The next day, Fang Zheng rarely slept in, not getting up until noon.
He was still living in his own airship, except now only Fang Zheng, Nie Xiaoqian, and Caiyi remained aboard...
Wait, where was Aika?
Well... that was a long story.
Of course, the short version was simple.
Two months ago, after fixing the 1,364th bug, Aika had finally snapped and asked Fang Zheng for leave to return to the Nasuverse... She was going to cheat using the Root.
Fang Zheng had remained quite calm about Aika's request. It was perfectly normal. Aika merely enjoyed the feeling of taking on challenges, not endless failure and frustration. One bug per level, countless bugs per map—fixing them had utterly exhausted her.
That was no longer self-challenge. It was self-torture!
Still, to be honest, Fang Zheng was not optimistic that Aika's plan to return to the Nasuverse and cheat through the Root would have much effect.
Although Aika was connected to the Root, it was only the Root of the Nasuverse. In other words, the development and programming software on Aika's computer simply did not exist in the Nasuverse. It had not existed in the past, did not exist now, and might not even exist in the future!
It was like how Martians coming to Earth would need all sorts of Mecha to protect themselves. Even within the same world, a tiny difference in parameters could lead to vastly different results.
The software Aika used came from the Game World. Since that world specialized in games, the parameters of those tools were certainly different from those in the Nasuverse. Even if the Nasuverse entered the gaming field a hundred and eighty years later, the game programs and software they created would probably still differ from what Aika used.
It was like Word