Chapter 169 The Cause of All Calamities

When Raven 12345 uttered that name, silence fell over the room. The first to jump up was Lily, who had always been at odds with Vivian: "Goddess, are you kidding me? That bat can't be a fragment of negative emotions!"

"I didn't believe it at first, and I never even considered it," Raven 12345 said, spreading her hands. "How else could such a big deal happen?"

A wave also surged in Hao Ren's heart, but after the wave, there was a faint feeling of "as expected." It seemed that he had already subconsciously anticipated this matter, and now that the goddess had revealed it, he couldn't quite describe how he felt.

But accepting such a fantastic thing was not so easy after all. He still stood up and said, "Vivian is a fragment of negative emotions? She looks completely different from those fragments, and she hasn't gone crazy and caused destruction like they have..."

"Are you sure she hasn't gone crazy and caused destruction?" Raven 12345 glanced at Hao Ren. "On the contrary, she has, and she does it every few hundred years—it's just that she stays sane longer and is in a crazy state for a shorter time. She is generally harmless, but she is still essentially a member of the fragments of negative emotions, and that's for sure."

Hao Ren knew that what she said was right, and after seeing that divine fragment of negative emotions that had been conscious for a hundred years in Aerythos, his own concept of "fragments of negative emotions" had already been shaken. But at this time, he still wanted to question a few things: "But every fragment of negative emotions represents a negative attribute, right? What's negative about Vivian?"

Raven 12345 turned to look out the window, sighed with her hands behind her back, and said, "She's poor..."

Hao Ren: "...Boss, let's not joke like that. The atmosphere is serious and depressing, and you come up with this, making it difficult for everyone, okay..."

"I'm not joking, she really is poor," Raven 12345 turned her face, her expression serious. "If I had realized this sooner, things wouldn't have gotten this bad!"

Hao Ren didn't know how to respond when he saw her expression. After holding back for a long time, he carefully squeezed out a sentence: "Really poor?"

Raven 12345 nodded vigorously: "Really poor..."

"...A fragment of negative emotions representing 'poverty'...No wonder she's been harmless for so many years..." Nangong Sanba couldn't help but mutter to himself, "But I still feel like I can't accept it...She looks so normal, she doesn't look like a fragment of negative emotions at all, and she can suppress other fragments of negative emotions. More importantly, the fragments of negative emotions are things that split off from her body. No matter how you look at it, she should be the main body of that 'divine clone' created by the Creation Goddess back then."

Raven 12345 shook her head: "Everything special you said is right, but that doesn't mean she's not a fragment of negative emotions. In fact, it's the opposite—she's the 'upper unit' of all the fragments of negative emotions, which is why she has those special things..."

Hao Ren interrupted her: "Then according to you, Vivian is actually the biggest fragment of negative emotions. Where is the real body of that 'divine clone' from back then?"

Raven 12345 seemed to have been waiting for this question for a long time, and smiled at this time: "Still Vivian."

Hao Ren seriously thought about the feasibility of fighting this crazy woman in front of him, and then gritted his teeth: "Can you please finish what you have to say at once?"

"Because this situation is too complicated, it's easy for people to not read it if I say it all at once," Raven 12345 snapped her fingers, and a large velvet seat appeared behind her. She leaned back lazily and then explained the details, "I said before that my research was not wrong in the general direction, but it was wrong in the details, and these details led to today's situation. I initially thought that the 'divine clone' created by the Creation Goddess was contaminated. After coming to this world, in order to eliminate the 'toxins,' it began to split continuously. What split off were the fragments of negative emotions, and the main body was Vivian. But the actual situation is more complicated than that: the contamination suffered by the divine clone is actually impossible to separate. Or rather, this contamination is not an external object at all, but a component of the divine clone itself—although the reason for this is still unclear, the actual situation should be like this. Therefore, the divine clone never had a so-called 'pure main body' from the very beginning. In the very beginning, she was both the incarnation of the Creation Goddess and a huge fragment of negative emotions. She will always have both the will of the goddess and the possibility of corruption and depravity at the same time."

She paused here to give everyone time to digest, and then continued: "However, you should have realized that the fragments of negative emotions that split off basically all show a tendency to be crazy. Even Vivian, who maintains her sanity, has a violent period every few hundred years, so in fact, the situation of this contaminated divine clone is far worse than imagined: on the whole, she is constantly tending towards corruption and depravity. The power of the goddess and the power of corruption did not maintain a balance at all, but the latter completely suppressed the former."

"Why is this happening?" Hao Ren was shocked. "No matter how bad the Creation Goddess is, the clone she created shouldn't end up in this situation, right? Even if the source of pollution is the Lord of Madness, it shouldn't completely suppress her power—besides, the Lord of Madness was still sealed during the Godslayer War. Where did such a powerful force of corruption come from in the Dream Plane?"

"According to my speculation, it's because of 'splitting'," Raven 12345 seemed to have expected Hao Ren to ask this question, and she answered very simply, "At the beginning, the goddess side and the corrupted side of the divine clone should not have had such an overwhelming gap. However, the splitting of the main body led to the corrupted power gaining the upper hand. The power of the Creation Goddess is biased towards order. It has great power when it is a whole, while corruption and pollution are biased towards chaos. Diffusion and splitting are its domain. The splitting of the main body caused one of the two forces to be suppressed, while the other was like a fish in water—the final result is those fragments of negative emotions all over the world, and a Vivian who goes crazy from time to time."

She sighed at the end: "However, this kind of splitting is an inevitable result. After all, two incompatible forces are forcibly twisted together, and in my opinion, the Creation Goddess's technology is obviously not enough to deal with this kind of high-precision field. The 'divine clone' she created had huge defects from the beginning, and it was destined to develop into this."

Hao Ren interrupted Raven 12345 again: "I understand everything you've said so far. Just tell me what's going on now, and how I should bring Vivian back—where did she go?"

As he spoke, a suspicious look appeared on his face: "Speaking of which, you didn't hide her, did you? After all, you have a hobby of collecting fragments of negative emotions. Let me tell you, it's okay for you to say that Vivian is a fragment of negative emotions, anyway, the facts can't be changed, but we have to be reasonable. Even if Vivian is a fragment of negative emotions, she hasn't done much bad things. When she went crazy back then, she tried to find places where there were few people..."

"I haven't even said anything yet, and you're already talking so much?" Raven 12345 rolled her eyes at Hao Ren. "Am I that unreliable in your heart?"

Hao Ren: "...Do you know how hard I tried to restrain the urge to nod?"

"To be honest, I really have a simple and crude way to solve the problem once and for all," Raven 12345 didn't show any embarrassment, but said to herself, "That is to directly restart the space-time in this area, but in that case, Vivian will definitely not be able to come back—I, a goddess with a license, must not do this, so now there is an alternative plan."

Hao Ren asked curiously, "Alternative plan?"

"You go 'find' her back," Raven 12345 said, crossing her arms. "To tell you the truth, Vivian didn't go anywhere else—she's on Earth, around every one of you."

Izhaks vaguely reacted: "You mean..."

"She is those chaotic space-time fragments, she is the source of replacing the real world," Raven 12345 said, "Don't you want to know why the space-time chaos on Earth is happening? It's very simple, Vivian's fragments of negative emotions have been discovered one by one, and the resonance between them is getting stronger and stronger. Originally, this was nothing, and the seal I set could still hold it, but the fatal thing is that Vivian herself came into contact with the most special fragment of negative emotions—yes, it is the one you mentioned in the report, Hao Ren, the divine remnant of Aerythos.

"After the divine fragment of negative emotions came into contact with Vivian, it joined the sequence of resonance, and also allowed Vivian herself to cross that last critical point. So the complete resonance began, and this time, the entire fragment of negative emotions system had the divine power as a key 'weapon', and it had the opportunity to exploit loopholes. After ten thousand years of time changes, the original divine clone has actually been corrupted for the most part, and the divine power no longer has the ability to control itself. In this way, all conditions are met, so...Vivian 'woke up'.

"Her awakening means that the real world falls into a dream, which is the space-time chaos phenomenon you see."

"Then what exactly should I do?" Hao Ren frowned, "According to you, she has become that...space-time fragments all over the world. Where can I find her?"

"Don't worry, don't worry, this goddess has already prepared...Although it wasn't originally used for this, it can come in handy at this time, and can send you to the deepest part of the space-time distortion point. Before we set off, we need to prepare well...But I'll let you go see that door first, so you can be mentally prepared."