The Record of Unusual Creatures

Over the Tannagost, the Crapple Research Station was quietly running on its orbit. The Capulum Vitae beneath the station was emitting faint red glows while gazing at the planet tens of thousands of kilometers away like a pair of eyes in the space.

As always, Zorm was watching the planet below in space. Through its connection with the lifeblood, it could feel the joy of all sentient beings on the planet when they were waking up from their deep slumber.

The research station AI, which lived with Zorm, was less concerned with what was happening on the planet. As a space station host, it focused more on the laboratories and sample libraries in the station. The samples of the First Born in vessels No.1 and No.2 had just undergone a series of routine tests. Now the two huge vessels were discharging various ancillary products from the experiment into special collection facilities. The space station AI would then send these materials to the factory in different categories, some of which could be processed into living supplies. According to today’s work plan, it would arrange a group of landing shuttles one hour, 15 minutes and 32 seconds later to drop the extra supplies produced by the space station into the human settlement of Tannagost, and then brought back some of the experimental equipment on the planet for routine inspection and maintenance.

A First Born, and a space station AI, lived a dull but fulfilling routine every day. Although other creatures might find it difficult to understand their emotions and thoughts, they have adapted and enjoyed their lives. Zorm’s feelings were relatively richer, and it had a perfect personality, so it was always the one who started the conversation. “Host! Did you see they just built a big windmill? A big windmill! They built the machine in such a short time!”

The space station AI responded with a stiff attitude, “Manufacturing tool is the basic ability of intelligent species, and they have a complete knowledge record, so their reconstruction speed is in line with expectations.”

“Oh,” Zorm responded, and then continued to overlook everything on earth in the Capulum Vitae. At the same time, there were a lot of bizarre questions running in his mind, such as, who exactly created the Crapple Research Station? Why was the style of this crystal building different from that of Hao Ren’s spacecraft? Why was Hao Ren always busy? Why did UAVs often come in and out of the Crapple Research Station? Why was there a rift on Tannagost that led to other universes? And why did it have so many questions?

In most cases, the space station AI would not mind answering Zorm’s questions, but sometimes it would simply remain silent when it was something it did not know. It was just an AI which was only a supervisor of the space station programmed with basic personality and emotional mode, so it did not care about the awkwardness of stopping the conversation abruptly. And fortunately, Zorm did not mind. It just kept asking a lot of questions. Its exuberant curiosity seemed to be inherited from its mother. The spirit of exploring the universe of the Goddess of Creation was reflected in this First Born.

Suddenly a flash of light came from space, and the conversation between Zorm and the space station AI stopped. Petrachelys detached from the hyperspace state and landed briskly on the star harbor of the Crapple Research Station. Zorm immediately greeted the people on the spaceship, “Everybody’s back?”

Hao Ren saw the greetings from Zorm on the communicator. Its thinking had been systematically transformed into the expression: a brilliant O(∩_∩)O. The First Born seemed to be in a good mood.

But when Hao Ren thought of the prisoner he brought back, he did not feel very good.

He greeted Zorm and then called the station’s host on another line. “Open the special accommodation facility in zone A. There’s a prisoner. I need to lock him up. He is good at self-explosion. You get ready.”

As the host was preparing the facility, Hao Ren opened the hanger of the spacecraft, and Lemendusa and Heve walked out. The two guardians set foot on the crystal long bridge leading to the main part of the space station with a surprised expression. They were slightly surprised by what they saw.

They did not expect the place to be so beautiful.

On the crystal long bridge, Lemendusa and Heve looked up to see the starry sky. The view was so brilliant that both of them were impressed. And against the starry sky, through the transparent barrier of the crystal bridge, the vibrant Tannagost could be seen basking in the sun and the golden light on the horizon was slowly approaching the dark place.

And what’s more striking than the scenery was the Crapple Research Station itself:

Lemendusa marveled at this gigantic, crystal-clear, palace-like facility. The building itself was not lavishly decorated. It was totally different from the magnificent grandiose art created by those treacherous children. However, the Crapple Research Station itself was like a work of art. The combination of all edges and simple lines was enough to create a thrilling sense of grandeur. Lemendusa knew that this must have been the work of some even more incredible super civilization at a glance, beyond the creation of any civilization he had ever seen in this universe. The structure of the Crapple Research Station was totally simple and natural. This sense of simplicity was totally different from the work of the rebels.

Although Raven 12345’s style was not flattering, the huge facility she built was still quite a piece of art. Of course, the magnificence of the Crapple Research Station was not really the product of Raven 12345. If Hao Ren was willing to check on the Imperial Data Network, he would find that the Crapple research station was actually an open source and it was designed by someone else 2000 years ago. Raven 12345 just downloaded a public blueprint and pretended it was her work…

Hao Ren noticed the expression of Lemendusa and Heve and knew that the two giants were shocked by the Crapple Research Station. “Well, is this place bright and spacious enough?” he asked proudly.

Lemendusa was full of praise for this place but he was then annoyed by Hao Ren’s attitude. He glanced at Hao Ren, and then turned his head away and ignored him.

Hao Ren wondered and asked, “What’s wrong?”

But Heve got it and asked, “You didn’t build this station, did you?”

“No, it was built by my boss. Is that a problem?”

Heve did not utter a word, but Y’lisabet pulled Hau Ren’s sleeve happily and explained, “Uncle Ren, what they mean is that you’re lucky to get this job!”

“?” Hao Ren still did not get it.

Hao Ren took Lemendusa and Heve to the main control hall of Crapple Research Station. He stopped in front of the huge crystal cluster and called Zorm, and then introduced the two giants to it. Zorm had no idea of Hao Ren’s experience at the Solenne Gateway, so it was surprised to see its former colleagues so suddenly. It greeted Lemendusa and Heve warmly with a bunch of marks and expressions that no one could understand.

And Lemendusa found it strange that he actually sensed a guardian from the huge crystal cluster and asked, “What’s that? Is it… a guardian, too? I can sense the guardian of lifeblood from it.”

“It’s Zorm. I named it,” Hao Ren introduced his special tenant, “it was a First Born, the initial creature hatched in the Seed of Origin. Something’s wrong with the planet it’s guarding…”

Hao Ren told him about Zorm’s background, and then finally had the chance to tell Lemendusa his plans in detail, including reconvening the guardians of the Goddess of Creation, restoring the ecosystem, looking for the whereabouts of the Goddess, solving the ecological disasters and so on.

The plans are so grand, and all linked with one another, that they did not sound false. At the same time, the whole plan was quite bold and beyond the realm that mortals could understand. Lemendusa looked at Hao Ren with an odd look as if he was trying to catch a hint of exaggeration in Hao Ren’s expression.

Yet all he saw was a serious and matter-of-fact look.

If he had always had doubts about Hao Ren, those doubts were now greatly shaken. He was surprised to find that this ‘human’ was actually embarking on a plan to revive the Goddess of Creation, whether it was the current space station or the ecological recovery of the planet, as well as Muru and Zorm who lived here, all of which were irrefutable evidence. He looked intently at the little ‘human’ in front of him, which made Hao Ren uncomfortable. “What’s wrong?” asked Hao Ren.

Lemendusa sat cross-legged on the ground and this action almost caused the ground quake. “Your thoughts are so bold that I can hardly believe that anyone would really do it.”

“This is my job,” Hao Ren laughed and said, “and it’s important for my year-end bonuses.”

Muru watched in silence. He knew that Lemendusa and Heve were interested in the place, and he believed that the two would soon find the meaning of life in Tannagost, just as he did.

As Hao Ren planned, more guardians were gathered back.