[Several Months Later]
[The Beach]
"What??!! Me?????"
Ender Queen's voice echoed across the entire beach. She looked at Xu Yuan and the real HIM with disbelief written all over her face, her eyes filled with shock.
After calming herself and sorting out her thoughts for a moment, she continued, "You're saying that when the time comes, I'll have to kill the parallel world's..."
At this point, Ender Queen turned to the real HIM. "HIM????"
As soon as Ender Queen finished speaking, Xu Yuan nodded and then made a throat-cutting gesture with his hand.
Seeing Xu Yuan's gesture, Ender Queen nervously swallowed. Her eyes widened even more, as if she still couldn't believe it.
Meanwhile, Wither King looked at Ender Queen with envy. After a moment, he turned toward Xu Yuan and the real HIM somewhat unwillingly and asked again,
"There's really no role for me?... It doesn't have to be an important character..."
Hearing this, Dreadlord let out a long sigh. His face was also full of disappointment.
"Not even me??..."
After speaking, Dreadlord suddenly seemed to think of something and hurriedly added, "It's fine if there's no role for me! I can play a skeleton archer! Do either of those worlds have any especially powerful skeleton archers??"
Hearing Dreadlord's words, Death Knight was about to agree with him, but swallowed the words before they left his mouth.
If it had been the old him, he could have played a zombie like Dreadlord suggested.
But after merging with Little Bug, his appearance had become far too unique. There was no way he could fill in for another character.
After realizing this, Death Knight immediately became dejected.
In sharp contrast to Death Knight, Wither King, Dreadlord, and the others was Entity 303's group, who had already entered rehearsal mode.
The people in rehearsal mode had split into two factions, the Method Acting Faction and the Playing-Themselves Faction.
Almost all of the bigger commotions on the beach came from the Method Acting Faction.
"You know?... you know?... you know?" Notch recited a bunch of incomprehensible lines with a serious face before looking at Steve beside him.
"How was that? Did my lecture move you?!"
At this moment, Steve clearly had no time to rehearse with Notch.
He was completely immersed in his own world.
It was as if he had split personalities. One moment he was angry, the next he was sad, all while repeatedly muttering, "Why?! Why?! Why?!"
Although Notch and Steve looked somewhat mentally unstable, they were still much better off than Mustard and the Villager King.
At this moment, Mustard was already on the verge of collapse.
He was trying his best to control both of his eyeballs and force them into opposite directions while asking Blue Demon beside him, "Does this expression look crazy enough?..."
Seeing Mustard's expression, Blue Demon mentally reviewed every sad thing that had happened in his life before taking a deep breath and replying,
"Ahem... pretty crazy..."
Then he changed the subject and asked, "But... can you actually see anything like that?..."
Mustard was just about to demonstrate a "sinister smile" he had developed to fit the character when he was interrupted by music coming from a jukebox nearby.
As the rhythmic beat of the music played, Villager King raised his voice and shouted, "Dance battle!!!"
The moment Villager King finished speaking, a zombie wearing a pink shirt appeared, leading a huge group of zombies, skeletons, Endermen, Creepers, cows, sheep, pigs, and all kinds of other creatures over.
After gathering together, they immediately started dancing to the rhythm of the music.
Seeing this scene, Stephen, Barbecue Sauce, the Pillager King, and the others unconsciously took several steps backward.
At this moment, they were all secretly grateful that their roles weren't too different from their actual personalities.
Otherwise, they would be the ones "going crazy" here right now.
From the rehearsals taking place on the beach, it was easy to see that all the actors were preparing to play their respective roles from the worlds of Annoying Villagers.
Not long after discussing the endings of Tyrant HIM and Annoying HIM with the real HIM, Xu Yuan and the real HIM had thrown themselves into the work of "story recreation."
This was not an easy task.
First, they had to recreate worlds that were completely identical to Broken and Annoying Villagers.
Recreating a world itself was easy for Xu Yuan.
After all, the various regions within the Inner World were essentially different worlds already.
The difficult part of "story recreation" was the word "story."
A story naturally required actors.
That was why rehearsal mode had appeared on the beach.
Originally, Xu Yuan hadn't planned to recruit so many actors.
After gaining control of the Inner World, he could become anyone. He could play any role himself.
But the real HIM didn't agree with that idea.
If they followed Xu Yuan's plan, all the work would once again fall entirely onto Xu Yuan's shoulders.
Notch also disagreed with Xu Yuan's idea.
As one of the planners of the "story recreation" project, Notch knew exactly how much work it involved. Everything D was currently experiencing had been planned jointly by Notch and J.
As the three remained deadlocked, Entity 303 somehow learned about the project and said he wanted to play the Entity 303 from the world of Annoying Villagers and experience a different life.
Once Entity 303 joined in, everyone else became eager to participate as well.
After thinking it over, Xu Yuan agreed.
That was how the current scene on the beach came about.
Watching everyone rehearse so seriously, the real HIM couldn't help sighing.
"Once this is finished, we'll probably have nothing left to do."
After speaking, he looked at Xu Yuan.
"Any plans after that?"
Then he quickly added, "Don't tell me you'll just retire after this. Those words might fool Entity 303 and the others."
Although the real HIM wanted Xu Yuan to get some proper rest, he knew very well that Xu Yuan wasn't the type who could sit idle.
Even though Xu Yuan spent his days playing chess and fishing, looking relaxed on the surface, the real HIM knew that wasn't the life Xu Yuan truly wanted.
Hearing this, Xu Yuan helplessly shook his head and smiled.
"So are you planning to lock me up with them, or are you planning to break out with me?"
Hearing that, the real HIM first let out a hearty laugh before replying with interest, "Go ahead. What's the plan?"
Xu Yuan smiled slightly and suddenly closed his eyes, as if synchronizing some kind of information with the real HIM.
A moment later, the real HIM suddenly froze.
His eyes widened, and a look of disbelief appeared on his face. It was obvious that he had received some important information from Xu Yuan.
Xu Yuan slowly opened his eyes and softly said, "After I completely merged with the Inner World, the gateways connecting the Inner World to other worlds gradually began opening."
He paused before continuing, "At present, there are 730,927,042 worlds connected to us."
"The gateways flashing red are worlds currently experiencing a crisis."
His gaze drifted into the distance, as though he could see scenes from those worlds through the gateways.
The real HIM finally came back to his senses.
He looked at Xu Yuan. A trace of doubt flashed through his eyes, but it was quickly replaced by trust.
Taking a deep breath, he said, "I told you already. Whatever you say goes. I won't ask any questions. I'll follow your lead."
Xu Yuan nodded, the smile on his face growing brighter.
"Then let's begin a new journey together!"
[The End.]