Chapter 475 - 186: "Blessing" from the Starry Sky, a Sudden Version 4.7 Update

"What?"

On the walls of Qing City, Shen Fei couldn’t quite process the panicked message from Huang Yi at first. The monster tide outbreak, the boss slaughter, the clearing of the ocean monsters, the acquisition of the Bloodline Gemstone... all of it had just taken place on Blue Star, humanity’s home planet. For a moment, Shen Fei truly couldn’t grasp what Huang Yi was talking about.

"Brother Fei!!"

"Mars is gone!!"

"Someone just discovered it!!"

"Here are the before-and-after pictures!!"

Huang Yi, who had sent the message, knew exactly what this meant and just how shocking the news was. Hearing Shen Fei’s confused reply, he immediately re-sent the information.

SWISH!

SWISH!

SWISH!

As Huang Yi sent the confirmation message a second time, he also sent Shen Fei three photos. The first showed a fiery red planet in deep space. The second showed a cylindrical hole on this planet—only a few hundred meters in diameter, infinitesimally small compared to the planet’s total volume. The third photo showed the planet’s molten core erupting from the enormous hole, and as the magma spewed out, the entire fiery red planet instantly exploded into fragments in space.

"Brother Fei!!"

"Every human player around the world should know about this!"

"Right now, all the nations that can still be contacted via their National Treasure Divine Artifacts have discovered this!!"

"Everyone’s panicking!!"

On the Forum, the connections between nations had already been blocked by the rules of the full 4.2 update. And because Blue Star had grown larger, the border areas between nations had expanded by hundreds or even thousands of times. Therefore, with the latest inheritance of game abilities, the only way for nations to communicate directly was through the hyperlink function of the National Treasure Divine Artifacts. Furthermore, due to the previous mandatory quest, many nations had left their real-world National Treasure Divine Artifacts behind in the Game World. As a result, there were very few nations that could still communicate with each other.

Under these circumstances, upon discovering that Mars had shattered, none of the nations that could still communicate concealed the information. Instead, they quickly pooled and exchanged all of their respective intelligence.

Originally, everyone had thought that with the inheritance of game abilities, the disasters humanity faced would mostly occur on the planet beneath their feet. No one could have expected that with the fourth inheritance of game abilities, there would also be a colossal disaster from deep space. Now, even in the Solar System with its eight planets, a major planet had just exploded in deep space.

Mars!! This was the planet in the entire Solar System closest to Blue Star, the one with the most potential for humanity’s second migration!!

With the apocalypse’s arrival, many surviving astronomers, after seeing humanity inherit all sorts of abilities—and seeing those abilities and items gradually grow in power—had actually considered starting an interstellar migration. Faced with a disaster-ridden Earth, they had thought about migrating to another planet in the Solar System: Mars.

According to their observations, among the eight planets of the Solar System, only Blue Star had undergone a mutation, experiencing monster inheritances and the appearance of various things that slaughtered humans. No monsters had been inherited on the other planets. For this reason, some nations with relatively strong surviving astronomical resources were waiting for the right moment—a moment when they could inherit long-range interstellar Teleportation abilities or items. They wanted to establish humanity’s great interstellar migration plan.

Before the apocalypse, human bodies were physically weak and might not have been suited for the environments of other planets. But with the inheritance of game abilities, the physical conditioning of all players was rapidly improving. Moreover, after becoming fully digitized, a human player’s body could even display data like that of a "digital person." Therefore, those astronomers who were contemplating interstellar migration held great dreams and expectations for this so-called plan.

However, what they never, ever expected was that with the fourth inheritance of game abilities, their first choice for an interstellar migration destination—Mars—had, just like that, shattered in deep space.

This scene scared everyone witless. They didn’t know what had happened. Had the apocalypse also begun on other planets in the Solar System, or were there more mysterious invaders from the far reaches of outer space? Or perhaps, had Mars also undergone a mutation, and then, at some stage of that mutation, the entire planet had just... exploded?

If that was really the case, then was Blue Star still safe? Would Blue Star eventually develop a hole too, and then shatter in the vast, starry expanse of the universe? If Blue Star ultimately shattered, would all of humanity’s efforts have been worth it? From the looks of it, even the strongest, "Skyrocketing," couldn’t remain in space for long. Once humanity’s home, Blue Star, also exploded... then what’s the fucking point! Might as well just lie down and wait for death!

Moreover, with Mars’s explosion, countless people were instantly struck with terror. The grand hopes they once held in their hearts all vanished.

You have to understand, many players had played interstellar-themed games before the apocalypse, like *Stellar* or *Endless Lagrange*. The players who chose to inherit from these games...