I, the screenwriter, have experienced a resurgence of inspiration.

"!!"

Suddenly appearing at an altitude of 10,000 meters, Tan Moli trembled with fright and desperately grabbed Weng Yang's arm. The latter was also startled and quickly grasped his companion's hand to give her courage.

"The love of friendship".

The monk Merlin glanced at the two of them, chuckled, and waved his hand. The clouds parted, and the surrounding stars twinkled with different colors of light.

"The starry sky is dedicated to you, my lovely knights."

"You just said, 'The world is the debris of God,' what do you mean by that?"

Chen Xi pressed on relentlessly, but the latter pressed down on his white beard and explained gently:

"Gods cannot be looked at directly, cannot be understood, and cannot be observed."

"Messengers of the Outer Gods, no matter how vast the world you live in, in the eyes of the 'gods,' you may just be a piece of skin, a fallen hair..."

"How is this possible?!"

Chen Xi couldn't help but exclaim – although scientists have not yet detected the boundary of the universe, there is no evidence that life exists on other planets besides Earth.

If the planet she lives on is just an insignificant piece of skin...

Does life then still have any meaning?

"Look."

Merlin parted the clouds, gesturing for them to look down:

Inside the castle, people were laughing and chatting, clinking glasses, and plates were filled with freshly grilled steaks.

Inside the cowshed, the cow let out mournful cries before giving birth to a blood-soaked calf.

Fleas clung to the cow's hide, sucking its blood, and its belly was swollen from its feast, resembling a ruby.

Chen Xi didn't understand why Merlin wanted to show her this.

Weng Yang seemed to be deep in thought: "Are you saying that the gods are oxen, and we humans are the worms on the oxen's bodies?"

"No, the gap is even bigger than that."

The fog in front of Merlin gathered and dispersed, and the surrounding scenery changed again. This time, it seemed that they had fallen into a pit where they couldn't see their own hands in front of their faces.

"Sorry, there is no light here."

As soon as Merlin finished speaking, the surroundings lit up immediately.

To their surprise, they found themselves in a large, boundless space.

This place resembles a factory, with countless enormous pipes through which spheres are being transported.

The ground beneath my feet was transparent, like stepping on an invisible piece of glass, and something was moving beneath it.

Countless tubes intertwine, and spheres of varying sizes move within the "tubes".

Grayish-white, dark red, deep purple... these spheres are destined for an unknown destination.

The group looked up and saw an even larger tubular structure in the distance:

The surface is pitted and grayish-white, with some parts peeling off, and pieces of debris falling off without making a sound.

……

……

Weng Yang stared at it for a while, then his expression changed:

"This is……"

"These are cells."

Chen Xi turned to look at her.

"Those pipes."

Weng Yang pointed into the distance: "Those are blood vessels, and those spheres are cells. They are flowing. This is... this is the interior of a living organism. We are inside a living being."

Tan Moli covered her mouth with her hand, feeling terrified and somewhat nauseous.

Vascular endothelial cells.

Red blood cells.

leukocyte.

She had observed these cells countless times under a microscope during biology class.

In high school, they all used microscopes to examine paramecia, oral epithelial cells, and onion skins.

But no one has ever considered what humans look like in the eyes of those cells.

Just like people living on Earth, walking, going to work, taking the subway.

But has anyone really thought about this?

Could the earth also be something, a living thing, something bigger that will move in the future?

All three of them felt a bit nauseous, a psychological aversion stemming from the attempt to alter their perceptions.

……

[Player's exploration value has reached 55%]

[Sanity level is decreasing... 98%, 93%, 82%... 76%...]

[Warning: Your sanity is dropping too quickly. Please leave immediately!]

[Player Weng Yang's current sanity: 66%]

[Player Chen Xi's current sanity: 72%]

[Player comments on Jasmine's current sanity: 53%]

"We are onion cells—everything is meaningless, human existence has no meaning."

Blood began to seep from the corners of Tan Moli's eyes, and her expression was one of strange frenzy.

"We are dandruff...living is only for dying, dying, dying, dying, dying, dying, dying!!"

"Jasmine, don't listen! Don't think about it!"

Blood began to seep from Weng Yang's ears. She felt everything around her shaking, and the cells began to change, turning into strange, grotesque human figures.

Chen Xi acted decisively, punching Tan Moli, who had the lowest sanity level, into unconsciousness, then gritted her teeth and looked at Merlin:

"Stop talking!!"

……

……

Merlin stood beside them, his expression calm, as if he had seen this many times before:

"I don't know what these things are called."

His voice echoed in the space: "But this is the relationship between the world and the gods."

He pointed to the grayish-white structures in the distance that were peeling off—those structures were slowly falling away.

"I believe that God is a giant composed of countless small worlds."

Merlin slowly explained: "When a person is active, they bleed, lose hair, and shed skin flakes."

"The same goes for gods. Just as humans don't remember the flakes of skin they shed, gods are even less likely to care about any particular world."

He raised his head, his eyes filled with helplessness and melancholy.

"Our world is a piece of skin that has been forgotten by the gods, fallen and deprived of nourishment, and is heading towards death."

"My dear friend, Arthur, discovered this."

"Our world has lost its nourishment and is crumbling little by little."

"He asked me for a solution, but I was powerless to help. In the end, we found a way to delay death in a forbidden magic book—time looping."

"We have trapped the entire continent in a fixed cycle."

"But the magic can only sustain the period from King Uther's death until Arthur comes of age..."

"To protect his people, Arthur tried again and again, trying to slow the world's decline, trying to appeal to the gods, trying to cast dark magic..."

"In the end, he personally turned his people into immortal, indestructible ghosts."

Arthur is Wojtigan?!

Is Wotigan Arthur?

This isn't right!

The corpse sitting on the throne in that castle, is that King Arthur's corpse?!

So when Arthur died, Wojtigan died too?

Weng Yang felt as if a red-hot iron rod had been inserted into his brain, constantly churning it, and his sanity was plummeting.

"So, we are on the... dander of the gods."

Merlin looked at her and nodded.

"And this piece of skin of Great Britain is dying," he said. "It has lost its nutrients. It should have fallen off, should have decomposed somewhere, and returned to a larger cycle, but it is stuck and forgotten."

This analogy caused several people's SAN values ​​to plummet.

— In the face of grand narratives, humanity appears so insignificant.

Merlin looked at the group, his eyes filled with amazement:

"Outer God messengers, your resilience amazes me."

"You may possess the aura of divinity, but it is not enough."

"Only King Arthur can save this continent."

"Those strange dragons have already attracted the world's attention."

"This is the last cycle. After tomorrow, everything will be destroyed."

"I'm sorry, the shattering of our world will bring disaster to your world."

"But we have no other choice."

"Your world is just a slightly larger piece of debris."

As soon as he finished speaking, Merlin's figure disappeared as if blown away by the wind.

In the blood vessels above their heads, countless red blood cells rolled around in the tubes, some breaking apart and then quickly being engulfed by other cells.

White blood cells are crawling on the tube wall, and they are engulfing each other.

Chen Xi and Weng Yang were practically covered in blood, with blood seeping from every pore of their bodies.

Cognition collapses, reason is corrupted, and every cell in the body seems to have its own consciousness, screaming to escape the body.

[Sanity level is decreasing...]

[Warning: Your sanity is dropping too quickly. Please leave immediately!]

[Player Weng Yang's current sanity: 47%]

[Player Chen Xi's current sanity: 43%]

[Player comments on Jasmine's current sanity: 53%]

Main Quest: Find Merlin and ask him about King Arthur's whereabouts to save this continent from imminent collapse. (Quest failed; the small world is about to crumble.)

—That is, at the same time, all the players who were still alive received a system notification.

With his flesh and blood mangled, Weng Yang squinted to make sense of his surroundings and discovered that she and Chen Xi had returned to the Stone Sword Square.

The earth began to tremble.

The stars overhead rotate, day and night alternate, and time becomes a virtual existence at this moment.

In the square, the phantom images of buildings floated above the ruins, and the earth began to transform into particles of light, slowly dissipating—

The player standing inside the light particles couldn't even scream before disappearing with them.

The world is collapsing.

They could even see the outline of the Earth beneath the collapsing darkness.

"Draw your sword! Draw your sword!"

The surrounding players were desperately running away.

Tan Moli regained consciousness in a daze and saw the two people covered in blood. She immediately frantically pulled out medical supplies.

Chen Xi dodged Tan Moli and, with all her might, shouted at Weng Yang in front of her:

"Draw that sword! Draw that sword!"

"You, knight, King Arthur!"

"quick!!!"

She staggered to her feet, dragging Weng Yang towards the Holy Sword as if drunk. Weng Yang understood Chen Xi's meaning, and a surge of boundless power suddenly erupted in his eyes—

Why? Why? Why?

Why should she die along with this corrupt world?!

Why should she die like this?!

Why is it that only King Arthur can save the world?

Why should she need King Arthur's approval to become a true knight?!

By what right can gods so easily decide a person's life or death?

By what right does Merlin condescendingly judge the world she lives in as nothing more than "a slightly larger piece of shavings"?!

She doesn't want to.

She doesn't want to.

She wanted to protect everyone, she wanted everyone to live, and she wanted the world she lived in to be forever prosperous and healthy.

She wanted to see Tan Moli always happy.

She wants everyone to be happy.

Then, with her teammates providing cover, the girl placed her hands on the holy sword:

Anger drove her.

She came to pull out the sword.