WTYTIAAN Chapter 276

“Interdimensional projection?” Yan Yunqing was somewhat bewildered by this, but he could still understand the literal meaning of these five words. “Are you saying that those ‘anomalies’ are ‘images’ projected from this world?”

Zhai Yingyi nodded. “Regarding this name, it was actually confirmed by researchers after the game’s internal beta officially began.”

“Before that, we only determined that the ‘anomalies’ were related to this game called ‘Homebound’.”

The game’s internal recordings appeared, and the mysteries of another world were displayed before the nation. A special department had been constantly monitoring the so-called game’s official website. The release of these internal recordings allowed them to confirm that an unstable factor was about to erupt.

Consequently, orders were issued to various departments, the G311 Special Base was established, and talents from all over the country were transferred to G311 for secret training, all to prepare for the ‘major anomalies’ that might occur.

When the game’s internal beta access was distributed, the government unhesitatingly intercepted some of the slots. They successfully entered this world by logging into the game, including some special research talents. However, there were not many such talents in the first batch. After all, they had to face an unfamiliar environment, not even knowing where the dangers lay. Therefore, most of them were soldiers who signed confidentiality agreements.

Zhai Yingyi and his team were selected through this method, trained for a period, and finally stood out to obtain the slots.

On a side note, the [Hellfire Cruiser] in their team was one of the few special research talents. However, his position was already in the military, so he could be considered one of the military’s own. [Hellfire Cruiser] himself also fought for it, and successfully joined the list of explorers of “Homebound” in the first batch.

Successfully logging into the game and arriving on the Ermann Continent as skyfallers, these official players did their best to explore this world, including researching the so-called magical creatures, magic, and other unscientific existences, except for the time they were initially locked in the newbie village.

The second batch increased the number of technical talents, and researchers from the two worlds cooperated with each other. Coupled with various experiments, they finally reached a terrifying conclusion—

“The two worlds are approaching and overlapping at an incredible speed.”

Zhai Yingyi did not explain the specific research process in detail. He himself was not from a technical background and only had a superficial understanding of those complex technical issues. He simply used a few words to summarize the researchers’ lengthy report.

“Our researchers have not yet been able to completely determine what will happen after the two worlds overlap, but they have listed several possibilities for us.”

“The most obvious is that after the two worlds overlap, the world barriers will disappear. According to the ‘interdimensional projection’ model, it is likely that the two worlds will be interconnected.”

This would mean that the magical creatures of the Ermann Continent would appear on Blue Star, and Blue Star’s high-tech weapons would also appear on the Ermann Continent.

Even though the Ermann Continent possesses magical alchemy and other things, it’s hard to say whether even Theodore could escape unscathed when faced with nuclear bombs and the like. Even the gods of the Age of Gods would have to consider whether their defenses are strong enough.

Not to mention ordinary civilians, it would be like a scholar encountering a soldier – reason would be useless.

Isn’t that why it’s called nuclear peace?

Similarly, Blue Star wouldn’t gain much of an advantage either. On the Ermann Continent, mages require aptitude, but swordsmen are easier to train. At least one or two swordsmen can emerge from every ten people. This is different from Blue Star’s martial arts. The swordsmen of the Ermann Continent are comparable to Captain 〇. Ordinary people on Blue Star would also be unable to withstand them.

Not to mention the magical creatures rampaging on the Ermann Continent. If they were to appear on Blue Star, it would cause a huge crisis.

It could very well lead to a doomsday scenario.

Therefore, the overlapping of two worlds and the collapse of the world barriers is by no means a good thing.

Yan Yunqing listened and nodded in agreement. He felt the same way.

“Judging by your tone, are there other possibilities?”

Zhai Yingyi nodded, saying very seriously, “That outcome was the best-case scenario estimated by our researchers. In a more serious scenario, one of the two worlds might randomly disappear after overlapping.”

Yan Yunqing was stunned.

“I don’t know much about this, so I can’t explain it to you clearly. I have a detailed report here, please take a look.”

Zhai Yingyi handed the prepared document to Yan Yunqing. Yan Yunqing opened it and was once again taken aback, glancing strangely at Zhai Yingyi.

The document in front of Yan Yunqing was indeed a document, but it was written in Chinese, without a single Ermann word.

Were they testing him again?

Yan Yunqing found it amusing. He certainly understood what Zhai Yingyi and the people behind him wanted to test. The moment he told them the name [Yan Yunqing], they must have started investigating, right?

After all, the name [Yan Yunqing] didn’t sound like an Ermann Continent name at all, but rather like a Chinese name.

Perhaps in the past two days, that so-called secret department had already held dozens of meetings for him?

The name [Yan Yunqing] certainly wasn’t unique nationwide, but there weren’t many with the same name either. With the power of the government, two days would be enough for them to check everyone. Yan Yunqing never underestimated the power of the state apparatus.

So now, were they testing whether he was truly a Chinese compatriot? Ruling out the possibility that he had fabricated a name based on information revealed in player chats to deceive the government.

After all, if he had really just fabricated a Chinese name to fool the government, he definitely shouldn’t be able to understand this report, which would leave even native-born Chinese people seeing double.

Yan Yunqing sighed softly in his heart, not dwelling too much on the issue. He directly followed Zhai Yingyi’s lead and began reading the materials. As he read, his brow furrowed involuntarily.

Overlap, overlap. This word wasn’t used casually; it naturally had a scientific basis. It could be confirmed that the spacetime coordinates of the two worlds were infinitely approaching.

And spacetime coordinates were unique, which led to the appearance of interdimensional projections on Blue Star during the process of the two worlds infinitely approaching.

From this, it could be deduced that once the spacetime coordinates overlapped, objects with the same coordinates in the two worlds would repel each other, or even replace each other.

For example, if two people happened to exist on the same overlapping spacetime coordinates, because of the uniqueness of spacetime coordinates, the two people couldn’t exist at the same time. Therefore, after the overlap, one of the two people would randomly disappear.

By the same principle, the same applies to other things. That’s why Zhai Yingyi said that ‘after the two worlds overlap, one of the two worlds might randomly disappear.’

Understanding this possibility, Yan Yunqing felt a chill run down his spine for a moment. He wanted to find flaws in this possibility to reassure himself that it couldn’t happen, but the report in his hand was too detailed.

Yan Yunqing himself was an art student and knew nothing about spatial theory, but the report in his hand was too detailed, even with specific data supporting each deduction. It was difficult for Yan Yunqing not to believe it.

Truly… a terrifying future.

Yan Yunqing fell into deep thought, looking at the final conclusion of the report. After a long while, he closed the report. “I understand what you mean.”

“So, the reason the government found me and wants to cooperate with me is to prevent the spacetime coordinates of the two worlds from overlapping?”

Yan Yunqing wanted to give a wry smile. Was the government a bit too trusting of him? How could this sound so fantastical? Preventing two worlds from overlapping… good heavens, was this the Sylvia’s prophecy about saving the world?

Wait? Sylvia?

“The world will be annihilated, and only the skyfaller can save it all.”

Yan Yunqing suddenly remembered Sylvia’s prophecy. Looking at Zhai Yingyi’s resolute face, he suddenly understood: So, the “skyfaller” didn’t refer to the players, but to him and the government?

So, “the world will be annihilated” referred to the overlapping of the two worlds, which would result in the disappearance of one world?

Yan Yunqing couldn’t help but sigh at Sylvia’s powerful ability. According to this timeline, Sylvia had already predicted his negotiation with Zhai Yingyi today more than a thousand years ago?

Worthy of being the last high priest of the Age of Gods.

“Yes.” Hearing Yan Yunqing’s words, Zhai Yingyi knew that he had understood the document in front of him. He couldn’t help but feel closer to Yan Yunqing, at least if their predictions were seventy to eighty percent correct, then this mysterious and unpredictable bigshot was one of their own.

“Based on the experimental data obtained by the researchers,” Zhai Yingyi said in a deep voice, “before the game’s internal beta began, the speed at which the two worlds were approaching was very slow. To some extent, it was more like two parallel lines approaching each other for some unknown reason, but there was no tendency to intersect.”

“So the appearance of ‘anomalies’ wasn’t frequent and didn’t attract much attention. That’s why they were all suppressed by official departments.”

If the speed at which the worlds were approaching had been fast before the game’s internal beta began, then the ‘strange phenomena’ and monster projections that appeared around Blue Star earlier should have already happened, instead of waiting until nearly a year into the game’s internal beta.

“And after the game’s internal beta began, the speed of approach began to increase, even accelerating the overlap,” Zhai Yingyi said. “The reason is ‘death’.”

“Death?” Yan Yunqing subconsciously replied, “Whose death? Those sacrifices?… No, you mean player deaths?”

Yan Yunqing’s reaction speed was extremely fast. Since Zhai Yingyi had said that the overlapping speed increased after the game’s internal beta began, it must be related to the start of the internal beta. Before that, the Eternal God Cult had done a lot of those sacrificial things, but the approaching speed wasn’t fast. Therefore, it could only be player deaths.

In “Homebound,” the requirements for players to die and revive are very harsh. Not only do they lose experience and equipment, but they also have a resurrection cooldown. The initial resurrection cooldown was 2 days, and now it’s 1 day.

Yan Yunqing had never understood the meaning of this resurrection cooldown. After all, he could be sure that the existence behind the game was definitely not a person, let alone someone from Blue Star. Therefore, he never understood the meaning of this mechanism, which looked like it was to prevent addiction and to prevent players from becoming overly addicted to the game, confusing the two worlds.

It couldn’t really be just to worry about players becoming too addicted to the game, right?

Hearing Zhai Yingyi’s words, Yan Yunqing quickly associated it with each other, even deducing more.

Yan Yunqing seemed to have his Ren and Du meridians opened in an instant, and his thoughts became clear.

The existence behind this game—there’s more than one!

Before this, his guesses were correct. His coming to this world was indeed done by the existence behind this game, but there wasn’t only one force behind this game.

One of them led the game’s internal beta, using players as spacetime coordinate anchors. The intention was obvious: it wanted the two worlds to overlap.

The specific reason was unknown, but it must be profitable.

And the other party, which was the existence that pulled him from Blue Star to this world, was the opposite of the one leading the game’s internal beta. Its purpose was to save this world, or rather, to prevent the worlds from overlapping.

But it must not have enough ability or something else, so it tricked Yan Yunqing into coming, the purpose being to find allies!

This could also explain why the game mission text was full of malice at times, but also mediocre at times, and even occasionally praised him, like two brains fighting each other.

It turned out that they weren’t even in the same camp at all!