He clicked the icon on the virtual desktop.
His body inside the Game Pod automatically connected to the hoses. As the nutrient solution gradually submerged him, his vision blurred.
This made Ji Chen intensely curious.
He tried to resist the sensation of his consciousness being drawn out, only to discover, to his surprise, that he could not fight the overwhelming drowsiness at all.
"What incredible technology."
After returning to Earth, he had gained a general understanding of its current circumstances.
Before traveling to another world, he had read plenty of novels and watched plenty of anime and movies.
Stories about traveling to other worlds had remained immensely popular.
Back then, he had been young and reckless, filled with longing for the Otherworld.
More than once, he had even imagined returning to Earth and showing off while putting others in their place, just like the protagonists in those stories, basking in everyone's astonished, envious gazes.
But after more than two hundred long years in the Otherworld, the merciless chisel of time had quietly worn away his youthful passion.
The scenes of showing off that he had once yearned for no longer stirred the slightest ripple in his heart.
He felt that his world-weary heart had long since lost its desire for excitement.
But the truth was this.
The Earth he had returned to had already changed. Even if he wanted to show off and put others in their place, he lacked the ability.
The powerful Eclipse Race possessed countless cutting-edge technologies. The technology he offered had failed to attract the attention of Data City's higher-ups.
The Data City administrator who spoke with him at the time had said:
"We'll arrange for specialists to rigorously verify the technology you've provided... However, Spiritual Resources are extremely scarce in the current environment, which means