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Chapter 629: Chapter 626: "He’s just so lovable.

[Main God World · Dragon Country Server]

As the Spring Festival approached, the server of the Dragon Country was filled with joy and harmony.

Brilliant red lanterns were hung on the eaves, and some people wrote Spring Festival couplets and the character for "fortune" in advance, offering them for sale at their stores.

Life here was relaxed; there was no need to consider costs and the complicated processes of stocking goods. With no urban management officers to drive them away, anyone could open a shop or set up a stall if they so wished, and engage in various activities.

No need to study, no need to work - with just a few Points, one could live like a tycoon. People felt as if they had suddenly stepped from the depths of winter into spring, with even beggars able to fill their stomachs, stay warm, and adorn themselves with gold and silver.

Some said, "If we disregard the imminent threat of total annihilation in a year, being selected to take part in this game is, in fact, a stroke of fortune."

Indeed, many people thought, "If only this world game could go on forever and never end."

They were willing to spend their lives coddled in this comfort engineered by higher-dimensional beings, living comfortably until death, rather than returning to their original cold and hungry homes, to be worn down by study and work, herded by their superiors like donkeys, frantic over mortgages and children’s education.

Humans are an adaptable species. As they overcame the fear and panic from three months ago and got used to this new environment, they even began to harbor a sense of nostalgia for this place, similar to that for their homeland. By the end of the year, they probably wouldn’t want to leave at all.

"Come on, take a bite."

"Ah, it’s so refreshingly cool."

Around the fountain in the square, young couples sat drinking milk tea and eating barbecue, snacking and watching the events of another world unfold as if they were at a movie.

At this moment, Caius Tower had opened, and the majority of Adventurer Players were inside Caius Tower. The enigmatic Ta Wei, known as a "Deity," the powerful and ruthless Deity Agent Lin Guang, and the buried memories of the Century Catastrophe were all hot topics of discussion.

"—Fani, what do you think the Electronic Heart is?"

Amid the festive red of the main street, Lin Yin turned her head and asked her friend Fani. They were wearing bright red bows and red and white cotton clothes.

Perhaps in keeping with the upcoming Spring Festival atmosphere, the weather architecture system began to scatter small snowflakes, with white wisps floating in the air.

"The Electronic Heart should be the Dawn System," Fani considered for a moment and then said, "Given the term ’heart’ is associated with electronic items, only the AI with the highest intelligence, the Dawn System, fits the bill."

"Then what do you think the Thing of Truth is?" Lin Yin asked again.

Fani blinked.

"The book ’Reason, Truth, and History’ mentions the concept of ’brain in a vat.’ It posits that if someone’s brain were removed, placed in a vat filled with nutrient solution, and connected to a computer with nerves at the end. The computer could transmit information that would keep the brain experiencing normal illusions, such as inputting bodily sensations, daily life, five senses... making the person believe they are alive in the real world when in reality, they’re just a brain floating in nutrient solution," Fani explained. "I think the ’Thing of Truth’ might be related to this concept. Only that person’s ’brain’ is real; everything they experience is actually input by an external computer, rendering them the illusion of the five senses, convincing them they are still a person."

Hearing Fani’s analysis, Lin Yin pondered.

"Hmm... this is also the most accepted speculation on the ’Thing of Truth’ on the forums, even the well-known Strategy Player Hubert believes that everything presented in Caius Tower may be a kind of ’brain in a vat’ situation," Lin Yin said.

"So, you mean to say, Su Ming’an seems to have returned to seventy years ago to launch the Dawn War, but in reality, this is just a simulation?" Fani raised her eyebrows. "The Dawn System said the task for people was to obtain the ’Source.’ If this is just a pure data simulation, how can people take the ’Source’ out?"

"I don’t know," Lin Yin’s voice slowed. "I’m also very confused..."

The sweet smell of candy diffused through the air; ahead was a shop where an artisan was crafting sugar figurines.

The architecture here resembled that of ancient Dragon Country towns, with white walls and black tiles, set amidst green mountains and clear waters. This was the place Lin Yin and Lv Shu had brought Su Ming’an for his birthday celebration.

The golden syrup twirled and wrapped around the craftsman’s skilled hands, shimmering and shining like burning sunlight, as a crowd of children hopped and skipped around the stall.

In the world game, making sugar figurines wasn’t limited to just dragons, phoenixes, bunnies, and puppies, there were also various notable player avatars.

Lin Yin spotted a golden sugar figurine, a slim and tall young man. Although the figure wasn’t highly detailed due to the limitations of the craft, she recognized the small butterfly on its shoulder and instantly knew who it was.

She adjusted the demon fox mask covering her face and tied the strings behind her head, "How much for a sugar figurine?"

The middle-aged craftsman looked up:

"0.01 Points for Lin Jiang, Iris, and Mizushima Eni figures are 0.02 Points, while Lin Yin Luna types are 0.03 Points. For small animals, just give whatever, a few 0.01 Points is fine."

"How much for a Lv Shu?" Lin Yin asked, feeling the question sounded a bit odd.

She felt like she wasn’t buying sugar figurines but engaging in some sort of sinister human trafficking.

"Lv Shu is 0.05 Points each," the craftsman said.

"—Lv Shu is that expensive???" Lin Yins’s pitch shot up, almost blurting out "He’s not even worth it". She remembered buying a set of houses cost only 20-50 Points. Selling a sugar figurine here for 0.05 Points was highway robbery.

Although this was surely a price recognized by the system, the purchasing power of Points could not be considered the same as in Zhai Xing.

"Lv Shu is the pride of our Dragon Country, and also hard to make. Every time, these sell without fail," the craftsman said, his expression proud. Before he could finish his sentence, a couple approached and bought the Lv Shu figurine.

"Hehe, Lv Shu, Lv Shu..."

The girl from the couple tore open the plastic wrap and voraciously slurped the sugar figurine of Lv Shu, suckling on its head repeatedly. Lin Yin’s expression crumbled at the sight.

She had just been thinking about bringing the Lv Shu figurine home to look at when tired, and here they were, licking him all over and continuously sucking on his head.

"Young lady, would you like one? Tell me who you want and I can make it for you right now," the craftsman offered.

"I was just curious and wanted to ask the price..." Lin Yin swallowed hard, "How much for Noel?"

"0.04 Points each."

"Noel is even cheaper than Lv Shu!?" Lin Yin’s voice rose again.

...She wasn’t content! Why on earth? She herself for 0.03 Points was one thing, but Noel only at 0.04? Was she mixing up her social circles? Was Lv Shu still considered hot?

"Young lady, why diminish your own prestige while bolstering someone else’s? Of course Noel can’t compare to Lv Shu. Lv Shu is one of our own, Noel, with his blond hair and blue eyes, can’t be the same, can he?" The middle-aged craftsman was miffed. He didn’t rely on making sugar figurines for a living. The Main God World had set limits on how many Points casual players could earn, capping it at 10 Points a day from selling sugar figurines. Any more and his selling rights would be restricted. He didn’t need to appease customers.

The Points of casual players were different from those of adventurer players, with a considerable difference in value. The Points of casual players mostly came from water forums, watching live broadcasts, and couldn’t be used to exchange for battle enhancement props. Adventurer player’s Points, however, were snatched from instances—they could purchase anything, holding immense purchasing power. They were two different levels of currency.

"Then how much for Su Ming’an?" Lin Yin ground her teeth and asked.

"0.1 Points each," the craftsman replied.

"You’re really ruthless, boss. You might as well sell Su Ming’an for 10 Points each and hit the daily cap right away," Lin Yin said through clenched teeth.

"No way, the system is monitoring. Can’t exploit loopholes like that. No reselling allowed, nor can we exceed the normal asking price," the craftsman explained.

"Su Ming’an, 0.1 Points each, is that the normal price?" Lin Yin furrowed her brow. She stared at Su Ming’an’s sugar figurine as if she could gaze a flower into existence on it.

"Well, girl, you go ask the system then, ask them why Su Ming’an’s sugar figurines are all priced at 0.1, ask them why they favor Su Ming’an so much," the craftsman said helplessly.

"It’s just that he’s lovable," said Lin Yin without thinking.

"..." The craftsman lowered his head and continued making sugar figurines. He thought this young lady was rather prone to making unreasonable scenes for her age.

"Uh, I mean, players at the top of the leaderboard are all quite lovable," Lin Yin said.

She certainly didn’t want Fani to overhear and get the wrong idea, whether it was Lv Shu, Su Rin, or Iris, she found them all lovable in their own way.

Every Adventurer Player striving at the forefront of humanity was lovable.

Except Edward.

"So how much for Edward?" Lin Yin, undeterred, continued to inquire.

"Free of charge," the craftsman said.

Lin Yin’s expression changed.

All of her anger and sense of injustice seemed to vanish at that moment. She and the craftsman looked at each other, a tacit smile forming between them as if they had suddenly reached an understanding.

"Is that also system pricing?" Lin Yin said. "Poor Edward."

"Maybe it’s a system with a twisted sense of humor," said the craftsman.

The rule of "no gifting allowed" in the Main God World only applies to Combat Power-related Props. Sugar figurines have no storage value, and their intrinsic value isn’t high, so gifting is allowed.

"Isn’t the system supposed to be absolutely fair? Can it change prices based on its preferences?" Lin Yin asked.

"Not sure. I’m just a commoner; I sell as the system tells me to," the craftsman said, bowing his head and saying no more.

Lin Yin stood by for a while and saw that quite a few people were buying sugar figurines. These Casual Players had lots of Points on hand, and they were eager to try the novel player-themed sugar figurines.

Lin Yin couldn’t possibly spend her Points on sugar figurines. She was an Adventurer Player, and her points were Adventure Points. How could she use Adventure Points to buy sugar figurines?

Although Adventure Points and Leisure Points seemed no different on the surface, as long as they did not intermingle, and remained in the hands of Adventurer Players, they were considered Adventure Points.

She watched the crowd come and go, laughing and joking, unabashedly spending their Leisure Points on all sorts of things: couplets, firecrackers, fireworks, even furniture, hanging chairs, villas... The smiles on people’s faces were so bright, as if they had cast off all burdens.

Yet she could only clutch the few dozen Adventure Points she had fought hard for, thinking about how to maximize her Combat Power, pondering over how to undertake more tasks in the next world, bear more injuries, earn an extra 10 or 20 Points...

She could not bear it, could not bear to frivolously turn her hard-earned Adventure Points into Leisure Points.

"The world, it truly is unfair," Lin Yin murmured to herself.

In those live broadcasts, within the extremely harsh environment of Caius Tower, Adventurer Players’ hands were covered with frostbite, their clothing nearly fused to their skin, causing them to wince and grimace in pain as they peeled them off. Enduring the cold, they racked their brains to infiltrate factions, facing the dangerous Mechanical Army, the brutally cruel Apocalypse Execution, the spatial turbulence that tore people into fragments...

Meanwhile, Casual Players strolled on the streets, shopping, buying sugar figurines, drinking milk tea, sucking on Lv Shu’s head.

The stark contrast between those on the field and those off it.

Everything bestowed by Destiny came with a hidden price tag in the background.

Even the World Game claimed to be "absolutely fair"—would it really allow a portion of people to spend the year so joyfully?

Those... reveling in their own apathy, happily celebrating the New Year, what kind of fate would they face in nine months?

Lin Yin hoped to see these people learn a lesson, yet she didn’t wish for them to be punished too harshly.

Everyone has the right to choose their own way of survival; she could not force people to enter the fray by pressing down on their heads. But in such a collective crisis environment, those who chose to slack off were of no value. Just like those who knew they had finals in a few days yet still kept reading novels.

"—Lin Yin, I’ve been thinking about something," Fani, who had been silent, said.

"So have I."

They exchanged a glance and said in unison.

"—What if, we are in a ’Brain in a Vat’ scenario?"

"—What if the World Game is also like a ’Brain in a Vat’?"

Lin Yin’s gaze hardened.

The two of them had arrived at the same thought.

In the concept of the "Brain in a Vat," a brain stored in a vat, with data input from an external computer, could see, hear, and experience any bizarre event. With swift data processing by computers, time in the outside world could even tend towards stillness while the brain experienced many events.

—So, what if Zhai Xing’s suspension of time was because all one billion of them were in a "Brain in a Vat"?

—What if everything they were seeing was the result of "external" Organizers inputting various sensory data into them?

This seemed to make sense too.

Lin Yin felt a chill.

The World Game... could it be an unknown "Brain in a Vat" experiment?

...

[Caius Tower]

Returning to Beacon Shelter, Su Ming’an was followed by a Dong An’an. She had reverted to her mute demeanor seen during the day, head down and silent.

People had gone to collect water resources today, so there weren’t many around the buildings.

A blond woman named Anjie greeted Su Ming’an and Lu; she knew how to use a gun and was assigned as the bodyguard to Su Ming’an, designated as the "Three Domains’ Grand Technologist."

In the eyes of the people, Su Ming’an was a panda-like precious existence; he could bring the future.

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