Chapter 157 Holy Revelation and Star Map

Despite preparing every possible measure and having the “secrets” provided by Raven 12345, Hao Ren still passed out after reading the “Bible.” This time, however, the coma was shorter, and he woke up just in time for dinner.

He woke up to see Vivian watching over him. She looked like she had been there for a long time. Doudou was lying on his chest, fast asleep. The little fish had curled up into a cute little ball, her tail occasionally tapping his chest unconsciously, as if she was dreaming.

"You're awake?" Vivian immediately smiled gently when she saw Hao Ren open his eyes. "If I hadn't already experienced it once, I would have been frightened again. May has checked your body, and your mental energy is a little depleted, but it's much better than last time. Is there anything else that doesn't feel right?"

"...I think I might have believed in a fake god, got a fake artifact, and saw a fake oracle..." Hao Ren rubbed his head. "Damn it, only half of the reason I passed out this time was because of mental exhaustion. The other half was most likely from anger..."

Vivian looked at Hao Ren curiously. "What exactly did you see in that divine scripture?"

It was a wonder that this girl still reverently called that damned black book a “divine scripture.”

"Nothing," Hao Ren thought for a moment and decided to tell her what he had seen. Anyway, he, the Pope, dared to curse at God, so why should he worry about his little friend losing faith? Besides, Vivian didn't believe in any gods anyway. "It says that if the Goddess of Creation is completely corrupted by the Lord of the Mad, and we happen to run into her, we should take out that Bible and knock her on the head until she wakes up..."

Vivian: "...Why don't you sleep a little more?"

Hao Ren: "...I'm awake."

"Okay, it seems you're not joking," Vivian said with a wry smile. "After all that effort, all we got was that sentence. It was a complete loss to send you this time."

"It can't be said that way. Besides this ridiculously坑爹'divine revelation', there were some real gains," Hao Ren shook his head and looked at the black leather book lying quietly on the bedside table. He had fainted in the living room, but now it seemed that Vivian had carried him to the bedroom and brought the book with her. "I passed the test of this artifact, and now... I should be able to use some of its power."

As soon as he finished speaking, the black leather book seemed to be summoned and made a slight ringing sound. The black iron chain on the spine, which looked like it was possessed by an evil spirit, also rattled, filled with a blazing fighting spirit.

Hao Ren: "..."

If this thing was a Bible and was summoned, the normal reaction wouldn't be to open a scripture, but at least emit a little holy light! What was with the rattling chain! So the setting of this thing was just a meteor hammer?

Feeling the faint connection between the Bible and his spiritual world, Hao Ren decisively put it back into his personal space, while covering half of his face with his hand. "I've decided not to touch this thing again unless absolutely necessary. Communicating with this book is more mind-destroying than arguing with Raven 12345."

As he moved and spoke, Doudou, who was sleeping on his chest, finally woke up. The little mermaid was happy to see that Hao Ren was okay and let out a cheerful cry. She jumped over with all her might, and the whole fish slammed into Hao Ren's face with a thud. "Daddy's awake! Is Daddy okay?"

A fish flopping on one's face would definitely make anyone flustered, even Hao Ren was no exception. He struggled for a long time before finally grabbing Doudou's slippery tail and holding the little guy upside down. "How many times have I told you not to jump on people's faces? Do you know how many people are traumatized by facehuggers..."

The little guy twisted in the air. "But Doudou is a fish!"

"...Facehugger fish are the same," Hao Ren sat up and handed the little guy to Vivian beside him. "This kid is growing too fast. How can a three-year-old have such clear logic and careful thinking?"

"You're wrong. I went to Purgatory Star to save the world two hours after I was born. Child prodigies don't ask about age..."

Hao Ren: "..."

He felt that Vivian was getting more and more cheerful after she got rid of those psychological burdens. Was it an illusion?

When Hao Ren returned to the living room, he saw Gun lying on the sofa, gnawing on a ball of yarn. Lily was squatting in front of the TV, switching channels with a click. The others were nowhere to be seen. They probably went to the Nangong couple's restaurant for a free meal. Looking at the current time, Vivian must have been taking care of him and didn't have time to cook. The hungry people in the house would naturally go out to forage for food if there was no food to eat. Only Lily and Gun, these two were not only gluttonous but also pretentious, and were probably waiting here for Vivian to cook.

Sure enough, as soon as Vivian appeared, Lily jumped over and exclaimed exaggeratedly, "Bat, Bat! Hurry up and cook! I'm starving to death!"

"You're starving to death, but your voice is still so loud," Vivian glared at the husky girl and muttered as she walked to the kitchen. "Why don't you find something to eat yourself? You're being spoiled by ribs every day."

Lily made a face at Vivian's back. "Rua——"

Then she turned to smile foolishly at Hao Ren. "I knew you'd be okay. Your body is as strong as mine. By the way, did you see the revelation?"

Hao Ren's mouth twitched, and he really didn't want to recall what he had seen...

After dinner, Hao Ren took out the data terminal and continued to study the messy historical data, while preparing to learn about the information sent by the monitoring stations set up in the Dream Plane.

While browsing the observation records that were marked as important, he casually asked, "By the way, you saw the star map projected by the red moon before, right?"

"Of course, this unit has archived the star map—but you also know that the star map is missing too many things. Even with this unit's performance, it is impossible to complete it out of thin air, so don't even think about using that incomplete star map to forcibly open the map in the Dream Plane—I don't know how many interstellas who drive around without looking at the star map crash every year..."

"I know, I'm not stupid," Hao Ren waved his hand. "I just want you to compare that star map with the various star maps we have collected so far. Maybe we can find a little bit of overlap, so we can at least determine which galaxy the star map in Vivian's memory roughly points to."

The data terminal swayed its body up and down. "Oh, that's no problem. But to be honest, this unit doesn't think this makes any sense. A star map is different from an ordinary map. It doesn't only describe three-dimensional space, but also the trajectory of this three-dimensional space on the time scale. Without knowing the transformation guidance data, it is almost impossible for two star maps to overlap... Beep beep beep beep beep?!"

Hao Ren was startled by the strange noise suddenly emitted by the data terminal. "What's wrong with you! Why did you suddenly become the dubbing of an 80s sci-fi movie!"

"...This unit found an overlap..."

Hao Ren blinked, and after two seconds, he realized what the data terminal meant. "What the hell?"

"You were the one who asked this unit to find it. Why are you more surprised than this unit when you find it?"

"You found it too fast! You just threw out a bunch of theories saying that it was impossible to find overlapping star maps, and before you finished speaking, you found one!" Hao Ren looked at the data terminal as if he had seen a ghost. "Could it be that you found it a long time ago and deliberately waited until now to scare me?"

The data terminal shook its body disdainfully and changed the picture on the holographic projection. "Look for yourself—I'm not full enough to joke with you."

Two star maps immediately appeared in front of Hao Ren.

With the help of Navigation Level 5, Starship Overview Level 5, and Random Guessing Level 99+, Hao Ren could see at a glance that there was at least one-third overlap between the two star maps... No, not just overlap.

One-third of them overlapped, and the rest... were complementary!

Together, they formed a complete star map!

"...Where did the other star map come from?" Hao Ren looked at this incredible scene and couldn't help but mutter to himself, "How could it be such a coincidence..."

"Do you still remember Purgatory Star—when we were looking for the entrance to the eldest son cave, we found the ruins of the Solar Dynasty," the data terminal's memory was indeed much better than Hao Ren's. "In the ruins of the Solar Dynasty, we activated the seal of the Great Pyramid. During the operation of the pyramid, a star map was projected into the sky. We always thought that the star map indicated the original coordinates of Purgatory Star in the Dream Plane, and you even sent a drone swarm to search for the location corresponding to the star map in the depths of the universe... But we haven't found a single hair until now."

Hao Ren looked incredulous. "That star map is..."

"That's right, that star map is the missing second part. It can just complement the star map projected by the red moon. After recombining the two star maps, this unit completed the restoration of the original star map..."

As the data terminal's voice fell, the holographic projection in mid-air changed again, and the two star maps merged together. All the star routes and navigation marks began to shine on each node.

Hao Ren was still confused. "Wait a minute, that's not right. The star map we saw on Purgatory Star wasn't missing. It looked quite complete—otherwise, I wouldn't have sent a drone swarm to search for the location marks on the star map. How could it be a fragment of another star map?"

"That's because part of it was hidden," the data terminal said, while making the holographic projection change continuously. "The missing part of the star map was folded and hidden in a bunch of meaningless coordinates and transformation rules—we initially thought that it was garbled code generated by the Solar Dynasty in the process of preserving or creating the star map due to insufficient technology. However, in the process of comparing the two star maps, this unit found a way to unfold these 'garbled codes'. The result is like this."

The two star maps merged into one, indicating a mysterious place in the depths of the Dream Plane universe.