27: Chapter 27 Electronic Ghost 27: Chapter 27 Electronic Ghost Mo Fei felt a surge of excitent upon seeing this, the feeling sounded quite similar to his own.
No, rather, it should be said it was even more severe than his own.
At least he wasn’t influenced by the black dragon when he was awake, only in dreams and in the ga would he start to lose grip on reality.
Mo Fei: “What happened later?”
Shadowfang: “I was afraid that eating raw at would make sick, so I went to the hospital.
After so checks, it was incredible to find that I had digested all that raw at without any issues, and the doctor even told after the dical check-up that I was in exceptionally good health, devoid of the usual work-related ailnts most office workers suffer from.
He even asked if I exercised regularly, like running or sothing.
Yet in reality, I’m quite a hobody; other than going to work, I lie in bed playing gas.”
Mo Fei: “What did you feel at that ti?”
Shadowfang: “Fearful, yet excited.
I felt like I was undergoing so sort of evolution, thinking that if I continued, I might even gain superpowers.
But at the sa ti, I worried whether my sanity would be affected by the ga, and whether I would end up turning into so kind of beast.
Because I definitely felt a change in my ntality.
I started to beco more aggressive, sotis while taking the elevator to work, I would stare at the person standing in front of , imagining how it would feel to pounce and take a bite out of their neck.
I went to a psychologist, but it was of no use.
I tried to maintain human living habits, but still could not control being influenced by the ga.
To be honest, I got frightened, to the point where for so ti, I dared not log into the ga.”
Mo Fei: “How are you now?
Do you still feel the sa?”
Shadowfang: “Not anymore, I’ve recovered now.”
Mo Fei: “Ah, how did you recover?”
Shadowfang: “Because my character died.
You know the person called Het Nesingwary, right?”
Mo Fei: “The legendary dwarf hunter?”
Shadowfang: “That’s right, the bastard.
He heard that a powerful black panther had appeared sowhere, so he ran into my territory and initiated a quest called ‘Hunt for Shadowfang’.
I could have survived by laying low, but then many adventurers took on the hunt and helped the dwarf search for .
They looked for for three consecutive days, and I freaked out and logged off.
I thought I would be safe after just lying low for another three or five days, but the mont I logged back in, I was caught red-handed.
Damn it, that bastard didn’t even use any pet-taming skill, just shot straight in the head with a single bullet.
I was a Level 50 rare elite, about to evolve into a boss, and then it was all gone, just like that.”
Mo Fei: “And after your character died, you recovered?”
Shadowfang: “Pretty much.
That night was the last ti I dread about ‘Shadowfang’.
In the dream, I saw it standing on the edge of a jungle, looking towards the pitch-black forest in the distance.
Right then, I knew it might be the last ti I’d see it.
I thought it would say goodbye, rub up against , or exchange a aningful gaze with or sothing, but it didn’t.
It just stood there, not even showing its face, staring into the distant forest.
When I couldn’t help but call out to it, it suddenly ran into the jungle without looking back and disappeared.
The ungrateful bastard…
After that, I never dread of it again.
For a long ti afterwards, I felt an emptiness inside , it was uncomfortable, but gradually I ca to terms with it.
If I hadn’t died back then, I don’t know what I might have turned into now.”
Mo Fei keenly caught a subtle implication in the other’s words.
“So you think ‘Shadowfang’ was an independent entity, not an avatar of yourself?”
Shadowfang: “Yes, as strange as it may sound, I hadn’t thought about it before, but it was not until that mont that I suddenly realized it was not one with .
Maybe it was at the beginning, but as ti passed, the real and Shadowfang had grown more and more different, gradually becoming two beings, or a person and a beast, if you prefer.
Although usually, we overlapped, that night, I saw its true form.”
Mo Fei: “Then what do you think it really is?
Your subconscious?”
Shadowfang: “No, definitely not.
At first, I thought I might have gotten too deep into character, you know, the actor who played the Joker, what was his na again.”
Mo Fei: “Phoenix?”
Shadowfang: “No, I’m talking about the Joker in The Dark Knight.”
Mo Fei: “Heath Ledger?”
Shadowfang: “Yeah, exactly, him.
It’s said that he committed suicide because he got too into the role and couldn’t get out.
I started to feel that maybe I was also getting too into the role, really thinking of myself as a black panther.
But then I realized that wasn’t the case.
I’m very clear that I’m a human, not a black panther.
I can clearly differentiate between the two.
When I act like a black panther, it’s more like being possessed by so kind of program, or maybe a spectre.
This spectre controls to do those things.
In reality, I beco a bystander, just that I can sync up with the black panther’s emotions and the feedback from reality, so I can’t clearly distinguish the difference between the two.”
The more Mo Fei listened, the more alard he beca; this description was almost exactly like his own experience.
Mo Fei: “Are you still playing the ga?”
Shadowfang: “I am still playing.
I can’t help it, the ga is too much fun and I just can’t put it down.
However, I’ve started a new account, a thief leader.
I’ve found that as long as I don’t consciously role-play, I won’t be affected.
I’m already over level thirty and I haven’t dread about this new character even once.
So I’m guessing that this phenonon might be related to role-playing.
We consciously play a virtual character in the ga, and after playing for a long ti, that virtual character becos real.”
Mo Fei nodded to himself.
This theory could barely explain the conditions for the birth of ‘virtual life.’ Indeed, he had always been playing the Black Dragon Lord Morphis.
Its habits, speech, and deanor were completely different from his real self, seemingly bestowed by him during his live streaming.
However, that still didn’t explain what the black dragon truly was.
Mo Fei: “What do you think these things are?”
Shadowfang: “Who knows?
I’ve made many speculations and guesses.
It might be so sort of intelligent AI that the computer program simulated based on our previous behavior patterns, like a program that loads into our brains, affecting our thoughts and changing our behavior patterns.
It could also be so kind of supernatural Electronic Ghost…
Or maybe it’s the awakening of a second personality within oneself…
But none of these guesses explain why the body also changes along.
If we’re talking nonsense, it could also be so kind of system.
If Shadowfang hadn’t died, maybe I’d have awakened superpowers right now…
This ga is too eerie.
It’s likely that it will never be confird in the future, and I don’t intend to delve deeper into it.
I’ve actually let this go.
The main reason I’ve told you so much is that keeping it inside has been really bothering .
Talking about it with soone who has had similar experiences is sowhat like making peace with my past self.
But as for you, your situation is much more serious than mine.
You’d better be careful.”
Mo Fei: “I’m not as bad as you.
At least up to now, I haven’t been affected in reality.”
Shadowfang: “That’s what you say, but what was troubling was just a beast, a rare elite.
What’s troubling you is a black dragon, a world boss.
Although there are no dragons in reality, according to the ga’s official monster descriptions, shouldn’t dragons be very cunning, extrely violent, and good at disguising themselves?
Maybe they also possess so kind of supernatural power.
You ntioned it has been communicating with you in your dreams and trying to get information from you.
Maybe it has been able to control you for a while now, just hiding itself.
Therefore, I think it’s best for you to be cautious.
My experience can serve as a reference, but you better not take it too seriously.
Whether it’s good or bad, I feel that everything happening to you is going to be much more serious than my case.”
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