CH 60

“Master, we have detected a devastating explosion shockwave that will occur in 30 seconds. Our spaceship is completely defenseless against it!”

Silver Arc anxiously woke up Pei Zhaozhou. Before Pei Zhaozhou could ask what was happening, Silver Arc immediately released the S-class mech from the spatial button and rapidly exclaimed, “Master, quickly get into the mech! Silver Arc will exhaust all its energy to ensure your and the little master’s survival!”

The S-class Silver Arc mech was crafted by Pei Zhaozhou using the most advanced and top-notch materials. Its steel was made of the rare and harder-than-diamond Norastar core steel. The price of one ton of Norastar core steel could buy a small resource planet. The hardness of the S-class Silver Arc mech was unparalleled, even surpassing that of space warships, which couldn’t extensively adopt Norastar core steel. The only chance to escape this catastrophe was to take refuge in the S-class mech.

Pei Zhaozhou’s eyes grew serious, and he decisively believed Silver Arc’s words, swiftly entering the S-class Silver Arc mech.

Only 15 seconds remained.

Through the display screen inside the mech, he could witness an overwhelming explosion cloud engulfing everything along its path—rocks, star clusters, and dust clouds—all crumbling to pieces.

The scenes of doomsday were reflected in the ruby-colored eyes.

No matter how superior the computational capabilities of the AI brain were, the chances of humans surviving such an explosion were infinitesimal, bordering on zero.

Silver Arc clenched its teeth and said, “Activate all defense systems! Maximum energy shield! The energy drive core that powers Silver Arc will surely endure!”

Pei Zhaozhou’s eyes grew solemn, quickly contemplating how to find a glimmer of hope. “The shield’s strength is insufficient to withstand a planetary-level explosion. We must find cover. Let’s leave the spaceship quickly and seek refuge on the nearest planet!”

Only ten seconds remained.

Before the shockwave arrived, the spaceship was already engulfed in scorching heat. The outer shell melted, claiming the lives of many who were still asleep, consumed by the surging temperatures.

Witnessing the lifeless faces of the people aboard each spaceship, their vitality extinguished in an instant, their eyes shattered like fragile glass.

Human life, in the face of such a planetary explosion-scale disaster, was as delicate as a fleeting ant, unable to match the steadfastness of the soil on a celestial body. In their final moments, they couldn’t even utter a single sound.

Only Pei Zhaozhou, with red-rimmed eyes and a heavy heart, memorized their faces. Yet, he could barely keep his own life intact. The mech issued a high-temperature warning as the spaceship melted and iron sheets fell, hindering the mech’s arm movements.

The mech ran frantically at full speed!

The internal combustion engine burned red but still raced onward!

Six seconds.

Pei Zhaozhou made it out of the spaceship.

Three seconds.

The silver glow on the mech’s surface dimmed as it melted, swiftly taking cover behind the nearest large meteorite.

One and a half seconds.

The shockwave reached the spaceship, instantly destroying half of it. Pei Zhaozhou dared not look back.

Zero seconds.

The spaceship was devoured, vanishing completely.

The next second…

Pei Zhaozhou leaned against a large meteorite in his mech, gazing at the vast starry sky ahead. The meteorite on his back crumbled inch by inch, its searing heat roasting the mech. Silver Arc tirelessly consumed energy, attempting to activate the energy shield, but it shattered and reformed in an instant.

The shockwave from the planetary explosion instantly propelled Pei Zhaozhou and his mech several kilometers forward. The outer shell of the S-class mech melted, and Pei Zhaozhou, sitting inside, widened his eyes. His tears evaporated, leaving his dry, reddened eyes unable to shed a single drop. The scorching metal above his head melted, dripping into the interior of the mech, instantly giving rise to black smoke.

The explosion cloud brought annihilation, and the mech’s outer shell had melted into an unrecognizable blackened mass.

The smart brain, Silver Arc depleted its energy, the mainframe burnt out. It left one step ahead of Pei Zhaozhou, who was barely clinging on to his life inside the mech.

Unable to blink his eyes, his charred heart overflowed with uncontrollable sorrow. He hadn’t even bid farewell to Silver Arc, and… Si Huaixi, I can’t wait for him to come back… I’m sorry for the child in my womb, I haven’t said goodbye yet. I didn’t even get a chance to see it.

The world before his imminent death was unusually quiet and ethereal.

Memories flickered like a revolving lantern.

With oxygen depleted inside the mech, suffocation gradually set in. Pei Zhaozhou’s vision blurred, and his oxygen-deprived brain issued a warning. He half-closed his amber-colored eyes, and his pupils lost their radiance.

A soft white light emanated from Pei Zhaozhou’s belly, struggling to sustain the functioning of Pei Zhaozhou’s heart and organs, constantly fighting, protecting…

A feeble and indistinct voice called out.

But that person had long ceased to respond, the scorching temperature had seared his eyelashes.

[…Daddy, Daddy wake… wake up.]

An innocent and naive voice, like that of a newly born child learning to speak, painstakingly uttered each word, yet it was filled with urgency, as if the speaker was biting their tongue while talking.

[…Wake up, Daddy… if you don’t wake up, Little Soybean will call another Dad to wake you up…]

[…Hurry and wake up… Little Soybean won’t call another stinky Dad…]

The young spirit couldn’t hold on for too long. If it weren’t for the spiritual power left behind by Si Huaixi, Pei Zhaozhou’s body would have given way long ago, once the energy shield disappeared.

However, even the remaining spiritual power was rapidly depleting.

It called out in confusion, hoping to awaken Pei Zhaozhou sooner. Yet, gradually, as its spiritual power drained away, Pei Zhaozhou’s heart began to fail, weak to the point of being unable to breathe.

No sound of heartbeat or breathing— inside Pei Zhaozhou’s belly, it was quiet for the first time, and it was scared.

[Daddy, please breathe… It’s okay if you don’t wake up… Da-Daddy… There’s no sound anymore, is Daddy gone?]

Anxiously kicking its small feet, it attempted to draw Pei Zhaozhou’s attention using this method. Previously, whenever it mischievously kicked, Daddy would caress the belly with a warm palm, and the comforting warmth made it feel cozy and secure. Daddy would also talk to it, although initially it didn’t understand what Daddy was saying, it knew that Daddy cared and accompanied it…

Why couldn’t it hear anything?

Feeling a little cold.

It was feeling sad. Daddy ignored it, and the other stinky Dad was also gone.

In its confusion, it sensed a chilling breath. Its instinct told it that if it didn’t find a solution soon, Daddy would completely leave it.

Feeling helpless, its meager spiritual power depleted, what should it do?

The young spiritual power flickered like a dim candle in the darkness.

Exhausting its meager spiritual power, it continued to overextend itself, feeling miserable but persevering. In a daze, it had only one wish left.

[Keep Daddy alive.]

As this wish grew stronger, Pei Zhaozhou’s depleted heart suddenly started beating again.

A cosmic liquid condensed ice meteorite happened to collide with the mech where Pei Zhaozhou was located. The plummeting temperature cooled the mech, which had melted into a black metallic sphere, and positioned Pei Zhaozhou’s damaged body in an optimal state of low-temperature operation, akin to medical cryotherapy, preventing his condition from deteriorating further.

However, the crisis was still not resolved. Trapped inside the enclosed mech, Pei Zhaozhou would eventually starve to death in the desolate universe, drifting until someone discovered him years later.

And then, by a stroke of luck.

The mech was propelled by shockwaves and ended up near a distant and desolate planet. After drifting through space for over a day, it coincidentally ended up blocking the path of a garbage transport spacecraft bound for the desolate planet.

The mech, melted into an irregular metallic sphere, resembled a large piece of cosmic debris.

The garbage transport spacecraft’s automatic cleaning function sucked the massive debris into its interior, landing it in the vast garbage heap of numerous planets, all dumped into the enormous wasteland garbage dump.

On the wasteland garbage dump, many paupers, outcasts, and criminals were awaiting the monthly arrival of the garbage transport ship, relying on rummaging the ship’s garbage, waste, metals, mechanical components, and food to earn some starcoins, buy the cheapest nutritional supplements, and barely survive.

As the garbage transport ship dumped its load from high above, a ten-meter-tall garbage mountain instantly formed, and the people around rushed to grab the garbage.

The metallic sphere formed by the melted mech rolled down beneath the garbage mountain, catching the interest of many people who wanted to pry it open with hammers and pliers.

Yi Chengze, feeling annoyed, emerged from the garbage mountain. His hover car had just malfunctioned as he flew over the desolate planet.

In theory, his newly bought hover car shouldn’t have had any issues. But, by sheer coincidence, he was forced to land here, and it happened to be the time when the garbage transport ship arrived. His malfunctioning hover car nearly got buried under the garbage mountain.

Furrowing his brow, Yi Chengze casually stepped on a piece of scrap mechanical material with his black boots. His hazel eyes gazed at the garbage mountain as he pulled out a high-end cigarette from his pocket.

The intense scent of nicotine, accompanied by complex spices, emanated from the high-end cigarette, a luxury item impossible to find on the desolate planet. Men rummaging through the garbage for discarded cigarette butts, trying to get a whiff of cheap nicotine, cast envious and covetous glances toward him.

But observing this man dressed in a white doctor’s uniform, with an open brown shirt revealing the set of medical tools strapped to his waist, and wearing black trousers and boots, his dark hazel eyes coldly scanning the restless crowd, a contemptuous smile forming on his lips, the overpowering pheromones of an Alpha suppressing any inclination for rash actions among the people present.

This Alpha was not someone to be trifled with.

Yi Chengze was feeling troubled, and coincidentally, he had to perform a surgery. Most of the people who sought his medical treatment were involved in shady dealings, and in society, their worth was greater in death than in life. But who cared about that when he was in dire need of money. He was running short on money and really needed more.

He never resisted performing any surgery on anyone, no matter the procedure or the person. As he dialed a certain old friend’s phone, he expected him to still be on the desolate star. He could conveniently ask him to borrow a floating vehicle. But before the call went through, a voice suddenly echoed in his mind.

[Are you a doctor?]

Yi Chengze’s pupils dilated slightly. He glanced at the phone that didn’t connect and his eyes narrowed instantly.

[Save him.]

Yi Chengze smirked and said, “If you want me to save someone, just give me money.”

[I don’t have any money.]

Yi Chengze’s smile turned cold in an instant. “No money? Then why are you wasting my time?”

[Save him, save him!]

As that innocent voice repeated incessantly in his mind, Yi Chengze was momentarily overwhelmed by an impulse to save the person. This inexplicable surge of emotions made him, as a doctor, quickly diagnose that something was off with his current mental state.

Yi Chengze’s eyes narrowed with a dangerous glint. “You’re controlling my brain.”

[Controlling? What’s controlling? I just hope you can save my Daddy.]

Yi Chengze’s intuition told him that the owner of that innocent voice wasn’t speaking, yet it somehow managed to produce sound in his mind.

Yi Chengze tried to fish for information, recalling the smile of another gentle personality, and asked with a hypocritical and kind smile, “From your voice, it seems you’re very young. If you want me to save someone and let me know who you are?”

[…I’m called Little Soybean. If you don’t go and save him soon, I’ll get angry.]

Whenever that entity got angry, Yi Chengze felt his mind buzzing, flooded with a strong urge to save people, making his evil personality want to vomit.

“Stop, stop, stop! Can’t I just save him?”

Yi Chengze took a breath, listening to Little Soybean’s instructions while heading to a garbage mountain, and couldn’t help but complain, “You shouldn’t be called Little Soybean; it should be Little Exploding Bean. You get angry at the slightest touch.”

[But that’s my name.]

“Which parents would give their child such a random name? By the way, are you a child?”

[Don’t speak ill of Daddy. I’m not a child, I’m a baby!]

Yi Chengze chuckled, unable to hold back his laughter. “You’re still a baby? How old are you? Still a baby, hahaha—”

[How old? I’m negative six months old.]

Yi Chengze muttered in his mind. Negative six months old, did they think they were still inside their mother’s or father’s belly?

[Yes, I’m in Daddy’s belly.]

Yi Chengze suddenly realized that he hadn’t said those words out loud just now. Surprised and doubtful, he tested, “Can you hear what I say in my mind?”

[What mind? Weren’t you always talking to me? The outside voices are so loud, so many people are talking, it hurts my ears.]

Yi Chengze concealed the depth of his eyes. Extraordinary abilities, different from ordinary people— his missing sister also had them.

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