Chapter 454: Go out and take a bite
Li Qi no longer cared about the phantom's departure.
He turned his head and looked at the grocery store filled with strange things, his eyes filled with deep thought and a bit of disbelief that had not yet faded.
Because just now, the world truly showed its true side to him.
game.
The whole world is just a game.
It's just a game for some people.
It's just that for some reason, those 'players' are gone, and the game can only evolve over and over again, starting from the beginning, and then clearing the 'data' and restarting at the predetermined ending.
If this is the case, then the game can continue for five versions when no one plays it.
That is five consecutive civilization updates.
And when the five civilization updates are over, the game will...
"Stop serving."
Li Qi uttered these two words slowly.
He didn't know who owned the game in this world, but he was very clear that it was already outrageous for a game that no one played and no one maintained to be able to run five versions independently.
After five versions, the game server could not bear the heavy burden and it was reasonable to shut down automatically.
But the premise of all this is that this world is really just a huge game.
But...is this world really a game? Can games be so real?
Will there be rules in the game that only appear in reality?
There were countless questions in Li Qi's mind. His intuition told him that this should not be a game. After all, everything was so real.
He will bleed, and the people in this world will naturally decay when they die, instead of turning into a bunch of useless data and completely dissipating.
But if this isn’t a game, how do you explain the ID and health bar above your head?
"Where is the World Spirit?"
Only then did Li Qi remember that the ID was the phantom of the World Spirit.
If this world is really a super large game, does it mean that the so-called spirit of the world is the overall AI of this game?
Even if she is not, she is definitely closely related to this world.
I just don't know why she found me.
Moreover, it is not clear whether this world is just a giant game...
As Li Qi pondered, he turned his thoughts back to his original idea.
He felt like there was a thorny ball of hair in his heart, rolling back and forth in a mess. He would definitely not be willing to accept it unless he figured out whether this world was real or just data.
The "strange" in Li Qi's words refers to curiosity, and now... his curiosity has exploded to a level that cannot be suppressed.
If he doesn't figure this out, he will never be willing to die!
But now he seemed to have no way to solve his curiosity. The Spirit of the World disappeared for unknown reasons, and he didn't know what to do except looking for ancient relics.
So now, continue looking for ancient sites?
or……
Li Qi's eyes moved around the grocery store, examining the strange items on the shelves.
In fact, Li Qi now has one last way to confirm the reality of this world.
That is to first find a way to leave this world as a soul, and then... not suppress your instincts and take a bite at the barrier of the world.
Only by taking a bite can you discover the nature of the world through the talents you have acquired.
For example, if after taking a bite, Li Qi obtains a talent related to data, then it can be determined that this world must be a super-large game.
And if after taking a bite, Li Qi gains some other messed up talent, then it can be confirmed that this world is real, but it has been transformed into a game for some reason.
This is a good way to confirm.
But the problem is that once Li Qi leaves a world, he cannot return to the previous world.
So he needs an anchor, an anchor that can pull him back from the outside world even if he leaves it.
Li Qi certainly didn't have such an anchor in his hand, but there might be one in the grocery store.
As the temporary store manager, although he did not have permanent rights to use these rare items, he did have temporary rights to use them.
So everything is ready, and the only thing left is a suitable rare object.
"Let me see. The Soul-Calming Bell... The Prophecy Crystal... The Earth Crown... Hmm? There's a picture here?"
Li Qi was searching on a shelf, and halfway through he saw a vertical ink painting of three fairies playing music.
Obviously, this scroll came from an immortal civilization, and the three people above were also refugees who entered the scroll through the method of entering the painting.
Realizing that there were things of immortal cultivation civilization here, Li Qi looked at them one by one.
Immortal cultivation civilization, magic civilization, witch god civilization... and the unknown second civilization, Li Qi saw all the strange things from these civilizations.
At the same time, he also learned about the technology that the second civilization focused on.
"It's actually a beastmaster..."
Li Qi was holding a book titled "Beast Taming Experience" with a look of realization on his face.
The first civilization is the witch-god civilization. It is the first real civilization in this game world that belongs only to the NPC after the "player" disappears.
Their system is based on their own physical strength. When the body is trained to an extreme, extraordinary abilities will be born.
They gathered all the great powers into themselves.
The second civilization that expanded later was mainly based on foreign objects. Their world was filled with all kinds of magical beasts, which possessed all kinds of magical abilities.
They signed a contract with wild beasts and let them fight for them.
The third civilization is the magic civilization. Everything from the beastman civilization has disappeared, but they have found another way to use the power of magic.
Then came the fourth civilization, the immortal cultivation civilization. The power of magic disappeared and was transformed into what the immortal cultivators called spiritual energy. The immortal cultivators also cultivated themselves, trying to be in harmony with the way of heaven.
The final fifth civilization, which is the modern civilization, Li Qi feels that this should not be a technological civilization, but a civilization of strange objects.
Rare objects are the power system of this version. By signing a contract with the rare objects, one can master extraordinary powers, and finally gradually merge with the rare objects to avoid the impact of the cost. This is the power that this civilization should master.
I just don’t know why, the strange objects did not come into contact with humans when the spark of civilization was born, but were suppressed instead. It was not until the end of the version, when civilization was about to disappear, that strange objects began to be born.
But it was too late.
Human beings do not have enough time to figure out how to use and apply the magic objects. They have not even been able to summarize the method of making a contract with the magic objects, and are thus facing the end of the world in a confused state.
at last……
Become what it is now.
The above are all the information that Li Qi deduced from the various strange objects in the grocery store. He felt that his guess was probably correct.
Even if there are errors, they won't be too much.
But if you really think this way, then the possibility that this world is a game is even smaller.
Everyone knows that if a game wants to operate for a long time, the main power system must never be changed.
You can't suddenly change the game system in a game with shooting as the main theme and transform shooting into martial arts.
Not only will the game not be compatible with the past, but old players will also feel uncomfortable and quit.
Instead of making this change, it would be better to just make a new game.
Unless this game is completely dead and can only attract players through this change...
"Wait, this isn't true, is it?"
Li Qi suddenly caught the blind spot.
If this is the game system's 'self-rescue' strategy after determining that there are no players, it does make sense.
You see, a game suddenly had no players, but the game was not terminated by the government and is still running.
There's just no one managing it.
Well, if the game AI has a strong autonomy, it is very likely that it will judge that the existing game system is not attractive, and then start to modify the version, creating "pollution" to destroy all the power systems of the previous version.
Then start planning the next version of the game.
This cycle continued over and over again, and the five civilizations met their end inexplicably...
Li Qi felt that his guess was a little crazy, but it was the most likely guess at present.
He rubbed his head, temporarily putting aside these crazy thoughts, and then he set his eyes on a strange object on the grocery shelf.
Because he had temporary NPC privileges, Li Qi could see the name and ability of the strange object at a glance.
The strange object he was looking at at this moment was called [Strange Object·Devil's Contract].
Strange Item: Devil's Contract.
The main body is a piece of A4-sized kraft paper, which is blank without any text.
But as long as the two parties drawing up the contract touch each other's hands and draw up a contract with the devil, no matter how outrageous the content of the contract is, the devil will definitely make it happen.
But the price of this rare item is also very heavy.
Once the holder uses it, no matter whether the contract is reached or breached, when all the terms in the contract are fulfilled, the devil will appear and devour the soul of the contractor!
If you look at it this way, the contract seems too dangerous and people don't even want to use it.
But...what if we add another strange object?
[Wonderful Item: Heart of Holy Light]
The main body is a silver heart-shaped necklace inlaid with sixteen white gems.
Its ability is to allow the holder to use any magic and ability of the Holy Light system, and it has absolute suppressive power over any negative energy and creatures.
The negative energies and creatures here include the so-called "devils".
With this Heart of Holy Light, Li Qi can eliminate the cost of the devil's contract.
But the price of the Heart of Light is also heavy.
It will make people 'fall into light'.
That is, the soul will be closer to all the good qualities such as "kindness" and "compassion", and people will gradually become a true "Saint Mary".
There is no doubt that these two strange objects come from the magical world.
And they are a perfect match. As long as you don't care about becoming a saint, these two items can be said to be worth almost nothing.
Li Qi doesn't want to become a saint, but he can use a substitute doll to ignore the cost of the Heart of Light.
So, now that the rare objects have been found, the next step is to find a way to temporarily leave the world and take a bite of the world barrier.
The first thing to do now is to go back to Dream Town, find a safe place, and sign the Devil's Contract.
(End of this chapter)
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