Hao Ren had guessed countless times before—what exactly was hidden deep within Vivian's soul? Since this thing had caused Vivian's frequent memory loss, slumber, fragmentation, and berserk transformations, it could have been a psychic virus, the mutterings of an evil ancient god, or even a completely corrupted, evil version of Vivian Ancestor. But no matter which possibility it was, Hao Ren had never imagined that it would actually be a star chart...
Well, that wasn't entirely accurate.
He looked at the crystal that was projecting the enormous star chart before him. More precisely, the thing rooted deep within Vivian's soul remained unidentified, but one thing was certain: it contained at least one star chart.
It might contain something else as well.
"So many stars." Vivian was also looking up at the projection. Although this thing had been rooted deep within her soul for more than ten thousand years, she had never known it existed. These unfamiliar stars were also her first time seeing them. "I guess... this is what they call a star chart?"
Vivian hadn't invested as many skill points into interstellar navigation as Hao Ren, taking it all the way to +5, so she couldn't really distinguish between a star chart and an ordinary snapshot of a star system. Still, after traveling throughout the universe with Hao Ren so many times, she had developed some intuition.
"That's right, a star chart, but it doesn't seem complete..." Hao Ren frowned as he rapidly compared this mysterious star chart with the various known navigation charts in his mind. Those charts included every star region in this universe, as well as the known universe of the Dream Plane that the drone swarm had explored. Their data was enormous, but it had already been deeply imprinted in Hao Ren's memory. An ordinary