When Vivian came home with Lily with the basket, she saw Hao Ren putting away the scrolls. She asked casually, "Are you still playing with that evil thing?"
Lily, on the other hand, was not interested in the scroll. She cheered and ran to the water room to gulp down a mouthful of cold water. After quenching her thirst, she yelled, "Battie, Battie, hurry up and cook! Do I owe you something in my past life? You even dragged me along to buy groceries? "
Vivian grabbed a cucumber and threw it into the bathroom. "It's half-past ten, what are you hungry for? Did I owe you something in my past life? "
Lily's voice came from the other side. "Nonsense, you killed me in your past life … Oh, no, I mean, I was killed by you in my past life."
"… Why is she so quick-witted at times like this?" Vivian said.
Hao Ren looked at the two of them bickering and smiled. "I've started to decipher the second scroll."
Vivian looked interested. She handed the basket to Nangong Wuyue, who was wriggling on the floor, and came up to Hao Ren. "What did you find?"
Hao Ren pointed at the data projected by the MDT and said, "I guess these four scrolls record four major chapters of the ancient history of The Plane of Dreams, because the content of the first and second scrolls are clearly divided into different sections. The first scroll records the period when the Mad Lord ruled the universe. It's also the most dangerous scroll: it's full of the names and deeds of the evil gods. It took me nearly a week to read them all. The second scroll begins to record the history of the period after the goddess of creation defeated the Mad Lord. The scroll calls this period the Pastoral Age. I've just read this part. "
Vivian looked curiously at the data projected. The data was actually a translated and collated version of the content of the scrolls. It was still full of the content of the Mad Lord, but as Raven 12345 said, the copied text was no longer dangerous, and anyone could read it safely.
"You suspect that the ancestors are the Denizens of the Stars?" Vivian asked.
"It's just a guess. It could be something else. Anyway, it's an indigenous intelligent creature that existed before the birth of guardian giants like Muru. The most useful paragraph is this: the goddess of creation redesigned and reinforced the cage to better suppress the Mad Lord. This time, the cage has three distinct layers, 99 layers of barriers, and a group of jailers. I'm curious about the fate of these jailers. "
"Probably not a good end … After all, even a god has fallen, it's hard to say how many mortal jailers will survive." Vivian shook her head and shifted her attention away from the data. "Don't be too obsessed with these things. The goddess said that these things are very evil, and the process of learning these knowledge is like taking drugs."
Hao Ren smiled and said that he would be more careful. At this moment, a sudden sound of friction from the corner of the wall interrupted their conversation.
The big cardboard box in the corner of the living room was pushed open, and Noobie poked her head out of the mouse hole. She carefully looked around and soon found Hao Ren and Vivian talking. The little one immediately raised her hands and ran over. She leaped onto the armrest of Hao Ren's chair and brandished her claws. "Ha — hiss!"
Hao Ren pressed a finger on Noobie's head, took a small plate from the table, poured some water in it, and placed it on the armrest of the chair.
The little one looked down, waved her arms, and barked at Hao Ren. Then she lowered her head and gulped down the water.
"Have you noticed?" Hao Ren looked down at the little one who was drinking water seriously and said to Vivian, "She has changed."
At that moment, Lily happened to be strolling out. She heard Hao Ren's question and replied, "Yeah, yeah. She didn't drink water before."
"Not that." Hao Ren waved his hand. "Have you noticed that she has become … gentler recently?"
Noobie licked the last bit of water, grabbed the plate, and slapped it on Hao Ren's face. "Hiss!"
"You call this gentler?" Lily was shocked.
Hao Ren hurriedly caught the plate and pressed the little one down on the table. He shook his head and said, "I'm not talking about this... I always feel that she has been a little more obedient recently. Have you noticed that she seems to be able to understand human language?"
Vivian frowned as she looked at the struggling little one on the table by Hao Ren. She tried to greet the little one. "Can you understand me?"
When the little one heard the voice, she suddenly became quiet for a moment. She looked up at Vivian and began to shake her head frantically.
Hao Ren, Lily, and Vivian were speechless.
"When did you notice this change in her?" Vivian immediately became serious. She had not noticed the subtle changes in Noobie. Although she was very concerned about her accidental avatar, her communication with Noobie was not as good as Hao Ren's. The reason was simple. Not long ago, the little one found that Hao Ren had the best temper in the family. Lil Pea would hit her, Rollie would hit her, and even the most cowardly Nangong Wuyue would slap her a few meters away with her tail. Only Hao Ren, even if he was harassed, would often laugh it off. So after some muddled calculations, the little one decided that she was the best target. She would go to Hao Ren's side to tease him. After a while, Hao Ren was the first to notice the change in the little one.
"Since we left the forest last time," Hao Ren nodded. "Strictly speaking, the change probably happened when we were still in the alien dimension. Do you still remember? When we left the alien dimension, we found the little one quietly staying in the can. When we got home, she slept for a whole day and night. When she woke up, she was a little strange. "
After that, he let go of Noobie, who let out a shrill scream as soon as she regained her freedom. Then, like a beam of black light, she jumped off the table and went into the mouse hole in the corner of the wall in the blink of an eye.
After a while, the little one crawled out of the mouse hole. She dragged the cardboard box next to her to block her "door". Before she went back into the hole, she peeked at Hao Ren. Although her murky eyes showed no emotion, it was obvious that she was angry.
Hao Ren, Vivian, and Lily stared at the scene. Noobie's behavior was full of a characteristic that she had never shown before: emotional, and it was quite obvious.
The three of them had a discussion on the spot. Nangong Wuyue, who was soon done mopping the floor, joined in the discussion. They collected some of the little one's recent words and deeds and quickly came to a conclusion:
"Obviously, she can understand human language now and has a more obvious emotional response," Hao Ren said, scratching his chin. "But I'm afraid her mind is still not complete. So far, her most complex emotional response is extremely 'childish', and she can't control her behavior most of the time. Lily mentioned that the little one still insists on throwing magic arrows at the wall and biting electric wires every day, even though she should have known that it was meaningless. I think this is a sign of a lack of self-control. "
Nangong Wuyue's brows knit together. "It's certain that there is a change. The question is what caused it."
"Let's assume that her change is related to our previous experience in the alien dimension. What are the suspicious things that could affect her?" Vivian spread out her hands and counted one by one. "The big enchantment built by the demon hunters is one, then the scepter, and then the four scrolls. All three of them are very powerful energy sources. I think all of them are possible. "
Nangong Wuyue raised her tail and used the tip of her tail to wipe the table. "I don't know. I didn't go with you, so I don't know the situation."
Hao Ren carefully recalled the previous experience and gently shook his head. "There is a very big factor that we have overlooked."
Vivian looked up. "What is it?"
"Your moonlight."
As soon as Hao Ren said that, the room suddenly became quiet.
"Moonlight?" Vivian was stunned for a moment. She raised her finger and pointed at herself. "You mean the Crimson Moon? That thing only makes people crazier. I didn't even know it has a healing effect. "
"But didn't you say that the Crimson Moon that you summoned last time was different from before?" Hao Ren spread out his hands. "Maybe this is the problem. Your moonlight has mutated, causing your little Malevolence to mutate as well."
Vivian touched her chin. "Looks like you have a plan?"
"It's not a plan, just an idea." Hao Ren nodded. "I want to see your Crimson Moon again and conduct a thorough examination of it."
Vivian did not show any hesitation or resistance because she now had an inexplicable trust in Hao Ren. She felt that as long as it was a plan proposed by him, it would definitely succeed. There was no basis for it. She just believed it.
But at last, she shook her head. "I don't have any objection, but I'm afraid I can't for the time being. Summoning the Crimson Moon is a very magic and energy-consuming ability. I guess it will take me a while to recover before I can do it again."
Of course, Hao Ren understood. In fact, he was not too anxious about this problem. It was just that he had been studying scrolls and Noobie for the past few days. Life was really boring, and he wanted to find something to do.
But soon he did not need to be bored, because in the afternoon, the MDT gave him big news.
A monitoring station of the drone cluster had found the corresponding rift of the Scarred Nebula in the Plane of Dreams.
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