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Chapter 724 Cosmic Anomalies
Chapter 724 Cosmic Anomalies
Melina stood beneath the observation dome of the Covenant-Dawn, her hands behind her back, gazing at the darkness bathed in starlight.
Behind her, the Covenant Third Expeditionary Fleet was cruising at sublight speed past the outer edge of the Orion Arm.
Three thousand four hundred warships, ranging from the tiny Stinger-class patrol boats to the twelve-kilometer-long Titan-class motherships, were arranged in a loose yet precise cone formation in space.
The blue and white exhaust flames of the engine merged into one, as if someone had embroidered a luminous river on the black canvas of the universe.
Inside the bridge, a hologram rotated silently above the central round table. The direction of Eridanus was marked in a striking bright red, and a slowly expanding "indentation" symbol hovered at the edge of the star map, like an invisible thumbprint pressed onto the paper of space.
"Fourteen more jumps to the boundary of Eridanus," the navigator reported.
Melina: "Keep moving forward."
Her voice was calm, but everyone on the bridge could hear the almost instinctive sense of urgency beneath that calm.
The Lord is there, and that place is getting closer and closer to the Void of Eridanus.
The Eridanus Void is like a pot of boiling water, about to overflow and scald everything in its path.
In a star system far, far away from Melina's fleet, the supreme king of the Zerg suddenly opened thousands upon thousands of eyes.
The insects within the radiation range ceased all unnecessary activities at the same instant the Eridanus anomaly appeared.
The will of the entire swarm, like billions of rivers flowing into the sea, surged in the same direction—Eridanus!
The insect king moved.
A living structure floating in planetary orbit, with a diameter of over 300 kilometers and an shape somewhere between a beehive and a human heart, suddenly emerged from the boundless darkness.
Its surface is covered with a chitinous carapace, which is several kilometers thick, beneath which are densely packed incubation chambers, fungal vascular bundles, and psionic resonance organs.
Under normal circumstances, the Insect King will continuously emit a low biological hum, as constant and invisible as the gravity of a planet.
But now, the Insect King is screaming.
The Insect King broadcast the same message to the entire universe of insect swarms at faster-than-light speed.
[Retreat! Take cover! Infiltrate!]
[Danger! Danger! Danger!]
The great darkness that once brought countless fears and disasters to this universe has returned!
Tens of thousands of light-years away, the response from the Zerg's Primal Graveyard was even more astonishing.
The Primal Megagrave is the source of all Zerg genetic memory.
It is located in the remnant of a dead star and is about the size of a small satellite.
The giant tombs do not have smooth carapace surfaces; instead, they are covered with layers of bony spirals, like petrified tree rings, with millions of dormant cocoons embedded in each spiral.
Those cocoons contain the most powerful individuals from the swarms of insects throughout history.
The Zerg Queen that once devoured galaxies, the ancient Thunder Beast that could survive for tens of thousands of years in a vacuum, and the ancient creature whose name even the Zerg themselves had forgotten.
The giant grave is usually silent. It does not emit pulses, does not participate in the daily management of the swarm, and does not even have a heartbeat.
For the past few thousand years, it has been like a lifeless asteroid, quietly orbiting the remnants of that star.
But the Eridanus anomaly awakened it.
Its command is the same as the Insect King's: [Escape! Escape! Escape!]
Chu Huaizhi was one step slower than the Zerg in detecting the abnormal signal.
"Notify the Yuan Shen Kingdom, they're here again!"
Other members of the Starfish civilization also learned of this news, and they immediately broadcast an encrypted message to the entire universe through their unique communication methods.
That message was not encoded in any way; only a civilization with faster-than-light quantum reception capabilities could capture it.
The message contained only one paragraph: "The annihilation boundary is shrinking. Direction: Eridanus. All mobile civilizations are advised to immediately migrate to the West Kuru border."
Evergreen's transdimensional vessel captured this information.
As a life form originating from a black hole singularity, Changqing is unfamiliar with the universe outside the black hole.
He summoned one of the vassal civilizations of the dimensional ship, a plant civilization similar to dandelions. They were not highly intelligent, but had an extremely high reproductive capacity and a unique way of recording information.
Chang Qing: "What does 'annihilation boundary' mean?"
“There was once a distant ancestor who experienced a similar annihilation event in the early universe. It is said to have been a war between the gods and the demons.”
The traces of that event were directly written into their DNA, into the synaptic connection patterns of the nerve plexuses at the root tips.
Chang Qing: "How terrifying is annihilation?"
After a long silence, the dandelions finally came up with a metaphor: "Gods and demons are both destroyed."
"Ok?"
"After the annihilation, both the gods and the demons disappeared without a trace."
Chang Qing: "Aren't the two great divine kingdoms gods?"
In less advanced civilizations, a Domain Lord is considered a god.
The dandelions chattered as if they had been insulted.
"How can they compare to the gods?!"
"They're not even worthy to carry the shoes of the gods."
"They are one of the vassal civilizations of the gods! The old god is a shameless thief who stole the scepter of the god's heir."
"Under the annihilation, the two great divine kingdoms, like us, are utterly powerless to fight back."
"When the gods return, they will punish them."
Changqing understood: the dandelions were in Cao Cao's camp but their hearts were with Han; they were staunch supporters of the gods.
Changqing is a bit annoyed.
Since escaping the black hole in Genshin Impact, he has discovered that the universe is not as wonderful as he imagined.
A life as vast as the stars and the sea, after a while, is no different from being in a black hole.
Civilizations remain wary of each other; it's either you devour me, or I destroy you.
It's simply placing the struggle between civilizations within a primordial black hole into a larger pool.
Looking back on his long life, he realized that he only experienced brief moments of happiness when he was with Lin Xiaohe.
Changqing leaned against the transparent hanging window and smacked his lips.
Suddenly, he had a strong craving for spicy crayfish.
"Spicy crayfish? Without Xiao He's chili peppers, you can't make it taste the real thing." Lin Chiyang crossed his arms and leaned against the doorway, speaking with a hint of provocation.
Chang Qing remained unmoved: "So many years have passed, haven't you accepted reality yet? You've been awake for over a thousand years, and Lin Xiaohe only occupied less than 100 of those years. She was just a passerby in your life. Why treat these mere 100 years as the most important part of your life?"
Lin Chiyang: "It's none of your business."
Chang Qing clicked his tongue: "Your bodies, those of the Awakened, are strange, as if they've been deliberately locked up. Could it be that you're some kind of so-called gods? Hmm, that's quite possible. After all, the Primordial God Kingdom has been hunting down Lin Xiaohe."
Lin Chiyang laughed and said, "You still have the mind to worry about us? Annihilation is coming, don't you want to think about running away?"
Chang Qing didn't care: "I've been here, I've witnessed it. There's nothing in this universe that can interest me anymore."
Lin Chiyang...
Damn it, if we're so bored, let's just send them to Xiao He's place!
Seeing that Lin Chiyang was angry but had to hold back, Chang Qing suddenly thought that sending the Lin family to Lin Xiaohe's place might not be a bad idea. She really wanted to know how Lin Xiaohe would react when she saw the Lin family.
"Let's go to the Star Alliance. That's Lin Xiaohe's territory now."
The story is almost over.
Whose side stories would you like to see? What foreshadowing and mysteries would you like to know?