The Gift

It turned out that the heavy snowfall reported in that newspaper from many years ago had marked the beginning of Nanshui Town's transformation.

Fang Xiao's explanation connected enough of the events to help the audience in Yu Xing's livestream finally understand the world of Nanshui Town.

No wonder the townspeople had neither a human nor a ghostly presence when they were acting normally. They were neither human nor ghost, but merely things written into existence.

[I'm starting to get it, but what exactly are these things that were written into existence?]

[From what he said, the townspeople had their own lives after being created. Aside from living in a world inside a book, how are they any different from us?]

[Yeah. If a townsman can live out a whole life according to their own wishes, how can that life not be real...]

For the deducers, this was indeed a sensitive topic.

Put simply, they wanted to know whether the lives Fang Deming had written into existence could be considered real lives from the moment they came into being.

[You guys are overthinking it. The townspeople can't even leave Nanshui Town. They have no desire to leave in the first place. Can you really call that independent thought? They're obviously still being controlled.]

[I just thought of something terrifying. Who can prove that we aren't fictional characters, too? Can't we leave Earth? What if Earth is just someone's version of "Nanshui Town" for us, and they're watching us grow from primitive humans to what we are now...]

[Humans have been to the moon, and we're still exploring space.]

[What if the few planets in the solar system that resemble Earth are just new maps someone's written into existence? We can only learn about more distant stars through observation. What if they're