"Seventh Brother, this Feng Shang seems decent. He's a man of character," Ghost Marquis said.
Lu Yin watched as his spaceship overtook one ship after another. He was quite satisfied with its speed, but then he remembered the Black Hole Grade Aurora spaceship he'd once ridden, and his mood soured. He still owed the Outer Universe Youth Council a Black Hole Grade spaceship—no, he owed Wendy Yu Shan. That ship had been specially assigned to her by the Council, and he'd destroyed it.
Forget it. Wendy Yu Shan was a powerhouse who could walk through the vacuum of space. She probably wouldn't mind, Lu Yin reassured himself.
After reciting the entire text on the stone wall for a while, Lu Yin fell asleep.
He didn't know how much time had passed when Ghost Marquis suddenly shouted in alarm.
Lu Yin was jolted awake. "What are you yelling about?"
"Look! All those spaceships are turning back!" Ghost Marquis shouted.
Lu Yin opened his eyes and looked ahead. One spaceship after another swept past him, heading back the way they'd come.
Something felt wrong. Especially when two single-person ships collided nearby and exploded, he immediately changed course and turned back.
Spaceships automatically plotted their routes while traveling through space. When two ships came within a certain distance, their routes would automatically adjust, so they couldn't possibly collide. The only possibilities were that a ship's systems had failed, or its pilot was so panicked that they couldn't wait for the route to replot and had taken control themselves, steering blindly.
"What's that?" Ghost Marquis cried out in alarm.
Lu Yin looked up, his pupils contracting. A gray torrent was sweeping toward them from straight ahead at incredible speed, swallowing spaceship after spaceship. Each time it swallowed one, the torrent paused for a moment,