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"Are you saying... that year, it was Pu Yunchuan who prevented the Demon Statue from descending upon that world?" At this moment, Wang Ye, following Chen Qing and Nie Xingjun, was swiftly heading towards the Northern Zone—the entrance to the New World.

On the way, Chen Qing briefly described the situation of that year, and Wang Ye listened with a rollercoaster of emotions.

According to Chen Qing, back then, Pu Yunchuan, as the first data life form, in alliance with a military bigwig from the Eastern Federation, planned to obliterate the nobility through the so-called new simulated environment: that is, their own world, along with the environment itself!

However, when Pu Yunchuan’s backup memory reached that world, it underwent a change. Backup data is cold, but human emotions are real, and the biggest difference between a data life form and ordinary data is having one’s own feelings. Once contaminated with this, many things become unpredictable.

In Pu Yunchuan’s eyes, that was a living world. The longer those backup data were stored, the less they wanted to follow the initial program to destroy that world, and at a critical moment... they even made the opposite decision...

Hearing this, Wang Ye seemed to think of something.

Despite not being from the Digital City, he possessed extraordinary knowledge and courage, and his purpose was also...

"The King of Qin, he is..."

"The King of Qin is not..." Chen Qing shook his head: "He is an Ancient Demon who unknowingly devoured one of the replicate data bodies, which led to his current form!"

Wang Ye: "......"

So... it was like this?

For a moment, Wang Ye felt somewhat lost and subconsciously said, "But... after so many years, could Pu Yunchuan’s memory entity really be devoured by a weak Ancient Demon?"

"It’s backup data; it doesn’t mean it’s Pu Yunchuan.

..." Chen Qing explained: "The backup data in that world only stored part of the memories and some of the programs, representing only a fraction of Pu Yunchuan’s emotions.

Moreover, this backup directly mimicked a life form, either a human or a demon; all of these entities are subject to reincarnation with the passage of time and unforeseen accidents.

With each reincarnation, some data are lost, and some memories vanish. "

"A him that has been through countless reincarnations has long lost many memories, and most likely, at many times, he was no different from an ordinary person. Over these years, those people would certainly spare no effort in hunting down Pu Yunchuan’s memory entity..."

"What about now?"

"Now it’s different..." Chen Qing’s eyes flashed with a hint of coldness: "Back then, they feared the arrival of the new version, thinking that reincarnation could be maintained permanently. Of course, they didn’t want to take risks and provoke even more terrifying monsters, especially a version without the ability to restart and revive.

They are ruthless toward others, as if they were mere ants, but they lack the courage when it comes to themselves. "

"But now, they have to fight!"

"Why?" Wang Ye was curious.

"Because if they don’t, they’ll miss their chance..." Chen Qing sneered.

Their initial expectation was to exercise permanent control over this world.

After all, it was an incomplete version, and so when most of them were trapped in that old world, they not only doomed the Human Race to become data life forms but also, during the world wars, destroyed most of the major entertainment gaming projects, including the original version of the Demonic World.

The current incomplete version merely had some subsequent version content quietly added by Pu Yunchuan. In their view, as long as it was well-controlled and Pu Yunchuan’s replicate data was not captured, they would not trigger the fourth version and could live on indefinitely.

In this permanent era, they would search for a solution at their leisure.

Therefore, over the long years, they covertly took control of the Digital City and even surreptitiously cultivated the Four Major Guilds.

Originally, if there were no accidents, they probably would not have surfaced for several more eras.

These individuals were too fearful of death; they were extreme cowards.

But the problem is.... One day, an Ancient Demon changed this world.

Yes, it was the King of Qin!

He inadvertently devoured some forgotten backup data of Pu Yunchuan, obtained a mass of memories, and with those found the so-called number one secret agent of the Federation.

He devoured them as well and took complete control over all the information.

With a series of maneuvers, he nearly caused the entire version to stagnate in place.

But due to his greed, by utilizing Pu Yunchuan’s memories, he had already activated some contents of the fourth version.

The Demon Statues in the void have noticed the world of the Human Race, and it is no longer possible to prevent their arrival...

Now, there are only two options left for them. First, to shut down that world, retreat to Digital City themselves, and use programmers to create a New World, continuing their quest for power and Longevity in a world relatively less dangerous.

But they have actually tried this approach for many years already, never once succeeding.

Ever since Digital City realized that gaming worlds could enhance the life of data entities, the craze to develop games has never ceased.

But to this day, not one new game has become a gaming world.

The reason is simple; all programmers know it’s fake when they are creating it, and memory inertia leads them to reject newly created gaming worlds, almost completely blocking this path.

The only way left is to preserve the Demonic World.

Since they cannot hide, they can only fight desperately.

They must concentrate all electrical energy to restart all versions of that world, because a flawed version is a world doomed to destruction, which is not what they want.

What they need is to restart Pu Yunchuan’s memories and fill in the missing parts of the game.

That’s why the designers later used gene Reincarnation to move to the New World.

Only by fully awakening the memories of these designers can the original, complete version of the Demonic World be reconstructed.

This is their true purpose.

Nie Xingjun, listening on the side, was taken aback, feeling his brain struggle to keep up, despite being a knowledgable high-level figure who had just heard about the original conspiracy.

The entire Digital City, including the New World, was always under the control of a group of people, and everything that is happening now is still under their manipulation.

The thought that from birth, his ancestors had been controlled by others, made him feel the hairs on his body stand on end.

Wang Ye, after a moment’s thought, understood all the connections and nodded, "So that’s how it is..."

All the secrets, all the mysteries... Is that how it is?

A world born from a conspiracy, is it to end with a conspiracy as well?

Wang Ye’s eyes flickered with complex emotions, suddenly unsure what to do....

"What do you plan to do?" Wang Ye looked at Chen Qing: "Judging by their goals, if they can’t control you from the start and take over your power, they might just turn around and collaborate with you. And your current attributes have quite some synergy with those guys."

"Moreover, their goal is to save both worlds, so ultimately, your objectives align. There’s really no need for a fight to the death. What do you think?"

Chen Qing, upon hearing this, looked at the sky, then at Wang Ye, and finally shook his head: "I don’t think so...."