They all call me an Outer God.

“Ria Kercha”.

When Lia heard that the other person was calling him, he was stunned for a moment, then immediately got into character, put the plate on the table, and skillfully and impeccably handed the lady a cup of coffee.

He kept the other cup of coffee for himself. After placing the second cup on the table, Ria sat down opposite the lady in front of him, and his clothes changed into a suit.

"This seems to be the first time we've met like this. My true form is still asleep. I wonder if you like this way of meeting?"

"of course."

Ria replied with a smile, and after some polite exchanges, she tapped the table with her knuckles, signaling that it was time for them to get down to business.

Shub thought he was a bit impatient, but she put down her coffee cup and poured in the sugar cubes and milk from the other side, stirring slowly.

After a long while, He said to Ria, “Actually, when I see you, I feel quite familiar with you.”

Ria: "Why do you say that?"

"Because it's been a long time since I've had a conversation with someone like this..."

As she spoke, Shub gave a self-deprecating laugh, which puzzled Ria even more. But before he could ask, the woman asked Ria first, "What do you think God is?"

"Hmm... a supreme, incomprehensible being."

"Right? I used to think the same way. We're all relics of the past, so we should be able to understand each other."

"It's like how I used to love drinking Starbucks, and my roommate loved drinking Mixue Ice Cream. I teased her that drinking that stuff would give her diarrhea, and she teased me for being like some kind of fat cat."

Ria: "..."

Which old day is this?

Are they referring to the same old day?

While puzzled, Ria also vaguely noticed a significant problem: the woman in front of him was indeed speaking the language of his own time. If she called it the old days, how could Ria explain the place he thought he had traveled to?

Shub finally revealed a bitter smile.

"It seems you've noticed too. I told you this couldn't be kept secret."

"Could it be... that you are also a time traveler?"

Ria asked cautiously.

Shub shook her head at this moment: "No, it's not so much about time travel. Rather than time travel, it's more like I've lived from the past to the present."

He looked up, his gaze unfocused, as if he were recalling something. As Shub reminisced, Ria's mind was also suddenly bombarded with a massive amount of information that seemed to burst a person's head.

In his time, there were no supernatural beings or mysterious objects, but there were a lot of similar myths and legends.

Then one day, a meteorite from the stars struck the Earth. Before the meteorite arrived, a scientist proposed the hypothesis of a multiverse collision and merging in response to this trajectory, but no one paid attention to him. Everyone frantically tried to find a way to save themselves, and magnetic field traction, atomic collapse, and nuclear explosion were all proposed.

Various countries united to try and alter the meteorite's trajectory using various weapons. While the meteorite's path was successfully deviated, the disaster had only just begun. The hypothesis of a multiverse collision and merging creeping event was realized, causing the magnetic fields of the stars to fluctuate wildly during what was known as the "death countdown." Global power outages and plummeting temperatures led to the absolute annihilation of life.

Contaminated by an unknown substance, the surviving humans underwent a mutation, merging into an incredibly twisted monster.

Multiple universes were merged into one place, then decomposed again, repeating this process. Then, from that nothingness, the monster grew larger and larger, surrounded by gray mist that nourished it.

After an unknown period of time, the creature seemed to develop intelligence. It began to split itself, initially into three individuals. Then, those three individuals gradually evolved into new life forms, which spread everywhere and even rebuilt the Earth, witnessing the evolution of life above.

All life, civilization, and history are created by the primordial monster, which acts like a competent screenwriter, trying to rewind everything to before the catastrophe.

It has never forgotten that it is human, and hopes that its fellow human beings who have broken away from it will not forget this either.

The extraordinary birth born from pollution, billions of years later, those original creatures had completely transformed into orderly machines.

Its wisdom has vanished, but human civilization has been reborn. It is a beautiful history filled with myths and the supernatural, where people live in harmony with the gods, and the gods, as former humans, guide the development of civilization for all beings.

All of this is inseparable from that primordial being, which provides for all of this, becoming the source of life and the center of the universe. Once it dies, all the life and civilization that depend on it will naturally vanish.

At this moment, the gods realized that this person's life seemed to be coming to an end.

The universe is a constant cycle of death and rebirth. After the original death, there may be a day when it will be reborn, but after the collapse of civilization, it is unknown when it can be rebuilt. Moreover, once it dies, the gods will also die. The people in the new civilization will be absorbed and wait for the day when they are revived to become new gods. The old humans will be abandoned in this way.

After some thought, the gods surrounded the primordial being and, taking advantage of its exhaustion and weakness, sealed it in a dark chamber, then forced the primordial humans into a deep slumber.

As long as the Primal One doesn't awaken, civilization will not perish, and the old humans will be safe. That was the original thought of everyone. But what they never expected was...

The primordial power was too great. After realizing it was trapped, it released pollution that directly put all the old humans into a deep sleep, and then those thriving civilizations suffered heavy damage.

Pollution is rampant, and people are suffering terribly.

But at the same time, it has exhausted its vitality, and now dormancy is the best way to preserve its life.

Once the Primal One awakens, the entire universe will instantly collapse, and then fall into a new cycle of rebirth.

"Therefore, for you, your own followers... these humans are your enemies."

Ria stared intently at the woman in front of her, while Shub turned her head away: "You can't say that, after all, no one wants the life they created to take their place."

"After the Primordial One forced us to fall into slumber with it, it also scattered a factor called 'meme' among the stars. This factor allows eligible individuals to transcend trillions of years in their limited lifespan and become gods. Once they reach Meme Zero and acquire the divine status of the Old Gods, they can naturally replace the Old Gods' divine positions."

"Then the problem arises: no one wants to be replaced by someone else, especially when they are asleep and completely unaware of what's happening."

“At this moment, I think the task of the gods, which is also the task of us old humans, becomes very clear.”

"We...must stop anyone from reaching Meme Zero."

(End of this chapter)