Lu Chen shook his head. "No. I want to create a world suitable for Ling Xia to live in. People's prejudice against Fake Persons is too deep. But if everyone in the world became virtual, then all beings would be equal.
If everyone is a Fake Person, then everyone is a real person."
Bai Ye: "..."
"As long as I follow Little Nine, I can protect all humanity and revive Ling Xia. What reason do I have to refuse?"
"Why not just live in the Virtual World? Ling Xia is there too."
"It's different. Teacher, you just came out of the Virtual World. You should be able to feel its flaws. It isn't like the real world—it's more like a playground for venting desires.
Everything is far too unreal. That's also because Delusion Eye is incomplete."
Bai Ye was slightly stunned. That really was the case. The Virtual World was a little too fake, like playing a single-player game with invincibility cheats enabled. It was interesting at first, but the longer he played, the more boring it became.
Virtual Xiaotong was the same, like an NPC. She was even less real than Ghost Xiaotong.
"So you want your Fake Person girlfriend to come back to life, but you don't want her to be so fake? Fuck, you really are a pain in the ass! With that effort, you could've made a hundred Fake Person girlfriends already."
Lu Chen: "..."
"Teacher, Ling Xia is one of a kind. Even the slightest difference means she isn't her.
Back then, the people of the East Continent Federation mocked me like that too, under Du Jingzhe's malicious propaganda. They said I'd fallen in love with a string of code, but..."
"Yet you were somehow the funniest one?"
Crack!
The teacup in Lu Chen's hand