At that, her eyes suddenly lit up as she looked over:
"Mr. Ren, how many countries are there in the world you come from?"
"Close to two hundred," Ren Yu answered truthfully.
"Two hundred?!"
This time, it was Guan Xing's turn to be surprised.
She had never imagined that the world could be divided into more than two hundred nations.
Ren Yu saw what she was thinking and took the initiative to explain:
"But in the Shenzhou region—countries like the Huangyue Kingdom—there has always only been one..."
"Shenzhou?"
"Yes, Shenzhou. That is my... homeland."
"Homeland?"
Guan Xing keenly caught the hesitation in Ren Yu's words.
But she did not dwell on it and continued:
"Then, Mr. Ren, you could be considered half Shenzhouan. Is that right?"
"More or less."
Ren Yu gave an ambiguous answer.
Guan Xing nodded. She looked down at the ground, then at the black-haired man from another world before her. After a long silence, she suddenly said, "In that case, Lord Ren Yu, would you be interested in staying in our world for a while longer?"
"Why?"
"To be honest, I want to rely on your strength to resolve a hidden danger."
"..."
"Do you know about the Submarine Altar?"
"Yes." Ren Yu nodded.
"That is good. Mr. Ren Yu, since you know of the Submarine Altar, then you must know about Grem as well."
"Yes, the all-purpose wish-granting machine."
"That's right. It was because my grandfather activated Grem, that all-purpose wish-granting machine... that this world is about to collapse."
"What do you mean by that?"
Ren Yu asked curiously.
He did not remember anything like this happening in the original plot.
"It began more than ten years ago... Back then, in order to drive away the Exotic Beasts that were ravaging the people across the