633: Chapter 633: The Stars are Twinkling (Two Updates for 9000 Monthly Votes) 633: Chapter 633: The Stars are Twinkling (Two Updates for 9000 Monthly Votes) Bang—
It was another crisp sound.
The small of He Ao’s back collided with the sharp blade, but instead of the expected scene of flesh being seared, he used the montum to roll and charge towards the monkey monster.
What had resisted the blade’s edge was quite simple, actually—it was the Miracle Wand He Ao had strapped to his back.
Even though the Miracle Wand was a magic wand, as a B-level Transcendent object, its hardness and toughness were very high.
He Ao often used it to swing at people; it was sufficient for temporarily fending off attacks.
Seeing He Ao rush over empty-handed, the monkey monster, though surprised that He Ao wasn’t hurt, didn’t retreat.
Instead, it supported itself with the steel blade that had fallen to the ground with one hand and reached for the bone sword in the air with the other.
It clearly understood that He Ao, without a weapon, hardly had any room to block it.
It easily grasped the bone sword, but at that mont, He Ao had already closed the distance between them significantly.
Now is the ti!
He Ao raised his hand,
Retrieve objects from the air!
The bone sword, which had been tightly held by the monkey monster, instantly appeared in He Ao’s hands.
Divine Sense wrapped around the blade as the powerful force from Super mory was bestowed upon him in an instant.
A sharp light from the sword slashed downward, cleaving through the dark.
Accompanied by the crisp sound of steel being split, ‘zzzt—’.
The monkey monster’s attempt to retreat halted; it stopped moving as its small body was diagonally split in two.
The massive chanical greatsword clanged as it fell to the ground, its fierce blade gradually losing its heat.
This single stroke had shattered both of the monster’s energy gathering points.
In fact, the monkey monster’s combat power, defense, agility, and even its weapon, were not inferior to He Ao’s.
But that’s how real combat is—every move is lethal, and one mistake ans there’s no chance for another.
If He Ao hadn’t anticipated the laser in the monkey monster’s eyes, if the Miracle Wand hadn’t blocked the blade, he might have been the one lying on the ground right now.
But there are no ifs in this world.
The sharp bone sword sliced into the body mixed with chanical parts and flesh, and He Ao picked out the gray energy blocks from inside the monkey monster.
What a harvest.
There were many energy blocks, enough to make up for a quarter of the work he had been busy with, and the energy blocks were also quite large.
This monkey’s abilities seed to consu a lot of energy, so it had more stored than other monsters.
He Ao stuffed these energy blocks into his bag, making his already bulging bag bulge a bit more, then he picked up the chanical greatsword from the ground.
The greatsword was very heavy; even he had to exert a lot of effort to barely lift it.
He Ao observed the still-warm blade.
Despite the intense heat, the tal of the sword hadn’t oxidized or deford at all.
This was a good sword!
He Ao held the sword in front of him.
The body of the sword was mostly chanical.
At the connection between the hilt and the blade, there was a button that seed to activate the blade’s heating capability.
He Ao continued to look and found a concealed cover at the end of the hilt.
Upon opening the cover, he saw the writhing flesh within.
He tentatively threw a gray energy block into it, and the sword quickly devoured it.
It appeared that this sword was also a product of contamination, one that could be fed gray energy blocks as well.
He Ao closed the cover and dragged the sword as he moved.
He didn’t return to the gate but walked back to the front of the three Spaceti Beacon Correctors he had passed earlier.
Using the bone sword, he pried open the casing of the corrector that could still be operated, and then extended his right hand.
Thin black lines surged from the chanical Core ring and entered the corrector.
Soon, the lines connected with the corrector’s circuits, and He Ao could feel the sensation of controlling machinery.
This machine wasn’t connected to any network, and there was no artificial intelligence.
He raised his hand, and a Spaceti Beacon appeared in his grasp.
This Spaceti Beacon was different from the pile he had seen on the ground before; its screen was lit up, and He Ao had set its system language to the language of Zone Two.
This was the Spaceti Beacon he had found on his first entry into the ruins.
It was also the item that the “Boss” specifically sent people to infiltrate the ruins to acquire.
This Spaceti Beacon had already recorded three spaceti points, but it seed they couldn’t be read.
He Ao had tried before; clicking on these three spaceti points would display [System Error, Unable to Read], and trying to add new spaceti points would also show [System Error].
One of He Ao’s goals for entering the ruins this ti was to find a device that could repair this Spaceti Beacon, which he had intentionally placed in the Pirate Treasure Box before venturing into the ruins.
After taking out the Spaceti Beacon, He Ao used a bone sword to slice open the already damaged inspection port of the corrector and put the Spaceti Beacon inside.
Accompanied by a faint hum, the machine started to operate.
Theoretically, the machine’s screen should light up at this point, displaying sothing like ‘Please Wait’ or a countdown.
But the screen was completely destroyed, and the exterior was in shambles — it seed there was no chance of that happening.
However, He Ao directly sensed the approximate ti needed from his chanical Core ring.
Four minutes.
Perhaps it was because He Ao had obtained the highest authority, but the ti it took to repair the Spaceti Beacon was less than the tutorial suggested.
In those brief four minutes, He Ao set his chanical greatsword on the ground, sat in front of the machine, and quietly waited.
In his mind, like a slideshow, he replayed everything that had happened before and after the ruins had opened.
He was missing one key clue, a thread that would connect all the events.
This clue might be simple, but it was probably sothing he hadn’t yet understood or known about.
The silent darkness wrapped around him like a cloak.
The four minutes quickly passed, and with a crisp sound, the Spaceti Beacon that He Ao had inserted was ejected.
With a calm expression, He Ao caught the Spaceti Beacon and disconnected the link between the chanical Core ring and the corrector.
The screen of the Spaceti Beacon was still on, and this ti, when He Ao clicked on the first of the three anchored spaceti points, a pop-up appeared,
[Spaceti coordinates reading device not detected.
If you are using an older device, you can jump directly using the displayed coordinates.
Do you wish to expand the spaceti coordinates?
(Warning, do not attempt to morize the spaceti coordinates, or use any device to record them)]
He Ao chose ‘Expand’.
A dazzling brilliance lit up, followed by a three-dinsional projection of dense, entangled symbols and patterns displayed in the entire dark space and filling He Ao’s field of vision.
These were the spaceti coordinates?
He Ao looked at these symbols and patterns, briefly activated Super mory, and scanned them with a glance.
In that instant, terrifying, twisted, cluttered murmurs exploded in his ears.
These murmurs were as chaotic as a discordant orchestra playing jumbled Musicnotes, with countless calls, mutterings, and snickers echoing and overlapping in He Ao’s mind.
He staggered and fell to the blood-stained ground.
For a mont, he felt as though he was back in the previous Copy World, using Jess’s body to glimpse the Truth of the world, only now he was closer to the world’s deepest layer.
Blood glowing with a greyish-purple light oozed from his eyes, ears, nostrils, and the corners of his mouth, outlining his cheeks like a demon from hell.
Now he finally understood why there was a warning not to morize the spaceti coordinates in the notes on the Spaceti Beacon.
Because the spaceti coordinates themselves represented the fundantal rules of the world, signifying contamination from the very origin.
Even soone with a mory beyond the ordinary, like him, could have their sanity shattered by this contamination, falling into madness.
However, for He Ao, this level of contamination was still within his tolerance.
He closed down Super mory and also retracted the displayed spaceti coordinates.
He stumbled to his feet; the process was sowhat dangerous, but he had morized the spaceti coordinates he had just seen.
This proved that, at least for him, the spaceti coordinates weren’t impossible to morize.
After a short rest, he opened the other two stored spaceti coordinates in the Spaceti Beacon, but both displayed,
[Coordinate data corrupted, please re-enter.]
It looked like there was so problem with the data, but after so many years, it was normal for issues to arise.
He Ao clicked on the last ‘ ’ symbol, which ant adding a new spaceti coordinate.
[Would you like to anchor the current spaceti point?]
A popup appeared, and He Ao chose ‘Yes’.
When the Spaceti Beacon was damaged, He Ao had to wait for a while before it would display the text for a system error.
This ti it was quick, but it wasn’t good news.
[Anchoring failed, please place the Spaceti Beacon near a device that has completed reading spaceti coordinates.]
This little thing seed incapable of directly reading spaceti coordinates…
Spaceti coordinates can only be stored near devices that can read spaceti coordinates.
So it’s just a storage device, huh.
He Ao tucked the Spaceti Beacon back into the Pirate Treasure Box, wiped the blood off his face, sheathed the Bonesword on his back, and thoughtfully dragged the ch-cleaver back to the gateway.
At this ti, the gateway had not yet opened.
He Ao looked down at the A02 figure on the screen.
At the mont, a line of text was displaying on the screen.
[Sir, your microphone and speaker have lost connection again…]
It seed that he had shaken the wires loose during his first skirmish with the monkey monster.
He reconnected the microphone and speaker wires.
“A02, how much longer until the gateway opens?”
He asked in a soft voice.
“Seven minutes have passed, probably about three more minutes, sir,”
A02 replied.
“Alright.”
He Ao turned around, and his gaze fell upon a twisted small door that had appeared in his line of sight.
He rembered that A02 had ntioned there was a spaceti jump test device in this laboratory, directly linked to the ship’s engine, located behind a small door near the exit.
“What would happen if I were to activate the spaceti jump test device?”
As He Ao walked toward that door, he asked casually.
“If you start the test, the engine will activate, and spaceti around the ship will be distorted to a certain degree, but the scale of distortion will not be large,”
A02 answered.
“Sounds interesting,”
He Ao reached the twisted door and kicked it open with one foot.
A narrow little room appeared before him.
He turned on the flashlight and swept it around.
There were no other monsters behind the door, nor on the ceiling.
He Ao entered the room, which was simply decorated, with tightly-packed machinery lining the four walls.
In the center of these devices, in the center of the room, there was a simple control panel.
He Ao walked up to the control panel.
There should have been a screen on the control panel, but now only a small half remained.
Fortunately, so of the more important buttons on the control panel had language labels from both the second district and other areas.
He Ao randomly pressed a few buttons and then lit up the one labeled ‘start.’
In that instant, a brilliance like specks of stars illuminated the entire room, and the sounds of countless machines operating filled the air.
Every machine in the room started flickering.
Perhaps due to disuse for too long, these machines made so noise as they ran.
“Sir, did you activate the spaceti jump test device?”
A02’s voice ca from outside the door.
“It seems so,” He Ao manipulated the densely packed keys on the control panel, “Which button should I press to connect to the engine for testing?”
“Press the green one, if you want to run a test, you need to input the test spaceti coordinates,” A02 said, “Sir, please try not to operate it randomly if you have never used such a device before.”
“I know,”
He Ao nodded, pressed the green button, and at the sa ti, a red light next to the green button lit up, “What’s next, how do I input the spaceti coordinates?
All those Spaceti Beacons outside seem to be broken.”
“If there are no available spaceti coordinates, you can input our current spaceti coordinates for a self-check test.”
A02 answered.
“Our current spaceti coordinates, how do I get them?”
He Ao asked, “Does this device contain existing data, or does it need to read data?
Is there any equipnt that can retrieve the spaceti coordinates?”
“Any device capable of traversing spaceti can read the spaceti coordinates of its location, sir,”
A02 said offhandedly.
He Ao’s movents faltered for a mont.
This sentence, however, exploded in his mind like a burst of thunder.
A brilliance, akin to lightning, linked together all the events in his mind from the beginning to the present.
“The Spaceti Jump Test Instrunt also has this feature.
You can press the fifth button from left to right in the last row on the bottom left corner, the red one,”
A02’s words continued to ring in He Ao’s ears, “Pressing the button will instantly generate the current location’s spaceti coordinates, and the test device of the instrunt will automatically read the contents of the coordinates.”
“Okay,” He Ao pressed the red button, his tone natural, “After this spaceti coordinate is read, if I want to test repeatedly, do I need to re-enter it?”
“There’s no need, sir.
The device will store the spaceti coordinates for at least half an hour,” said A02, “Sir, I still recomnd not attempting to operate the instrunt without experience.”
He Ao did not respond as he was looking up at the ceiling.
Whether there was a backup cache or not, this instrunt read the spaceti coordinates incredibly quickly.
Almost as quickly as they were speaking, the massive and complex pattern filled the entire space and appeared before He Ao’s eyes.
This pattern was completely different from the one stored in the Spaceti Beacon.
He Ao activated his Super mory, morized the pattern, and at the sa ti pulled out the Spaceti Beacon and clicked on add.
Soon, a new pop-up window appeared.
[Add Successful]
This spaceti coordinate was saved in the fourth slot.
He Ao put away the Spaceti Beacon and wiped the fresh blood that had once again seeped from his face,
At this mont, the projection of the spaceti coordinates in the void also slowly faded away.
And the red light next to the green button had also turned green.
After pondering for a mont, He Ao placed his hand on the green button and pressed it for the second ti.
In an instant, the entire spaceship trembled.
Then He Ao released his hand, and after a brief pause, he pressed the green button again.
—-
Navigator·Fourth Annular Chamber
Zhang Yusi sat squatting in the safe house’s hall, lost in thought.
Suddenly, the spaceship trembled.
“What’s happening?”
Shu Gui imdiately stood up, then he said with so surprise, “Yusi, look outside the window!
The starry sky!”
“Hm?”
Zhang Yusi raised her head to look at the huge glass floor-to-ceiling window that wrapped around half the hall.
In that silent and vast curtain of night, the serene stars, like age-old history, were quivering.
“The stars are flickering!”
Yasia also raised his head, staring dumbfounded at the starry sky outside, and said in his imperfect Central Earth language, hoarsely, “Is it an anomaly?”
“It’s not an anomaly,”
Zhang Yusi slowly stood up,
“These stars, they’re trying to tell us sothing.”
She imdiately raised her handheld computer and recorded the flashing frequency.
When all the twinkling ceased, her recording also stopped.
Shu Gui and Yasia gathered around her.
“It’s Morse code, the Research Institute’s standard coded signal,”
she observed the chart on the computer, “But what is the cipher key to decrypt the code?”
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