What? We’ve been kept in the dark this whole time.
A trillion chips hidden inside a giant lunar crater, a civilization sandbox built by humanity: it turns out to contain super-advanced technology capable of overturning the world.
And everyone still thought it was just an ordinary game.
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You log off, and the game’s voice rings out from your phone.
The world never stops. Your empty shell is still there, in that world.
“Is this a game? If the character dies, the body is still there.”
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Leaf talismans… What are those?
Spatial jump bombs?
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In the virtual world, people of the future are treasure hunting when they accidentally uncover a world-shaking secret:
Everything here can be cashed out.
Some mystical cultivation techniques and sci-fi blueprints can be extracted into reality.
Knowledge, abilities, and entire civilizations can all be cashed out.
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Someone finds a talisman, and the first leaf talisman is born.
When aliens attack, the first spatial jump bomb emerges from a delivery package, saving civilization.
The whole world goes wild.
Even more thrilling, the natives of the virtual world are awakening and want to borrow physical vessels to see the real world. Some people welcome them; others want to cause trouble.
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Only later do scientists discover the most terrifying truth:
Humanity provides the imagination, and the natives bring it to life.
The moment an imagined idea enters this world and lands upon one of its natives,
it ceases to be mere imagination.
And can you guess where it all began?
This is only the beginning of humanity’s first cross-dimensional cash-out.
