Traveling back through Lockmarton's memories was a very uncomfortable process. A large number of unimaginably ancient memory fragments were mixed together, and there were also all kinds of strange and dazzling phenomena. Some of these phenomena could cause a great pressure on one's soul even if one just peeped at them. Hao Ren did not know if it was because of the serious damage to its soul fragment, or Lockmarton's weird life form caused its perception and memory to be different from that of humans. In short, Hao Ren saw a lot of indecipherable things in the messy information. After a little orderly memory in the deepest part of the memory, the rest were mostly chaotic and indistinguishable fragments.
But after careful combing, these chaotic and indistinguishable fragments could still provide some information.
According to Hao Ren's judgment, Lockmarton and the goddess of creation had been together for a very long time. At the beginning of time, the goddess of creation was an ignorant existence, and so was Lockmarton. On the extremely lonely and monotonous original Star of Creation, they spent a long time to let their respective minds grow. Even when they embarked on their first adventure to explore the stars, this growth was far from over.
They were completely unprepared to venture deep into space.
And this kind of exploration was not the first time.
In the most blurred and disordered memory, Hao Ren saw Lockmarton and its "mother" flying in the orbit of the Star of Creation, and also saw them wandering in the dark and cold space, clumsily trying various ways to quickly travel through the universe. They almost fell into the sun, or they had already fallen into the sun, but with the strange and inexplicable power of the goddess of creation, they directly changed the cause and effect of this failure. They also found a semi-solid primitive planet with active geological movement. The molten crust and violently changing celestial structure amazed the goddess of creation.
In a relatively early space travel, Lockmarton also encountered a "mysterious energy storm." It fell ill, and the goddess of creation had to take it to a nearby gas giant to recuperate for a thousand years. To avoid similar dangers in the future, the goddess of creation once again injected her divine power into Lockmarton's body, giving it a soul core that was immune to most secular damage.
And the biggest crisis they encountered was when they first tried a "super deep space jump." They jumped a distance beyond their imagination, and the jump even distorted the rules of space and time near the Star of Creation, causing its image in three-dimensional space to become a bright spot that could not be described mathematically. This accident almost made them lose their way home, and it took them thousands of years to return from the vast universe to the Star of Creation.
These experiences of exploring the deep space with his mother were buried in the depths of Lockmarton's memory, and each memory was fragmented and messy. Every memory was like a frozen specimen. The picture was still there, but the warmth had faded. It was as if the coldness of the deep space had also frozen Lockmarton's heart — if it had a heart.
But the goddess of creation knew nothing about these changes. Or rather, because she had never come into contact with other living individuals and had no experience of growing up, the goddess of creation had no idea what these changes meant.
And as time went by, Lockmarton's body was constantly changing, absorbing the divine power of the goddess of creation and the dark and chaotic primordial energy of the deep space. It became stronger and stronger, and its body also grew from a small meatball into an indescribable behemoth.
At the end of these fragmented memories, the flow of the picture became rapid and blurred. Hao Ren could barely infer something from it.
When they passed through an extremely ancient star zone, they found a large number of burned out stars. The stars in the universe were dark and silent, like a graveyard of stars. And in the depths of this' graveyard ', they met a group of wonderful' creatures'. They had no physical bodies, like luminous air masses floating in the air, and their bodies were full of twinkling light spots like stars. That was the first life they saw after wandering in the universe for so many years. The 'mother' was very excited. She had been with those creatures for thousands of years.
And under the guidance of those mysterious creatures, the goddess of creation saw other primordial life. Some of them were like luminous air masses, some were like floating rocks everywhere in space, and some were like lightning jumping in the asteroid belt. Every flash was a reincarnation of life and death. Only when countless of such lightning gathered together would they form a complete, communicable consciousness.
Almost all of these creatures were very different from the carbon-based life, silicon-based life, and sulfur-based life that Hao Ren was familiar with. Their life forms were beyond recognition, and most of them were between energy and matter. It seemed that the ancient life in the primordial universe of the Plane of Dreams was the same.
And the living environment of all these life forms was surprisingly similar: they all lived in the ancient dark star zone that had been burned out, with only the ashes of stars left. Material resources were almost exhausted, and the place was as cold and dead as a graveyard.
In any case, it did not look like a good livable environment.
Considering the long history of the ancient creatures, it seemed understandable that their home had become like this. But every life found by the goddess of creation lived in such an environment, and they did not show the slightest desire to go to the outside world. This was a bit suspicious.
But in Lockmarton's memory, Hao Ren did not find the answer to this question.
Because the subsequent memories became more messy and incomplete, and there were signs of serious distortion.
The further he went, the darker and distorted the images in Lockmarton's memory became. After the colors faded, there was only a cold grayish-white, and everything seemed to be shrouded in a layer of trembling water lens, showing a bizarre appearance. At first, the figure of the goddess of creation was still clear, but gradually, even the figure of the goddess of creation became a beam of jumping dim yellow light.
The earth in his vision became a twisted strip.
The stars in his vision were burning with pale flames, and countless hideous giant limbs rose from the surface.
The nebula in his vision was like hell, and countless celestial bodies were swallowed up by wriggling light and shadow.
Because these memories themselves did not contain the residue of emotions, Hao Ren could not tell what changes had happened to Lockmarton's inner world when his vision became like this. But from his point of view, these scenes were undoubtedly terrifying.
If this was not a phenomenon of the data damage of the soul fragment, then these distorted and changing visions were the true portrayal of the memory. They might have symbolized that Lockmarton had been affected by some kind of dark force, and this influence had caused the world in his eyes to change.
In the last few images, Hao Ren could get even less information, but he could see the end of Lockmarton.
He finally became a dark and horrible monster, destroying everything in front of him with great power.
He no longer obeyed his mother, but fought against her again and again, using the destruction of everything to fight against his mother's will to protect and create.
He even attacked the first ecological planet that his mother had painstakingly created, and almost wiped out all life on the planet overnight.
In the end, the goddess of creation realized that Lockmarton's madness was irreversible, and she had to destroy her first child herself.
Lockmarton's body was annihilated, his power was extracted, and his soul was severely damaged.
But the goddess of creation could not completely destroy him. Not only was it difficult to do so, but more importantly, in order to make Lockmarton "healthy and strong," she had rashly injected a large amount of divine power into his body, and even created an almost indestructible divine core for him. It was difficult for the goddess of creation to annihilate it with her own divine power. Even if she used all her strength to destroy it, the backlash would be extremely terrible, and might even affect every universe that the goddess of creation had visited through the way of causality.
Faced with this situation, the goddess of creation had to choose to permanently imprison this "treacherous child." So she created Collow and the first 21 wardens of the world of Collow, the prototype of the later guardian giants, the powerful "Great Old Watchmen."
After this memory, there was complete darkness.
Lockmarton's memory of being imprisoned in Collow, the process of its awakening, the information about the Godslayer, the fall of the goddess of creation, and the information about the ten thousand years after that, all these memories that should have existed were all dark.
Hao Ren suspected that this part of the memory was not erased or blocked by itself, but Lockmarton's mind had become dissimilated and chaotic at that time. Any rational attempt to read it would not yield any results.
With a moment of dizziness and a sense of dislocation in time and space, the scene in front of him shook, shattered, and reorganized into the familiar bridge of the Petrachelys.
Tunala the songstress and Anthony the Great Sage looked at him curiously. Noticing that Hao Ren's eyes moved, Tunala quickly came up to him. "Did you see it?"
"Yes," Hao Ren said, shaking his head. Reading Lockmarton's memory was more mentally taxing than he had expected. For a moment, he felt unsteady on his feet. He believed that the process of reading Lockmarton's memory was probably only a few seconds in the real world. "There's a lot of information, and it even contradicts some of the information I already have. I need to wait for a quiet moment to sort out these contradictions."
Anthony Alfonso nodded. "Sort it out, and if you can, publish it to the public data link. We can discuss it together at the next 'spiritual conference.'"
Hao Ren nodded. "I will. As for now, I have to go back and clean up the mess. "
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