Chapter 180 - Ancient Remains (XIV)
Editors: Humu & Kitty
“In the end, the result is still a failure.”
In the dim sea of stars, a faint voice rang in Xing Yan’s ear. Xing Yan opened his eyes in a trance and looked at the man in front of him. The stalker’s expression was dark. His voice seemed to come from far away.
“I thought that with a warning, fate could change.” The stalker whispered, “It’s naive to think so.”
“What destiny do you want to change?” Xing Yan could not understand, so he asked the stalker.
The stalker did not answer him. He was silent for a long time. In the vast sea of stars, he was wandering at the edge of darkness and light. Countless stars raced past him, and meteorites roared. It was clear that there would be no wind in the universe, but Xing Yan felt that there was a typhoon.
“This s.p.a.ce can’t last long. It’s going to die out soon.” The stalker lowered his voice as he faced Xing Yan. Although his voice was really low, it could still be transmitted to Xing Yan’s ear.
“You will become me.” The stalker added, “The established facts can never be changed.”
Xing Yan still failed to understand what the stalker meant, “What do you mean?”
“You’ll soon know what it means.” The stalker said, “Xing Yan, no matter what happens, just remain true to yourself.”
After the stalker spoke, there was a storm in the dark s.p.a.ce. Countless stars flew in front of Xing Yan one by one. The torrent of time and s.p.a.ce rushed out ferociously from the end of the source. Xing Yan saw that all galaxies were beginning to break up, and a huge force drew him into the endless torrent. Xing Yan did not know what happened at this moment, but even if he knew what happened, he could not stop it.
After experiencing a long turbulent journey, Xing Yan seemed to feel that countless forces had poured into his body. It would be better to describe his body integrating with the river of stars and torrents than to say that he was an innocent person involved in this torrent. He felt as if his body was fragmented. After a short period of feeling pain as if his heart had torn and lungs cracked, his soul was scattered into countless particles in the river as they spread all over the sea!
It seemed like a long time had pa.s.sed, about a year or two, a century to a thousand years, or maybe hundreds of millions of years.
Xing Yan did not know how long he had been drifting in the sea composed of stars. He did not even know that he was drifting. His broken soul made him lose the ability to self-conceptualize. He felt that he was divided into many individuals, each of whom was wandering in different s.p.a.ces at different times.
Instinctively, he knew that he was torn by some strange force, broken into countless pieces, and scattered in the s.p.a.ce of darkness and light, between time and s.p.a.ce.
He needed to get all these pieces back.
In the end, his mind was only filled with such thoughts, which drove him crazy. When he had gone through an unknown period to pick up and a.s.semble all his scattered pieces one by one, his memory and consciousness began to come back to him……
It seemed that all this had happened in an instant. The process where he had gone through hundreds of millions of years had not happened, and the process of finding his soul fragments did not happen. All are just because Xing Yan experienced a mood swing and, in that instant, an inconceivable torrent came forth.
So, Xing Yan opened his eyes again and found himself standing in a small dark room.
The walls were all sealed shut. There were no doors or windows. There was a simple light bulb hanging on the ceiling. There was nothing else in the room. Xing Yan stood here in a daze.
“You are dead…… for the time being.” There was a voice travelling out from nowhere, reverberating in Xing Yan’s ear.
“Who? Who’s talking? ”
“I am the secret chamber’s will,” The man continued.
After being dazed initially, Xing Yan soon calmed down. He quickly recalled what had happened previously. He found a cube in the queen’s sp.a.w.ning room full of insect eggs, and then…… He was unable to move for unknown reasons. His last memory was that he was surrounded by insects……
“What happened?” Xing Yan found that he was unprecedentedly calm. Panic or fear seemed to be stripped away by him. He felt his body was very full, as if he was still in the vast sea of stars, where the constant light of countless stars could still give him eternal strength.
“It’s really interesting. You seem to be able to draw strength from your spatial abilities to keep your soul stable. Even if I shackled your soul here, you still wouldn’t collapse and go insane like other players.”
The voice continued.
In fact, Xing Yan did not understand what the other party was saying. His memory was a little disordered, and that made him rapidly forget certain things. Xing Yan was very confused. He decided to be quiet for a while, so he sat down and sat cross-legged in the empty room, ignoring the sound of the voice. He merely calmed his heart down.
The voice quietened and did not speak any longer. In the narrow s.p.a.ce, even the sound of a needle dropping could be heard. However, Xing Yan could not hear his heartbeat, or maybe he had no heartbeat.
But Xing Yan was so calm now. His disorderly memories did not cause him to panic. He merely kept recalling the only beautiful memories in his heart. The most common scene he recalled was the child who raised his head to look up at him with his bright eyes.
“How mystifying…” Xing Yan said to himself, “In some moments, I seemed to connect the future and the past.”
Yes, Xing Yan was at a certain crevice between s.p.a.ce-time. Not only that, but he was also torn into countless pieces in that wonderful s.p.a.cetime crevice. He remembered that he had spent a long, long time searching for his soul fragments. Each piece of it gathered a considerable amount of power, but in that s.p.a.ce, the concept of time was too unclear.
It was clearly a hundred billion years, but in retrospect, it was just a moment.
On the other hand, Luo Jian did not accept the invitation from the secret chamber.
He refused to touch the cube which looked very strange and full of power because Luo Jian knew that it was not a cube; it was just a bomb.
On the other hand, Luo Jian couldn’t figure out why the secret chamber’s will wanted to let him hold its most important core because that was just as stupid and dumb as giving away his fatal weakness to the enemy. However, Noen quickly explained the answer to him:
“As I said, it is just testing you. The core of the secret chamber is the most powerful energy. It firmly believes that no player will be uninterested and curious. Moreover, it knows that its core is very difficult to destroy, so it would grandiosely test you. As for whether you take it or not, it will imply something else.”
“What if I take it? What if I don’t? ”
“If you accept it, you are a person who is strong but can’t control yourself. Being strong is not bad, but it is bad if you can’t control it. If you take it in the first step, it’s considered a failure. On the contrary, if you refuse him, he will pay more attention to you. At least at this stage, you don’t have to worry about putting your life at risk if you are targeted by the secret chamber.”
Luo Jian instantly understood, “Oh, I see. This guy is the kind of guy who gets more motivated the more times he gets rejected.”
The secret chamber’s will didn’t care about the conversation between Luo Jian and Noen. It also did not care too much about his rejection. It knew that all human beings were greedy, and human beings advocated power and violence. This was a characteristic of every biological being, whether they were humans or other organisms.
Therefore, the secret chamber knew that Luo Jian would compromise one day, and that day was not far away.
The secret chamber did not want to waste any more time. It said to Luo Jian, “You are the only human with such qualifications that I think highly of. Coupled with your special GM body, you are almost integrated with me. There is no doubt that as long as you accept me, the word ‘strongest’ is definitely not an illusion or a dream!”
“Alright.” Luo Jian replied, “Since you want me to accept you, why not just liberate this chamber and liberate all players? After all, you’ve achieved your goal, haven’t you? Don’t you just want to train the strongest human?”
“You are not strong enough.” The secret chamber straightforwardly spoke: “So I need you to fulfill certain conditions, which can make you more perfect.”
“And.” The secret chamber controlled Xing Yan to tilt his head and turned his head to look at Noen. “There are still some problems to be solved. I have to pave the most perfect path for my masters. All enemies who hinder you, all companions who can restrain you, your esteemed one…… None of them should be needed.”
“This guy is crazy.” Luo Jian couldn’t help but step backwards. He turned his head and looked at Noen. At the same time, Noen also took a look at Luo Jian. “This guy has been rampant for a long time. Its goal is to create the strongest and this strongest one…… must have no weakness.”
“No weakness, no fetters…… Noen, you are pitting against me. There are so many people I care about.”
Noen lowly replied, “Really? Originally, I thought you were always alone.”
“Don’t worry!” The secret chamber opposite them seemed to hear their conversation, but the secret chamber did not mind. He allowed such resistance from them.
“I won’t do anything extra.” The secret chamber’s will stated, and at the same time, it pointed to the body it was possessing, “This time it’s just an accident. I’ll soon return the soul and body of this fellow back to him. You must continue the game. It’s far from over.”
After that, the secret chamber’s will fixed its eyes on Noen. He understood what the other party meant. He sighed, and compromised: “Don’t worry, my consciousness has not been connected here for a long time, and I will leave soon. I’m afraid there will be no chance to contact you again next time.”
The secret chamber’s will nodded his head. Then, he turned to look at Luo Jian. “After my consciousness leaves, I will purely become the same NPC previously. Be careful. He may backstab you in the end. And your other companions, I have sent them directly to the lifeboat below, and only you and the other one is left.”
Noen decided to be a good fellow to the end. He had finished explaining all the things he had to explain. After that, his expression appeared dazed. But he soon returned to his senses and looked at Luo Jian inexplicably. “What’s the matter? Where is this? ”
From his expression, Luo Jian knew that Noen from the future had left. Now, Noen was just a data projection created by the secret chamber.
After that, the secret chamber truly did not squander any more time. It ordered an insect to run away with his cube in his hand, and it generously returned the body and soul of Xing Yan. After all, in this ancient remains secret chamber, Team Ghost Shadow and others had not completely won this secret chamber. Even for the secret chamber’s will personally, it did not want to interfere too much with the players’ games, and this time it had done something out of its boundaries.
Following that, when the secret chamber’s will left Xing Yan’s body, the insects around him became active in an instant, and the queen and swarms were screaming strangely. In the next second, the insects gave up screaming and rushed to Luo Jian and company.
Xing Yan was unable to stand up now when the secret chamber’s will had just left him. Because of his huge size, Noen successfully took up the responsibility of carrying him. Luo Jian morphed his weapon form and began to clean up the surrounding insects.
However, the task of wiping them up was not as easy as imagined. The swarm of insects kept coming out from all directions, and the queen made a high-pitch shrill. So, Luo Jian turned back to look at the huge queen insect, and thereafter, he jumped up flexibly and directly at the queen.
The queen was the core of the insect swarm, and the swarm of insects immediately rushed forward to surround Luo Jian. However, Luo Jian was not someone who could be easily blocked. He stood out from the thousands of troops and directly stepped on the Queen’s huge body after he traversed through the swarm!
This was the first time that Luo Jian morphed his weapon form so quickly after he left the Asura Realm. He almost instantly morphed his weapon into a knife. He cut all the insects around him into half like cutting cabbage, so fast that he could not catch sight of Noen nearby.
Shortly after, his goal was the queen’s brood pouch, which was densely full of eggs. Therefore, Luo Jian cut the queen’s stomach with a knife, letting all the sticky eggs about the size of a chicken egg leak out.
Instantly, the queen let out a shrill cry. The queen waved her limbs and tried to get Luo Jian off her body. However, Luo Jian was too small and flexible. Her huge and slow movements could not catch up with the flexible human beings!
As a result, Luo Jian created wounds on the queen’s body while holding a flamethrower to wantonly burn the surroundings. After that, Luo Jian jumped on the queen’s head and pointed the tang sword in his hand to the eyes of the huge insect.
“Tell your insect army to stop moving, or I will have you killed, understand?!”
Luo Jian threatened the queen with the sword, and the queen screamed miserably. However, this fellow was very smart, because after screaming, the insects around stopped moving.
Over there, Noen was still baffled as he carried Xing Yan. He only managed to repel a few insects and called to Luo Jian: “Hey! Abyss, you haven’t told me what’s going on. Why am I suddenly here?”
Luo Jian held up his knife and replied, “I’ll explain later. Now we are in a perilous situation. We are already at the lowest level. After breaking through this encirclement, we can go directly to the lifeboat.”