Chapter 60: Storm in Reality

Still waiting? Is it urgent?

Players: "???"

Online, players were frantically discussing the mysterious disappearance of "Primal Thunderbolt Hand," the renowned player. The promised live stream never started. Everyone speculated that he had been missing for a whole day with no news, perhaps completely engrossed in the new map and unable to log out? Who knew that as soon as he reappeared, he would start talking nonsense!

Akina Mountain Speed: "Over a hundred years, Big Shot? You've clearly lost your mind! (Confused meme)"

One More Gacha Pull: "Seven witch wives? The Big Shot must be insane! This isn't a harem-building cute girl game! (Sudden genre shift)"

Little Tiger Descends the Mountain: "Heh heh! See? This great prophet had it predicted! Given how this game usually is, the new map was bound to be incredibly hardcore. Guys, this one's gone crazy, let's move on to the next! (For detailed prophecies, click my avatar to find my post from yesterday, follow me for more surprises!)"

Akina Mountain Speed: "Ah, I get it now. I totally empathize. I remember when I first entered this game and the first thing it said was: 'Please evolve your eyes.' I was completely bewildered and went crazy back then too. (Handshake, teary-eyed)"

Chunzi Loves Learning: "Newbie's so scared! Why would such a respected tech-stream Big Shot end up like this? Is it the distortion of human nature? Or the decay of morality? Is the new map even more hardcore than this?"

The players were having a lively and excited time in the forum, playfully teasing him. After all, the hardcore difficulty of this so-called sandbox casual game was well-known to all.

Many expressed that "Primal Thunderbolt Hand," the tech-farming Big Shot who had won the second achievement reward, had gone completely insane. God knew what kind of shock he had endured.

After all, only a day had passed, and he was already talking absolute nonsense!

Li Shengjiang paused, watching the forum's reactions, then realized he had been too hasty. He took a deep breath.

"For me, it's been a long hundred-plus years, longer than my current forty-plus years of life. It gave me the illusion that I was actually Grantham, the Alchemist Emperor of another world, who had transmigrated back to modern times to become a tech company CEO."

It was as if those hundred-plus years were his true self; after all, his current forty-plus years of modern life felt too brief.

Their disbelief was understandable, as only a single day had passed for them.

"But I have proof."

Li Shengjiang quickly uploaded a batch of photos he had taken.

The first image uploaded showed him in the other world, amidst a lush forest of giant trees, traveling with a lively group of slimes.

The forum exploded with activity.

"Wow, is this the new map? Is the Big Shot exploring with the slime race?"

"The Big Shot is finally normal."

Someone started getting excited.

Li Shengjiang said nothing, and then continuously posted several more images.

The second image was of a street he had photographed while at the Witch Freemasonry.

The street was filled with countless beautiful women in various witch robes holding wooden staves, merchants in lavish clothing, women holding children, bustling fruit stalls with vendors calling out, and all sorts of prosperous shops. There was even a Rose Church witch riding a colossal Arago beast, thundering across the street.

"Huh? Is this a bustling market in another world? So lively, so exotic, it's incredibly real! And mounts, they're huge! Could it be that the new map has NPCs?"

"Wow! Pretty ladies holding staves?"

"How can there be people in the new map! Big Shot, come out and explain!"

"I'm practically drooling!"

Li Shengjiang remained completely silent: Heh, let them think I've lost my mind!

Without a word, he simply piqued their curiosity further by posting a massive overhead view of the Kingdom of Babylon, showcasing its exquisite, beautiful, magnificent, and grand architectural cityscapes.

When this image was opened, it utterly astonished everyone.

It was a wizard's ancient city, more vast and real than the sandbox city views in "Assassin's Creed," brimming with exotic flair, exquisitely detailed, and utterly stunning and beautiful!

"Now it's time for the main course, something exciting," Li Shengjiang thought, seeing everyone drooling. He finally pulled out his trump card and posted a combat image of two young witches, displaying a dazzling array of magical lights as they cast their spells, completely blowing everyone away.

"Holy cow, holy cow!! Beautiful ladies in witch robes actually casting spells!"

"Big Shot, we were wrong! Please say something! Don't just post pictures (bowing, bowing)"

"Trembling with fear!!! My mom asked me why I'm kneeling while playing 'Spore Evolution.' Has studying really made me unable to extricate myself? (Bowing in apology)"

"You were all teasing and mocking me before, and now you're surprised? Let me show you something even bigger." Li Shengjiang smiled faintly and finally released an extremely shocking image.

This was a scene from years ago: Emperor Medusa, the Death Lord, visiting the Kingdom of Babylon. In the sky above, the 'Flower of Death' – a colossal black-blood rose – appeared, testing Lilith's power, a terrifying black spectacle that seemed to herald the end of the world.

It was an incredibly stunning and world-shattering sight.

"It's terrifying! That lady in the sky is so beautiful, is she a god?"

"If that rose flower were to strike, wouldn't the entire city be destroyed?"

Everyone completely turned into fawning admirers.

They frantically begged the Big Shot to speak, to stop just posting pictures. "Please, be a normal human being! Say something!"

Li Shengjiang felt a slight regret; it was a pity he couldn't live stream or record videos, only take screenshots. Otherwise, the visual impact would have been even more stunning for them.

"Now, the image you're looking at is of Medusa, known to the world as the 'Emperor Lord of Supreme Power and Death,' " he stated without intentionally delaying, as his time was pressing; only a few minutes outside meant a long time had passed inside the game.

After releasing these crucial pieces of evidence, he spoke directly, "I suppose you all know by now that in just this short day, I brought my slime race to another world."

Really, he brought his slime race to another world?

A real other world?

A very large one?

Everyone was completely bewildered.

"This is impossible! But these pictures??"

Countless people frantically flooded the replies. A single post instantly garnered hundreds of comments. While the game itself didn't have many active players, there were far too many 'cloud players' – those who couldn't play the game but followed it avidly. At that moment, they were all incredibly excited.

However, what followed was an even more explosive statement that instantly sent the players into an uproar:

"I know what you're curious about: why I managed to take so many photos in just one day. Am I some legendary scenic tourist, casually taking pictures along the way, experiencing exotic customs? But that doesn't make sense, does it? Is the other world so friendly to slimes that I could just enter and take my slime race sightseeing all over the city?"

"Actually, I can answer many of your questions with one sentence: In your eyes, only a little over a day has passed, but in the other world, I lived for over a hundred years! A hundred years is enough time for me to experience a lifetime of what you've never gone through!"

The entire forum instantly went wild.

Many people's hands trembled as they gripped their mice, their lips quivered slightly, their minds went blank for a few seconds, some even knocking over water glasses and spilling them across their desks. Then, they couldn't help but frantically type on their keyboards, posting messages, unleashing their questions.

"What on earth is going on!"

"One day outside, a hundred years in the game?"

Woosh—

Instantly, the post's replies flooded the screen.

Pages of posts refreshed like movie frames, almost too fast for the human eye to keep up.

As they sat in front of their computers, typing on their keyboards, a legendary idea formed in their minds: virtual reality, time dilation technology!