God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 328: The Deity of the Other World

Whether it was because the image capture monster wasn’t really alive, or because the fortress in the other world only acted when living beings passing through tried to leave the fortress, or because their guards simply hadn’t noticed—it had just casually wandered around the castle for ten minutes.

And it made it back without running into any problems.

Of course, they didn’t get much more information either.

Everything in sight was just various gears and endless thick smoke.

Ren and the Goddess of Magic immediately decided to step things up.

This time, the image capture monster began flying straight toward the outside of the fortress. But before it could fly very far, suddenly the fortress gates opened.

Some beings that looked almost identical to mortals—probably humans—were escorting a group of Hollows to the entrance and just tossed them in. Their mouths were muttering something, but unfortunately, through the images transmitted by the image capture monster, you couldn’t tell what they were saying.

Actually, even if sound had been transmitted back, they probably wouldn’t have understood it anyway.

"The world on the other side seems to have some supernatural professions too. They can actually imprison Hollows and bring them here... I even get the feeling that they’re treating this place like a prison, throwing troublemaking Hollows from outside in here."

Watching this scene, Ren was somewhat surprised, though not completely shocked. This wasn’t too far beyond his understanding.

Although the other side of the portal was a new civilization, the underlying logic of this world should be the same. Every planet had its own civilization, could give birth to deities through faith or other means, and deities could create some special beings to help collect what they desired...

The current situation seemed pretty reasonable.

Hearing this, the Goddess of Magic nodded in agreement.

The situation really was somewhat like what they’d imagined.

Originally, they thought the Hollows might be thrown into the mortal realm by deities to collect faith or something else. But now it seemed that might not be the case, since humans were actually capturing Hollows and throwing them into this "prison." Their trouble was just the other side’s criminals.

Was the portal a place of exile that they’d opened?

If so, what kind of strength did the mortals on the other side have?

The stronger a population, the more powerful the deities they create. That was a basic rule.

"Once this Hollow appears, we’ll control it and see if we can extract any memories from it, okay?" Ren thought for a moment. "I don’t even know if these Hollows have memories."

For the Goddess of Magic, this was obviously a pretty easy task.

She agreed without any hesitation.

And succeeded without any hesitation.

The Church of Technology battle clerics, even Lava General, didn’t notice that one Hollow had already become their spoils of war. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

"I suddenly regret creating magical life and mechanical deities to investigate. We actually could have just read these Hollows’ memories directly. What a waste of time."

The Goddess of Magic spoke somewhat helplessly. "Sure enough, sometimes finding the right method is what matters most."

"You found useful information?" Ren was pleasantly surprised. "Actually, even if we find some information, we’d still need to probe around. It’s not really a waste."

The Goddess of Magic nodded slightly. "Actually, the Hollows are just ordinary humans from the other world... Ordinary humans might suddenly mutate into Hollows one day, then slaughter everything around them... In fact, our initial guess was correct."

"The world on the other side really does have a deity who craves suffering. This deity is called the Mother of Pain."

"The Mother of Pain? Feeds on suffering?" Ren was somewhat surprised. "What about the other deities?"

"All the other deities are dead. That world has only this one deity." The Goddess of Magic thought for a moment. "But I feel this guy’s memories still aren’t comprehensive. There are many things that don’t add up."

If the other world only had one deity—the Mother of Pain—who fed on suffering, transformed some people into Hollows, and then the Hollows slaughtered people around them, plunging more people into suffering.

The logic would definitely make sense.

It also fit the rules of deities.

But the problem was, if all the other deities were dead and that world only had the Mother of Pain, why would there still be so many human Hollows getting tossed in here?

Shouldn’t that world be controlled by Hollows?

Could there be some hidden story here?!

"Besides that, what other information is there? Like, who were the people escorting them in just now? How many people are out there? And what stage is their era at? Agricultural or industrial?"

After thinking, Ren also felt there were big problems. Maybe the upper classes hadn’t told the lower-class common folk all the information. Maybe the information mortals knew was modified to begin with. Maybe there were other deities, but they were being obscured by the Mother of Pain...

There were just too many possibilities. They needed to keep investigating. Compared to that, what he cared more about was how developed this world’s civilization was, how many people there were exactly, and other basic information like that.

"The people escorting them were security team members. This Hollow used to be just an ordinary factory worker, on an assembly line like the ones you invented, repeating the same action over and over, so he doesn’t know a lot of information."

The Goddess of Magic organized her thoughts. "This guy only knows his town has two hundred thousand people. There are countless towns like theirs, and nobody dares claim they’ve visited them all. This world really does have more people than we imagined."

"As for civilization development level, I actually think it’s not as good as your magic-tech industry. Many aspects are far behind, especially in transportation."

The Goddess of Magic quickly relayed the information this Hollow knew.

1).He was just a regular small-town resident. During the day he was at work, at night he was lying around, and then inexplicably turned into a Hollow.

2).This world doesn’t have long-distance information transmission capabilities—same as before your Magic Net appeared. Information transfer is extremely difficult, so he doesn’t know exactly how many towns like theirs exist. He just heard from passing merchants that theirs isn’t particularly notable.

3).The people who imprisoned him were actually security teams that every town has. They have some superhuman methods. Usually when Hollows appear in their jurisdiction, they directly imprison them and then send them here.

4).Although the other world has progressed to an industrial age, this industrial age is really weird. Energy comes from burning a gray stone. Breathing in too much of the smell from burning gray stone makes you sick. Almost everyone in every small town mass-produces different stones, and everyone has to work at high intensity every day.

5).The other side’s capabilities in many areas are far behind Ren’s magic-tech industry.

...

Listening to the information obtained from this Hollow, Ren frowned. "I keep feeling that maybe this kind of life they’re living is exactly what the Mother of Pain wants to see."