Chapter 83

The bright moon peeked out from above the wilderness, and tiny stars dotted the dark night sky.

In the wilderness, a hover car is speeding.

In the driver's seat of the floating car, Qi Heng placed one hand on the steering wheel, his eyes looking forward through the windshield, but his gaze was vague and had no focus.

After telling Lei about it, he drove the hovercraft A0 mentioned out of the material storage warehouse.

I don't know which base manager built the hovercraft, but it has been placed in the base for hundreds of years. I guess it was before Jeyol took over the base. Fortunately, it can still be used.

The hover car was controlled by A0 throughout the entire journey. After all, Qi Heng being able to drive a car and driving an interstellar car were two different concepts.

...There is a signal transceiver in the car. After A0's modification, it can barely receive the signal from the signal tower of Base No. 2. Before departure, A0-01 will continue to monitor the spacecraft using satellites. If there is any movement, a password consisting of special characters will be immediately sent to the car's onboard system.

This is to avoid coming up empty-handed.

The route planned by A0 to the location of the crashed spacecraft is basically a straight line, starting at full speed from the signal tower outside Area 1, and is expected to arrive in 35 minutes.

Qi Heng was lucky. When he saw the traces of the spaceship's forced landing on the ground from afar, he did not hear any message from the base.

A few minutes later.

A tall figure stood in front of the crashed spaceship, his faint shadow stretched out behind him in the moonlight. He raised his head slightly and looked at the spaceship.

Not as big as he thought, but not small either.

[A0, scan the current spaceship.] A0 has estimated it, but a more careful scan would be better.

[Scanning completed, database data comparison in progress.]

[The spacecraft is 5.5 meters long and 2.7 meters wide... Designed in the style of the late ancient Tianjia civilization, it is equipped with... One life form has been detected in the cabin, and it is in a coma...]

[Comparison results between the spacecraft and the database: No matching spacecraft, not a military or civilian design.]

"Can you open it?"

A0 scanned the entire spacecraft structure and knew exactly how to open it: [Of course.]

A blue spot of light appeared on the surface of the spacecraft.

[Master, please place your hands in the designated position.]

The system's intrusion capabilities are not to be underestimated. Almost at the moment Qi Heng put his hand on it, an entrance appeared on the surface of the spacecraft.

Through this entrance, you can see the interior layout of the spacecraft. After thinking for a second, Qi Heng decisively grabbed the door frame on one side and jumped up.

It was my first time on a spaceship, and I was a little excited.

After Qi Heng boarded the spacecraft, he only quickly glanced at the tail of the spacecraft and then headed to the spacecraft control room in the front. He had seen the floor plan and three-dimensional stereoscopic images of the interior of the spacecraft.

As a small single-person spacecraft, the interior space is not large. Compared with exploring other parts of the spacecraft, he is more interested in the unconscious life form mentioned by A0.

When he stood in the control room of the spacecraft and looked at the unconscious man sitting in the driving seat with his upper body slumped over the console, the first thing he noticed was the man's long silver hair that hung down on the side of his back.

He was lying down, and I couldn't see his face clearly, but his frail figure didn't seem like he could pose any threat to me.

Qi Heng bent down, intending to help the person up from the console and lean him against the back of the chair behind him, so that he could see clearly what the other person looked like.

However, when he really saw the other person's face, his hand trembled and he almost let go, causing the person to fall down again.

"Why does this face look so similar..." Qi Heng's expression suddenly became indescribable. No matter how you looked at it, it was about 70% similar to a female insect he had seen in his memory.

After helping the man to lean back upright, he quickly withdrew his hand as if he had been scalded.

A0 didn't know what he meant and remained silent, leaving Qi Heng staring at the unconscious boy leaning on the chair with a thoughtful look on his face.

Yes, boy.

Estimated height: less than 1.7 meters, but taller than 1.6 meters. Although similar in appearance to the female insect in my memory, it was noticeably younger, with delicate features not yet fully developed. It looked no older than eighteen.

For some reason, Qi Heng felt vaguely relieved when he came to this conclusion. God knows his first reaction when he saw that face was "the Lord's creditor has come to the door."

Since A0 said he was unconscious, there shouldn't be anything else wrong. After a while, Qi Heng asked, "When will he wake up?"

[His body was too weak. He must have fainted from the strong shock during the spacecraft crash, and he hasn't woken up yet.] A0 immediately performed a full-body scan and made a new discovery.

[Your Excellency, he is a member of the Tianjia Zerg.] After A0 finished speaking, he realized that his words seemed a little insufficient, so he added: [He is a female Zerg.]

Qi Heng said "hmm" and was not surprised. Perhaps it was because the other person's face gave him a preconceived idea. When he heard A0's words, he only felt "as expected".

...The appearance of the female insect in front of him made it hard for him not to think too much. She looked very similar to Chu Xiu. Was she Chu Xiu's descendant?

A0 noticed that the Lord seemed to be in a trance, not knowing what he was thinking about. He wondered if the Lord hadn't noticed, so he reminded him directly.

[Master, don't you think he looks familiar?]

"What?" He was stunned for a moment, frowning slightly: "Why do I feel that he is familiar?"

A0 probably didn't know that he had seen Chu Xiu in his dream, so why did he ask this question if he didn't know.

Could it be that A0 also thought of Chu Xiu...

This is not impossible. After all, Chu Xiu was the chief governor of Tianjia civilization back then, so it is not surprising that A0 would have kept the information.

A0 was confused by the counter-question, but it wasn't a big deal. It said, "Don't you sense the spiritual imprint you have on him?"

“…”

Mental imprint.

When Qi Heng was mentioned, the first thing that came to his mind was the fact that he was tricked by A0. Of the nine spiritual imprints that penetrated the space and were scattered everywhere, only one was by his side so far.

"So there is one on him." Qi Heng said as he released his mental power to sense.

Without any hindrance or resistance, as an outsider, his mental power easily penetrated the opponent's defense and entered the opponent's heart core.

In the space of his heart core, he quickly sensed the presence of a brand.

Perhaps because he was so weak and lacked strength, the mark was a little faint. But even so, Qi Heng recognized it at a glance. It was the seal script character "Heng"...

Not to mention the dark history, who would have thought that the branding that was casually decided upon would one day actually appear in reality.

Qi Heng withdrew his mental power and fell into deep thought.

Knowing that he was now living ten thousand years after Chu Xiu came to power and that the lifespan of the Tianjia Zerg was not that long, and that the spiritual imprint could be inherited by blood, he deduced that the young man in front of him was a descendant of Chu Xiu.

——This conclusion is so reasonable that there is no room for doubt.

"His sudden arrival at Tianyun Star may be related to the spiritual imprint." Qi Heng's tone was a little doubtful, but his tone was firm.

A0 once said that these Zerg who had been branded by the Overmind could sense where the Overmind was, and this spaceship also appeared suddenly, and when it appeared, it happened to crash near Base No. 2.

It was hard for him not to suspect that the other party came for him.

[Your Excellency, your guess is correct.]

[I think he must have received your spiritual imprint and rushed here after learning that you had awakened.]

Most of the system database has been lost, but some information and photos of important figures from that time are still preserved. A quick comparison will tell which person's spiritual imprint the young man in front of him has inherited.

Judging from his appearance, he must be related to the last Chief Consul, Chu Xiu, and a descendant of his...

[However, his strength is far inferior to that of his ancestors. He has no star power and his mental strength is also very weak.]

[Never mind, even though I'm a little weak, at least I can help you with something...] A0 was still muttering to himself, but suddenly stopped talking and looked at the Lord who was bending over to start with some confusion.

What are you doing?

"You didn't say he wouldn't wake up for a while."

"I can't keep waiting here for him to wake up, so take him away from here first, otherwise it will be dawn if we wait any longer." Qi Heng picked up the person and carried him sideways. While talking to A0, he got off the spaceship and stuffed the person in his arms into the co-pilot seat of the hovercraft.