Chapter 558 - 215: Version 4.8 Update, Blue Star Is Also...?

"You couldn’t reach him?"

The crowd quickly gathered around Sun Yu. Although they could tell from his worried expression that the situation was grim, everyone couldn’t help but ask him about contacting Shen Fei.

"That’s right..." Sun Yu replied, his voice heavy. "I can’t reach him."

And with that, the crowd once again heard the bad news they feared. When Shen Fei left, he had told everyone to contact him through Sun Yu if anything urgent came up. But no one had expected that now, with this sudden, strange event unfolding, the one time they desperately needed to contact him to find out what was happening... he would be unreachable. This was a scenario no one had ever anticipated.

"I can’t reach Li Xiaohong either!" From within the anxious crowd, Shen Fei’s sister, Shen Yue, suddenly shouted. "She said she was going to look for my brother!"

The key figures of Qing City had all gathered around Sun Yu. Shen Yue realized that not only was Li Xiaohong not present, but she was also unreachable. Furthermore, she knew that before contact was lost, Li Xiaohong had said she was going to find her big brother, Shen Fei.

"Um..." As soon as Shen Yue finished speaking, someone in the crowd spoke up timidly. It was the Intelligent NPC Tang San, standing quietly behind Zhang Qiqiang. "Number Zero has also lost contact. After the full Version 4.6 update, she said she was coming to find Boss Shen Fei..."

At this moment, everyone present was either a high-ranking member of the Tourism Management Office or one of Shen Fei’s relatives and friends, so they were all aware of Tang San’s identity. Previously, everyone had simply thought of Number 0 as a special slave girl. Now, hearing that the unique girl was in the same situation as Li Xiaohong, they were all stunned once more.

"What do we do?"

The sudden turn of events plunged everyone into a stunned silence. Before, when Shen Fei was still reachable, everyone knew he was powerful. With him around, they all felt confident. But no one had ever imagined a day would come when Shen Fei was completely out of touch. Now, faced with the completely unexpected Version 4.8 update, everyone finally realized that without Shen Fei, they had no peace of mind.

"Are we really all fake?" Everyone was frowning in contemplation. Finally, Mrs. Shen, who had devoted herself entirely to agriculture and provided vast amounts of food for countless people, asked in a voice filled with disbelief.

"It looks that way," Shen Yue answered her mother with a frown. "It turns out we aren’t real either!"

[Version 4.8 Update Accelerating!]

[Blue Star Game World Link Activated!]

[Opening Game World Channel!]

[Other Game Worlds can be reached via the Game World Channel!]

[Blue Star Game World Connection Established!]

As Shen Yue spoke, everyone’s eyes were involuntarily drawn back to their personal panels. Just now, with the Version 4.8 update, they had discovered something incredibly shocking. According to its description, it seemed—no, it was certain! Blue Star was also a Game World!

Is the world virtual? Are humans just programs? Are so-called history and the laws of physics all artificially set by ’someone’?

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

The moment the Version 4.8 update hit, countless people froze in shock. And many were reminded of something: before the apocalypse, a number of great physicists had turned to theology in the latter half of their lives. They all came to believe that an invisible hand was setting and controlling the fate of humanity—people like Newton and even Great Xia’s own Yang.

With the Version 4.8 update, everyone suddenly realized it was all true. Humanity, and the very world they lived in, was actually considered a Game World. Humans were just like Intelligent NPCs—a special kind of being that had suddenly been granted intelligence!

"I can hardly believe it!" As everyone stood in silence, Huang Yi, who had rushed over from the Divine Capital to confirm the information, couldn’t help but voice what was on everyone’s mind.

Humanity has a recorded history spanning tens of thousands of years and once proclaimed themselves the children of destiny. But now, with the Version 4.8 update, they were suddenly told that the so-called Blue Star was also a Game World! Anyone would find such a revelation utterly unbelievable.

However, Huang Yi, having come from the Divine Capital, had personally accompanied Shen Fei to witness players who had inherited National Treasure Divine Artifacts log back into the Game World. Looking at the great rift that had once again been torn across the sky above, Huang Yi knew with certainty that this chasm was identical to the channel displayed on the player login screen—the very one that connected two Game Worlds.

Before, he had viewed the connection between Game Worlds through a game screen. Now, Huang Yi never imagined that with the Version 4.8 update, the human world—reality, Blue Star itself—would also be pierced by such a connection.

Though it was hard to believe, Huang Yi slowly voiced his questions. "Does this mean that once this game channel stabilizes, we can go directly through it to enter other Game Worlds? Has Blue Star become Earth Online?"

"Correct."

Huang Yi had asked his questions not expecting an answer. But he never imagined they would be answered, and by someone no one had expected—the Intelligent NPC, Tang San.

"Blue Star is also a Game World, but it’s the most special one..."

SWISH!

As Tang San spoke, everyone’s gaze snapped toward him. Before this moment, they had always considered the intelligent NPCs and bosses inherited from the game to be special...