The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 286 - 200: Hope Eternal

Chapter 286: Chapter 200: Hope Eternal

The so-called N plan was to try to use an external force to obliterate the virtual spirit, assuming it was too powerful for Zhou Yuan to kill on his own.

So the question arose, what kind of external force could ensure the virtual spirit’s death with absolute certainty?

Undoubtedly, a star was the best choice.

The terrifying temperature was enough to annihilate almost all life in the universe.

Once the virtual spirit was caught by the star’s gravitational field, its fate would be to burn to ashes in the million-degree heat, with no other escape.

The original plan was for the Deep Space to open its hull, allowing Zhou Yuan to blast the virtual spirit out, exposing it to the star’s gravitational field to be captured. Then it would be like a dry leaf caught in a giant whirlpool, unable to escape its doom.

But before the Deep Space’s hull could fully open, the virtual spirit unexpectedly broke the window and jumped out.

Outside was Hell!

Even elementary school kids know to look behind them for motorcycles and check for missing manhole covers before getting off a bus. Why didn’t the virtual spirit look at the outside situation before jumping off?

It was like a reckless newbie, willingly jumping into a fire pit.

After a brief moment of shock, Zhou Yuan couldn’t help but laugh: "While it’s sick, take its life!"

His entire lower body turned into dark matter, forming a mud-like shadow pool, anchoring himself firmly to the corridor of the Deep Space to avoid being sucked into the vacuum.

Fang Qing performed a fusion, but her upper body emerged from behind Zhou Yuan, making them look like a two-bodied figure from a horror story.

Bang bang bang bang!

Several dark tentacles extended from the cosmos, clinging desperately to the edges of the broken hole. The virtual spirit struggled mightily, trying to pull itself back to this last lifeline.

After finally escaping the pitch-black prison of the dead zone, how could it die so easily!

"Daylight beam!"

"Imprint!"

Split into one, then two, two into four, four into eight...

In an instant, after five imprints, thirty-two brilliant, dazzling sunbeams burst forth, transforming into a violent light storm, tearing through everything in its path.

The light beams surged forward, crashing into the massive dark silhouette, erupting into blinding brilliance that incinerated everything. The virtual spirit’s body was pierced through with a large hole, nearly torn apart.

The darkness convulsed, almost contracting into a ball. The giant tentacles loosened momentarily, but the will to survive immediately took over, clinging tightly to the hole’s edge once again, refusing to let go.

The agonizing wails exploded in Zhou Yuan’s mind, piercing his eardrums, as if imprinting the pain deep into every soul, making him groan involuntarily.

"Damn, damn it!" The virtual spirit’s furious emotional waves surged over like a vast ocean.

"Take advantage!"

At this moment, Fang Qing drew a card from the Duel Disk.

"Take Advantage" was a special card from the "Three Kingdoms Kill" board game, allowing the player to take a card from the target’s zone. But with the alteration of these peculiar tools, the card’s effect had changed to: designate a target and steal something from them.

This "something" had certain limits; it couldn’t be rank, fate, identity, or other important matters.

But stealing a few seconds of "thought" was enough.

The next second, the virtual spirit’s consciousness turned blank, stalling there with no action, and the furious mental tsunami vanished without a trace.

Zhou Yuan’s mind moved, extending the Eastern Town Rod, and struck hard at the dark tentacles clinging to the hole’s edge.

Thunderous echoes spread, like rolling thunder.

One by one, the tentacles exploded, dark sticky flesh flying everywhere, evaporated instantly by the sunlight.

At this moment, Fang Qing drew a brand new card, still from "Three Kingdoms Kill."

The most classic—Kill!

The card flew out, transforming into a sharp gleam, cutting a straight path through the deep space of the universe.

Decisively, it severed the last link between the virtual spirit and the Deep Space.

"No!!!!!"

The virtual spirit erupted in a wave of terror and despair, falling rapidly towards the star under the gravitational pull!

"Why—not——!!!"

The massive dark outline was immediately ignited by the high temperature, like a flammable substance falling into a fire pit, shining brightly for a moment.

Then, it met its tragic end.

Thus, its soul was scattered.

"Time to give ’Three Kingdoms Kill’ a good review." Fang Qing said, looking at the fireball that had instantly burned out, as those two cards played a key role.

"No way, separate things are separate things." Zhou Yuan shook his head.

Boom boom boom——

A series of loud noises followed, and a steel barrier slowly descended, covering the hole created by the virtual spirit.

The suction from the cosmic vacuum disappeared.

However, the mission was not yet over.

——The third phase of the mission was to kill all the virtual spirits, and there were still some small virtual spirits hidden in the biosphere.

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"The stars have appeared."

"Was that the sun just now? Such a big fireball! But wasn’t it a little too close? The books didn’t say it was this big!"

"It’s daylight... this is daytime? So bright! But... so warm, so reassuring!"

With the artificial daylight system back online, the long night of the Wasteland World finally ended, ushering in the first daylight in two hundred years of darkness.

People squinted their eyes, gazing at the sky, tears streaming down their faces from the blinding light, yet they were reluctant to look away.