On March 14, Qi Si spent the entire day scouring the game forums for information about "God-level NPCs," the "Main God," and the "Evil God." After reading through it all, he deeply regretted wasting his limited life.
Thirty-six years had passed, and there were still huge gaps in the players' understanding of the Eerie Game. Some said God-level NPCs were avatars of the Main God, some said they were ordinary NPCs who had evolved, and others said they were game bugs...
The theories about the "Main God" on the forums were even more absurd. Some claimed the Main God was the Rules themselves; others said the Main God had ascended from a God-level NPC. There were even those who said the Main God didn't exist at all, and that all the gods in the game's backstory were already dead...
As expected, trying to find useful information on a low-barrier forum was like hoping to find a gold bar in a cesspit. Even if you did find one, it would be covered in shit and leave you feeling as sick as if you'd swallowed a fly...
Qi Si rubbed his chin and muttered, "Still, I can't shake the feeling that once some things are figured out, there'll be no going back..."
Six years ago, after his parents died, his uncle arranged for him to transfer schools and sent him to a middle school in the countryside.
By then, he had already learned how to pass for a normal person. Though he still kept his distance from everyone in his new surroundings, he didn't show anything strange.
All he wanted was to quietly make it to adulthood, then put all those messy relationships behind him. Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned.
Maybe it was because the dangerous aura of an "outsider" had