The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 282 - 196 Deep Space_2

Chapter 282: Chapter 196 Deep Space_2

He put away the Fire Dragon and let Fang Qing possess him as he walked into the passage.

The inside was intricate, and without the Eyes of Identification for navigation, Zhou Yuan would not have known where to go.

This space was equally vast, with each road being a hundred meters long and a hundred meters high, allowing even large vehicles to pass through easily.

There were conveyor belts set up for convenient passage, and with the virtual creatures occupying this place eliminated, the conveyor belts regained their power, starting automatically once stepped upon.

However, the speed was nowhere near as fast as Zhou Yuan’s walking pace.

After a few minutes, Zhou Yuan followed the navigation and arrived at the elevator door, which happened to be on this floor, saving the time of waiting for the elevator.

As he stepped into the elevator, an incredulous voice came from the elevator’s intercom.

"Are you human? You are in the ecological dome? How is this possible!"

"Hum... are there any other survivors outside the ecological dome."

Zhou Yuan was taken aback but quickly smiled and made a "V" sign to the camera, pressed the button for the floor, and the elevator swiftly ascended.

He opened the system mall and found an item called [Automatic Translation Elixir]. By taking it, one could automatically translate their spoken language, solving communication problems between different races—using spiritual power to communicate through electronic devices was difficult, so he had to purchase the relevant item.

Zhou Yuan swallowed the elixir in one gulp.

"Wait a minute, the area you’re heading to is occupied by virtual creatures!" A voice urgently came from the intercom, "Quick, stop the elevator!"

"Cough, cough..."

Zhou Yuan coughed lightly twice, his damaged vocal cords had already healed, and he made an OK gesture to the camera: "Don’t worry, it’s just virtual creatures, I’ll kill them for you."

Ding.

The elevator arrived, and the lights flickered violently, alternating between light and dark.

A cold, eerie will was seeping through.

Zhou Yuan raised the Daybreak Shield, releasing endless heavenly light, the fierce light like a sharp sword pierced through the elevator gap, ruthlessly puncturing and annihilating the darkness lurking outside!

"Ahhhhhhh!!!" The darkness roiled, a wave of intense pain came through, stronger than any virtual creature Zhou Yuan had encountered before, but the outcome was still inevitable.

As the elevator doors slowly opened, all that remained in the air were a few patches of vanishing void darkness, which dissipated completely within seconds.

The gigantic entity occupying the entire area met its end in an instant.

Zhou Yuan pressed the close-door button and the elevator continued to ascend.

The voice in the intercom was silent for a long time.

This time, the elevator passage was unobstructed, with no more virtual creatures impeding the journey, and after a few minutes, the elevator slowly came to a stop.

The doors opened, revealing a fully armed squad standing guard, each of them a superhuman, and the high-tech weapons they were equipped with made Zhou Yuan’s scalp tingle and his skin prickling, sensing danger.

He maintained a calm demeanor, scanned around: "Where is the highest commander?"

A man with a buzz cut, wearing a high-ranking officer’s uniform, stepped forward and saluted Zhou Yuan: "Hello, I am the deputy commander of the Deep Space, S2."

"Deep Space..."

Zhou Yuan thought to himself, this is indeed a cosmic starship!

"I want to see the highest commander," he said.

"Please follow me," S2 led the way.

After a ten-minute journey through multiple checkpoints, Zhou Yuan finally met the highest commander, the captain of the Deep Space in the command room.

He was a towering figure two meters tall, also with a buzz cut, wearing a high-ranking officer’s uniform, eyes sharp as a tiger, with a scar on his face, giving off a fierce impression.

"I am the captain of the Deep Space, you can call me S1," the captain stepped forward and shook hands with Zhou Yuan.

Zhou Yuan did not shake hands and said with a faint smile: "It seems you’re not foolish, knowing to bring me to the simulation room first."

Behind him, S2’s expression changed slightly, and his hand slowly moved towards his sidearm.

"Don’t be nervous, if I wanted to, all of you would be dead within a second."

Zhou Yuan spread his hands to show he meant no harm, "I understand your caution, it’s understandable. If putting handcuffs on me makes you feel better, then go ahead."

S1 waved his hand, signaling everyone to stay calm, and said in a deep voice: "This is a necessary measure, after all, you came from the ecological dome. According to monitoring from a century ago, during the emergency lockdown, a group of virtual creatures had infiltrated the ecological dome, I must confirm that you are not... some kind of trick by them."

Zhou Yuan nodded and asked, "Is there a chair? I’ll sit here and talk with you."

In the next moment, a chair materialized out of thin air, though simulated, it had a real feel to it.

Zhou Yuan did not want to appear inexperienced, so he calmly sat down.

"What do you want to know?" S1 asked.

"Everything," Zhou Yuan replied, "I want to know everything."

"Alright."

S1 pondered for a moment, then slowly began: "Approximately eight hundred years ago, the star in the galaxy where humans originally lived was about to explode, so we decided to migrate as a whole. We built three star-level battleships and countless fleets, preparing to travel to a star system suitable for human habitation many light years away.

The Deep Space is one of the three star-level battleships.

The voyage went smoothly for hundreds of years, but suddenly one day, we encountered a group of space pirates, their firepower was overwhelming, causing severe casualties to the fleet of the Deep Space, and the Deep Space itself was heavily damaged."

Space pirates...

Zhou Yuan immediately thought of the landscape of the Wasteland World, those pits and ravines, and the marks on that silver-white wall... they were blasted by the weapons of space pirates!

"In desperation, the Deep Space activated its space jump engine, but due to severe damage to the ship and various factors, there was a significant error in the jump location."

S1 said solemnly, "We were transported to the silent zone of the universe. This is an absolute void, a place of darkness where nothing exists."

Zhou Yuan understood everything, the truth of the catastrophe two hundred years ago was finally revealed. The great earthquake was the attack from the cosmic pirates, and the disappearance of the sun, moon, and stars was because the starship had jumped to the silent zone!

"Initially, our mindset was relatively optimistic because the Deep Space and other star-level starships used matter-antimatter annihilation as the main energy source, coupled with numerous controlled nuclear fusion reactors, which is almost unlimited energy. As long as the ship was repaired, we could activate the jump engine and leave this dreadful place.

Due to the urgent need to repair the severely damaged ship, we did not provide immediate assistance to the ecological dome...

The scale of a star-level starship is far beyond your imagination. It took us more than a decade to roughly repair the ship, but at this time, a strange creature infiltrated the starship."

Zhou Yuan uttered two words: "Virtual creatures."

S1 nodded, taking a deep breath: "We did not anticipate that such bizarre creatures would exist in the darkest, most desolate, and most void places of the universe. They were attracted by the noise made by the starship and the life force of numerous humans. Once inside, they devoured thousands of crew members, evolving in the process, learning many things...

Their body structure was very peculiar, making it difficult for weapons to inflict effective damage. We had to activate the lockdown protocol, isolating them in various layers to prevent them from taking over the entire starship.

We quickly discovered their weakness, being afraid of light. But they rapidly evolved to a level where ordinary light couldn’t kill them, only injure them, and in the end, the strongest virtual creatures even began to become immune to light."

S1 paused, "Two of them, were the ones you killed."

"My light isn’t just ordinary light."

Zhou Yuan said calmly, "So, the biggest threat is still the virtual creatures. Give me their locations, and I’ll go kill them all."