Ling Cage: I come from Hisakawa

Chapter 204 Master Lai

Moon Queen!

Looking at the turbulent sea, Bai Jingyu's expression changed drastically.

what's the situation?
Before he could react, a scorching beam of light shot out from beneath the sea surface.

At the same time, a painful roar came from the seabed.

Large amounts of seawater evaporated under the terrifying heat, rising into a white mist that blotted out the sky. A blood-stained streamlined silhouette emerged from the water and hovered on the sea surface under Bai Jingyu's tense gaze.

It is Bai Yuekui's spacecraft.

Immediately afterwards, an ugly, multi-bearded monster surfaced, resembling a whale, with its belly turned up, revealing a huge, charred hole.

"Dad, I'm leaving."

Bai Yuekui's voice came from inside the spacecraft, his words devoid of any emotional fluctuation.

Bai Jingyu was relieved.

"Go ahead, be careful," he instinctively reminded him, momentarily forgetting that Bai Yuekui couldn't hear him.

The mana ecosystem has dominated the Earth for decades, causing the near extinction of plants and animals on land. Only in the vast and deep ocean can creatures survive, but they have all integrated into the ecosystem and become unrecognizable to humans.

The space fighter adjusted its attitude, took off, and accelerated away from the atmosphere, leaving only a blue engine flame that grew increasingly distant in Bai Jingyu's eyes.

Bai Jingyu lowered his head, his gaze falling on the monster's corpse on the water's surface.

Under his gaze, pink granulation tissue grew from the wounds on the monster's corpse. The granulation tissue pushed open the charred scars, intertwined with each other, and quickly formed new flesh and blood tissue, filling the original wounds.

"Woo——"

The monster let out a long, ethereal cry, its body arching upwards.

A few seconds later, it flicked its tail.

Amidst the rising waves, the enormous body suddenly flipped over, then plunged underwater and disappeared without a trace.

Bai Jingyu gazed at the rippling sea and fell into deep thought.

The spacecraft carrying Bai Yuekui plunged into the thick clouds.

Bai Yuekui sat quietly.

The dashboard emitted a soft glow, which made her fair face appear incredibly gentle.

The accelerated load that would be unbearable for ordinary people was like a gentle breeze to her. She simply rested her chin on her hand, her gaze gazing upwards at the sky, her eyes slightly shimmering.

After a while, the spacecraft entered space.

Bai Yuekui opened the communication channel and entered a string of signal codes.

Sizzle—

"Master Lai, are you there?"

Bai Yuekui asked.

The next second, a strange sound came from the communication channel.

"Girl?"

The sound was complex, seemingly coming from many people speaking at the same time, and interspersed with strange roars.

So many voices should have been chaotic like a storm at sea, but the speaker, through his strong will, compressed them into exactly two words.

Just hearing his voice evokes images of a master blacksmith forging a weapon.

Many things, with different hardness, color, and characteristics, are forged and refined on a hammer and anvil until they become one.

Bai Yuekui slowly spoke: "I went there these past few days."

"Stop!" Master Lai suddenly raised his voice. "I don't want to know where you went, and don't let anyone tell me. I won't even try to guess myself."

He sounded a little nervous.

After a two-second silence, Bai Yuekui replied, "Understood."

"Any changes to the plan?" Master Lai paused for a moment. "Just talk to me about things within the plan."

Bai Yuekui nodded: "Let's talk when we meet."

“Okay, the space station is waiting for you,” Master Lai replied.

At that moment, the spacecraft broke through the atmosphere. Bai Yuekui looked down at Earth.

When people are actually in space, they will find that Earth is not as beautiful as it is in textbooks; it is gray and looks a bit dirty.

After being covered by mana, many more red spots appeared.

“Ecology is a disease,” Bai Yuekui murmured.

"It's curable."

She reached out and adjusted the flight path data.

The spacecraft smoothly turned its nose and hurtled toward a point in near-Earth orbit.

There is no air resistance in space, so the spacecraft accelerates very quickly.

Furthermore, this aircraft is equipped with a laser obstacle removal system that can clear debris of all sizes from its flight path.

This allowed Bai Yuekui to reach his destination quickly.

A meteorite.

Or rather, a space station disguised as a meteorite.

Against the backdrop of the deathly blackness of space, the entrance to the space station emitted a hazy blue light.

As the spacecraft approaches the space station, the platform entrance slowly opens.

Moist gas leaked out due to the pressure difference, turning into countless tiny ice particles that pattered against the aircraft's outer shell, producing a soft, rhythmic pattering sound.

The aircraft is parked in the magnetic berth.

Bai Yuekui opened the hatch and walked out on his own.

The interior of the space station was very bright, with all the lights on, illuminating the enclosed space station as if it were daytime.

Most of the fusion batteries that Dragonbone Village collected on the ground were supplied here.

As you walk further in, you can smell a faint aroma of alcohol in the air.

Bai Yuekui raised an eyebrow.

Soon, she found Master Lai in a laboratory.

Master Lai was facing away from the door, lying on the table, seemingly studying something, with a pile of empty wine bottles at his feet.

"Why are you drinking up there? You're going to drink all the wine in the village by yourself," Bai Yuekui said calmly.

Master Lai chuckled: "Hehe—"

He turned around.

The wide neckline revealed blue skin unlike any human's, which was translucent and contained no flesh or blood, but rather tiny specks of light, like a vast starry sky.

For billions of years, life on Earth has been evolving.

The Devouring Beasts can also evolve.

However, their evolutionary speed is much faster than that of ordinary Earth creatures. In just a few decades or even a few years, they can traverse a distance that ordinary Earth creatures cannot cover in hundreds of millions of years.

Pangenetic Devouring Beast, Metamorphic Devouring Beast, King-level Devouring Beast.
As evolution progressed, their intelligence continuously improved.

When they reach the level of a monarch-level Devouring Beast or even higher, they possess thinking abilities comparable to or even surpassing those of humans.

These advanced Devouring Beasts found it difficult to control their thoughts about what they were doing and the meaning behind it.

As a superior species that transcends ordinary living things, they are more eager than humans to seek answers to ultimate questions.

who am I?
Where did I come from?

Where am I going?

From this point on, some Devouring Beasts will refuse to accept the commands of the ecosystem.

They remain neutral between the ecosystem and humans, and even decide to betray the ecosystem and join the human camp because of certain events.

Master Lai is a prime example.

He was a Transformation-level Devouring Beast, a great being surpassing even King-level Devouring Beasts, a creation the ecosystem was proud of, and also a deeply hated traitor, a fool who abandoned the light for darkness.
"You know, those guys keep nagging in my ear, and drinking a little alcohol makes me feel better."

(End of this chapter)