He didn't immediately understand what Raven 12345 was saying, because almost all of Hao Ren's attention was focused on the neatly arranged Vivian stasis pods. The sight of more than twenty red-haired Vivians was a huge shock, and at this moment he finally deeply realized how cursed his crow's beak was:

He'd only just been thinking about a Diffusion-Type Million Vivian the other day, and now he was running into one...

"You've been collecting my split bodies?" Vivian's voice was a little shaky, and she stared at Raven 12345. "And you said they're mostly here... have you been stalking and collecting them all this time?"

Hao Ren immediately conjured up an image of Raven 12345 as a stalker, and he began to look at the goddess sister strangely.

"Don't look at me like that," Raven 12345 said, pursing her lips. "Although I have been collecting them for a long time."

"These are all Vivian's split bodies? Like the red-haired evil spirit we dealt with last time?" Hao Ren asked in disbelief. "And the one we saw on the Purgatory Planet, is that the same?"

"No, the one on the Purgatory Planet is slightly different," Raven 12345 said, shaking her head slightly. "That was the first split body, which is equivalent to the beginning of the entire split process. These here are all split bodies that were produced after that, equivalent to mass-produced versions. The 'evil spirit' you summoned from the magic book last time was one of these mass-produced versions, and her position is over here."

As she spoke, Raven 12345 pointed out an empty crystal container to Hao Ren.

Hao Ren eagerly asked, "What exactly is going on with this split phenomenon? And what are you collecting these for?"

"Don't worry, I'm going to tell you something today," Raven 12345 said unhurriedly, her leisurely tone allowing Hao Ren to calm down as well. Then she turned her head to look at Vivian. "How much do you know about yourself?"

"The landlord has already told me everything," Vivian replied honestly. "I seem to have some connection with the 'goddess' in the Dream Plane? But I don't know what the specific connection is."

Raven 12345 nodded slightly. "Yes, that's it. To be honest, I haven't figured out the specific connection between you and that Creation Goddess, because by the time I noticed you, the Dream Plane incident was long over, and the aftershocks left by the Creation Goddess were almost imperceptible. Moreover, my power cannot go too deep into that world. But according to a series of investigations I conducted from the side afterwards, I finally determined one thing: you are a certain 'key element' that she projected into the surface world by virtue of her own will when the Creation Goddess was already in crisis."

"The fall of the Creation Goddess was not instantaneous. According to Hao Ren's investigation, she fought at least one great battle with the unfilial son before being murdered. So before she fell, she had plenty of time to make some preparations, and now it seems that the result of this 'preparation' is you."

"And the multiple damages that have appeared on the Wall of Reality are probably also related to the Creation Goddess's actions before her death. After all, the event of heterogeneous species entering the surface world on a large scale occurred not long after you were projected here."

"So what do you think, what did the Creation Goddess project Vivian into this universe for?"

In the end, Raven 12345 threw the question directly to Hao Ren and Vivian. The two thought about it for a while, and finally Hao Ren spoke first: "As a tool for 'resurrection'? After all, she should have realized that she was about to die at that time."

"A container for resurrection, a reincarnation carrier, or some kind of incomplete copy, this is indeed easy to think of, but Vivian does not possess divinity, which makes many problems difficult to judge," Raven 12345 shook her head. "Moreover, a true god is unlikely to choose to resurrect in this way. This is too inefficient, the success rate cannot be guaranteed, and the 'resurrection container' itself will be quite difficult to deal with once it develops self-awareness. After the fall of a true god, there are many more clever means of resurrection than creating a reincarnation container."

Hao Ren was a little confused: "Then what do you mean..."

Raven 12345 suddenly brought up a seemingly irrelevant question: "It is said that after the fall of the Creation Goddess, her divine kingdom also disappeared?"

"Oh, the Star of Creation," Hao Ren nodded immediately. "It is said that it was exiled to a place called the 'Dark Domain' in the final moments of the Godslaying War. The surviving guardians speculate that it is a closed abnormal space, but my reconnaissance drone fleet has not yet found its specific location. Uh... do you think Vivian is related to that abnormal space?"

"That Creation Goddess may be a half-baked deity, but at least her research on her own universe is very thorough. After the outbreak of the Godslaying War, she should be able to roughly calculate the possible results of the war under various circumstances: the exile of the divine kingdom should also be within her consideration. She is a god who created a large number of lives, and these creations need corresponding large databases and control terminals to process. Her guardians are only responsible for maintaining the peripheral systems, so the real terminal should be in her divine kingdom. For a god who likes creation, the creation database should be more precious than life."

Hao Ren roughly clarified Raven 12345's train of thought: "So she knew that her 'database' would be destroyed, so she created a mirror system or something in advance? Is that Vivian?"

"True gods don't need to use containers to resurrect, so the 'key element' she projected into this universe before her death could only be used to repair her database," Raven 12345 nodded. "Either it's mirror data, or it's a 'key' to restart the database, or it's a miniature system. Of course, these are just my speculations, but considering the massive amount of data that Vivian carries... this is really possible."

Vivian listened to Hao Ren and Raven 12345 discussing the things about her, but as the person involved, she didn't know what to say. These things were too advanced, too abstract, and too difficult to understand. She didn't know what kind of impact these things would have on her, and she didn't know how to deal with them. But she was, after all, an ancient being with ten thousand years of experience, and even if she was confused, she could still remain calm: "How much impact will these things have on me?"

Raven 12345 glanced at her: "Do you have the amulet I gave you with you?"

Vivian nodded immediately: "I have it with me."

"That's good, you're at least half safe. As for those things entangled in you, if they're just data, then it's actually the safest. No matter how much lifeless data accumulates, it's just data. What's really worrying is whether the Creation Goddess designed a 'consciousness' in your body to manage these data when she 'created' you. A self-aware soul is the biggest variable, and this soul was created by a true god. If she really exists, then separating her will be quite troublesome."

It's like a computer. No matter how much data you store, you can solve everything by getting a large hard drive, but if the systems are fighting, it's a big trouble.

Hao Ren easily understood this point, and after understanding it, he immediately broke out in a cold sweat: "Wait, there isn't really a second soul in Vivian's body that's ready to fight for control at any time, is there?"

Vivian immediately hugged her arms, her whole body shivering: "You're making me feel a little freaked out—I've already had so many physical splits, I really can't stand having a mental split too."

"There's no sign of that yet," Raven 12345 waved her hand, then pointed to the twenty-odd crystal containers. "But these things are hidden dangers."

Only then did Hao Ren turn his attention back to these split bodies in front of him. After going around in a circle, the topic finally returned to these most suspicious things. He frowned: "How exactly did these split bodies come about?"

"Vivian goes to sleep every once in a while, you all know that, right?" Raven 12345 curled up a finger. "Every time she sleeps, one will split out. Of course, this is the fixed situation. She will also split under certain special circumstances, such as the first time ten thousand years ago."

Vivian and Hao Ren looked at each other, and said in unison: "What's the principle behind this?"

"Who knows, maybe it's because the combination of soul and body is not stable enough, which leads to frequent splitting, and also leads to amnesia. Anyway, according to my speculation, her first split ten thousand years ago triggered a series of consequences, like a set of dominoes. When the first one is pushed down, the ones behind will follow in a chain reaction. As for these split individuals, they don't seem to have any reason, but it's hard to say when they are combined."

At this time, Hao Ren suddenly remembered something: "Oh crap! Vivian swallowed the split body on Purgatory, will something happen?"