"It was when she broke up with an ex-boyfriend, in the Boiling Sea, right?" Sergeant Major Le Zuo gave a chilly laugh.
"Which one?" Lu Yi blurted out, then realized he should be afraid and hurriedly tried to patch things up. "Ah, I mean, that was pretty cruel. If she watched the Harbinger Birds fly and then broke up with him..."
"I was the one who broke up with him," Doctor Tao Xian replied with a smile.
"Uh?"
"Wouldn't it be more dramatic to break up in a river of blood rushing toward the stars?"
Lu Yi trembled, not daring to even breathe.
A river of stars? A river of blood? Wasn't it the Styx?
Ronan casually made a note in the Inner Universe Simulator. This was another point that differed from the background information he knew.
After entering Tianyuan's sphere of life, Ronan learned that the Harbinger Bird was merely a special species on the Chen Race's Ancestral Star. Under normal circumstances, it was actually a kind of deep-sea fish. They lived in schools, in considerable numbers, and usually dwelled in the Boiling Sea of the Ancestral Star.
For many years, there had been nothing unusual about this fish. Yet at the beginning of the Calamity Era, the "Red Wheel Rift" had nearly ignited successfully and become another star in the Han Guang Star System, throwing the system's gravitational environment into chaos. Even the Ancestral Star was dragged out of the Habitable Zone, causing drastic climate changes across the planet. Although several centuries of adjustment and restoration later returned it to a basically habitable state, much of its biosphere had mutated.
The Harbinger Bird was one such mutation.
Normally, there was nothing remarkable about them. What was strange was that at certain intervals, these deep-sea fish would be driven