Collapse Iron: Cosplaying the Near-Death Star, but with a full destiny.

Hoshi felt a tingling sensation on her scalp.

Yao Qing?

That immortal ship, renowned for its martial prowess and commanded by General Feixiao?

In the original "script", shouldn't Yao Qing's main enemy be Bu Liren?

Why did it turn into... a calamity?

"wrong……"

Hoshino instinctively took half a step back, her back bumping into Hoshino's body.

"Something's not right."

She screamed wildly in her heart.

This is definitely not the timeline she knows!

The Butterfly Effect.

That damned butterfly, its storm has finally reached here.

Because she changed the fate of so many people, because she forcibly reversed time with the power of "the end".

universe……

It has corrected itself.

It exists to fill the gaps in cause and effect, and to balance the lives that were forcibly preserved.

It created a new and even more terrifying enemy.

"Yaoqing Immortal Boat..."

Fu Xuan's expression turned extremely grim as he looked at the red data streams.

She waved her sleeve.

"Come with me."

"Some things cannot be understood by reading words alone."

Fu Xuan led the two towards a separate hall deep within the Taibu Si (a government office).

This place contains historical images from other celestial ships, recorded through the "Jade Sign".

The gate burst open with a roar.

There were no lights inside.

Only countless fragments of memory, suspended in the air, emitted a faint, cold light.

Fu Xuan raised his hand and made a gesture.

A red jade tablet, exuding a strong aura of blood, flew in front of everyone.

Light and shadow unfold.

Hoshi and Hoshi finally saw the true face of the so-called "Disaster".

That's not a battlefield.

That's a slaughterhouse.

The scene is on a deck of the Yaoqing Immortal Ship.

There was no sign of Bu Liren.

Instead, the ground was covered with... "衃".

A dark red substance, like congealed rotten blood, covered every inch of the land.

They wriggle and flow as if they were alive, devouring all the organic matter they came into contact with.

And in that sea of ​​blood.

Countless monsters, with only human-shaped outlines but no facial features, were staggering forward.

Their bodies are forcibly kneaded from scraps of flesh and bone fragments—that's what "臡" means.

They have no weapons.

Because their bodies are weapons.

They pounced on the heavily armored Cloud Cavalry. Instead of biting, they... merged.

Once contact occurs.

The armor of the Cloud Cavalry softened rapidly, as if it had been corroded by strong acid.

The flesh inside instantly collapsed, turning into something like the "skin".

"ah--!!!"

A heart-wrenching scream can be heard in the video.

But the screams quickly became muffled and blocked.

It's like having countless fish bones stuck in your throat.

That's "骾".

Those monsters would drill into the victim's seven orifices, turning into countless sharp bone spikes that would tear and rip the person apart from the inside.

And the infected people.

They will not die immediately.

They will remain conscious even in extreme pain.

Watching my body melt away bit by bit, watching myself turn into that disgusting monster.

This nightmare from which you cannot wake up.

That is "Nightmare".

"This is too much..."

Xing covered her mouth, her stomach churning.

She had seen rift monsters, swarms of insects, and antimatter legions.

But I've never seen anything like this before...

To desecrate the existence of life.

This is a species born entirely for "disgust" and "pain".

"This is the war that Yaoqing is facing."

"According to records, this war has lasted for over a thousand years."

"It's even longer than the harassment by the Bu Li people."

"The reason why the entire population of Yaoqing Immortal Ship is mobilized as soldiers, and why General Feixiao is hailed as 'Heavenly Strike,' is not solely to fight against the Fengrao people."

"Moreover, it's for... suppressing these things."

Fu Xuan slid his finger.

Screen switch.

This time, it's not a battlefield that's being shown.

It is a planet.

One...

A suffocating planet.

It floats against the dark backdrop of the universe.

The entire piece is a deep, almost black, blue.

The surface is covered with a thick layer of ocean.

There is no land.

There are only endless waves and bottomless abysses.

"This is the source."

Fu Xuan pointed to that planet.

"The observations of Yaoqing Taibusi show that all the '魙', all the '衃, 臡, 骾, 魇', in the initial samples..."

"They all come from here."

The star stared intently at that planet.

A strange sense of familiarity and fear welled up in my heart at the same time.

Deep blue.

Ocean.

And... that indescribable sense of being watched from beneath the deep sea.

Fu Xuan's voice echoed in the empty hall.

He read out the code name of that planet.

"Number: 4546".

"Deep Blue Planet".

"Yaoqing once dispatched seven expeditionary fleets in an attempt to eliminate these monsters at their source."

……

Her gaze was fixed on the suspended jade disc, seemingly welded to it. The planet in the holographic projection possessed an almost serene beauty. Deep blue oceans covered more than ninety percent of its surface, and white vortices swirled in its atmosphere, like a sapphire set in velvet.

But then...

The "gem" cracked.

It was not hit by a meteorite, nor was it swept by a celestial storm.

It's like a berry that's ripe to its fullest extent, its peel no longer able to contain the flesh inside, slowly and slipperily splitting open a huge crack from the equator.

That's not the movement of tectonic plates.

It was some kind of biological, disgusting "proliferation".

A large amount of dark red substance gushed out from the crack, instantly staining the surrounding azure sea red.

The substances expanded rapidly in the vacuum, and instead of solidifying due to the low temperature, they extended greedily into the surrounding void, like conscious tentacles.

"It is... splitting apart."

Xing's voice was a little tense. She subconsciously gripped the Flame Spear at her side, her fingertips pressing a red mark on the handle.

The video started to speed up.

That planet, numbered 4546, completed a terrifying self-replication within just a few star days.

The gushing dark red material gathered together under the influence of gravity, forming a new, smaller satellite.

The satellite is entirely blood red, with a pitted and uneven surface covered with pulsating grooves like blood vessels.

As soon as it took shape, it immediately flew toward another nearby habitable planet.

It's like a dandelion seed drifting in the wind.

However, after this seed took root, what grew was not a flower, but hell.

The screen flickered again.

The unfortunate planet chosen by the "seed" had its once lush green surface decay the moment it came into contact with that red color.

The forest withered, turning into a grayish-black slime.

The river has dried up, and the riverbed is littered with the bones of unidentified creatures.

The atmosphere was stained a rusty color, and countless "shrews"—monsters made of scraps of flesh and bone—surged out from the point of impact like a tide, submerging cities and civilization.

"This is how 'disasters' spread."