"I'm curious about how you define yourself."

Gu Bin sat on the other side of the table and asked such a question to the three people in front of him.

"Same as you define it." Eve replied, "As you normally think, we, as one of the supreme controllers of this world, apply this definition to ourselves and to all the permanent inhabitants of the world. ”

Gu Bin captured an interesting word: "Resident resident? ”

"Yes, Resident."

Eve smiled and tapped her fingers on the tabletop, and a glass of water with a glowing blue fluorescence "condensed" from the tabletop, but inside was a cup of fragrant coffee.

Gu Bin thanked him, picked up his cup and continued to listen to Eve's explanation.

"There may be some words in our explanations that you find strange or incomprehensible, and I hope you can understand them, after all, there are some words that we can't convey directly, and it goes against the rules in our bodies."

"Then, if these words are spoken by me, you will be able to ...... Do you understand or capture it? ”

Dr. Zede smiled and said, "It's like scolding between you and others, those things are all [beep] in our ears. ”

"Okay."

Gu Bin raised his hand in surrender, he didn't expect that this strange situation would also apply to the "system" that players identified.

However, this may also illustrate one thing from the side.

"So, something is built on top of all the things on the 'periphery', and the rules are even higher than those of you, what we see as managers, right?"

"What do you think of as managers?" Lilith said unhappily: "It seems that the managers you know must have a bad status, are they nicknamed tools?" ”

"Please forgive me if I offend you in what I said." , Gu Bin apologized calmly.

Lilith rolled her eyes smartly, and she pointed to Dr. Zed next to her, and said, "I know you have doubts about the veracity of what we say, so ask him what you want to know...... As the senior of the two of us, he should be able to give you the answer, and we still have to deal with some things. ”

"Wait a minute." Seeing that Eve and Lilith had a tendency to turn their heads and do other things, Gu Bin hurriedly asked, "This place and ...... How to convert the time in the dungeon? ”

Lilith reached out and took out an hourglass from somewhere, and placed it on the table, only to see that the sand and gravel in it were leaking little by little: "We've taken a certain amount of time for you, but it's definitely more than this hourglass, because you still have some things to attend to after your conversation...... So take it for yourself. ”

After saying that, she grinned and took Eve's hand: "Let's go, dear, leave a private space for them." ”

Eve smiled softly at Gu Bin again, and the two of them dissipated like smoke.

Gu Bin turned his gaze to Zede, only to find that he was leaning back in his chair with his hands crossed, looking a little stunned.

"They're gone?"

"If you're referring to the visual aspect, then it does." , Dr. Zed replied.

Gu Bin shrugged, sat up straight, and assumed a posture ready to listen to the story.

Seeing Gu Bin's posture, Zede also leaned forward a little, Gu Bin noticed that this vicissitudes of life man seemed to have lost the chic and crazy when he saw him in the cage area before, he really looked like a middle-aged man who had just gotten off work.

"I've been wondering what kind of identity you are...... A 'manager' who has been eliminated or something else. Gu Bin got straight to the point and asked Dr. Zede a question.

"Lotus told you a lot."

"Well, those two magic sticks are very good at blowing, so I decided to ask you myself."

Zede glanced at Gu Bin strangely: "Wise choice." ”

"They didn't show up here together, is there some special mission?" , Gu Bin asked.

Dr. Zede had a funny look on his face, and he smiled strangely; "Do you think they have a subordinate relationship with us? Or is it a subordination? ”

Gu Bin was speechless for a moment, he remembered some of the actions of the Lotus duo, and knew that he might have asked a stupid question, and these two people seemed to be doing all kinds of things from a very strange angle.

"But they have a good relationship with you."

Gu Bin said, but saw Zede raise a hand to stop him.

"I'm going to tell you some things from the beginning, but first of all, you don't take them as a final answer, and we've worked with Lotus on this matter, and they're going to do an important verification for us, so you can listen to these things like a story until it's confirmed," he said. ”

"Let's start with an assumption, let's assume that there is a civilization that has many characteristics of your world, such as race, language, culture, but at the same time, there are many things that cannot be verified in your world, or what you see as fiction."

"For example?"

"Like zombies, dragons, gods, ghosts." "In the process of information flowing, we have found that these things are illusory to you, depending on your attitude towards them. ”

Gu Bin was stunned for a second, and then said: "Because it is an illusory thing that is recognized as non-existent in consciousness, even if a world is extremely real to us, we will still show a unique attitude when there is contact, right?" ”

"Clever."

Zede nodded with satisfaction: "Just like an autopsy, the specific state of a creature when dissecting is a matter of mentality after stripping off the technical problems, and it is vague to say that it is okay to say that it is an attitude." ”

"These things do exist for us, but not in your eyes, most of the 'travelers' are quite casual in their attitude towards these things, and I have observed some 'travelers' who will take special actions against other targets in order to satisfy their personal curiosity or other desires, such as pleasing the opposite sex or same-sex couples around them."

Dr. Zede spoke calmly, but Gu Bin's heart beat faster, and he knew exactly what Zede meant by "travelers" and "special operations".

"Let's not talk about that, let's talk about the problem at the source." Dr. Zed reached out and tapped in front of him, and the blue particles immediately reformed into a triangle with a circle in the center.

He reached out to a point in the triangle and said, "This is the civilization I am talking about, and they use a unique management method, which is to distribute them according to the convergence and adaptability of races, species and cultures, and plan them into regions. ”

"Culture itself is both a categorical label and a categorical content?"

"That's right." The points touched by Zede's fingers stretched out a lot of thin lines, and they continued to form various patterns, just like the sketches of various civilizations that Gu Bin had seen when he was unconscious.

Gu Bin shook his head: "It's very contradictory, although I don't have any philosophical opinions, but using myself as a label to classify myself, this should fall into an endless loop." ”

"Actually, the culture I'm talking about is divided into two phases." "Before we categorize them, we're going to sort them out in general, and then we're going to put them together according to how similar they are. ”

"What cultures have a source for?" , Gu Bin raised his eyebrows, and as soon as the words came out, a terrible chill swept through his body.

"Barren ......"

After seeing Zede nodding, the uneasiness and fear in Gu Bin's heart were magnified to the extreme, and he said: "When I was in the Shanhai District, I noticed the statement of 'Shi Ling', they ......"

"They are the name given to the power of the top control over the end, and it is just an image, just like in your story, when God wants to do something, he always sends his subordinates out."

Zed said word by word: "In that civilization, the real controllers are another group of beings, they may be people, they may be other creatures, or even just a powerful consciousness, and the only people who can contact the controllers are the highest-level rulers in each cultural category. ”

"That's actually God, isn't it?"

"In your culture, pretty much."

Zed continued: "They are happy to divide and classify civilizations and cultures, and they don't know whether this is a job or a pleasure in themselves, they consider themselves to be the highest level of civilization, and they classify the rest of the civilizations that are divided below one by one, you can call them lower civilizations. ”

"This kind of domination has existed for a long time, but one day, the controllers suddenly got a sudden message while sorting through the information of civilization." A tremor appeared in Zed's calm tone: "This message frightened them, and they even made compromises and concessions, and even considered themselves inferior, and cut off a part of themselves as a special 'colony'. ”

Gu Bin's eyes were about to fly out, and he clutched the coffee cup in his hand with a dull gaze.

"In the midst of a complex torrent, a message is activated, and they receive a threat from a higher level, and the threat actor classifies civilization more harshly, and even shows a strong tendency to destruct."

Gu Bin opened his mouth to continue, his voice trembling: "That upper-level existence must have shown interest in that civilization, and made requests such as obtaining samples, out of helplessness, this civilization reproduced the division of its own world into this 'colony' in a miniature form, and the upper layer called this colony ......"

"It's called 'edge.'"

Zed said lightly.