Return trip.
On the way back, Lilith used her authority over the Virtual World Core to open up the sphere, revealing the interior brimming with a silver-gray glow.
This thing was also a sphere, and the moment Zheng Yichen held it in his hand, he momentarily experienced an illusion of the starry sky.
"Does this count as a supercomputer?" Zheng Yichen asked uncertainly.
"You could understand it that way. It's a core capable of simulating a world almost as real as reality."
A world almost as real as reality—Lilith had mentioned this to Zheng Yichen more than once, though it still sounded preposterous to him.
After all, the factors involved in creating an entire world were far too complex. To render it properly, how many graphics cards would be needed... cough, cough.
Was this thing essentially an ultimate, all-powerful GPU?
"Like a whole universe-level exaggeration?"
