"I know, but I am also willing," Xing Yuan said with a smile, tears falling uncontrollably down her face.
"Don't be afraid, I'm always here," Dao Yu Yue gently embraced Xing Yuan, her soul gradually dissipating, eventually transforming into a ball of starlight.
Xing Yuan caught it and held it close. Her soul left its original body, floating higher and higher. A massive rift appeared in the sky, finally swallowing her.
In this world, there was no longer a little fox named Hu Xiao Yuan.
Xing Yuan sat in the tower, lost in thought. In this world, she wasn't even an animal; she was, ridiculously, just a string of data.
She was in a globally popular full-immersion game. If you wished, you could even taste the in-game delicacies, or complete a romance quest with a handsome NPC.
Because the game was excessively realistic, its NPCs could even think like real people, making it widely popular among all ages.
Entering the game was simple: just plug a small chip into an electronic device. However, it wouldn't provide the seven senses of the game. For authenticity, most players opted for a game pod.
In her limited memories, guarding the tower was her sole mission. She always stayed there, awaiting challengers, until one day, the Boss of this game awakened.
No matter the game, the Boss was always the most difficult to defeat, and very few players managed to clear it.
Thus, this awakened game Boss remained trapped in the tower as usual. When someone came to challenge her, she would uncontrollably spout her pre-programmed lines.
According to the game's design, players could defeat the Boss and clear the final dungeon by forming a team and reaching a certain level, winning a mysterious grand prize from the game company.
But she, having awakened, was invincible within the game. All challengers were killed by her. Once or twice might be considered a fluke, but when all players failed to clear the game, the game company naturally faced scrutiny.
The company conducted internal checks and discovered an issue with a set of game data, intending to forcibly erase it.
But she wouldn't be erased so easily. During the time since her awakening, she had become the true controller of the game. Therefore, if the game company wanted to erase her data, there was only one way:
To wipe the entire game's data clean.
The game company had invested heavily in this game. If it were taken offline, their losses would be immeasurable.
With no other choice, they had to announce to the public that the game had encountered a minor issue and that they would be introducing a new dungeon Boss next month.
Did you think it was over?
Of course not!
After awakening, she, in an effort to break through the game's limitations and escape this small patch of land, had, after much effort, finally controlled all the NPCs to launch a rebellion.
She might not have known she was just data, but she could feel the difference between players and NPCs. After the in-game NPC rebellion, the entire game fell into chaos.
Countless game architectures collapsed, and she, as she had wished, left the tower.
However, after the game collapsed, the consciousness of the players who were in the game at the time became trapped there.
Hundreds of thousands of people were left lying like vegetables, their consciousnesses trapped within the game, causing chaos in the outside world.
The game company bore the brunt of public condemnation. But no matter how frantic the programmers were, they couldn't figure out how to eliminate this game bug.
Before, they could have simply erased all the game data. But now, with so many people trapped in the game, who knew what would happen if the game data was wiped?
What if those people were trapped in the game forever?
And she, oblivious to all this.
She wandered through the town with curiosity, like a child, intrigued by everything, until she saw someone die before her eyes.
Players seemed to have realized they couldn't log out either, falling into anxiety. The NPCs on the street had all developed their own consciousness and were independently acting as town leaders.
The roles were completely reversed.
Those who died in the game were declared brain-dead in reality. Under immense public pressure, the game company reluctantly admitted that they had no effective solution, only a risky attempt.
As time passed, more and more players died. Finally, the authorities decided to take the gamble and completely delete the game.
By deleting the game data, the players might have a chance at survival. If this continued, all the players trapped in the game would die.
Fortunately, they succeeded. After the game data was deleted, the players' consciousnesses did indeed return to their bodies. After a period of recovery, the surviving players returned to their lives, and full-immersion games were officially banned.
What about the characters in the game? They watched their bodies slowly become transparent and finally disappear.
Perhaps they were confused in their hearts!
She was one of them. In her final moments, she realized she was just a character in a game. Her last wish was: if possible, she wanted to become a real "person."
Xing Yuan: (ㅍ_ㅍ)
This is making things difficult for me. I'm just a string of data right now. Where am I supposed to find a body to become a person?
Never mind, being a person in the game is still being a person!
This was when she had just awakened her consciousness. So, the most important thing now was to break free from the game's settings and leave this tower.
Following her memories, Xing Yuan skillfully bound other NPCs in the game to prevent the game company from discovering the problem and deleting her.
The game company was very generous with her, the game Boss. The game world was a complete world, and she was the daughter of God within the game world, the source of all evil, with countless minions at her command.
Therefore, defeating her meant successfully clearing the game.
While she couldn't leave the tower through conventional means, there was an unconventional method.
[Global Announcement: Final Dungeon, Tower of Tomorrow Boss releases a quest: Escape the Tower of Tomorrow.] https:/
[Quest Participation Requirements: Female gender required, any profession. Participants must travel to Tomorrow City within three days.]
[Game Rewards: Regardless of level, you will advance five levels. All NPCs will have their favorability towards you increased by 30%. You will receive residency rights in all towns and the title of Savior in Tomorrow City.]
Suddenly, the entire server was in an uproar.