<h4>Chapter 1377: The Secret Designs of the Goddess</h4>


    Trantor: EndlessFantasy Trantion Editor: EndlessFantasy Trantion


    The return of the otherworldlings had excited the system left behind by the goddess of creation. A hiddenwork of divine bursts finally emerged. However, the divine-encryptedwork was soplicated that even with theputational power of CARS, there was no simple approach to crack it. On top of that, there was a bigger problem: Hao Ren could only partially activate thework because he did not know the function of thework and what effects it would cause. Enabling the ancient legacy blindly would be too risky.


    Four days ago, when the “selected ones” first came to Holletta’s ecosphere and triggered the first divine burst, CARS and the drone cluster had roughly calcted the energy category. He adjusted the test program, and since then, every grouping, route, and length of stay was based on the condition of not over-stimting the divinework.


    “Hao Ren’s worry is legit,” Vivian said. She knew about what was on Hao Ren’s mind. Vivian had helped design the nning earlier. “We still have no idea what this divinework is all about, and if there any other arrangements when the goddess of creation created the divinework. If we rashly destroy or activate them, we would very likely have to face some program that we are unable to ovee.”


    Lemendusa and Muru nodded solemnly as a sign of their acknowledgment.


    “Better safe than sorry,” said the female giant, Heve. “We can put aside the specific content of information exchange in this divinework while figuring out the structure and mechanism of thiswork. Perhaps we would be able to understand its nature and how it works.”


    “I havee to a few conclusions,” Hao Ren said. “First of all, thiswork needs a certain degree of stimtion before it was triggered. Before this, I have brought some otherworldlings, such as the sirens, returning to the ne of Dreams, but it has not triggered the divinework. Only this time, the 100-strong tour group has activated it. So only over a certain number of exiles returning to the ne of Dreams would trigger thework.”


    “Secondly, apart from the structural form that looks like a massive data exchangework, the divine burstwork should also have an extremely efficient data processing andputing power. At some key moments, the drone cluster has detected a massive fluctuation of data—over hundreds of millions of megabytes per second of data throughput transferred across the universe.


    “Thirdly, thiswork is distributed throughout the universe. My drone cluster has not been able to cover the entire universe of the ne of Dreams. But within the observable space, we can know that the locations of the divine burst are ubiquitous. They are randomly distributed throughout the ne of Dreams. As long as there is a ster system, there may be such a burst point. I’m almost sure that there are more burst points outside the line of sight of the drone cluster.


    “Finally, these stars that emit divine bursts have a very unmistakeablymon feature: there is absolutely no existence of life or habitable zone within fifteen light years of them.”


    There was a confused look on Hao Ren’s face. He still had something that he could not understand.


    “No existence of life?” Lemendusa frowned. “Are all these stars that produce divine burst located in the ‘barren zone’?”


    “If ‘barren zone’ is what you call, yeah.” Hao Ren nodded. “There are no ecos near these stars, not even a habitable. Most of them are isted stars without aary system. Even if there ares nearby, the surface of theses is either too cold or too hot due to the location of orbit. It is almost impossible to produce life under natural conditions. Since these stars are carefully selected by the goddess of creation, I have reason to believe the environment around these stars is also the result of her deliberate selection.”


    “Mother loved life, and her attention was always on those ces filled with vibrant life,” said Heve, who was confused too. “Why would she create such an informationworkpletely outside any ecosystem? If thiswork is intended for use in areas unrted to living things, why is the activation criteria of thiswork must be the contact of the exiles with an ecosphere?”


    “Since the activation criteria of thework are the return of the descendants of the exiles to their ecospheres in the ne of Dreams, then thiswork is certainly not for use in an area unrted to living things,” Hao Ren said. “About the location of thework, which is way from ces with life— I have a conjecture.”


    “What conjecture?” Vivian, Lily, and the three guardian giants asked in unison.


    “Judging from the behavioral model of the goddess of creation, I guess she was worried about the negative impact of thework on living things. Perhaps the powerful divine energy would destroy the ecosystem around those stars, or maybe thiswork could attract some dangerous things in the deep universe during its operation. So the goddess of creation chose to build her divinework in the barren zone.”


    “I think this possibility is high.” Y’zaks scratched his jaw and nodded.


    “So our cautiousness is legit,” Vivian said. Her eyebrow arched. “Whatever the real reason, each node of thework is chosen to be away from life, which means thework is harmful to life. We must not rush to activate it.”


    Lemendusa looked silently at the hologram in the air. After the various test points were activated, the divine burst chart looked moreplete than before. Many of the nodes that were hidden earlier had emerged out of the dark universe, together they formed aplex and magnificent three-dimensional structure. It was soplicated that it was even dizzying to look at it. This guardian giant, who once guarded the boundary of the goddess’ realm in the Gate of Solenne, frowned. He changed his viewing angle and looked at the hologram in another perspective, and he looked even more somber than before.


    “Lemendusa, what have you found?” Heve first noticed the change of expression on his partner’s face.


    “It seems I have seen it before,” Lemendusa said. But he was not sure. “Perhaps what I saw was an unfinished design.”


    “Where did you see it?” Hao Ren could not wait and ask.


    “In mother’s pce; her secret design facility,” Lemendusa said with a low voice. “Many guardians knew the existence of the secret facility, but only a few had the opportunity to see it.”


    “Secret design facility?” Hao Ren said. “What is that? The goddess of creation has many secret projects?”


    Lemendusa nodded slowly. “Before the deicidal war, mother had been behaving weirdly. She never used to shun her own children and was always generous in letting us participate in her grand ns, including life sowing, and space exploration. But then she built a series of secret factories and design facilities around the Star of Creation and the Kingdom of God. The blueprint for the Creation Engine is one of the products of these secret projects. We didn’t know that mother was making the Creation Engine at first until the thing was produced in her secret research facility and some of the guardians got their hands on the initial drawings. We knew the factories andboratories, but there was no opportunity to know what she was doing inside. She had arranged soulless craftsmen and servants in those factories andbs. Those lifeless and soulless ‘magic puppets’ worked day and night but never revealed their tasks that mother had assigned to them. But even so, a small number of guardians still got the opportunity to enter the secret facilities by chance. Sometimes mother seemed to have suddenly forgotten that the facilities were restricted to us, she would call us over for discussion and then suddenly appeared to realize it and drove us out of the secretb. That was how I had the opportunity to take a peek inside one of the secret design houses.”


    “You mean the original blueprint of the informationwork?” A light dawned on Hao Ren.


    “Yup. Mother must be working on the design of this thing at the time. It looks very simr to what I remember,” Lemendusa pointed to the hologram in midair. “She suddenly called me over and asked my view of soul and life. I still remember there was a magnificent rotunda there, the center of the hall was shimmering energy well, and the original blueprint of aplexwork was suspended above it, just like this one.”


    “Can you remember any details?” Hao Ren asked eagerly.


    “Nothing else.” Lemendusa slowly shook his head and said no more. “Wait a second! Maybe this is useful—at that time, Mother asked me about the soul and evolution of life. Butter, she asked another question that I found strange back then: she asked if one day the universe was zeroed and everything went back to its starting point, should there be a god or no god in the new world.”


    “Should there be a god or no god?”


    Hao Ren’s brows were knitted together as he repeated the phrase.