"Virtual worlds are virtual worlds in the end. I believe many people should be gradually starting to understand that by now."
In theory, Sally's grandfather sat at the head of the long table, with the elites and backbone members of the entire family seated on either side of him.
They had sold most of their industries to Global Communication... no, it should now be called Interstellar Unlimited Company, and then plunged headfirst into the Virtual World.
Everything in the Virtual World was wonderful.
It was primitive and unpolluted. No matter how people damaged nature, all it took was for one of the company's operators to press a button or drag a mouse, and everything could be restored.
When people died, they could be revived. When trees were felled, they could grow back overnight.
There were factions, positions, and struggles as well, so this place was practically perfect! Yet even such a perfect world was becoming less than perfect.
Ordinary people certainly couldn't sense it. As countless people from the lower classes of society transformed from physical humans into Digital Life, they would only become more dependent on the Virtual World to survive.
But some members of the Upper Class were discovering the limits of this colorful Virtual World. They were right there, beyond the clouds, already faintly visible.
Some said the Virtual World was a gigantic conspiracy, and that digital immortality was merely the company's bait. As things stood, those conspiracy theorists who shouted all day that "the world is a gigantic conspiracy" might have guessed correctly this time.
That was why many people in the Upper Class had not transformed into Digital Life. They were waiting and searching. Now, they had seen it.
Lin Qi had renamed Global Communication as Interstellar Unlimited Company, and rumors had emerged that he