Chapter 74.1: Reality (1/2)

Bai Liu put down his pen after talking about his guess. The pen rolled on the table twice before reaching Mu Sicheng who had no expression on his face.

Bai Liu’s attitude was still plain and he didn’t seem to feel that he said anything terrible. Finally, Bai Liu looked at Mu Sicheng who was numb all over and sincerely added, “Of course, this is just my personal opinion. It might not actually be the case.”

The narrow rental house fell into a long silence. Only the wind occasionally brushed by Bai Liu’s fingers, blowing the piece of paper on which he wrote the truth of the world.

It was midsummer and the sun shone in brilliantly from the window behind Bai Liu. It was already noon and they could hear the noisy cries of the cicadas and the noisy honking of cars outside the window.

It was just that these visual and auditory sensations that gave the world a real feeling instantly became black and white to Mu Sicheng. It was just like Bai Liu sitting at the desk and watching him quietly and intensely against the light. He receded in the wavy data-driven multidimensional lines, disappearing into the slit of his closed eyes.

The moment Bai Liu put down his pen, Mu Sicheng felt his ears were ringing. He seemed to be breathing falsely for a moment. Reality was a game? He did everything he could to keep this promised land away from where his despicable desires existed but it turned out it was just a game.

Mu Sicheng slumped down in the chair, the back of one hand against his eyes while the other hand hung down. He remained silent for a long time.

Bai Liu didn’t bother him.

Some time passed before Mu Sicheng sneered and asked in a hard tone, “Bai Liu, I wonder if you are making up such a terrible thing to convince me to participate in the league with you. Is this fake? It isn’t true, right?”

“Most of the real things in this world are terrible or else where would we get the material for playing games?” Bai Liu got up, folded the paper where he had written these words and put it into a book. Then he turned back to Mu Sicheng.

Mu Sicheng stared at Bai Liu.

Bai Liu shrugged. “It seems you are reluctant to accept it, so emotionally, I think I should give you some buffer space to escape and accept it. This might not be the case. There are still the first and second possibilities.”

Mu Sicheng, “……”

What was the difference with him saying directly that it was the third situation? Mu Sicheng sat paralyzed in the chair for a long time before he stared at Bai Liu blankly. “Bai Liu, if the reality where we live is just a game then where is the real reality? Is there a real reality? What is real to us? Why aren’t you scared by this game-like reality?”

Bai Liu wasn’t stunned by Mu Sicheng’s bombardment of questions and pondered on them.

“I’ve been asking myself what reality is since I was a teenager and what matters most to me.” Bai Liu answered. “Apart from my best friend, most of my peers can’t understand me. Later, I found that they might not think about these questions all their lives and can live well in such a false reality.”

“It doesn’t matter if reality is a game or real. Believe me, for others, it has no effect on them. If I have to interpret it from an objective idealistic perspective, a human’s objective perception of the being and the world constitutes the logic chain of human values. As long as ‘I’ am real and what ‘I’ pursue is real, that world is real to ‘me’.”

Bai Liu calmly declared, “It doesn’t matter to me if this world is a game or anything else.”

“As long as human currency exists, my desire for money won’t be extinguished. This is my truth.”

“If you can’t find your meaning for the time being, would you like to try using mine?” Bai Liu picked up the key hung behind the door and stared at the dazed Mu Sicheng with sincerity. “You can try to pursue visible currency. For example, the 500 million points total for the championship team.”

“Then you might be able to use money to buy the truth you want.” Bai Liu opened the door. “With 500 million points, I think you can buy a planet to create the type of real world you want.”

Mu Sicheng’s expression distorted as he remained silent for a moment. “Bai Liu, have you really never participated in an MLM scheme?”

He was once again persuaded by this madman’s strange logic!

“So what is your answer?” Bai Liu raised his eyebrow. “Will you participate in the league?”

Mu Sicheng gritted his teeth. “I will participate!” Then he asked quickly, “Still, we need five players right? How are we going to participate?”

“You don’t need to worry about that. I will solve it and just wait for my notice.” Bai Liu turned his head and asked Mu Sicheng, “I’m going out to eat hotpot with my friend. Do you want to come with me?”

Mu Sicheng, “……”