Rookie's current state was something Notch had never seen before. Although he was very curious why Rookie had suddenly become like this, after seeing the serious look on his face, Notch immediately gave up the idea of asking.
After lowering his eyes and recalling for a moment what had just happened in the game, Notch looked up at Rookie and asked, "Did something happen to Xu Yuan?"
At the moment he had just been disconnected from the game, Notch had clearly felt that this interruption was not a forced wake-up caused by the power being cut.
And just as he woke up, waves of noise from outside the office poured into his ears.
Just as he was about to sit up, he saw Old Wu sneak into the office.
Seeing this, Notch already understood.
Judging from the current signs, without a doubt, the sudden interruption of the game connection was caused by a server failure.
And anyone could guess that Rookie must have been the mastermind, while Old Wu had acted as his accomplice.
Rookie was one thing. This kind of thing did seem like something he would normally do.
But Old Wu, who had always been steady and extremely concerned about his own future, actually took the huge risk of being fired and even facing legal consequences, and it looked like he had forcibly paused the server through improper means.
This could only mean one thing... the situation had already developed into something uncontrollable and extremely serious.
Under such circumstances, the only reasonable explanation was that something had happened to Xu Yuan.
It could only be said that Notch's sharpness was on another level. This was probably how smart people communicated.
They didn't need much conversation to get straight to the core of the issue.
Hearing Notch's words, Rookie nodded. Before he could say anything more, Notch interrupted him.
"What do you need me to do?"
After Rookie nodded and confirmed his guess, Notch had actually taken quite a blow.
He couldn't believe something had happened to Xu Yuan. He didn't want to believe it either.
He really wanted to know what had happened outside after D sent him to the Nameless Land, but reason told him now was not the time to ask those questions.
Since Rookie had already taken action, that meant he was already trying to solve the current crisis.
In that case, Notch didn't need to say anything more. He just needed to work with Rookie to carry out this plan perfectly.
Seeing how decisively Notch joined in, Rookie finally let out a breath of relief.
Although Rookie knew Notch had already broken with D, he had still been worried that Notch might hesitate.
Now it seemed Notch had firmly made his choice.
Thinking this, Rookie took a deep breath. His eyes became firm. He no longer had any reservations and slowly began to explain.
"In that case, I'll briefly explain my understanding of this game world."
"In my view, this game world is actually divided into two completely different worlds. One is the surface world, and the other is the inner world."
At this point, Rookie paused slightly, as if organizing his thoughts, then continued, "The inner world is the true core of the entire game world."
"It has always existed from beginning to end. The surface world, on the other hand, has already gone through a replacement."
At this point, Rookie looked at Notch and said, "The very first surface world was the mysterious game world you, D, and J created together ten years ago."
After saying this, Rookie paused, his tone becoming slightly heavier.
"What happened afterward, you know better than I do."
After a moment of silence, Rookie continued, "During the time when you lost your memory, you deleted the data from that previous surface world, and then created the current game world."
"In other words, the second surface world."
It had to be admitted that Rookie really had some skills. After the Trial Grounds ended earlier, when the true HIM was talking with Xu Yuan and the others, it had been impossible to see the details of their conversation from outside the game.
So this information of Rookie's wasn't something he had heard.
Instead, he had gathered various related materials from different places, then combined them with his own deep analysis and repeated reasoning, slowly piecing together these scattered fragments of information into his final conclusion.
The information he assembled matched Xu Yuan's deductions exactly. The only difference was that Rookie explained it in a different way to make it easier to understand.
Hearing this, Notch didn't show any surprise. Earlier, after he learned that the Void's existence was actually D and J, he had already formed a similar guess.
They had already died ten years ago, but their souls had been trapped in the Void.
If the inner world didn't exist, then when Notch deleted the data of the previous world, they would have completely died.
Now, after confirming his earlier speculation, Notch thought for a moment, then looked at Rookie and asked, "You're planning to make a move in the inner world?"
Obviously, the so-called surface world was the virtual game world that needed the server to operate normally.
However, the completely different inner world didn't rely on the server to exist, because it itself was a real world.
Because of this, even if the surface world collapsed or ceased to exist for some reason, it wouldn't have much impact on the inner world.
Now that Rookie had first found a way to temporarily stop the server and then brought up the topic of the surface world and the inner world, it was obvious he planned to start from the inner world to find a way to break the current deadlock.
Hearing Notch's question, Rookie nodded firmly.
"Yes."
Seeing Rookie's confirmation, Notch frowned and thought for a moment before raising his doubts.
"Although Xu Yuan isn't a data construct, I can confirm he wasn't originally a being from the inner world. He only appeared after the game launched."
"We don't know whether he can enter the inner world."
At this point, Notch paused slightly before continuing, "And… I'm not even sure whether I can enter the inner world…"
"Or rather, even if I can enter it, whether I have the ability to save him."
After saying this, Notch looked at Rookie again.
"After all… none of us know the rules that world operates under…"
Rookie seemed to have already expected Notch would ask this. As soon as the question was raised, he answered, "Xu Yuan can enter the main world. I'm certain of that."
After saying that, before Notch could ask anything, Rookie explained, "Earlier when I was chatting with Entity 303, he told me that Xu Yuan had mentioned what happened during the game's first shutdown update."
"After the server stopped, Xu Yuan said he was in a void, surrounded by darkness. He walked for a long time, and then he saw a transparent cube glowing with white light."
"After obtaining that transparent cube, Xu Yuan gained his domain."
At this point, Rookie patted Notch on the shoulder and said, "The power of the domain comes from the true HIM, and the true HIM's power comes from you."