Torn between his high hopes for the game and the harsh reality, the young man in black began his report with a bittersweet mix of pain and pleasure.
"The professor's recent research has encountered some difficulties. Some basic solubility issues present drastically different problems in the World of Disorder. He suspects that the material composition of the World of Disorder differs from our world, and he is currently trying to create a microscope to observe the microorganisms there."
"Does he need a mirror grinder?"
"No need. He said his two students have already started learning the relevant procedures. The professor said the technology isn't the problem; the materials are."
"Okay, let that PhD volunteer majoring in materials science contact him. Any other questions?"
"Yes, Professor Li Yu's student is about to graduate with his master's degree, but since we've already hired them, he hasn't actually done any research for a while—real-world research. Oh, and his dissertation is also unfinished; he's been a bit anxious lately."
"I'll handle this. Tell him not to worry, to take care of things over there, and to report back promptly."
"Okay, one last thing, he told us to pay close attention to the real-life situation of that player called [ Lion Hidden in the Eyes ]."
What's wrong with him this time?
"The professor is worried that too many acupuncture treatments will affect his rationality in real life. I've already obtained the relevant information from him in the game, and I'll send it to you later."
"Okay, I'll handle this. Is there anything else, Professor?"
"That's all."
"Next group."
"Cough cough."
The young man in black turned a page of the document and began to continue his report:
"Regarding the sibling duo, we've made two new discoveries recently. The younger sister's Plant Compatibility has reached 5, allowing her to communicate with some Aberration plants in a very basic way. The older brother, as requested, has put all his points into Psionic Energy Compatibility, and with the items he bought from random quests, his Psionic Energy Compatibility has reached 3. His experience bar is almost full, and he'll reach 5 soon, but he still can't manipulate Psionic Energy. A new NPC who can use Psionic Energy recently appeared in the game, but no one can understand what she's saying..."
"How could I not understand? I remember they said it had a built-in translation function."
"It's the kind of advanced mathematics lectures that I can't understand."
"Oh well, there's nothing we can do then. Let him have his own luck."
"Understood... Next group then."
"Um."
The young man in black turned another page and began to report feedback from the newly joined volunteers one by one:
"As for the 'boxer,' he said that when he first started throwing fast punches, he could feel a delay between his nerves and body, but it got much better after a period of adaptation. It can be basically confirmed that the separation between the soul and the body is similar to the professor's guess."
"What the blacksmith meant was that conventional heat treatment wouldn't have the same effect there. He's currently learning blacksmithing from the locals in Dragonborn Village. He said that the 'iron' in that other world is not the same substance as the 'iron' we talk about. Flame might not be a concept either, temperature might not be... In short, it's different."
"Those disabled volunteers recently told me that their phantom limb pain has improved after going offline. The doctor diagnosed that it might be psychological. However, compared to other players with similar attributes, their operational agility in the game is still slightly lower."
"Those guys from the mechanical engineering department recently got the blueprints for that NPC named Gray's arm. They say that many of the transmission mechanisms can't be calculated using conventional methods because the material strength is completely insufficient. They believe that the World of Disorder has its own set of rules..."
The young man in black quickly finished his routine report, flipping through the documents page by page.
The middle-aged man, as usual, sat opposite him, took out a cigarette from his pocket, sniffed it, but did not Ignite.
Which hypothesis do you agree with more now?
The young man said somewhat embarrassedly:
"The theory of 'aliens borrowing troops'."
The middle-aged man nodded:
"Yeah, I think that's about right now too."
After the issues surrounding " World of Disorder " attracted more attention, the Man in Black and his partners, based on the actual performance of this magical game, finally came up with three conjectures about the game's purpose: prophetic hints, alien military intervention, and world invasion.
The meanings of the three conjectures can be easily understood from their literal interpretations:
The main arguments of prophets who support the so-called prophetic hints lie in certain details of the game, such as the name of the development team ( Odin Game Development Team ), the official alt accounts on the forum ( Huginn and Muninn ), the image reference of the game's guide ( Odin ), and the " Tree God ( World Tree )" of the Tree Worship Church, etc.
Everyone knows what happened at the end of Norse mythology, so they believe the core of this game lies in "hints." The guides players see are not necessarily human, and the monsters are not necessarily Aberration based on common plants and animals. The Demonic Tide symbolizes some incomprehensible disaster that may come.
The reason we see these things is simply because humans cannot imagine things they have never seen before. So they can only use known concepts and imagination to distort and piece them together. For example, the term " Demonic Tide " means that although no one has actually seen Demonic Tide, as long as they understand the meaning of the word "tide," they can have a basic understanding of the Demonic Tide.
Therefore, the core of the game should be that players find the root cause of the world's disorder through one task and activity after another, correctly interpret the hints from unknown life forms, and thus prevent the same situation from happening in their own world.
The biggest problem with this conjecture lies in its "meaning"—the reason why an unknown civilization would do this is completely illogical.
Morality is merely a concept humans use to restrain themselves; it is highly unlikely to exist in other unknown civilizations, and even if it does, there is no reason to display it to other races.
The second type of conjecture is more straightforward: the alien military theory is exactly what it sounds like. What players are seeing is the reality of another world. A powerful being can communicate between the two worlds, so players in the real world are needed to fight for him.
Because it is so straightforward and almost flawless, the number of people supporting this hypothesis is gradually increasing.
There are two main questions surrounding this hypothesis. The first is, if the enemy is too powerful, causing the NPC who summons the players in the story to die, will the game disappear as a result?
The second question is, if the other world were truly unified, what would happen next?
Perhaps once that world is completely unified and a stable order is established, these "interdimensional mercenaries" will eventually lose their reason for existence, leaving only a mess and a cyber unemployment.