God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 302: But For What Purpose?

Chapter 302: But For What Purpose?
"No, my master is Lady Dream."
The puppet stated a result that Ren and the Goddess of Magic had just guessed, seemingly without any emotional fluctuation.
This puppet really wasn’t simple.
But maybe precisely because of this, it was so special.
"When did you appear in this shop? Were you always here, or was it three thousand years ago when Lady Dream was about to disappear? In this city, how many shops like yours are controlled by Lady Dream’s magical creations?"
Ren quickly reined in his surprise and asked some new questions triggered by the previous answers.
"Since gaining sentience, I’ve never seen Lady Dream... As for shops like mine, I don’t know either. There should be many."
The puppet’s words made Ren fall silent again.
Never seen since gaining sentience—so it was a puppet created when Lady Dream went to the other world, or even when she first returned from the other world to spread the source power cultivation method.
Only this made sense.
So why not directly use dream authority to create some shop clerks?
Theoretically, shop clerks created by dream authority should be better suited for such regions walking between reality and illusion.
Couldn’t? Didn’t dare? Or other concerns?
Putting himself in Lady Dream’s position, if he had to go to another world, didn’t know what would happen, even suspected he might die on the other side, what choice would he make?
The Tulip Kingdom could be maintained by the clock tower divine artifact, but dream creatures could die, especially if she lost dream authority...
Actually, at this point, it wasn’t hard to guess.
Because she worried about disappearing, she used an unfamiliar but reliable method.
Magical creatures.
Especially magical creatures that weren’t smart and didn’t know flexibility.
"I see."
The Goddess of Magic nodded slightly. "If you have anything else to ask, go ahead. I’ll browse inside."
All the Goddess of Magic’s doubts were resolved—or rather, the doubts this puppet might know were resolved. The remaining content couldn’t be solved by asking this guy. Might as well return to the main thread and look at her biggest objective for this trip.
"Since you’ve lived here for three thousand years and contacted every top-tier person in this country, you should know quite a bit, right? Do you think this Tulip Kingdom has changed at all? Have those top powerhouses changed?"
Ren didn’t really have much else to ask. Now it was more like casual chatting. If he could accidentally get some information, that would be great. If not, no big deal.
Not everyone would be as bored as him, discussing so much with a shop clerk—a magical creature at that.
Everyone who entered this shop was a legendary-level powerhouse with extremely precious time and high status.
The probability of such people communicating with him was even lower.
Given his information channels, he definitely wouldn’t know much.
In fact, that was exactly the case.
In this puppet’s perception, this world was always unchanging—just those few people, doing the same things every day, coming to the shop for the same purposes. Besides receiving these people, the rest of the time, all he had to do was constantly craft runes...
"How was it? Any gains?"
After a while, the Goddess of Magic walked out from inside the shop.
Seeing her hands were empty, Ren was curious. "Nothing valuable?"
"Yes, for me, these runes aren’t unfamiliar."
The Goddess of Magic’s tone was very calm. She didn’t feel any dissatisfaction or disappointment. Actually, she already knew there wasn’t a single rune in this world she didn’t know.
"Mr. Shopkeeper, sorry, there’s nothing we want here." Ren said somewhat apologetically to the puppet, about to leave.
"It’s fine. I can tell you’re very powerful. If not for being in this Tulip Kingdom, you’d definitely have broader horizons."
The puppet rarely said something with a bit of humanity, which surprised them both. But they didn’t pay too much attention.
Over the next period, they visited over a dozen shops—almost all the same.
Whether magic-related, alchemy-related, or druid potion shops, knight weapon and equipment shops... all were run by identical puppets. The information they knew, what they could say, was almost all the same.
Facing this situation, Ren even suspected—could some special creations have already occupied the entire Tulip Kingdom?
Fortunately, on the streets, they could see many normal people who revealed abnormality everywhere. Otherwise, he might really have the idea to just kill through everything.
"Have you noticed anything wrong?"
The Goddess of Magic suddenly spoke, making Ren, who was preparing to find the next shop, pause.
"What’s wrong?"
"It seems all the important areas of the entire Tulip Kingdom are controlled by magical creatures. What exactly is Lady Dream worried about? Could she really not handle those so-called Nightmares? So she could only leave important things to lifeless magical creatures."
After the Goddess of Magic’s voice fell, Book, who’d been wanting to speak but forcibly holding back, finally couldn’t hold it in anymore and spoke up:
"Actually, I think Lady Dream’s biggest idea is that we magical creatures can work on things continuously without rest. Like that first shop we entered—besides the time talking to us, he seems to constantly be engraving various runes.
If it were any person, even a legendary magician, they couldn’t possibly have such self-control, couldn’t possibly maintain this for so long.
If you ask me, this is more like... preparing for war.
Having lots of magical creatures control each important shop, having magical creatures mass-produce tirelessly and continuously, stockpiling large amounts of war materials, facing potentially powerful enemies ahead..."
Though Book talked a lot of nonsense, what he said this time was actually a possibility.
And the probability wasn’t small.
"Whether she’s worried about her own authority issues or if it’s like Book said, things are somewhat beyond our expectations, but they haven’t deviated too far from the track."
Ren thought for a moment but found the more he thought, the more complex it became. "Since we already know the general state of this Tulip Kingdom now, let’s go find people who can actually talk."
The Tulip Kingdom was truly martially abundant—everyone possessed decent combat power. Plus the large number of supernatural shops Lady Dream left behind, the large amount of materials—in critical times, the power they could unleash might even be able to unify the entire planet.
But that clock tower suspended in the sky placed a restriction on them—when the bell rang every night, they had to be in this kingdom. Otherwise, they’d completely disappear from this world.
This reminded Ren of a term.