"Zhou Hong, he is the person you have been looking for," Zhou Sheng Gu said indifferently.
"Grandpa, your tone at this moment?" Zhou Hong felt something was not quite right. His grandfather's tone was a bit different from usual, but he couldn't quite pinpoint it. Su Dan Novel Network.
"Zhou Hong, don't worry about me for now. I believe you will understand later. Actually, I am not your real past life grandfather. Alright, I'll leave the rest of the time to you two. Haven't you always wanted to know the truth of this world? Now I'll let you know, but I hope you won't be discouraged after knowing and can cheer up and keep moving forward." Zhou Sheng Gu finished speaking and flew away directly,
Leaving only Zhou Hong and the woman.
The woman looked at Zhou Hong, her eyes filled with an ineffable expression, tears welling up in her eyes.
"Hello, you must be the girl I loved to the depths of my soul in my past life. It's a pity I don't even know your name. I only know that my entire life has been influenced by past life emotions. Ever since I can remember, a faint sadness would occasionally well up in my heart. Seeing you just now caused soul-wrenching pain. It seems we truly loved each other to the point of the heavens collapsing and the earth shattering in our past lives," Zhou Hong said with a bitter smile, looking at the woman.
"Should I call you Zhou Hong or Zhou Qing?" After a long while, the woman finally spoke.
"Call me Zhou Hong."
"Alright, let me introduce myself first. My name is Gu Si Ning!" the girl nodded and introduced herself.
"Gu Si Ning? That name sounds quite awkward."
"My family is called the Gu Si clan. My family is a divine race, and I am the precious pearl of the current patriarch of the Gu Si clan."
Zhou Hong chuckled, seemingly a little surprised that his past life lover had such a powerful background.
"So, my previous guess was correct, right? This is a sub-world of a god, and outside is the divine realm," Zhou Hong asked with a smile.
"You guessed wrong," Gu Si Ning shook her head.
"Where did I go wrong? Didn't you just say your family is a divine race? Then isn't outside the divine realm?"
"Outside is indeed the divine realm, but this world at this moment is not in a sub-world of any god."
"This...?" Zhou Hong had not anticipated this. After all, every Immortal Emperor here had sub-worlds. Logically, a god's sub-world should be even more vast.
"Heh heh, the gods outside do not have sub-worlds. Sub-worlds are unique to this place."
"Then... how was this world born?" Zhou Hong asked with full of doubt.
"Since you are so eager to know, I'll tell you first. I don't know how many trillion years ago, my family accidentally obtained a divine artifact, which we call the Metaverse. This divine artifact is a glowing sphere, about half the size of a room. This world is inside this sphere."
"Ah!" Zhou Hong never expected it to be like this.
"After my family obtained this divine artifact, we wanted to refine it and find out how to use it. However, unfortunately, we haven't figured out how to use it yet. Later, we discovered by chance that this divine artifact was constantly generating various worlds of different sizes on its own. After countless trillions of years, a very complete world had formed here. However, there were no humans or other creatures here, it was completely empty. Then, our family simply injected the consciousness of some low-level races of humans and low-level creatures who had died in the divine realm into this Metaverse. After several more years of development, it formed the current appearance here."
"Then? Are all the people living here virtual? From the outside, they only have consciousness, no physical bodies, right?" Zhou Hong asked.
"Yes, everyone living here can only exist here. Once they leave this Metaverse and go outside, they only have consciousness, and they can't even exist outside."
"Heh heh!" Zhou Hong couldn't help but sneer. No wonder Supreme Demon Emperor said that if he knew the truth, he would be so depressed that he would want to commit suicide.
Zhou Hong had always been thinking about leaving, but it turned out he could only exist within the Metaverse.
"You must be depressed and want to commit suicide now that you know this truth. I didn't want you to know the truth before because I wanted you to live here peacefully and eternally. Although to the outside world, everyone here only has consciousness, for those born inside, they are real."
Zhou Hong shook his head and said, "Don't worry, I won't want to commit suicide. Now that I know the truth, my heart is at peace. At worst, I'll live here for the rest of my life."
"I didn't expect you to be so open-minded. Anyone else would not be able to accept such a reality."
Zhou Hong laughed heartily. Now that he knew the truth of this world, his heart was at peace. He no longer thought about leaving here to go outside.
"By the way, is this Metaverse still masterless?" Zhou Hong suddenly asked.
"Yes, because our Gu Si clan has never figured out how to truly control this divine artifact. We are still researching it. Perhaps in a very, very distant future, we will be able to figure it out. At that time, once the Metaverse becomes a divine artifact of someone in our clan, what will happen here is unclear."
"Masterless?" Zhou Hong pondered in his heart. Does that mean he also had a chance to obtain it?
However, how could Zhou Hong have a chance while being inside?
Wait, Zhou Hong seemed to have thought of something.
"Gu Si Ning, your family members have always been outside, trying to refine the Metaverse divine artifact, right?" Zhou Hong asked.
"Yes!" Gu Si Ning nodded, not knowing why Zhou Hong was asking this.
"Oh oh!" Zhou Hong thought again. These gods have been outside trying to refine it all this time, but no one has ever succeeded. Then could it be... this divine artifact cannot be refined from the outside, but must be from the inside out? That is to say, only those who are inside have a chance?
Is there such a possibility?
Zhou Hong's expression suddenly became a little excited, because according to his speculation, this possibility was very high. After all, this was a space-type divine artifact. Breaking through from the inside and completely controlling this body, isn't that very reasonable?
"What are you thinking about?" Gu Si Ning asked, seeing Zhou Hong spacing out, somewhat confused.
"Haha, nothing!" Zhou Hong would naturally not say it. If he said it, the Gu Si clan outside would also send people in, and then start researching from the inside. Wouldn't Zhou Hong lose his chance? He would really become a bug living in the Metaverse for the rest of his life.