But this is a vacuum zone more than 400,000 meters above the Earth's surface! Without thrusters, without Rocket, and without any extravehicular activity (EVA) suit, how did he manage to stand? How did he survive?
David snapped back to reality, grabbed the communicator, and cried out in a strained voice, "My God! Huris, come quick! Look, there really is someone standing in the sky!"
" David, what's gotten into you again?"
The Black man, Huris, who was inspecting equipment below, didn't look up, his tone full of helplessness, "In the eyes of people on the ground, aren't we just 'people from heaven'?"
Even so, he still pushed against the bulkhead, nimbly floated into the observation cabin, and looked out following David's eager gaze.
The next second, he froze, his lips slightly parted, his face filled with disbelief:
"There... is someone really here?"
After all, space is clear and unobstructed, and even from several kilometers away, Chen Xiao's figure is still clearly visible.
Just then, the internal communicator next to the observation window beeped:
"Just received a ground report: The target located more than 3,000 meters southeast of the space station has been identified as Vitas, codenamed ' Superman,' a high-risk mutant individual."
"Two minutes ago, he ascended vertically from the ground, reaching his current orbital altitude. Currently..."
"Wait!" David interrupted abruptly, "Commander, you said... he only used two minutes?"
"Yes." The other person's tone was calm, yet tinged with a hint of seriousness. "This place is 420,000 meters above the Earth's surface. Two minutes means an average speed exceeding ten times the speed of sound."
"This person is extremely dangerous. A week ago, London was unilaterally destroyed by him, resulting in over a million deaths."
"Ground control has urgently authorized the space station to monitor its movements throughout. Its sudden hovering here strongly suggests that it has other intentions."
"Of course, it's best if we're just passing by. Otherwise... if he develops a dislike for this little tin can of ours, we might as well prepare to meet our maker."
Gulp
David and Huris swallowed hard, almost simultaneously.
Looking again at the figure standing silently in the void outside the porthole, there was no longer curiosity in my eyes, only awe.
Can a human body withstand the harsh conditions of space? Can an entire city be wiped out in a single blow? Millions of lives lost? Afterlife such things really do exist.
Chen Xiao was oblivious to the surprised and suspicious looks coming from the space station. He was tilting his head slightly, gazing with interest at the black warship speeding towards him in the distance.
He had previously wondered: now that he had the Reality Stone, would the Dark Elves, who shared the same origin as the Aether, awaken prematurely and track him down?
If it really comes, we'll probably have to chase it into the core of the sun, or waste our time in deep space.
Unexpectedly, just as he was about to set off for Coronavirus, the other party barged in at his door.
With all the sensors on global satellites and the space station focused on Chen Xiao, no one noticed the black warship silently approaching.
As the flagship of the Dark Elves traversing the starry sky, its engine Superman comprehension, silently traversing hundreds of kilometers of vacuum.
When the warship was less than tens of kilometers away from Chen Xiao, its hull suddenly opened, and dozens of shuttle-shaped assault boats filed out, their tail flames shooting out like red snakes dancing wildly.
There is no sound in space, so no one can hear their sharp whistling as they tear through the void.
Just as the first batch of assault boats had flown more than ten kilometers, Chen Xiao, carrying the Stellar Furnace, finally moved, his eyes suddenly blazing with a dazzling red light.
boom!!
Two beams of blazing white and crimson light shot out from the sky like divine punishment spears, instantly traversing tens of kilometers and precisely piercing the foremost assault boat.
A blinding fireball exploded with a deafening roar, scattering metal debris in all directions.
Chen Xiao then twisted his waist and turned his head, the beam of light sweeping across, and wherever it went, the assault boats exploded one after another, like clusters of scarlet fireworks suddenly blooming in the night sky.
A sudden change occurred, instantly capturing everyone's attention.
Only then did satellites from various countries hastily turn their cameras around and finally capture the enormous black shadow that was approaching Earth's orbit.
"Oh no! It's an alien spaceship!" David blurted out.
Huris also exclaimed in a low voice, "He's fighting them? Could it be... that he didn't come up here just for a stroll, but specifically to intercept these aliens?"
At that moment, inside the space station, in the ground command center, and in all the major strategic intelligence rooms, the same thought flashed through everyone's mind:
Did this person already know the alien fleet was coming? Where did they get the information? What is the root of their conflict? Which planet do they come from? And why are they targeting Earth?
Countless questions surged forth, yet no one could answer them.
After clearing everything away, Chen Xiao's gaze darkened, his Heat Vision suddenly surged, and a beam of destructive light, several meters thick, crashed down, striking the main ship!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The colossal warship that nearly leveled Asgard in Thor: The Dark World: The Dark World softened, twisted, and disintegrated rapidly under the Super Heat Ray. Its armor melted like wax, its structure cracked inch by inch, and everything in its path turned to ashes.
boom!!!
Finally, a massive explosion shook the void for hundreds of kilometers, and the entire warship transformed into a blinding white light, as bright as the second sunrise.
"Oh? He's still alive."
Chen Xiao suddenly let out a soft "Eh," and his figure vanished without a trace.
The severely wounded Malekith floated helplessly in the dark void, his mind still reeling from the sudden upheaval.
At that moment, Chen Xiao appeared silently a few meters away from him, his lips slightly parted, and a sharp, condensed spiritual wave reverberated through the deathly silence. "You are... the Dark Elves Lord who attempted to drag the Nine Realms into eternal night more than ten thousand years ago?"
"No, it's that king who tried to swallow the entire 'universe' with boundless shadows?"
To modern people, the "universe" is vast and unfathomable; but to the gods of Asgard, the Dark Elves, and even the Frost Giants, the so-called "universe" is nothing more than a small territory composed of nine stars that nurture life, which they have passed down through generations as the " Nine Realms."
This scale is indeed too restrictive.
Are they weak? No, they are not.
In ancient times, these beings were considered near-invincible supreme deities by mortals. Odin, after donning the Destroyer Armor, was even able to withstand an entire Celestials.
But in terms of true power, it was actually quite limited. Odin and his father, Bor, only lived for four or five thousand years before they could not escape the fate of exhaustion and annihilation.
In Chen Xiao's view, this Dark Elves King, who had once stirred up countless storms and vowed to plunge the "universe" into darkness, couldn't even withstand a single blow.
"Fine, I don't have time to argue with you."
Before he finished speaking, Chen Xiao had already raised his arm and swung the Stellar Furnace, which weighed over ten million tons, crashing it down with the force of collapse!
boom!
The terrifying kinetic energy and self-overlapping explosion caused the space within tens of meters to crack and collapse instantly! Malekith didn't even have time to scream before he was crushed into the most primitive particle dust and completely Oblivion.
The Berserk spatial ripples surged in all directions, but since the void has no medium and matter is so scarce as to be almost a vacuum, this attack, though terrifying in its power, only caused violent tremors within a radius of a few hundred meters.
From a distance, a ring of dark ripples with a faint glow at the edge, centered on Chen Xiao, spread Speed and disappeared quietly after passing through hundreds of meters.
With a casual flick of his wrist, Chen Xiao swept his head slightly, glancing at the azure planet behind him. Then, his body jolted, transforming into a streak of light as he hurtled towards the sun.
In a vacuum, there is neither air resistance nor material obstruction; under the continuous propulsion of the Bio-Force Field, his speed increases steadily.
In an instant, it broke through five times the speed of sound, ten times, twenty times...
When it had flown thousands of kilometers, it had reached a speed of a thousand times the speed of sound, which is more than 300,000 meters per second, equivalent to traveling more than 300 kilometers per second.
However, this speed is still slow when facing the sun 150 million kilometers away. According to this calculation, it will take another five days.
At that moment, Chen Xiao's figure suddenly blurred, and in the next instant, he appeared 100,000 kilometers away!
Just as Earth's telescopes captured his vanishing afterimage, the camera suddenly jolted again as he leaped across another 100,000 kilometers, seemingly treading on the folds of space, one step at a time.
Although the distance covered in a single jump is only over 100,000 kilometers, it dramatically increases the overall travel efficiency.
Someone exclaimed in shock, "Wrong! He's not after those alien fleets at all... His target is the sun!"
Regardless of the shock and astonishment from the outside world, Chen Xiao has been using the power of the Reality Stone to continuously tear and fold space, approaching the core of the star at an astonishing pace.
Each leap covered over 100,000 kilometers, causing a violent clash of energy within his body, resulting in a loss of about one percent; however, under the bright sunlight, the energy was replenished instantly, and he leaped again. In less than half an hour, he had reached within two million kilometers of the sun.
Then, it crashed into the corona.
boom!
In an instant, blazing white flames enveloped his entire body, and the Stellar Furnace he carried on his shoulder shone even brighter, its entire body crimson, as if it were about to melt everything.
The corona, essentially the Sun's thin atmosphere, extends from the surface outwards by one to two million kilometers. Its brightness is only one millionth that of the Sun's body, making it extremely difficult to observe from Earth. It can only be seen occasionally during special occasions such as a total solar eclipse.
But the moment Chen Xiao stepped in, the surrounding temperature suddenly soared to hundreds of thousands of degrees Celsius, and a Berserk magnetic field tore at him like a giant claw, trying to grind him into dust.
At this point, spatial teleportation completely failed, leaving only the physical body to force its way through.
When he accelerated to hundreds of times the speed of sound under magnetic traction, the ambient temperature had already soared to over a million degrees Celsius.
The extreme heat violently impacted the Bio-Force Field on his body, generating a dazzling golden light.
From afar, he resembled a burning comet, trailing a long, fiery tail, resolutely hurtling towards the sun's core...
The biggest gain from the previous battle in London was ostensibly the Reality Stone, but the most crucial achievement was Superman's breakthrough to Silver Rank.
The Reality Stone merely amplified the efficiency of Chen Xiao's existing power; what truly broke the shackles of life and opened the path of infinite evolution was this Silver Leap.
This is the crux of the matter.
At this moment, Chen Xiao stood atop the boundless sea of lava and fire, his cells greedily absorbing all the energy around him, his physical strength Berserk at a visible speed, so fast that even he himself was slightly moved.
Within his body, each Krypton cell is like a miniature universe, efficiently converting the absorbed stellar radiation into super energy millions of times more powerful than before.