Chapter 858 - 477: The Day of God’s Birth (Part 3)

"27"

"26"

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"Beastman Locke, you can’t do this! There’s still the last ejection device, hurry!" Yi Shan desperately pounded on the cabin door, yet outside, this beastman engineer elegantly poured a glass of wine, no longer gulping it down as he did before.

He could only see Yi Shan and Avril continuously knocking on the door, but couldn’t hear any sound, with only the countdown to self-destruction echoing in his ears.

"I’ve calculated that ejecting in the last 12 seconds, the explosion at the ship’s head will create the final thrust, perhaps just enough to break free from the Great Void’s pull..."

"18"

"17"

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He drained the wine in his glass, smiled, and pressed the eject button.

"Buzz!"

The mechanical structure swiftly entered the power storage device, and in the next instant, it erupted with a force far beyond what Yi Shan had imagined during training.

The ejection pod shot into the ejection track like a cannonball and began rapidly accelerating.

"3"

"2"

"1"

"Goodbye, everyone. This last adventure with you was truly fascinating." This hulking beastman seemed to utter the most poetic words of his life.

It was also the sentence he thought he would say on his deathbed after so many days of pondering.

Unfortunately, no one heard it.

"Boom!"

The violent explosion enveloped the entire starship, the fiery waves viciously pursuing the ejection pod, almost treating the ejection pod like a projectile hurled away.

"Buzz!"

The momentum of the ejection coupled with the explosive force instantly launched the pod away. In the flames, Yi Shan tightly clutched the tree seed in his hands.

"Bang!" A fierce collision rocked Yi Shan’s ejection pod. In his confused gaze, he saw Avril’s ejection pod fiercely pushing at his rear.

At the same time, this thrust from behind pushed the engine’s power far beyond its designed limit.

"Avril—!" Yi Shan’s roar was sealed inside the airtight command pod.

"Deputy Captain, with the Captain’s tree seed..."

"Just one last push forward!"

He could only watch helplessly as Avril’s main pod, like a shooting star against the tide, gradually lost its final momentum, veering off the course to the altar.

Finally, at the moment of separation, he seemed to see that woman of his same kin...

She was smiling...

"You can do it..."

She seemed to mouth those words.

Soon after, that tiny ejection pod gradually vanished from view.

Scenes flashed before his eyes.

She was the only one of the same race in the expedition team, always very happy to take Little Fuge to play whenever her daughter visited.

Once, she even asked her daughter, "Does Little Fuge want a mom?"

...

Yi Shan’s ejection pod helplessly spun and slid through space...

The final momentum from the collision fully captured it in the gravity of the altar, causing friction with what little atmosphere there was, generating intense flames on the ship’s surface, like a firefly in the sky, slicing through the night.

"Boom!"

The ejection pod slammed into the surface of the frozen planet, the cabin door shattered, and Yi Shan stumbled out.

Looking around, on the desolate frozen earth, he stood alone, atop this lonesome icefield built from countless corpses.

Only he remained from the Thirteenth Expedition Team.

He tightly clutched two items: the tree seed Dominic left behind and his daughter’s amulet, long soaked with his sweat.

He didn’t know if he was crying or laughing; tears turned to ice crystals upon forming. He trudged across the frozen plain, where the extreme cold and storm seemed ready to swallow him whole.

"Old friend... and dear daughter..."

"We’re going home..."