Chapter 135 Information Flow

Well, Lily's appearance completely shattered the atmosphere and ambitious plans that Hao Ren had just mustered. This husky's talent for creating chaos was simply heaven-defying. But setting aside that trivial issue, Hao Ren was still quite happy to see her.

Having a partner on this lonely and perilous journey back in time was better than being alone.

What's more, Lily was a very useful partner—if nothing else, her nose had already proven its worth.

Hao Ren took a few seconds to accept the fact that a group of people were playing mahjong and Dou Dizhu outside, then looked curiously at the husky girl with a bright smile: "I still don't understand… how did you get here?"

"I don't know either," Lily scratched her head. "I was sticking paper strips on Hesperiana's face when I felt a blur in front of my eyes, and then a bunch of pictures suddenly flashed through my mind like a movie. Then I opened my eyes and saw you standing in front of me…"

"A bunch of pictures flashed through your mind?" Hao Ren immediately caught the key point. "What pictures?"

"It seemed like I was running around with you in the woods, and then I cooked for you, and then we went to a valley…" Lily's voice lowered as she spoke, obviously thinking of something herself. "Landlord! Are these extra memories real?"

Some vague guesses popped up in Hao Ren's mind: "Those things did happen, but I experienced them with 'the past you' in this distorted space-time. The era should have been in the early part of the last century, when you were still hunting in the Siberian snowfields. It seems that for some unknown reason, you and 'yourself' in this space-time have established a connection, resulting in your consciousness also entering this world and attaching itself to your 'past illusion'. But in theory, I have already performed a rewind again. This rewind will return to the period before Vivian's second-to-last slumber. You were not born in this era, and your projection body shouldn't be able to reach this time node…"

Hao Ren became a little confused as he spoke, but Lily in front of him suddenly looked blank, and then her temperament changed dramatically—Hao Ren keenly felt that she seemed to have changed from a fool to an idiot in that instant.

"Hao Ren, it's me," "Lily" said, her voice that of Raven 12345, "You're something else… You can always come up with something that even I didn't expect. You've only been in there for a short time, and you've already changed the way the sandbox works?"

Hao Ren's forehead was immediately covered in sweat, and he quickly suppressed the disrespectful thoughts in his heart: "Boss? Why is it you?"

"Because I'm awesome—Lily's gone, right?" Raven 12345 said bluntly, not forgetting to brag about herself before getting to the point.

"Yes, I was acting with the historical her before, but somehow she suddenly turned into the Lily from real space-time, and she didn't disappear after I rewinded to the next time node. Instead, she came back with me to who-knows-how-many-hundreds of years ago…"

Hao Ren then told Raven 12345 about the strange situation that had occurred on his side, and finally added his own guess about the matter, as well as the new information he had just obtained from Vivian.

Raven 12345 (with Lily's face) pondered for a moment and nodded slightly: "Well, your guess is roughly correct. I'm observing the information flow in the sandbox and have obtained some evidence that can prove your guess."

"It seems you have a more accurate explanation over there?"

"You have successfully rewinded a time point and liberated a part of Vivian's consciousness from the vortex of memories. This part of her consciousness will return to her control as a fragment of power and begin to resist the historical distortion caused by the evil thought body's resonance. Although your results are still insignificant compared to the entire distorted environment, results are results: it has begun to affect the mirror earth inside the safe sandbox," Raven 12345 explained, "The distortion is alleviated, and the degree of pollution of the mirror earth will also be reduced. The isolation of the entire chaotic space-time will also decrease, which will allow some relatively 'safe' information to enter the sandbox. But the information that can enter the sandbox is not random. It needs to meet certain conditions, such as being related to your actions, such as the information needing a 'receiver,' such as it not causing too much of an impact on the original historical structure of the distorted space-time. It seems that Lily perfectly meets all the conditions, so she was the first to enter."

Hao Ren immediately caught a key word: "'The first'? Do you mean there will be more people coming in?"

"If you can find a second person who meets the conditions and complete the rewind process with them… I think that should give you more helpers, but since only consciousness is transmitted during this process, and physical fitness and equipment cannot be copied, the people who come to help you will probably be greatly reduced in strength—I guess this Lily in front of you definitely won't be able to fire her dog cannon or the Joy of Fire, so you have to pay more attention to this aspect yourself."

Having helpers was already a surprise to Hao Ren, so of course he wouldn't have any complaints. He was just suddenly worried about one thing: "Wait, what if someone who 'sneaks' in through this method accidentally has an accident here?"

"You mean… die on the rewind journey?"

Hao Ren nodded.

Although he was reluctant to bring up this topic, he had to consider this aspect in advance. The rewind journey was full of dangers. The people who came in would have to face the darkest and most chaotic era on earth, and their respective identities would also bring them endless threats out of thin air—a werewolf living in the late mythical era would have an even harder time than ordinary humans, let alone a half-baked werewolf. When he was outside, Hao Ren had a spaceship, a drone swarm, and a bunch of life-saving functions from the Data Terminal, but here he only had a bunch of explosives and supplies in his portable space. What he had to face was almost the malice of the entire world.

Hao Ren himself could easily disguise himself because he was not affected by "innate hostility" at all. As long as he was smart and cautious, there were many ways to protect himself in the dark ages, but once his partners entered the dark ages and the mythical ages, they would be moving time bombs.

Raven 12345 closed her eyes and slowly opened them after a moment: "I can only say, try to be safe—although according to my reasoning, they only enter the mirror earth in the form of consciousness bodies. If they die, they should be 'kicked out' of the sandbox by the security system and will not truly die. But things involving the soul level have always been complicated, and the environment inside the safe sandbox is not so stable. If they really die, there is a possibility that they will come out as idiots or with drastically changed personalities."

Well then, the people who came back to help not only had to be downgraded to a low-profile version with reduced combat power, but they also had to pay attention to safety at all times and not get hurt. Were they here to help or to hinder? He was now grateful that the first stop of his rewind was with Lily instead of Nangong Wuyue and Nangong Sanba. Those siblings were one a coward and the other a weakling. If they went back two hundred years, they would be chopped down as soon as they went out. Lily was better. No matter how low-profile Lily was, she still had some strength and some skills…

Hao Ren's mood was written all over his face, and Raven 12345 could see it at a glance. She curled the corners of her mouth: "You're a little too nervous. Your friends are not children, and you are not their nanny. You should trust them more, at least trust that they have the ability to protect themselves. Seeing your teammates as burdens is not the attitude a qualified captain should have. And rather than worrying about them, you should worry about yourself more: you are entering the safe sandbox with your main body. At the same time, due to the special nature of the safe sandbox, your soul cannot be uploaded in there, and even my communication with you can only be carried out at specific times and locations. Do you know what that means?"

"If I die here, then I'm really dead, right?"

This time it was Raven 12345's turn to be surprised: "You don't seem nervous at all?"

"I always prepare myself before I do anything," Hao Ren shrugged, "I learned about the operating mechanism of the safe sandbox before I came in—I checked the database myself when you were introducing it to me. Don't worry, I definitely won't die in here. I've survived through thick and thin, so if I die in one of Vivian's dreams, people will laugh at me until the next century."

"It's good that you have this awareness," Raven 12345 finally showed an approving smile. She nodded. "Then I should cut off the connection as well. The 'interference' that the safe sandbox can accommodate is limited. Our next conversation will probably have to wait until you have completed another rewind. Oh, you have less than a minute left. If you have any questions, ask them quickly."

"I have one!" Hao Ren's mind suddenly perked up and a question really popped up. He quickly opened his mouth, "Is Lily's main body still outside? How is she doing now?"

"Don't worry, she's fine. Hesperiana is sticking paper strips on her face, and Elizabeth is planning to draw a turtle on her forehead. I'll help stop them when the time is right…"

As Raven 12345 spoke, her voice lowered, and finally her head sank and she completely lost her voice.

After a while, Lily raised her head. Looking at those innocent eyes, Hao Ren knew that the husky girl he knew was back.

He was very hesitant to tell this girl what was happening "outside"…

"Landlord, Landlord, what happened just now?" Lily's eyes focused after looking around, and she jumped in front of Hao Ren and asked eagerly, "I was distracted all of a sudden! My mind went blank! It seemed like a long time… Is it because of that sandbox that my brain has some bad contact?"

The husky's thinking is really amazing. She can even think of the word "bad contact!"