The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 120: Because I am a girl living in a painting

"Is that...a living creature?"

Annan was a little stunned.

This mechanical hand, which has no flesh and blood structure at all, gained life out of thin air.

It is not a purely mechanical clockwork puppet...or a "hand puppet". It is able to move on its own, not because of the drive of gears and clockwork, nor because of the remote operation of spells, nor because Yaweng put a simulated soul into it.

But simply... the moment Yaweng "completed" it, he gained a new life of his own. Although it is still a little immature, like a newborn pure white child, it does already exist in the world.

"Can you act even if you don't have a soul?"

Annan couldn't help but ask.

Ya Weng just glanced at him sideways.

While packing up the carving knife in his hand, he said slowly: "Who stipulates that one must have a soul to be considered alive? Or, must it be a humanoid soul as you understand it, in order to be called a soul?

“Among the thousands of worlds connected by the river of dreams, is our world the only one with ‘living creatures’?”

...and that seems to be the case.

Annan nodded slowly.

Yarweng is right.

Mortal souls are shallow and empty, as if they are nothing, but they can still survive normally. They are not even aware that they do not have a soul formed enough to be observed.

Then on the other hand - why is it required that an object must have a soul in order to be regarded as a "living thing"?

In other words, what is the difference between living creatures and not?

——Is there flesh and blood? Does it have a soul? Need to breathe? Can it be remembered? Can you think? Will he die?

Thinking of this, Annan paused.

He seemed to understand - what kind of posture "Paper Princess" existed when it was still a painting.

At first, Annan thought it was some kind of automatic answering program programmed by Ya Weng in advance. Just like a desktop pet, what kind of response will it make when it hears what words? Perhaps it is simulating the character of the old grandmother, or perhaps it is showing the old grandmother that Ya Weng understands.

But now...according to Annan's new understanding of Yaweng, he is probably not the type to do that kind of thing.

In fact, for Yaweng's works, this is a kind of superfluous, but it will add to the originality.

If nothing else, the "Paper Princess" should have gained a life of her own the moment the painting was completed. It was a life that was extremely ignorant and as pure as a blank sheet of paper.

At that time, countless people were moved by the love between Paper Princess and the giant dragon that transcended reality and fiction, while some also laughed at the illusory love affair of the giant dragon. But everyone, including Annan before, believed that Zhiji "did not really exist" before she used the power of the Book of Truth to completely transform into a god.

After all, that painting had been handled by many people before it fell into the hands of the giant dragon. Gods, dragons, elves...

Among them are gold-level extraordinary beings or clergymen above the bishop level, and there are even righteous gods other than old grandmothers. Of course they can see that there is indeed no soul sealed in this "magic painting that can move, roar, and attack people outside the painting", let alone any sanity.

Whatever action you make, the silver dragon in the painting will respond. The "script" it can respond to is fixed and limited. And these rules all correspond one to one, as if they were all set by Ya Weng in advance.

At that time, everyone thought it was just a curse that could be called a "magic painting."

However, for two hundred years, the giant dragon named "Pygmalion Gradini" barely left his cave. He just watched the silver dragon flying in the painting obsessively and chatted with him in dragon language.

In order to make a living, as a dragon, he no longer collects money, but sells the treasures he has collected - but he is worried that this painting will be "lonely".

He even preached that he would spend the rest of his life with this painting.

Even Sir Silver felt that Pygmalion was obsessed to the point of being a little crazy. Not to mention his fellow dragons... quite a few of them came to persuade him, but Pygmalion drove them all out. Some people also asked Yaweng whether he had created a magic painting that could confuse people's hearts, but Yaweng did not respond to this.

Now it seems...

Perhaps everyone, including Sir Silver, is wrong.

Only "Pygmalion Gradini" is correct.

Even though the original Paper Princess had no soul or sanity, it was indeed alive. The extremely careful and delicate dragon is different from its previous holders... It is truly aware of the confusion and loneliness of the magic painting, and treats it not as a painting, but as a friend. .

In this process, they have already fallen in love.

Even if there is no body, no soul, no mind... maybe even no memory. Love can also be born from it.

As long as the distance between the two hearts gets closer and closer.

Since Paper Princess cannot change her behavior. Then the dragon tries his best to transform his soul.

It's just that no matter how the dragon confesses and expresses his love, he can only get a predetermined response; and no matter how high the love in Zhiji's heart is, he can only say the lines he "should say".

In this dialogue that is full of mechanical feeling, but in fact has never really happened at all; in this dialogue that is full of loving gazes, but always answers wrong questions... What is hidden is that two people can never meet, But the same burning heart.

At that moment, Annan seemed to see the two people inside and outside the screen, with their fingertips facing each other, touching as if they were separated by a mirror. ~IndoMTL.com~ No matter which side is real and which side is mirror.

——In the end, only one person can leave the mirror.

In the end, Pygmalion did not use the power of "False and Real" to turn the non-existent Paper Princess from "illusion" into reality.

Although when faced with inquiries from other gods later, Paper Princess always wore a gentle and nostalgic smile, admitting that this was Pygmalion's sacrifice... but it was also her love for the dragon.

In fact, she already existed long before that!

"...That's it."

Annan blurted out: "So Pygmalion..."

That’s why he was angered by his own Book of Truth!

"False and Real" tells the dragon, "Paper Princess is false and does not exist." The power of the Book of Truth allows him to distort the absolute boundary between illusion and reality, turning Paper Princess into "an illusion infinitely close to reality."

But...

Another doubt appeared in Annan's mind.

Ya Weng seemed to have guessed what Annan was thinking.

The old man said slowly: "Are you wondering why the Book of Truth has errors?"

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