"??"
"A book? What book?"
After hearing a colleague's report,
although the meeting participants immediately thought of something,
they were still not entirely certain, so they asked one question after another.
"Literally speaking, according to the memories we extracted, that Former Player from Blue Star believed that the Real World and the Primordial World we inhabited were merely content within some storybook, while he himself was a human from Blue Star in the year 2018 AD, from the True World beyond it..."
"Incidentally, by their standards of classification, that book was a so-called online game novel—a story about some individual or individuals and a certain game. You can understand it as the story of someone entering a game world and making a great show of themselves there, while Metaphysics Hong Huang was that game..."
"..."
After a brief silence,
one Cosmic Elder asked:
"So, in short, you mean that the Former Player from Blue Star believed he was actually a real lifeform from the True World outside the book."
"He had only entered a certain storybook for some reason."
"And that so-called storybook actually referred to the Real World and the Primordial World we inhabited."
"So, taken together, aside from the Game NPC Identity imposed upon us due to the Identity Conversion Period, we may actually possess another NPC Identity in secret—the identity of Story NPCs within a story?"
After hearing that rather roundabout answer,
the first speaker nodded
and confirmed:
"Congratulations, you got it right. That was more or less what it meant."
As he spoke, even his face looked somewhat conflicted.
Double NPC Identity?
What the hell was that?
It was baffling...
Faced with this strange situation,
even he could not quite make sense of it.
Deep down, he felt a degree of confusion toward such a complex