A few kilometers away from the floating cities, Katreina and Shaqira were standing in the rolling waves. Other than them, only one of Eva's avatars was floating on the sea. When Hao Ren and his entourage arrived, they did not see anyone else. Presumably, the tourists were still touring the ancient ruins under the guidance of the other sirens.
"What's going on?" Hao Ren stood on the boat of waves that Nangong Wuyue had rolled up and walked briskly to Katreina's side. "Eva is looking for me?"
He felt very surprised because Eva had always behaved like a child who was completely ignorant of the ways of the world. No matter how he looked at it, she didn't look like someone who would take the initiative to have any ideas. There were actually times when she would take the initiative to look for someone?
Katreina flipped over briskly in the water, her beautiful mermaid tail rippling in the waves. The siren queen seemed to be in a good mood. She smiled and said, "Don't worry, it's not a big deal. Eva was very happy when she received the gifts we brought. She asked me for a long time what a 'gift' is. Now she wants to give you a gift too."
"For me?" Hao Ren was even more surprised. "Why not for you?"
"We've got our gifts," Shaqira said with a smile as she swam over. "It's the stones from the bottom of Io and the handicrafts excavated from the ancient siren city. Eva treats them like treasures — just like us sirens, she also has a hobby of collecting all kinds of strange things."
"Oh, I see." Hao Ren nodded. He could not help but be curious about Eva's' gift '. "What is she going to give me?"
"We don't know. She said she would only give it to you when you come." Katreina smiled and waved her hand, then slapped her tail hard in Eva's direction. "Eva, Hao Ren is here. Where's your gift?"
Eva swam quickly along the surging sea, like a lively wave rolling on the surface of the water. She circled around Hao Ren and said, "Presents! Gift! Gift! "
As she spoke, Hao Ren heard the sound of the water getting louder and louder. Then, a large amount of white foam emerged from the water. As the water churned, they saw a shiny object floating out of the water, reflecting the sunlight.
"Wow, it's a big thing. It looks beautiful …" Hao Ren did not care what Eva had prepared for him. He did not expect much from the things the sirens had brought him. These strange creatures would keep anything they picked up in the water as a treasure. However, when he took a closer look at the thing that had emerged from the water, the latter half of his sentence was stuck in his throat. "Wait a minute … where did you find this thing?!"
A large crystal was lifted into the air by the waves, and was delivered to Hao Ren in a way that defied the laws of physics. The crystal was translucent white, about two meters tall, and had an irregular polyhedron shape. A faint glow floated on its surface. At first, one might mistake it for the reflection of sunlight, but upon closer inspection, one would realize that the light was actually coming from the crystal itself. If one looked closely, one could even see a large amount of light surging inside the crystal as if it were alive. The light jumped and vibrated deep within the crystal, forming a large number of ever-changing trajectories. It was a dazzling sight.
This was definitely not something made by the sirens.
In fact, Hao Ren had seen something similar not long ago. In Collow, on the Crystal Mountain of Asurmen, the ancient starship made by the Denizens of the Stars was made of this self-glowing holy crystal!
Not only Hao Ren thought so, but Lily also recognized the material of the crystal. After all, one of her hobbies was collecting all kinds of beautiful stones. The last time she left Asurmen, she did not manage to get one from the spaceship, and that was her biggest regret. The husky maiden immediately circled around the crystal and then ran back to grab Hao Ren's arm and yelled, "Mr. Landlord, Mr. Landlord! This thing looks like the shell of Asurmen! "
Hao Ren felt as if the whole world had entered a vibration mode. It took him a lot of effort not to be flung away by the husky. "Wait a minute, I know, I know … Don't shake me, don't shake me. You're going to pull my arm off. Oh my god, why are you so strong? My Steel Membrane Shield is lighting up …"
"Where did you find this crystal?" Hao Ren turned his head and asked Eva solemnly after finally calming the excited husky maiden down.
"It fell from the sky …" Eva thought for a moment and then said in a voice mixed with the sound of water. "Swoosh! And then it fell into the water. Splash! What a high splash! And then it sank to the bottom of the sea! "
Eva was not very proficient in this way of communication, and her mind was not mature enough. Her description sounded inexplicable at first. But Hao Ren had been hanging out with a bunch of idiots all year round, so it was not a problem for him to understand Eva's words. He frowned. "It fell from the sky? Did you see anything else pass by at that time? Like a spaceship or something … Err, a spaceship is the kind of thing we are on. Those iron islands were also spaceships before they landed. "
Eva tried to think. "I didn't see anything."
"The debris may have fallen off the spaceship before it got close to Io," Nangong Wuyue interjected. "Eva can only observe and sense Io and Io's low-Earth orbit."
"That's not right." Hao Ren frowned. "I've set up unmanned fortresses and armed satellite battle groups near Io. The sensing range of these things is not limited to the planetary ring. Recently, I haven't received any reports of unidentified flying objects passing through Io's identification circle. Drone cluster, check the logs. "
He said the last sentence to the drone cluster through the mental connection. A moment later, the cluster consciousness of the drone cluster responded, "No relevant records found in the logs. Since the start of Io's surveillance system, no unregistered flying objects have appeared in the radar's range."
After listening to the drone cluster's report, Hao Ren looked at Eva. "When did this' rock 'fall?"
Eva was a little confused, but she still thought about it seriously. "One day, two days, three days … Many days ago, before you came here for the first time, when there were still a lot of clouds in the sky … it suddenly fell."
Hao Ren tried to understand what Eva was saying. His eyes suddenly widened. "Is it before the current 'you' woke up? The 'previous generation' Eva? "
Eva's transparent body floated on the surface of the sea. She made a confused sound. "I'm not sure. It's in segments. I think I was sleeping … sleeping for a long, long time."
"It's too hard to communicate," Hao Ren said, giving up on the verbal conversation with Eva. He squatted down and put his hand into the sea to re-establish the mental connection. "Eva, open your mind. Let me see your memory …"
A few minutes later, Hao Ren stood up. The others immediately surrounded him with concern.
"This crystal fell on Io about three to six hundred years ago," Hao Ren exhaled. "You heard it right. It was when the planet was shrouded in a storm. Before the remnant consciousness of the previous generation Eva completely disappeared, this crystal fell into the sea and then fell into a trench near the equator. No wonder my drone cluster didn't detect it."
Nangong Wuyue was surprised. "Eva still remembers that time?"
"Of course not. At that time, there was only the remnant consciousness of the previous generation Eva in the ocean of Io, and she was in a state of hibernation. The new Eva only inherited a small part of the memory of those fragments. She can only vaguely remember that such a thing fell from the sky, but she doesn't know the specific time and whether anything else happened when the fragment fell. I can only roughly guess that it happened three to six hundred years ago based on the traces in her memory."
Vivian frowned. "At that time, we hadn't come into contact with the Plane of Dreams yet."
As soon as she said this, Lily and the Nangong siblings turned their heads and stared at her. Lily rolled her eyes. "Don't use 'we'. We are still young. Three centuries ago, it was you, an old woman, running around."
Vivian smashed a frost arrow on Lily's face. "Get lost. You were still a wandering ghost three hundred years ago. How dare you talk about me?"
"Why don't you think about who turned me into a wandering ghost?"
"If you didn't go and torment the Godslayer, would you have become a wandering ghost?!"
Hao Ren saw the situation and quickly separated the two. "Okay, okay, can't you two calm down? It's not a big deal … Well, it's a big deal. But Lily, haven't you come back to life successfully … Well, well, it's a dog's life, but …"
Before he could finish, Lily and Vivian turned their heads and glared at him. "Can you talk?"
Hao Ren was speechless.
Fortunately, he was used to this kind of situation. After all, Lily was a husky. She was born with the talent of sudden excitement, and Vivian was the nemesis of Lily. The two of them had a love-hate relationship in their previous lives, and they had no intention of coexisting peacefully in this life. It was not the first time the two of them started quarreling out of nowhere. After diverting their attention, Hao Ren looked at the crystal. "Anyway, I have to bring this to Asurmen. If this is really a fragment of the Denizens of the Stars' spaceship, then something big must have happened here a few hundred years ago. In this universe, anyone who can damage the spaceship of the Denizens of the Stars is at least a demigod."
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