Collapse Iron: My Past Life Revealed, I Was Everyone's White Moonlight

Lu Li was about to curse.

I thought the plot was finally back on track.

But what's going on here?

Dude, you've got the wrong person, haven't you?

Shouldn't you be looking at that gray-haired little girl over there with the baseball bat?

Why did you drag me into this?!

But Nanook did not respond to the crazy rant in Lu Li's mind.

It simply looked at Lu Li, its golden outline tilted slightly at an angle.

The movement was so subtle that Lu Li would never have noticed it if he hadn't been on high alert at the moment.

But he saw it clearly.

Nanook was... examining him.

It's like a person crouching down and getting close to the ground to look at an ant that has caught their attention.

It's not about crushing it.

I was just curious why this ant was different from the others.

Lu Li's back was covered in cold sweat.

He could feel himself being "scrolled through".

It's not a mental invasion; there's no pain like a probe piercing the brain to read memories.

Rather, it is a higher-dimensional perspective.

It's as if someone, without your knowledge, opened a book containing all your information and quickly skimmed through it from beginning to end.

He couldn't even stop it.

The gap between the two sides was so large that the concept of "prevention" was no longer valid.

This is the Star God.

Standing before it, one is not an ant facing a giant.

It's like a speck of dust facing the gravitational field of an entire galaxy—it doesn't even qualify to be "sucked in".

It just happens to exist in a gravitational field; its existence or non-existence makes no difference to the gravitational field.

Lu Li didn't know how much time had passed.

three seconds.

Or perhaps three centuries.

In this space, time seems to have no measure.

then.

Nanuk paused for a moment.

Lu Li caught that extremely subtle pause.

The golden giant shadow's "flipping" seemed to have stopped for some reason.

It felt as if it had discovered something deep within Lu Li.

What is that?

Lu Li didn't know.

But he could sense the emotion in Nanuk's pause... if the Star God also had emotions.

That wasn't murderous intent.

It's not a threat.

It is not a trial.

Yes—confused.

A destructive star god who has existed for countless Amber Ages discovered something perplexing in a train logistics worker.

This sent chills down Lu Li's spine even more than murderous intent.

Because if Nanuk wanted to kill him, that would be easier to understand.

It is only natural for the star god to destroy ants.

But what if a star deity is confused by you?

That means there's something about you that's beyond its comprehension.

But he's just an ordinary person, and he doesn't have a star core inside his body. What could he possibly have that the God of Destruction couldn't understand?

No, that's not right.

There was indeed something inside him, an "outsider" in this world, just like himself.

Could it be...?

The moment the thought crossed Lu Li's mind, the golden giant's gaze shifted away.

The feeling of being "watched" subsided abruptly, like the tide receding.

Lu Li felt as if he had been suddenly launched from the seabed thousands of meters deep onto the surface.

In the final moment before the collapse and shattering of the consciousness space.

Lu Li saw Nanuk's "gaze" pass over him and be cast towards a more distant direction behind him.

—The direction of the star.

So, you've finally remembered who you should watch, right?

Before the thought could even form in his mind, he was ejected.

……

Real space.

Lu Li took a deep breath.

The sudden rush of air into his chest almost made him choke.

The metal floor of the platform was beneath my feet, and the cold light of the Black Tower space station was overhead.

Various sounds flooded my ears again.

The distant siren's final whistle, the creaking aftershocks of the metal structure, March 7's rapid breathing...

Everything is still there.

The platform is still the same platform, and the doomsday beast is still that smoking corpse.

On March 7th, he was still sitting on the ground, panting heavily with his hands supporting him on the ground.

Dan Heng knelt on one knee, his right hand gripping the gun barrel tightly to keep from falling, his face covered in cold sweat.

Himeko stood there, one hand on her armored suitcase, her face pale as she looked up at the dome.

No one noticed his earlier "absence".

Because in reality, everything happened in less than a second.

Nanuk's gaze had already shifted away.

The oppressive feeling that seemed to come from a higher dimension quickly subsided, and everyone felt only the exhaustion of surviving a disaster.

Lu Li looked down at his hands, which were trembling slightly.

It wasn't because of fear—well, there was an element of fear involved.

After all, who wouldn't be afraid if the Star God gave them a second glance?

But more than fear, Lu Li now feels a sense of unease, as if his world has been turned upside down.

What exactly did Nanook "see" in him?

And that pause...

【Ding! 】

The sudden mechanical notification in his mind startled Lu Li so much that he almost jumped up.

Holy crap, this damn system has come back to life!

【Ding! 】

[Congratulations, host! Hidden Mission 1 is 50% complete!]

[PS: A mystery prize will be awarded after completing all the hidden quests!]

Lu Li: "...?"

Oh my god.

No, a hidden quest?

When did this lousy system start issuing tasks behind his back?

How come he, who was doing the task, didn't know?

Although Lu Li really wanted to greet the system's mother warmly on the spot, he couldn't care less.

Because there are more pressing matters at hand.

The star's body—lit up.

……

The moment that gaze fell upon him, Xing's consciousness plunged into darkness.

She felt as if she were drifting on water, without direction or destination.

then.

She heard it.

A voice.

It wasn't something you heard with your ears; it resonated directly within your soul.

It's time to set off...

Xing slowly opened her eyes.

Before them lay a strange space, and ahead of them stood a gigantic golden figure.

Xing murmured, "What exactly is this...?"

To reach that ending, to reach that ending through your own will...

"ending……?"

The voice rang out again, and Xing's consciousness became blurred for a moment.

It wasn't the kind of blurry feeling of losing consciousness, but rather the feeling that the "self" was being diluted by something much larger.

Like a drop of ink falling into the ocean.

She's still there, but she's almost lost herself.

Scene after scene flashed through my mind.

Those who have seen it, and those who haven't,

The intense pain made Xing instinctively cover her head with her hands.

He's already noticed you.

As the enormous golden figure before her opened its eyes and looked at her.

"what……"

The golden light on Xing's chest grew brighter and hotter.

Something inside her was expanding wildly, threatening to crush her from the inside out.

"Aaaaaah!!!"

The space and the figures all disappeared.

then.

Dark golden light burst forth from Xing's chest.