Chapter 1873: Rushing into Space

They stared at each other.

Inside the silent, narrow subspace interlayer, the person and the monster stared at each other for a long time.

Half a minute later, looking at the Shen Yuan corpse whose eyeballs didn't move at all, Lin An could only helplessly choose to give up.

"If it weren't for the breath still present, this thing would be almost dead."

"Do I have to encounter danger before it reacts?"

Silently complaining in his heart, Lin An shook his head and had no intention of poking it with his sword to do something suicidal.

Even a peak Dead Star super expert, even if 77 gives him support.

But, one must have basic respect for experts, and Lin An still understands that.

If it's not normally used, then it's not used; this kind of thing is originally a trump card used to turn the tide at life-or-death moments.

"But maybe picking this guy up could also be used as a war hammer?"

He imagined it.

He could clearly feel how strong the Shen Yuan corpse's body was. Lin An asked himself, his bodily strength was already enough to cause slight changes in spatial mass, equivalent to a high-density meteor.

But compared to the Shen Yuan corpse, it's simply not on the same level.

This monster, with its outrageous appearance, has bodily strength at least on the level of a collapsed star!

In Lin An's eyes, the Shen Yuan corpse's bodily strength had already begun to interfere with surrounding gravity, to the extent that the entire subspace was slightly distorted, like a sheet of paper being pulled inward.

He could imagine that, the moment the Shen Yuan corpse stepped out of the subspace, it could cause what kind of astonishing might!

That commotion would probably shock everyone.

"Too bad... it seems whether one can independently grasp the embryonic form of faith is itself a kind of trial."

"Overseer..."

He let out a silent sigh, Lin An threw a few cans of yellow peaches into the subspace and then turned and left.

After coming into contact with Chu An's Fire Seed Project left behind, he had originally planned to find the Shen Yuan corpse to ask some questions about condensing faith, but he didn't expect that the other party completely ignored him.

It seems his idea of having a Dead Star-level expert serve as a "teacher" can be completely dismissed.

"Actually, it's normal; if even the simplest first step requires help from 77, what value do I still have?"

"Especially, maybe 77 dares to confirm whether the paths he knows are correct or not; otherwise there'd be no need to use me as a test subject."

"Those people... in 77's eyes are probably all scrap."

Lin An's gaze sank, and suddenly a image flashed before his eyes of 77's first time transmitting the Shen Yuan corpse over.

With his memory as strong as a video recorder, he then noticed that in the black hole behind the Shen Yuan corpse, there were indeed many white bone aberrant mutants.

A brief glance, yet it left a deep impression.

Relating it to himself, Lin An had actually already guessed some things.

However.

"It doesn't matter; this world is just about mutual use. The difference lies only in whether one has value."

He stepped one step out of the subspace.

Lin An silently looked toward the distant bright moonlight.

The rare calm wind and still waves, the night starlight twinkling; after light pollution disappeared by 90%, the night sky at this moment resembled a brilliant galaxy, illuminating the whole land.

If one ignores the abandoned Linjiang city cluster behind, the scenery right now truly makes people feel refreshed and delighted.

Of course, one must also exclude the distant faint howls of the corpse horde.

"What exactly is the conviction I need to condense?"

The wind stirs, the heart stills.

Lin An quietly asked himself, and subconsciously lifted his head to look at the starry sky above.

Around him, spiritual power like flowing water instantly spread throughout Linjiang.

Chu An's left-hand notes pointed out a path for him, but they didn't detail how to walk it.

After he opened the Fire Seed Project document, Lin An surprisingly found it empty.

Yes.

In his view, the Fire Seed Project, which had been infinitely mysterious and which he had wanted to ask Chu An about more than once, had been empty from the start.

The whole project seemed to have only one thing to do.

That is.

Find that seed.

The Fire Seed named Hope!

"What is my conviction?"

"Based on my conviction, like the first fire seed on the wilderness... ignite this world?"

"Buzz—boom!"

After a brief silence.

The air suddenly shuddered.

Only seen, after an invisible shockwave suddenly burst in the night sky.

In an instant, Lin An became like a black lightning bolt, shooting straight into space.

Global Conference: 24 hours 59 minutes.

"Beep-"

"Beep-"

"Beep-"

The mechanical repeated electronic buzzer timer droned on.

In low Earth orbit, Deng Xiang, who simultaneously controls the full star-link system, is like an abacus on fire; the circuit boards carrying his consciousness are smoking.

Watching Deng Xiang, with computing power fully maxed, darting among tens of thousands of satellites, Xuan Haicheng, who can't help at all, can only awkwardly blow air at Deng Xiang's main unit.

Alright, he can't even blow out a breath.

Um, little Deng. How about we take a break and cool you down?

I see you... uh, down there, your lower body... no, your lower half is about to catch fire!

His heart pounded with fear.

He instinctively flashed aside to dodge the sparks exploding from the main unit.

Xuan Haicheng, somewhat helpless, tried to persuade Deng Xiang to rest a while.

Since Lin An initiated war preparations internally, Deng Xiang, responsible for monitoring the globe, naturally couldn't idle, and even became the busiest person in the entire Long An faction.

Although no one knows what kind of war Lin An wants to launch, for the entire Long An faction, as long as it's that man's order, even if they were all teleported to the deep sea to fight sea beasts, they would not retreat an inch!

I can't stop!! My great uncle Xuan! Don't distract me!

Do you know how many troops have been mobilized across all global war zones in just these twelve hours!

Damn, they seem to really be trying to isolate us and form a joint government! Shit! Those Soviet bastards are actually starting to gather forces at the border!

No, I need to figure out what those areas they're covering actually are! They're on guard against us!! They know we have teleportation ability!

Harried and stressed.

Deng Xiang subconsciously licked his nonexistent lips, while the eyes attached to the military satellite strained to magnify the ground imagery.

In just a short two days, large numbers of black dots appeared across the Earth's continents. Without a doubt, these black dots placed at strategic points are all the 'no-fly' points set up by each major war zone!

They're guarding against Long An's airborne assault! If it weren't for the trouble of attacking satellites, Deng Xiang would even suspect that the first war began in low Earth orbit!

Captain Lin... we really are going to have to oppose the whole world now...

Deng Xiang let out a long sigh in his heart, feeling that the situation was extremely unfavorable for Captain Lin.

Not to mention that all Fourth Stage forces worldwide are rushing to Egypt; combined, this strength is far beyond what Long An can handle alone. Even if Captain Lin personally intervened, he'd likely be outmatched—two fists against four hands.

Especially under his intense, continuous observation, he noticed an abnormality in that newly built battlefield within the Egyptian region.

There has been a high-power, even unidentifiable special signal transmitting outward into space.

During an occasional monitoring by Deng Xiang, he even saw some eerie images.

Those Andre people seem to be digging something up from underground.

Like weapons? But looking at their size, they clearly aren't earth-made... and whoever they're in contact with isn't any other war zone either.

I don't know if Captain Lin actually has a grasp on this..!

It's not that he doesn't believe in Lin An's strength; as Long An's eyes, Deng Xiang is the clearest, and also the one who has most directly witnessed just how strong Lin An is.

But Andre and the fugitive side aren't pushovers. With no concept of Fifth Stage, Deng Xiang can only vaguely estimate Lin An's strength as equivalent to two Fourth Stage Peaks; anything higher is beyond his comprehension.

There's external aid! Perhaps it's another existence like the fugitives!

Captain Lin launching a global war is too risky! The preparation time is still...

Without waiting for Deng Xiang to hesitate over whether to contact Wen Ya and the others to have them 'persuade' Lin An to temporarily delay the plan.

The next second.

A monitoring satellite stationed above the Asian continent suddenly shuddered like a startled mouse, its solar panels jerking violently!

Holy shit!

What is that!? How fast!

Like a flash of black lightning instantly bursting from the ground into space.

At a speed exceeding a hundred times Mach, as Deng Xiang observed from a top-down view, he felt something instantly appear before his eyes, and the entire Eastern Hemisphere's atmosphere surged with that black shadow, stirring up a high-altitude turbulence.

He had no time to react! Almost as Deng Xiang, frightened, instinctively sounded an alarm, a mental transmission suddenly rang in his ear.

Don't be afraid.

It's me.

The words fell.

All that could be seen was Lin An, his whole body wrapped in dark-gold battle armor, calmly looking toward the camera, looking at him.

Shut down all external detection, shut down satellite transmission, and hide.

Remember later, don't go 'look at the sun.'

Hum!

He vanished again in an instant.

In Deng Xiang's stunned, shocked gaze, all that could be seen was Lin An after he'd thrown down a sentence; at this moment he actually rushed straight toward a huge ball of light in the darkness like a moth to a flame.