If you sort out the things you have encountered in this world, you will find that it is actually quite simple.

"The boy named Royas we met is probably the last object of the former host's rescue, after all, he must have the capital to act before acting, if there is no accumulation of a certain amount of time, it is impossible to come to this final place with the strength of ordinary people alone; As for the true purpose of the former host...... He didn't mean to save the world, but to destroy it, or to plunge it into a dark quagmire from which no one could get out. ”

"From this point of view, the hosts you are looking for in the past are not good people, but villains who will do everything to achieve 'real failure'."

"That being said, I think this host is just an accident within an accident, and what he does doesn't mean everyone else is the same, right? Although everyone before me has failed, ...... The previous host, who helped me a lot, never gave up. ”

Sitting in the courtyard of the alchemist's workshop in the final place, Gu Wu kept talking to Altaïr while tasting the fruit wine brought by the alchemists.

The mission here is almost over, but the two of them didn't leave immediately, they still plan to look for it here.

It's just that the alchemists said that they had handed over all the information, and that the former host had left only the notepad, and everything else had been taken away, lost, and destroyed.

"So what did you understand from this investigation?"

Altair, who was not interested in fruit wine, took a bite of the biscuit that was served, sprinkled with grapes and melon seeds, and it seemed that the alchemists had orchards somewhere.

If not, they may be using the Philosopher's Stone to meet their needs.

Obviously with such a powerful power, they didn't swell up like some villains, but chose to live in seclusion here, isolated from the world.

"The former hosts were not all good people, and they also had an evil side; Of course, I know that Miss Altaïr doesn't want me to answer that, but I really understand it...... Everything they do is for my success, and there must be some premise for that. ”

In fact, this premise is already obvious.

"The system said that I was the only victor in the past, and since I am a person with authority and power, I can naturally let others obey my orders."

"You mean to say...... Everything that has happened so far, what you have experienced, what others have done has been arranged by 'your past you'? ”

"Yes, it was all arranged by me in the past, after all, the host who came here in the past is very similar to me."

Gu Wu recalled the lines of the young man Royas, and he remembered that the other party recognized the wrong person for the first time and regarded himself as the host who had rescued him.

"I don't have any older brothers and younger brothers who look alike, so the former host is not so much 'very similar to me' as it is close to the 'my doppelganger' setting, right? It is the only way to make the mission participants obedient. ”

"Like a copy of you?"

"That's right, I think the former host is a lot like a copy of me, and it's likely that a part of my past has been copied."

"The boy mistook you for a former host, which does prove that you are similar to the other party, but even so, I don't think the other party is a copy of you."

Why?

Gu Wu looked at the girl in front of him, and at the same time drank the fruit wine in his hand.

"In order to fail the mission, the former host chose to create chaos, that is, to cause the contenders to fight by carrying the Magic Stone, in such a situation, would you choose to stand idly by?"

"I don't think I'm going to ......"

It's not because Gu Wu wants to play the hero, it's just because he feels that this is inappropriate.

Altaïr easily guessed Gu Wu's thoughts at this moment, and she tasted the biscuit again, and continued after eating it in her mouth

"Your 'clone' must be the same as you, if it's different from you, it's just a separate individual."

"The result of this is different from what I imagined......"

"How do you imagine that?"

Gu Wu, who was questioned by Altair like this, found relevant information in his mind, and then responded loudly

"I thought that my success came from the accumulation of the past, and this accumulation was not the accumulation of failures, but the accumulation of successes, and the result was the success of piling up failures; Everyone says that failure is the only way to succeed, but the problem is that no one wants to fail, and no one wants to go that way. ”

Judging by the statements of the system -

The past hosts all experienced failure, and after this failure was triggered, all the remaining successes fell on Gu Wu.

Gu Wu didn't hate this feeling, after all, he succeeded, the problem was that he couldn't get by like this with peace of mind.

Why did the hosts who had struggled fail to do so?

Why does the host of this world pursue failure?

Why do those people fail for their own sake?

In response to these problems, Gu Wu's first guess was

"For I am the god of the world."

"Based on that, you created the hosts, that is what you mean?"

"It's understandable, it's just ...... Miss Altair, you have heard me say that in the past I was the 'only winner', with power and control of the world, and under this premise I chose to start over, isn't it strange? ”

If you succeeded, why did you put yourself in this situation?

"You have a lot of power, but you end up doing it all over again, that's what you mean?"

Altaïr gave the next answer.

"To find the answer to this question, finding the previous host and the first host is the most important, and they may be able to give you a good explanation, provided that they also leave some kind of information like this."

"First host and previous host...... I think the system can tell me both the plane and the address, and then we'll go to those two worlds to investigate. ”

"What kind of outcome do you want?"

Altair, who had eaten all the biscuits, asked Gu Wu like this, and she looked a little curious.

Gu Wu had already answered just now, but he thought that the girl in front of him definitely didn't want this answer.

Gu Wu, who had thought about it carefully, came to a conclusion.

"I want an outcome that I feel comfortable with, for example...... Their experience of failure had some impact on the tasks provided by the system, and then I succeeded, rather than them choosing to fail to make me successful. ”

"What's wrong with success coming from someone else? I was born in a virtual world that was created, and now I have my own reality. ”

"The most fundamental reason ......"

In addition to the answer just now, Gu Wu continued.

"I don't want to repeat the mistakes I made and create this situation again."

In the past, as a winner, he chose to overturn everything because of 'a certain reason', so Gu Wu was more about finding the reason and then being on guard at any time.

"Do you want to go back now?"

"Well...... Let's go back. ”

Gu Wu didn't plan to cross continuously, and his energy was also limited.

As for the place to go next, Gu Wu identified the place where the 'first host' and the 'last host other than himself' had experienced, and only there could he discover the new truth.

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When they left, Gu Wu and Altair were told by the alchemists not to spread the information.

Gu Wu was originally going to break away from this plane, so there was no chance to spread, so in response to this, he nodded in an affirmative way, indicating that there was no problem.

After saying goodbye to the alchemists, Gu Wu asked the system to prepare for teleportation.

Not only that, Gu Wu also reminded the system to set the plane where it would go next by the way, and it would take some time for the system to declare this, because it had not yet completely sorted out the existing information at this moment.

During this time, the two of them returned to the city they had investigated before, and this time they were familiar with the road, so the speed was much faster than before.

After arriving at their destination, both Gu Wu and Altaïr saw a somewhat surprising scene......

In many heroic stories, once the protagonist saves the world, society will become peaceful, and the people will live and work in peace and contentment, but this situation does not apply to the city in front of Gu Wu.

Gu Wu defeated the lord here before, and that guy was also a brutal ruler who grabbed people at will, allowing many people to gain personal freedom.

The development at the beginning was no problem.

The wicked ruler disappeared and the innocent were released, but then things went in a different direction.

The first is that after the disappearance of the supreme ruler, the forces that have risen from the shadows begin to wage war for various powers; Once the war began, both merchants and craftsmen had to choose sides, otherwise they would be caught in the middle and not human.

The second is that most of the various forces have different policies, and it is simply impossible to cooperate with each other on this basis, so the conflict will not stop easily.

Thanks to this, the city that Gu Wu once saved became the cradle of war, from the castle to the slum, the smoke from the burning was densely distributed, and it could be seen that the battle was quite fierce.

Warriors with torches began to attack, young men with swords roared, and clashes between different groups erupted in different areas, leaving the shadows of refugees fleeing from the battlefield everywhere.

"It's become like this......

"This is the kind of human desire, you defeated the 'ruler', so that the whole city was free of the 'shackles' that bound everyone, so the people who were already ambitious began to act."

Altaïr looked at Gu Wu and said

"Sometimes redemption only brings the worst."

"Can't deny it......"

"But it's their own choice, and they don't have to take any responsibility for it, because it's wrong for anyone to see it, and those people ...... It is completely unclear where the core of the 'error' lies. ”

"Miss Altair, let's go back......"

Gu Wu didn't have any kind of expectations for this city, he just wanted to leave quickly.

————

Obviously trying to save it, it turns out that things are even worse than before......

Now Gu Wu couldn't help but think about everything that happened not long ago, and he kept reminding himself to take deep breaths to maintain a clear and steady mind.

Following the teleportation of the system, Gu Wu and Altaïr returned to the exchange world together.

"I'm going to find a moment, you can let me know if you have something."

After returning to the exchange world, Altaïr's purpose was obviously only that, so Gu Wu let him move freely, after all, he didn't need any kind of help now, he just wanted to rest alone.

The information I have received recently has been somewhat shocking, and I can't help but wonder if all this is a systematic prank.

[Respond to the host, at the moment when the host completes the task, the system has no intention of deceiving you; Recall that everything you've done so far has been justified, not all necessary tasks set up by the system. 】

Warriors with torches began to attack, young men with swords roared, and clashes between different groups erupted in different areas, leaving the shadows of refugees fleeing from the battlefield everywhere.

"It's become like this......

"This is the kind of human desire, you defeated the 'ruler', so that the whole city was free of the 'shackles' that bound everyone, so the people who were already ambitious began to act."

Altaïr looked at Gu Wu and said

"Sometimes redemption only brings the worst."

"Can't deny it......"

"But it's their own choice, and they don't have to take any responsibility for it, because it's wrong for anyone to see it, and those people ...... It is completely unclear where the core of the 'error' lies. ”

"Miss Altair, let's go back......"

Gu Wu didn't have any kind of expectations for this city, he just wanted to leave quickly.

————

Obviously trying to save it, it turns out that things are even worse than before......

Now Gu Wu couldn't help but think about everything that happened not long ago, and he kept reminding himself to take deep breaths to maintain a clear and steady mind.

Following the teleportation of the system, Gu Wu and Altaïr returned to the exchange world together.

"I'm going to find a moment, you can let me know if you have something."

After returning to the exchange world, Altaïr's purpose was obviously only that, so Gu Wu let him move freely, after all, he didn't need any kind of help now, he just wanted to rest alone.

The information I have received recently has been somewhat shocking, and I can't help but wonder if all this is a systematic prank.

[Respond to the host, at the moment when the host completes the task, the system has no intention of deceiving you; Recall that everything you've done so far has been justified, not all necessary tasks set up by the system. [Respond to the host, at the moment when the host completes the task, the system has no intention of deceiving you; Recall that everything you've done so far has been justified, not all necessary tasks set up by the system. 】