Chapter 367: This world might be a little dangerous
Looking at the chat group announcement that jumped automatically, Xia Yu couldn't help but smile upwards.
[Xia Yu]: Finally, finally, the plug-in is finally here!
[Fox Spirit Matchmaker]: What a strong sense of déjà vu. Are you also having a miserable life after traveling through time?
Seeing someone asking him, Xia Yu took two deep breaths, suppressed the restlessness in his heart, and thought carefully. Except for the miserable time at the beginning of the time travel, the rest of the days were pretty good, and the days were getting sweeter and sweeter.
After some communication, others also learned about his situation.
[Fox Spirit Matchmaker]: As expected of me, I actually followed the path of Natsuki Subaru in the Purge King if.
[Re: Life in a Different World from Zero]: You overestimate me. Natsuki Subaru became the Purge King by retracing his death, while I can only make a living by relying on my knowledge.
[Genshin Impact]: Wait, I found a very serious problem!
[Re: Life in a Different World from Zero]:?
[Genshin Impact]: Your name is so long, it will be considered as padding. Change it to an abbreviation immediately and don’t let anyone catch you!
[Genshin Impact]: Although we can flood the chat with spam, your name is too blatant, taking up a full twelve characters!
【Re:0】：……
[Genshin Impact]: Oh, that’s right, but Re:Zero is also one of the worlds to travel through. That’s right, there is a game for Re:Zero, and we downloaded it and played it back then.
[ICEY]: It turns out that we traveled through games. No wonder I came to this world.
[Genshin Impact]: Ashe!!
【Re：0】：Wow, this is quite exciting.
[Clash of Clans]: Wait, you didn’t travel through time and space to become Ashe! Are you a girl?!
Xia Yu:!!!
They knew that this day would come sooner or later. After all, there were people who traveled through time and space to become non-human beings, so it was not impossible for them to travel through time and space to become girls.
only……
Just because they want to see their ex-wives doesn’t mean they want to travel through time and become their wives themselves!
[ICEY]: I'm really sorry, I'm not Ashe. Ashe is still the same Ashe.
Seeing this, Xia Yu and the others all breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, they did not travel through time and space and become girls, otherwise it would feel weird.
[Clash of Clans]: If that's the case, then what is your identity? Are you just a passerby like those guys?
[Fox Spirit Matchmaker]: Although you didn’t say my name, I always feel like you are talking about me.
【Prisoner of Food】: Add one.
【Ghost Line Tokyo】: Plus one.
…
【ICEY】: That’s not the case. I traveled through time and became myself.
[Clash of Clans]: I traveled through time and space and became myself? That's what everyone says, isn't it?
[Clash of Clans]: The leader in the game is me outside the game, so I traveled through time and space to become the leader in the game. And the commander of Azur Lane, the undead and ashes in the soul world, they are all me who traveled through time and space to become me.
[ICEY]: That’s right, but mine is more complicated. I traveled through time and space and became a manipulator, the one who controls Ashe to clear the level.
[Clash of Clans]: ??? My brain is a little bit insufficient, aren't we the ones who control Ashe to clear the level? And Ashe even broke the fourth wall in the later stage, so you didn't travel through time?
[ICEY]: How should I put it? Let me explain it briefly. You all know the world view of the game Ashe, right? It is divided into two worlds, the real world and the system world. The pictures and battle scenes we see are actually taking place in the system world.
[ICEY]: In the real world of the game, there is also a manipulator. We actually control Ashe through the manipulator. The manipulator is equivalent to the projection of us players in the game. Therefore, Ashe's words that seem to break the fourth wall are actually spoken to the manipulator in the real world.
【ICEY】And I traveled through time and space and became that manipulator, living in the real world of the game Ashe, and manipulating Ashe in the system world through reincarnations, waiting for the only relief.
[Interdimensional Communication]: Hiss, in the real world, I vaguely remember that Ashe's plot includes a lot of "Cthulhu Mythos" content. Are you in the real world with the Old Ones? !
【ICEY】：Yes.
hiss……
All the Xia Yus took a deep breath. They suddenly came into a world of the Old Ones, which made them a little overwhelmed. This world might be a little dangerous.
Although there is no clear textual information about Ashe's world view background, by combining all the fragments, we can vaguely piece together a general background.
The story takes place in a future era with highly advanced technology, and in this era there is a sect that pursues immortality.
The purpose of the sect is to calculate the nine billion names of God, and then have God descend upon His chosen ones to bring them eternal life.
In the sect, there was a seriously ill believer named Judas. In order to cure his illness and pursue eternal life, Judas found the remaining pages of the Codex Necronomicon, from which he glimpsed a glimpse of the true meaning of the Lord in Yellow, and thus he became the Pope.
After becoming the Pope, Judas started his own plan of God's Chosen Son, which was to implant the consciousness of all believers, including his own, into a computer and then calculate the nine billion names of God.
Things went smoothly. Judah and his believers figured out the name of God in the virtual world and successfully created Ashe, the son chosen by God.
Then eternity came.
But it is completely different from the eternal life envisioned by the sect. What the Lord in Yellow brings is the eternity of endless reincarnation. The repeated clearance and restart of the system world is reincarnation.
The members of the sect were trapped in the virtual world, and were killed again and again by Ashe, the Chosen One, and then the cycle of reincarnation was restarted.
After obtaining this eternity that was completely different from what he had imagined, Judah regretted his decision and wanted to escape the cycle of reincarnation, but he was powerless and could only be killed by Ashe again and again, continuing the eternal cycle of reincarnation.
This is the fake ending of the game, may the black star rise as usual!
Reincarnation continues, and the members of the sect and Pope Judas are numb and desperate in eternity.
In addition to the false ending, there is also a true ending.
In the true ending, Ashe gained her own identity with the help of the player, the manipulator, and successfully broke the cycle of reincarnation.
Ashe, who found her own self, left the system world. Because of the departure of the Chosen One, the system world collapsed, and Judah and others also gained true liberation .
There was no further news after that, as there was only one part of the game and the second part is still nowhere in sight.
Xia Yu is the manipulator who controls Ashe to execute . Because of the power of God, he cannot escape. He can only hope that Ashe will slowly awaken herself under his manipulation and then break the reincarnation.
But he didn't wait for Ashe to succeed, but waited for the chat group.
[ICEY]: So, can our power break free from the shackles God has imposed on me and break the eternal cycle?
[NieR: Automata]: We don’t know about this either.
ICEY: …
[ICEY]: Forget it, I'd better follow the plot of the game. At least that way I can break the cycle of reincarnation and won't attract the attention of the Lord in Yellow.
[Clash of Clans]: It’s okay. At worst, you can just run away to our world. When we become stronger, we can come back and get our revenge.
