Crossing Swallowed Star

June 16, 2056, 8:00 PM, Yangzhou City, Yi'an District.

Inside a somewhat dilapidated residential building, a handsome young man lay slumped over his computer desk, unconscious.

Even in his comatose state, a look of agony remained etched upon the young man's face.

It was unknown how much time had passed before the young man's fingers twitched slightly.

"Hiss, it hurts!"

Qin Mu instinctively clutched his head, slowly regaining consciousness.

"Where is this?"

Qin Mu looked around in a daze.

It was an unfamiliar room with very simple furnishings; aside from a bed and a wardrobe, there was only a computer desk.

On the left side of the desk sat a photo frame containing a picture of a strange man, woman, and a young boy.

It was a family portrait.

The moment he saw the photo, a series of memories suddenly flooded into Qin Mu's mind.

RR Virus, evolution, monsters, warriors.

Key nodes of memory appeared one after another in his mind.

"I live in Yangzhou City, one of the eight satellite cities of Jiangnan Base City, in the Yi'an District, and I am a high school student."

"Wait, no. Today is June 16. The college entrance exams are over, and the results are out today."

"I have a classmate named Luo Feng, who even fainted during the exams?"

"Hold on, Luo Feng??"

"Is this the world of Swallowed Star?"

As his memories continued to resurface, Qin Mu finally confirmed that he had transmigrated into the world of Swallowed Star!

He touched his face and found a mirror. Looking at a face that was almost identical to his previous life's, only much more youthful, Qin Mu fell into silence.

He had truly transmigrated. After falling asleep following a bout of overtime, Qin Mu had inexplicably crossed over.

The original owner of this body was also named Qin Mu. His father was a soldier who had lost his life eight years ago while resisting a monster horde invasion.

His mother was a military researcher who had been discovered by monsters five years ago during a field study; her entire team had been wiped out.

At thirteen, he had become an orphan.

Over the years, he had trained frantically, wanting to become a warrior to slaughter all the monsters.

Becoming a warrior required meeting three conditions: a punch force of 900kg, a speed of 25m/s, and powerful neural reaction speed.

Unfortunately, the original owner's talent was mediocre. Even with desperate training, he was still only an intermediate student at the Limit Martial Arts School.

His best punch force was only 756kg. His speed talent was decent, with a personal best of 24.12m/s—not far from the Pre-warrior requirement—and his neural reaction speed had already reached the Pre-warrior standard.

Regrettably, due to his insufficient punch force, he couldn't even reach the 800kg standard required for an advanced student at the Limit Martial Arts School.

Do not underestimate this small gap in strength; without some special opportunity, this was a figure that was nearly impossible for the original owner to achieve.

Because even with frantic training, his strength had not improved for a long time.

Ultimately, due to overtraining, his body had accumulated too many hidden injuries. Half a year ago, he had fainted in the training room and spent three days in the hospital before being resuscitated.

After that, whenever he trained, his entire body would feel as if it were being pricked by needles, effectively severing his path to becoming a warrior.

He had tried everything, purchasing various medicines and testing all sorts of folk remedies, but there was no improvement.

His dream was nearly shattered, yet even so, he had not given up, shifting his hope instead to the college entrance exams.

As long as he could get into a military academy, he could use its resources to potentially recover and have a glimmer of hope of becoming a warrior.

But a transcript on the computer screen had completely crushed his dreams.

Examinee: Qin Mu

Gender: Male

ID Number: 426123203705016012

Exam Registration Number: 5878643567890745

Liberal Arts: 211

Science: 228

Mathematics: 121

Total Score: 560

Undergraduate Cutoff: 561

A single point of difference had caused the original owner to lose all hope.

In extreme grief and indignation, his vision had gone black, and when he woke up, it was Qin Mu from another world.

"It was only off by one point!"

Qin Mu sighed.

In truth, the original owner was truly remarkable; his willpower was firm and far surpassed that of an ordinary person, yet fate was simply cruel.

Upon discovering that his body was damaged beyond recovery, he did not despair, but instead hoped to realize his dreams through a different path.

Regrettably, a single point of difference—one thought leads to Tiāntáng, another to hell.

Carefully sorting through the memories in his mind, after a long while, Qin Mu finally calmed his inner agitation.

In his past life, Qin Mu loved reading novels, and among them was Swallowed Star.

He had read Swallowed Star many times, and he remembered most of the plot, even the specific timelines.

This was an incomparably vast world.

On Earth, there were countless monsters that occupied the skies and oceans, compressing humanity into various base cities.

Only when humanity paid a tremendous price—with the near-extinction of its high command—to defeat the monsters and step out of Earth, did they realize how vast the universe truly was. The Milky Way Galaxy alone contained over two hundred thousand life-bearing planets.

And the Milky Way Galaxy was merely one of the eight star systems controlled by the Silver Blue Empire, a low-level cosmic civilization.

Eight star systems—what a massive cosmic empire that was.

Yet, this was only a low-level universe country.

Further up was the intermediate universe country civilization that controlled over eight thousand star systems—the Black Dragon Mountain Empire.

The Black Dragon Mountain Empire had over five hundred low-level cosmic civilization vassal states.

The Silver Blue Empire was just one of the vassal states of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire.

And as vast as the Black Dragon Mountain Empire was, it was merely a tiny subsidiary of the high-level cosmic civilization, the Qianwu Empire.

Beyond that lay the territory of the Human Race, billions of races, the Original Universe, and even the Universe Sea and the Origin Continent.

The universe was vast, home to countless races, countless powerhouses, and likewise, countless opportunities and dangers.

In this world, Immortal Gods were merely a starting point.

The Universe Lords who possessed the Control of Space-Time, and the Universe's Strongest who could create universes, were the truly powerful.

This world was too vast; compared to it, Earth was far too insignificant.

Yet, despite its insignificance, Earth was also where the story began.

He had even become a classmate of the protagonist of Swallowed Star, Luo Feng.

If he hadn't transmigrated and gained a golden finger, Qin Mu would have gone to cling to his thigh at the very first opportunity.

The college entrance exam had just ended, and Luo Feng wasn't even a pre-warrior yet. With the advantage of knowing the plot, it wouldn't have been impossible to cling to his thigh.

However, Qin Mu didn't have that thought right now.

Because in the depths of Qin Mu's mind, there was a peculiar soul link.

The target of the link was right in front of him, on the right side of his computer desk.

A palm-sized bug with an elastic shell, looking much like a caterpillar.

This was a Zerg larva, a Zerg larva that had been sleeping for countless years yet remained alive.

Through the soul link, Qin Mu knew it had become his clone.

Just like how Luo Feng would later possess the Golden Horn Beast as a clone.

Qin Mu could clearly perceive and control everything about it.

Qin Mu's heart stirred, and he shifted his consciousness into the body of the Zerg larva.

In an instant, Qin Mu felt his visual senses become strange; the world before him seemed to be magnified a thousand times over.

A giant appeared in his field of vision, giving Qin Mu a start. But he immediately realized that this was the perspective of the Zerg larva, and the giant before him was none other than himself.

The Zerg were a powerful race capable of infinite consumption, evolution, and mutation.

In the world of Swallowed Star, the Zerg also existed.

Not only did they exist, but the Zerg were also one of the six peak races that occupied billions of territories.

He had transmigrated, and he had a golden finger!

After being agitated for a while, Qin Mu forced himself to calm down. If he didn't want to be as mediocre as he was in his past life, he had to consider his current situation.

The college entrance exam was over, and changing his fate through the exam was no longer an option, so his only hope was this Zerg larva before him.

Knowing the future, Qin Mu was well aware that Earth was a disaster-prone planet.

In the near future, Earth's civilization would face a near-extinctive catastrophe.

Three years later, on January 13, 2060, the Golden Horn Beast would attack America, in the New York State base.

This would officially ignite a war that would nearly wipe out humanity.

This was an all-out war between humanity and the monsters.

Led by a Golden Horn Beast from the depths of the universe, the vast majority of base cities would be breached by monsters, including Yangzhou City, where he currently resided!

Hong and Thunder God, the strongest on Earth, fought to the death, burning their souls until they fell into a coma, nearly becoming vegetables.

The protagonist, Luo Feng, sacrificed five great powerhouses and burned through everything he had, yet he still proved no match for the enemy.

In the end, it was by relying on the legacy of the Meteorite Star master, Hu Yanbo, that he successfully possessed the Golden Horn Beast and survived this crisis.

If one does not become a martial artist, they do not even possess the qualifications to be cannon fodder in a war such as this.

In this world, if you wish to control your own destiny, you must possess power; you must become a martial artist.