Chapter 1 Holleta

The vibrant planet of Holleta was only the first stop on the entire journey—albeit the most important one, but it only accounted for a third of the entire itinerary.

When the three-day trip to Holleta ended, the still-unsatisfied Earth outcasts returned to the spacecraft, the Great Tortoise Rock Terrace, to visit various ecological planet relics in the universe. These ecological planets were all discovered by Hao Ren in the past three years. In fact, there were countless planets available for tourism. Recently, the drone swarm had been discovering new ecological planet relics almost every day. Hao Ren only selected the most suitable ones as "tour spots."

In the past three years, Hao Ren and his drone swarm had found hundreds of ecological planets (or what used to be ecological planets) in the Dream Plane. These planets were divided into several major categories according to different classification methods. First, they were divided into two categories based on whether they were native ecological planets or goddess-created planets. Then, according to their recovery level, Hao Ren divided them into recovering planets, declining planets, and completely dead planets. The number of recovering planets was the smallest, including Holleta and Tanagus, which had already re-established ecosystems. In particular, Holleta, which Hao Ren believed had completely escaped the influence of the doomsday disaster and had now entered a state of complete recovery. The number of declining planets was also small. They were located in the depths of the universe. Their surfaces had experienced the baptism of the eldest son disaster, and almost all life had been wiped out, leaving only basic microbial communities or even the most basic organic environment. Their ecological environment index was at the lowest point, and there was almost no hope of entering a state of recovery in the short term. The largest number was completely dead planets. These planets no longer had the possibility of life recovery, and even a trace of organic matter was difficult to find. Only the remains of the eldest son, which had mutated into rock formations, could be found on the planet. No one knew how many years it would take for those planets to produce new native life due to some coincidences.

Those planets that had experienced the impact of the doomsday disaster and had only desolate surfaces left would undoubtedly bring tremendous shock to the Earth outcasts.

The Great Tortoise Rock Terrace first arrived at the Crystal Nucleus Research Station above Tanagus, where several simple space shuttles were ready: these space shuttles were spacecraft assembled by the drone swarm. They could be regarded as high-tech products compared to the interstellar spacecraft built by ordinary civilizations, but they were almost sampans compared to the Great Tortoise Rock Terrace, but they were more than enough to deal with the current task. The Earth outcasts rested briefly at the Crystal Nucleus Research Station, and then were divided into several groups and boarded different space shuttles to their destinations—to prevent danger, each space shuttle was accompanied by a drone swarm for protection, and their routes passed through many drone fortresses. The tour spots were also carefully selected, and all of them were "high-security star zones" where the drone swarm had built a large number of fire fortresses, enough to cope with the surprise attacks of the crazy eldest son and the guardian fleet.

In the following journey, Hao Ren would no longer personally lead these teams. Instead, the guides were the "diplomats" he borrowed from the Irim elves. These elves had been studied in advance and knew a lot about the Dream Plane, and could undertake the explanation work along the way.

Thus, each such "detachment" had two to three Irim elf guides as leaders, and hundreds of armed drones as escort fleets. They would pass through four to five specially selected planetary relics, and they would personally experience the scars caused by the doomsday disaster that happened ten thousand years ago to this universe to the greatest extent possible—and they themselves were one of the consequences of that disaster.

One space shuttle after another left the Crystal Nucleus Research Station and disappeared into the dark and vast space outside the space station, while Hao Ren and his party remained in the central command hall of the space station. A complex and huge holographic projection emerged from the crystal spire in the center of the hall, displaying a "cosmic star chart" that had never appeared before. Part of this star chart could be seen as the appearance of some galaxies in the Dream Plane, but more of it was filled with incomprehensible color bands, ripples, symbols, and lines. They were layered together to form a strange picture that looked like a star chart and an abstract painting.

"More than thirty-three d-level divine power oscillations, and as many as six hundred and twenty-five d-level and below divine power oscillations that have recording value. All the divine power oscillations have no obvious concentrated regularity and are almost randomly distributed," the Crystal Nucleus Research Station’s mainframe spoke, its ethereal voice echoing from all directions of the crystal hall. "The generation and decay of these fluctuations are clearly related to those 'remnants' from Earth. When the latter came into contact with the Holleta ecosystem, the first wave of oscillation peaks arrived. When they entered warped space with the Great Tortoise Rock Terrace, the oscillations clearly weakened. Now they are approaching the Tanagus ecosystem and leaving, and this process has been repeated again."

"So the Creation Goddess really left something in the universe… This should be the backup plan she prepared ten thousand years ago for those 'exiled teams' who escaped the Dream Plane with Yggdrasil. When the descendants of those exiled teams return to this universe, this 'backup plan' will react," Hao Ren nodded slightly, stroking his chin. "But we only brought a hundred people, and strictly limited the range of activities of these people in the Dream Plane, so this 'divine power network' is only in a semi-activated state. This should not destroy the original arrangement of the Creation Goddess, nor will it stimulate the prison system in the depths of the universe that imprisons the Lord of Madness."

"Yes, according to the feedback from the sentry drones, the oscillations of the divine power network are limited to the area outside the 'Dark Abyss Cage' and have not affected the seal of the Lord of Madness," the space station mainframe replied. "But our observation has also been greatly affected as a result: the stimulation of a hundred people to this divine power network is too slight, and the feedback it produces is therefore blurred and weak. D-level divine power oscillation is almost the strongest signal we can detect. These data samples can hardly analyze any valuable information."

"Then make up for it with quantity," Hao Ren had expected this, so he just nodded slowly. "Next, those one hundred people will be divided into several teams and go to various 'monitoring points' for contact stimulation. At that time, the divine power oscillation readings that the drone swarm can collect may increase geometrically. Finding the law from the vast sea of data should be the strength of you AIs."

"But the strength of the AI at this station is studying new recipes for noodles…"

"Damn… forgot about this…" Hao Ren slapped his forehead. "You were created by Raven 12345, that noodle maniac… Cough cough, but your computing power is definitely enough to study other things besides noodles."

Space station mainframe: "...Without a doubt."

Hao Ren felt that the Crystal Nucleus Research Station hesitated just now! This thing definitely hesitated!

After a while, Hao Ren called the guardian giants who were on duty at the space station over. Muru, Sif, and Lemendusa were all present.

In the past few months, Lemendusa had been supervising the construction and assembly project of the Creation Engine at the Gate of Surun. Under his supervision, several stellar forges had entered normal operation, and the first batch of key parts of the Creation Engine had been successfully produced from the stellar core a few days ago and sent to the assembly station. It was also because of this that this dedicated guardian giant had a few days of rest, and had the opportunity to return to the Crystal Nucleus Research Station to visit Muru and Sif. It just so happened that Hao Ren started this "remnant returning home" operation, and he was called to study the unfamiliar "divine power oscillation landscape" together.

"The first set of panoramic images has been drawn," Hao Ren pointed to the holographic projection in mid-air that looked like a star chart and a mysterious graffiti for the three guardian giants. "But due to insufficient external stimulation, all the readings of these divine power oscillations are blurred. I wonder what you think of these things? In the era of the Creation Goddess, did you see her building similar things?"

Muru observed the constantly changing image, frowning slightly: "It looks like a network. You said that these divine power oscillations appeared after those exiles from Earth returned to the Dream Plane?"

"Strictly speaking, these divine power oscillations only appeared after they came into contact with the Holleta ecosystem, and if they are far away from those ecosystems or shielded from the ecosystems, these divine power oscillations will immediately weaken." Hao Ren explained in detail.

The original purpose of his organizing this 'Dream Plane Remnant Returning Home' operation was to conduct a test to see what changes would be triggered if the survivors who escaped that year returned to the Dream Plane—since the Creation Goddess had gone to great lengths to send these people out that year, and also arranged a series of ultimate pardons, guides, hyperspace arks, and other measures, it was definitely not just to let these people survive in Earth. She must have arranged a lot of follow-up things, and with the Creation Goddess asleep and Vivian, the "guide," suffering from amnesia, he could only choose to use this method to detect the backup plan left by the Creation Goddess. But even he himself did not expect that this test would get feedback all at once, and on such a large scale: a network of divine power oscillation was actually hidden in the entire universe of the Dream Plane!

Lemendusa pondered, and suddenly asked a question: "Will there be a reaction when they come into contact with the ecosystem… Can any ecosystem do? Or is it limited to those ecosystems created by our mother?"

"The next project is to test this," Hao Ren pointed to a smaller set of holographic projections next to him. The projections showed several teams flying to various parts of the universe. "I arranged for them to 'visit' different planets. Some of these planets are seeding planets of the Creation Goddess, some are native ecological planets, which are further divided into planets that have completely died and planets that still retain basic life. I just want to see what the operating mechanism of this divine power oscillation network is based on."

"Then let's observe together," Lemendusa nodded and said in a low voice, "I always feel… this network looks a bit familiar, but I can't remember where I've seen it. Maybe after it's more 'lit up,' I can remember something."

Hao Ren took a breath: "Then let's wait and see."