Chapter 1 However He Guessed

No matter how Hao Ren speculated, he couldn't grasp what kind of decision the Creation Goddess made in the last three days before her fall. Such a god who once created the universe and all living beings, loved to study the truth of the world, and put almost all her energy into exploration and learning, when she was driven to a dead end by the children she created with her own hands, she only had time to do one thing, then this thing must be extremely important, and she chose to create a source-blood creature with powerful strength and high intelligence, and throw the latter onto those rebellious sons' ships. Was she trying to take revenge on the rebellious sons? Was it to destroy the rebel fleet? Or did she still fantasize at the last moment that she could have a good talk with her children, so she sent an envoy?

None of these possibilities seemed high, because when Vivian was sent to the rebel warship, the interstellar barrier had already been breached, and the rebellious sons might have even started bombing the Founding Star. No matter what Vivian did, it was too late to save the situation. More importantly, Vivian only showed her face on the rebel warship. She only stayed there for a few minutes before hurriedly leaving for the surface world, not looking like she had anything to do at all.

Vivian was silent, her mind turning thoughts that were difficult for others to guess. Finally, she suddenly raised her head and looked straight at Raven 12345: "If I directly absorb those evil spirits, can I find my memories?"

"Didn't I say that's quite dangerous?" Raven 12345 immediately shook her head. "You have to use your own spiritual will to fight against dozens of chaotic thoughts, and what they remember is also very likely to pollute your soul."

Not only Raven 12345 had this view, but even Hao Ren absolutely did not allow Vivian to take such a risk, and he believed that the situation was not serious enough to require the latter to take risks. Now it was just suspected that the Goddess had left Vivian with an instruction back then. Not only was there no evidence at all, but there were also no urgent events that required Vivian to recover her memory to solve. So he pressed Vivian's shoulder: "Don't rush to recover your memory, it's not necessarily a good thing. Maybe we can find the last words of the Creation Goddess by looking for clues in other ways."

Vivian oh-ed, but there still seemed to be a bit of anxiety in her eyes. Hao Ren was a little puzzled by this, because Vivian was usually a very calm and composed person. She had never been anxious about anything, but recently, he didn't know what was going on. As soon as the word "memory" was mentioned, she seemed to be in a state of confusion, and even repeatedly proposed the idea of taking risks. This situation had become more and more serious in recent days, and today she even wanted to absorb all the evil spirits in one go, which was really unlike her.

"What's wrong?" Vivian noticed Hao Ren's gaze and finally came back to her senses, asking curiously.

"Uh... nothing," Hao Ren saw that Vivian didn't mention the matter of recovering her memory for the time being, so he didn't specifically remind her. He took out the last thing he wanted Raven 12345 to look at from his portable space: a beautiful and mysterious golden disc. "Boss, this is something I brought back from the Gate of Solune. It is said that the Creation Goddess was busy making something called the 'Creation Engine' before she had an accident. This is a part of it, look..."

This golden disc was brought out by Hao Ren from Lementusa. Originally, when he first took the disc away from Planet Solune, he promised Lementusa that he would keep an eye on the disc's movements no matter what, to make sure that the disc would not be used for evil by outsiders. But after coming to Tanagus and seeing the series of efforts Hao Ren made to revive the Creation Goddess, Lementusa had more trust in Hao Ren, so he agreed to let him take the disc away temporarily.

After Raven 12345 heard the report about the Creation Engine, she showed a very interested look. She looked at Hao Ren with a little surprise: "Not bad, you can dig up so many clues every time you go out! Tsk tsk, it seems that the pre... ahem, my judgment of people is really good."

Hao Ren immediately smiled: "So this year's year-end bonus..."

"Done," Raven 12345 snapped her fingers. "I'll see if I can get you some good stuff back. But let's study what this disc is for first. By the way, didn't that guardian named Lementusa explain this thing to you?"

Hao Ren shook his head: "No. The guardians themselves don't know much about the function of the Creation Engine. The Goddess seemed to deliberately hide something from them."

"Hiding?" Raven 12345 frowned slightly, but didn't say much. She ordered the arcane servants who had been waiting nearby to take the golden disc, then waved slightly to the surrounding air. The next moment, a mysterious light and lines emerged from the air.

Those lights and lines shuttled quickly in the air, gradually condensing into a solid body. After a few breaths, they formed a large platform with a complex structure. The platform was several meters in diameter and made of crystal, with a slight depression in the center, and rune walls that looked like light barriers floating around it. On the base of the platform, one could see clear lines of text. Hao Ren glanced at it roughly and found that those were not runes, but sentences that he could understand. The content on it surprised him:

"Stupid Raven, give back my knife!" "12345, you're dead, if you have the guts, don't ever come back for duty!" "You think you can hide in the void node and be okay? I'll carve a house full of words for you!" "It's outrageous, the black-hearted Raven has cheated my old comrade of a thousand four hundred years without returning my broadsword!" "This is a line of text lalala."

Hao Ren and Vivian: "..."

Hao Ren pointed at the words on it with a head full of cold sweat: "Can you explain what this is?"

Raven 12345 was stunned for a moment, and blurted out subconsciously: "Why is this also on here... oh, nothing, nothing!"

Hao Ren really wanted to get to the bottom of this question, but the Goddess sister had already rudely changed the subject. She threw the golden disc directly onto the crystal platform, and then immediately devoted herself to analysis: at least it looked like she was doing scientific research quite seriously, and that seriousness made Hao Ren feel like she was about to explode at any moment.

The golden disc floated silently on the crystal platform. The rune walls around the crystal platform were like flowing water, and they operated with the rotation of the disc like they were alive. Hao Ren saw a large number of illusory lights appearing around the disc. Those lights flickered and shone, and between the light and shadow, some things seemed to be visible.

He concentrated his gaze and was shocked to find that the image appearing in the light and shadow was actually the scene of the Gate of Solune. Occasionally, many guardian giants marching in formation would flash by. In some even shorter fragments, he also saw unfamiliar starscapes and strange, factory-like huge facilities. Hao Ren's sight was involuntarily attracted by these pictures, and he searched more intently in the pictures for things that interested him. Soon, he saw a scene of raging war in another light and shadow. He saw the Solune Gate star system destroyed in the war, and an overwhelming golden fleet was sweeping the Goddess's territory. This picture jumped and zoomed quickly, and he finally saw a rebel spaceship leaving triumphantly from the sky above the ruined Planet Solune, and the spaceship was full of soldiers wearing gold and red armor.

As soon as his sight fell on the face of one of the soldiers, the picture was switched away.

The crystal platform was like a "extraction" machine, constantly peeling off those images that were somehow left behind from the golden disc. The disc was like a 360-degree projector, radiating rays of light around it, and countless fragmented images were appearing and disappearing in the light. However, Raven 12345 didn't pay attention to those images. She was busy with a pile of runes and magic circles, seemingly searching for the deeper secrets of the golden disc.

After all the light and the sound of the crystal platform's operation gradually subsided, Vivian curiously asked: "What was that just now? A recording?"

"It's what happened near this disc. It seems to have a strong ability to gather information, like recording some small fragments like this," Raven 12345 explained casually. "What you saw should be the fragments that happened from the time it came out of the factory until the Gate of Solune was breached by the rebels. However, it's not a dedicated recording device after all. These fragments are very messy and shouldn't be of much reference value."

Hao Ren immediately nudged the Data Terminal: "Did you record it all?"

"I've recorded it all, but this unit feels that there's nothing valuable in it," the Data Terminal's view was the same as Raven 12345's. "This unit will analyze it. You can also take a look when you have time, but don't have too much hope."

"Oh, then let's put this matter aside for now," Hao Ren said casually, turning to look at Raven 12345. "By the way, have you figured out what this Creation Engine is for?"

"You can't see the function of the entire engine with just one small part," Raven 12345 curled her lips. "But according to a little clue on this disc, I guess the Creation Engine is probably related to the Wall of Reality."