"Beautiful and great Princess Yina, since you saved me before, you certainly don't want to see me die like this, right? Wouldn't your rescue have been for nothing?"
Yina remained silent, simply watching Ling Yi perform.
"Ahem, you see, now that you've come to the mortal realm, you should have someone to run errands and do odd jobs, right? I think I'm perfect for that."
Ling Yi was desperate to survive; given his past behavior, he would never have said such a thing.
In everyone's eyes, Ling Yi is a top student, and top students should be aloof, quiet, withdrawn, and arrogant.
Ling Yi has always done the same.
However, this does not mean that Ling Yi's personality is like that.
This brush with death was also a profound experience for Ling Yi, a transformation in his mental state.
Having faced life and death, Ling Yi saw through many things.
He suddenly felt that everything he had been striving for was somewhat ridiculous.
Living is more important than anything else, but living freely, unrestrained, and without inhibition is even more difficult to achieve than reaping the rewards after hard work.
"I want to eat something delicious!" Yina held up one finger.
"Deal!" Ling Yi said without hesitation.
"That's just one of the conditions; I haven't finished yet," Yina said, dissatisfied.
"Your Highness, please speak!"
You must obey my orders without question.
"Hey, this is going too far. What's the point of living if you lose your freedom? I refuse."
"Ah, you A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, it is your honor to be my servant. In the Divine Domain, countless people are proud to be my servants."
"This is the mortal realm, don't talk about the Divine Domain. By the way, where is your Divine Domain? How did you come to the mortal realm?"
Yina suddenly became flustered, twisting her skirt with her hands, looking like she had done something wrong...
"You didn't secretly run away from the Divine Domain, did you? You ran away from home?"
"Father forbids anyone from leaving the Divine Domain, but the Divine Domain is too Bored. You don't know the pain of being stuck in a daze for hundreds of years; it's terrifying."
"Um, how old are you?"
"I am 2,100 years old this year, but I am still a child!"
"Puff!"
You've got the essence of the "kid" joke.
"Is God truly immortal?"
"Pretty much. Anyway, aside from dying in battle, gods are practically Eternity."
Ling Yi grasped the key point and asked, "Does your Divine Domain also have wars?"
"Of course there are wars, and wars are happening all the time."
"Who are you fighting?" Ling Yi asked curiously.
" Familiar! They were once gods too, but their ideologies differed from ours. They have always plotted to invade and rule the human world. If it weren't for the Divine Domain intervening, the human world would have been ruled by Familiar long ago."
"Are you crazy? What good would it do them to rule humanity? Wouldn't they be better off being gods?"
"No, humans are incredibly wondrous creatures; you humans possess talents that even gods do not have."
"... Are humans really that amazing? I didn't know that."
"Fantasy!"
"..." Ling Yi scratched his head, "Are you serious?"
"Not all life forms can condense the Power of Fantasy. Among the myriad races of the universe, only the human race is truly independent and individual."
"Only the Power of Fantasy generated by humans can be absorbed and condensed into Divine Power."
Ling Yi could accept this explanation, but she found it difficult to understand.
If humanity's Power of Fantasy is so amazing, why are humans still so weak?
Yina seemed to have sensed Ling Yi's thoughts, and her Xiaoxiao body spun around in the air.
He chuckled, "That's the interesting part. Although humans are weak, they can generate the Power of Fantasy, but humans themselves lack the method to collect this Power of Fantasy."
"If it weren't for this, humanity would have been wiped out countless times by other races in the universe. Neither the Divine Domain nor the Familiar Domain would allow the human race to perish."
"Since the dawn of humanity, many disasters have been averted by our Divine Domain; you simply are unaware of it."
Is this... a secret?
I feel like I've heard some incredible news.
"For example?" Ling Yi was extremely curious.
"Let's not talk about anything distant, just the most recent one."
"You know about the Chekfu Country meteorite event three years ago, right?"
Ling Yi's eyes lit up instantly. Of course he knew about this; it had shocked the world at the time and remained a mystery to this day.
Three years ago, a meteorite with a diameter of ten kilometers broke through the atmosphere and appeared over Chekfu Country. Given the size of this meteorite, if it had struck the surface of the planet, the damage it would have caused would have been terrifying.
Some experts even claim that this meteorite could potentially Miejue of 80 percent of the world's population.
However, just as the meteorite was about to fall, it suddenly disintegrated. In videos taken by some people, a beam of violet energy caught up with the meteorite from behind and shattered it.
This incident caused a huge sensation at the time.
Even now, numerous videos related to this incident are still circulating online.
"Humans have faced far too many crises. If it weren't for the people of our Divine Domain, you humans would have been wiped out long ago," Yina said proudly.
"Tch, isn't it because you want something from humans?"
"But it's a fact that we protected you humans," Yina said, dissatisfied.
"Then, here's the question: why Familiar want to rule over humanity? Does ruling over humanity allow them to absorb more Power of Fantasy?"
"There are too many wolves and not enough meat," Yina said succinctly.
Ling Yi instantly understood, "So, even if Familiar rule over humanity, it won't have any impact on humanity, right?"
This statement seems to make no mistake.
They're all having their Power of Fantasy absorbed; it doesn't matter who absorbs it, since humans can't sense it anyway.
"Heh, ignorant!"
Ling Yi pouted, clearly unconvinced. How could he be ignorant?
"About six thousand years ago, someone in the Divine Domain invented a divine artifact, or rather, Devil Artifact."
"This Devil Artifact can Extraction the brain of an adult human from their body, allowing it to survive permanently within the Devil Artifact's spatial dimension."
"The brain will live within a virtual Illusion created by the Devil Artifact, continuously producing the Power of Fantasy."
Holy crap, isn't this just the brain-in-a-vat theory?
" Familiar will use Divine Power to control humanity, forcing the remaining humans to reproduce relentlessly, continuously providing brains for the Devil Artifact..."
"That really is... a brilliant idea."
"Yes, this idea was actually proposed by you humans."
"What?"
Do you know someone named Mohalun Pate?
Ling Yi nodded, then asked incredulously, "Is it the guy who proposed the 'brain in a vat' theory, which was then adopted by people from your Divine Domain?"
"But don't worry, my father sealed the Familiar in the Familiar Domain with his Divine Power, and it's impossible for it to come out anytime soon."
"In the short term, it's possible that it will be released?" Ling Yi didn't say that.
It's no use saying anything; there's nothing Ling Yi can do right now.
He's just an ordinary person, what can he do?
Just then, Ling Yi's phone rang.
The caller was the company's human resources manager.
Ling Yi answered the phone, " Manager Gu, hello..."
Ling Yi smiled, but the smile quickly disappeared, then his expression turned ugly, and finally indifferent.
Yina watched Ling Yi's changing expressions with curiosity, finding it very interesting.
After hanging up the phone, Ling Yi laughed self-deprecatingly, "Sure enough, it was all an act. What good brother, what pillar of the company? Did these guys really think I couldn't see through it? It was all an act."
"Congratulations on losing your job. You've successfully become a homeless person," Yina said gloatingly.
" Bored!" Ling Yi rolled his eyes.
"The company found out I had brain cancer and fired me. My project was taken over by someone else, and I didn't even get a raise. It really is true, once you're gone, you're forgotten."
"The ridiculous thing is, do they really think this project is so easy? Only I know the core code of the logic algorithm. I'd like to see how they explain not finishing the project to the client. The Jin San million."
Ling Yi said to himself.
"So, what are you planning to do next?" Yina asked curiously.
"Let's eat!" Ling Yi glanced at the digital clock on the wall; it was already 6:30 PM.
After a long and eventful day, Ling Yi was starving.
Upon entering the kitchen, Ling Yi quickly made a simple egg fried rice and a plate of stir-fried Potato.
The aroma of the food made Yina's mouth water.
God does not need to eat.
By chance, Yina ate some earthly food brought back by a Divine Servant who had gone on a business trip to the mortal realm, and from then on, she fell in love with the taste of food.
Unfortunately, opportunities to enjoy delicious food are rare in the Divine Domain.
How could Yina, who had tasted human delicacies, possibly stand this?
This became one of the main reasons why she ran away from home.
Ling Yi watched speechlessly as Yina ate a shredded Potato. She was so Xiaoxiao, and with Ling Yi's terrible knife skills, that shredded Potato was bigger than several Yina combined.
"You, as a god, can't you be a little bigger? This is so awkward."
"Our God Race is born this height. What can I do? It's impossible for me to grow bigger unless I steal my father's Divine Weapon."
" Divine Weapon?"
"Well, you can think of it as a kind of mecha. Ever seen Gundam? It's just that the Divine Weapon can transform into anything, so turning into a human wouldn't be a problem."
You still watch Gundam?
" Bored. Even Divine Domain is connected to the internet, you know."
No wonder Yina seems to know a little about everything; it turns out the Divine Domain has internet access.
"However, even if I had Divine Weapon, it would be useless unless I used Soul Transfer Technique to transfer my soul into a human body."
"You can actually do that?"
"It's possible to do it, but it's very dangerous. Moreover, once the divine power is transferred to a human, it will become extremely weak. If the human body dies, the Divine Power might truly be lost."
"Most importantly, the Soul Transfer Technique can only be used once in a god's lifetime, and it's irreversible."