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The fact that characters from a work of fiction have come into reality is already outrageous enough.

Now Fan Xiao is telling them that the characters in the work were originally reincarnated from the real world... well, it doesn't seem so unacceptable.

They have now reached a new conclusion—the causal relationship between the world of the work and the real world is very likely the opposite.

In other words, all the worlds in this instance exist independently, and there is no such thing as one being derived from another, one being created by another, or one being subordinate to another.

Some people's souls are reincarnated from this world to another world, and then the information about their lives in the other world flows back into this world and is created and circulated as works of art... Although it is surprising, Cinderella was able to travel between different worlds, so it should be reasonable for such a situation to exist, right?

Perhaps this is the main reason why Cinderella was chosen to be the dungeon boss.

The "reincarnation from reality" setting in his works is likely an information hint to players from the dungeon.

If you think about it that way, Fan Xiao's guess is quite likely.

However, Xia Li and the others did not immediately express their opinions.

Xia Li said, "Why don't we investigate the true mythology first before drawing conclusions? You were certain that Cinderella was hiding some key information about the true mythology. Now that her 'disappearance' ability is gone, that information should have been unlocked."

“I have investigated the mythological information, and it basically matches my guesses.”

Van Shaw once again made a surprising statement.

"So fast!?" Beifeng exclaimed in surprise.

“I already have a rough framework in my mind about this copy. I first made some bold guesses based on the framework, and then checked whether there was corresponding information in the mythology that could fit into my framework and prove that my guesses were correct.”

Fan Xiao explained, "It's like we start with the result, then look for the cause. While verifying our guesses, we also fill in the details of the puzzle, which makes it seem faster."

The dungeons in evolution games tend to be story-telling games—with a few exceptions, which are simply level-based games, but most of them fit the story-telling model.

No... that's not quite right either.

To be precise, it should be that the existing story was turned into a dungeon through the power of the evolution game.

When players enter the dungeon to explore, they feel a sense of exploring past history.

Since it's about storytelling, there's a hidden "cheating" method for running dungeons—using common story tropes, you pre-establish some truths, and then use these truths to fit information in the dungeon. Whichever one fits in the most and has the greatest compatibility is the truth.

The process of extracting information is the process of verification.

As long as the verification at a few key points goes smoothly, the truth can be confirmed halfway through, without having to investigate and solve the mystery step by step until the end.

This is much simpler and faster than collecting information step by step and piecing together the final truth.

After all, stories tend to follow a set pattern.

There is nothing new under the sun.

Haven't eaten pork, haven't seen a pig run yet?

Of course, this cheating method also has drawbacks, and they are quite serious—if none of the pre-anchored truths are correct, it will not only waste a lot of time doing useless work, but will also lead to wrong choices at certain key points, causing problems throughout the entire process.

Therefore, this approach can only be used by people with extremely rich life experience and a deep understanding of human nature.

Although Fan Xiao is not very old, he has a lot of experience and knowledge to share.

He continued, "After reviewing Cinderella's works, I took some time to look at the four myths I had previously identified, and I found that only the 'Kabbalah Tree of Life' myth contained some information that I hadn't seen before—it is undoubtedly the true myth."

"This additional information mentions a very interesting myth, which fits perfectly into the crisis framework of 'works invading reality'..."

Fan Xiao began to share the intelligence he had compiled.

The Kabbalah Tree of Life mythology in this instance bears some resemblance to, but is not entirely the same as, the biblical mythology on Earth.

The most obvious difference is that the Kabbalah Tree of Life in this instance simply describes the structure of the world; it does not contain the subsequent triple energy rings or the hidden God beyond the third ring.

Regarding the world framework, the two are quite similar, and both have the same structure of the Tree of Life—ten primary elements and four worlds.

The four worlds refer to—

The divine realm, representing the element of fire, is the seat of authority over all things;

The realm of creation, representing the element of wind, is the domain of spirit and soul;

The boundary that forms represents the element of water, and is a manifestation of the mind of God;

The material world, represented by the element of earth, is the world in which humans live.

This information is what he presented during his investigation before he went to fight Cinderella.

Now that Cinderella's hidden information has been restored, the new version of the mythology has added some new content.

For example, the realm of formation is now explicitly described as the celestial realm, the world inhabited by gods, where various powers transcend the mortal realm exist—yes, in this instance's Kabbalah system, it is explicitly described that gods exist in plurality.

There is also the material world, which is explicitly described as the real world, a world where no supernatural powers exist, and a world that rejects any supernatural powers.

"Does this sound familiar?" Fan Xiao asked the group.

"The Formation World represents the worlds of various works! The Material World is the real world we live in!"

Xia Li blurted out the name without thinking.

The Formation Realm is the abode of gods—the gods here likely correspond to characters in works who can wield extraordinary powers.

The material world rejects the extraordinary, and therefore the corresponding real world suppresses the extraordinary powers of everyone, including players and characters in the work.

Fan Xiao nodded and said, "The sense of déjà vu isn't just present in the world-building framework, it can even be found in mythological stories..."

He continued his story.

The hidden information about Cinderella not only supplements the settings of the Formation World and the Material World, but also tells a special myth.

The protagonist of this myth is a human living in the material world named Merlo.

Melo was a kind person with fine character, but she died because of the malicious intent of others.

After her death, her soul was unexpectedly reincarnated in the Celestial Realm, where she became a deity with extraordinary power.

The god Merlo was no longer friendly. His personality changed drastically, becoming cruel, bloodthirsty, and radical, a veritable evil god. He orchestrated the disaster of "Gods Descending to Earth," opening a passage between the primordial world and the material world, allowing gods with all sorts of extraordinary powers to enter the material world, toying with the defenseless humans and plunging into an extremely dark and chaotic era.

In the end, the benevolent gods of the heavens took pity on the suffering humans in the material world and formed an alliance to drive the evil gods, led by Mello, back to the heavens. They then closed the passage between the heavens and the material world, ending the dark turmoil stirred up by the gods.

Of course, the final victory was not achieved overnight; the process was quite tortuous.

Merlo was twice banished from the material world by the benevolent gods.

She returned quickly the first time and sparked an even more brutal war of gods.

The second time, after the Alliance of Benevolent Gods drove her back to the Heavenly Realm, they gathered their power to seal her away and completely closed the passage between the two realms, thus ending the divine war...

"...When the benevolent gods first banished Mello from the material world, they used a trick."

Fan Xiao said, "They did not expel Melo by winning in direct combat, but instead used the material world's repulsion of supernatural power to forcibly expel Melo."

"The specific manipulation method is that they found five pairs of twin gods who were born with special opposing deities, and made these five pairs... that is, ten gods, all turn into the likeness of Melo, divide them into two opposing groups, and engage in a long battle at the same time, recklessly using extraordinary power to collide in the material world."

"The opposing destinies of twin deities bring about a strange effect—if their extraordinary powers collide, it will greatly amplify the influence of extraordinary rules. When extraordinary rules are amplified, the rules of the material world will be suppressed, just like a balance scale, and during the suppression, the true identities of the twin deities cannot be identified."

"But prolonged suppression will eventually trigger a powerful backlash from the rules of the material world."

"Using this method, the benevolent gods pinned the blame for violating the rules of the material world on Mello, and then used the rebound of the rules to banish Mello from the material world. Unfortunately..."

He added, "As the war of the gods intensified, in the later stages, the rules of the material world were completely crushed by the rules of the transcendent world, and their repulsiveness was greatly reduced. As a result, Mello was able to return, pushing the war of the gods toward an extremely tragic end, which led to the fall of a large number of gods."

"Although the benevolent gods ultimately won, it was a Pyrrhic victory."

"This war, which affected the entire material world, was called the 'War of Fallen Heaven'."

"..."

After hearing this myth, Xia Li and the others looked at each other, stunned for a moment.

This feeling of déjà vu... it's happening again!

And it's even stronger than before!

Speaking of which... isn't this Melo a reference to Cinderella?

The gods who descended upon the material world and caused chaos refer to the characters in various works.

The twin deities with opposing deities clearly refer to the player and the player-created character—the fight between the player and the created character will accelerate the extent to which the work intrudes into reality, a point that has been personally confirmed by Cinderella.

The key clue to clearing the dungeon is actually hidden in real mythology!

However... we arrived a little too late.

If she had known sooner, Fan Xiaoxiao wouldn't have had to...

"It is clear that the information provided by the true mythology contains a method for banishing Cinderella from the real world without harming her."

Fan Xiao summarized: "It's also very simple to operate. All you need is for five players and five fan-created characters to transform into Cinderella, and then keep fighting to trigger a rebound from the real-world rules."

“We have five players, and five custom characters… We can also forcibly gather them using some mind control methods.”

"This method is not difficult to implement."

“Um… I don’t have the ability to transform,” Lily said, raising her hand as if she were a student answering a question in class.

“I do, and I can help others transform,” Fan Xiao said. “Moreover, the dungeon design won’t leave any loopholes. Even if none of the players who enter here have the same ability as me, there must be a character from the works who can do this and was brought into reality by Cinderella.”

Level A players can actively change their appearance.

As for the fan-created characters... it seems they did not inherit this characteristic from the high evolution rate.

Fan Xiao shook his head slightly at Lily and said, "There's no point in discussing this now. Cinderella has been banished. When she returns, she will be like Merleau in the myth, no longer troubled by the rejection of the world."

"If we want to deal with her then, we'll have to fight her to the death, just like the previous battles."

"There's another point that differs slightly from a previous conclusion... no, it's not really a difference, it's more like a supplement."

He held up a finger and said, "Cinderella's right wing harbors 'Divine Concealment,' which can conceal information. In the previous battle, she self-destructed her right wing, destroying 'Divine Concealment,' which is why we were able to investigate this information—this was our previous conclusion."

"Now we need to add one more point to this conclusion—once Cinderella is banished from the world, regardless of whether her wings are broken or not, we will be able to gather intelligence."

"Because the myth clearly states that after Merlo was first banished by the gods, the traces of his power left in the material world were also banished by the rules."

"wrong!"

Xia Li, who had been pondering the mythological information, suddenly realized something and said with surprise but certainty, "Something's not right! From what you're saying, this information from the real mythology was specifically prepared for us players to drive out Cinderella."

"If we can drive her away using the methods in mythology, we will be able to obtain all the information about her and make full preparations for the battle that follows."

"But... this part of the mythological information was hidden by Cinderella, so we had no way of obtaining it in advance."

"The cause-and-effect relationship here is wrong!"

The correct cause-and-effect relationship should be that they first find the true myth, then use the methods provided in the myth to expel Cinderella, and then take the opportunity to obtain all the information about her, so as to gain a complete advantage in the final battle—this design is more reasonable.

If the conquest process follows this procedure, then there is no such thing as "game balance deficiency".

Cinderella is powerful, but the dungeon also provides a shortcut.

It wasn't just Xia Li who thought this way.

After hearing the information shared by Fan Xiao, Bei Feng and the others also had this idea.

It seems that following this process is the most normal thing for the dungeon to go... No, it's not just "it seems," it should be developed this way!

The process they went through actually lacked the balance a game should have, making it seem extremely abnormal.

"The cause and effect relationship is indeed reversed."

Fan Xiao nodded, confirming this point, and said, "The dungeon provides a clever way to expel Cinderella, but this plan can only be obtained after Cinderella is expelled... No matter how you look at it, there's a problem with the logic here."

"So... I personally believe that there was a minor flaw in the operation of this instance, which led to this 'lack of balance' issue."

"For example, when the dungeon first opened, Cinderella, due to some accident, focused her attention on the outsiders... that is, us players, and silently obtained the players' quest information through mind control, and discovered the true myth before us, thus sealing it off."

He paused, then added, "Xiao Xiao once mentioned that Cinderella's memories from each dungeon reincarnation are never erased, but this time, she has diverted some of her attention to the players and fan-created characters."

"What you're saying... is reasonable, but... the information in the real mythology is clearly a key clue designed specifically for us players to clear the dungeon. Without it, we wouldn't be able to defeat Cinderella."

Xia Li insisted on her opinion, saying, "I don't think Cinderella would hide such crucial information at the very beginning of the dungeon's opening."

"Even if, according to your speculation, she knew this through her previous reincarnation experiences, the rules of the instance should have prevented her from concealing this crucial clue."

"Otherwise, everything will be like what we experienced, where the balance between player strength and dungeon difficulty is severely tilted."

True mythological information should not be... or rather, cannot be hidden—that was her view.

As one of the elements in the dungeon game, Cinderella should not have the authority to break the game rules.

Fan Xiao did not refute Xia Li's claim.

Even now, he still has some doubts—was the person who blocked information about the myth really Cinderella?

When he used "quantum immortality" to measure it, he found that it would take a month of luck to directly obtain information about Cinderella's works, while it would take a month and a half to directly obtain information about mythology.