Chapter 483: The Second Interstellar Creature (1/2)

Chapter 483: The Second Interstellar Creature

Translator: EndlessFantasy TranslationEditor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Upon returning to the municipal government, Luo Yuan instructed Cheng Guanghui to buy them some books and made arrangements for two private teachers to teach the kids. Of course, it would be less effective if they taught themselves as compared to when two teachers were teaching them. Since they were interested and talented, the only thing he could do was to encourage them.

After sitting down for a moment, the officers of the communication room who was on duty reported that there was an urgent message from the spaceship and requested to talk with Luo Yuan.

Luo Yuan's expression turned deadly serious as he heard this, rushing towards the communication room.

It was heavily guarded, security guards were stationed outside the communication room.

”Please show us your identification!” The guard immediately saluted and said loudly as he saw Luo Yuan.

Luo Yuan nodded his head and took out his ID. It was a system he established. There would be no exceptions, he even had to show his ID for verification as this place was of the utmost importance.

Most of the Earth's satellites and communication servers had been destroyed by the disaster. It was impossible to contact the spaceship via the regular communication channels. The only possible way to connect the Earth and the spaceship was to use an interstellar quantum communication device which had been disassembled from an aircraft which was placed here.

Compared to the interstellar quantum communication device that was destroyed by Luo Yuan, this was undoubtedly a lot smaller. It was the size of a notebook. It could support holographic three-dimensional images and could be used in an area of approximately three astronomical units (An astronomical unit was equivalent to the average distance between Earth and the Sun).

It was indeed a waste to use it to connect with a spaceship that was close to Earth.

The Glassians did not have portable personal communication devices. It was because their technology was too advanced and they had eliminated simple devices such as mobile phones.

Communication could be done through a sponge-like personal communication terminal that was attached to their cerebral cortex. That aside, the personal communication terminal allowed them to be directly connected to the Glassians' database that was somewhat similar to an intranet. Therefore, it allowed them to have direct control over various robots. The sponge-like terminal also mimicked bio-genetic textures and because it was connected to the cerebral cortex and nerves, they could enter virtual worlds to learn and live.

Unfortunately, the technological gap was too big. The Glassians' advanced industrial foundation had contributed to the development of technology. With the current standard of human technology , they would not be able to break through to that within 10 to 20 years.

Fortunately, it was still a must for the Glassians to have a high-power, long-distance communication device. Otherwise, it would be troublesome for them to contact the spaceship.

Luo Yuan quickly entered the communications room and answered the call.

”What's happening?” He asked in a deep voice.

”Mayor, there's something urgent that I have to report to you…” The caller was Bi Jianping who was in charge of the spaceship. His face took on a ghastly expression as he said those words.

Luo Yuan's expression changed as he heard what he had to say.

It was not the spaceship that was getting into trouble, it was the earth. By looking at the spaceship's monitor, there seemed to be an interstellar creature that was attempting to invade the earth. It had now entered the atmospheric layer and it was estimated that it would land on earth within half an hour.

Under normal circumstances, it was not a big deal. However, it might be landing in southeast Asia. His face turned grave and soon, he became angry.

This was a dereliction of duty!

The consequences of allowing an interstellar creature to enter earth was seen clearly back when they were on the moon.

Luo Yuan could still remember that day clearly, it would be similar to the incident when the hydrogen bomb exploded. Even with his abilities, when faced with creatures like this, there would be nothing he could do about it.

If the interstellar creature landed somewhere close to Hope City, it could be a fatal disaster. The surviving humans might die.

”Why didn't you monitor the situation earlier on?” Luo Yuan asked in a low voice, getting angrier the more he thought of it. It was probably the carelessness of the people manning the spaceship that had caused this incident to happen.

The spaceship was no longer manned by professionals. It was either manned by government officers or researchers. Their main focus was to investigate Glassian technology as well as the construction of residential areas. With the high degree of intelligence of the spaceship and its automatic defense system, they neglected keeping a close eye on the surveillance of the situation close to earth.

Luo Yuan had made up his mind as it seemed that setting up a team of professionals as the crew that would man the ship was urgently needed. The situation was getting worse and he was afraid that more problems would occur during the interstellar flight where the situation and environment were uncertain.

Bi Jianping's face turned pale as he could feel Luo Yuan's suppressed anger.

”It's my fault. I neglected this matter. As a leader, the mistake that I've made is inexcusable.”

”Your responsibility now is to set up a team of professionals to monitor the earth at every single moment. If there's any problem, report to me immediately!” Luo Yuan said coldly.

”Yes, mayor!” Bi Jianping said in relief.

Luo Yuan did not bother himself with Bi Jianping as soon as he finished his sentence. He disconnected the call and walked out of the communications room.

He was the only one on the spaceship who had the authorization to engage in battle. However, it was quite difficult to verify any sort of authorization remotely as there were plenty of ways people could impersonate one's identity in an attempt to take over the spaceship. That being said, a spacecraft like this probably would not have such a loophole in its systems.

Althought the artificial intelligence system on the ship seemed to be sentient and could seemingly make decisions, it had learned through trial and error and would choose situations that would give it an advantage, avoiding those which put it at a disadvantage. Under those rules, it was almost flawless.

However, it would seem that it was now too late for him to rush over to the spaceship in an attempt to hunt the interstellar creature down. It was about to land on earth.

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After a short while, he left Underground City.

The sky was still gray, shrouded by the dark clouds. Looking up from the ground, there was no sign of the invasion by the interstellar creature.

Luo Yuan stomped the ground hard and his body shot up into the sky like an arrow, as the ice miners would describe him.

Before arriving at the layer of clouds, Luo Yuan could vaguely feel a weak power coming from the clouds. By sensing the direction of this power, he immediately shifted his direction and flew towards the target.

In 10 seconds, he sneaked into the dark clouds.

It was a floating dust layer formed by volcanic ash and tiny ice crystals. The thickness of the dust layer was around 5,000 meters, not unlike a thick curtain that prevented sunlight from reaching the earth.

The layers of the clouds below were relatively thinner, so they had only a small amount of electric charge. However, the static electricity grew stronger as he went further up and at an altitude of around 600 meters, he began seeing lightning shooting out of the layer of clouds.

It seemed like an electric snake was moving about in the dark cloud, causing them to glow eerily in the dark.

There were also electrical arcs that were attracted to Luo Yuan's body on some occasions. Lightning would strike his head and cause countless tendrils of electricity to shoot out of his body. However, the damage done to him was relatively minor and aside from feeling a slight burn on his skin, no harm came to him.

This was just the beginning. After reaching an altitude of 2000 meters, dense, dark clouds appeared with fearsome bolts of thunder shooting out from within. The true form of the lightning had appeared.