Chapter 1607 Star Chart's Secret

Vivian, who was cooking in the kitchen, also rushed out to see what was happening when she heard the commotion in the living room. After learning the truth about the two star charts, she and Hao Ren looked at the fully assembled star chart, lost in thought.

Everything seemed to make sense.

Looking at the merged star chart before him, Hao Ren's first thought wasn't about the value of the chart itself, but a sudden understanding of the cause and effect of everything.

The star chart was composed of two parts—one part was stored deep within Vivian's soul, with the red crystal in the realm of consciousness and the red moon in the real world as its carriers. Regardless of its storage method, it was undoubtedly a part of Vivian's own memory. The other part was on the Plane of Hell, initially discovered in the pyramid ruins of the Solar Dynasty on the Plane of Hell.

Since the second part of the star chart was found in the ruins of the Solar Dynasty, everyone had likely fallen into a misunderstanding: everyone thought that the star chart was a legacy of the Solar Dynasty, a database left by the previous civilization on the Plane of Hell. But in reality... the star chart was probably not left by the Solar people at all.

It was left by Vivian's twin—the demon god Vivian who remained on the Plane of Hell.

During the world collision ten thousand years ago, the Goddess of Creation cast a divine avatar towards the surface world. This divine avatar landed on the Plane of Hell and underwent its first split. One half transformed into a demon god, remaining on the Plane of Hell and helping the survivors on that planet to survive the cataclysm. It then fell into slumber, became completely corrupted, and was eventually destroyed by Hao Ren. The other half fell to Earth and became the Vivian of today. From this, it was easy to imagine that Vivian and the evil thought entity of the demon god each carried half of the original divine avatar's power and memory. Thus, everything was explained: they each inherited half of the star chart.

After Hao Ren thought of this, Vivian immediately connected it to the same thing. A complex expression appeared on her face: "...That evil thought entity on the Plane of Hell... she preserved the second star chart. And we always thought that the star chart was left by the Solar Dynasty."

"It seems that she did these things during that brief period when she temporarily maintained her sanity on the Plane of Hell," Hao Ren sighed. "Although she was eventually completely corrupted, before losing her mind, she did everything she could: she gave the star chart to the Solar Dynasty, letting them try their best to preserve it; she built a seal for herself, preventing herself from losing control for ten thousand years; she destroyed the Eldest's neural center, protecting the last batch of lives on that planet. Tsk... one really has to admire her."

Vivian breathed a sigh of relief: "One half... Perhaps I myself almost went down the same path as that evil thought entity back then. I just don't know what changes happened to me, that I slowed down my rate of being corrupted by constantly splitting myself. Thinking about it that way, I think I'm actually quite lucky."

Lily looked at Vivian as if she had seen a ghost (actually, saying she had seen a ghost wasn't wrong): "This must be the first time in your life that you've felt lucky!"

"At least I'm much luckier than that 'one half' on the Plane of Hell," Vivian glanced at Lily provocatively. "I knew it, all those amulets I usually collect are effective! See what you have to say this time!"

Hao Ren: "No... I don't think that's the reason... Forget it, the reason isn't important. What's important is that we have the star chart now, the transformation guidance data has been repaired, and the place mentioned on the star chart... are we going to take a look?"

Vivian looked at Hao Ren with a smile: "You wouldn't have said that if you hadn't already made up your mind, right?"

Hao Ren touched his hair: "It's mainly because such a big clue is right in front of me. If I don't take a look, I'll feel restless."

Lily nodded vigorously, looking like she deeply agreed.

Soon, everyone in the house knew that the star chart had been fully assembled—why did they know? Lily sent out a batch of text messages! Yizaks and his son, who were freeloading at the Nangong restaurant, and the Nangong siblings quickly ran back. They couldn't understand what the data on the star chart meant, but they seemed very interested in a new adventure.

After all, basically everyone living in this house was a troublemaker. Even Nangong Sanba and Nangong Wuyue, who were combat power trash, were people who had traveled around the world dozens of times. For them, who had been adventuring outside since they were young, it was almost unimaginable to stay in a stable home for the rest of their lives.

Of course, it was still good to have a stable home—especially after adventuring outside.

The data terminal was placed on the TV cabinet in the living room, and the large holographic projection that it projected covered about a third of the living room. Everyone gathered at the other end of the living room to watch. After everyone gathered, the sofa was obviously not enough, so they also moved out a few small benches. This formation was like a group of retired old men and women gathering to listen to a health expert giving a lecture—and Hao Ren, who was standing next to the holographic projection, was clearly this "health expert."

Hao Ren held Gungnir in his hand as a pointer, using it to indicate the location points on the star chart. He looked around at the "audience" sitting in the living room and was surprised to find that there were several uninvited guests mixed in: Doudou was lying on Nangong Wuyue's head, waving at him, her face full of excitement and curiosity; Little Weakling also crawled out of the mouse hole, staring at this side from the farthest place, not knowing what he was thinking, but for the time being, it didn't seem like he was going to biubiubiu; finally, there was Gung. The cat girl must have seen that everyone was gathered together, so she joined in the fun. She found a small bench from the house and squatted on it, looking like she was ready to attend the lecture...

Hao Ren shook his head, thinking that these three were definitely completely clueless and just here to make up the numbers, but it was rare for these three usually most noisy guys to sit quietly for a while, so he didn't bother to drive them away. So he continued to use Gungnir to point at some parameters on the star chart: "First of all, is the approximate location indicated by this star chart. I've already confirmed with the drone swarm that it's a star area that the expedition probes haven't explored yet. After activating superluminal observation, we can only vaguely observe a few star systems that roughly match the star chart. In other words, this area is outside the drone swarm's control area and is extremely far away from the cosmic area we've already explored."

Yizaks nodded: "Outside the control area means risk."

"That's right, so the first step is that I plan to send a few probe drones over to see the situation," Hao Ren nodded. "Although it's very far, the rapid detection drones are equipped with powerful warp engines that can quickly traverse the entire universe... By the way, Lao Wang, why do you have to squat on the ground?"

"I'm sitting on a stool."

"...You switch with your daughter. You sit on the sofa and let her sit on the stool. How old is she? There's a limit to spoiling children—you're so big, sitting on a stool looks like you're squatting."

Yizaks scratched his bald head: "Hey, it's okay, I'm not uncomfortable."

"I'm mainly worried about my stool, all four legs are about to be nailed into the floor by you."

At this time, Lily raised her hand: "Landlord, landlord, can we directly arrive at places that the drone swarm hasn't explored yet by using the warp engine?"

This was truly a question befitting a top student. Hao Ren nodded: "It should be fine. The star chart comes with a few navigation parameters for guiding jumps. I had Nolan simulate it and found that it can be translated into coordinates that can be recognized by the drone swarm, as long as it's launched within the scope of the Dream Plane universe. Of course, there should be a large deviation after jumping over, because firstly, there's a slight error in the star chart translation process, and secondly, the star chart's transformation guidance data can only provide theoretical conclusions for the celestial body operation under ideal conditions, which deviates from the real operation of the universe. The longer the time, the greater the deviation, and this star chart hasn't been calibrated for ten thousand years."

After finishing speaking, he added: "Of course, even if there's a deviation after jumping over, it won't have much of an impact. Anyway, we can definitely arrive near the key coordinates on this star chart. At worst, we'll let the drone slowly crawl to the correct coordinates over there. With the superluminal engine, it'll only take a few hours or a few days."

There were shortcomings, but this was already a pretty good situation: using a warp engine manufactured under another technology tree, referring to a star chart that hadn't been calibrated for ten thousand years, jumping to an unknown star system that was particularly difficult to even observe, and still being able to ensure that it was near the target after jumping over, Hao Ren felt that this was simply like finding two identical faces among millions of people and belonged to a miracle—of course, if you were looking in South Korea, then this would instantly become a beginner's task...

At this time, Nangong Wuyue raised her hand and asked another question: "I have a question. Now we already know that the Goddess of Creation was corrupted by the Lord of Madness, and even split into two in the end—so how do we know that this star chart was left by the Goddess of Creation? What if this is a star chart left by the corrupted personality of the goddess? Could this be a trap?"

"I've already thought about this question," Hao Ren nodded. "The conclusion is that we still have to take a look no matter what. No matter what we find there, we can't ignore this location on the star chart. Whether it's the Goddess of Creation or the 'Goddess of Destruction,' it's impossible for her to leave a star chart with so much effort just to mess with us."

"And I think that even if the Goddess of Creation is all-powerful, she couldn't possibly know about our affairs ten thousand years later. By the same logic, it's unlikely that the 'Goddess of Destruction' that she split out from would set up any traps targeting us, unless her trap is designed to target me," Vivian pointed to herself. "Because if I hadn't split, then the only one who would be able to use the star chart in the end would be myself. So what would she gain by targeting me?"

Lily began to diverge her thinking: "Maybe she wants to target the genuine Goddess of Creation. Suppose you're the key to the revival of the genuine Goddess of Creation, and the bootleg one can't stop your birth, so she can only tamper with your soul, give you a trap to let you die, and so on..."

Seeing that the topic would endlessly digress into speculation, Hao Ren quickly waved his hand to interrupt: "We won't get any results by guessing wildly here. Only by finding the coordinates on the star chart and going to investigate can we understand what it means. I've decided to have the drone swarm send out probes now. If the probes arrive safely, we'll go take a look. Does everyone think that's okay?"

Lily: "I have no objections. Anyway, the drone swarm is yours, and I think what you said makes sense."

The Nangong siblings exchanged glances: "Us too."

Everyone expressed their agreement. In the end, only Gung raised her hand and shook it: "I have a question, meow. Big landlord, you've been talking for a long time, why haven't you mentioned the dried fish, meow?"

Hao Ren: "...Okay, then it seems to be unanimously approved."

"Meow meow meow?"

Gung's speech was ignored by everyone. That evening, the Dream Plane's drone swarm received the trans-dimensional command from Hao Ren. Three detection-type drones that had specially strengthened warp engines left the mother ship cluster and began to warp towards the mysterious coordinates on the star chart.

Two days later, two of these drones arrived at the predetermined location. They were safe all the way, but they sent back unbelievable images.