Chapter 269: The Real World, Stopping Short

Scanning the floating energy clusters within the Coffin Space.

Ji Chen's breathing grew heavy, his pupils contracting violently.

Regarding the series of problems encountered earlier, although doubts lingered in his heart, he could close the logic loop by filling in the gaps with imagination.

For instance, when he discovered that real-world abilities could be replicated within the game.

For this problem, he had imagined a reasonable answer.

It could be understood that the Monster World game constructed a perfect physical manifestation system.

From fundamental aspects like neural signal transmission and wind resistance to complex world structures involving space and elements, everything was perfectly replicated.

Therefore, a perfectly simulated scene could theoretically perfectly replicate everything in reality, including various weapons and technologies.

Naturally, this also included the Telekinesis Ability Imprint he had mastered.

To put it plainly, Monster World does not simply design content to be presented as fixed animations.

Instead, it truly calculates the interaction feedback between the player and the virtual environment, including the contraction force of every muscle in the body and even the twisting angle of the joints, then combines these with the virtual body's strength parameters to feedback a perfect manifestation.

This was the reasonable conjecture he had imagined back then.

But the problem discovered now cannot be explained by any answer fabricated through imagination.

The Coffin Space was crafted by the Dragonkin in another world and once served as a warehouse for their rebel warriors to store resources.

But the current situation is this.

He entered the Monster World virtual game through the game pod, then generated an Ability Imprint within the virtual game to interface with the Coffin Space; upon opening it, he discovered it interfaced with the spatial warehouse the Dragonkin had built in another world back then.

A virtual game connected to a warehouse in another world.

More accurately, within the created virtual world, he had successfully connected to the real world.

This cannot be explained by normal logic at all.

When all reasonable possibilities are eliminated, the seemingly absurd conjecture is often closest to the truth.

Even if that answer is too outrageous.

So... Monster World is not a game at all, but a completely real world.

This also explains why the Telekinesis Ability Imprint could be easily generated within his body, and why abilities existing in reality could be used in conjunction with Painful Painful Minghun traits.

By redefining the virtual world as the real world, all problems find their answers.

There is no such thing as a simulated environment; this is simply a real world.

The question that puzzled him just now also revealed its answer at this moment.

Why, during the process of generating the Coffin Space, could the final stroke never be filled, with the Coffin Imprint seemingly devouring Coffin energy endlessly like an abyss?

Because the Coffin Imprint he generated interfaced with a warehouse in another world.

Dialing across space, the interface process was like an invisible cable extending from the Monster World end toward the other world end.

For every unit of Coffin material resource he invested, the cable extended a certain distance.

Ultimately, consuming 25,000 Shou Shou Jili, the interface was finally successful; all resources were expended on the cross-space interface.

Compared to an interface within the same space in the other world, naturally, more expenditure was required.

Taking a deep breath, the deduced answer was too shocking.

Ji Chen's heart went "thump-thump" at this moment.

He suddenly realized something.

If Monster World is a completely real world, then... the Painful Painful Minghun traits used by players must also be truly existent.

Hiss~!

Thinking of this, Ji Chen was completely dumbfounded.

He knew little about the Rules and had never truly encountered them, yet he knew a little.

The Dragonkin had once said that the Rules are the authority of truth.

As long as a race can master even one Rule power, theoretically, it can possess infinite growth potential.

Although Bai Yao could reign as king in the small world, it was in fact nothing more than an ant imprisoned in a cage.

It was utterly unworthy of being called a strong one; before a powerful race that mastered the Rules, its combat power was not even as great as the weakest foot soldier within its own clan.

At that time, these words made Ji Chen realize that the outside world was vast and boundless, with one mountain higher than another.

It also gave him a preliminary understanding of Rule power.

He felt this was a supreme treasure worthy only of top-tier powers to wield.

Every Rule represented an "absolute order," unaffected by external interference, operating as a self-contained logical system.

Thinking of this, a passage the Dragonkin had once spoken floated into Ji Chen's mind.

Matter decays, life withers, fire burns... these are the fundamental Rules constituting the operation of the world; ordinary creatures live and multiply in accordance with the world's Rules, yet in reality, all beings are bound by these Rules from the moment of their birth.

Just as swimming fish cannot survive out of water, and mortals will eventually turn to dust, these are the predetermined outcomes within the framework of the Rules.

The world's fundamental Rules are like invisible shackles, binding the fate trajectories of billions of creatures, while Rule controllers have, to some extent, achieved partial transcendence; the part of them enhanced by the Rules is not defined by the world, but rather defines the world in return.

They can make fire burn in the deep sea, cause rivers to flow backward toward the sky, and bring the dead back to new life... every Rule can rewrite the setting logic within its coverage range as a self-contained logical system.

When explaining Rule power, the Dragonkin also told a story to illustrate the might of Rule power.

He stated that his Dragon Breath Clan was once a powerful race spanning multiple worlds; wherever their twin wings pointed, ten thousand races bowed their heads.

But the ancestors knew deeply that true powerful races are always climbing higher peaks.

Thus, the Dragon Breath Clan launched a clan-wide expedition, setting out toward the legendary world.

But this expedition exacted a painful price from the Dragon Breath Clan; their efforts driven by ambition were no match before truly top-tier powerful races.

In that legendary world, they encountered a powerful faction named the "Bone Burial Clan."

Death, the most fundamental universal Rule of the world, was a reversible game for that race.

Their dragon fire could incinerate stars, yet could not burn away the skeleton armies crawling out of graves; their sharp claws could tear space, yet could not shatter the soul fires that dissolved and reformed again and again.

Every victory means starting over.

In that war, the Dragon Breath Clan lost ninety-five percent of its people; the surviving Dragon Breath warriors fought desperately to open the return tunnel and barely escaped.

And the Bone Burial Clan didn't even bother to pursue.

Perhaps to them, the war in which the Dragon Breath warriors fought with all their might was merely a boring pastime.

Yet even the Bone Burial Clan, in that legendary world, did not rank as a supreme power at the very top of the food chain.

True top-tier mighty clans generally command multiple kinds of Rule forces.

They can even generate a space of self-defined Rules, rewriting the framework of the world's operation within that space.

Therefore, whoever controls the Rules equals possessing the permission to wield a pen and rewrite the world.

The Dragon Descendant finally stated that although the past expedition failed, the Dragon Breath Clan never gave up on returning to the legendary world.

They have challenged it three times to date, but each time they returned with feathers plucked.

And the fourth challenge will be initiated by the Dragon Descendant's generation.

To launch a new round of expeditions against the legendary world once more.

At that time, he curiously asked a question.

Since that world is so terrifying, why does the Dragon Breath Clan tirelessly launch expedition challenges?

The Dragon Descendant's answer was:

"In that world, we are like frogs at the bottom of a well gazing at the firmament, knowing that what we thought was soaring was merely circling in a mud pit."

"Through three expeditions, we lost much, yet gained far more resources unreachable in small worlds; we saw peak after peak of power requiring us to look up and climb. We certainly could have secluded ourselves in a corner, remaining eternal kings in a small world, but what difference would such a Dragon Breath Clan make from the ants we conquered?"

"Expeditions are not only for victory, but also to ensure our descendants truly stand at the summit, rather than indulging in false strength; indeed, we must reshape pride and rewrite history, erasing that failed expedition."

"Laozu Sect believes the Dragon Breath Clan should face its weakness head-on, letting every failure become a whetstone to sharpen tendons and bones; only thus can the Dragon Breath Clan's climbing spirit remain ever fresh, then temper an inexhaustible pride through constant challenges."

Ji Chen's understanding of those words at the time was that the Dragon Breath Clan wished to maintain its pride.

But there are only two ways to maintain pride.

The first: rewrite history, erase failure, and reshape pride.

The second: fight the legendary world again, reshaping pride through countless victories.

The Dragon Breath Clan's Laozu Sect chose the second path.

This indeed echoed the theory of warriors versus beasts spoken by the Dragon Descendant when they first met.

The Dragon Breath Clan's fate was never to merely survive, but to face challenges head-on and tear out a path to the heavens through climbing.

Over several generations of clan members' relayed struggle, they rebuilt the ladder of power leading to the legendary world.

And the Dragon Descendant's generation will also build a ladder for future generations to climb toward the summit of the legendary world.

Those words left a deep impression on Ji Chen.

Although he had followed the Dragon Descendant for several years by then, he still could not understand this choice.

As humans, we have long etched the instinct to seek benefit and avoid harm into our genes; the instincts left by ancient humans fleeing fierce beasts still govern our thoughts today.

Facing unknown risks, they always calculate gains and losses first.

For example, building houses to resist danger, developing vaccines to fight disease, enacting laws to restrain violence… all wisdom is used on how to continue the clan more safely and stably.

Even today, with highly advanced technology, they still use dome defense systems to isolate potential invasion dangers.

Compared to the Dragon Breath Clan's survival philosophy of knowing there is a tiger in the mountain yet heading toward the tiger's mountain, this presents an almost absurd contrast.

Other clans evolve out of necessity for survival, while the Dragon Breath Clan survives for the sake of evolution.

At that time, he also asked the Dragon Descendant what meaning this held.

The Dragon Descendant's answer was:

"Weak clans pursue survival; strong clans pursue transcendence. Comfort in our eyes will dull our claws, fear will corrode our dragon scales; only between life and death can we temper the strength we desire."

From the Dragon Descendant, he learned much knowledge.

And from that knowledge, he came to understand how powerful a force "Rules" truly are.

Coming to his senses, Ji Chen opened his mouth.

With trembling hands, he summoned the Star Pulse interface and opened the Painful Painful Minghun Library.

His gaze swept over the Painful Painful Minghun traits listed in the Painful Painful Minghun Library; the shock in his heart was beyond measure, leaving him feeling only a dry throat.

The seeds symbolizing potential mighty clans spoken of by the Dragon Descendant: he has sixty-three of them here, available for him to choose like products on a supermarket shelf.

Even more absurdly, he can even embed multiple Painful Painful Minghun simultaneously.

The "Rule Seeds" that the Dragon Breath Clan pursued throughout their entire lives: he has an entire warehouse of them here; as long as he has Shou Shou Jili, he can embed and use them at will.

Those supreme treasures for which the Dragon Breath Clan risked clan extinction to fight are merely the most basic configuration in the player camp.

Indeed, one can obtain one for free just upon entering the game.

Even the options in the Painful Painful Minghun Shop are not all of them.

The Di Zhai Village also contains Domain Node Rules, and even Rule forces never yet displayed.

For example, the potential Rules players speak of that can purify and cleanse emotions, gaining growth from hunting monsters, and so on.

He thought he was using a cheat in the game, but only now did he discover this is actually a real cheat.

At this moment, he truly wanted to place a video call to the Dragon Descendant.

Pointing at the Painful Painful Minghun Library and shouting:

"Bro, look at this—Rule buffet!"

The excitement in his heart could not subside for a long time; Ji Chen gasped deeply, taking a long while to come to his senses.

His gaze turned to the other players still studying in the library.

These players clearly did not realize how terrifying their player bodies truly were; indeed, they had long grown accustomed to using Painful Painful Minghun traits.

What luxury!

Ji Chen decided to log off immediately; there was one more thing he needed to verify.

Although it was now clear that the Monster World was a completely real world, there was still one question that could not be explained.

Data City.

At 6 PM, the barrier shrouding the city shifted colors.

Night fell like spilled ink spreading across the city; illuminated neon lights flowed between glass curtain walls, soaking the entire city in a dazzling array of colors.

Inside a skyscraper in the southern district of the city.

The game pod lid slowly opened, and nutrient fluid drained out through Kong Dong in the inner walls.

Ji Chen, wearing his game suit, bent and rose at this moment.

"Cough... cough..."

The foul air he had inhaled unexpectedly into his lungs made him cough violently.

A familiar, bloody sweetness surged up his throat.

Logging out of the game, switching to Earth's harsh environment, and his body riddled with hidden ailments brought intense discomfort.

During the week in the Monster World, he had inhaled the essence of heaven and earth; the spiritual energy accompanying the breath into his body had washed over him like a clear spring, and even his breathing carried the fragrance of spiritual plants.

But now, every breath felt like inhaling coarse gravel, and his body was so exhausted it felt as if filled with lead.

He had just thought to activate his telekinesis to levitate his body, but the awkwardness and faint stinging sensation transmitted from his consciousness made him decisively give up.

Accustomed to using telekinesis smoothly in the Monster World, he had almost forgotten that using this thing always brought pain.

"Cough... how ironic." He tugged at the corner of his mouth, his voice hoarse, then leaned on the game pod to stand up.

His gaze swept the room, and even his vision had become abnormally dim.

It was as if a layer of gauze covered his eyes, making everything look blurry and unclear.

Ji Chen instinctively raised his hand to rub his dry eyeballs.

This was clearly a side effect of habitually activating the Eagle-Head Demon's perception trait.

Even the neon signs outside the window now seemed to have their colors washed out, the light viscous and difficult to disperse.

It felt like switching from a high-resolution world to a low-resolution world.

The visual experience in the Monster World, where every detail was crystal clear and colors were so saturated they nearly glowed, made the scenes of the real world appear extremely fake.

By comparison, the real world felt more like a virtual world.

This sudden contrast made Ji Chen's brain unconsciously keep running.

Trying to render the scene before his eyes, wanting to make it appear more real.

But it was like an old graphics card struggling to run a game; only lag and delay occurred, and what finally appeared in his eyes was an image that could not be rendered clearly.

He closed his eyes and kept taking deep breaths to adjust.

Before long, he opened his eyes again and went straight to the desk to sit down.

He lightly tapped the virtual screen on his wristband, and the powered-off monitor lit up.

Next, he was going to verify his hypothesis.

Gripping the latest model mouse, he began to browse historical data.

Time passed as he flipped through the records.

Early internet information messages frequently popped up on the screen interface.

【The Eclipse Clan today released the latest Dreamweaver 3.0, equipped with the newest translation software, capable of easily achieving cross-race communication, providing convenience for exchanges among all races of the Earth Alliance.】

In the news photo, a silver-gray necklace hovered on a display stand, its surface flowing with fluorescent veins; an Eclipse Clan representative was demonstrating and explaining how to use the real-time translation function.

【The Human representative of the Earth Alliance announced the joint construction of a space elevator with the Eclipse Clan, expected to begin construction this year, providing rapid service to the Moon.】

In the information display, a holographic projection showed a massive concept image of a space elevator; a cable made of some unknown material pierced straight into the clouds, where the symbols of the Humans and the Eclipse Clan converged in the clouds.

【The 23rd generation city supercomputer "Deep Blue Consciousness" has passed testing and is about to be released to major cities of the Earth Alliance.】

【Virtual Game Conquest and Land of Sin officially launched; a groundbreaking neural connection immersive system will bring players an unprecedented real experience.】

【The first batch of military aid equipment from the Eclipse Clan has arrived at the war front; we are not far from victory!】

Ji Chen flipped through the data with full concentration.

The arrival of alien races, the establishment of a lunar base, the founding of the Earth Alliance, the mechanical war... Through these early records, Ji Chen gradually gained a preliminary understanding of Earth's development history.

What could be confirmed was that the Eclipse Clan was a figure in modern history, an irreplaceable leader within the Earth Alliance.

Even the Earth Alliance itself was founded by the Eclipse Clan joining hands with all races.

In terms of technological strength, the Eclipse Clan stood at the Jin Zita of the Earth Alliance.

They appeared at the end of the Human race's Fourth Industrial Revolution and integrated the global energy network in just ten years.

That was not all.

At that time, the various races of the Earth Alliance faced communication difficulties and the problem of information intranets.

The Eclipse Clan believed that this closed-off development model was detrimental to the future of the Earth Alliance, so they proposed a plan to build a Star Network to all races of the Earth Alliance.

Once this plan was proposed, it stirred up a huge storm within the Earth Alliance.

The early internet world was not interconnected; it could be understood as each race having an intranet used by its own members.

The Human internet, the Greenwood Clan's Natural Resonance Network, the Breaker Clan's Neural Link... each network technology had its own characteristics, yet they could never truly interconnect.

Communication between races generally took the form of offline coordination.

Not only was the efficiency low, but due to a lack of understanding of other races, cultural misunderstandings frequently occurred, triggering conflicts.

The Star Network plan was born to solve this problem.

To enable true interconnection among all races, allowing ordinary people of each race to communicate on the network.

This plan is like a great furnace; as the era develops, it will influence one another and gradually shape a shared set of values for all races.

Simply put, the Star Network Plan is like a civilization assimilation engine.

Through the efficient flow of information on the network and deep cultural collisions, all races will gradually converge in their thinking patterns, values, and even sense of humor.

The fact is, the Eclipse Race has already achieved this.

On the modern internet, when the Human Race posts a meme, other races can all understand its meaning.

When the Gills Fish Race posts an internet hot meme, other races, including Human players, can understand the story behind the meme and even join in the fun.

This is the ultimate weapon that, besides enabling efficient communication, truly united the Earth Alliance through the Star Network, breaking the information barriers that kept the races mutually independent.

But at that time, the implementation of this plan did not go smoothly.

It met with strong resistance from conservative forces in all races.

The resistance did not stem from the Star Network technology itself, but mainly from the fear of the uncertainty behind cultural integration.

The foremost issue was security.

The highest authority over the Star Network lies in the hands of the Eclipse Race; connecting to the Star Network meant the Eclipse Race would truly stand above all other races.

As integration deepened, if one day in the future the Eclipse Race broke its past oaths, it could shut down the Star Network at any time, plunging the cities of all races into paralysis in a second.

Secondly, the Eclipse Race, holding the highest authority, could access the confidential information of other races at any time.

Theoretically, no race would have any secrets from the Star Network anymore.

Next was the loss of cultural sovereignty.

After full interconnection, the leaders of all races believed that the values of other races would spread through the network and influence the thinking logic of their own younger generation.

Some races worried that as their own culture constantly collided and merged with the cultures of other races, their original cultural characteristics would gradually disappear, replaced by a universal, homogenized culture.

This subtle mutual infiltration of culture, in the eyes of some race leaders, could even shake the authority of the ruling class.

This point has already been confirmed in modern times.

For example, the Night Demon Race modified its nearly hereditary leadership system into a council management system.

The torrent of information brought by a vast amount of films, novels, games, and other entertainment products could not be stopped.

The younger generation of the Night Demon Race even completely overturned the cultural habits of the older generation; starting from wearing no clothes at all, they began to put on various novel garments.

At that time, all races reasonably suspected that if the Eclipse Race wanted to overthrow a race, it could even secretly support rebellious voices through the network Yan Suan Fa.

For instance, whether a series of inappropriate remarks made by a certain internet celebrity of the Green Wood Race would be boosted by the Eclipse Race through traffic support, precisely pushed to all members of that race, conducting invisible public opinion manipulation.

Thereby carrying out internal sabotage similar to a "Color Revolution."

A series of potential problems made all races unwilling to connect to the Star Network.

Including the Human Race at that time, there were also many voices opposing connection to the Star Network.

They believed that doing so would cause the Human Race to lose its future and that one should not entrust the future to the oaths of the Eclipse Race.

Even though the Eclipse Race stated that the Star Network Intelligence Brain was the eternal guide of the Eclipse Race, and its decisions would not change with the turnover of the Eclipse Race's ruling management layer.

But in the eyes of the Human Race leadership, no one could guarantee that everything would develop according to the planned blueprint.

The Star Network Interconnection Plan was difficult to advance at this stage; all voices coming from within the races were critical.

Public opinion within the races, from the management layer down to ordinary citizens, was opposed.

Facing the surging waves of opposition from all races, the Eclipse Race at that time displayed astonishing political wisdom; they did not continue to insist on lobbying.

Instead, they started with the weaker races, opening technical demonstration zones through resource support.

First came the assistance in urban construction, then the free provision of network communication base stations covering the entire city, followed by the gifting of batch after batch of virtual devices.

This was not the end.

Later, the Eclipse Race also opened part of its cutting-edge technology database, allowing race factions that agreed to connect to the Star Network to browse and view it at any time for their own research and study.

They also gifted each race a "City Intelligence Brain" capable of managing the Star Network within their own race, giving them the authority to handle network events within the race.

The supported weak races experienced a leapfrog technological upgrade in a short time.

This change was obvious to all races; facts proved that races receiving assistance from the Eclipse Race developed rapidly.

Secondly, the Eclipse Race fully opened the Eclipse City on the Moon.

They provided medical services, technical consulting, and a series of other service items for all races.

Under this combination of moves, some races began to waver, and one by one they connected to the Star Network.

As more and more race factions connected to the Star Network, the races that were still holding out also realized that connecting to the Star Network might be the major trend for the future development of all Earth races.

Choosing to refuse meant closing oneself off and gradually becoming a marginal force.

At that time, the Human Race leadership engaged in fierce debate on this matter, splitting internally into two factions.

One faction supported reform and opening up, connecting to the Star Network in line with the trend of the times.

The other faction supported conservative development; the Human Race should possess autonomous authority over network issues and should not rely excessively on the technology of the Eclipse Race.

At the final round of voting meetings, someone in the Human Federation leadership at that time uttered a sentence that would be recorded in history:

"May I ask the various city managers present here, and the federal deputies: if the Eclipse Race truly had any designs on humanity given their technological level, what is the probability of our successful resistance?"

This sentence plunged the protesters at the meeting into silence.

The fact is, if the Eclipse Race wanted to crush the Human Race, the Human Race would have no power to resist at all.

In the years of contact with the Eclipse Race, the Eclipse Race had never shown any hostility toward the Human Race; they even actively provided various technical supports.

Ultimately, the meeting voted to decide that the Human Federation would connect to the Star Network and request development assistance from the Eclipse Race.

And the Eclipse Race did not disappoint the expectations of the Human Race.

In the years that followed, they provided a large amount of new technology every year and also helped the Human Race purify many polluted areas.

As the first cooperative partner when the Earth Alliance was established, the Human Race, besides possessing the City Intelligence Brain, also additionally obtained the main brain authority provided by the Eclipse Race.

Thus, the Human Race ushered in a period of rapid development.

Looking back from today's era, Ji Chen felt that the decision made by the Human Race at that time was undoubtedly correct, but the future remains unknown.

And the Human Race's docking also caused many alliance powers that were still holding on to compromise one after another.

Thus, the connection barriers between the various races were completely broken, truly ushering in an era of interconnection.

Cultures merged, technologies became common, economies linked... Earth Coins were also born in this stage.

Today, the Human Race can go to Break City; tomorrow, they can go to Moon Eclipse City; the day after, they can go to the Sky Feather Clan's floating city... The boundaries between races gradually weakened during this process.

Many new-generation members of the Descending Forces even never considered themselves to be invading Descending Forces.

There was once a hot meme on the internet.

When a new-generation member of the Break Clan was verbally sparring with a new-generation member of another alien race that had descended in recent years, he cursed the other as: "foreign scum."

This behavior seemed absurd, but it actually proved that many new-generation members of various races had long regarded themselves as part of Earth.

After flipping through for several hours, Ji Chen's impression of the Moon Eclipse Clan changed.

But the doubts in his heart deepened.

According to online data, the original intention of the Moon Eclipse Clan creating virtual games was for development, specifically to prepare for possible war crises.

This idea had no problems.

But comparing the development history of virtual games, there were many suspicious points.

Starting from the viewpoint that Monster World is the real world and reverse-engineering the Moon Eclipse Clan's virtual game development technology, one would be surprised to find that the speed of technological progress was absurd.

Before the birth of Monster World, virtual game technology, although excellent, could not reach the state of completely simulating reality.

Until the birth of Monster World.

This process was like jumping from a Stone Age civilization to an interstellar civilization in an instant.

The technological leap was too huge.

Other races could imagine an explanation, thinking that the newly launched Monster World was made by integrating the Moon Eclipse Clan's unopened cutting-edge technology.

But he knew that this was essentially not a game, but a completely real world.

So the essence of the game was actually the Moon Eclipse Clan ferrying members of various races from the real world to Monster World in the identity of players.

But this viewpoint also had unexplainable parts.

Could the Moon Eclipse Clan really do this?

First, the original intention of the birth of virtual games was for the Moon Eclipse Clan to create a simulated world to deal with war.

But the various rule powers the Moon Eclipse Clan mastered in Monster World were enough to prove that the Moon Eclipse Clan's potential power feared no challenge and did not need to worry about any challenge arriving.

Second, he saw a news report released by the Moon Eclipse Clan.

A representative of the Moon Eclipse Clan mentioned at the press conference that Monster World was fully taken over by the Star Network, all race players had the same growth starting point, the Star Network would not give any preferential treatment to Moon Eclipse Clan players, and even the Moon Eclipse Clan's high-ups had no right to interfere with the operation of Monster World.

This explanation, at first glance, had no problems.

But in Ji Chen's eyes, there existed unexplainable logic.

After all, in his era, many game companies would also declare externally that there were no shills in the game and that development in the game would be led by the players' will, but in reality, many pay-to-win games had the shadow of shills.

Game officials also never took player experience as the core goal, but prioritized profit.

They would even, at the end of a game's development, drain the pond to catch the fish, squeezing out the last bit of value from the players.

In contrast, the Moon Eclipse Clan, spending countless resources to create a game, giving no preferential treatment to its own clan did not fit logic.

Even more excessive was that the player slots for the Moon Eclipse Clan's own clan members were very few.

The Moon Eclipse Clan's external explanation was that there were an A version and a B version of Monster World.

Many members of the Moon Eclipse Clan were active in the A version of Monster World; later, the A version servers would be gradually closed, moving all players to the B version servers.

But starting from the viewpoint that Monster World is the real world, this explanation looked more like a cover-up for the truth that the Moon Eclipse Clan could not get game qualifications.

There were many other unreasonable places.

For example, the Moon Eclipse Clan's behavior of acquiring Shou Shou Jili.

Or, the Moon Eclipse Clan cooperating with other small clans, exchanging game Shou Shou Jili resources by supporting construction projects.

All explanations fit logic.

But as long as the viewpoint "Monster World is the real world" was added, all explanations looked more like cover-ups.

And the Moon Eclipse Clan's strength remained a mystery.

The Moon Eclipse Clan had never truly participated in the anti-invasion war, nor had they ever displayed their true strength.

In previous invasion wars, they adopted the method of resource and weapon equipment support to help the Earth Alliance deal with the invasion crisis.

But the Moon Eclipse Clan was essentially a force that fled to Earth to escape the disaster of clan annihilation.

How could such a force possess countless rule powers regarded by the Dragon Descendants as "strong clan seeds"?

Continuing to deduce forward along this viewpoint.

The answer was about to emerge.

The Moon Eclipse Clan was merely a decoy pushed to the forefront; behind it actually existed a far more powerful entity.

This strength was not an exaggeration to call it a god.

Ferrying players, infinite resurrection, Painful Painful Minghun seeds, hunting growth, negative purification... every single power was unimaginably strong.

The Dragon Descendants, once the strong ones in his eyes, might not even count as ants before this unknown entity.

It was He who mastered countless rule powers, letting members of various races go to Monster World in the identity of players as the behind-the-scenes controller.

The Moon Eclipse Clan's series of actions were all cooperating with this supreme entity to cover up the truth.

Thinking of this, the vast majority of problems were solved.

The Moon Eclipse Clan's series of actions all had reasonable explanations.

But the question was, why cover up the truth?

The Moon Eclipse Clan had the power to destroy the Earth Alliance's various races; whatever they wanted to do, no race or force had the ability to stop them.

The even more powerful behind-the-scenes controller behind them could easily do this; what was the meaning of Him doing so?

All sorts of clues wove together in Ji Chen's mind, but no matter how he tried, he simply could not come up with a reasonable explanation for this question.

Just as Ji Chen was preparing to continue flipping through the historical records in search of an answer,

a familiar voice suddenly rang out in his mind:

"Kid, that's enough. If you keep this up, I'm going to seal your account."

(End of this chapter)