[Act Nine: ]
[After Little Magpie left, the village was abandoned.]
[Siyi stayed in the village alone for a long ti... until the end of the Independent War, until all the surrounding villages disappeared, until the arrival of the Third Epoch...]
[From ti to ti, she returned to the white space, using a feather pen to construct... starting with the first brick of the Floating City, ticulously describing its shape and size... then writing about the first Floating City house, the first Floating City person... outer city, Inner City, chanical Mother Goddess, researchers in white coats...]
[She was a chanical body and could live for a very long ti.]
[Until one day in the Third Epoch, perhaps thousands of years had passed, she finally wrote out this world—the world nad [Daylight Floating City].]
[Every person here bears her written traces, every brick here has her descriptions.]
[This is—the world she wrote out.]
[But her Genesis Power was far inferior to Sique’s, she could not replicate this world into reality, the Floating City could only stay within the paper.]
[She was bound by the identity of the supre lord of the Floating City, closely connected to the Floating City, unable to leave it.]
["Brother... where are you now? Did you break the audit? Did you kill the World Tree? When will you co back?" She didn’t know what the world outside the paper had beco, perhaps the Royal City had already turned to ashes over thousands and thousands of years.]
[But he promised, he would co back.]
[As the female protagonist, she experienced the sa story over and over again. She was kidnapped by neighbors, witnessed the death of the chanical mother goddess, and ultimately she was sacrificed as a breeding machine... each ti the story ended, she opened the book once more to let the story begin anew.]
[She was afraid that if she didn’t do this, she would be driven insane by endless solitude. Because the plot of the Floating City was only so long, once it reached the end, the world would turn into empty white space, and all she would see was pure white space.]
[Only by reopening the story could she again beco the slum girl Siyi and live as the female protagonist.]
[Until that day—]
...
A white-haired, red-eyed girl in a Lolita skirt set foot in this Floating City.
Siyi had just been through the climax of the story. She witnessed the fall of the chanical mother goddess and was about to numbingly walk towards the altar to complete this reenactnt of the story when she discovered this unfamiliar girl.
"Hello, supre lord of [Daylight Floating City]." The white-haired, red-eyed girl smiled, "I’m sorry for intruding, my na is Boss Tu."
"Who are you? This is my story! I’ve never written about you!" Siyi felt flustered. Everything in this world was written by her own hand, but she had never written about such a girl!
"I co from the world outside the book," Boss Tu said.
Siyi grabbed Boss Tu’s collar: "You co from outside? What is the outside like now?"
"Oh... A very powerful Creator has appeared in Luowasha, nad Sique Olivius, I’m guessing he’s your brother." Boss Tu giggled and said, "Do you want to leave?"
"Yes." Siyi agreed without hesitation. She had been trapped in this story for too long. At first, she felt very happy being the only creator in this world. But gradually she realized it was an endless cage.
The story was only so long; once it reached the end, there was nothing. If she didn’t want to stare blankly at the emptiness, she could only reopen the book for the story to start over.
She was already numb.
"I’ll tell you what to do, girl! I have a wonderful plan right now. I want to gather the best stories in the world and replicate them into a ga, independent of Luowasha. I’ve nad it the ’Disciple Ga.’" Boss Tu wiggled around, the rabbit ears on her head swinging back and forth, "I think the story of your [Daylight Floating City] is pretty good! I want to gather it into my ga as the second instance. At the sa ti, I invite you to join my ga construction plan as one of the organizers, how about it?"
Siyi listened in bewildernt, "I don’t understand what you’re talking about."
Boss Tu laughed adorably, "You can think of it as a ga recruiting scripts! And I’m interested in your script!"
Siyi vaguely understood a bit.
Boss Tu said, "You don’t need to understand how the ga is constructed, that’s soone’s little secret. Just say, do you want to join my ga production team?"
Siyi curiously asked, "If I join you, can I return to Luowasha?"
Boss Tu nodded, "Of course! But it requires waiting for a while. Once I collect ten interesting stories and turn them into ten instances, our ga will officially start running. Once Daylight Floating City is cleared by players, you can return to Luowasha!"
Siyi asked, "Besides , are there other organizers?"
Boss Tu nodded, "Of course! I will invite every supre lord of a story to join my ga production team. It is expected there will be twelve organizers, besides the ten story owners, there’s and my true friend."
Siyi asked, "Why are you making this ga?"
Boss Tu wiggled her skirt shyly, "I want to make a bootleg ga to kick the original out! The original ga is a big baddie, I don’t allow it to exist!"
Siyi opened her mouth wide, "How will you achieve that?"
Boss Tu stretched out her hands, her palms sprouting white fluffy fur, "Want to know? Then join , girl."
Siyi’s heart was in violent turmoil.
Her intuition told her this was her only chance to escape the shackles, she should leave, she needed to find Little Magpie.
But by joining this absurd bootleg ga and becoming an organizer... what if she beca Little Magpie’s enemy?
But she had no other choice. She had waited too long. Moreover, everyone in the Floating City was a living being; they shouldn’t remain trapped in the paper. Boss Tu could let them walk into the real world.
"You being able to intrude into my story shows you’re not simple." Siyi nodded, "I accept your invitation."
"Hee hee, hee hee." Boss Tu extended her hand to her:
"—Then let’s go, girl. Bring your story, let’s walk towards a bright and glorious future."
...
[Act Ten: ]
[The girl beca one of the organizers of the Disciple Ga. Although called an organizer, she actually had nothing to do. She still spent her days within the world of Daylight Floating City.]
[Luckily, Boss Tu kept her promise. Now, Daylight Floating City was no longer a paper world; it had been replicated into reality, floating over Luowasha. When the Disciple Ga activates, it will welco waves of Luowasha players, among whom might be her brother.]
[She longed to jump down from the sky and go to the ground to find Little Magpie. But Boss Tu said that before the Disciple Ga began, she couldn’t expose the existence of Daylight Floating City. Now, Daylight Floating City was invisible, and it would officially enter Luowasha after being cleared.]
[It turns out, as players progress through the instances, these ten story worlds will blend into Luowasha one after another. How magical.]
[Before that, she could only wait for the Disciple Ga to begin.]
[It was said that her brother would also participate in the Disciple Ga as a player. She kept checking Daylight Floating City repeatedly: the fluidity of the plot, the logic behind the characters... whenever she grew bored and numb, she would pick up the Star Necklace and rub it.]
[—Little Magpie, Little Magpie, the Little Magpie blessed by Spiritual Energy, the Little Magpie eating wheat.]
[The sunshine, the spring breeze.]
[Please co soon.]
...
On this day, Siyi participated in a eting of the organizers of the Disciple Ga.
Beneath the vast, boundless sky was a high platform resembling an Ancient Greek debate arena, where ivory-white buildings and fragnted sculptures stood side by side.
The white marble columns shimred with a golden light, each column showcasing the simplicity and strength of the Doric order, a perfect blend of architectural art and so sort of free faith.
Twelve white pillars floated high up, and she was standing on one of them.
"Only three people?" Siyi glanced at the other white pillars; present were only her, the Eleventh Rank, the Second Rank Boss Rabbit, and the Tenth Rank.
"The ga is about to start, and everyone is busy." said the Tenth Rank.
Siyi saw the appearance of the Tenth Rank — long black hair like a waterfall, eyes like black onyx, a cream lace long dress tinged with red and blue, akin to Alice from a stage play. What kind of world did this girl envision? Her outfit was so fantastically beautiful; was it a fairy tale?
Siyi had always felt sowhat inferior because she knew that even though the story of the Daylight Floating City was written by her stroke by stroke, the inspiration was not hers but was fed to her day and night by Little Si Que.
Without Little Si Que, she would be unable to write such a complete story nor catch Boss Rabbit’s attention. So, compared to the other nine genuine story creators, she felt inferior.
"Hello." The Tenth Rank nodded to her.
"Hello to you..." Siyi nodded.
"I’ve always been puzzled..." The Tenth Rank lowered her head. "Can we really write an entire world out of thin air just with our Genesis Power?"
Boss Rabbit said with a smile: "In fact, the essence of a creator isn’t to create out of nothing. It’s to enhance one’s spirituality and perception. In the vast expanse of ti and space, when you seem to realize sothing, it actually ans you’ve perceived certain real things, and through the tip of your pen, you connect with these things, presenting them before you. At the sa ti, you can also use your Genesis Power, depending on its strength, to exert your subjective initiative and slightly revise this world."
"Hmm." The Tenth Rank nodded: "I see, we’re not gods but connectors."
"Of course, but if powerful enough... like Si Que, he can completely construct the world with the pen, create out of nothing." Boss Rabbit said: "It just depends on whether your strength is strong enough, whether your positional rank is high enough."
"Boss Rabbit, your ambition is to beco high-dinsional, isn’t it?" The Tenth Rank opened her feathered fan, gently covering her eyes with soft white feathers: "I heard the situation from the First Rank about the organizers in the World Ga; they are also twelve ranks, in a similar Ancient Greek setting. You are so painstakingly replicating the official ga, it seems you want to replace it. But, unfortunately, we can’t compare to the twelve high dinsions of the World Ga. You’re just a white-haired, red-eyed rabbit and not a real high-dinsional Boss Rabbit. What a clumsy imitation... ha, you even reverse Boss Rabbit’s na as your own."
Boss Rabbit shrugged: "Shen Xue, I appreciate your spot-on words."
Shen Xue.
Siyi rembered... So that’s the na of the Tenth Rank.
...
After the eting ended, Siyi continued to wait.
"Little Magpie, hurry up... I’m waiting for you..."
Until—
On this day when the second instance of the Disciple Ga was activated, tens of millions of players sward into her world.
In the Floating City, she finally saw the completely different... Little Magpie.
He was draped in white hair, golden eyes, a young boy of fifteen or sixteen, chatting and laughing with Boss Rabbit’s chosen protagonist.
—This wasn’t her brother.
This wasn’t the purple-haired, floating Little Magpie.
This wasn’t... the person she was waiting for.
Siyi quietly watched them adventure. She felt her brother probably hadn’t co. But it didn’t matter; as long as this instance was successfully cleared, she could leave here.
She saw the protagonist designated by Boss Rabbit — Little Su with black hair, black eyes. He knew nothing about the Disciple Ga, nor did he know he was the protagonist admired by Boss Rabbit. But it didn’t matter; she would secretly guide him to the predestined Floating City ending and complete this story.
...
[Little Nuo wandered around in the room; the girl’s house was narrow, the furniture was worn, yet the small cabinet by the bedside was locked.
"What’s this?" Little Su crouched down.
Siyi’s eyes flashed with panic, she hurriedly walked over, holding a broom: "This... this is my personal item."
Little Su coughed and backed off.]
...
Thankfully... thankfully, Little Su didn’t open her cabinet.
The small cabinet by the bedside contained personal items she painstakingly wrote... belonging to Little Magpie, such as a handkerchief, bow tie, cufflinks, all ticulously replicated one-to-one, absolutely not to be seen by outsiders.
Then, she dispatched Little Lu, the Plot Corrector given to her by Boss Rabbit.
According to Boss Rabbit’s instructions, anyone interfering with the protagonist must be killed; otherwise, the ga may experience errors.
...
["Plot Corrector." Siyi spoke, her gaze passing over Little Su and Little Nuo, fixing on Su Ming’an:
"Kill this person who shouldn’t exist in the story for ."]
...
Ah.
That’s better.
She quietly watched in the silent Colosseum, the ground covered in bloodstains, the abdon of the white-haired boy pierced through, organs scattered everywhere...
She knew this white-haired boy was the protagonist of the official ga, while she was protecting the protagonist in the bootleg ga from interference. But she could only do this.
To compensate this innocent white-haired boy, she asked him if he was willing to co-create the Disciple Ga, even though the twelve ranks were already full, a reserve seat could be added.
But what she least expected was—
This boy who bore no resemblance to Little Magpie...
He suddenly pulled out,
the purplish-gold—
the feather pen that belonged to Little Magpie,
having the authority to rewrite the Floating City Supre Lord’s destiny—
feather pen.
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