Chapter 1234 A Word Reveals the Truth

A single sentence from Raven 12345 revealed her true colors. Hao Ren realized he could never expect to see this female lunatic standing solemnly and compassionately on a divine platform, saying, "Let there be light." So he abandoned all pretense of seriousness and greeted her familiarly, "Boss, I'm back from the Dream Plane."

"I know. You found a stable passage to the Dream Plane? I observed a distorted world-crossing phenomenon, but it didn't cause any turbulence in the Dream Plane. I guessed you found the gate," Raven 12345 turned around. "I wonder how many such loopholes there are. It's really… What the heck is that?!"

Raven 12345 turned around and saw the cat girl, Gun, squatting on the ground and washing her face with her paws. With her discerning eyes, she immediately recognized that this was a strange creature and was greatly surprised. Nangong Sanba's expression was particularly conflicted when he heard the commotion. He cautiously nudged Hao Ren's arm. "This is…"

"This is the goddess," Hao Ren said through gritted teeth, then, suppressing the twitching at the corner of his mouth, he introduced the two guests to his superior. "This next to me is Nangong Sanba, Nangong Wuyue's brother. You should know about his situation. This guy is preparing to join us. I'm letting you take a look. Also, this furry, unknown creature squatting on the ground… is Gun."

Hao Ren was worried that she wouldn't understand, so he added, "The cat I told you about that I keep at home…"

Raven 12345 stared at Hao Ren as if he were an idiot. "Why did your cat turn into this?!"

"How would I know? If I knew, would I be coming to you for advice?" Hao Ren spread his hands, between laughter and tears. "She suddenly turned into a person this morning and ran back, and she even learned to speak human language at the same time. When I asked her, she couldn't explain it clearly either, only that she gradually gained consciousness recently. I was wondering if she suddenly absorbed the essence of the sun and moon and cultivated into a spirit… Speaking of which, you can't tell either?"

"Nonsense, how can there be anything this goddess can't see with her discerning eyes," Raven 12345 put her hands on her hips. "Besides, I'm really impressed that you can come up with the idea of cultivating into a spirit. Do you know how many years it took humans to evolve to walk upright? Do you think wild animals can just howl at the moon every night and have a genetic mutation to become like humans… Silly cat, come here, look into my eyes."

Strangely enough, Raven 12345's words seemed to have some kind of inexplicable commanding power. Gun usually ignored outsiders, but now she obediently ran over and stared blankly into the goddess's eyes.

Raven 12345 held the cat girl's silly face and looked at it for a while, her eyes seeming to surge with blue light. After a moment, she exhaled and turned to look at Hao Ren. "The mutation happened around the Lunar New Year. Did you feed her anything strange at that time?"

"Strange things?" Hao Ren stroked his chin. "I don't remember eating anything… Wait a minute, could it be the apple?!"

Hao Ren finally remembered what extraordinary thing he had fed Gun during the Lunar New Year, and cold sweat poured down his forehead. "A golden apple! I fed her a golden apple! Could it be that thing has this function?"

Raven 12345 became anxious when she heard this, staring wide-eyed. "You freaking fed a golden apple to a cat?! The golden apple that can bring the dead back to life, the golden apple that can cause a thousand-year war in the mortal world, you freaking used it to feed a cat!"

Hao Ren's cold sweat had already flowed to the heels of his feet. "I didn't think this thing would have such a big effect… Didn't you say we could eat it casually?"

"I said you and your bunch of superhumans at home could eat it casually, not including cats!" Raven 12345 glanced sideways. "Can you not treat this thing like it's five yuan for two kilograms just because it was given out during the Lunar New Year? This is a golden apple, the Yu-You 4 (superior breed) personally grown by the Goddess of Life!"

When Hao Ren heard the last half of the sentence, he really felt like the golden apple was five yuan for two kilograms…

"Then what do we do now?" Hao Ren looked helplessly at Gun. The cat girl seemed to be dozing off again. She rolled around on the ground twice and habitually came to Hao Ren's feet, directly lying on the latter's shoes, preparing to take a nap. But the problem was that her size was now several times larger than before, and no matter how she lay down, she couldn't find the feeling of the past, so she began to tear at Hao Ren's trouser legs in anger.

"I'm thinking, you can only raise her like this from now on," Raven 12345 spread her hands. "The power of the golden apple has completely taken effect. She has now been completely catalyzed into a new life form… Probably similar to your bunch of superhumans."

Hao Ren grabbed Gun by the collar to stop her from biting his trouser legs while shaking his head. "But even Lily in my family wouldn't bite people's trouser legs, and wouldn't roll around on the ground all day…"

"Shit shoveler, put this meow down! Put this meow down!"

"And none of them call me shit shoveler."

"Just educate her slowly," Raven 12345 flicked a small spark of electricity onto the cat girl, startling the latter. "Her intelligence has been awakened, but her habits haven't been corrected yet. Actually, she'll understand everything you say to her. Educate her slowly, and she'll quickly adapt to human life."

Hao Ren could only reluctantly say "oh." Then he became curious. "Speaking of which, I can understand her turning into a person, but how could she speak human language from the beginning? This should take a while to learn, right? Did the golden apple come with an enlightenment that made her a genius?"

"You're right, the real function of the golden apple is actually 'biological template optimization.' It can optimize and adjust the biological indicators to the optimal template level when the gods created mortals. So those without intelligence are given intelligence, those without longevity are given longevity, and those without power are given power. Although its effect is not as good as direct physical adjustment, the results are still good after it slowly takes effect. Your cat's intelligence was definitely low at the beginning, so the golden apple directly opened her highest level of intelligence, and then she took advantage of that time to learn human language—learned it in cat form, so after turning into a person, she only needed to adapt a little to be able to speak it. Of course, this enlightenment effect will gradually decrease to the standard level, which is the same principle as the weakening of the drug effect."

Hao Ren didn't expect that golden apple to have so many tricks, and he nodded repeatedly as he listened. But finally, he suddenly had a question. "I understand everything you said… But can it give a missing brain to someone who's brainless?"

Raven 12345 was stunned for a moment. "What do you mean?"

"Lily ate both apples, and now she still hugs her tail and gnaws on it every morning, and she asks me to walk her every now and then," Hao Ren stroked his chin. "And I don't know if it's just my imagination… but I feel like her symptoms are getting worse and worse."

Raven 12345 rolled her eyes. "This isn't brainless, this is just her normal life. Different races have different lifestyles. In the eyes of the Hazi Zerg, Earthlings using napkins and eating with knives and forks are still brainless. Can cultural differences be called a problem?"

Hao Ren was speechless, and suddenly remembered a sentence Lily had said:

"If you don't bite your tail, what's the point of having it."

Problems with differences in worldviews are indeed unsolvable.

He talked to Raven 12345 about raising cats and dogs (no mistake), and finally brought up the situation of Nangong Sanba joining.

"I was looking at the operations manual. If the inspector thinks it's necessary, and after preliminary review, they can expand their power in the local world and recruit assistants," Hao Ren patted Nangong Sanba's shoulder. "His sister has already joined, and I think it's best to bring this older brother in as well."

Nangong Sanba had been busy studying the stars in the universe. To be honest, aside from the silly goddess, the scenery here was truly extraordinary and shocking. Hearing Hao Ren mention him, he quickly came back to his senses. "Oh, right, I want to join the work…"

"Well, an informed peripheral staff member. Now the various review conditions are relaxed. You can indeed recruit a few assistants like this yourself," Raven 12345 looked at Nangong Sanba, then nodded to Hao Ren. "Have you confirmed his work ability?"

Hao Ren gritted his teeth and said something particularly against his conscience. "A very reliable demon hunter…"

Nangong Sanba sighed. "I could hear that you were saying that against your will."

"Ah ha, if you say he's reliable, then he's reliable," Raven 12345 could tell what was going on with Nangong Sanba at a glance, but she didn't seem to care. "A hybrid… interesting, maybe even rarer than a proper demon hunter."

Finally, Hao Ren took out the most important thing he wanted to show Raven 12345 from his personal space.

"This is the Source Blood," Hao Ren handed a small metal tube to Raven 12345. "The living component of the First Seed."