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Chapter 1616: Critical InformationTranslator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Well, all said and done, the MDT decided to give it a try.

This was almost bizarro level as it was trying to store a sprite into its hard disk drive…

“Frankly speaking, no one knows how this works.” Hao Ren looked at the MDT, looking all ready as it lay on the ground, and the googly-eyed sprite who was staring at him before rubbing his chin, “I’m thinking that its a similar process to your scanning and storage of non-standard information. I remember that you have the ability to collect and compile all dispersed information state around you…”

“I really wished I never had that capability.” The MDT sounded awfully defeated.

The little sprite blinked as she looked at the crowd in front of her messing about, totally oblivious to the fact that it concerned her. It was when Hao Ren asked her to get into the hexagonal metal box did she only yelp in surprise, “What?! You want this sprite to get into that thing?!”

The MDT immediately recoiled angrily, “Manners! What’s with ‘that thing’ huh?”

The tiny sprite was shocked by the MDT’s reaction and shot up into the air, “But this sprite had been living in a crystal, how… do we get in?”

“Just get in like how you do so normally, just treat it as an odd crystal,” Vivian advised, “This is important, whether you can do it or not will affect our decision to bring you and your kin in the planet’s core out safely, understand?”

While the sprites may be scatterbrained, but they are by no means stupid and after hearing Vivian she became serious, before looking, almost duty-bound at the MDT, “Then… here I come!”

She then turned into a blue light before slamming face-first into the MDT’s sh.e.l.l.

Hao Ren and Vivian immediately face-palmed. This was just too much fail.

“It’s…alright!” the sprite scampered to her feet, her unique traits meant that face-first crash did not faze her much, and she had failed due to nervousness. “Let me try again. I’m sure to get it right this time! I got nervous looking at the metal casing and forgot to switch forms…”

“…Whatever, I’ve long given up resisting.” the MDT sighed.

After the next few tries, Hao Ren and the rest witnessed the little sprite smas.h.i.+ng face first in various angles on the MDT’s casing, while they knew that the sprite would not be hurt by it, but her clumsy attempts had everyone looking away.

However, just as Hao Ren thought it was going to be a waste of time and was prepared to move on, a faint light blue glow appeared around the sprite and the MDT’s surface.

The next second, the little one disappeared.

The MDT was too stunned to react and only recovered after a few seconds as it flew up, “Oh Oh, partner! That small thing came inside me!”

“Why does that sound G.o.d d.a.m.n perverted?” Nangong Sanba could not help but tell Wuyue before narrowly avoiding a tail smash.

Hao Ren had the MDT try to make contact with the sprite in the hard disk, and a moment later, the sprite’s visage appeared on the holographic display, with the latter happily dancing around a vast plain. “Woah! Incredible! This sprite feels that this place is even bigger than the crystals! I can’t see the edge of this place!”

“Don’t run about!” the MDT started nagging, “There’s a lot of important data in the disk! Wait, that cannot be eaten! That’s my picture alb.u.m! No touching that either, that’s the reports! You… You stay still for a moment, I’ll create a virtual s.p.a.ce for you, and stay there. I’ll create some VR stuff for you to play with…”

Hao Ren could not imagine what was going on within the MDT’s hard disk, but the latter seemed to spend quite some effort to get the sprite to totally quiet down. He then asked, “How much storage does a sprite take up? How many can you store?”

“Meh, mere droplets.” the MDT shook its casing smugly, “Their information make-up is very simple, and they only take up an extremely small s.p.a.ce, almost like the tip of a needle. I am an Inspector-grade unit, my storage is limitless! Come eight trillion of them, no problem!”

Hao Ren pursed his lips. This was the same thing that was struggling so hard earlier, and now its boasting all the way to the moon.

“Sprite, how many friends you still have around here?” Vivian asked as she looked at the tiny adventuring sprite on the holographic display.

“A few thousand of us!” the sprite gave a number that was reasonable for the MDT to store, “Should I call everyone here?”

“Will this cause a huge ruckus?” Hao Ren pondered.

“It won’t!” the sprite was jumping about in the holographic display, “We have created a screen around the planet’s core. It’s very safe! The monsters never found our hiding place after so many years! It’s because of the screen!”

“Storing the sprites into MDT’s hard disk would save us a lot of later headaches,” Vivian nodded, “When we take Amantir’s crystal the monsters will be swarming upon us, we won’t have time to even take care the little ones anymore.”

Hao Ren was trying to balance things out. The main objective of this mission was the retrieval of Amantir’s crystal, and with its capture, the path to the Star of Origin will be opened, so that cannot be abandoned as it is a ‘main mission’; but Amantir’s crystals would not be going anywhere, and the monsters outside had just been battered by the droids and the guardians, and their forces in tatters, it will take a while before they can pull off any major maneuvers, so this ‘main mission’ would be in a stable state for the foreseeable future.

And taking the chance to retrieve the sprites from the planet’s core does not sound like a bad idea.

The only regret was, they were a few defensive layers away from Amantir’s crystal, and the main objective was just a short distance away. It felt a little bit wasteful to come all the way here to then backtrack somewhere else…

But there was no other choice, Hao Ren knew that very well himself. The sprites could not be left behind. Asking him or his teammates to rush headlong towards the crystal while abandoning the sprites would not sit well with anyone.

“Right, so let us go get the sprites.” Hao Ren let out a huff as he gathered his thoughts.

The sprite within the hard disk did not know what Hao Ren was thinking, and after a few blinks, she spoke in her serious tone. “This sprite suggests you go to the planet’s core first, as you will definitely run into trouble once you take Amantir’s crystal.”

Hao Ren was baffled. “Trouble? What trouble?”

“Amantir’s crystal is connected directly to the monster’s Lair of Nightmares, if you take the crystal away, the dreaming biggies will immediately wake up.” the tiny one said with a whisper, even the usually carefree sprites would be nervous. “They had been dreaming for thousands of years, and who knows the number of monsters is in the dream! The whole planet might be pulled into the nightmare itself!”

Hao Ren and the rest quickly exchange glances: This little sprite had just dropped a bombsh.e.l.l on them!

“What nightmare? What biggies? Explain, quick!” Vivian threw all forms of decorum out of the window as she shot out her questions spitfire-like, “You say there’s a Lair of Nightmares underneath Amantir’s crystal? How did that come about?”

“It appeared not long after the guardians became monsters,” The little sprite started gesturing again, apparently thinking that it will help her all-over-the-place explanation easier to understand. “This sprite does not know what the Lair of Nightmares looks like, but some observation routes can still be used, so we know that s.p.a.ce appeared beneath Amantir’s crystal, and many many bad monsters will appear, created by a very biiiiigggg monster…”

The sprite’s explanation was getting more and more confused, and just before Hao Ren wanted to interrupt her, she suddenly recalled something, “Ah, remember the monsters you saw at the canyon! That’s the monsters appearing out of thin air beneath the platform!”

Hao Ren and Vivian looked at each other before turning towards the sprite, “So you mean the monsters are summoned? Don’t tell me the summoning platforms at the bottom of the canyon has something to do with the Lair of Nightmares?”

“Those are not summoning platforms,” the tiny sprite forked her arms on her waist, “That’s an extension of the Lair of Nightmares! And those platform is linked to the big brains, and the brain monsters were originally the brains of the guardians, their duty is to dream!”

Nangong Sanba frowned as he repeated the word, “Dream?”

“Yes, dream, like the monsters in the Lair of Nightmares.” the tiny sprite nodded aggressively, “Those brain monsters at the bottom of the lair is to dream together with the biggies in the Lair of Nightmare, then project the things in the nightmare into reality, and the brain monsters on the surface are responsible for turning the monsters from the nightmare into an army and command them into battle!”

So that’s the truth behind the monsters? And the real source of the Amantir’s limitless army?

He remembered the information Salaman had given him earlier:

No matter how many they kill, no matter how many they had atomized, Amantir’s army was unceasing and would only get stronger. The rate of their reproduction even exceeded the battlefield scavenging or Amantir’s own production capability, and at least two-thirds of the monsters were illogical as if appearing out of thin air…

Hao Ren had thought that the platforms at the bottom of the equator canyon were for summoning, but now he knew from the sprite that those things are actually to create monsters from the dream, and the source of this horrifying nightmare, was just right below Amantir’s crystal!

Thankfully he had not gone ahead to pull Amantir’s crystal out…

“Using the nightmare to create an army huh,” Vivian shook her head. “A typical move by the minions of madness.”

Hao Ren turned towards the sprite on the display, “Say, why didn’t you tell us this critical information earlier?”

With an innocent face, the little sprite replied, “You didn’t ask… and this sprite had forgotten about it!”

Hao Ren was speechless.

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Hao Ren did not intend to stay on the planet for too long; the wise ancient souls could take over the subsequent reconstruction work. The Petrachelys lifted off from the mooring platform, circled Requiem's jungle of needle towers for a while, and left. Hao Ren turned to the lens of the external monitor, taking a final look at the world that was about to regain a new life.

Like a crown of thorns nailed on the earth, Requiem was flas.h.i.+ng with lightning in the center where needle towers were connected to the huge tentacles. Some sporadic white yurts were scattered around the high-tech city. The tribal people called it the City of Miracles and gathered around it ready to begin a journey of the revival of their civilization. It was foreseeable that the indigenous people of the world would come from all over the world and gathered in this place where the people of the Sun Dynasty would listen to the teachings of the ancient souls to free themselves of ignorance to return to modern civilization.

Requiem would stand here and keep watching until the end of the day.

He was happy that he finally did not have to play the role of a mourner as the civilization was set on the road to recovery. Although the process was less dramatic, it was better than leaving with just a tombstone.

When the Petrachelys pa.s.sed through the surface crust, Hao Ren saw the excavation work was in full swing. Hundreds of light beams shot down from above and cut the crust out piece by piece. All the dirt on the land, including the hostile and mad twisted monsters, were burned into ashes by the powerful rays or would soon become a cloud of smoke in the mineral processing furnace. Huge crust fragments were broken into rock streams in midair, like the tentacles reaching into s.p.a.ce. The Petrachelys rose along with a rock stream. The sun shone through the broken clouds, creating a breathtaking scenery of awe and hope.

Hao Ren sent a probe to take a snapshot from a distance and post the image on the inspector's forum. He added a caption to the image: Scarred Nebula, the planet Inferno is reborn, tentatively named the new Sun Dynasty, the civilization has survived the harshest winter, as witnessed by the Imperial inspector, Hao Ren; co-witnessed by the mining division of Fairy Void Consortium.

As always, he posted the news and forgot about it, thinking that probably no one would bother to reply to the post of a rookie inspector. It was not until after finis.h.i.+ng a few regular reports. He asked the MDT to check the thread and was astonished by the overwhelming replies and comments from the inspectors around the universe. Some of the comments were like:

"You didn't blow anything up this time?"

Some replies were irrelevant; some were asking if his auspicious aura had expired; some were asking if it was an angle problem that the rising rocks were a result of an explosion of the crust, and some even asked if he had prayed before going to the mission. At last, he saw a comment from an acquaintance—Galazur, the dragon queen just a couple of minutes ago. "One like for you. Finally, you didn't use explosives," the dragon queen commented.

"Did I provoke anyone?" Hao Ren scratched his hair. "How did I get such attention? I'm just a rookie."

"Do you think n.o.body is giving you attention?" The MDT snorted. "You already have your epithet, and you're famous among the mortals. Not many inspectors like you could make a name for themselves even if they have served for thousands of years. You're talented," the MDT said.

Hao Ren was shocked. "When did I get an epithet?"

"The bomb-happy," the MDT replied with a sly voice. The tone of voice sounded odd from the mouth of a girl whom the MDT appeared in now. "There are more, like the deadly stare, which sounds coa.r.s.e. The more philosophical ones are 'The Mystic Eyes of Death Perception,' 'professional grave digger' and so on. Of course, they are not malevolent. You're not going to notice these things if you don't surf the data network."

Hao Ren had cold sweat trickling down his forehead. He recalled his works for the past two years, where most of the time he was tasked to recover dead bodies, or recently, dead planets. It would be too naive of him if he did not know what it meant to be 'bomb-happy" by now.

Lily poked Hao Ren with her finger. "Mr. Landlord, I think this sounds awesome."

Hao Ren flicked the maiden's ear with his fingers. "What could the feeling of awesomeness do? If thing continues like this, sooner or later, I'd become the most unwelcomed person in the universe. I didn't expect people as serious as Galazur could be so sarcastic."

"You can't do anything about it," Lily said, moving her head from side to side dodging Hao Ren's hand. "You're taking charge of the Plane of Dreams, where you know it is the biggest ruins, like a cemetery, there are wrecks of civilization everywhere."

Hao Ren pulled his hand back and rubbed his arms. "Let's not make a joke out of such a serious matter."

At this time, Vivian, who had been silent all this while, spoke suddenly. "Now I start to wonder why the G.o.ddess chose to send you a rookie taking charge of the Plane of Dreams."

"Probably because I have strong execution capability."

There was a silent. Then Lily poked Hao Ren with her fingers again. "Do you believe in what you said?"

"Yeah, I've never thought about this question." Hao Ren scratched his hair. The question began to bother him. "I was too busy, especially after each mind-boggling event, to think. I went from one mission to the next but never think of why me. MDT, do you think the Plane of Dreams is meant for the rookie inspector?"

The MDT was startled for a moment, and then it said with an unsure tone of voice, "There is no clear rule dictating inspector should take charge of any particular mission according to seniority, but it is usually a step-by-step process. The Plane of Dreams is a ma.s.sive historical site with a complicated situation, handing it over to a rookie inspector does sound unusual, but it's not without precedent. There had been a similar case in the Macroworld."

"Even though there are precedents, I am still a rare example, is it?" Hao Ren scratched his jaw, questioning his role in the mission. "I don't know others, but Galazur is more experienced and knowledgeable than I am, and she is the ruler of a civilization, she is better suited for the job of recovering dead bodies than I am. But why me?"

He added, "It landed me a freaking 'bomb-happy' epithet."

In reality, all he cared was his new epithet.

Lily sat in her chair, wriggling. It was habitual especially when she was in thought, usually when her mind went blank. "Why don't you ask your G.o.ddess since she is the one a.s.signing the mission?"

"Do you think she will tell me? She would have told me if she wanted to. If she did not want to tell you, she wouldn't say a thing even if you pester her for a lifetime." Hao Ren shook his head, totally knew Raven 12345's characters inside out.

"Then, what's your problem?" Lily asked. Since only the G.o.ddess knows why and you also know she's not going to tell you, why are you still troubled by it?"

Suddenly, Hao Ren could see things in a new light. It turned out that the female scholar had bottled-up wisdom, she would stun and open your mind with her wise words at the crucial moment.

While he was still impressed, Lily took a small brush out of her pocket suddenly. She turned around and put her tail on Hao Ren's leg and shoved the brush into his hand. "Since you are not troubled any more, come and brush my hair. It's itchy when shedding hair!"

Hao Ren was dumbstruck and was speechless.

Deep inside, she was still a husky after all.