Chapter 103 The Origin of the Sirens

To be honest, Hao Ren thought it was quite unreliable to let those four masters continue challenging nature outside. The lifestyle of ascetics was vastly different from that of ordinary people. In the Dream Plane, you could explain it with faith and piety, but what about here at his old home? He figured contemporary city dwellers would hardly understand why a group of people with houses would insist on living in holes they dug in the wilderness, let alone comprehend their reciting scriptures for two hours in the face of a sub-zero wind, building bonfires in people's backyards, and catching wild rabbits all over the hills next to the city…

But after so much experience, Hao Ren could be considered seasoned. He wasn't as rigid and inflexible as he was when he was just a common man when it came to strange people and events. He was open-minded about it: anyway, the southern suburbs were sparsely populated, and the masters were just a little weird in their lifestyle, not likely to cause trouble. If they were happy this way, then let them be. Besides, how many performance artists were there these days? What those artists did was much more ruthless than living in harmony with nature.

And so, the four new tenants settled in in such a strange way: they came back to sleep every night, and as soon as it was light, they ran to the wilderness behind the house to contemplate life. Their basic needs were just a few steamed buns and some tap water every day. To be honest, if there hadn't been a lack of water sources underground, Big Beard would have been determined to dig a well behind Hao Ren's house with the strength of the four of them. The four ascetics lived a very regular and simple life. Besides meditating and praying, they walked around in the wilderness. When it was time to eat, they would conveniently catch a wild rabbit or find some bird eggs (who knows where they found them). Other than that, they didn't care about anything else, and their lives were full of natural interest. They probably thought this lifestyle was the best way to respect nature. Hao Ren had been hesitating for the past two days whether to tell the masters about the decreasing number of wild animals on Earth. After all, this was still on the edge of the city, not a mountainous area, and it was still winter. The animals in the wild might not be enough for them to wreak havoc on until the spring…

Leaving aside the Four Great Guardians, Hao Ren had been organizing reports for the past two days. Because so much had happened in the Dream Plane, the truth he had uncovered in just a few days exceeded his work results from the past few months, so he needed to carefully consider how to explain these things clearly. And because he had left the Dream Plane in a hurry, there were some things he hadn't had time to investigate, so he also needed to discuss and reason with others to know how to report to Raven 12345.

Now that these reports were finally organized, Hao Ren first sent the documents through the data terminal, preparing to go to Raven 12345 in person at noon. And just as he sent the report, Nangong Wuyue came back from shopping, and suddenly remembering something, she stopped the siren girl.

"Speaking of which, you haven't been out singing lately?" Hao Ren casually mentioned Nangong Wuyue's old profession, and the latter immediately shrank her neck: "Isn't that obvious? Who goes out to sing in the middle of winter… With a sub-zero wind blowing, even if I'm willing to sing, someone has to be willing to risk their life standing at the intersection to listen."

Hao Ren smiled awkwardly, and then brought up the main topic: "Actually, there's something I want to discuss with you…"

"What is it?" Seeing the serious expression on Hao Ren's face, Nangong Wuyue unconsciously sat down on the sofa and became serious as well.

"Do you have a way to find other sirens on Earth? Or find the relics left by the sirens on the ground, or anything else… In short, anything related to your race that can explain your cultural traditions and origins."

Nangong Wuyue looked at Hao Ren inexplicably: "Why are you suddenly interested in this? Have you really started studying archeology?"

"Actually, I suddenly understood something," Hao Ren's eyes suddenly looked very far away, as if he saw the amazing starry sky when he looked up in the Dream Plane that day, "Do you remember when we mentioned sirens in the Dream Plane and found that that 'world' didn't have sirens?"

Nangong Wuyue nodded: "Oh yeah, what did you think of?"

"After that, Raven 12345 reminded me to look up at the sky," Hao Ren looked a little embarrassed, "I always thought that after experiencing so many things, my horizons had broadened, but it wasn't until I fought the 'Elder' this time that I realized that I still hadn't broken free from my fixed mindset—we've always only focused on one planet in the Dream Plane, and almost forgot that there's an entire universe above our heads!"

When it came to the stars and the sea, Nangong Wuyue's knowledge was even narrower than Hao Ren's, so she suddenly realized at this time: "Are you saying… the sirens came from other planets in the Dream Plane?!"

"Isn't that obvious?" Hao Ren spread his hands, "The goddess that Big Beard and the others referred to is a space creature, and all the species on that planet were sown from space. The ancient magic civilization of the Dream Plane has even colonized the moon. And the founder of the Radiant Church also mentioned that a group of aliens would come to help eliminate the Elder… We've always been too narrow-minded when considering things. I should have realized it the first time I went to the Dream Plane… When you look up, there are stars all over the sky!"

Actually, it couldn't be entirely blamed on Hao Ren's narrow horizons. Under normal circumstances, when a person comes to a standard magic world, surrounded by a medieval-like social environment, where people are studying gods and ghosts, without scientific sprouts or an industrial revolution, you will unconsciously be assimilated by this atmosphere and can't help but limit your thinking to a standard "medieval magic kingdom" script. Anyone who has read a few fantasy novels, who can associate it with aliens at this time?

The key is that the Dream Plane doesn't play by the rules! This good fantasy alien continent medieval church saliva drama was being performed halfway, who knew that aliens would suddenly pop up?

"The aliens all come from the Dream Plane, I've always believed that," Hao Ren said with a serious expression, "I swear on Darwin, there's absolutely no way that the environment on Earth could have evolved a group of supernatural creatures that can move mountains and fill seas. The sirens are definitely not Earth's original product. So now I think the sirens should come from other planets in the Dream Plane…"

"You plan to find the origin of the sirens?" Nangong Wuyue looked at Hao Ren with great interest, "That sounds interesting, but what's the point of that?"

Hao Ren looked into Nangong Wuyue's eyes: "Think about it, now we finally realize one thing: what we used to think of as the 'whole world' of the Dream Plane is actually just an ordinary planet in the universe, and the goddess's world-destroying event that the Radiant Church spoke of was actually an ecological disaster that occurred on this planet—although it almost destroyed an ecological circle, it's just an insignificant regional event for the entire universe."

"So…" Nangong Wuyue vaguely understood, "The sirens didn't experience the 'goddess's destruction of the world'."

"According to the chronology, the werewolves and vampires on Earth crossed over after the goddess's world-destroying event," Hao Ren said, stating his speculation, "Let's not talk about how they got here for the time being, let's just assume that they suddenly mastered the technology of crossing worlds when they were desperate—anyway, according to the chronology and various historical records, the origin of the aliens on Earth is clearly related to the goddess's destruction of the world to a certain extent. They may be escaping, or they may be using some kind of super phenomenon caused by the 'Elder' to tear through the walls of reality and come to Earth. So now there's an unclear point: how did the sirens come? They didn't experience 'world destruction', so why did they cross over to Earth at the same time?"

Nangong Wuyue frowned and slowly followed Hao Ren's train of thought.

Hao Ren paused and continued: "There are only two possibilities. Either the goddess's destruction of the world has nothing to do with the alien's crossing over, or… something similar happened in the siren's hometown back then, causing them to have to flee the Dream Plane like the werewolves and vampires."

Nangong Wuyue couldn't believe it: "Is the second possibility reliable? The ancient magic empire was destroyed because the study of the First Seed caused the Elder to go berserk, but the siren's hometown… no matter which planet it's on, it has nothing to do with the ancient magic empire, right? Will things happen at the same time?"

This was also something Hao Ren hadn't figured out yet. He used to think that all the aliens on Earth came from the Dream Plane, and the common reason for these aliens to cross over was the goddess's destruction of the world, but now he knew that the goddess's destruction of the world was actually just a planet-level "regional event" in the Dream Plane, so the sirens from alien planets seemed difficult to explain. In the end, the goddess's destruction of the world was just because the people on one planet were courting death. It didn't have universality and inevitability. In theory, the same thing couldn't happen on other planets at the same time… So what was the reason that led to the sirens' crossing over? Was it really unrelated to the "goddess", but another disaster that affected the entire universe of the Dream Plane? Was the "goddess's destruction of the world" just happening at the same time as this disaster? How many alien races on Earth were in a similar situation to the sirens? Were the aliens that Vivian knew all of them who crossed over back then?

Nangong Wuyue looked at Hao Ren's expression. She knew that although the man in front of her was usually careless, he must have some basis when he seriously talked about something. He was occasionally serious, and as long as he was serious, he would never be muddle-headed, so she asked: "Judging from your tone, you seem to be sure that the sirens also encountered a similar 'world-destroying' accident? Do you have any clues?"

Hao Ren slowly nodded: "The first pope of the Radiant Church mentioned in his message that before the first 'Elder' awakens, allies from the stars will appear—I'm definitely not the ally he was talking about, because my ancestors hadn't been born three thousand years ago, so the question is: why didn't those 'real' aliens appear? Did something happen to them too?"