Projection closed his eyes, as if he was thinking. After a while, he slowly spoke: "Original, there is no time, no space, only a chaos.

A consciousness awakens in chaos.

He is the origin of everything, the arrival of Tao.

So he called himself Daoli.

Taoist opens up space in chaos, and time is also generated.

He looked at the empty space and felt it was too boring. So he began to create life to make this empty space more colorful.

We are these lives that were originally created by him.

As the original creature, Daoli gave us powerful power to serve him and assist him in creating all other lives, to the entire world.

This is the upper world where the player is located.

But one day, Daolin suddenly got tired of this world.

He felt that he had no experience in creating this world and was so sloppy that he left many things that he was not satisfied with.

So he decided to repeat the process of creation and build a bigger and better world.

But reconstruction means that the whole world will be emptied, and everything except himself, including us will be destroyed."

"Just like the refresh you have made to the lower world?" Chen Xiaolian interrupted, "You all like to play this set from the master to the servant."

"Yes, it's like refreshing. But it will be much more thorough than refreshing." Projection ignored Chen Xiaolian's sarcasm: "Our strength all comes from Dao Lin, so we can't resist at all. We who are unwilling to disappear can only beg for hard work, but it is useless.

Fortunately, one of us, before Daolin makes a decision and is about to cleanse the entire world, proposed an alternative solution - Daolin can create a fictional world superimposed on the original world.

That world is not a real existence in the strict sense, but it can reach the "maximum reality". It is like a sand table.

After absorbing the first creation experience, the world created by Daoli is perfect this time.

The world is vast and vast, full of all kinds of creatures.

Daoli divided his power into two equal parts, the divine body and the divine consciousness. The divine body was left in the original world, while the divine consciousness entered the sand table world.

In this world that he also created, even if he only has half of his power, he is still God.

And when he entered the sandbox world, we divine servants temporarily managed the original world for him.

But as time goes by, we find that... Daolin seems to gradually become dissatisfied with the world he created again.

He is perfect, but the world he created is not. He believes that an imperfect world cannot deserve a perfect self."

Speaking of this, Projection sighed softly: “So, we have no other choice.

Daoli is our god. In the primitive world, we cannot resist him, but when he leaves his original divine body and only uses his spiritual sense to enter the sand table world, he cannot sense what happened in the primitive world.

Of course, we can't really kill him, but we can use the sand table world to seal him.

Because half of his power remained in the divine body of the original world.

We seized the power in the body of God, relying on it to activate a refresh, completely clearing the sandbox world.

And his spiritual sense was completely dispelled during this refresh."

"But it still exists." Chen Xiaolian stared at the projection: "This is the first refresh in history, earlier than you who destroyed the first generation of GM. I think before this refresh, there were no players in the upper world, and there were no dungeons in the lower world, right!"

"You are indeed very smart." Projection nodded: "Whether it is a player or an awakened person, you have been exploring the meaning of the existence of the dungeon, and have had many speculations, but no one has ever gotten a real answer.

Only God himself can destroy God.

We cannot control all the power of Daolin, but can only control it to a certain extent.

Therefore, in the lower world, we use the power of the divine consciousness to build up copies. In the upper world, we use the power of the divine body to build systems and various redemption projects.

Whether it is skills or equipment, all of this comes from the power of the divine body. All the monsters in the dungeon come from the power of the divine consciousness.

Every battle between players in the dungeon is a collision and annihilation between two forces of the same origin.

Although this is just a drop in the bucket compared to all the power that Dao Lin has. But it doesn’t matter. A thousand years are not enough, only ten thousand years. Ten thousand years are not enough, only ten thousand years... Dao Lin has fallen into a deep sleep, and we have endless time. One day, the power in the divine body and the divine consciousness will be destroyed and exhausted. At that time, that is, when he truly disappears."

"This is why you don't mind the existence of awakened people." Chen Xiaolian had already guessed this answer vaguely, but was just waiting for the development team to say it in person: "What you need is just a carrier that carries the power of the divine body. As for whether this carrier is a player or an awakened person, there is no difference for you."

"Yes. So for the awakened people, the system also allows their access and provides redemption for them." Projection nodded: "There is only the Zero City. We cannot allow a space that we cannot monitor, especially since it cannot be affected by refresh."

"Because you are afraid that powerful enough power will appear." Chen Xiaolian glanced at Chen: "Just like the first generation of GM, the power that reaches the critical point will become the eye of the wind, and this means that the spiritual consciousness is out of your control and recondensation. The refresh every thousand years is to restart everything, and it will become the germination of the force of the eye of the wind!"

"You do know a lot." Projection nodded: "This is the last and most critical means."

"I also guessed why you never came in person after that. You should not be afraid of danger, because we can at most destroy the body of the angels, but we cannot harm you, as God's servants, in the upper world.

Only your gods, or those who have obtained the power of divine consciousness, such as the first generation GM.

You will never come in person if you beat him to death because you don’t have enough staff!

The previous time when the first generation of GM rebelled, most of you should have been killed in the lower world, and only a few of them remained in the upper world.

I think, since the divine body is stored in the upper world, then you need to start the refresh mechanism and retain a certain amount of manpower in the upper world or higher world.

And this number should be almost the same as the number of people you have left. Is it right?"

"Very correct." Projection admitted Chen Xiaolian's speculation without any hesitation.

Chen Xiaolian let out a sigh of relief.

Finally, all the questions were answered. Although most of them had long been formed in the patchwork of various fragments, they were not truly complete until now.

Then next...

"Now you have told us everything, what are you going to say next?" Chen Xiaolian stared at the projection: "Leaving us should not be just to tell us a story."

"Of course not." Projector shook his head: "I admit that we don't have enough power to destroy you now. So maybe, we can reach a compromise."

"Tell me?" Chen Xiaolian put his hands on his chest and looked at the projection with a smile: "Would you completely give up your control over the lower world?"

"Of course this is impossible." The projection's answer could not be answered by Chen Xiaolian's expectations: "Totally give up control means that we can no longer guarantee the dispersion of our spiritual consciousness. But if you can make a promise and no longer enhance your own strength, then we can also cancel the refresh mechanism accordingly, and... delete the identities of all awakened people in the system."

"Oh? I didn't expect you to be so easy to talk to." Chen Xiaolian was shocked and looked at the projection.

He had long known in his heart that the development team appeared in the form of projection to negotiate with his own side.

But unexpectedly, they actually offered such a generous condition as soon as they came up.

The cancellation of the refresh mechanism means no longer need to rely on Zero City as a shelter for the awakened ones.

And delete all the identities of awakened people...

"What you mean is to keep the original memory, rather than refreshing a new identity like you were killed under normal circumstances, right?" Chen Xiaolian asked.

"Of course not." Projection shook his head: "Memory, even the ability you already have, can be allowed to keep if you want, but you don't need to participate in the dungeon. Of course, you can't get points and redeem them from the system."

"Um……"

Chen Xiaolian touched his chin and thought quickly.

If you think about it carefully, the development team is not suffering any losses in terms of the awakened person.

The objects they originally used were just players. And the awakened ones were created by GM.

The development team knew this from beginning to end, but they just took advantage of the existence of the awakened ones.

It doesn't matter whether they have them or not.

If an agreement can be reached, then GM will no longer create awakened people, and the development team will no longer include awakened people in the dungeon recruitment. For the lower world, the player's "invasion" is equivalent to no longer exist.

What really affects the whole world is the development team's promise to "cancel the refresh mechanism".

This is the most important thing!

Once there is no comprehensive refresh, no matter whether it is ordinary people, awakeners or loopholes in this world, including GM, they will no longer face any threats.

"How do you plan to ensure this?" Du Wei watched coldly for a long time, and suddenly asked: "It is entirely possible that you will suddenly start a refresh while we are not in Zero City."

"Don't worry about this." Chen Xiaolian shook his head and explained without waiting for the projection to speak: "GM has viewed the database. The refresh command must be executed after all copies have been cleared. Although he has never understood why the development team sets such restrictions.

I think this is because the copy comes from the power of the divine consciousness, and the essence of refreshing is actually a comprehensive collision between the divine consciousness and the power of the divine body. If there are still copies in this world that have not been fully passed, it will lead to an imbalance of the collision. Am I right?"

Chen Xiaolian’s last sentence was asked to projection.

The projection did not answer, just nodded.

"Although GM cannot detect the situation inside the copy, he can monitor the existing total number of unfinished copies at any time. As long as the development team can ensure that the old copy is generated immediately after the old copy is completed, so that the total number of copies will be dynamically maintained on a safe digital line, then there is no need to worry that they will suddenly start the refresh." Chen Xiaolian said this and looked up at the projection again: "But I really think it's a bit strange, you seem... to be a little easier to talk to."

He was still a little suspicious and worried.

Before appearing in projection, the development team clearly tried their best to kill themselves and their group. But the change in attitude was also too fast.

Things that go too smoothly are often easily reversed.

Who knows what traps are hidden in the protocol given by the development team?

"You can also choose not to accept it." Projection smiled for the first time: "We just made a suggestion, the final decision, with you. Or... If you need time to make a decision, you can also end this copy first, return to the safe Zero City, and discuss it slowly before giving us a reply."

As his words fell, a figure quietly appeared in the Pope Hall not far away.

Wearing a black robe, holding a slender scepter in his right hand and a shield in his left hand.

It is the final boss in this copy, the Pope.

Chen Xiaolian was stunned.
To be continued...