Chapter 1 As a Country Bumpkin Enters the City

Hao Ren followed the data terminal like a country bumpkin entering the city, looking around at his surroundings as if he couldn't get enough, but at least he didn't do anything more embarrassing. They left the teleportation platform and arrived at the silver-white pillars on the other side of the hall. Only then did Hao Ren notice that there was a circle of crystal panels floating in the air in front of each pillar. The crystal panels flowed with blue and white light, and when he approached one of them, the panel became brighter and brighter, and a clear chime like a wind chime rang in his mind.

"Focus your attention on the panel," the data terminal prompted. "Because many races don't even have limbs, the universal equipment here supports thought induction."

Hao Ren was no longer considering the principles behind these things, but instead did what he was told. As soon as he focused his attention on the crystal panel closest to him, he heard the wind chime sound in his mind suddenly increase in pitch, as if it was a prompt for receiving some kind of instruction. Then the pillar in front of him lit up, and a distorted light curtain flickered a few times beside the pillar, and a tall, young woman appeared before him.

This was a very beautiful girl, with fair skin and a tall figure, but her body seemed a bit thin. She was wearing a light green dress, but the style of the dress was a bit strange, and the material looked like some kind of smooth leather.

"Hello," the young girl bowed politely. "Service personnel at Station 10 at your service. Are you Inspector Mr.?"

Hao Ren was a little dazed: "Uh... yes. By the way, how come you look like an Earthling?"

Hao Ren knew he had been rude as soon as he said this, because the data terminal was bumping his elbow hard, but he was genuinely curious about this question: Ever since he heard that Kuiper Station was managed by a group of aliens, he had imagined a bunch of little green men jumping around in spaceships, but he didn't expect the first person he met here to be a beautiful girl who looked almost like a human. This didn't match his image of aliens. What happened to the little green men?

"I'm from the Mosa-Mobike civilization circle," the young girl didn't mind at all, and just maintained a professional smile as she introduced herself. "We are indeed very similar to the humans of this star system, but... more than half of the intelligent creatures are like this, right?"

At this time, the data terminal quickly explained a common sense question in Hao Ren's mind: "Didn't you notice that Warden Raven looks quite like a human? I'm telling you, this is the result of information disturbance. Because the first big shot that appeared in the void had this image, countless universes born after that were affected by information disturbance, and more than half of the higher intelligent creatures evolved into humanoids or humanoid. Many legends say that 'the human form imitates God,' and this is how it came about. Think about those werewolves, vampires, sirens, and even demons. Aren't they all with four limbs and five senses? This is it."

Hao Ren felt that he had heard a very magical term: "Information disturbance? Explain it."

"You wouldn't understand even if I explained it," the data terminal said arrogantly, but still followed up with an explanation, "In short, it's an extension theory of the theory of everything—the theory of everything treats everything in the world as an accumulation of information. The so-called 'matter' and 'energy' have no boundaries, and abstraction and concreteness have no boundaries. Information constructs everything through description. Mass, temperature, density, hardness, color, and a large pile of other information are stacked together to form a thing. From a molecule to an entire universe, it's all like a group of active holographic films. This is the theory of everything. On this basis, a powerful enough source of information interference can have a surreal impact on the entire universe, and even affect countless universes at the same time. Think about what happens when you put a strong magnet in a magnetic field—after the oldest gods in the void chose their appearance, more than half of the worlds were interfered with, eventually leading to the prevalence of the human template... Dizzy yet? Good if you're dizzy. Now let's continue with the important stuff."

Hao Ren nodded blankly, thinking that he shouldn't dwell on this question. Aliens can look however they want. He'll just treat it as if God didn't get a VIP membership when he was creating people, and didn't have enough free skins...

"Can I take you to transfer to the spaceship now?" the guide girl asked patiently, seeing Hao Ren dazed there. "We received an order from above. The spaceship arranged for you is waiting at connection port number four."

"Oh, oh," Hao Ren reacted from his trance and quickly nodded. "Let's go, let's go."

The guide girl smiled and made a strange gesture in the air next to her. Hao Ren felt a sudden sense of weightlessness, and then the scene in front of him trembled and twisted violently like a bad screen display for a moment. He found that he had left the teleportation hall and had arrived in a long, wide corridor.

"So amazing..." Nangong Wuyue exclaimed exaggeratedly. "Does moving around in here rely on teleportation?"

"No, only cross-regional movement uses teleportation," the guide girl explained. "Kuiper Station is a discrete space station. It's built on the asteroid belt and divided into several parts. There used to be a very large asteroid here, but it disintegrated for unknown reasons. The remaining celestial fragments are very densely packed together, which can be used as a reference point. We divided the space station into several pieces and built them on several large fragments, connecting them with guiding light beams or connecting walls—I'll open the side string baffle and you can see it. This is the outer connecting corridor. You can see sixty percent of the space station's appearance."

As the guide girl spoke, she gently touched the corridor wall next to her. A very slight tremor came from under everyone's feet, and the alloy wall on one side of the corridor slowly lowered. Hao Ren noticed that at the same time the wall was lowered, a very thin transparent barrier appeared on the opening left after the wall opened. This transparent barrier was obviously not a solid object, but some kind of energy shield.

But before that, Hao Ren noticed something else: "Wait, you two have no communication barriers?"

Hao Ren pointed at Nangong Wuyue and the guide girl, looking astonished.

He was sure that the guide girl here was definitely not speaking Earth language, and Nangong Wuyue didn't seem to have had time to install a translation plug-in when she first arrived at his house, but these two could communicate without any barriers. Hao Ren didn't realize this incredible situation until now.

"Did you think Warden Raven was just being a chatterbox when she dreamed to her for half a month?" the data terminal hummed. "Because this siren was too long-winded, Warden Raven simply took advantage of the dream to complete her transformation. It's nothing to the goddess."

"Wow!" Nangong Wuyue immediately clutched her head in horror. "Transform what? Did you put something weird in my head?!"

Hao Ren was a little dazed. He knew that Raven 12345 liked to mess around, but he didn't expect that she could be so casual. Earthlings' logic simply couldn't keep up with the goddess's brainwave frequency!

Of course, what he wanted to say even more was: Since there was such a convenient method, why was he lying in a coffin in the first place?!

"Relax, relax, it's not a bad thing," Hao Ren saw Nangong Wuyue's expression that was about to cry, and quickly stepped forward to comfort her. "It's just giving you a lifetime foreign language cheat. Others want it but can't have it—you're much luckier than us. Do you know that we took turns lying in a coffin for such a broken thing?"

Nangong Wuyue: "?"

At this time, a broadcast came from nowhere, interrupting Hao Ren and the siren girl's conversation: "Attention, the side string baffle of the corridor is open, the side string baffle of the corridor is open, visitors holding children please hold on to your children, visitors with heart disease please have your medicine ready, visitors with empty space phobia please turn your back to the viewing window, thank you for your cooperation, this station is a small business, and does not accept bad reviews."

Hao Ren: "..."

"The stationmaster is a very interesting fellow," the guide girl smiled awkwardly. "He likes to mess with the space station's mainframe."

Hao Ren didn't answer, because he was completely shocked by the scene outside the viewing window:

Outside was the vast and boundless space. "Kuiper Station" seemed to be scattered and floating in the darkness. As the guide girl had introduced, this space station was built on a group of meteorite "bases." A large number of gray-white, mountain-like asteroid fragments were densely distributed in this area. Almost every fragment could be seen with silver-white or silver-gray alloy buildings, and almost no two buildings had the same shape—because they were completely tailored to the scale of their "base." Those asteroid fragments might have originally scattered into the depths of space according to their own trajectories, but now they were fixed together by bright connecting light beams or huge alloy walls, forming a loose structure.

Like broken mountains floating in space, this was Kuiper Station, and it was even bigger than Hao Ren had expected.

"The starship take-off and landing area is behind us, and is protected by an alloy shield, so you can't see it from here," the guide girl touched the viewing window, and the side string baffle slowly closed again. "Let's go over there quickly, it's about to take off."

Hao Ren knew that there would be plenty of opportunities to broaden his horizons in the future, so he pulled Nangong Wuyue, who was still a little reluctant to leave the viewing window, and followed the guide's footsteps. The group turned left and right in the connecting corridor for a long time, and finally arrived at the starship take-off and landing area, connection port number four.

"Holy crap..."

Despite having made up his mind not to be surprised, Hao Ren couldn't help but utter "holy crap" after entering the fourth connection port.

This place was too... too... too big!

The entire connection port was a huge, empty area roughly in the shape of a rectangular prism. Its length, width, and height had reached a point where it was difficult to directly judge with the naked eye. The connection port was built of sturdy, silver-white alloy. One end was filled with various giant pieces of equipment, connection gates, and personnel platforms, while the other end was directly open to space, allowing one to see the stars shining so brightly that it seemed unreal—but after careful observation, Hao Ren found that the open side was actually protected by a transparent barrier. He was almost worried that he would be sucked out.

And in this vast and immense space, a huge, light blue spaceship was waiting for everyone.

Below the spaceship, he could still see many busy figures. Hao Ren let out a long breath: Phew, finally saw some little green men.