StarTie Simulation: Aren’t you NPCs?

Chapter 230 Epilogue (Part 3)

Wu Xuan looked at the slowly flowing purple-black energy stream and sighed softly.

He should have thought of it earlier.

He has seen Myth, Aha, and Clipper... He always feels like he is being taken by his elders to see the world.

Thinking of this, Wu Xuan shook his head gently, cleared his throat, and then asked loudly to the pair of eyes in the center of the slowly flowing purple-black energy flow:

"Is this your 'audience path'?"

"..."

IX said nothing.

Feeling the coldness of the scene, Wu Xuan's mouth twitched slightly.

What is going on? You asked your companion to tell me to come and see you, and then I came and you shut up.

What is this?

But what Wu Xuan needs to consider now is not whether IX will speak or not, but how he should get out of here if IX doesn't intend to speak.

He can't even cut off the outer shell, and he has no way to deal with the outermost layer of Black Sun. What do you expect him to do with the IX itself?

Are you crazy or am I crazy?

Just as Wu Xuan was thinking about how to get out of here, the black energy flow that was originally rotating around IX gradually spread outwards, and finally floated aimlessly in front of Wu Xuan.

"What is this? A gesture of goodwill?"

As Wu Xuan thought about this, he reached out his hand and touched the purple-black energy flow.

——Although this is a bit reckless, it is the only thing he can do so far.

Almost at the moment when Wu Xuan's hand touched the purple-black energy flow, the energy flows quickly stacked and reorganized in the air, and finally formed a column of words that Wu Xuan could hardly understand.

But many times... "not understanding" is not the same as "not being able to comprehend".

The moment these words appeared in Wu Xuan's sight, the meaning of this string of characters naturally emerged in his mind.

——It was exactly the same as when he first met Mishi in Himeko’s simulation game and talked to him.

"You have been sleeping for so long, do you know now? Why is life sleeping?"

Seeing this sentence, Wu Xuan frowned.

"How come I didn't know I was asleep? Is this another riddle left by that "I"?"

"Or...a mess?"

However, Wu Xuan did not dwell too much on this detail. Just as Mi Si had said before, he would know it one day.

Since he doesn't know it now, it means... the time has not come yet.

Thinking of this, Wu Xuan lowered his head and began to ponder the problem. All he recalled in his mind was the knowledge he had learned in the philosophy class on Azure Star.

“The Void Star God, nothingness… is a fairly pure philosophical concept, so the questions he raises are more or less directly related to philosophy…”

"Sleep...death, the end of life...I know."

A confident smile suddenly appeared on Wu Xuan's face, and then he gently closed his eyes and said slowly:

"Every life has a beginning and an end. This is the law of cause and effect that even the Star Gods cannot avoid."

"Taizyuros, the Star God of Reproduction, was born in the "Universal Locust Plague" and died with the end of the locust plague. His starting point was the moment of his birth, and his end point..."

"It was the moment when it was smashed to pieces by the hammer of the "protector" Krippo. "

"The beginning of our existence as organic beings is the moment of birth, and the end is the moment of death."

"A life span is always very long. Even if the Spider Genius Sisikar only lives for 30 days, her life span is longer than that of the average spider on a macro scale."

"People have to go through this long life. In order to make themselves more awake to the end, they will divide their goals into small parts, and make themselves more awake through little progress."

“This is the simplest way to succeed in life.”

Having said this, Wu Xuan took a deep breath, as if to sort out his thoughts. After pondering for a moment, he continued:

"Everything in the world exists by chance. There is no predetermined purpose for life or the world."

"But from a macro perspective, death is everyone's ultimate destination."

"Any creature in the world will seek meaning for itself as long as it exists in this world, and the laws of the world divide time into units of measurement such as a day, a year, an amber age, and so on."

“There is a saying that ‘every day is a new day’. People wake up from sleep, and this process is like birth, which is the starting point for everyone.”

“When night falls, people who have been working hard for survival and ideals fall asleep due to exhaustion, and the process of sleep... is like death.”

“Living things will constantly fill their own lives with meaning, so that they will not have too much regret and disgust when facing death.”

"From these rather subjective concepts, the life process of a living being...is actually the concrete manifestation of the process from waking up to sleeping."

"From this we can conclude that the reason why life is dormant is because they need to face death calmly."

"Waking up and falling asleep, this process happens repeatedly in the course of life, and eventually makes them calm and peaceful when facing death."

After saying these words, Wu Xuan took a deep breath and then asked, "I don't know how long I have been asleep, and I don't know what the "I" did before."

"Like I just said, I want to find as much meaning and value as possible before I completely fall asleep."

"So... I want to know why I am standing here."

Wu Xuan's blue eyes quietly looked at the pair of eyes blinking in the void, quietly waiting for his answer.

After a long silence, the words in front of him began to reorganize once again.

"You will find out, but not now."

“Why do people need to face death? That’s my second question.”

Hearing those words that were almost indistinguishable from myths, Wu Xuan shook his head slightly. He knew the result would be like this, and there was no point in saying these things now.

Thinking of this, Wu Xuan began to ponder the so-called "second question".

With the previous foundation, this question is easier to answer.

“Only by facing death can people know why they are alive, just as they would take care of all the things of the day before falling asleep.”

“People use their daily sleep to set a node for themselves. Whether it is hard or happy, they set a goal, complete the goal, and then greet the next day with satisfaction.”

“People cannot live in nothingness forever, because they really exist.”

"This includes you, IX."