Xiao Tangqiu frowned slightly: "What is the truth?"
Su Manluo smiled while holding a cigarette in her mouth: "Are you sure you want to know?"
"Of course," Xiao Tangqiu said immediately, then paused, "If you need points...
"It does cost a few points to share this important information with you," Su Manluo exhaled a puff of cigarette. "I won't charge much. Just give me 1,000 points each. You'll know this information sooner or later, but knowing it sooner will help you avoid detours, right?"
Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian looked at each other and obediently gave 1,000 points each. After all, they had just completed an S-level task and had plenty of points now.
After the transaction was completed, Su Manluo lowered her sleeves to cover her watch. She smiled faintly and said, "This world is actually a game."
"Game?" Xiao Tangqiu didn't quite understand what Su Manluo meant, but judging from the names like "copy", "mission" and "player", it was indeed the naming method of the game.
Su Manluo exhaled a puff of cigarette: "This is the truth that only the strong above the A zone will know. The structure of this world is different from our real world. It has three worlds."
"Three worlds?" Xiao Tangqiu was suddenly shocked.
"Yes, this world exists in three realms: the City of the Abyss, the Instance World... and the Real World."
Su Manluo smiled faintly in the misty smoke. "The City of Abyss is where we are now. It can also be called the player world. The dungeon world is made up of the countless small dungeons where we complete quests. As for the real world... it is where the ruler of this world and his people live."
"The ruler of this world?"
For some reason, Xiao Tangqiu's heart skipped a beat.
"Yes, the ruler of this world." Su Manluo's eyes flashed with complex emotions again, mixed with fear and uneasiness. "It is said that this world was originally a chaotic abyss. He was born from the abyss and is the first and only ruler of this world - the Abyss Demon."
"He created the real world and the replica world, and he and his people live in the real world. The replica world is a world of endless war, where one killing game after another is constantly staged for him and his people to watch and enjoy...
"...Killing Game?"
Xiao Tangqiu was stunned for a moment, and then fell into memories. Although they had only experienced two copies, as Su Manluo said, those so-called copies and tasks were more like a large-scale endless killing game. NPCs launched attacks at will, players died one after another, and survivors tried hard to escape... This was a survival game, but also a killing game.
"That's right, it's just a game..." Su Manluo looked up at the Tower of Babel in the distance. "Some say the Tower of Babel reaches straight to the sky, some say it can take us home, and some believe it's the connection between the City of Abyss and the real world. But who knows what the truth is?"
Tang Mianmian couldn't help but ask, "In the City of Abyss, do the replica world and the real world coexist in the same space? Is there any connection between them?"
Su Manluo smiled, cigarette in hand. "No one knows where the real world is, or what it's like. We know nothing about it. All the vague knowledge we have about it comes from veteran players gaining access to S-rank missions."
Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian looked at each other, and they became more and more confused. What does the S-level mission have to do with the triple world?
Su Manluo took the cigarette butt out of her mouth and slowly exhaled a puff of smoke. "Simply put, the levels from D-level to S-level are divided according to the difficulty of the mission. D-level missions are the easiest and the difficulty increases gradually. But in addition to being the most difficult, the most important thing about S-level missions is that they are infinitely close to the real world."
"Due to some special reasons, although players in the City of Abyss can enter the dungeon world, they cannot reach the real world. The demonic people in the real world are subject to even greater restrictions. They cannot enter the City of Abyss and most dungeon worlds. They can only enter a small part of the dungeon world. That part of the dungeon world has become what we know as S-level dungeons."
Xiao Tangqiu suddenly realized: "So the reason why S-level missions are the most difficult is... because there are demons?"
"That's understandable," Su Manluo smiled. "And the most terrifying thing is that the Abyss Demons may also appear in those S-level copies..."
"What exactly is the Abyss Demon? A powerful demon king?" Xiao Tangqiu frowned slightly. "Is it equivalent to the final villain boss in the game?"
"Yes, he's the Creation Demon, possessing the most powerful force in the world." Su Manluo's eyes flashed with fear, and her lips trembled slightly. "If a player encounters him in an S-level dungeon, there's basically no chance of survival..."
Xiao Tangqiu didn't understand: "If he is so powerful and can kill anyone he wants, then why does the Abyss City still exist? Shouldn't it have been destroyed by him long ago?"
Su Manluo looked at Xiao Tangqiu deeply, then she shook her head and smiled with a complicated smile: "I have also been curious about this question. One day you will understand it... If you are lucky enough to live to see that day."
Xiao Tangqiu wanted to ask something else, but when he saw Su Manluo looking into the distance with a lonely expression and holding the cigarette butt between her fingers, he knew that she obviously didn't want to continue this topic, so he wisely stopped asking.
He thought again, since the dungeon world was just a playground created by the Abyss Demon, perhaps the big boss enjoyed watching the players being tortured to death in the killing game more than enjoying the pure pleasure of killing? So, rather than completely annihilating them all, the Abyss Demon might prefer to take his time, one by one.
This reminded him of the cat that his neighbor raised when he was a child. It was used to catch mice. The cat did not eat the mouse immediately after catching it, but let go of its claws and let the mouse run away for a long distance before rushing forward to catch it. Then it let the mouse go and caught it again, caught it and let it go again... until the mouse was tortured to exhaustion, and the cat finally had enough fun and bit off the mouse's neck with one bite.
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