"I've lived through the fate of Azeroth with many timelines." The Goddess of the Moon began with this sentence, and her silver eyes clearly revealed a confused feeling, "There are countless identical people on countless timelines - even if the fate of the world is different, many familiar names will always appear, and they will follow some kind of fate that seems to be predetermined. I had always believed that this was the truth, that it was natural, that it was nothing special, but there was another group of people who had heard from them a unique view of the world. ”

Elune looked at Jiang Weihan steadily, and said word by word, "I believe you are also one of those people. ”

"What group of people are you referring to?"

"Someone who is unique in the timeline." Elune then explained, "I have an infinite number of lives, so sometimes I take a little time out to observe mortals—a myriad of timelines that many people repeat. For example, Malfurion, Tyrande, Medivan, Varian, Arthas, Sal, etc...... But there is a special group of people who only appear on a certain timeline. They refer to themselves and these recurring mortals as NPCs. And they themselves call themselves 'players', and the world is a 'game' in their eyes. ”

"I gradually understood the meaning of these words and realized the difference between these people." Elune looked at Jiang Weihan with a shocked expression, "So I'm not mistaken, you're also a player - you're from another world, right+?" ”

Jiang Weihan's heart was like a turbulent wave was surging - because he had seen the underlying setting of "World of Warcraft". As a real world built with imaginary energy, players experience an unparalleled sense of realism, almost without rules. There's no restraint – but for the sake of realism, players can really play their role. Its underlying system is shielded from some special interactive languages.

In particular, words like "player", "NPC" and "game" and "boss fighting" are especially available.

The "players" who first entered the game world could speak it, but the system converted these languages into words that the NPCs could fully understand. Or won't be heard.

Even if Elune was a god, he couldn't break through that limit. She shouldn't have heard that.

Jiang Weihan didn't know what happened to make the Moon Goddess know this, and he guessed that it might be because of the independence of the imaginary world, or the impregnation of that special energy, or the failure of the game company's shielding system, etc.

But none of that matters - because he's the only "player" in the world right now - or is he a very special one.

“…… Be. Jiang Weihan nodded in acknowledgement.

"Then can you tell me the truth?" Elune asked.

"Didn't those players say that before?"

Elune shook her head: "There was no chance - I suddenly realized at some point that this world was different from the world you saw it, and until then, I would not have thought that way at all - and by the time I wanted to ask, your people had already been killed or left this world - and it was a long, long time before you re-entered. That's why I've been following you and the unique heroes around you for a long time. ”

Jiang Weihan was thoughtful. In this way, Elune's personality independence should have started when the real world was invaded by monsters in the game world.

He couldn't help but think of the ancient god of the Outlands, Varnar. The power it has mentioned to corrupt the primitive gods of the ancients and produce a tendency to destroy them - this is also the truth that Jiang Weihan, or the Titan, Jiang Weihan, as well as Almansur and Sargeras, want to investigate.

He met the other party's expectant gaze and muttered, "Actually, there is no such thing as the truth, you can think of the so-called player as someone from another world who also sees the past and future of Azeroth's timeline. Some of them come here to enjoy life, some to explore, some to save the world or some other sense of accomplishment. As you said I can't resurrect - players are from another world, we weren't born from Si, we're not on the list, and we can't enjoy the same treatment that Malorn and their ancient guardians did when they were resurrected from dreams to the real world. ”

"So you still know, right?" The Goddess of the Moon keenly grasped the key to Jiang Weihan's words. Her eyes lit up, revealing deep interest, "I want to hear facts, not explanations." ”

"......" Jiang Weihan looked at Elune with some hesitation. He had a gut feeling that it wasn't a good idea.

"Tell me the truth, and in exchange, I can help you resurrect - or you'll stay in the Emerald Dream forever. Until the time comes when you are willing to tell the truth. In order to get the truth, Elune even resorted to coercion.

Although Jiang Weihan didn't feel any malice from the goddess's words. But he had to relent—he had only learned about real-world dynamics from Elune, such as the resurgence of Deathwing. There is also the situation of Pandaria, if he does not go back, I am afraid that several years of hard work will be ruined.

"Well, you win." He replied helplessly.

"Don't lie, I'll find out!" Elune had a triumphant smile on her face, and although her voice was gentle, it had a tone that could not be refused, "So now sue me, how did this world come to be?" ”

"Created by a group of people." Jiang Weihan replied truthfully.

Elune motioned for him to continue, and he continued, "You must have seen the fictional stories of mortal novelists, bards, etc., right?" For example, what is "The Revenge of the Fallen Prince", "The Biography of a Knight Hero", and so on. ”

The other party nodded, and Jiang Weihan said: "Before the birth of this world, probably hundreds of years ago, there was a game company called 'Blizzard'. They hatched the story of the last Guardian, Medivan, possessed by the Dark Titan Sargeras, who led the Orcs of Draenor to establish a Dark Gate to invade Azeroth. The first war between the orcs and the humans begins. Based on this story, they created a real-time strategy game that seems very, very simple and sketchy to the eyes of a modern person. ”

"Games?" Elune was immediately drawn to attention.

"Yes, the game - it's a pity Valoran's heart isn't with me, otherwise I could have shown you a little bit of it...... One...... Two ......" Before Jiang Weihan's words fell, she saw Elune reach out and grab it, and a transparent crystal appeared in her hand. Jiang Weihan was speechless for a moment - this goddess is really ...... Curiosity is high.

"That's what you're talking about, right?"

"Yes." Jiang Weihan took the crystal and took out a laptop from the internal storage space with his mind - this is also one of the important "sustenances" he brought back from time travel. Because this is "World of Warcraft" after all, although it is a remake, it is a real world created based on imaginary energy, but after all, it still respects the original work. So when he went back, he collected all the information he could collect at that time about World of Warcraft.

He turned on his computer and ran the first generation of Warcraft: Orcs and Humans under the specially prepared DOS system. Although its graphics are rough and almost like a pixel game, it's the content that matters.

He gave a brief demonstration of the ancient game, then pulled out a stack of books from the crystal, all with different names but with the World of Warcraft logo. Jiang Weihan spread them out one by one, including the ancient war trilogy of "The Well of Eternity", "Demon's Soul", and "Heaven Falling Apart", as well as "The Rise of the Tribe", "Tide of Darkness", "Crossing the Gate of Darkness" and other modern history of Warcraft.

There are dozens of books in total, long-form, medium-length stories, short stories, setting sets, comics, and ...... The whole nine yards.

Elune reads books so fast that she can even memorize them by scanning them with her mental power. This saves time reading books.

Jiang Weihan explained: "These books and comics are the official novels written by famous authors after the popularity of the series of games "Warcraft" and "World of Warcraft". As the scale expanded, the world became more and more complete, and the entire World of Warcraft expanded from the simple and rough beginnings of the first generation of 'Orcs and Humans' into a complete and wonderful fictional world. ”

Elune couldn't help but ask, "But aren't we real?" Are you actually Azeroth, the Timeline, World of Warcraft, ...... Are all of these just fictions, only in books and games? Are we the NPCs in this massive game? And Blizzard is our creator, and that group of people - you are also from that group of people - you are the ones who created the zào world? A group of real gods? ”

Jiang Weihan waved his hand and said, "Don't worry-if you want to know the truth, you must have a strong enough heart, if you can't accept it, then let's stop there?" ”

“…… Go on! Elune's face calmed down again, but her voice was a bit of a gritted tooth, "I've spent endless years and witnessed countless ups and downs, and these don't scare me. ”

"Hundreds of years later, humanity discovered a way into the mirror world - and it involved a very complex mathematical theory. Specifically in the real world, that is, the real world should theoretically have a mirror world that is exactly the same as it - this should only exist mathematically. It's like when we look in a mirror, there will be things in the mirror, but we will think it's fake, it's an illusion. When we reach out and touch it, we only touch the mirror, not the person like us in the mirror. ”

Speaking of this, Jiang Weihan was stunned for a moment. Now though he was explaining it to Elune, he seemed to have caught some clue - about the question he had never figured out - why the monsters of the game world invaded reality?

"What's next?" Elune's reminder pulled him back, and he saw that Elune was looking at him, as if he didn't show any confusion, and then continued: "Then people found a way to enter the mirror world - and then they found that they could 'plan' this new world in some way - they could make any rules for this world, they could make water above and air below, they could make the flames cold, the ice hot, and the apples would not fall to the ground when they were ripe, but fly into the sky...... Whatever the rules are, they can be turned into reality according to their wishes. (To be continued......) R1292