The Record of Unusual Creatures - Chapter 866

Chapter 866: A Series of Construction Plans

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

 

Since the Petrachelys’s hyper-space engine could only be used for itself, and it had no way to cover the extra space like a barge, Hao Ren could only temporarily leave the golden giant ship here, allowing autonomous robots to work on it while slowly repairing it. Anyway, it was impossible for the ship to start on its own: The data terminal had confirmed that part of the main control systems of the golden battleship had been severely damaged. Just below the control hall, part of the facility disappeared, leaving a black hole behind. It was probably destroyed by Vivian accidentally when she opened the teleportation portal.

Hao Ren let Petrachelys drop several autonomous robots and a production module on the surface of the golden giant spaceship. These autonomous robots would start trying to repair the ship and complete a full exploration of it after they left. Since there was no technical data on the rebels in the database, those autonomous robots would probably completely dismantle the damaged parts of the golden spaceship and replace them with new ones. And as they had to write compatible protocols at the same time, it would take a little more time.

Hao Ren stood on the bridge of Petrachelys and watched those autonomous robots and production modules unfold automatically. “We can go back first,” he said, “after the spaceship is repaired, it will go to Crapple Research Station on its own. The data terminal should have set its host.”

As soon as he had finished speaking, a blue light flashed across the bridge. The data terminal just came back from the control center of the golden giant ship. It fell on Hao Ren’s shoulder, yelling, “Yes yes? Did you just mention me?”

Hao Ren pushed this noisy data terminal away from his ears and asked, “All done?”

“Oh, yup,” the data terminal said while jumping triumphantly. “I rewrote the ship’s host. The ship is now fully under control, except that the engine unit and the main power furnace cannot be activated. If you don’t believe me, look—”

The data terminal was floating in the air, calling the shots like a remote control. The lights on the outside of the golden ship immediately responded to the data terminal. “You see, I told it to turn on the headlights and it turns on the headlights. I let it open the shield and it opens the shield. I told it to open the hatch door and it does so. I told it to…”

The glowing grid in the back of the golden battleship flickered wildly for a while, and then, suddenly, all the lights went out.

“Oh, it crashed. I forgot the engine was offline,” the data terminal shook awkwardly and said, “it’s easy, just restart it.”

Hao Ren looked strangely at the data terminal which looked quite excited and asked, “You look like you’re in a good mood. What’s up?”

“You see that too?” The data terminal flipped happily in the air, said with a high pitch, “It’s a spaceship! A brain-wrecked spaceship! A spaceship that can’t move! I can become the host of this spaceship! With this stuff, I don’t have to fight for the slot with Nolan anymore!”

Nolan was concentrating on checking her power unit. When she heard this, she looked up oddly and said, “You also know that’s how you usually get that position?”

For a long while, Hao Ren remained speechless while looking at the super-excited data terminal.

The data terminal was still shouting happily, “Although this ship is technically a little old-fashioned, it is at least a battleship! It looks awesome! And the key is that I finally proved one thing, that is, as long as I’m determined, I can evolve into a battleship host…”

Watching the data terminal kept talking cheerfully to itself, Lily poked Hao Ren’s arm and asked, “Landlord, is it infected with the virus?”

Hao Ren grinned and said, “Haha, nothing. It just goes crazy.”

The data terminal was not finished yet. It suddenly rushed to hao Ren and said, “Oh! And I have to give this ship a name! How about Pattianne? Commemorating my first evolutionary success… You can call it Hao Ren if you like, but you have to paint me on the ship…”

Hao Ren finally had enough. He grabbed this noisy guy and stuffed it into his dimensional pocket and yelled, “This is a damn research material, you idiot!”

The voice of the data terminal continued to echo in his mind, “It’s okay, the research material can also fly. I’m very practical…”

“Why such a high-tech gadget doesn’t even have a power off button!” yelled Hao Ren.

After Hao Ren finally overpowered the data terminal (on the surface), Y’zaks coughed softly to attract their attention. “Ahem, so we just go back?”

Hao Ren patted his head, ignoring the ceaseless noise in his mind, looking up at the holographic projection in front of the console desk.

Those probes and UAVs had completed a rough scan of the nebula. No active target was found within the scan range. Just as Lemendusa said, after the interstellar barrier was breached, all the treacherous children and guardians had gone to the last line of defense of the Star of Creation. There was only a burning, barren battlefield left in the Solenne Galaxy.

Such a vast battlefield could, of course, hold other clues. At least they could salvage a large number of weapons and equipment from both sides of the battling parties here. Moreover, there were some small strongholds and ecological planets in other parts of the nebula that were built by the guardians (though all of those planets had been burnt). These remnants were all important. Through them, it might be possible to restore the respective civilizations of the guardians and those treacherous children.

Hao Ren nodded to Nolan and said, “Connect the UAVs fleet.”

A moment later, a constantly changing face appeared on the holographic projection, which was the collective consciousness of the UAVs fleet. As the drone fleet grows, the collective consciousness grew smarter and stronger day by day. It now even went to the Imperial Data Network to collect news that it was interested in, or made short films of interesting phenomena it stumbled upon during the expansion and posted them on public channels. Occasionally, it would also have heated discussions with UAVs fleet of other universes. But anyway, as soon as Hao Ren called, it would appear immediately.

“Hello,” the collective consciousness greeted Hao Ren with a flat voice, “I am waiting for the command.”

Hao Ren nodded, pointing to the star map next to him and said, “Increase the detection priority of Solenne Gateway. I want you to build a UAVs nest in this place and explore the galaxy as an important relic. The key is to restore the civilization that has existed here. If you find something special, send it to the Crapple Research Station.”

“I understand. Do you need to build a sentinel lab in the UAVs nest? It can improve the efficiency of research.”

“You decide,” Hao Ren said while scratching his head, “you grow up pretty fast. You can make your own judgments about the basic infrastructure projects.”

The collective consciousness accepted the command and began to direct the carrier ‘nesting’ near the Solenne Gateway to the galaxy. Next, the nearby UAVs would take the Solenne Gateway as a new home. They would build a large UAV base in the depths of the oblique nebula and, as Hao Ren ordered, excavate and salvage all the man-made remnants of the galaxy.

Let’s hope that there was something in the fragmented spacecraft and the burning planet that worth the effort.

Finally, Hao Ren had set up several building units and a space-time beacon on Solenne that had been turned into ruins. Although the planet was completely destroyed, it was at least a relatively stable foothold compared to other parts of the oblique nebula, and it had a slight chance to be rebuilt and rescued. So, Hao Ren decided to make Solenne a ‘small station’, just like he did in Tannagost.

Of course, it was impossible to expect the planet to be able to recover just like Tannagost. They probably could only build a ground station there.

After issuing the repair order for the golden giant ship, arranging a plan for the UAVs fleet to nest locally, and setting up a base on Solenne, Hao Ren finally confirmed that he had done all he could do there, and decided to return home.

But first, they had to go back to Crapple research station to put the treacherous prisoner that Lily had captured in a suitable place.

It’s time to utilize the prison system in that place.

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Chapter 867: The Gathering of Guardians

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

 

Over the Tannagost, the Crapple Research Station was quietly running on its orbit. The Capulum Vitae beneath the station was emitting faint red glows while gazing at the planet tens of thousands of kilometers away like a pair of eyes in the space.

As always, Zorm was watching the planet below in space. Through its connection with the lifeblood, it could feel the joy of all sentient beings on the planet when they were waking up from their deep slumber.

The research station AI, which lived with Zorm, was less concerned with what was happening on the planet. As a space station host, it focused more on the laboratories and sample libraries in the station. The samples of the First Born in vessels No.1 and No.2 had just undergone a series of routine tests. Now the two huge vessels were discharging various ancillary products from the experiment into special collection facilities. The space station AI would then send these materials to the factory in different categories, some of which could be processed into living supplies. According to today’s work plan, it would arrange a group of landing shuttles one hour, 15 minutes and 32 seconds later to drop the extra supplies produced by the space station into the human settlement of Tannagost, and then brought back some of the experimental equipment on the planet for routine inspection and maintenance.

A First Born, and a space station AI, lived a dull but fulfilling routine every day. Although other creatures might find it difficult to understand their emotions and thoughts, they have adapted and enjoyed their lives. Zorm’s feelings were relatively richer, and it had a perfect personality, so it was always the one who started the conversation. “Host! Did you see they just built a big windmill? A big windmill! They built the machine in such a short time!”

The space station AI responded with a stiff attitude, “Manufacturing tool is the basic ability of intelligent species, and they have a complete knowledge record, so their reconstruction speed is in line with expectations.”

“Oh,” Zorm responded, and then continued to overlook everything on earth in the Capulum Vitae. At the same time, there were a lot of bizarre questions running in his mind, such as, who exactly created the Crapple Research Station? Why was the style of this crystal building different from that of Hao Ren’s spacecraft? Why was Hao Ren always busy? Why did UAVs often come in and out of the Crapple Research Station? Why was there a rift on Tannagost that led to other universes? And why did it have so many questions?

In most cases, the space station AI would not mind answering Zorm’s questions, but sometimes it would simply remain silent when it was something it did not know. It was just an AI which was only a supervisor of the space station programmed with basic personality and emotional mode, so it did not care about the awkwardness of stopping the conversation abruptly. And fortunately, Zorm did not mind. It just kept asking a lot of questions. Its exuberant curiosity seemed to be inherited from its mother. The spirit of exploring the universe of the Goddess of Creation was reflected in this First Born.

Suddenly a flash of light came from space, and the conversation between Zorm and the space station AI stopped. Petrachelys detached from the hyperspace state and landed briskly on the star harbor of the Crapple Research Station. Zorm immediately greeted the people on the spaceship, “Everybody’s back?”

Hao Ren saw the greetings from Zorm on the communicator. Its thinking had been systematically transformed into the expression: a brilliant O(∩_∩)O. The First Born seemed to be in a good mood.

But when Hao Ren thought of the prisoner he brought back, he did not feel very good.

He greeted Zorm and then called the station’s host on another line. “Open the special accommodation facility in zone A. There’s a prisoner. I need to lock him up. He is good at self-explosion. You get ready.”

As the host was preparing the facility, Hao Ren opened the hanger of the spacecraft, and Lemendusa and Heve walked out. The two guardians set foot on the crystal long bridge leading to the main part of the space station with a surprised expression. They were slightly surprised by what they saw.

They did not expect the place to be so beautiful.

On the crystal long bridge, Lemendusa and Heve looked up to see the starry sky. The view was so brilliant that both of them were impressed. And against the starry sky, through the transparent barrier of the crystal bridge, the vibrant Tannagost could be seen basking in the sun and the golden light on the horizon was slowly approaching the dark place.

And what’s more striking than the scenery was the Crapple Research Station itself:

Lemendusa marveled at this gigantic, crystal-clear, palace-like facility. The building itself was not lavishly decorated. It was totally different from the magnificent grandiose art created by those treacherous children. However, the Crapple Research Station itself was like a work of art. The combination of all edges and simple lines was enough to create a thrilling sense of grandeur. Lemendusa knew that this must have been the work of some even more incredible super civilization at a glance, beyond the creation of any civilization he had ever seen in this universe. The structure of the Crapple Research Station was totally simple and natural. This sense of simplicity was totally different from the work of the rebels.

Although Raven 12345’s style was not flattering, the huge facility she built was still quite a piece of art. Of course, the magnificence of the Crapple Research Station was not really the product of Raven 12345. If Hao Ren was willing to check on the Imperial Data Network, he would find that the Crapple research station was actually an open source and it was designed by someone else 2000 years ago. Raven 12345 just downloaded a public blueprint and pretended it was her work…

Hao Ren noticed the expression of Lemendusa and Heve and knew that the two giants were shocked by the Crapple Research Station. “Well, is this place bright and spacious enough?” he asked proudly.

Lemendusa was full of praise for this place but he was then annoyed by Hao Ren’s attitude. He glanced at Hao Ren, and then turned his head away and ignored him.

Hao Ren wondered and asked, “What’s wrong?”

But Heve got it and asked, “You didn’t build this station, did you?”

“No, it was built by my boss. Is that a problem?”

Heve did not utter a word, but Y’lisabet pulled Hau Ren’s sleeve happily and explained, “Uncle Ren, what they mean is that you’re lucky to get this job!”

“?” Hao Ren still did not get it.

Hao Ren took Lemendusa and Heve to the main control hall of Crapple Research Station. He stopped in front of the huge crystal cluster and called Zorm, and then introduced the two giants to it. Zorm had no idea of Hao Ren’s experience at the Solenne Gateway, so it was surprised to see its former colleagues so suddenly. It greeted Lemendusa and Heve warmly with a bunch of marks and expressions that no one could understand.

And Lemendusa found it strange that he actually sensed a guardian from the huge crystal cluster and asked, “What’s that? Is it… a guardian, too? I can sense the guardian of lifeblood from it.”

“It’s Zorm. I named it,” Hao Ren introduced his special tenant, “it was a First Born, the initial creature hatched in the Seed of Origin. Something’s wrong with the planet it’s guarding…”

Hao Ren told him about Zorm’s background, and then finally had the chance to tell Lemendusa his plans in detail, including reconvening the guardians of the Goddess of Creation, restoring the ecosystem, looking for the whereabouts of the Goddess, solving the ecological disasters and so on.

The plans are so grand, and all linked with one another, that they did not sound false. At the same time, the whole plan was quite bold and beyond the realm that mortals could understand. Lemendusa looked at Hao Ren with an odd look as if he was trying to catch a hint of exaggeration in Hao Ren’s expression.

Yet all he saw was a serious and matter-of-fact look.

If he had always had doubts about Hao Ren, those doubts were now greatly shaken. He was surprised to find that this ‘human’ was actually embarking on a plan to revive the Goddess of Creation, whether it was the current space station or the ecological recovery of the planet, as well as Muru and Zorm who lived here, all of which were irrefutable evidence. He looked intently at the little ‘human’ in front of him, which made Hao Ren uncomfortable. “What’s wrong?” asked Hao Ren.

Lemendusa sat cross-legged on the ground and this action almost caused the ground quake. “Your thoughts are so bold that I can hardly believe that anyone would really do it.”

“This is my job,” Hao Ren laughed and said, “and it’s important for my year-end bonuses.”

Muru watched in silence. He knew that Lemendusa and Heve were interested in the place, and he believed that the two would soon find the meaning of life in Tannagost, just as he did.

As Hao Ren planned, more guardians were gathered back.

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Chapter 868: Imprisoned

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

 

The Crapple Research Station was not a pure research facility since its establishment. In fact, Hao Ren first defined the place as a ‘prison’. It was initially set up to lock up the two frantic First Borns dug up from Holletta. Although the focus of the space station had shifted more to scientific research and planetary surveillance, its function as a prison was still working.

Space station zone A was adjacent to vessel No.1. Inside it was a series of compartments with heavy security. These compartments could block any energy shock below divine power and weaken the resistance of any creatures in it. The AI and the sentry guns installed in the corridor of the quarantine zone were working round the clock, making it impossible for prisoners to escape.

This place was designed to hold the most dangerous creatures in the universe since the beginning, and today, Hao Ren had finally activated one of the cages.

The prisoner captured on Solenne was put into a cage by an autonomous robot. After confirming that all security devices had been activated, Hao Ren then remotely removed a large number of restraining devices from the prisoner. The prisoner fell to the ground, and he slowly woke up after the last chain left his body.

The prisoner awoke from a long sleep and was immediately surprised to find himself trapped in a strange place. He saw that he was surrounded by a hexagonal prism surrounded by a pale blue light wall. Above the prismatic cage was an endless light, while the bottom was a solid crystal ground. Looking further, he saw more than ten neatly-arranged cages. The crystal walls all around the place blocked him from looking further. The prisoner froze for a moment but soon realized that he had been caught.

Hao Ren was standing outside the cell, waiting for the prisoner to wake up. When he saw the prisoner was looking around, he coughed to draw the prisoner’s attention. “Ahem… We’re here.”

The prisoner turned his head and immediately showed his anger and hostility. He pounced on the seemingly fragile pale blue light wall, yelled angrily, “Let…”

“You want me to let you out, and then I say no, and you will get very angry,” Hao Ren interrupted.

The prisoner choked, and then raised his finger to Hao Ren and yelled, “You…”

Again, without waiting for the prisoner to finish his words, Hao Ren interrupted and said, “Then you’re going to say how dare I do this to you.”

The prisoner’s face was reddened with anger. “I…”

“Then you’re going to say, in what name will you punish me or judge me?”

“You…”

“And then you’ll say I humiliate you or insult the dignity of a warrior or something, but I don’t mean it.”

“Y-y-you…” The prisoner pointed at Hao Ren’s face. Probably this was the first time in his life communicating with someone like this so he was a little confused. And now, Hao Ren could only say, “I can’t guess this time.”

The prisoner finally got a chance to speak. “Can’t you let me speak first?” he shouted angrily.

Hao Ren did not need much negotiation skills to provoke a person. Even Y’zaks looked at Hao Ren with admiration and said, “I have a bunch of demon wardens who are good at interrogation and you can do better than them.”

“I didn’t really say much, I just guessed that’s all he wanted to say after he woke up,” said Hao Ren.

“Ha!” Y’zaks laughed and ignored Hao Ren then turned to the prisoner and asked, “What’s your name?”

The prisoner felt that he had been greatly insulted, so he did not feel like answering the question.

This was what Y’zaks expected, so he was not annoyed. “Do you know where you are?”

The prisoner gave Hao Ren and Y’zaks a defiant look and continued to remain silent.

Hao Ren walked to the light prism with a smile on his face, stopped at less than a meter away and asked, “Do you know why you’re brought here?”

The prisoner noticed where Hao Ren was standing. His eyes flickered towards it, and then suddenly pounced on Hao Ren and shouted, “The Promised Land…”

Hao Ren was purposely standing at this distance. He silently watched the prisoner rushed to him bravely, wanted to blow himself up, and then he asked slowly, “So, how’s it?”

After the prisoner shouting ‘The Promised Land’, he closed his eyes and waited for the explosion, but nothing happened. When he heard Hao Ren speaking, he opened his eyes in bewilderment and found himself still alive and well.

Lily came up and asked curiously, “Eh, why do you guys have to yell ‘The Promised Land is coming’ every time you’re going to explode? Is this your standard slogan?”

It turned out that the best way to crush a person’s confidence and grace was to hurt him when he felt best. It was a great humiliation for a warrior to be captured alive on the battlefield, and now, Hao Ren and Lily were making fun of him in the most glorious and heroic moment of his life, even a strong man could not take stand it. The prisoner’s fingers were trembling. He thought he had been greatly humiliated by a group of ‘mortals’, ‘low-lifes’, which made him even angrier.

“Thinking about suicide after being captured is not a smart move,” said Hao Ren. He did not mean to provoke the prisoner, he was just telling the truth. “This prison will block all your power, so you won’t be able to explode and kill yourself. And there’s surveillance here, so you’re not going to kill yourself in any other way. And don’t think about starting a hunger strike, because…”

Hao Ren pointed at the top of the cage, and some strange machines and pipes emerged from the light. “We can stun you, and then pump the food directly into your stomach with the pump gun. We’ve talked about all the ways to stop you from committing suicide, and have prepared seventy or eighty emergency rescue plans. So you’ll be held here until you are willing to cooperate.”

However, the only response Hao Ren got was the prisoner’s long silence and fury all over him. Lily saw it and said, “Oh, by the way, now the only way to kill yourself seems to be killing yourself with anger.”

It immediately reminded Hao Ren. “Oh yeah, it’s a loophole. Data terminal, play him some light music. Don’t annoy him to death.”

“Are you serious?” asked data terminal.

“Yes.”

The data terminal found it very funny, and then let the prison system start playing some light music.

Hao Ren asked the prisoner a few questions, and of course, he was now refusing to cooperate, so they soon left this place. After leaving the quarantine, Y’zaks looked back at the crystal gate, which was slowly closing and asked, “Do you think he’ll answer our questions?”

“Of course not,” Hao Ren said and shrugged, “I’ve got the surveillance system to start recording his mental traits, maybe then we can start directly from his mental world. All the arrangements now are made to weaken the vigilance of his mind.”

Hao Ren did not expect to use conventional means to get any information from the prisoner from the start. As a race that dared to kill the gods, they should have a strong will to endure any physical pain and keep any secret under extreme conditions. Although they might experience fear and panic (such as when being watched by the gods), neither fear nor panic could pry their mouths open. Even the demon could not extract any secret from them. Therefore, Hao Ren had already decided on other approaches. He would lock up the rebel for a while, slowly analyzing his mental characteristics, his mind, and his weaknesses. Anyway, it was a slow work.

And he had the patience.

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Chapter 869: How Do You Explain This to Vivian?

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: Yuan Tong

 

A series of discoveries of the Solenne Gateway was of great significance to Hao Ren. He saw those treacherous children attacking the kingdom of gods and the various phenomena that followed after the Star of Creation exploded. More importantly, he also saw the bizarre birth of Vivian. He must go back and sort out all these things. So after arranging a place for the captive, he went to say goodbye to the three guardian giants and Zorm.

Lemendusa just learned about this place from Zorm and he looked a little bit confused. When heard that Hao Ren was about to leave, he did not get it. “Go back? Where? This isn’t your house?”

“I’ve told you that I’m from another universe. It’s time for me to go back and report the progress here. So how are you and Heve feeling now? Can you adapt to this place?”

“I’m afraid it will take some time for me to adapt,” Lemendusa answered honestly, “I’ve just heard about the changes in the universe over the past 10000 years from Zorm and Muru. The world is totally different now… But anyway, this place is better than the battlefield.”

The giant warrior’s voice was a little shaky for the first time. He felt overwhelmed when facing a world that had been out of his comprehension. Hao Ren could understand how Lemendusa felt. The guardian had missed 10000 years on that 10-hour battlefield and now the universe was full of chaos he once dared not imagine: the divine power of the Goddess of Creation had faded; the guardians were devoured by hatred and turned into monsters who knew nothing but destruction; almost all the kingdoms in the universe were extinguished. It was a real situation that one waking up to the end of the world. It’s not a description, it’s a statement.

Muru had spent 10000 years pondering and accepting these facts, but Lemendusa and Heve did not have the time.

Speaking of Heve, the quiet female giant was standing next to Lemendusa. She was looking at the local plants that Muru planted. Each guardian warrior was also a gardener, and she had decided to help Muru to take care of some areas of the southern hemisphere of Tannagost. Heve’s fingers brushed through the crown of a broad-leaved tree, and then said with soft eyes, “Everything will be fine. Mother said that the power of life lies in the endless succession. As long as there is a spark, there will always be a fire. The universe will recover from chaos and flourish again. And I believe that the mother will come back one day. Until then, I will greet her with a beautiful garden.”

“Heve is always more optimistic than I am,” Lemendusa said and smiled reluctantly, and Heve responded sharply, “That’s because you’re always more stubborn than me.”

Hao Ren smiled while looking at the two guardian giants and said, “Well, this place is yours. Muru will tell you about the open area of the station and what you can use. If you have any problem, come to the crystal cluster, the station host can contact me.”

A few minutes later, they had been redirected back to home on Earth through several teleportation portals.

A space crack opened in the living room. Lily happily jumped out from the space crack, followed by Y’lisabet and Lil Pea, and Hao Ren and Y’zaks walked in the last. Seeing everything in the house was good as usual, Hao Ren breathed a sigh of relief and said, “It’s so good to be back, the Earth is really safe and stable.”

After that, he lay on the couch and stretched. Meanwhile, Lily was looking around as soon as she entered the room, and then she shouted, “Battie! Come out! I have something important to tell you!”

Suddenly, they heard a burst of noise in the kitchen and the kitchen door was then burst open. Rollie was running out and then running around the living room crazily. When she saw Hao Ren on the couch, she immediately jumped onto him without hesitation and yelled, “Help! Someone is abusing a cat!!”

Hao Ren was about to enjoy lying on the sofa at home but was interrupted. He saw Vivian running out of the kitchen with a rolling pin and shouted, “Stand there! You really think you have nine lives, don’t you?”

“Meow!” Rollie started running and jumping up and down again around the living room while Vivian was holding a rolling pin chasing the cat. “Welcome back… I have to educate this bastard!”

Hao Ren had no idea what was going on. All he saw was Vivian chasing the cat all over the house. A few seconds later, he finally could not stand it and roared, “Stop!!”

Vivian was holding her rolling pin and suddenly braked to a halt, and so did Rollie, in front of the trash can, and knocked it over. The garbage was strewn all over the floor like confetti and half a piece of orange peel fell directly on Y’zaks’ face.

A plastic bag also fell on Hao Ren’s head. He looked at Vivian with a confused face and asked, “What are you doing? Why do you suddenly hit Rollie?”

He did not ask the cat because he knew what a strange answer he would get from that cat.

“Huh?”

Hao Ren pointed to the cat girl who was squatting on the ground picking up rubbish and asked, “What has she done again?”

Vivian immediately flew into a rage and yelled, “She went to the kitchen to make a stew without me! She said she wanted to make you a nutritious meal!”

Hao Ren was surprised. Then, he looked at the cat girl pleasantly and praised her, “That’s a good thing. She has improved!”

Vivian pinched the rolling pin, laughed grimly and said, “She stewed it with rats, cat food and fish bones picked up from trash cans. You wanna try?”

Hao Ren, “…”

“That’s a new pot!” Vivian finally revealed why she was so upset. That really hurt a poor, thrifty housekeeper like her. “You guys decide, is that pot still usable?”

Hao Ren gnashed his teeth and glared at the direction of Rollie, but the stupid cat was already gone. The silly cat was quite smart. She quickly fled when she noticed something was wrong.

“Forget it, the pot… Any suggestion?” Hao Ren had no idea what to do, so he turned to Lily and Y’zaks.

“I don’t have a problem with it. I’ve eaten mice before, it’s delicious, and many places also turned it into a dish,” said Lily.

Vivian stared at her and said, “Mind your own business.”

“Let’s not discuss this now.” As soon as Hao Ren saw that Vivian and Lily were about to quarrel again, he immediately interrupted. “Vivian, put down the rolling pin. I have something to tell you.”

Looking at Hao Ren’s serious expression, Vivian thought they encountered some problems during the trip. She immediately put down the weapon in her hand and asked, “What happened?”

“We went to a place called the Solenne Gateway. It was the border part of the kingdom of the Goddess of Creation, but somehow it detached from the Umbral Realm,” Hao Ren explained slowly, “and we had a very big discovery. Not only did we find the surviving guardians, but we also found… something to do with you.”

Vivian knew her origin was inextricably linked with the Goddess of Creation, so she tensed up and asked, “What did you see?”

Before Hao Ren answered, Lily’s head emerged from behind his back and said, “Battie, I tell you, we saw it with our own eyes. You were just liquid at that time!”

Vivian thought for a moment, and then picked up the rolling pin silently and said, “Doggie, are you crazy? Did I just annoy you?”

Hao Ren hurriedly stood in between them and said, “Calm down. Lily, you are too brief. And Vivian, Lily is right. You were really liquid, I saw…”

“Oh my, what did I just say!” Hao Ren slapped his forehead, quickly stayed away from Lily and said, “Lily, don’t get too close to me. I don’t want to be as stupid as you.”

Vivian was confused. She looked at the last man whom she could trust and asked, “What’s wrong with them?”

“It’s real. I saw it, too,” Y’zaks responded with a smile

Vivian, “…”

Chapter 870: Tracing the Line of Descent

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: Yuan Tong

 

Hao Ren felt that Lily’s words were so contagious that led him to say the same thing.

When Vivian picked up the rolling pin again, Hao Ren pulled out the data terminal from his pocket and said, “Here is the CCTV footage, see for yourself.”

Vivian was confused and sat down on the couch. The data terminal then began to show her the information it had copied from the host of the golden battleship. The command hall in the battleship, a ball of lifeblood released by the Goddess of Creation, the girl born from the lifeblood, the appearance imitated from the rebel… Vivian was a little puzzled in the beginning, but soon she was completely stunned.

“Where is this? What are those golden people doing?” asked Vivian.

“A battleship within the Solenne galaxy. This is the CCTV footage on the battleship,” Hao Ren told her his experience in detail, “I call that place the Oblique Nebula. The time of the place was distorted, so everything remained in…”

Because it was complicated, Hao Ren took around one hour to explain it. Vivian raised one or two questions while Hao Ren was explaining and listened quietly most of the time. Both of them breathed a sigh of relief when Hao Ren finally finished the story. “Is this real?” Vivian asked with a weird look.

“Of course it’s real,” Hao Ren nodded and said, “Now we can confirm that you are created by the Goddess of Creation, the timeline, and where did you get your look, by copying a female officer. I guess this is how you get the ‘power of vampire’. You don’t belong to any race or species, but the first creature you encountered in the world was a vampire, so you copied this attribute.”

Vivian pointed to her face and said, “But I also only copy the skills of blood clan for about 70%-80%.”

“Yes, you are not afraid of the holy light, you like garlic, you have the power of healing, and your little bat can turn into a human. I can’t believe how you firmly believed you were a vampire in the last 10000 years.” Lily said and rolled her eyes, “If I were you, I would have suspected my ancestry.”

Everyone looked at Lily with a strange look. Hao Ren held the husky girl’s tail and asked, “Don’t you feel bad for saying that? Do you remember that you used to firmly believe that you were a werewolf? Didn’t you doubt your ancestry when you first squatted down to eat noodles?”

“It doesn’t make sense. Husky and wolves are also close relatives, perhaps my grandfather’s grandfather was a Siberian wolf…” Lily argued.

“And also Pekingese. Forget it. It’s embarrassing,” Hao Ren said.

Lily sat back on the couch and began to think about the Pekingese blood in her body while Vivian was pondering. “So, this is why I have all these weird powers. And if so, I’m lifeblood in nature, I should be able to imitate all creatures, but… Why don’t I remember having this skill?”

“You would lose your memory every time you sleep. Perhaps the power of lifeblood is still sleeping deep inside you—but you’ve deleted the skill bar,” said Hao Ren.

“You know nothing of your true power!” Y’lisabet said with a hoarse voice and a solemn face.

Hao Ren immediately grabbed the girl’s devil horn and asked, “Where did you learn this?”

“My dad. He said that when he hit a human blademaster 100 years ago.”

Vivian ignored the little demon’s interruption. She was seriously pondering the problem of the ancient power sleeping in her body. No one knew better than herself how much she had lost in her sleep. Memory, power, and wealth… Well, not really… But she knew that the power she lost was absolutely astonishing. At least she could vaguely see how strong she was in her heyday from that demonic Vivian on Inferno.

Vivian was not worried about the power she had lost, what she really worried about was—what if the power suddenly come back?

She remembered the sleeping diary that she kept and now, she was almost certain that she had two traits before she slept: First, her mind plunged into madness. Under the illusion, she would attack everything indiscriminately; and second, she regained her power in full bloom. Her strength in that state would even scare all the demon hunters and unusual creatures in the world. And no one could stop the frenzied countess unless she stopped herself.

This was a completely out-of-control bomb— Vivian though this way.

She was deeply worried about it. Despite the fact that she still has the amulet that Raven 12345 gave her, the fear of not being able to control herself came back after seeing how she was born. She realized that she had lost more than she had initially expected, including the most important parts.

“I’m afraid I’ve forgotten the most important thing,” Vivian muttered as if she was talking to herself but Hao Ren could still hear what she said. “Le… Lemendusa, right? He’s right, I’m created for a reason. I probably have some kind of mission, like the will of the Goddess of Creation or her message. Maybe she created me to guide her guardians? But I forgot everything.”

“Don’t force yourself to recall your memory. If an average man loses his memory once, basically he won’t be able to recover, not to mention that your memory has been formatted more than 10 times,” Hao Ren tried to comfort Vivian, “but I also believe that the Goddess of Creation didn’t create you just to save the database. She didn’t have to let the database have the ability to think if that’s her only purpose. This is the biggest instability. So she must have other reason for giving you this personality. Let’s go and meet Lemendusa next time we go to the Plane of Dreams. The giant was just back from the battlefield. And he’s different from Muru. He was the last batch of warriors on the battlefield. Maybe he can sense something from you.”

Vivian nodded gently, and then remembered something. “By the way, you said that my self-consciousness may be an unplanned situation. Maybe the Goddess of Creation never thought that I have the ability to think when she created me. ”

“Now the probability of this is not high,” Hao Ren expressed his thought, “if you have self-conscious after a long period of wandering or having experienced a lot of events, you can say that it is an accidental evolution. But according to the CCTV footage, you can already think when you just born, and you weren’t even fully formed. You know how to learn and judge when you’re in the liquid form. This looks like a specially designed function…”

Vivian looked uncomfortable and said, “You’re right, but somehow it doesn’t sound right.”

Lily patted Vivian on the shoulder and said, “It’s okay, after all, you suddenly know how you were born. It’s a bit shocking, but…”

At this moment, Nangong Wuyue and Nangong Sanba just came back, and then Lily said, “You can talk to Wuyue. She’s also coming from water.”

Vivian, “…”

At this time, Y’zaks suggested, “Since you already know how you are born, you can also study your own blood power when you free. Though you may not be able to restore your original ability, this should help you control your own form. I suspect that one of the reasons you keep losing your memory and splitting is because of your innate ability: You can imitate other creatures, which means that you lack stability. You should strengthen this aspect so that even if you accidentally lose control, the situation might not be too bad.”

“Your life is like a blank sheet, stained with too many colors of others, and finally forget your original color,” said Y’lisabet, gravely and deeply, again.

“Where did you learn it?” asked Hao Ren.

He knew that this little demon would not be familiar with the Earth culture so quickly, so she must have learned these from someone else.

The little girl pointed at the husky girl and said, “Lily’s notebook. That’s melancholy!”

Lily turned red in the face and murmured, “There’s no need to be sarcastic.”

“You two go on.” Hao Ren stood up and held Lil Pea in his arms. “I need to meet the Goddess. I have to tell her a big secret.”

Vivian looked at Lil Pea curiously and asked, “What happened to the little one?”

“She can influence the lifeblood!”