Soon after, a player wearing only a pair of grey underpants slowly walked past Alex, passed through the village gate, and left the village.
Alex's eyelid twitched again.
The phone was already on flight mode, cutting off any contact with the outside world, and yet the game was still running normally and smoothly.
This game was abnormal, really abnormal.
Alex frowned, and some issues that he had previously ignored suddenly came to mind.
Peace Village alone is already this big. The village, the crops outside the village, and the mountains and forests outside the village, combined, already cover an area that far exceeds the total area of many mobile game worlds. Moreover, what makes up these things is not just a collection of textures. They can all be touched and destroyed. And this is just Peace Village. In the World of Spirits, there are many novice villages like Peace Village. Is this really just a game that is only 3G in size?
And the villagers in the village, are they really just as simple as the intelligent NPCs he previously thought?
Intelligent NPCs, can they be this intelligent?
And each one is so intelligent?
The two siblings Ethan and Emma, with whom he has had the most contact, give him the feeling that they are no different from real people. Even the most advanced intelligent robots in the world cannot be this intelligent, right?
He doesn't know if future science will be able to achieve this, but current science is definitely unable to do so!
Since none of this can be explained by science, then...
Alex's eyelids twitched a few times.
Could it be that some kind of mysterious power has descended upon the world, giving birth to this game?
Or perhaps this so-called World of Spirits is not just a virtual game world, but a real world?
Or perhaps it was an alien civilization that was far more advanced than human civilization that, for some reason, created this game on Earth?
For a moment, countless thoughts flashed through Alex's mind.
This is an era of information explosion. On the internet, there are countless novels about time travel, rebirth, mythological invasions, and spiritual recovery.
As a bookworm for over ten years and a creator of internet literature who is partial to this genre, has Alex never seen a pig run even if he has never eaten pork?
He has even fantasized more than once that if he could be like the protagonists in the novels, reborn, time traveling, or living in an era of mythological invasion and spiritual recovery, that would be great.
However, as a sane adult, he knows full well that novels are ultimately just novels, and the worlds in them all come from the fantasies of the novelists.
These are all false, and cannot be taken as real. If you take the world in a novel seriously, then you are truly a fool.
This world is cold, and there is no way that any supernatural power could exist. This is the perception of almost everyone in this world, and Alex previously believed the same.
But now, an incredible scene that cannot be explained by science has appeared right in front of Alex, constantly impacting Alex's perception of the world over the years.
After all, Alex is not an ordinary person. Having read countless fantasy novels, his ability to accept such unusual things is much stronger than that of an ordinary person.
He quickly came out of his shock and confusion.
He fell into deep thought.
Instead of fear, he even felt a sense of excitement and anticipation.
If what he suspected was true, and this World of Spirits was actually a real world, or a game designed by an alien civilization that was far more advanced than human civilization, then...
Alex's heart was burning with excitement. He had no time to admire the beautiful scenery of the mountains anymore, so he got up, ran all the way down the mountain, started the car, and drove all the way to the county seat.
While driving, his excitement slowly cooled down, and Alex thought of more things.
Just from the signal alone, he could not be completely sure of some of his earlier guesses, and he would have to try some other things.
For example, could his character in the game be manipulated by other people?
In normal games, anyone can control a character after logging in.
If his character in the game can be controlled by others, it means nothing.
But if his character cannot be controlled by others, it can undoubtedly prove once again that this game is extraordinary!
Alex drove to the small shop run by his parents and stopped in front of the shop.
"Dad, come help me with a favor," Alex shouted to his father in the shop as soon as he got out of the car.
"What is it?" Alex's father walked out of the shop a little puzzled.
"Let's talk inside," Alex pulled his father into his own shop, and didn't let go until they entered the back room.
The back room was where the goods were stacked, and no outsiders would come in.
The puzzled look on his father's face deepened. His son's behavior today was a bit abnormal.
"Help me play this game." Alex took out his mobile phone and logged in to the World of Spirits. After logging in successfully, Alex handed the phone to his father.
"What are you doing? I don't play games." Alex's father glanced at the screen of Alex's mobile phone and shook his head. He was in his fifties and had no interest in these gadgets that young people like.
"Dad, you don't need to play for long, you just need to try it, and that's important to me!" Alex said with a sincere face.
"Important?" Mr. Alex was a little puzzled. It's just a game, what could be so important about it? He always felt that his son was acting strange today, a little abnormal. Could it be because he had been heartbroken and suffered some kind of shock? If that was the case, then it would be trouble.
Thinking about this, his heart sank, and he began to resent his son-in-law a little.
You introduce someone so unreliable, can't you introduce your brother-in-law to someone more reliable?
"Yes, it's very important," Alex nodded vigorously, with a serious expression on his face.
Mr. Alex sighed inwardly. His son must have been under some kind of stress. In this situation, he couldn't continue to irritate him, so he had to go along with him.
"Okay, you don't need to play for long, right? Give me your phone, I'll play for you. By the way, how do you play this game?"
"This is walking, this is turning direction, and this is..." Alex explained the simplest controls to his father and demonstrated them on the spot before handing the phone to him.
Mr. Alex took the phone and tried to operate it according to what Alex had just taught him.
"Huh, why isn't there any response? Could it be that it's frozen?" Mr. Alex tried to control the character, but no matter how he swiped the screen, the character in the game world didn't react at all, motionless, just like it was really frozen.
Alex stood next to him and tried to reach out and swipe the screen of the phone.
The game character immediately turned around and looked away, and the screen image also rotated 180 degrees.
Alex moved his finger away, and Mr. Alex continued to try.
The character on the screen remained motionless as before, as if it had frozen.
Alex then pointed the phone's front camera at his own face and asked Mr. Alex to continue trying to control the character.
The character on the screen remained motionless, without any reaction.
"Hey, how come this is happening? You can turn the screen, but why isn't it responding?" Mr. Alex's face was full of surprise.
Although he never played games and had never understood the game World of Spirits, he also sensed that something was unusual.
Alex took the phone from his father's hands and said with a smile, "Dad, this game comes with a lock screen mode. Once this mode is turned on, only the owner of the account can play the game. Even if someone else gets the phone, they won't be able to control the character in the game. I think it's pretty interesting, so I came to you to try it out. Isn't it amazing?"