Chapter 1234 What Happened to the Runes

Seeing Raven 12345's confident expression, and considering that a dignified goddess probably wouldn't need to lie to a mere low-level employee like himself, Hao Ren believed her. He nodded and stopped discussing the "goddess destroying the world" legend of the Dream Plane, but instead brought up the Leta runes he had seen in his dream: "What's with those runes?"

"It seems you've noticed this too," Raven 12345 seemed to have known about this all along. "The Leta runes used by the demon hunters in the mortal world also exist in the Dream Plane. There are werewolves and vampires in the mortal world, and there are also the same in the Dream Plane—this isn't a coincidence. In fact, many of the things in the mortal world that can be classified as aliens... a large portion of them simply ran out of the Dream Plane."

Hao Ren: "...Damn it, why didn't you tell me sooner?!"

Raven 12345 waved her hand, telling Hao Ren to calm down: "I've reminded you before. I said that the Dream Plane and the mortal world are closely connected, and there have been precedents of things from the Dream Plane entering the mortal world before you brought out that tuft of wolf hair. The reason I didn't directly tell you the deeper truth is because I wanted you to discover the clues with your own eyes—you're too immature right now. You need to be cultivated to take on great responsibilities."

Hao Ren stared at Raven 12345's face, wanting to see some hint of conspiracy in those seemingly honest eyes, but the latter's face was already as thick as armor plating. Hao Ren's little glare was useless. Raven 12345 waited for Hao Ren to glare for a long time before slowly continuing: "Let me put it this way, most of the aliens on Earth... eight or nine out of ten actually came from the Dream Plane, or at least are their descendants. The origin of the demon hunters is also related to the Dream Plane—but I'm also investigating this. Their sudden appearance also confused me a bit. You need to know, this goddess isn't always watching this world. I actually have other jobs. I happened to not be here during those one or two thousand years when demon hunters were rampantly active and aliens appeared in droves. Afterwards, seeing that they didn't cause any major incidents, I didn't investigate deeply. My information here is also quite vague."

Hao Ren slowly digested this information, vaguely realizing that even the hidden historical black mist on Earth was probably deeper than he had imagined. The origin of aliens and demon hunters could actually be traced back to the Dream Plane—then what was the reason for their large-scale arrival on Earth?

"Could it be the disaster from ten thousand years ago?" Hao Ren suddenly made a connection. "The magic empire of the Dream Plane was destroyed ten thousand years ago. Vivian's earliest memories also seem to be able to be traced back to ten thousand years ago. Could it be that the doomsday of the Dream Plane led to many aliens arriving on Earth?"

"Ha, your associative ability has improved, but unfortunately it's off," Raven 12345 shook her head. "Do you think that ten thousand years in the Dream Plane and ten thousand years on Earth can correspond exactly? Who told you that a year in the Dream Plane is three hundred and sixty-five days, and a day is twenty-four hours?"

Hao Ren was immediately speechless. He had confused this most basic setting.

"If aliens and demon hunters all 'leaked' from the Dream Plane to Earth, then there must have been a landmark event back then," Hao Ren looked at Raven 12345 expectantly. "Look, under normal circumstances, it might not even be possible for an ordinary person who can connect to the Dream Plane to appear for several hundred years, but now the number of demon hunters and aliens on Earth is clearly abnormal. How did they enter the mortal world on a large scale back then?"

"Want to know the truth of the Dream Plane?" Raven 12345 was silent for a while, then suddenly looked at Hao Ren's eyes with a burning gaze.

Hao Ren immediately swallowed subconsciously, knowing that the main event was finally coming.

"I won't tell you."

Hao Ren: "..."

"Young man, don't be too impatient. You'll know when you should know," Raven 12345 chuckled, stood up, and patted Hao Ren's shoulder. "With your current ability, what can you do even if you know all the secrets of aliens and demon hunters? Can you make them coexist peacefully? Can you make all aliens harmless? Or can you separate the Dream Plane and the mortal world from now on and prevent dangerous interference from happening again? You can't do any of that, so you'd better focus on the things in front of you. I suggest you go home now, sort out your mood, and prepare for your next journey to the Dream Plane. You won't have a real sense of things by hearing more things here. It's better to witness one or two things firsthand."

Finally, Raven 12345 clasped her hands in front of her chest, with a look of compassion: "Child, may the goddess's protection be with you. I will try my best to save you before you are beaten to death... Even after you are beaten to death, I will try my best to revive you."

Hao Ren wanted to say something, but Raven 12345 waved her hand and interrupted him: "I'll be going out for a trip these few days. Handle the situation yourself if something happens. Someone might be filling in for me here... but don't expect too much."

Hao Ren instinctively felt that Raven 12345's sudden departure seemed to be for some urgent matter, but he felt that he wouldn't be able to get anything out of asking, so he didn't ask any more questions. After freeloading this afternoon tea, he was thrown back home from heaven by Raven 12345 (this house is inhabited by a goddess, so it counts as heaven, right?).

When he got home, he found that the living room was quiet. Nangong Wuyue seemed to still be sleeping in the house, and Izhaks hadn't returned yet, but he saw Lily's handbag on the sofa. The canine girl seemed to have arrived home, but he didn't know if Vivian had returned home with her. Hao Ren was still thinking about his precious egg, so he didn't bother to greet Lily and went straight to the utility room. As a result, he saw a scene that made him unable to speak for a long time after pushing the door open:

The basin was still there, but the egg was gone...

At this moment, Hao Ren felt that the situation might be bad. He had initially optimistically thought that maybe the little mermaid had already hatched and crawled into some corner, but he didn't even see any broken eggshells around the basin. This shattered his beautiful fantasy. After searching around the utility room, he could only face this tragic reality: the strange egg that he had worked so hard to bring over from another planet, the strange egg that he had promised Raven 12345 in the morning that he would take care of seriously, the strange egg that he had been thinking about when it could be successfully hatched into a little mermaid before going out, was gone...

He suddenly remembered that Lily had just arrived home and might have seen the egg soaking in the basin, so he quickly stretched his neck and shouted, "Lily!"

Lily's voice immediately came from the kitchen: "Yeah, I'm here!"

Hao Ren ran to the kitchen in a few steps and saw the canine girl squatting on the ground, looking up at the stove. Because everyone at home now was "one of their own," and Lily could detect outsiders as soon as they appeared, she had habitually turned into her beast-ear form. The way she squatted on the ground and wagged her tail looked just like a domestic dog. Seeing Hao Ren appear, Lily immediately wagged her tail happily and turned around: "Landlord, you're back, huh? Was the alien planet fun? Did you bring me anything delicious?"

"What delicious things are there in the wilderness," Hao Ren couldn't help but pinch Lily's ears. "Did you see in the utility room... um, what are you cooking?"

Only then did Hao Ren notice that there was a pot on the gas stove, and something was bubbling and boiling in the pot. Lily had been squatting on the ground and staring at it in a daze just now. Hao Ren's cold sweat broke out in an instant. He realized that the husky he raised had probably exposed his magical talent once again. Most likely, there was something in this pot...

"I'm so hungry," Lily squatted on the ground pitifully, her tail sweeping the ground. "Bat said he was going to pick some wild vegetables from the back mountain to stew with meat for dinner, but he hasn't come back yet. I'm so hungry... I found a really big goose egg in the utility room just now, so I took it to boil. By the way, Landlord, why are you sitting on the ground too?"

Hao Ren sat down on the ground with his butt. He almost suffocated because he couldn't catch his breath. He covered his chest and looked at the pure-looking husky. He felt that he had truly understood the true meaning of the name "Two-Ha" for the first time in his life. Looking at Lily, who was wagging her tail and constantly approaching, he didn't know what to say. In the end, he could only jump up and rush to the gas stove, take the pot off as quickly as possible, and then lift the lid with an unknown state of mind.

The next scene made him never forget it:

In the pot, a little mermaid only half a foot long was bubbling and swimming belly up, holding an eggshell with a look of contentment. It seemed that the little guy was startled when Hao Ren opened the lid. The little mermaid opened its eyes wide and looked at the big face that appeared in mid-air, then suddenly sprayed Hao Ren's face with water playfully.

Boiling water.