Chapter 13: Every Life Planet is the Darling of the Universe

Since Lin Lei was reborn, a full thirty-something hours had passed, and he hadn’t rested properly the entire time. Now that the two imminent survival problems of housing and food had been solved, the taut string in his heart loosened, and drowsiness surged up like a tide.

There was nothing else to say but to sleep. With this ready-made “blanket bed” and a comfortable temperature of sixteen degrees, not sleeping would be letting himself down. Lin Lei touched his head to the floor, and in less than five minutes, he fell into a dreamland.

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Terrifying flashes, shockwaves that seemed to split the heavens and earth, and the mushroom clouds that covered the sky and sun—the earth was trembling, and all things were burning. It was a scene of total apocalypse.

A person, burned completely black and emitting the smell of char, crawled out from the fire. He reached out a hand toward Lin Lei, roaring silently, whether to vent the pain on his body or to seek help from Lin Lei.

Lin Lei wanted to step forward, but no matter how fast he swung his legs, he remained stepping in place, which made him more and more anxious.

Suddenly, that person’s face turned into Li Yi’s. He questioned Lin Lei in agony: “Why did it turn out like this? Why did you abandon me!”

That face kept changing: Li Dasong’s, Mu Guohua’s, Fang Rubi’s, and finally, it even turned into Yan Siyu’s!

Yan Siyu’s eyes were full of disdain: “Coward, a coward who only knows how to run away, yet still delusionally wants to save humanity!”

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Ah! Lin Lei shouted and woke up. It turned out to be a dream.

He touched his head and found it was covered in sweat.

“System! How long have I slept?”

“Twelve hours and eight minutes have passed.”

Then what was going on now? Why was it so hot? Could it be that I arrived during the peak of summer on this planet?

“Atmospheric temperature is forty-three degrees Celsius. Currently, it is the illumination time of the star Y3-LH1534 on Blue Rain Star.”

No way, how could anyone live like this? Forty-three degrees Celsius, and looking at the situation, the temperature would continue to rise. If it reached fifty degrees, it would really be like roasting human oil.

“System, can you explain in detail the temperature changes during a day on Blue Rain Star?” Lin Lei didn’t expect an answer to this question; he just asked as a try.

“Blue Rain Star has a rotation period of thirty-six Earth hours and an orbital period around the planet Y3-LH15345 of forty-five Earth days.”

“Blue Rain Star is divided into two stages: the Yang Half-Month and the Yin Half-Month.”

“In the first stage, the planet is on the sunny side of the planet. The duration of direct stellar light throughout the day is six hours, and the temperature continues to rise!”

“Following that, for twelve hours, Blue Rain Star will be under the shadow protection of the planet’s other five satellites. A solar eclipse will continue for the subsequent twelve hours, and the temperature will drop. It will remain constant at ten to twenty degrees Celsius at night.”

“In the second stage, the planet is on the dark side of the planet. It will be in a night state for thirty-six hours. The temperature continues to drop, reaching a minimum of minus ten degrees Celsius. The main ways the temperature is maintained are through planetary thermal radiation and satellite reflection of stellar light.”

After reading this, Lin Lei was stunned. How could it be such a coincidence! Looking at the whole process, this Blue Rain Star was the darling of the planet Y3-LH1534. Like a mother, it carefully guarded Blue Rain Star under its wings, providing it with a stable environment that could nurture life.

Throughout the process, the other five satellites also deserved credit. If not for them taking turns blocking the scorching light of the star, Blue Rain Star would have become an oven long ago. How could there be such a rich and colorful world?

“System, do you say this is God’s arrangement?” At this moment, Lin Lei was truly asking himself whether God, the old man, really existed.

“Whether God exists cannot be proven, but every Life Planet is the darling of the Universe!”

The System used an exclamation mark, which was very rare. Lin Lei also sighed. Not to mention Blue Rain Star, just speaking of Earth, it was only after countless coincidences that living things were produced and humans evolved.

Every life is a miracle of the Universe!

So, the fact that this planet had not developed intelligent beings, and that spore plants ran rampant, became understandable. The environment here was too fragile. As long as the orbits of the five satellites changed, it would be enough to cause the extinction of most creatures here.

“System, is that so?”

“Correct. The orbits of the planet’s five satellites will undergo mutational fluctuations. The fluctuation cycle is ninety million Blue Rain Star years, and the fluctuation period lasts ten Blue Rain Star years. This leads to the mass extinction of species on Blue Rain Star once every ninety million years. The current Blue Rain Star is in the eightieth million three hundred and forty thousandth year of the ninety million year cycle, nine million six hundred and sixty thousand years away from the next fluctuation.”

Heh, a cycle of ninety million years, truly despairing. If those madmen who preached doomsday theories came here to preach, there would probably be a lot of believers, provided those beasts could understand the meaning of extinction.

It seemed that after a few million years, this place would be illuminated by endless stellar light for an extra twelve hours. Life on the planet would be killed off like germs, leaving a few stubborn elements to wait for the start of the next cycle.

Stop thinking about it. This was a matter of ten million years later; what did it have to do with him? Right now, Lin Lei couldn’t even take care of himself, so how could he be in the mood to care about this.

He was facing a serious problem now: he had no water to drink. Not sticky blood, but clean, refreshing pure water! He was covered in sweat, his mouth was dry, and with the temperature over forty degrees, his throat was about to catch fire.

For matters of life and death, one had to ask the System; it certainly wouldn’t sit by and watch him die!

“System! Please provide a method to obtain fresh water!”

“Scheme one: Use the kinetic energy stasis field to condense fresh water from the air. The field consumes 0.001 Energy Level per second. The water condensing efficiency depends on air humidity; currently, it is 1000 milliliters per hour.”

“Scheme two: Consume food with high water content, with the System controlling selective water absorption.”

“Scheme three: Go out and search for water sources.”

Alright, alright, the first scheme could only be used to save his life. Maybe in the future, when his reinforcement level was higher, he could afford the luxury of condensing water to bathe, but not now.

The second scheme was more reliable, but he had to go out and search. In this regard, plants should have a higher water content; if it were animals, there would only be blood.

What? You say urine? Ugh, actually, if one didn’t mind the taste, it was also feasible; it mainly depended on personal taste.

However, if a water source could be found, then other methods could be pushed aside, but at this moment, a new problem arose.

Containers, containers to hold water! Lin Lei couldn’t just run out to drink water whenever he got thirsty in the middle of the night, right? Leaving aside the trouble, the danger definitely existed, and it was extremely dangerous!

Water sources had always been contested grounds for wild beasts, and also places where power ful carnivorous beasts lurked to hunt. With Lin Lei’s naked, pale body, surely no beast would be unmoved.

He couldn’t go through a life-and-death battle just to drink some water, right?

Lin Lei concluded that drinking water was a big problem that needed to be studied carefully. He regretted it now. If he had stuffed a few plastic bags on him back then, he wouldn’t be in this embarrassing situation now.

Sigh, self-pity couldn’t solve problems. One had to face reality. Lin Lei thought it over and still had no good idea. You say use leaves to hold it? Make clay pots? Dig a well on the spot?

None of that was reliable. He didn’t have any tools, and he didn’t even know where to start a fire. Although the System might provide this or that field to solve problems, he had to supply the energy himself, and he couldn’t afford that.

Forget it, he would wait for the temperature to drop, then go out for a walk and see how other wild beasts found water. It shouldn’t be difficult to track them from a distance.

Hmm, such a genius idea, why didn’t he think of it sooner? Actually, he didn’t need to ask the System at all. With this System around, he had become stupid. It seemed he would have to use it less in the future.

At this time, the solar eclipse arrived on time. The sky outside began to darken, and the temperature started to drop very noticeably. Lin Lei immediately felt a wave of coolness.

He sat at the entrance of the tree hollow, looking up at the strange scene in the sky. That very bright star, which visually appeared smaller than the sun seen from Earth, was slowly blocked by a satellite. Even more peculiar was that behind that satellite, two more were lined up in a row. It looked like they were preparing for a relay race of solar eclipses.

Poor star Y3-LH1534, after showing its face for only six hours, it was continuously upstaged. If it really had a temper and threw a big tantrum, the whole Star System would be done for.

The light emitted by this star was blue-white, and the surface temperature of the star should be much higher than the sun. If Blue Rain Star weren’t far away, after enduring six hours of roasting, the temperature wouldn’t be only forty-three degrees Celsius. This was another important coincidence!

These coincidences always existed, and Lin Lei just sighed at the wonderful arrangement of heaven. The most important thing now was to go out and find a water source.

After the battle with the Shadow Beast, Lin Lei considered himself a qualified hunter. Perhaps not excellent, but it was enough to survive in the wild.

He wandered around the Mushroom Tree house, with the radius of his travel exceeding ten kilometers, attempting to find large areas of liquid water, like streams or small lakes. But what depressed him was that none of these things existed; there was only damp ground and densely distributed spore plants.

Could it be that the animals on this planet didn’t drink water and lived only by eating? Based on Lin Lei’s observations along the way, it seemed he guessed right.

Many animals directly chewed on low-lying, high-water-content lichen plants. Lin Lei tried eating some. Well, it could quench thirst, but it wasn’t satisfying. Moreover, the plant juice had a muddy taste, which made Lin Lei feel a bit nauseous after eating too much.

The question now was, where did the water on the surface of this planet go? Was it just this place, or was the whole planet like this?

Obviously, for a planet with such a dense distribution of creatures, how could there not be liquid water on the surface? The miserable situation Lin Lei encountered now could only show that his luck was bad, his face wasn’t lucky enough, and he was teleported to such a godforsaken place.

The depressed Lin Lei grabbed a handful of lichen fiercely, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it vigorously, swallowed the juice with difficulty, and then spat out the residue in one mouthful.

Damn! This life is impossible to live.

The completely naked Lin Lei sat gloomily on a rock, glanced at the star that was being upstaged in the sky, and struck a classic pose of The Thinker.

He was thinking about the major issue of drinking water in his future. If he got pushed too far, he would really go collect urine, filter and evaporate it a second time, and then drink it!