The demon hunters, or the Ancients, these super cyborgs created by Holletta's Mage Emperor, had secrets far beyond Hao Ren's initial imagination. He had thought that these super lifeforms were at most an experimental product to steal the goddess' authority, and that their background could not be bigger than the stellar circle where Holletta was located. But he did not expect that they were actually directly on the battlefield of the deicidal war. Although they knew nothing about it, their souls, their bodies, and their existence were inseparable from the war. These cyborgs were implanted into the information network of the goddess of creation as a kind of "camouflage embedded virus" and deceived the network's identification mechanism through the divine signature code they carried. They had unwittingly replaced all the uplink nodes. When the deicidal war broke out and the goddess of creation fell, the connection between the Star of Creation and the lower mortal world was completely cut off. But no one had thought that the root cause of the network failure was on a "savage" planet in the frontier.
"The mastermind seems to know the goddess of creation very well. It's even a little unbelievable." Hao Ren shuddered a little because a guy who could plot against a true god made him feel a great threat. This "third force" was more dangerous than all the opponents he had predicted before. The deicidal race was powerful and ambitious, but they were just "tools" that could be discarded after use. Lockmarton was powerful and strange, but he was just a crazy demigod. Even the Mad Lord, the powerful primordial creature, was just an irrational phenomenal enemy. A guy without thinking naturally could not be called a conspiracy, and an opponent without a conspiracy would not make people feel strange and difficult to guard against. Only this mysterious mastermind, who had almost controlled the whole situation and could even play the true god in the palm of his hand. He completely understood the goddess of creation and even set up various sabotage plans in advance before the latter took action. With such a mysterious enemy hidden in the fog, it was not a good feeling. Raven 12345 also slowly nodded. "It is indeed a guy who knows the goddess of creation very well.
Raven 12345 nodded slowly and said, "He is indeed a guy who knows the goddess of creation very well. Let's summarize the information we have so far: first of all, he knows all the details of the deicidal war, and may even be one of the planners of the war, so he could arrange everything just right and get the rune technology of the deicidal race. Second, he should not be a member of the deicidal race because what he did was beyond the intelligence control shown by the deicidal race. At the very least, he could get the primordial divine power sample of the goddess of creation, which the deicidal race could not do. Third, he knows the goddess of creation extremely well, even more than the guardians. He knew in advance that the goddess of creation would contact her people all over the universe, so he set up demon hunters to block the information network of the goddess of creation. From this point, we can also know that the mastermind behind the scenes also knows the information network of the goddess of creation very well. He knows the structure and operating mechanism of the network, so he can accurately replace the key nodes of the network. Finally, he has never shown himself throughout the deicidal war. At least you have not found any records of his activities in the post-war survivors' records. There are only two explanations for this. Either he has really hidden from the beginning to the end, so no one noticed that there was such a 'chess player' hidden in the war, or he has been standing in front of everyone from the beginning, including the guardians and the goddess of creation, but no one knew his true face and no one suspected him …"
The last point that Raven 12345 mentioned made Hao Ren frown. "You mean …"
"I guess this' third party 'is someone around the goddess of creation, and he is on the Star of Creation. He has always been there."
As Raven 12345 spoke, she sketched words and lines in the air, listing all the clues and connecting them into a well-organized grid, and all the lines eventually pointed to her conclusion.
Below this conclusion, she extended a few more lines and added more notes.
"The connection between the goddess of creation and her people is through the First Born as a signal relay station. Every planet with a God-made ecosystem has at least one First Born. This First Born is the antenna through which the local mortal races communicate with the goddess of creation, and also the physical node of the information network.
"The process of the embedded virus replacing the network node is essentially replacing the authority of these First Borns. The first generation of demon hunters were injected into the transmission process of the information network as a virus, and this injection process should require a higher authority to guide.
"The contamination is actually the spiritual network between the First Borns. The spiritual network between the First Borns and the information network used by the goddess of creation to contact the lower nodes are equivalent in terms of physical structure.
"After the end of the deicidal war, all the First Borns showed a tendency of madness, which is also a kind of contamination …
"The mastermind knows the spiritual network between the First Borns very well, and he may even have a very high authority in this network — enough to allow him to import the false nodes formed by the first generation of demon hunters into the normal communication sequence.
"The modifications made by the mastermind to this network were hidden from the eyes of the goddess of creation, all the guardians, and even the First Borns who are the nodes of the network … The most difficult one to explain."
Raven 12345 listed out the conclusions, conjectures, preconditions, and contradictions. At the end, she gradually stopped and tilted her head slightly. "Hao Ren, you see, the mastermind has done so many things, many of which can only be done on the Star of Creation, and it also needs frequent contact with the guardians and the goddess of creation. So this is the conclusion …"
Hao Ren had already come up with his own idea at this moment. "This person can never hide."
"That's right, this guy appeared beside the goddess of creation openly. The guardians back then must have known him!" A light flashed in Raven 12345's eyes. "And according to the behavior of the goddess of creation, she knew nothing about what this guy did. Otherwise, she would not have been tricked so badly when she sent out the distress signal. So the mastermind still had enough time to tamper with the First Borns' network behind the back of the goddess and the guardians, as well as contact the deicidal race, steal the Tablet of Commandments, and secretly contact the Holletta Literate Circle. Therefore, he must have a very high degree of freedom in his activities on the Star of Creation, and before the outbreak of the deicidal war, he must have frequent contact with the control center of the First Borns network … With these restrictions, I think Muru and the others should be able to give you some information."
"Enough … enough." Hao Ren felt his brain was faintly swollen. After a short conversation, he felt more tired than talking to Raven 12345 for three hours on the street. "I want to know where the mastermind is now … Such a capable person should not have been killed in the big explosion at the end of the deicidal war, right?"
"That depends on whether the final fall of the divine kingdom into the 'Umbral Realm' was also in his plan." Raven 12345 raised her eyebrows. "The big explosion of the divine realm is the only event that may have exceeded everyone's expectations in the whole war. If the mastermind could even calculate this in advance, then I'm afraid he is still lurking in a corner of the Plane of Dreams, waiting for an opportunity to strike. If all this is beyond his expectation, then he should have fallen into the Umbral Realm with the Star of Creation."
Hao Ren pinched his chin and thought for a while before looking up. "I think the second possibility is higher, because since the fall of the goddess of creation, the mastermind has never been active again. Now I have launched a large-scale investigation in the Plane of Dreams, and this mysterious guy has never shown up. Most likely, he has fallen into the Umbral Realm with the Star of Creation."
"But Tam is probably still alive." Raven 12345 sighed.
Hao Ren also frowned. "Yes, he is probably still alive … This is the most troublesome."
According to the various data collected at the Solenne Gateway, Hao Ren could be sure that the Star of Creation and the surrounding divine kingdom did not perish after falling into the Umbral Realm, but continued to exist in a state of distortion of space and time. Under the right conditions, they could return to the real world. So if the mastermind had fallen into the Umbral Realm with the Star of Creation, then he was probably still alive. This point had to be taken into account.
"You have to be prepared for everything, because we are not sure of the situation in the Umbral Realm, let alone whether the mysterious enemy has changed in the ten thousand years after falling into the 'other side', so we have to think about the worst," Raven 12345 solemnly reminded Hao Ren, and only nodded after Hao Ren nodded. "Then this problem ends here. The inspection here is over, and the volunteers will return to their physical state in a while. Before that, I am a little interested in the 'Divine Oscillation Network' you found in the Plane of Dreams. "
"Oh, I have already sorted out the data."
Hao Ren had expected that Raven 12345 would be interested in that thing, so he had compiled all the data of the Divine Oscillation Network into a report on the way back. At this time, he took out the MDT and directly uploaded the data to Raven 12345's mental link.
"Is this all the data?" Raven 12345 turned on a light screen next to her, which showed the image of the Divine Oscillation Network. "… It doesn't look complete?"
"The actual scale of this network is probably covering all the describable universes in the Plane of Dreams. My drone cluster has not yet detected its boundaries —"
"No," Raven 12345 interrupted him. "I am not referring to its physical structure, but the 'software' of this network … The process of information proliferation and transmission is not quite right."
Hao Ren thought for a moment and said, "Should I pretend to understand now?"
"Your shamelessness is very much like mine." Raven 12345 gave him a sideways glance. "Don't interrupt me. I am serious. There must be something wrong with this data network. I can't put my finger on it, but I have a hunch that part of its operating program is hidden or stripped, and … it's man-made!"
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