Chapter 1 The Family's a Mess

Of course, the young vampire couldn't understand what Hesperiana meant by "My house is a mess," because even the little bat spirit herself didn't know how to explain to people the problem of "My mom and my stepfather just killed my aunt, but this aunt of mine is very likely to be my sister, and the relationship between my mom and me may actually be sisters from a genetic point of view, so it’s like my sister and my stepfather or my brother-in-law just killed my aunt or my sister." This chaotic relationship made the little bat spirit's head a mess. In fact, this problem didn't just pop up now. Whether Vivian's split individuals are peers or juniors is simply a proposition that can rise to the ethical level. Hesperiana has been struggling with this matter all day long since she was sensible. Later, she finally stopped struggling, but humans developed cloning technology, so this problem hit her again, making her wish she could strangle those humans who study biological replication one by one every time she thought about it. At this moment, recalling the battle in the ancient city of Eutoth, Hesperiana suddenly felt that her head was as big as if it was filled with water...

However, this entanglement was just the result of Hesperiana's own worrying. Others didn't care about the seniority of Vivian's split bodies at all, and even Vivian herself hadn't thought about this: the poor eldest vampire was hungry and cold all day long, so she didn't have the energy to consider this...

Therefore, her consistent evaluation of Hesperiana's entanglement was that she was full and had nothing to do—literally full.

After Hao Ren and his party returned to the main material world, the collapse of the Lost Space continued for about four hours. During this period, the entire mining site could feel continuous vibrations, and in the last hour, this vibration reached its peak, even causing small-scale cracks and collapses in another stone wall.

After that, the cave leading to the alien space completely disappeared.

The lost city of Eutoth disappeared completely in the torrent of history. This city, which was once at its peak on Earth, eventually passed away with the yellow sand. Even the mythical era did not leave a word about it in the records. Only Hao Ren and his party became its last witnesses, retaining the memory of this city.

After saying goodbye to Hesperiana, the group returned to their home in the southern suburbs. What they brought back was not only a blood crystal stone, but also tons of questions about the bizarre phenomenon of "evil thought bodies."

After listening to Lily's embellished account of the adventure, Nangong Sanba and Nangong Wuyue showed a strong surprise at the magical lost ancient city of Eutoth. For the siblings who had never experienced the mythical era, what Hao Ren and his party saw and heard in the alien space was like a strange story that walked from myths and legends into reality. And more eye-catching than this strange story was the fact that Vivian's "evil thought body" was actually one of the protagonists of this "mythological story." Nangong Wuyue shook his head incredulously: "I always thought that evil thought bodies were completely incapable of thinking and unable to communicate. I didn't expect that there was once an evil thought body that could communicate with people... Although she went crazy in the end."

"Our understanding of evil thought bodies comes entirely from limited contact a few times, but in fact, just the evil thought body specimens collected by Raven 12345 have exceeded twenty. No one can say what characteristics they will have," Hao Ren shook his head, "And we have already found some clues on the Purgatory Star. Think about that demon god Vivian. She once existed as the 'guardian deity' of the local people, so we can guess that evil thought bodies may indeed maintain a period of sanity in the early stages of division... But it seems that this sanity is destined to be only temporary."

As he was talking, the little weakling didn't know when he crawled out of the mouse hole. The little one wobbled along the table leg to the tabletop, raised his head and looked around, and finally raised his hand to Gun: "Sihaha—"

Gun blinked, reached out and pressed the little weakling on the table, and started slapping it playfully.

Vivian glanced at the little weakling being slapped around by the cat, thoughtfully: "Maybe some evil thought bodies' madness is also temporary..."

Nangong Wuyue didn't hear clearly for a while: "What did you say?"

"No, it's nothing," Vivian shook her head, then looked at Hao Ren, "I think compared to the 'sanity' of evil thought bodies, the divinity possessed by the evil thought body in Eutoth is even more concerning."

Hao Ren reached out to stop Gun's small "violence," grabbed the little weakling and tidied up the other's messy hair, while nodding: "Yes, divinity... The most special attribute observed so far."

"How can evil thought bodies have divinity?!" Nangong Sanba's eyes widened, "Are you sure you're not mistaken?"

"I'm a licensed professional charlatan, what do you think?" Hao Ren glanced at Nangong Sanba, "I'm 100% sure that's divinity, and it's not second-level divinity like artifacts or divine creations, it's definitely high-grade stuff—a direct derivative of the Creation Goddess, even higher than me, the Pope appointed by a true god, in terms of composition."

Nangong Wuyue felt incredible: "So powerful and you can still kill it?"

"Divinity can't 100% determine power, just as a diploma can't 100% prove ability. Fighting depends on wisdom and technique," Hao Ren waved his hand, "Of course, the main thing is that I'm awesome."

Everyone: "..."

"Hey, Bat," Lily poked Vivian's arm at this time, "Actually, I have a guess."

Vivian looked up and down at this husky spirit who often had wild ideas, raising her eyebrows: "What ideas can you have?"

Lily counted on her fingers: "Look, the Goddess said that one thing was wrong, that is, you are a creation of the Creation Goddess, but you don't have any divinity on you, which is very suspicious, right? Then every evil thought body has different attributes, right? Then every time you split an evil thought body, there will be a certain power reduction, right? Then you absorbed the remains of an evil thought body, and as a result, you mastered an extra skill, right..."

Vivian frowned: "Stop with the 'rights,' what are you trying to say?"

Lily pinched her chin and pretended to be profound: "I think all the evil thought bodies and you together are a 'whole.' Every evil thought body you 'split' out of is actually like cutting off a part from this 'whole.' Every part will take away a characteristic of the whole, and divinity is just one of the attributes of this whole. The relationship between you and the evil thought bodies is not the relationship between a mother and a split body, but should be equal—it's just that you are more rational and occupy a larger 'overall proportion.' Therefore, neither those evil thought bodies nor you yourself are considered the complete 'creature' created by the Creation Goddess. You must add them together to count."

At the end, the husky girl clapped her hands: "So you don't have divinity—every other evil thought body doesn't have divinity, because divinity is just one of the characteristics, and it was assigned to the 'ruler' of Eutoth."

Izhaks scratched his bald head: "I understand what this means. It can indeed explain why Vivian doesn't have divinity, but why do you have to emphasize that Vivian and all the evil thought bodies are just 'fragments'? According to you, all the evil thought bodies are still split from Vivian, so why can't Vivian be regarded as the 'mother'?"

Lily conveniently took out a biscuit from her pocket (her pockets are always filled with various snacks): "Because from the first split, this whole is no longer complete. That complete individual disappeared from a strict definition. It became two large and small pieces. Bat is just the larger piece—small pieces are constantly separating from her, but she still can't be regarded as the original mother, just like this biscuit, I divide it evenly into ten parts..."

As she spoke, she broke off a small piece from the biscuit.

"When the first piece is broken off, it becomes two pieces of broken biscuit."

Lily broke the biscuit piece by piece, eventually turning it into ten pieces of roughly the same size.

"You see, is there any difference between them now?"

Elizabeth's eyes lit up: "Yes, yes, yes! Some have cream and some don't!"

Lily: "..."

Hao Ren silently glanced at Lily: "Speaking of which, did you just study philosophy for the four times you graduated from Peking University?"

"This has nothing to do with philosophy! This is a simple set problem!" Lily slapped the table, "We used to always equate Bat with the 'creature' created by the Creation Goddess, and always felt that all clues should be on her, so we have been ignoring the problem that she is 'incomplete.' If this idea is not reversed, we will have to stay in a dead end!"

Hao Ren waved his hand: "You can say what you want, but can you stop slapping the table? Look at all the biscuit crumbs you've made on this table..."

Lily heard this and lowered her head and licked the biscuit crumbs clean in three or five strokes: "Is it clean now?"

After hearing Lily's words, Vivian didn't respond. She just fell into silence, her eyes flickering, as if she had thought of something.

Hao Ren asked, seeing this: "What's wrong?"

He asked twice in a row before Vivian seemed to suddenly wake up: "Ah... ah? Oh, it's nothing, nothing, I suddenly remembered something..."

Hao Ren looked at Vivian for a while before shaking his head: "I can discuss the divinity issue with Raven later. What I'm concerned about now is another small detail—Vivian, do you remember the first time you saw your evil thought body with your own eyes?"

"I remember, I remember!" Lily raised her paw first, "Didn't we get a magic book back then? Then we tried to use that thing to summon evil spirits, and what we summoned was Vivian's evil thought body..."

Hao Ren nodded: "That's right, that was the first evil thought body we came into contact with, and it was also the first time Vivian saw her evil thought body with her own eyes. There was a detail at that time, that is, Vivian didn't see the appearance of that evil thought body clearly—the evil thought body she saw was shrouded in a thin veil of mist. She was especially surprised when she heard from us that it was an evil spirit exactly like her."

Lily nodded, "Yes, that's right."

"But since then, Vivian has always been able to see the appearance of the latter when she sees an evil thought body again," Izhaks also woke up at this time, "Whether it's the demon god evil spirit on the Purgatory Star or the weakling in our house, Vivian can see them clearly."

Hao Ren took over: "And in Eutoth, a third situation appeared: the evil thought body that all of us saw was a blurry figure, and only Vivian could clearly see the true form of that monster."

Finally, he looked at everyone present: "I think there's a problem here."