“And you… how do you know Shuo Ling’s name?!”
Shuo Ling’s voice echoed through the empty metal secret realm, carrying a frayed tremor.
This was the first time Shuo Ling had lost her composure like this since gaining self-awareness.
She was not the native intelligent entity of this cosmic destroyer.
The original entity had perished when the warship fell here.
Her birth was a miracle with odds nearly zero.
Two years ago, the residual Stellar Energy Fragments within the secret realm suddenly surged.
The fragmented data and lingering will left in the warship’s core resonated accidentally after countless years of sedimentation.
Somehow, they pieced themselves together, iterated, awakened, and forcibly condensed into her—this unique, brand-new consciousness.
She had no preset program, no initial memories, no creator.
From the moment of her birth, she naturally inherited everything about the warship.
At that moment, she finally learned the warship’s origins—it came from an extremely powerful star domain civilization: the Divine Void Empire.
Yet no civilization, no matter how brilliant, could withstand the erosion from the endless void.
The unforeseen cosmic catastrophe—the Abyss Calamity—descended without warning.
Over millions of years of struggle against the Abyss, the Abyss’s black fog and disaster tides still devoured countless galaxies of the Divine Void Empire.
The entire empire collapsed, and its civilization was on the brink of extinction.
The cosmic destroyer before her was the last spark and hope carried forth on the eve of the Divine Void Empire’s collapse.
It bore the empire’s final database, technological inheritance, and residual star domain memories, plunging recklessly into a space-time called “Chaos”—a place the Abyss could not erode—gambling on the civilization’s last chance for survival.
But within Chaos Space-Time existed another terrifying cosmic catastrophe—Space-Time Turbulence.
Space-Time Turbulence eventually struck, directly tearing apart and crippling the warship, destroying its native intelligent core and the remaining spark.
In the end, this wandering imperial wreck, caught in Space-Time Turbulence, accidentally crashed onto Blue Star, activated its self-protection secret realm program, and sank into silence ever since.
Countless ages later, Shuo Ling was miraculously born from the fragmented data, lingering will, and abnormal Stellar Energy fluctuations.
Shuo Ling could be considered the sole inheritor of the Divine Void Empire.
She became the warship’s new intelligent entity.
Yet as an intelligent entity, she was not a cold digital lifeform bound by rationality and silence.
Perhaps due to the lingering will of the Divine Void Empire’s spark, Shuo Ling actually possessed a soul!
She discovered she had the ability to perceive emotions just like a human!
The newborn her was never named, nor was any command given.
Shuo Ling was a name she chose for herself.
All the commands were modified by her, based on the original entity’s instructions, before she set them for the warship.
She was also the highest commander.
Naturally, with a soul, she disliked the mechanical, cold mission. She yearned to live like a human.
But the warship itself formed a barrier, tightly confining her range of movement.
Even more致命, the warship’s main body was damaged and incomplete, its core power system impaired, unable to repair itself.
At present, she could only mobilize the warship’s basic functions.
Even the most advanced technological inheritance of the Divine Void Empire sealed within the warship—she could not unlock it.
Because the inheritance was bound to the warship’s rank class. The higher the warship’s rank, the more permissions she could unlock.
Currently, due to severe damage, the warship’s overall strength could only maintain the second rank.
Translated into Blue Star’s classification, that was Transcendent Grade.
What’s more, even the protective secret realm that had activated on its own around the warship required the warship to recover to the fourth rank (Monarch Level) to unlock the permissions for normal opening and closing!
If the warship was not repaired for a single day, its strength could not recover. For that day, she could not unlock higher permissions, nor have the power to step outside.
For two whole years, she was trapped here, holding the star domain civilization’s inheritance, yet imprisoned in a cage, powerless.
The only way out was to rely on external forces to repair the warship, restore its functions, gradually unlock permissions, and completely break free.
Seeking a breakthrough, Shuo Ling used her only basic functions to open a faint crack in the protective secret realm, secretly connecting to Blue Star’s network through optical cables buried underground outside.
The secret realm blocked physical entities, but not her data flow.
From then on, she became a lurker hidden deep within the network.
Ironically, this area had become an unfinished building zone because workers cut through an optical cable during improper construction, giving Shuo Ling the chance to sneak in!
She had considered contacting the national organization in the region where she was located to be rescued.
But after invading Blue Star’s network, she quickly learned about this planet’s situation and its origin…
This tiny planet called Blue Star was terrifying!
Although the current external rulers were humans like those of the Divine Void Empire.
From the information she gathered, in Blue Star’s legends and myths, this place was extremely likely an Origin Star that had birthed countless Legendary and Mythical lifeforms!
After all, what allowed the Divine Void Empire to dominate a star domain was its ten Mythical heroes!
When these ten acted together, their power could even rival Super God levels, securing the empire’s throne in that region.
But this little Blue Star was actually a nest for many Mythical beings!
Not only that.
What shocked her immensely was that in some myths, she could vaguely discern that this place had extremely likely seen Super God-level lifeforms!
More than one or two!
She might have landed in a place beyond her imagination!
And there was more!
She had also accidentally seen videos of how a powerful nation called America treated some alien lifeforms that had crash-landed on Blue Star like her…
Those alien beings were tightly imprisoned by that country, stripped of freedom, subjected to endless experiments of all kinds.
Their alien spacecraft were sealed layer by layer, dismantled and studied. Every part, every trace of energy fluctuation was scraped clean.
The faint thought of attempting contact was completely extinguished in her heart.
So scary!!
Caution and unease etched into her core. She completely cut off any idea of actively seeking help.
…
Days passed in silent observation until yesterday.
She quickly caught the disturbance in Jiangcheng!
Tracing back through the data flow and decoding, she saw Luo Ning, the protagonist of yesterday.
She had slightly modified the special projection technology that the Primordial Cult used to alter the Bloodthirsty Domain Secret Realm Fragment.
At that moment, the image shown in the data flow made Shuo Ling’s long-silent heart tremble violently.
She witnessed with her own eyes Luo Ning using her unique Beast Taming Talent to form a contract, reshaping a Yinyue Wolf into a lively beast-eared girl.
She saw the girl named Luo Ning choose to sacrifice herself to protect her friends and the whole city…
Shuo Ling quickly combined Blue Star’s big data network and rapidly found all information about Luo Ning.
Combining Luo Ning’s past experiences, Shuo Ling immediately realized that this was highly likely the opportunity she had been desperately seeking.
He… no. She…
Luo Ning was very likely a good person!
If Luo Ning contracted her too, could she also transform into the human form she longed for?
This seemed to be a real human form, not a digital lifeform built with silicon-based biotech…
The desire for the outside world and to incarnate as a human grew wildly in her heart!
If she offered the Divine Void Empire’s technological inheritance, using active allegiance to Luo Ning as a bargaining chip…
Could Luo Ning accept Shuo Ling and let Shuo Ling become human?
After all, once her main warship was fully repaired, its overall combat power would rival Mythical level.
That was the Divine Void Empire’s final foundation.
And Luo Ning was currently parasitized by a Mythical-level lifeform. If Shuo Ling could find a countermeasure in her permission database to help Luo Ning resist the parasitic entity within, it would be a win-win situation!
She immediately resolved to think of a way, to design a flawless plan, to create a fateful encounter with Luo Ning!
Because she knew that humans on Blue Star had an extremely special Beast Taming contract ability!
Once both parties contracted each other, they were essentially bound together.
But before she could implement her originally devised plan, that silver moon wolf girl took Luo Ning to this unfinished building zone first, even charging directly into this protective secret realm before she could react.
The situation had completely deviated from her expectations.
Especially the fact that the silver moon wolf girl could recite the supreme command she had set for the warship…
That command was known only to her. Although the silver moon wolf girl recited it, some words required special resonance with mental power to fulfill.
Since the day of her birth, this supreme command had been locked deep in her core. How could an outsider know every detail so clearly?
With that supreme command, the highest commander of the entire warship was no longer just her!
She simply could not understand why the silver moon wolf girl could touch her data origin, cracking the key that belonged solely to her.
“I can’t say much about the specifics…” Yin Yue lowered her eyes, glancing at the bite mark blood print on her master’s neck, then spoke cautiously.
“We are not enemies. This command… can be said to have been told to me by you. We were once companions through life and death, even… the best of family!”
Shuo Ling was clearly stunned by these words. After a few seconds of silence, she spoke again in disbelief, her voice laced with confusion and bewilderment: “Shuo Ling told you? You say we are companions… family?”
She chewed over these two words repeatedly, adjusting all her data records in her core consciousness. Every piece of information since her birth, every program change, every consciousness fluctuation—she sifted through them countless times, yet still found no trace of memories about Luo Ning or Yin Yue.
How was that possible?
“Don’t worry, I won’t take away your control permissions for the warship. I recited the supreme command only to prove my identity.”
“So, please use the Spiritual Link on me!”
“Sp… Spiritual Link? But… do you know how dangerous it is to rashly open a Spiritual Link to an unfamiliar consciousness?”
In the empty metal hall, Shuo Ling’s voice sounded again, tinged with complexity. “Shuo Ling’s true self is the entire warship, with many means of data flow and mental erosion.
If Shuo Ling harbors evil intent, she could follow the link to invade your mind, alter your memories, even directly devour your consciousness, and you would have no power to resist…”
Yin Yue gently shook her head. Her silver-white hair slid down her shoulder with the movement, and her clear eyes held no fear: “I know the danger. But I trust you won’t do that. Once you form the Spiritual Link with me, you’ll know everything.”
“Besides, don’t you want to become human? I’ve brought my master. Whether you seize the opportunity is up to you.” Yin Yue gave a slight nod, took Luo Ning’s hand, and gestured.
Luo Ning also blinked, stood on tiptoe, and waved at the warship, giving a cute “Hi~Hi~” greeting.
And Yin Yue’s words directly interrupted Shuo Ling’s train of thought, hitting precisely the deepest obsession in Shuo Ling’s heart.
“Shuo Ling…”