“I’ve answered so many of your questions already. Can you tell me where my mother is now?”

Hao Ren was still trying to figure out what effects the source blood he had absorbed earlier had produced when the eldest son suddenly threw out this question. He was startled awake from his thoughts, and cold sweat immediately started flowing down his spine. It wasn't just him; everyone present tensed up instantly upon hearing this crucial question. Vivian turned her head nonchalantly to study the patterns on the crystal spire, Izhaks hugged his daughter and started discussing what to eat for dinner, and Nangong Wuyue squatted on the ground pretending to tie her shoelaces—she was wearing sandals today, which had no laces at all!

"This…" Hao Ren swallowed, wondering how to tell him about the goddess's fall as gently as possible. "The truth is that she…"

Vivian gently poked Hao Ren in the lower back, "Be tactful."

Hao Ren nodded, swallowed the words that had almost slipped out, and reorganized his thoughts: "A great war broke out on the Star of Creation, and your mother has been missing since the war, but we recently obtained evidence that the Creation Goddess should still be sleeping deep in the universe…"

Vivian patted her chest lightly and breathed a sigh of relief, muttering in Hao Ren's ear in a low voice: "You scared me to death. I was really afraid you'd blurt out the words 'Your mom exploded.'"

Hao Ren gritted his back teeth to maintain the solemnity on his face, sweat breaking out on his forehead: "I almost said it just now—thank goodness you poked me and I swallowed it back!"

Vivian's expression changed slightly, and she muttered to herself: "We must keep an eye on that mouth in the future!"

The eldest son was silent for a few seconds, obviously not satisfied with this answer: "I roughly know that. You told me a little before. I want to know more details… What exactly happened to mother?"

Hao Ren licked his lips, and before answering, he secretly used mental communication to confirm the status of the crystal core research station's mainframe, confirming that all firewalls and security measures were operating normally, and that the eldest son samples in Container One and Container Two were still in a state of dormancy, before asking: "Then how much do you know about what happened back then? When did you lose contact with the Creation Goddess? Did she tell you about her situation at the time?"

"Mother was fighting with someone at the time, I know that," the eldest son's tone immediately became childlike when he mentioned his mother. "Then she said the situation was very dangerous and wouldn't let me see what was happening on her side. Later, I only received one sentence from my mother, saying that very bad things were about to happen, that other brothers and sisters would come to attack the Garden, and that she couldn't stop them, so she told me to protect the things in the Garden… and then I didn't know anything else."

Hao Ren asked a few more questions, confirming that the eldest son in front of him had lost contact with the Star of Creation before the goddess's fall, and that due to a certain command from the Creation Goddess, he had not actively contacted the Star of Creation or other guardians' mental networks since that moment, so he knew almost nothing about the evil war that year. He only protected the ecosystem samples within his range under his mother's orders, and this protection method was jointly designed by him and the original Zohm people.

The eldest son knew very well what kind of power his brothers had. He knew that if millions of ancient creatures as powerful as himself came to besiege Zohm, it would be impossible for him to resist with his own strength—whether it was escaping or building a defense line was meaningless, so he thought of preserving "information."

Information is the blueprint, and the blueprint is everything.

Abandoning those fragile and easily destroyed material forms, storing all the data of the ecosystem's evolution to date as data in his body, and waiting for everything to be safe before reshaping all things from the source blood, was a bold and feasible plan. Because everything in the world can be built with source blood, and what makes them unique in the world is their "information." As long as these blueprints are preserved, recreating the ecosystem with new materials at that time would be a perfect resurrection.

Based on the eldest son's plan, the Zohm people also compiled something similar to an "Index of All Living Things" to count the intelligence and evolutionary level of all life on the planet, and developed equipment that could extract and upload souls. Although the Zohm people were not very accomplished in space technology, they had maintained contact with the eldest son since ancient times, and the Zohm people had unique insights into life and soul—which was very different from the impression given by their heavy steel machines.

But just as the Aerym elves in the forest could develop space battleships, who said that the Zohm people living in steel cities could not believe in the ancient life religion?

The entire plan took nearly a hundred years to complete. Finally, sentient creatures had their souls preserved, while unintelligent plants and primitive animals only had their genetic maps and ecological distribution structure diagrams preserved. The entire ecosystem was organized into a huge blueprint library, compressed, and boarded the ark of the virtual world. When the whole world calmed down, the eldest son executed the final step of the plan:

He launched a blood tide, dissolving the entire planet's ecosystem.

After that, the Zohm ecosystem disappeared from the material level, leaving only one ancient and powerful primitive creature on the entire planet, while the ghost of this ecosystem hid in the eldest son's mental world. There was no better disguise: when other crazy guardians chased after rebellious sons in the universe and passed by Zohm, they saw a planet that had been completely purified, with only the purest source blood and tentacles on the ground. They had no doubts about this, so the Zohm civilization survived.

The eldest son answered all of Hao Ren's questions in great detail. His simplicity and straightforwardness were surprising, but this was Hao Ren's first time talking to a real eldest son, so he couldn't be sure if all these creatures would be like this when they were awake.

After the eldest son finished telling the whole process of building the shelter back then, Lily asked curiously: "After the virtual world was built, did any other guardians pass by Zohm?"

"I sensed it two or three times, but they all passed by directly," the eldest son replied. "They probably thought other brothers and sisters had already been here."

Izhaks next to him then asked: "Then how did Zohm fall into the sun? How could a planet suddenly change its orbit without external force?"

"We encountered a cloud of dust. That was more than seven thousand years after I started dreaming. Our solar system passed through a dense cloud of dust, so the speed of all the planets slowed down. Some of my nerves and many devices installed on the surface of the planet were also broken in subsequent accidents, and then… I couldn't control my dreams very well, and I couldn't even wake up to remind everyone."

Hao Ren stroked his chin and pondered. He could feel the eldest son's depressed mood: although he had escaped from death, what he cared about most was obviously still his "mother." He naturally believed that these "humans" in front of him should know more clues about his mother, and in fact Hao Ren and the others did know, but… no one knew how to say it.

Vivian winked at Hao Ren while Lily was talking to the eldest son, the meaning in her eyes being: "Can we keep it a secret?"

Of course, Vivian's wink might have had other meanings, but Hao Ren felt that if he could see such complex information from the other party's wink at once, it would seem rather awesome.

He shook his head slightly, indicating that it was something that would have to be said sooner or later.

One lie would require ten lies to cover up, and the distrust caused by one concealment would require ten times the effort to make up for. Now that this eldest son no longer needed to put his energy into maintaining the "Dream Ark," he might think of something if he was idle and thought about it. Instead of facing these unpredictable troubles, it would be better to find a way to solve the matter clearly once and for all.

The eldest son in front of him did not witness the moment the goddess fell with his own eyes, and he was not connected to the crazy consciousness of other guardians back then, so the impact he would receive after knowing the truth should not be so severe. As long as he paid attention to the wording of the communication and the guidance of the atmosphere, he should be able to control the situation.

"About the Creation Goddess…" Hao Ren took the initiative to speak, attracting the eldest son's attention. "We also know some information, but it might not be appropriate for me to say these things. Wait a moment, I'll introduce you to someone—you two might even know each other."

He decided to let that guardian giant meet the eldest son.