Chapter 1442: When Human Stars Shine (Part I)

[Director Chen, seeing these words is like seeing you.]

[It has been three hundred years; are you well?]

[It was hurried just now, and I didn't get to catch up with you properly, but judging by your state, you're probably doing alright.]

[I have already resolved the matter of Lou Yu. I know you might have some opinions about him, but I understand him; Lou Yu is not a bad person in the true sense... It's just that his way of thinking is quite extreme.]

[In these three hundred years, human society has truly changed a lot. I remember before I went to sleep, the Tian-Shu domain was only the size of a small town. When I went out just now, I discovered it had become something I couldn't have imagined...]

[Do you remember when we used to sit together and discuss what humanity would be like after the Great Cataclysm? Qi Muyun said it would probably be like in wasteland novels, where everyone lived in the underground world, struggling for the few remaining resources, and then laboriously exploring the outside world; Lou Yu said the world would be built with many steel factories because reliable tools were needed in a wasteland world; Ji Xuan said everyone might awaken superpowers together, and then test their power levels right away, like 'Sword Power, Third Stage'! ]

[But none of us at the time expected that the world three hundred years after the Great Cataclysm would be so prosperous... It turns out that even without efficient power generation technology, lights can still illuminate the city's night; it turns out that even if internal combustion engines can't start, someone will modify steam engines to build cars; it turns out that in this era, everyone can still rely on domain trains to travel between different cities, and the public can still live well within the domains, with enough food, warm clothes, schools, and performances...]

[Forgive me for being a science guy; I don't know how to describe that feeling, but my mood when I saw the Tian-Shu domain was like when I first came to Shanghai from the orphanage in the county town... shock, emotion, and a kind of indescribable awe.]

[It turns out that human creativity and vitality are truly more brilliant than the stars in the sky.]

[Unfortunately... I don't have time to get to know this domain properly.]

[I have already calculated the precise trajectory of the Red Star; the margin of error should be in seconds. After I die, my body will return to the universe, drifting in the deep space along a predetermined trajectory. In this process, the stars will gather toward me...]

[When the Red Star descends, I will return in the form of a star, becoming a 'satellite' for all of humanity.]

[This is the last thing I can do for humanity.]

[After that, it will be up to you all...]

[You were the one who led us onto this path. This path is difficult and bitter, but we have never regretted it... I, Ji Xuan, Lou Yu, Chu Changqing, Qi Muyun, Su Zhiwei, Wu Tongyuan, Yang Xiao, Wen Ruoshui—we may have different personalities and different methods, but please believe...]

[The Nine Lords will always be the Nine Lords of humanity.]

[Finally...]

[Human civilization shall never be extinguished.]

RUSTLE—

The neatly written letter paper rattled crisply in the howling wind.

A fair-skinned youth's hand silently gripped the corner of the letter paper. The bright red theatrical robe fluttered in the wind, and the head with a high black ponytail slowly lifted, deep and complex eyes gazing up at the firmament...

Above the firmament filled with red glow, a brilliant star dragging a long tail streaked across the sky, as if it had long since precisely predicted the Red Star's trajectory, and crashed into it!!

Someone asked, in this era where even nuclear weapons don't exist, how can humanity intercept a meteor in the universe?

The answer is...

Tian-Shu Lord, Lu Xun.

……

"It's a meteor!!!"

When this meteor tore through the red glow and streaked across the sky, someone on the chaotic and desperate battlefield shouted in shock.

Everyone looked up, their mouths opening involuntarily...

"A meteor!! Where did a meteor come from?!"

"Wait... the trajectory of this meteor..."

"Can it hit?! Could it really hit?!?"

"Could it be that even Heaven felt we weren't meant to die, so it specifically sent a meteor to save us?!?"

"A miracle... this is a miracle!!!!"

“……”

Noisy and chaotic sounds came from everywhere. Jian Changsheng and Jiang Xiaohua on the battlefield were also stunned. They looked blankly at the meteor crashing straight toward the Red Star, their brains unable to process it for a moment.

"Come to think of it, I had a doubt before."

Sun Bumian's voice sounded from the side.

He saw this figure in a Tang suit walking straight toward them. He pushed up the small round sunglasses on the bridge of his nose, his eyes looking complexly at the meteor streaking across the sky.

"The mission of our Twilight Society is to recover the Nine Lords... But the Tian-Shu Lord clearly died in battle long ago; why was his body never recovered?"

Jian Changsheng seemed to think of something and widened his eyes.

"You mean..."

"I'm afraid that meteor rushing toward the Red Star... is the Tian-Shu Lord."

……

"That is... the Tian-Shu Lord?!?"

In the Cang-Yun domain, the Master of the Tongtian Tower and others saw this scene, their expressions filled with horror.

Not just them, but the Tian-Shu domain, the Xuan-Yu domain, the Cang-Yun domain... people in all domains had not expected the appearance of that meteor. It was like a savior descending from the sky, letting them see a glimmer of miraculous life in this desperate situation!

Even not just humans, but the few world-ending calamities that were fighting to attack the domain were also somewhat bewildered at this moment.

The Calamity of Delusion, which was confronting Chu Changqing, widened its beast pupils and looked at the sky;

The flesh-and-blood Turbid Buddha that had occupied the Tongtian Tower slowly looked up, poison mist churning;

The Calamity of Taboo, crawling rapidly through the dissolving Gray Realm, stopped, its lanterns swaying;

The Calamity-Breather, which was frantically slaughtering lives, suddenly stopped its movements, the gale vanishing;

Even the aged figure in the ruins, who was propping up the human demigod domain to prepare to resist the Red Star, looked up at the firmament in disbelief. The storm of thoughts was churning wildly, unable to calm the shock in his heart...

No wonder the Nine Lords of humanity hadn't launched any effective counterattacks until now...

The goal of world-ending destruction was to conquer the domains and survive as much as possible during the return of the Red Star;

But the gaze of the Nine Lords of humanity had been looking further from the very beginning.

The pattern and vision of the Nine Lords of humanity had long since transcended world-ending destruction. While world-ending destruction was only thinking about fighting and surviving, the Tian-Shu Lord had been preparing ways to counter the Red Star long ago!

At this moment, a surge of indescribable complexity and loss welled up in the heart of the Calamity of Thought... It had planned everything, calculated everything, but when that meteor appeared, it realized just how "immature" its actions had been.

It realized that calamities and humans... were different after all.

……

The theatrical robe with black patterns on a red background fluttered silently on the other side of the earth.

Chen Ling saw with his own eyes,

that meteor flying out from among the stars crashed straight into the corner of the Red Star...

In this grand, silent collision, the meteor shattered instantly, but at the same time, a corner of the Red Star was knocked off!

This terrifying existence that was about to hit Earth was actually knocked off course, flying toward the edge of Earth!