Hao Ren felt that Lily's goofy personality really might be contagious. At the very least, she was exceptionally good at leading people astray whenever she spoke. One sentence—"Vivian used to be liquid"—had infected both him and Izax, leaving the person in question thoroughly exasperated.
Just as Vivian picked up the rolling pin again and prepared to restore order, Hao Ren finally managed to get his thoughts straight. He pulled the Data Terminal from his pocket. "There's a surveillance recording here. See for yourself."
Vivian sat down on the sofa, utterly bewildered, while the Data Terminal began playing the data it had copied from the golden battleship's mainframe. The command hall of the rebel's battleship, the orb of source blood deployed by the Creation Goddess, the girl born from the source blood, the appearance imitated from a certain rebel... Vivian was confused when she first saw all this, but her eyes soon widened bit by bit. By the end, she was completely dumbfounded.
"Where is this?" Vivian's first question popped out, immediately followed by a second. "And what are those glittering people doing?"
"A battleship somewhere in the Sulun's Gate galaxy. These are the surveillance records from aboard it." Hao Ren told her everything he had experienced. "I call that place the Oblique Nebula. Time is distorted there, so everything is still stuck at..."
Because the matter was complicated, it took Hao Ren nearly an hour to explain the general sequence of events. Vivian listened quietly, asking only a couple of questions along the way. Once he had finished, she and Hao Ren let out a simultaneous sigh, their expressions somewhat strange. "This is real?"
"Of course it's real." Hao Ren nodded. "We can now confirm that you were created by the Creation Goddess, and the timeline matches up as well.