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Chapter 469: Self-Justification Interpretation

“The GP judgment frame of the prologue is different from that of the official chapters, and the judgment of the prologue is obviously more relaxed.

“How should this be explained?
“You can think that this is Nitiantang deliberately increasing the difficulty of the game in the official chapters, but if we look at it from a plot perspective, it can also be explained as: the character we control in the prologue and the character we control in the official chapters are actually not the same person?

“The character we control in the prologue is actually a more skilled and experienced hunter, so his action judgment frame is more relaxed; the formal chapter is just the opposite, we control a novice hunter, so the judgment frame is stricter.

"That is to say, when we looked at the meditation basin, we actually entered a time loop, forgetting our past memories and even our fighting skills, and returned to the day we came to Charlton.

“This cycle is not the character’s memory, but some kind of divine power.

“That’s right, it’s the power in the game that keeps resurrecting us, that’s the power of the Ancient God!

“If you experience the game carefully, you will find that we actually have two different ways of resurrection in the game: one is to resurrect at the gas lamp in the normal process, and the other is to resurrect at the entrance of the illusion when entering the illusion of the Moon School.

“Obviously, this corresponds to two different divine powers.

“In other words, we were originally the lucky ones chosen by the ancient god. The ancient god was actually manipulating us to achieve his own goals, but he just messed up.

“Then let’s think about this for a moment, who is this ancient god who keeps resurrecting us in Gaslight?
“I think the answer is actually pretty clear, it’s Sasra.

“We know that once you gain the authority corresponding to an ancient god, you will become his follower. And the path of the character lying to become an ancient god has always belonged to Sassara, so in the follower ending, after we kill Ilonak, Sassara will appear at the end to pick peaches.

“Sasla has been guiding us to improve our spiritual vision, gradually gaining the authority of the Eye of the Ancient God through lying or other means, and his ultimate goal is to hunt down Ilonak and become the new god who rules Charlton City.

"Then who is the ancient god who resurrected us in the illusion of the Moon School? Is it Sasla?
"I also thought it was Sasra at first, but when I think about it, it's not. Because it's not in Sasra's interest to resurrect us. We all know that Mel holds the authority of the Heart of the Ancient God and restrains Sasra. So how could Sasra support us to hunt Mel and gain the power to resist Him?

"We can actually find the truth here from the books of the Moon School: In fact, the one who constantly resurrects us in the illusion of the Moon School is Meier. He doesn't actually want to resurrect us, but He has no choice because the entire illusion itself is in an endless cycle, and He must continue to maintain this cycle.

“We know that although the three ancient gods have a mutually restraining relationship in terms of power, their paper strength is completely different.

“Ilonak is the ancient god with the most faith, so his power is also the strongest. Although Sasla restrains him in terms of authority, he dares not confront him head-on and can only use the protagonist as a tool to achieve his goal.

“And Mel’s situation was even worse, because his authority was directly restrained by Ilonak, and Ilonak was searching for him all the time, so he could only hide.

“That is to say, the Moon School used everyone’s minds to create this illusion and established a close connection with the Moon Goddess, and Mel voluntarily stayed in this illusion to avoid Ilonak’s pursuit.

“This illusion must exist forever, so it will restart constantly. Even if the player dies in the illusion, he will be resurrected when it restarts.

“And Meier cannot end the eternity of this illusion, because once it ends, He will be exposed and will be hunted down by Ilonak immediately.

“It can also be said that Mel is the most miserable ancient god. He can only reset the illusion again and again in such a dilemma, accept the challenge of the protagonist, and finally face his own death.

"As for our old friend, the Lie Hunter, we can tell from his name that he is obviously a follower of Ilonak. This can be seen from the fact that he is not dead even though his body is covered with weapons, that he has a strong vitality like a hedgehog, and that he hates lies.

"Then the question is, why in the prologue, after we defeated the Liar Hunter, his weapons were all rusted, and we didn't see Ilonak, so we had to stare at the meditation basin to go back to the past? And then in the official chapters, why did the Liar Hunter's weapons look a lot more normal, and we no longer had to stare at the meditation basin, and we could go directly to hunt Ilonak?

"Obviously, all these details are reminding us that the prologue and the main chapters are different. Only when we realize this and do something targeted, can we truly break through this deadlock.

"So, when we bring the weapons of the Lie Hunter to the new reincarnation, it means that we have jumped out of our original thinking mode. The GP skills that we have honed through countless reincarnations are the rewards that the world of Blood of Lies gives us!"

……

These words simply stunned Lilith.

No buddy, what are you talking about?

Why don't I understand at all?

Although Lilith could understand every word that Lao Wang said, and she could roughly match the plots in the game, and even understood most of the inferences, how did he come to this conclusion in the end? Lilith could not accept it at all!
Although what Mr. Wang next door said may seem a bit confusing, his meaning is actually very clear.

In fact, before the beginning of the prologue, the protagonist played by the player has experienced countless reincarnations. In each reincarnation, he became a tool chosen by the ancient god Sasla, constantly dying and resurrecting, and finally came to the cathedral to fight against the Lie Hunter.

During this long process, the weapons on the Lie Hunter corroded faster and became tattered due to the blood of the ancient gods in his body; while the protagonist gained skilled combat experience in the long battles. Specifically, the GP judgment frame when the player controls is very long, and the GP success rate is significantly improved.

However, in this reincarnation, the protagonist does not have the ability to kill Ilonak. After staring at the meditation basin, Sasla also realized this, so he reset time and started a new round of reincarnation.

This time, the reincarnation is controlled by the players themselves.

If the player does not make some special actions in the prologue, it means that the player does not realize that this is a new beginning, and does not realize that the protagonist actually already has very sophisticated skills.

Therefore, in the game, players can only obtain more stringent GP judgments and hone their skills from scratch.

Although it is still possible to achieve the most difficult ending of becoming a god, it is undoubtedly much more difficult.

On the contrary, if the player picks up all the Liar Hunter weapons in the prologue and starts a new game by discarding the weapons near the Oath Basin, it means that the player realizes that this is the beginning of a new round and can naturally use the previous muscle memory.

Therefore, the protagonist in the game obtains the same GP performance as the prologue, and can complete the game in an easier way.

In addition, Lao Wang next door also mentioned that another bug, namely the dynamic difficulty bug, is obviously also related to the game plot.

“Although the dynamic difficulty mechanism of Blood of Lies has been criticized by many, if we think about it carefully, doesn’t this dynamic difficulty just fit the world view of Blood of Lies?

“It’s a crazy world out there, the battle is fast and if you hesitate you lose.

“When you display extremely skilled techniques, the monsters will retreat because of your momentum; conversely, when you are timid and retreat step by step, the monsters will also realize your weakness and become more unscrupulous.

"This is an absolute jungle law, just like a confrontation between a man and a wolf: no matter what, you can't run away. Once you run away, you will only be chased madly. Only by bravely moving forward can you fight for a glimmer of hope.

“As for the bug in the dynamic difficulty system, it is actually very interesting when we think about it carefully: if we avoid the fanatics but still get caught, the dynamic difficulty will continue to rise. But if we deliberately don’t hide and are caught by the fanatics, the dynamic difficulty will be reset to zero.

“You have to know that if you keep getting caught in a situation where the dynamic difficulty is reset to zero, you have to do it deliberately to achieve it. It is basically impossible to trigger it by accident.

“What does this mean?

“The fanatic’s throwing skills are actually forcing us to establish a connection with the ancient gods. In other words, we are passively accepting the knowledge of the ancient gods.

"If we only accept part of the knowledge, we will naturally fall into madness, and the difficulty of the enemies will suddenly increase; but what if we actively embrace this knowledge after understanding everything?

“Then this courage and wisdom to see through everything means that we have become creatures beyond the current dimension and are qualified to become gods.

“In summary, when we can comprehend these two points at the same time, it is equivalent to comprehending the truth of this world. Therefore, it is reasonable for the difficulty of the game to suddenly decrease.

"Finally, let's think about the so-called 'official scam' activity.

"As a small anchor who did not participate in this meal, I want to say a few words from an objective perspective. I don't expect everyone to agree with me, but at least I can provide you with another perspective to think about the problem.

"We know that Against the Heavens must have spent a lot of money to invite these anchors to Coconut City for offline activities. They not only provided food and accommodation, but also paid them a high enough price. But in the end, they just let them familiarize themselves with the game mechanism in advance and pretended to meet them for the first time during the live broadcast.

"Everyone, think about it carefully, this matter doesn't seem to be of any benefit to Ni Tian Tang, right?

“Yes, these anchors pretending to be first-timers did trick some players into joining the game, but if the same amount of money was used for legitimate promotion, it should have a better effect, right?

"It's impossible that Ni Tian Tang went through so much trouble just to disgust everyone, right?

“If this matter doesn’t make sense no matter how you think about it, it means that there must be other intentions behind it.

"Think about it, everyone. In Blood of Lies, the key to finding the two hidden mechanisms and achieving the god-like ending is to realize that 'the character has already mastered GP, so I should be able to continue this GP performance in the official chapters.' Isn't the performance of the streamers in real life similar to this?"

(End of this chapter)