Chapter 177: Dawn Judgment, the Unsolved Mystery

Only to see in the sky above, an incomparably huge flesh-and-blood planet suddenly appeared above the planet, its enormous eyeball staring fixedly at the ground, and that position was exactly inside the building where Zhang Jie was.

That was a blood-red planet covered in endless flesh, surrounded by countless blood-red warships, and its immense gravitational field had begun to pull light objects from the surface upward into the sky.

"Blood disaster?"

Zhang Jie looked solemnly upward; logically, this should be an absolutely safe star region, so why did a blood disaster appear?

Moreover, it seemed to be aimed at him—really strange.

However, Zhang Jie wasn't panicked; he now had full capability to deal with such an opponent—in fact, he didn't need to lift a finger.

The planetary defense system on the planet had begun to counterattack, blood warships kept being shot down, yet the flesh-and-blood planet continued to approach.

It seemed the planet was headed for destruction, but that wasn't the case.

Zhang Jie comforted his parents, then with a casual wave, a product even larger than that flesh-and-blood planet instantly appeared behind it.

The Nightmare Disaster Deep Space Giant Beast opened its blood‑filled maw; its huge mouth already engulfed the blood disaster planet, needing only to close to swallow it.

This was Zhang Jie's deliberate control, skipping the beast's mouth‑opening approach altogether—just a step away from sending it straight to the stomach.

The beast snapped its jaws shut quickly; the blood disaster planet struggled desperately but could not escape, letting out a reluctant wail.

It simply couldn't understand why, as fellow heavenly disasters, they were attacking them instead of that damned civilization.

This not only dazed the blood disaster planet, but also left the people on the planet bewildered, and what was even more bewildering was still to come.

Under Zhang Jie's control, the Deep Space Giant Beast slowly took the blood disaster planet into its mouth, using only about twenty minutes—far faster than the speed in the simulation.

Just as Zhang Jie was feeling pleased, something even more bewildering happened: the giant beast that had just swallowed the blood disaster planet was instantly pierced through by a huge beam of light in the sky.

In an instant, the entire sky above the planet burst with a blinding white light several times stronger than sunlight, making Zhang Jie involuntarily shut his eyes.

When the white light faded and he opened his eyes again, a vast field of planetary debris remained in the sky, and both the blood disaster planet and the Nightmare Disaster Giant Beast had vanished in that blinding light.

Zhang Jie stared blankly for a while before finally reacting.

"Dawn Judgment???"

Zhang Jie widened his eyes, unable to believe what he was seeing.

As a universe‑deterrent weapon, Dawn Judgment can easily destroy star‑systems the size of planets, earning it the reputation of the universe's 'nuclear bomb'.

Moreover, such a powerful weapon must be built on an entire star, requiring tens of days of charging and extremely precise calculations to hit its target accurately.

But what does that matter?

This shot of Dawn Judgment struck the blood disaster planet and the Nightmare Disaster Giant Beast precisely—an occurrence with probability so low it's practically nil.

"Then the only possibility is...."

"Premeditated?"

Assuming there was someone like a prophet who had foreseen the exact timing of the blood disaster's appearance and fired this Dawn Judgment here, then everything would make sense.

"Really strange...."

Zhang Jie couldn't make sense of what was happening before him, but there were always people even more bewildered than he.

That day, the people on the planet could not figure out how the blood disaster planet had appeared, nor why a Nightmare Disaster‑shaped beast disaster had shown up here, let alone why a Dawn Judgment shot had occurred.

All kinds of mysteries entwined; aside from knowing the beast's origin, Zhang Jie was just as clueless about everything else.

But there was nothing to be done—this affair was just that bizarre; not only could Zhang Jie make no sense of it, but Lin Ran, who had learned of it, was equally at a loss.

The next day's interstellar headlines exploded, and the planet instantly became hot—but the attention was negative, not positive.

Everyone was leaving the planet in droves, including Zhang Jie's parents.

Following Zhang Jie's suggestion, his father simply moved the company onto an Alliance giant ship, which would make dealings with the Alliance more convenient and guarantee safety—truly a two‑for‑one.

After this, the matter seemed to settle, but Zhang Jie always had a premonition that it was absolutely tied to him in countless ways.

He had clearly sensed earlier that the giant eye of the blood disaster planet was staring straight at his direction—no doubt about it.

But now he certainly wouldn't get an answer; still, life had to go on beforehand.

According to the original plan, Zhang Jie still needed to purchase stars, and his father indeed had connections; soon they found someone and outright bought two ownerless young stars.

The universe is never short of stars, but finding young stars close to Lofty Star is hard, since most of the star systems in that region have already been mined and are now owned.

During the purchase process, Yu Xiaomo somehow got the news, found him directly, and then proceeded to cry and make a fuss.

After that came lines like "Zhang Jie, how could you not want me?" "Zhang Jie, can we meet again?" "Zhang Jie, go with me!" "Zhang Jie, how can I live without you?" and similar.

This left Zhang Jie feeling helpless, but he had no choice but to coax Yu Xiaomo for half an hour, then was forced to go out and play with her for another half hour before it ended.

Originally Yu Xiaomo wanted to stay a bit longer with Zhang Jie, but Liu Delie called, saying that Weiniya had come again to patronize their business, telling her to quickly straighten things out, whereupon Yu Xiaomo reluctantly left.

The plan proceeded as scheduled—procuring materials, looking for a construction crew—everything kept Zhang Jie on his feet, but it all came with returns.

At last, the Alliance's Dyson Sphere was finally set to begin construction today!

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