A Few Changes

Although he often joined in on internet memes, He Qiu had never expected that one day, he himself would become one.

For He Qiu, this first-ever novel experience in his life felt rather strange.

Even though the videos released on the Main God Website all seemed to have undergone a kind of cognitive "mosaic" treatment, usually only people familiar with them could vaguely make out the true identities of the characters within.

But He Qiu, whose portrait rights had clearly been violated without his knowledge and who had only now learned that he had been bestowed with a nickname, had no unrealistic intention of sending the special website a "lawyer's letter warning."

Of course, what he truly thought about it was another matter.

Yet without a doubt, the original Chinese pronunciation, "zhu.shen," still stood out for its uniqueness and spread across the internet—and even real life—throughout the world.

Back home, by now, even if you randomly ran into a few seventy- or eighty-year-old men sitting on little stools by the roadside playing Chinese chess, they would probably make a couple of terrible moves and get cursed out by the old man beside them—"You useless chess player, I'd do better myself!"—while baring their yellowed teeth and chatting with you about the Main God Space, fully immersive realistic games, human neural transmission, and the like.

—It seemed as though nothing had changed much, yet it also felt as though many things had already changed.

All these changes seemed to have begun merely with the appearance of that special website, the public press conference, and everything that followed.

But overseas, such an understated description was hardly appropriate.

Claims, speculations, and heaps of so-called reasoning and evidence like "a devil attempting to seize humanity's faith," "after another thousand years, the incarnation of the true