"Bzzt —"
A long charging sound suddenly rang out.
Ding Meng slowly opened his eyes. What he saw was a ceiling, a silver-white metal ceiling.
"What is this place?
Am I okay? "Ding Meng was puzzled.
This time, it was not Xiao Ai who answered him, but the hologram. "I don't know where this place is, but the core system seems to have entered hibernation mode."
Ding Meng was slightly surprised. He carefully sensed and found that the detection vision on his retina had disappeared. Xiao Ai was indeed not moving.
The hologram said, "We seem to have been teleported to a starship."
Hearing this, Ding Meng stood up like a carp. Indeed, the light and shadow did not speak nonsense. This was a silver-white metal hall. There were all kinds of simple but not simple equipment, smooth and gorgeous lines, and a dazzling array of technological devices. In the center of the hall was a huge control panel …
This was indeed the command hall of a starship. Strangely, there was not a single person in the hall.
Ding Meng rubbed his eyes. The bright light of the teleportation array had caused great damage to his eyes. Although they were much better now, he still felt that his eyes were a little sore. He carefully scanned his surroundings, and his expression changed. "This place... I think I've been here before."
The hologram was also curious. "You've been here before?
Are you sure? "
Ding Meng's gaze fell on the control panel. There was a palm-sized notch on the side of the panel. Ding Meng stepped forward and pressed his palm into it. The control panel lit up, and the system's voice rang out.
"Crew members detected. System is starting."
"Insufficient energy detected. System is charging."
"Charging complete. Generating for you …"
"Swoosh!
Swoosh!
Swoosh!
Swoosh!
Swoosh! "
Multiple rays and cursors immediately appeared on the control panel, forming a simple 3D dynamic map. Many Scorching Suns of different colors were orbiting a giant star. Every Scorching Suns had a different trajectory and speed. Beside the map, there was also a bunch of data that was rapidly being refreshed.
The hologram said, "It looks like a map of the Rainbow Galaxy."
Ding Meng also stared at the map. This time, he was silent for almost half a minute before he said, "No!"
The silhouette hesitated, "No?"
Ding Meng's tone was resolute. "Absolutely not!"
"He really isn't!"
The silhouette discovered that there were only five Blazing Sun Stars on this map, but there were seven Blazing Sun Stars with seven colors.
If he could see Ding Meng's expression, he would find that Ding Meng's face suddenly changed and became indescribably terrifying.
The map was still running. A moment later, the five Blazing Suns formed a straight line. This was the legendary alignment of five stars. The number next to it was fixed: 20.
A countdown timer was also generated under the data.
36: 00: 00;
35: 59: 59;
35: 59: 58
35: 59: 57
…
"This is the Black Gold Base under the desert of the K8 Dead Silent Star of the Holy Grail Federation's K Star Region. Does this mean that the solar eclipse will arrive in 36 hours?"
His judgment was based on Ding Meng's memories. However, hadn't the Black Gold Base been destroyed seven years ago?
How had they been teleported back?
Could it be that they had been teleported across thousands of light-years?
There was no way to answer these questions. Ding Meng rushed out without another word.
The world outside was exactly the same as it had been before. There was a vast and barren planet, golden sand that emitted hot air currents, a vast desert that stretched as far as the eye could see, and five Blazing Sun Stars that emitted different colors on the horizon.
When he looked up again, not far in front of him, a light screen mixed with air currents rose from the ground and into the sky. If this was not the man-made barrier of the Black Gold Base, what was it?
If this planet was not the Dead Silent Star, what else could it be?
The air temperature was now 493 degrees Celsius. With Ding Meng's current strength, he did not have to worry about it. However, a bone-chilling chill rushed from the soles of his feet to his head. Ding Meng circulated his origin energy and activated his telekinetic vision. He was shocked to find that everything in front of him was real and not some virtual illusion.
Could this be a time reversal? Had Shenguang Biotechnology's teleportation array sent him back to seven years ago, on the eve of the solar eclipse?
He looked down again. As expected, the clothes he was wearing were torn and tattered. They did not even cover his body. His personal armor was long gone.
Ding Meng suddenly felt a chill on his wrist. He flipped his hand and a dark gold T-shaped blade appeared between his fingers.
At this moment, Ding Meng's blood boiled. This feeling was like a long-lost family member had returned to his side. It washed away all the cold and fear.
The silhouette also felt his scalp tingle. "F * ck, all of this is real. But you have to hurry. The solar eclipse is coming. There are still 36 hours left."
"Alright, let's leave this place first." Ding Meng had also gotten used to it.
He was very familiar with the Black Gold Base. He rushed toward the desert, passed through the barrier, found the hidden exit of the Kun Peng battleship, and returned to the passageway he had come.
It was still the same familiar experiment hall. It was still the same familiar scene. The hall was littered with corpses, and blood flowed like a river. The severed fingers and arms of the laborers were mixed with the corpses of the mercenaries. This was a slaughterhouse.
In the middle of the pile of corpses, a slender woman in a professional suit and high heels was carefully inspecting the corpses. Ding Meng was stunned. The person in front of him was Julie.
He had killed her with his own hands. How did she come back to life?
However, he quickly felt relieved. If he had really returned to seven years ago, then Julie was still alive at this time.
Julie had not changed. Even her tone was the same as before. "Ding Meng, I am very happy that you are still alive."
Ding Meng did not bother to be polite this time. "You don't have to say anymore. Don't even think about the memory chip."
Julie was not angry. She continued to smile. "It seems that there is something that you have not understood."
Ding Meng sneered and did not answer. With his current strength, he did not even need to lift a finger to kill Julie.
There was a surge of air in the air. Two golden sabers appeared above Ding Meng's head out of thin air. They were the "Blazing Sun Battle Pattern".
The sabers formed a cross and slashed toward Julie's head. Ding Meng would not show any mercy to the murderer who had killed Xiao Si. He even felt that this was a little too easy for Julie. Killing her with one slash was taking care of her and sparing her the pain of torture.
There was a "ding" sound.
The sabers hit a layer of light blue ice energy and then quickly disappeared.
Ding Meng was surprised. A spinning spherical ice shield had appeared on Julie's body. Judging from the color and density of the shield, Julie's strength had increased many times compared to before. She was at least a Combat Master.
What was going on?
Ding Meng still could not figure out the reason.
Julie sneered. "With your strength, it is impossible for you to keep the memory chip."
As she spoke, the temperature of the surrounding air suddenly dropped sharply. In his telekinesis vision, the moving speed of the organic molecules in the air seemed to be frozen. Ding Meng was once again overwhelmed by a chill. This was not a chill caused by fear, but a real chill.
In just a moment, Ding Meng's limbs even felt a little numb, and his blood flow was not smooth. He had been frozen before and knew the horror of cold.
"Swish —"
Ding Meng quickly operated the first five points, and a wave of heat spread out from his body, dispelling the cold around him. He did not dare to be careless. Everything in front of him was too strange, and he could not tell whether it was an illusion or reality. However, he had to get through this hurdle.
Looking at the expressionless Ding Meng, Julie was also surprised. She had obviously sensed the terrifying aura that suddenly erupted from Ding Meng. "You are just a coolie, but you have improved to such a level in such a short time. You have no choice but to hand over the memory chip."
She suddenly pushed one of her palms forward, and a surge of ice energy surged out from her palm. It was not a palm wind that was pushed out, but a solid ice hurricane that vaguely resembled a river.
As soon as the hurricane was released, she moved forward like a ghost and pushed out another palm. This time, the hurricane was even more violent. Even though they were still 30 to 40 meters away, the surface of Ding Meng's arm was frozen.
The two hurricanes overlapped, but Julie did not stop. Her body floated forward again, and this time, she pushed out with both palms. Back then, her classic "Yangtze River's Three Layered Waves" had created a bubble-like blue energy circle, but today, the blue energy circle directly turned into a crystal clear blue ball. It was like ice, but not ice, water, but not water. It seemed solid, but also soft and shapeless. For a martial arts technique to reach this level, it was definitely at a very high level. The power of the "Yangtze River's Three Layered Waves" was many times stronger than it was seven years ago.
Ding Meng did not move. He looked coldly at the ice ball that was rolling toward him. Seeing that it was about to swallow him up, Ding Meng had already gathered strength in his palms, and a cross was formed and pushed out fiercely.
"Tch —"
The sound was very strange, like the fusion of ice and fire.
Sure enough, the blue ice ball froze in front of Ding Meng and slowly changed color. It turned from blue to green, from green to yellow, from yellow to red, and finally became extremely red. This was using source power to backfire. 'I don't care how strong your ice energy is, I'll directly use heat to turn it into a fireball. It's standard brute force.'
The fireball grew bigger and bigger, and the temperature rose rapidly. The experiment hall was as cold as an ice house, but in just one or two seconds, it was overflowing with heat. The corpses on the ground began to smoke and were ignited into a raging fire.
"Here you go!" Ding Meng exerted strength again, and the fireball rolled toward the opposite side.
The shield on Julie's body left her body and collided with the fireball.
There was a loud explosion as the two balls of energy collided. Almost everything on the ground was reduced to ashes, and the steel plates on the walls of the hall fell off. This explosion could be said to be earth-shattering, and sand and stones flew everywhere.
In the midst of the smoke, Ding Meng's figure suddenly appeared. By the time Julie realized that something was wrong, it was already too late. Ding Meng flew up and held his blade in a reverse grip. His most classic hand blade was already in front of Julie's face. Julie would definitely die.
"Crack!" There was a crisp sound.
Julie instinctively protected her sides with her palms, but the price of this protection was that the claw blade directly cut off her wrist. The claw blade had been infused with pure source power, so the severed wrist was burned black.
The claw blade's momentum did not stop there, and the gleaming tip of the blade went straight for Julie's neck artery. Everyone was an expert in the art of killing, and they knew where the vital points of the human body were. Once Ding Meng cut the artery, even if they did not die, they would be severely injured. Even if they did not die, they could only wait for death.