Chapter 2945: We Are All Dreamers
Inside the meeting room, everyone's mouths dropped wide open, chins banging loudly against the table as their eyes bulged out!
∑(°□°๑) System?
What the hell is a system?
And why were there those magical items?
Things like the Lucky Coin, Strongman Pill, War Horn, and so on?
Jiangnan's over-powered items had become an open secret throughout the starry sky!
Everyone had wondered where Jiangnan had gotten these items from.
But it had always been a question without an answer!
If Jiangnan didn't volunteer the information, no one could pry it out of him!
They had even suspected that Jiangnan's alternate dimension connected to another world or a hidden realm!
Even Black God was stunned.
Σ(°△°|||) "S-system? What system? Why have I never heard of it? There's something this magical and fun in the world?"
The Dull Sack, Small Slingshot—everything was given by the system?
Jiangnan spread his hands, his expression complicated. "Of course you've never heard of it, because in this world, I'm the only one who has it!"
At that moment, everyone's eyes turned red!
Why? Why do you get to have this so-called system? What kind of chosen one, protagonist destiny is this?!
Yet when this news came out, Xia Yao, Zhong Yingxue, and the others weren't shocked at all!
Having followed Jiangnan all the way, experiencing so many doubts, they had already guessed most of it, but Jiangnan never said, and they never asked~
They just didn't expect Jiangnan to confess so openly this time.
Xia Yao rested her chin on her hand, looking like Sherlock Holmes:
(͡°ก͡°)✧ "The heart of the frog has always touched your belly～I knew it! No wonder Little Nan is obsessed with street vending—he never gave up his main job even in the starry sky!"
Zhong Yingxue was also a bit surprised: "Although I guessed Little Nan's secret might be related to street vending, I didn't expect it to be a system..."
Yang Jian smiled helplessly. So this was the secret Jiangnan had buried in his heart all along?
The source of those magical items?
With Dark Jian's shrewdness, he had made countless guesses ever since the Blue Star era, when Jiangnan first joined the Dark Night!
But he never asked. Everyone has their own secrets. If he pushed too hard, trying to dig up the roots, it might have driven Jiangnan away from the Dark Night.
So Yang Jian had always tacitly refrained from asking, as long as Jiangnan's heart was toward Hua Xia...
He just didn't expect Jiangnan to keep this secret until today to reveal it...
And now, Black God became utterly curious. He scurried over to Jiangnan, rummaging through him, even peering into his ears!
(๑•̌～•̑)ˀ̣ˀ̣ "Where's the system? Where did you put it? Let me see! Is there another one? Can I get one too? As the Lord of Dimensions, I should deserve a system, right?"
Jiangnan smiled bitterly: "I said, she is unique..."
Lan was also excited, her eyes shining:
(๑¥ꇴ¥) "A street vending system? Can it make money? What functions does it have?"
Seeing Lan's gaze on him, Jiangnan's heart ached like a knife stab, but he still patted her head and explained: "I sell items through street vending, trick others into using them, making them angry, and I earn resentment points..."
"Then I use those resentment points to exchange for system items, like Marrow Cleansing Fruit, Dali... and so on..."
Everyone couldn't hold it in anymore, gritting their teeth!
Good grief! Such a scammy system? Who the hell created it?
What kind of perverse taste is this?!
Jiangnan being so devilish and inhuman—this system definitely shares the blame, right?
So all of Jiangnan's enthusiasm for tricking people and pranking them was to collect resentment points for system items?
At this moment, everyone who had been tricked, socially embarrassed, and hated him to the bone was itching!
Black God searched all over Jiangnan but found no trace of the system, even pulling open his waistband to look inside!
"But what does this Strongest Street Vending System have to do with the problem you want to talk about?"
Just then, Li Bing, who had been stunned for a long time after hearing the news, finally spoke:
"If I'm not mistaken, I made this system, right?"
Hearing this, everyone's eyes fell on Li Bing, faces full of shock!
∑(°□°๑) Huh?
Jiangnan nodded: "Yes, the creator of the system is Sister Li Bing..."
Chong Feiyu spat out another mouthful of silk!
‼(•'口'•۶)۶ "W-what? Good sister made this system? She... she's that amazing?"
But Yang Jian was confused:
=͟͟͞͞(꒪ー꒪‧̣̥̇) "That... doesn't add up, right? If I remember correctly, you were already bound to the system when you were in high school, selling Dali at the Jiangnan Night Market, right?"
"At that time, Li Bing was still a medical room teacher at the Pioneer Academy. How could she have the ability to develop a system? And you two didn't even know each other back then, right?"
But Li Bing rubbed her temples, a look of dawning realization on her face as she smiled helplessly: "I understand, I understand it all now... the origin of all this..."
As the creator of the system, Li Bing had already come up with many novel ideas upon entering the starry sky and encountering countless dazzling starry sky technologies!
And after obtaining Ai Jiang's terminal, Li Bing had also speculated. Combining the information and clues she had, with her intelligence, she had already figured out the general picture!
Everyone was completely baffled. The system was really made by Li Bing?
She was a true immortal, right?
Wang Youzhi was dazed: "But what does this have to do with the problem you're trying to explain?"
Jiangnan took a deep breath and spoke: "Because the system... is the root of all these problems!"
"When I was 16, I got the Vendor Cloth and Small Stool. When I was 18, I bound the Strongest Street Vending System, and my life trajectory completely changed!"
"The endless supply of system items has also subtly changed everything that happens in reality, like a butterfly flapping its wings, eventually triggering a storm!"
"All of us sitting here today, facing the current situation—I can't say it's entirely due to the system's appearance, but without the system, there would be no starry sky world as we know it, no dreamlike reality now..."
"This... is a sweet dream like honey for all of us!"
Wang Youzhi was shocked: "Sigh～ Are you saying that the reality we're in now is actually..."
Jiangnan nodded: "You know? The system was never supposed to appear in my, Jiangnan's, life! In the original reality, I had no system—that was the true trajectory!"
"But I got the system, and along the way, I personally shaped this dreamlike reality! All of us... are the dreamers in that dream!"
"If we don't fix that node, the dream... will shatter!"
Chong Feiyu's face turned pale with shock: "What exactly is going on? Are you saying our current reality is nothing but a bubble-like dream?"
"This... this..."
Not only Chong Feiyu's expression changed, but everyone's faces stiffened!
After all, what Jiangnan said was too shocking!
Jiangnan raised his hand and waved, and a brilliant miniature Milky Way appeared, without beginning or end, flowing over the conference table!
Jiangnan pointed at this galaxy: "Look... this is the original trajectory of reality. There can only be one reality—that's the truth of the world!"
"And in this original trajectory, I had no system. I struggled with all my might, rose from Blue Star, charged into the starry sky, but reality was cruel and didn't go as hoped. In the end, we faced desperate circumstances..."
As he spoke, Jiangnan pointed to a node at the end of the galaxy!
"So, here, we decided to defy the truth of the world, create a system, send it back to my 16-year-old self, change the past, make up for my regret-filled life, and create a reality close to a dream!"
Jiangnan then pointed to a node at the front of the galaxy!
"Because we changed the past, I got the system, and everything became different. The continuous output of system items influenced the development of reality..."
"So, based on the original reality, a dreamlike reality branched off... covering the original reality!"
Jiangnan flicked his finger, and at that front node, another illusory galaxy branched out, slowly moving backward!
The two galaxies flowed in parallel!
And as the illusory galaxy advanced, it got closer and closer to the node at the end of the original galaxy...
Everyone was completely stunned!
Yakeli was horrified: (•́口•̀٥) "Even such a thing is possible? Changing the past, altering reality, defying the truth of the world?"
Jiangnan nodded: "It's possible... and we are in this dreamlike reality. All of us are players in this game!"
"But I also said that only one reality can exist. For the dreamlike reality to be established, the original reality will cease to exist!"
"If the original reality no longer exists, then no one would send the system back to change the past node, and we would still face a time paradox!"
"It's like these two galaxies..."
The newly derived illusory galaxy advanced forward, getting closer and closer to the node at the end of the original galaxy!
The closer it got, the more illusory and flickering the illusory galaxy became!
Li Bing squinted: "Because of the time paradox, the illusory galaxy is like a castle in the air, a bubble in a dream, a rootless duckweed!"
"The closer it gets to the node where the original reality changed the past in the later stage, the more fragile the dreamlike reality becomes, until it completely collapses and disappears!"
"So... we must complete the time loop! Do the same thing as the original reality, create the system, send it back to the past, and fix the node in the past!"
"Only then, after the original reality disappears, can the dreamlike reality be established and become the only reality!"
Jiangnan nodded and moved his finger again!
A branch of starlight separated from the rear node of the illusory galaxy and moved forward, directly injecting into the node of Jiangnan's 16th birthday!
Thus forming a time loop!
The illusory galaxy began to become real!
And the original galaxy began to turn illusory, eventually disappearing completely!
Only one galaxy remained, but with a time loop on it!
Jiangnan's gaze was profound: "And this... is the matter I need to inform everyone of!"
(Attached detailed diagram)
I tried my best, sorry for the ugly handwriting (ᵒ̴̶̷̥́ωᵒ̴̶̷̣̥̀)