Chapter 199: Truth and Falsehood—Should We Believe It?

Hurry up and locate, we need to leave quickly; under time freeze, you also can't fix this world's bug, we can only leave.

Ru Yan urged Shen Tianxing, but Shen Tianxing didn't immediately choose to leave; instead, he directly set the location coordinates to the place where he had previously separated from Yang Hongyue and the others.

Before Ru Yan could speak, Shen Tianxing had already released her hand; time freeze held Ru Yan in place, then Shen Tianxing activated the Void Mirror and instantly arrived at the location where Yang Hongyue and the others were.

The time here was also frozen, which proved that Ru Yan hadn't lied about the time freeze; Shen Tianxing went up and took Yang Hongyue's hand, and Yang Hongyue immediately broke free from the time freeze, looking utterly confused.

"What on earth is going on? It feels like I was suddenly frozen."

Yang Hongyue asked Shen Tianxing, but he didn't answer right away; instead, he quickly found Xiao Yu. This system upgrade did not include Xiao Yu in the upgrade scope, mainly because Xiao Yu had already reached the highest possible upgrade level.

First, Xiao Yu had already become completely human; second, her strength was parallel to Shen Tianxing's—she was as strong as he was, so no further enhancement was needed.

Moreover, this time the system was being upgraded with all functions unusable; only by keeping Xiao Yu could she provide Shen Tianxing with some help.

Shen Tianxing went up and grabbed Xiao Yu's hand, and Xiao Yu also managed to break free from the time freeze at that moment.

"Good that you came back to find me; it seems Ru Yan didn't succeed, you should already know the situation—this world is the parallel game world you designed."

"The system is the key balance of this parallel game world; you came to fix all the bugs of this game world, and so far you've only fixed the system bug of the first map, Shenzhou Continent."

"Those three people you killed earlier—normally you would have to enter Baiguo Continent to fix the other system bugs, but now the situation is that the parallel game world is about to collapse."

"We must leave quickly; the God-level Space Sphere you were allowed to exchange for secretly in the system—do you have it on you?"

Xiao Yu also looked anxious; Shen Tianxing nodded, took out the God-level Space Sphere from his bosom—the God-level Space Sphere can hold up to ten thousand people and let them remain alive while in the God-level space; crucially, even those not summoned by the system can be placed there.

"Hurry up and put Red Moon and the others inside—that is, your several wives; they are like me, or like you, people who entered this world to fix world bugs, but unlike us, they came to accompany you."

"In reality, they are also your women; first put them in, then we'll talk about other matters—once we leave this world, your memory will naturally return, and then I won't need to explain anything."

After hearing Xiao Yu's words, Shen Tianxing also knew that this was indeed a critical moment, but he still had many doubts in his mind; however, seeing Xiao Yu's anxious appearance, it really wasn't the time to ask—at least he first needed to return to the village where they had started.

Without the slightest hesitation, Shen Tianxing gathered Yang Hongyue and the others into the God-level Space Sphere, placed it on his person, opened the Void Mirror, took Xiao Yu's hand, and returned once more to Ru Yan's location, placing Ru Yan inside the God-level Space Sphere as well.

Immediately after, Shen Tianxing activated the Void Mirror's positioning, setting it to Shenzhou Continent, specifically the Yunshan Village where he had originally set out.

Only to see the Void Mirror burst out dazzling light, forming a light gate in the void that sucked Shen Tianxing and Xiao Yu in; when they reappeared, they were at the doorstep of Shen Tianxing's home in Yunshan Village.

Yunshan Village was also under time freeze, but unlike elsewhere, the people here could still move slowly, though their speed was slower than a snail's.

"Good that we arrived in time; hurry up and find the passage, we'll leave first—if we wait until everyone here stops moving, even if we find the passage we won't be able to go."

Xiao Yu secretly sighed in relief, reminded Shen Tianxing, but Shen Tianxing had no intention of hurrying to leave; instead, he stared at Xiao Yu, then released Ru Yan again and grabbed her with his other hand.

"Now there's not much time left; shouldn't the two of you explain to me what's really going on? Earlier I heard things that were completely confusing—you should have sorted everything out properly and then told me."

Seeing the people around still moving slowly, Xiao Yu and Ru Yan exchanged a glance, and then Xiao Yu spoke up:

"To make a long story short, you are actually the parallel world administrator; I, Ru Yan, and Red Moon are the confidantes you have met in each parallel world."

"After you fixed the parallel world's bug, we followed you out of that parallel world, and then together we carried out the world bug repair for the parallel world."

"Ru Yan comes from a cultivation-oriented parallel world, so her strength is relatively strong both in the system and after you summon her."

"I come from a high-tech parallel world, so I can form a symbiotic bond with the system, thereby helping you fix bugs in each parallel world."

"This time, this parallel world was opened up by you yourself, and you added game elements to it; the key to entering this world is the passage the system opened for you, and the system itself was created by you based on this parallel world."

"Each so-called system upgrade is actually a new data expansion carried out in the game cabin we enter; Wang Dagang and his two brothers were the first to perform this data expansion, and then the system bug arose."

"This is also done to create a perfect parallel world without world bugs, so data expansion is carried out slowly to achieve a balancing effect."

"This time, the world's time freeze is such a bug that proves the world is about to collapse; maintaining the passage between the two worlds—namely, the place you came from—is what's needed."

"You can understand this world as a real world, but with game system elements added; alternatively, you can regard it as an illusory world."

"But regardless of whether you want to continue fixing this world, you must first leave this world, stabilize the world afterward, then re-enter to continue fixing its bugs."

Shen Tianxing understood, yet still found it hard to believe, and then turned his head to look at Ru Yan.

"I understand, but what about you? Earlier you directly pulled me to leave—were you planning to leave Xiao Yu and the others behind in this parallel world?"

Ru Yan felt no shame; instead, she earnestly nodded and admitted it.

"That's right, I indeed thought that, but I didn't intend to let them stay forever in this parallel world, nor did I want them to disappear."

"This was originally part of the plan we made before entering this world; if the world ended up in this situation, they would remain in this world."

"By using the rule that they themselves are not part of this world, we let the world remain not completely destroyed even after its collapse; that way, when you return to the original world, you can stabilize this world more quickly."

"Then re-enter this world to carry out repairs, and retrieve them."