Chapter 1 Being Idle

Hao Ren was at home watching TV, sitting in his favorite spot on the sofa, zoning out to a boring variety show. The show itself wasn't interesting, but he liked the feeling of emptying his mind—especially after a lot of work, enjoying such tranquility was even more pleasant. Normally, it was difficult for him to occupy the TV in the living room, because there was always a gleeful husky who would fight him for the remote, or a neurotic silly cat constantly coming to make trouble. But now, Lily had gone out to inspect her army of dogs, and that silly cat…

Gun was curled up in a small ball next to him, eyes narrowed, a comfortable purr coming from her throat from time to time. Hao Ren grabbed her tail and wound it around his arm in circles, then let go, and the cat-girl had no objections: because she had taken the wrong medicine, sleeping pills, a whole half-bottle.

"I told you a long time ago that those pills in your house should be thrown away," Vivian sat on the sofa on Hao Ren's other side, grumbling while fiddling with her cross-stitch, "You don't get sick anymore, what are you keeping those things for? Who in the house needs to take medicine? Look what happened this time, this idiot took all your pills as candy, and fortunately she's somewhat of a demon, at most she'll just doze off, otherwise who knows what would have happened."

Hao Ren could only force a smile: "I'm just being thrifty—you don't lack food and clothing now, aren't you still keeping a few clothes from twenty years ago?"

After obtaining superhuman strength, Hao Ren's life had changed a lot. Although he had been trying to maintain human habits, many things were unavoidable. He no longer got sick, was difficult to injure, was not afraid of cold or heat, and the medicines and first-aid kit he had prepared had been untouched for two years, many things had even expired and been forgotten by him. He began to stay away from many necessities of life for humans, and even if it wasn't for comfort and habit, he could throw himself into any wilderness and merge with nature. Then today, he finally didn't have to consider when to throw away his expired things: Gun somehow opened Hao Ren's cabinet while guarding the house alone, and before being put to sleep by the sleeping pills, she basically ate everything inside…

When Hao Ren returned home, he saw this silly cat lying unconscious at the door of his bedroom, the fur on her tail and ears all wilted, which scared him a lot at the time. Fortunately, after checking, he found that there was nothing wrong with this guy, she just took the wrong medicine and had to sleep for half a day, which is why she was being so quiet now.

"Speaking of which, Lao Wang, you haven't gone out these past two days," Hao Ren turned to look at the great demon not far away while the program was interrupted by commercials, "Didn't Elizabeth keep clamoring to tear down some new things a few days ago? Aren't you collecting old appliances for her?"

Izhaks raised his head from the magazine, revealing a mouthful of shark-like serrated teeth and smiled slightly: "I moved a excavator back for her the day before yesterday, that's enough for her to toss around for a few days. Didn't you notice the pile of things behind the house?"

Hao Ren was immediately dumbfounded, he couldn't imagine how this demon father and daughter usually collected old appliances—did these two hang out at vocational schools?

Vivian even asked curiously: "Is an excavator an appliance?"

Hao Ren shook his head, thinking that in the little girl Elizabeth's eyes, there was definitely no difference: she didn't care how the things she wanted to tear down were classified. In the little demon's worldview, anything that a screwdriver could pry open was an appliance…

"So boring…" After staying for a while, Hao Ren couldn't help but sigh, "It's kind of boring to stay in the house all day like this."

"Aren't you always clamoring about how good it would be to have two days off?" Vivian glanced at him with a strange expression, "Did you change your personality?"

"I've been given occupational disease by God," Hao Ren covered his face and lay down on the sofa, "I used to be fine staying at home for two months, but now I feel itchy in my spine after watching TV at home for three days in a row. MDT, have the coordinates sent to the probe drone fleet been verified?"

He was talking about the star map obtained from the Dorasil pyramid complex in Purgatory. That star map marked the position of the Purgatory planet in the Dream Plane. He hoped to find the location where the Wall of Reality first ruptured through this coordinate. However, perhaps when the Wall of Reality ruptured, it had a backlash effect on the Dream Plane and caused changes in the celestial system where the Purgatory planet was originally located, the probe drone fleet found nothing when searching for coordinates according to those star maps.

At least in the currently explored area, there were no celestial blocks in the universe of the Dream Plane that matched the Purgatory star map.

"Not yet," the MDT contacted the drone fleet and gave a disappointing reply, "But it may also be that the exploration range is not enough. The drone fleet is advancing towards a new galaxy cluster, we can expect them to find something there… Wait, there's communication, it's from Muuru!"

Hao Ren immediately sat up: "Connect it!"

The MDT turned on the holographic projection, and the face of the giant Muuru appeared on it: "Hao Ren, I have some situations here that require you to come over."

"What happened?"

"The situation is very complicated. I heard a voice from the depths of the universe in meditation, it seems to be from one of my compatriots, but I'm not sure. The spiritual connection between the Guardians has long been interrupted, and the source of that voice is also… You should come over here, there is also some new progress on this planet that needs you to confirm."

Hao Ren hung up the communication, but the emotions in his heart were still agitated: Muuru actually contacted another Guardian?!

There were actually other Guardians alive in that universe!

"Are you still saying you're bored now?" Vivian put down the cross-stitch in her hand and glanced at Hao Ren slightly, "Your crow's mouth is basically terminal, right?"

Hao Ren chuckled twice, he really had no way to argue at this time. And Izhaks, not far away, leisurely put down the magazine in his hand: "I'll go with you this time."

"Why do you have this free time?" Hao Ren was a little surprised.

Izhaks grinned and moved his shoulders: "Like you, my bones are getting moldy from being idle at home for a few days."

That's why occupational diseases are so terrible. Once work becomes a habit, you can't be idle even if you want to. Izhaks finally lived a life of a retired old demon for a while, and at this time, the explorer factor in his bones began to stir again.

Tanagrus was now a base like a doorway for Hao Ren. He could directly arrive through several portal jumps, so he set off that afternoon without much preparation. In addition to Lily, only Izhaks and his daughter went with him this time. Vivian's mind was still a little confused because she had just absorbed the memory of a super-huge split body, so Hao Ren asked her to rest at home.

Oh, and he also brought Dou Dou this time—the little guy kept clamoring to go. Because Hao Ren was on business trips all the time, the little mermaid was quite bored at home, so she wanted to go out with her father this time no matter what. Considering that Tanagrus was now a very safe place, Hao Ren decided to take the fish baby out to see the world. If he really encountered danger, he could send the little one back at any time.

After crossing the crack in the Wall of Reality, Hao Ren and the others came to the golden city of Alamanda.

This glorious ancient city had not changed much compared to the past. In addition to the dome facilities that Hao Ren had built around the space crack before, there was only an autonomous mechanical factory operating in the corner of the city. But when the group came to a high tower in the city, they found that the changes in this world were reflected in the vast wilderness outside the city: vegetation with light gold and green luster had spread across the entire land, and the results of the ecosystem reconstruction were obvious.

Muuru appeared in front of them. He nodded slightly to Hao Ren to greet him, and then went straight to the topic: "That voice has been interrupted, but it continued to connect for tens of minutes before it was interrupted. I have recorded the entire connection process."

"Are you sure it's the signal from another Guardian?"

"Absolutely," Muuru nodded slightly, "But the suspicious point is that this signal has the mark of the 'Gates of Suruun'."

Hao Ren was stunned: "What's the Gates of Suruun?"

"An ancient galaxy, the throat leading to the Star of Origin, in the words of the believers, the first step to the kingdom of God," Muuru looked serious, "It was the first to fall in the Godslaying War, and I personally watched it being swept into the dark realm in the final explosion!"

Hao Ren was stunned for a few seconds, and temporarily suppressed the shock that the news brought him: "Then… what about the signal content?"

"Help!"