Yuan Tong

Chapter 272 Return Journey

Chapter 12345 A Gift from the Goddess

No one expected that Raven 12345 would leave such an easter egg on the planet she created—of course, it’s estimated that the female lunatic herself had forgotten about it. Anyway, Raven didn’t mention it when Hao Ren was bringing a billion people here. Now, this planet was activated due to the large influx of intelligent creatures. As long as you stood within the atmosphere and looked up at the sky, no matter where you were on the planet, those enormous words covering the sky would fill the center of your retina. And soon, Hao Ren discovered something even more infuriating: you couldn’t even avoid watching it. Once those words started playing, they would constantly block your vision, and you’d see everything with a watermark until the manual finished scrolling...

"Welcome, intelligent creatures, to this planet. Detecting that the occupants are an exogenous group, switching to display the second set of product instructions. This planet was created by the mostly great, glorious, and correct Imperial Commander, professional goddess, and apprentice planet shaper, Raven 12345. Average radius: 9000 kilometers. Surface gravity: calculate it yourselves. Rotation period: measure it yourselves. Stellar parameters: forgot, but they should be very stable. The nearby star chart should be stored in the Creator's Secret Chamber in the mantle layer, but it seems to have a password. In short, this planet has pleasant scenery and a wonderful environment. It has harmonious relations with surrounding celestial bodies and will not experience cosmic disasters. The planet comes with an IV-type carbon-based adaptive atmosphere and a catalytic ecological structure. See the appendix for basic land parameters. See the appendix for current planet resource categories and reserves. I forgot the resource extraction guide, but I think intelligent races that can migrate to other planets should have the ability to develop it themselves. All of the above data are parameters from when the planet was created. Please forgive me for not providing further notice of changes due to the wonders of nature. Sincerely, from the mostly great, glorious, and correct goddess, Raven 12345."

"Note: If quality problems are found on the planet, please use faith and courage to overcome them. This planet is not registered in the Imperial Star Repository. It is a personal, amateur handicraft and cannot be guaranteed for repairs, returns, or exchanges. What are you gonna do about it?"

Raven 12345's message finally finished playing. Following it was a scrolling display of files such as tables listing the planet's resources and other celestial body parameters. At the same time, a signal that could be received by various antenna equipment began to echo in the atmosphere, also playing the planet's parameters. Hao Ren covered his head and squatted on the ground, pretending to study the stones, crouching side-by-side with Lily, who was actually studying the stones, like two huskies. Hilda's voice came over after a dozen seconds: "Um... are you alright?"

"I'm fine, just want to find someone to die with—too bad I can't beat her," Hao Ren muttered in a muffled voice. "I finally accomplished something big... can't she just let me finish properly?... This scene will definitely be recorded in your history."

Hilda stared blankly at the beach, seeing a large group of elves who were just as blankly reacting. However, the experts and scholars among them didn't dwell in this atmosphere for long. They quickly realized how important what was being broadcast was, and hurriedly called out to their assistants and colleagues who hadn't reacted yet, rushing towards various recording devices to record those crucial tables before the manual finished its loop.

"Look," Hilda pulled Hao Ren up. "These things are of great value to us. Although you may think the way they appeared isn't very serious... they are truly another gift to my people."

Hao Ren mumbled an "oh" in a daze. He really hadn't expected that the things Raven 12345 left behind so unseriously would be recorded so seriously by these elves. And in the future—just as Hilda said, it was these data that allowed the Erem Elves to safely survive the first winter of the great migration. After all, this migration was too hasty. Apart from the simple planet scan report that the Data Terminal had left last time, everyone hadn't conducted a detailed survey here. The elves would have originally had to spend several years or even decades to rebuild their industry and figure out the various characteristics of this planet, but now Raven 12345 had filled this critical gap for them.

In the following days, Hao Ren stayed at the beach camp with these elves until the fleets had shuttled back and forth more than a dozen times, transporting all personnel and supplies to their destination. Only then did the great migration finally come to an end. He and Lily and the others had been of great help here. Lily and Izaak, these two super laborers, went without saying, and Vivian even used her blood magic to help solve local diseases several times, and helped the Erem medical experts develop various solutions to deal with new environmental microbial infections.

These treatment plans had already been sent back to the research institutions on Darksea Island and would soon be promoted to all immigrants. The alien disease problem that had been most worried about at the beginning didn't seem so terrible anymore.

Hao Ren felt very strange about this, because the vampires in his impression seemed to be associated with plagues and poisons. Blood magic was mostly used for causing diseases and poisoning. Vivian had indeed mentioned before that other blood clans never knew any healing spells, but she herself inexplicably had very clever medical skills. Her blood power could indeed kill and take lives like normal blood clans, but from the beginning she had another ability: to reverse blood magic and use it to infuse vitality into the target.

Hao Ren very cautiously confirmed again and again whether other vampires had such abilities. Vivian flatly denied this: other blood clans were not only not interested in treating diseases and saving people, they couldn't even master this non-mainstream blood magic at all. Some younger blood clan members had wanted to learn Vivian's healing power, but later they discovered that their blood itself was poisonous and could not be reversed into vitality at all.

Despite being incredible, Vivian could indeed make her blood complete the transformation from death to life.

Hao Ren studied this for a long time without any progress, so he simply stopped thinking about it. Anyway, the strange quirks of the people around him were countless, and who would have the time to study them one by one?

As for Hao Ren himself, his role was mainly to command the autonomous machine clusters on the Petrified Turtle Rock. Those mechanical tentacle monsters only listened to the captain's orders, and no one else could replace this work. Thanks to the autonomous machine clusters' incredible labor efficiency and magical material transformation ability, the construction progress of the camp on the beach was very rapid. A few days later, when the last batch of immigrants arrived above the planet, it had already transformed from a simple camp at the beginning into a decent settlement—it could even be called a town. The Erem mages reshaped the geological foundation of the beach and moved the entire camp a lot towards the forest. Some of the buildings were even simply moved into the forest. The elves didn't harm the valuable ancient trees in the forest, but only cleared the forest clearings and some vines. They found the ways in which their ancestors coexisted with nature in ancient materials, and strived to reproduce those things on this planet with lush forests: the instinct to live in harmony with nature has been flowing in the blood of the elves, and thousands of years of oppressed life in steel cities have failed to obliterate it. Now, hastily built simple houses can be seen everywhere on the beach. The originally open-air magic-conducting reactors have been moved to the newly built town energy station, and the energy-conducting pipelines have also been re-planned and buried underground. The building materials for these facilities come partly from the dismantled building materials transported by the immigration fleet from the old Erem island chain, and partly from the transformation of the surrounding stones: anyway, they are temporary buildings, enough to use for a while.

Now, more and more elves are being transferred from orbit to the ground. Some people live on Darksea Island and the remaining ten ecological domes, while the rest have formed twenty major settlements in various parts of the planet's continent. The immigration fleet has also transported the spaceships manufactured by the Erem elves. Many of these spaceships are atmospheric general-purpose models, and they can be responsible for the communication tasks of various settlements.

Vim came to the beach settlement with the last batch of immigrants—this settlement has been named "City of Stars". This is the name of the capital of the legendary first dynasty of Erem, which was also the first large city with historical records built by the Erem elves after they left the forest. Although this place is now just a simple town, it will soon become a prosperous capital. Hao Ren and Hilda greeted the young Erem Regent in front of the new city's simple town hall. In addition to bringing the last batch of immigrants, the latter also brought a huge intra-atmosphere transport ship.

Vim was also amazed by the scenery of his new home, but he had previously received the video data sent back by Hilda, so his reaction was better than others.

"I brought the Prow World server," Vim pointed to the large transport ship landing on the sea surface. "All data is temporarily frozen."

"We can restart the server when the energy level of the city energy center is raised by one level," Hilda nodded, then sighed. "The most regrettable thing is those elves who entered the Prow World in the last batch... and Cardilan."

"They could have waited just one more month to welcome the great migration," Vim's expression dimmed. "They left a step too early."

Hilda didn't want to continue this heavy topic: "The Land of Bliss organization has already explained how to open the data blockade zone. We will soon be able to see them again in the Prow World. We must trust our scholars. They will always find a solution—perhaps one day the elves in the Prow World can reshape their bodies, or find a way to make them perceive the real world."

The last few immigration ships were preparing to leave this star system. Captain 883 sent a contact signal from space. He said goodbye to Hao Ren and the Erem elves, and promised to send a batch of agreed-upon relief supplies soon. Hao Ren found that there was nothing he could do here for the time being, so he also said goodbye to Hilda.

"I will leave an autonomous machine here. You can contact me through it," Hao Ren pointed to the small square not far away. A mechanical octopus was using its tentacles to fly around with several excited elven children, next to the children's slightly worried but helpless parents. "Keep in touch. Notify me as soon as possible if there are any problems here. You are always welcome to come to Earth if you want. I can still treat three or five people."

Hilda smiled: "Say hello to the Goddess for me. I will visit again when things here are finished."

A dozen minutes later, the Petrified Turtle Rock roared into the sky and disappeared from Hilda's sight.

Vim thought for a while, and suddenly remembered something: "Mother, have you forgotten your body again?"

Hilda: "..."