Yu Hui scoffed, "These are all fake, right, Xiao Yuhan? Do you think this world is real?"
“Of course, I’m willing to believe he’s real, and I’m unwilling to believe he’s fake,” Xiao Yuhan said after a pause. His eyes dimmed slightly, as if he was thinking about something.
Yu Hui smiled slightly, "Is it because you've been in the River of No Return for too long?"
"What do you think? Have you seen that movie? There's a line in it that goes, 'No madness, no life.' Whether it's true or not, I'll just believe it, okay?"
Hearing this, Yu Hui's eyes lit up. "Hahaha... Xiao Yuhan, so you're quite an interesting person after all. Alright, let's talk about what's next. What are you planning to do? Or rather, how much of a chance do you think you have of beating me?"
Xiao Yuhan stared at the person in front of him who bore the appearance of his disciple, and remained silent for a moment. "Why don't we talk about what you really want to do? Although I can guess some of it, I still want to hear what you have to say."
Yu Hui pondered for a moment, "If someone had tried to get something for nothing in the past, I would never have paid any attention to it, but you... for the sake of being from the same hometown, I don't mind telling you."
"I would like to hear the details."
"I'm going to kill the system inside you, you should understand that, right?"
"Of course, in the original story, the Eternal Empress is the only bug-level existence, so eliminating the system is the first step to prevent Bai Yao from becoming the Eternal Empress."
"You seem to have gone off-topic. What if I said I never intended to hurt Bai Yao?"
Xiao Yuhan was taken aback. After a moment of thought, it seemed that this was not impossible. Then she had a deeper purpose. "If you insist on saying this, it makes sense. After all, you captured Bai Yao but released her. However... perhaps it's because you couldn't kill her as the female lead?"
"Indeed, I can't kill her, but I can make sure she never wakes up again, and she'll always just be that little girl."
Hearing this, Xiao Yuhan sorted out his thoughts and then said, "It seems I was too hasty. If that's the case, then your going to great lengths to lure me here, or rather, to lure Bai Yao and me here, seems to be more than just breaking the seal. That was my misconception. I always thought that as a transmigrator, I had something unique about me, so in the eyes of the villain, I should be a character to be taken seriously. Now that I think about it, Bai Yao and I were lured to the Heavenly Demon Abyss for two completely unrelated things."
"It's not that they're completely unrelated, but if we're talking about being related, it's only this little bit."
After a moment of silence, Xiao Yuhan suddenly spoke up: "Yu Hui... I think I've actually heard your name before. I used to play a game called Rise of Kingdoms, and I think your name was on the development team. Could it really be you?"
"Hahaha... The Knights of Nations project? That's a game we spent seven years developing. The Eternal Empress is another masterpiece after that."
Xiao Yuhan sighed helplessly, "Then I guess I can't beat you. I heard the system say before that this world is an independent spacetime created based on the game world. Since that's the case, as one of the producers, you should know a lot about this world, right?"
"Of course! Look at the plot of Eternal Empress, it starts from Bai Yao's childhood, but we have to start building the world view from the historical background. Creating the historical background and making reasonable details of all the sects and locations mentioned in the original work is not an easy task, but it must be done. Because the novel is based on the readers' own imagination, while the game world is based on the development team's imagination. So here, no one really understands this world better than me."
"Now that you put it that way, I think nothing should be able to stop you. Why would you want to be hostile to the system? What exactly is it?"
"Xiao Yuhan, let me put it this way. It's the system's job to be hostile to me. It's the game's balancing system. As for me... I'm more like a hacker. As one of the creators, it's too easy for me to hack into this game. Back when this game was completed, before it was even released, I was kicked out of the development team because of a conflict of interest. I put so much effort into it, but in the end, everything was taken away from me. Shouldn't I take revenge? My battle with the system started when I hacked into the system to try to retrieve the data I left in the game."
"Data? What data?"
A trace of sadness flashed in Yu Hui's eyes, but it quickly turned into numbness. She sneered twice and said, "My sister, Su Li, my half-sister, died when she was only 12 years old. So I wanted her to live in the game forever, at least so that I wouldn't be the only one who remembers her. Jun Tan, as the strongest NPC, was created based on my guesses about my sister after she grew up. Bai Yao was even a one-to-one replica of my sister's data. So on the day I was kicked out of the development team, I just wanted to get my sister's data back, at least to prevent her from staying in this world that no longer belongs to me."
"Isn't the data backed up?" Xiao Yuhan easily understood what Yu Hui was saying.
Yu Hui shook her head. "There was a backup, but I didn't want her to stay here. But on the day I hacked in, the game collapsed. I was trapped in the beginning stage of this game. Do you know why the system keeps making the plot follow the settings? Because it's an instinct written into the program. Even though it no longer relies on the server after coming to this world, it has somehow become part of the Heavenly Dao. So for me, it has always considered me a target that must be eliminated. As for why, I guess it can't explain it itself. Maybe it's instinct. So I started to fight against the system. In the early years, I was running away while using my understanding of this world to fight back. I even approached Jun Tan, seeking temporary peace. Later, I established the Heavenly Demon Abyss, accumulated power, and prepared to completely eradicate the system. But Jun Tan regarded me as a villain. When I explained the system to Jun Tan, she only thought I was just being eloquent because she couldn't understand. So when the power of the Heavenly Demon Abyss gradually grew stronger, Jun Tan and I went to war."
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