Chapter 1310 Terminal

Of course, the World Management Terminal could provide tremendous logistical support when Hao Ren carried out operations in the Dream Plane, but its true value did not lie there.

Its real purpose was to bring order to the chaotic Dream Plane—in a Dream Plane where the Creation Goddess had “fallen,” the Lord of Madness was sealed, and the foundational laws were a mess, reshaping order was the most crucial thing. The Doomsday Network left behind by the Creation Goddess had innate flaws and could not bear this heavy responsibility. The fragility of the Wall of Reality also left Raven 12345 powerless for a long time. But today, with the help of the important data Hao Ren had acquired, Raven 12345 finally had a way to send a World Management Terminal into the Dream Plane.

This World Management Terminal would automatically run, restoring various cosmic constants and foundational laws that had been impacted by the Goddess’s fall. Star systems with spacetime distortions like the Gates of Suruen would be adjusted, and some star systems with spatial fractures could also be repaired. This was the greatest benefit to the Dream Plane.

However, these cosmic-level changes were not intuitive enough for Hao Ren, and he personally couldn’t interfere in this process. Therefore, for him, the best parts of this World Management System were still the one-key return to the city and the full-health revival functions—especially the latter, which was simply too useful.

Without this thing, fighting the Lord of Madness in the Dream Plane would be a matter of having several lives and not enough to use them.

Raven 12345 knew what Hao Ren was thinking from the look on his face and couldn’t help but remind him, “Don’t think that having a resurrection option means you can just mess around. The World Management Terminal isn’t for you to use like that. First of all, it limits the number of resurrections—because you’re going to the ‘Dark Domain,’ and this Dark Domain is isolated from the main material plane in the Dream Plane. Based on the information you got, I deduced that even the power of the World Management Terminal can’t completely penetrate that place, so it can only leave a one-time ‘mark’ on you. This mark is a consumable if used for resurrection; secondly, none of us know what the Creation Goddess’s Divine Kingdom is like now. The complexity of the situation may exceed your and my imagination. If you become paralyzed with carelessness because you have a resurrection and a return to the city, don’t say that you are a pope under my command after you capsize in the gutter…”

Hao Ren thought for a moment and realized that even when he didn’t capsize, he wasn’t very willing to admit that he was under Raven 12345’s command—too embarrassing…

But he obviously couldn’t say such words to her face, so he could only nod with a dry smile, indicating that he understood.

“Alright, that’s all I can explain. If I say more, you’ll just think I’m being long-winded. The mission is yours, and the most important thing is your own ability to adapt,” Raven 12345 waved her hand. “Do you have anything else to ask? If not…”

Before the Goddess could finish speaking, Hao Ren remembered something he had planned before coming here and quickly said, “Oh, yes, yes, I have something…”

“Oh, you really do? What is it?”

Hao Ren said solemnly, “Now that I’m about to lead a team to the Dark Domain to grind a big dungeon, I’m thinking that my team needs some enhanced protective gear…”

Raven 12345 showed a wary expression as soon as she heard half of it. Before Hao Ren could finish speaking, she blocked the things on her desk while glaring, “Isn’t giving you a World Tree enough enhanced protective gear?! After that thing grows out, even if you just scrape off some bark and branches, it’ll be at least a +15 orange equipment to start with!”

Hao Ren chuckled. “Don’t block it—I see that the plate of dates behind your hand looks pretty fresh… Oh, and there’s a plate of melon seeds here too?”

“Damn it, are you kidding me?! You even bring your own equipment… Put that down for me! I haven’t eaten that yet… Why are you even taking the plate?! Is this how a pope acts?! You’re a pope, a pope! How is it that you are robbing the Goddess… My cup!”

But even though she was shouting fiercely, Hao Ren had been working under this crazy woman for four years. How could he not see that this Goddess hadn’t been seriously blocking him—otherwise, wouldn’t it be a joke if a dignified True God couldn’t stop the pope under her command from robbing her? In fact, Hao Ren even guessed that the plates of peanuts, melon seeds, and red dates on Raven 12345’s desk were originally prepared to entertain him.

Of course, she probably didn’t plan to give away those plates… But since they were already in his personal space, Hao Ren didn’t plan to take them out again.

“Alas, the Divine Door is truly unfortunate to have recruited you shameless popes,” Raven 12345 leaned back on her chair with a lifeless expression, her tone full of resentment. “A couple of days ago, I just stewed a pork knuckle, and Galla-Thor came over to visit, almost gnawing on the pot. Yesterday, I was free and carved a bead, and Thunar said that her spider nest was missing an egg and snatched it from me—she’s the Spider Demon Queen! She’s missing an egg!”

At the end, she sighed as if summing up: “Alas, the Divine Door is unfortunate—”

Hao Ren had a face full of cold sweat: “……”

He felt like he had learned more dark history about his high-energy colleagues? But it didn’t seem to be of much use…

Anyway, he got what he wanted and managed to get some benefits for his family. Hao Ren was quite satisfied. Seeing that Raven 12345 was in this state of mind, she probably wouldn’t have the energy to send him off, so he took the initiative to say goodbye: “Then you old folks can be sad here. I’m leaving first—I have to go back and prepare properly to ensure that I complete the mission seriously!”

Raven 12345 rolled her eyes at him unhappily, but just as Hao Ren opened the space gate to leave, she seemed to suddenly remember something: “Hey, wait a minute, I have something to tell you.”

Hao Ren stopped curiously and turned to wait for the Goddess’s next words.

“Although this trip to the Dark Domain to find the Divine Kingdom is full of dangers, you still have to bring Doudou.”

Hao Ren was greatly surprised: “Bring Doudou? How can she help? The place I’m going this time is more dangerous than ever before.”

Although Doudou had now become a hunter demon fish and had received careful training from Nangong Sanba and Lolisa, she was only three years old after all, and she had only grown to a foot and one inch this year. Even if she had some combat power, she was just a child. Hao Ren had never regarded the little guy as a formal action team member.

In fact, due to her innate love of courting death, Doudou was even less reliable than Gungnir when she went out—although the latter was once beaten by the former…

Raven 12345 just shrugged in the face of this question: “How would I know why—I’m following the revelation of this thing.”

As she spoke, she pointed to a delicate crystal prism on her desk.

Hao Ren was greatly interested in the crystal prism: “What is this thing?”

Raven 12345 didn’t hide it: “It’s a prophecy crystal, a good thing sent down from above. Sometimes, when I encounter problems that I really can’t handle, I rely on this.”

“There’s such a good thing!?” Hao Ren was greatly surprised, then turned to the prophecy crystal and asked, “What am I eating tonight?”

A line of text immediately appeared above the crystal: “Originally it was ribs and rice, but Lily stole it just now. Now Vivian is making you egg fried rice while electrocuting the dog.”

Hao Ren: “…Damn it, that’s awesome!”

Raven 12345 glared. She was just about to sternly warn Hao Ren not to develop the habit of pinning his hopes on fate and the future, but the next second, she found that the other party was holding this thing that could reverse cause and effect and just asked what he was eating tonight. All the great principles in her stomach were forced back, almost suffocating her. She could only blurt out a sentence: “That’s all you’re asking?!”

“I’m just trying it out,” Hao Ren said matter-of-factly. “Is there a more brain-burning question than this?”

Raven 12345: “…Go back and prepare. I have nothing else for you here…”

Hao Ren said oh, and he didn’t know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that the crazy woman’s voice was weak just now.

Because he spent some time with the Goddess learning about the World Management Terminal, it was past dinner time when Hao Ren returned home. Everyone in the family had already finished eating and returned to their rooms to busy themselves with their own things. In the living room, he could only see Vivian reasoning with the little weak chicken and Gungnir curled up on the cushion watching TV. Oh, and Lily lying on the sofa groaning.

“Ah, you’re back!” Vivian smiled and stood up as soon as she saw Hao Ren enter the house, then prepared to complain, but she was interrupted by Hao Ren before she could speak: “Lily stole the ribs and rice, right—but egg fried rice is fine too. By the way, Lily, what are you groaning about? I got you a set of Steel Garurumon armor, and you followed up by stealing all my rice. How dare you groan?”

Vivian was stunned by Hao Ren’s interruption, and Lily jumped up from the sofa: “Landlord, did you install surveillance?!”

“Don’t make trouble. I just tried out Raven 12345’s high technology,” Hao Ren said as he sat down on the sofa. “I have something to tell you—the beacon to the Creation Goddess’s Divine Kingdom has been completed, and all that’s left is to go and explore the way.”

“Damn, it really worked!” Lily rushed over in a flash. Although she knew before that Hao Ren was going to Raven 12345 for this matter, she still became excited when the definite news arrived. “We’ve been looking for the ‘Dark Domain’ for so long… Does that mean it’s done?”

“Finding the location is only the first step. There are countless challenges waiting for us there. This is the main event,” Hao Ren shook his head. “But the good news is that this time, Raven 12345 provided us with an unprecedentedly powerful plug-in—look.”

He took out the “World Tree Seed.” The tender green sphere was now wrapped in a layer of energy barrier, filled with a mysterious glow. As soon as it was taken out, the entire living room seemed to be filled with some kind of sacred power.

Lily stared blankly at this thing, muttering, “Is this… also for boiling?”

Hao Ren chopped the dog girl’s head with a hand knife: “This is not Doudou’s egg!”

At this time, Vivian also curiously came over, holding the squirming little weak chicken in her hand: “What is this for?”

“This thing will scare you if I tell you: World Tree! Something that can control cosmic parameters!” Although Hao Ren wanted to show off a sense of mystery, he couldn’t control his smug mood after all, and he said it directly. After he finished speaking, he noticed the little weak chicken in Vivian’s hand and couldn’t help but be a little curious, “By the way, I just saw you chatting with her—what are you two talking about? Can this little thing even understand human speech?”

“She can understand, but she just doesn’t listen,” Vivian shook the little thing in her hand a little helplessly. “…Wait, what did you say this is?”

“World Tree, World Management Terminal, sovereignty hub, Heavenly Dao server, call it whatever you want. In short—it’s the thing that replaces you as the CPU on the Doomsday Throne,” Hao Ren smiled slightly. “Now, you don’t have to worry about being frozen in a chair and having twenty-five violent club members in strange costumes smashing your door every week.”

Vivian: “…I’ve never worried about that!”

(I’ve been suddenly thinking recently, how great it would be if Yi Chang could be animated one day…)