While the Nangong couple was curiously studying the furnishings in Raven's mansion, Hao Ren was already chatting with his god. "… Anyway, that's what happened, and then I brought them here."
Raven 12345 looked thoughtfully at the black metal box that Hao Ren brought. "Another one died … and it was also destroyed by the First Born. You said there's a race called the 'Denizens of the Stars'? "
"Yeah." Hao Ren nodded. "The people on the ark call them the Denizens of the Stars, and the people of Holletta call them the 'Allies of the Stars'. The basic meaning is similar, they both refer to visitors from space. But so far we've only collected images, it's hard to say if there are any survivors of the Denizens of the Stars in the Plane of Dreams. "
Raven 12345 looked at the image of the Denizens of the Stars projected by the MDT, which was extracted from the ark's mainframe. She found something. "It seems to be an energy lifeform … a spiritual body, without any physical parts."
Hao Ren felt that Raven was not finished. "So what?"
"So it's not like they were born from the Seed of Origin. I've analysed the lifeblood samples you brought, and found that the Seed of Origin's default template can only evolve carbon-based and sulfur-based lifeforms. Under the right conditions, it can also absorb the planet's semiconductor minerals to create a silicon-based ecosystem — but it stops at physical life forms. These Denizens of the Stars should be a naturally occurring species. "
"The sirens on Io are also naturally occurring." Hao Ren thought of the Planet of the Ocean. There were no traces of the First Born on the Planet of the Ocean, so he and Raven 12345 finally concluded that the sirens were a natural race.
Raven 12345 nodded slightly. "Yes, the sirens are also naturally occurring — and they're obviously backward compared to the Denizens of the Stars. Of course, Io's environment made it difficult for the siren civilization to start. But generally speaking, creatures with physical bodies developed faster than spiritual creatures. This was because spiritual creatures were born with a weak connection to the material world. They were slow to perceive the material world, so they were not motivated to develop and did not like to pay attention to the changes in the real world. Most of the time, spiritual creatures would develop pure spiritual civilization and immerse themselves in it until they died. Therefore, even though they were born with the talent to surpass material life, their civilization developed much slower than ordinary species. This delay was even greater than the environmental impact of the sea of Io. "
"And the Denizens of the Stars are obviously more advanced than the sirens …" Hao Ren understood what Raven 12345 was trying to say. "This race should be very ancient?"
"Very, very, very ancient …" Raven 12345 looked at the holographic projection next to her and frowned slightly. "They could go to the various' Second Born 'civilizations in the universe ten thousand years ago, which means that they are more advanced than all the Second Born … Considering that they at least know how to destroy the physical body of the First Born, I suspect that the history of the Denizens of the Stars can even be traced back to the time when the Goddess of Creation first sowed, or even a little earlier."
Hao Ren was surprised. "How could it be so old?"
"Don't underestimate the sluggishness of spiritual creatures." Raven 12345 curled her lips. "Sometimes when they are interested, they can even sleep for tens of thousands of years, and the purpose is just to study 'sleep'. Of course, this sluggishness is limited to natural spiritual creatures. Those spiritual creatures that evolved from physical species don't have this characteristic, and they develop very quickly. "
Raven's words reminded Hao Ren. "What if the Denizens of the Stars are also evolved from some ordinary creature?"
"No." Raven 12345 raised her hand and pointed at the holographic projection. "Do you see these little dots of light in his body? These are the traces of energy nodes left behind during the evolution process, which is unnecessary for high-level spiritual creatures. But the evolution of spiritual creatures does not follow the rule of using and disusing, so these evolutionary characteristics will be retained forever. And spiritual creatures that evolved from ordinary races do not have these 'noises' in their body because they are exempted from the evolution process. "
Hao Ren thought for a moment. "Then why do you have these light dots in the body of Big Blue? Didn't you create it directly? "
Raven 12345 shrugged. "It looks awesome, I did it manually."
Hao Ren was speechless.
He should not have asked such an obvious question! After knowing this crazy goddess for so long, how could he not know her character?
"Okay, okay. Anyway, what you mean is that these Denizens of the Stars should be older than the Seed of Origin, and may even be a species of the same generation as the Goddess of Creation?" Hao Ren sighed. "If that's the case … they may know the details of what happened to the Goddess of Creation?"
After learning more about the Denizens of the Stars, Hao Ren had unconsciously replaced 'them' with 'them' in his mind.
"I suspect that these guys are still alive." Raven 12345's lips curled up slightly. "Spiritual creatures are not that easy to perish. They are masters of soul and spiritual power, and no matter how strong the First Born is, it is still limited by its own physical form. So the spiritual creatures can easily find a loophole in the First Born's spiritual attack and escape. They are not afraid of the First Born's pursuit, but they can't really destroy the First Born. So now they are probably looking for a place to hide. "
"So I have to find a way to find them?"
"Do as you see fit." Raven 12345 waved her hand without a care for her image. "I'm looking for you to solve my problem. You decide how you want to arrange it yourself. Compared to this, do you want a bowl of noodles? "
Hao Ren was shocked. "Why are you so generous these two times? Didn't you not even let me drink when I came here last time? "
Raven 12345 laughed dryly and waved her hand. "I didn't pay attention when I was cooking a couple of days ago. I've been eating noodles for three days and I still haven't finished them … Don't just stand there, have a bowl of noodles?"
Just like that, the Nangong couple went home with a belly full of noodle soup after seeing God for the first time. Their only impression of heaven was that the bowl was big …
As the pope in theory, Hao Ren felt very sad about this fact: there was still salt! How could they only remember the bowl was big?
For the next two or three days, the world was at peace.
As for how to find the Denizens of the Stars, Hao Ren still had no clue. The universe of the Plane of Dreams was vast, but it was impossible to use high-powered deep-space radar to scan the star area. It would take a long time to rely on self-proliferating drones to slowly explore. Plus, the Denizens of the Stars would hide very well to avoid the First Born's intrusion, so it would not be easy to find them.
After Hao Ren told his family about the matter, everyone racked their brains to come up with a few solutions, but basically none of them were reliable.
Lily patted the dog's head and came up with an idea to let Hao Ren broadcast a missing-person notice across the universe of the Plane of Dreams. She was almost buried alive by Vivian's little bats because the only possibility was to alarm the First Borns and brain monsters across the universe, causing them to start frantically searching for survivors of the apocalypse.
Even the ingenious Lily could only come up with this lousy idea, needless to say, the others were not as imaginative as Lily.
So in the end, Hao Ren regretfully found that this matter could only be left to fate …
Putting this matter aside for the time being, Hao Ren began to study the information he got from the ark's mainframe.
The database had been handed over to Raven 12345, and as the inspector in charge of this matter, Hao Ren still had to go through the information a few times. It was just a brief look, but it was necessary to understand. Hao Ren felt that this was his professional ethics. He felt that he should at least know the general situation of the civilisations that he had personally sent off. It was also a kind of remembrance for the dead.
"I'm feeling more and more like an old charlatan who cares for people at the end of their lives." Hao Ren muttered to the MDT as he connected to the database. In this linked virtual space, only the MDT was still in constant spiritual contact with him.
The MDT's voice rang in Hao Ren's mind. "So you think that your title of 'pope' is just for show? I told you, all of this has been very serious from the beginning. Just as a priest has to listen to the confession and comfort the soul by the bedside of the dying, the pope on the side of God also bears the responsibility of sending off the civilisations that have died prematurely. This is what everyone has to do. It's just that when you first took office, you were ignorant and couldn't understand it. But now … do you understand? "
"It feels more and more like a pirate ship." Hao Ren sighed. "But you're right. At first, I thought it was a joke. Now I realize … it's all f * cking real, more real than real. But did you really tell me this before? "
"… I just said it casually."
Hao Ren was speechless.
At this time, the link had been established, and the database of the ark civilisations spread out in Hao Ren's mind.
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