Chapter 1298 What's Missing

Although he knew that Raven 12345's judgments were generally accurate, Hao Ren couldn't help but retort when he heard the word "intuition": "Speaking of which, is your intuition reliable?"

Raven 12345 rolled her eyes. "Nonsense. A woman's intuition plus a god's intuition, you tell me?"

Hao Ren thought for a moment, thinking, why don't you add the intuition of a lunatic on top of that? But in the end, he managed to swallow the words and changed the subject: "In your opinion, what's missing from this network? What's it for?"

"Didn't I say, I can't explain it clearly either," Raven 12345 frowned. "But I'm sure that the current operating state of this network is abnormal, and it's not because you didn't stimulate it enough during the experiment, but because it's fundamentally incomplete. Look at the process of information proliferation and forwarding—all the data is actually meaningless exchange. They just follow the physical structure of the network itself, copying and forwarding between nodes, and then naturally disappearing after passing a certain number of nodes. Throughout the entire process, there's no effective data processing or storage."

Hao Ren was thoughtful. "That's why I can't decipher this network..."

"Yeah, that's the key," Raven 12345 nodded. "...If I had to say, I think the network is missing a 'program' or an 'operating system'. It lacks a command source that can coordinate the overall situation and issue orders to each node, or a set of automatically effective calculation rules. But I'm not sure if this command source is physically or virtually existent."

Hao Ren asked curiously, "What's the difference between the two situations?"

"If it physically exists, then it might be a special node, such as a planet or a giant computing center set up in space, functioning as a CPU. If it virtually exists, then it should be a special piece of code stored in the network. But right now, there's no trace of either, so it's hard to say whether they were destroyed or whether the Creator Goddess simply didn't have time to establish these things before she was stabbed."

Raven 12345 shook her head as she spoke. "But in any case, this network is full of doubts. The main way the Creator Goddess contacted the universe was through the Children of the First Born, the Changzi, that she created, forming the Changzi Mind Network. By monitoring the information sent back by each Changzi, she could understand most of the universe. In this case, she didn't need to build a new data network, and this new network was built without the other guardians knowing..."

Hao Ren's heart stirred. "Maybe she didn't trust the Changzi Mind Network at that time, or she had already noticed that someone was tampering with the Changzi Mind Network to interfere with the Divine Kingdom's external communication, so she wanted to secretly build a backup network? This also explains why all the nodes of this divine power oscillation network are located far away from the ecosphere, so that it's physically completely isolated from the Changzi Mind Network."

Raven 12345 pondered for a moment, but still shook her head. "It doesn't seem like it... According to the Creator Goddess's actions at the end of the Godslayer War, she obviously didn't realize that someone had damaged the Changzi Mind Link. Moreover, the structure of this divine power oscillation network is extremely complex, far exceeding the needs of simply transmitting data. Therefore, it shouldn't be a substitute for the Changzi Mind Network, but something with a completely new purpose..."

Hao Ren sighed. "It's a pity we don't have enough information. We have no way to analyze what this thing is for."

"As long as we keep paying attention, the truth will surface one day. Even if we take a step back, doing something is better than doing nothing."

Hao Ren looked at the goddess sister in surprise. "Wow—it's rare to hear you say something so philosophical and serious!"

Raven 12345 raised her hand and conjured a ball of lightning. "You have three seconds to reorganize your words. When have I not been serious?"

As a result, as soon as she conjured the ball of lightning, before Hao Ren could speak, clusters of bright electric light suddenly jumped out of thin air in the hall. Under the cover of the electric light, figures quickly emerged as if condensing out of the mist—the ten "volunteers," including Bai Huo and Lolisa, returned to the main material world from some kind of hyperdimensional state with confused expressions. They had just adapted to the brief dizziness caused by the state transition when they saw the goddess not far away holding a ball of lightning, ready to shoot at Hao Ren...

Raven 12345 quickly dispelled the ball of lightning in her hand and turned to look at the group of volunteers awkwardly. "Yo—you're all back?"

Bai Huo really wanted to ask what the goddess and the pope were doing when they had nothing to do, but in the end, he forcibly suppressed his curiosity back into his trachea. "You... uh, cough cough, we're back. Is the inspection complete?"

"It's done, it's done," Hao Ren saw that Raven 12345 had forgotten about what just happened, and quickly took the initiative to change the subject further away. "Speaking of which, how do you feel? What was it like after the state transition just now?"

He was really curious about what Raven 12345's "hyperdimensional senses" were all about.

"An unforgettable experience, very wonderful, but even more difficult to describe," Lolisa took the initiative to speak. As the volunteer with the most occult knowledge on the scene, and also with rich experience in being researched, she naturally had the most say. "I felt like I lost my form, and my soul floated directly in this building. I lost all my five senses, but I didn't feel any closure or fear. I felt like I could observe my soul from a higher perspective—although I lost the ability to examine the outside world, I could directly see myself from a third-party perspective. It's incredible."

"Anything else?" Raven 12345 looked at the other volunteers and asked.

"I also 'heard' some sounds," Hasu said. "Of course, I didn't really 'hear' sounds, because as Lolisa said, we don't have five senses in that state. I just felt like some things appeared out of thin air and were injected into my consciousness, like some memories that appeared out of nowhere, or knowledge that I inexplicably mastered... I can't explain what it is. I can't understand it, and I'm not even sure if I really came into contact with it, but..."

As Hasu spoke, he raised his right hand, and a ball of pure white light appeared in his hand out of thin air without chanting.

It had the color of holy flame, but it was obviously not holy flame. It was a ball of holy light, purer than the purest holy light, and even with a trace of divinity. When it floated in the air, Hao Ren could even sense his own divine power communicating with the ball of light.

This was enough to prove that the ball of light was an extremely pure divine spell.

Although Hao Ren had already guessed the reason, he still asked casually, "What's going on?"

"Like I said before, demon hunters are fabricated divine nodes. When they are immersed in the Creator Goddess's power, not only will they not be bounced out, but they will be accepted," Raven 12345 said lightly. "Therefore, they will be infused with extra energy in this process. It's just that the divine power that mortals can carry is limited, even if they have artificial divine characteristic codes, so they won't get too much power out of thin air."

Bai Huo and the others couldn't understand things like "fabricated divine nodes," "energy infusion," and "divine power." After all, they didn't know the truth about the events of ten thousand years ago, but this didn't prevent them from understanding that they had gained an extra power out of thin air, so they all showed surprised expressions, while Hao Ren looked curiously at the holy light summoned by Hasu: "No matter what, this is also divine power... How strong can these powers be?"

Raven 12345 thought for a moment. "Can be used for lighting."

Hao Ren: "...Huh?"

The goddess sister nodded vigorously. "And it's especially bright."

Hao Ren and the volunteers: "..."

"I'm serious," Raven 12345 spread her hands. "We're doing an experiment, safety first. The energy in this hall has all been specially filtered by me, otherwise, if a few of them accidentally blew up the earth after being infused with power here, who would believe me if I explained to the higher-ups that this was just an experimental accident?"

Hao Ren felt that the goddess sister made a lot of sense, but this didn't prevent a group of volunteers from having faces full of "what the hell," and Raven 12345 also noticed this and continued to enlighten them: "Don't be disappointed. At least the experience of hyperdimensional senses is still very beneficial to you. You can use it when you study soul domain magic in the future, and don't think that you only have the ability to light up—this ability is also god-level. I'm telling you, the first section of our creation textbook talks about having light. You guys stayed here for two hours without doing anything and learned what we taught in three class hours. You're making a profit..."

It was impossible to communicate with a goddess with a hole in her brain, and the volunteers quickly realized this—from this point, it could be seen that they were much more sensible than Hao Ren, because it took Hao Ren a full two months to realize this fact—after this "physical examination" was over, it was time for everyone to go home.

Hao Ren had picked them up, so naturally he was responsible for seeing them off at this time.

Bai Huo and several demon hunters were going back to Corpus. The demon hunters in the tour group who had not been selected to participate in the "divine experiment" had already returned to the Arctic ahead of them. At this time, they were probably already bragging to their compatriots in Corpus, so Bai Huo and his party seemed quite eager. After exchanging a few words, they walked into the portal specially opened by Raven 12345 and returned to the demon hunter's base camp.

Lolisa and the other "ancient races" had different arrangements.

Several ancient race volunteers who came in response to Ofra's call could not stay in this world for long. Although they were indeed curious about the "other world," these people seemed to be important figures with a lot of affairs in Holletta, so they had to return as soon as possible. Hao Ren gave them a batch of Earth souvenirs and sent them back to the Dream Plane.

Lolisa didn't need to go back so early. As a "awakened one" who didn't belong to this era, she had no ties in Holletta today. In addition, Hao Ren had promised her that she could play in another world for a few days when he invited her to participate in the project, so after sending everyone else away, she followed Hao Ren home.

At this point, the lively "Sunset Red Homecoming Tour" and its various ancillary projects finally came to a successful conclusion.