The Record of Unusual Creatures

Panda Novel

Hao Ren once thought that the guardian giants like Muru and Lemendusa who participated in the final battle knew the secrets of the goddess of creation well. It turned out that the goddess, who had long been undermined and swinging between good and evil, kept a lot more secrets than anyone could imagine. She had carried out many secret projects while her mind began to divide. Many of the projects were not even known to the giant like Muru.

Star Cluster X was an example.

Muru and Lemendusa did not know there was a group of fellow guardian giants carrying out an ancient mission for the goddess of creation in Star Cluster X. These hidden guardian giants and Denizens of the Stars had been guarding something, for which they had built not just one but many planetary battleships. On one of the planetary battleships lived some fantastic but noisy sprites that the goddess had created.

These creatures were the sprites.

All of this was unthinkable before Hao Ren arrived here.

“It was the goddess of creation who created us!”

“Yeah, yeah, the goddess of creation is such a nice goddess!”

“She gave us a mission…”

“But we cannot tell you!”

When asked about their origins, the sprites replied in the same noisy and messy way. The fact that the goddess of creation had secretly created these marvelous creatures was a surprise. After that, Hao Ren became curious about the mission that the sprites mentioned.

“Why can’t you tell?” Hao Ren looked at one of the sprites standing in front of him. This short-haired sprite should be a boy, judging from his clothing. “Is it because it is a secret mission?”

“Because we are not sure what the mission is!” said the little sprite while his companions echoed in a rap manner what he said. “The goddess created the little sprites from lightning and stones!”

“She then gave the little sprites a mission, a great mission!”

“But only the Queen knows what the mission is.”

“So, sprites can’t tell you!”

“The queen?” Hao Ren and Vivian frowned in unison. Vivian could not help but ask, “Where is your queen? Can we meet her?”

All the sprites exchanged a look and replied in unison, “But we do not have a queen!”

Hao Ren was struck dumb.

He did not think he could understand their thinking logic before he got acquainted with them. He would die from mental exhaustion if he kept harping on the question. For the first time of his life, Hao Ren had found someone having more spiral thinking than Lily had. And it was not just one but many.

Could it be that when the goddess of creation made these sprites, someone stabbed her while she was halfway through?

More and more sprites came out in all directions. Hao Ren was sure that these beautiful creatures had a unique way of movement—they might be able to shuttle freely on this land, just like how they popped out of thin air just now. He watched as the sprites gathered and felt as if he was drowning in the sea of noise and gibberish. Hao Ren realized that it was not the best time for communication when the sprites looked at him as if he was a creature in the zoo.

“Can you take us to where you live?” He tried to put up a kind smile as he knelt before the three sprite representatives. “And… can we go to a quieter place? We cannot communicate in such a messy situation.”

He thought he would have a hard time letting the sprites understand his request. Never did he expect the little sprites got what he meant so quickly. “Ahh, understood! Understood! We should go to the proper place to talk!”

“The guardian giants also said that we were too noisy”

“But we had no clue what that meant!”

“But we still thought that I made sense.”

“We will take you to the place where we live!”

It seemed that even the guardian giants could not stand the character of these sprites.

As Hao Ren suspected, these little sprites lived in the cities and shrines that the guardian giants left behind, which also meant the sprites did not have their own buildings.

The sprites were more like symbiotic creatures, coexisting with the guardian giants, or rather the planetary battleship.

The three sprite representatives brought Hao Ren to their living place in an ancient but well-preserved pyramid-like temple. This settlement consists of three adjoining chambers. On the wall of each chamber were lattice, which was the home of the sprites.

Hao Ren, Vivian, and even Lil Pea could not hold back their surprise.

Even the little mermaid thought that the creatures living in the crystal lattice were weird.

“You all live in such a place?” Hao Ren was curious as he looked at the crystals embedded in the wall. The lattice was an equilateral triangle structure as if prisms arranged in a staggered manner on the wall. The cross-section of the crystal was about the same size as the wheel of a family car. There were lines, as if energy conduits, extending out from each crystal into the center of the building.

A little sprite dressed in a long skirt with short hair came up to Hao Ren cheerfully. “Yes, yes! It does not look big, but it is spacious! We usually rest here, just like this.”

As soon as the sprite’s voice trailed off, she had plunged into the crystal as easy as spirit passing through a wall. As the sprite was inside, the crystal and the surrounding energy conduits lit up.

It was as if the one that plunked in was not a sprite but a battery.

Lil Pea swished her tail in awe. “Wow!”

A few seconds later, the sprite poked her head out of the crystal, her big eyes blinking and looking excited. “You can come in too! It is spacious in here!”

The other two sprites babbled, “Yes, yes! You are our friend. A friend can enter our house!”

“It is especially spacious inside.”

“Oh, I cannot find my psionic regulator again.”

Hao Ren scratched his head awkwardly. “Err, theoretically, creatures like us cannot fit in the crystal like you can.”

“Oh, what a shame.” The little sprite climbed out of the crystal and shook her head. Her two companions followed suit. “Oh, what a shame.”

But Hao Ren did not hear what they said as his attention was on the crystal in the wall.

Blue-white with unique surface texture, the crystals shimmered when energy ran through it.

And most importantly, electric arcs were dancing as if the crystals were resonating with each other.

He jabbed the PDA that pretended to be a badge on his shoulder. “MDT.”

The MDT spoke into his mind. “You are right, buddy! I have analyzed the energy sample; it is the resonant crystal.”

Hao Ren noticed the changes in Vivian’s facial expression. Apparently, she had also realized the origin of these crystals.

“What is your relationship with these crystals?” Vivian looked at the long-haired sprite and asked casually.

Vivian did not have to worry about how to pose her question; those little sprites would reveal everything by themselves. “Sprites were born from the stones!”

“The guardian giants called these stones crystals.”

“The goddess used the power of lightning to create sprites!”

The sprites were energy creatures born from the resonant crystal.

It was something that Hao Ren had never thought of. The goddess of creation not only carried out a big project on the mysterious crystal planet but also used those crystals to create a brand-new exotic species.

What was her purpose in doing so? What were these sprites for?

After learning the origins of the sprites, Hao Ren had also figured out another thing. “That is to say, there are many such resonant crystals on this planet fragment. That was how you received the resonant signal from us. And it was our resonating signals that broke your radio silence. Am I right?”

The long-haired little sprite froze for a second, and then yelped, “Ahh! Ahh! It was you guys who sent the signals!”

“The signals you sent made our crystals resonate!”

“And yours were high-power signals, our usual signal jamming approach had failed!”

“We almost died! Those bad guys came straight to us by tracing the signals!”

Hao Ren had a headache when the three little sprites babbled a little angrily. Did these sprites only learn about it now? Did he not ask Nolan to send a message detailing about this matter before?

Hao Ren had no choice but to pacify these agitated little sprites. He explained that he only used the resonant antenna because he was searching for clues on the goddess of creation, and he did not know that it would put the sprites in danger. Hao Ren further promised to make up for his mistake; he would send an army of drones to protect the home of the sprites before he could defuse the threat of the festered monsters.

The emotions of the sprites went just as quick as they came. They were erratic to the extent of utter insanity. After a while of appeasing, the three little sprites calmed down. Now, they were even more hospitable than before.

Perhaps they had figured that having a legion of drones to protect them was far better than silent radio signals and hiding around.

But Hao Ren got the gut feeling that these sprites did not possess such logical thinking ability.

“Well, now we have cleared the air. We should talk about something more important.” Hao Ren pinched his glabella. He felt that talking to the sprites was more exhausting than sparring with Lily. “As you know, we are searching for the crystal planet, where you were originally born. Is there a war right now? The Naqdal planetary fortress was destroyed in the battle, right? So, do you know where the battlefield is? Can you take us there?”

The three sprites replied in unison, “We have no idea!”