"AD 2028, March 4th... That was thirty years ago!"
Yang Feng seemed to finally come to his senses.
His expression held a mixture of disbelief, doubt, bewilderment, and joy.
"No... I need to confirm this again. I can't just take it as evidence."
Yang Feng searched for information about "The Main God's Conquest" on his phone, through various apps and search engines.
However, on any app or search engine, he couldn't find any related information.
It was like a blank slate in this regard.
There wasn't a single trace online.
Yang Feng finally confirmed a fact.
"I've been reborn?"
"Returned thirty years?"
"Returned... to a time before 'The Main God's Conquest' even launched, or even had closed beta?"
Yang Feng's face was filled with immense shock.
Although he had already anticipated this when he saw the condition of his rented room, he was still truly stunned and felt an extreme sense of incredulity upon truly confirming this fact.
Following that, his heart was filled with immense joy.
"Heaven has allowed me to be reborn at this time. This is perhaps my great fortune! In my previous life, I was unremarkable, just an average player among countless gamers, neither outstanding nor lacking."
"In this life, I will surely reach the pinnacle within the game!"
Yang Feng's face was filled with longing for the future.
To be reborn and not play in reality, but to aim for the pinnacle in a game, would surely be met with ridicule as if he had lost his mind if spoken now.
But thirty years later, when "The Main God's Conquest" had swept the globe and ushered in a golden age for humanity, those who knew would not have any words of mockery. From commoners to the highest authorities in nations, they would consider reaching the pinnacle in "The Main God's Conquest" more important than becoming the ruler of Earth.
"The Main God's Conquest" was a game, but it was also more than just a game.
In Yang Feng's memory, in AD 2028, although there were many virtual games on the market, their realism and immersion were problematic.
Many gamers complained that artificial intelligence was simply "artificial stupidity," and in these games, they couldn't feel any superiority over the computer games of the old era.
At best, it was just experiencing the content of computer games by wearing a virtual helmet in a so-called virtual world.
The artificial intelligence remained at that level.
When players entered the game world, they saw NPCs who only spouted a few repetitive lines, only reacted to corresponding phrases, and even had monotonous expressions.
Would players feel a sense of realism?
Clearly, it was impossible.
At this time, "The Main God's Conquest," a virtual game claiming 100% realism, was met with the adoration of countless players.
Its extremely high degree of freedom allowed players to perform a vast array of actions.
Its perfect artificial intelligence was no longer limited to a few lines of dialogue or repetitive movements; it was like conversing with real people who possessed their own emotions and joys and sorrows.
The vast, infinite map encompassed the endless starry sky and worlds of various styles.
It truly felt like one could traverse dimensions.
A genuine sense of immersion.
It was as if one had truly traveled through countless worlds of diverse styles in the myriad realms, experiencing an endless journey.
When this game emerged, it was hailed as humanity's second world.
There was just one strange thing.
The game's developers and operators never revealed themselves, and no company or staff member came forward to speak.
It was as if it had appeared out of nowhere.
Mysterious and unfathomable.
Other organizations would observe and investigate this matter.
For Yang Feng, a mere ordinary player in his previous life, there was no need to concern himself with these things.
He simply ordered a virtual helmet online and entered the virtual game as an ordinary player.
He often lamented that the game was too realistic, leading to monsters with excessively high intelligence and maps that were too vast, which in turn affected the players' enjoyment.
It was valuable for its realism, but it also had flaws due to its realism.
While realism was necessary, when it was too high, it wasn't necessarily a good thing.
Until that day...
Until "The Main God's Conquest" suddenly announced its ability to exchange in-game power for real-world supernatural abilities.
Yang Feng, along with many others who only considered this game a highly realistic virtual game, finally realized that this game was a truly "real game."
The monsters and NPCs in the myriad realms and different timelines were all real.
This was why its realism could reach 100%.
Because those gods, martial arts masters, and venerable mages... and so on, were all real, they were all real beings from other worlds and other timelines.
If the people were real, wasn't the game real?
This game didn't create a feeling of time travel; it truly allowed players to travel to other timelines!
When many high-level players, through the function of exchanging in-game power for real-world supernatural abilities, converted some of their in-game strength into actual real-world strength.
When players at the three-star, level thirty, four-star, level forty, and other extraordinary tiers possessed these supernatural abilities in reality.
The entire Blue Star entered a new era.
In this new era, those players who only treated the game as a game, who didn't level up and fight monsters but instead wandered around without improving their strength, fell far behind.
Yang Feng in his previous life was one of those people.
Knowing the truth of the game at that time, he wished he could go back and slap himself.
It was impossible for a virtual game with 100% realism to appear in this era.
The artificial intelligence was so advanced, like real people, capable of passing the Turing test, creating many different alien worlds, and constructing many complete societies. Such technology should not exist in this era.
Even if it appeared, it would be in the military, not in civilian industries first.
The game developers and operators had created such a brilliant game, the best in the world, yet they had never accepted interviews and had never shown themselves, like ghosts.
How could he not have considered these anomalies?
How could he not have noticed them?
How could he not have guessed that this game was problematic and real?
Yang Feng in his previous life felt like an idiot.
When others knew the truth of the game and had already gained various advantages within it, he foolishly believed it was just a game, falling too far behind, leading to immense regret later.
However, that was in his previous life.