Chapter 1628: Chance Encounter

Chapter 1628: Chapter 1628: Chance Encounter

The surroundings were silent, with only the floating corpses of dead oxen and a spaceship whose fate was unknown, as well as a few corpses with exceedingly bizarre death appearances.

After a long time, the surroundings remained silent, as if all life had perished.

Yue Qiguang’s flushed face turned pale white, gradually progressing towards a dark purple... He looked extremely restless in death. Beside him, Liu Fufeng, Shen Changqing, and Sheng Qingyan’s faces also gradually turned pale gray...

On top of the ox corpse, Ji You, He Bi, Chu Jiaojiao, and Yue Qiyuan’s death appearances were equally restless, especially Ji You, whose face was full of resentment, seemingly confused about why he had died rich.

Time flowed slowly...

All was silent.

Just as the ’corpses’ on the spaceship’s deck were about to reveal their deception, suddenly, a terrifying pressure began spreading through the passage...

Whoosh~

The pressure seemed to solidify, spreading in all directions, with the passage relentlessly under pressure’s assault...

Yue Qiguang’s dark purple face rapidly turned red, then swiftly back to dark purple.

Outside the passage walls.

Swarms of black dots surged against the passage walls, striving repeatedly yet failing to breach the barrier.

But it seemed unwilling to give up, continuing to attempt.

Plop~

Plop~

Plop~

Sounding like raindrops hitting banana leaves, the noise repeatedly echoed as the passage wall endured hit after hit but held strong.

The passage wall was made from a very special material, which was easy to break from the inside but extremely difficult from the outside...

The bizarre Star Beast covered in black dots, sticky and hollow, kept colliding and colliding...

And all efforts were futile.

If Ji You and others opened their eyes and saw the creature’s appearance, they would be stunned because it resembled a monster that had previously appeared—like frog spawn...

The monster, sticky all over, upon inspecting closely, revealed countless pairs of eyes, seeming to return your gaze when you fixed your eyes upon it...

Overall, it looked somewhat eerie.

Bang~

Bang~

Bang~

...

Its eyes kept opening and closing, failing to breach the passage wall, it started swimming, attacking the wall with its head.

Again, it couldn’t break through.

After several attempts, it finally gave up.

Then.

It carefully scrutinized the dead oxen and several human ’corpses’, observing them repeatedly to confirm these little bugs seemed truly dead.

Not pretending.

Forget it.

It had no interest in spoiled food, preferring the taste of fresh prey.

Thinking this, it turned its body and vanished from sight in an instant.

second.

seconds.

seconds.

...

When it completely disappeared and didn’t intend to return, the group of people who died extremely unpeacefully, along with Old Yellow Bull, suddenly opened their eyes, with Yue Qiguang jumping dramatically.

Ji You slapped his thigh hard: "What the hell is that thing? Why is it so terrifying? Feels like if it finds us, we’re all going to meet our ends!"

While saying this, Ji You fixed his eyes on He Bi.

He Bi shook his head, saying: "Don’t ask me, I don’t know what that creature is; it’s nowhere in the Cosmic Star Beast Record."

Yue Qiyuan, with lingering fear, said: "I almost slipped up just now; had it not suddenly left, we might have been in big trouble."

"No problem." Ji You stood on his tiptoes, patting Yue Qiyuan’s shoulder, saying: "Next time, try harder. Acting needs practice and action, with enough experience; your skills naturally improve."

While they talked among themselves, a more quick-to-feign death Old Yellow Bull suddenly flicked its tail, placing its tip directly on Ji You’s shoulder.

The next second, Old Yellow Bull roared: ’Moo——’

[Work!]

This work needed undoubtedly is for their group to continue treating its injuries.

Ji You rolled his eyes, saying: "You’re just waiting for us to repair and heal your body, but you need to understand that the premise we’re helping you with is conditional!"

Old Yellow Bull flicked its tail slightly, then quickly tucked it away and hid.

Was this fellow feeling guilty?

Ji You snorted, saying: "Keep running, then we’ll repair you, repair your body, doesn’t stop you from running away; didn’t you run quite fast just now?"

Old Yellow Bull blinked, as if pondering.

Ji You wasn’t going to humor it anymore, directly saying: "For every meter you run, we’ll repair a proportion of your skin at a ratio of 1:100."

At this point, Ji You paused briefly, saying: "If you run 1000 meters, we’ll repair 10 millimeters of your skin, that’s our arrangement. Whenever you start running, we’ll start working."

Old Yellow Bull: "Moo!"

[Run.]

Old Yellow Bull was straightforward, after figuring it out, it immediately began to run.

Ji You and He Bi quickly seized the opportunity to treat Old Yellow Bull’s wounds.

The treatment instrument’s light kept flickering, constantly moving alongside Ji You and others’ movements, as they updated their position.

Although Old Yellow Bull wasn’t slow, Ji You felt the time expended was excessive and estimated they could shave off about another 30 seconds.

Treatment continued, and Old Yellow Bull’s originally uneven skin also improved. Clearly, the human-provided treatment was effective for Old Yellow Bull.

However, humans’ treatment instruments can only heal external injuries; as for Old Yellow Bull’s internal injuries—how severe they were and whether it threatened its life, without cooperation, Ji You couldn’t ascertain.

...

The passage gradually widened, and on the journey ahead, it not only failed to narrow but seemed to be expanding even more; it wasn’t just the size of two previous journeys, Ji You estimated now it was five to six times larger.

With the creature resembling frog spawn looming over their consciousness, Ji You and the others dared not relax, all remaining wary and vigilant.

Just when Ji You and others focused intensely on their surroundings, Ji You suddenly saw something flash past outside the passage wall. Initially thinking it was a hallucination, she looked closely and realized she hadn’t mistaken.

What she saw wasn’t anything else but a human-made spaceship, its serial number visible to Ji You.

"That’s—" Chu Jiaojiao said, somewhat unsure, "That spaceship seems to be the one Shen Sheng’s team uses, right?"

"Yes." Ji You squinted, staring beyond the passage wall at the spaceship silently hovering. Not a single person was on the deck. Whether everyone had died or just fainted wasn’t clear.