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"Too strange……"
“'Narrative layer'…”
“I…I am in my own 22nd-century encyclopedia, the one that claims to know everything and is the most advanced.”
"And we couldn't find even the slightest explanation of this unfamiliar term!"
"This shows that this concept has far surpassed all the technologies of our future world!"
"That Big Bad Wolf..."
"Just how incredible and terrifying is the thing he invented!"
Doraemon's face was filled with the unique and profound shock of a robot from the future when faced with something of a higher dimension and unknown that even future technology could not fully comprehend.
.......
The World of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf
“...'Higher dimension'?”
"'Narrative Layer Human World'?"
"This...what the hell is this?"
"I...I, Slow Sheep, have lived for so many years and read so many books about science and physics."
"I have never heard of such a strange and completely incomprehensible word before."
“'Narrative'...isn't that something we only use when writing essays and telling stories?”
"How did it become a 'world' that we can walk into?"
Slow Sheep Village Chief felt that his brilliant mind, at this moment, seemed to be less than enough.
"Yes, village chief."
"I don't understand it at all either."
"What strange place did that Grey Wolf's unpredictable 'bye-bye machine' send them all to?"
"Lazy Sheep... he should be alright, right?"
Pleasant Goat's face was also filled with confusion and worry.
"Who cares about 'narrative' or anything like that!"
"In short, Lazy Sheep must be in a very, very dangerous place that none of us know about right now!"
"We must quickly find a way to bring him back safely!"
Boiling Sheep's face was filled with anxiety.
The so-called narrative-layered world is the world inhabited by real humans.
[True Narrative Humans possess the ability to create countless worlds at will. To True Narrative Humans, all your worlds are virtual, fictional characters existing only in anime, comics, novels, and movies!] III.
Chapter 123: All the heavens and myriad worlds are two-dimensional virtual worlds, and the worldview of the myriad worlds has collapsed!
The world of Ling Cage
"...Fake?"
"What a joke!"
“We…we, the Lighthouse, shed every drop of blood and sacrificed every comrade in order to survive…”
"All the desperate battles we fought to protect humanity's last, humble spark..."
"In the end, it was all just a boring, fabricated story casually written by some 'higher-dimensional' being that we can't understand at all?"
Mark's face was filled with the extreme look of utter shock and disbelief that comes from having all his beliefs and struggles completely and utterly denied.
"It turns out that those on the ground are filled with evil Devouring Beasts."
"Or are we, the self-righteous, barely surviving survivors..."
"We are all just small, insignificant pawns used to drive some boring story forward in the writing of so-called 'true narrative humans'."
"All our pain, all our struggles, all our delusional 'hopes'..."
"It's all meaningless!"
Bai Yuekui's face was also filled with a deep sense of powerlessness.
...
The world of The Three-Body Problem
"...Virtual?"
"We... our great Trisolaran civilization, in order to continue, undertook a struggle that lasted for four hundred and fifty cycles, filled with suffering..."
"The price we paid, the entirety of our civilization, was to cross that cold, despair-filled four light-year distance..."
"Were they all just a false 'setting' casually 'created' by a higher-dimensional being that we cannot comprehend?"
"This...how is this possible!"
For the first time, the cold, absolutely rational mind of the Trisolaran leader stirred up a colossal wave called "panic," a wave powerful enough to overturn everything.
"...I understand 'three, four, seven'."
"This is the real, final, and most ruthless 'dark forest'."
"We and the Trisolarans are like two pathetic insects trapped in the same small fish tank."
"We have used all our wisdom and courage to engage in what we thought was a great life-or-death struggle concerning the survival of the entire civilization."
"But little did we know, beyond that fish tank, which we could never reach."
"There has always been a pair of enormous eyes filled with the arrogance of a 'creator'."
"They are watching us with great interest, this ridiculous, fake, and insignificant performance."
Luo Ji's face was filled with a look of utter shock.
...
The World of Super Beast Force
"...was...was created?"
"What a joke!"
"All the battles we fought were to protect our respective universes, to stop the endless war between Hades and Snow Queen..."
"Our powerful alien energy is enough to travel between the seven parallel universes..."
"So all of this was simply 'written' so easily by some 'person' we don't even know?"
Huo Linfei's face was filled with disbelief.
"Then...then doesn't that mean..."
"Our destiny, which is filled with sorrow and strife, is predetermined from the moment we are born."
"Is it just a script that the 'author' casually arranged for us, one that we can't resist, in order to make the story more 'exciting'?"
Tianyu's face was also filled with despair.
...
The world of Academy City
"...A...fake character?"
"What...what nonsense are you spouting!"
"We are living, breathing human beings!"
"We have our own thoughts, our own feelings, and our own 'personal reality'!"
"How could we possibly be fictional characters from anime, comics, or novels!"
"This is absolutely impossible!"
Misaka Mikoto's face was filled with an expression of utter disillusionment.
"……what?"
"'false'?"
"All the effort I put in to surpass that damned Academy City's absolute 'calculation'..."
"In the end, is it just another, more advanced form of 'computation' that we cannot understand, a trivial, pre-programmed 'program'?"
"Really..."
"This is truly the worst and most unfunny joke in the world!"
Fear was also evident on Accelerator's face.
........
The world of Electric Boy
“...a 'fake' character?”
“'Anime'...'Manga'..."
"Kirby..."
"What...does what the sky is saying mean?"
"Could it be that……"
"us……"
"All the battles we fought to protect the peace of this city, battles filled with sweat and pain..."
"My courage, full of a sense of justice and an indomitable spirit, is enough to transform me into 'Electric Boy'..."
"Are they all just... just ridiculous, non-existent stories casually drawn up by some unknown, higher-dimensional 'human'?"
Xiao Guang's face was filled with utter shock.
"...Yes, Hikari."
"That's what 'Sky Curtain' means."
"We are not, as we believe ourselves, real, unique, and free-willed beings."
“We are just ‘authors’ from a higher dimension, whom we cannot even imagine or understand, and the little, pathetic ‘characters’ in his writing, each one filled with a predetermined fate.”
“Our ‘world’ is just a small ‘canvas’ that he uses to draw his story.”
"And our 'fate' is just a 'script' that he has already written, which we cannot change no matter how hard we struggle."
"us……"
"It was 'created'."
Kirby's face was filled with a sense of fatalism and helplessness.
[While Grey Wolf didn't actually cross the true narrative layer, he crossed the pseudo-realistic narrative layer. Even so, he genuinely transcended the limits of the universe, physically leaping out of a framed universe.]
If we were to categorize him by combat strength at this moment, he would be at the special single-target level!
This means that it could easily destroy an infinitely large two-dimensional universe! Or rather, an infinite number of observable universes!
Because for him now, destroying a virtual, two-dimensional world is an utterly effortless task!
The world of Naruto
"Destroy...the infinite universe!"
"What...what does that mean?!"
"Is she...a hundred million times more powerful than Kaguya Otsutsuki, who almost destroyed us all before?!"
Naruto's face was filled with incomprehensible shock.
"It seems we underestimated him significantly."
"'Destroying the world' and 'destroying the universe' are completely different concepts from two different dimensions."