Chapter 1 The Sea Voyage

An Qisheng caught the phone, startled. "Go to sea? Does it have something to do with this video?"

"Just watch the video first. It's hard to explain in a few words."

Wang Zhixuan stepped on the gas and accelerated.

An Qisheng opened his phone. It was a video marked with the date: December 24, 9819, 6:23 PM, Golden Eagle Nation time.

"This time seems familiar."

An Qisheng frowned and clicked on the video.

The video began with a huge port. The camera swept across, focusing on a colossal statue.

"The Statue of Liberty? This is Liberty Port in the Golden Eagle Nation?"

An Qisheng was shocked, suddenly recalling an outrageous news story he had seen last year before the New Year.

Beneath the twilight, the Statue of Liberty, illuminated by the setting sun, held its torch high. Behind it, a long shadow stretched out.

As time sped forward in the video, the Statue of Liberty suddenly vanished without a trace at a certain moment!

Only a bottomless pit remained in its place!

An Qisheng, who had been staring intently at the video, hadn't even seen how the statue disappeared!

"How is this possible?!"

An Qisheng's expression changed.

The Statue of Liberty was one of the Golden Eagle Nation's iconic landmarks, weighing over two hundred tons including its base. Who could steal it in a second?

This was completely beyond human capabilities!

An Qisheng swiped his finger, and the video restarted, but he still couldn't see what had happened in that single second.

"The Golden Eagle Statue of Liberty... really disappeared."

Wang Zhixuan said softly.

"A few days ago, I asked some friends to hack into that satellite. The videos inside had already been deleted. However, I had experts examine this video, and there's no sign of forgery. It's genuine footage taken by the satellite."

"What exactly happened in that one second?"

An Qisheng was puzzled.

How could a statue weighing over two hundred tons disappear for no reason?

"Why don't you just watch the next video?"

Jiang Shili gave him a look.

"Would we have dragged you, little genius, overseas if we weren't sure?"

An Qisheng didn't care what Jiang Shili said. He swiped past the video and found another one. This video was over a thousand seconds long.

"Through connections, I used the artificial intelligence 'Yinglong' to stretch that one second into a thousand seconds," Jiang Shili continued. "This second could be called the most incredible discovery of the century."

He clicked on the video.

The picture on the screen was a little blurry, but it was still mostly clear.

"This is..."

An Qisheng's finger twitched, and he pressed pause.

This one-thousandth of a second was exactly when the Statue of Liberty completely disappeared.

He saw the space above Liberty Port ripple like the surface of water, and the area around the statue was filled with shimmering distortions, as if it had been scorched by flames.

The void seemed to undergo a change he couldn't understand.

What made An Qisheng's pupils shrink was that at the same time the statue disappeared, a black-clothed man covered in blood suddenly appeared in the space where the statue had been!

The black-clothed man was bleeding from all seven orifices and seemed to be unconscious. A hideous wound between his chest and abdomen nearly split him in two, and he could vaguely see his internal organs, spine, and the blood flowing from his ruptured heart.

Even with one second stretched into a thousand seconds, An Qisheng still didn't see how the black-clothed man had appeared.

"This person..."

A huge wave surged in An Qisheng's heart.

The way this person appeared was almost identical to what Wang Honglin had described!

Without any warning, he suddenly appeared in this world!

This was actually a transmigrator!

Could he also be from his hometown?

"This person is likely an alien."

Jiang Shili reached out and took the phone, twirling it between her slender fingers.

"The Golden Eagle Nation concealed this for a full year before a colonel named Williams uploaded this video online..."

"If this video were online, the world would be in an uproar, right?"

An Qisheng was a little dazed, as if he had been frightened, causing Jiang Shili to frown secretly.

"How much effort do you think it takes to suppress a video?" Jiang Shili rolled her eyes. "What ordinary people can see online is what some people want you to see. If they really don't want you to see it, do you think you can? The Statue of Liberty disappeared a year ago. I knew about it a long time ago. You're online every day. Have you ever seen anyone discussing it?"

An Qisheng took a deep breath, not in the mood to argue with her. He stared straight at her.

"This person... is he still alive? Did this trip to sea discover his whereabouts? Where is he?"

"Stop, stop, stop! Little brother An, you have a lot of questions." Jiang Shili made a halting gesture before saying, "This alien's vitality is too strong. According to 'Yinglong's' analysis, at least twenty pounds of flesh and blood evaporated from his chest and abdomen. His internal organs were ruptured to varying degrees, especially his heart, which had a chunk missing. At least seventeen sections of his spine were broken, and the rest were cracked as well. This injury would be enough to kill even a martial artist who has reached the level of 'Seeing the Divine' ten times over. But this person indeed didn't die."

Screech!

The speeding off-road vehicle suddenly stopped. Wang Zhixuan unbuckled her seatbelt and took over the conversation.

"He didn't die, and in that state, he escaped through Liberty Port in the heart of the Golden Eagle Nation for twenty days, breaking through seven blockades by the Golden Eagle Nation before escaping into the sea. In the process, he shot down seventeen fighter jets, and damaged even more tanks and armored vehicles. The soldiers suffered few casualties because bullets were useless against him."

"Those terrorist attacks in the Golden Eagle Nation... were they his doing?"

An Qisheng listened with a dazed expression.

This transmigrator who was possibly from his hometown was too fierce.

"The Golden Eagle Nation's warships have been patrolling the ocean for half a year, probably looking for this person."

Wang Zhixuan opened the door and got out of the car.

After the two got out of the car, she said, "A few days ago, a Japanese whaling fleet suffered a terrorist attack. One whaling ship sank. I suspect he's in that sea area."

Swish!

The salty sea breeze howled at the pier.

After getting out of the car, all he could hear was the endless sound of waves, the sound of ships docking, and the shouts of workers.

The throughput of the Shanghai port is second in the world. Although the three were at the edge, there were still many ships and tankers.

"Excuse me."

In the howling sea breeze, An Qisheng woke up from the shock of discovering the transmigrator and realized the great danger.

"Even if that trans... alien is still alive, we probably won't be able to catch him, right?"

An Qisheng said very politely.

A monster who could break through the Golden Eagle Nation's blockade with serious injuries and not die in the sea for a year—what could they do besides courting death?

"Since that alien took action, why did he only destroy one whaling ship?"

Jiang Shili said, "According to the artificial intelligence's calculations, this alien should be on his last legs."

"Should... should?"

An Qisheng's mouth twitched. When it came to something concerning his life, how could they say "should?"

Ooh! Ooh!

At that moment, a loud whistle sounded, and a behemoth slowly sailed into the dock.

"I can't tell my family about this, so I contacted a few people, including you, to go together," Wang Zhixuan said, taking off her sunglasses. "Five hundred points, ten million Da Xuan coins, and you don't even need to attack that person."