A mysterious unknown star area is waiting to be explored, where the secret left by the goddess of creation to Vivienne may be hidden—or it may be a big pit left by the "goddess of destruction" to the latecomers, no matter which possibility it is , is an irresistible temptation for Hao Ren, who is trying to uncover the truth of the Dream Plane.
That mysterious star area must be visited, but before going, he still needs to arrange some things.
There are a total of three unmanned probes sent to the mysterious star area—Hao Ren temporarily gave it a vulgar name called Star Cluster X. Among them, drone No. 1 has completely lost contact, but No. 2 and No. 3 have no contact. The condition of the human and machine is very good, and a series of detection activities have been launched in the X star cluster. First, Hao Ren asked the drone group to give the two detectors an order to expand the detection range and use local materials to manufacture positioning probes. The second task is particularly important: what two drones can do is very limited. Even if each individual in the drone swarm has the ability to multiply the entire fleet, two detection-type airframes will not be able to complete this task. It takes a lot of time, so the best option is to let the two drones walk around and spread the guiding beacons everywhere. After the beacons form a gravitational network, the large force of the drone group can be pulled into the field. As for expanding the detection range, it is just a routine task. A huge celestial system composed of a large river system and several loose galaxies will have to wait until the year of the monkey for the two drones to fully explore it. Hao Ren just hopes that when he reaches X The two drones before the star cluster can figure out the situation near the jump target.
When Nolan was doing the self-check before departure, and the unmanned probe was busy spreading probes in the X star cluster to take pictures and videos, Hao Ren found Limendusa and Muru who had just withdrawn from the Suluen Nebula. And Sif, who is monitoring the ecological circle on the surface of Tanagus, also called Loken, the king of kings, and Gordon, the king of mountains and rivers, two ancient giant leaders who had experienced the early days of the goddess of creation.
Regarding Red Moon and Founding Star, he has a lot of things to discuss with these giants.
Several giants stood in the central hall of the Crystal Nucleus Research Station. Hao Ren stood on the crystal platform above the hall as usual, just at eye level with these towering guys. He first asked about the Genesis Engine: "Has the assembly project been suspended?"
"Except for necessary maintenance, the production process has been shut down," Liemendusa nodded, "The star forge has collapsed again, and I have piled up all the formed parts and useless materials on PHN-26 on the planet."
Hao Ren nodded, but before he could speak, Mulu couldn't help but interjected: "The blueprint of the Genesis Engine...is there really a problem?"
Hao Ren glanced at Mulu. Although the expression on the guardian giant's face remained unchanged, he could intuitively realize that the reason he gave them before had aroused their suspicion.
Hao Ren pondered for a moment, then sighed softly: "Actually, I'm not lying. The blueprint of the Genesis Engine is no longer reliable—it's just that we can't determine whether there are hidden dangers. I recently found some clues pointing to the Goddess of Creation. Several major projects before the fall, one or several of these projects may have been passive, in other words... I am not sure whether the blueprint given to you is the "original version" designed by the Goddess of Creation."
Several giants looked at each other, Loken and Gordon were better. As the original giants from the previous generation, they have been staring at Lokmarton in the Kolo world. Although they already know about the creation engine, they don’t know much about it. The expressions of Limendusa, Muru, and Sif were a little shaken: They knew how important the creation engine was to their mothers. Such a crucial thing...could have been tampered with
"All in all, I will investigate this matter as soon as possible." Seeing that the guardian giants wanted to ask more questions, Hao Ren changed the topic that was not suitable for the time being, "I came to you today to ask you something. thing."
Loken, the King of Kings, nodded: "Say it."
"You all lived on the Founding Star, and you should know that planet very well. I want to ask first, do you know that there is a lair where Loch Marton lived on the Founding Star? Ruins are also fine."
Sif was the first to shake her head: "I was in charge of patrolling the Sea of Origin, and I didn't know there was such a thing."
Gordon, the King of Mountains and Rivers, replied in a muffled voice: "Lockmarton used to live on the founding star. Although we stone giants were not born at that time, I know this history——At that time, my mother did give me a hand. Lockmarton once made a lair. But then Lochmarton fell mad and his mother fought with the Lord of Madness. This history was sealed. If it is correct, even the lair on the Founding Star was also destroyed. Mother wiped it away with her own hands."
Hao Ren nodded in understanding, thinking that this part of the history is right: the Lochmarton lair seen on the red moon is indeed a relic on the founding star of the previous generation. What about the crystal on the bottom of the sea
"Does any of you know these crystals?"
While talking, he asked the data terminal to project the crystal clusters on the seabed of the Red Moon Sea for the giants to watch. At the same time, he also introduced: "These crystals will resonate, and there is a phenomenon of information transmission similar to neural networks. On the seabed of the founding star."
This time Loken shook his head: "I have never seen this thing—and I am sure that there was no such thing on the original star. The body of our original giant was made by our mother from the depths of the universe, but there is a part of the body The core comes from the star core deep in the founding star, this core allows us to subconsciously know the original appearance of the founding star, if there are really these crystals on the seabed, I will definitely recognize them."
Hao Ren turned his gaze to the three "second generation" flesh and blood giants. After thinking for a while, Sif said, "I think... I have indeed seen this thing."
"Have you seen it?" Mulu asked with some surprise.
"Do you remember? Mother was away a while before that rebellion broke out, and she was alone with no one, and I happened to see her come back once—it seemed after a long journey, She looked quite tired. She didn't go back to the temple, but went directly to the depths of the Sea of Origin. I happened to be patrolling there at the time, and I saw her throw a lot of crystals like this into the sea. But she didn't treat anyone after that I mentioned this matter, and my mother often collects some strange ores from alien planets as collections, so I didn't care. But the collections that my mother usually collects will be brought to the temple and handed over to the guardians She threw these crystals into the sea, which seems really strange now that I think about it... "
Go for a stroll on an alien planet and pick up a lot of glowing stones and come back as a treasure... Is the goddess of creation Lily's long-lost so-and-so
The husky girl next to me really got excited when she heard this: "Hey, landlord, landlord, I suddenly felt that I might have a common language with that goddess of creation. We seem to have a lot of consensus in the field of art!"
Vivian glared at her immediately: "What they picked up was a crystal! You, a guy like you who goes out and picks up half a brick and hugs the beauty for a long time when you come back, is it ashamed to say that you are doing it for art!?"
Hao Ren calmed down the two enemies, and looked up at Sif seriously: "In other words, these crystals were brought to the Founding Star by the Goddess of Creation in your era?"
The giantess nodded affirmatively.
Hao Ren turned his head to look at Vivian, and sure enough, he saw that she was also looking at him.
"In this way, the timeline is a bit problematic... The red moon is a static snapshot, but there are relics of two eras on it at the same time. The age gap between the lair of Loch Marton and the crystal cluster on the seabed may reach tens of millions Year."
Vivian frowned: "There is an explanation—our guess about the red moon is wrong, it is not a snapshot of the founding star fixed at a certain time, but a mixture..."
"Mixture?"
"The gestures of the founding star in each age and state, breaking them up and splicing them together to form a new projection," Vivian shook her head lightly, "Maybe it's because I only inherited it from the goddess of creation." The limited divine blood, so the knowledge I inherited is also limited, not only is the diameter of the red moon only one-eighth the size of the founding star, but the information it presents is also fragmented."
Hao Ren thought about it, and felt that this was the only explanation.
At this time, Sif, who had been holding back her stomach for a long time, finally couldn't help but said: "Speaking of which, where did you know about these crystals?"
There is no need to conceal the information in this regard. Hao Ren told the whole story about the experiment not long ago: "This is a long story, and you may not know that Vivienne has a super killer called Red Moon Descending..."
Although trying to simplify the language as much as possible, Vivienne's Red Moon has too many causes and consequences and special features. It took Hao Ren nearly an hour to explain this clearly (this also avoided the goddess of creation. The sensitive information in the second part), the giants listened intently to the end, and after hearing the possible causal connection between Red Moon and the Founding Star, they couldn't help looking at Vivienne with a little more solemnity in their eyes.
"I didn't expect...the connection between you and your mother has reached this level," Liemendusa sighed, "The projection of the founding star...even if it's just a projection, I really want to see it with my own eyes."
"Yeah, I haven't been home for ten thousand years," Mulu's voice was a little low, "It would be nice if I could take a look at the Sea of Origin."
Giants are also homesick, but Hao Ren can't satisfy their wishes, at least not now.
"Red Moon has a secret connection with the founding star. After confirming this, I can't let Vivienne easily summon Red Moon in the Dream Plane," Hao Ren shook his head, "This may lead to unpredictable consequences— Who knows what will be stimulated by suddenly summoning the projection of the founding star at the current stage when the situation of the Lord of Madness is unknown."
Liemendusa showed a wry smile: "We understand, we just express our feelings."