An infinite journey starting from paradise

This strange situation was really incomprehensible to Lin Shangren, but thinking that the Mother Goddess might interfere, Lin Shangren put these doubts aside for the time being, put down the code temporarily, and picked up another stone tablet.

"ving~ving~reo~reo~" Lin Shangren knocked on the stone slab.

"Is this about math? Is this... a collection of poetry or lyrics? Is there a history book? Hmm, this one is?"

Lin Shangren's eyes were fixed on this unique stone slab. The timbres of the sounds made by the first few stone slabs were basically the same, presumably they were published by the same official publishing organization, but the timbre of the sound made by the entire stone slab was very different, and the tone had also changed to the first person.

Lin Shangren closed his eyes, carefully capturing every note emitted by the stone tablet, translating it into Chinese in his mind. The stone tablet seemed to have been recorded hastily, and some of the sounds were faint and indistinct. Judging from the tone and content, this seemed to be a farewell letter from a female underground person to the corpse in the outpost.

"Dear Commander, by the time you hear this, I should have been stripped of my military rank and my status as a freeman. I should have expected this day to come..."

I won't go into detail here about the contents of the farewell letter. Simply put, the writer, the corpse's second-in-command and lover, had been arrested for enlisting under someone else's identity and was facing capital punishment. She was a slave among the underground people. Because of her striking appearance, she was kept by a low-ranking female officer with lesbian tendencies. The officer then used her as a bargaining chip for promotions and repeatedly gave her away to several mid-level military officials. Later, through intelligence she gained while accompanying the commander, she gradually connected with higher-ups, earned free status, and joined the military, becoming a renowned socialite. Along the way, she fell in love with the commander. Later, those who had repeatedly used her connections suddenly fell from grace, and she faced a reckoning.

It's a classic clichéd, tragic love story, but Lai Lin Shangren captured several important messages from it.

"The reason the sugar daddies of the female underground woman in the farewell letter fell was to reform the underground people's slavery system and implement birth control. The underground population was too large, seriously affecting resource allocation. Even if all the slaves were kept half-dead, it would affect the quality of life of the masters.

Yet, even so, the supreme ruler of the underground people continues to increase the population. Considering the terrifying amount of psychic energy within the black pyramid, this must be an attempt to gather more psychic energy, right? But what is the purpose of this? Hmm... let's listen to the other tablets."

pigeon day

Cleaning the house, shaving my hair, putting glue together, taking a day off today~

Chapter 432: The atmosphere is more Cthulhu

"My head hurts a little."

In the simulated dream, Lin Shangren put down the last stone slab he brought out from the underground city. He rubbed the back of his neck, trying to relax the fatigue that did not exist in the physiological sense.

Although only a few seconds had passed in the real world, Lin Shangren's subjective perception was that he had been in a simulated dream for nearly a month. Although he had the "Little Bird Doctor" to adjust his physical condition, the long and intensive information input still made Lin Shangren feel mentally exhausted.

During this period of nearly a month, Lin Shangren had roughly listened to all the contents recorded on the stone tablets. These tablets did not record the entire underground civilization, but they also included the glory and filth of this now extinct race.

Through the mutual verification between multiple stone slabs, Lin Shangren roughly sorted out the development history of the underground civilization.

Firstly, they are not native to Earth. Their home planet is located on a satellite of a gas giant in the Orion arm, where the high-temperature and high-pressure environment is similar to that of Earth's underground. During their time on their home planet, they had already developed a highly advanced technological civilization.

About 60,000 years ago, after the underground people mastered space jump technology, they "accidentally" intercepted a signal from the depths of the universe while exploring the stars. This signal contained technological knowledge beyond their comprehension, but also revealed a terrifying truth: a group of ancient evil gods existed in the universe, and their home planet was on the edge of one of their domains.

At first, the underground people scoffed at this, but it wasn't long before the underground ruling class received "divine revelation", and a strange blue crystal containing special energy began to appear on their planet on a large scale. After coming into contact with these crystals, the underground people would gain extreme orgasm and fall into a state of reproductive frenzy.

At that time, the underground people's ruling class had tried to clean up and ban this drug-like crystal. But even if the crystal was completely removed, its influence had already penetrated deep into their genes - in this way, the Mother Goddess planted the seeds of worship in the underground people's genes.

Approximately 57,000 years ago, the underground people began consciously reshaping their social structure. They established a strict hierarchy, dividing society into four classes: priests, scientists, engineers, and slaves. The priests controlled the rituals and military forces necessary to communicate with the Mother Goddess. Scientists were responsible for researching the knowledge gained from the Mother Goddess. Engineers were responsible for translating this knowledge into practical applications. Machines performed the labor. Finally, the largest class, the slaves, had a single purpose: reproduction.

In response to the Mother Goddess's divine revelation, the underground people must quickly increase their numbers, otherwise they will face a catastrophe - a catastrophe brought by her.

The resources of the Underworld's home planet were ultimately limited. Once the population grew to a certain size, the resources it produced could no longer sustain the Underworld's massive population. Furthermore, the Mother Goddess forbade the Underworld from killing: war was abolished, the death penalty was abolished, and the highest punishment, the so-called "capital punishment," was akin to that depicted in classic works like "The Black Beast": becoming a communal breeding machine, regardless of gender. Therefore, within a thousand years, the Underworld's home planet could no longer support the survival of Underworld civilization.

However, with the space jump technology and the technology given by the Mother Goddess, although the underground people's home planet is no longer able to support this increasingly large race, they can continue to expand outward like locusts in the starry sea.

The Outward Expedition continued until 20,000 years ago, when the Underground People conquered and ruled multiple star systems. Just as their civilization reached its peak, history abruptly ended. A catastrophe, an unrecorded catastrophe, nearly wiped out the entire Underground civilization in an instant. Later chroniclers were terribly secretive about this event and left it unrecorded. It is known only that a small number of Underground People survived the catastrophe and eventually arrived on Earth over 15,000 years ago, settling in the Earth's inner asthenosphere.

After settling on Earth, the underground people did not change their previous survival mode. However, after the catastrophe, the underground people's technology was interrupted. They were unable to fight against the special creatures native to Earth who were revered as "gods", and naturally they could not conquer and transform the Earth into a habitable environment for them.

At the same time, because the Earth's native intelligent species - the creatures called humans - have similar appearance structures to the war weapons (those mechanical girls) "gifted" to the underground people by the Mother Goddess, the underground people are convinced that humans are also a race favored by the Mother Goddess. Therefore, the underground people did not have conflicts with humans, but instead established friendly relations with some ancient civilizations.

Afterwards, the underground people received divine revelation again. They no longer allowed contact with surface creatures, so they hid underground and began to survive in the same way as they had on their home planet, until the "catastrophe" occurred again and civilization completely disappeared.

And through the strange device obtained from the arms of the corpse in the underground city outpost, Lin Shangren also roughly figured out the truth of the so-called "catastrophe".

That strange device was a technological creation of the underground people during the first catastrophe. It was an instrument similar to a holographic projection device, used by the underground royal family to record family history.

That corpse was the male underground man called "Commander" in the farewell letter slate. He was a mid-level officer in the underground army responsible for guarding the outskirts of the underground city.

After his lover was sentenced to death and turned into a breeding machine in a slave prison, he began to doubt the laws and morals he had always abided by, as well as the system of the underground people. While trying to rescue his lover, he also began to study the history of the underground people and this extremely unreasonable population policy.

Then, after a series of unrecorded adventures, he learned a despairing truth: the so-called catastrophe was actually a sacrificial ritual of unprecedented scale.

The rulers of the underground people realized a desperate fact before they invented space jump technology: there are very few planets in the universe suitable for underground people to live on, and relying on the existing resources they cannot survive until the day when they can invent long-distance interstellar travel technology.

It was then that the king of the then-underground Jade Empire received what was known as a "divine revelation." The Mother Goddess granted him knowledge of space-jump technology and promised to protect the Underground race, on the condition that they undergo a "reform" from the bottom up, from their genes to their institutions.

Initially, the king of the underground people didn't fully believe in the Mother Goddess. Although he accepted the space jump technology, he still concealed the existence of the Mother Goddess. However, more and more scientists involved in the space jump technology's development also received divine revelation. After the appearance of the pale blue crystals, the underground people were in a frenzy. Even though the king at that time wanted to stop the spread of the crystals and the spread of the Mother Goddess's faith, it was too late.

Afterwards, the ruling class of the underground people was completely corrupted by the Mother Goddess, and they began their expedition to the universe with the gifts from the Mother Goddess.

However, even after conquering countless planets, the Underground's rulers still feared the day their resources would eventually run out. This was when the Mother Goddess proposed a condition: evolution and dimensionality, transforming the Underground race from three-dimensional creatures in the material world into a higher being. Only by breaking through the barriers of the material universe could the Underground achieve true freedom and happiness for all.

However, in order to carry out the ritual of evolution and dimensional upgrading, there must be a sufficient population. When the number of people reaches a certain condition, the dimensional upgrading ritual can be carried out with the help of the pyramid-shaped instrument given to them by the Mother Goddess, thus achieving the ascension of the entire race.

After the Underground's empire had spread across most of the galaxy, reaching its peak, the ceremony began. The vast majority of the Underground gathered near their home planet. Before the massive black pyramid, the Underground, numbering over 650 billion, instantly "ascended."

This small number of underground people who "exiled" to Earth were actually prisoners of the underground empire, including members of the royal family who attempted a coup. Since there was no death penalty for underground people and the total population of underground people exceeded the threshold set by the Mother Goddess, they were sentenced to exile and were not allowed to participate in the dimensional ascension ceremony.

The king also thoughtfully gave the recorder and many documents to the exiled royal family member, allowing him to continue to spread the great achievements of the underground people, a great civilization that had broken away from the material barriers. The royal family member eventually led other criminals to Earth.

In order to legitimize their rule and maintain their reputation in the future, the ancestors of the underground people on Earth covered up this history and portrayed themselves from prisoners to the remnants of a great extinct civilization and the defenders of the last spark of civilization.

After the underground people settled on Earth and established the Emerald Empire, the Mother Goddess mercifully revealed divine enlightenment to these abandoned people and gave them another chance to ascend to a higher dimension. She handed the blueprints of the Black Pyramid to the King of the Emerald Empire, and then...

"The tragedy repeats itself."

Lin Shangren closed his eyes and recalled the words he had read from the stone tablet left by the commander before his death.

"Dimensional upgrading is fake. The black pyramid can indeed transform our life forms, but it doesn't turn us into higher-dimensional beings. Instead, it turns us into stairs, stairs leading to the door... There's no key, and He is waiting for the key! Dead! All dead! Hahahaha, worthless, our civilization is just for this... Wuuuuuu, I'm the only one left... I'm the only one left... Ah, it's all your fault, it's all your fault! She said your name, Lin Shangren!!!"

The author says:

Author's words: You wouldn't have thought that this book would also have unexpected results in something like missing a day.

Chapter 433: Maid, Kitchen, Apron

"We were chosen by Him only because we can give birth. He wants to entrust our souls to you. All the tragedies of our race are because of you. It's all your fault! I curse you, Lin Shangren, I curse you!!!"

The underground commander's last words echoed in the space of the simulated dream.

"Snapped."

Lin Shangren snapped his fingers and everything returned to calm.

"Instead of blaming the root cause of your tragedy, you blame me? It seems necessary to dissect its body and then cut it into slices for public exhibition." Lin Shangren thought.

Speaking of which, the commander of the underground people is also a character. At first, he was just angry for the beauty he loved, but in the end he really took control of part of the underground army, and finally successfully broke into the palace and found out the truth about the history of the underground people.

Unfortunately, even then, he was powerless. Once the underground population reached the required number for the ritual, the pitch-black pyramid at the center of the underground city began to function. Strange black shadows spread out along the underground city's magma network, gradually absorbing the underground city's heat energy and the souls of its inhabitants.

He escaped the underground city with several rock guards and the mechanical girl. As the sole survivor of the underground people, he was clearly unable to rebuild their civilization. He could only linger in the last refuge until the last trace of heat energy was exhausted, and he perished along with the last remnants of this once prosperous civilization.

The Flame Orb's appearance here was simply a coincidence. After the Dragon God's death, his followers, under the orders of the Dragon Girl, hid the fragments of the Dragon God Orb across Japan. The group responsible for hiding the Flame Orb were being pursued by the Wind God's minions. In desperation, they tossed the Flame Orb into a fissure in the ground. Due to tectonic shifts, it "coincidentally" landed in a sentry post outside the underground city, reactivating the Stone Guardians and the mechanical girls.

Obviously, this "coincidence," like the previous large Buddhist beads and Swallow's Son Anbei, was the work of the universe's will. It was trying its best to "please" Lin Shangren, hoping that Lin Shangren would protect it from the Mother Goddess's murderous clutches.

"Manipulate an entire race, distort their civilization, and tamper with their genes, all for the sole purpose of turning them into reproductive tools that gather psychic energy, helping them conquer the stars, and ultimately reaping their entire lives at the peak of their powers."

Lin Shangren triggered the recording device again, and the ceremony of harvesting 650 billion souls 20,000 years ago was played in front of Lin Shangren again. In order to punish and stimulate those exiled criminals, the rulers of the underground people specially used such a device to broadcast the entire process of their "dimensional upgrading" to them in real time.

Countless uniquely shaped starships densely gathered around the Underground People's home planet. Then, without any complicated process, a pillar of light suddenly rose from the Underground People's home planet, forming a pattern in the universe that resembled a magic circle. Then, in the next moment, 650 billion Underground People collapsed to the ground, their souls annihilated.

To the exiled underground people, this scene represented their people's liberation from material constraints, their ascension to a higher form of life, their attainment of true happiness and freedom. But in the eyes of the Lin Shang people, the truth was that the Mother Goddess had drained the life and spiritual energy of all the underground people to construct a massive teleportation array. The Lin Shang people were unsure where this array led.

"This magic circle must be able to easily cross the universe, given that it consumes such a large amount of spiritual energy, right?" Lin Shangren thought.

As Lin Shangren speculated, this magic circle indeed connected the Scientific Universe, the Dark Bible Universe, the Continent of Midgard, and many more worlds that Ashrose had yet to discover and capture. This was why the nuns were able to travel through the universe and why the elves of Alfheim were able to use the summoning magic circle to pull Lin Shangren into that world.

Twelve hours later, when Ashrose wakes up, she will help Lin Shangren confirm this speculation.

"The second sacrifice was the same as the last one by Tokita Misaki. It was to inject the massive amount of spiritual energy accumulated in the pyramid into my body, causing the spiritual energy in my body to run wild and completely transform me into some kind of monster or something else..."

Lin Shangren stretched out his hand, and his palm beast transformed into the form of a demon man.

"This power is still manageable for now... But, to do this for me, how much does that guy like me?"

She bewitched an entire race, using their lives to build a channel connecting multiple universes, eroded and controlled the slaves she commanded, allowing them to move between universes and set traps, and through various chain reactions, allowed Lin Shangren to be infected with her power without leaving any trace... It can be said that, except for his experiences in the Euphoria universe, all of Lin Shangren's adventures so far were planned by the Mother Goddess.

Seeing that Lin Shangren remained so calm after confirming so many horrific facts, Fululu, whose soul had merged with his, was puzzled.

"Hey, buddy, aren't you nervous? If she used the same tactics against the underground people on humans, humanity would have been wiped out long ago. That guy's oppression is even stronger than those indescribable evil gods in the mythology of the Ksura family. She's doing this in a roundabout way because she has ulterior motives, but if she really wants to kill you, if she really wants to deal with Hehuan, Dongzi and the others, you have no way to counterattack!"

Everything could have been planned by her, everything could be her conspiracy, every step you take could be part of her plan... What's the point of this? There's no place to surrender!]

"What are you afraid of?" Lin Shangren asked back, "The so-called horror of the Ksitigarbha mythology lies in the fact that humans are completely unpredictable towards evil gods like the so-called Great Old Ones. It's not like they're afraid of giant squids or giant tentacles.

If she had really been behind the scenes, elusive as before, I might have been really wary of her, even falling into self-doubt about every move I made. But she had already appeared.

So what if she's powerful? So what if she's calculating? Even if she's a terrifying existence far beyond the multiverse or the outer realm, two things are certain. First, her actions are severely restricted, which leaves me with room to maneuver. Second, I've fucked her.

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Early in the morning, Wuguo got up early, washed up and went straight to the kitchen. As a good wife and mother, she naturally planned to prepare breakfast for the whole family in the villa.

Of course, in addition to preparing to cook, Wuguo also prepared a little surprise for Lin Shangren - she was not wearing any clothes, only an apron.

However, the moment Wuguo opened the kitchen door, she was stunned. She saw four girls in black and white maid outfits, with their hair dyed green, blue, red and white. They were kneading dough, chopping stuffing and cutting vegetables in an orderly manner. They looked like they were preparing to make dumplings.

"Um...excuse me...who are you?"

Wuguo asked, but the four girls seemed to not hear her and continued doing their own work.

"They are the maids I prepared."

Lin Shangren's voice came from behind Wuguo.

"Maid? Husband... have you gone to another world again?" Wuguo was a little confused.

Lin Shangren replied, "No. I just learned some basic knowledge overnight and then converted four military robots into civilian ones. It's only a preliminary modification now. The language module and general interaction module have not been installed yet, and functions like artificial intelligence are not installed. At present, they can only do cooking and cleaning. When I have time, I will modify them further and they will be able to fully perform the duties of maids and bodyguards."

"Is that so? I understand..."

Kiruga was a bit disappointed. After all, fulfilling her wifely duties like a traditional Yamato Nadeshiko was an important way for her to maintain her sense of security, as if only by doing so could she be loved. Kiruga would feel a bit uneasy if her job was replaced by a robot.

Lin Shangren seemed to have seen through Wuguo's thoughts, and he continued, "With them around, you can relax a lot. You can use the extra time to do something more interesting.

Although mechanical maids can also wear aprons, the apron Yukiyo is wearing is only for wives~"

Only then did Wuguo remember that she was only wearing an apron, and her cheeks suddenly flushed. Her snow-white buttocks were already plump, fleshy, and well-proportioned, with great elasticity. Combined with her slender waist, she looked even more sexy and charming. The slightest movement under the apron caused her breasts and buttocks to sway, which was unusual.

As he spoke, Lin Shangren hugged Wuguo from behind, put his left hand around her waist, and moved it along the hem of her apron to touch her snow-white and well-proportioned thighs; his restless right hand stretched forward from her naked pink back, straight into the apron, covering her breasts and caressing the heavy balls.

Wuguo nervously grabbed the hem of her skirt, twisting it back and forth with her hands. Although she didn't loosen the straps, she did mess up the apron. The pair of snow-white breasts in front of her chest immediately broke free from the apron and proudly bounced out.

"Ouch~ Don't pinch it so hard...it will deform..."

Just as Lin Shangren was about to hug Wuguo and walk into the kitchen, press her on the chopping board, and play with her round buttocks, he heard a clear cough behind him.

"Ahem, let's make it clear in advance, don't make a mess. Let's give the buns with rice green liquid filling to Edna and the others." Hehuan said with some jealousy behind Lin Shangren.

Chapter 434: Prelude to a Melee

Beach volleyball, watermelon cracking, barbecue lunch... For the entire morning, Lin Shangren cast aside all distractions and fully enjoyed this relaxing and joyful time with his harem. It was as if he had completely forgotten what invisible threats might be lurking around him.

This puzzled Fululu, and what was even more difficult for her to accept was that she could only watch Lin Shangren and them being intimate, but she could not participate. Even if Lin Shangren had time to transform the four robot girls into mechanical maids, he was reluctant to spend the time to create a realistic and usable alchemical body for her.

[Have you completely given up to the extravagant life of wine and women? Hakilin, you bastard!]

Facing Fululu's accusations, Lin Shangren, who was lying on the beach mat enjoying the four-breast oil massage service of Hehuan and Dongshi, did not care.

He answered in his mind, "Even if I want to investigate something, I need clues, right? Currently, the only people confirmed to be related to the Mother Goddess are Slaanesh and that nun. Of these two, Slaanesh hasn't won the resurrection match yet, and as for the nun, there's even less information available. Using traditional criminal investigation methods would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. As for using metaphysics..."

Lin Shangren pulled the restored Spoon Killer's Spoon from the shadows. He released his grip, and the spoon, which had been pointed at its target, began spinning madly. Either the nun had somehow blocked the spoon's tracking, or she wasn't even in the Scientific Universe at the time.

"In this situation, fishing in the river is unlikely to yield any results. It's better to just sit back and wait for her to take the bait. After all, no matter how they plot, it will all end up on me.

But you are right, you shouldn't indulge in the gentleness all the time, it's time to take a break and do something else."

Lin Shangren's original purpose for this trip to Okinawa, besides taking Hehuan and the others on a trip, was to find the golden screen that recorded the location of the Dragon God Pearl and Kaguya's relics. Now, although the Great Buddha Pearl, Swallow's Child Anbei, and Flame Pearl all jumped into his sight, finding the golden screen and confirming the location of the other treasures was still necessary.

Besides that, there were the ruins of the Dragon Palace in the deep sea, and the jewels and artifacts within them that Lin Shangren hadn't yet collected. Even if the gold, silver, and jewelry weren't of much value to him at the moment, they would still be a great asset for bonuses to Consortium B and the Metropolitan Police Department, and for enriching the Kuchiki Museum's collection. Besides, the Dragon Palace was the abode of the Dragon God, after all, so there might be some magical tools and other small items inside, so looting them wouldn't hurt.

The former only required a recap of the original Detective Conan storyline: finding the island where Taira Ie and her accomplices hid the golden screen was a simple, blanket search, requiring minimal effort. The latter was even simpler. Lin Shangren simply dived into the deep sea, stowed the entire Dragon Palace within a shadowy space, and, after dismantling the decorative coral jewels, the remaining hull of the Mirage Treasure Ship could be donated to China's Maritime Museum as historical documentation of Xu Fu's voyage eastward.

Slightly more troublesome are the people involved in these two incidents: Ie Taira and the jellyfish man Mousse.

In an attempt to escape reality, Taira Ie falls into a vegetative state similar to Sleeping Beauty's Byakuya, trapped in a dream and unwilling to wake up. Meanwhile, Mousse, possessed by the Mother Goddess and having frantic intercourse with Hayashi Shangren, also falls into a coma.

In reality, Mousse was quite lucky. According to the Mother Goddess's original plan, she would be possessed by the Mother Goddess and stabbed to death by Lin Shangren, then shot to pieces. At this point, only her soul had been severely damaged. Although she had lost consciousness, she was still alive.

Neither of them was particularly close to Hayashi Naoroto. Taira Ie and Hayashi Naoroto had only met a few times. As for Mousse, while Hayashi Naoroto had sexual relations with her, it was the Mother Goddess who controlled her body at the time, so the two were practically strangers.

But, he is Lin Shangren after all. Driven by a small part of lust and a large part of inexplicable sense of moral responsibility, he still wants to try to wake them up and change their originally miserable lives.

However, for Lin Shangren at this moment, accomplishing these two tasks was somewhat difficult. While Lin Shangren's Mi Qing Fluid could heal physical and partial soul damage, it was currently unable to heal injuries inflicted by a being of the Mother Goddess's caliber, even if the latter had compressed her power to the limit. Even if Lin Shangren immersed Mousse in a pool of his ejaculated fluid, he could not heal her and awaken her.

As for Pingliang Ie, her condition is similar to that of Sleeping Beauty Bai Ye. Lin Shangren can wake up a sleeping person, but cannot wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep. He can try to use verbal therapy on Pingliang Ie, but he lacks the right opportunity.