Chapter 1 The Rewards of the Dream Plane

The gains from this trip to the Dream Plane were extraordinary. Both the information about the Doomsday Network and the truth about the Creator Goddess's ultimate plan almost completely overturned the previous investigation into the Dream Plane incident. Therefore, after Hao Ren returned to the surface world, he barely stayed home. After compiling the mission report, he took the data terminal and rushed to the Divine Kingdom—he had to tell Raven 12345 what he knew as soon as possible.

Of course, he also had to pick up the little weakling he had entrusted to the goddess's care.

Leaving her in the care of a psychopath, who knows what that little thing is like now… But it shouldn't be affected by Raven 12345's mental illness. After all, the little weakling has no brain, and even the power of Lokenmorton can't do anything to her…

Space teleported into Raven 12345's domain. It was still the familiar Divine Kingdom, still the familiar villa. This time, Hao Ren was gratified to see that Raven 12345 had not blown up her house. Even the garden around the villa was lush and full of life, and it was neatly trimmed. It was obvious that—

It had just been blown up and rebuilt and hadn't had time to cause trouble yet.

Under the guidance of the arcane servants, Hao Ren came to Raven 12345's office. After entering, he was even more certain that the house had just been built: because he couldn't even smell the noodle soup in the office—this house had even been rebuilt before a meal!

Raven 12345 was sitting behind her large desk, seemingly working hard (though she might actually be working hard), and noticing that Hao Ren had entered the room and was looking around, she couldn't help but take the initiative to speak: "What are you looking at? You've been gawking around since you came in—I heard you made a huge discovery in the Dream Plane this time."

Hao Ren was stunned and realized what he was doing. He casually took out the data terminal from his pocket and threw it to Raven 12345. At the same time, he found his favorite spot next to the goddess's desk and sat down with a thud: "Take a look for yourself. Damn it, there's too much information, and I can't explain it to you in a few words. By the way, where's the weakling?"

"Your attitude towards your superiors is getting worse and worse," Raven 12345 took the data terminal and rolled her eyes at Hao Ren. "At least I'm a goddess with a license. Can't you pretend to believe me politely? Wait a minute, and I'll call the weakling out."

As she spoke, she snapped her fingers, and Hao Ren saw a small space door suddenly appear on the table. In the flashing of the space door, a small figure ran out in a puff of smoke. It was the familiar figure of Vivian in miniature: the little weakling.

After the little thing ran out, it circled around the desk, and then seemed to notice Hao Ren sitting next to it. It stopped and stared blankly at the latter. For a moment, the two "people" were face to face.

"Eee—" The little thing stayed for two seconds before it seemed to react suddenly. It raised its hands and made an inexplicable cry, then quickly ran to Hao Ren, stretched out its hands and stared straight at him, constantly making "hissing" sounds.

Hao Ren was immediately stunned. He felt that the little thing was different from what he remembered after only a month of not seeing her. He scratched his hair: "What does this mean?"

Raven 12345 waved her hand without looking up: "She's asking you for food. It's her mealtime, and I haven't cooked yet."

Hao Ren was stunned, and quickly took out food from his portable space while muttering: "Hey, this isn't right. She knows how to ask people for food? I remember the first thing she did when she saw someone was throw a shadow bolt at them, even if she was hungry. How can she communicate with people properly now?"

His portable space was like a grocery store. In addition to the equipment needed for missions, it was full of things that his family used every day. Because he didn't know who he would be taking on a mission, he simply filled the space with everyone's things. And since the little weakling officially became a member of the family, he also left a small space for this little thing—considering that the little weakling had no needs other than eating, that small space was filled with fresh meat.

He took out pre-cut slices of meat and handed them to the little thing who was waiting eagerly. The latter immediately made a happy cry, grabbed the meat slices and opened its mouth to bite down, but just as she was about to start eating, Raven 12345 next to her snorted softly: "Hmm? Forgot?"

The little weakling trembled and seemed to be thinking while holding the meat slices. After recalling hard, she bowed to Hao Ren: this might be a bow, but the little one imitated it very clumsily, almost like she was about to prostrate on the ground, but it could still be seen that she was expressing thanks.

Hao Ren's face froze at that moment.

After taking a look at the little Vivian who was already sitting at the table and tearing at the meat slices, he turned to stare at Raven 12345, as if he had seen a ghost in broad daylight: "What the… How did you do this?! Did you educate an evil thought entity with absolutely no brain to be so moral and cultured?!"

"It's still a long way from being moral and cultured," Raven 12345 waved her hand with a look on her face that said, "I'm so awesome, so these little things are nothing." "And she's not really 'brainless.' It's just that her thinking is extremely chaotic and her soul is distorted, so she appears irrational. If it were in someone else's hands, she would probably be hopeless, but who am I? I'm a goddess with a work permit! I've been studying her modification plan these days. Look, isn't this the first result?"

Hao Ren looked at the little weakling and Raven 12345 with an unbelievable expression. His tone suddenly became a little strange: "Your old lady, as a goddess, is not busy saving the world every day, but is obsessed with raising chickens—is it really okay for your believers to know about this?"

Raven 12345 thought for a while: "Can a weakling be considered a chicken?"

Hao Ren: "... I'm not talking about this with you!"

The little weakling seemed to hear someone talking about something related to her. She chewed the meat slices in her mouth and looked up at the Pope and the goddess next to her in confusion. Seeing that neither of them intended to disturb her, she lowered her head and continued to eat.

"Okay, let's not discuss the chicken-raising issue," Hao Ren ended this uninformative topic. "In short, I still have to thank you for helping me take care of this little thing. Your education of her… is quite effective."

Raven 12345 smiled slightly: "That's right. This goddess has always been serious and responsible. I never take things lightly that I promise others. Moreover, the process of taking care of and educating her also helps me understand the data on how the power of the Lord of Madness interferes with the creations of the Creator Goddess."

As she spoke, she quickly finished reading the report that Hao Ren had compiled. After a few seconds of silence, she looked up at Hao Ren and showed a smile that was not quite a smile, which made the latter feel a chill down his spine: "What does that expression mean—I'm getting goosebumps!"

"I'm just sighing again at how sharp my eyes are to have discovered a talent like you," Raven 12345 put the data terminal on the table and took a long breath. "Every time you go on a trip, you bring me a lot of surprises. This time, the surprise is so big that even I'm shocked. In this way, many things have finally come to light."

Seeing the expression on Raven 12345's face, Hao Ren realized that the value of the information he had brought back was indeed as important as he had imagined, even more important than he had imagined. He tentatively asked: "About the Creator Goddess's original plan to destroy her entire clan..."

"In the eyes of us trained gods, it's blind and full of loopholes, but it's already the best that a 'wild god' can do. Considering that she didn't even know who she was, I even have to admire her," Raven 12345 waved her hand. "But now that this matter is in front of me, her original plans definitely can't be carried out. A mere 'Lord of Madness' who hasn't even figured out the world barrier... can drag a true god to be buried with it?"

Hao Ren had guessed that Raven 12345 would have this attitude, so he wasn't surprised at this time. Instead, he asked: "Then how should the Genesis Engine and the Doomsday Network be handled?"

"The most valuable thing you brought back is this part," Raven 12345 said while waving her hand to release a small spell. The data extracted from the Doomsday Network then appeared in the air. "The basic data from the Doomsday Network not only contains the schematic diagram of the Doomsday Network itself, but also the basic parameters of the Dream Plane's operation. Using them, we can even reverse-engineer some of the Genesis Engine's data. You probably can't imagine the value of this data!"

At this point, she paused, as if she was organizing her words: "Um... you were right to let Lehman Dusa continue to assemble the Genesis Engine. In my initial plan, this thing can be useful, and the Doomsday Network can also be useful... Although these two things are very superficial, their basic principles are actually correct. I really don't know if they guessed it right or... should I say it's worthy of being the inheritance of a top student..."

Hao Ren felt that he had heard some subtle information: "Huh?"

"No, it's nothing, just a sigh," Raven 12345 shook her head. "In short, the Doomsday Network and the Genesis Engine are useful, but we can't let them run crudely according to the original blueprint. Instead, we have to make some 'modifications.' You go back and wait for two days. I have to apply for some technologically advanced things from above, which may be able to make up for the loopholes in these two original systems—including the problem of the 'missing initial instructions' that you mentioned, which can be compensated."

Although Raven 12345 didn't say what she was referring to, Hao Ren still felt relieved: Having her vague words meant that there was indeed a solution to this matter.

At this time, Raven 12345 suddenly laughed: "Do you know what the biggest role of these data that you extracted from the Doomsday Network is?"

Hao Ren waved his hand: "How would I know this?"

"They contain the original operating parameters of the Dream Plane universe," Raven 12345 said. Seeing the blank look on Hao Ren's face, she didn't mind. Instead, she was rarely patient. "These original operating parameters are the key to determining the self-consistent operation of a world in the void, and they are also closely related to the structure of the world barrier. Since the Dream Plane collided with our universe, and the world barrier at the point of impact transformed into the Wall of Reality, this part of the data has been lost. Because we don't know what the world barrier looked like before the collision, we are so restrained and face so many difficulties when we come into contact with the Wall of Reality... It's like two rooms separated by a wall. We want to make a hole in the wall to establish a connection, but we don't have the construction drawings of the wall, so we don't know where the wires are buried inside the wall, and we don't know where the gas pipes are on the other side of the wall. This is why reckless construction seems so dangerous. Moreover, drilling a hole in the wall and hitting a wire will at most cause a power outage or an electric shock, but accidentally drilling a hole in the Wall of Reality can lead to the destruction of two universes, which makes us even more cautious."

At this point, Hao Ren understood: "... The data I brought back can deduce the operating rules of the Wall of Reality? Then we can make holes in the wall at will?!"

"It's not to that extent yet. After all, the fragility of the Wall of Reality is already a given. Even if we know its structure, it doesn't mean we can ignore it," Raven 12345 raised a finger and shook it. "But with this data, we can at least deduce what the original world barrier of the Dream Plane looked like, and then deduce how to operate this 'wall' more efficiently based on the changes in its transformation into the Wall of Reality."

Finally, she concluded: "In short, we can let you bring in some cooler things."