Chapter 196 What?

"We have to find a way to deal with this thing," Hao Ren turned his head to look at the 'First Born'. This powerful and chaotic ancient creature seemed incapable of communication. Although it possessed some thinking ability, it existed in an extremely chaotic state due to its early evolutionary environment. And frankly, even if this guy could communicate, they would have to get rid of it now – it would lead to the extinction of an entire season of civilization; it was a natural disaster. "I'm pulling the Tortoise Rock Platform in, and then we'll settle this once and for all. We'll probably have to leave this place ahead of schedule."

Becky looked horrified, but this matter was beyond her understanding, and she didn't know what to say at this moment. At the same time, the Data Terminal began to contact the conversion equipment in the surface world, preparing to pull the Tortoise Rock Platform into this world.

Generally, inanimate objects must be carried by someone to enter the Dream Plane. The Tortoise Rock Platform was no exception, but now Hao Ren was in the Dream Plane, which required a special conversion guidance process. The Data Terminal needed to use the special space and information manipulation technology of the Xiling God System to establish a series of "hyperlinks", dividing Hao Ren's spirit into two parts: one part remained in the Dream Plane, and the other guided to the real world to open the door to his personal space. The Tortoise Rock Platform was taken into the personal space in the surface world, and then the information was converted to the Dream Plane and released – this was a process incomprehensible to humans. Even the most common expression was just a bunch of boring mathematical calculations, so Hao Ren didn't intend to understand anything; he just concentrated on letting the Data Terminal guide him.

In a trance, he felt that he had another set of senses out of thin air, as if a non-physical "spiritual body" doppelganger had split from his body, observing the same world from different angles, bringing countless novel and strange experiences. He could even see his own body from one perspective – this body was standing on the ridge, turning its head curiously to look over here.

However, the perspective from his body did not see anything; the spiritual doppelganger was invisible.

"Stop playing, let's get going!" The Data Terminal's voice brought Hao Ren back to his senses. In a daze, he found that part of his perspective had been transferred to the surface world. This formless and immaterial sense was suspended in front of the Dream Plane converter at Kuiper Station. He saw a neat row of hibernation pods, one of which contained himself. Through some subtle connection, he could feel his position.

"This experience is quite interesting," Hao Ren looked at his hibernation pod and commented. "Would you say this counts as an out-of-body experience? Or, according to popular opinion... am I a wisp of remnant soul now? If someone nearby pointed a detection device at me, what would they see? My soul image?"

"It would be great if you could use this curiosity on studying the work manual," the Data Terminal's voice sounded in Hao Ren's mind. "You are a bunch of data now, always a bunch of data. Remember the great unification of information: you are you, but expressed as different data combinations in different situations. Just as a binary computer cannot recognize octal data, the various observation rules of the surface world cannot see your current form. This is more microscopic than the microscopic world below the Planck scale, involving the fundamental of fundamentals. Of course, due to some conversion rules, you can affect some things in the surface world in this state: only Imperial equipment that has been authorized."

Hao Ren felt a little regretful when he heard this: "Oh, there are quite a few restrictions – I was originally thinking of finding Lily's hibernation pod..."

The Data Terminal was stunned: "I'm going... what do you want to do!?"

"Draw some whiskers on her face..." Hao Ren grinned. "I know what you're thinking, but am I that kind of evil person?!"

Data Terminal: "...Can't you ever play by the rules?!"

While the two "people" were arguing, they didn't waste any time. The Data Terminal waited a few seconds for the connection to stabilize, and then directly teleported Hao Ren to the place where the Tortoise Rock Platform was parked. This teleportation experience was novel: no dizziness, no white light, and he didn't even feel any process. Hao Ren just felt that the scenery in front of him naturally turned into the docking port of the Tortoise Rock Platform, just like switching in a dream, even if it was bizarre, it didn't feel out of place.

He didn't delve into what the principle of this supernatural experience was, but skillfully opened the personal space and transferred the entire ship into it.

In another daze, he felt that he had returned to the Dream Plane, but his spirit did not merge with his body, but floated in the sky above a blue-green planet. He looked around and saw brilliant stars: this was outer space.

"The target is below." The Data Terminal's voice woke Hao Ren from the starry sky scene. He looked down and saw a turbid black-red stain on the blue-green planet. The stain was still very small now, but a closer look revealed that it was slowly expanding.

While Hao Ren was releasing the spaceship, he continued to look up at the starry sky thoughtfully: "That... I seem to suddenly understand a sentence that Raven 12345 hinted... why didn't I think of it at the beginning?"

"Which sentence?"

"Look up at the sky."

A silver-white spaceship suddenly appeared in the sky above the planet. The spaceship's main gun protruded from under the variable deck, coldly pointing at the surface.

On the ridge of the Dragon Spine Mountains, Hao Ren looked back at the others: "It will be launched soon, pay attention to the strong light and shock waves... Marshal Ofra, I think it's better for you to stay away."

Hao Ren suddenly remembered that his group could leave the Dream Plane at any time, and even if the shock wave got out of control, they could escape in time, but Ofra was an ordinary person with only one life, so he reminded her.

"It doesn't matter, it won't make much difference if I escape a few steps at this time," Ofra stood beside him with her arms crossed, looking at Hao Ren with curiosity. "I'm just very curious, what exactly are you going to do?"

Hao Ren thought about it and felt that once the shelling failed, even a deviation of one in ten thousand would be enough to wipe out the entire Dragon Spine Mountains, so he didn't insist anymore. He didn't answer Marshal Ofra's words, but sat cross-legged directly on the open space of the ridge, looking in the direction of the 'First Born'. That chaotic ancient creature was still rapidly creating a tide of blood. The scarlet liquid had swallowed eighty or ninety percent of the Bainz Diocese, and was constantly eroding the Bainz Blood Lake and spreading towards the Poisonous Plains. Perhaps creating the tide of blood required great effort, or perhaps it had lost interest in the weak "remnants" who had escaped to the ridge. The 'First Born' did not launch a pursuit on the Dragon Spine Mountains.

Perhaps it didn't make sense to it; as long as the tide of blood spread, there would be no survivors left in the entire world.

In near-Earth orbit, Hao Ren's "spiritual body" was controlling the weapon system of the Tortoise Rock Platform through a spiritual connection. When he manually locked the main gun to the surface of the planet, he unexpectedly heard a warning broadcast:

"Warning, dangerous operation, safety protocol prohibits this weapon from firing on the planetary surface. Warning, dangerous operation, safety protocol..."

"Mainframe, shield this alarm,解除安全协议, the authorization code has been submitted, check it." (Translation: Deactivate the safety protocol.)

The alarm on the bridge stopped abruptly, and the stiff and rigid voice of the shipboard mainframe came: "Additional authorization code activated, safety protocol released. Main weapon switched to manual operation, please manually disarm the safety."

Hao Ren looked at the Data Terminal embedded in the console: "What was the command to disarm the safety?"

The Data Terminal trembled: "...Down, forward, down, forward, triangle... didn't you say you read the Artillery Introduction?"

"The Artillery Introduction is not a product manual, how would I know how to disarm the safety. But speaking of which... why is this command so strange?"

The Data Terminal smiled: "The tradition of Imperial equipment manual consoles."

Hao Ren: "...Help me calculate the parameters and track the planet's rotation, I'll operate the artillery unit."

Thanks to the Data Terminal's assistance, Hao Ren didn't have to control it fully manually, otherwise he wouldn't dare to fire this shot at the surface of the planet even if he had ten guts!

The main gun of the Tortoise Rock Platform began to gather an eye-catching white ball of light, and the earth-shattering energy gradually concentrated at the front end of the charging crystal. The 'First Born' on the surface seemed to suddenly feel some kind of danger. It instantly stopped the activity of creating the tide of blood, and all the tentacles pointed neatly at the sky. Countless dazzling beams of light instantly shot towards the Tortoise Rock Platform.

"Orbital bombardment!"

The white light fell, and the world was in darkness.