The change in Dark Star Doctor's thinking stemmed from his observation of two special NPCs—
In the screen displaying the content of Metropolis, he saw a large number of players congregating together, covering the retreat of two NPCs at any cost.
There were even several instances where players used their own bodies as shields.
Such an attitude contrasted sharply with the indifference elsewhere, where hundreds could die in a confrontation with aliens without batting an eye.
Driven by curiosity, the Doctor used the authority that Lincoln had given him to look up the information of these two virtual characters, discovering that one was named Jenny and the other Johnny, with the nicknames Zhen and Qiang, respectively.
They were among the earliest batch of virtual characters in the digital world and even participated in producing an Internet news program each week, enjoying great popularity.
The Doctor understood a little, but was still very surprised.