Chapter 1498 - The Day of Reckoning (2/2)

Even the majestic Olympian pantheon had to start off by breaking stone off a mountain face.

Without these traces, there was only one explanation: He had arrived at a point much earlier than that, and even before the otherworldlings’ arrival on Earth!

This initially had Hao Ren at a loss, as he found it illogical: He was going through Vivian’s memory, and by theory, the earliest he would have arrived was at the point where Vivian had arrived on Earth, but he soon realized the cause.

This world was not created just from Vivian’s memories, or it is more accurate to state that Vivian’s memories were not the main “component” on this world; that was created by the mainframe’s sandbox system using simulation in order to create a replica of Earth, but yet, this Earth was different from the original.

Vivian’s memories only contained a few signposts and key scenes in this image-world. So, instead of these memories being the basis of the backtrack, it served more as a guiding tool.

At the top of a hill, Hao Ren finally stopped and set up a small camp on the flat ground upon the hill.

He knew where the problem lies. It was because he had dove too deep into this memory stream, even beyond Vivian’s knowledge. At this point, Vivian’s memory of this time was so murky that it was as good as nothing, and the sandbox system could not use this memory to pinpoint her location. Here, no one knew when the contact between the Surface World and the Plane of Dreams made contact, and Vivian’s memories did not contain anything either.

So the system could only toss him out to the closest possible point.

And by the looks of things, he was early to the party.

Hao Ren sat on a rock on top of the hill as he gazed into the green hills and grasslands before going into deep meditative thought. He wondered how early he had been, a few months perhaps, or a few years, or maybe decades. He could not tell from the stars or the plans around him the exact year he is in, but by the looks of things the ice age was over, and the glaciers were melting away from the warmer zones. The humans that survived the winter were starting to grow again, and the massive beasts which could not cope with the climate change and were weakened were now a valuable source of food for these prehistoric people.

Vivian’s earliest memories were when the glaciers had melted away.

It seems like he was not too early, and could only just wait.

Day 106, Hao Ren had finished scouting the perimeter, and his instincts rang strongly, calling him to return to his camp. As he sat cross-legged on the rock, he stabbed his plasma spear into the pile of pebbles around him.

He then used a divine art that he had rarely used and closed his eyes to wait.

He did not know how long had based, as time was a meaningless concept to him now. The sun rose and set, as the stars waxed and waned, cold wind blew day after day, bearing seeds at times, and these plants grew around him, before withering away…

His mind had entered a state of “silence”. He was aware of everything around him, but there he sat, with a deathly silence.

And one day, he suddenly opened his eyes as he gazed sharply into the distance.

The skies above the grassland roiled as the clouds tore open, and a continuous ocean lay upside down on the azure sky.

The time had come.