DDT - Chapter 116
Chapter 116: Interstellar ABO (1)
Perhaps something had gone wrong on the Heavenly Dao's end, but Chi Junluo felt like she had been asleep for a very, very long time. When her consciousness finally returned, her head throbbed with the kind of pain that comes from sleeping too long after pulling several all-nighters.
She could vaguely sense that she was lying down, so she wasn't in a hurry to get up. In the last two worlds, she had barely felt the transition between spacetimes, but this time, her head was aching again. Her body was extremely weak; she couldn't even perform the simple act of lifting a hand.
Could the Heavenly Dao have made a mistake and sent her into the body of a paralyzed person?
Due to her weakness, she found it difficult to open her eyes. Chi Junluo lay there for a while longer before she gradually became aware of a constant "drip, drip" sound next to her ear.
"Beep. Vital signs in the cabin are weak."
"Beep. Heart rate is low. Blood pressure is low."
"Beep. Mental power scan complete. Area four of the brain is severely damaged. Mental power level: C-Class."
"Beep. Body is severely damaged. Physique assessment: F-Class."
"Beep. Alliance Divine Eagle Mecha life-saving cabin system final assessment conclusion: Brain damage at 88%, loss of bodily functions. Incineration standards met. System incineration protocol initiated: Grand General of the Alliance, thank you for your heroic sacrifice for the Alliance. The Alliance is glorious because of you! The citizens of Blue Star will remember you forever. Goodbye."
After lying there for so long, just as she was finally starting to feel a sliver of control over this body, she heard a female voice rattle off a monologue. Then, without any warning, it decided to treat her like scrap and prepare her for cremation. Chi Junluo felt that life was just too damn hard!
She had just arrived in this world! Was she going to be burned alive?
After saying goodbye, the emotionless female voice vanished, replaced by a crackling sound from within the container-like object she was lying in. It sounded like the electrical cables she'd seen burning and snapping in movies. Chi Junluo's instincts—or perhaps the residual consciousness in this body—told her that if she didn't escape this strange place immediately, this body would be burned to a crisp right here!
Who knew what kind of mess that unreliable Heavenly Dao had gotten into this time. After trying and failing to call out to it in her sea of consciousness, Chi Junluo immediately focused her attention on her body. Although she couldn't figure out how this world operated just yet, the most urgent task was to get out of this strange container.
Chi Junluo struggled to send the signal to move her arm from this body's brain.
Suddenly, a searing pain flared across her face. Relying on the faint sensation of pain, she determined that the container was now on fire!
Just as the searing pain spread from her left cheekbone to her entire left eye, her right hand finally received the command. The moment Chi Junluo felt the existence of her right arm, she distinctly sensed it swing violently upward. The speed was so great that it created a sharp, short whistle in the narrow container. Immediately after, she heard a loud bang, and only then did the dull ache from her right arm belatedly arrive.
"Fuck me!" Chi Junluo grimaced in pain, which in turn pulled at the burn on her face. The "exquisite" agony almost made her pass out on the spot.
After the loud bang, the lid or whatever was on top of the container seemed to have been blown off. A bone-chilling wind gusted in, dispersing the acrid smell inside. Chi Junluo's mind cleared instantly. She could hear a multitude of sounds, and control over her limbs returned in a flash. She turned on her side, pushed hard against the bottom of the container with her hands, and her entire body tumbled out onto the ground outside. She grabbed at the ground and came up with a handful of loose sand—no grass, fallen leaves, or vines. With no flammable materials, it was even easier. She rolled frantically on the ground, moving away from the fiercely burning container while simultaneously extinguishing the flames on her body.
The nearby container crackled and burned brightly, occasionally letting out small pops. Chi Junluo lay on the ground gasping for breath after rolling to put out the fire, feeling immensely grateful. It was a good thing she got out when she did, or she might have been nothing but a pile of charred black bones by now.
She brushed the sand from her face. Her left eye was severely burned, but thankfully, her right eye was unharmed. She gently pried her right eye open with her right hand, and her vision was filled with a vast, starry sky.
Countless stars twinkled in the deep blue night. Some even shone with a somewhat dazzling orange-red light. There were two moon-like objects in the sky, one brighter and one dimmer.
She had followed the Heavenly Dao to so many worlds, but not even the night sky in the ancient world was this beautiful and breathtaking.
It would be nice if she could see such a beautiful sight every day in this world.
After admiring the night sky for a moment, Chi Junluo turned her gaze elsewhere.
She turned her head with difficulty, even hearing a "kaka" sound from her cervical vertebrae.
This was a barren, sandy land, with only a few scattered plants that looked like withered shrubs. There wasn't even a bird in sight. It was truly a place where not even a bird would shit.
She turned her head to look back at the container. The flames on it were gradually dying down, likely because it had almost finished burning. Slowly, the charred black wreckage was revealed.
What Chi Junluo hadn't expected was that the wreckage before her, which now looked enormous, was the so-called "container." She had assumed it was only slightly larger than herself.
The wreckage looked like some kind of spaceship or aircraft lying on its side, but it wasn't like the planes or rockets she was familiar with.
The fire had gone out. Chi Junluo rested for a while, and once she felt she could stand, she shakily got to her feet. She seemed to be wearing something like a combat suit. The black and silver suit on her front was only slightly blackened, but the back was shrunken and warped from the fire. After her frantic rolling in the sand, the fire-brittled suit had cracked in many places. The cold night wind blew through the cracks, savaging the burns on her back.
She walked unsteadily to the side of the wreckage. It was about two or three meters taller than her, like a small hill. Even though it was completely destroyed, it still exuded an indescribable pressure, something Chi Junluo had never felt in her life.
She reached out to test the temperature of the wreckage; it was only slightly hot to the touch.
Walking a full circle around the wreckage, Chi Junluo marveled several times. This pile, like a small mountain, resembled a giant humanoid figure lying down. If it was this tall even when prone, how terrifying would it be standing up?
Visually, at least, it would be a huge shock. She remembered seeing a movie called Transformers in her original world. She boldly guessed: was this thing as agile as a Transformer?
It seemed she had arrived in an incredible world…
Chi Junluo did a set of warm-up exercises next to the wreckage and jumped in place a few times to get a rough feel for this body's athletic ability. At the very least, its jumping ability was not bad.
After finding a few footholds, Chi Junluo began to climb.
It took her less than two minutes to easily reach the top of the wreckage.
Standing high, she could see far and wide. Chi Junluo took in the surrounding scenery at a glance. Her guess had been somewhat reliable; this wreckage was indeed a giant, humanoid thing lying down. She was probably standing on the giant's thigh now. Her intuition told her that the core of this thing should be in its chest cavity.
With a little effort, Chi Junluo climbed to the chest area. As she expected, there was a huge crater in the wreckage giant's chest. Everything inside had been burned clean, making it impossible to tell what it originally looked like.
She must have come out from here earlier.
Chi Junluo walked around the large crater a few times, then jumped down into it, hoping to find something to prove her identity.
The result, naturally, was failure.
Chi Junluo leaned against the bottom of the crater in the giant's chest and sat down, briefly sorting through her thoughts. This huge fellow must have been piloted by the original owner of this body. Although the pit looked a bit large, it was really only big enough for one person to move around in. Two people would feel extremely cramped.
To be able to pilot such a massive thing, the original owner must have been doing pretty well in this world. And judging by the attire, the original owner was more likely a soldier from some country in this world.
She carefully recalled the voice she had heard inside this big guy earlier. If she hadn't misheard, the voice from the system was speaking Z-country language, right?
A song suddenly popped into Chi Junluo's head, "The whole world is learning Z-country language~~~"
Could this be a highly advanced future world where a Z-country existed?
Chi Junluo let her mind wander for a while longer before abruptly stopping her wild fantasies.
Because she realized she was hungry…
This was clearly the middle of nowhere. She couldn't even see any trees, not even a patch of grass. She had found nothing in the chest of this giant thing, no food or drink at all. She got out of the wreckage and searched a few hundred meters around, but still found nothing to eat. The shrub-like plants didn't even have a single leaf. Chi Junluo scratched her head, wanting to curse out of frustration.
The wind blew silently across the wilderness, but Chi Junluo couldn't utter a single word. After scratching her head, she looked at her hand, which was full of dry, brittle hair that had been singed by the fire. A stampede of ten thousand alpacas galloped through her heart.
Damn it all, when it rains, it pours. She had no food or drink, her throat seemed to be hoarse, and it was highly likely that the merciless fire had burned her bald.
Was this the legendary Mercury in retrograde?
Chi Junluo obediently returned to the crater. In her mind, she thoroughly cursed out the unreliable Heavenly Dao from top to bottom, inside and out. Just look at this! What the hell kind of situation was this?!
Other people sat around eating and waiting to die. She was sitting, bald, and waiting to die…
Star Calendar 1325. A major event had recently occurred in the Blue Star Alliance. The Western Star Region of the Alliance was attacked by the Zerg. Upon receiving the distress signal from the Western Star Region, the Alliance Main Star immediately convened a war council. The Alliance parliamentarians and the four Grand Admirals of the Alliance all participated in the meeting.
The Western Star Region of the Blue Star Alliance was relatively remote and quite far from the Zerg's habitat. Over the centuries, the number of Zerg attacks on the Western Star Region could be counted on one hand. Even when attacks did occur, they were merely stray Zerg, ones that had lost their way during a war, or exiled Zerg. Such groups typically numbered no more than a hundred. Although the Western Star Region was underdeveloped, dealing with a few dozen Zerg was well within their capabilities.
Therefore, at this war council, neither the parliamentarians nor the several admirals paid much attention to the distress call from the Western Star Region. They just thought the Western Star Region was looking for an excuse to get subsidies for war materials. That was until the head of the information department displayed several slightly blurry photos transmitted from the Western Star Region. It was obvious that these photos were taken in a panicked retreat by people who were extremely frightened. Despite the blurriness, everyone could still see the densely packed swarm of Zerg in the photos.
The admirals had all seen major battles, so they were naturally unfazed by the photos. However, a few of the parliamentarians, accustomed to a life of comfort, looked rather pale upon seeing such close-up shots of a Zerg swarm.
The parliamentarians weren't very adept at handling such matters. The admirals, on the other hand, had all walked step by step over Zerg corpses on the battlefield. It could be said that even if they didn't know the Zerg like the back of their hands, they still knew a great deal. No matter how many Zerg there were in the Western Star Region, it couldn't exceed two thousand. The Blue Star Alliance military was well-equipped, making this an excellent opportunity to train the troops. Normally, the admirals would have fought to secure such a chance for their subordinates to earn free military merits. But this time, the admirals did not argue until they were red in the face as they usually did, because there was an anomaly among them.
Previously, the three Grand Admirals of the Blue Star Alliance came from the three great families. Although they had their families backing them, they had also fought their way up on the battlefield, climbing step by step to their current positions. To attain this position of supreme honor, some had spent sixty or seventy years, while the fastest had taken forty-five.
They enjoyed the glory of defending the Alliance, basked in the fervent adoration of the Alliance's people. They were like shining stars, constantly attracting everyone's attention.
But all of this changed dramatically with the arrival of the young admiral who had newly joined their ranks.
The three "highly respected" admirals shifted their gazes to the young admiral sitting in the corner.
"The Derian family believes that the Zerg in the Western Star Region can be handled by our Alliance Grand General," Admiral Derian said with a gentle smile. He was the oldest of the Blue Star Alliance's admirals. He often put on the air of a caring elder, subjecting the other admirals to his Derian-style ideological education. The other two admirals were only a few or a dozen years younger than him, and being inexplicably treated like sons was naturally a slight they couldn't swallow. The atmosphere between the three of them was often tense. It was only after public opinion on the Star Network criticized the other two for disrespecting their senior and being arrogant that they learned to feign civility in public.
Of course, in private, they were always like they'd eaten a barrel of gunpowder.
It was common for the three old admirals to tear off their masks during important war councils like this, where there were no outsiders. But this time, their actions left the parliamentarians somewhat bewildered. Admiral Derian, who usually maintained a persona of a stern, icy admiral, was suddenly acting gentle. It didn't make anyone feel refreshed; rather, the parliamentarians mostly thought Admiral Derian might have taken the wrong medicine.
What surprised the parliamentarians even more was that the other two admirals, Admiral Kimura and Admiral Oschalavsky, for once did not find fault. On the contrary, they smiled amiably, looking as if they were looking out for the younger generation. "We think so as well."
Kimura added, "I hear the Alliance Grand General lived in the Western Star Region for quite some time. You must be very familiar with it, right?"
"It would be twice as effective, saving unnecessary time and manpower," Admiral Oschalavsky added with a smile.
The parliamentarians couldn't help but look at the center of the discussion.
The one and only super S-class mental power, SSS-class physique, 26-year-old Alpha in the entire Alliance. She had enlisted at 16 and, in just ten years, had accumulated countless military merits to become the youngest admiral in the history of the Blue Star Alliance. In the Star Calendar year 1325, this very year, not only was she promoted to admiral, but the Alliance also bestowed upon this young Alpha the title of "Alliance Grand General" in accordance with public will.
The people's hearts were with her. The young admiral's decades of hard work, her life-and-death struggles, and her repeated massacres of the Zerg had long made her a national idol of the Blue Star Alliance.
Although "Alliance Grand General" was just an honorary title, the other three old admirals didn't see it that way. In their eyes, this little upstart Alpha who had just arrived was already riding on their heads. If this continued, she might as well start pissing on their heads.
The focus of everyone's attention, the young admiral, showed no dissatisfaction at the mention of her background. Nor did she display the insecurity the other three admirals wanted to see. She simply nodded slightly and grunted an "Mm" to show she had no objection.
For the young admiral, all she cared about was whether her task was to kill Zerg. Beyond that, she had not the slightest interest.
And so, the young admiral received her orders and headed to the Western Star Region of the Blue Star Alliance to exterminate and repel the Zerg. Given her overwhelming strength, the other three admirals only sent a few subordinates who were looking to rack up some military merits to accompany her. The temporary mission squad, consisting of just sixteen people, departed under the enthusiastic send-off of the young admiral's fans on the Main Star.
To the parliamentarians, the ever-victorious general's expedition was a guaranteed victory; they were very much at ease. To the fans, their Alliance Grand General was just going to the West to relax and kill a few Zerg along the way.
And to the three old admirals, who appeared kind and benevolent on the surface, this was perhaps a golden opportunity to eliminate a thorn in their side.
That was what they thought, what they planned, and in the end, they got the result they wanted.
The young admiral, along with her mecha, was blasted into smithereens by thirty of the latest super energy quantum cannons wielded by her fifteen companions.
The pitiful admiral, while fighting hard against the Zerg, had entrusted her back to her comrades, who turned out to be the very people who took her life.
The news of the Alliance Grand General's disappearance during combat in the Western Star Region quickly spread throughout the entire Blue Star Alliance.
The Star Network's trending topics were soon dominated by the Grand General.
#AllianceGrandGeneralMissing#
#RareSwarmOfThousandsOfZergInWesternStarRegion#
#GrandGeneralsSquadWipedOut#
#AdmiralChiFledInFearOfPunishment#
Every trending topic was followed by a blood-red "EXPLODING" tag. The netizens of the Blue Star Alliance were stunned. In their eyes, the young Admiral Chi was practically a god. How could there be Zerg in this world that a god couldn't kill?
This incident was extremely strange. The netizens weren't fools. Admiral Chi was a super-strong Alpha who could charge in and out of a million-strong Zerg army seven times without a scratch. How could she possibly be defeated by a mere few thousand Zerg?
Besides, normally, for such a small number of Zerg, why would an Alliance admiral even need to be deployed?
How could a Zerg force that an ordinary army could annihilate possibly cause the Alliance's strongest Alpha to go missing?
The last trending topic seemed even more ridiculous. Admiral Chi had never wavered in the face of millions of Zerg. How could she possibly "flee in fear of punishment"?
In the last trending topic, the only survivor of the entire mission squad, a male beta, said in an interview from the intensive care unit that Admiral Chi had suddenly turned on her own team just as they were preparing to attack the Zerg, slaughtering fourteen of her teammates. He had been far away and managed to escape by a stroke of luck. Afterward, Admiral Chi had fled to escape punishment.
Faced with the combat footage provided by the beta soldier who had narrowly escaped, the netizens weren't buying it. In this era of incredibly advanced technology, people only trusted live broadcasts, because any standalone video could be fabricated.
Many fans followed the clues of the incident and developed their own conspiracy theories.
The fans firmly believed that there was a mastermind behind Admiral Chi's disappearance. After some logical reasoning online, the netizens found that the mastermind pointed directly to the three Grand Admirals of the Main Star.
The three old admirals, who had long since torn off their masks with each other: ???
The three old geezers had to admit that this generation of netizens was truly outstanding.
But so what if the fans were outstanding? So what if they guessed who was behind it? The person who was supposed to be dead was already dead.
Due to the special nature of military combat, any Alliance soldier who went missing on the battlefield, as long as no body was found, would first be listed as missing. Only if they were not found after a year of being missing could they be considered killed in action.
Therefore, none of the fans gave up hope. After all, their Admiral Chi was such a powerful and talented young person. Her life had just begun. They firmly believed that the "Alliance Grand General" was recuperating on some planet in the Western Star Region. She would definitely return to the Alliance after her injuries healed, and by then, the truth would naturally come to light!
The three decrepit old admirals, however, paid the matter no mind. In their view, the fans were too naive. So what if she was the strongest Alpha in the Alliance? At the end of the day, she was still human. It was the fans who had deified her.
As long as Admiral Chi was human, she could be eliminated by them. And as it turned out, in this technologically advanced, materialistic era, deification was nothing but a joke.
"Clink."
Three tall glasses filled with red wine clinked together cheerfully. The three old admirals were having a rare celebration for what they considered a joyous occasion.
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