To ensure safety, Xiao Yu severed all contact with the Divine Ark Civilization. Because of this, Xiao Yu had no idea what was currently happening within the Divine Ark Civilization. But he imagined that no major upheaval would occur. The program he had left behind was now acting in his place, completing the tasks that used to belong to him. It simply no longer had a soul. It was nothing more than a cold piece of code.

Xiao Yu had confidence in the members of the Social Committee, and he also had confidence in the members of the Military Committee. Xiao Yu believed they would lead the Divine Ark Civilization to continue growing stronger. As for himself… the road ahead was shrouded in mist. He would simply take one step at a time.

“I want to go back to the Solar System. Even if I die, I want to die in my homeland.” Xiao Yu thought silently. After confirming the coordinates of the Solar System, he began traveling toward it at a speed of over one hundred and forty times the speed of light.

Xiao Yu was not optimistic about his situation. Deep in his heart, there was always a lingering sense of unease, as if a great danger might descend in the very next instant. Xiao Yu knew he was not safe right now, not safe at all.

Although the Solar spaceship ranked second in combat strength among all the known forces in the Milky Way Galaxy, Xiao Yu still did not feel safe. He did not know when danger would come, nor what kind of danger he would encounter.

“I have to go back to the Solar System. I must return to the Solar System.” Xiao Yu thought.

After Xiao Yu left, the Divine Ark Civilization’s small universe remained there, motionless. No new traction ship emerged to tow it forward. Xiao Yu did not know what was happening inside, nor did he want to know. From this moment on, the Divine Ark Civilization no longer had anything to do with him. How they would walk their next path was their business. His involvement could only bring unexpected dangers to the Divine Ark Civilization.

So Xiao Yu left resolutely, keeping on until the spatial ripples created by the small universe could no longer be detected by him. Xiao Yu knew that from now on, if the Divine Ark Civilization’s small universe departed from its original location, he would never again be able to actively find it.

The Solar spaceship was racing forward through curvature space. It was about six thousand light years away from the Solar System. At Xiao Yu’s current speed, it would only take a few dozen years to arrive.

But Xiao Yu knew he would not make it to the Solar System. Because at this moment, a familiar figure appeared in front of him, a figure that was also the last thing he ever wanted to see.

The Neutron War Star. After killing Xiao Yu’s Specter companion, the Neutron War Star had once again appeared here. Perhaps it was merely on its way back, searching for a suitable stellar system in which to rest and recuperate. Or perhaps it was simply here to gather certain ores, to investigate something. There were thousands of possibilities, but there was absolutely no possibility that it had come here to pursue Xiao Yu.

Because Xiao Yu was one hundred percent certain that the Spatial Bombs would erase all traces of his escape. The Sweepers Civilization could not possibly track him. The Sweepers Civilization surely understood this very well, so they would not waste their efforts.

Yet the reality was just this coincidental. It had just so happened to run into Xiao Yu.

At the very instant he encountered the Neutron War Star, Xiao Yu felt his heart sink down, falling into a bottomless abyss. Although under the assault of the Specter companion, the Neutron War Star’s mass had already decreased significantly. A loss of mass meant that the overall structure of the Neutron War Star had to readjust, and such a degree of structural readjustment would definitely affect the various setups within it. In other words, the Neutron War Star was certainly heavily damaged at the moment.

But… even heavily damaged, it was still the Neutron War Star. It still was not something a conventional warship could oppose, not even when that warship was Xiao Yu’s strongest vessel, the Solar spaceship.

Xiao Yu saw that after a brief pause, the Neutron War Star rushed toward the Solar spaceship as if it had just discovered a meat pie falling straight from the sky.

“Am I really this unlucky…” Xiao Yu muttered to himself. “This, this is way too fast…”

Meanwhile, in another corner of the Milky Way Galaxy, a being with the appearance of an Earth girl sat cross-legged on the peak of a mountain on an Earth-like planet. Her eyes remained fixed on the deep, dark sky and had never turned away for even a moment.

Her heart had never been at peace. A strange sensation kept circling in her chest.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, she stood up and activated her antigravity flight mode, soaring into the sky. She still belonged to the category of Level 4 Alien Beasts, and a Level 4 Alien Beast had already evolved antigravity organs within its body.

She swiftly passed through the atmosphere of the Earth-like planet. In the intense friction with the air, the clothes on her body suffered no damage at all. From her perspective, the flat ground beneath her field of view began to curve, becoming more and more curved, and eventually turning into a sphere. She had already arrived in outer space.

Just then, a small asteroid, nearly a perfect rectangular cuboid, was hurtling toward the Earth-like planet at extremely high speed. As it passed by her, she reached out and grabbed it in her hand.

It was certain that natural evolution could not produce a celestial body so close to a perfect rectangular cuboid. So it had to have been manufactured by some civilization. As the species leader of the Arrow Beast Race, Lorna had the responsibility to investigate any civilization that attempted to make contact with her race. In her view, this stone tablet was undoubtedly a signal from another civilization trying to reach her race.

However, when she saw the writing carved onto the stone tablet, she froze. She was very familiar with this script. She even knew that this script belonged to an intelligent species on a distant world called Earth. The reason she knew these things was because someone had once told her all of this. That person was named Xiao Yu.

And among the words carved into this stone tablet, those two words ‘Xiao Yu’ were also included.

“Divine Ark Civilization, Xiao Yu.”

There were six words in total carved on the stone tablet. Just these six words were enough to send Lorna’s heart surging like raging seas. In that instant, her tears would not stop flowing, yet at the same time, the unease in her heart grew even stronger.

“Brother Xiao Yu, have you run into danger and are calling Lorna to come help you? Wait for me, you must hold on. I will set off right away…” Lorna murmured, and carrying the stone tablet, she quickly returned to the surface of the planet.

Three days later, over thirty thousand Arrow Beasts left the planet that had nurtured them and stepped into the pitch-black universe they had always feared and never wished to touch.

By calculating the trajectory of the stone tablet, the Arrow Beasts could roughly determine the direction from which it had come. But this method was not reliable, because in the universe there were too many uncertainties. It was entirely possible that the stone tablet had once been affected by the gravity of other stars and had its orbit altered, or that it had been struck by other meteorites. All these things were hard to say for certain. But the Arrow Beasts still set out. They firmly believed that they would definitely find that Earth human, Xiao Yu, who had saved their entire race tens of thousands of years ago.

At this moment, Xiao Yu was fleeing in utter disarray. Never before had Xiao Yu felt himself so close to death as at this moment. It was to the extent that, just by a hair’s breadth, the Neutron War Star would have slammed into the main control computer of the Solar spaceship. Xiao Yu resided within the main control computer. If the main control computer were destroyed, Xiao Yu would, naturally and without suspense, die.

But Xiao Yu had survived, at the price of the destruction of the Solar Star-Class warship. Yes, the Solar Star-Class warship had already been destroyed. Even though the Solar had adopted tens of thousands of four-dimensional shields, was equipped with the only two-dimensional shield and two-dimensional weapons in the Milky Way Galaxy, employed holographic defense technology and holographic attack technology, and carried all manner of shields and weapons far more advanced than the Sweepers Civilization’s conventional technology, the Solar spaceship still was no match for the heavily damaged Neutron War Star. The moment it encountered the Neutron War Star, the destruction of the Solar spaceship had already been decided.

Yet Xiao Yu still managed to escape. When he built the Solar spaceship, Xiao Yu had adopted a dual-layer spaceship design. The so-called dual-layer spaceship design meant constructing the main control computer, backup energy supplies, and those precious materials, such as Zhang Shengya’s corpse and the soul energy separated from the Specter companion, all as a self-contained, independently navigable spaceship. Xiao Yu’s main control computer was housed inside a small spaceship, and that small spaceship in turn was housed inside the Solar Star-Class spaceship. The Solar Star-Class spaceship was destroyed, but this small spaceship carried Xiao Yu out.

This small spaceship was named Hope by Xiao Yu. As the name implied, when he faced a dead end with no way forward, this small spaceship would be Xiao Yu’s last hope.

After all, the Neutron War Star had taken far too much damage. When it destroyed the Solar spaceship, it was once again shaken in its own structure by the intense self-destruction of the Solar, which included the explosions of countless Spatial Bombs. As a result, once more it temporarily lost the ability to move. And the explosions of the Spatial Bombs once again erased all traces of the small escaping spaceship.

Thus, Xiao Yu had once again escaped with his life.

However, a difficult problem now stood in front of Xiao Yu.

The self-destruction of the Solar spaceship had not only successfully delayed the Neutron War Star and erased the traces of his escape, it had also caused some damage to this small spaceship, which was built using the sturdiest and most advanced materials. In fact, at this moment, this small spaceship could only travel at less than one hundred times the speed of light. And even at such a speed, Xiao Yu did not know how long this small spaceship could maintain it.

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