Zanni, a virtual character born in Mingchao, is destined to be the image on many players’ screens. Her growth, breakthroughs and challenges are nothing more than a meaningless digital game in our eyes. She is not the brilliant hero, but a microcosm of this cold digital world.
All her growth, all her breakthroughs, and even her existence seem to be an endless cycle arranged for her by the game designer. The low-frequency, medium-frequency, and high-frequency polyphonic cores, the sword calamus, and the joy of the dark door seem to be collected by players after every battle. However, what is hidden behind these seemingly important materials? It’s just ruthless repetition and gradual progress.
She keeps improving and gaining strength, but what changes can she bring? Isn’t all this a reflection of our real life? In this virtual world, we hold those so-called materials, as if they are the goals we constantly pursue in real life for livelihood, fame and fortune. We work hard, but what we get is endless emptiness and exhaustion. Zanni is the symbol of all this.
Every battle means that she moves forward step by step. And behind her, can we also see the unbearable heaviness? Every upgrade and every breakthrough she makes seems to remind us that struggle in reality is meaningless, and in the end, we will be crushed by life.
She needs constant fighting and breakthroughs to maintain her existence, and what is her goal for? For victory in a virtual world, or to be able to find a little real meaning in this seemingly free world?
Her mind and body are not her own, but are dominated by this virtual world. Every choice she makes is a designed step-by-step chess game, and she herself has long been trapped in this game without an end. Isn’t her existence a symbol of struggle and loss in this cold virtual world?
Zanni is no longer a simple game character, but a microcosm of what all players face when pursuing the so-called “achievement”. Behind her breakthrough is endless confusion and loneliness. And all this may be the only reward given to her by this virtual world-endless loneliness and nothingness.