Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 399-Awakening
"scarlet……"

Just by seeing the red color on the planet Gaia, Tian Zhan felt a chill on his back.

He finally understood why Chen Ming wanted to completely block all the space stations and planets in the Gaia and Origin galaxies, leaving no room for escape.

It is not to guard against the invasion of Leviathan from the outside world, but to prevent the spread of the scarlet substance that appeared on a certain planet and protect the safety of everyone.

Nothing would happen to him if he stayed on the space station.

But he chose to leave the space station and step into what is now arguably the most dangerous place in the entire empire.

This is his choice.

Tian Zhan had already seen Gaia with his own eyes at this time, but the anxiety in his heart did not subside. Instead, it became even stronger with the rapid expansion of the scarlet.

But now he already knew the reason why he had such emotions and what he should do.

His thoughts remained unchanged, and he controlled the spaceship towards the gap left by Chaofan using Chen Ming's psychic power.

The distance between a planet's orbit and the planet itself is not very far.

The shuttle passed through the gap in the sky and entered the sky of the planet Gaia in a blink of an eye.

Tian Zhan could only see a corner of the planet Gaia from outside the sky, but he could already see the madly expanding scarlet color.

And when he passed through the sky, he found that nearly one-third of the surface of the entire planet Gaia was covered with scarlet.

The extremely dazzling scarlet blood color that could be observed with the naked eye, in sharp contrast to the azure blue of Gaia, was spreading wildly like an epidemic, making it impossible for Tian Zhan to keep his gaze on it for long.

And just after the shuttle passed through the sky, the originally open passage was closed.

The retreat is completely cut off.

There was no Yuhui who was close enough to Chen Ming and had mastered some of Chen Ming's spiritual powers to help Tian Zhan open the blockade of the metal skylight.

If Scarlet really devours the entire planet, then he, who is under the same sky as Gaia, will surely die.

Tian Zhan did not hesitate.

He continued to control the spacecraft to slightly change its course and fly towards the still blue area of ​​Gaia.

After arriving on Gaia, his anxiety is gradually stabilizing.

But the tension suddenly emerged again.

Although I have heard about dimensional infection outbreaks several times before, this is the first time I have actually encountered one.

Faced with the legendary existence that could lead to a life worse than death just by looking at it, it is impossible not to be nervous.

But he came after all.

His heart told him that he had to come.

Because only he can keep Gaia alive in the scarlet when Chen Ming is not around.

The spacecraft bypassed the large area of ​​scarlet and successfully entered the planet's atmosphere.

From the images detected by the spacecraft's sensors, Tian Zhan saw countless twisted flesh and blood piled up into mountains, wriggling and spreading towards the normal areas.

Every mountain of flesh and blood, every infected flesh and blood animal, and every flesh and blood plant is filled with eyeballs of varying sizes. They tremble irregularly, emitting an atmosphere that makes people feel panic.

This time the source of the scarlet infection was the eyes.

Tian Zhan knew something about the earliest dimensional infection in the empire.

The target of the dimensional infection that time was also the eyes, and it ultimately had a very significant impact on the empire.

It is hard to say whether this scarlet infection is related to the previous one.

Considering that Chen Ming has lost contact for unknown reasons and there has been no reinforcement from the empire, he should probably think of everything in a worst-case scenario.

Tian Zhan looked at the image on the sensor for a while, and the image was recorded from his current high altitude, very far away.

I felt obvious physical discomfort.

The scarlet color constantly irritated his eyes, causing him to feel a burning pain in his eye sockets.

He quickly turned off the unnecessary sensors and continued to approach the location of the fairy tree.

As the shuttle descends in altitude.

Tian Zhan discovered that scarlet objects had appeared even in places where scarlet could not be clearly observed from space.

Those were some eyeballs floating scattered in the sky.

The small ones are a dozen centimeters in size, while the large ones can be nearly ten meters in diameter.

Behind each eyeball there was a trail of curled flesh and blood, dripping blood onto the ground.

Every eye was fixed on the planet and...on the spaceship that he had just begun to lower its altitude.

When Tian Zhan saw the eyeballs staring at him, he suddenly felt that his own eyes became more painful. The pain was no longer limited to the eyes themselves, but also spread to the area around the eye sockets.

He endured the pain in his eyes and avoided looking directly at those eyeballs. He also controlled the shuttle to avoid those large eyeballs that were heading towards it and quickly lowered its altitude.

Doing so would allow him to get rid of those eyeballs in the sky as quickly as possible, but it also forced him to get closer to the border between the scarlet and Gaia's blue, which he was not supposed to be able to touch.

The situation here is even more horrifying.

The scarlet creatures are in fierce conflict with the native life forms of the planet Gaia.

Ever since Chen Ming planted the fairy tree on the planet Gaia, and allowed Gaia's consciousness to merge with the fairy tree.

The planet Gaia itself is no longer a purely unique life form, but a unique life form with spiritual power.

Under the impression of its consciousness, all creatures belonging to Gaia will possess some of the power belonging to the leader, just like the Zerg, Mechanicals and Yu Hui under Chen Ming.

This made it possible for the planet's indigenous creatures to fight against the Scarlet.

But the situation that Tian Zhan saw at this time was not very good.

All the creatures that are fighting against the ever-expanding scarlet outbreak and trying to suppress the scarlet within the scarlet area will not be able to survive.

During the battle, the eyeballs of some animals that were originally tearing the scarlet apart would bulge out, and dozens of trembling eyeballs would suddenly grow on their bodies, with blood and flesh rolling around, quickly turning into a pool of dead meat.

And those aggressive plants are completely unable to digest the scarlet. They can only be affected by the scarlet and die completely. They will be revived again because of the growth of flesh and blood, and become the plants that allow the scarlet to take root in the soil.

Even with the Fairy Tree as a source of psychic energy, the planet Gaia itself was completely unable to fight against the invading Scarlet.

It would be fine if it was just pure flesh, blood and eyeballs.

Seeing with one's own eyes the once lively creatures turned into corrupted flesh and blood in the blink of an eye was far more shocking than the former.

Tian Zhan couldn't help but close his eyes and wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes due to dryness and pain.

He turned the opacity of the portholes to the maximum on the spacecraft console, so that he could not see anything happening outside and could only use sensors to observe.

Although all this is cruel.

But what is important is definitely not the places and creatures that are being or have been affected by the Scarlet.

The only thing that really matters is the fairy tree that stands opposite the original site of the scarlet infection.

The shuttle was rapidly approaching the surface.

The number of eyeballs suspended in the air is also decreasing.

But the scattered pieces of flesh and blood distributed on the normal land are increasing in number.

The source comes from some scarlet creatures that are shaped like wheat ears.

They float quietly in the low sky, and each ear of wheat is a scarlet eyeball.

Wherever they looked, all living things were changing and causing the scarlet to spread further.

As more and more locations become Crimson, the rate at which the Crimson spreads will increase exponentially.

Tian Zhan had no way to stop it, nor could he continue watching.

His eyes were full of bloodshot, and there was almost no white left.

He could only completely turn off the sensors that received visual information from the outside world and use thermal sensors to observe the outside world.

But when he just turned on the thermal sensor, he was horrified to find that above and behind the shuttle, there was a transparent flesh and blood creature that could not be seen by the naked eye swooping down.

It was a giant bird-like creature with a head full of eyeballs and only a long, thin beak sticking out from the pile of eyeballs.

At this almost close distance, the shuttle had no time to make any maneuvers before the eyeball bird had already pounced on the shuttle.

The sharp beak pecked at the shuttle's hull fiercely, and with just a few hits it penetrated the hull directly and pierced the middle section of the shuttle.

Fortunately, Tian Zhan had already locked the doors of the cab and the passenger room at the back completely when he started the boat.

This strange bird couldn't hurt him directly.

But this still caused the shuttle to shake violently and the flight was affected.

Tian Zhan quickly fastened his seat belt and pulled the joystick to one side.

The shuttle rolled wildly.

However, the Eyebird kept its sharp claws and beak firmly fixed on the shuttle, and no matter how Tian Zhan maneuvered, he could not get rid of the guy on the spacecraft.

The continuous high-frequency maneuvers made Tian Zhan's complexion even worse.

He could only stabilize the shuttle by force and reach his destination as quickly as possible before it was completely torn apart by the eyeball bird. Tian Zhan had just stabilized the spaceship when the eyeball bird tore a huge cavity in the center of the spaceship and poked its head full of eyeballs into the cabin.

Through the glass on the door between the passenger compartment and the cab, it saw Tian Zhan who was driving the shuttle.

The eyeball bird let out a strange cry, and the piercing sound seemed to tear Tian Zhan's eardrums apart.

When Tian Zhan steadied the spacecraft with one hand and covered his ears with the other.

The eyeball bird suddenly flew over the top of the spaceship's cockpit and smashed its head against the cockpit.

The front glass of the spacecraft was instantly covered with cracks at the place where the beak pecked, and perhaps it would shatter directly with the next impact.

At this moment, Tian Zhan finally saw the fairy tree standing on a plain in the distance.

He made up his mind and pushed the joystick forward to the bottom. The spaceship immediately fell directly towards the fairy tree.

It hit the ground about a hundred meters away from the fairy tree, making a loud noise, and slid all the way to the fairy tree.

The violent and continuous impacts caused Tian Zhan to spit out a large mouthful of blood, which sprayed onto the shuttle's control console.

Mixed in the blood were countless tiny eyeballs.

Tian Zhan saw the pool of blood as soon as he took a quick look, and panic spread in his heart.

But he still managed to use the tools provided in the cab to cut the stuck seat belt and climbed out of the cab.

The eyeball bird that was originally hovering on the shuttle let out a sharp cry of unwillingness, as if the cry was made by a person drowning in a pile of eyeballs, and then flew away from this place.

Tian Zhan supported himself to stand up and crawled to the fairy tree.

The pain in his eyes and chest made it almost impossible for him to stand.

His eyeballs were trembling, and two strands of blood with countless tiny eyeballs flowed from the corners of his eyes.

He had almost completely lost control of his eyes.

Once his eyeballs are completely infected with scarlet, death will come completely.

In this extreme pain.

In Tian Zhan's brain, a nerve was trembling wildly, resisting the invasion from the scarlet.

In the spiritual energy fluctuations that soothe everything released by the fairy tree that integrates Gaia's consciousness.

A weak spiritual energy fluctuation belonging to Tian Zhan was released from this nerve.

When a psychic possesses psychic powers, it is usually accompanied by a major turning point in life or an extreme outburst of some emotion.

At this moment, Tian Zhan satisfied both of these conditions at the same time.

Everything will fall into place.

Psychic awakening.

The psychic energy fluctuations released when Tian Zhan awakened his psychic energy wiped out the scarlet substance that invaded his eyes... No, not wiped out, but transformed all of the scarlet substance into a special substance that was harmless to humans.

He opened his eyes again and wiped away the blood and tears from the corners of his eyes.

All the tiny eyeballs were transformed the moment his psychic powers awakened, and all the special substances that were transformed seeped into the ground and disappeared.

But when Tian Zhan opened his eyes, he found that what he saw was not a peaceful and quiet scene, but a scene full of scarlet.

Countless scarlet eyeballs surrounded the area, all surrounding a circle with the fairy tree as the core, watching with eager eyes.

The dripping blood was corrupting the ground, constantly affecting the environment, so that the scarlet color almost covered the entire area around the fairy tree.

But they themselves did not come directly close.

It's not that the scarlet creature suddenly gained reason or became alert, but the power of the fairy tree and the will of the planet is protecting this place.

Protect the fairy tree, protect the field where the fairy tree grows.

After awakening his psychic powers, Tian Zhan knew that the gaze of the Scarlet Eye was powerful.

Although they seem to be just staying there, in fact, they are in fierce conflict with Gaia's consciousness.

He already had the potential to awaken his psychic powers before he took leave some time ago.

After returning from his hometown, he was completely convinced that he definitely had this power, but he just lacked an opportunity.

The opportunity has now come and has come true.

Then he should also report to the people, things and events that provided the opportunities.

Although Tian Zhan had just awakened his psychic powers and still had almost no understanding of psychic powers, he was protected by the fairy tree.

But he knew what he should do.

Without any instruction, he released the spiritual energy fluctuations into all the affected scarlet areas around him.

All the scarlet things that were stained by his psychic energy were returning to their former appearance.

Even if the flesh and blood has been distorted, even if the vitality of the original creature has been cut off, Tian Zhan's spiritual power can completely restore all the effects of Scarlett Shield to their original state.

All the pure scarlet creatures that were not transformed decayed and died.

A large number of scarlet eyeballs gathered at the edge of Gaia's protective circle died almost instantly.

But immediately, another group of scarlet eyeballs and scarlet eyes from other places arrived at the fairy tree.

All he can do is stick to it.

The psychic powers of a newly born psychic will not be very strong, and the psychic himself will not have too much mental power.

Except for the burst when psychic power just awakens, it will weaken quickly afterwards.

It was only because of the coordination of the planetary consciousness that Tian Zhan was able to barely keep everything out.

Until his mental strength was almost exhausted.

After all, Tian Zhan is just a psychic who has just awakened.

Right from the start, they have to face the Scarlet, in which even level 4 or 5 psychics may die.

The pressure involved is unimaginable.

He must try his best to destroy all scarlets, and at the same time use his spiritual power on himself and the fairy tree to protect the last hope of the planet Gaia.

Gradually, his eyeballs began to become bloodshot again.

Even though he closed his eyes, the influence of the power of the Crimson Eyes continued to act on him.

The moment when I felt my eyes were losing control once again.

Tian Zhan raised the window-breaking spike that he had taken with him when he climbed out of the spaceship cockpit and pointed it at his eyes.

His hands trembled slightly, but he still resolutely stabbed the awl into his eyes, blinding himself.

He reached out and tore off a piece of his sleeve, wrapping it around his eyes.

The blood stained his white sleeves and collar, and the pain almost made him faint.

But at this time, the impact he suffered from the Scarlet Eye was reduced to the minimum.

After being implanted on the planet Gaia, the Fairy Tree has become the foundation of the planet's consciousness.

While most species on Gaia can use past experience to escape deep underground to temporarily avoid the scarlet, the Fairy Tree cannot.

Countless eyes were focused on the fairy tree and him beside the fairy tree.

He and the fairy tree were almost the only ones left on the entire planet struggling to hold on.

He knew that if the fairy tree was infected by scarlet, the consequences would be disastrous.

The consciousness of an entire planet could die, or even be assimilated by the Scarlet.

He had to hold on.

His mental strength was already exhausted, and his expression was visibly deteriorating.

His cheeks suddenly became a little thin, and his body began to collapse along with his mental collapse.

Death seemed imminent.

……

Beyond the sky.

A meteor streaked across the sky that obscured the planet and headed straight for Gaia.

The meteor is not accompanied by a long and narrow tail flame, but a deep blue-purple track.

"well done."

Tian Zhan's body swayed and he fell towards the fairy tree beside him.

Before he fell into a coma, he used the psychic sensing method he had mastered due to the huge exhaustion of his mental energy.

The blue-purple light started from the figure in front of him and swept across the entire planet.

(End of this chapter)