Chapter 127 A Matter of Priorities

Hao Ren poured out everything he had seen and heard on the Red Moon, as well as his experiences in the illusion—including the mysterious alien realm filled with thunder and crystals, the boundary blocked by black fog, and the suspected "second scene" he saw after crossing the boundary. He also mentioned some of his discoveries and conjectures for everyone to analyze and learn from.

"Now I can be sure that the Red Moon is a scaled-down copy of the Star of Creation—or rather, a projection. So I think that the things I saw on the Red Moon will definitely have a 'original version' on the Star of Creation that is several times larger in size, or there used to be a 'original version'. For example, Lockmarton's lair, although Múlu and Lèiméndùsà don't know of its existence, at some point in history, the Goddess of Creation clearly placed such a home for Lockmarton on the planet she lived on.

"Secondly, about the world I saw in the illusion, it is obviously not the Star of Creation, but the crystal clusters growing in that world are exactly the same as the crystal jungle on the seabed of the Red Moon Sea, and the crystals on the seabed of the Red Moon are also the key to entering the illusion, so the connection between the two is very obvious. I guess the Goddess of Creation should have visited that planet where crystals grew, and then built some mysterious facilities on it, and then brought some crystals to the Star of Creation and hid them on the seabed. I just don't know if Múlu and the others know of the existence of these crystals... It would be great if we could get further information from the Guardian Giants.

"At the end of the illusion, I saw the Goddess of Creation sitting on the Crystal Throne, and sealed together with the throne by a huge crystal, but we all know that the Goddess of Creation was assassinated and fell on the Battlefield of the Gods in the end, so the scene in the illusion is a bit contradictory. I thought of three explanations. First, the scene I saw at that time was not a 'seal', but just a normal phenomenon when the Crystal Throne was activated. Perhaps that device was used like that, just like some kind of hibernation pod; second, perhaps not all illusions are real, it may be distorted, or it may change with the observer's own subjective thoughts. At that time, I felt that the goddess wanted to sit on it, and then she sat on it, which may be some kind of 'observer phenomenon'; third, this conjecture is based on the information that Vivian just told us. Perhaps the one sitting on the Crystal Throne is not the real Goddess of Creation, but the 'contaminated body' that was infected and separated."

Hao Ren paused here for a while, giving everyone time to think. Lily frowned and pondered for a moment before raising her hand: "Landlord, I have a question."

"Go ahead."

"You said that the Red Moon is a projection of the Star of Creation, right? And it is static on it, so the Red Moon is equivalent to a 'snapshot' of the Star of Creation at a certain moment. It records the state of the Star of Creation at that moment, and time no longer flows," Lily said as she wagged her tail, seemingly using her tail to indicate that her brain was running at high speed. "Then you said, which moment of the Star of Creation is recorded on the Red Moon?"

Hao Ren blinked, thought for a moment, and replied: "It should be before the Goddess of Creation cut off her memory, because there is Lockmarton's lair on it, so the time point should be before the birth of the Guardian Giants and the Firstborn."

Lily put her hands on her hips, with a smug look on her face, as if she had discovered some shocking secret: "Then the crystal jungle on the seabed of the Red Moon should have also appeared at that time? The world you saw in the illusion, and the Crystal Throne, were also scenes before the Goddess of Creation cut off her memory?"

Hao Ren frowned, finally realizing that something was wrong.

Nangong Sanba next to him also reacted at this time: "That is to say, if the crystal jungle on the seabed of the Red Moon and the Crystal Throne and the goddess's figure in the illusion all happened before the Goddess of Creation cut off her memory, then the landlord's third conjecture is not valid—because according to Vivian, the Goddess of Creation was completely split into two only before the Battle of the Gods, so the one in the illusion cannot be 'another Goddess of Creation', the goddess had not split at that time."

Hao Ren muttered to himself: "Unless there is a problem with the timeline..."

"What did you say?" Because Hao Ren's muttering voice was very low, Vivian didn't hear it clearly all of a sudden.

"No, it's nothing, I'm just wondering if the order of these things is problematic," Hao Ren frowned and shook his head, "But I don't have any clues yet, I need to go back and think about it carefully."

Nangong Sanba leaned against the wall next to him with his arms crossed (this posture was very handsome, but the main reason was that he was thrown dizzy by his sister just now, so if he didn't lean on something at this time, he would easily fall to the ground), and said leisurely: "Actually, the most important thing is that we have to sort it out from the beginning—so far, among the 'final actions of the Goddess of Creation' that we know, how many were done by the real Goddess of Creation, and how many were done by another goddess under the influence of the Lord of Madness..."

As soon as Nangong Sanba said this, even Lily, who was usually carefree, couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and her tail became fluffy.

Nangong Wuyue sighed: "It's really wonderful, the Lord of Madness is clearly a chaotic creature without any thinking ability, but its behavior has finally turned into such a situation that is more complicated than a shocking conspiracy..."

"The Lord of Madness itself does not have the ability to think, but the creatures that are eroded by it do," Vivian shook her head, "It can not think, but those intelligent creatures that are controlled by its power—they will become the thinking organs of the Lord of Madness, and intentionally or unintentionally serve the Lord of Madness. The Goddess of Creation should be the most powerful thinking organ found by the Lord of Madness. If the goddess had not chosen self-destruction at the last moment to stop all this, I am afraid that we would not be facing this level of trouble."

"If it really developed into that situation, there would be no need for a grassroots worker like me to deal with this matter," Hao Ren joked with bitterness and joy, "I'm afraid that a regular army would have to be dispatched. I heard that there is something called the Extinction Order at the top. As long as it is signed, an entire world will be deleted cleanly in the blink of an eye, which is really scary."

Lily couldn't help but glance at him when she heard this: "Landlord, to be honest, are you really sure that what you are doing now is the work of a beat cop? Why do I feel that you, a rookie who has only been in office for less than four years, are making more waves than your colleagues who have been working for hundreds of thousands of years?"

What answered her was the data terminal lying on Hao Ren's head pretending to be an iron hat: "Don't mention it, even this machine feels that there is something fishy..."

Hao Ren: "..."

However, Hao Ren didn't really care about whether there was something fishy or not. He had come to this point today entirely by his own choice, and he didn't regret these choices. What he was more concerned about now was the few words that Nangong Sanba had reminded him of.

The Goddess of Creation did a lot of things before she fell. How many of them were done entirely out of her own will, and how many were done under the subconscious influence of the Lord of Madness?

According to the information provided by Vivian, the split of the Goddess of Creation occurred less than a thousand years before the outbreak of the Battle of the Gods. At that time, she discovered the abnormalities in her soul, and then realized that there were two "selves" existing on the Star of Creation at the same time. Through some process that mortals could not understand, she pulled out the other self, and completed a wave of "anti-interference" through deception or inducement.

She exiled this "dark side" who was wholeheartedly thinking about releasing the Lord of Madness to the kingdom of the Godslayer Race—and the Godslayer Race was a race with huge potential danger that she had created under the influence of the Lord of Madness, which can be said to be another backdoor for the Lord of Madness to escape.

Through subtle guidance, she let her dark side lead the Godslayer Race to launch that rebellion, and finally willingly died on the battlefield.

She cleverly used the two dark chess pieces that the Lord of Madness left by her side, and eliminated all the back roads for the Lord of Madness to escape by letting these two dark chess pieces die with her.

However, in the whole process of confronting her own dark side, the goddess did not actually have the absolute upper hand—although she expelled the corrupted goddess, the connection between the two was never broken. She allowed the latter to act through interference and inducement, but in fact, the latter was also constantly influencing her in return. The greatest achievement of expelling that dark side was actually just to restore the Star of Creation from the crazy quantum superposition state to the normal state, so that she could maintain a little more clarity, but in essence, from the day she realized that she was being eroded, she had never been truly clear-headed.

So everything she did during this period... It's hard to say whose will it was.

What did she do in this process?

She induced the Godslayer Race, planned her own assassination, and really fell on the battlefield.

At the last moment, she realized that the situation was out of control, so she urgently organized the evacuation of the Dream Plane refugees, sent a large number of Dream Plane "seeds" to the space-time ark Yggdrasil, and sent them to the surface world, Earth.

She also carried out the Final Pardon to reduce the original sin of all mortal races.

She created Vivian Ansester, and made her a "guide" for a grand plan.

Oh, and earlier, she also designed and started building the "Genesis Engine"—this is a mysterious plan, even her guardians don't know what their mother designed this engine to do.

She also left a divine power oscillation network in the universe. That network uses remote stars as oscillation nodes, which can transmit information throughout the Dream Plane universe. However, like the Genesis Engine, this divine power oscillation network is also a mysterious product whose specific effects are unknown, and it has not been completed.

This is only part of what Hao Ren has discovered so far. What about the parts he hasn't discovered? How many things did the Goddess of Creation do when she was unconscious?

Which one of them... is used to release the Lord of Madness?

A drop of cold sweat rolled down Hao Ren's forehead.

He grabbed the data terminal: "First, send a message to Lèiméndùsà and tell him to suspend the assembly of the Genesis Engine."

"What's the reason? You have to give him a reason—after all, he is not your subordinate, just a collaborator."

"Just say... a fatal bug was suddenly found in the blueprint. It is suspected that the Goddess of Creation encountered the outbreak of war when she designed it, so there was a mistake in the key part. Wait until I find a great god from the God Realm to complete the design drawing before continuing to start construction. This reason should be sufficient."