Chapter 104: Reborn

Lin Lei stayed in the Antarctic for a full three months. When he crawled out from the snow several meters deep, the world in his eyes was completely different!

Level 3 Strengthening was like a rebirth.

What did he see! Crystal-clear snowflakes traced mysterious and harmonious curves as they slowly fell from the sky. The shape of every single snowflake was unique.

He saw the trajectory of the wind. Wind is the flow of gas caused by different air pressures in different places. The refraction rates of light in places with different air pressures are different, which brings about tiny distortions in the path of light. And Lin Lei observed the invisible wind from these tiny disturbances of light.

This was not the most shocking part. When Lin Lei concentrated his mind to observe these natural phenomena, his brain operated at an incredibly high speed, calculating and analyzing their trajectories, and discovering deep disturbances in the Universe.

Lin Lei “saw” the gravitational field. He had a mysterious feeling, as if he were living in a seamless, smooth liquid, while simultaneously producing a slight sense of depression.

Time was reflected in the movement trajectories of all objects in nature. After being refined and purified by Lin Lei’s brain, it turned into something similar to light. Lin Lei could feel its speed change; from the ground to the sky, as the gravitational field thinned out, the speed became faster and faster.

What kind of perspective was this? What kind of calculation instinct was this!

Lin Lei closed his eyes and began to feel everything around him with his body. At this moment, a different image appeared in his mind.

Equally clear, just from a different angle.

The skill Combat Element Condensation had already solidified onto his body, and he no longer needed to deliberately concentrate his mind to activate it. As long as Lin Lei sensed an object, the object’s future trajectory became incredibly certain, with almost no other phantoms.

Obviously, from a macro perspective, God does not roll dice; everything is determined.

After a long while, Lin Lei came back to his senses from his new world and began to browse his body information.

Host Lin Lei (Junior Interstellar Life)

Life Energy Acquisition Method: Light Energy, Thermal Energy.

Body Energy Level: 80.0 Standard Energy Level

Minimum Energy Level to Maintain Normal Life Functions: 15 Standard Energy Level

Maximum Attack Energy Level: 50 Standard Energy Level

Combat Skills: Combat Element Condensation (Fused into Life Instinct), Iron Will.

Average Nerve Reaction Speed: 1 Nanosecond.

Body Energy Conductivity: Excellent.

“System, what is an Interstellar Life?”

“A life form that has broken free from basic Carbon-based Life instincts, such as breathing, excretion, sweating, and other functions. Moreover, the energy sustaining its life activities has surpassed simple chemical energy, beginning to touch upon the essence of energy itself.”

Hearing the System say this, Lin Lei realized that his own breathing was entirely unnecessary, merely a habit.

Lin Lei held his breath. Sure enough, no matter how long he waited, he didn’t feel any suffocation. And his attack energy level far exceeded the 30% limit of a Carbon-based Life body.

Alright, he was completely a Superman now. The improvement in combat power brought by the nerve reaction speed, which was nearing its limit, was immeasurable.

In his body data, there was also an added Energy Conductivity rate that Lin Lei couldn’t understand. The System didn’t give him a detailed explanation either. Lin Lei asked, but the System didn’t respond, leaving him full of doubts.

Never mind. The System never did useless work; its function would reveal itself later.

He had been gone for so long this time; it was time to go back. He wondered if anything major had happened in the Galaxy during this time.

Lin Lei didn’t run. Just like that, naked, he walked step by step through the Antarctic wind and snow toward the Star Alliance Sky Shuttle hundreds of kilometers away.

Icy snowflakes pelted his body, and cold wind blew across his torso. Both tried to take away the heat from his body, but instead, the heat was absorbed by Lin Lei.

Thus, a strange phenomenon appeared. The snow fell on the ground and became harder, while the wind became even colder. Surprisingly, a faint light mist trailed behind Lin Lei.

This light mist was not water vapor, but was stirred up by the condensation of carbon dioxide, which has the highest boiling point in the air. From this, one could see how abnormal Lin Lei’s new body was.

He returned to the Sky Shuttle and immediately connected to the Galaxy Network, teleporting to the Star Alliance Guard station right away.

Lin Lei’s Galaxy Network authority was now very high because he was a warrior of the Star Alliance. Most of the Star Alliance’s warriors were people from the Watcher Civilization, with a base authority of Level 11. Added to that was his status as a warrior, so his actual authority was near the top of Level 11.

Lin Lei hitched a ride on this coattail, holding an equal position with the other warriors in terms of authority. He could freely browse the vast majority of events happening in various interstellar civilizations, and it was all undiluted, real inside information.

But he wouldn’t have known without looking. With just a casual browse, he discovered that in these three months, three riots by the Dark Remnants had broken out in the Galaxy. The scale of each was no smaller than that of Rumba City during the Apocalypse.

The Star Alliance Guard was busy putting out fires everywhere. The number of fallen Watcher Warriors alone reached over a hundred. But even so, the truth of the matter remained shrouded in mist. Those complete Dark Remnants believed to have vanished were not discovered at all!

The cities this mysterious white-robed old man chose to start riots in had no pattern at all. The four riots all appeared in different locations on the third spiral arm of the Galaxy. The distance between them was as much as tens of thousands of Light Years, making it impossible to guard against.

For a time, the high-level officials of various interstellar civilizations were terrified. The military alert level of civilizations was also adjusted to the highest grade, fearing that the next riot would fall upon them.

While Lin Lei was seriously checking the information, his communicator rang, and a prompt popped up. Someone wanted to use him as a coordinate for teleportation.

Lin Lei looked at the teleportation applicant; it was Elder Yun, whom he hadn’t seen for three months. He immediately clicked agree. He had been absent without leave for three months; this matter required a reasonable explanation.

Sure enough, as soon as Elder Yun arrived by his side, his face was so gloomy it seemed like water would drip from it. This was the first time Lin Lei had seen such an obvious emotional change in this old man from Ao Star.

“I need an explanation!” The third spiral arm was in a time of disaster, yet this super warrior had vanished into thin air for three months. Just thinking about it made the veins on Elder Yun’s forehead throb.

Lin Lei was unmoved by the oppressive aura around Elder Yun. He just said calmly, “After the last battle, I had some insights, so I practiced alone.”

For some reason, upon hearing this, Elder Yun’s expression actually eased up, though a light of suspicion flashed deep in his eyes.

He carefully observed this Earthling standing before him. The more he looked, the heavier the doubt in his heart became. Although the Galaxy Network couldn’t completely and truthfully reflect a person’s specific condition, Elder Yun, who had lived for three hundred years, had incredibly rich experience.

This Earthling had become stronger, unexpectedly strong, surpassing the limits of intelligent beings!

But Elder Yun was an old hand at this after all. Although he was suspicious in his heart, his face didn’t show a hint of it. He just spoke sternly, “This happens only this once; don’t let it happen again! Return to the Star Alliance immediately to report for duty. If necessary, change your equipment immediately. There is a new mission waiting for you.”

Of course, Lin Lei could see Elder Yun’s slight abnormalities now, but he didn’t think too deeply about it. He was indeed in the wrong this time, so Lin Lei didn’t delay at all and acted immediately.

When the Sky Shuttle rushed out of Earth from the Antarctic, Lin Lei looked back from space at the atmosphere. The City of Hope had already become a small dot. Thinking of Fuweili and his daughter Lin Xin there, he couldn’t help but sigh.

The atmosphere at the Star Alliance Guard station on Ao-11 Star was much heavier than usual. Warriors came and went endlessly, merely nodding to each other in greeting before hurrying past.

Everyone’s face showed more or less some anxiety. In comparison, Lin Lei, wearing a black Combat Suit with a leisurely posture and a calm face, looked strikingly unusual.

He walked through the crowd step by step, making people notice his difference immediately. This difference wasn’t entirely his external manner, but a temperament revealed from his very bones.

In comparison, he looked nobler than the warriors of the Watcher Civilization, actually giving off a feeling of standing out from the crowd.

This gave Elder Yun, who had been observing Lin Lei since he left the Sky Shuttle, an absurd feeling. How many years had it been since this intense sense of discord appeared?

The last time this happened was hundreds of years ago, when Elder Yun was still young and a warrior of the Star Alliance. The person who made the Star Alliance warriors pale in comparison was a conscious projection of a Pan-dimensional Creature!

Compared to intelligent races composed of billions of individuals, a Pan-dimensional Creature capable of resisting the Watcher Civilization on its own—what kind of existence was that!

Although Elder Yun had lived for over three hundred years and dealt with these guys, he still couldn’t see through these mysterious and unfathomable fellows.

Just like now, he couldn’t see through Lin Lei either!

Perhaps Elder Yun had been observing for too long. On the holographic screen, Lin Lei raised his head. Those pitch-black eyes seemed to cross the barrier of space and look directly into Elder Yun’s eyes, actually causing Elder Yun’s Will to fall into a momentary trance.

Elder Yun was startled in his heart and immediately closed the holographic screen. He didn’t know if the sensation just now was an illusion, but there was one thing he could be certain of. This Lin Lei’s origin was not as simple and pure as just being an Earthling.

Perhaps, the Star Alliance could no longer keep this near-perfect warrior!

Elder Yun, situated in the dimness, had a flash of indifferent and ruthless light in his eyes.