Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'
Chapter 242 - 063. Disorder Entropy Increase_2

Chapter 242: 063. Disorder Entropy Increase_2

Li Aozi saw through his intention and immediately grabbed the fighter jet’s communication device, shouting,

"Hey! Are you crazy? That’s the Ersha Cloud ahead!"

Ye Lifan’s eyes were almost bulging out. He closed them and struggled to make a sound,

"This voice—are you Li Aozi?"

"It’s me! If you don’t want to turn into a monster, get down now!" Li Aozi shouted anxiously, "Don’t step into the red-black clouds! Stop now!"

"...It’s already too late."

With the boost, Li Aozi’s speed increased, and with an acceleration of 150G, he forcibly pushed himself and the fighter jet to a speed of Mach 8, instantly flying into the Ersha Cloud.

"Cough, cough, cough—"

Ye Lifan’s eyes turned red and black. Countless pieces of information instantly bombarded his brain. The Vulture’s fuselage shook violently. The effect of forces was mutual; the high-speed flying aircraft was also subjected to the high-speed impact of the Ersha Cloud. Soon, the wings were corroded, leaving burn-like marks and wounds.

"This is enough."

Ye Lifan lay back in his seat; red-black blood slowly oozed from his breathing mask. His pupils dilated, hands resting on the armrests, while ethereal voices echoed around him.

"...Seeking death and glory again? Rest assured, you will not fall here."

The Vulture fighter jet was covered with strange burn marks and rust, as if it had experienced decades of erosion in an instant.

The engine of the fighter jet stalled, suspended in mid-air.

At an altitude of 150,000 meters, anything that plunged into the charged and Ersha-filled barrier would quickly decay and age in the red-black sea of clouds, as if the rate of entropy increase had been magnified hundreds of times, injecting a hundred years into a single second.

The alloys began to degrade, the fiber composite materials turned woody, and even the gold-infused glass started to disintegrate.

When Li Aozi charged into the red-black clouds, he immediately set up a gravity disturbance around himself, creating a dust-free space without the cloud gas around him. Using tendrils to control his fighter, he quickly approached Ye Lifan, extending a tendril to hook the nose of the other Vulture frozen in mid-air. Dragging it, and while the entropy increase hadn’t yet reached his tendrils, he swiftly released the gravity, letting the two fighter jets free-fall, slicing through the sky, diving straight toward the ground.

Whoosh!

As soon as the two Vultures left the Ersha clouds, they immediately resumed functioning, entering automatic cruise mode. Meanwhile, Li Aozi’s tendril, in just under ten seconds of Ersha exposure, had completely decayed. He had to open up the other Vulture’s cockpit, place Ye Lifan in the better-conditioned Vulture, and then use a burst of "Spontaneous Combustion" to incinerate the wreckage, sending it crashing into the uninhabited desert.

"What a pity... A complete Vulture can fetch quite a bit of money."

However, compared to the wrecked Vulture, Li Aozi valued the two surviving pilots more.

Magath and Ye Lifan.

Aside from the emergency task requirements and the pilots’ invaluable worth, these two still held significant meaning for Li Aozi.

Though Beta Rank elites were quite rare, with effort, you could always create more.

But Beta Rank pilots were far rarer. People who could combine physical fitness, reaction speed, intelligence, and psychological resilience were much harder to come by than any common warrior.

These two Frost Plated pilots would be the few in the future who could join players in boarding the Galaxy civilization’s warships and blow up Azure Star as heroes.

Yes, heroes.

Although blowing up Azure Star sounded anti-human, and indeed many potential survivors were on Azure Star—at that time, the situation was dire. If they didn’t destroy Azure Star, the Lord Entropy residing in the Stellar Marrow would sweep across the entire universe.

Lord Entropy had terrifying power. They were the heralds of cosmic apocalypse, the most ancient beings who could accelerate the change of entropy and were ageless. Even erasing them from the known universe, they would resurrect when heat death arrived.

Simply put, Lord Entropy was the mechanism of the universe.

Under those circumstances, destroying Azure Star was a momentary destruction—at least they could still evacuate 70% of Azure Star’s residents. But if the sleeping Lord Entropy woke, then forget migration; the tenth Narrative-Level Empire of Heralds would probably directly erase the star system conceptually where Lord Entropy resided.

The Galaxy civilization didn’t want to be blamed for the destruction universe, so they proposed letting the Azure Star people destroy their homeland with their own hands, thus respecting their choice.

This way, the blame fell on the Azure Star people who ventured into space. They originally sought ways to save their home, carrying people’s hopes. However, doctors told them the best treatment was euthanasia.

Ultimately, those who could bear this sin were the heartless players and a few determined Azure Star people.

To save their fellow beings, they chose to destroy their homeland and bore the scorn of their kin.

Li Aozi never thought much of it, as the players just walked away while the NPCs had to stay and rebuild a new home.

But now, Li Aozi’s view had changed. He respected and sympathized with those pilots who, despite bearing scorn and prejudice, chose to take on the responsibility.

"Weakness is a sin."

Li Aozi couldn’t help but sigh.

If it had not been Azure Star but the mother planet of a Narrative-Level Civilization inhabited by Lord Entropy—who would dare to criticize those heroes for destroying their mother planet?

They would only applaud, hailing, "This is the resolve and grace of a high-level civilization, unaffected by emotions, always doing the right thing."

People inherently worshipped power and victors, willing to negate the value of the weak, even if they were among the weak themselves.

As someone who had also destroyed that planet, Li Aozi felt deeply touched.

"Those trapped on the ground will never understand the vastness and inclusiveness of the universe; they only focus their gaze on visible companions."

But not anymore. Li Aozi was confident that under his command, the entire Azure Star would unite as one.

Humanity must move towards space!

Li Aozi placed the captives and the fighter jets on the ground, notified Bemudes’ soldiers to take over, then dismantled two heavy aerial bombs, and immediately turned back, charging into the sky.

Before he left Grante, he decided to give Frost Plated a memorable lesson.

Meanwhile, as Li Aozi ascended toward Frost Plated Airport, in a hospital in the capital of Grante, a man who had been injured in an explosion slowly opened his eyes. A line of text slowly appeared on his retinas,

[Descent Complete]

The man tilted his head slightly, then suddenly stood up, his back straightened, exuding the aura of a blood-and-iron soldier. He turned around as if saluting invisible leaders, reporting,

"Report! Fiery Summer National Defense Army Strategic Support Unit, 106th Brigade, Special Experimental Unit, Private Lin Wenzhan, successfully logged into ’Starry Abyss’, awaiting orders!"

The first wave of beta test players was officially online.