Chapter 1 The “Super Engine”

In fact, technically speaking, the "Super Engine" designed and built by the Creation Goddess was in no way comparable to the technology behind Raven 12345. However, Raven 12345 still needed to rely on the former's design at this time, because for a long time, she had been facing a difficult chasm to cross: she could not interfere in the Dream Plane, and could not even pay attention to that fragile companion universe. For a long time, she could only observe the state of the Wall of Reality in the surface world, and learn about the internal structure of the Dream Plane through various indirect means. As she said, in terms of understanding the inside of the Dream Plane, what she knew was not even as detailed as what Hao Ren knew.

So she couldn't address the Wall of Reality's problems.

However, the Creation Engine had now become a huge breakthrough: the Dream Plane Goddess had completed the observation and planning of the entire Dream Plane universe on the other side of the Wall of Reality, and designed this great artifact that could directly manipulate the Wall of Reality. Although her design had many clumsy points, it was enough to make up for Raven 12345's inadequacy in this matter. If this engine could really function as designed, most of the problems in the Dream Plane could really be solved easily.

Raven 12345 said: "I have been observing on this side of the wall for so many years, and she has not been idle on the other side. Although I have never met her, we are actually working towards the same goal at the same time: to restore the state of the two universes. This is fate. My hard work over the years has not been in vain..."

Hao Ren couldn't help rolling his eyes when he heard this. He didn't see where this female lunatic was being diligent at all: "The Creation Goddess spent thousands of years and at least created this ball, what did you do?"

Raven 12345 shamelessly patted Hao Ren on the shoulder: "I discovered a talent like you."

Hao Ren: "..."

"Ahem, I'll take that as a compliment," Hao Ren couldn't argue with a mentally unstable goddess after a long time, so he could only cough twice and continue to talk about business. "Are you sure that letting me complete this thing in the Dream Plane will solve the problem? To be honest, you just said that the things in the core of this engine are incomplete. Even if I build all the parts on these projections around, it won't be enough to assemble a complete 'engine'."

"Of course it can't solve all the problems, but it can advance this problem," Raven 12345 looked at Hao Ren very seriously. "And of course I didn't expect you to build the entire Creation Engine, but have you forgotten that the goddess of the Dream Plane has already built most of the engine's external structure? Look at these things..."

As Raven 12345 spoke, she waved her hand to create a phantom. This phantom was actually a miniature version of the large group of holographic projections currently surrounding everyone. The group of holographic projections with a radius of several kilometers was reduced by her to two meters square, and those huge image blueprints became small parts floating around her, exquisite and lifelike. She controlled these parts to rotate and combine, roughly gathering them together to form a strangely structured structure. This structure had a golden ball at its center, and a large number of shining ring-shaped components were interwoven around it, just like a slightly exaggerated model of a galaxy.

Vivian was a little uncertain: "This is..."

"The sphere in the middle is the engine core you brought, and the ring-shaped structures outside are the blueprints that Maggie parsed from the core database, which is the appearance after the holographic images around you are combined," Raven 12345 explained while displaying the image. "This engine core is both a functional device and a blueprint library. After it is activated, it will display the manufacturing diagrams of 126,800 parts, and these parts are combined to become what you see in front of you. Obviously, considering that the size of the engine core is only 500 meters, the overall volume of this structure will not exceed two kilometers."

Hao Ren understood what the goddess sister meant: "According to the guardian giants, the Creation Engine is a planet about the size of the earth—so even if this pile of things in front of you is added together, it is only a small part of the entire engine. You want me to complete this part?"

Raven 12345 nodded: "You found the core, but it seems that even this core is an unfinished version. I suggest you complete it, and then go to the Dream Plane to find the Dark Domain, and salvage the part of the engine that the Creation Goddess has already built. If everything goes well, you only need to combine the two parts into one—although I don’t know what will happen then, this goddess thinks that something should happen..."

Hao Ren thought for a while, and felt that the whole process looked quite reasonable, but he still had a great sense of unease in his heart. This unease boiled down to—will everything really be so simple?

"It definitely can't be that simple," Raven 12345 immediately waved her hand after hearing Hao Ren's question. "Calm down first, think about your ability to cause trouble, then think about the current situation of the Dark Domain which still has no clues, and then think about the mastermind behind the fall of the Creation Goddess who has not yet appeared. How is it, are you calmer?"

Hao Ren touched his chest: "...It's freezing cold."

"So work hard," Raven 12345 patted Hao Ren on the shoulder, the force of which almost nailed him into the ground. "This goddess's advice to you is to take it one step at a time, and don't always think about solving all the problems at once. First do what you can do. Anyway, the biggest clue you have at hand is this incomplete version of the engine core. Besides building it, can you think of anything else?"

Hao Ren couldn't refute the other party's statement, and he also knew that the stalemate in the Dream Plane had lasted too long. Even without Raven 12345's words, he would probably try to start this core in the end. There was no other reason, just to at least make things change.

So he solemnly nodded: "I will try my best."

The next second, he shamelessly said: "But you have to give me some technical support, right? Uh, of course, I'm not talking about the kind that will explode, but some real technical support—something that even you can't understand, how do you want me to build it?"

"Actually, it's not as difficult as you think," Raven 12345 obviously had some arrangements. She held up her right hand, and a crystal clear crystal immediately condensed in mid-air. This crystal was more than an inch long, and a ball of blue and white light jumped inside. "Maggie has extracted all the blueprint data from the core, it's here. The crystal core research station's system can process these things—but considering the differences in the technology tree, the speed of those devices in building the Creation Engine components will inevitably be a little slow. You can use this time to continue searching for the whereabouts of the Dark Domain. But there is one problem: these blueprints only include the hardware structure of the engine framework. Those golden discs are not among them."

Hao Ren took the crystal and raised his eyebrows: "That is to say, after I build this core module, I still have to find a way to find the remaining nine golden discs myself?"

"That's right, these golden discs are very important things, and the internal structure of each golden disc is actually different. There is no way to copy the other nine based on the existing discs. You can only find them yourself. If I guessed correctly, most of them should be sleeping in the ruins of the Creation Goddess's divine domain. When you find the unfinished Creation Engine, you should be able to find them as well."

After leaving Raven 12345's "Heaven," Hao Ren was still a little dizzy. He had suddenly come into contact with the truth about the Creation Goddess's grand plan before her fall, at least it looked like the truth, which gave him a feeling of personally touching history. A powerful artifact that pushed the Dream Plane and the surface world away from each other, a drive device that could change the laws of the world's operation—this thing was worthy of the name "Creation Engine," and now the core device of this engine was in his hands. His next task was to return to the Dream Plane and complete its assembly at the origin of this engine. This important task was placed on himself, which made Hao Ren feel unreal even half an hour later.

After this sense of unreality faded, Hao Ren quickly calmed down and carefully and thoroughly thought about the whole thing about building the Creation Engine. Facing a powerful artifact that might change the trajectory of the entire Dream Plane universe, he had to be cautious enough. In the end, he strengthened his belief in building this thing and realized that before really starting construction, he first had to talk to the guardians of the crystal core research station.

He also had accumulated too much intelligence to share with Mu Lu and the others.