Rumble...
Dark clouds blanketed the gloomy sky, and streaks of violet Lightning Strike darted through the cloud cover, heralding an imminent tempest.
Wang Chen glanced up at the sky, then started the motorcycle beneath him.
Amid the roar of its engine, the fully hand-built mechanical vehicle shot forward like an arrow loosed from the bow, ruthlessly crushing the wild grass beneath its wheels and startling countless insects into flight in an instant.
This was Wang Chen's third day after leaving Backup Base B00785.
Over the past three days, he had been pushing inland across the main continent of Tampas Star, covering more than two thousand kilometers.
It was undoubtedly a lonely and dangerous journey.
But Wang Chen rather enjoyed it.
The torrential rain arrived as expected. Raindrops as large as beans plummeted from the sky, enveloping Wang Chen and his mount.
Yet before the rain could touch his body, it was repelled by an invisible force.
In fact, Wang Chen's Psionic Power also enveloped the motorcycle he was riding, granting it formidable mobility to withstand wind like blades and rain like swords, cut through brambles and thorns, while drastically reducing its fuel consumption.
Otherwise, it would have been impossible to complete this journey around the planet with just a few barrels of fuel!
And Wang Chen's goal was naturally to investigate the source of the strange energy radiation blanketing Tampas Star!
After speeding onward for over a hundred kilometers, another ruined city appeared in Wang Chen's sight.
Tampas Star was the primary planet of the Tampas Star Cluster. It had once housed billions of people, with thousands of cities, large and small, built across its habitable zone, and even magnificent space elevators.
Unfortunately, all of it had been destroyed by war and the Nether Race invasion.
Seeing no sign that