Chapter 845 - 472: Expedition Team No. 13_2

In the face of the Cosmic Void where physics is completely invalid, the current Joint Front’s only plan is to send expedition teams into this graveyard of physics to seek possible answers. This is not exploration but a suicidal charge.

At present, six teams have already paved the way with their corpses ahead, yet have found nothing...

Their mission is to verify the boundaries of the void with their lives. The first team lost contact the moment they entered, returning only a string of meaningless gibberish.

The second team advanced with a "layered stripping" method; the mothership released countless probes like moths to a flame, only to send back nanoseconds of data before annihilation.

The third team seemed to have discovered "foreign objects" that could briefly exist within, but this was also the last information they could transmit.

The fourth, fifth, and sixth teams were all searching for the "foreign objects" that could briefly exist in the Cosmic Void.

Finally, the sixth team found such an object, and the last survivor brought it back to the Joint Front,

The higher-ups named the object—Demon Element.

It seems they found a direction, though uncertain whether it’s right or wrong.

"Expedition team recruitment, expedition team recruitment!" Nearby, it seemed like recruitment officers were starting to recruit expedition team members.

"Should we go?" Tree-man Dominic elbowed "himself."

"No, I still need to take care of my daughter." Yi Shan elbowed Tree-man back; the two seemed to smile at each other, leaving like old friends teasing one another.

But the next day, when Yi Shan quietly submitted his information, he unexpectedly saw the name of Tree-man "Dominic" among the volunteers.

The two stared blankly at each other, eventually resorting to elbowing each other, joking with laughter.

...

"The new hope brought by Demon Element; the God of All Machines burned its logical core within the Demon Element, calculating the final geometric structure of the seven-fold joint ritual and solving the Demon Element Law just before sacrificing."

"We are about to succeed!"

The news reported the host announcing the good news.

For a moment, it seemed the Cosmos was engulfed in a relaxed atmosphere.

Meanwhile, in the visions, the scene showed Yi Shan, who had grown from a young man who just joined the Joint Front to a middle-aged man. His daughter, "Fuge," had grown from a child learning to walk to now around six or seven years old.

Years later, the Cosmic Void expanded visibly several times, and thus, a new great expedition began again.

But this time, the sacrifice finally had direction.

On this day, holding his daughter and his wife’s hand, Yi Shan, along with his friend Tree-man Dominic, watched the real-time departure of the seventh expedition team.

The ship named "Eternal Watcher" sailed towards the direction of the void, including the sole survivor of the sixth expedition team. They arrived at a star field extremely close to the Cosmic Void under the hope and prayers of thousands.

The hull was torn apart; all images under the influence of the Cosmic Void were completely shattered, and no one could see what was happening inside.

At that moment, everyone in the Cosmos felt concerned, and when the Joint Front sent probes again, no one survived.

The seventh expedition team, wiped out!

But they suddenly found that the planet where the Eternal Watcher crashed was no longer under the influence of the Cosmic Void.

At this moment, the Cosmos was stirred because it meant that the special particle Demon Element they had just mastered would indeed not be affected by the Cosmic Void.

It also affirmed that the seven-fold ritual equation calculated by the God of All Machines was correct!

Because they had no other direction, they chose this sacrificial path destined to be paved with corpses.

And the seventh expedition team were pioneers, with hundreds of elite sacrificing bringing back this good news and completing the first "Anchoring Ritual," proving that "Demon Element" can be guided and utilized.

Meanwhile, through this recorder named "Yi Shan," Xue Dili saw that the Joint Front started dispatching billions of small teams, deploying anchoring points across all galaxies in the Cosmos, ensuring at least one anchoring point exists in each galaxy.

Among these billions of records, Xue Dili suddenly saw the record of the Milky Way Galaxy—Solar System—Dead Star becoming an anchoring point.

Is it a coincidence?

Xue Dili even had an intuition that this "Dead Star" might very well be the future Earth.

However, this was just one among billions of records, and the recorder quickly brushed past it, proceeding to record more anchoring points.

The success of the seventh expedition team and the further experimental utilization of Demon Element prompted the Joint Front to boldly organize the Venerable King to complete the ritual.

Soon, the 8th, 9th, and 10th teams followed the blood-drawn route of the 7th expedition team, relentlessly using the lives and souls of whole fleets as fuel to set up one large ritual base point after another at the edge of the Cosmic Void.

Like driving life-saving stakes into a flood, anchoring those planets that should have been distorted and swallowed by the Cosmic Void, turning them into one ritual base after another.

In a very short time, the Joint Front organized more expedition teams again.

The 11th and 12th expedition teams, and even among these expedition teams, there were acquaintances of this "Yi Shan."

It included their Spirit Race’s Divine King as one of them, and the Tree-god of Dominic Tree-man Race was the captain of the 12th expedition team.

Thus, twelve teams, billions of elites, tens of thousands of kings who could be considered gods in their civilizations fell consecutively, sacrificing their lives for a mere theoretical possibility and a beacon path paved with corpses leading to the final battleground.

The specifics of what future this anchoring point might create or what consequences it might achieve were not disclosed to the lower ranks, but as the observer Xue Dili, perhaps he guessed the result of this ritual...

"Venerable King..." Xue Dili murmured.

Until now, the 12 expedition teams have paved a beacon road, but the first six teams brought back only the abnormal particle "Demon Element."

While the seventh through the twelfth expedition teams used life and soul to pave this beacon path, only needing the sacrifice of the last remaining expedition team to complete this ritual.

As the recorder, Yi Shan could also see that more and more large teams, like fireflies, were scattered across various galaxies in the Universe, seemingly doing futile work by simply placing beacons in the galaxies anywhere they please.

For this, countless personnel died along the way, and death messages were repeatedly recorded by "Yi Shan," who silently packaged them, allowing more people to continue this death march.

He didn’t know, with the work he was doing, how many people, how many teams, would be killed by the randomly picked information.

He was a pessimist; Xue Dili could see, even if he always maintained optimism with his wife and daughter, he was ultimately a pessimist.

Even during this time, after his wife died from overwork, this "Yi Shan" reached the peak of his pessimism. Xue Dili felt if not for his daughter depending on him, he might have chosen suicide long ago.

Until suddenly, secret news came.

"Mr. Yi Shan, you have been chosen to become a member of the 13th expedition team; urgent special training is required... Moreover, there is not just one 13th expedition team. To ensure success, the Joint Front has prepared many ’13th expedition teams,’ and you will join one of them."

At this moment, looking at this news, Yi Shan, who realized accidentally he might have killed billions, under the condemnation of morality and conscience, was tormented, and if not for the girl not yet grown up, almost choosing suicide, seemed to finally find his direction to move forward.

Thus, after arranging for his daughter, he resolutely joined the 13th expedition team.

As if by coincidence, his team happened to have 13 members, including his good friend.

Tree-man, Dominic.