It had to be said, Zero Company really did produce talent in abundance.
Notch, Rookie, and Entity 303... these three programmers managed to piece together useful information just from a few seemingly unrelated search keywords.
What was even more outrageous was that the information they deduced turned out to be the actual truth.
Maybe this was the logical thinking ability of top-tier programmers. It was truly astonishing.
At this moment, although Notch, Rookie, and Entity 303 had already sorted out the truth of the matter in their minds, everyone else was completely confused.
"??? How did you even deduce that…"
"So you guys didn't understand it either… that scared me to death, I thought I was the only idiot…"
"I still don't get it. Why would D search for Herobrine… could it be that in your world, HIM also exists?…"
"Can this really work?… Ever since we left the item dimension, I believe every single one of us has been thinking about him all the time… but he hasn't appeared here…"
Among everyone present, Notch, Entity 303, and Rookie definitely held a lot of authority. After all, their abilities were beyond doubt.
Even though the three of them had reached this conclusion, the others still had some doubts about it.
Just as the Necromancer Knight had said, ever since everyone gathered here, all they had talked about was Xu Yuan.
They had all come here because of Xu Yuan, and right now, he was the only thing on their minds.
If their imagination could really turn into Xu Yuan, then he should have already appeared here by now.
As the crowd was in the middle of an intense discussion, only the Ender Queen had yet to speak. Her eyes were fixed straight on Rookie, Notch, and Entity 303, as if she had seen a ghost.
"They figured out the truth just from those few pieces of information?!!"
"Notch and Rookie are one thing, but since when did that idiot Entity 303 become so smart?!!"
Clearly, among everyone present, only the Ender Queen knew the true origin of the real HIM.
It wasn't that she had been deliberately hiding it. For one, she had never thought in that direction. And secondly, she hadn't realized that the origin of the real HIM had any connection to the current situation.
Even though she knew the inside story, she hadn't provided any clues or lines of thought, yet Entity 303 and the other two had managed to deduce the truth just from those search keywords.
Because of this, the Ender Queen looked at the three of them as if they were monsters, too shocked to speak.
Only after a long while did she gradually regain her composure. She took a deep breath, slightly raised her voice, and slowly spoke, "Their deduction is correct…"
As soon as the Ender Queen spoke, the discussion instantly came to a halt, and everyone turned to look at her.
Seeing this, she cleared her throat and said, "The real HIM… was originally born from the imagination of players…"
"In other words… there is indeed such a rule in the inner world…"
Her words were like a reassurance to everyone present, including Notch, Rookie, and Entity 303, calming their wavering hearts.
Rookie let out a long breath and said with a smile, "That proves our deduction has a real basis."
He was just about to continue and lay out the next part of the plan when the Ender Queen interrupted him.
"But…" She paused for a moment, then thought carefully before continuing.
"Can you guarantee that the king we imagine will still be the same as the original him?…"
At this point, she gave a reasonable explanation for her question.
"Back then, the players' imagination did indeed manifest into the real HIM."
"But when he was first brought into existence, he didn't know who he was, where he came from. He knew nothing about his own past."
"At that time, he was just an empty shell."
"Even though the players wrote many stories for him, none of those were his real experiences."
The more she spoke, the tighter her brows furrowed. By now, her delicate eyebrows were completely knitted together. With a face full of worry, she looked at Rookie and continued asking,
"What if what we imagine is also just an empty shell?…"
"If he no longer remembers those experiences, forgets all those past events, even if his figure and appearance are exactly the same as before…"
"Would that kind of him… still really be him?…"
"If that kind of him stood in front of us… would we really be able to accept it?"
The Ender Queen's concerns weren't unfounded. Among everyone present, she was the only one who knew the past of the real HIM.
Although the real HIM had only told her about his origin and hadn't shared his experiences or inner journey, she could still sense his emotional fluctuations from those few words.
At the very beginning, the real HIM imagined by players was just an unknown existence that would suddenly appear behind players while they were mining and scare them.
That was the setting and story given to him by the players, but he didn't follow the path they assigned to him.
He found his own path and wrote a legendary story that belonged to himself.
He gave that empty shell a unique, supreme soul that was revered by countless people.
Xu Yuan was the same.
The real HIM gave him an empty shell and even laid out the path he would walk in the future.
But just like the real HIM, Xu Yuan also found his own path and gave that empty shell a one-of-a-kind soul.
The souls that Xu Yuan and the real HIM gave to that shell were actually formed from all their past experiences.
Without those experiences, would they still be the same people?
The answer was obviously no.
Hearing the Ender Queen's words, everyone's expressions turned serious again, and they all fell into deep thought.
Seeing this, Rookie shook his head and spoke confidently in denial, "I think we're not discussing the same thing."
At this point, he glanced at Notch and Entity 303 before continuing his explanation.
"The conclusions the two of them reached may have misled you a bit."
"Your argument is correct, but what you're discussing is the possibility of recreating a person."
"If we were to imagine a new Xu Yuan, then obviously he wouldn't be the person we know."
"But my plan isn't to recreate him. It's to reassemble him."
At this point, Rookie swept his gaze across everyone present and continued, "Although I still haven't figured out all the conditions for entering the inner world…"
"There is one thing I can be absolutely certain of... love for this world."
"So I'm certain Xu Yuan hasn't truly disappeared. He still exists within the inner world."
"What we need to do is not recreate him…"
"…but bring him back!"