The Record of Unusual Creatures

At the suggestion of Raven 12345, Hao Ren took out the large black book from his dimensional pocket and placed it solemnly on the tea table.

He had actually ‘read’ it once, or, strictly speaking, he had opened it once.

Hao Ren knew the value of this book from the day he got it. He knew that the Bible, which had a chain and eight rams, contained powerful power, and that if he could master even one percent of its power, he could improve his chances considerably when dealing with the Mad Lord in the future. So the night he took it home, he opened the book and read it once. It was absolutely a painful memory. The power contained in the text of the book was more than he could have borne.

It was a divine script with pure divine power. Every symbol contained information equivalent to the foundation of the universe. This information had nothing to do with the content of the specific writing of the divine script but was the inherent attribute of the latter. Hao Ren did not understand a word in that short reading for a few minutes. He just felt that there were innumerable weird and unpredictable symbols flying in and out of his brain. The vast amount of taboo knowledge was stuffed into his mind and disappeared in the next instant. In the end, he did not remember anything. The only gain was that he slept for seven hours…

For Hao Ren, it did not matter how these contents were. The process of reading those divine scripts was equivalent to gazing at the truth of the universe. What’s more, he had not even read the beginning of the book yet.

Lily and Nangong Sanba sat right and left beside Hao Ren, staring at the big black book with their curious eyes. Lil Pea jumped onto the big book, hitting the cover of the book with her tail and shouting, “Daddy! Don’t read! Daddy! Don’t read!”

The little kid feared that Hao Ren would faint again after reading it, as he did last time.

“Don’t worry, I know how to read this book this time.” Hao Ren then put the little mermaid up in the basin next to him. He silently repeated the secret that Raven 12345 told him, then he turned his head to Lily and Nangong Sanba and said, “After I opened the cover, you mustn’t look at the text inside, just watch me. If something is wrong, block my eyes immediately. Lily! Put away your alloy sword! I want you to block my eyes, not hitting me!”

Lily stuck out her tongue and threw aside the huge alloy X11 sword.

Hao Ren took a deep breath and solemnly opened the cover of the big black book.

At the moment the cover was opened, the book was out of his control. Hao Ren’s mind was filled with numerous symbols and information. His spiritual world reached the edge of collapse almost in an instant.

However, just as the situation was about to repeat itself, Hao Ren stifled his spiritual collapse and immediately shielded his senses of everything around him, focusing his spiritual energy on the Bible in front of him.

This was the ‘trick’ that Raven 12345 taught him, a clever way to read divine scriptures.

Under this extreme concentration, Hao Ren finally felt that the pages of the book that flipped crazily before his eyes gradually stopped, and the symbols that flitted around in front of him slowly fell out of sight. He began to see some coherent sentences and phrases. These words were not fixed on the page. As his eyes moved, these words were constantly changing, as if a sentence contained the evolution of all the information in the universe.

Of course, it was just an illusion. Hao Ren tried to concentrate on making the pages of the book more stable. Then he thought about the question he wanted to ask: What to do if the Goddess of Creation had been eroded by the Mad Lord when they found her?

The words on the page quivered and began to extract the most appropriate answer from the vast amount of information contained in the Bible, but the words presented were still not clear enough, so Hao Ren had to strengthen the question in his mind over and over again to strengthen the connection between himself and the bible.

He felt that his field of vision was darkening and he had a splitting headache, but before he lost control, the lines on the page finally became clear.

He made it!

Hao Ren stared at the ‘divine words’ and wanted to engrave them in his heart. The words were as follows:

“Step one, open the book and reason with her. If she doesn’t listen, move on to step two.

“Step two, close the book, pull out the chain and hit her face.

“Step three, open the book and reason with her.

“Step four, repeat until she is willing to reason with you.”

Here’s another line of small words: convince people by reasoning.

There was only one word in his mind before he passed out: Damn!

At the same time, at the ‘Creation’s Engine Casting Ground’ in Solenne, the last stellar forge was gradually quieting down under the control of Lemendusa. All forging materials were removed from the core of the star and temporarily sealed up on a nearby planet, waiting for an order to start again.

Standing on a control platform in space, Lemendusa’s body was coated with gold by the glow of the stellar forge. With a solemn look and a trace of regret, he looked at the ‘stellar forge’ that was shrinking into a normal star and sighed softly. “The construction project is half done.”

Muru’s voice came from behind him. “Nine of the most important Gilded Discs are still missing. Without those Gilded Discs as the computing hub, even if the core of the Creation’s Engine is completely completed, it won’t work. So, it’s okay that we stop now. Besides, the external frame of the engine is still missing in the dark.”

“There’s nothing we can do. After all, the blueprint has some problems,” said Lemendusa, and then went back to supervise the space project. A large number of barges were busy near the ‘Solar Port’ above the star forge, transporting the cast parts and temporarily unused materials to the nearby storehouse. And farther away, a huge, pale gold space facility was quietly floating among the stars, reflecting the light of the stars.

That was the unfinished Creation’s Engine, looking like a small planet assembled from huge mechanical structures and bent metal plates. Two-thirds of the dwarf planet’s skeleton had been built and covered with a small part of the shell. The incomplete parts looked like a lot of gnawed gaps with the glow from engine power lines glinted in these gaps. But now that the assembly project had been suspended, and all construction work had stopped. The engineering spacecraft was only doing the routine maintenance and inspection in the Creation’s Engine.

Although the engine has theoretically unlimited service life after completion, its self-repair function and stabilization force field had not been activated before completion. To keep such a huge thing in good condition, it must be maintained from time to time.

Lemendusa had overseen the project for a long time, starting with a blueprint and then working on the prototype of the engine, which he had worked on with great care. He was certainly disappointed that the project was now coming to a halt.

But Hao Ren’s message must be faced squarely. Lemendusa knew that he should trust the ‘spokesman of God’. Since he urgently stopped the construction of the Creation’s Engine, it meant something was really wrong.

“The project here may not be restarted so soon.” Muru was also gazing at the Creation’s Engine while talking to Lemendusa. “Do you want to go back to Tannagost first? The ecosystem of the planet has fully recovered. You should go back and see it.”

“Of course, I’ll go back.” Lemendusa nodded, and then looked serious. “Do you think the reason for the emergency stop of this project is really what Hao Ren said?”

“Flaws in the blueprint?” Muru shook his head. “Maybe only Heve would believe it. You and I can feel that it’s not so simple.”

“So you also think so,” said Lemendusa. “The blueprint was personally examined by the Goddess named Raven 12345. If the blueprint itself is flawed, the true Goddess would have noticed that, so this is obviously an excuse.”

“Hao Ren is a trustworthy man, at least he is on our side.”

“Yes, so I believe he has his reasons for doing so.” Lemendusa nodded. “Maybe… It’s about our mother. If this is the case, he will probably hide the truth from us for the time being out of caution.”

Muru looked into Lemendusa’s eyes as if trying to read his mind. “Do you know anything, my brother? I can feel… You’re shielding part of your mind.”

“Yes, I know something,” said Lemendusa frankly, “but I can’t say it. I can only tell you that I am loyal to our mother and to every mission she has given us and that I will not do anything to hurt her.”

Muru looked quietly at Lemendusa for a moment, then nodded softly. “Of course, I trust you.”

The two guardian giants stopped talking. They turned and looked in the direction of the Creation’s Engine, both lost in thought.

Muru pondered the fate of the universe while Lemendusa’s mind wandered back to the battlefield. For him, what had happened on that battlefield was still fresh in his mind.

He recalled the energy arcs that tore the earth apart, the rebel fleets that blocked the sky, and the many inexplicable, fragmented and even contradictory orders from the Star of Creation, some of which required all guardians to withdraw immediately and retreat into the depths of the universe, while others required all guardians to hold their ground until the last moment.

Faced with such contradictory orders, the guardians chose to stick to it.

Lemendusa recalled more than that. His memory continued to trace back to the days on the Star of Creation before the outbreak of the godslaying war.

He… caught a glimpse of a thin, almost imperceptible shadow standing next to the Goddess of Creation.