Chapter 12345

Duya 12345 suddenly blurted out these words, which would certainly make anyone who heard them think that this goddess was either joking or covering up some real purpose. However, Hao Ren could be 100% sure that the goddess was sighing from the bottom of her heart and had only observed Loresa's hair just now…

After all, a fellow who could use chopsticks to argue with the inspectors sent by his superiors to the point of almost killing them—what couldn't she do?

"Ahem," Hao Ren coughed twice to ease the awkwardness and to draw the attention of the volunteers, who had been momentarily stunned, back to him. "Boss, let's not study the hair. Don't you think it's time to give them a check-up as planned? These folks came from the Dream Plane to participate in the experiment, and…"

He was only halfway through his sentence when he saw the wisps of blue smoke still rising from the "God Realm Palace" not far ahead. A strange expression immediately crossed his face, and he swallowed back the rest of his words, temporarily changing his mind. "Uh, if the conditions here aren't suitable, I'll just take them back for now, and we'll come back after you fix the house."

"It's fine, it's fine, no problem," Duya 12345 waved her hand, then stepped out of the light column—the holographic projection instantly transforming into reality. "The house is just a place to live. All my important things are in the safe zone."

Hao Ren's first reaction was that the goddess had moments of careful planning. His second reaction was that this was probably a habit formed from too many house explosions. His third reaction was, holy crap, the goddess actually listed her own house as an unsafe zone. How skilled was she at blowing things up?!

The volunteers behind him also had colorful expressions after hearing the goddess's words. However, at this moment, Duya 12345 had already arrived in front of them. With a casual snap of her fingers, a portal filled with blue light instantly opened before them. Light and shadows flickered on the other side of the portal, vaguely revealing a large, white building.

"This is my lab," Duya 12345 gestured for Hao Ren to lead the others through the portal. "Everything is ready."

After passing through the portal, not only were the volunteers shocked by the magnificent scene before them, but even Hao Ren himself was momentarily stunned. He had no idea that Duya 12345's God Realm hid such a place. Behind the portal lay an extremely vast, immeasurable chaotic space. The boundaries of the space churned with deep mists, which seemed to conceal countless operating objects. The ground, paved with black crystal, stretched out beneath their feet and gradually disappeared into the rolling mists in the distance. In the center of this chaotic space, a huge white tower stood alone on the black crystal ground, magnificent and unparalleled.

The white tower had a graceful, curved exterior. Golden lines were interspersed on the pure white walls in a harmonious pattern. It gradually narrowed from its base upwards, but expanded again near the top of the tower, forming a unique shape. Above the white tower, three enormous crystals revolved around the tower, and the space between the crystals was filled with complex and profound magical runes. These runes were in a constant state of mysterious evolution, as if they contained the endless truths and mysteries of the universe—Hao Ren felt a dizzy spell wash over him after just one glance.

"Oh, you noticed those runes and crystals too?" Duya 12345 said with a smile, noticing Hao Ren's reaction.

"What are those things?" Hao Ren rubbed his temples. "They make my head spin."

"No idea," Duya 12345 said, crossing her arms. "I downloaded a theme pack from the internet a few days ago. I saw that it had a lot of likes, so I installed it in my lab."

Hao Ren: "…"

And here he was, racking his brains trying to come up with a profound explanation!

Then, Hao Ren stopped paying attention to any hidden meaning behind the spectacular and beautiful white tower and just lowered his head, leading the team to follow Duya 12345 into this "Celestial Lab."

The white tower had a strange and marvelous spatial structure. Hao Ren guessed that many complex space expansion settings were used in this building, so that each part had internal dimensions and structures different from what could be seen from the outside. Magnificent halls were connected one after another, and all kinds of rooms and corridors with no apparent purpose were connected like a maze. Upside-down, tilted suspension bridges, ladders, and ramps sometimes floated directly in the air, and solitary doors stood abruptly at the end of these passages. Opening those doors that stood in the air would reveal one huge laboratory after another, or vast, strange spaces—it was as if this tower contained endless "territory," and the whole world could be crammed inside.

In addition to this marvelous spatial structure, faint blue, luminous humanoids could be seen everywhere within the white tower. They shuttled between the doors, while others maintained the rune facilities on the corridors and long bridges. These creatures, who looked like smaller versions of "Big Blue," should be Duya 12345's lab assistants. They likely lived in this giant tower permanently.

Duya 12345 also seemed to be deliberately showing off her proud laboratory, so she did not prevent everyone from opening the nearby doors when passing through the corridors and ramps, only reminding them not to step inside casually. This reminder was soon thoroughly enforced: when Bai Huo curiously opened a small, scarlet door, they saw that there was an endless sea of fire filling the entire space behind the door. The sea of fire was actually thousands of kilometers away from the door, but the flames spewing from its surface were almost enough to "lick" everyone standing at the door. Even with the protection of a layer of restriction, Bai Huo felt that the temperature of the fire wall seemed sufficient to vaporize a person instantly.

That wasn't a "fire wall"; it was a star—a star that had been placed in the lab for various tests!

No one else had the idea of crossing those doors to satisfy their curiosity.

Hao Ren marveled at this incredible laboratory, shaking his head and muttering, "Now I wouldn't be surprised if I opened a door and saw a galaxy. You dare to put anything in this lab."

"I do," Duya 12345 said casually. "The third room on your left is the Delta-33 test galaxy, even bigger than the Andromeda Galaxy."

Hao Ren: "…This project is really exciting!"

Duya 12345 shrugged. "No choice. I signed up for a creation god cram school a while ago, and I realized how hard it was when I started classes. I had to catch up quickly, or I'd lose face."

Hao Ren: "…"

He just wanted to exclaim: God is taking cram school at home, how magnificent!

After walking for a long time in this incredible white tower, Duya 12345 finally led everyone to stop in front of a white wooden door that floated in mid-air. The door was a dozen centimeters above the ground and seemed to have no frame or room behind it, but Hao Ren would not think that opening this door would reveal nothing behind it.

"Okay, we're here," Duya 12345 said as she casually pushed open the door. "This is the special observation room prepared for you."

The door opened, revealing a rather empty hall. Hao Ren had originally thought that there would be a lot of testing equipment and hibernation pods inside, but there was nothing in the hall except for a few crystal prisms that extended from the floor and connected directly to the ceiling. In contrast, a thin mist always floated in the room, looking particularly strange.

This was quite different from what Hao Ren had initially imagined.

The volunteers had been deeply shocked by what they had seen along the way, and at this moment, they followed Duya 12345 into the room without any questions. Bai Huo curiously looked at the empty place and finally couldn't help but ask, "We're going to have a 'physical examination' in this place?"

"This is not quite the same as the 'inspection' in my impression," Loresa looked a little nervous. After all, she was just a clone of the Elf Queen, and the sophistication and personality she inherited were not as stable as they seemed on the surface. "What do you want us to do?"

"You don't have to do anything. Just stand here," Duya 12345 said with a smile. "Later, I will transform your form of existence. You will definitely recover safely after this process is over, so don't worry about anything. During the transformation process, you may find that your perception of the outside world has changed. You will have some super-experiential, even hyperdimensional senses. These perceptual experiences will be of great help to your exploration in the magical field—it can be regarded as a reward for your cooperation in this experiment."

"Transform our form?" Bai Huo frowned. "Won't we turn into something weird…"

Duya 12345 shook her head. "No, because in fact, you will completely break away from the concept of visible entities—let's go!"

At the moment when the goddess finished speaking, ten experimental participants, including Loresa, were simultaneously enveloped in a halo of light. Some of them seemed to want to say something, but in the next second, they instantly turned into balls of expanding and contracting dust, and then gradually dissipated into the air.

The ten volunteers disappeared out of thin air.

Hao Ren certainly knew that the experiment arranged by Duya 12345 would not harm these people, but he was still startled by this scene. "I'll go… if I hadn't known in advance, I would have thought this was a lab accident!"

Duya 12345 glared at him, while waving her hand to outline runes in the air, and said casually, "Who do you think I am? How could there be a lab accident?"

Hao Ren thought that just based on the goddess's big house reconstruction record, her words were truly heartfelt, but considering that he really couldn't withstand her ball lightning, he held back for a long time and still didn't say it. He had to change the subject: "Is the inspection starting now?"

"Actually… the results can be said to have already come out," Duya 12345 slowly showed a subtle expression on her face. "Interesting, very interesting…"