Qingyu Civilization, Probe Robot Purple Rat

After hearing Ground Control Commander Sun Longyu's words, Zhao Yunlei frowned in deep thought, struggling to recall the sound he had just heard.

He tried bit by bit to articulate the sound he had heard.

"Dong... dong dong... dang dang, no, it should be dong dong ding ding..."

After the ground command center simulated the sound he described, Zhao Yunlei listened and found it still differed somewhat from what he had actually heard.

Then, based on Zhao Yunlei's words, they fine-tuned the sound countless times, but no matter how they adjusted it, they could never replicate the sound he had just heard.

In the end, everyone had no choice but to give up.

And the command center director, Sun Longyu, compiled the incident into a document and submitted it to higher-ups.

As a high-ranking official of the empire, Sun Longyu knew some secrets—namely, that aliens truly existed.

Moreover, there were even some aliens on Yanhuang Star, but at his level, that was all he was allowed to know.

As for what aliens actually looked like, he had no idea at all.

Now, encountering a suspected alien civilization in space, though impossible to confirm, still had to be reported up the chain for the higher-ups to decide.

After receiving his materials, the superior, seeing that it involved an alien civilization, dared not delay and immediately forwarded it to the Imperial Secretariat.

Soon, Secretary-General Yuan Lan received the submitted documents.

After reading the contents, Yuan Lan frowned slightly. "An astronaut in space heard a mysterious entity knocking on the spacecraft from outside, suspected to be an alien civilization incident?"

As the Imperial Secretary-General, her status could be described as second only to one, above billions. Over the years, she had come into contact with far too many secrets.

For instance, Dukao and his group, the corpse of an alien within the Imperial Academy of Sciences, the Empress being a female angel, and information about various civilizations in the universe—things like that.

Star Hall.

"Your Majesty, the Yan Chen Space Command Center just sent over a document, saying they may have encountered an alien civilization in space."

Coming to Ye Chen's side, Yuan Lan spoke softly.

Hearing this, Ye Chen raised an eyebrow. "Alien civilization?!"

Taking the document from Yuan Lan's hand, Ye Chen scanned it quickly and finished reading.

After reading, Ye Chen fell into thought. "Could this really be some cosmic civilization? That shouldn't be the case... Could it be the butterfly effect I caused?!"

Thinking this, Ye Chen felt a pang of irritation. The plot had already shattered into pieces; it wouldn't be strange for anything to happen now.

Then, he instructed the space center to keep following up on this matter.

At the same time, his figure appeared in space, mobilizing the planet's gravity to envelop himself.

Finally, he vanished entirely, leaving behind only a tiny, insignificant fragment of meteorite.

This was a small application of planetary gravity he had developed over the years.

Because his ability to control planetary gravity came from the Star Core within him, and the Star Core was the essence left behind after a planet shattered.

So, in essence, Ye Chen was equivalent to half a humanoid celestial body.

After flying to a distance from the Tenglong-1 spacecraft, Ye Chen simply watched quietly.

He planned to stay here for the next few days, wanting to see whether this incident really was related to an alien civilization.

During the remaining mission time, day and night interwove, and that sound would occasionally, regardless of day or night, suddenly ring in Zhao Yunlei's ears.

Every time he heard this sound, Zhao Yunlei would immediately rush to the porthole and look outside, hoping to find the unknown entity knocking on the spacecraft.

But that unknown entity was exceptionally playful, always playing hide-and-seek with him, making it impossible to find.

However, just as Zhao Yunlei was completing his final orbit and preparing to return, a dark shadow suddenly flashed past the porthole in his peripheral vision. Zhao Yunlei instinctively looked at the porthole, but there was nothing there.

Then, he quickly retrieved the spacecraft's internal recorder and found the footage. The recorder indeed showed a black object suddenly flashing past the porthole.

But because the spacecraft was currently in a backlit position, it would have been easy to miss if not for checking the recorder.

Even so, because the object moved too fast, appearing and disappearing in an instant, the image on the recorder was very blurry.

It was almost as if the dark shadow had merged with the darkness of space. Seeing this, Zhao Yunlei couldn't help frowning.

With such an image, he simply couldn't tell what that thing was.

"What is this thing? A drifting meteorite?

Or is there really some alien creature outside? But if it's a creature, how would it survive?

After all, this is space—no air, a harsh environment of minus 270 degrees."

Staring at the object on the screen, Zhao Yunlei's mind raced with all kinds of guesses.

Of course, in his heart, he believed this thing was likely the alien creature that had been knocking on his spacecraft.

Because in recent years, alien fever had been popular in society, and Zhao Yunlei had also imagined whether there might really be alien creatures in space.

But whenever he remembered this was outer space, he dared not believe it.

After all, such speculation was too far-fetched; aliens only existed in movies.

Pressing against the porthole, Zhao Yunlei still couldn't give up and observed for a while longer. After waiting for over ten minutes without seeing any sign of a creature, he finally stopped.

He shook his head with a self-deprecating laugh—he must have lost his mind, actually believing in aliens.

Then he prepared to turn back.

The spaceship departed, plunging toward the interior of Yanhuang Star.

A moment later, at the spot where the ship had been, a mechanical creature shaped like a rat, its body battered and broken, suddenly appeared.

It was staring with red eyes at the fireball falling toward Yanhuang Star below.

"Zzzt!!"

"Qingyu Civilization, Qingyu Year 5201, ZS3846 Purple Rat detection robot, discovered a low-level civilization in the T87335 Star System, designated Yanhuang Civilization. Recording."

As the red eyes of the ZS3846 robot flickered faintly, streams of information were stored in its internal database.

Then the detection robot "Purple Rat" circled Yanhuang Star and flew off into the distance.

At the same time, its external body continuously absorbed sunlight from its surroundings.

This was the Purple Rat adjusting itself to low-energy cruise mode based on the situation.

The next moment, a large hand abruptly appeared in front of the Purple Rat's flight path, instantly grabbing its body.

Looking at the "Purple Rat" struggling in his hand, Ye Chen couldn't help but feel speechless.

"Well, well—there really is an alien civilization. Looks like a detection probe robot. I just wonder if this thing has already sent Yanhuang Star's coordinates out."

"Alert! Alert!!"

"High-intensity gravitational binding detected. Antimatter engine initiating. Energy supply in progress."

"High-energy biological entity detected. Threat assessment: 100% danger level. Now activating escape mode."

"Alert! Alert!! Escape failed. Initiating system self-destruct mode."

Ye Chen: "..."

Feeling the deadly threat emanating from his hand, Ye Chen's hairs instantly stood on end.

"Damn it, this little thing isn't going to blow itself up, is it? That's a bit much, isn't it?!"

From the moment he grabbed it, less than a second had passed, and he already felt the little rat turn into a super bomb.

At this point, he was almost speechless—he had never imagined this so-called alien civilization would be so decisive, not even giving a chance to communicate.

Then, Ye Chen immediately hurled the little rat away with all his strength.

"Boom!!"

A few seconds later, the part of Yanhuang Star in darkness saw a sun appear in the sky.

Yanhuang Star, outer space.

After throwing that thing away, Ye Chen tried to flee, but soon felt a powerful shockwave rushing toward him.

Then his body was slammed by the shockwave into Yanhuang Star's companion, the moon.