Chapter 136 Damaged

Five silver-white devices that resembled coffins lay silently on the floor. They felt tangible to the touch, making it hard to believe they were created from nothing. Hao Ren was curiously examining the surfaces of these "coffins" to find the controls. However, when he heard Raven 23333's words, he couldn't help but pause. "Worsening? What's worsening?"

"The matter of the Dream Plane. Hasn't 12345 told you yet?" Raven 23333's tone was somewhat surprised. "Oh, it seems she has her own considerations. Then, I shouldn't say too much. Wait for her return and ask her in detail."

Hao Ren opened his mouth, but he held back a bellyful of questions. He pointed to the five silver rectangular boxes. "By the way, how do I move them back? Wouldn't it take up too much space to teleport with them?"

"Use your personal space."

Hao Ren scratched his head. "Um... It hasn't been unlocked yet."

"Not unlocked?" Raven 23333 was very surprised. "I saw on your employee information that your personal space access should already be open. Wait a moment while I check."

As Raven 23333 spoke, she narrowed her eyes and paused for two or three seconds, then revealed a wry expression. "12345 forgot."

Hao Ren, "…I knew it!"

"Well, she often makes this kind of mistake, don't mind it," Raven 23333 said as she snapped her fingers. "I've registered you. Now you have personal space, bound to your soul frequency. You can use it within the Empire and the area covered by the Empire's data network. Open it and take a look. It's the same as using the data terminal, just use mental control. You might feel a little dizzy the first time you use it and not understand the chaotic spatial dimensions, but the data network will assist you with the relevant calculations."

Hao Ren was surprised that this function could be unlocked so quickly. He thought he would have to go through a bunch of procedures and then lie in a coffin for a while, but he didn't expect it to just require registration. Then, with a happy mood, he tried to activate his personal space. Just like when he first opened the data terminal, he carefully concentrated his attention, watching for any changes around him with anticipation and unease. When his mind was completely focused, he felt his perception being drawn into a strange state:

A kind of "empty" extraordinary experience appeared in his mental world. This emptiness was independent of sight, touch, and hearing. It was a pure mental experience that did not belong to the five senses at all. He could clearly realize that he was connected to an empty, strange space, but his human senses could not directly observe this space. Instead, the corresponding sensory experiences entered his mind directly in the form of pure signals.

Hao Ren felt that he didn't need to read any instructions to know how to use this personal space. Raven 23333 was right. The data network would assist in processing certain calculations when taking items in and out. He only needed to designate a sufficiently wide area to perform this operation.

After understanding how to use his personal space, Hao Ren finally felt a genuine sense of excitement. He was also a person with personal space! After working for the gods for so long, he finally had this indispensable convenient skill. It was really not easy. He wouldn't have to carry luggage on business trips in the future...

While Hao Ren was excited here, Raven 23333 looked at him with sympathetic eyes. "It must be hard working for 12345, right?"

Hao Ren hadn't recovered from his excitement, and subconsciously said "Huh?" He then heard Raven 23333 explain in a sighing tone, "Raven 12345 has something wrong with her head. It hasn't gotten better yet."

"Cough cough..." Hao Ren coughed from choking on his own saliva. He looked at 23333 with a strange expression, thinking that these two must have some historical conflict. "I think 12345 is quite nice. Isn't it a bit much for you to say that about her..."

"Don't misunderstand, I have a good relationship with her too. She's my senior," Raven 23333's face didn't show any signs of joking, obviously speaking factually. "It's true that she has mental problems. Her thinking core was damaged when she was fighting on the front lines, but she felt that being mentally disabled didn't affect her work, so she refused to return to the factory for a major overhaul. She's still a bit neurotic."

As she spoke, Raven 23333 sighed. "Alas, since then, she has become a freak among the Ravens. She gave up elegant magic and stubbornly studied how to use technological equipment. Even when fighting, she likes to fight people up close. I heard that she also snatched a ship-cutting sword from someone as a personal weapon, claiming to be a magic swordsman... We have been persuading her not to give up treatment, but she doesn't listen at all."

Hao Ren was dumbfounded at this time. He never expected that he usually jokingly called that goddess sister a female psychopath, but it turned out to be true! He repeatedly confirmed the expression on Raven 23333's face, but he didn't see a trace of joking. As a result, he could only sadly accept this fact: his female boss was indeed a psychopath...

"You guys don't even let go of the disabled," Hao Ren's cold sweat poured from his forehead all the way to his calves. "She's already like this, why is she still coming to work? What about sick leave?"

"Anyway, it doesn't affect her work," Raven 23333 spread her hands. "Actually, her situation isn't too serious. Apart from being occasionally neurotic, she's still relatively qualified in her own job. Don't you think she's pretty normal usually?"

Hao Ren really wanted to take this opportunity to denounce Raven 12345's usual bad attitude at work, so that his neurotic female boss could quickly take a pill to calm down. However, after holding it back for a long time, he still didn't say anything: What if Raven 12345 really cured her brain? He might not be used to it. Hao Ren had already adapted to the goddess sister's unconventional style. If he suddenly changed to a master like 23333 who was serious from beginning to end, he might not be able to accept it...

And more importantly, he wasn't sure if Raven 12345 would hear him complaining here. With the goddess sister's damaged mental state after the war, who knew how she would seek revenge? If there was a reference value for a woman's pettiness, then a goddess should be squared, and a female psychopath should be at least cubed. His boss was both a goddess and a female psychopath, and if she really took revenge, it would be absolutely unbelievably refreshing...

Under the guidance of Raven 23333, Hao Ren used his personal space for the first time very smoothly. Although it was a bit slow to concentrate his mental control, he successfully stored all five hibernation pods. After that, there was nothing else to do. Hao Ren felt that it was better to report work matters to 12345 in person, so he said goodbye and left.

The clouds and thunderstorms outside the house seemed to have weakened a bit. Although the black mist still shrouded the surroundings, the cold wind had stopped. Raven 23333 personally sent Hao Ren to the small square outside the house. When the latter turned back to say goodbye, he noticed a wisp of green smoke rising behind the big house.

Hao Ren remembered the small accident in the equipment room and the distant explosion he heard at the time, realizing that something had indeed been blown up... That's right, it seemed that a hole had been blown in the house!

Hopefully 12345 can accept the fact that her home was blown a hole by her junior after she comes back.

Raven 23333, with a smiling face, stood in front of the "temple" with a hole blown in it and nodded goodbye to him. Hao Ren remembered this scene for a long time.

Although he had convenient teleportation ability, this time Hao Ren didn't choose to teleport home directly, but instead took a detour to the city: he went to the electronic city to buy two things.

A durable mp5, and an equally durable solar charger.

He had to plan this trip to the Dream Plane carefully and do all the preparations he could think of. Hao Ren still remembered that before leaving last time, he was thinking of bringing a music box to that mercenary girl named Becky. After all, he had received care from the girl and hitched a free ride along the way. In the end, he didn't even have time to say thank you, and Hao Ren felt a little guilty. In addition to that, there was the problem of the teeth of those funny black wolves, but he couldn't prepare for this second thing himself, and he had to go home and ask Lily if she had any relevant work experience.

He was a good man with a sense of responsibility.

Then Hao Ren ran to the supermarket and bought a lot of things that might be useful, mostly food and bottled water. He basically emptied his wallet before calling it a day. The large and small packages piled up scared the supermarket cashier. He spent a lot of effort to carry these supplies to a corner where no one was paying attention and then put them all into his personal space. He thought it was a smart thing to store some daily necessities in his personal space.

It was hard to say whether this purchase of his today was because he had just acquired personal space and was having a lot of fun. After all, this guy almost wanted to put the stone lions at the entrance into it when he came out of the supermarket to try it out...