Although the specific principles remained unclear—such as how the "system" and the "Completer" had become connected—Gao Gong had more or less figured out the specific cause, process, and result.
The cause was naturally the ascension war between the Stellar Spirit Civilization and the Sandbox Civilization.
Gao Gong had driven the Fourth Calamity to forcefully descend into the "Sandbox System," attempting to rely on carbon-based life's powerful evolutionary abilities to break through the other side's destruction system.
However, because of the special rules of the "Sandbox System," the players had one by one become "protagonist-system players"—and they were the kind who came with transmigration memories every time they died.
Because of this enormous bug, the players had been just like protagonists in system-based novels, directly tearing their way through the system.
In the intervals during this process, that "Completer" had encountered the ancient elf and Gaokesi.
And just as that "Completer" was displaying his might, the players had all torn their way through the system.
But tearing through the Sandbox System had not caused the players to appear on the "main battlefield."
The system's special relationship with the Completion Organization, the resonance between the mechanisms of the sandbox world and the online and offline worlds, the Completer's research and technology, and some things Gao Gong had not considered had all resulted in the players who broke through the system breaking out of the game and accidentally going offline.
Clearly, this accident had caused the offline reality that should theoretically have been borne by the "system" to instead become the burden of the Sandbox System—or even that Completer.
Meanwhile, the "eighth-tier combat power" obtained by sacrificing an ascension civilization had been completely consumed by the "Fourth Calamity" within a few breaths.
The conversion of the world from "virtual" to "reality" that Sister