After logging into the account, Rookie immediately showed professional skill and entered the program he had written beforehand for traceless browsing.

When the time came, after reading the information, it would be enough to just erase the IP address.

After opening Brother Jiang's account, Rookie first searched around in the cloud drive.

He searched for a long time, but apart from Brother Jiang's 1 terabyte of "action movies," he couldn't find any useful information.

Brother Jiang had even considerately categorized those "action movies."

Just looking at them made Rookie's blood boil hotly…

"Didn't expect you to be like this, Brother Jiang…"

Although nothing important was found in the cloud drive, those "action movies" inside still proved one thing.

That Brother Jiang indeed didn't have a girlfriend. This 1 terabyte was the best proof.

"Looks like I can only start from the browsing history…"

After flipping through Brother Jiang's recent browsing history, there were no clues.

Rookie scrolled to the day Brother Jiang came to the company and borrowed the admin account.

When Rookie saw Brother Jiang's search history, he was completely stunned.

[Bionic cloning technology]

[Soul medium]

[The rationality of projecting human consciousness into AI machinery]

Seeing the things Brother Jiang had searched, Rookie's goosebumps shot up all over.

These were enough to prove one thing,

Brother Jiang had already come into contact with those consciousness bodies in the Void, and he knew they were in the form of consciousness.

The consciousness bodies in the Void wanted to gain power and materialize inside the game.

But Brother Jiang seemed even crazier than them.

From the terms he searched, he seemed to want to bring those consciousness bodies back into the real world!

Thinking of this, Rookie couldn't help but recall how, when Old Wu once spoke of Entity 303, Brother Jiang had been very concerned about how Entity 303 crossed over.

At that moment, Rookie seemed to understand something.

"He knows the existences in the Void…"

"He wants to bring them back to the real world?!"

"Just who exactly are those people?!!"

What could be confirmed was that Brother Jiang and Notch definitely knew those two consciousness bodies in the Void, and their relationship was not shallow…

After flipping a few more pages and finding nothing useful, Rookie switched the search history to after December 27, 2018.

[Game pod death incident]

[After connecting neurons to the game pod, is there a situation where it can't be cut off?]

[Does the game pod cause hallucinations?]

Rookie hadn't expected that with just one search he could pull up such an explosive amount of information.

These were all Brother Jiang's searches after December 27.

The one he searched the most was the game pod death incident.

This most-searched keyword was enough to link directly to Brother Jiang's behavior on December 27.

"Someone close to him died inside the game pod…"

"That's why he broke down and cried so hard."

"But why couldn't he tell Notch the truth? He and Notch are so close, why hide it?…"

With such doubts, Rookie kept scrolling through later browsing history.

When the term "psychogenic amnesia" appeared, the mystery was finally solved.

Psychogenic amnesia, also called trauma-induced amnesia.

It refers to a patient, after a major recent event (such as trauma, bereavement), being so shocked they can't bear to recall it, producing partial selective forgetting, splitting the memory so it doesn't appear in consciousness.

And occasionally it causes interwoven confusion between earlier and later memories.

The search for this term was on January 3, after the 27th.

Rookie thought for a while, then roughly organized the clues he had now.

"Brother Jiang, far away overseas, noticed something was wrong with Notch. He returned from abroad, found Notch on the verge of death."

"Took Notch for treatment. When Notch woke up, he told Brother Jiang what had happened."

"On December 27, Brother Jiang discovered Notch and his close friend had passed away."

"Died inside the game pod. Cause of death… unknown…"

"Notch also learned this news, and so developed psychogenic amnesia…"

"His memory became confused. He forgot the death of the friend he didn't want to remember, only remembered Brother Jiang crying hard on December 27."

Thinking of this, Rookie again recalled what Notch had once told him.

At that time, Notch said it was Brother Jiang who saved his life.

"Brother Jiang saved Notch's life, but didn't save the lives of their close friends!"

"That means, back then, Notch was actually making the game together with that already-deceased person…"

"When Brother Jiang found Notch, Notch was at death's door, and his companion should have been in the same state…"

"When Notch woke, he told about his companion. When Brother Jiang went to look, the person was already dead…"

"After learning this, Notch developed psychogenic amnesia, completely forgot the existence of his friend."

"And Brother Jiang dared not mention it again."

"But in the game Notch created, the red consciousness body from the Void appeared."

"That means those consciousness bodies were the people who died back then…"

Thinking this through, Rookie finally pieced the whole thing together.

But one problem still puzzled him.

"Notch's friend had their soul cross."

"Notch was saved. His subconscious and main consciousness still remained."

"Then the Notch in the Void… could be an awareness body formed by part of Notch's mental power."

"He is also Notch…"

"And that part of Notch staying in the Void may have been his last moment of spiritual will."

"The Void kept using Notch's power, and Notch didn't stop them… was it because of guilt?"

"If Notch really learned the truth…"

"Would the real him… choose to stand by his friends?"

At this thought, Rookie felt a chill sweep through his whole body.

Having been with Notch for so long, Rookie believed he understood Notch well.

He could deeply feel Notch's love for the game he had created.

There was no doubt, he truly loved the game world he made.

And now, he loved this game world even more than himself.

Even though he had almost lost his life once because of this game, he now endured enormous mental pressure to once again step into this world.

That alone was enough to prove his love for this game world.

But what Rookie hadn't expected was that the Notch he had known before was not the complete Notch.

That Notch had forgotten the thing in his heart he could least accept and let go of.

He had lost an important piece of his life's puzzle.

So in the real world, he stood on the opposite side of the Void to protect this world.

But in the Void, the part of his mental power that remained unconditionally aided the Void.

The Notch in reality and the Notch in the Void were both Notch.

They came from the same source, shared the same thinking patterns.

But the reason their ideals differed was because of an information gap.

Then what if there was no information gap?

If Notch remembered the past, remembered his deceased friend, would he abandon everything he had once insisted on and recklessly stand with the Void?

No one knew that answer, no one could say for sure.

In this world, no one knew Notch better than himself.

Even he himself could have two completely opposite thoughts, who could predict what choice he would make in the end?

After all, no one knew what exactly Notch and his friends had gone through.

But the result was already clear.

Notch lived. His friends died.

Notch once said it was during the process of making the game that the accident happened.

That was enough to infer that the deaths of Notch's friends were most likely connected to the game Notch created.

So, no matter what happened back then, Notch couldn't wash his hands of it.

Because they died in the process of making the game for Notch…

The more Rookie thought, the more panicked he felt.

From the information he had found, Rookie knew very clearly, the odds of Notch eventually standing with the Void were very high…

So high that Rookie didn't want to admit or believe it.

At this point, Rookie was already sweating, and he had to take several deep breaths to calm down a little.

"Calculate…"

"I must calculate all possible outcomes…"

"Only then can I think of a way to solve this…"

The reason Rookie panicked wasn't because he knew his teacher-and-friend Notch might someday stand on the opposing side, and felt sad.

He panicked because of what Entity 303 had once told him.

———

[Flashback]

("At that time it was your subconscious taking control, so you were able to break the restriction of 'data.'"

"The huge salted fish that suddenly appeared in your hand was the best proof!"

"The game database has data for a salted fish, but even with admin privileges in the game, while you could make it appear from nothing, you couldn't make it suddenly grow big."

"Making it grow big was the power of your subconscious!"

"In other words, your subconscious can break the limit of 'data' and change things inside the game!")

———

[Flashback Ends]

It wasn't until Entity 303 brought it up that Rookie realized the subconscious had the ability to surpass the game's data restrictions.

And the strength of this ability was tied to the strength of the creator's subconscious itself.

Rookie couldn't control his own subconscious. He couldn't control what he thought in a subconscious state.

When in that state, he was always unrestricted, freely expressing.

Precisely because of this, while in the subconscious state, the abilities he could use would be limited.

To give a simple example, just take when Rookie and Entity 303 first met inside the game.

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