Chapter 7: Real Or Delusion? Who Knows
Dragon, the movement breaking free from Earth’s restraints was very easy, without explosive acceleration, only an indescribable smoothness, like a finger poking through a balloon, or like a swimmer lifting his head above the water surface.
Leaving the blue planet, Dragon took Yun Ce and plunged headlong into the pitch-black Space.
Yun Ce didn’t understand; there should be light from stars in Space, yet here it was pitch-black like eternal night. Leaving Earth, he felt he had also left Light.
Arriving in Space, Yun Ce no longer resented that old thief Yun Linchuan much, because resenting him now would be of no use.
In fact, Space was unfamiliar to Earthlings, even scientists researching Space knew about this World mostly from calculations and guesses.
Yun Ce knew he couldn’t do anything now, like a speck of dust in a beam of light not knowing where to go, like a mayfly born in the morning unaware of its evening Death.
The school of Giant Dragons seemed to roam slowly in Space, while Yun Ce was a traveler in Space.
This was an extremely novel experience, and at this moment, he seemed to forget the Death threat close at hand, greedily gazing at the beautiful scenery in Space.
The huge blue Planet behind him, looking into the distant Space like black satin with twinkling stars, though the stars weren’t as dense as they appeared from Earth, they flickered lively.
Dragon ran for a while longer in Space, the blue Earth appeared smaller, but the Moon grew larger, gradually changing from a hook shape to a crescent, finally becoming a Full Moon, silvery white, hanging on one side of Earth, incomparably handsome.
1 At this moment, Yun Ce forgot the fact that he had been abandoned, also forgot Yun Linchuan’s ruthlessness, only wanting to enjoy scenery unattainable by others in the last moments of his Life.
1 Even the most beautiful scenery, looked at for too long, would eventually bring thoughts back to reality.
1 During this time, none of the warp methods Yun Ce had fantasized about appeared; they were like a School of Fish roaming in the Sea, only the Earth behind them shrinking from enormous to smaller and smaller, finally becoming an insignificant speck of light.
1 Travel was often extremely boring, and someone like Yun Ce, who would exert a hundredfold Survival drive at the slightest hope of living, naturally wouldn’t waste precious Time.
1 Knife dug around everywhere; even if he could scrape off a bit of skin flake or something from the Dragon Claw, it would be good. He always felt that even Eggshell was a kind of Energy, so there was no reason Dragon’s skin flakes would be useless.
1 The Dragon Claw was pitch-black like iron, clean in a way Yun Ce couldn’t comprehend, because he hadn’t even gotten dead skin.
1 The World outside the Dragon Claw was pitch-black, inside the Dragon Claw it was still dry and Warmth; Yun Ce leaned his Body against a wide Dragon toe, and looking up he saw a huge Fireball.
1 This was a very eerie thing; clearly there was a big Fireball burning, but not looking at the Fireball itself, the Universe was black, pure black.
1 The light from the big Fireball suddenly jumped into Yun Ce’s Eyes, then he saw the light from the big Fireball dyeing the pitch-black Dragon Claw golden.
1 The Sun before his eyes was far larger than seen from Earth, proving this school of Dragons was taking him toward the center of the Solar System.
2 With Yun Ce’s meager Space knowledge, he only knew the Solar System once had nine major Planets, later Pluto was expelled, now becoming eight major Planets, ranked by distance from the Sun, Earth ranked third.
2 If there was another Life Planet in the Solar System, its position relative to the Sun should be about the same as Earth’s, only then would the temperature there be suitable for human Survival.
2 Too far would be too cold, too close too hot.
2 However, Yun Ce didn’t think there would be such a Planet behind the Sun; if there was, with today’s advanced Science, it couldn’t hide.
2 Not seeing a Planet suitable for human Survival, he did see many Dragons; he previously thought things like Dragons should be few in number, but now seeing thousands of Dragons with his own eyes, he suddenly felt Dragons weren’t that rare.
2 The Sunlight was so intense that every Dragon was dyed golden, then Yun Ce discovered his left hand had left his Body…
2 To be precise, it wasn’t the left hand leaving the Body, but many more left hands added outside the left hand, the outermost one drifting outward, seeming to leave Yun Ce.
2 Yun Ce swung his arm to hold onto the escaping phantom, but more phantoms left his Body, the farthest phantom even running a meter away.
2 Human nerve conduction speed is actually very slow; when Yun Ce saw the phantom, he knew his current Movement speed had long surpassed his Nerves’ Reaction speed.
2 Because of extreme boredom, Yun Ce really wanted to know if those dispersing phantoms were his passing Life; if so, how long his 28-year-old Life could endure such dissipation.
3 When Yun Ce turned his Gaze to the Sun again, he found the round Fireball Sun evolving into an ellipse; in just moments, the Sun became a red long line.
3 Not just the Sun becoming a long line, many bright stars in Space also quickly turned into silver-white long lines; the scene at this moment was extremely beautiful, a fiery red long line cutting through the Universe, piercing straight from before his eyes to the End of the Sky, on both sides of the red line filled with silver meridians, soon the red line became a quadrant pattern intersecting in a cross, and those silver meridians also became countless latitude and longitude lines within the quadrant regions.
3 These latitude and longitude lines formed a huge net, enveloping down toward Yun Ce’s eyeballs. After the giant net drilled into his eyeballs, it dragged his eyeballs Flicker Past backward, then his Body was also dragged by the eyeballs away from this moment’s Body, forming the next moment’s Body two meters away.
3 Until the Giant Dragon’s Claw was filled with Yun Ces in various poses, the initial Yun Ce shouted loudly, trying to drag the Body closest to him, but was tightly held by that Yun Ce and quickly fused; just like that, one pulling another, until they formed a ring in the Dragon Claw, only this ring was wriggling, the Yun Ces inside the ring becoming denser, long unable to distinguish which was the original Yun Ce.
3 Until the ring of Yun Ces gradually melted, finally stretched into a beam of light and scattered outward, but always blocked back by the cage of Dragon Claws, thus Yun Ce became a beam of light in the Dragon Claw.
3 Unknown how long this beam of light bounced in the Dragon Claw, Yun Ce suddenly found his thinking seemed to reappear, no longer a chaotic beam of light.
3 Before his eyes were clusters of colorful lights, these lights like phantoms, yet like real objects, crashing onto him like mountains and seas, then quickly breaking free from his Body’s restraints, gone in an instant.
3 Every cluster of light and shadow crashing onto him, Yun Ce felt like he was missing something; he recalled words Ao Bing had once said—Cosmic Travel, Time, that is, Life is the fuel for forward movement.
3 Clearly, Dragon’s speed was very fast, the previous travel speed likely already surpassed Speed of Light; the line segments he saw earlier were undoubtedly the accompanying light; at that speed, everything would turn into light, this was the true meaning of traveling with light as dust.
3 As soon as Yun Ce finished thinking, his thoughts disappeared, even his train of thought fragmented into pieces, nothing left after thinking.
4 He felt himself in a Basket composed of light rays, this Basket very likely the Dragon’s Claw; these creatures should have adapted or surpassed certain laws of the Universe, able to control these light rays themselves.
4 As soon as he thought it, he forgot what he had thought, even forgetting his recent thoughts, unlike earlier when he at least remembered some…
4 It seemed a long Time had passed, yet like only an instant.
4 “Clang clang clang… Bang bang bang… Sizzle, sizzle…”
4 Yun Ce was certain he heard some sounds.
4 Although hearing sounds during Speed of Light travel was absurd, he was still certain some sounds rang in his mind.
4 Yun Ce attributed these sounds to Death.
4 He knew he couldn’t live anymore; these sounds perhaps Time’s grace toward Death.
4 “I’m about to die.”
4 Yun Ce said so.
5 This was a mystical feeling; for some reason, Yun Ce just knew he was about to die.
5 Death was a sense of falling, a sense of Freedom with wind under his armpits, a sense of Freedom to stretch Limbs as much as possible.
5 Still the long fall from beyond the ninth heaven toward the Ground.
5 But the falling sensation paused in an instant.
5 Infinite gravity suddenly arose, firmly pressing Yun Ce’s Body onto Dragon’s toe; he not only heard his bones creaking before breaking, but also felt the pain of his Skin tearing; blood just flowing out was pressed onto Dragon’s toe by gravity, some blood drops falling from High Ground even pierced his palm, finally landing on Dragon’s toe.
5 His Head cracking, Eyes seeming to detach from sockets, even his heart seemed pressed against Dragon’s toe by gravity, the difference between Life and Death separated by a layer of Skin.
5 Infinite pain made Yun Ce want to open his mouth and shout, however, his two Lips were firmly pressed onto his gums by gravity; not to mention opening, he even thought the next moment his Lips would crush the gums.
5 Yun Ce desperately wanted to pass out, but his Nerves were extremely active; though it seemed hundreds of chainsaws were cutting his skull in his Head, the Brain protected by the skull kept him fully awake.
5 The pain greatly wore down his will, so Yun Ce’s awake Brain brought him visions of his Parents, grandparents; Mother’s smile, Father’s caress, Grandmother’s kiss, Grandfather’s tenderness, this gave Yun Ce’s heart some vitality, but unfortunately, at the end, Yun Linchuan’s bald Head also appeared, after which Yun Ce’s two Lips finally could open; he roared with all his strength: “Yun Linchuan, I fuck your ancestors eighteen generations!”
5 Perhaps Yun Linchuan heard the curse, Yun Ce’s Body actually left that sturdy Dragon Claw, his Body tracing a beautiful parabolic arc in the air…
6 If the initial momentum was sufficient, even a Stone could soar freely.
6 Yun Ce was that Stone, a Stone thrown by the Giant Dragon.
6 The biting wind once again plastered over his mouth and nose, preventing even a scream, but Yun Ce quickly dismissed the thought of cursing Yun Linchuan, because while flying in the air, he saw a tree.
