Chapter 199 Olympus Remnants

“The remnants of Olympus?” Hesperides didn’t expect Hao Ren to send someone to call her over specifically for this matter, and she frowned. “What do you want those things for?”

“You really have them?” Hao Ren didn’t have high hopes, but Hesperides’ reaction made him feel like there might be something to this question. “Do you know any leads?”

Hesperides frowned and shook her head. “I’m not sure yet—tell me first, what are you looking for the Olympus legacy for?”

Hao Ren glanced at Vivian beside him. He felt it was difficult to explain the concepts of “ultimate absolution,” “the truth of god-slaying,” and “pathfinder” to Hesperides, but he had to say something. After organizing his thoughts, he finally opened his mouth, “It’s related to Vivian. Didn’t we find Vivian’s statue in the Olympus temple ruins last time? Later, we also found a similar statue in the siren’s treasury, secretly made by someone or some people from your Olympus pantheon. Also, we found more suspicious clues during our mission this time, clues that also point to… Vivian’s ‘idol,’ um, that’s the only way to explain it.”

“So you’re actually trying to find clues about someone in our family secretly worshipping Vivian?” Hesperides understood what Hao Ren meant. Although she knew that there were probably deep secrets behind the ins and outs of the matter, she wisely didn’t dig deeper. As the only descendant of a long-extinct ancient family, her curiosity about many things had faded, even if it was related to her former clansmen. “These kinds of clues probably won’t be easy to find because even I don’t know about these things, which means that even back then, these things were kept secret. And now that Mount Olympus has fallen and the things left over from the mythical era are scattered, it will be even harder for you to find clues.”

As Hesperides spoke, a look of contemplation appeared on her face. She recalled carefully, but still shook her head gently. “Mount Olympus isn’t like Yggdrasil. As a different dimension, it wasn’t strong enough. After Zeus’ divine fire went out, it quickly collapsed, and very little of it could remain. The space fragment you found last time was basically a miracle in my opinion. It’s hard to replicate a miracle a second time. As of now, the only Olympus members I know besides myself are two or three juniors hidden in other sanctuaries. They aren’t even considered ‘gods’ on Mount Olympus, so they definitely know less than I do. And all the family legacies we have on hand probably aren’t interesting to you.”

Hao Ren and Vivian exchanged glances and could only sigh. “Oh well—I knew this wouldn’t be easy. But I still hope you can help me inquire.”

“Of course, no problem. It’s just a small matter, now that the lockdown has been lifted anyway,” Hesperides revealed a smile. “I’ll contact friends in other sanctuaries and collect all the Olympus relics scattered around the world. I’ll send you information immediately if I have any. By the way, what’s your Skype?”

Hao Ren was stunned, and his expression was a little unnatural. “Well, do you use WeChat?”

Hesperides: “……Never mind, I’ll just send it to your email address……”

Hao Ren exchanged email addresses with her expressionlessly. At this time, Hesperides suddenly remembered something, “Oh right, if you really want to find some older information, I have a suggestion, although it feels weird for me to say this myself.”

Hao Ren looked at her curiously. “What suggestion?”

“The Demon Hunters,” Hesperides’ face wasn’t very good, but she still continued, “They destroyed countless alien families, but they always preserved knowledge. Their saints and elders are always hungry for all kinds of arcane knowledge. If there’s any information that survived and I don’t know about, then it must be in the Demon Hunters’ library tower.”

Perhaps because of the newly signed peace agreement, she deliberately didn’t mention words like “plunder” or “steal” when she said these things, but the historical truth of the past was known to everyone without needing to be described.

Hao Ren immediately thought of those magnificent and huge libraries in the Corpus space, and the bookshelves that seemed to stretch out endlessly.

If the siren’s treasury held the most complete and largest collection of lost items in this world, then the Demon Hunters’ library was filled with the most complete and largest inheritance of knowledge in this world.

By the way, there were also the most complete and largest collection of comic books and various limited edition games—thanks to Bai Huo for his outstanding contribution to the inheritance of Earth culture.

He quickly sent a message to Bai Huo, hoping that he could help him look up information about the Olympus family.

After Hesperides left, Vivian asked curiously, “Do you suspect that those statues made by the Olympus family are related to the ‘ultimate absolution’?”

Before Hao Ren could say anything, Lily jumped out, “What else could it be? They made a bunch of life-size figures of you just because they had too much money at home, or to ward off bad luck by worshipping a god of poverty?”

Hao Ren thought for a moment and felt that he wanted to say the same thing…

Vivian glared at Lily—of course, the latter didn’t think before speaking, so she had already wandered off—then turned back. “Could the meaning of those statues be… imitating the ritual in the Origin Ark?”

“It’s obviously not a perfect imitation, but I can’t help but make this connection,” Hao Ren nodded. “Perhaps the people of the Olympus family didn’t know about the ultimate absolution, but some of them knew about god-slaying and original sin, and mistakenly thought that you were the incarnation or reincarnation of the Creator Goddess. So they hoped to eliminate their family’s sins through the ritual of idol worship, or to avoid the imminent doomsday.”

Vivian was a little confused. “Then why didn’t they come directly to me? Asking the person involved for forgiveness would be much better than confessing to a photo, right?”

Hao Ren raised his eyebrows and glanced at her. “Nonsense, put yourself in their shoes. If they really ran to you back then and said, ‘Oh, you’re actually a god in your previous life, and then you were killed by someone, and we accidentally helped the murderer. Now we’re about to be punished by the heavens, so please stand there and don’t move so we can kowtow to you a few times. Because we don’t know how many kowtows will work, so why don’t you just stand in our house for eight or ten years,’ what would your reaction be?”

Vivian thought carefully, “I would think Zeus was an idiot, and then fly to the other side of the earth to find peace and quiet. Before I left, I might beat them up as well.”

“That’s it,” Hao Ren spread his hands. “First of all, you wouldn’t cooperate. And more importantly, Zeus probably wasn’t sure about his own research results yet. What if they really held some crazy ritual for you and found out it didn’t work? Wouldn’t that be awkward—so I think they made a life-size figure of you first and worshipped it to test the effect. If it was effective, they would find you for the next course of treatment…”

Lily casually interjected from the side, “Then Zeus and the others must not have told the bat about it because it didn’t work, right?”

As soon as the husky girl finished speaking, everyone around her looked at her with the eyes of caring for a silly dog. Hao Ren held back for a while and finally couldn’t help but remind her, “That’s because your previous life’s subordinates wiped them out before they could figure it out.”

Lily’s ears immediately perked up, and she glared. “I am the first emperor of the Demon Hunters! Do you know what the first emperor means? After I abdicated, the flood was none of my business!”

Hao Ren always felt that this husky spirit’s focus on the problem seemed a bit off…

Whether it was Hesperides or Bai Huo, it wouldn’t be a matter of a moment to search for ancient information from thousands of years ago, so Hao Ren put this matter aside for the time being. He turned his head to look for Odin, but saw that the old man was standing face to face with Hela, neither of them speaking.

He didn’t know how long they had been staring at each other like this, but the atmosphere looked quite awkward.

Odin had indeed come to terms with it. An old man who could stay on the Iron Throne for two thousand years, and who had even taken a trip to outer space with Yggdrasil, what else couldn’t he come to terms with—but Hela seemed more restrained. In Vivian’s words, Hela back then was just a rebellious child who got carried away and lost her mind when someone tricked her into resisting her parents, and her method of resistance was quite unique: she chose to lead an army of 800,000 to kill the old patriarch, which was quite embarrassing.

The Norse mythology that circulated among humans described Ragnarok as a heroic and tearful epic war, and everyone in the war seemed to be a hero without blood or tears. Later generations only needed to know the magnificence of the Ragnarok battlefield, but the real Ragnarok was full of regret, blindness, deception, and misunderstanding, and those heroes without blood or tears were actually just ordinary mortals.

Anyway, Hao Ren felt that his awkwardness was about to flare up just by watching these two.

“How long are you two going to stare?” Nangong Wuyue couldn’t help but poke the two of them one by one with the tip of her tail. “Why don’t you go eat something first, and come back and continue staring?”

“It’s okay, it’s always been like this,” Odin turned his head awkwardly. “No matter when we meet, we never have anything to say… well, this time is still better. The last time I saw her, the atmosphere was even worse.”

Hela also turned her face away expressionlessly. “Don’t like talking.”

“Alright, alright, do whatever you two want,” Hao Ren saw the situation and knew that the two had at least reconciled, so he was relieved. “Anyway, I’m going home.”

Odin was stunned, and the expression on his face changed several times. Finally, his expression became solemn. “I know words are weak, but I hope you know that what you have done for the Nine Realms has made me…”

“Stop, stop,” Hao Ren waved his hand and interrupted Odin’s words. “I’m not used to it—this is all my job.”

Odin nodded and grabbed Hao Ren’s hand. “I’m leaving them to you.”

Hao Ren gave a hearty smile. “Rest easy.”

At this time, Hesperiana suddenly rushed out from the side and hugged Vivian’s leg. “Lord Vivian, are you leaving?”

Vivian casually blasted the little bat spirit away with a bolt of lightning and dragged Hao Ren’s arm to run outside. “Stop being melodramatic, let’s go!”