Chapter 113 The Originator's Demise

Izaks's lecture, once started, wouldn't end in a short while. Hao Ren had no interest in watching this dull and brutal "educational" process, so he yelled at Besse Mos before Izaks even opened his mouth to educate him: "Let me ask you something, have you read the manual?"

Besse Mos was still in a state of tremendous mental shock at this time, his whole person was muddled and lost, as if his soul had been lost. Not to mention him, even if you replaced him with someone whose intelligence reached double digits, it wouldn't be much better if they encountered the same situation. Besse Mos heard Hao Ren's words and was stunned for a few seconds before he sobered up a bit: "Manual?"

"...This kind of sophisticated equipment, you don't think it's like your desk lamp, just press a button and it will light up, right?" Hao Ren looked back at the device that was gradually restoring its dim light. "Foolproof operation also depends on the situation, right? You dare to casually press a button on something that can connect two worlds?"

Besse Mos felt his personality insulted and struggled desperately in Izaks's hands: "This is not fair! It shouldn't be like this! I studied the files, I studied them! It's operated like this! It shouldn't be this result! My thousands of years of research aren't meant to be embarrassing! I..."

Izaks was a little annoyed by what he heard. He clenched his fist hard, the powerful pressure of the upper demon made the half-demon in his hand unable to resist: "Okay, be quiet for a while, there are many unfair things in this world—absolute fairness and justice are the fantasies of cowards, the illusions of the lucky ones. In fact, you should be glad that the device didn't really open the gate, otherwise at least the landlord and I have ways to blast you and it together before the gate opens. Now be quiet, let's start with the basic concepts of honor and disgrace and the interests of the race, and later I'll tell you about the trick to suppress inner impulses..."

Hao Ren knew that Izaks was going to be busy, so he turned around and curiously studied the buzzing large device: "What exactly is this thing?"

Lily was the most curious. She stepped forward cautiously, touched the shell of the device, and looked at it inside and out: "The shell is metal, very warm, can't see any wires or pipes... What kind of energy does it use?"

"Could these things on the ground be for power supply?" Vivian squatted down, touching a circle of strange patterns on the ground. This pattern covered the entire floor of the stone chamber, and it seemed to form countless concentric circles centered on this strange device, but she couldn't feel any energy fluctuations in the pattern.

Hao Ren knocked on the shell of the data terminal: "Check this thing out."

The data terminal floated over and connected itself to the "Originator Artifact" with a beam of light. After scanning the structure of the device roughly, it found, somewhat expectedly, that the energy level of this thing was not enough to open the gate to another world at all, and it didn't even have the structure to open any kind of space gate inside.

"This is not a gate," the data terminal landed back on Hao Ren's shoulder. "It looks like a... synthesis device, or a culture device, or maybe an analyzer... anyway, it's not a space gate. This unit found an empty container inside it, and some catalytic devices based on magic technology. But the structure of this thing is not complete, it's missing something..."

As the data terminal spoke, it shone a beam of light on the top of the device. The top of the device immediately opened a groove, the groove was the size of a soccer ball, and it seemed that something could be put in it: "This is it, it should be a core plug-in or something. This plug-in can determine how the container and catalytic device inside the device interact with each other."

"Anyway, whatever it is, Besse Mos wasted his efforts, right?" Hao Ren turned his head and looked at Izaks's moral, intellectual, physical, and aesthetic education class, and then felt that the picture was too bloody, so he didn't dare to look at it.

In short, he felt that this matter was really too ironic. Everyone was jumping up and down for a farce, and the source of the farce was just a crazy old man who didn't find the manual when he was flipping through the information...

Becky followed Lily's ass, circling the device. Hao Ren saw this and asked curiously: "Have you ever had such a thing over there? Of course, I'm not talking about now, I'm talking about your historical records, did the previous civilization leave any records of something similar to this?"

"No," Becky shook her head. "The data of the ancient magic empire has long been lost, and the rest are all mythological stories without accurate data, and religious paintings drawn by later generations based on imagination. But this looks... a bit like the alchemical products over there, like this triangular symbol."

Becky pointed to the crystal panel in front of the device, which was constantly popping up a series of characters: "This triangular symbol with two envelope angles in the alchemy formula means 'reaction is suspended', which means that the formula is valid, but it lacks conditions, so no reaction is generated for the time being."

Hao Ren was also studying the symbols on the panel of this "Originator Artifact", but these symbols were not standard texts, nor were they Letta runes (that kind of ritual text with low interpretation efficiency was obviously not suitable for use in this kind of equipment that requires high-speed processing). They were connected to each other by various strange lines and marks, and they should be some kind of formula, which would take some time to translate. Without a ready-made decoding dictionary, Hao Ren could only stare at the characters scrolling on the panel, allowing the translation system in his mind to slowly combine the meanings of these characters. After a while, he could finally understand the text on it a little bit, and read out ambiguous sentences such as "missing startup core", "administrator identity suspended", and "reactive xxxxxx lacks necessary elements".

Nangong Wuyue tried to roll up the entire device with her tail, but failed. She poked Hao Ren's shoulder with the tip of her tail: "In short, it's definitely true that this thing was passed down from ancient times. Although it's not a gate... we can just take it back and analyze it slowly, right?"

Hao Ren suddenly remembered that there was still a war going on outside the alien space, so he quickly slapped his thigh: "I'm going! I almost missed a big deal! Hurry up and pack things up..."

He put his hand on the "Originator Artifact" and put it into his portable space, then turned his head and greeted Izaks: "Big guy! Don't deal with this crazy old man! Let's go, there's still a war going on outside!"

As soon as Hao Ren finished speaking, he suddenly heard a loud noise from the entire space!

"What the hell is going on again?" Hao Ren already had a psychological shadow of suddenly encountering big movements in this alien space. The last time he encountered this kind of movement in the temple, it was a deadly energy storm. Could it be coming again this time?

Lily's psychological shadow was even bigger. She howled and rushed to Hao Ren's side, then hugged her tail and shivered: "No way, is my tail going to be roasted again!?"

The group quickly left the strange space where the Originator Artifact was stored, only to find that a bizarre "collapse" was taking place outside.

It was not the temple collapsing, but the entire space collapsing. Everything in sight was rapidly fading in color, and the things that had completely faded in color and turned black and white were scattered like broken mirrors. The sky outside the temple was disappearing in large swaths, and the desert and mountain ranges were changing shape like illusions. Sometimes it was a sea of clouds, sometimes it was a grassland, and sometimes it even turned into the bottom of the sea. The only constant thing was the lightning and thunder in the space, and the constantly exploding brilliant flames—this alien space was going to be finished!

Besse Mos was held in Izaks's armpit, his face was flowing with hot magma (actually, it was Izaks sweating), and although he was half-dead, he still mustered up his strength to shout: "Haha! You moved the Originator Artifact! It is the core of this space! Now it's going to collapse here, and the spatial distortion point has also been misplaced, you can't get out! You're going to die here with me!"

"You're just too talkative," Hao Ren glared at Besse Mos, and then held up the data terminal high, "Open the door, damn it!"

Facts have proved that a mere spatial misalignment can't stump this thing produced by the God Realm, especially since things like data conversion were originally the latter's old business. The data terminal burst into light, and a space gate opened in response. Everyone rushed out safely at the last moment before the ruins completely collapsed.

Besse Mos was still clamped in Izaks's armpit, still maintaining the appearance of opening his mouth wide. He yelled like crazy: "It shouldn't be like this! I never make mistakes, I never make mistakes! Why is this happening?!"

Izaks slapped the noisy guy unconscious: "Because my style is different from yours."

Hesperide was the first to rush out, but she found that the battle in the city seemed to be over.