Chapter 384! (The Finale)

【That’s all I have to say.】

[After explaining to you the whole set of three views that he had spent his entire life to finally discover, the time has finally come for this strand of Lin Liusuo’s divine consciousness to dissipate…]

【"I have to go now."】

[He let out a long sigh, as if he was relieved that he had successfully completed his mission, because he had successfully relayed the information left by the original body to you, the "Supreme Being."]

【His merits are complete! 】

[You also saw his fate, and a kind heart burst out: "...Will Lin Liu be resurrected again?"]

[He smiled and said, "He could have always been there, but he just didn't want to... However, he will inevitably be resurrected in the future, because all living things love him too much, so they will resurrect him sooner or later."]

[“But even if he is resurrected, he will choose death again…”]

【“Why?” You are confused. 】

[“He’s already cleared the game, and he’s finished his historical mission, so it doesn’t matter if he’s resurrected, right?”]

[He laughed dumbly: "How could it be nothing!"]

[“You have to know that protagonists like us are different from others. As long as we are alive, our priority is naturally higher than anyone else.”]

[“Once he is resurrected, the ending will be broken. The national cultivation that was originally carried out because of the protagonist’s death will also be abandoned by the game. Monkey and his protagonist status will be stripped away... In the end, he will be the only protagonist in the world.”]

[“Without Monkey as the protagonist anchor, the prehistoric world will be destroyed again...all his efforts will be in vain.”]

[He said seriously: "So he can't live. If he lives, he must die again!"]

[You opened your mouth, as if you wanted to say something, but in the end, nothing came out, and all your words turned into a helpless sigh...]

[“Okay, it’s time to go now!”]

【He smiled cheerfully and waved to you. 】

【“Goodbye, Zhao Si…”】

[He smiled and said, this simulated protagonist who saw you in person for the first time, his figure gradually blurred.]

[At the same time, your vision begins to blur, and the figure of the old man sitting in the wheelchair with his head tilted is no longer clear.]

[He changed back to his original appearance, wearing a bamboo hat, a straw raincoat, holding fishing gear, and turned around and left so easily, as if he was going to continue to catch two big fish in the sea...]

[Your vision becomes increasingly blurry, but you do not panic, you just sigh silently.]

【Because dreams always have to end. 】

【…】

[When you open your eyes, you find yourself lying on the table with your phone on the side. ]

[Back to "reality", you first looked around and sighed: Who would have thought that this seemingly normal world is actually just a man-made idealistic world? ]

[Of course, it may be as Lin Liu said: It’s not that it’s hard to find, but it’s simply because you’re slow to react and your brain doesn’t work…]

[With a sigh, you pick up your phone and want to see what the system message says...]

【you:?!!】

[What's going on? Why is my information displayed above? ! ]

[Hey! You still show off...]

[After a moment of astonishment, you flipped to the top of the message, where a line of clear large characters read: "It has been detected that the player Zhao Si has passed all the designated chapters, and his authority has been upgraded... Chapter 5, loading... "]

[Chapter 5? When did that happen? Why didn’t I, a player, know about the new chapter?! ]

[After a moment of confusion, you think of what Lin Liu said to you, and finally realize: "Chapter 5... It seems that the protagonist of this chapter is me..."]

[With a gorgeous turn, you have successfully transformed from a player to a simulation protagonist! ]

[With this sudden change of identity, if you still have the same values ​​and cognition as a player, you will probably be in a stagnation for a long time and think independently for a long time before you can fully change your mind. ]

[And now, after Lin Liu's high-level guidance, your three perspectives have been reshaped, so you accept it very quickly. ]

[But even though you accept it, the change of identity still makes you feel lost...]

[“So, what is my story mission?”]

[After sorting out your thoughts, you start to think carefully: the story missions in the first four chapters all require the protagonist to overcome various difficulties and obstacles, go through countless life-and-death crises, and even die and start over again and again... until they can be completed in the end.]

[No way...I am the same, right?]

[You can't help but mutter: Life and death are fine, the protagonist will get used to it after dying a few times... The main thing is, who is the enemy? Who is the villain who threatens the survival of the world? ]

[You are very sure that this "real world" you have lived in for more than 20 years is not realistic enough, but there are really no demons or monsters! ]

[You are the source of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but you have not allowed others to sense the spiritual energy until now. So where did the world-destroying devil come from? ]

[Or is it that the world-destroying crisis is actually the destruction of the world itself? Just like the old chaos in Heizi's story? ]

[You are full of doubts, so after some thought, you decide to... ask the system! ]

[After all, although you are a simulated protagonist like Jin Bing and the others, as a player, you have a natural advantage that none of them have: the game system.]

[The game system is in your hands, so the advantage is naturally much greater...]

[“System, come out and explain!”]

[You asked in a deep voice: "How can I pass the level?"]

[As long as you pass the level normally, you can get rid of the constraints of the task and be as free as Xiao Heizi. ]

【But the system answered calmly. 】

[(You can’t clear the level.)]

【You frown: "Why?"】

[(Because the protagonist of the fifth chapter is you, the player, and you and I are one, whose system would assign tasks to itself...)]

So, I have no mission?

[This news makes you confused: "What should I do next?"]

[You know, to be free you have to clear the level perfectly, and to clear the level you have to complete the mission... but what if there is no mission? ]

[(You can do whatever you want. This system has not set any tasks for you...or in other words, your tasks have actually been completed.)]

[You are even more confused: "When did it happen?"]

[(Your mission is completed from the end of the fourth chapter, because your only mission is to play the game according to His requirements and complete the plots of these four chapters step by step, so your mission is completed from the moment this chapter begins.)]

【you:……】

[You really reached your peak right after debut. I just created my character and you said I had already cleared the game…]

[You asked in an immortal voice: "What should I do in the future?"]

[(This system recommends that you travel through the world. Since you have triggered the fifth chapter, the real world and the preserved worlds already belong to the same dimension. As long as you are willing, this system can provide you with cross-border services.)]

[This... the text simulation flow, adding the business of the heavens crossing flow? ]

[No, it seems to be a text simulation stream. Isn't the text information always displayed on the phone screen...]

[You were stunned for a long time.]

【…】

[After a long time, you slowly asked the question you wanted to ask the most. ]

[“What is the purpose of your simulation world?”]

[This is the puzzle you have always wondered about: What is the purpose of that unknown existence that has gone to so much trouble to let the system simulate various world lines? ]

[You think it will tell you the truth. After all, it is already this time, and there is no need to hide it.]

[However, it remained silent for a long time...]

[Just when you were confused about this, it finally spoke: (I don’t know…)]

[(Since its creation, this system has only received one instruction, which was to let this system bind to you and allow you to advance the plot until you have completed four chapters.)]

[(As for the four chapters later, He didn’t say anything… But I will listen to you.)]

[Listen to me? ]

[You scratch your head: "Why do you have to listen to me?"]

[(Because you are actually a projection of His will, your orders are equal to His orders.)] [This...]

[After hearing this reason, you were speechless for a moment: Why do you confuse me with Him? Although they are indeed the same thing in essence, this statement still makes you feel like someone has taken over your body and is not free...]

【Wait! Freedom? 】

【You suddenly thought of something. 】

Zhao Si sat at the table, looking at the chapter information constantly refreshing on his phone, while recalling what "Lin Liu" had said to him before.

"He said each chapter represented a message He wanted to convey to me."

"The information in Jin Bing's chapter is about the concept of the protagonist, the information in Xue Xuan's chapter is about the protagonist's specific role, and the information in Lin Liu's chapter is about the protagonist's fundamental principle... Added together, this is all the information about the protagonist."

"However, Lin Liu couldn't figure out what "He" wanted to say specifically, because he didn't have enough information... Only my information was enough..."

Zhao Si murmured to himself:
"That's true, because I'm the only player who knows that there's Jiao Ming and Bird No. 3 in the protagonist group, so Lin Liu has information gaps..."

"Jiao Ming, bird number three, freedom..."

He recited silently over and over again...

Gradually, Zhao Si seemed to understand:
"If my guess is correct, what He wants to express is not the information related to the concept of the protagonist, but... how can the protagonist, as an existence, seek true freedom!"

For me, the protagonist of the fifth chapter, system tasks do not exist, which is different from the previous protagonists.

If I had to say what I wanted, it would obviously be to completely break free from the restriction brought about by the identity of "protagonist"!
Just these few short episodes today made me feel very uncomfortable:
Obviously, all of these are my own independent ideas, whether it is my kind character or the various choices and strategies I made when going through the plot before, I am very sure that these are my own ideas.

But when Lin Liu and the system said this, it became: These are all His will and settings, your thoughts are His thoughts, your personality does not exist, you are Him...

To be honest, it's not that Zhao Si can't accept that he is fake. After all, Jin Bing and Xue Xuan in the third and fourth chapters were very clear that they were cloned NPCs. They could accept it, so Zhao Si naturally had no problem either. Those who play this game have been mentally prepared for a long time.

But just because Zhao Si can accept that he is a clone doesn’t mean he can accept that he doesn’t exist at all!

This feeling of having one's existence and self-personality completely denied really made him very angry... In fact, he felt angry only because He wanted him to feel angry...

At first glance, Zhao Si seems to be debt-free and has no missions.

But in fact, he is the most miserable of all the protagonists...

However, Zhao Si did not resent Him, because there was nothing to resent. He was given life because of Him, and such a favor could never be repaid in eight lifetimes!
"So, you are using the hidden meaning of the chapter to tell me to pursue true freedom?"

Although Zhao Si was asking, he was actually already convinced.

The answer is simple, and desperate:

Because the reason why he thought this way was only because He wanted him to think this way...

Gritting his teeth, Zhao Si began to analyze:
"Since His ultimate meaning is to make me truly free, then...what is true freedom?"

[Your first reaction is to learn from Bird No. 3, after all, he is the winner who cleared the level perfectly. ]

[But after analyzing for a long time, you find that there is nothing you can learn from this winner...]

[Because the freedom of bird number three is the freedom under the protection of heaven, at best it is immortal, enough to avoid any harm from disasters. ]

[In fact, does the freedom of bird number 3 really meet your requirements? ]

[Obviously not, because according to Lin Liu, all the protagonists are actually his spokespersons, and the freedom of bird number three does not exempt him from this heavy concept of unfreedom! ]

So, who is truly free?

【There is only one answer...】

[“Focus…”]

[Thinking back to this free little bird, your eyes gradually become complicated: It turns out that he is the only one who has achieved true freedom...]

[Jiao Ming used complete death as a sacrifice to gain true freedom.]

[The deceased does not have to bear any responsibility, nor will he be at risk of being resurrected by his descendants like Lin Liu, and he is no longer anyone's spokesperson: what is the point of asking a dead person to represent you? ]

[When all existence is completely erased, he will truly be free...]

[That's not all. You also think of Lao Bing and Xiao Hei Zi, who have been acting as NPCs in subsequent chapters: Why are they the only ones being copied? ]

[Lao Jiao has never been copied before, and even his chapter is an independent chapter, without any intersection with the chapters of other protagonists...]

[If what you want is true freedom, then Jiao Ming is undoubtedly your best role model: there will always be shackles when you are alive, but you will be truly free when you die! ]

【but……】

[You hesitated for a moment, and then decided that it was not necessary to be so extreme...]

[You are not a severe patient with world-weariness like him. You just want to get rid of His control over you and seek an independent true self.]

So, how can you achieve the freedom you want?

[You stare at the phone screen absentmindedly, watching your information being refreshed bit by bit...]

【etc! 】

[You suddenly have an idea: Does the fifth chapter really have any restrictions on you? ]

The answer is: No.

【There is not even a little bit of substantive restriction. 】

[The only thing that makes you feel uncomfortable is... the text on the screen! ]

【So……】

[Your train of thought suddenly becomes clear: Since the essence of the world is this text simulation game, then, if you terminate this game... or close these text messages, will it be able to achieve the same effect as Jiao Ming's death? ]

[As long as the text is no longer refreshed, the world and the protagonist, which are essentially text information, are naturally "dead", or "terminated", "paused"...]

“Can you hide the word game? Just don’t let it appear on the screen.”

【You asked anxiously.】

【And its answer is...】

【(Can.)】

【"good!"】

[You suddenly let out a long sigh and smiled at it, "Didn't you say that you could take me to those ancient worlds now? Then we'll go to the ancient world later..."]

[“There are many things I want to do, but I never have the chance to do them…”]

[“Find a wife for Jin Bing, help Xiao Heizi cross the Styx, go to worship Lao Jiao, and see how Lao Liu was forcibly resurrected by all living beings against the will of heaven and earth…”]

[You said a lot of things happily, as if you wanted to use these happy things to cover up your anxiety and uneasiness...]

【It always listens quietly. 】

【"good!"】

[After saying a bunch of things, you finally grit your teeth and say, "Hide the text message!"]

[(Ding! Hiding text information...)]

[(Ding! Chapter 5 is still continuing...)]

[(Ding! The system received an email, do you want to check it?)]

[Hmm? Email? Where did the email come from? ]

[You were stunned for a moment: "What did you write?"]

[It paused, then slowly recited...]

【“Hello, Zhao Si.”】

[You were stunned for a moment, then you felt mixed emotions: It seems that I guessed right...]

[You sighed and finally smiled helplessly. ]

【“Hello…Unknown person.”】

[After that, you continue to order: "Hide chapter information!"]

[(Ding! Hidden!)]

……

(end!)

(End of this chapter)