After all, Noah had said that there might be similar "Dungeons" in the future.
If he wanted to play from the villain's perspective without tying his true self and the era-defying Artificial Intelligence known as "Noah's Ark" to a faction, then naturally, he needed to put forward a suitable "partner."
For example, this "Anonymous Boss" of his.
—Jiang Xia's soul did not look the same as his current body, so acquaintances would not recognize him.
...In short, Noah and its "Holographic Game" could all be treated as something Anonymous had cooked up.
And that way, the various NPCs in the game, such as Miyano Akemi and Matsuda Jinpei, would naturally also have been created by Anonymous.
As for why Anonymous used the dead as NPCs...
How would Jiang Xia know? Anyone who wanted to know could capture Anonymous themselves... if they could catch him.
"..." Of course, Jiang Xia could not personally say something like, "My true self doesn't want to play the London Dungeon."
That had to be left to the cruel, heartless, unreasonable kidnapper AI.
In the Game Square.
The "cruel, heartless, unreasonable kidnapper AI" coldly announced the rule that "Jiang Xia could only go drive."
After speaking, the door leading to the "Paris-Dakar Rally" even flashed at just the right moment, indicating that Jiang Xia should head that way.
—Only in that Dungeon would players spend most of their time inside a car.
Besides, Noah thought, the key scenes later would definitely be in the Detective Dungeon. That meant that as long as it paid a little attention to the camera angles, it could turn on Autopilot for the Spirit Medium Master's car and pretend that Jiang Xia had been driving attentively in this Dungeon the entire time.
"Um... how about we all go drive