Chapter 128 Who Bombed This Place?!

The white light of the teleportation gradually dissipated, and Hao Ren and his two companions arrived at the garden floating in the mysterious space. However, Hao Ren was startled as soon as he looked up: "Good heavens… who bombed this place?!"

Raven 12345's mansion was once again in a miserable and dilapidated state. The last time he came, there was only a hole in the roof, but this time, not only was half of the roof gone, but there were also huge cracks all over the exterior walls above the second floor. Only a few sparse window frames of colored crystal windows hung on the walls, swaying in the wind as if they were about to fall at any moment. A large area of the structure in the upper left corner of the mansion had even disappeared directly—as if it had been cut off by a sharp blade, with a quarter of the house's volume gone.

A large group of shimmering, amorphous creatures flew around in the air, working with autonomous machines to repair the holes in the house. This time, the scene was even bigger than the last time Raven crashed her shuttle on her own roof.

Not only was Hao Ren stunned, but even Izhaks was dumbfounded: "...What happened here, Your Grace?"

"Are you sure this is where the 'goddess' lives?" Lanina swallowed, looking at the scene before her with the perspective of a down-to-earth demon whose worldview was still intact. "Has the religious war in your world escalated to the point of directly attacking gods?"

"Tsk, maybe that lunatic messed around again," Hao Ren quickly calmed down, shaking his head as if he were used to it. "Don't worry, she renovates every now and then. This is the third time I've seen it. Anyway, this space hasn't collapsed yet, so she's definitely fine."

Hao Ren was right. As he led the two demons closer to the gate, Bluey suddenly appeared in front of the three. The blue energy being nodded to Hao Ren and emitted a series of strange trills, signaling them to enter.

Led by Bluey, the three passed through the scarred corridor and the cracked hall. Hao Ren found that the situation was indeed more serious than the last time the shuttle crashed: not only was almost all of the mansion above the second floor destroyed, but even the interior of the first floor was full of traces of destruction.

Finally, he saw the lunatic goddess in Raven 12345's office. The latter was sitting behind a desk that had been cut off at one corner, with bumps all over her head and several scorched holes in her clothes. The whole "person" leaned half-dead on the chair, grimacing and making faces.

This time, even Hao Ren's composure couldn't hold up, and he exclaimed on the spot: "You..."

He had just opened his mouth when he heard a crash beside him. A crystal shelf fell off the wall—this room was almost a post-war ruin...

"Yo, Hao Ren, you're here," Raven 12345 greeted Hao Ren, tugging at the corner of her mouth, and saw Izhaks and Lanina behind him. "Oh, and these two—are you all doing well? Does this reunion make you appreciate my grace? Ah ha ha… Ow, that hurts… Find a place to sit yourselves. The chairs in the corner shouldn't be broken."

Hao Ren's mouth twitched as he looked at the ultimate boss of this universe: "Did you lose the war of the gods?"

"No, almost a tie. I only lost by half a move and seven thousand six hundred strikes," Raven 12345 was even able to joke at this time. "Tsk tsk, it's just because of a knife. I said I'd return it back then. Scorpio really doesn't have any stability."

As soon as Hao Ren heard "knife," he knew what was going on. Sure enough, it was that long-legged big sister who had rushed over aggressively asking, "Where's my knife?" Other than that, he couldn't imagine how the goddess in front of him could be in such a miserable state. As the number one special agent (self-proclaimed) in Raven 12345's camp, Hao Ren felt a lot of pressure at this time, especially since he remembered that he had spent a long time boasting to Lanina about Raven 12345 that morning, making the pressure even greater. He looked at the lunatic goddess with a forced smile: "Um… Boss, you… Was the person who came to you before your enemy? A hostile god or something?"

"We're all in the same system, how could we be hostile?" Raven 12345 quickly corrected Hao Ren's misunderstanding. "It's just that we've been in a competitive relationship for many years. I borrowed her treasure knife a few years ago to play with, but I didn't expect her to hold a grudge. By the way, since you've already met her, let me give you some information: the last time you saw that girl, she was an armored scorpion, or Scorpio for short. She's also a grassroots military officer in the Empire, and she's on the same level as me. Her number is zk12580, and she's also a five-digit senior figure. In addition, she has a separate name called Heldra, but you only need to remember the number. For us, the difference between a name and a number isn't that big."

Hao Ren quickly noted it down in his heart. This was the first time he had met other Xi Ling gods besides the Raven "series." He heard that the long-legged big sister was also a "mass-produced" type of goddess. It seemed that the grassroots gods of the Xi Ling pantheon were all mass-produced with numbers. This made him almost unable to imagine how powerful the entire Xi Ling pantheon could be, to the point where the grassroots gods responsible for managing the universe had to use mass-produced numbers to rank them. He felt that as his qualifications in the Space-Time Administration rose, he would eventually come into contact with more aspects of the Xi Ling pantheon, so he was still very concerned about this knowledge: "So she's also a universe management god? Is it okay for her to leave her post without permission like this?"

"No, Scorpio basically doesn't manage the universe," Raven 12345 was very satisfied with Hao Ren's ability to infer other things from one instance, and at the same time, a sly smile appeared on her face. "With their brains, they can't manage the universe either. I'm an intelligence type, so I can manage a territory, but Scorpio… Their intelligence is basically only used to fight people. In terms you can understand, they should be considered part of the war god system."

As she spoke, Raven 12345 pointed to the bump on her head: "Otherwise, how could I have been cut down? I rely on my intelligence to make a living… Ouch, that really hurts. That bastard, she used youkai energy on her knife when she cut me, so the wound is really hard to heal."

At this time, she finally admitted that she had been cut down—she had been shamelessly claiming it was a tie just now.

Hao Ren broke out in a cold sweat, thinking that he couldn't continue on this topic, or else he really didn't know how many more self-destructive things the unconventional god in front of him could say. He pointed to Lanina: "Let's not talk about your fight with people—did you send her here?"

"Yes," Raven 12345 nodded. "I saw her lost for several months, and she was about to run into the capture range of a neutron star, so I couldn't bear it and helped her. But I was in a hurry at the time, so I didn't have time to say hello to you after I threw her down, but she had my note on her."

Lanina now realized that she had been sent to Earth by the woman in front of her. Even though she felt that this person was very unreliable, she still subconsciously showed a grateful expression. She had been wandering around in space for months, using unreliable demon teleportation techniques to travel between a large number of celestial bodies. The only reason she had survived to this day was because she was lucky.

A few hours before she arrived at Hao Ren's house, she was still wandering in a star system hundreds of light-years away from Earth, and then everything went black and she didn't know anything.

It turned out that Raven 12345 had directly taken action.

"I saw the note," Hao Ren nodded. "So you knew about Lanina 'smuggling' into this universe a long time ago, and you also knew her purpose for coming here, as well as the fact that Izhaks would definitely want to go home and see his daughter—you tacitly approved of these things, right?"

Raven 12345 raised her eyebrows and looked at Hao Ren with a smile that wasn't quite a smile: "Don't say some things so clearly. These are just trivial matters in the remote countryside. I don't know anything, understand?"

Hao Ren smiled: "Okay, I'm here to tell you that I want to go on a business trip—to help Izhaks find his daughter in his hometown."

Raven 12345 stroked her chin: "You're an inspector, but this time you're likely to get involved in the local power struggle because of Izhaks's identity, and it's not like the small fights you've had in the past. You've thought of this, right?"

Hao Ren nodded readily: "Yes, so I want to let you know and confirm the extent to which I can go."

"Very good, this shows that you're becoming more and more professional," Raven 12345 stood up and looked at Hao Ren with a smile. "It's time for you to do something big. I have three requirements for you: First, you can use force in self-defense, but you can't escalate this into a formal war. You're going to find and rescue people, not to eliminate a certain race or civilization. Second, this is a private matter, so you have to solve it yourself. I can't help you. Third—if something really happens, you can't back down, just do it! You represent my face when you go out..."

Hao Ren thought the first two were quite normal, but he was stunned by the third one: Sure enough, it was the style of a female lunatic.

In the end, Raven 12345 added: "Oh, and the most important point: this can't be considered official business, there's no funding, so you have to solve everything yourself."

Hao Ren: "..."

More than ten minutes later, Hao Ren led Izhaks and Lanina out of Raven 12345's dilapidated house. As they were about to enter the teleportation gate, Lanina couldn't help but ask: "Excuse me, is your 'goddess' here… really reliable?"

"It is what it is," Hao Ren wanted to boast a few more words at this time, but he really didn't have the confidence, so he could only sigh. "Ah, let's just leave it at that. No matter what, we got tacit approval. The rest is to see how much resistance we encounter after we go over. At most, we'll just rescue someone. With our group's combat power, it should be enough."

Then, he became high-spirited and patted Izhaks's arm: "Go home and call some people, let's go!"