Night World Players

Chapter 4: Reflections of the Past
"The truth of the night world is difficult for even the most knowledgeable sage to know."

"However, according to the current mainstream understanding, the night world is not a single world, but an aggregation of thousands of virtual worlds."

“It is the remnants and echoes left in history after the demise of countless ancient civilizations.”

It seemed that he realized that the confusion shown by Last did not seem fake.

After hesitating for a moment, Hiltina took the initiative to explain.

"Some scholars believe that the power that maintains the existence of the night world may come from one of the original pillars in the legend..."

“Holding the authority of eternal night, the witness and recorder of all civilizations and past history—the Lord of Silence.”

"Therefore, a small number of people who hold special credentials and can freely enter and exit the night world also call themselves "travelers in the dark."

"The illusory world that the traveler enters is the echo of history that reappears in an instant when the eternal night falls, like a fragment of memory that is like a bubble."

Rast had already guessed what Hiltina would say next.

"And the Deep Blue Harbor where we are now is one of the myriad historical echoes gathered in the night world."

"In real history, Deep Blue Harbor was destroyed by a secret divine attack."

……

Listening to Hiltina's explanation.

In Rast's mind, dusty memories revived like a tide.

He is a time traveler.

To be more precise, Last recalled his memories of his previous life on Blue Star about fifty thousand times before the restart.

Possessing the memories and vision of a time traveler... this is undoubtedly a cheat given by God to anyone.

But it is useless to Rast.

In the earliest memories that he could still clearly remember, Last had already been trapped in this Deep Blue Harbor.

No matter what he did in this small port town, when dusk fell the next day, the whole world would be reset to the state it was in at seven o'clock in the evening of the previous day.

And this situation did not change at all after Last awakened his memories of his past life.

Time travel is indeed a very powerful golden finger.

Time travelers can easily get rich by plagiarizing literary works from their previous lives and coming up with creative products.

It is not difficult to rely on the higher vision of a time traveler to develop the scientific and technological level of the entire world, promote the progress of civilization, and become a saint respected by all people.

But all this takes time.

Be it getting rich by being a plagiarist or promoting scientific and technological progress or the development of civilization, these are not things that can be achieved overnight.

Even in the butterfly effect, the butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon rainforest...it would take several days to create a storm on the other side of the sea.

But Rast only had less than a day.

In this short day, he seemed to be omnipotent, but he could do nothing and leave nothing behind.

What's more, simply improving one's social status, becoming a saint admired by everyone, and gaining power, wealth, and beauty...

Last could have done these things in Deep Blue Harbor even without awakening his past life memories.

After repeating this tens of thousands of times, he had already become fed up with it all.

But at this moment, with the appearance of Hiltina, everything finally turned around.

"Night World"

He was somewhat familiar with this word.

Rast thought for a long time before he recalled some fragments of memories from his past life that were buried deep in his heart.

Before traveling through time, I was working as an employee of a game production team, developing a fantasy game called "Snow Moon Emblem". The Night World is the main content of the paid DLC "Shadows of the Past" that is expected to be launched with the main game.

In the design draft, the night world is a place similar to the entrance of a dungeon.

Allow players to have something to do after completing the main storyline of the game. They can just play around in the night world when they are free, and increase their game time and daily activity.

In addition, the function of multiplayer online play can also be realized through Night World.

Even the online function can be taken out and sold separately, so it's not without reason that the Qilin Bow is ineffective for the planner.

Unfortunately, as far as he can remember, Last didn't even have the chance to see the game he made go online. After working all night, he was reincarnated into another world the day before the first closed beta test of "Embroidery of Snow and Moon".

Because the game has not been officially launched yet, and Last is not responsible for the copywriting and main art of the plot and illustrations, but is just a hard-working programmer.

Apart from some of the content in which he was directly involved, Last only had a general impression of the plot of the main game of "Snow Moon Emblem" at the meeting when the project was first initiated, and he did not understand many details.

However, just some fragmented impressions, coupled with Hiltina's description, were enough for Last to understand his current situation.

Those lost civilizations, the remnants of history and fragments of memories that reappear when night falls.

The so-called "reflections of the past", or in the words of the previous life - a game copy that can be restarted infinitely and repeated infinitely.

This is what has troubled Rast for hundreds of years.

The truth about Deep Blue Harbor.

……

Such thoughts are only fleeting.

Soon, Rast spoke again.

"So, the long sequence you mentioned earlier."

"And the towers and shadows, are these the special abilities you possess as night travelers who can freely enter and exit the night world?"

Xiltina nodded: "That's right."

"To be more precise, only by stepping onto the long steps of the sequence can one be qualified to enter the night world."

"There are currently 17 known long-level sequences. For example, she is a dancer in the "Shadow" sequence and has reached the third level."

"Some people also call this long staircase "the devil of the mind."

Hiltina squatted down and pushed away the black iron mask that had cracked into two pieces on the face of the corpse.

"If I'm not mistaken, she should belong to a secret force in reality that is hostile to me. She used special props to track me and followed me into the night world."

"The Shadow Sequence's abilities are very restraining to me. If I hadn't been careless and suffered a mental backlash from you, this would have definitely been a tough battle."

Hiltina rummaged through the masked woman's body for a while before she stood up again.

"The ability you just manifested, which can counter the dancer's spiritual bewitching power, should be an extremely rare sequence of long steps if I am not mistaken."

"The Tower - Lantern Bearer."

Hiltina stared at Rast: "I originally thought that you were a historical figure projected from the night world, a native of the reverberation."

"But now it seems that I was wrong."

In the night world, there are hidden rules.

If an external night traveler reveals any information about the night world to the projections in the remnants of history, not only will the information itself be distorted, but the discloser will also be severely punished.

But at this moment, Hiltina had not suffered any backlash from the rules.

"You are not just a vague reflection of the past in the echoes of the night world."

"Instead, they are genuine humans."

(End of this chapter)