With regards to Hao Ren's operation in the Umbral Realm, Raven 12345 first expressed her admiration for her ability to read people, and emphasized that a busybody may not make a good inspector, but a good inspector must be a busybody. She admitted that the information that Hao Ren had gathered on this trip had far exceeded her expectations, and the most valuable part was about the nature of the Umbral Realm.
Hao Ren opened his Dimensional Pocket, and lined up some sealed tubular metal containers in front of Raven 12345. Their contents included samples of rocks, soil, air, and water, as well as a shimmering light confined by a force field.
"These are the samples that I had the Petrachelys collect with its probe. These are material samples from L 'Haronne, and this light comes from the border of the Umbral Realm. The border is not completely dark, and there are some glowing clouds that have cooled down and are scattered around, like some kind of broken celestial body. They present a strange property between matter and energy, completely defying the laws of physics, so I collected them too."
Raven 12345 gently touched one of the sample containers with her finger, and the metal container disappeared, and the sample inside quickly turned into a series of dissipating light spots on her fingertip. The analysis was completed in an instant. "Interesting … What an amazing discovery …"
"How is it?" Hao Ren and Vivian asked in unison.
"The underlying information structure is more than 60% different from the products of the Plane of Dreams." Raven 12345 snapped her fingers, and the samples and containers that had disappeared immediately returned to their original positions on the table. "This means that they are produced under different laws of physics, or in other words … under a different worldview. As for this light … its nature is even more intriguing. What do you think it is? "
Hao Ren thought for a moment, and looked at the goddess seriously. "If I say it is Fragrant Milk Tea, you will definitely beat me up, but I really can't think of anything else …"
Raven 12345 snorted, and no longer kept him guessing. "This is the World Barrier after it was broken and solidified."
"… What the heck?!" Hao Ren was stunned. "The thing that separates the World of Order from the Void? The predecessor of the Wall of Reality? "
"Yes, a broken and solidified World Barrier. Inside it is a material space that does not belong to either the Plane of Dreams or the Surface World. It exists by relying on the World Barrier of the Plane of Dreams, but until the outbreak of the deicidal war, it had never exchanged material with the Plane of Dreams. More importantly … this space clearly existed long before the deicidal war, which means it has been there since the beginning … We need to revise the model of the universe."
Hao Ren had vaguely guessed this before, but he was not as sure as Raven 12345. Now that he heard the exact answer, he could not help but sit up straight. "We are not facing a twin universe, but a … triad?"
"That's right. The so-called Umbral Realm is most likely an independent universe." Raven 12345 nodded. "But it's even weaker than the Plane of Dreams. It even needs to attach itself to the World Barrier of the Plane of Dreams to survive. Rather than a complete world, it's more like a remnant of a destroyed universe. How long has this remnant 'stuck' to the World Barrier of the Plane of Dreams? Was it after the collision between the Plane of Dreams and the Surface World, or before? There's a lot of information in this … "
From a different point of view, the direction of thinking was naturally different. Hao Ren was still pondering about the historical secrets of L 'Haronne in the Umbral Realm waiting to be discovered, but Raven 12345 was thinking about something more profound. Of course, it could also be Hao Ren's occupational habit of digging graves all day long. But he had to admit, the words of the goddess had enlightened him.
"If it was before the collision with the Surface World … then it will form a clear arrow of time." Hao Ren opened the holographic projection of the MDT and drew his own concept map on it. "The original 'Umbral Realm' was a complete and normal universe, then it was destroyed for unknown reasons and crashed into the World Barrier of the Plane of Dreams. Then the Mad Lord happened in the Plane of Dreams and crashed into the World Barrier of the Surface World …"
"In fact, the original fate of the Plane of Dreams is probably the same as the Umbral Realm." Vivian also grasped the key point. "Without the goddess of creation, an ordinary universe would not have been able to withstand the destruction of the Mad Lord. It would have completely shattered and crashed into our universe. It was the goddess of creation who weakened the disaster."
"Could it be that the Plane of Dreams was not the first victim?" Hao Ren frowned. "The Umbral Realm was?"
Raven 12345 nodded gently. "This is just a bold assumption, but assumptions are rooted in clues. The clues now show that the Umbral Realm was originally an independent universe, and now it has crashed into the World Barrier of the Plane of Dreams. This state is too similar to the situation when the Plane of Dreams crashed into the Surface World. But the Plane of Dreams was not completely destroyed. It still left the Wall of Reality to linger on, but the Umbral Realm is left with only a little dregs."
Vivian gently rubbed her eyebrows. "Our judgment of the Mad Lord … was not deep enough before. It might be like some kind of virus, first infecting a universe, exhausting its matter and energy, then riding on the wreckage of this' victim 'to find other universes, and through the collision of worlds, it infects the next one, and so on and so forth … "
Hao Ren looked at Raven 12345. "But our previous judgment was that the Mad Lord was some kind of 'primordial life', a chaotic will produced at the beginning of the birth of the Plane of Dreams. Could it be that this judgment is actually wrong? It was not born in the Plane of Dreams, but a foreign pollutant? "
"No, our initial judgment should be right, because that is my conclusion after careful calculation." Raven 12345 shook her head. "Now I guess that the Mad Lord has some kind of 'rebirth mechanism'. After destroying a host universe, it should be restored to some kind of information singularity, like a spore sac. Otherwise, it could not survive after the collapse of the universe's information. Then, as Vivian said, it drifted in the void on the wreckage of the universe and entered the new host through the collision of worlds. The spore sac wakes up and becomes the Mad Lord again, which is equivalent to being born again. In this process, the Mad Lord will obtain the information characteristics of the new host universe, and thus be able to influence this new universe. This process is necessary because the physical rules and information structure between the two universes are very different in most cases. Without this form of rebirth or 'transcoding', the Mad Lord should not be able to infect different universes. "
Hao Ren felt a layer of goosebumps. This kind of infection method was creepy enough on the microbiological level, let alone on the cosmic scale. He was shocked when he thought about it. "Wait a minute, since it infects the new universe through the collision of worlds, does that mean it will infect our universe after infecting the Plane of Dreams?!"
Raven 12345 glanced at Hao Ren. "If that's the case, that's great. I've been waiting for this day for many years! If it dares to come out, I'll kill it with the Rising Dragon Fist! "
Hao Ren immediately came to his senses, but then he looked at Raven 12345 with disdain. "You talk so big outside. Go in and kill it if you can."
"If you can, let it come out!"
"If you can, go in!"
"If you can …"
Vivian looked at the two suddenly pecking at each other, stunned. After a few seconds, she could not help but get up. "You two are sick!"
After saying this, she felt a little inappropriate and looked at Raven 12345 awkwardly. "Err, I …"
Although her mother was a goddess, Vivian still had a little subconscious awe when facing Raven 12345.
However, Raven 12345 did not mind at all. She waved her hand and looked at Hao Ren with a triumphant expression. "Haha, I'm sick in the head. You can have one too if you're so good!"
Hao Ren was speechless.
He felt that he must have lost his mind to suddenly peck with a psychopath. Could it be that discussing the Mad Lord with a true god had caused his sanity to drop?
After calming down for a moment, he regained control of the rhythm and forced the topic back on track. "In short, this matter is too important. I have to further investigate the Umbral Realm. Next, I plan to study the planet L 'Haronne …"
Raven 12345 also magically returned to the normal topic in an instant. Her thoughts jumped like a jump. "Yes, the value of the planet L 'Haronne is extraordinary. There is a planet with life in a destroyed universe, and there are signs of artificial modification on the planet. You have to investigate it carefully. If our discussion is correct, then there is a high chance that L 'Haronne still has traces of the Mad Lord's influence, and for it to survive this influence … Maybe this is the weakness of the Mad Lord. "
After finalizing the next step of the plan, the conversation became more relaxed. Raven 12345 began to ask about some interesting episodes in Hao Ren's operation, including how they fell into the "Dream of L 'Haronne" and were inspired to leave the dream by a brainless Noobie. After hearing about Vivian's "muddled brain and unable to dream" characteristic, the goddess could not help but laugh. "I really did not think of this. She's so weak, who knew she could come in handy like this. She should be rewarded."
As she spoke, she began to look for Noobie. The little thing was running around on the floor, and when she sensed the gaze, her whole body … uh, her whole body visibly trembled. She then darted into Vivian's hair, and only poked her little head out from Vivian's neck to look outside.
Raven 12345 was a little hurt on the spot. "Why is she reacting like this? Have I mistreated her?"
Hao Ren carefully thought about the goddess's cooking, and thought to himself that she might as well have been mistreated …
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