Chapter 132:- This World Is Alive!!
Notch, at that time, was only in his early 20s, but his appearance directly made him look like an extremely old man.
Seeing Notch's state, Mo Jiang said nothing further.
He directly rushed into his gaming pod. When he saw the game sample created by Notch, he felt his scalp go numb.
What game sample was this? This was clearly just an endless void!
Seeing this endless void, and connecting it to Notch's condition, Mo Jiang immediately felt that Notch's mental state was abnormal.
It was clear that Notch's current mental state was not normal. But Mo Jiang couldn't figure out the reason for Notch's mental breakdown.
Mo Jiang immediately took Notch to the hospital. After a round of examinations, the result was: mental damage.
The diagnosis from the doctor was that lack of sleep and excessive stress were the causes.
Seeing the doctor's diagnosis, Mo Jiang thought that Notch might have broken down due to excessive stress.
Seeing Notch in such a state, Mo Jiang couldn't bear it.
Notch clearly needed someone to take care of him, and Notch's parents were long-term workers away from home, rarely coming back even for New Year.
Mo Jiang definitely wouldn't leave Notch to fend for himself. Mo Jiang made a tough decision, directly resigning from his job abroad.
He moved into Notch's house and began taking care of him.
With Mo Jiang's care, Notch looked much better after a period of rest.
During this time, Notch wanted to enter the gaming pod to continue creating the game every day, but he was stopped by Mo Jiang.
After being kept away from the gaming pod for a while, Notch gradually stopped mentioning the void in his conversations.
After roughly six months of recuperation, Notch finally fully recovered.
Once he fully recovered, Notch realized how terrifying his mental state had been in the previous two years.
When he returned to the gaming pod and saw the void, he was stunned. He didn't expect that he had spent two years creating nothing but an empty void.
Notch immediately prepared to resume the game's development. He decided to start with the overworld again.
Silently reciting the code for dirt in his mind, he began coding, but what appeared wasn't dirt.
The code was still for the void.
Seeing this, Notch was startled. He didn't dare linger any longer and immediately left the gaming pod.
After telling Mo Jiang about what had just happened, Mo Jiang suggested he rest for a bit longer.
Mo Jiang had previously suggested helping Notch with the game creation, but Notch declined.
He didn't know if he was being paranoid, but he felt that something about the void wasn't right. He believed that the reason he had been in a dazed state for two years might have been related to the void.
Notch had discussed this with Mo Jiang before, but Mo Jiang told him not to overthink it.
The doctor said it was caused by excessive stress. Notch wasn't sure whether to believe himself or the doctor.
Even though he was uncertain, Notch didn't want Mo Jiang to get involved in this matter. One of them needed to remain completely clear-headed.
Seeing Notch's persistence, Mo Jiang didn't argue further. He found some freelance work online and took care of Notch every day.
About a year later, Notch re-entered the gaming pod and started coding the dirt for the overworld again.
This time, he finally succeeded. However, each time he coded, he could only focus for about an hour.
After working for an hour, he needed to rest for one to two days to recover.
Strangely, this phenomenon only occurred when he was working on Minecraft.
Once Notch's mental state improved, he also started doing freelance work like Mo Jiang, creating small games to sell since they needed to make a living.
Notch never encountered the same issues while creating other games.
Due to this odd phenomenon, Notch visited a doctor again.
The psychiatrist's explanation was that it was caused by excessive psychological pressure.
Even though Notch found it odd, he didn't give up on creating Minecraft.
The strange experiences while creating this game only strengthened his resolve to complete it.
Though the development process was slow, Notch made steady progress every day. As his mental strength grew, Notch's overall state underwent changes as well.
He gradually seemed able to control his own neurons.
Since the gaming pod connects to neurons, Notch discovered that by disconnecting his neurons, he could extend his game development time.
This state was similar to the sleepwalking-like state the rookies were currently in.
When Notch discovered this, he began practicing it little by little. Later in the development process, Notch mostly worked in this state.
Because of this state, he was no longer affected by the void.
Time flew by, and five years passed in the blink of an eye.
Finally, Notch completed the overworld and nether. As for the void, it remained an area he didn't dare to revisit.
He planned to delete the void and create a new world in its place. But he discovered that the void couldn't be deleted.
The void didn't have any data.
Notch had long harbored suspicions about the void, and its inability to be deleted only deepened his doubts.
When Notch stepped into the void to study it further, he discovered that it no longer affected him.
Notch spent an entire day in the void. He didn't use the state of disconnecting his neurons, yet the void didn't affect him at all.
Unlike before, he didn't experience any negative effects.
Because of this, Notch gradually started to believe that the void wasn't the problem after all.
Perhaps, as the doctor had said, it was caused by lack of sleep and excessive stress.
Seeing that the void no longer affected him, Notch decided not to remove it. The void held a special significance for Notch.
After spending more time in the void, he built the End and the End City.
Finally, the game was complete.
The subsequent steps involved the acquisition by Zero Point Company, followed by various testing, optimizations, and signing agreements.
This is why the game took ten years to develop. To be precise, the development took about eight to nine years.
Notch's once-lush hair was worn out by this game.
Although Notch eventually convinced himself that his earlier state was due to stress and had nothing to do with the void, the doubts remained deeply buried in his subconscious.
When he saw the folder sent by the company executives, these buried doubts resurfaced.
This game world wasn't simple.
Even though Notch didn't fully understand HIM and those suddenly appearing monsters, he understood the villagers, animals, and other creatures he had created.
Now, these beings seemed to have developed consciousness. This proved that the world wasn't simple.
Or rather, this world was alive.
It wasn't just code; it was alive.
Like Earth, it could give birth to various forms of life.
At this thought, Notch began pondering a question, "If that's the case…"
"Then what role do I play in this game world?"
When he saw the video content sent by the company executives, Notch reopened his long-sealed memories.
From the moment he had the idea to create Minecraft until now, ten years had passed.
The idea of creating the game came from dreams in which he saw the various scenes within the game.
Ten years later, Notch could no longer recall those dreams. Since starting the game's development, he had never had those dreams again.
Many details from ten years ago were now fuzzy to him.
So he wondered what kind of role he played in this game.
Did he create this world by himself?
Or did this world summon him to create it?
When Notch began to think about this question, the answer in his heart leaned toward the latter.
Because during the ten years of development, for at least five years, he wasn't in control.
Creating this game was initially Notch's intention, but during the process, it felt like he was being guided.
Notch couldn't explain this feeling.
If this game were Notch's child…
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