Chapter 1678 - A Bold Assumption (2/2)
“So the Plane of Dreams is not the first victim, but the Umbral Realm?” Hao Ren frowned.
Raven 12345 nodded gently. “It’s just a bold assumption, but it’s rooted in clues. The clues now suggest that the Umbral Realm was originally an independent universe, but now it has crashed into the World Barrier of the Plane of Dreams. This situation is very similar to the Plane of Dreams crashing into the Surface World, except that the Plane of Dreams hasn’t been completely destroyed.”
Vivian gently rubbed between her eyebrows. “Our judgment of the Mad Lord… It’s not deep enough. He could be like some kind of virus, infecting one universe, using up the universe’s resources and energy, then riding on the wreckage of his ‘victim’ to find another universe. Then he infects the next universe through world collisions and so on…”
Hao Ren looked at Raven 12345 and asked, “So our deduction of the Mad Lord being some kind of ‘primordial life’ with a confusing will at the beginning of the Plane of Dreams’ birth was wrong? It was not born in the Plane of Dreams but a foreign pollutant?”
“No, our first judgment should be correct. That was the conclusion I came to after careful calculation,” Raven 12345 said, shaking her head. “Now, I’m guessing that the Mad Lord has some sort of ‘regeneration mechanism’. After destroying a host universe, it should revert back to some kind of information singularity, like a sporocyst, or else it wouldn’t survive the collapse of cosmic information. Then, as Vivian mentioned, it rides the wrecked universe through the void and enters its new host through the collision of worlds. The sporocyst wakes up, and the Mad Lord is born again. In the process, the Mad Lord acquires the information characteristics of the new host universe, which can have an impact on the new universe. This process is necessary because the physical rules and information structures between two universes are very different in most cases. Without this form of rebirth or transcoding, the Mad Lord will not have the ability to infect different universes.”
Hao Ren felt goosebumps all over his body. Such infections were scary enough at the microbial level, let alone on a cosmic scale. He shuddered at the thought. “Wait a minute, since it infects a new universe by means of world collision, isn’t it going to infect our universe after it infects the Plane of Dreams?!”
Raven 12345 glanced at Hao Ren and said, “If only it were so—I’ve been waiting for this day for years! If it dares to come, I’ll end it with one punch!”
“Go and kill it if you can.” Hao Ren looked at Raven 12345 with contempt.
He was at a loss for words.
“In short, it’s too important. I need to investigate the Umbral Realm further. Next, I’m going to study L’Haronne,” said Hao Ren.
“Yes, L’Haronne is very valuable. It’s a planet of life in a destroyed universe, and it has traces of artificial modification. You have to do some research. If we’re on the right track, there’s a good chance that there are hidden traces of the Mad Lord’s influence on L’Haronne. And since the planet managed to survive it… perhaps the Mad Lord’s weakness is there,” said Raven 12345.
After they finalized the strategy for their next action, their conversation became more relaxed. Raven 12345 began to ask Hao Ren about some interesting episodes in his operation, including the experience of falling into “the Dream of L’Haronne” and finally getting out of the dream after being inspired by the brainless Noobie. The goddess could not help but laugh and say, “I really didn’t expect that—she’s so weak, who knew she could be so helpful. That deserves a reward.”
As she spoke, she began to look around for Noobie. The little one was running around on the floor, having a good time. But when she sensed that Raven 12345 was looking at her, she shivered and immediately rushed into Vivian’s hair.
Ravens 12345 was a little hurt inside. “Why did she react like that? Did I abuse her?”
Hao Ren thought to himself: Noobie would rather be abused than eat what Raven 12345 cooked…