Chapter 384 Welcome to Earth... And Then Explode (5200, First Update)

Is it possible for all of humanity to unite for a noble and common goal?

Numerous fantasy works have featured such organizations—the Earth United Nations, the Human Federation, the Human Empire, the Human Innovation Alliance... The whole world and all of humanity united as one, fighting for the fate of the whole.

Sounds beautiful.

But in reality, it is basically impossible.

Even if everyone knows that concentrating power can fully unleash the potential of a race, the differences between countries, ethnicities, regions, and customs; the arrogance and xenophobia rooted in bloodlines, marrow, and even the souls of every individual, are enough to defeat anyone who attempts to unify the power of this race.

Even people from the same country and the same ethnicity will be divided and repelled by differences in eating habits, such as the sweet or salty taste of tofu pudding, or the meat or vegetarian filling of zongzi (sticky rice dumplings), making it difficult for them to understand each other—not to mention the differences on a larger scale.

Ultimately, hairless apes are creatures that are good at infighting and competition, hindering and holding each other back, preferring to steal cakes from others rather than making the cake bigger. If they are not facing an enemy that threatens all of humanity, they will never unite.

However, this is not necessarily a disadvantage… It is precisely because of this extraordinary fighting spirit that humanity has developed rapidly in fierce internal struggles.

What’s more, enemies that threaten all of humanity do exist.

For example, the imagined 'aliens'.

Since June 9th, after obtaining the intelligence from the psionic radar of the lunar base that a 'suspected alien spacecraft' was rapidly approaching Earth, all relevant organizations around the world became aware of this news concerning the fate of all mankind within a mere three hours.

Then, in the following days, although not wholeheartedly, all of humanity did unite in a short period of time, using various means to predict the possible location of the alien visitors.

Prophecy, divination, fortune-telling, spirit questioning—celestial secrets deduction, using future sight, plucking the strings of fate… After the Europa Federation used the artifact 'Loom of Fate' left behind by the ancient Three Fates, it finally determined the three teleportation points where aliens would jump into the solar system.

Coincidentally, these three teleportation points are all located between the Earth and Moon orbits, not too far away… It is difficult to determine whether the aliens' target is Earth or the Moon, but if they teleport here, they will definitely be able to discover humans immediately.

And Su Zhou, along with another group of commander-level powerhouses from all over the world, was arranged to guard the periphery of the one among all the teleportation points with the highest probability of alien spacecraft appearing.

"It's coming."

Standing in the void of the universe, with Earth behind him, Su Zhou stared at the circle in front of him that suddenly lit up, releasing a strong light of pale gold, his expression solemn: "I didn't expect such a big formation. Now, I'm afraid half the Earth will be able to see it, and it will be impossible to hide the news."

Although all of humanity knows that aliens do exist now, it may still be difficult for the public to accept living and moving aliens.

——What kind of aliens are they? Are they benevolent or malicious, or are they simply unable to communicate?

Su Zhou didn't know the answer to this.

But in any case, prepare for battle first.

So, at the moment when the circle dimmed, Su Zhou's human form disappeared.

Then, his true form manifested.

In an instant, in the darkness where the sun had already set beyond the horizon, a cyan-purple light burst out, creating a giant sphere of light with a radius of more than two hundred meters, centered on Su Zhou's original location, releasing agitated spiritual light like a sun, with a scorching corona tumbling on the surface.

Soon, the light sphere collapsed and shattered inward, turning into light debris all over the sky, but before it completely dissipated, a huge figure had already broken through this light cover like an eggshell, revealing part of its body.

——White as the base, black as the pattern, smooth and thick exoskeletons and scales covered each other, forming a ferocious dragon that looked like a killing machine. Its long tail was as sharp as a blade, and as its exoskeletal wings, with a wingspan of more than three hundred meters, flapped in the vacuum, flames flickered in the vector nozzles, and violent spiritual light particles roared out of it like a gale, shaking out layers of light patterns in the darkness.

It could be seen that cyan-blue lightning flickered and flowed between the giant dragon's horns, and the surging thunder light was like a winding dragon snake, entwined around it, proving its authority to summon wind and rain.

In terms of pure spiritual power reserves alone, Su Zhou in his universe battle form had as much as three Zhou Bu Yi!

"It's hard to imagine, this is the power that belongs to the cultivators of the new era."

In the experimental flying ship, Seal Envoy Raphael, an old acquaintance of Su Zhou belonging to the Concordance Bureau, watched this scene through the observation port. The old man couldn't help but sigh: "Even in the heyday of the Age of Gods, this power cannot be underestimated—some weaker gods would even be completely suppressed."

This was not the first time he had seen Su Zhou showing his true form, but the last time he saw the divine dragon, it didn't have wings, and it didn't have the momentum it has now. The gap between the two was like the difference between a juvenile and an adult—whether it was the horns, scales, wings, or the structure of the body, its strength completely surpassed the past.

How to say it? It's like the difference between a domestic orange cat and a tiger. Even if the size of the orange cat is similar to that of the tiger, the sense of threat is not at the same level at all.

In addition, the crystal flashing with dazzling golden light on the opponent's chest gave Raphael an extremely dangerous feeling. His instinct told him that the seemingly inconspicuous crystal contained a terrifying power that could kill him instantly.

In fact, Raphael's judgment was indeed correct.

Showing his most powerful true form, the 'universe battle' form, Su Zhou did indeed completely digest most of his gains in the Shenlong world and embodied it in his true form.

The horns and wings came from the Yinglong blood, the shape of the exoskeleton and scales was selected from Fafnir, the flesh tissue and tail vertebrae of Jörmungandr were modified and added, and the dragon god blood from 'Progenitor Dragon' and 'Mattwe' also made Su Zhou transform the form of his blood after careful analysis, making it more efficient and powerful.

The wings of Zhuzhou are the wings of Yinglong, and the scales of Zhuzhou are the armor of Fafnir—one would unconsciously sing like this.

As for the glowing golden crystal on the chest? That is indeed just a glowing crystal. It is a searchlight with part of Quetzalcoatl's divine majesty. It is very attractive and looks dangerous—but that's all. This seemingly vital part is surrounded by the thickest and hardest part of Su Zhou's entire body's scales and exoskeleton. It is a component specially used to attract firepower.

Come to think of it, even Ultraman equips armor next to the flash lamp, so how could Su Zhou not!

The real battle and intelligence deception have already begun at the moment of mutual observation!

"Ha—"

After showing his true form, aiming at the direction where the light gold circle was before, Su Zhou opened his giant mouth full of sharp dragon teeth and took a deep breath of spiritual energy in the vacuum. Immediately, shining light particles gathered from all directions and poured into Su Zhou's mouth, and on his dragon body, purple-cyan crystals lit up one after another, rapidly accumulating energy.

"Wait, Su Zhou, now is not the time to attack!"

This immediately caused the artisan saint in the experimental flying ship to stop him: "This time, you may not need to fight. You are responsible for deterrence here—deterrence, understand? Only scare people, don't attack, that is the greatest deterrence!"

"Oh."

Hearing this, Su Zhou closed his mouth and stopped accumulating energy, but this breath that was enough to ignite the city did not dissipate, but was waiting for the opportunity to continue accumulating and exploding.

And at this moment, the pale gold circle burst out again, and the bright spiritual light shone like the sun, making everyone stand ready and cast their eyes on it.

And just as everyone was solemnly watching, as circles of concentric ripples curled the surrounding space-time like water waves, a perfect circular door was opened, and a strange spacecraft about four to five hundred meters long, shaped like a trapezoid and scarred all over, emerged from it in a stumbling manner.

Ketaren, the senior captain of the Talin Elder Council's exploration ship Voyager 12, is now very embarrassed.

Not only him, but all the crew of Voyager 12, and the spacecraft itself, were very embarrassed.

After several consecutive days of high-intensity jumps, replenishing energy in various planetary systems in the most brutal and rapid way, and accidentally jumping into the asteroid belt halfway, almost being trapped and killed in it—Voyager 12 is now full of wounds, both inside and outside are dilapidated. If the spacecraft engineers hadn't done their best to maintain it, the entire spacecraft would have probably fallen apart on the spot.

"Fortunately, it still managed to survive—next, as long as we find the spacecraft that sent the signal and use its parts to repair Voyager, it will be safe... for now..."

Originally, Ketaren thought so. At least, he expected so.

But not now.

Because at the first moment after the jump ended, the captain saw that in front of Voyager, there was a ferocious giant dragon that even in the Talin's aesthetics, could be described as terrifying and ferocious, staring at them with purple-cyan dragon pupils, and the violent dragon might and spiritual pressure were like a tsunami, overwhelming Voyager 12.

At the corner of its mouth, even a string of hot sparks flashing with lightning was sprayed out.

——Cardiac arrest.

Even though most of his body had been replaced by machinery, Ketaren still felt a shock almost like 'cardiac arrest'.

What, what is this creature?! This violent pure biological spiritual energy fluctuation, could it be those legendary cosmic behemoths, the Aether Dragons? No, no, aren't those behemoths only living in the 'shining areas' inside the galaxy? Why can they be seen in this spiral arm at the edge of the galaxy?!

"Spi, spiritual energy fluctuation exceeds the fourth level, and even approaches the fifth level, approaching the category of 'superior psionic'!"

"The other party is preparing an attack, and the energy fluctuation exceeds twice that of the main gun of the Talin main battle warship! Ah! He is still accumulating energy!"

"He's getting closer!"

In addition to Ketaren, there were many crew members in Voyager. Because Voyager was an exploration ship, there were quite a few researchers among them. They discovered Su Zhou's existence at the first moment, and then shockingly realized that this dragon-shaped behemoth, as if it had known they would jump here, was waiting in place, its energy level exceeded all the psionics in the Talin civilization!

Basically, the Talin civilization has not existed for a long time. If it weren't for relying on the relics of the Enterprise Alliance, a prehistoric super civilization, the Talin would probably still be stuck in the industrial age, and their knowledge of psionics would never be as developed as it is now—but even so, according to the 'five-level energy level' generally used in the galaxy before the Silent Era, and the 'α' and 'Ω' levels above it, there are not many fourth-level psionics in the entire Talin civilization.

After all, the psionic development of all civilizations started from scratch after the Silent Era. Even if there are ancient psionic cultivation methods handed down to this day, they must be interpreted and practiced from scratch.

But now…

Controlling his mechanical body to secrete hormones to calm his mind, Ketaren connected to the observation lens of the spacecraft and looked around. Immediately, the strong and calm captain felt that all four of his limbs were stiff and unable to move.

Because, he saw that in addition to the behemoth in front of them that looked like it was going to launch a main gun at the slightest disagreement, there were eight strong psionics of the fourth level (commander level) in a simple spaceship not far away! Their spiritual light gathered together, and in psionic vision, it was as dazzling as starlight—not only that, but in the farther reaches, there were twice that number of psionics gathering from all directions, the number of which even made Ketaren feel that he might have 'jump sickness' and was hallucinating in the process of space-time transmission!

Forcibly moving his gaze away from these strong psionics, whose sheer number made him wonder why, the Voyager captain's gaze fell on the planet behind them.

Then, the spiritual light flashing on the entire surface of the planet, and the dozens or hundreds of twisted space-time ripples, almost blinded his observation organs.

"What's going on?!"

Ketaren exclaimed in shock. He said in an inconceivable tone: "How is it possible that most of the life on this entire planet are psionics?! And those space-time ripples, could it be that there are hundreds of 'normal stargates' on this planet?!"

The so-called normal stargates are large space-time channels that directly connect two planets without any conditions—even the Enterprise Alliance of the Golden Age has never built so many stargates so lavishly... Even if they were built, they were generally built around trade space stations in the universe, as planetary-system-level trade channels. What's the point of building them all together on one planet, or on the surface of the planet?!

But the most terrifying and shocking thing is not these things, which are already exaggerated enough—

Ketaren noticed the huge black cracks crisscrossing the void of the universe.

These space cracks have been crisscrossing the starry sky since the Silent Era, cutting off most of the hyperspace channels in the entire observable universe... Although these cracks exist in other areas of the universe, generally speaking, there is one every few planetary systems, and there will be a little more in areas with more spiritual energy. In fact, most of the clearly observable hyperspace cracks are located in the central area of the Milky Way, which is the shining area.

But here... this planetary system at the edge of the spiral arm of the galaxy is almost entirely wrapped in dense, even fused hyperspace cracks!

"Hello, is anyone there? Can you hear me?!"

A series of information that was enough to shock any interstellar civilization bombarded Ketaren's mind one after another, making him almost unable to hear the voice echoing his soul.

But soon, he reacted. Someone was trying to communicate with him using soul communication at close range.

So, Ketaren looked up at the front of the spacecraft.

At this time, seeing that the trapezoidal spacecraft that had jumped here did not have any radical behavior at the first moment, and even did not have any actions to gather energy and launch an attack, Su Zhou stopped preparing to attack and began to observe the other party.

Then, he realized that the spacecraft was scarred, and the power area on its rear side was even more dilapidated, as if it had been severely hit many times—if the engineer who repaired it was not skilled enough, the spacecraft would probably not be able to move long ago.

——It seems that it should be a spacecraft that has been attacked and is fleeing?

Having a general guess in his mind, Su Zhou would not attack the alien spacecraft that was obviously no longer able to resist. Then, as instructed by the experimental flying ship on the side, Su Zhou stepped forward, vibrated his soul, and sent a broad-area soul communication to the entire spacecraft in front of him.

In that instant, the soul wave, like thunder and even more like a storm, vibrated the spirit realm, mixed with a thick dragon might, and rolled towards Voyager 12.

"Travelers from beyond the sky."

He said so. Su Zhou's tone was kind, gentle, and full of goodwill:

"Welcome to the solar system."

Seconds later, there was silence in the soul channel.

No one in Voyager responded.

"What's going on, were they scared unconscious?"

Su Zhou couldn't help frowning when he didn't get a reply—he didn't use much dragon might just now, just to ensure that the other party realized the power of his strength and didn't have any unreasonable bad thoughts. It shouldn't be possible to scare people unconscious to the point where they can't reply.

You know, even Shao Shuangyue can withstand this level of dragon might!

But, after a moment.

A bright flash lit up from the engine on the rear side of the trapezoidal spacecraft, and then more than a dozen energy streams shot out, flying in the space. The explosion directly and completely destroyed the entire spacecraft's power system, turning it into countless fragments.

——Sure enough, it was still too reluctant. After jumping dozens of times in a row and operating overload for several days, it would be fine to continue operating like this, and there was still a possibility of slowly extinguishing the fire, but stopping rapidly from the overload state immediately destroyed the Voyager's already fragile structure.

The engine exploded, and Voyager 12, which suddenly lost power, could no longer resist the Earth's gravity. First, it spun a few circles in the vacuum due to the impact of the explosion, and then it began to fall towards the planet below, drawing an irregular spiral trajectory!

"I haven't even started attacking, how did it explode?!"

Because it was too sudden, Su Zhou didn't react at the first moment—but the next moment, the giant dragon, understanding what was going on, immediately vibrated its wings with a solemn expression, and flew towards the falling spacecraft at its fastest speed!

What a joke, a full-alloy metal spacecraft hundreds of meters wide and high, and nearly five hundred meters long, is going to crash into the Earth like this?

This must be stopped!

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