Beneath another starry sky, another Fan Residence lived on.
After several days of study, Zhou Cheng had more or less figured out the spaceship's operating system.
This was the last thing in the Joy of Life world that still stirred his curiosity.
He did not hesitate.
Soon, the spaceship, dormant for untold ages, started up again, smashing straight through the Divine Temple and soaring into the clouds.
Through the spaceship's projection, he saw the planet beneath his feet, but only for an instant before there was nothing outside but the pitch-black cosmos.
An unknown amount of time passed.
On Blue Star, in Huaxia, in a certain second-tier city, inside a bare, unfinished apartment with nothing but white plaster on the walls, a young man suddenly appeared and slowly opened his eyes.
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Cheap incandescent light fell on equally cheap putty-covered walls, stark white and empty.
A faintly cool night breeze slipped through the half-open window and caught the man in the face without warning.
His eyelids twitched, his neck turned, and his eyes slowly focused.
On the balcony, the glass windows, still without curtains to screen them, reflected scattered lights flickering in the distance against the thick darkness of night.
Everything before him was so familiar, yet so strange.
"I... came back."
Zhou Cheng murmured to himself, his voice slightly hoarse.
It still seemed to be that same night.
His body had once automatically committed the feel of the wind to memory.
Not a moment seemed to have passed in reality, yet his soul had walked through a hundred years in another span of time.
He moved with the sluggishness of a decrepit old man and sat down on the sofa, his body sinking heavily into its soft cushions.
He stared blankly into space. Only