"According to you, the great war that took place in the marginal world three hundred years ago made everyone in that world assimilate into one person, and this person..." Yu Sui spent a lot of time digesting what Amu gave him. The story he told. After much difficulty, Yu Sui finally calmed down and accepted this frightening fact.
So Yu Sui tremblingly asked A Mu: "So, the one who survived in the end is you?"
But Amu shook his head: "It's not me."
Amu lowered his eyebrows, with complex emotions in his eyes, he said softly: "The great war that took place in the marginal world three hundred years ago, the one who finally survived and merged with everyone else... is not one of us anyone."
"This person has neither a name nor an appearance. He is a new will naturally born after the fusion and condensation of all souls. He is what you players are familiar with now—"The Will of the Marginal World."
"So that's how it is." Yu Sui finally understood the general idea, but he was still a bit puzzled, so he tried to get an answer from A Mu, "Since this is the case, the souls of brothers A Mu and A Xin, It should also be fused together by this 'world will' three hundred years ago... or swallowed up, right?"
"Yes." Amu replied, "At that time, no one in the marginal world was spared, and they all became part of the will of the world."
"What about you?" Yu Sui asked his own doubts, he frowned and carefully looked at A Mu in front of him, "What's the matter with you? You should not be from three hundred years ago, because your original name is Mu Chen , the same age as me, my wife Qingyun is your half-sister, and you can even be regarded as my brother-in-law. So you can't participate in that war, you should have lived well in the real world, How did you get involved with 'Amu'?"
"And... Assuming I'm not mistaken, the body you're using now should be the body of the 'world will'? Could it be... have you been assimilated and swallowed by the world's will?"
Yu Sui's question made Amu pause for a moment, and Amu seemed to avoid talking about it on purpose, and changed the subject, "You should know that there is a data update stage in the fringe world right now."
"Data update? I know about this." Yu Sui thought for a while, and didn't force Amu, so he replied according to Amu's words, "The system will delete...or erase all players in the border world and delete all maps. And game data, close the server and close the entire world, and then start data innovation, the update time will take fifteen years, and only those who become kings on the Butterfly Throne can survive this stage."
"Then do you know why the fringe world needs to be updated?" Amu asked again.
"This..." Yu Sui hesitated for a while, then shook his head honestly, "I used to think that the marginal world really needed to be updated, so I closed the whole world, but now after hearing what you said, I'm not sure."
"The fifteen-year update period, on the one hand, is indeed that the fringe world needs to upgrade and modify its own game mode. On the other hand, it is actually a problem with the 'world will' itself." Amu came slowly and told Yu the truth of the world.
Amu said: "'World Will' is a 'Thinking Body' that was born by fusing the souls of all other people after the great war three hundred years ago. The reason I call him the 'Thinking Body' is because I think this The guy doesn't really have his own soul, he is an existence created by other people's wishes and obsessions, just like a 'dream' in this dream world, so I call him the 'Mind Body'."
"This 'thought body' is extremely unstable." Amu said, pointing to his body and heart, "because he has fused too many souls, and these souls are difficult to tame and exclusive. Integrating hundreds of thousands of souls into one? It is impossible to succeed."
"Although on the surface, the 'Thinking Body' seems to have indeed fused the souls of all people. But in fact, these souls are still fighting and making noise in the 'Thinking Body'. It can be said that the world is turned upside down."
Amu said with a mocking smile: "Thus, the great war three hundred years ago is not over yet, those who participated in the battle are still fighting, they..."
Amu then pointed to the heart of his body again, and continued: "They are still fighting here."
Yu Sui felt goosebumps all over his body when he heard what A Mu said. He couldn't bear it anymore and stared at A Mu's heart in the direction of A Mu's finger for a long time.
"Think about it, if there are hundreds of people fighting in your body, not only fighting but also quarreling, crying and crying in your ears every day, do you think it's annoying?" Amu's description carried A bit of a sense of humor, but it made Yu Sui feel lingering fear.
Yu Sui faithfully expressed his feelings: "If it were me, I would probably be so annoyed that I would commit suicide."
Amu laughed, "So, the 15-year renewal period in the fringe world was actually specially set up by the will of the world to 'pacify' these souls in the body."
"Unfortunately, because these souls made a wish to make themselves immortal before the battle three hundred years ago, the will of the world has no way to kill them directly, but it is impossible to completely integrate these souls, so the will of the world thought of a compromise By means of this method, he pulled away the memories and emotions of these souls little by little, and caused their consciousness to collapse, making these souls completely become spiritual bodies without self-awareness."
"Only by doing so, can these quarreling and distorted souls be quiet, and become pure 'energy' for the will of the world to squander."
"But this is a big project. Although the current will of the world has almost succeeded, some of these souls still have not completely lost themselves." Amu sat on the throne with his legs crossed, and leaned leisurely on the back of the chair, The thorns next to him spontaneously made room for him, allowing him to sit more comfortably.
"You asked me why I got involved with 'Amu', now let me tell you the truth."
Amu said: "When I was Mu Chen, I didn't know what happened, but one day, I got all the memories of this person named 'Amu'."
Amu touched his chin with his hand and fell into thinking, "I remember the whole life of 'Amu', including the real world before death, and the marginal world after death. I'm sure I'm not Amu's. Reincarnation. Then the reason why I was able to get Amu's memory is probably because 'Amu', when his self-consciousness was about to collapse, conveyed his own memory and wish in some way, and his memories It just happened to land on me."
"That is to say, you have no connection with the fringe world... You don't even need to come to this ghost place to ask for trouble because of other people's memories or obsessions!" Yu Sui understood.
Amu spread his hands helplessly, and said, "It's not as easy as you said. Although Amu's memory really has nothing to do with me, and I don't have to ask for guilt for other people's wishes, but I can't help it, because this memory It's just... so real."
"What do you mean?" Yu Sui didn't quite understand.
Amu didn't seem to know how to describe it. After thinking hard for a long time, he popped out a sentence: "Resonance."
"Resonance?" Yu Sui was even more puzzled.
"To put it simply, Amu's memory resonated with me. I knew intellectually that it was someone else's memory and had nothing to do with me. But emotionally, it was deeply affected by it. Amu's emotions such as joy, anger, sorrow, etc. Inherited by me, I felt like I was Amu in a way, I became one with him."
Amu said and sighed: "So there is no way, I can't control my feelings, and in the end I chose to become 'Amu'. Now that I have become Amu, I decided to fulfill Amu's wish and return to the marginal world. "
"Why did you come back?" Yu Sui said, "Since you have become 'Amu', then you should be 'escaped with difficulty'."
Amu's gaze suddenly became sharp. He put his right hand on his chest and said, "I want to come back and save my brother."
"Ashin?"
"Yes, I want to save him." Amu's eyes and words were extremely firm, "He is still here, I want to liberate him, no matter what method I use."
Yu Sui couldn't help being silent for a moment, he thought about it for a long time, and then said to Amu: "Can't you save him now? I see that you have controlled the body of 'World Will' now, although I don't know how you did it , but since you have already controlled it, you should be able to liberate those souls in your body right now?"
"No, I can't." Amu shook his head, expressing that he couldn't do it.
"why?"
"Because this body is just a body, the consciousness of the will of the world is embodied in other places, and the souls he fused and accommodated are all in his consciousness." Amu stood up suddenly, and as he got up, the people on the throne The thorns struggled to restrain him, but when Amu waved his hand, the thorns seemed to be frightened, and they wilted like frost-beaten eggplants.
"But now I have a very huge advantage," Amu said.
"Advantage? What is it?"
"Although the body of the will of the world is just a body, it seems to have many permissions. These permissions allow me to directly order the limbic system to do many things, such as the clothes I changed for you just now, and the food on this table, and the following That exquisite little bungalow was created by my limbic system."
Yu Sui couldn't help but glanced at his brand-new clothes again, and couldn't help but cry: "So that's how it is."
"And the authority of this body is so great that I can now order the fringe system to end the entire fringe world and kick all players out of this dream." Amu looked at Yu Sui with flickering eyes, "Even if I want to send it now It's okay for you to leave this world."
After hearing this, Yu Sui felt a shock in his heart, trembling all over, and couldn't help staring at A Mu with wide eyes.
"How is it? Do you want to go out?" Amu asked him.
Yu Sui opened his mouth and didn't speak. After a while, he regretted, "I'll die if I go out. I would have died long ago in the real world. If I stayed, I might still be able to see... Qing Yun."