Chapter 1 Beginning

Gene Lukas felt that the beginning of this "magical journey" consisted of a series of dazzling transmissions, flights, spectacles, and information bombardments, and none of the images he had envisioned for this journey came close to matching it. He had been skeptical of Hao Ren's description of "incredible, beyond imagination, bizarre experiences," feeling that with his centuries of experience, he wouldn't be fazed by a mere journey, but now he didn't think so. He realized that if you were trapped on a small rock ball with a radius of only a few thousand kilometers for centuries, then no matter how much experience you accumulated, it would become meaningless the moment you left that rock ball.

He even closed his eyes nervously when the spaceship entered the vortex portal in the center of the nebula.

Riding a spaceship traveling at sub-light speed through a nebula storm with a radius measured in astronomical units was an indescribable sight. Hao Ren had the Petrified Turtle Rock Platform raise its shields and filtration covers, and then kept the external monitors running, projecting all the external images into the ship without reservation. This "exciting little show" almost made the passengers in the lounge, who prided themselves on their experience and qualifications, dizzy to the point of vomiting. But Hao Ren's purpose was not simply to strike down these aliens whose average age was ten times older than his great-grandfather, or to show off his spaceship, but to let them deeply feel what it meant to "traverse a world" in this way.

Before he could explain to them in detail the principles of the world barrier, the wall of reality, and cosmic travel, he could only use this method to reinforce their impressions, at least to make them remember the fact that they were entering another world: at the moment of traversing the wall of reality, the light and shadow scenes they saw, which exceeded the processing limit of ordinary human brains, would leave some marks in their souls, and these marks would have this effect.

The cosmic gate was operating well. It seemed that Du Ya 12345's "eight hearts and eight arrows" (an unreliable Chinese idiom for perfect) looked unreliable, but it was quite effective after being deployed and put into operation. The Petrified Turtle Rock Platform underwent a stable reorganization in the information flow of world switching. When it reappeared in the prime material world, it was no longer the crazily rotating material storm of the Rifts Nebula, but a fortress area full of space fortresses, monitoring stations, and turrets. A discrete celestial body formed by a fragmented group of space lands floated next to the fortress area, illuminated by an orange-red star.

The space monitoring sentry posts emitted white beams of light, and the surfaces of the neatly arranged sensor arrays flowed with brilliance, scanning and identifying the materials passing through the cosmic gate. The data was uploaded to three giant computing centers located in space and a distributed security database located on several continents of "Kolo," and then fed back to the monitoring front end after almost no delay. As a result, the fortress cannons and interception arrays arranged near the gate dissipated their light and retreated to both sides, and a welcome message was broadcast:

"Authority authentication passed – welcome to the Kolo Monitoring Station, Inspector."

The Petrified Turtle Rock Platform slowly disengaged from the gravitational constraints near the cosmic gate, while on the bridge, Hao Ren, who had just announced the successful world switch to the "passengers," was looking at the information uploaded from some of the cosmic gate's sensors.

"The fluctuation value far exceeds the impact that should theoretically be generated when transmitting the same materials and personnel. Obviously, the causal entanglement borne by those one hundred passengers is the main reason for these overflow data," Hao Ren pointed to a red curve on the chart. "But the fluctuation limit is still within the safe range, so it seems that everything is within the plan."

From the moment one hundred selected individuals passed through the cosmic gate, a huge monitoring system was activated. This was not only a homecoming visit, but also a precise test. Countless sensors were constantly organizing all the stress changes in the Dream Plane and the Wall of Reality into data and transmitting it to Hao Ren. The summary produced by the cosmic gate was only the first batch of these data. A few seconds ago, the cosmic gate's sensors recorded an ultra-strong information surge: the scale of this information surge was as if hundreds of millions of tons of matter had instantly passed through the Wall of Reality, or as if tens of thousands of personnel were circulating. Although the duration was quite short, it still had a considerable impact on this "wall." If there hadn't been a cosmic gate to share the impact and smooth the oscillations, it would have probably triggered a cosmic disaster no less than the Rifts Nebula explosion back then.

And such a huge information shock was in fact just one hundred "remnants" from the Dream Plane or with ancestors from the Dream Plane riding a spaceship through the gate.

While rejoicing that everything was proceeding according to plan, Hao Ren also sighed: to fundamentally solve the problem, there was indeed a long way to go.

"This is the Dream Plane..." Bai Huo stared blankly at the scene transmitted from the external monitor. Although the neatly arranged group of space buildings and the uniquely styled "Kolo" continent were eye-catching, in her opinion, this universe seemed no different from another universe. "It's not quite what I imagined... space is still space, and stars are still stars."

And in the place where the aliens were huddled together, Hesperiana was lamenting something else. She looked at those incredible magnificent buildings, recalled everything she had seen along the way, and finally couldn't help but pout with a little jealousy: "Grumble... is that guy using these fancy things to trick Vivian into running around with him all day long?"

"Travelers," Hao Ren's voice suddenly appeared in the lounge, interrupting the selected ones' speculations and low-pitched conversations. At the same time, the images of the people on the bridge also appeared on the holographic projection in the center of the lounge. "We have arrived at the Dream Plane. What you are seeing is the universe and starry sky of the Dream Plane – there is no doubt that this is a completely new universe. Every nebula you see here cannot be found in the mortal world. I think this is definitely different from what some of you initially imagined your 'hometown' to be, but in fact, you are far from seeing what I want to show you. In the Dream Plane, life also proliferates on planets – at least most mortal races do. These planets are distributed throughout this universe, and ninety-nine percent of them have been destroyed by the Cataclysm. I have a brief description of that disaster in the data set, but you probably can't imagine its true situation based on the description alone..."

"In the past few years, I have been exploring this universe, looking for traces and survivors after the Cataclysm. I have been fortunate enough to find the wreckage of some of these planets, and even the remnants of civilizations. The hometown of some of you is among them."

"Travelers, you come from the same universe, which is this Dream Plane, but in fact, you do not come from the same planet. I think some of you should have already thought of this, because anyone with a slight understanding of the universe and starry sky can guess this. Therefore, we will make some special arrangements for this homecoming trip –"

"Our first stop is an ecological planet called Holleta. To make the atmosphere of this trip more relaxed, we chose this vibrant place as the first stop on the itinerary. That planet is the hometown of werewolves and vampires, and there is evidence that thunder giants and mountain giants also come from there. The descendants of Olympus might be interested in this..."

"After the trip to Holleta is over, the entire team will be divided into several parts. We will arrange different guides to lead you to different planets, including your hometown, as well as ruins that have completely lost their names and even the form of life they once nurtured cannot be verified. I hope that what you see and hear there will give you an explanation to your own people after you return."

"In the second half of the trip, we will go to a planet called Aioi, which is the hometown of the sirens, a world that was innocently destroyed and is also a world that is being reborn. I believe that everyone will be tired after the first half of the trip, so I hope that everyone can relax in the sea breeze of Aioi and prepare for returning to their hometown. Queen Katrina and Miss Shakira, I know you are excited to return to your hometown, and I also know that sirens are naturally lively, but please don't roll into a big ball and roll around in the lounge to celebrate – you are causing trouble for others, especially the halfling lady who is rolled up in your tail ball. Didn't you realize that someone was rolled in when you suddenly got excited?"

Everyone in the lounge was either solemn or cautious. Only a few siren passengers showed the mentality that they should have when traveling. From just now, the siren queen Katrina and her female officials had not been quiet. At this time, they were finally restrained after being named and criticized by Hao Ren. A few long, slender beautiful girls awkwardly retracted their tails and went back to the corner to curl up and pretend to rest, as if nothing had happened…

These hopeless sirens! Everyone, including the demon hunters, sighed in this way.

The Petrified Turtle Rock Platform drew a flash of light in the universe and instantly disappeared into the space near Kolo.

When it condensed into shape again, it was already in the sky above Holleta.

Various sensing stations in Holleta's synchronous orbit emitted bursts of light, and then the spaceship began to descend rapidly towards the atmosphere. Looking at the blue-green earth that was constantly expanding in the porthole, Gene Lukas couldn't help but mutter to himself: "We came from that place..."

And on the surface of the Holleta Kingdom, on a small highland near the royal city, Marshal Ofra was looking up at the clear sky.

The agreed time had arrived.

"Will they really come?" a high-ranking knight asked uncertainly, obviously a little uneasy about the silence at this moment.

"Of course they will come. They just sent me a message," Becky said with a confident look on her face next to the high-ranking knight.

And as if to prove Becky's words, at the moment the mercenary's words fell, a blaze of light appeared in the sky, and the figure of the Petrified Turtle Rock Platform quickly grew larger under the engulfment of the blaze.

"They're here! They're here!" several knights and attendants shouted. "The alien's fire chariot!"

On the bridge of the Petrified Turtle Rock Platform, Hao Ren silently watched the scene on the ground getting closer and closer, then turned his gaze to another set of holographic projections next to him, on which the information that had just popped up was displayed:

Time: Day 1, 12:05 noon, the "sample group" approaches Holleta, the bloodlines of vampires, werewolves, and thunder giants are in contact with the planet's ecosystem again.

Deep Space-kd-655Qn89-z15 area, the first divine power oscillation is detected, oscillation level: d.