Chapter 402 (2/2)

At least she could now admit to being defeated. She was still putting up a front earlier.

Cold sweat started to form across Hao Ren’s forehead and he felt that it was unwise to dwell on this topic any further. Who knew what the lunatic goddess would say next to destroy whatever image she had left. He then pointed at Lanina. “That aside, she’s part of your handiwork?”

“Yep.” Raven12345 nodded. “I noticed that she had been lost for a couple of months, and she was about to veer into a neutron star’s field of gravity. I simply couldn’t watch any longer, so I helped her out. But I was busy at the time, hence after dumping her at your place, I couldn’t say hi. However, the note on her was from me.”

Lanina then found out that the she was sent to Earth by this lady before her. While she was still doubtful in many ways, she subconsciously had on an expression of gratitude. She was bumbling about in space for months using unreliable demonic teleportation magic to make her way through space. Being alive today, it was all down to her luck.

A few hours before she arrived at Hao Ren’s place, she was still tumbling about in a system a few hundred light years away from Earth. She suddenly blacked out and the rest was basically a blur.

So now she knew it was Raven 12345’s intervention.

“I saw the note.” Hao Ren nodded. “You already knew that Lanina was being ‘smuggled’ into this universe, and you knew about her intentions as well as Y’zaks’determination to go home. All of this happened by your will, right?”

Raven 12345 raised one of her eyebrows and looked at Hao Ren. “Some things are better left unsaid. This is just a small matter in a faraway land. I don’t know anything. Understand?”

Hao Ren laughed. “Alright, I’m just telling you, I’ll be away for a while. Going back to Y’zaks’ old place to look for his daughter.”

Raven 12345 rubbed her chin. “You’re an Inspector. You may very well get dragged into the local conflict because of who Y’zaks is. It won’t be a small scale fight like your previous times. You’ve thought of this I take it?”

Hao Ren nodded. “Yes, so I want to let you know, and find out how far I can go.”

“Good. That means you’re more professional now.” Raven 12345 stood up and gave Hao Ren a satisfied smile. “This is also a good time to let you do something more significant. I have three requests; one, violence for self-defense is permitted, but you may not escalate that to a war. You are going to save someone, not eliminate a race or a civilisation; two, this is your personal endeavour, so you will need to do it yourself. I cannot interfere; three, if sh*t really hits the fan, no half-arsing! See it till the end! You going out there means you’re representing me…”

Hao Ren found the first two requests were par for the course, but the third one stunned him. That was indeed her way of doing things.

Lastly, Raven 12345 added, “Oh right, one more thing—it’s the most important one too. This is not an official mission, so there will be no funds. Use your own.”

“…”

Ten minutes later, Hao Ren led Y’zaks and Lanina out of Raven 12345’s ruined office. As they were about to step into the teleportation portal, Lanina could not help but ask, “…Can we rely on that ‘goddess’?”

“Well, nothing we can do even if she’s not reliable.” Hao Ren wanted to spit venom but he was exhausted, so he let out a resigned sigh. “Eh.. well, let’s look at it this way, we got her consent for this and what’s left is to see what awaits us. We are going to save someone, and with our combat strength, I think it’s more than enough.”

He then pumped himself up and slapped Y’zaks by the arm. “Lets go home and gather the lot. Off we go!”