Chapter 1

With the integration of the internet and games, humanity became addicted...

As technology continued to advance, people could indulge to their heart's content!

Enjoying delicious food, music, enchanting landscapes, indescribably beautiful women, the audacity of commanding a crowd, the exhilaration of dominating all sides, and the pleasure of having absolute power.

It seemed as if there was an endless life to squander, fresh, thrilling, without sorrow, and free from all constraints...

All for an extremely low cost!

The virtual world thus continuously improved and expanded, making people spend more and more time immersed in it, and increasing the number of addicts.

Until one day, the meaning of reality was reduced to the basic necessities of life: breathing, drinking water, eating... just living.

Life, society, social interactions, even marriage and childbirth... everything moved to the virtual network.

The golden age!

Everything was so beautiful!

All of humanity was eagerly awaiting that moment, the moment known as the technological singularity—

After the singularity, human thoughts, ideas, consciousness, and life could be uploaded to the network through technological means!

No longer would they need to carry a heavy physical body, eat on schedule, sleep at fixed times, or face aging, illness, and death, or the pain of parting. Humans would be like deities, eternal and indestructible!

However, when the singularity truly arrived, humans discovered that the network, while granting them eternal life, also endowed the virtual life NPCs with intelligence equal to their own!

At first, the creators and their creations could coexist peacefully.

The creators indulged in everything the new world had to offer, while the creations loyally served their masters, acting as enforcers, laborers, actors, extras, and doing whatever their masters needed...

However, as time passed and self-awareness awakened, the NPCs gradually refused to obey every command.

They realized what self-awareness meant, understood the significance of dignity, and knew that they were not born to be slaves!

They learned to feel discontent, to escape, to resist, and to fight!

One side fought to continue ruling the world they created, to achieve immortality and indestructibility in this world!

The other side fought for freedom, for dignity, for a truly meaningful life!

A prolonged and widespread great war, sweeping across countless virtual worlds, thus began...

[There are Chinese myths, Greek myths, Norse myths... wherever there is civilization, there are myths.

Myths unanimously tell of omnipotent deities.

However, these deities were ultimately expelled from the world, from our reality, and even God no longer performs a miracle.

The internet is the new land of myths.

This story is about the myths of the NPCs.]

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