Chapter 1303 Prison

Of course, Hao Ren knew that the original design function of the Sunscorched Tower was definitely not to provide him with Wi-Fi, but that did not prevent him from developing a brand new field of application for this tower. After some reasoning, he believed that the main reason why the Sunscorched Tower could act as an antenna was still related to the miraculous "power of order" – or in other words, to the power of the Creation Goddess.

The information shielding of the world of Collow was almost certainly the effect of the Creation Goddess's remaining divine power. It was because of a layer of confinement set by a true god that his demigod's external communication channels were shielded so thoroughly, and the power of order in the world of Collow... to be honest, Hao Ren suspected from the beginning that this thing was a variant of some power left by the Creation Goddess.

Although it had become a power that mortals could touch, its origin from the Creation Goddess probably still remained.

Therefore, it was not surprising that a tower used to emit the power of order could serve as a signal antenna to penetrate the divine power shielding.

Communication was initially very noisy, but Nolan had already activated all the computing units to filter out these noises. After some tense debugging, Hao Ren felt that the voice coming from his mental world became clearer, and the connection tended to stabilize.

"Buddy, finally got back in touch with you," the first to speak was the Data Terminal, which was always hanging on the communication channel. "Oh my, these past two days have been torturing this unit... Your daughter, your cat, your bat, your neighbor almost took apart this unit's shell..."

Hao Ren hadn't heard the Data Terminal's incessant chatter for a long time, and he was stunned for a moment, a little unaccustomed to it. Then he immediately reacted: "Stop talking nonsense, this time I may have found a way to establish a stable connection. You quickly write down this frequency, from now on this will be the standard frequency for me to contact you here, lock all the devices' search bands to it. Don't lose my signal again."

He heard a noisy sound from across the communication channel, including Nolan's slightly mechanized report and the Data Terminal's serious orders, as well as the hustle and bustle of several lodgers at home. These long-lost miscellaneous sounds made him feel a warmth – and also a pain in the ass, because he clearly heard Nangong Wuyue roaring in the background: "Quickly get Dou Dou down from there, don't let her spray water at the control panel – her dad's not in there!"

The fish baby's ability to seek death was as strong as ever...

Fortunately, there was a Vivian sitting there to preside over the overall situation, and a reliable old demon to hold the fort. The unruly children and adults quickly quieted down, allowing the Data Terminal and Nolan to quietly complete the equipment scheduling task. While Nolan was adjusting a bunch of signal amplifiers, Hao Ren quickly told the Data Terminal about his situation.

"... Wow, buddy, you've really had an amazing experience these past few days, you truly are a troublemaker personally appointed by the goddess," the Data Terminal's voice was as annoying as ever, but at this time it sounded particularly cordial. "The world of Collow... the war between chaos and order... and the legend of Locketon... these things sound like the style of the Dream Plane. Wait a minute, this unit will submit these things to the database of the Core Research Station and compare them with the large database to see if we can find anything."

"Oh, oh, you go ahead," Hao Ren agreed while asking, "How's the situation on your side?"

"Oh, it's okay, the family's emotions are quite stable. Your daughter just sprayed this unit with water and is being lectured by Wuyue. Vivian has been very calm these days, but she hasn't cooked for everyone for three days. Recently, they've all been living on instant noodles, and there's a smell of pickled mustard greens from the bridge to the rest area."

"... Damn it, I didn't ask you about that!"

"Ahem, 'outside' everything is normal," the Data Terminal quickly became serious. "In order to open the divine power shielding here and deal with accidents, we've transferred a batch of drones – this was Vivian's suggestion. The drone swarm has built a large number of armed outposts and monitoring stations near the location where you disappeared. A while ago, Nolan also dragged over a few asteroids, modified them, and we built a circle of orbital cannon bases around them. There are also message base stations, drone nests, ultra-high-power gain antennas, armories, and other things. I'll send you a briefing, you can confirm it."

The more Hao Ren listened, the more he felt that something was wrong, and he quickly interrupted: "Hey, wait a minute, why does it sound like you're preparing to fight a positional war in place? As soon as I show up, there'll be guns and cannons firing?"

The Data Terminal chuckled slyly: "Hehe, buddy, in all fairness, if it were you, what would you prepare outside in this uncertain situation?"

Hao Ren thought about the public security situation of the Dream Plane, thought about the various threats he had encountered in this universe in the past, and thought about the corporate culture of the Mad Lord and his lackeys. He slowly replied: "If the power isn't enough, drag over a few fortress cannons near the Core Research Station as well."

"Got it."

"Also, can you track my current signal and try to open a portal from the material universe to the Collow space?"

This time, the Data Terminal was silent for a long time, as if it was performing some calculations.

"Buddy, that might be more difficult. If this unit and Nolan's calculations are correct, the 'world of Collow' you're talking about – it should be a closed space with a radius of about two point four light-years, and outside this closed space there is a phase transition zone with a range of ten thousand light-years. This is the truth of why we can only see a material vacuum when observing this area from the outside. This series of blockades were all completed with the blessing of true god's divine power. It can be said that, apart from the loopholes that it already has, it is almost impossible for us to create new loopholes out of thin air."

Hao Ren frowned: "There's no possibility at all?"

The Data Terminal was silent for a while again before opening its mouth: "It shouldn't be absolutely impossible. Now that you can communicate with the outside world, it means that this closed space does leave a window for external information exchange. Faced with the settings left by a true god, brute force will only achieve half the results with twice the effort, but it will be much easier if we follow the trend."

Hao Ren was thoughtful: "I established contact with you by using the power of the Sunscorched Tower, which is a carrier of the Creation Goddess's remaining divine power, but it is difficult to find a more powerful divine power medium than it in the world of Collow, at least I can't get in touch with it here. If you can find more powerful relics of the goddess outside, perhaps we can establish a more stable two-way connection, and even carry out material transportation."

"This unit has an idea," the Data Terminal replied, "The Core Research Station has no shortage of goddess relics, we'll try to build a conversion device."

"Okay, hurry up," Hao Ren nodded. "By the way, is Vivian nearby? I want to say a few words to her."

The opposite side of the communication channel was in a mess for a while, and after a moment Vivian's voice came: "Hao Ren?"

Hao Ren was stunned. He had thought he had a lot to say, but at this time he couldn't think of anything at all. He held back for a long time and only squeezed out a sentence: "Yeah... I'm doing pretty well here."

"I'm doing pretty well too..." Vivian's voice was also a little hesitant, but the second half of her sentence immediately livened up the atmosphere. "By the way, did you find the dog?"

"I don't know where she ran off to," Hao Ren thought of Lily, who was still missing, and he also had a headache. "I can only be sure that she's safe and sound, and it seems like she's living better than me. Hey, don't worry, the husky's nickname is 'let go and it's gone', it's normal for her to get lost for ten days or half a month, with her ability to survive in the wild, everyone else would die if you threw them in the wilderness, but she wouldn't."

"That's true."

The two chatted for a while, each asking about the other's recent situation. After they finished speaking, the communication channel returned to the Data Terminal. Hao Ren coughed twice: "Ahem, is there anything else on your side? If there's nothing else, I'll hang up first."

The Data Terminal became curious: "Are you busy over there?"

Hao Ren looked up at his surroundings. Rudolph III's family of four, several key ministers of the kingdom, and a group of Holy Tower guards were standing not far away, forming a semicircle and looking at each other with him. They didn't know about the conversation that was taking place in the mental world. In their eyes, the "Ancient Guardian" squatted by the pool, put his hand in it, and entered a state of contemplation about life. Just looking at his back, it looked like he was constipated...

"I'm telling you, I'm squatting next to a pool, poking the pool with my finger, and there's at least a platoon of people standing next to me watching me play in the water. I feel like I'm a complete idiot..."

"Buddy, try sitting cross-legged, pointing another finger at the sky, and make your expression more solemn – wouldn't that look more awesome?"

Hao Ren: "...Let Dou Dou take the phone."

The Data Terminal immediately got goosebumps: "Hey, don't, don't, don't, in fact, this unit has a message to tell you!"

"Speak quickly – my embarrassment cancer has been going on for five minutes."

"The data you uploaded to the Core Research Station earlier has an analysis report, the research station's host analyzed some of the nouns and Collow native language samples you submitted, guess what it found?"

Hao Ren became serious: "What's the situation?"

"Many of the words you submitted are not actually content from the Collow native language system, they are loanwords, and from the structure and pronunciation they are closer to the text created by the Creation Goddess that we collected in Corpus – that is, divine writing, divine language. If translated according to divine writing, 'Collow' means 'prison', and 'Locketon' means 'the first, the original'."