Chapter 1 Ancient Alien Spaceship Remains

[...Directly showing everyone the ancient alien spaceship ruins.]

After this subtitle appeared, the comments paused briefly.

Then, they erupted at lightning speed!

"Sudden aliens!"

"Kusa (Japanese-Chinese bilingual swear word), are there really aliens?!"

"So, were you guys fighting aliens just now?"

"What exactly happened on the moon?!"

The subtitles did not explain further but instead shifted the camera to the lunar exploration vehicle. As the miniature propulsion device started, it began to float in the vacuum, then turned on its camera lights, filming the surroundings from above.

Visible on the dim lunar surface, among the numerous craters and lunar rocks, were huge, dark shadows emerging... These were the dilapidated and ancient spaceship wrecks, some so old they had even become the origin of some of the craters themselves!

After hundreds of thousands of years, many spaceships that should have been neatly arranged on the lunar surface had slowly sunk into the ground. Some spaceships that were originally organic materials had undergone extremely strange mummification, even revealing skeletons and shrunken, shriveled bio-modules inside.

There were not just a few of these spaceship wrecks, but dozens upon hundreds. The camera in mid-air panned around, already capturing more than fifty spaceship wrecks. Each spaceship was hundreds of meters in size. Even though most of them had sunk into the ground, with only a fraction exposed, that fraction alone was enough to be awe-inspiring!

And in the far edges of the camera's view, several spaceship shadows resembling small mountains could be seen. These were giant spaceship wrecks exceeding several kilometers in length! It was difficult to determine how large these spaceships were when complete, but no matter what, they were behemoths that present-day Earth civilization could not manufacture.

Seeing so much information that defied common sense in a short period could be numbing. Amidst the shock, some sharp-eyed netizens noticed that some spaceships had obvious wounds that had been left recently. Among them, there was even an extremely obvious blade mark that could be recognized at a glance!

[Time is merciless. Under the long process of natural erosion, even the alien spaceships that were shot down by the Immortals and Gods and remained largely intact have mostly become dilapidated. This time, our goal in landing on the moon is to explore the technology and secrets contained within these spaceships.]

"Did you hear that? The official explanation is that this is a natural phenomenon! (Referring to the lava pits, knife marks, and footprints.)"

"This is implying that if there is any damage to the spaceship, it's all due to natural factors and has nothing to do with the lunar landing team, especially that Professor Su."

"You know your... Hey, your implication is pretty good."

"Trying to cover it up only makes it more obvious. Isn't this a clear indication that there was a fight before?!"

"What exactly is going on on the moon? First, a sudden solar storm, then the lunar landing rocket lost contact for five days. After the live broadcast resumed, there were battle traces all over the moon, and now these alien spaceships... Could it be that aliens are really invading? What is the official explanation?!"

Naturally, no one answered the questions. After all, Gu Yao Luo, who was in charge of filming, wasn't exactly a talent for live broadcasting, let alone the fact that this was an official program, so naturally, it had to maintain a steady tone.

However, Su Zhou's fans were comforting the netizens: "Don't worry, don't worry. It doesn't matter if the officials don't say anything now. When Judge Su returns to Earth, he definitely won't be able to resist bragging and revealing everything!"

"That's right, Su Zhou works on Weibo every day and reveals secrets on Twitter. Just wait for it."

The time for the live broadcast to show the alien spaceships quickly passed. As the spiritual energy stored in the lunar exploration vehicle ran out, when it returned to the lunar rover, the view returned to the lunar surface.

But at this moment, an even more shocking existence appeared in the eyes of many netizens.

That was a group of motionless silver colloidal organisms lying on the lunar surface.

Visible at the center of the spaceship wreckage cluster, almost everywhere was filled with these strange silver colloidal organisms. They slowly wriggled on the lunar surface, burrowing between the rock crevices and lunar soil. Larger colloids would split into many smaller colloids, and smaller ones would also merge into larger colloids. Under their erosion, the originally uneven lunar surface had become extremely smooth. When the lunar rover's searchlights shone on them, they even reflected light like a mirror.

"What, what is this? Lunar slime?!"

"Or is this the aliens?"

Before much discussion about the shapeshifters could arise, the subtitles did not explain what these creatures were, after all, that was not something that could be fobbed off as a natural phenomenon.

Although the movement of most of the shapeshifters had become very slow due to the loss of their master, they still followed the genetic information set by their basic structure, using photosynthesis to decompose the minerals in the lunar soil for self-replication and reproduction.

However, this did not mean that they would be enemies with the lunar landing team. As Su Zhou released his aura, a powerful spiritual energy wave swept across the surroundings. Without any targets to protect, the many shapeshifters in a 'self-preservation state' retreated like a tide, clearing a path for the lunar rover.

Immediately afterward, the lunar landing team arrived at the source of the many shapeshifters.

That was a dilapidated spaceship that had once been deeply buried in the ground, but had now been mostly excavated.

This was a giant spaceship shaped like a nautilus but silver all over. It lay on its side, with the exposed part being more than four hundred meters long, a true behemoth. The spaceship was largely intact, with a huge entrance at the front, and a large number of shapeshifters were wriggling in and out of that entrance, slowly excavating the soil and rocks covering the spaceship.

While all the viewers around the world watching the live broadcast were shocked by this unusually intact, very invasive spaceship, accompanied by a large number of 'alien creatures'.

Outside the camera's view, Su Zhou, who had changed into a new spacesuit, had stepped forward, gradually approaching the alien spaceship, which was also the location of the spiritual energy beacon.

At this time, he had vaguely guessed from the conversations of Bai Jingtao and others that the slime monster that he had fought before should be the leader of some heinous mysterious organization. He had the ability to summon alien creatures and had activated the distress beacon of this alien spaceship, and he had come here to turn it off.

And the large number of souls in his soul space that were being cared for by the Wisdom Tree should be the innocent people he had rescued this time.

Su Zhou was very smart, he knew very well that deleting some information about the enemy meant at least two things: the enemy possessed some kind of mental ability, or he didn't want to remember the other party.

Of course, according to his personality, it was likely that the other party wanted him to remember it, so he directly deleted it.

"Wanting to be remembered..."

Thinking like this, he shook his head in his heart while approaching the silver nautilus-shaped alien spaceship: "If the evildoers are really left with a bad name for ten thousand years, it would be fulfilling their wishes."

[Su Zhou, get ready and detect the information in the beacon.]

At this time, Yu Sheng's voice came from the spacesuit: [This is not dangerous, at least not for you at the commander level.]

"I'm not afraid of this kind of danger."

Coming back to his senses, Su Zhou once again gazed at the thick light column that was very obvious in his eyes, but people without strong spiritual vision could not see it at all.

The silver, brilliant spiritual energy light column was like a sharp sword piercing straight to the end of the universe, piercing towards the endless distance. If it wasn't likely to expose Earth's location, Su Zhou would really be willing to admire it for a while longer.

Without hesitation, he directly reached out his hand and plunged it into the beacon.

Light and shadows flickered, and countless images flashed before his eyes like dancing snowflakes and butterflies.

Then, endless information, like a summer storm, or like a howling tsunami, surged towards Su Zhou's mind.

And Su Zhou's soul space, as vast and profound as the heavens and earth, easily accepted this information shock that was enough to cause ordinary transcendents to die and their souls to scatter, and analyzed it one by one.

He heard it.

This originated from tens of thousands of years ago, the last voice left in the solar system by ancient alien visitors – the voice of the soul had nothing to do with any language, and everything left was the purest spiritual sound that went straight to the essence.

That spiritual sound was not a call for help, not a last word, nor a threat.

But a warning.

[Do not approach! Do not approach! Do not approach!]

[This is the Xiuge Military Industrial Complex, the 'Rainbow Light' deep space exploration ship... I warn all those who intend to approach, an Ω-level super-spiritual energy civilization is hidden in a planetary system in this direction!]

[This is a forbidden area, their holy land, shrouded in spiritual energy radiation that is so powerful it is unbelievable, do not approach! Your warp engines will fail, and all spiritual energy-related guidance instruments will be disordered!]

[Do not approach, do not approach, do not approach! As long as you don't approach their holy land, there will be no danger... This is the Xiuge Military Industrial Complex, the 'Rainbow Light' exploration ship... This is... the final warning.]

The echo of the soul, as if traveling through time and space, directly reached Su Zhou's ears.

To outsiders, to other astronauts, it was just an instant.

After Su Zhou put his hand into the invisible spiritual energy beacon, he immediately retracted his hand, then took a slight step back, his brows furrowed.

But for Su Zhou, he received countless images and information, countless videos and voice exchanges with desperate emotions... In a short moment, he understood the cause and effect of this spaceship crashing here.

This was a deep space exploration ship originating from a certain interstellar super military industrial complex. Due to some misfortune, or perhaps luck, they found Earth in the third spiral arm of this galaxy, but because the overly powerful spiritual energy radiation generated by the many Immortals and Gods at that time interfered with the operation of the guidance facilities and engines, it crashed.

The shapeshifters were some kind of service robot and combat device they designed.

Before all the crew members died completely, the Immortals and Gods recycled them. Naturally, They didn't care whether the people on them were dead or alive, and didn't offer to save them, but simply threw all these spaceships in one place, like throwing garbage.

Before the crash, the spaceship intended to release a warning signal, but it failed and ushered in the cut off of spiritual energy.

Until tens of thousands of years later, on a wonderful day, a certain Earthling who heard the 'voice from the moon' summoned the immortal, autonomous combat machines they left behind.

And then…

Then... there was no more.

[How is it, Su Zhou?]

Yu Sheng seemed to have noticed that Su Zhou had successfully received the information in the spiritual energy beacon, so he asked: [Did you receive it successfully?]

"Yes."

Su Zhou nodded, he closed his eyes and recalled it once, listened to this warning that was tens of thousands of years late again, then smiled and shook his head: "How should I say it, it's not as serious as we thought, but keeping this information transmitter is not a solution."

[Just use a nuclear bomb to stop it.]

Yu Sheng's words were straightforward and decisive: [Don't rashly enter an alien spaceship that can still be started. Su Zhou, safety first.]

"I understand."

Responding like this, Su Zhou didn't think there was anything strange about this decision. Just as aliens had to be responsible for their civilization, Earthlings also had to be responsible for their own civilization. Launching a nuclear bomb was the simplest and safest method, and it was also the initial response measure reserved by the United International.

"Let's go, notify the command cabin and prepare for action."

Turning around, he returned to the lunar rover, gestured for Bai Jingtao to drive away, and then notified Meng Jin to prepare to launch the nuclear bomb.

Near the lunar orbit, inside the command cabin.

Meng Jin, who had been prepared for a long time, nodded after receiving the 'permission' reply, then entered the secret key and started the launch device.

Without any fancy special effects, the silver missile launch module emerged from below the huge command cabin as the metal valve slowly opened.

Layers of sealed outer shells were unlocked, and a white warhead without any markings floated in the vacuum. It slightly changed direction, and then, like this, locked onto the target in the distant other side.

Immediately afterward, a brilliant cyan-blue light lit up, carrying a flame tail like a meteor, rushing towards the location of the beacon.

A cyan star fell towards the lunar surface.

The blinding light rose, as if illuminating the day in this world.

The spiritual energy beacon standing between heaven and earth shook for a moment, then simply and neatly dissipated under this light. Countless spiritual energy light flakes shattered, turning into white light spots flying within a radius of thousands of miles.

It was just like, in this uninhabited extraterrestrial land, a snow that could never appear was falling.

As for the live broadcast, Gu Yao Luo's explanation was that a meteorite just happened to fall down. Isn't that a coincidence?

Whether you believe it or not is the audience's business, anyway, they all believed it.

"Oh, what a pity, I didn't launch it."

Although he said it was a pity, Su Zhou closed his eyes, feeling the radiation and light flying from behind him.

He smiled slightly, with his back to the nuclear explosion appearing behind him.

At this moment, Su Zhou didn't know why, but he recalled the heroes in the Divine Wood World who were praised by people.

He recalled the enemy he had killed before, who wanted to be remembered by him but whose name had been forgotten.

He also recalled the 'do not approach' warning that was still resounding in his mind.

Pass down... a certain name, a certain voice.

To pass down, means to remember.

"In the last moments of their lives, they still warned their mother civilization and other creatures not to approach."

Sitting in the passenger seat, looking around at the lunar scenery, Su Zhou whispered to himself: "For these aliens, this is what they shouldn't forget."

"Regardless of the position, this kind of heart is worth remembering."

The short and intense lunar landing operation had ended, and Su Zhou and others returned to the lunar back base located in the Sea of Storms, waiting for the arrival of other lunar landing operation teams in a few days.

But he didn't know how much of a wave of public opinion had been stirred up by the alien spaceships revealed to the people on Earth.