An Expedition into the Unknown Deep Space

Just as Sui Meng prepared to turn and withdraw to rendezvous with Halsey and the others, a sudden change occurred.

The space around him seemed to have all sources of light instantly drained away, plunging into an absolute darkness that would make any ordinary person's heart tremble.

This was no ordinary gloom. Even the Power Armor's built-in multispectral observation systems failed at once, its sensors returning nothing but utter blackness.

?

Sui Meng immediately went on guard, his combat instincts rising to their peak.

Without hesitation, he held the Crescent Moon Blade-shaped Power Spear across his body as the vast Pure Psychic Energy within him erupted.

Boom—!

Blazing golden psychic flames rose from the spear's tip and blade, like a miniature sun ignited within the absolute darkness. They dispelled part of the blackness and cast his imposing figure in the likeness of a war god descended upon the mortal world.

The psychic flames did not merely bring light; they also possessed an intense purifying and repelling effect against all filth and Chaos.

Should any evil presence from the Warp, or anything akin to a Marker, approach, it would first have to endure the searing golden flames.

Yet the anticipated attack never came.

There were no nauseating whispers of Chaos, no Marker's distinctive foul aura that twisted life and corrupted the mind, nor were there attacks from any physical or energy-based entity.

There was only dead silence all around, along with a—

Cold, empty feeling beyond description.

Although he detected no direct malice, Sui Meng did not lower his guard in the slightest.

He maintained the burning psychic flames. A faint hum came from the joints of his Power Armor, and his entire body was taut as a drawn bow, ready to unleash a devastating strike at any moment.

Then, amid