Chapter 12345 Introducing a Little Friend

Raven 12345 happily introduced her little friend (who really was a "little" friend) to Hao Ren, and the miniature girl called "Maggie," who possessed the title of a god, floated in mid-air, blinking and staring at Hao Ren. Her tiny face was filled with curiosity, and her bright eyes shone with boldness and exploration.

"Gaa!" The tiny little girl put her hands on her hips and greeted him with an air of importance. It seemed that every time she spoke, she had this "habit": she always started with a strange "Gaa." "I'm Maggie! I know you. You're Hao Ren, the explosive genius, Bomb Ren!"

Hao Ren's mind, full of curiosity and guesses, came to an abrupt halt. He was once again stunned by his ever-changing but always similar moniker. "What now..."

"It's just a nickname, just a nickname," Raven 12345 immediately waved her hand, interrupting Hao Ren. "Anyway, it's just a name. People in your line of work are always running around the world, so they need a catchy name."

Hao Ren immediately knew who had given his moniker an even more insane makeover and spread it far and wide. He glared at Raven 12345. "There's no need for it to be this catchy!"

The goddess sister turned her head to look at the sky, pretending she didn't hear him.

"This..." Vivian opened her mouth, breaking the silence. She curiously pointed at Maggie. "This is also... a god? A goddess? A true god?"

She still remembered how much commotion Maggie had caused when she "descended," and Raven 12345 had called her a Raven God. Anyone who could be addressed that way by a true god must also be a true god. Little Maggie's title seemed obvious, but Vivian couldn't be sure. She never imagined that a goddess could be so small! Look at this palm-sized girl's arms and legs. Even if she stretched them out as far as she could, they probably wouldn't be as long as Dou Dou...

Raven 12345 simply nodded. "Raven God, also known as Crow God. They are the gods of storms and shadows, as well as the gods of spatial phenomena and messengers. Although they are all small, they are genuine goddesses, specializing in delivering information between countless worlds and dredging the multiverse grid. I've known Maggie for thousands of years. When she first hatched from her egg, we..."

The little Raven God immediately jumped up. "Gaa!"

Hao Ren and Vivian, who were listening on the side, were dumbfounded and couldn't say a word. "..."

After holding it in for a long time, Hao Ren finally snapped back to reality. He rummaged through the few remaining knowledge points in his mind and looked at Raven and the Raven God curiously. "Did you two get together because you both belong to the crow family?"

The goddess sister—the bigger one—immediately raised her eyebrows. "Raven is a military designation! I'm not a crow spirit!"

Hao Ren's infinite imagination hadn't stopped yet. "How can there be such a big difference in size when you're both crows... By the way, are you two considered birds of prey in the Xiling God System..."

Without saying a word, Raven 12345 rolled up her sleeves. "Stand there and don't move. I'll give you a buff!"

When Hao Ren saw this, he quickly reined in his thoughts and jumped back, pointing at the big floating sphere in the sky. "Let's get down to business!"

As a lunatic, Raven 12345 had a broad mind that was quite in line with her condition. Hao Ren's interruption immediately made her forget about giving him a buff. She turned her head to look at the golden sphere and nudged Maggie. "Raven Gods are good at picking locks, gathering intelligence, and collecting information. Apart from ghost places like the Dream Realm, there's no place in the void they can't sneak into. I brought her here to study the core of this big sphere. She should be able to figure it out without damaging the device."

Maggie's attention immediately returned to the sphere. She stretched her neck and exclaimed again, "Gaa, what a big egg, aoo!"

Hao Ren had already heard Maggie exclaim this once, and he was now completely confused. "What does she mean by this?"

Raven 12345 smacked her forehead. "It's an ancestral problem with Raven Gods. They were promoted from crows to gods by the King of Gods, so their biggest hobby is hatching eggs, all kinds of eggs. These guys don't have very good eyesight or a good worldview. In their eyes, anything spherical can be used as an egg to hatch... Tsk, the principles behind it are too complicated to explain to you. Maggie! Stop glaring! This is not an egg. If you dare to hatch this thing, I guarantee you won't have any vegetables to eat for the next two hundred years! Hurry up and help with the real work. Extract the information from this sphere."

The little Raven God "Gaa"-ed in disappointment, but she didn't say anything. She simply looked up and flew towards the golden sphere.

Then, without any obstruction, she directly drilled into the big sphere.

Raven 12345's will couldn't penetrate deep inside, and Hao Ren had thought of a lot of ways to open the shell without damaging it. However, this small "goddess," who seemed to be only the size of a palm, actually swaggered in. Of course, she didn't drill in through the seams of the operating parts, but directly walked into the seemingly thick and seamless god-forged metal plate!

A moment later, a series of strange noises came from inside the golden sphere, clanging and rattling, like a pile of metal parts being shaken in a big iron bucket.

Hao Ren immediately became a little worried. "Is this really okay... It doesn't sound right to me."

"Do you know what I'm thinking?" Raven 12345 bent her slender finger and tapped it against her chin. She didn't answer Hao Ren's question, but slowly said, "The goddess of the Dream Realm spent thousands of years building a Creation Engine. When the Godslayer War broke out, her engine was almost complete—but she didn't install this most crucial core into the machine. Instead, she took it out separately and left it to future generations. Generally speaking, people who do this only have one thought."

Vivian immediately became nervous. "What are you thinking?"

"To let future generations complete their unfinished business," Raven 12345 looked at Vivian. "Since she knew she was going to die, she should also know that her remaining strength was not enough to complete the Creation Engine, but she was still building this thing non-stop before she fell. That means that in her plan, this 'engine' had to be built. So how to build it? Her choice was to create a descendant with her own divine blood, and then send this descendant and the core of the Creation Engine to another universe. The purpose is obvious."

"Let me finish building it?!" Vivian's eyes widened. "I don't know how to do that!"

"Then I don't know," Raven 12345 waved her hand with extreme irresponsibility. "I'm just giving you an idea. As it stands, you really don't have the ability to build a Creation Engine, but the Creation Goddess gave you this sphere, which means she was sure you had a way to complete the task. At least that's what she thought back then."

Hao Ren looked at Vivian in surprise for a while, wondering how this pauper was going to handle such a big project. This poor girl had been poor in every way for the past ten thousand years. She had been saving money since humans invented currency, and even if she put all her belongings together, she couldn't even build a toilet. If she were to build a Creation Engine, she would have to work until the end of the world...

"Let's change our thinking and think about another thing:" Raven 12345 saw Hao Ren and Vivian each lost in thought and suddenly spoke, "Now that we know that the Creation Goddess sent the engine core and Vivian to the surface world together, what factors are preventing Vivian from completing this engine?"

Hao Ren thought for a while and said three factors, "Her forgetfulness, which leads her not to know her mission, her constantly declining strength, which leads her unable to complete her mission, and... um, I think it's poverty."

Vivian: "..."

"In other words, these three factors are outside the Creation Goddess's plan, or more directly, these three factors are to obstruct that goddess's actions," Raven 12345 narrowed her eyes. "There must be a force, a force hostile to the Creation Goddess, probably that 'whispering sound' that bewitched the rebellious sons. This force led to the goddess's fall in the Dream Realm, and in the surface world, it put three shackles on Vivian. In short, one of its goals is clear—"

Hao Ren looked up at the golden sphere. "...To prevent this engine from being completed."

Raven 12345 nodded lightly. "If we understand the function of this engine, we may be able to guess the true identity of the mastermind."

Hao Ren thought, "Then should we try to build this thing? With the organization's technical capabilities, it shouldn't be difficult to build something like this."

This time, Raven 12345 didn't give an answer so quickly. She pondered for a moment and said noncommittally, "Easy does it, easy does it. Let's wait and see what Maggie discovers."