T0 Gaming Guild Saves the World

Take the boundary between real and virtual elements as an example.

In real life, Jiang Heyi is an unemployed person who has just graduated from university.

French fries, a warm blanket, and orange tea are the staples for college students.

The prison guard is a shut-in otaku.

Zhong Zemo is a teacher.

Not long ago, the Tetraprototypes were overworked corporate slaves.

In the game, they are the renowned guild on the border between reality and illusion in Anna.

The hero in the eyes of the Fallen Star Siren.

An adventurer recognized by the demons of the Great Snow Mountain and Granny Metasequoia.

Peppermint and Cerberus are trusted by me.

"The Proof of the Stars, Anna Chapter, is also the 4th layer, and it is also a grand simulation."

"Its complexity and possibilities are hundreds of millions of times greater than the fourth layer."

"Even if it is the boundary between the virtual and the real, whether we can rely on simulations to place ourselves in the broken world of Anna and guide the right future is still unknown."

"They need to constantly transform their identities, adapt to different personas, make appropriate choices, and at the same time remember their most original selves."

Zhi Feng's eyes narrowed slightly.

The candle placed its hand on its heart: "We are puppets, born as individuals given by the Lord to play roles. We have no self, so you cannot understand the power of a complete being."

“When they see themselves as players, they develop an adaptive moral compass.”

"When they accept the characters in the game, they will regard them as beings no different from themselves."

"But if they believe that killing game characters will bring them greater benefits, they will go on a killing spree while crying."

"Their code of conduct rises and falls naturally with the environment and changes with the situation. It is their innate emotion and strength, not the fragmented code of conduct that we are given by the pieced-together fragments of our souls."

The candlelight laughed self-deprecatingly.

"Just like you and me."

“My calmness is a performance that must be placed above the needs. Even though someone once told me that I look really good when I smile, it still constantly restrains my impulses.”

"I really wanted to smile more, just like he wanted, but it was a battle with my soul to put on a decent performance."

“Sometimes I wonder if it’s because I want to laugh, or if my ‘soul’ has granted me permission to smile.”

"Can't you feel it?"

Zhifeng interrupted sharply: "Enough!"

"This is just a side effect of you separating too many souls. We are not nearly that torn apart. As long as we come together as one, we can still move closer to becoming whole beings!"

Why deceive yourself?

Zhifeng abruptly flung his hand, leaving a fleeting shadow in the sea of ​​flowers before returning to reality.

Candlelight stood up, wanting to persuade him to stay.

She had fought against her soul; just now, "she" would have preferred to remain seated in the chair, motionless and composed.

The ringing of the bell echoed in her ears; it was a sound only she could hear.

Back to reality, the aroma of vinegar fills the air.

Chen Shaoyu had already bought her favorite breakfast and poured a small bowl of vinegar, placing it on her table.

"Ah, are you awake?" Chen Shaoyu caught a glimpse of the candlelight and noticed the body trembling slightly. "It's perfect to eat while it's hot. These are freshly baked shumai, made with pure meat. They're not easy to find around here, so I drove out specifically to buy them."

"Hmm, the crab roe soup dumplings and shumai are quite far apart, but luckily there aren't many cars in the morning."

"If only I could teleport instantly."

At first, Chen Shaoyu was very afraid of saying the wrong thing and losing his job.

As people get to know each other better, their relationship grows closer, and daily life gradually becomes less tense.

Because the candlelight was usually rather somber, Chen Shaoyu, who was not usually talkative, was gradually forced to become a chatterbox.

The candlelight, now back in reality, remained silent for a long time, a fact Chen Shaoyu was not surprised by.

That's always been her way; she only throws out a whole bunch of things when she feels like it.

When he's feeling down, he's completely silent. You can ramble on and on, and all you'll get is a simple "oh" or "I understand."

"Your lips have been trembling, what's wrong?"

Candlelight, expressionless, pinched the corner of her trembling lips: "The bodies are fighting against each other."

Chen Shaoyu, who was eating corn porridge, suddenly looked up like a curious child.

"Mutual resistance means that the orders you give are not carried out by other departments?"

Chen Shaoyu laughed: "Although I had made that connection when I saw you being torn apart by five horses before, could you perform that, you know, the Flying Head?

"You know about the Flying Head Barbarian, right?"

Suddenly, a dark shadow filled Chen Shaoyu's entire field of vision, and the corn porridge he was holding was bitten off along with the plastic bowl.

The candle's head detached from its body; having completed the robbery, it spun in the air, still holding a half-finished bowl of corn porridge in its mouth.

Chen Shaoyu clapped his hands and cheered: "Great! This is exactly what I wanted to see, but does that mean you won't be able to speak?"

"Using mouths to make sounds is just to fulfill the anthropomorphic setting of dolls. Even without a head, we can still make sounds through magic."

The sound was coming from across the table.

"Just like we don't need to eat or drink, this function is set up simply to make us more like human beings."

The candlelight reattached his head. Chen Shaoyu glanced at the saliva-stained bowl of porridge and decided to order another serving instead of asking for it back.

"But you do derive pleasure from eating, isn't that a kind of enjoyment too?"

Faced with the swaying vinegar bottle in front of him, the candlelight triumphed over his soul, and he laughed from the bottom of his heart.

The two of them ate, one bite for you, one bite for me.

Seeing the dull atmosphere, Chen Shaoyu quickly started a new topic.

"If we ultimately win the Chaos Tower world, and your master finds this place and confirms that the boundary between reality and illusion is the solution needed, will you receive the reward?"

"Yes, generally speaking, it is when one expresses their wish, and if the Lord can grant it, then the Lord will grant it. If the Lord cannot grant it, or if there is a dispute, then the Lord will respond."

"Oh, so have you decided what you want to wish for?"

The candlelight went silent.

In the past, similar question-and-answer sessions had always gone very smoothly. When it came to questions that could not be answered, the candle would truthfully reply, "No comment."

A jam is a very rare occurrence.

A sense of tranquility filled the room as she remained motionless, continuing her habitual sucking motion from the crab roe soup dumpling.

"I don't have any wishes yet."

"Huh?" Chen Shaoyu was shocked: "How can a person not have desires? Just amplify your desires, and you'll have them!"

“If I were a human, I should have,” said the candlelight, “but I am a puppet.”

"Don't dolls have wishes?"

“Most of the wishes of dolls are meaningless,” Candlelight said. “Our life cycle is mostly the same as that of humans.”

"But can't you change bodies?"

"Each time it is replaced, the imprint in the soul will weaken until finally, new soul fragments need to be filled in."

"The Ship of Theseus, huh..."

The corners of her mouth twitched slightly, the restraint breaking through, and she smiled earnestly.

"The doll looks very much like the NPCs in the game."

"Players will give us meaning; we are only valuable when players care about us."

For some reason, a strange emotion suddenly arose in Chen Shaoyu's mind.

It remembered the mobile game it hadn't logged into in a long time, where there was a paper doll that it used to hug, shout, and announce to its group members, "This is my wife."

At these times, the group members always rush to jump out.

"What do you mean 'your wife'? She's clearly my wife."

As time went by, people gradually quit the game and switched to other games.

The little game in that corner is no longer played. It only resonates in my mind when a content creator mentions it during a game announcement.

In the group chat, when she appears, it's usually related to memories, with frequent expressions of sentiment like "we can never go back to a few years ago."

It was a quiet electronic grave, burying her and their youth.

Upon logging in, she would still repeat the same heartfelt words she would say to each player.

It's like a beloved person who will always be waiting for you to go back and reunite with her.

The eternal Waiting-for-Husband Rock by the sea.

Chen Shaoyu couldn't help but look up and gaze at the candlelight.

She is laughing.

The smile was very strange, as if the muscles on his face were uncoordinated and fighting each other. The slightly upturned corners of his mouth and the trembling face all revealed the atmosphere of the uncanny valley.

But it's strange...

Chen Shaoyu was not afraid.

Chapter 360 The Boss is Generous!

Upon waking up, Jiang Heyi immediately checked the leaderboard.

Last night, while battling through the fourth floor, players in both worlds were gradually completing the chain of dolls.

The method used in the Three Realms is unknown. On the Chinese server side, the Chosen of Khorne successfully passed the level by using the survival strategy that was discovered first.

The core idea is to deliberately mention the keyword "blood and flesh" during the chain-like activity, and to take advantage of the fact that blood and flesh creations cannot be replenished with mana regularly.

Once the initial bombardment phase is over, the flesh-and-blood creatures will rapidly shrink, making them easy to defeat.

It's ready to eat straight from the can and I've personally tested it; it works great. The first time I tried it, I was smashed by a bloody warthog, but I just suffered from not being prepared enough.

However, Jiang Heyi noticed that other guilds weren't interested in this; they were following the Tarot route.

Each Tarot card that appears as a keyword has obvious flaws.

The magician, whose existence has been tested to distinguish between reality and illusion, forces players into a beam-counter mode.

Because they cannot move while continuously attacking, their weakness is summoned creatures.

In Proof of the Stars, most summoner classes require a long period of preparation before they can unleash their full potential, resulting in a small player base and a low minimum system requirements that deter most people.

The Emperor in Tarot has the effect of forcibly imprisoning all players upon entering battle, and then targeting one player, absorbing the attribute values ​​of everyone else except that player to strengthen itself.

This effect cannot be removed by any item or class effect.

The Chinese guild that triggered the Emperor's skill for the first time was stunned; how could there be such a shameless skill combination?

It also reminded players that the attribute values ​​they gained when leveling up were actually useful—especially when paired with monsters using special mechanics.

The emperor's power completely drained each player, leaving only a basic 1 point of value.

With a magic value of 1, regular magic classes cannot even cast a single spell.

Thankfully, the game doesn't have a health bar; otherwise, one point of health would be wiped out with a sneeze.

The Crimson Music Box doesn't believe in superstition.

There is currently no "Proof of the Stars" boss that players cannot defeat.

Even the top-level challenge of the Temple of the Clarity, which is a combination of mechanics and numerical values, can be solved if you play well enough—she admitted it herself.

Since the Tarot deck was designed with flaws for the magician, then other Tarot decks should have flaws as well.

In the first battle against the emperor, whose numerical absorption was as strong as a monster, he could not be defeated even with all his strength.