Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'
Chapter 735 - 344. Protagonist

Chapter 735: 344. Protagonist

Main Quest Triggered—Flower of Nothingness

Type: Extermination/Exploration

Time Limit: 300 days

Mission Difficulty: Secret

"At this difficulty level, everything you face was uncertain, and your abilities may fail. People wouldn’t speak to you clearly. You needed to decipher various issues through hints. You would face numerous unpredictable challenges and encounter puzzles in mechanisms, but with exceptional courage and sharp insight, you would see through the fog and solve the mysteries."

Introduction:

When you unfold the history of Dragon Satellite, the erosion of the Void spanned across eras, brimming with complex emotions towards the Void between the lines.

Though its narrative was hollow and void, it transcended advanced civilizations in live human sacrifices.

Though its technology was chaotic and terrifying, it liberated this place from primitive barbarism.

Though its creations were ferocious and savage, they came to be the essentials of people’s clothing and food.

How should you critique this existence? They were cold yet passionate, cruel yet tender, detestable yet charming.

Losing the Void, losing the present, and losing the present, what else would be lost?

As an outsider, you came to this junction of loss and void, full of confusion about the future and sorrow for the past. History didn’t allow speculation, but was the future really bound to be better?

A thick fog of bewilderment blanketed the world, the shadow of war loomed, various forces harbored treacherous motives, the storm was coming, and you stood alone under the perilous wall, with no one to shield you from the rain.

At this moment, a unique person appeared before you.

"Do you want to decide your own future?"

Settlement Conditions:

A. Embrace the Void—Nihilism prevailed;

B. Glass Garden—Realism prevailed;

C. Crescent Moon Condensing the Sky—Romanticism prevailed;

This mission served as a main quest, providing a single choice for completion based on conditions. Upon meeting the criteria, you could choose one to finish and earn an ending assessment based on performance.

Endings were rated as: Giant Dragon, Demon, Asura, White Wolf, Angel, Spiritual Deer.

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What’s the situation now?

Li Aozi climbed out of the car and looked up at the woman in front of him.

She was about 1.73 meters tall, not considered tall within the Layer Abyss. Her ethnicity appeared to be somewhere between Azure Star and cosmic inhabitants. Her skin was fine but not as good as the cosmos dwellers’.

Her hair was tied into a fishtail braid, falling naturally on her shoulders, and the chaotic bangs were soaked in fresh blood, flowing into her eyes and sliding down from the corners. The same purple vine-colored eyes were filled with a flirtatious look.

From the previous conversation, Li Aozi estimated that she should be the knight sent by the Kingdom Parliament—Merid Fenny.

Judging by the sound, it didn’t seem like a female name at all.

Although she wore the chest armor of a knight, she merely covered it with a combat coat, with ordinary jeans on the lower body. With no extra armors on her body, it indicated she was very confident in her own skills.

There was no sense of Pathway on her, only judging from the biological frequency, her level was roughly between Yita Phase (7) and Theta (8).

Though not ordinary, but if to say she was special... aside from being bustier, having a slimmer waist, longer legs than ordinary people, and always having a frivolous smile on her face, there seemed nothing particularly special.

Li Aozi looked at her and felt a bit nervous.

The main quest was triggered, could it be this fellow... was the ’protagonist’ of Dragon Satellite?

"What, don’t believe me?"

Merid casually lifted the gunblade.

Clang—

A sharp gleam flashed, and the restraints on Li Aozi shattered and fell to the ground.

Merid raised the umbrella to shield Li Aozi’s head and gently opened her lips:

"How about now, dear little beauty?"

"Don’t say something so objectifying of women."

Li Aozi rubbed his wrists and glanced at the scattered vehicles around. Their skins were elegantly slashed by the blade, the air infiltrated the Alige tanks, and then triggered by the bullet’s impact heat.

They burned silently in the rain, without a sound.

She attacked the entire squad. Despite being from the Kingdom Parliament, she turned on and killed her own people.

"Miss, can you tell me why you did this?"

Standing under the umbrella, Li Aozi curiously asked:

"Why did you choose to kill your companions and take me away instead?"

"...Isn’t it obvious?"

Merid smiled flirtatiously, reached out, grabbed Li Aozi’s chin, and naturally kissed him by virtue of overpowering strength.

Mwah—

Before Li Aozi could react, his teeth were invaded, but Merid only teased playfully, then immediately withdrew, with a profound look in her violet eyes:

"I chose to do this, of course, for you."

Even though Li Aozi had gotten accustomed to forced kisses, he still felt a tingling scalp. He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and stared at her grimly:

"That’s not the real reason. What do you want?"

"I have no obligation to answer a stranger’s question."

Merid nonchalantly said, as if her previous act of kissing Li Aozi had never happened.

"So, can I also choose not to go with you?"

Li Aozi asked cautiously, based on his PVE gaming experience.

"Of course, I’m not your mom."

She pointed to the umbrella overhead and said:

"But in Substance Rain, no one can survive more than 8 seconds. Are you sure you want to leave me?"

Li Aozi glanced around. With the Eye of Truth on, he scanned privately, but found fragmented bodies of soldiers, and after a long while, he didn’t find a complete rain cover. Vehicles were also damaged and burned incessantly.

He tried to release Gravity, but this Substance Rain pierced through his Gravity. It seemed there was a greater force within, tens of thousands of times stronger than Gravity.

Weak Force.

With his abundant gaming experience, Li Aozi immediately identified:

When colliding with protons, electrons would scatter. Neutrons turned into protons, releasing electrons. Weak Force turned a neutron into a proton... that’s decay.

At least it proved one thing: Zhi Xiang was indeed here. In the Six-Layered Starry Abyss, only Zhi Xiang controlled the ’Weak Interaction Force,’ or ’Weak Nuclear Force.’

In a way understandable even to elementary students, it could change the number of protons, altering matter, like changing mercury into gold (the only difference between mercury and gold elements was one electron).

Or more brutally, directly decaying matter to release horrible neutron radiation, killing all organic life.

This Substance Rain was Zhi Xiang’s handiwork.

As for why it did this, Li Aozi didn’t know.

Actually, in his impression, Zhi Xiang was quite a shy little guy. And it was relatively friendly towards the Starry Abyss, quite different from Lord Entropy, who wanted to kill the whole galaxy and lead all to Disorder Entropy Increase.

"...You deliberately destroyed the raincoats and umbrellas."

Li Aozi looked at her:

"You intended to threaten me like this, leaving me no choice but to follow you, right?"

"I’m not your mom."

Merid still blandly replied:

"I’m simply giving you a choice—stay here, be swallowed by the torrential rain, having your flesh and fat decomposed, watching your bones dissolve, or you can choose to come with me. At least I have an umbrella."

The rain continued pattering, shoes already felt somewhat wet.

"Have you decided?"

Merid spoke and extended her hand toward Li Aozi under the same umbrella:

"I’m not your mom. If you haven’t decided by now, I can only leave you here to be swallowed by the downpour."

What to choose?

Li Aozi indeed had no choice. Here, he was the vulnerable side, unfamiliar with the local environment and culture and not particularly strong.

Following the established protagonist for a while and then deciding was the best option.

Besides, there was a main quest to do; it was worth it no matter how you saw it.

Faintly, he felt Zhi Xiang’s presence here related to the Void too.

Smack.

Li Aozi grasped her hand and said:

"Leoz Dominick."

"Merid Fenny."

Merid smiled lightly:

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Leoz—Mr. Leoz from the Starry Abyss."