Chapter 1 The Situation

Hao Ren had handled even larger-scale relocation and rescue missions before—whether it was the ten billion Erem Elves or the half a million residents of the Demon King City, both were far more populous than the natives of this world. However, the situation here was far more troublesome than those grand projects, because the civilization of this world had completely degenerated.

They had no global communication, no high-speed transportation, no population census or address registration; they didn't even have cities or other relatively fixed settlements. All the tribes lived scattered across the grasslands and mountains, maintaining only a loose alliance, with only a few fixed messenger communications each year. The isolation in information and transportation was an unavoidable problem. So, no matter what Hao Ren wanted to do with this planet, his first task was to find a way to establish a communication network that could reach everyone—at least to allow the elders of other tribes to hear Vivian's unified orders and report the situation in their respective areas.

Gezel quickly gathered enough messengers and brought them before Hao Ren, who was setting up a series of devices near the tribal settlement.

He took out the device for building the teleportation portal and the easy-to-use communicator from his dimensional pocket. These were simple devices for temporary emergency use, with limited functions but well-suited for the current situation. Five teleportation portals were lined up on the ground, the silver-white mechanical shells reflecting the bright sunlight, and the blue light of the standby state flickered slightly in the metal gaps of the portals. Vivian watched him busy herself, asking casually, "Are you having the messengers use the teleportation portals to go to other tribes?"

"I can't drive them around one by one, can I?" Hao Ren smiled. "Their settlements are all over the globe, and we have to contact everyone before the world changes dramatically."

Vivian said, "Oh, do you know where to send people?"

"Remember the probes that were released before?" Hao Ren nodded. "They have completed a global search and reported more than thirty human settlements of various sizes, even more than Gotharug knew—some tribes have been isolated from the world for too long and lost contact with other tribes, but they are still alive. Those probes can be used as navigation beacons for the teleportation portals."

Gezel's voice came from the side, "The messengers have arrived."

Hao Ren turned around and saw dozens of young and strong tribal members standing behind him. Their faces were painted with colors representing the Wind Tribe and special envoys, and they wore colored cloths around their waists to prove their identities. They looked energetic and eager to try. Standing in front of these messengers was Bernia, the saintess of the Fire Tribe. The little girl was naturally going back to her own tribe to deliver the message.

Hao Ren nodded to Gezel, "Well, except for the little girl, they are all strong lads, but strength alone is not enough. Are they the most eloquent?"

"The smartest young people are here," Gezel showed a simple and honest smile. "They will certainly convey the goddess's will."

"It's not just about conveying the goddess's will," Hao Ren said, handing a silver-white, cigarette-case-sized device to Bernia, "I also want you to learn how to use this thing."

Bernia fiddled with the small box in confusion, even putting it in her mouth to bite it. Seeing this, Hao Ren quickly snatched the box from the little girl's mouth, "Don't bite it, this is a communicator. I want you to take these things back. There are two buttons on it, do you see them? They allow you to talk to each other from thousands of miles away."

Bernia immediately looked surprised, followed by a face full of curiosity. Hao Ren couldn't explain it to these people, so he could only say vaguely, "Just treat this as a miracle for now. Now come over here, and I'll assign you to your respective destinations. You can reach them through these teleportation portals..."

Primitive society has its advantages, and high obedience is one of them. The devout tribal messengers had no confusion about the "will of God." They didn't even ask about the safety of the teleportation portals and strode over one by one.

After the messengers had set off, Hao Ren's heart stirred, and he looked up at the sky.

A bolt of lightning-like blue light descended rapidly from high altitude, and the Data Terminal's noisy voice came with it, "Buddy! Your ship is here!"

The Data Terminal slid onto Hao Ren's shoulder, leaving behind the blue trail it had flown through. With a burst of crackling electric light, the blue trail quickly began to vibrate and gradually enlarge. A crack several hundred meters high slowly opened in full view, as if the sky had shattered. Then, a silver giant ship (which was definitely a behemoth in the eyes of the people of this world) poked its head out of the crack.

Without saying a word, Hao Ren ran to give Gotharug a shot of quick-acting... This thing was a bit too stimulating for the old chieftain.

"A miracle!" Gezel and other tribal warriors stared at this incomprehensible scene. Their entire worldview could not understand what this powerful thing was. Even if someone knew that in the legendary ancient era, the Solar Dynasty had also created magic导 warships that flew in the air, their imagination had never sketched such a shocking and solemn thing. The Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace looked like a magnificent temple floating in the air. After it drilled out of the space crack, it gracefully adjusted its angle, slowly descended to Hao Ren, and hovered less than a meter above the ground, greeting its captain, whom it hadn't seen for many days, with great enthusiasm: "Yo! Hao Ren! Long time no see."

Everyone didn't forget that this ship now had a core called Nolan, right?

"Nolan, long time no see," Hao Ren greeted his ship with a smile. "Are you getting used to it?"

"It's pretty good, I've almost adapted to this body," Nolan's voice sounded cheerful. "I waxed the lower deck, do you mind?"

Hao Ren: "... Uh, no objection, no objection."

The Data Terminal buzzed in Hao Ren's ear, "This Machine is telling you, this sister's mental quality is really stronger than expected. This Machine found her racing in the Andromeda galaxy. Hmm, maybe it should be called ship racing?"

Hao Ren was stunned and looked up at Nolan (the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace): "You went racing? Who did you race with?"

Nolan flashed her bow lights: "With a neutron star. Local spaceships don't dare to race with me."

Hao Ren immediately jumped up and down, shouting, "Nonsense! What you registered is an official ship! The highest-level official ship! Have you ever seen anyone dare to race with a police car?"

Then he hugged his head and wailed, "What's going on... By the way, is Nolan using an official ship in violation of regulations?"

The Data Terminal comforted him, "It's okay, Nolan driving herself doesn't count as violating the 'use' regulations. The only problem is that you've become famous."

Hao Ren: "... Shut up."

While Hao Ren was chatting with his spaceship, Hesperiana was leading two followers and standing behind Vivian. The three vampires had been in a fossilized state for several minutes until Duncan was the first to react, "Mistress, this thing doesn't look like it's from our set, does it?"

Hesperiana was stunned for a long time, and suddenly pounced on Vivian, "Lord Vivian! Men with money go bad! This Hao Ren guy, just this ship alone looks like it's enough to get him executed twice over! Don't fall for his tricks! He's definitely got ulterior motives for taking you out for a ride!"

Vivian was startled by Hesperiana's crazy behavior. After hearing what she was shouting, she immediately grabbed the girl by the neck and threw her more than ten meters away, "What are you yelling about! Give me a normal reaction, can't you?"

Hao Ren turned around and watched Hesperiana's lively performance with his arms folded. After the bear child was slapped obedient by Vivian, he shrugged, "Have you made enough noise? If you have, do you want to come and take a look at the spaceship? I'm going to survey the Cloud Top."

Despite Hesperiana's earlier fuss, she was the first to jump out at this moment, "I'll go, I'll go!"

Vivian woke Gezel from his stunned state, gave him a few instructions, and followed Hao Ren onto the ship. The silver-white spaceship slowly ascended and disappeared into the air as a flash of light, leaving the tribal people on the ground to exclaim and prostrate themselves in worship.

A tribal warrior shouted loudly, "The goddess has ascended to heaven! The goddess has ascended to heaven!"

It's fortunate that Vivian couldn't hear anymore...