Never Seen a Handsome Guy

Ye Chuan's fingers paused on the controller.

He didn't know if it was just an illusion, but he felt an uncomfortable sensation, as if something major was about to happen.

Forget it...

Ye Chuan pinched the bridge of his nose.

Lan Xiaoke was still muttering beside him about how he hadn't been taking it seriously just now, while Ye Yue sat obediently on the carpet.

Only Lilith seemed to notice something, raising her eyes to glance at Ye Chuan.

"What's wrong?" Lilith asked, her arms crossed and her tone as casual as ever.

"That expression doesn't look like you just lost a game."

Ye Chuan put down the controller and smiled. "It's nothing."

While waiting for Ke Ning's results over the next few days, Ye Chuan was also preparing to log in—

Time to work!

Log in and get to work!

When he opened his eyes again, he had returned to the New Century side.

The lighting inside the Phantom remained soft. Compared to the noisy living room in reality, it was excessively quiet here.

Su Rui was sitting in the pilot's seat adjusting the flight path. Hearing the movement behind her, she asked, "You're awake?"

"Yeah."

Su Rui glanced at the navigation chart.

"We are preparing to return to the Human Federation now, but we need to pass by the Zeus Space Station for supplies first."

Ye Chuan leaned back in his chair and waved his hand casually. "Alright, you just fly it."

His mind was still a mess, constantly thinking about the matters concerning Qian Shuang and Luo Xi.

The Phantom soon entered a hyperspace jump. Starlight stretched into countless long, thin lines as the spaceship shot through the pitch-black universe like a streak of silver light, heading toward the star system where the Zeus Space Station was located.

Along the way, Lin Xi kept asking how big the Star Lord actually was. Ye Chuan casually gestured, saying it was about the size of a galaxy. Lin Xi fell silent for a long time after hearing that, and eventually, she silently opened her last will and testament document.

Seeing her do this, Su Rui couldn't help but facepalm. "You're writing your will again?"

Lin Xi looked serious. "I think when operating with Mr. Ye, my will needs to be updated in real-time. Otherwise, if I die suddenly, it would be really awkward to have an outdated version."

Ye Chuan watched her typing and couldn't help but ask, "What are you writing this time?"

Lin Xi thought for a moment. "I'm writing that if I die, please don't scatter my ashes in space, because Mr. Ye might throw planets around like balls, and it would be bad if I got hit."

Su Rui's mouth twitched, and for a moment, she didn't know how to retort.

Ye Chuan evaluated it seriously: "Very logical."

The Phantom traveled through the jump corridor for several hours. It wasn't until the starlight ahead reconverged that the ship slowly broke out of the distorted space, and the silhouette of the Zeus Space Station appeared in the distance.

However, the three of them quickly noticed something was wrong.

The originally bustling and bright Zeus Space Station was now shrouded in a layer of grayish-white mist. The massive ring structure looked as if it were soaking in stagnant, rotting water, and all the lights had become dim and murky.

Many spaceships were docked on the outside of the station, but there was no movement from them. Their engines were dead, their signals silent, looking just like a cluster of iron coffins nailed dead into the port.

Su Rui's expression changed instantly. She pulled up the scanning feed, but the screen only displayed a massive blur of chaotic gray static. All life signals seemed to have been crushed and glued back together, making it completely impossible to distinguish their numbers or forms.

"This is corruption."

She kept her voice very low, and for the first time, obvious dread appeared in her eyes.

"It is the power of an Outer God."

An Outer God!

Another Outer God?!

Ye Chuan looked at the grayish-white mist outside the window, his eyes narrowing slightly.

The Zeus Space Station before them had been entirely infiltrated by something.

The gray mist was not violent at the moment, but it was omnipresent.

Su Rui immediately said:

"We cannot get closer. This kind of corruption is very dangerous."

Lin Xi also nodded hastily. "How about we take another route? I think we can skip the supplies, but we can't skip keeping our lives."

Ye Chuan stood up, looking at the deathly still space station in the gray mist, but his tone was very calm.

"It's fine. Head straight over."

Su Rui was stunned for a second. "Are you sure?"

Ye Chuan raised his hand and rolled his wrists. "Outer God corruption doesn't really affect me, and besides, I want to know how this thing ended up at the Zeus Space Station."

Su Rui looked at Ye Chuan and suddenly remembered how he looked in the Asking Immortal Ruins, acting like 'I am the greatest terror here.' After a few seconds of silence, she still pushed the Phantom toward the space station.

Forget it, he is the boss here.

No, daddy's home.

As the Phantom neared the edge of the gray mist, the ship's outer shields immediately rippled with gray waves, as if countless invisible tiny bugs were crawling on the shields and gnawing at them.

The lights inside the ship flickered, and intermittent static echoed through the communication channels.

"Come... back..."

"See... the door..."

"Eyes... are all watching..."

Lin Xi turned pale and immediately covered her ears. "Holy crap, this thing comes with mental attacks?"

Su Rui also frowned tightly, a layer of cold sweat breaking out on her forehead; she was clearly affected too. "Don't listen. Focus your attention. It's best not to try to comprehend those voices."

Even though they had experienced it once before, both of them still looked terrible facing an Outer God again.

Ye Chuan, however, simply waved his hand. His Chaos Domain instantly expanded, and a black-gold light covered the entire Phantom. The whispers were abruptly cut off, as if choked out by an invisible giant hand.

After the spaceship entered the docking port, the cabin doors slowly opened.

The corridor outside was dead silent. The lights flickered erratically, the walls were covered in large patches of grayish-white fleshy membranes, and the metal floor was wet.

The most bizarre thing was that the security cameras on both sides of the corridor had all turned into eyes.

Those eyeballs were embedded in the metal casings, their pupils slowly rolling to look in unison at the three people who had just stepped off the ship.

Lin Xi only took one glance before she shrank back behind Ye Chuan.

Ye Chuan looked at the eyeballs and expressionlessly raised his hand.

Snap.

He snapped his fingers.

All the eyeballs on both sides of the corridor exploded simultaneously, splattering grayish-white fluids that convulsed violently against the walls.

Su Rui watched this scene and couldn't help but whisper:

"Be careful. The corruption might have already merged with the main body of the space station. By attacking these things, you are alerting whatever entity is inside."

"Oh?" Ye Chuan walked forward, the power of chaos spreading from beneath his feet. Wherever he passed, the grayish-white fleshy membranes rapidly withered, curling inch by inch into black ash like damp paper meeting intense fire.

"That's perfect."

"Saves me the trouble of going in and finding them one by one."

They walked along the corridor toward the main commercial district. The deeper they went, the more severe the corruption became.

The originally bustling shops were all closed, their signs flashing incomplete words. Suitcases, shattered beverage bottles, and drag marks of blood were scattered across the floor.

Soon, the first batch of people appeared.

They were the residents and travelers who had once lived in the space station.

They were still wearing the clothes of their respective races. Some looked like humans, some were from the Myriad Races Alliance, and some were simply cybernetic modifications, but right now, all of them had turned into monsters.

Their faces, arms, and chests were covered in eyes. Their skin was torn apart by grayish-white fleshy membranes. Some had necks twisted into long, thin tentacles, while others had a vertical mouth split open across their abdomens.

Hearing the footsteps, those monsters slowly turned their heads.

Hundreds of eyes looked at Ye Chuan simultaneously.

"Never seen a handsome guy before?" Ye Chuan raised an eyebrow.