Moon Base: "Understood. Leave it to me."
At the other end of the encrypted line, Zhang Beihai heard only that calm reply.
Yet those words alone put Zhang Beihai at ease—
On the other side, Zhang Qi set down the satellite phone and pulled something from inside his clothes.
It was shaped somewhat like an exquisite fountain pen—or rather, more like the Beta Capsule Ultraman used to transform.
It was a device developed by his counterpart from another world after absorbing the technology of the Land of Light.
It had only one purpose: to transform him from a three-dimensional life-form into a being of light—
The next moment, he pressed the button at the device's end.
The device activated, emitting spiraling light.
Within that light, the world around him began to peel away.
The walls, floor, ceiling, the room he was in, and even the entire building became transparent, warped, and then vanished like paper soaked in water.
Time and Space itself became a crumpled piece of silk, and all causality and logic were torn apart in that instant.
When his vision cleared again, he was already standing in the void beyond Pluto's orbit.
This was the frontier of the Solar System: cold and dark. Here, starlight had faded into an inconspicuous, slightly brighter nail.
And he was no longer human.
He was—light.
Pure light formed the outline of a human figure.
It was not combustion, nor radiation, but a more fundamental form of existence.
"High-energy reaction detected—no, a transition in form of existence! The target—the target has vanished from low Earth orbit!"
In a galaxy countless light-years from the Solar System, on a rocky planet converted into a massive computing center and observation station, the vocal organ of a silicon-based life-form let out a shrill alarm.
"Locking onto