With Hao Ren's reminder, everyone, including Lily and Vivian, suddenly remembered and looked at the back of their hands. Before they departed, everyone had gone through the marking ritual in the hall of the Yggdrasil. There should have been a resurrection mark from the Yggdrasil on the back of their hands, but now, all the marks were gone.
Everyone exclaimed in unison, "It's gone?!" "F * ck!" "What?" "Meow meow meow?" "F * ck!"
Well, it did not look that neat either …
The mark of the Yggdrasil, its biggest function was to bind everyone's life information and provide a precious chance of resurrection in the event of a fatal threat, and its disappearance only meant one thing — the chance of resurrection had been consumed.
But none of them could remember dying once!
"What's going on?" Lily instantly felt her hair stand on end, and she even felt like she had lost her life. "How did the resurrection token disappear just like that! I don't remember dying in L 'Haronne … "
"Of course no one died, because according to the plan before we departed, if all of us had consumed the resurrection mark, then the Yggdrasil would have immediately activated a forced escape and dragged us all back into the material universe, and this process was not something even the Umbral Realm could stop." Hao Ren waved his hand. "The resurrection mark disappeared because we were assimilated when we entered L 'Haronne's dream. No one has any memory of that moment, but it should have happened, at the very beginning. I think assimilation into the dream might have meant 'erasure' in the real world, and this process was enough to activate the imprecise judgment mechanism in the mark, so the mark was consumed. But in fact, we are all still alive, so the forced escape sequence on the Yggdrasil was not activated. "
Lily blinked as her tail drooped. "Ah … Just like that, a resurrection token was wasted …"
"No, it's working." Hao Ren smiled. "It's counteracted the assimilation effect of L 'Haronne's dream on us, and that's why we can move around while fully conscious. If not for this mark, we would probably be taking up missions in White Maple Leaf City to make a living, and then repeating the cycle for hundreds and thousands of years until the goddess wakes up …"
The goddess of creation shrugged. "In my slumber, I am just Rheia, and even I am trapped in the dream, so it has nothing to do with me."
Hao Ren was speechless.
Why did it feel like the goddess' style had changed?
The others broke out in cold sweat after hearing what Hao Ren said. Nangong Sanba looked at the back of his hand. "F * ck … Now that I think about it, without this thing, forget seeing the truth of the dream, we might have even forgotten who we are … Wait, that's not right. Based on what you said, the mark should have disappeared from the start, why didn't we notice it?"
"Of course not, didn't you notice? You only remembered the existence of the resurrection mark after I reminded you, "Hao Ren said slowly." If I'm not wrong, the mark had accepted the assimilation of L 'Haronne's dream on our behalf, so it became a part of the dream and disappeared from everyone's memory. If not for that, we would not have been able to completely isolate L' Haronne's influence. "
As he said that, Hao Ren suddenly remembered something, and quickly opened his dimensional pocket to release Lil Pea. The little mermaid was probably playing in her aquarium, and when she was suddenly released, she was holding a delicate little conch in her hand, with a happy expression on her face. That happy expression then turned into a daze, but quickly became happy again. She flashed onto Hao Ren's shoulder, and as she bounced, she waved the conch in her hand. "Daddy! I dug a sand pit in that big tank! There are so many shells in it! "
"Alright alright, let me see the back of your hand." Hao Ren handled the little mermaid's antics as he grabbed the mermaid's arm. "As expected … even if she was in the dimensional pocket, Lil Pea's resurrection mark had been consumed, and she was only active outside for a short period when we just arrived at L 'Haronne and before we entered White Maple Leaf City. After that, the dimensional pocket she stayed in was a place that could isolate causality and space-time, and in theory, it would not be affected by the dream. So just as I guessed, the mark was consumed right from the start, and after that, we gained a' lucid 'buff, and even when we were in contact with Rheia, the source of the dream, we were not affected by her at all …"
At that moment, Nolan, who had been floating in the air and not participating in the conversation, suddenly said, "Boss, then why did I not get assimilated by the dream? I don't have any resurrection mark at all. "
The shipgirl's words immediately stumped Hao Ren, and he opened his mouth but could not come up with an explanation. But at that moment, the goddess of creation who had been ignored by the side took the initiative to answer Nolan's question. "Because your existence has exceeded my understanding."
"Huh?"
"There is a limit to the dream, and no matter how much room for change, I cannot describe something that I do not understand. You … a part of you is completely beyond my knowledge, and also beyond L 'Haronne's worldview. If I was controlling the dream while I was awake, perhaps I could come up with a reasonable explanation for your existence, but L' Haronne operates on its own, and that prevented it from assimilating you …"
Hao Ren listened to the goddess' explanation, and at first he did not understand how a civilian-class ship like Nolan could exceed the goddess of creation's understanding. After all, even if the goddess did not receive any formal education, she was still a model self-taught, and at least she could figure out the matters of the universe. But soon he thought of Nolan, or rather, the most technologically advanced thing on the Petrachelys.
It was the Void Engine.
The goddess of creation had quietly tapped on the technology tree, and the highest achievement she could achieve was to successfully throw Vivian and the Yggdrasil ark into the neighboring surface world. So she did not have the true technology to travel between worlds, but Nolan … she had a Void Engine that could freely travel between worlds in the void!
Aside from this engine, be it the other conventional equipment of the Petrachelys, or the personal equipment and lifeforms of Hao Ren and his crew, they were all things that the goddess of creation could easily analyze and recreate, and so she could completely immerse herself in the dream of L 'Haronne. But because of the existence of this engine, Nolan's assimilation process was "stuck" …
The questions about L 'Haronne's dream were answered one by one, and Hao Ren felt a little enlightened. But the goddess of creation suddenly stretched her back. "While I would like to continue our conversation, it seems that we have wasted too much time on this ruin. If you don't mind, let's leave this place first before continuing our conversation? I still have a lot of things to do … "
Hao Ren knew that the 'many things' that the goddess mentioned probably included her plan of self-destruction. But it was not easy to persuade the goddess to give up the plan and accept his new plan. So he decided to talk to the goddess about saving the world after they got out of this place. She was not well-educated but had a strong sense of courage.
But before leaving the Umbral Realm, he still had something on his mind. "I have one last question, and it's about the L 'Haronne dream itself. Did you really create it out of thin air? Or does it have … an origin? "
Just as he expected, the goddess of creation's expression changed slightly when she heard the question. She then looked up, and her gaze looked past the floating palace ruins into the depths of chaos. There, a torn planet was quietly floating in space, and a faint layer of light shrouded the surface of the planet.
Just like how one could see the broken heaven from the land of L 'Haronne, one could also see L' Haronne from the broken heaven. Reality and dream had a strange intersection here.
Due to the obstruction of the chaotic fog, even a demigod could not see the details of the planet's surface. But from some blurry outlines, one could still vaguely make out some things on the planet's surface.
For example, a long and narrow plain surrounded by two mountain ranges …
"You have seen it right …" After a long while, the goddess retracted her gaze and sighed. "Yes, that is L 'Haronne … a place that once existed."
"It was swept in during the explosion of the divine kingdom?" Hao Ren asked curiously. "And you treated it as the prototype of the dream?"
The goddess' voice was a little low. "No, it was originally here … outside the boundary of the world."
Hao Ren's eyes widened when he heard that, and he almost jumped up. "Wait a minute! You mean L 'Haronne … it was originally here? In this universe that almost broke away from order, and almost fell into the void?! "
At that moment, a sea of information rushed into Hao Ren's mind. Countless conjectures and conclusions popped out one after another, almost making him feel like his brain was boiling. And the most direct and the most unbelievable of these conjectures and conclusions took up most of his brain capacity.
Outside the Plane of Dreams and the Surface World, there once existed a third universe?!
"Surprised, isn't it? I was surprised too, "the goddess of creation said flatly." When the Star of Creation exploded, I thought I would be thrown out of the world along with the shattered divine kingdom, and be completely annihilated in that place you call the void. But I did not expect to fall here, a narrow and dark little universe. There is even a planet called L 'Haronne here, and there is a group of mortals living there who have nothing to do with the world. At that time, I was almost dead, and only my remaining will was still lingering in the wreckage of the Star of Creation. I tried my best to restrain the energy shockwave from the Star of Creation, and it dragged on for about two hundred years … But in the end, I failed. The shockwave from the ruins of the divine kingdom tore everything in this little universe apart, including L 'Haronne. "
From that day onwards, the heavily injured goddess of creation fell into a deep slumber, and L 'Haronne became her dream.
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