Chapter 12345 Raven's High Praise

Regarding Hao Ren's recent operation in the dark domain, Raven 12345 first expressed her high appreciation for her ability to recognize talent, and once again emphasized that a troublemaker may not necessarily become an excellent inspector, but an excellent inspector must be a troublemaker—she frankly said that the intelligence Hao Ren collected on this business trip far exceeded her expectations, and the most valuable part of it was the essence of the dark domain.

Hao Ren opened his portable space and arranged some sealed tubular metal containers in front of Raven 12345. Their contents included samples of rocks, soil, air, and water, as well as a ball of flickering light that was confined by a force field.

"These are the specimens I had the Petrified Tortoise platform collect with a probe. These are material samples from the planet Laerrien, and this ball of light comes from the edge of the dark domain—that border is not completely dark, there are some cooled luminous clouds sparsely scattered and floating there, like some kind of torn celestial body. They exhibit a strange nature between matter and energy, completely defying the laws of physics, so I collected them as well."

Raven 12345 gently touched one of the sample jars, and the metal container disappeared, while the sample inside quickly turned into a series of radiating light spots at her fingertips, completing the analysis instantly: "Interesting...what an amazing discovery..."

Hao Ren and Vivian said in unison, "How is it?"

"There is more than 60 percent difference in the underlying information structure compared to the products of the Plane of Dreams," Raven 12345 snapped her fingers, and the samples and storage containers that had disappeared were immediately restored and returned to their original positions on the table. "This means that they were produced under different physical rules, or in other words...different worldviews. As for this ball of light...its essence is even more intriguing, guess what it is?"

Hao Ren thought for a while, looking at the goddess sister very seriously: "If I say it's Xiang Piao Piao milk tea at this time, you will definitely beat me, but I really can't think of anything else..."

Raven 12345 clicked her tongue and stopped being coy: "This is a broken and solidified World Barrier."

"...Holy crap?!" Hao Ren was dumbfounded. "The thing that's used to separate the orderly world from the void? The predecessor of the Wall of Reality?"

"That's right, a layer of broken and solidified World Barrier, the interior of which is neither a material space belonging to the Plane of Dreams nor the surface world. It itself is attached to the World Barrier of the Plane of Dreams, but it has never had material exchange with the Plane of Dreams until the outbreak of the Godslayer War, and more importantly...the existence of this space is obviously much earlier than the Godslayer War, which means it was there from the beginning...we have to revise the cosmic model."

Hao Ren had vaguely guessed this before, but he wasn't as sure as Raven 12345. Hearing the exact answer at this moment, he couldn't help but sit up straight: "We are not facing a twin universe, but a...trinity?"

"That's right, the so-called dark domain is very likely to be an independent universe," Raven 12345 nodded. "But it is weaker than the Plane of Dreams, and even needs to be attached to the World Barrier of the Plane of Dreams to survive. Rather than being a complete world, it is more like the remnants of a universe after it was destroyed. And how long has this debris been 'stuck' on the World Barrier of the Plane of Dreams? Was it after the Plane of Dreams collided with the surface world, or before? There's a lot of information in here..."

Standing at a different angle, the direction of thinking is naturally different. Hao Ren is still thinking about what historical secrets are waiting to be discovered on the planet Laerrien in the dark domain, but Raven 12345 is thinking about something more profound—of course, this may also be due to Hao Ren's occupational disease caused by digging graves all day long, but he must admit at this moment that the goddess sister's words made his heart clear.

"If it was before the collision with the surface world...then a clear arrow of time will be formed," Hao Ren opened the holographic projection of the data terminal and drew his concept map on it, "Initially the 'dark domain' was a complete and normal universe, then it was destroyed for unknown reasons and crashed into the World Barrier of the Plane of Dreams; then the Plane of Dreams suffered the Madness Disaster and crashed into the World Barrier of the surface world..."

"In fact, the original fate of the Plane of Dreams was probably the same as that of the dark domain," Vivian also grasped the key point. "Without the Goddess of Creation, an ordinary universe could not withstand the destruction of the Lord of Madness at all. It would also be completely destroyed and crashed into our universe. It was the Goddess of Creation who weakened this disaster."

"Could it be that the Plane of Dreams was not the first victim?" Hao Ren frowned. "Was the dark domain?"

Raven 12345 nodded lightly: "This is just a bold hypothesis, but hypotheses are rooted in clues. The current clues show that the dark domain was originally an independent universe, and now it has crashed into the World Barrier of the Plane of Dreams. This state is too similar to the situation where the Plane of Dreams crashed into the surface world—except that the Plane of Dreams was not completely destroyed, it still left a Wall of Reality to eke out a living, but the dark domain only has a little residue left."

Vivian rubbed her eyebrows gently: "Our judgment of the Lord of Madness...was not profound enough before. It may be like some kind of virus, first infecting a universe, exhausting its matter and energy, and then riding on the wreckage of this 'victim' to find other universes, infecting the next one through world collisions, and so on..."

Hao Ren looked at Raven 12345: "But we previously judged that the Lord of Madness belonged to some kind of 'primordial life', a chaotic will that arose at the beginning of the birth of the Plane of Dreams. Could it be that this judgment is actually wrong? It was not born in the Plane of Dreams, but an alien pollutant?"

"No, our initial judgment should be correct, because that was the conclusion I reached after careful calculation," Raven 12345 shook her head. "Now I guess the Lord of Madness has some kind of 'rebirth mechanism'. After destroying a host universe, it should return to some kind of information singularity, like a spore sac, otherwise it would not be able to survive after the collapse of cosmic information; then, as Vivian said, it drifts in the void riding on the wreckage of the universe, and enters a new host body through world collisions. The spore sac awakens and becomes the Lord of Madness again, which is equivalent to being born again. In this process, the Lord of Madness will acquire the information characteristics of the new host universe, so that it can have an impact on this new universe—this process is necessary, because the physical rules and information structures between the two universes are mostly completely different. Without this form of rebirth or 'transcoding', the Lord of Madness should not be able to infect different universes."

Hao Ren felt goosebumps all over his body. This kind of infection method is enough to be frightening even at the level of microorganisms, let alone on the scale of the universe. Thinking about it, he was shocked: "Wait, since it infects new universes through world collisions...then after it infects the Plane of Dreams, isn't it going to infect our universe?!"

Raven 12345 glanced at Hao Ren: "If that's the case, that would be great—I've been waiting for this day for many years! If it dares to come out, I'll directly flash and uppercut it to death!"

Hao Ren immediately woke up, but then looked at Raven 12345 with contempt: "You talk so tough outside, if you have the ability, go in and kill it."

"If it has the ability, come out!"

"If you have the ability, go in!"

"If you have the ability..."

Vivian stared dumbfounded at the two who suddenly started trash-talking each other. After a few seconds, she couldn't help but stand up suddenly: "Are you two sick?!"

After shouting this sentence, she felt a little inappropriate and looked at Raven 12345 awkwardly: "Um, I..."

Although her biological mother is a goddess, Vivian still has a subconscious awe when facing Raven 12345.

However, Raven 12345 herself didn't care. She waved her hand and looked at Hao Ren provocatively with a triumphant expression: "Hehe, I'm sick—if you have the ability, you can have one too!"

Hao Ren: "..."

He felt that he was really out of his mind just now to suddenly start trash-talking with a psychopath. Could it be that discussing the Lord of Madness with a True God caused his sanity to suddenly drop?

After calming down for a moment, he regained his rhythm and forcibly pulled the topic back to the normal track: "In short, this matter is too important, I have to conduct further investigation into the dark domain. Next, I plan to study the planet Laerrien..."

Raven 12345 also magically returned to the normal topic in an instant, her thinking jumping like a quantum leap: "That's right, that planet called Laerrien is of extraordinary value. In a universe that has been destroyed, there is still a planet with life, and this planet has traces of artificial modification. You must investigate it carefully. If our discussion direction is correct, then there is likely to be hidden traces of the Lord of Madness's influence on the planet Laerrien, and it can survive from this influence...maybe the weakness of the Lord of Madness lies here."

After finalizing the next course of action, the topic became more relaxed. Raven 12345 began to ask about some interesting episodes in Hao Ren's operation, including the experience of the group falling into the "Laerrien Dream" in a daze, and finally being inspired by a brainless little weakling to escape from the dream. After hearing the characteristic of a figure Vivian that "because her mind is full of paste, she can't dream at all," the goddess sister couldn't help but laugh: "I really didn't expect this—she is so weak, who knew she could be useful in this way, this should be rewarded."

As she spoke, she began to look around for the figure of the little weakling, and the little thing was originally running around happily on the floor of the room by herself. Sensing this gaze, her whole chicken...er, her whole person visibly shivered, and then she scurried into Vivian's hair in a flash, only poking her little head out from near the latter's neck and cautiously looking outside.

Raven 12345 was a little hurt on the spot: "Why is she reacting like this—do I usually abuse her?"

Hao Ren thought carefully about Shunzi's culinary skills and thought that it was not as good as abuse...