Chapter 279 Lily's Novel

Everyone in the family was shocked to discover what Lily was writing—yet the person in question didn't have the slightest awareness of it. She even thought these guys were making a fuss. In fact, Lily had never hidden her manuscript from the beginning, but her family rarely looked at her when she was writing because everyone thought there was nothing good to see in an article written by a husky...

Now Hao Ren knew, this dog wasn't stupid, really, it was just that others didn't notice when she was using her brain...

But thinking that his adventures around the world had been adapted into a fantasy novel by a husky, and that it was said to be very popular on a certain platform, Hao Ren always felt weird. What was even weirder was that this husky was using the royalties earned in this way to pay rent, long occupying the moral high ground among a group of freeloading tenants... Who could he reason with about this?

Hao Ren struggled with this for a long time, but in the end, he didn't figure anything out—anyway, he couldn't stop Lily from writing anything. And to be fair, after reading Lily's article, he sincerely found that a scholar dog who graduated from Peking University four times was different. Although she was scatterbrained, her writing was still top-notch. If he had to write those stories himself, they would probably be worthless even as waste paper. So this was ultimately a path to wealth that only a literary young woman could master. Moreover, thinking back, it was actually a good thing that someone could record and interpret those stories, even if the protagonist was a husky and the genre was fantasy...

Everyone returned home in the evening, and in the hustle and bustle, night gradually fell without anyone noticing. The lively Hao family mansion gradually returned to silence. From the outside, only Lily's room was still lit—she was preparing to rush to finish her manuscript overnight, the consequences of a two-month hiatus seemed serious...

Hao Ren originally wanted to sort out the mission report this time, but after looking at the time, he pushed it to tomorrow. Completing an epic mission had made him quite tired, inevitably creating the idea of ​​taking a vacation for himself, so after washing up, he went back to his room to sleep early.

But this sleep was not peaceful.

Various bizarre dreams came one after another, and Hao Ren floated in one illusion after another. In a daze, he seemed to see those early memories in the soul fragments of Lockmarton again. Then the light and shadow changed, and he saw the scene of the Goddess of Creation launching the Seed of Origin from the Founding Star. His sight seemed to be tied to those "seeds" flying into the deep space, following them across the cold universe, passing over one star after another, and then taking root on a strange planet, hatching the First Born, creating the first Blood Tide, breeding life, observing the starry sky, and sending various signals to the Goddess of Creation... Then the picture changed again, the sky was pitch black, and an indescribable dark shadow shrouded down. This shadow spanned the entire galaxy, and there was a beating red core inside the shadow. He saw a goddess holding two black long swords rushing towards that shadow, and her figure instantly magnified to almost as huge as the galaxy. He saw the goddess and the shadow swallowed by the explosion together. The original energy of the universe leveled everything. The two figures in the center of the explosion intertwined, melted, and slowly disappeared, leaving only clusters of dark red floating in the darkness. After a while, the sound of rushing water sounded in his ears, and Hao Ren felt as if he was standing by a river. The water in the river was turbulent, and splashes of water splashed from time to time, hitting his face, feeling cool...

The cool feeling became more and more real, and Hao Ren suddenly woke up, realizing that there were indeed water droplets on his face.

He propped himself up and saw Doudou poking her head out of the washbasin on the side table. The little mermaid's hair was wet and stuck to her body, and a pair of beautiful eyes shone brightly in the darkness, reflecting the moonlight, while her tail had just fallen back, bringing up a burst of water.

"Doudou, go to sleep," Hao Ren thought the fish baby was causing trouble by getting up in the middle of the night, so he said casually.

"Doudou is sleeping well!" The little mermaid stirred the water. "But Papa is talking in his sleep!"

"Me? Talking in my sleep?" Hao Ren was stunned. "What did I say?"

"I don't know, it doesn't sound like human language," the fish baby said honestly.

"Doesn't sound like human language..." Hao Ren's expression was a little subtle, but he knew the little guy definitely had no malice, he must have been confused when he was talking in his sleep and couldn't hear clearly at all. He was surprised that he not only had a lot of dreams this time, but even talked in his sleep—since becoming an inspector and accepting physical enhancement, his ability to control his body was no longer what it used to be, and talking in his sleep was really rare.

After getting up and sobering up a little, Hao Ren shook his head and lost interest in sleeping.

He gently pressed the little mermaid's head, told the little guy to go back to sleep obediently, then put on a coat and tiptoed out of the room.

The living room was dim, with only a faint moonlight shining in diagonally, bringing a little hazy brightness to the room. At the other end of the living room, the light could still be faintly seen under Lily's door, and the sound of typing on the keyboard occasionally entered his ears, causing Hao Ren to shake his head with a smile.

It was rare to see the husky so diligent.

Not wanting to disturb others, Hao Ren didn't stay in the living room, but quietly opened the back door and came to the open space behind the house.

In the deep winter, the wild land behind the house was desolate. All the grass and trees had withered, leaving only bare land and dark mountains in the distance. The cold moonlight shone on the ground, giving a hint of the illusion of occasional frost.

Hao Ren just wanted to stand outside for a while, calm down, and then go back, but he hadn't stood for long when he suddenly heard a flapping sound in the night sky.

This undisguised sound was particularly abrupt in the silent night.

Hao Ren looked up and saw a group of small black dots rapidly enlarging in the light of the crescent moon, quickly turning into a dark mass of bats. The bats flew over the open space behind the house, circled twice, and finally condensed into Vivian's figure.

"Just came back from a 'walk'?" Hao Ren waved to Vivian.

"Went for a fly around nearby," Vivian floated to Hao Ren as lightly as a cloud of mist. "What are you doing? In a bad mood? Having weird dreams again?"

Hao Ren was just thinking about how to explain the problem of him basking in the moonlight in the middle of the night when he heard Vivian's concerned question, and he couldn't help being stunned: he didn't expect the other party to know him so well.

"I did have a dream again," Hao Ren nodded. "I can't sleep a bit."

"You have a lot of pressure," Vivian looked into Hao Ren's eyes. "Don't lie, I can see it—I've lived for ten thousand years, after all, and I haven't lived on a dog like Lily."

Looking at Vivian's earnest scarlet eyes, Hao Ren finally couldn't get away with it. He nodded, his expression a bit depressed: "You saw it—the truth I found in Koro this time touched me quite a bit, and the weird dreams I had just now are probably related to those things."

"Because you suddenly learned that the Goddess of Creation may be the initiator of the God-slaying plan? Or because the Lord of Mad Whispers may be more difficult to deal with than expected?"

"Both," Hao Ren nodded. "But more of it is a kind of subversion... Many previous inferences have been subverted at once, making me feel that things are a bit out of control. You know, I don't like things that are out of control."

"In my opinion, the Goddess of Creation's plan was out of control from the beginning—it was out of control when she decided to use isolating memories to seal the Lord of Mad Whispers," Vivian sighed. Although she knew that the "out of control" Hao Ren was talking about was another aspect, she still brought the topic to the Goddess of Creation, "I don't think she ever successfully sealed those memories, although she herself is not aware of it, those memories have probably been affecting her all the time."

Hao Ren looked at Vivian curiously: "What did you see?"

"The warden of Koro and the guardian giants outside look very similar in other aspects except for the 'material'. The crystal disc of Koro is obviously the predecessor of the golden disc, and the 'Ark of the Covenant' engine, no matter how you look at it, looks like the original version of the Creation Engine... If the Goddess of Creation really completely sealed her memories, how did she create those second-generation things? So I think all the memories of the last era have always been hidden in her subconscious, and these 'subconscious' that have not been completely cleared are probably the culprit that led to the final deterioration of the situation."

Vivian stated her thoughts one by one, her blood-red eyes full of seriousness, obviously she had also been thinking about these things seriously.

"I didn't expect you to think so much..." Hao Ren said sincerely.

Vivian smiled: "So what I want to tell you is that you are not the only one facing these things, at least I am here to share them with you."

Then she added, as if to change the subject: "In fact, even that confused dog who is confused all day long sometimes asks me to discuss things about the Dream Plane, but her opinions are usually not very helpful... They all come from her divergent novelist's thinking."

Hao Ren smiled: "Lily usually thinks about these things too? I really didn't expect that."

"She thinks about a lot of things," Vivian curled her lips. "It's just that most of her ideas can't be understood by normal people like us."

Hao Ren thought to himself, are there really normal "people" in this big house? But after thinking about it, he didn't say it, just nodded to Vivian very seriously: "Thank you, I feel much better now. Don't worry, I've seen big scenes after all, and I won't be scared by this little trouble."

"Since you're relieved, then hurry back to sleep," Vivian blinked, her eyes returning to the human form of black. "Do you need me to hypnotize you?"

Hao Ren chuckled: "Have you forgotten that your blood magic doesn't work on me?"

Vivian raised her fist and shook it, revealing a bit of a sly smile: "Kinetic hypnosis then."

Hao Ren: "..."