Chapter Ninety-Four: Despair, Despair

As soon as the senior official said this, everyone, including War Blade and Lin Xingyun, wore different expressions.

"That day was the first crimson descent. Could it have been because of that?" War Blade asked in confusion.

The senior official replied, "No. The Heavenly Origin Realm has not yet found the exact cause, but that possibility can be ruled out.

"The Heavenly Origin Realm calls your universe the Second Universe. The invasion began more than a hundred years ago. Many star systems in your universe have already fallen to us. Earth is nothing more than an unremarkable little planet and is not enough to affect the Chaos Space.

"What you call the crimson descent is merely the aura that leaked from those spatial rifts after the Heavenly Origin Realm invaded the Second Universe. Because your universe possesses self-protective awareness, it brought down Origin Beads. But a mere Earth cannot cross the chaos and influence parallel worlds."

Lin Xingyun and the others all turned grim.

They had once thought this was merely a human disaster, never imagining it was instead a catastrophe for the entire universe, with Earth being nothing more than an insignificant invasion anchor that had not even been taken seriously.

The impact of this answer on their worldview was immense.

Not only them.

Even Gu Sha, who had endured twenty years of the apocalypse, was stunned.

He understood why the authorities in his previous life had concealed so many things, never publicly revealing the matter of the other-dimensional space, never disclosing the origin of this calamity.

It simply could not be made public.

If it were, there would likely be nothing left but despair.

Not a shred of hope.

Even Gu Sha, now the number one person in the world, felt despair as his first reaction to those words.

The universe was so vast that Earth could not even be called a drop in the ocean, and yet this disaster was of such magnitude that even the universe might not be able to endure it. As for humanity... what right did it have to save anything?

Still,

having survived in hopelessness for twenty years,

Gu Sha's state of mind far surpassed that of ordinary people. He quickly steadied himself and continued his questioning.

Soon, he had learned nearly everything he wanted to know.

For now, Earth was not quite so hopeless.

The universe they lived in was not without the ability to resist. Before the Heavenly Origin Realm's invasion, there had already been advanced civilizations in this universe; Earth was simply too small and too backward to come into contact with them.

In the face of the Heavenly Origin Realm's invasion, this universe was also responding actively.

Thus, the interuniversal war had actually been raging for more than a hundred years, only reaching Earth this year and causing Earth’s great mutation.

And this small other-dimensional space was merely an exploratory team released by one of the countless races of the Heavenly Origin Realm, much like a space probe launched from Earth into the outer reaches of space.

Having acquired a certain understanding of Earth, this group from the zombie race used some soul-based methods to take a batch of humans—whom they regarded as livestock and food—from Heavenly Origin Realm control, and simulated a city resembling an Earth metropolis. Their aim was to lure Earth’s humans into breaking the spatial barrier on their own side, so they could use that to establish a complete spatial channel and then invade Earth.

"So you can't directly open a spatial rift right now?" Gu Sha asked.

The senior official said, "Parallel universes may seem adjacent, but in truth the span between them is enormous. Although we have seized some spatial rifts, the Second Universe has a unique cosmic self-protective awareness. If Earth does not proactively establish a spatial channel, then for us to do it alone will take a great deal of time. Based on our current progress, it will take at least three more years."

Gu Sha was slightly startled.

From his twenty years of memories of the future, Earth’s massive expansion had also begun roughly three years later.

But if what this zombie race said was true, then it was because of that suddenly appearing force of time that they had been able to dock several years earlier. In other words, without that acceleration of time, they would have needed six years to invade Earth.

So there was clearly more than one other-dimensional space docked on Earth. Moreover, Bai Ziyu of the Pure World Association had also once accidentally entered another other-dimensional space.

"How many small spaces like yours are docked on Earth?" Gu Sha asked.

"That I do not know," the senior official said. "The Heavenly Origin Realm is vast beyond measure, with countless races. There is no telling how many races or factions have discovered Earth, and their strength and methods differ as well. It is hard to say whether they are faster or slower than us."

Gu Sha said solemnly, "But one thing is certain: if the Earth side does not proactively establish a spatial channel, then the invasion can at least be delayed to some extent, correct?"

"Yes."

Gu Sha's pupils contracted slightly. He looked toward Lin Xingyun and War Blade, whose emotions had not yet recovered, and said, "All right. I now know everything I needed to know. Ask whatever you want to ask. I'm going out to hunt some corpse cores. Also, a friendly reminder: you'd best stay here until the outside spatial compartment opens. Don't go out. There are many high-level zombies in this city, and you can't handle them!"

According to these senior officials,

they had controlled a batch of humans and simulated Earth cities, but many members of the zombie race were mixed in here, disguising themselves among the humans with certain Heavenly Origin Realm methods.

However, the zombie race reproduced at an astonishing rate.

In ten years, they were equivalent to a hundred years of human history, and during that time they had bred many zombies. Some evolved into perfect zombie clans with intelligence, but most were mindless zombies. They had been confined in special places, yet after the artillery bombardment a few days ago, those zombies had also escaped, leaving many high-level zombies loose.

"Don't worry, Big Boss God of Slaughter," War Blade immediately said. "I'll definitely listen to you and stay right here obediently. I won't go anywhere."

Lin Xingyun, standing nearby, also nodded.

Gu Sha said nothing more and turned to leave.

If not for wanting to uncover the secrets of the other-dimensional space, he would already have gone out to kill zombies. There were many high-level zombies in this place, and in a dozen or so hours, he might be able to gather enough corpse cores to advance directly to the Second-Grade Battle King.

...

Watching Gu Sha leave in such a free and easy manner, War Blade felt a surge of excitement and said admiringly, "If only I could be as dashing as Big Boss God of Slaughter someday. Going wherever I want, doing whatever I want—that would be so damn cool!"

Lin Xingyun sighed. "But... this cosmic catastrophe..."

War Blade fell silent at once.

Because of Gu Sha's departure, the few psychic ability users could no longer continue controlling the zombie race's senior officials with mental power and had to resort to other methods of interrogation.

After a long while,

one of the zombie race's senior officials suddenly looked at War Blade and Lin Xingyun and said, "I have a way to help you reach that person's level of cultivation!"

The End