Xiao Tangqiu suddenly remembered the three questions Meng Qingqiu had asked him in front of Meng Xinghe's grave, and he couldn't help but feel a chill all over his body.
"Have you come out yet?"
"If you could go back to seven years ago, would you be willing to save him?"
"Even if the price is your life?"
"...All the living people she forced into this experiment showed signs of weakening brain waves and physiological functions after a period of time. If this continues, it might cause them to become brain dead." Meng Xinghe gave Xiao Tangqiu a deep look. "So when I first discovered you were here, I tried to wake you up, to get you out of this so-called game and back to the real world."
Xiao Tangqiu reacted instantly: "The Yun Jizhou in the first copy is you too?!"
"That's right, Yun Jizhou is me," Meng Xinghe continued calmly, "Because I'm the subject of this experiment, the entire game actually revolves around my consciousness. In other words... in this game, I'm the master. I can become whoever I want."
After discovering that Xiao Tangqiu's consciousness had also been pulled into this "game", Meng Xinghe separated a strand of consciousness and attached it to the dungeon NPC Yun Jizhou, trying to awaken Xiao Tangqiu by "killing" him.
"If your consciousness 'dies' in the game, it will temporarily return to reality. All the players who 'died' in the game before will also temporarily return to reality, but will soon be automatically released from the amnesia gas and return to the game as a new player..." Meng Xinghe continued, "At that time, I planned to kill you and let your consciousness return to reality, but..."
Meng Xinghe did not continue speaking, but Xiao Tangqiu was suddenly stunned, because he gradually recalled that when he saw Yun Jizhou, who looked exactly like Meng Xinghe, he kissed Yun Jizhou in excitement, and then he was inexplicably resurrected... It turned out that from the very beginning, in the first copy, Meng Xinghe had wanted him to escape from this "game", but he missed this opportunity in his ignorance.
"Although I know that death in the game only temporarily brings your consciousness back to reality, I believe that if it were you, there would definitely be a way to escape from all this..." Meng Xinghe sighed, "Unfortunately, I failed. When the machine sensed that I wanted to escape the experiment, it released amnesia gas at me, and I lost my memory again."
Xiao Tangqiu murmured, "Amnesia again?"
"Yes, I've wanted to end this experiment countless times," Meng Xinghe said calmly. "Although I'm the center of the world and the master of everything in this experiment, this world only contains virtual artificial intelligence. I'm like being the king of a single-player game without any real people. Although I'm omnipotent, it's extremely boring."
Xiao Tangqiu fell silent. If someone asked him what made online games more fun than single-player games, his answer would definitely be that there were real people in online games. No matter how fun single-player games were, all the characters in them were just pre-set programs.
"...But every time I wanted to escape the experiment, the machine would release amnesia gas at me. I lost my memory again and again, and I never dared to have such a thought again," Meng Xinghe said with a wry smile. "This experiment allows me to set the background and settings of the game. I set it up according to the novel you wrote in junior high school. After being the big devil for a while, I was too bored and created the hero Shen Yuan. To escape all the pain, I deliberately cleared Shen Yuan's memory. But even in this split state of consciousness, if Shen Yuan's consciousness had the thought of escaping, he would also be released with amnesia gas."
Xiao Tangqiu asked blankly, "When I first met Shen Yuan, was he a complete blank slate?"
"I cleared my memory, hoping to free myself from the anguish of being unable to escape this place. I planned to experience a brand new life as Shen Yuan. When I first met you, I truly didn't remember anything," Meng Xinghe sighed. "But you had such a profound influence on me that I soon regained some of my memory, and at the same time, I began to want to escape. The result... you already know."
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