From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

Jiang Liu shook his head, but also encouraged, "But as the old saying goes: 'Where there's a mountain, there are travelers; where there's water, there are boats to ferry people.' At least we haven't been crushed by the black hole, have we?"

"There are ways to get out, we just can't break it from the inside, but if someone can cut it open from the outside, it should be easier."

in short.

Jiang Liu and his group encountered a "mechanism".

Everything in the universe is interconnected and mutually restraining.

Just like in "Journey to the West," even Buddha and Guanyin dared not get close to the Scorpion Demon, and Manjushri Bodhisattva could be submerged in water by mortals and still needed the help of guardian deities to save him, and so on.

Bai Yuekui immediately contacted the intelligent system of the Swift-ΩP, but received no response—they, who were inside the Lalaye, were cut off from communication with the outside world!

“If we can’t make contact, then we’ll have to figure out the secrets of this spaceship.” Golden light shone in Jiang Liu’s pupils.

"But even you can't see through the situation here..."

Lu Jin said worriedly

“We are cultivators, after all. In the past, when we dealt with zombies, explored Bottle Mountain, broke through the Ghost Realm, met Serket, and broke into Atlantis, how could we know anything in detail? We should learn from the ancient apes, muster the courage, and explore the darkness.”

After some encouragement, everyone felt relieved.

Then, with a single thought, the five spirits appeared: the mind monkey entered the girl's heart, the will horse circled the moon's kidneys, the metal spirit penetrated the lungs, the wood mother rooted in the liver, the yellow woman settled the spleen, the five emotions were at peace, the five wills were calmed, and the five colors of Qi transformed into the Great Void.

"The spatial orientation here is distorted, and we might get lost. Let's add an extra layer of insurance, just in case."

Light a lamp inside the skull, and store the five spirits in the chest.

It forms its own vast emptiness, where the fragrance of the Dao permeates body and mind.

Five spirits protect the primordial spirit —

Heart Monkey Red Girl and Will Horse White Moon Kui scout ahead:

During his time managing the lighthouse, the former gained an understanding of its various systems and corresponding control rooms. By applying this knowledge, he was also able to make corresponding inferences about the various systems of the Lalaye spacecraft.

Needless to say, the latter already had some knowledge of the Lalaye and naturally needed to be at the forefront.

Jin Gong Zhang Zhiwei and Mu Mu Lu Jin stood guard on either side of the river.

Although there were lights inside the Lalaiye, the corresponding dimensional space was covered by a dense, unyielding, and invisible darkness. Jiang Liu was the only one among them who could deal with that unknown entity.

Therefore, if any minor troubles arise, they must be the ones to resolve them, while Jiang Liu must always keep himself in top condition.

Huang Po and Mark protected everyone in front of them... mainly guarding Jiang Liu from behind to prevent any unknown attacks and to avoid Jiang Liu being ambushed.

Thus, with Bai Yuekui and Hong Guniang leading the way, the group entered a corridor from the toll control deck. After carefully advancing for nearly twenty meters, they found a door on their right, but it required identity verification to open.

Smash it open violently—

Mark tried it out, and just like the hatch outside the flight control deck, the claw would inexplicably turn open with the slightest force.

“Based on my understanding of the lighthouse, this room is already the central control room of the flight control deck, mainly responsible for opening and closing the hatches and the ascent and descent of those small spaceships.” Red Girl made her judgment, then found a crowbar nearby and handed it to Mark, “Try it.”

Mark was puzzled, but he still grabbed the crowbar and smashed it against the door.

Boom!

The reverberation echoed within the flight control deck.

Let's look at the door to the flight control center—

A dent had appeared on it.

The crowbar was already bent.

"Using your own spear to attack your own shield?"

Zhang Zhiwei pondered, "Was everything inside the spaceship also affected by that invisible darkness?"

"It's more like a confined environment. This spaceship is a world of its own, and we 'messengers of light' with lamps in our ancestral apertures are like 'extraterrestrial demons,' completely out of step with the laws here," Jiang Liu added.

"By the way, didn't you cultivate the Primordial Chaos Qi, which is said to allow you to adapt to any environment?" Bai Yuekui suddenly suspected that Jiang Liu might have already seen through everything, but concealed some information in order to give them a test.

“Within the space of this Lalaiye spaceship, I don’t need to wear spacesuits like you, and I can still use supernatural powers and magic. That’s what you call adaptation.” Jiang Liu was speechless, but he wasn’t curious that this “cunning” octogenarian would think this way.

It's just judging others by one's own standards.

"Grandma Bai..."

"Ok?"

Bai Yuekui glared at Lu Jin, and even though both of them were wearing combat spacesuits, the latter seemed to still be able to sense the former's sharp and deep gaze.

Although Lu Jin has experienced a lot, he is still relatively young. How can he compare to this Grandma Bai?

"Boss Bai."

Lu Jin wasn't afraid of Bai Yuekui, but out of respect, she changed her words, "Brother Jiang is an honest gentleman. If he really wanted to test us, he would say so directly. Why would he hide it?"

“Brother Jiang wouldn’t lie, he’d only kidnap people,” Hong Guniang added.

Bai Yuekui remained noncommittal.

Jiang Liu, however, remained silent and said, "Don't expose my weaknesses, Sister Hong. Besides, what do you mean by 'abducting people'? That was clearly a job posting!"

The tense atmosphere eased somewhat, and everyone felt much happier.

Further on.

A relatively spacious hall came into view. The girl in red changed her smile and became serious instantly, judging that "this place should be a waiting hall or something like that."

After some exploration, the group determined the general layout of the waiting hall:

There is a passage on the left and right.

At the end of the passage on the left are an elevator and a restroom.

At the end of the right-hand passage is the spacecraft's self-testing system workshop, used to check for damage to the spacecraft and to restart the spacecraft's systems.

Fortunately, the door to the self-testing system control room was open, but a mummified corpse lay on the chair in front of the self-testing system console. Its cells had completely lost their vitality. However, this mummified corpse was extremely slender, exceeding three meters in length. The proportions of its legs and arms were extremely disproportionate, and it had four arms, similar to those of a Devouring Beast, but not human hands. Moreover, those smaller arms... actually grew directly from the ruptured intestines in its abdomen!

What's even more terrifying is the head of this "person". The upper part does look like a human, but the hair has all fallen out, and the mouth is wide open. The original upper and lower jaws are turned outwards, and pairs of irregular fangs have grown out, as if it has been infected with some kind of virus and mutated!

"Did this person choose to end their own life after being infected with Mana spores?" Lu Jin noticed a peculiar pistol at the feet of the muzzle. It was made entirely of metal, with three brass-like metal plates at the muzzle. He picked it up and, based on the charred marks on the studio ceiling, concluded that the person had chosen suicide.

Strangely, there were no bullet holes on the body of this "mummy".

"This is a plasma pistol. The bullets are not physical objects, but rather energy beams composed of high-temperature plasma." Bai Yuekui took the plasma pistol, examined it, and confirmed the situation.

"Plasma pistol?"

Mark wondered why the lighthouse didn't have this kind of pistol.

"Among the four major powers of the Old World, only Jerejak possesses it and does not sell it to outsiders. The key lies in the ancient mysterious power and special mineral deposits that exist beneath their territory."

Bai Yuekui explained, then brought up a story about Jerejak: "Jerela has experienced several biohazard incidents, which are rumored to be closely related to the sacred objects found there."

"What exactly is this divine object?"

Red Girl couldn't help but ask.

“I don’t know either. There isn’t a single specific photo of the sacred object that has been circulated, but the people of Jelayra all follow a sect called ‘Unity’.”

At this point, Bai Yuekui removed an identification tag from the tattered clothes on the mummified corpse. It was about the size of a palm and had the words "Isaac Clark" written on it, along with a pattern that looked like a pair of curled, spiraling ram horns.

This is the totem of the Unification Church, a simple depiction of that divine object.

"Something like the horns of some kind of creature?" Zhang Zhiwei guessed.

"Actually, after the disaster broke out, I always thought that the people of Jelayra had dug up the products of the mana ecosystem underground... but now it seems that's not the case."

At least Bai Yuekui believed that Jiang Liu wouldn't speak without reason.

The fact that this Laraya has become such a bizarre existence suggests that it may not be the same entity as the [Will of Mana].

"Although the outside world does not know what the divine object of Jerejad is, there are spies among the four major countries, and some information has been leaked. That is, the researchers of Jerejad have also conducted modern tests on the divine object. There are many unknown elements, and the only element that can be recognized by humans is bismuth, a metal with an extremely long half-life."

Legend has it that scientists in Jehrab, in their quest for eternal energy, replicated several divine artifacts, which were known as the Seals of God.

The replica is easily distinguishable from the original. Because humans cannot create the unknown elements found in the original, the replica uses bismuth instead, giving it a reddish appearance resembling a beating heart; the original, on the other hand, is entirely black.

Bai Yuekui recounted what he knew about the Divine Seal and the Primal Divine Seal, and suspected that the multiple biohazard incidents in Jerera were very likely related to the Divine Seal.

"Then why did the Lalaiye leave the solar system to search for the Divine Seal? And how did the Divine Seal end up in outer space?"

Inside the Lalaiye, Jiang Liu's wisdom and wisdom eyes were rendered useless, as if he had been cut off from the internet and locked in a stuffy, hot cabinet, unable to learn about Earth's past.

Mark in his Devourer form is similar; he cannot connect to the Earth's magnetic field or perceive the wisdom and information since the birth of life. At this moment, the function of the Flow state is merely to help him control every inch of his body's power.

"Because of the biohazard incident—"

Bai Yuekui's expression was solemn. "The effects of the Divine Seal have attracted the attention of the Hela Empire and the Zeon Federation. They launched a war against Jerera on the grounds of 'anti-human biological research'."

Ultimately, Jeremyla was forced to destroy the original and the replica divine seal with a nuclear explosion experiment, but in reality, she secretly sent a replica divine seal into space.

The Lalaya was publicly declared a mining ship, but its true mission was to retrieve the sole divine seal as quickly as possible, while the other three major powers tacitly launched similar operations…

After learning of the existence of the divine seal, everyone present tacitly agreed that the events that befell the Laraye were related to it.

The divine seal must exist on this spaceship!

Chapter 1265 This ASH is not that ASH

After restarting the spaceship system, Bai Yuekui pulled a data cable from the exoskeleton system of his combat spacesuit and connected it to the Lalaiye's system, causing ASH's humanoid image to appear on the big screen.

However, perhaps due to unstable voltage, ASH's humanoid form flickered for a while before stabilizing. With a slight smile, it said, "It's a pleasure to serve you! I have activated the oxygen production system. In just five minutes, you will be able to breathe freely inside the spaceship! I have complete control over the spaceship's systems. If you need anything, just let me know. No matter where you are on the spaceship, I can serve you!"

Control your facial expressions.

Jiang Liu's voice resonated in everyone's minds. [ASH is too human-like.]

ASH is inherently quite user-friendly, provided the hardware allows it...

Wait a minute, something's definitely not right. The artificial intelligence of the Larya was quite primitive, dating back a century. Even if the ASH program incorporated its code, it couldn't possibly be this intelligent.

It is definitely not ASH.

Bai Yuekui made his own judgment.

Will it become aware of our communication?

Mark was a little worried.

[As long as the lamp remains lit, the will hidden in the darkness cannot perceive our thoughts. However, it is best to maintain emotional stability, as intense emotions may allow Him to discern our specific thoughts.]