The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 280 - 195 The Real Golden Sun_2

Chapter 280: Chapter 195 The Real Golden Sun_2

"Hmm... Interesting. The previous person had a spiritual body attached to his, while you turned into a spiritual body after dying, effectively having a second life. Indeed, it could be considered a whole new race," Zhou Yuan said.

The expression of the Toilet Cleaner Archbishop turned grim. He knew who Zhou Yuan was talking about.

If that’s the case, the attack on the power station had probably failed...

Damn... Where did this guy come from? Is there such a figure in the wasteland?

He cursed in his heart, quickly floating up. In his current form, he was immune to physical attacks, but he had to guard against Zhou Yuan’s other strange methods.

"Let’s talk," the Toilet Cleaner Archbishop spoke, "This world is beyond saving. The future is destined to belong to the spiritual bodies. If you want to survive, you must join the spiritual body race."

"Explain how it’s beyond saving," Zhou Yuan said.

"The truth is too horrifying for you to accept. You’ll think I’m deceiving you. I once captured a few Hunters and told them the truth. They all went mad," the Toilet Cleaner Archbishop said in a deep voice.

"Hmph, speaking riddles just to buy time, aren’t you," Zhou Yuan sneered but remained calm, as he was also waiting.

Waiting for reinforcements from the spiritual bodies.

The dark void from the depths of the building rose up like a violent tsunami, stirring up a roar, rushing forward with murderous intent.

"A whole bunch of big ones, huh."

Zhou Yuan decisively drew out the Daybreak Shield.

— Endless Heavenly Light!

Suddenly, a dazzling, blinding light burst from the shield, like a blazing sun rising, illuminating the world.

The light surged like a tide, engulfing everything, spreading in all directions like birds shimmering with the radiance of freedom, soaring from the ruins of the building and flying in the sky.

At that moment, the bright light poured down like a waterfall, brightening the sky.

Agonizing spiritual fluctuations erupted, the spiritual bodies here screamed miserably, melting and collapsing in the bright light, eventually turning to ash and disappearing.

The spiritual body of the Toilet Cleaner Archbishop fell to the ground, his body covered in horrific burns, emitting blue smoke.

As a half-human half-spectral body, he didn’t have the weakness to light that other spiritual bodies did. But the Endless Heavenly Light Skill was far from just lighting a lamp. Its destructive power was terrifying. If Zhou Yuan hadn’t held back, he would have been burned into nothingness by the World-Burning Heavenly Light.

The reason Zhou Yuan spared his life was to find out what truth he was talking about.

Unfortunately, spiritual bodies could devour spiritual power, so mental psychokinesis couldn’t be used to interrogate him.

The Toilet Cleaner Archbishop screamed and glared at Zhou Yuan, "Even if you kill us, you cannot reverse the hopeless future. You... are destined to die!"

With that, he chose self-termination, his body quickly disintegrating, collapsing into streams of darkness, vanishing in the still lingering bright light.

Just as Zhou Yuan was about to throw the Paru Ball, his hand paused, and he clicked his tongue in frustration.

[Continue exploring deeper, and you will uncover a monumental secret.

sir,this way!]

Zhou Yuan followed the guidance of the Eyes of Identification and walked deeper.

A few minutes later, he entered a giant underground building, resembling a scene from a sci-fi movie. The ceiling and both walls were lined with some kind of crystal walls that would surely reflect brilliant light if lit up.

In the center stood a massive circular instrument, dismantled to its remnants. Even as wreckage, it made humans seem insignificant like ants before it.

[This is a controlled nuclear fusion reactor, also known as a man-made sun. It is part of the Golden Sun.]

Part of the Golden Sun?

Zhou Yuan squinted his eyes. So, the Golden Sun wasn’t a fiction by the Goddess Night Cult. It truly existed.

"A man-made sun is just a part of the Golden Sun..."

Zhou Yuan continued exploring, repeatedly muttering this phrase.

Soon he arrived at a room sealed with iron chains, with four guards inside, as guided by the Eyes of Identification.

Given the chaos outside, it was clear the room held something important, as the guards didn’t leave their posts.

Zhou Yuan knocked them down to the ground, used the Lighting Skill to burn away the blessing of the ethereal spirit within them, then used mental psychokinesis to hypnotize them for interrogation: "What’s inside the room?"

"A heretic! A demon! It must be sealed behind the door!!"

"Our mission is to guard the seal door, never to leave, even if the world is destroyed."

Zhou Yuan was speechless upon hearing this. Seal door, my foot. The door lacked any supernatural power and was just an ordinary door. There wasn’t any creature behind it either.

He ripped the chains from the door with his bare hands and kicked it open. Inside was a central control room-like space, but most of the equipment had been removed, leaving only a row of dilapidated control panels.

The damage appeared to be man-made.

[This used to be the master control room of the entire ecological system, responsible for regulating temperature, humidity, lighting, weather, gravity, oxygen concentration, and the alternation of day and night.

This entire system was the real Golden Sun. Just pressing a button could bring bright blue skies to the world. But unfortunately, it was destroyed and couldn’t be repaired.]

This system was the real Golden Sun...

Zhou Yuan scanned the control panels’ damage. Clearly, the Goddess Night Cult had destroyed this system to maintain their own religious supremacy. They mercilessly extinguished the light source and pushed the wasteland world into darkness for a hundred years!

"Religion can sometimes indeed be an obstacle to the advancement of civilization," Zhou Yuan couldn’t help but sigh.

In silence, he gazed at the annotations in the Eyes of Identification, fully constructing the worldview of this game instance.

"Hopefully, it’s not what I think. Otherwise, it’d be really troublesome," Zhou Yuan sighed.

"What’s wrong?" Fang Qing asked, puzzled.

"You’ll know soon enough."

Zhou Yuan didn’t linger, left the building ruins, and summoned the Male Fire Dragon to continue flying north.

...

"I head north, leaving behind the season with you..."

Fang Qing hummed a song while sitting on the dragon’s back. After being around Zhou Yuan and Chen Guangxi for a long time, she felt she had become a bit neurotic, something she would never have done before.

Hmm... she did it to calm Zhou Yuan’s mood since he had been tense and serious since earlier, making her nervous as well.

After finishing the song, Zhou Yuan made no move. Fang Qing helplessly said, "Can’t you just tell me directly? Why keep being a riddle maker?"

A few seconds later, Zhou Yuan pointed ahead: "See for yourself."

He cast a blessing of darkness on Fang Qing, allowing her to see things clearly in the night.

Fang Qing looked ahead.

The end of the world had arrived.

Before them stood a silver-white wall reaching from the ground to the sky, covered in densely packed craters and deep charred scars. Those marks were visible even from kilometers away.

Closer in, she saw solidified tear drops, metal painfully melted at high temperatures, slowly sliding down the wall like sorrowful tears.

Fang Qing was stunned, gaping in shock.

Zhou Yuan followed the Eyes of Identification’s navigation, directing the Male Fire Dragon to fly in a specific direction. Soon, they came before an enormous metal door.

As they approached, three beams of light shot out from the door, scanning them, followed by a cold, disordered mechanical voice.

"Species: Homo sapiens. Age: %#@ unable to determine*&￥#..."

"Species: unknown negative energy entity..."

"Species: unknown large lizard lifeform..."

"Emergency lockdown protocol activated. Your access level is: Level 0.

Sorry, you are not authorized to command the door to open."

Fang Qing, shocked and stunned, asked: "What... what’s going on?"

"This is the truth," Zhou Yuan said, "This place is a man-made ecological sphere, so it’s very likely that we are on a distant colony planet, or inside a giant space spaceship."