Chapter 1 Actually...

Actually, Hao Ren had considered asking Salaman to directly lift the divine power blockade of the X-cluster, which would make his activities in this star sector more convenient. But after thinking about it, he knew it was impossible: although the Corruptors' rebellion inside the Holy Land had bypassed the divine power blockade, it didn't mean the blockade was no longer necessary. Outside the X-cluster, there were still dangers lurking in the darkness of space. No one knew how many hidden bombs the Lord of the Mad had left during his long dormancy, ready to explode at any moment. The Guardian Legion was already stretched thin dealing with one Corruptor army, so it was naturally impossible for them to lift the divine power blockade around the star cluster.

Getting extra "access permissions" was already good enough.

The Petrified Turtle returned to the outpost base on the planet of the Executors. This time, she was there to remind the slackers that their vacation was over.

The crew, who were so bored inside the base that they were starting to grow mold, were summoned to the plaza. Hao Ren and Vivian announced the good news that the "house arrest" was over. The first to jump up was, unsurprisingly, Lily: "Yay! I can go have fun with the landlord!! Finally, I don't have to keep getting moldy in this godforsaken place!!"

It was strange, considering how well the husky spirit had been living these past few days by Hao Ren's standards. With the base's expansion into the forest and Draum taking over the "security duties" in the wilderness, the planet had become quite safe. Everyone didn't have to stay cooped up in the small base all day like before. Even Gungnir had been given permission to run around as he pleased—let alone Lily, who spent her days hunting, fishing, or driving the native beasts of the forest up and down and having a mad time. When she got excited, she would even run to the snowfields on the other side of the planet and survive in the wilderness for two days. By husky spirit standards, her life was practically a textbook example of paradise…

But looking at her excitement now, it was as if someone had just put her in a cage and locked her up for two months.

"Is it really necessary to be this happy?" Hao Ren sized Lily up. "I heard from Gungnir and Elizabeth that you've been doing nothing but playing and having a great time. Aren't you satisfied?"

Lily put her hands on her hips and said with a lot of confidence, "Hunting, fishing, and raiding birds' nests aren't as fun as going to the universe with the landlord to beat up little monsters! Plus, I'm the landlord's number one protector. I feel like I've lost all sense of existence after missing so many episodes…"

Hao Ren: "…"

Did this girl add another setting to herself for no reason?

"We saw the battle reports from the front lines," after everyone's excitement subsided a little, Izaax, who had the most integrity left among everyone, took the lead in bringing the topic back to normal. "I didn't expect you to find the 'control system' that the Goddess of Creation left for the next era and unravel the mystery of that divine power oscillation network. To be honest, even I was shocked by the truth of this star system."

"Uncle Ren, Uncle Ren, you didn't see my dad's expression back then," the little girl Elizabeth jumped around beside Hao Ren. "He said he never thought in his life that someone could come up with such a high-energy idea just to kill himself!"

"It was a god," Izaax corrected seriously from the side. "And I'm not shocked by the Goddess of Creation's self-destruction—I was already shocked by that when I learned the truth of the Godslayer War. What amazes me is that incredible 'End Network'… The mysteries of the universe's operation are truly fascinating."

"Mysteries and adventures, the universe's super administrator is standing right here," Lily raised her hand and pointed to Vivian. "So it turns out that the foundation of the Dream Plane's laws is poverty—no wonder all the races in the universe are so miserable… Ow, mom, you electrocuted me!!!"

Vivian casually threw a lightning ball at Lily, turning her into a chow chow, then shook her hand: "To be honest, I still can't believe what happened, but the truth is the truth—we must now find a way to get our hands on Amantir's crystal. Regardless of whether I want to sit on the End Throne in the future, that crystal is a must-have because it is related to the secret of the Goddess of Creation's resting place. Hao Ren and I are here to ask everyone for help."

Izaax, Elizabeth, Nangong Wuyue, Nangong Sanba, and Lily, who was trying to fix her hair and tail, all fell silent at the same time, then looked at each other with smiles.

"It should have been like this a long time ago," Izaax cracked his knuckles. "We didn't come here just to travel and have fun."

Even Nangong Wuyue, who was usually a coward, didn't back down at this time, but nodded firmly. Only Gungnir, who had just focused his attention, scratched his head and blinked his eyes: "Big Bat, does that place called Amantir have dried little fish?"

The cat hadn't understood what everyone was discussing for a long time. After fully realizing her intellectual limits, she chose to understand what the trip was about in a way she could understand.

Hao Ren looked at her: "There are no dried little fish there, but if you perform well, I'll buy you ten pounds of dried little fish later."

Gungnir's eyes went wide: "Meow meow meow meow?!"

A few hours later.

Salaman looked curiously at the group of people standing in front of him for a while and asked Hao Ren, "Are these the subordinates you recruited?"

"They're not subordinates, they're my friends, who follow me around," Hao Ren introduced everyone with a smile. "You don't have to worry about their strength. Even the worst of them have been infused with heavenly treasures, and most importantly, they often follow me to various strange secret realms or other worlds for adventures. Their experience in the field of special operations is stronger than any regular soldier under your command."

Hao Ren said this with confidence. Although the little partners he brought had various problems with their personalities, their strength was definitely beyond doubt. Even Nangong Sanba, who was a combat power of five, was compared to the whole family of demons and ghosts—they might not have been so capable earlier, but over the years, they had been eating and drinking with the goddess Shunzi every now and then, or they would share the "year-end bonus" that he gave out, and they had already become strong enough to go to heaven.

They ate those divine objects that would cause a thousand years of war in any world as food…

Of course, while being confident in the strength of his little partners, Hao Ren also knew that he couldn't be arrogant, because the strength of his opponents was also not weak. The Guardian Clan was the Goddess of Creation's personal guard, and even if the Goddess of Creation didn't have a diploma, she was still a true god. The personal guards under her command were stronger than most mortal species, and now those former guards had been corrupted by the power of the Lord of the Mad, and their pure destructive power should be even stronger.

It would be okay for the people he led to deal with a small group of Corrupted Giants, but it would definitely be suicide to face the Guardian army of Amantir head-on. Considering that this book was still a while away from being finished, Hao Ren decided to discuss a reliable plan with Salaman that could send his group to the surface of Amantir without anyone knowing.

"Various races… various abilities, I'm getting more and more curious about you 'Observer'. You seem to have formed a remarkable force," Salaman said, turning the topic back to Amantir. "To be honest, it's very difficult to send people to the surface of Amantir—even if you're sending 'unremarkable' creatures like you. Those freaks have set up countless monitoring stations and defensive firepower in the orbit of Amantir to make up for the lack of combat power of the planetary fortress after losing the doomsday weapon, and there are still a large number of intact anti-aircraft guns on the surface of the planet. Those things will blow any aircraft that approaches Amantir and does not belong to the Corruptor Legion into pieces."

"What about disguising ourselves as a Corruptor homing force?" It was Izaax who spoke, remembering the successful case of infiltrating the Executor's lunar base not long ago. At that time, everyone had successfully passed through by capturing the Executor's fighter plane and disguising the identification code. "We have a lot of Corruptor wreckage. We can piece together a badly damaged hybrid warship. We won't be able to tell from the aura."

"We considered this plan, but it was directly rejected," Salaman shook his head. "The Corruptors still retain the mental network after falling. Although the low-level individuals among them have lost most of their thinking ability under the erosion of the Lord of the Mad's power, their superiors can still control the situation of each low-level unit through the mental network. If you want to disguise yourself as one of them and fool them, you will probably be detected by the mental network in the first place."

Nangong Sanba thought for a while: "Can this mental network be invaded or tampered with?"

"It's extremely difficult, and I advise you not to even try, because this is not just a matter of difficulty," Salaman still shook his head. "After the Lord of the Mad's power corrupted those freaks, their mental network also mutated. That network is full of crazy and twisted thoughts, full of blasphemous and dangerous factors. No rational creature can interpret even a tiny bit of the crazy thinking in this network. If you invade it, what you read will only be garbled codes that you can't understand, and it's more likely to cause the leakage of Corruptor pollution and be noticed by the superior units on the mental network."

According to Hao Ren's expectation, the best way to sneak into Amantir was nothing more than disguise, but now it seems that this method is full of difficulties.

Everyone began a long but almost fruitless discussion. In the two-hour discussion, more than a dozen plans were proposed, and several of them even entered the stage of detailed discussion, but in the end, all the ideas were found to have fatal loopholes and had to be abandoned.

There may be only one chance to sneak into Amantir. Once the Corruptors discover that the target of the opponent is the Amantir Crystal, they will never give the enemy a second chance to act, so this plan must be cautious and cautious. It can't be said that there are no loopholes at all, but at least it must be ensured that all links that may produce loopholes are within a controllable range—and even if the action fails, it can't arouse too much vigilance from the Corruptors.

At the same time, the final evacuation plan must be considered in advance.

The long discussion made Lily the first to lose patience. She lay down on the table, her tail patting the back of Nangong Wuyue's chair beside her: "Hey, I'm so angry. I feel like there's no way to land on Amantir silently. Why don't we just let Agudar crash into it? We'll pick it up from the debris. Maybe the crystal will be fine and we'll pick it up…"

Vivian unhesitatingly threw ridicule at the husky spirit: "You can't even think of a more detailed…"

"Hey, wait a minute," before Vivian could finish her words, Hao Ren's eyes suddenly lit up. "Lily's idea… gave me a reminder."