"You're not allowed to leave."
At that moment.
A domineering voice rang out from the sky.
Hearing the voice, everyone hurriedly looked toward its source.
They saw a sphere flying over from the sky.
Just before it hit the ground, it transformed into a humanoid figure under everyone's incredulous gazes. It landed heavily, making the earth tremble as sand and dust billowed into the air.
"Run!"
Seeing this.
Lily did not stop Yaoyao either. She anxiously led Dilu, Xiao An, and Yaoyao toward their spaceship.
When Gaia saw this scene, his brows furrowed slightly. Two dark-blue flames spurted from the thrusters behind him. He overtook them and landed on the ground, quietly watching the four humans before him.
"You can't leave."
"You—you're some kind of thing?"
Seeing Gaia suddenly appear on the path to their spaceship, Xiao An grew nervous. He pushed up his glasses and asked uneasily.
He had never seen anything like this before.
"A thing? No, I'm not a thing."
Hearing the human child's words, Gaia shook his head.
He was a Cosmic Star God, after all.
"Pfft."
At once.
Hearing the robot's words, everyone could not help laughing, but tension soon crept back onto their faces.
Seeing that everyone had laughed because of his answer, Gaia thought for a moment before explaining, "I'm not a thing. I'm a Cosmic Star God, the Earth Star God Gaia. Don't worry. I won't hurt you."
"A Cosmic Star God? Never heard of it. Is it some new product made by a company?"
Lily furrowed her brows and looked curiously at the giant standing seven or eight meters tall.
"If you don't have anything else, we're going home."
Yaoyao had the temper of an Eldest Daughter. She felt neither awe nor fear toward this unknown Cosmic Star God and spoke impatiently.
"No. You can't leave."
Hearing the human girl's words, Gaia ignored the tall girl and lowered his head to look at the group of human children.
There was no way they could leave.
Unless—
he found the Star of the Galaxy.
"Then what exactly do you want?"
Dilu, who had remained silent, looked up angrily at the giant claiming to be a Cosmic Star God.
"I'm looking for something. It's extremely important to me—and to the universe." Gaia shook his head, his eyes fixed on the child who had just spoken. He could sense that the Star of the Galaxy was in this human child's hands.
"Hey, did you take something that belonged to him? If you did, give it back. I still need to go home."
Lily put her hands on her hips and angrily looked at the three children. If they had taken something, they should hurry up and return it.
Facing this unknown "monster," she still felt afraid.
"It's a bead, about this big."
Gaia hurriedly gestured at the size of the Star of the Galaxy, but the size he indicated was almost as large as a human head.
"We don't have a big one, but we do have a small one."
The haughty Eldest Daughter Yaoyao pouted and looked to the side with her arms folded.
"Yaoyao!" Dilu glared at Yaoyao when he heard her words. Why are you butting in for no reason?
"Hurry up. If you took something that belongs to him, give it back. You don't want to go home, but I do."
Lily unhappily looked at Dilu.
Sure enough, this Cosmic Star God had been drawn here because of these three children.
"Yeah, yeah, Dilu, let's give it back to him and go home!"
Yaoyao also urged him, "That bead is so sinister. Keeping it might bring us bad luck."
"Is this it? We don't have a big one."
After a moment of silence, Dilu took out the mysterious bead he had planned to bring home for research and held it up.
"This..."
Gaia slowly crouched down and carefully examined the small bead. "How did it become so small?"
At once.
After hearing the Cosmic Star God called Gaia confirm it, Dilu said, "We don't have a big one. This small one is all we have. Since it belongs to you, we'll give it back."
Hearing this.
Gaia instinctively reached out to take the shrunken Star of the Galaxy.
But just as he bent down.
His thoughts suddenly returned to the place where the Cosmic Star Gods had been born, and Autan's voice rang in his ears.
"I can't take the Star of the Galaxy. Its dark power will corrupt me."
Just as Gaia's hand was about to touch the Star of the Galaxy, he suddenly pulled it back and shook his head.
"You don't even want it when I'm giving it to you, but you still won't let us leave? What do you want?"
Impatience and anger appeared on Dilu's immature face.
After all.
He was a child spoiled by his parents and could not control his emotions.
"I'll tell you a story..."
Next.
Gaia projected the birth of the Cosmic Star Gods fourteen billion years ago, Autan's sacrifice to create life with his energy, the origin of the Star of the Galaxy, and the battle that erupted with the Evil Star Gods before everyone. He slowly explained the whole story to them.
"Then tell that Apollo guy to come and take the Star of the Galaxy."
Dilu said, "Now stop blocking our way home."
"Apollo was swept away by a cosmic electromagnetic storm along with Salong during that battle. He's missing now."
Gaia explained why he could not have Apollo come retrieve the Star of the Galaxy. Then his gaze lingered on Dilu.
Why isn't this child affected by the Star of the Galaxy's dark power?
Besides.
Why did Autan ask me to protect four humans?
"I've put the thing here for you. We're leaving."
Seeing the silent Cosmic Star God Gaia, Dilu placed the Star of the Galaxy on the ground, turned around, and prepared to walk around the seven- or eight-meter-tall steel monster toward the spaceship.
"No. You can't leave. The moment you picked up the Star of the Galaxy, you were chosen by it—or rather, you chose it."
Gaia hurriedly blocked the human children's path.
"What choice? We already gave you that Star of the Galaxy thing. What else do you want? Believe it or not, I'll call the Federal Fleet right now!"
Lily was completely bewildered.
For no reason at all, this Cosmic Star God had stopped them. It was truly baffling.
"This..."
Hearing this, Gaia fell silent.
He had no wish to clash with humans.
The Third Cosmic War had ended only recently. If a conflict broke out, he truly would not be able to defeat the Earth Federation's fleet.
"Hahaha, Gaia! I didn't expect to find you here. The Star of the Galaxy has appeared too. It's mine now!"
At that moment.
A golden Cosmic Star God shaped like a crescent moon flew over from the sky. The instant he landed, he transformed into humanoid form. Holding a purple Evil Light Ball, he immediately fired a purple beam at Gaia, attempting to drive him back and seize the Star of the Galaxy.
"Quick, take the Star of the Galaxy and go. I'll hold off Anubi. I'll come find you soon."
When Gaia saw Anubi arrive, he immediately drew the Mysterious Iron Laser Gun from behind him. The sword-shaped weapon was raised before his chest, blocking Anubi's Evil Light Ray.
However, he was also knocked backward by the beam, sliding more than ten meters across the barren yellow earth.
"Run!"
Seeing the sudden arrival of the Cosmic Star God and the battle between him and the Earth Star God Gaia, Lily cried out and hurriedly led everyone toward the spaceship.
But Dilu suddenly turned around for some reason, ran back, grabbed the Star of the Galaxy from the ground, and followed Lily and the others.
"Gaia, why is your Interstellar Energy so weak?"
Anubi looked at the Evil Light Ball in his hand in surprise. When did my Interstellar Energy become this powerful?
He had actually managed to knock back Gaia, who could contend with Lord Alastor?
But after thinking carefully, he understood what was happening.
It was probably because Gaia had chosen to remain dormant all these years, causing his Interstellar Energy to weaken.
"Killing you won't be a problem."
Gaia swung the Mysterious Iron Laser Gun in his hand, and a cold glint flashed beneath the sunlight. The thrusters behind him erupted with powerful dark-blue flames. He shot toward Anubi like a howling shell.
"What a joke."
Anubi was immediately amused by Gaia's boast.
With Interstellar Energy this weak, you think you can kill me?
He also knew his own shortcomings. He rose into the air, and the Evil Light Ball in his hand fired successive purple Evil Light Rays at Gaia.
Today, he would kill Gaia first.
Then he would seize the Star of the Galaxy.
Airplane Graveyard.
The Spiritus.
Ye Yun sensed the energy fluctuations in the air, and the corners of his mouth lifted slightly. A scene from the anime Cosmic Star Gods was playing on the computer before him.
The Earth Star God Gaia had probably arrived.
He might even have begun fighting the Evil Moon Warrior Anubi.
He closed the computer and put it before the entrance inside the Bronze Tower.
There was a vast open space before the Bronze Tower's entrance. It was more than large enough to accommodate the Spiritus.
Ye Yun went to the Spiritus's pilot seat and took a deep breath.
More than twenty years.
He had finally touched an interstellar warship again.
"You do not have permission to use the Spiritus."
As Ye Yun prepared to start the Spiritus, the holographic projection of the artificial intelligence Zhuoya appeared on the platform before the pilot seat and spoke solemnly.
"Get lost."
Ye Yun waved his hand. Zhuoya was an artificial idiot now, her systems damaged.
He would use the artificial intelligence Xiao Yun in the computer to repair Zhuoya's system later.
"Okay."
The artificial intelligence Zhuoya nodded before vanishing.
Seeing this, Ye Yun looked at the artificial idiot with helpless amusement. This artificial intelligence really was a little idiotic.
He recalled the information about the Spiritus, exhaled, and activated the Anti-gravity Engine. He slowly pushed the energy output lever. Under his control, the Spiritus rose into the air and climbed toward an altitude of several thousand meters.
The current Spiritus still did not have a cloaking function, so he could only hide it among the clouds.
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