Alive, But Not Entirely

Ignoring the bewildered Lin Jiaxin in her school uniform, Feng Xue activated the [107th Floor Master] Tag's permissions and left this world directly. However, as the feeling of returning to the Infinite City from reality descended, Feng Xue's brows suddenly furrowed.

This transformation process is quite different from before!

As we all know, whether it's the Mu or the Weird Tale, they can actually be classified as "information-state beings," essentially similar to Digimon, being life-like entities composed of a large amount of information.

Generally speaking, when Weird Tale travels to the real world, the information that constitutes the body is "compressed," and the "data" is encapsulated in a shell that resembles a protein, thereby obtaining a body that can exist in reality. When returning from reality to Supernatural Tale World like the Infinite City, it is "decompressed" again and becomes information in a new state.

Although this may seem like an instinctive or world rule "setup," it is essentially something that doesn't have to be done.

After all, the reason why the term "suspected protein" is added is because it is extremely unstable and can easily disintegrate back into an information state. Maintaining this outer shell is also the main reason why the consumption of Weird Tale increases significantly after they go to the real world (another reason is that the Infinite City itself will share some of the consumption).

However, the present world, filled with information exchange, is to the Weird Tale what a high-radiation zone is to humans. Under such a high-density flow of information, without such a shell, neither the supernatural nor the Weird Tale would be easily polluted by the large amount of information and become a chaotic existence like Omen.

You can think of Weird Tale stories as a bowl of ink. The ink in the Infinite City is all owned, so no one contaminates the other. Reality, on the other hand, is like a river full of paint. To go to reality, you need to freeze yourself with an ice shell to ensure you don't get mixed into the river. The ice shell will keep melting and will be consumed. The [consciousness] consumed in the real world is basically used to freeze the ice shell and replenish the information lost by the ice shell.

Therefore, even if Weird Tale understands this mechanism and has the ability to crack it, no one would actually do something like this, just as no human would be so foolish as to enter a high-radiation area without Protective Suit.

But now, it seems that Feng Xue's mechanism has run into problems.

Just as he returned to the 107th floor of the Tower of Babylon, a part of his body did not revert to the information stream, but instead transformed into another form in a more bizarre way.

Regarding the essential questions that constitute the body, Feng Xue immediately became extremely vigilant, even temporarily setting aside the notification that she had obtained the Layer Master Qualification, and sat down on the spot to begin self-examination.

Then he discovered that the alienated "data" that now constituted his body looked somewhat familiar.

It's somewhat like Omen, but more like...

"A real person!"

Feng Xue's wariness and confusion instantly turned into ecstasy, because he finally realized the fundamental purpose of this so-called assessment.

Just as Weird Tale are encapsulated into suspected life forms by proteins when they enter the real world, True Thing and people in reality will be transcoded into a huge "data packet" when they enter the Infinite City. If the real person dies, this cognitive data will completely collapse, turning into a chaotic Omen.

The abnormal data structure that Feng Xue is currently "decompressing" is similar to the data when a real person enters the Infinite City.

"Good heavens, so the real purpose of the original poster's challenge was to gain 'authenticity,' or rather, to 'replace' a real person?"

Feng Xue grinned, but then, thinking of the Backrooms, Feng Xue suddenly realized that in the Weird Tale about Backrooms, there seemed to be "entities" that could replace the identity of those who strayed in.

Furthermore, if one successfully escapes the Backrooms, will they also experience effects such as realization or a sense of tangibility?

"However, my current state is only half and half. I have some real-person characteristics, but I still retain the data state... Is it because after I chose Lin Jiaxin, I also had Gynomorphic Filter on me, which prevented me from completely replacing her identity?"

Feng Xue reached a conclusion in his heart, but he was not disappointed at all, because now that he had obtained the method, it would be very easy for him to take over someone else's identity.

Leaving aside the K7 Train instance provided by the Infinite City itself, the hometown of the Miss Ke Family and that Game World can be easily replaced. In addition, in the Cyber World where Construction Hell, as long as one goes a little bit along the path of brain-computer interfaces, one can spread Weird Tale such as "stealing other people's bodies through virtual network communities" and thereby steal the identity of real people.

With multiple methods available, Feng Xue no longer hesitated. In other words, this semi-information, semi-biological state was inherently more advantageous than either a purely informational or purely biological state.

Of course, conversely, he also gains both the ability to fight real people and the ability to Weird Tale.

In any case, let's accept the fruits of our labor first.

After confirming that there were no hidden dangers in his condition, Feng Xue stood in the wheat field and focused his attention on the Tag "[107th Floor Master]". Subsequently, a series of information flooded into his mind.

Congratulations on becoming Layer Master Qualification!

[You have gained Passage Right to floors 101-120.]

[You have gained access to the Trial Dimension.]

[You have obtained the modification permissions for the 107th floor.]

[You have qualified to participate in the 121st Floor Challenge.]

[You have gained partial access to the Tower of Babylon.]

[The Secret Shop of the Tower of Babylon is now open to you.]

The Secret Library of the Tower of Babylon is now open to you.

[The Tower of Babylon will reserve a resurrection spot for you.]

The Tower of Babylon...

A series of permission unlocking information flowed before her eyes, but what attracted Feng Xue the most was the resurrection slot.

This is a privilege only open to the floor masters of floors 101-120. It's like setting up a resurrection point. The Weird Tale that obtain this privilege will back up their own Weird Tale within the Tower of Babylon. Once the floor master dies, even if the outside world has completely forgotten the floor master's information, the Tower of Babylon can forcibly infuse a large amount of [consciousness] to revive them based on the Weird Tale backup. Although this privilege can only be used once, it is filled with a reassuring feeling.

However, the emergence of this benefit seems to hint at something.

"How should I put it? Putting such a privilege here is like saying, 'Don't worry, you won't die.' Does this mean that becoming the thread master is an easy way to die?"

Feng Xue frowned and searched through the information assigned by the Tag for a while, finally finding the only [obligation] among a bunch of rights and benefits.

[The person who posted this thread is obligated to complete the 121st Floor Challenge once a year.]