Gao Gong had said he would return to the Origin Universe, but this time, he had no intention of going back alone.
He planned to bring the exiled first-generation String Controllers back with him.
The reason it had taken so long was mainly that he had been worried the Mechanical Overlord would fly into a rage and beat him to death.
But now that he had achieved "Undying and Immortal," he could give it a try.
It was still in Engine Galaxy No. 3.
At that moment, in a complex string-space, Gao Gong first found Weilwei. The green-skinned old space pirate had grown even more aged than before.
The green skin had not only turned gray, but was also covered in deep wrinkles, stretched over a skeleton-like frame.
This was because the other party had spent the past ten years constantly traveling back and forth through the universe.
Although Gao Gong knew that some powerful carbon-based bodies only followed the evolution of the main universe's timeline, with the timelines of other universes having no effect on them,
Weilwei clearly did not possess a carbon-based body of that level.
When Gao Gong found Weilwei, Weilwei was standing solemnly before a void tomb.
It was woven from shattered stellar remains and fragments of extinguished spacetime. Gray-white dust covered its surface, resembling decayed bones.
The tomb's edges twisted unpredictably, sometimes collapsing into sharp corners and sometimes dispersing into hazy mist, as if it might dissolve into the void at any moment, yet stubbornly maintaining the shape of death.
And on the gravestone was a photograph of "Weilwei."
"Boss, Weilwei No. 33 is dead." Weilwei wore an expression of grief.
"..."
"He was an outstanding Weilwei. He once served in the 'String Technology Team' managed by the String Controllers and developed thirty-two string-technology achievements.