Chapter 1 A Glimpse

The endless black night sky churned with black clouds like turbulent waves.

Deep within the black clouds, faint white light peeked through silver-grey fissures like a spiderweb.

Hiss...

The white light swayed with the wind, the clouds shifted, and from them projected beams of white light like sharp thorns, piercing the earth.

Amidst the whistling wind, pale yellow, acidic raindrops fell slowly, growing larger, slanting with the wind, and smashing into the black earth.

"Huff... huff..." A burst of chaotic breathing echoed from within a communication channel.

A dark green spacecraft, shaped like an oval leaf, slowly emerged from the black clouds in the distance.

It lowered its altitude, dragging a long white contrail, and approached the rugged earth.

As the spacecraft drew closer, the contours of the land below became clearer: a series of steep, deep, dim abyss canyons.

Mountain peaks jutted up on either side of the canyons, with bottomless abysses between them.

Dense raindrops plummeted into them, falling into the abyss as if devoured by the dark maw.

"This is the ninth planet of the Nuwa system in the m451 galaxy. Are you sure this is our former home planet? My current location is..." The female voice from the previous communication sounded again.

"Yes, this is it! I don't give a damn about your location. Find a suitable landing point immediately. We don't have much time left. The patrol team's ship is coming." Another coarse male voice interrupted.

"Understood... I'll activate the swarm immediately to pinpoint the relic's location." The female voice paused, unperturbed, and continued.

The dark green leaf-shaped spacecraft slowed as it approached the ground, hovering at an altitude of about one hundred meters.

Pfft.

After a strange metallic scraping sound, a rhomboid opening slowly unfolded on the spacecraft's underbelly.

A swarm of black 'bees' poured out of the opening.

They were a group of precise mechanical insects.

They had black bodies, purplish legs, and dark red compound eyes. Six spiky black wings unfurled behind them, and they flew silently and extremely fast.

This large swarm of mechanical insects, numbering perhaps tens of thousands, scattered and flew apart like black mist as soon as they appeared.

They were extremely fast and soon flew into the vast black abysses below.

Time slowly passed.

"Isn't the internal topographic map ready yet? If we can't find it soon, we'll have to leave. If the Federation discovers anything amiss, and the identity card expires, we'll be in trouble!" The male voice in the communication became somewhat irritable.

"Almost..." Inside the dark green spacecraft, in the cockpit, a petite woman in a silver, tight-fitting spacesuit quietly stared at the display screen in front of her.

Tens of thousands of densely packed small screens were pieced together into a huge screen in front of her.

Countless flashing images changed rapidly, and a massive stream of information flowed into the screen every second.

Crack.

Suddenly, half of the small screens on the large screen went dark and went out, the last thing flashing across the images were strands of spiderweb-like dark red arcs.

"Damn it! It's those troublesome guys again!" The male voice sounded again.

"It should just be interspatial isolation creatures. As long as they're not anti-void monsters, we'll be fine." The woman in front of the screen took a deep breath and quickly suppressed the throbbing in her heart.

"Speed it up! Damn it! When I make it big, I'll send those anti-void garbage monsters hundreds of annihilation war stars!" The man ranted impotently in the channel.

"Yes, yes... It will come true." The woman nodded in agreement.

Ever since humanity crossed the Milky Way, they had been encountering swarms of worm-like monsters from the anti-void.

They possessed the special talent of infinite evolution, and from the very beginning, they demonstrated incredibly terrifying war capabilities.

Humanity had fought them for tens of thousands of years, and now its own territory had been largely occupied, and many weapons had begun to lose their effectiveness against the anti-void swarms.

Now, these worms had even evolved three incredibly powerful, incredibly enormous, terrifying monsters known as the Void Gods.

They were rooted in humanity's evil thoughts, hidden in long-ago memories, like the light of a doomsday star, quietly devouring the subconscious of all mankind.

Humanity retreated step by step, and most star systems lived in drunken dreams, no longer fighting back.

Many people had a nostalgic sentiment, escaping back to the earliest ancient times, back to the birthplace of humanity's first step into space—Earth.

This background also made many relics from Earth quite valuable.

Even though Earth's environment had long become uninhabitable, severely damaged by the erosion and pollution of the anti-void.

But the various relics hidden deep beneath the surface still made the smugglers who came to steal them flock to it.

"Found it!!" Suddenly the woman's voice rose, with obvious emotional fluctuations.

The large number of small screens in front of her instantly disappeared, leaving only one.

This one screen rapidly zoomed in and became clear.

Inside the spacecraft, the surrounding inner walls instantly rippled like water.

Wherever the ripples passed, all the inner walls transformed into the scene of the abyss cave shown on the screen.

It was as if the woman had instantly left the spacecraft and arrived at the relic she had discovered in the screen.

This was the bottom of the dark and deep abyss, located at the base of a rock wall. Directly in front was a large, irregularly shaped cave.

Inside the cave was a small cross-section of fractured rock strata.

On the yellow-black cross-section, there were traces of faint or clear outlines.

From the combination of these outlines and lines, one could vaguely discern that this had once been a five-story square building.

On a large stone below, the Chinese characters "Ling Yuan" were written.

"Bullshit!! This is just an urban park! Stop searching, let's get out of here. We don't have much time. There's nothing here but plant and animal fossils!" The man's voice cursed in the communication.

"I'm searching. I haven't found any other relics nearby for now. Anyway, there's nothing else to do, I'll just take a look." The woman remained unmoved, staring at the stone with the writing on it.

For some reason, she always felt that this place was strangely attracting her, making her unable to move her feet.

In the communicator, the man's voice was still constantly clamoring, but at this time the woman could hardly hear it.

She followed this rock layer relic and walked into a dark, gloomy crevice, using the tail lights of the mechanical insects to illuminate her path and observe the interior.

The faint white light swept across the rough rock walls, vaguely reflecting water stains.

The temperature was getting lower and lower, colder and colder.

The woman glanced at the temperature reading on the right side of her field of vision, turned off the low-temperature warning reminder, and continued to walk deeper.

She didn't know how long she had been walking when she suddenly paused and stopped.

"This... this is!?"

The expression on her face inside the helmet instantly stiffened, and her pupils rapidly dilated.

In front of her stood a transparent block of ice more than one person tall.

Inside the ice block stood a strange and handsome young man.

The man's eyes were slightly closed, his skin pale, his posture upright, wearing a set of long clothes resembling a black windbreaker, with a dark purple belt wrapped around his waist.

The woman noticed that on the back of the hand of the man in the ice block was also tattooed a dark purple circle pattern.

The pattern seemed very blurred, obscured by impurities within the ice block, making it somewhat unclear.

The woman could only vaguely see that the circle pattern was divided into twelve sections.

"What did you find!? This, this... could this be... an ultra-ancient human!!" In the communication channel, the man's voice sounded again, filled with intense surprise and desire.

"Jackpot!! We've hit the jackpot!!! Hahahaha!!"

Listening to the chaotic noise in the channel, the woman widened her eyes and stared intently at the man in the ice block.

She didn't know why, but she felt...

She felt that the man was just an empty shell... that something that should have been inside, something mysterious, had long since departed.

Her gaze followed the ice block down, falling on the dark purple circle pattern.

On that pattern, within the twelve sections, she could vaguely see that each was engraved with a blurry, beautiful flower.

'Is anyone there?'

Suddenly, an extremely faint voice entered the woman's ears.

She trembled all over and was startled. She quickly looked around, but there was nothing there.

'My communicator is frozen, it's inside the ice block. Could you help me see if it can still locate me?'

Soon, the voice faintly returned again.

Hearing this, the woman looked down at the bottom of the ice block, where there was indeed a communicator frozen in the ice.

Black, the size of a palm, the communicator was still in the style of the oldest times.

"Locate... me?" The woman bent down and reached out to pick up the communicator.

"How do I operate it?" she asked.

"Just press the green button in the middle of the communicator, and it will be fine..." the voice said gently.

As soon as the voice fell, the woman realized that there was indeed a large green button right in the center of the communicator, but she didn't know why she hadn't seen it just now.

She hesitated a little, the noisy, cursing voice of her companion in her ear had disappeared and fallen silent at some unknown time.

She raised her finger.

"Just press it, right?"

"Yes, just press it, and it will be fine..." The voice became more and more gentle.

The woman's eyes faintly showed some curiosity, some anticipation. She stretched out her index finger and pressed it on the round green button.

Whoosh...

She exhaled.

Click.

Her finger pressed down.

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The subsequent content is about Li Chengqi returning to the hometown he once left, but discovering that it has changed greatly, and a series of stories that take place. But that is another story, and will be continued when there is a chance.

Next is about the new book, according to everyone's public account votes, to derive the next book's type and theme. Lao Gun has also begun to conceive and start coding.

The new book is scheduled to be officially uploaded on the 15th to avoid the recommendation slot schedule. I hope everyone will support it~