The only players listening in inside the hall were [Deng Libuduo] and [Bai Yin]. Having suffered from livestream leaks before, the players now used private streams for important meetings, accessible only to a few Beggar Gang executives, to avoid being caught unprepared if Shopkeeper Lin suddenly dropped a bombshell.
"Patent law? Is that something a native of the Immortal World could come up with? Lone Elder, do you still insist the game is real?" [Crazy Guy] asked.
"..." [Lone Elder] typed a string of dots.
To be honest.
He was a little bewildered too. Something as thoroughly modern as patent law had nothing whatsoever to do with the Immortal World, yet Lin Bai explained it with impeccable logic. It genuinely puzzled him. A fully developed legal framework could no longer be brushed aside by calling a Voice Recorder a Magic Treasure.
"Lone Elder, if you insist the game world is real, then the only possibility left is that Lin Bai is a savior who returned from the future. Patent law might have been created by players from the real world!" [Bitter Gourd Vine] said. "Shopkeeper Lin is simply bringing out things from the future ahead of time. There was never any divination. Everything already happened. Players invented the Voice Recorder, and players invented the Printing Press..."
"What about temporal paradoxes? If Lin Bai brings things from the future into the present, does the future he came from still exist?" [I'm Not an Alt] asked. "Time travel theories are riddled with holes. Stop showing them off. I lean toward there never having been a real world. This is just a game. Everything Lin Bai knows was fed to him by modern people, and the Voice Recorder and Printing Press are backdoors the Game Company gave him. That explanation is more plausible