Chapter 273!
"haven't seen you for a long time……"

Jin Bing was visibly stunned for a long time, as if an unspeakable emotion was brewing in his heart...

"Long time no see, Zhao Si..."

He smiled, and the loss in his eyes was no longer there.

Because from this moment on, he was recognized and the false life became reality!

He is no longer an ordinary copy.

……

"haven't seen you for a long time……"

At the same time, the Pension Emperor, who was far away in the East China Sea, was also muttering to himself, feeling nostalgic, sentimental, sad, relieved... countless thoughts arose invisibly.

Finally, the legendary emperor smiled knowingly:
"Long time no see, Zhao Si..."

There is no need for too many words or flowery rhetoric, just a special greeting can express infinite emotions.

He knew that he was not the real protagonist Jin Bing. He had been depressed because of this. After all, no one could accept that he was a clone, even though his memory was normal...

In this depressed state of mind, he, who had already developed Yu Yu Syndrome from being in prison, could not help but become autistic. He stayed in the courtyard all day long, not wanting to get involved in the affairs of the heavenly court, nor did he want to find old friends and old subordinates to reminisce and relax.

Because they are all fake, no one is the real self!

However, it is always better to be ignorant about such matters, and the less you know, the better.

Those who have never been the protagonist will never discover this fact, nor will they be troubled by knowing too much.

But Emperor Jin Tian is different. As the protagonist, he knows too much, and countless troubles arise from this...

However, all these worries suddenly disappeared with Zhao Si's words "Long time no see".

Whether the self is real or fake is not important.

What’s important is that there are real people who are willing to admit his reality!

As long as Zhao Si, the real protagonist, is willing to admit that he is Jin Bing, then he is Jin Bing.

Zhao Si was willing to admit that throughout his life, if that was the case, then what was there for him to be upset about?

"This can be considered a special kind of [Anchoring]..."

Emperor Jin Tian smiled happily and then stood up.

"Brother Bing?"

Jin Ding, who was in charge of taking care of him, looked at his introverted brother in surprise. His temperament had changed drastically since he was released from prison. Seeing him suddenly perk up, he couldn't help but feel a little suspicious:
"What are you doing?"

"Brother, please send out invitations for me. I want to invite old friends to a banquet and talk about the interesting things that happened during the attack on the Heavenly Palace."

Emperor Jin Tian smiled, and the sun of that year shone brightly again!
Jin Ding was overjoyed:

"Okay! Who should we invite? The old members of the Heavenly Palace? Xuandu and his men should be able to come, as should Old Ancestor Qinglong and the True Dragon King. Houyi, Xiangliu and his men can also come..."

"Well... I would like to invite the late emperor, the Eastern Emperor, the demon master, the Sun King, Gong Gong, and Zhu Rong..."

Jin Ding: ...

If a fight breaks out, I'm afraid the Golden Dragon Palace won't be big enough to demolish...

……

[Ding! Your command has been sent truthfully. The three commands in this round have been used up. The number of commands will be refreshed in the next chapter. Please pay attention to check...]

All right!

Zhao Si clapped his hands in satisfaction. He made full use of this last chance and made up for not saying hello to Jin Bing before.

Of course, the more important reason was to comfort the two Jin Bings who were suffering from Yu Yu Syndrome!

Although their mentality does not affect the smooth progress of the plot, Zhao Si is still willing to acknowledge them out of respect for the characters.

After all, this game is not an ordinary game. Every character in it is real, and since they are real, they have personality and need to be respected.

This is the profound truth that Zhao Si realized from the three plots!

Treating them purely as NPCs might not affect the efficiency of clearing the level, but it would definitely affect the protagonists' views of themselves.

Zhao Si doesn't want to be a mastermind, nor does he want to be the overlord of the world, nor does he want to be a high-dimensional player who treats all creatures in the game as grass.

Although the butt determines the head, the player's perspective will never completely overlap with the NPC, which is determined by the class attributes.

But, class is innate, but ideas are not!
To this end, he is willing to take their ideas into consideration as much as possible, put his own perspective into that of the game characters, and provide clearance strategies that they can accept in order to establish a more friendly mode of getting along.

You can say he was being superfluous or that he was overly compassionate, but this was his unique understanding of the game...

"Let's go! Let's arrange the beer and barbecue!"

With a cheer, Zhao Si turned and went out, stepping from the long virtual game into real life.

After playing immersive games for a long time, he couldn't tell whether he was in the game or in reality...

……

The next day.

【Ding! Update completed! 】

With a system prompt, Zhao Si woke up from a deep sleep.

"It's time?"

Zhao Si opened his sleepy eyes and sat up from the messy bed, which was a little numb from sleep. As he thought about it, the magic power in his body circulated a few times and quickly dispelled his sleepiness.

"Tell me, what's new?"

Zhao Si slapped his face and asked about the system casually.

[Relevant content is available during the simulation, please explore on your own. ]

"Tsk! It's like this again!"

Zhao Si curled his lips. He was used to the system's behavior and didn't bother to ask. He just picked up his phone and turned to the simulated chapter list:

In the first chapter, Jin Bing, who has just taken office as the Emperor of Heaven, is still concentrating on governing the country and teaching the young Xuan Du a lesson.

In the second chapter, bird number three, who went on a business trip out of the world, was thinking about the detailed principles of the birth and death of the world, and then carefully compiled the relevant insights into his new book, thinking about telling it to book fans later.

In the third chapter, Xue Xuan, who has become the emperor, is a hands-off manager, practicing in seclusion for many years, and he has handed over the governance of the Asura tribe to Jin Bing, which is quite like a "monarch offline system"...

Three protagonists, three lives.

Zhao Si looked at it and couldn't help but sigh:

"I've been playing with this storyline in different eras for so long that it feels like I've traveled through time!"

"Jin Bing had just killed Di Jiang and accepted Di Jun's abdication, and the next moment he was imprisoned for countless epochs and was diagnosed with Jade Syndrome..."

This feeling was so strange that even though Zhao Si knew that the three stories were independent of each other, he still felt dazed...

"Okay, just be a fan!"

Zhao Si shook his head, and then he perked up completely. He asked with anticipation and curiosity:

"Where's the fourth chapter? Serve it up quickly!"

[The fourth chapter is still a hidden chapter and needs to be extracted. Do you want to extract it? ]

"Nonsense! Smack!"

【Extracting...】

[Ding! The extraction has been successful! Please start the simulation! ]

"We've simulated the period of the Three Clans of Creation, the age of the Lich, and even the end of the world... I want to see what else you can come up with!"

Zhao Si clicked on it briskly:

"Start simulation!"

[Ding! The plot of this chapter has been loaded...]

[At a certain time and with a certain luck, you were born into a fisherman's family on the coast of the South China Sea with a cry.] [You were the only child in the family, so you helped your parents collect the catch, dry fish, and make shrimp paste since you were a child. In the absence of natural disasters or man-made disasters, your family was not rich, but you had enough food and clothing.]

[However, people always have dreams. After such boring days for too long, you can't help but start to yearn for the distant place: It is said that there is a big city outside the fishing village, and the city is very prosperous and wealthy. Your family's fish is sold there! ]

[There are all kinds of things in the city, as well as all kinds of people, and there are also beautiful girls. They don’t have to fish or dry nets, so they have fair skin and tender flesh…]

[Of course, what interests you most is not beauty and money, but the legendary immortals who can fly and live forever! ]

[When you were young, you believed that there were gods in this world. They didn’t have to work hard for a living, they didn’t have to fish or work, they could live without food or water just by breathing in the sea breeze every day, and they could go wherever they wanted and do whatever they wanted.]

[But belief is belief, reality is reality. No matter how lofty your ideals are, you will eventually succumb to the reality of daily life...]

Ok?
Seeing this, Zhao Si couldn't help but frowned:
"Food, oil, salt, and fuel? What do you need in the wild world?"

"System, what are you doing here? Is this still the prehistoric world?"

Zhao Si couldn't help but feel puzzled. After all, normally speaking, it was impossible for mortals to exist in the prehistoric world, unless it was the Dharma Ending Age that Xue Xuan encountered at the beginning.

But judging from the plots of the previous three chapters, different simulations also follow the same worldview. From the creation of the world, to the age of liches, to the end of the law, there will only be one simulation plot for each major era.

So, since there is already a plot about Xue Xuan traveling through the Dharma Ending Age, how come there will be another story with the same historical background?
[Ding! A parody is not nonsense, an adaptation is not random editing, and simulation games will not make random edits. Players, don't worry, just keep reading. ]

This……

After getting the system's explanation, Zhao Si finally felt relieved, but he still had doubts about the historical background of the new plot:

If this is not the Dharma Ending Age that Xue Xuan experienced, then which age would it be?

……

[Time passed little by little, and you grew up little by little. When you were seventeen, your parents began to arrange a marriage for you according to custom.]

[They picked out a daughter from a family in the same village. They thought she was pretty and hardworking, so they planned to let you marry her to continue the family line...]

【You: I have no objection. 】

[You really don't have any objections, because you have always liked her. You grew up in the same village and understand each other.]

[So the two sides hit it off quickly! Fishermen are not wealthy, so there is no need for the complicated "three books and six ceremonies". All they need to get married is the consent of both parents and then give some gifts to the woman. ]

[You are overjoyed and hope to get married soon, because you have already discussed with your parents that after the marriage, you will take your wife to live in the city and bid farewell to the fishing life! ]

[But you never expected that the turning point of fate has quietly arrived...]

[It was a sunny morning. You and your father rowed a fishing boat, carrying nets, forks and other fishing gear, and were about to go fishing in the sea.]

[But suddenly, you see a broken raft not far from the seashore, and there is a "person" lying on the raft! ]

[Seeing the broken raft stranded on the beach and the "person" not moving, you and your father looked at each other and decided to go take a look.]

[Your father followed you cautiously, holding a fishing fork, and you cautiously went forward to take a look. When you took a look, you were shocked: That was not a person at all, it was clearly a monkey!]

[I don't know what species that monkey is, but it's about the same height as a human. No wonder you mistook it for a human.]

[What is even more eye-catching is that its entire body is covered with golden hair. Under the reflection of the rising sun, it looks as golden as gold. Anyone who sees it will praise it: What a handsome monkey! ]

[However, this handsome monkey is skinny. Monkeys are known for being skinny, and it is so skinny that only bones are left. You can tell at a glance that it is hungry.]

[At this moment, this handsome and thin monkey was lying motionless on the stranded raft, and it was unclear whether he was dead or alive...]

[“Dad… this…”]

[You, being kindhearted, looked at your father hesitantly, not knowing whether you should step forward to rescue him.]

【"do not go!"】

[The father shook his head cautiously and said in a deep voice: "There's something wrong with this monkey... It looks okay, but it came here on a raft... I'm afraid it's a water monkey!"]

[Can normal monkeys build rafts? ]

[Would a normal monkey take a broken raft and float to the seaside? ]

[This is not normal no matter how you look at it! ]

[What my father said makes sense. This is most likely a legendary monster called "Water Monkey"! ]

[But, youkai...]

[You can't help but have a childhood fantasy: If there are monsters, are there gods? If so, do monsters know where the gods are? ]

[Ding! Driven by your childhood dreams, you inexplicably place all kinds of childhood fantasies on this strange monkey in front of you. You realize that your life has reached a turning point. Whether to live an ordinary life or to realize your dream is up to you... Your choice: (?)]

[A: Save it. Provide some help to the strange monkey whose life or death is unknown. I hope you can get some information from it! B: Don't save it. This strange guy is probably the monster "Water Monkey". If the monster goes crazy, not only you will be in trouble, but your family and even the whole village will face a catastrophe! ]

Zhao Si:?

Zhao Si finished reading this long text message, and his expression became more and more strange. He had an inexplicable sense of déjà vu...

"system."

Zhao Si took a deep breath:

"A parody is not nonsense, and an adaptation is not random creation... No wonder you said that, it turns out you were just making a joke!"

[It’s great that the player can catch the joke. ]

Zhao Si slapped his face and asked helplessly:
"Tell me the truth, is this Journey to the West?"

【no. 】

"So...how much did you adapt?"

【Anyway, I didn’t make it up.】

It’s not over yet!

Zhao Si sighed:
"No...isn't this a semi-original prehistoric flow? The story line has been connected. Even if you want to open a new chapter, you should pick up the existing plot. I thought you were going to create a prehistoric world in the future..."

[This chapter was drawn by the players themselves, and there was no behind-the-scenes manipulation. ]

[Secondly, the storyline of this chapter will not deviate from the established historical context of the first three chapters, so players can rest assured. ]

"Row!"

The system said so, Zhao Si naturally had no other opinions, and thought about it:
"If this monkey is really Monkey King, and the background is Journey to the West, then it will definitely be beneficial to help it."

"If not... I'll just die once at most, which isn't a big deal. Restarting will also count as gaining experience..."

The result of thinking is:
"Choose A, help it!"

[You choose option A, save it, and provide some help to the strange monkey whose life or death is unknown, and imagine that you can get some traces of the gods from it! ]

【You decide to help it. 】

[But you are not a fool after all, and you dare not rashly gamble your life on a rash decision, so you tried hard to talk to your father for a long time before he finally agreed to your rescue.]

[Under your arrangement, your father put the fishing fork aside and carefully supported you. If the opponent is not friendly, kill it immediately! A monkey that can faint from hunger cannot be invulnerable to swords and guns! ]

[After making all preparations, you took some fish and fresh water and went forward to treat it...]

[You carefully checked its breathing and found that it was still breathing, then you slowly poured fresh water into its mouth.]

[The big golden monkey, whose lips were all cracked, instinctively caught the water as soon as he felt it near his mouth.]

[After drinking for a while, it seems to have regained some strength. It opens its eyes and stares at you blankly. After noticing your movements, it doesn't go crazy or get scared like a wild monkey. Instead, it looks at you obediently and doesn't move, allowing you to do whatever you want.]

[Seeing this, you are both surprised and happy. You are surprised that it can understand human nature, and it is very likely a monster! You are also happy that it can understand human nature, and it is very likely a monster! ]

[With complicated thoughts, you feed it fish meat again, but it shakes its head, seemingly not wanting to eat.]

[Monsters don't eat meat? 】

[Just when you were confused, you saw it struggling to get up, bowing to you respectfully, and speaking in human language with great excitement.]

[“Please accept me as your disciple, Immortal!”]

【you:?】

……

(It's a little bit of a minor thing, there's only one chapter today, please forgive me.())

(End of this chapter)