Zou Keke looked at Zhang Chen before her and found it almost unbelievable.
This so-called god was clearly very powerful, yet he asked such an obvious question. It was truly strange!
In fact, Zhang Chen was trying to confirm whether this supposed god was a native inhabitant.
Only native inhabitants needed to extract their own energy sources while simultaneously controlling a device with their other hand to activate their abilities.
If they were just ability users...
Zhang Chen had seen ability users activate their powers in parallel worlds.
Their movements were completely natural because constructing the energy structure required no hands; it was accomplished through thought.
Therefore, they could unleash their abilities even while standing still.
They could even use one hand or both hands, releasing powers as they pleased, which was merely for show when coordinating with the effects of their abilities.
However, native inhabitants had to use their left hand because the device was in their left hand.
Zhang Chen needed to understand the situation better, so the more he asked, the more details he would learn.
The less he would have to rely on his own assumptions.
Often, when doing things, people would make the mistake of assuming things were a certain way, believing it should be so, but the results would often deviate.
Based on Zou Keke's description, it was highly probable that the so-called god was a native inhabitant.
Then, what did a native inhabitant want to obtain by going to that world?
"True God, can you come back with me? I only have 48 hours remaining in this world."
"Time is running out."
"Once the time is up, I will be automatically teleported back to my original world."
"We've used up all the keys to open the gate of the divine realm. If we go back this time, we might never be able to return!"
Zou Keke said with a face full of pleading.
"Alright, I'll go back with you!"
Zhang Chen nodded and gently squeezed Xiao Ruan in his pocket.
This guy rarely showed himself, hiding in Zhang Chen's pocket and occasionally poking his head out to look.
Most of the time, he was daydreaming or sleeping.
Last time, he was sealed by Luo Tianyu's containment jar as soon as he appeared, which made him very depressed.
Later, after Luo Tianyu died, the control device and energy core were destroyed.
The containment jar automatically unlocked and released Xiao Ruan.
However, through studying the containment jar, Zhang Chen had basically mastered the method of unlocking containment.
Anything involving the use of energy, Zhang Chen could now understand through analogy, and his progress was rapid!
"Let's go, Xiao Ruan. Remember the way home. You still need to bring me back after we're done!"
Zhang Chen said softly.
"Gu ji... Gu ji..."
Xiao Ruan extended a tentacle and gently swayed it above the pocket, indicating it had received the message.
"Then let's go!"
Zhang Chen opened the door, briefly instructed Zhang Wenwen, and then returned the teleportation beacon to Zou Keke.
"Thank you, True God. Then we depart!"
Zou Keke caressed the teleportation beacon a few times, and the blue light on it grew brighter and brighter.
At its most brilliant moment, she abruptly planted the beacon on the ground.
As if by some force, two metal rods floated a few centimeters above the ground without falling.
At the same time, an arched portal tore through space and appeared out of nowhere before everyone.
Zou Keke looked at Zhang Chen expectantly, signaling for Zhang Chen to enter first.
She was afraid Zhang Chen would have a change of heart at the last moment, and then her trip would have been in vain.
"You go first, True God enters later. We will not go back on our word!"
Zhang Wenwen stepped forward, blocking Zhang Chen, and said to Zou Keke with a vigilant expression.
"Alright, True God, you must come!"
Zou Keke said, then walked directly into the portal.
"She's not lying! There are no traps inside!"
Zhang Wenwen reported to Zhang Chen.
"Mm, I'll leave this place to you!"
Zhang Chen gave Zhang Wenwen an approving look and then leisurely walked into the portal.
One minute after he left, the portal slowly closed.
Finally, the two metal rods clanged and fell to the ground.
The faint blue patterns on them gradually disappeared.
"This... the True God went to another world?"
"Is this girl really from another world?"
"Then... can we teleport back home?"
Fan Yiyi stared at the scene before her with shock and said in amazement.
"If we could go back, the True God would have taken us back long ago. Who would want to survive here? Not enough to eat, not warm enough to wear, and still having to worry about being killed by unknown monsters at any moment..."
"Moreover... even if the original world still exists, if we go back, can we just pretend that nothing happened and return to our original selves?"
Zhang Wenwen seemed to be answering Fan Yiyi's question, but also talking to herself, looking thoughtfully at a corner.
"I know many of us died in the apocalypse... but if we could teleport back..."
"At least... we could return to our original environment, and soon, we would be able to become our original selves again!"
Fan Yiyi said with longing in her eyes.
She seemed to already see her small apartment of over forty square meters, and the breakfast shop downstairs she often patronized.
Things that Fan Yiyi used to dislike now made her incredibly nostalgic.
"We've killed people, our hands are stained with blood, and our mindset is no longer what it used to be."
"Regardless of whether we take our abilities back, there will always be a distinction between the strong and the weak."
"The original country no longer exists; what exists are survivors like us who have experienced slaughter."
"Facing abundant resources, we will once again engage in a struggle for world dominance..."
"In the end, all that awaits us will be another apocalyptic world."
"If our home were still here, I would rather it remain as it was when we left. At least back then, we were still worth remembering..."
Zhang Wenwen chuckled self-deprecatingly, leaving these words behind, and turned to leave.
"Another apocalyptic world... letting home remain as it was when remembered..."
Fan Yiyi savored these two sentences, and her eyes instantly turned red.
Indeed, she was no longer the person she used to be.
Was she still worthy of returning to her original home?!
......
On the other side.
Zhang Chen traversed the spatial gate and arrived in another world.
The reason he was so certain it was another world was because the biological energy content in the air was extremely low.
Not only the air, but also the land, buildings, plants, and creatures had negligible biological energy.
In the apocalyptic world, Zhang Chen's strength had been continuously growing, but the destruction to the surrounding environment caused by a casual move was rarely of the magnitude of moving mountains and filling seas.
This was because as the suppression of the apocalypse gradually lifted, the biological energy content in the air and surrounding environment greatly increased, offsetting most of the energy and physical damage.
Therefore... if he were to unleash skills in this world...
He must be careful.
A casual blow might cause irreversible changes to the surrounding geography.