CH 19

Chapter 19 — The Road to Hell

“Parallel worlds? Or is there some connection between the two worlds? …”

Lu Sheng’s eyes flickered, and felt like he was onto something.

He quickly picked up the disc and studied it carefully.

The surface of the disc was smooth, and had no buttons or similar indentation on it.

Lu Sheng was not sure what the disc was, so he could study it carefully, and trace through it, inch by inch.

Soon, he found a groove in the center of the disk, about only a millimeter deep.

Lu Sheng reached out and found that the groove happened to be about the size of his thumb.

“Fingerprint unlocking?”

Lu Sheng thought and gently put his thumb into the groove.

After waiting for about a minute or so, Lu Sheng was about to give up.

At this time, he heard a “drop” sound, and then the disc in his hand began to emit a faint blue light.

The Blue light became more and more vibrant, but it wasn’t blinding.

The dusty, dead room seemed to gradually wake up with the appearance of this blue light.

“Welcome to Tianheng Technologies …”

A soft female voice came out of the disc.

The blue light on the disc then began to quickly coalesce into a female silhouette.

“I can’t believe it still functions!”

A trace of excitement surged in Lu Sheng’s heart.

But this trace of excitement did not last long, the disc in his hand had likely exhausted all the energy, and the disk soon projection turned dim.

After a few seconds, it turned back into a cold disk.

“Whew—”

Lu Sheng exhaled a breath, and an intense light burst out of his eyes.

“It looks like there is still some vestiges of energy left in this city, if I’m lucky, maybe I can find more information about this world …”

Lu Sheng picked up the disc and quickly walked out of the room.

He began to search from door to door, and in the process, he found some more discs with different colors and styles from the first one.

Lu Sheng conjectured that the disk might’ve been something like a computer, as he found these devices in many homes. Be it study, bedroom, he found it in all sorts of places.

Lu Sheng gathered about dozens of similar discs, and finally tried to open them one by one in one place.

A soft blue light lit up and went out in front of his eyes.

The vast majority of the discs had run out of energy, and the rest were either damaged or reminded Lu Sheng that he didn’t have enough access.

“Enter the password.”

Lu Sheng was a bit helpless.

Finally, when Lu Sheng picked up a silver-gray disc, things finally took a turn for the better.

Lu Sheng had found this device inside a box. It seemed to him that it was yet to be unpacked, mostly likely the owner might not have had time to do so with all the chaos unfolding.

“Welcome to Tianheng Technologies …”

The blue light coalesced into a palm-tall, soft-looking woman wearing a pink jumpsuit with perfect proportions.

Lu Sheng waited for a while but the usual “Enter the Password” message did not appear, making him relieved.

“How should I use it?”

Lu Sheng hesitated for a moment.

But almost instantly, the blue beauty in front of him smiled and spoke: “First time users of the Optical Mind can operate according to given instructions and guidelines …”

Fortunately, there is a newbie guide.

Lu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief.

Soon, he mastered the operation method under the intelligent guidance of the device [Optical Mind].

“Next, I’ll have to slowly gain and understanding of this world …”

Lu Sheng took a light breath, thought about it, and issued a command.

“Help me search information and news on the most recent date …”

“Connecting to Skynet …”

“Connection failed.”

“Connecting to Base 1359 civilian database …”

“Connection successful.”

The next moment, Lu Sheng saw huge amounts of information swish past his eyes.

When Lu Sheng’s eyes rested on a text, the image immediately enlarged and the corresponding date presented itself to him.

“June 21, 11024 M.C., the Main Base No. 2 successfully launched the 58th batch of life exploration spacecraft, having locked to the coordination of a star system in the Lyra constellation …”

[TL: M.C. – Martial Calendar]

“July 12, 11024 M.C., Base 105 fell …”

“September 24, 11024 M.C., Lieutenant General Sun Canghe was promoted to Level 10 Star-Realm Martial Artist, becoming the 472nd Level 10-Star Realm Powerhouse in the history of the World Martial Alliance. With a total of 23 Level 10 Star-Realm powerhouses currently in the World Martial Alliance …”

“September 30, 11024 M.C., Base 114 and 893 fell. The World Martial Alliance will hold the 274th Patriarchal Conference at the main base 1— …”

“October 3, 11024 M.C., Base 585, 697, and 1253 fell …”

“November 19, 11024 M.C., …“

Lu Sheng quickly browsed through the news presented to him by Optical Mind.

All kinds of information kept hitting Lu Sheng’s nerves.

Level 10 powerhouse, planetary migration plan, patriarchal meeting …

As Lu Sheng expected, this world’s martial civilization was much advanced than the one he lived in. They even had explored the level above the 9th and 10th level of the martial cultivation, the 11th level long ago!

But even so, the most news Lu Sheng saw were that of the fall of the one Martial Arts Base after another.

“This world’s martial arts civilization is incomparably enlightened. They are at an unimaginable height, they face an even more terrifying enemy. Even martial arts of the 10th and 11th level can’t guard the human race that is failing against the clutches of the foreign beasts …”

At the end, they even decided to abandon their home planet and start finding a suitable home in the stars.

But from the news …

Lu Sheng’s eyes lowered, and the speed of the blue light that crossed in front of him slowed down.

“The exploratory ships that were launched with a particular mission did not return with any news even after Base 1359 fell …”

Lu Sheng mourned for them.

What he saw in the news message was helplessness and sorrow of a glorious civilization on its way towards extinction …

Lu Sheng stopped reading through the news and related information and spoke: “Pull up information on world history.”

“Information on world history is being retrieved …”