Volume 10 Bugs Chapter 108 Ordinary Life
When I met my old friends from the previous guild again, they were in a jungle called "Blade Forest". This was a new area that I had never heard of. I guess this was an area that the administrator of this world redesigned and updated when I left or lost consciousness.
I chose to meet them here because this place is vast and full of dangers, and there are only a few space travelers capable of taking risks here, so no one would witness my incredible appearance from nothingness. In addition, the five people who teamed up to take risks here are Fei Yin, Xiange Yayi, Chang Sanjiao, Changgong Sheri and Niu Baiwan. I am worried that if more people knew about my strange existence, it would bring me more unpredictable troubles. Therefore, I specially chose such a time when only a few old friends who know my origins gathered to meet with them.
Although this is an area I have never set foot in, I know every inch of this land like the palm of my hand. I stepped out of the vast wave of data and in an instant, I suddenly appeared in the center of this jungle, so naturally, as if I had been there since the day I was born.
I stood quietly in the middle of the mountain road, looking in the direction where my old friends were about to appear.
They were still a cheerful and noisy group of people. Guild President Fei Yin kept complaining about the difficulties of the world and chattering about how much money everyone around her owed the guild. Even though I was the creator god of the Falvi continent, I still couldn't help feeling a little uneasy after hearing about the huge debts owed by these miserable debtors.
Xiange Yayi has taken off the glasses I made for him, and his eyesight seems to have returned to normal. Although the two large and heavy glass products are no longer useful to him, I still know that this ugly craft is still in his backpack and is set to require a password to be discarded - this is a function that this world did not have when I was an ordinary adventurer.
The two friends, Chang Sanjiao and Chang Gong She Ri, still disliked each other, and their quarrels even drowned out the roar of the jungle waterfall. Chang Sanjiao's bloated body and Chang Gong She Ri's short stature were the targets of their constant ridicule, and surprisingly, these two talented foreign language masters could always come up with new witty remarks to attack each other.
As another healer in the team besides the priest, the Paladin Niu Baiwan always spends much more healing spells on himself than on others. His cowardly and fearful nature is always revealed in this adventure - well, actually I've always been wondering, how did an adventure team like this, with the priest as the meat shield, the archer as the main output, the paladin for sneak attacks, the shadow thief for digging traps and controlling the field, and the mage for stealing equipment, and the whole team with two medical professionals but mainly relying on drinking potions to add blood, miraculously survive and come to this place.
They approached noisily, completely immersed in the joy of harmless jokes between friends. Even when I entered their field of vision, they did not pay much attention to a sudden passerby like me.
Then, I don’t know who was the first one to notice my appearance and see the name above my head.
A strange silence instantly enveloped the five air travelers who had been having fun just a moment ago.
Feiyin stared at my face in disbelief, and covered her mouth with her right hand. At this moment, for the first time in my life, I saw this fierce and powerful woman being as excited and lovely as an ordinary pretty girl. When our eyes met, I could clearly interpret the confusion and doubt in her eyes that was eager for confirmation.
I spread my palms and shrugged: "Why? You don't recognize me so soon?"
"Ah..." The crazy woman let out a shrill scream like metal rubbing against a rough surface, and ran towards me happily.
"Is that you, Jeff? Is it really you..." She pounced on me and clung to me like a koala - this woman might not know that if she had used a little more force on her arm around my neck, she might have accomplished the unprecedented feat of killing the Supreme God in one blow.
Others also reacted. They rushed to me, hugged me tightly, beat my chest, slapped my forehead, and kicked my buttocks, using this crazy way to express the ecstasy of meeting old friends again. We were just shouting, making one meaningless and rough sigh after another with our mouths. At this moment, language has become redundant, and its function is no longer enough to carry the endless joy in our hearts.
The chaotic celebration lasted for a long time.
When we finally calmed down a little, we started to ask each other about what happened after we separated. They were full of curiosity about how I could "come back to life", and I was also full of puzzled questions about the world I was in now.
I briefly recounted my escape to my friends, but selectively omitted the fact that I had gained complete control of the world—it wasn’t that I meant to deceive, but I always had to hold back when it came to my own survival.
I simply told them that after my rebirth I had miraculously acquired certain special abilities and had a certain degree of privilege in this world.
I originally thought that they would find this strange experience of mine unbelievable, but their ability to accept it was much stronger than I imagined. It seemed that for them, it would be a strange thing if I were not like this.
However, during the time when I was on the run, collapsed, and was reborn, the changes in the world outside were so huge that they were beyond my expectations.
I knew that my absence would take a very long time, but I didn't expect that it had been five years since I left - you know, these five years were the five years in the plane where the space travelers lived, and not the five years of high-speed flow on this Falvi continent.
For my friends in the aviation industry, five years is enough to change a lot:
Feiyin left the vocational training ground - they called it "university" - and stepped into this complicated world, working in a "securities company". I had no idea what this so-called "securities company" did. After listening to her detailed explanation to me, I found that I knew even less about it. It sounded like a place that created wealth - or rather, defrauded wealth - through complex magical means of alchemy. Oh, I believe she must be very competent.
Niu Baiwan's love affair with the fairy ended in vain, but he did not seem to feel depressed, because the long distance always brings an insurmountable gap to love, but all this can always be healed by time;
The ending of Xian Ge Ya Yi and Yan Zhen was much better. They got married as they wished, and even had enough time to add a lovely child to this small family.
In addition, Xian Ge Ya Yi successfully changed his job in the plane where he lived, from a poorly paid temple priest - oh, in his words, a "TV reporter", although I don't know what that is, but from his description, it seems that he is a guy who spreads some kind of faith like a priest - to a staff member who helps the king manage the countryside. I warmly congratulated him on becoming a respected nobleman and bowed to him, but strangely, for some reason, he looked embarrassed;
Chang Sanjiao has started his twelfth weight loss effort in five years. Today is the third day of his weight loss. In order to celebrate his remarkable weight loss results, he plans to have a big meal tonight to celebrate...
In addition to them, there are many more. Five years is enough for everyone to experience a wonderful life. Everyone is growing and changing. Some people overlap their life paths and share their journeys with others; some people gradually drift away, leaving only beautiful memories. Everything is changing, and the only thing that remains unchanged seems to be the friendship between each other. Whenever we mention each other inadvertently and think of each other, a voice can't help but quietly ring in our hearts:
Are you okay, my friend?
No matter where you are, where you are going, what you are going through, and what you are about to face, I just hope you know that we are silently blessing you in our hearts, thinking of you, and saying:
Are you okay, my friend?
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Feiyin and the others did not disclose my existence to others, including other people in the guild, because they knew very well that it was futile. Moreover, for the world they lived in, which stifled imagination and did not believe in miracles, my existence was too absurd to win the trust of more people.
However, their silence was good news for me: I could successfully reintegrate into the life I was familiar with and loved without risking more people discovering my existence. To other members of the guild, I was just a companion who had been away for a long time and returned here after a long wandering - all of this was reasonable and would not attract too much attention.
As you can imagine, I got my life back, as a warrior and as a human being, and I played my role as a returning player after years away from the game.
Friends who knew my origins well kept my secret faithfully and reliably. What was even more rare was that they accepted and welcomed me without any prejudice, and their attitude towards me did not change because of my unique life form. As human beings living in such an environment, you should understand that this was really not an easy thing to do.
While returning to normal life, I did not forget to use my ability as a god to sort out the massive amount of information that circulates in this world every day, and monitor all the information that may allow the administrators of this world to discover me. I learned from the lesson of being discovered last time, and completely erased all traces of me that seemed "abnormal", and those traces that could not be erased were recorded in a seamless online record. Unless you can accurately locate my body, otherwise these data are mixed in the overwhelming massive database, and there is no flaw at all.
What greeted me afterwards was the happiest and most blissful time I could imagine. During that time, we fought monsters to level up, we cleared dungeons, we competed in the ring, we set up stalls to make money... We experienced all the fun that the world could bring us, and the existence of friendship magnified these funs a million times.
Of course, I can use my abilities to make us invincible in this world. Whether it is money, equipment, experience, or level, for me at this moment, it is all at my fingertips.
But except for the time when I just returned to this world, I couldn't resist the complacency and used a little cheating trick to prove my omnipotence, I never did it again.
You know, even though this is just a fake game world, the experience of fighting hard with friends is something that cannot be replaced by anything. That was the most beautiful thing I dreamed of when I was on the run, and if I took the initiative to abandon it after I escaped, what would be the meaning of my return?
If there is anything different from before, it is that I can devote myself to the adventure more sincerely. In the past, I was always afraid of my own death, and this thought always made me lose my courage at some critical moments. But now, I can calmly go in and out of life and death, and see the beautiful face of the death goddess who controls the souls of the dead. I fully understand the frivolous and unrestrained attitude of my friends who traveled in the sky towards death. For the adventurers in this world, death is not the end of this life, but the beginning of bravely devoting oneself to the next adventure.
When the main members of our guild finally reached level 150, we gathered a legion of forty people and marched into the dungeon "Holy Salami Palace" where the apocalyptic king "Heartbreaker" Darendil was located, and were slaughtered by this behemoth that was over fifty feet tall.
After that, we spent another two months collecting money, updating equipment, changing tactics, trying again and again, advancing little by little, being wiped out in waves, and dying under Darendil's feet one after another. Although we were greeted with one tragic defeat after another, the joy of life did not decrease in the slightest.
Finally, on our eighteenth brave adventure, Darendil fell in front of us, covered in blood and screaming. At that time, the whole dungeon was filled with joy. The brave adventurers hugged each other tightly, as if they had really accomplished a feat of saving the world. That exciting scene will always be engraved in my heart.
In fact, I only need to erase a few lines of key data in the source world to instantly destroy this seemingly extremely powerful monster, but does it really make sense to do so?
For me who already owns the world, greatness is easy, but ordinary is precious. I love the preciousness of ordinary things far more than I love the greatness that can do everything.
It is a kind of happiness to go on adventures with friends, but this is not all happiness. Unlike those space travelers who seek happiness in this world, this world has my whole life. Whenever their world is quiet at night, this world will become particularly peaceful, and this is when I pursue another way of life of my own.
I will walk on the endless sea and watch the endless blue waves flow towards the setting sun; I will climb to the top of a high mountain and watch the clouds rise and disperse under the clear wind and bright moon; I will hide under a fallen leaf and watch the sun light flow along the veins of the leaf; I will ride my mount Shanxue and gallop across the vast prairie and listen to the whistling of the wind; I will return to the wooden house where the guild is located, lie on the bed, close my eyes, and look for peace of mind.
You know what's the best part? I can be a million different things and do all these things at the same time. I can be here and there at the same time, which is a privilege that only gods can have.
Of course, I would also stroll into that warm bakery and stare at the silhouette of the beautiful bakery girl in a daze.
I am the supreme god of this world, and I can understand and control everything that exists in this world and everything I hope it will have. If I want, I can completely modify the source data of Maria Santa, so that she can smile at me, talk to me, and even sit gently in my arms and accept my most affectionate embrace according to my wishes.
But I didn't do that. I'd rather just stand here and look at her from sunset to dawn.
Yes, I know that she is just a forgettable, rigid piece of data. She has no real life and no love or no love.
But I know that I love her, I love everything about her and everything about her. Maybe I can manipulate everything about her, but it is me who does all this, not her.
Maybe it wasn't her that I fell in love with, but just the feeling of loving her - on that bright afternoon many years ago, I pushed open the door of a bakery and fell in love with love itself.
If I could give her a completely independent life with a soul, I would definitely do so, but unfortunately, I can't do it. I am the supreme god of this world, but I finally know that I am not omniscient and omnipotent - I can neither give life nor know the source of my life.
Life is the highest tribute in this world and even in all worlds. We can never know where it comes from or where it will go...
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In addition to all this, you know, I have another entertainment - a superb, unprecedented entertainment.
Remember when old Carlson told me that he once found a mysterious data channel leading to the "outside" in the data fields of those who were involved in the air? Through these channels, he once saw the world "outside".
What he was able to do, there is no reason why I can't do it now.
I found the mysterious passage almost effortlessly, but I found myself unable to enter it. It was bound by an extremely strict and powerful rule, the priority of which was even higher than the highest law that maintained the operation of this world. I thought it might not be a product of this world. Although I could break this rule, my subconscious told me that it was a dangerous move with serious consequences.
But not being able to enter this passage doesn't mean I can't use it, just like a person can't get into a small window, but can definitely look through it to the other side. This passage is like a small window that allows me to peek into the outside world.
Just as old Carlson said, it was a bizarre world made up entirely of humans. Combined with everything my friends told me, I believed that was the plane they were in, the "real world" that corresponded to this "virtual world".
Extending out from behind this window is a huge data network, through which you can even learn everything about this world. Although I am an omniscient god in this world, I am a child who knows nothing in that world. I greedily search for everything about that world, get to know it, understand it, and am firmly attracted by it.
Yes, I had a happy and joyful time. In fact, I would even say it was quite long, but time always flies by when you are in happiness. No matter how much I cherish and love it, it always seems to be much shorter than I expect.
I never expected that such a time would last forever, because everything I have experienced and learned clearly tells us that there is no such thing as "forever" in this world. But no matter what, when the bad news came, it was much earlier than I thought...
