If it were possible, Hao Ren really would have liked to die together with that Lunatic Goddess—too bad he couldn't beat her.
"Can we change the ship's name?" Hao Ren looked at Raven 12345 with a final glimmer of hope, only to receive the predictable answer. "No. I've already registered it in the work log and with the Air Traffic Control Bureau. If you want to change the name, handle the paperwork yourself. I don't have time for that."
Hao Ren let out a long sigh. It looked like from now on he'd have to save the world aboard a spaceship whose translated name was Wangba Tuozi...
Raven 12345 saw Hao Ren fall into a daze and seemed to realize that her naming skills had struck another blow. She awkwardly changed the subject. "Let's stop talking about the spaceship and talk about that egg. Who's got the newbie?"
Nangong May opened her suitcase and pulled the carefully protected white, strange-looking egg from among the soft cloth bundles. "Here it is. What exactly is this an egg of?"
Raven 12345 took the strange egg. For an instant, a hint of compassion seemed to cross her face. "A mermaid's egg, from another world."
"A mermaid?!" the three of them cried in unison.
"That's right, a mermaid—and the last of their kind," Raven 12345 sighed. "The apocalypse struck a remote universe. There'd been something wrong with that universe from the moment it was born. It was malformed: the entire universe developed too quickly, and its fundamental constants were extremely unstable. It showed signs of collapse before any advanced civilizations had emerged within it. By the time the end came, complex life had appeared on only one planet. When the patrol team arrived, they discovered that the only planet with life was being swallowed