MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 166 Main and Supporting Characters? Plot?

In the early morning, sunlight streamed through the gaps in the curtains, falling on the girl who was sleeping on the floor.

She slowly opened her eyes, her empty and indifferent gaze fixed on the distance.

In the distance, a faint roar of a beast could be heard, hollow and strange, as if it came from the abyss.

Just hearing that sound sent shivers down the girl's spine, and a vague sense of instinctive fear crept into her heart.

Fang Zheng switched to observer mode, detached himself from the girl's body, and turned his gaze toward the direction from which the roar came.

He activated the teleportation function and instantly arrived above the distant street.

The streets were bustling with people in the early morning, but their faces were blurred, like graffiti.

A figure carrying a briefcase paced anxiously at the traffic light, muttering repeatedly, "Oh no, I'm going to be late! I'm going to be late! Why isn't the green light here yet!"

As traffic flowed by, the sound of the wind repeated itself, and inside those paper-mache-like cars sat equally indistinct passengers.

The vehicle drove through the street, disappeared at the bend, and then reappeared from its starting point, repeating the cycle endlessly.

Above this eerily terrifying street, which resembled a poorly made model, a pitch-black rift slowly opened, and the roaring sound came from within it.

The crack was like a hole in space that had shattered, through which a faint, pale light could be seen.

Fang Zheng approached the crack from the sidelines.

"A completely new map?"

In this world, which is like a real-time rendered game, no matter how many millions of light-years, billions of light-years, or even an absurdly large 10^100 billion light-years he randomly chose to travel through, all he saw was utter darkness.

The only thing that exists is a small, exquisitely built city within a radius of less than one kilometer, with fewer than a hundred humans, a "world" that resembles a low-quality game instance.

If we consider such a world as a game, this seems perfectly reasonable.

Due to insufficient computing power, the map is only rendered in real time, and the world outside the line of sight is not refreshed.

Beyond the boundaries of this map, there are either invisible walls and textures that cannot be crossed, or there is pure nothingness.

The only way to access other game dungeon maps is for players to either exit and re-enter the game, or to use portals or similar structures.

"So, is this black crack a portal in this map that leads to other maps?"

Still maintaining his observer mode, Fang Zheng flew directly towards the black rift.

However, as expected, his perspective came directly from the other side of the dark crack in the air.

This is easy to understand for Founder.

Anyone who has ever played a game should know this common sense.

That is, things like portals in games are never real "doors".

Whether playing mobile games, console games, PC games, or even cloud games, their computing power is limited, making it almost impossible to render the entire map comprehensively at the same time.

The player-controlled character does not actually "move"; the so-called movement or teleportation is just a trigger mechanism.

Triggered at the code level, it directly modifies the coordinate system of the player-controlled character, just like Founder's teleportation command, allowing the character to directly arrive at the relevant location.

If the destination to be teleported to is not within the loaded map, then after triggering the portal, the original instance scene will be saved and a new instance map will be loaded.

Clearly, Fangzheng, which cannot interfere with anything in spectator mode, does not meet the conditions to trigger the generation of a new map.

Without generating a new map, this black rift, even if it is indeed something like a portal, is just a black texture appearing in the air.

After observing for a while and still nothing came out, Fang Zheng returned to Kurosaki Ichigo's house.

After re-entering the girl's "inside", Fang Zheng watched as Kurosaki Isshin called Kurosaki Ichigo to ask for leave.

Afterwards, the father and son left the Kurosaki family home with a girl named Nishiyama Rin, heading towards her house. Kurosaki Isshin walked at the front, wearing his family's hospital white coat, seemingly trying to increase his credibility.

His eyes were dark, and he seemed lost in thought; his steps were slightly heavy.

Kurosaki Ichigo followed closely behind, holding Nishiyama Rin's hand.

The girl's body trembled slightly, revealing her inner fear.

She gripped Ichigo's hand tightly in return.
About two weeks ago, she was involved in a sudden car accident on her way to the park after school, when she had arranged to go with her classmates.

The students' screams and the screeching of brakes faded away together.

After her death, her spirit separated from her body, and for a period of time she felt extremely lost.

She didn't know she was dead; she just instinctively wanted to return to familiar places, to the home where she used to live.

After regaining consciousness in the middle of the night, she felt terrified and tried to get home as quickly as possible.

However, when she noticed that no matter how hard she ran, she could never leave a very small area, and when she found a strange chain on her chest that hurt when she tried to pull on it, she finally realized that she was dead.

For more than half a month, she was unable to communicate with anyone, unable to go home, and could only stay at the place where she died. She cried alone for a long time before she could barely accept her life as a ghost.

But even after so many days since her death, she herself had no idea what was going on at home.

How are Mom and Dad? Are they saddened by their own death?
How is life now?

How is your dog at home?

After being inexplicably resurrected and having to return home, her feelings became very complicated; she felt both happy and excited, as well as fearful and terrified.

She was afraid that her parents would never accept her, the child who had come back from the dead.

After all, in various movies and animations, those who die and come back to life are considered monsters.

Ichigo Kurosaki sensed her fear and gently comforted her, "Rin, we'll take you home now. Your father and mother will surely be happy that you've been resurrected. Don't be afraid, we'll explain everything to you properly."

"Mmm." A faint, kitten-like response rang out. The girl simply lowered her head and followed forward without saying a word.

At this moment, Fang Zheng remained inside Nishiyama Rin's body, observing everything from her perspective and watching Nishiyama Rin act on her own, without making any unnecessary interventions.

"If this world is truly a real-time rendered game, then, aside from Ichigo Kurosaki and Rin Nishiyama, are the beings controlling the other dozens of humans some kind of player? Or is it something else entirely?"

"If they were players, what abilities would they possess? Or would they rely on something, such as a computer program, to control these characters?"

"What are their motives for controlling these characters? Is it just for fun, or is there another purpose?"

The blocky characters don't care whether they are players or NPCs.

Whether this world is a game or not, whether there is some kind of "reality" outside the game, whether the Kurosaki Ichigos you see are NPCs, or whether the people controlling other characters are "players," it doesn't matter at all.

After all, it's just a random thing that keeps providing answers.

However, as a human being, Fangzheng was somewhat interested in such things, so he wanted to observe them.

If all the characters except for Kurosaki Ichigo and Nishiyama Rin are controlled by the players behind the scenes, then logically speaking, could Kurosaki Ichigo and the girl Nishiyama Rin, who are not controlled by the players and may even be beyond their control, be "main and supporting characters" in some sense?
"Main or supporting characters" used to advance the main storyline or certain side quests?
After all, if important side quests or even main NPC characters in the game's storyline are controlled by players, the storylines, whether good or bad, that the writers and planners have worked so hard to design will be ruined by the players who are stirring up trouble, causing the story to stall.

In other words, it is highly likely that Rin Nishiyama was originally supposed to remain a ghost, serving to provide players with various hints or interact with the main and supporting characters, thus leading to the subsequent plot.

"Then what was the plot that should have progressed?"

"After I resurrected him with a healing potion, will the plot, which should have progressed, be stalled, or will it undergo entirely new changes?"

Founder is very interested in this.

(End of this chapter)