Chapter 1409 A Door

Although the goddess looked as unreliable as ever, she was indeed prepared for everything happening now – when Raven 12345 mentioned a "door," Hao Ren realized that this matter had never been out of the control of this mentally challenged god from the start.

Of course, there were bound to be a few minor accidents, otherwise Raven 12345 wouldn't have been muttering about her year-end bonus while leading the way. Speaking of year-end bonuses, why hadn't this year's been issued yet?

Hao Ren followed behind Raven 12345, his mind wandering with these random thoughts. They passed through the central corridor of the mansion, through the withered and desolate courtyard behind the mansion, and finally stood before a tall tower.

Hao Ren was very familiar with this tower. This tower, with its complex and ornate structure, yet standing independently from Raven 12345's mansion, was the most eye-catching building after entering the "God Realm." It was located behind the mansion, seemingly close to it, but in reality, a garden and a wide, straight road separated the two. Hao Ren had visited the God Realm many times, but he had never entered this tower, so he always felt that this tower must be a very special building with some significant function, which was why the goddess never opened it to the public.

But in reality, there was nothing inside this tower. It was filled with hazy mist and light, and a narrow spiral staircase was the only visible entity in the mist. The mist swirling around the staircase made people nervous, as if a single misstep would lead to some irredeemable abyss. However, besides these, there was nothing else to pay attention to in this tower.

"You will only see what you are meant to see, and this tower will only present what it is meant to present," Raven 12345 said casually, leading the way. She seemed to notice Hao Ren's slight confusion. "We must travel on foot to the place we are going because it is the deepest part of spacetime. Anyone other than myself must take this path to get there. This tower is actually a transfer station from my 'God Realm' to various places. These 'various places' not only refer to various locations in the universe, but also every 'layer' of the world in its mathematical structure, from the most basic data layer to the most incomprehensible formula expression layer, and even to the boundary of the world barrier, all can be reached through this tower."

Lily casually said, "But the road beneath our feet is just a single one..."

"The road is only one, but it leads to any place," Raven 12345 waved her hand. "Alright, we're here."

Hao Ren didn't notice when the long spiral staircase had turned into a straight, upward-sloping ramp, nor did he notice when this ramp had reached its end. It seemed that as soon as Raven 12345 finished speaking, his eyes suddenly opened up, the mist dissipated, and a vast and boundless space was presented before everyone.

This vast space was as limitless as the deep cosmos, but instead of stars filling the dark space, there were mysterious and difficult-to-understand symbols and formulas composed of symbols. There were also a large number of things made of light, resembling mechanical bodies, flying back and forth between these symbols, seemingly maintaining this "digital starry sky." Only one platform in the vast space was a place where people could set foot. This platform floated at the end of the ramp, and Hao Ren saw a huge vortex spinning in the sky above the platform. That vortex looked particularly familiar!

It seemed to be formed from a black and red cloud, constantly bursting with lightning and flames as it churned. The surrounding air was filled with black and red mist leaking out, and countless phantoms vaguely emerged like nightmares under the swirling mist...

Hao Ren thought hard for a moment before suddenly realizing when he had seen this vortex before: it was when he had taken a group of "volunteers," including Lolisa, to visit the God Realm. At that time, Raven 12345's mansion exploded in front of a group of demon hunters and ancient races, and behind Raven 12345's image was this vortex! At that time, the goddess had also explained that she was carrying out some small safety preparation work...

So she was preparing this at that time?

"Looks familiar?" Raven 12345, of course, saw the change in Hao Ren's expression. Her cheeky smile remained consistent. "That's right, this is what I was messing with when I blew up the house last time..."

This goddess didn't seem embarrassed at all.

Everyone stepped onto the platform and found that it was indeed not as simple as just a vortex floating in the air: there were other things here.

On the ground below the vortex, a huge, complex, and dizzying magic array was slowly operating. At each node on the edge of this magic array, there was a crystal container more than one person tall. The crystal container flickered with red light, which was the evil entities that Raven 12345 usually collected!

"This is..." Hao Ren couldn't help but ask after seeing the crystal pods sealed with evil entities. Although he had already guessed that he would see evil entities, he didn't expect to see them in this place, in this form: were these evil entities part of this vast facility?

"I've been studying their resonance phenomenon and trying to interpret something from the resonance. This platform and this vortex are both byproducts of recent research progress," Raven 12345 didn't hide anything. "Originally, I designed it as a control and sealing system. By incorporating most of the evil entity resonance points into the system, the risk of them going out of control could be minimized. But I didn't expect that the largest resonance information source was outside this system, so the sealing part of this system also failed – but other parts can still be used. After some modifications, I retained its control function and redefined the input and output mode of this system according to the frequency of evil entity resonance, which is that vortex. I turned it into a door."

Hao Ren subconsciously responded: "A door? To where?"

"To Vivian's location. Through it, I can send you into those spacetime fragments, and then you can bring Vivian back."

Hao Ren thought for a moment: "Spacetime fragments? Isn't that just Earth?"

"Of course not. What you see on Earth are actually just 'buffer data' generated by the safety system to prevent the world from producing major bugs. The real contaminated areas have already been isolated," Raven 12345 winked, revealing a sly smile. "Did you think that the universe under the Empire's rule is really so lacking in protective measures? In fact, the moment Vivian's power overflowed, the sovereignty hub k2 reacted immediately. The spacetime where Earth was located was instantly frozen and replaced, and then the safety system of this universe created two mirror Earths to withstand this impact. One mirror Earth remained in place to fill in the information lost in this universe after the real Earth disappeared, and the other mirror Earth was isolated to bear the real contamination. Therefore, those chaotic spacetimes produced by evil entity resonance are actually running in a 'sandbox.' What I'm going to send you to is the inside of this 'sandbox.' You people, because of your special connection with me, were not transferred away with the real Earth, but remained in Mirror One."

The little girl Elizabeth, who was standing behind, tiptoeing and looking around, couldn't help but widen her eyes after hearing this string of terms and technical words: "Wow – so amazing!"

Raven 12345 patted her chest: "That's right, what kind of person is this goddess!"

Hao Ren was already familiar with this female psychopath's habit of self-aggrandizement, so he didn't respond to her words at this time, but directly asked: "Then where is the real Earth now? Are the people on Earth still safe?"

Raven 12345 casually took out a small crystal object from her arms and threw it to Hao Ren: "Here, it's here."

Hao Ren broke out in a cold sweat, and after hastily catching the thing, he realized that it was the small crystal object that the goddess had been playing with in her office before. It was an exquisite Rubik's Cube, and in the center of the Rubik's Cube, a beautiful little blue ball was quietly suspended in the crystal.

That was Earth.

There was also a moon floating next to it as a buy-one-get-one-free deal.

Raven 12345 casually explained: "Actually, the safety system only 'captured' Earth at first, but later I saw that it was lonely, so I just threw the moon in as well, anyway, there's no one on it."

Hao Ren: "..."

The hell can you do it "casually"?! Goddess, can you think a little before you do things!

But thinking about it, considering the state of her brain, this was probably the result of thinking...

But no matter what, Hao Ren was relieved to see that the Earth was safe and sound. Although he knew that the nature of this incident was bad and the impact was wide, and the follow-up results were definitely not over, as long as it didn't cause irreparable losses, it would be fine – as for Raven 12345's year-end bonus and performance salary, that was none of his business. Anyway, this tough guy probably hasn't gotten these two items since he started the job.

"So I just need to jump into this vortex, right? Then what? What should I do? How do I find Vivian? After I find her, how should I bring her out? More importantly, am I sure that the one I find is Vivian? What if I run into an evil entity head-on..."

"You have too many questions, can't you ask them one by one?" Raven 12345 glared at him, then waved her hand. "There's a lot of work you need to do. This trip is different from any business trip you've taken before. You'll be embarking on an adventure in unprecedentedly unfavorable circumstances, so there's a lot we need to prepare. But before I tell you these details, there are a few people you need to meet first. Although they can't go with you, their opinions will be very useful to you."

Hao Ren asked curiously, "Who?"

Raven 12345 pointed her chin towards the ramp that everyone had come up earlier: "Well, they just arrived."

Hao Ren turned his head to look and saw the tall blue arcane servant walking onto the platform. Behind the arcane servant were several old acquaintances, including Hesperia and Hasson.