Chapter 193 The Truth About Eight Hearts and Eight Arrows

Similar to the Crystal Nucleus Research Station, the main structure of the "Holy Mountain" Asueman was also built with crystalline material, with various crystal clusters, spires, and walls forming the complex internal structure of this ancient spaceship. Unlike conventional starships, however, many of Asueman's internal compartments were not directly connected – perhaps due to extreme security requirements considered from the outset. The various key compartments of this spaceship were completely sealed off, and could only be accessed by gatekeepers activating transfer permissions or by brute force exceeding Asueman's defensive strength. Hao Ren, led by An, entered the chamber housing the energy circulation center through a teleportation gate.

This was a pyramid-shaped hall. Lush, pale purple crystal clusters grew in the four corners of the hall. As soon as Hao Ren entered, he saw a remarkably wide crack in the ceiling, piercing through the entire Asueman crystal wall. Through the gap, he could vaguely see the dim sky outside. Directly below the crack was a white crystalline pipe, broken in the middle and constantly emitting bright sparks. The ground in front of the pipe was cracked and sunken, and a crystal, clearly different in material from its surroundings, lay quietly in the pit.

Perhaps because it had passed through the Wall of Reality, the crystal's shape, size, and color had changed significantly. Judging solely from its appearance, Hao Ren probably wouldn't have recognized it at all. But now, two lines of text floated on the crystal, making Hao Ren's liver tremble at first glance.

Eight hearts, eight arrows, exquisite craftsmanship.

He was 100% certain that this crystal didn't have these two lines of logo when it was thrown into the Rift Nebula. The two lines of text that floated out now were undoubtedly activated after passing through the Wall of Reality. So what was this thing? A recognition mark left by the Goddess? Or an Easter egg left by Corvus 12345 after swinging a cleaver and cutting the crystal, her interest not yet sated? Or was it simply that crazy woman's obsession with eight hearts and eight arrows?

In any case, Hao Ren was now 100% certain about Asueman's condition – it was smashed by himself…

In that instant, cold sweat flowed from the top of his head to the soles of his feet. He had never prayed to his goddess before, but now he couldn't help but call out the name of the Goddess in his heart for the first time: "Goddess Shun, you son of a…"

As soon as that thought flashed through his mind, he shuddered and quickly looked up to see if there were any signs of thunder within a two-meter radius around him. He looked around and found no signs of divine punishment, but he saw a white-gold object floating in the air at the top of the pyramid hall.

It was a plate-shaped object, estimated to be about one meter square and half an inch thick. The edges were curved and uneven, and the surface flowed with faint light. When he looked at it, Hao Ren couldn't help but feel a sense of peace and tranquility.

He even felt the divine power in his body, which had always been very calm, resonate faintly. A layer of pale white halo diffused from his side, echoing the white-gold stone slab in the air. The two types of true god power, different in origin but of the same nature, seemed to be communicating – "Hey, big brother, floating here?" "Yo, where are you from?" "I'm from another world. We have a manager there called God. I fell off her." "Oh, what a coincidence, we also have a God here who is in charge, but she was stabbed a while ago…" "Damn, 666…"

That's how Hao Ren imagined it anyway – he didn't know what divine power would say when greeting each other, but the translation should be about that.

The moment An saw Hao Ren look up, she couldn't help but want to stop him, but then she realized that he was completely fine, so even she, an AI, couldn't help but exclaim: "You… can actually look directly at the Tablet of Truth?!"

"That's the Tablet of Truth?" Hao Ren asked casually, though he had already expected it.

"Yes, it is something personally left behind by the Goddess of Creation, but I have never seen a mortal who can not only survive around the Tablet of Truth, but also look directly at it without being affected… That stone slab constantly releases the Goddess's thoughts. Apart from non-living beings like me, secular creatures cannot withstand such an information冲击…"

"When did I say I was a mortal?" Hao Ren raised his eyebrows. "Can I take that Tablet of Truth down and take a look? Of course, if it's an important component of Asueman, then forget it."

An hesitated for a moment, then raised her hand towards the sky. The Tablet of Truth slowly floated down. "It is not part of Asueman. In fact, no one knows why the Goddess left this stone slab. She simply placed the stone slab here, but gave no further instructions."

Hao Ren curiously approached the "stone" slab. He found that both sides of the slab had something on them. One side was engraved with very complex patterns that showed no regularity or meaning, while the other side had only a few lines of text.

"Who am I? Why am I here? What should I do? Am I meaningful? What is around me? Where are their boundaries? Why do they appear in this state? Are they meaningful?"

Is this what the Goddess left behind?

Hao Ren frowned and suddenly felt a slight heat in his right hand.

He saw the red scar on his right hand, burned by divine blood, reappear and emit a faint light.

With a thought in his heart, he carefully stretched out his right hand and placed the skin that had been stained with divine blood against the white-gold stone slab.

However, the massive and complex thoughts he had expected did not appear. He only vaguely felt some chaotic and fragmented information drifting through his shallow consciousness. The information made him aware of some inexplicable things, but after careful sorting, he found that they were all unimportant fragments – some knowledge about creating life, some scenes of the early universe. Although this information was useful, it was completely disproportionate to Hao Ren's expectations of this white-gold stone slab.

It was unlikely that the information stored in the white-gold stone slab itself was so unimportant. It was more likely that the reading method was wrong, or that the stone slab itself had some kind of information protection mechanism. Perhaps it needed more advanced reading permissions?

Various thoughts flashed through Hao Ren's mind quickly, but he didn't waste too much time. While checking the condition of the white-gold stone slab, he observed the energy circulation center that had been smashed by the Door-Opening Crystal and began to think about various repair solutions.

According to An's statement, the center had a self-repair function. After removing the crystal, the facilities here should be able to recover, but that would take time. He had to find a way to speed up the process.

While thinking about repair solutions, he also had a question: "An, since Asueman can be restored simply by removing the crystal, why didn't the gatekeepers come to repair it earlier? Didn't you say that non-living beings like you are not affected by the Tablet of Truth?"

"We cannot approach that crystal," An pointed to the "eight hearts and eight arrows" lying quietly on the floor. "It has some kind of self-protection mechanism. In the past few months, I and Number One have discussed many repair plans, but all of them failed because of the existence of the 'protection mechanism'. If you hadn't shown an understanding of this fragment, I wouldn't have let you come over. As a logic entity, we don't like 'taking chances'."

Ordinary humans could not approach the upper zone of Asueman, and the two AI entities that could approach this zone could not approach the extraterrestrial crystal. So that was the crux of the problem.

As if to confirm what she said, An took a few steps closer to the "Door-Opening Crystal" while speaking, but just as she was a dozen meters away from the crystal, the crystal suddenly lit up with a barrier. The powerful repulsive force caused An to stagger back, and several powerful true god characters appeared on the barrier:

"Get lost!"

…

Hao Ren's eyes twitched. It was truly a concise and clear divine art with Corvus 12345's signature style. In the scriptures issued by the Goddess, this divine art belonged to the "Domain Protection - Divine Will" system, and its rural nickname was "Truth Shelter"…

Obviously, the Goddess left this divine art to prevent the Door-Opening Crystal from falling into the hands of outsiders and being used for evil purposes. In some ways, that crazy woman was also considering everything carefully…

Hao Ren endured the twitching on his forehead and began to解除the "get.lost" divine art that had been activated on the crystal.

For a pope,解除this divine art was not complicated.

While urging his mental power to communicate with the divine art, he also released the autonomous machines from his personal space.

The autonomous machines绕來绕去around the damaged energy导管and the base below, scanning the severely故障parts with light beams, and quickly came to a conclusion:

The failure of the energy循环centerwas mainly due to the damage of the transmission介质. In theory, as long as the door-opening crystal was removed to eliminate the interference of the latter on the entire循环体系, and the function of the energy导管was重建, the center could be restore运作.

Of course, this treatment would definitely not be able to restore the entire system to its best state, but it was okay to use it for凑合. Anyway, Asueman would slowly self-recover after the emergency treatment, and the system would fully recover in just a little time.

Just as the protective mode of the Door-Opening Crystal was gradually turned off, a震动suddenly came from under his feet.

"What's going on?" Hao Ren turned to look at An.

"The intruders are破壊the屏障of the final agreement区," An汇报道,"They are already靠近the聖約櫃."

"Although I don't think they can use that'盤子'to open聖約櫃…" Hao Ren皺皺眉,"How much time is left?"

"About ten minutes."

"That's enough."

As Hao Ren's voice fell, the protective light shining on the Door-Opening Crystal also disappeared.

He immediately put this宝贝疙瘩that caused a lot of trouble into his随身space, and then commanded the autonomous machines to connect their long mechanical触手to the surrounding结晶导管. The latter had already begun to蠕动复原, just as if it had life, and with the connection of the mechanical触手, the energy流began to jump and串动between导管, and its复原speedalso陡然加快!

"Thewill pivotcan be directly activated," Hao Ren wiped the non-existent sweat from his forehead, and nodded slightly to An, "First go and汇合with Kara Shius and the others, and then we will go to the final agreement区!"