Staring at the blackened screen, Yusaku's eyes darkened slightly.

"Sir Playmaker..." Ai Qingqing said, "The live broadcast has ended. SOL Company... has cut off our live broadcast."

"Well..." Yuzuo's eyes reflected the flashing screen. Hearing Ai's words, he just nodded slightly, indicating that he already understood.

Yusaku's silence and speechlessness caused the air in the basement to gradually become silent, and a somewhat panicked feeling surged into Ai's program.

Fu Lingmeng turned his head and looked at Yusaku and the others.

"Sir Playmaker, what did you want to say to everyone just now?" Ai asked.

Yusaku raised his head slightly, and after hearing Ai's words, he realized that he was still conscious, could still move, and could still speak on his own.

Even if everything I feel at the moment is fake.

"What I want to say is... everything I have experienced as a victim of the lost incident... and what I really think."

"What do you really think?" Ai said, "You can tell us. I've known you for so long, but I still don't know what you really think."

Yusaku was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

It seems that there is no chance to vent. The original audience was the whole world, but now the only audience left is Ai and Bu Lingmeng here.

"I was locked up in that small room and forced to duel in the virtual world day and night. If I won, I would have food. If I lost, I would only get electric shocks and pain. Several times I even had the idea of ​​committing suicide.

"

Yusaku leaned against the wall and slowly sat down, resting and adjusting, "At that time, my thoughts were very simple, that is, pain and despair, and then Revolver appeared and told me to think about three things..."

"Three things?" Ai Lingran said, "Ah! Did you learn it from Zuolun? You never told us!"

In fact, Yusaku said it once on the Tower of Hanoi during the final duel between Revolver and Playmaker.

It was just a slight mention, so Ai had no impression.

"Revolver gave me hope. From that time on, I began to think about victory, and kept imagining the hope of leaving that room. Then that day finally came, and I was rescued from that cage by the police.

…”

"Then what?" Fu Lingmeng looked at Yusaku and asked, "Have you started enjoying your life?"

How is this possible? If Yusaku can really still enjoy his life, then how did Playmaker come to be?

"I thought I had escaped the shadow of the lost incident. I thought that as long as I blended into the crowd, one day my shadow would disappear. But I was wrong. This was just an imagination and did not exist..."

Yusaku sighed, "Every time I thought I was walking out of the shadows, the pain in that cage seemed to envelope my heart and take away the joy of freedom. I thought I was walking out of it, but

Actually no, my heart and soul are still there,

After that, I learned from the newspaper that the main culprit of the lost incident was not arrested, and was not even mentioned. It seemed that the lost incident did not exist, and it turned into a shadow that will forever hang over my heart.

…”

Yusaku raised his head and looked up at the ceiling, "From that time on, I began to crazily acquire all knowledge about the Internet. I wanted to use my own abilities to find out the real culprit of the lost incident, and use fighting methods to eliminate me.

The shadow in my heart."

"So playmaker was born..."

"So this is how Playmaker was born..." Ai nodded.

"I found out that the lost incident was related to the Knights of Hanno. Based on the actions of the Knights of Hanno, Ignis was taken away from them, and even made an enemy of SOL Company. In the end, the leader of the Knights of Hanno, Revolver, was defeated.

I learned that the real culprit of the lost incident has passed away... The pain of the past seems to have disappeared, the haze has gone, leaving me with endless yearning for the future... The story should have been like this..."

"But," Yusaku suddenly changed his tone and continued, "until one day, I knew another truth, a possibility. We, all mankind, are locked in an iron box, unable to break free or escape.

Lost, everything we eat, wear, and use is all given to us by machines and make us feel... It seems that I am still locked in the small room in the lost incident and have never been able to escape.

Even if I was born there, grew up there, and then became a playmaker, I still couldn't escape that room..."

"So you want to leave that room on your own?" Bu Lingmeng asked.

"Yes... I want to use my own power to let everyone leave the small cage that imprisons us. At least, stop being controlled by the machine and let us feel and love..."

"You are indeed the playmaker I know!" Ai said with his hands on his waist.

"But don't you think it's strange?" Bu Lingmeng folded his arms and lowered his head to consider his words and said, "It's a very touching words. If you say it, it will definitely bring many people to your side. However, in

Just when you were about to say these important words, SOL cut off your live broadcast. The timing was just right and you were not allowed to say more important words. Don't you think it's strange?"

"Yes, if you think about it, the time is just right..." Ai looked at Yusaku, "Is there any conspiracy in this... Could it be that King just wants us to appear here and let Master Playmaker

Tell me the first half of what you said?"

Hearing Ai's words, Yusaku frowned.

"If this is really the case," Bu Ling Meng's calm words were mixed with a hint of emotion, "then King is too scary. What exactly does he want to do? What purpose does he want to achieve through us?"

"But no matter what," Yusaku stood up from the ground while holding on to the wall, "No matter what King was planning, all his plans came to nothing the moment we arrived at this room, not to mention we still have this

…”

Yusaku patted the big head of the computer, "We also have this background control system..."

Yusaku believes that as long as he has this, he will be able to tear apart this false sky. There is nothing to fear about King. No matter what King's purpose is, since the backend system is in his hands, he can't make good use of it.

no……

"Without further delay! Let's start quickly," Ai said, "We also want to know what functions it has!"

This computer does not have any signal or any jack, which makes Ai and Bu Lingmeng a little helpless. After all, it is something one dimension higher than themselves. It is normal that they cannot control it.

"Wait a moment."

Yusaku stood in front of the computer, bent down and started operating on the keyboard, staring at the screen. He had played with this kind of old-fashioned computer when he was a child, but he didn't expect that technology would develop so fast. In the blink of an eye, people wouldn't need it.

The display is up.

But as the windows opened one after another, the expression on Yusaku's face became more and more solemn.

"How is this going?!"

"What...what happened?" Ai was startled by Yusaku's exclamation and asked quickly.

"This...this! It's not a real backend system!!" Yuzuo was stunned. He suddenly realized that he had been deceived. "There is not a single most important program in it!"

As a background system, what are the most important programs?

Job management? File management? Storage management? Device management? Process management?

As a nominal backend system, Yuzuo can see the most superficial layer, such as the lighting control of this world, natural light and artificial light...

However, the most important part, the visual management system task, does not exist at all.

This so-called "backend system" is more like a switch than a switch compared to the real backend system.

"What? What? Eh?" Ai was completely confused.

"Boom!"

Yusaku punched the computer table, "We were deceived! From the beginning..."

Yusaku thought about the red file he had stolen from SOL's database, and how he had caught up with him and used his life to stop him, making him even more convinced that it was the real file.

Now that I think about it, is this scene part of the plan?

We were misled from the beginning! All of this was part of King’s huge plan from the beginning? And we, foolishly, believed it!?

King is so cruel! He even wants to use the life of a powerful duelist like Revolver!

If you think about it more carefully, Kusanagi-san will be swallowed up and occupied by Icarus, and it will definitely have something to do with King!

Truth? Lies? Half truths and half lies mixed together, making it difficult to guard against!

King is like a master of riddles. He said, go and find it. I hid everything there, but I didn't tell you what was hidden here.

Is it honey or a trap?

No matter what it is, the moment you see it, you are the stupidest person to think that it is your life-saving straw!

What does King want to do? Who is King...

Yusaku suddenly took a breath of air and retrieved the long-ignored file from the database.

Among those rules and regulations, Yusaku found one hidden in it. After reading it carefully, his scalp suddenly went numb.

"A manager is set up in the world. The manager has the right to initiate the cleanup process, but has no right and is not allowed to tell the residents of the virtual world all the truth about the world."

Yusaku slowly stood up straight, his wide eyes full of despair and disbelief towards this world.

"impossible……"

"What's wrong? Playmaker?"

"In this world... there are managers who can control everything," Yusaku looked at Ai with wide eyes, "And King... is a manager!"

"Eh? What what?" Ai also widened his eyes, "King...isn't he just King?"

"What on earth does he want!?"

Bu Ling Meng turned on the external communication and light screen, so everything that happened outside appeared on the screen.

King's image of King Qi appears in the eyes of one person and two AIs.
To be continued...