In the game, his role was that of an NPC. Outwardly, he was said to be a perfect AI, but if he could understand real-world memes, that realism would be hard to explain.0

Real developers pretending to be AIs interacting with players wasn’t rare in exploitative game companies, but if players started thinking that NPC Chu Guang and that bastard developer Light were the same person, it would ruin the immersion completely.0

He hadn’t dared show his face in front of players for days, afraid that if he did, he would break character and burst out laughing.1

Just as Joey and the other veteran players were beginning to lose confidence in Operation Bodyguard, the covetous gaze that had been lying in wait outside the defenses finally began to stir…0

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Deep in the black underground tunnel, inside a blood-red palace carpeted with fungal mats, Thea stood in the center of the carpet and opened its strange eyes.0

“I found their Mother Body.”0

The spores hovering around it rippled slowly and carried the message to the Main Mother Body.0

But their Main Mother Body’s response was far more violent than expected, as if it had heard something unbelievable. “Their Mother Body?! Those organisms...1