Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!

Although this ending isn’t really a bad one, Yang Yu on this route ultimately couldn’t grasp the real secret of this world.

It always felt a bit lacking in meaning.

One wonders if Yang Yu on this route would regret it…

Perhaps, he has long accepted everything and chose to enjoy the hard-earned little happiness.

By completing this route, Yang Yu realized that the early choices greatly influence the later story’s direction.

The choices available in the later stages are extremely limited, just like playing an ordinary visual novel game.

“This…”

“What?” Black Spade moved her gaze from the TV screen to Yang Yu.

“Nothing.

Just a reminder.

When the outside world senses something amiss, remind me, we need to start the real task.”

Black Spade took a sip of her fizzy drink and said: “No problem, no problem.

Once curiosity is piqued, the desire for knowledge emerges endlessly.

You surely want to know how much impact a different choice at that time would have on your life and others too!

This is a rare opportunity.

Besides me, no one will give you this chance.

Consider it a reward from me.”

“Exactly.

Opportunities like this don’t come often.

Let me see what I would be like in parallel worlds!”

Yang Yu pressed the reset button once again, selected the civilian once again, and began a new journey once again.

Meanwhile.

Bai Jin and the others outside the giant sphere felt quite curious; it had been a few minutes since Yang Yu leaned against the door, yet he hadn’t made any moves.

They wondered if Yang Yu encountered some difficulty and attempted to contact him.

Just then, the sound of the doorknob turning was clearly heard by everyone, dispelling their doubts instantly.

Just about to meet the true appearance of the goddess, everyone held their breath, not daring to utter a word.

Black Spade wasn’t lying; the flow of time in the space she and Yang Yu were in was much faster than the outside world.

This allowed Yang Yu to act like a carefree player, constantly attempting various routes.

In one route, Yang Yu turned into a lonely shadow assassin, walking in the shadows, aiming to assassinate the Demon King but inadvertently saved the Holy Maiden during a Curse Sect siege, changing the course of his life.

In another route, recognizing his limits through daily training, Yang Yu transformed into a strategic mastermind, establishing his own mercenary group, exploiting the achievement system to its fullest, and continuously recruiting people during the war between two nations.

After commanding his army to crush the Demon King, Yang Yu founded an extremely equal free city between the Luo Ze Empire and the Wansheng Republic, not bound by race.

In this route, Yang Yu learned why mushrooms are considered part of the Plant Clan.

It turns out that most plants form symbiotic relationships with specific fungi, creating a complex network.

The essence of the Plant Clan contains fungi types, simulating this complex network to harmonize the essence of different Plant Clans.

In yet another route, Yang Yu became the eighth disciple of the Curse Sect, known as [Fearless Peitet].

In this somewhat dark early stage route, Yang Yu led the Curse Sect to recognize the true face of demons, making everyone realize the need to change the world with our own hands to seize the future. The Curse Sect was renamed, heralding a wind of change in the world.

The only thing Yang Yu could not accept in this route is that he had to personally lay to rest Bai Jin, whose hair turned snow white from accepting a large amount of Demon Power.

Yang Yu vaguely realized that when the Curse Sect pursued Bai Jin, the special hidden condition of that task might have been Bai Jin falling for the temptation of Demon Power.

Over and over, restarting the game, Yang Yu played out ending after ending.

Because of the different routes, Yang Yu’s companions changed time and time again; those who accompanied him to the end varied as well.

In one route, he and Tico became unmatched magician couples in the world;

In another route, Yang Yu resolved Aslit’s heart knot before Aslit fully fell into darkness, becoming a great sword master and inheriting the dojo with his twin sisters;

In another route, as a human, he somehow became the Elf King, resulting in many half-breed elves in the Elf City…

It’s absurd, utterly absurd.

Some routes were so ridiculous that Yang Yu thought even if he made those choices, things wouldn’t develop in that direction.

Playing and playing, Yang Yu became less enthusiastic and more casual, eventually putting down the controller, locking eyes with Black Spade:

“Do the scenes currently appearing on the screen really happen?

Are they choices made by me in some parallel universe?

The expressions of those people on the screen don’t seem fake at all; they are genuine emotions.

Where exactly were these shots captured from?”

“These images aren’t from parallel universes.” Black Spade said emphatically: “These are results I’ve predicted in the past.

Want to know why I could create such a game? First, answer my question…

Do you believe in destiny?”

“Destiny… do I believe in destiny?

This truly is quite a philosophical topic.

If you ask me, whether I believe in destiny… thinking that everything is predestined…

I think…

I am living now.”

Yang Yu gave an unconventional answer,

“I once heard that humans are just aggregates of many materials, and materials are aggregates of many microscopic particles.

And the movement of each particle can be calculated through certain computations.

…Laplace.

That’s right, that entity is called the Laplace Demon.

The Laplace Demon is an imagined creature created by scientists.

This ‘demon’ knows the precise position and momentum of every atom in the universe and can use calculations to display the entire process of cosmic events, both past and future.

According to this theory, our past, present, and future are all determined.

Even the act of ‘defying fate’ itself is determined.

However, I’ve heard, in my era, research in quantum mechanics shows that conscious observation can affect observed results.

After all, if such a Laplace Demon really exists, calculating the entire universe would require tremendous energy.

We cannot derive the exact past, present, and future from the Laplace Demon.

As you mentioned this, I recalled a theory called the Brain in a Vat.

Everything we see in our brain is nothing but a bunch of electrical signals.

If enough electrical signals can be supplied to the brain, one can simulate the entire world in their mind.

So, we have no way of knowing whether we indeed live in this world or if we are just a brain in a laboratory vat.

Having experienced such a game just now, I also have my doubts.

Perhaps I am still in your game, and everything I witness is just an illusion you have given me.

All the experiences along the way, every single person I met, might just be a series of electrical signals in my brain, not actually existing in this world.

Yet, even so, I believe I am living in this world.

They are living in this world too.

Whether it’s the Brain in a Vat, brain-computer interfaces, alien experiment boxes, or whatever else.

Since there’s no way to determine whether the world I live in today is fake, to hell with destiny or whatever; we should just live earnestly.

If one day, this world accidentally shows a flaw, we’ll deal with it when the flaw really appears.”

After hearing Yang Yu’s words, Black Spade quickly waved her hand:

“I wasn’t trying to lead you to this kind of topic.

If I’d known…

I should have expanded the topic using the butterfly effect.

However…

With what you said, I’ve come to understand your attitude toward this world and your attitude toward your life.”

Black Spade crossed her arms and folded her legs:

“This isn’t bad either.

…Perhaps, I get to exist.

Precisely because there are people like you.”