The Record of Unusual Creatures

No matter how many times Hao Ren speculated, he could not be sure what decision the Goddess of Creation had made in the last three days before the fall. For a Goddess who once created the universe, loved to delve into the truth of the world, and devoted almost all her energies to exploration and learning, she could only do one thing at the time when she was cornered by the children she had created, it must be something extremely important. And she chose to create a powerful and highly intelligent lifeblood and put it on the spaceship of treacherous children. Was she trying to take revenge on the treacherous children? Was she trying to destroy their fleet? Or was she still dreaming of having a good talk with the treacherous children at the last minute, so she sent an envoy there?

No matter which one, the possibility was low, because when Vivian was sent to the battleship, the interstellar barrier had been breached, and the treacherous children might even have started bombing the Star of Creation, whatever Vivian wanted to do, it was too late to save the situation. And more importantly, Vivian just stayed there for a few minutes before leaving for the Surface World, which did not look like she wanted to do anything on the battleship of the treacherous children.

Vivian was silent. Her mind was full of the ideas that others were hard to guess. She suddenly gazed up into Raven’s eyes and asked, “If I absorb the evils directly, can I retrieve my memory?”

“Didn’t I tell you earlier? This is very dangerous.” Raven 12345 shook her head immediately. “You have to fight dozens of chaotic thoughts with your own mental will. And the things they remember are very likely to pollute your soul.”

Not just Raven 12345, even Hao Ren would not allow Vivian to take the risk. And he thought the situation was not serious enough to have to put her at risk. Now they just suspect that the Goddess left an order for Vivian. They did not have any evidence, and there were no immediate issues that need to be resolved with the help of Vivian’s memory. So he put his hand on Vivian’s shoulder and said, “Don’t rush to get your memory back. That’s not necessarily a good way. Let’s find clues in other ways. Maybe we can find the last words of the Goddess of Creation in some other way.

“Oh,” Vivian responded, but she still felt uneasy, which made Hao Ren wondered, because Vivian was usually a very calm person, she had never been feeling so uneasy about anything. But for some reason, she would become restless whenever someone mentioned the word ‘memories’, and she even repeatedly suggesting the risky idea. Today, she even wanted to absorb all the evil spirits, which was not something she would usually do.

“What’s wrong?” Vivian asked when she noticed that Hao Ren was gazing at her.

“Err… Nothing.” Now that Vivian was no longer mentioning the memory, he did not want to remind her of it. He took the last thing he wanted to show Raven 12345 from his Dimensional Pocket: a beautiful and mysterious Gilded Disc. “Boss, I brought this back from the Solenne Gateway. We heard that the Goddess of Creation had been busy creating something called the ‘Creation’s Engine’ before the accident. This is a part of it, you see…”

This was the Gilded Disc that Hao Ren took from Lemendusa. At first, Lemendusa insisted that he must look after the disc with extra care so it would not fall into the wrong hand. However, after seeing a series of efforts Hao Ren had done to revive the Goddess of Creation in Tannagost, he started to trust Hao Ren and allowed Hao Ren to bring the disc back.

Raven 12345 showed great interest after listening to the report of the Creation’s Engine. She looked at Hao Ren with a little surprised and praised, “Very good. You’re able to get so many clues every time you’re on a mission! Looks like I pick the right people.”

“So my annual bonus…” Hao Ren asked happily.

“No problem,” Raven 12345 snapped her fingers and said, “let me see if I can get you some good stuff. But now let’s figure out what this disc is for. The guardian didn’t explain this to you?”

Hao Ren shook his head. “No, the guardians are not very clear about the role of the Creation’s Engine. The Goddess seemed to be hiding something from them intentionally.”

“Hiding something from them?” Raven slightly frowned without saying a word. She ordered the arcane servant to catch the Gilded Disc, and then she waved at the air. The next moment, some mysterious rays of light and lines emerged from the air.

Those rays and lines were moving rapidly in the air, gradually condensed into a solid, and then turned into a huge complex platform. The platform was a few meters in diameter, made of crystals, slightly sunken in the center, and rune walls floating around like a light barrier. Lines of words were written on the platform. Hao Ren glanced at it and found that those were not runes, but words that he could understand, and the content surprised him:

Give me back my machete you idiot! Raven 12345 I’m gonna kill you! Don’t come back if you dare! Do you think you’re safe here? I’ll carve those ugly words all over your house! Raven 12345 stole my machete 1400 years ago but never returned it to me! Intolerable injustice!

“…” Hao Ren and Vivian did not know how to react.

Hao Ren pointed to the handwriting awkwardly and asked, “Can you explain what that is?”

Raven 12345 was stunned for a moment and then said, “How come… Oh, nothing!”

Hao Ren really wanted to get to the bottom of the question, but Raven 12345 had now changed the subject. She threw the Gilded Disc directly onto the crystal platform and then immediately analyzed it carefully. She looked so serious that she was ready to explode at any time.

The Gilded Disc floated silently on the crystal platform. The runes around the crystal platform were revolving around the disc as it was rotating. Hao Ren saw the lights flickering around the disc and he seemed to have dimly seen something between the lights and shadows.

As he looked attentively, he saw the scenes of the Solenne Gateway, and a lot of guardian giants marched through. In some even shorter scenes, he saw an unfamiliar starry sky and huge factory-like facilities. Hao Ren was fascinated by those pictures. He focused even more on them, looking for things that interested him. And soon, he saw a scene of war. He saw the Galaxy of the Solenne Gateway was destroyed in the war. The devastating golden fleet was sweeping across the Goddess’s territory. The scenes kept jumping and zooming in and out, and the last thing he saw was a spaceship, loaded with soldiers in gold and red armor, leaving the ruined Solenne.

When he looked at the face of one of the soldiers, the scene changed again.

The crystal platform was like an ‘extracting’ machine that kept extracting those pictures from the Gilded Disc and the disc was like a 360-degree projector, radiating rays of light. Countless fragments of the picture appeared along with the flickering lights but Raven 12345 did not pay attention to them. She was busy in a bunch of runes, seemed to be searching for a deeper secret in the Gilded Disc.

When all the lights and the operating sound of the crystal platform gradually subsided, Vivian asked curiously, “what’s that?”

“Those were the things that happened around this disc. It seems to have a strong ability to collect information,” Raven 12345 explained. “What you see is the footage of what happened after it left the factory all the way to the moment the Solenne Gateway was breached by the treacherous children. But it is not a specialized recording device after all, so these fragments are messy and don’t have much reference value.”

Hao Ren immediately poked the data terminal and asked, “Have you recorded it?”

“Yes, but I feel there’s nothing valuable in it.” The data terminal felt the same way. “I will analyze it. You can have a look when you are free, but don’t get your hopes up.”

“Okay, just put it aside.” Hao Ren then turned to Raven 12345 and asked, “Have you figured out the function of the Creation’s Engine?”

“I can’t tell the function of the whole engine from just one small part. But based on a little clue on the disc, I guess the Creation’s Engine has something to do with the Wall of Reality.”