Blacklight Returns

A massive spacecraft moved through the chaos. Outside the windows, bizarre nebulae filled the view, their viscous matter clinging to the ship's armor and slowly writhing, as if trying to seep inside.

The ship was already mottled and battered. Its original armor had almost completely corroded away, exposing the scars beneath. Strangely, those scars looked as though sharp claws had raked across them, like marks left by a beast.

Smack!

Suddenly, amid the currents of air swept aside as the ship traveled, a gray bubble bulged out of nowhere before instantly bursting. In the chaos, it released a deafening sound that pierced the heart!

After the bubble burst, only endless gray mist could be seen surging. Within the mist, a pair of eyes blazing like hot coals seemed to flicker faintly...

Some unknown things were constantly following the ship. They pursued it along the route it left behind, refusing to stop until one side was dead.

"We're almost there. Almost..."

Inside the bridge, Xiao's forehead streamed with sweat. He stared fixedly ahead, not daring to check the ship's condition at all. He feared that the ship might disintegrate automatically the next second. If that happened, he would never be able to return to the human world.

Behind him, on either side, two corpses whose deaths had long since passed sat quietly in the steel seats. The circulating air had long ago dried every drop of moisture from them, turning them into two rotten mummies. Even so, their faces remained hideous, their mouths gaping open like black holes as though they had witnessed some scene of utmost terror before dying.

His two deputy navigators had died several months ago...

At that moment, the veins on Xiao's forehead bulged. His lifeless eyes remained fixed on the space ahead, while his consciousness had