Chapter 205 (2/2)
Vivian impatiently pushed Lily away and said, “Stop wagging your tail. Your fur keeps shedding.”
Hao Ren allowed them to quiet down and looked at Hilda with apologetically. He said, “Hope you don’t mind. They’re always like this, peevish in the presence of strangers. Now, tell me about yourself. How did you get here?”
Hilda glanced at Hao Ren. She slowly lowered her eyes and explained, “I was sent here because of a teleportation portal accident. Our planet is on the verge of exhaustion, so we built a huge space-time accelerator to find a new home for our species to survive. However, something went wrong after the device started.”
Hilda stopped explaining here. Even if she had continued to tell them more details, they could not understand it. After all, it was the problem of another world.
Hao Ren nodded, but suddenly thought of a question: Is Hilda really from a different world? Is it possible that she actually came from another planet?
He had been to outer space and another planet, and now, the way he looked at the problem was much wider than he before. He remembered what he read in the manual: Many “time-travelers” mistakenly judged themselves to be in a different world because of insufficient knowledge or limited means of self-identification. In many cases, they just came to another planet in the universe because teleportation within a universe was much easier than teleportation between different worlds. Therefore, this kind of misjudgment had accounted for the vast majority.
“I know what you mean.” After listening to Hao Ren’s question, Hilda took out a delicate little disc from her clothes as if she had expected this and explained, “This is a device that can detect background radiation. Our astrologer believes that space background radiations and the underlying structure of matter are the ‘standard codes’ for determining a cosmic identity. I doubted at first on whether I was being teleported to a different planet in the same universe. Our teleportation portal would be considered a success in another sense if I was. But after a simple observation, I found… Although it’s hard to believe, I think I should be in another universe. I wondered why the basic physical laws of this universe were about the same as my hometown’s, but the significant difference in the background radiation made me realise that I really am in the Otherworld.”
“There are a group of astrologers who have been insisting on the theory of the Otherworld, but I never supported them at the Royal Conference. And, now when I think about it… If I go back, the first thing I have to do is get them to the Royal Astrology Tower,” said Hilda as she laughed wryly.
At this time, the MDT’s voice was suddenly heard behind Hao Ren. “The identification code of the world is more than just background radiation, but you really are from a different world. I just checked your profile, you have obvious traces of time-travelling residue.”
Hao Ren turned his head to have a look. He found the MDT floating two metres away from him. However, it still failed to get rid of Lil Pea: the little mermaid was sitting on the MDT with her little hands clutching the two edges of the “frisbee”. When she saw Hao Ren turn around, the little girl flapped her tail happily. But, she just would not let go!
The MDT sighed and said, “I’ve made a lot of effort, but your daughter seems to think that I’m a mount. You should correct her…”
“She’s not heavy, just carry her,” Hao Ren said and shrugged as if it was none of his business. “You’re in my pocket all day but I don’t complain about it.”
The MDT was about to go on a rampage, but before it could jump, Hao Ren had already turned his head to look at Hilda and said, “Okay, I have basically understood your situation. It seems you really have teleported to a different world by accident. When we are done here, we will take you back. Don’t worry, everything will be fast.”
“If you really have a way, please be sure do it as soon as possible.” Hilda stood up and bowed to Hao Ren without hesitation. “Before I left, our entire country was already in a state of extremes, and the explosion of the teleportation device has likely pushed my people to a psychological tipping point. Now they have no resources, no hope, no queen. I must go back before the situation gets worse!”
Hao Ren did not expect Hilda, who was a queen to bow to him. This was the first time he faced such a situation. He quickly jumped up from the chair and rushed to help Hilda up. “Okay, okay, I’ll do it as quick as I can. Don’t be like this, I can’t accept it…”
After Hao Ren and Vivian soothed Hilda, she calmed down. Then, she sat in a chair in the corner of the room and remained silent. At that point, she did not care about anything other than going home. When she was not talking about her hometown, she was just sitting there like a puppet.
The MDT was in a discussion with them while it carried Lil Pea. “This is a rare situation. The technical difficulty of time-travelling can be higher than you think. She could have been teleported to The Plane of Dreams by a low-level teleportation device… I feel that there is a lot to investigate in this matter.”
“That will have to wait until we go back.” Hao Ren nodded,. “Now, we have to figure out how to get to the middle of the lake later at night…”