Chapter 1 A Premonition

Despite Hao Ren being quite certain that his series of nightmares were revelations with some kind of prophetic significance, similar dreams had not appeared since he was awakened that night.

He wondered if Vivian's calming soup really had such a great effect—after all, the main ingredients were just common wild herbs and medicinal plants. Aside from being full of good intentions, it really didn't have any actual therapeutic effects. Lily, after drinking half a bowl, was even more energetic until 3:30 AM (mainly because Doudou ate some of the root herbs in the soup). If you said those strange wild vegetable soups could ward off nightmares, even Vivian herself wouldn't believe it.

However, Hao Ren himself took it in stride. Nightmares faded, then they faded. After all, such elusive things, unless they appeared again, couldn't be investigated to any conclusion, even if you found a company of Sherlock Holmes. Moreover, he had also communicated with his fellow Inspectors and learned that these kind of prophetic dreams were not uncommon. It was said that because the Xi Ling pantheon had a true God of Prophecy, any employee affiliated with the Xi Ling system who had anything to do with divinity would more or less develop some prophetic abilities. This prophetic ability was usually unstable and inaccurate. According to the rules he had inquired about, only strong and imminent warnings would produce continuous prophetic dreams. If a prophetic dream only appeared once, it usually meant that the event behind it would occur in the distant future, and the way it occurred would be very different from the dream, or it might not even happen at all.

For vague premonitions, the future was not certain. These dreams only presented a possibility.

Therefore, Hao Ren quickly got rid of the strange dream of that day. He asked the various warning systems in the Dream Plane to pay more attention, and then returned to his immediate work. The immediate task was to find Mimir's missing spaceship.

At Kuiper Station, Hao Ren had an entire port as his "exclusive transportation port," and this port also had some supporting facilities to meet many of his work needs. These ancillary facilities included a control tower next to the berth and two small work-life capsules. Hao Ren cleared one of the general-purpose modules and converted it into a laboratory. This laboratory was built in imitation of the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace's shipboard laboratory. Although it was not as powerful as the research facilities of the Crystal Core Research Station, it was enough to cope with many tasks, such as the analysis of the Gungnir fragments.

Hao Ren brought Yizaks and Vivian to the Kuiper Station laboratory. He left the Gungnir fragments here two days ago, and now the laboratory host should have come to many conclusions. Perhaps he could find a way to restart the Asgardian gate by using the resonance relationship between the Gungnir fragments. The main reason for bringing the old demon and Vivian instead of others was that these were the only two reliable people left at home...

"The material and process report of this metal has been sent to the analysis console," the data terminal flew busily between a large pile of equipment, and when it was not arguing with Hao Ren, it was very conscientious in fulfilling its work as an assistant. "Look at it yourself, it's easy to understand."

The Gungnir fragment obtained from Hela was suspended on the zero-gravity platform in the center of the laboratory. The silver, glittering spear tip slowly rotated in the pale blue binding beam. Sparks jumped from the metal surface from time to time. This was because the system had just tried to charge it, trying to figure out which time and space its unknown energy had dissipated into. In front of the zero-gravity platform, a set of holographic projections was displaying the information Hao Ren needed.

"A brand new process, not currently registered. Not from Holletta, nor from Tanagrus or Siren technology. Judging only from the material, the strength of Gungnir's spear tip is about the same as the most solid material of the Tanagrus people..." Hao Ren muttered to himself while looking at the information, "It looks like a Dream Plane species we haven't contacted yet. There are no traces of civilization close to the 'Asgardian Protoss' on several ecological planets that have been discovered in the Dream Plane."

"This once again confirms that Earth is indeed the concentration point of the 'Great Transmigration'. Wanderers from all corners of the Dream Plane eventually gathered on Earth," Yizaks said with his arms folded. "Can you find the signal response of other fragments of this 'Gungnir'?"

"No," the data terminal answered very directly, "Previously, this unit had the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace conduct an overall detection of the Earth, but no traces of the Yggdrasil space chain were found. It is preliminarily determined that those alien spaces should have drifted away from the Earth. Now the equipment can still detect unknown information resonance from the Gungnir fragments, which shows that other fragments do exist, but they should be hidden outside the Earth... Perhaps we should expand the search range and scan the entire solar system."

"Need a big antenna..." Hao Ren looked up not far away, through a transparent barrier window on the outer wall of the laboratory, he could see the vast starry sky outside, and a small part of the space station structure under the starry sky. "The antenna of the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace is not suitable for this. I'm afraid we have to requisition the space station's equipment. This is the solar system transportation hub, and its antenna should be able to cover the entire galaxy."

Thinking about it, Hao Ren quickly connected to the special communication channel with the upper level of the space station, and the face of the old stationmaster of the space station appeared on the communicator. The old man was full of energy in his military uniform: "Inspector, what are your requirements?"

Hao Ren roughly explained the situation he encountered to the other party, and said that he needed a high-power scanning antenna: preferably one that could directly scan the entire solar system. The old stationmaster agreed to this request very readily, and even said that the antenna could be ready within half an hour, and Hao Ren could use it as much as he wanted, anyway, no one else wanted to use the antenna.

This surprised Hao Ren very much.

"Shouldn't this kind of antenna be a very important piece of equipment," he looked at the old stationmaster a little surprised, "Why does it sound like it's been idle all the time."

"It's idle," the old stationmaster spread his hands with a wry smile, "The communication array of Kuiper Station was built by the Philyale Void Consortium's outsourcing engineering department, including that super giant antenna..."

Hao Ren was even more puzzled: "What's wrong with the Philyale Consortium building it?"

"Those profiteers," the old stationmaster sighed and looked at the sky, "Have you heard of their promotional gift packs..."

Hao Ren: "..."

"That antenna has only been used once since it was installed, that is, it was tested after the installation two hundred years ago, and then no one touched it: That thing is too tm powerful. The construction team responsible for the installation told me when they left that it was the first time in their lives that they had seen a wifi that could split mountains and rocks, and it was also the first time they had seen someone really buy this thing..."

Hao Ren: "..."

How didn't he notice that this old stationmaster was such an interesting person before?

But nothing else, he now 100% believes that the antenna of Kuiper Station is definitely enough! Even if it's civilian!

Inspectors were staff of the Xi Ling pantheon, but they did not always use the things distributed by the Space-Time Administration. As a group of "special service personnel" who moved on the boundary between gods and people, requisitioning civil equipment was also a very important part of their work: This not only required the Inspector's own judgment ability, but also required their contacts and influence in the mortal world, which could be said to be an important indicator to measure their work ability. Although Kuiper Station was supported by the Xi Ling pantheon behind it, it was still a civilian space station, and its stationmaster was also a demobilized soldier, so Hao Ren also requisitioned a civil resource.

Soon he found that he really requisitioned a big guy.

Along with a shaking that made the main body of the building tremble slightly, the largest of the cylindrical structures of Kuiper Station slowly opened from the middle. After the heavy alloy protective shell retreated to both sides, a huge, formed by a series of curved metal twists, emerged from the darkness. It was one kilometer high, and its shape was like a strange mass of thorns. Stars of light wandered on the complex metal structure, and its interior seemed to contain endless energy.

This was the most powerful active scanning antenna in the solar system—strongly recommended by the Philyale Void profiteers. Although you don't know what the super antenna that can melt asteroids is for, this does not prevent the super-powerful salespersons from forcibly installing this thing on your roof.

Warranty for three hundred years, oh—but no refunds of any kind are accepted.

This huge active scanning antenna has been installed on the main tower of Kuiper Station for two hundred years, and now it is the first time it has really come in handy. Hao Ren is not sure how those profiteer salesmen managed to trick a civil aviation station into installing such a military-grade sensor, but he found that this thing is really easy to use: It reserves countless compatible communication protocol interfaces, even including the conversion protocol with the Xi Ling Empire standard signals, official version.

The Philyale Void Consortium has cooperated with the Xi Ling pantheon for ten thousand years, which is indeed not bragging. Their low-authority communication system even allows direct docking.

This saves a lot of effort in debugging the equipment, and the data terminal no longer needs to install a conversion protocol in the laboratory host. Hao Ren directly connects the analysis console of the Gungnir fragments to the main communication line of the space station, and quickly achieves signal synchronization with the giant antenna.

"Now..." Hao Ren put his hand on the main start end, "Let's see where Odin died."