Chapter 230: Chapter 160: Does It Matter Where You Sleep?

The two stood on the massive model of a cracking sun.

Vivian stared intently at the chaotic sea in the image, then lowered her head in frustration, her soft ears drooping down.

Errors piling up in the new century were simply disgraceful to her divine life.

"In my view, you’ve already done well enough."

Lin Lan softened his tone, looking at the world of islands within the light and shadow: "At least the world hasn’t truly ended yet, and civilization still has a chance to breathe."

"Speaking of which..."

Lin Lan turned around, carefully examining the tiny figure before him: "What’s your current state exactly?"

The Goddess of Wisdom now stood less than a meter tall, her skin pale and tender, resembling a delicate doll.

Combined with her cat ears, smooth black straight hair, gothic black poofy dress, and shoes with ankle straps, she looked quite adorable.

"Huh? You’re asking me?"

Vivian turned her head to glare at Lin Lan.

The initial divine aura of omniscience seemed to have completely vanished, perhaps due to her height.

"You know, the true ’Goddess of Wisdom’ actually perished the moment Genesis was completed. My power, authority, flesh, and soul... all turned into the foundational framework of the new century."

Vivian repeatedly inspected her little hands and touched her long skirt: "I was supposed to disappear completely, but your power clearly distorted history. My current state is somewhat peculiar, with two endings oddly stacked together..."

The embodiment of wisdom seemed to be stuck: "It’s like..."

Lin Lan noticed the furry ears of his counterpart, an idea sparked: "It’s like a cat in a box?"

"What do you mean?" Vivian looked puzzled.

"It’s just a metaphor. A cat is locked in a closed box, possibly killed by the radioactive poison gas inside. Until the box is opened and seen, the cat exists in a state of neither alive nor dead, or both coexisting."

Lin Lan tried to explain in a way a foreigner could understand, rubbing his chin: "Though I’ve already seen you, so this metaphor isn’t quite precise..."

"Yes, yes! Very close to that feeling!"

Vivian clapped her hands: "Besides, it’s irrelevant whether you can see or not, since you’re hardly human!"

Lin Lan: ...

The deity before him didn’t seem very polite...

Vivian raised her head, looking directly into Lin Lan’s eyes: "So how did you do it?"

"I have no idea."

Lin Lan shrugged, maintaining his usual clueless expression.

"Interesting... interesting..."

The smaller Goddess of Wisdom paced around Lin Lan, trying to exhibit an air of authority, though her current height lacked any sense of oppression.

"You possess an extraordinarily high divine format, yet you don’t even understand what your true authority is..."

Vivian vaguely discerned it, seeing through the facade to uncover the profound void behind it, and the indescribable, all-encompassing...

Totality of concepts.

"Ah!" At that moment, Vivian felt her heart and spirit quake, and she sat down abruptly on the sun model.

"Did you see something?" Lin Lan asked, somewhat curious.

"Were it not for you releasing goodwill to the world."

She massaged the aching spot, muttering to herself: "I would have thought you were the very core of the apocalypse..."

Vivian tried to stabilize herself.

"My divine format is disintegrating, my soul neither alive nor dead, my power is too weak to observe your essence directly. So let’s approach this differently, show me everything you can."

She rolled up her sleeves with a confident air: "Looks like I’ll have to get serious. Let me, the Goddess of Wisdom, analyze it for you!"

Seizing the opportunity, Lin Lan raised his hand, and an exquisite card appeared in the Foreigner’s palm: "This is..."

Vivian jumped up and took the card.

She lowered her head, her wise eyes seemingly dissecting all the mysteries of the card.

"Ignoring the limitations of space and time, freely traversing the past and future, mocking the nature of history, storing past souls..."

Vivian widened her eyes.

Each ability seemed like a desecration of the world’s laws.

"Actually, I come from a place called ’Earth’..."

Lin Lan didn’t hold back, recounting his past to this deity who sacrificed herself to shape the world.

"That world doesn’t sound all that special..."

After a moment, Vivian twitched her cat ears.

She pondered: "I don’t understand what the ’big truck’ that sent you here is, but considering your format and the card’s bound abilities..."

"You’re not just a ’Foreigner,’ that’s for sure!"

The Goddess of Wisdom quickly drew a conclusion: "You’re not a deity controlling law yet bound by it, but a stranger, more abstract thing."

Lin Lan: ...

All this time, the goddess didn’t analyze anything, merely focusing on attacking his humanity.

"Can you do it or not?" He eyed the little figure before him with disdain, realizing the collapse of her divine body diminished the Goddess of Wisdom.

"Don’t look down on me!" Vivian stamped her foot angrily.

She huffed: "Anyway, one of your authorities is ’Existence is Reasonable.’

"Existence is Reasonable?" Lin Lan pondered the phrase.

"So you can forcibly intervene in historical events, driving predetermined facts toward unknown possibilities, as with me now."