Chapter 1516 Ancient Secrets

Hao Ren stared blankly at the Vivian statue before him. The words on its base stirred countless speculations in his mind, and Lily's theory seemed the most plausible. He turned to look at the bat spirit beside him. "Did the Olympus family worship you back then?"

"That's unlikely…" Vivian's face was as puzzled as anyone else's. "I was just familiar with them. Besides, Zeus and his family called themselves gods, why would they bother worshiping someone else?"

"I don't think it's reliable either," Lily muttered. "With bats having such a knack for bringing poverty wherever they go, only someone desperate would trust her to keep them safe. They set up the statue today, and the country will collapse in two days… Unless Zeus' family was crazy enough to worship such a jinx."

Vivian glared at Lily, grinding her teeth. "Just keep your mouth shut!"

"Perhaps the Greek 'gods' back then knew something," Hao Ren frowned, his gaze lingering on Vivian's statue. "Could it be related to Vivian's identity?"

"Are you saying… the connection between me and the Creation Goddess?" Vivian raised an eyebrow. "The Olympian gods wanted to exploit that connection?"

Hao Ren nodded slightly, explaining his thoughts bit by bit: "The only thing they'd call a 'disaster' is a large-scale attack by the Demon Hunters, so the statue must have been intended to prevent that. The Greek gods back then might have recovered some memories of the Creation Goddess and then learned about your connection to her—perhaps they thought that by worshiping you, they could reestablish contact with the Creation Goddess and fight the Demon Hunters."

Lily thought this sounded reasonable. "Sounds logical, do you think it worked?"

Hao Ren curled his lips. "Worked my ass, they were wiped out by the Demon Hunters in a few hours. Their reasoning was obviously flawed, probably due to incomplete information, or maybe they were grasping at straws—anyway, Vivian's life-size figure couldn't possibly protect a house; she can't even protect herself…"

Vivian put her hands on her hips. "If you have something to say, just say it; can you stop insulting me every time?"

At this time, Elsa and Nangong Wudi had heard the general idea. Elsa was the first to ask, "Regardless of what was wrong with their thinking, why didn't they talk to Vivian herself? Athena seemed to have created this statue secretly, without letting the person know."

Hao Ren nodded repeatedly after hearing this. "That is indeed a problem. It's the first time I've heard of someone praying to a god in secret, afraid of letting the god know. Speaking of which, Vivian, when you were interacting with the Olympus family back then, did you notice them researching these things?"

Vivian shook her head vigorously. "I didn't notice. All I remember is that they were very polite to me. Oh, and they often invited me to dinner, very enthusiastically."

Hao Ren immediately sensed a conspiracy. The Olympian gods seemed to be plotting something, but he couldn't quite put his finger on the suspicious point. Finally, Lily suddenly slapped her head and realized, "Hey, isn't there a major suspicious point you guys didn't notice?"

Everyone said in unison, "What?"

Lily pointed at Vivian. "With the bat's notorious reputation, there are actually people in the world who dare to invite her to dinner! That's abnormal in itself. How much courage did the Olympian gang have to let this god of poverty step into their mountain gate?"

As soon as she said this, everyone suddenly understood, leaving Vivian in the middle with a tangled expression, her face almost green. "Who did I offend…"

Hao Ren kindly patted Vivian on the shoulder. "Don't mind it, your poverty is a natural law. We're discussing the courage of the Greek gods…"

Vivian's face turned even greener.

But no matter what, Lily's deduction was quite reasonable. Back then, Vivian's fierce reputation was genuinely widespread. It wasn't just her ability to bring poverty wherever she went, but also her tendency to go crazy and lose her memory every now and then, slaughtering everything in sight. For long-lived alien races, the "Red Moon Countess"'s madness every few centuries was a continuous torment. Therefore, all alien families throughout history kept their distance from Vivian, even those vampires who admired her, preferring to worship this ancestor from afar rather than risk getting beaten up. But the Olympus family was an exception. Not only did they communicate with Vivian, but they even dared to invite her to dinner! How much risk were they taking to build a relationship with this jinx?

"They befriended you, got close to you, secretly built your statue, and may even have built a secret temple for you, but they didn't dare let you know directly, instead disguising it as ordinary 'friendship'," Lily stroked her chin, her eyes flickering with confusion. "I'm a little confused."

Katerina had been quietly listening to this group discussing a bunch of mystical questions, feeling half-understanding. Finally, she saw that everyone was in a confused state and found an opportunity to interject, "Why study these things? Anyway, the Olympus family is finished."

"Actually, a few of their descendants survived… but unfortunately, they don't know anything," Vivian spread her hands with a wry smile. "Personally, I don't want to speculate on them with malice. After all, regardless of their motives, they were my only friends back then, and even now… Hesperides and I have a good relationship."

"Yeah, people are dead, why pursue so much," Hao Ren clicked his tongue and looked up at Katerina. "We can stay here for a while longer, right?"

"Please feel free," Katerina waved her tail with a smile. "You are honored guests of the sirens, and you can feel at home here."

Hao Ren and his party spent almost half a day in this collection hall, which was like a treasure trove of time, and looked at almost every representative collection from each historical period, and they did not lack finding some interesting or thunderous things. They saw fragments of the Egyptian solar ship, the long sword that once killed the nine-headed hydra Hydra, and even some chains that were used to bind the giant wolf Fenrir - now there were only a few chain rings left, still strong, but already losing magic. These things that once shaped history and stirred up the entire world have now become broken relics, quietly sleeping in the siren treasure house in the deep sea, and no longer have the power of the past.

Unfortunately, these things could only be a novelty for Hao Ren. Apart from the stone platform left by the Olympian gods, he did not find anything else of value.

The group stayed in Nasaton for three days, waiting for the end of the siren Halloween, and at the same time contacted Lawrence, who was waiting for news on the Ark. At the same time, Hao Ren also successfully applied to Raven 12345 for the space storage permission to transfer the giant Ark out of the Dream Plane.

To his surprise, the application for this space storage permission was particularly smooth, and Raven 12345 did not even ask him in detail why he suddenly wanted to transport such a large thing - the goddess sister only confirmed that what he was transferring was "dead things", then she happily approved a support code and asked him to add the code to the host of the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace.

If it was in the past, that mean goddess might have caused him some trouble, but this time it was too smooth.

Thinking of the last time when he went to "Heaven" to find Raven 12345, the other party was not at home at all, and this time when he asked her to apply for something, she did not ask in detail at all, Hao Ren couldn't help but feel a little murmured in his heart, he always felt that the goddess sister seemed to be particularly busy recently, and this was not in line with her previous style.

But Raven 12345 was after all on official duty, and Hao Ren was not interested in asking what she was busy with, so he was just curious in his heart, and after confirming that the system of the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace was successfully authorized to be upgraded, he stopped worrying about it.

On the afternoon of the third day, the siren queen found Hao Ren and said that she was ready to leave.

"Just the three of you?" Hao Ren was surprised to find that the siren queen only brought two attendants who looked like scribes, and no other extra attendants. "This is a meeting between the highest levels of the two civilizations, aren't you considering the issue of the scene?"

Katerina shook her head: "Sirens don't pay attention to this, and the people on the Ark don't have the energy to pay attention to this, so let's skip this kind of scene work."

Saying that, she looked at Hao Ren curiously: "Do you pay attention to this?"

Hao Ren thought about it, and realized that he was the kind of guy who signed a contract with God with just a few A4 printed papers, and he was really embarrassed to ask others to pay attention to pomp...

So he didn't waste time, pulled the siren queen and the two unknown siren scribes, and the group went directly to the Dream Plane. On the fourth day, the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace arrived at the Ark fleet parked near the drone nest.