
"Wait, but these people are real?"
Hearing this, Kurumi asked in surprise.
"If they are NPCs in the game, shouldn't they just say repetitive things? But their reactions to us are no different from those of ordinary people?"
"That's just the most basic AI. In fact, this level is not completely impossible."
In the past, Fang Zheng would probably have the same doubts as Hu Tao, but after going through the Halo World, Fang Zheng already understood this. The Forerunners were eager to reorganize themselves after informatization, but they failed because they were not strong enough. And as far as we can see now, since this place can succeed, it means that this place has a higher level of technology than the Forerunners, and there is only one person with this level of technology.
Thinking of this, Fang Zheng looked up at the sky.
Goddess of order.
If even the forerunners can digitize biological data, there is no reason why the Goddess of Order cannot do it.
What’s more…
"Nymph."
Fang Zheng looked at the little angel again with a serious expression.
"You mean... all the copies here are failures?"
"Yes, Master, according to my detection, this is the case. The copy materials here use the same environment, but the use of other data is very naive, it seems..."
At this point, Nymph was somewhat embarrassed, as if she didn't know how to describe it.
"It's like a beginner trying to make something with the tools he has..."
"Okay, I know what you mean."
Indeed, Fang Zheng knew what Nymph wanted to say without her explaining. During the process of developing games, Fang Zheng had seen many such people. Some programmers felt that they were invincible when they first started working and just mastered the basic operations. It was only a matter of time before they could beat Blizzard and crush Black Isle. So even if they were asked to make the simplest table tennis game, they would try to add some plot, character interaction, store exchange, data balance...
Of course, the result of doing this is that when the time is up, nothing will be accomplished and everything will be in vain.
I just asked you to be a ping-pong ball, I didn't ask you to be a Hero of the Storm!
But the problem now is... these are all failures, so... where are the successful copies?
In other words, who is it that can modify real data at will? Or...what?