At this point, the real HIM paused, closed his eyes and recalled for a moment, then looked at Xu Yuan again and continued speaking.
"The encounter in the mine was your first meeting with me."
"But that was not the first time I saw you."
Hearing the real HIM's words, although Xu Yuan felt a bit confused, he was not surprised.
Before the trial land opened earlier, the real HIM had already said that Xu Yuan was someone he had chosen.
Since it was "chosen", it must have been a decision the real HIM made after considering many aspects.
If that meeting in the mine had been the first time the real HIM met Xu Yuan, then naturally there would be no such thing as "chosen".
Thinking of this, Xu Yuan looked at the real HIM and asked.
"What is behind that patch of light?"
Obviously, behind that patch of light could not possibly be the mine where Xu Yuan met the real HIM, and because of that Xu Yuan was a bit curious about what exactly was behind that light.
Xu Yuan directly asked the key point as soon as he spoke, which also saved the real HIM quite a lot of explanation.
"Talking with you really is easy." The real HIM slightly lifted the corner of his mouth, showing a faint smile as he said.
However, in the very next moment, his previously relaxed brows suddenly tightened together.
It seemed he was racking his brain, searching deep in his mind for the most fitting and accurate word, so he could vividly describe the strange scene hidden behind that mysterious light.
Time passed little by little. After quite a while, he helplessly shook his head and softly sighed.
"To be honest, even now I still can't find a proper adjective to describe that place. Because before that, I had never seen such a strange environment…"
After pausing slightly, he continued describing, "If I must use a comparison to describe it, then the first impression that place gave me was like a void filled with dense spider webs…"
"Those silk threads crisscrossed in all directions, complicated and tangled together, eventually weaving into large strange nets that were hard to grasp."
"And even more surprising, those threads were actually like transparent pipes shining with faint light, and inside each pipe something completely unknown was constantly being transmitted…"
As the description went deeper, the real HIM's expression became more serious and focused, as if he had completely sunk into the memory of that bizarre experience and could not pull himself out.
He paused, then added, "Those pipe-like threads stretched from all directions, and in the end all gathered into an extremely huge core located in the center…"
At this point, the real HIM took a deep breath and slowly said, "In that place, I explored for a long time but still couldn't figure out what that core and those pipes really were."
"But I did figure out what was being transmitted inside those pipes."
Hearing this, Xu Yuan already had a rough guess in his heart. Before the real HIM could speak, Xu Yuan spoke first.
"It was information, right?"
Hearing Xu Yuan's words, the real HIM froze completely. With a face full of surprise he looked at Xu Yuan and asked, "How did you know…"
Before he finished speaking, he frowned.
"You know what that place is?!"
Xu Yuan shook his head.
"I just made some guesses based on the clues you provided…"
Xu Yuan did not give an exact answer, after all he had never actually been to that place.
At this point, Xu Yuan asked the real HIM.
"You should have found me at the other end of one of those pipes, right?"
"Yes!" The real HIM quickly nodded. After hearing Xu Yuan say this, the surprise on his face became even more obvious.
The real HIM's answer basically confirmed Xu Yuan's guess. After thinking for a moment, Xu Yuan slowly began to explain.
"According to my judgment… the place you reached should have been inside the internet…"
"The pipes you saw were channels connecting individual IP addresses to the internet…"
After confirming this guess, even Xu Yuan himself felt shaken.
Xu Yuan knew the previous world where the real HIM was had been complicated, but he did not expect it to be complicated to this extent.
It actually allowed the real HIM to enter the internet dimension of another world.
And even reach individual IP addresses through that internet dimension.
Not only that, he could even bring people from another world into this world through the internet.
It could only be said that the real HIM had developed less than one percent of that world, and that world was truly full of unknown things.
Although Xu Yuan was curious about that previous world, there were still important matters to handle now. No matter how curious he was, he would have to wait until everything was settled.
Thinking of this, Xu Yuan was about to explain it to everyone, but when he looked up he saw three confused faces.
Tyrant HIM, Annoying Village HIM, and even the real HIM himself had already accepted that the world they lived in was a game world, but they knew very little about network knowledge.
Naturally, they could not really understand what Xu Yuan was saying about IP addresses.
Seeing their expressions, Xu Yuan could only drop it. For now this information was not important to Tyrant HIM, Annoying Village HIM, or the real HIM, and whether they understood it did not matter.
After thinking this, Xu Yuan looked at the three of them, shrugged, and said.
"Forget it, it's not important information. Not understanding it won't affect anything."
After speaking, Xu Yuan looked at the real HIM again and continued asking, "So you saw what I posted online…"
At this point, Xu Yuan paused, seemingly worried the real HIM might not understand, then corrected himself.
"So you saw the information inside my pipe, and that's why you chose me?"
Hearing Xu Yuan's words, the real HIM nodded.
"I stayed inside what you call the internet for a long time and learned quite a lot of information."
"I knew that in your world there is a game called 'Minecraft' that is exactly the same as the world I previously lived in."
"I also learned that in your world, the HIM imagined by those players looks exactly like me."
"Of course, I also know that you wrote various new stories for HIM."
"'Annoying Villagers', 'Broken', and so on… I have looked into all those stories."
At this point, the real HIM looked at Xu Yuan again.
"I read a lot of your information. Your statements not only showed a correct stance, but also constantly expressed your longing and love for that land."
"That is the reason I chose you."