Chapter 279
Luo Li couldn't remember His name, nor the deeds associated with Him, but everything at this moment reminded him of that existence.
"Boom..." A space storm answered Luo Li, rushing toward him.
The Lich King, faced with a Dragon King who was determined to block him at all costs, could only be filled with rage and helplessness as he was held back. His resentful gaze fell upon Ottofis: "You can't hold out for long. Don't you know what the God King has done? You've been... deceived!"
Luo Li spoke with certainty, having found the content of the fable scroll in his memory. The scroll contained only three images, yet it seemed to hold an immense amount of information.
The first image depicted a giant filled with supreme significance, worshipped by the human race. He had a mount that dominated the skies, a pet that ruled the oceans, life itself offered him a crown, and even the most rebellious lava calmed before him, while knowledge... was his right hand in ruling the myriad races.
The second image showed, on a deserted night, the 'knowledge' that had gained the giant's trust transforming into a blade, striking at him.
The third image revealed knowledge replacing the identity of the giant, sitting upon the divine throne that once belonged to him.
Luo Li couldn't remember who the giant was; in fact, before this scene unfolded, he had completely forgotten that such a giant ever existed. But he clearly knew who 'knowledge' was.
Because he would never forget those blood-red eyes that had fallen upon him at that time, followed by the casual release of a terrifying curse that continued to this day:
"Since you refuse to disperse the power of light as I instructed, then keep it within you, until... the day my name is mentioned again."
...
"Thud..."
After a moment of twisting and shifting, Ye Bai found herself falling onto the cold ground.
Quickly lifting her head, she took in the entire scene of the treasure vault before her.
To her surprise, this vault, which held so many secrets and expectations, appeared to be just an ordinary square stone chamber.
But the moment she instinctively scanned the interior, Ye Bai felt as if she had been petrified, frozen in place.
A familiar flash occupied all her thoughts at that moment.
Yes, familiar.
Because this was the only vague image she had obtained apart from the two pieces of information when she encountered the torrent of data.
In the next moment, Ye Bai moved her fingers, and her body seemed to regain sensation from the shock.
Step by step, her pace quickened, and she hurried towards the divine throne before her—
Then, she reached out toward the shining object.
A metal plaque, unlike any equipment or accessory from the myriad realms, landed in Ye Bai's hand. This plaque was filled with the style of her era, an exclusive commemorative item automatically issued to beta players, which wouldn’t occupy inventory space and was indestructible.
【Pioneer Plaque】
Player ID: 00001
Traits: Unique binding, indestructible
Bound Character: Bai Ye
Binding Date: September 9, 2023
A thunderous sound echoed in Ye Bai's mind as a flood of compressed data... or rather, sealed memories surged into her consciousness along with the plaque.
【Confirming account information...】
【Identity bound: Administrator 01】
【Console permissions granted】
【Detected new character for current account: Bai Ye】
【Adding old character: Bai Ye (deleted) Unique Identity: God King】
"..."
It all came rushing back to her; Ye Bai remembered everything at that moment.
She tightened her grip on the plaque, gazing at this 'treasure' hidden in the God King's vault. All the clues she had gathered in the past connected, and she suddenly understood everything, recalling the name of the paper figure she had planned and waited for all those years.
Only Ye Bai knew that the original logic code of the intelligent NPCs in the divine realm stemmed from an accident, born under circumstances she herself didn’t fully understand. It should have been riddled with bugs, yet it managed to run successfully and even generate new logic codes on its own.
Thus, Ye Bai gave the first-born NPC of the divine realm a name she felt was most fitting—'null'.
"Do you still exist?"
"Na
PanPan
Ao."
Chapter 192
The commemorative plaque shimmered with a faint light in Ye Bai's hand, and many of her past questions found answers as memories surged forth.
When Ye Bai chose to freeze herself, the myriad realms had not yet entered open beta, let alone the divine realm expansion that was still in production.
Her illness struck faster than the game's launch, so before freezing, in that segment of her memory that later became hazy, she had actually done a few more things.
Ye Bai uploaded the core data of the divine realm to the main server of the myriad realms, and then found a laboratory researching brainwave link data—
"I saw your papers and research. Can you use your technology to connect my consciousness to a computer after I freeze?"
"But this technology is still immature..."
"That's okay, give it a try. I have brain cancer and plan to freeze myself; it can't get any worse. Besides, your experiment lacks critical results, right? Maybe it will actually work?"
"Then... please sign this waiver first."
This action was initially just an unrealistic hope from a regretful producer. Even the research lab confirmed multiple times before agreeing to Ye Bai's request after she signed the waiver. Their team treated the project as a terminal placebo, harboring no real hope.
Then Ye Bai froze and fell into a deep sleep, unaware of what happened next or how much time passed. When she awoke again, she found herself in the divine realm, as a level 1 game administrator.
As the original creator and administrator, Ye Bai was able to understand the full truth of the divine realm on a deeper level.
It was a world formed by data streams, continuously calculating and generating new information, and Ye Bai's essence began to change from the moment she appeared in this world.
Her consciousness transformed into the most unique data stream in this realm in a way she did not understand.
In a sense, Ye Bai became a 'digital life, cyber ghost' akin to the floating spirit race, though unlike the floating spirits that ascended from the real world, Ye Bai's consciousness detached from her body and entered the game.
However, for Ye Bai, who thought she was about to die at that time, it was entirely a matter of 'Is this really happening?'
'Rebirth' in her own imaginative world, with GM privileges, even though she didn’t understand why she didn’t appear at the normal player spawn point in the myriad realms but directly in the divine realm's advanced map, she had no choice but to adapt and embrace her second life in the divine realm.
At that time, the divine realm was still very 'new.' The intelligent code was beginning to generate various new divine beings based on the initial core code—rooted in several major laws—thriving with life.
The first NPC born from the intelligent code, Na Ao, had been following Ye Bai since then, walking alongside her through the various maps of the divine realm.
Ye Bai had watched Ottofis hatch from a dragon egg in the Sky City, catalyzed a miniature version of the fairy queen Ainolucia by the Tree of Life, fished up a kraken that resembled a spiritual entity in the deep sea, and even fought the hell demon Walsh from the first layer of hell to the ninth...
Ultimately, Ye Bai ascended to the position of God King in the divine realm and established the royal city beneath her feet.
Until one day... Ye Bai discovered that due to the excessive prosperity of this world, the Great Annihilation had arrived.
Indeed, the truth of the so-called Great Annihilation was the 【Data Auto-Cleaning Program】 she had personally designed.
A silent disaster, erasing traces of existence, causing everyone she once knew to forget... in the data world, it essentially meant 【Data Deleted】.
When she initially constructed the code framework for the divine realm, because the intelligent logic code would continuously generate new data, Ye Bai designed the corresponding data auto-cleaning program to prevent physical memory overload from causing the program to crash.
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