Chapter 1 After Arriving at the Warped Nebula

After arriving at this warped nebula, Hao Ren had seen more than one thing that left him dumbfounded—ten thousand years of time were compressed into ten hours here, bringing a wonderful sense of temporal contradiction. He saw the battlefield of the Godslaying War from ten thousand years ago still emitting smoke, the soldiers who died back then just now falling, and the ruins of the city still retaining warmth. However, all of this was not as surprising as what he had just seen: he witnessed Vivian's birth from the Source Blood with his own eyes, and the entire process was captured by the rebel's surveillance camera, presented before him in such an abrupt manner.

Vivian was indeed created by the goddess, using the Source Blood as material, and was obviously a unique individual. This was no longer a guess, nor a conclusion deduced from various clues, but an unmistakable fact. He even learned that Vivian had no form when she was first born, and her current appearance was initially just imitating the appearance of a female rebel commander—what a dramatic fact, the creation goddess's most special creation, defining herself after seeing the appearance of a rebel.

Lily stuck out her tongue: "Luckily, the bat didn't have time to completely imitate her, otherwise her skin would be light gold."

Hao Ren didn't say anything for a moment. The various pieces of information about Vivian in his mind were quickly being reorganized, and many things that he hadn't understood before suddenly became clear. Yizaks next to him was also thinking and asked a question: "In that case, what race does Vivian belong to?"

"She probably doesn't belong to any race..." Lily scratched her head, "She's not even a 'Firstborn' or a Guardian. I think she's purely a super-being."

"But she looks like a vampire now," Yizaks was a little curious about this question, "How did she become like this?"

"Because of imitation, I'm afraid the first race she encountered after coming to Earth happened to be vampires, so she learned from them," Hao Ren guessed. "According to the surveillance records, Vivian was amorphous when she was first born, and she imitated whatever she saw. This situation should have lasted for a while until she had a clear self-awareness. Anyway, this question is not important. As a creature born from the Source Blood, I wouldn't be surprised no matter what race she becomes."

He put these things aside for the time being and then opened the communication with the Tortoise Rock Platform: "Muru, did you all see the scene just now?"

From the moment he stepped onto this golden giant ship, Hao Ren had maintained contact with the three guardian giants. Rementusa and the others could see all the images taken by the Data Terminal. Obviously, the images left in the surveillance record had also deeply shocked the three guardians, especially Muru, who knew Vivian: "Are you sure that the woman born from the Source Blood in the picture just now is the person by your side?"

Before Hao Ren could say anything, Rementusa's voice followed closely: "Do you know who she is?!"

"Of course, I know," Hao Ren replied casually, "She's living at my place now, named Vivian, and her current identity is a blood clan ancestor on Earth."

"At your place?!" Rementusa's voice sounded unusually excited, "I want to see her! She should be the key left by the Mother, she must have some important information to convey to us..."

"Unfortunately, I'm afraid it's useless even if you meet," Hao Ren had to pour cold water on Rementusa, "She doesn't know her origins at all, all her memories are gone, and she doesn't know her relationship with the goddess at all. If I hadn't investigated everywhere, she wouldn't even know that she came from the Dream Plane."

Rementusa's words were choked back before he could say them. Hao Ren had to make a promise: "I will bring her next time I come to this world, but don't have too much hope. Muru has already met Vivian, and he can testify that he can't feel any aura of the creation goddess from Vivian."

"Vivian..." Rementusa could only sigh slightly, "Okay, I understand."

Hao Ren temporarily hung up the communication. He then came to the dead rebel commander and squatted down to check the condition of the corpse: "How long has this person been dead?"

The Data Terminal scanned the condition of the corpse and roughly estimated that the person's time of death was about two to three days ago—Earth standard time. Considering that this galaxy had ten hours that were distorted, Hao Ren was finally able to organize a timeline:

In the last battle before the explosion of the Founding Star, the creation goddess created the prototype of Vivian (that is, that blood-like thing) and sent it to the depths of the universe. But whether it was intentional or something went wrong, the first stop of this blood was the battlefield of the Surun Gate, and it broke into a rebel warship. Subsequently, this warship was abandoned due to "being stared at by the gods." At the same time, Vivian imitated the appearance of a certain female rebel officer and left this world on her own by opening a space gate.

Then the Godslaying War continued, and two days later that key event occurred: the explosion of the Founding Star. The time of the Surun Gate was distorted in the explosion, falling into a strange state of stagnation.

Vivian had already crossed the Wall of Reality before the explosion. Her first stop was the Purgatory Planet located in the cracks of time and space. She blindly performed the first split on that planet and directly transmitted to Earth through the initial Purgatory Gate—if I'm not mistaken, her initial amnesia occurred at that time. After that, her split body saved the world on the Purgatory Planet, while she herself began to wander unconsciously on Earth.

Vivian's wandering lasted for ten thousand years, and at the same time, the Surun Gate was constantly sinking in the mysterious dark domain. In the distorted time and space, this place spent ten hours in the dark domain. To put it exaggeratedly, the rebel officer who was killed by Vivian with blood magic had not even been dead for long.

Hao Ren calculated the formula in his mind for a long time and finally figured out this relationship. He looked up at the empty command hall and couldn't help muttering: "I can't believe it, Vivian just left this place three days ago! Lily, sniff hard, you can probably smell the bloody smell she left three days ago!"

Lily twitched her nose: "But she has been poor on Earth for ten thousand years!"

Hao Ren: "..."

It was fortunate that Vivian was not at the scene, otherwise the big dog and the bat would have fought. This husky girl was just too good at poking Vivian's sore spot.

Hao Ren let the Data Terminal continue to connect to the host of this warship and transmit all the data that could be backed up to the database of the Tortoise Rock Platform. Then he conducted a more thorough exploration of this ship.

Of course, due to the huge size of the golden warship and the complexity of its internal structure, it would take him and the two others a long time to walk through the entire ship on foot. Therefore, after completing the inspection of the core compartment, he handed over the follow-up work to the probes and autonomous machines. While those smart machine assistants walked through the entire spaceship, he left the Data Terminal on this ship and returned to the Tortoise Rock Platform with Lily and Yizaks.

"I want to take this ship back for further research," Hao Ren said to Rementusa, "You and Sif also come with me, let's go to Tanagus together."

Rementusa was extremely resistant to anything made by the rebels, but if it was a trophy brought back from the battlefield, it was a different matter—capturing such a huge command ship was a great honor for any warrior, so he readily agreed and also specifically mentioned: "This is your trophy, this honor belongs to you."

Rementusa was an extremely meticulous person in terms of details, with a personality like a traditional and stubborn warrior, so Hao Ren didn't decline any honor or dishonor with him. He called the Data Terminal left on the golden warship: "How is it? Can the host there be restarted?"

The Data Terminal was still staying in the control hall at this time, connecting itself to the host of the golden warship. Under its control, a large amount of data was being refreshed on the three large light pillars in the hall at an alarming rate, but it looked at this data quite unhappily: "The host of this ship is too fragile and full of loopholes. Vivian shocked the main control system of the spaceship when she opened the gate to the surface world. This machine restarted twice and didn't succeed... This thing probably has physical damage."

Hao Ren noticed that the luminous grids at the tail of the golden warship flickered intermittently a few times. The Data Terminal seemed to be trying to ignite the main engine, but due to the offline warship main control system, its several attempts were unsuccessful.

Hao Ren had no choice but to look at Nolan, who was waiting beside him: "Well... can you be a tugboat?"

Nolan was stunned and looked at the golden giant ship with an external monitor, which was more than ten times longer than her: "...Are you kidding me? I don't have this function!"

Hao Ren thought for a while and felt that this was also true.