Chapter 1 A Loosely Coupled Team

Nearly three years of work experience, though just an insignificant blip for an immortal and ageless being, was still enough to make Hao Ren more proficient in his position as an inspector and to better integrate with his colleagues. Although he usually seemed quiet and didn't spend his days looking for colleagues all over the universe to gather for meals, he still had relatively stable connections with his colleagues, because the inspectors had their own contact methods and ways of interacting:

As observers and feedback providers of all things in the world, inspectors were distributed throughout the universe, even in other universes. The distances between them were immeasurable, and each inspector had their own jurisdiction and affairs. They naturally didn't have time to gather every day, so each inspector communicated with each other through data links and virtual meetings: the former for their daily communication, and the latter as the official channel for performing official duties.

They were a divine team that was extremely scattered in spatial distribution, but closely connected in intelligence sharing.

Here it is necessary to mention the distribution of inspectors in a universe. The "size" of each world is different, even varying greatly. Some worlds are just a piece of space with a round sky and a square earth, some have only one galaxy, or even just one sun, while other worlds, like Hao Ren's hometown, have vast space and trillions of stars. Therefore, the number of inspectors in each world is completely different, ranging from one permanent resident to tens of thousands of teams.

Moreover, even within the same world, the distribution of inspectors is quite "uneven": due to the nature of their work, they are not divided by management area, but by the number of supervised civilizations. Usually, a civilization circle is supervised by one inspector, and their jurisdiction depends on the scope of this civilization circle: Hao Ren's jurisdiction is two hundred light-years, because the Earth civilization is the only civilization within two hundred light-years. Barring accidents, the initial range of the future Earth civilization circle will be these two hundred light-years. The jurisdictional division of other inspectors is similar to this.

For those upper civilizations that have explored hundreds of galaxies, there is an inspector watching the region of hundreds of galaxies behind them.

But even if the "territories" differ so greatly, all inspectors have completely equal authority: because they are observers and feedback providers of the world, their foothold has transcended the concepts of ordinary species and territories. From the perspective of these demigods, solving the eating problem of a group of ancient people and quelling an interstellar war of millions of light-years is no different. Hao Ren spent nearly three years reading countless cases before finally grasping this point.

The inspectors watched every civilization circle in this way, while the vast and desolate space beyond the radiation range of these civilization circles was watched by the gods themselves.

Inspectors are responsible for the affairs of the mortal world, and the gods are responsible for the affairs of the universe. A simple and easy-to-understand model is thus established.

Of course, these are things mentioned in the work manual, usually used to describe the ideal situation—in fact, Hao Ren strongly suspected whether his goddess sister was usually as reliable as the manual said. After all, according to his observation, the goddess sister was just lurking in the inspector's chat group just now…

These daily anecdotes that happened between the inspectors were not enough for outsiders to know. In the eyes of those who are qualified to contact the Space Administration in various civilization circles, the inspectors are still a mysterious, powerful, fair, and dignified group. A piece of ****** from them made countless space stations and deep-space fortresses busy. Huge scanning antennas were activated, vacant communication channels were requisitioned, and the stargazing towers of legendary mages emitted brilliant light in the universe. The resonance signal that Hao Ren copied was input into every antenna array and magic crystal. Countless eyes began to search for the lost Yggdrasil within the entire galaxy, and if they couldn't find it… Hao Ren would expand the search range and ask his colleagues in other parts of the universe to help.

Anyway, these were all easy tasks for them.

Hao Ren put the data terminal on the coffee table, and across from the coffee table "sat" a tall woman with ordinary looks but dignified demeanor. Despite just sitting on the cheap cloth sofa, this dignified woman with queenly temperament still seemed to be sitting on a throne with every gesture. Hao Ren smiled and nodded to the woman: "When will I have your temperament—you can make a small stool look like a golden palace."

Galia Zhuo'er smiled faintly: "I can't help it. I was born into the dragon royal family, and many habits are ingrained in my bones. And there are others in front of me at this time, observers from the Suha satellite station, so I have to pay attention to my image."

"Anyway, I never paid attention to my image," Hao Ren pouted. He knew that there must be a quality projection of himself sitting in front of the Dragon Queen Galia Zhuo'er, and his pouting action must have been seen by the people around Galia Zhuo'er, but he didn't care about it, "The Suha satellite station has the most powerful detection system on the edge of the galaxy. It can radiate almost two thousand light-years. This time, I have high hopes for you."

Galia Zhuo'er nodded slightly: "I can feel that this matter is very urgent, and I will do my best to help."

"To be honest, this is the first time I've made such big news, and I'm still a little nervous," Hao Ren said with a smile. He knew that the conversation between himself and Galia Zhuo'er was encrypted, and even if someone was listening, they wouldn't understand—just like Gun Gun who was staring wide-eyed and confused next to him, so he spoke casually, "I can't imagine how much manpower and material resources I've mobilized this time."

"But this is actually a very common thing," Galia Zhuo'er spread her hands, "It's just a bit unusual for it to happen to you. Your actions this time surprised everyone. You've also seen that those bored guys are talking about it, because you usually tinker with the Dream Plane project alone and hardly ever act in the mortal world. You suddenly popped up… It really gives us the feeling of a deep-sea mud beast suddenly reviving."

Galia Zhuo'er's demeanor is majestic enough, but she speaks very kindly—this is also a common characteristic of inspectors. After all, they are all like local cops, so who are they going to show off to when they get together?

Hao Ren just smiled awkwardly when he heard Galia Zhuo'er's words. He knew that he must be a special case among the inspectors: he was short on qualifications but had stirred up a lot of big events, had a reputation for causing explosions wherever he went, and was personally taken care of by W渡鸦12345, all of which were enough to make him stand out from the crowd. And what made him most special was the "big project" of the Dream Plane. He handled such a big thing alone that he hardly cooperated with his colleagues in the mortal world. This was equivalent to a core engineer in a large company who buried himself in the deepest part of the computer room for three years. After working for three years, he was like a hermit. No matter when this kind of person suddenly popped up, it would give people a sense of surprise: Oh, so we have such a person in our unit?

"I don't know how the goddess can rest assured and hand over such a big thing to a newcomer like me," Hao Ren said frankly, "I guess you don't know either."

Galia Zhuo'er nodded: "Indeed, this is very unusual, but the goddess's arrangement always has its considerations. Don't look at her like that, she is indeed the most responsible manager in this universe. We just need to trust her."

"Actually, there is one thing I have always been very curious about," Hao Ren looked into Galia Zhuo'er's eyes, "This world—I mean, within the entire universe, am I really the only inspector paying attention to the Dream Plane?"

Galia Zhuo'er looked at Hao Ren quietly, and suddenly showed a smile: "To be honest, many people are paying attention to the Dream Plane, even I am paying attention to it, because the weakening of the Wall of Reality has caused a lot of problems. Not only do you have trouble on Earth, but world infiltration has also occurred in my jurisdiction. But you are really the only inspector who has been authorized to directly handle this matter."

Hao Ren was very surprised: "World infiltration? Do you also have 'rifts' over there?"

"No, it hasn't been serious enough to form rifts, just some weak areas. There are some continuous unstable space jump points within the star system where Sangtu Suiv is located. Before I established the early warning mechanism, reckless deep-space explorers often got lost near those jump points. Some of them were later tracked down, but others disappeared forever in this world. I believe they have fallen into the gap between the Dream Plane and the mortal world: this is one of the consequences of the deterioration of the Wall of Reality, and it is the most gentle consequence. In the depths of the universe… such as the Rift Nebula you know, an entire galaxy is crushed to pieces. That is a terrible rift."

As Galia Zhuo'er spoke, she suddenly seemed to remember something: "Speaking of… since you took over the Dream Plane, the weak points of the Wall of Reality have been much more stable in the past three years. How did you do it?"

Hao Ren was stunned: "Huh?"

(By the way, the pile of asterisks yesterday was actually a mo.bi.li.za.ti.on or.der. If it's still censored, then there's nothing I can do…)