Chapter 郝仁 Anxious

Hao Ren felt the cold sweat that had just receded now breaking out again, layer upon layer. Although he couldn't understand many of the things Raven 12345 was saying all at once, he could still tell that much of it wasn't good news. "Nearing overflow? What... what does that mean?"

"She has a massive amount of information connected to her, like gibberish, like a small file with only two lines of text but a dozen gigabytes in size," Raven 12345, considering Hao Ren's human common sense, was constantly using ways he could understand to explain what was happening to Vivian, "That excess information could be anything – memories from the Dream Plane, a massive number of split personalities, latent curses, or... a symbol left on her by some half-baked goddess. But until that information takes effect, no one can say for sure what it is. For now, we can only be certain that this information is harmless… at least, from the time I started paying attention to this until now, it hasn't had a bad influence."

"Like what some people call entangled karma?" Hao Ren frowned deeply. "Regardless, having so much extra stuff on you out of nowhere can't be a good thing, right? Isn't there a way to get rid of it?"

"You don't even know what that information *is*. How can you be sure that getting rid of it won't make things worse?" Raven 12345 glanced at Hao Ren. "That's why I suspect Vivian has some connection to the goddess of the Dream Plane: the information entangled with her exceeds the 'regulations' of a mortal species, and is more like something divine. Although she doesn't possess divinity herself, her complexity makes you think that way. Perhaps she was divinely created, or… never mind, you wouldn't understand anyway."

"Perhaps she has a divinely created artifact buried inside her, is that it?" Hao Ren surprisingly became quick-witted this time, directly guessing the half-sentence the goddess sister hadn't said. "Why are you only telling me this now?"

Raven 12345 stared fixedly into Hao Ren's eyes. "You seem to care about her quite a bit?"

Hao Ren was taken aback, his tone a little unnatural. "Uh… yeah, a little. After all, we've been together for so long, it's hard to say I don't care."

"There are some things I do know more than you, including about Vivian," Raven 12345 lowered her eyelids slightly. "But I hope you can believe one thing: the reason I haven't told you is precisely to protect both of you."

Hao Ren raised his shoulders with a wry smile. "That sounds like a classic excuse. Tell me, what good can come from hiding it from the person involved?"

Raven 12345 ignored the complaint in Hao Ren's tone. "What if the 'truth' causes the information she carries to overflow? What if the excessive information Vivian carries is a seal, and the key to opening it lies in her memories or her self-awareness? Or what if she has a hidden ability to search for keywords in the memories of those around her? I can't 'unpack' her information right now, so I can't be sure if some of the intelligence I have will become a switch, so I have to be careful."

Hao Ren was stunned. "This sounds a bit… far-fetched?"

"But this kind of thing really does happen," Raven 12345 said very seriously. "I've seen too many things, the universe is vast, and there are dangers everywhere you don't know about."

Hao Ren was silent for a while, realizing that at this time he could only believe the other party's words, but he was still a little puzzled. "Then what you're telling me now, is that okay?"

"I didn't tell you anything substantive," Raven 12345 blinked, her tone becoming cheap again. "I believe that even if Vivian knew what I told you today, she wouldn't 'overflow.' It's all been precisely calculated."

Hao Ren raised his hands in surrender. "Okay, okay, let's just say you're right. But come to think of it, I thought goddesses were supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent. I didn't expect there to be so many things you couldn't be sure about."

Raven 12345 curled her lips. "It depends on what area. Within the scope of mortal perception, a true god is indeed omniscient and omnipotent, because all the information that mortals can perceive is a 'subset' of the set that is the true god. But outside of that range, for example, when it involves another true god… I'm just groping around like you guys."

The two of them fell silent for a moment at the same time, then spoke almost simultaneously:

"That extra information isn't harmful to Vivian, is it?" "There's no need to worry about that girl's condition for now."

"Haa, I knew you were going to ask that," Raven 12345 scratched her hair in a very ungraceful manner, muttering in a lazy tone like a slovenly bum who only went out once every two months, "Rest assured, this old lady loves her people like her own children… loves her soldiers like her own children… loves, uh, whatever, anyway, she won't let you fall into danger casually. The massive amount of information entangled with Vivian should have been with her for over ten thousand years. Since there haven't been any problems before, there shouldn't be any in the short term. As long as you find the whereabouts of the goddess of the Dream Plane before that, I estimate that the girl's situation will just be a small problem."

At this moment, Hao Ren could only hope that things would really develop in this direction, and while he was silent, Raven 12345 earnestly reminded him a few times: "Although theoretically there won't be any problems, you should still try not to mention these things to Vivian after you get back. Mental stress may also be a trigger for the information to overflow."

Hao Ren immediately felt a chill and nodded vigorously. "I understand, I won't tell her."

Raven 12345 laughed loudly and patted his shoulder hard like a close friend. "That's good. Don't worry about it too much. I'll continue to investigate. If there's anything I can tell you… I'll notify you as soon as possible. I know it must be uncomfortable to have something weighing on your mind."

"I believe you," Hao Ren put on a smile, temporarily suppressing the matter in his heart. At this time, he remembered another question that had flashed through his mind when they were discussing the problem earlier. "Wait, you just mentioned that Vivian came to Earth forty-eight hours before the Creator Goddess fell, which means the first crack in the Wall of Reality appeared before the large-scale impact occurred? Could it be that the reason the otherworlders came to Earth wasn't the goddess's fall?"

"This is also the problem I'm struggling with," Raven 12345 unconsciously drew circles on the round table with her finger. "To be honest, I was also shocked when I completed the timeline regression earlier. Although I didn't know about the God-Slaying Event at the time, I always guessed that the damage to the Wall of Reality was caused by the 'accident' on the other side with the Creator Goddess, but now it seems that the damage had already appeared before the God-Slaying occurred. The God-Slaying Event only expanded the scale of the cracks. Although the two events were only forty-eight hours apart… it's still a time difference."

"Could it be that the battle was fierce at the time, and the Dream Plane goddess actually held out for a long time from being bombed to falling, and during this time she asked for help while punching a hole in the Wall of Reality and throwing a lot of otherworlders into this universe and installing a bunch of zip files on Vivian..."

Raven 12345 looked at Hao Ren with a strange expression. "Doing so many things in the midst of all that? She wasn't about to give birth at the time, she was about to die, okay?"

Normal people really couldn't learn the goddess sister's way of making analogies.

"Okay, I feel like that's not very reliable either," Hao Ren rubbed his forehead. "According to the Guardians at the time, the goddess's condition before her death shouldn't have been enough for her to do so many things, and it seemed that the goddess didn't even know about the existence of the Wall of Reality."

At this time, Raven 12345 suddenly looked at the sky. "Oh my, it's getting late. Are you staying for dinner?"

"Do you need to look at the sky to tell the time in this place?" Hao Ren glanced at his goddess boss. "And don't pretend, you didn't even cook noodles today. Asking me to stay is probably just for cold water – I'd better go home. Vivian's cooking."

Raven 12345 still maintained a hateful smile. "That's for the best. Hurry up and leave. I'll save myself the trouble of cooking for you."

Hao Ren got up to say goodbye. As the Data Terminal opened the portal, he heard Raven 12345's last instruction: "Remember, don't tell her too much when you get back – trust me, nothing will happen."

"Then I hope you old folks can figure things out as soon as possible, so I can put my mind at ease."

After Hao Ren's figure disappeared into the portal light, Raven 12345 finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Hoo… employees are really hard to serve these days…"

As soon as she finished speaking, a halo lit up beneath her feet. The next moment, she arrived in a vast, special space.

This was the wondrous hall located on the lower floor of the villa, separated by countless pillars, so vast that it seemed boundless – the goddess's storage room.

Raven 12345 snapped her fingers lightly, and between the two pillars in front of her, a ripple like water suddenly appeared. Under this illusory ripple, some neatly arranged objects slowly emerged.

When the phantom-like ripple completely subsided, those things gradually appeared: they were crystal containers arranged shoulder to shoulder, like coffins. Dozens of these containers were neatly lined up in a row, suspended in mid-air at a certain angle. Through the transparent coffin lids, the scenes inside could be clearly seen.

In each container, a young girl was sleeping quietly. They had the exact same appearance, the same long red hair, the same exquisite features, beautiful faces that looked like they were of mixed European and Asian descent, and skin that was so fair it was almost pale, flawless, like fine porcelain.

Vivian, more than twenty Vivians were sleeping here.

"You're really giving me trouble…" Raven 12345 sighed. Although she was complaining, she still carefully checked the condition of each container. "Suddenly throwing a tantrum and destroying my garden… now it's like they're all sleeping soundly again?"

After confirming that all the sleeping individuals were safe and sound, she came to the last crystal container. This container was empty.

Raven 12345 quietly looked at it for a while and placed the blood sample collected by Hao Ren in front of the empty container. "Alright, this one… represents decay."