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Chapter 549 A Reunion Three Hundred Years Later

The silver-white nameplate lay quietly in the box.

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Li Dachui couldn't help but laugh.

After a separation of three hundred years, the plaque has returned to its owner's hands once again.

And involuntarily, the image of that girl came to mind.

She was a cheerful girl who seemed shy, and it was this appearance that fooled almost everyone in the camp.

Until the selection of the crew for the Hope,
This was the first time she had shown her true colors.

The men in the entire camp almost lost all face in front of her.

No one can beat her.

Born into a family of doctors, she is not only proficient in medicine, but also extremely skilled in martial arts.

Li Dachui reached out and gripped the nameplate tightly.

What a wonderful era that was!

With highly advanced technology, people no longer have to struggle for three meals a day, nor worry about poverty or wealth. Almost all jobs are replaced by machines, and massive intelligent systems learn and develop on their own. Humanity has turned its attention to the development of itself.

Humans are the most intelligent of all beings.

Human beings have only a negligible amount of potential they can develop. However, through the efforts of countless generations over decades and centuries, coupled with the calculations of intelligent systems and the rapid development of gene technology, martial arts have once again flourished and grown in the human world.

The Qi of Heaven and Earth is the family martial art that the girl practiced back then!

They were both selected for that deep space exploration team.

Li Dachui is a major in the Hope's escort team.
The girl was a medical officer on the Hope.

Her name is Qingfeng!

Humans at that time believed themselves to be incomparably powerful.

Not only in science and technology, but also in the control and development of the body, it has reached an extremely high level.

Li Dachui thought so too.

It wasn't until they encountered an attack during that deep space exploration, when they didn't know who the enemy was, that they realized...
It turns out that in the vast expanse of space,

Humanity is still very weak.
It remains just as vulnerable as ever.

Amidst the raging flames, he witnessed her heartbroken expression as she departed.

She thought that one glance was a final farewell, and that's what she thought at the time.

But I never expected that I would meet her again in this way.

There was a gap of more than three hundred years between the two.

Time is a fickle thing; it always seems to play tricks on people.

On the Hope, Li Dachui and Qingfeng got along quite well.

It's not the kind of friendship that involves romantic love; it's purely the kind of friendship that exists between good friends.

During the lonely voyage, the two talked about everything.

Qingfeng is the kind of girl who desperately craves love.
However, the more you desire something, the more disappointed you will be, and the more easily you will get hurt.

Qingfeng made the decision to leave her family and join deep space exploration after a severe emotional trauma.

She wanted to get away from that familiar world.
She wanted to go into deep space and count the stars. Thinking of this, Li Dachui sighed.

It's often said that a person's character determines their destiny, and that's certainly true.

Even after leaving his original world and arriving in this unknown time and space, Qingfeng ultimately succumbed to the word "love".

At that time, perhaps she thought Li Qing was her soulmate for this lifetime?
But in the end, that person still betrayed her.

How should I settle this score between me and her?

Speaking of which, Li Qing is actually the ancestor of this body!

They were clearly good friends, look at the mess they've made now!
In terms of seniority, I've become her great-great-grandson!
"Didn't she leave behind a portrait or anything?" Li Dachui asked.

“Yes!” The old scholar Chen Ting pulled out a book from his belt, turned to a page, and handed it to Li Dachui. “This is a portrait of the founder drawn from memory by an elder of the sect after the founder disappeared. It is the only portrait of the founder that has survived to this day.”

Li Dachui looked at the woman in the painting.
She was quite different from the smiling girl Li Dachui remembered.

Time eventually stole that girl's youth.

The woman, clearly middle-aged, sat on a bench by the lake, her brow furrowed, lost in thought.

Even so, Li Dachui recognized her at a glance; it was her.

My eyes involuntarily welled up with tears.

"Can I have this book?"

Chen Ting looked at Jiang Qian.

"It's just a miscellaneous book recording some old stories from the sect. If you like it, take it!" Jiang Qian was very generous.

"Thank you!"

Li Dachui took the book and stuffed it into his pocket.

He could now roughly guess what kind of place these members of the demonic cult had been trying to enter for so many years but had been unable to find the entrance.

That must be the hospital ship that detached from the main ship and flew away back then.

But several hundred years have passed, so are the devices on that hospital ship still functioning properly?

Although Li Dachui knew that the hospital ship also used controlled nuclear fusion technology, it had been so many years, and like any machine, it would eventually break down. Just like the humans of their time, although they had developed their potential to an astonishing level, it didn't change the fact that humans are still subject to birth, aging, sickness, and death.

The four stood in the center of the main house of the courtyard. The old woodcutter Puning stepped forward and gently pressed down on the platform near the wall. The platform made a clicking sound and shrank inward. Then the entire wall unfolded to both sides, revealing the stairs that stretched downwards inside.

The passageway was bathed in a soft light because at each corner was a luminous pearl the size of a longan, each one priceless.

“Over the years, almost all the skilled craftsmen under our Giant Wood Banner who are proficient in materials, mechanisms, and metallurgy have devoted their energy and time to this!” Puning sighed somewhat dejectedly. “But we still have no clue how to get in. Initially, our predecessors thought of finding a way to open the mechanism, but by my generation, we had given up hope and tried to force it open. Unfortunately, even with the most drastic methods we could think of, we couldn’t leave a single mark on that door.”

Li Dachui chuckled to himself, thinking that the materials used to build the Hope were the most advanced materials available on Earth at the time. Not to mention your still very primitive gadgets, even an atomic explosion could not cause it any damage.

I just don't know what that bright, water-drop-shaped thing that destroyed the Hope was.
Back then, Earth was practically a god-like existence compared to the world today, but it was far inferior to the enemy that destroyed the Hope.

There are always people more capable than you, and there's always something beyond your understanding. The vast universe is full of amazing things.

After wandering around and descending, Li Dachui estimated everyone's pace and time. He figured they were probably already at the foot of Cloud Mist Mountain, or even deep in the riverbed.

The passage finally came to an end, where an iron gate blocked everyone's way. Puning took the lead, went forward, fiddled with the iron gate for a while, and then the iron gate made a banging sound as it was pulled into the gap above their heads.

“It’s just ahead!” Puning stood at the door, looking back at Li Dachui.

(End of this chapter)