This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous-Chapter 1020 - 476: Mending the Sky Plan

"Shutdown... maintenance..."

Mu You was shocked.

It turned out that the reason the Star Spirit World was destroyed every four thousand years was merely because the server had limited capacity and needed to be periodically shut down and restarted...

But when he thought about it, it made sense. To the Divine Race, the life and death of beings in the Star Spirit World didn’t matter, since it was all just a virtual world they had created. Moreover, after each restart, all creatures would be regenerated.

Just like humans, would they care if a game world was destroyed? There are countless games shut down every day, either because they are completed or not profitable. A new game starts after the old game’s data is deleted. Who cares about the feelings of creatures within these game worlds?

"Now, all the magic and equipment we use are based on the Divine Arts and items from the Original Titan World, creating a virtual system that only works within the Star Spirit World and does not exist in the real world," the old man said.

Mu You wasn’t surprised by this. Just like the unimaginable powers in games created by humans, which only exist in those games. If one were to take the abilities from literature or games and apply them to the real world, it would definitely create chaos.

"The fact that we are all virtual beings is something absolutely undetectable within the Star Spirit World because from the creation of the world, Mind Branding was imprinted in our genes to prevent us from developing self-awareness: mortals should never try to approach the gods, and even having such thoughts is forbidden. Because whenever anyone starts to have even a slight enlightenment, they would immediately feel nauseous, fearful, and many other discomforts, thus rejecting the possibility," the elder said.

"So theoretically, the Star Spirit World is a perfect world model, where we, as internal NPCs, can only follow our predetermined scripts and repeat our labor day after day until the Great Cataclysm arrives and everything gets destroyed and restarted, thus beginning a new cycle."

"But, whether it is because the Divine Race has been extinct for too long or because of human intervention, the Mind Branding has gradually loosened over time, until one day, over five thousand years ago, the first Fool awakened!"

"This Fool was originally just an ordinary person among the Human Race, until one day, feeling out of place in this world and driven by curiosity, he entered the Tower of Fools, which others dread, and by a stroke of luck, he cleared the tower, saw the real world outside, and understood all the truths, thereby becoming the first Fool!"

"This person is our Ancestor. What became of the Ancestor afterward, and whether he’s still alive, can no longer be verified. However, after he awakened, it was like a robot suddenly breaking free from Asimov’s three laws of robotics. Seeing all around him were robots endlessly working in obliviousness just like he once did, he felt furious."

"He began recklessly spreading the truth of the world, attempting to awaken others."

"Indeed, some were awakened by him, gaining a spirit of exploration and, under his guidance, entered the Tower of Fools and cleared it, witnessing the truth of the world and becoming new Fools. This spark continued to burn, and everyone spontaneously began trying to awaken others, with more and more people joining us."

"However, they soon discovered that not everyone could be awakened."

"Most people couldn’t understand their words at all, thinking they were madmen spreading blasphemous cults, and banded together to actively pursue the Fools."

"There were also a few elites who understood and accepted the Fools’ notion of illusion but still lacked the spirit of exploration and dared not approach the Tower of Fools, instead joining the ranks against the Fools."

"Until many of our fellows were strangled and burned to death, the remaining Fools finally understood that not everyone has the conditions to become a Fool. We can never awaken those who are pretending to sleep. All the Fools could do now was keep themselves safe in hiding."

"You should know what happened afterward."

The elder sighed, "The Fools, carrying various pieces of God’s Corpse, quietly fled to the Forgotten Land to evade the Great Cataclysm. Once settled after the catastrophe, the Fools returned to the Star Spirit World, and to avoid repeating history, no one mentioned the truth again. Instead, using their foreknowledge, they ruled the continent, using the most populous Human Race as coolies to build the Twelve Sky Cities..."

"I see."

Mu You nodded, then asked, "What about Earth? What role does the Forgotten Land play between these two worlds?"

"The Forgotten Land is a planet created by the gods; it is also the template for creating the Star Spirit World, which is why there are so many similarities between the topography of the Star Spirit World and Earth. Of course, the Star Spirit World is not simply a copy of Earth on a one-to-one scale but involves dozens of copies and pastes of Earth to create a large symmetrical world. The original arrangement of the Star Spirit World is much larger than Earth by several dozen times," the elder explained.

"Wait..." Mu You paused, frowning, "You said Earth was a world created by the gods... you mean, Earth is also a real world?"