Dragon Transformation in the Apocalypse

Chapter 468 Finding the Way Home

In the blink of an eye, Li Chenglong has been away from Dawn City for nearly five months, and a week has passed since he left the Kyoto base.

During this time, he piloted the most advanced medium-sized interstellar warship, the Flying Dragon, and carefully scouted locations such as the Moon and Mars. Finding no trace of aliens, he was finally convinced that the zombie virus on Earth was not released by aliens.

Before leaving, he sent a message to the Kyoto base, conveying the latest investigation report to them. Then he piloted the Flying Dragon away from the solar system and slowly flew towards the center of the Milky Way.

Two days ago, Li Chenglong attempted to unleash all his psionic energy and the power of the G-Gem in a quest to return to his original world. However, it ultimately resulted in a simple dimensional traversal, taking the Flying Dragon from Mars to the vicinity of Pluto. After discussing it with the Dragon Spirit, he plans to find a nest or densely populated area of ​​void creatures and repeat what he did during his previous journey through parallel worlds. That should offer him hope of returning home.

Another reason he went to the center of the Milky Way was to see if the Interstellar Alliance existed in this universe. If it did, then with their intelligence gathering capabilities, they could definitely find a place with a large number of void creatures very quickly.

But the priority is to find a planet with life. Otherwise, with the universe so vast, he might never find the Interstellar Alliance even after a lifetime of searching. Li Chenglong had a conversation with Aida, the super artificial intelligence computer on the Flying Dragon, and decided to set the highest priority for the warship's search to planets with advanced life. Then he went to sleep peacefully.

Although Li Chenglong was eager to return to his own universe and get back to Dawn City as soon as possible, he couldn't return now, so there was no use in being anxious. He might as well take advantage of this time to rest and recuperate and get back to his peak condition.

A week later, Li Chenglong was awakened by Aida and brought to the cockpit. As soon as he entered, Aida's virtual image appeared in the cockpit and said in a lively voice: "After 160 hours of jump flight, I have found a planet that can be considered a second type of intelligent life. As far as I know, the technological development level of this planet is equivalent to that of Hailan Star, and there are many superpowered individuals, but their strength is generally not strong."

Aida's report was lengthy, containing both video footage and various data. In general, the planet he was going to was similar to Hailan, but the inhabitants were not as strong as those on Hailan. More importantly, this planet had once been invaded by void creatures.

After carefully reviewing a series of data, Li Chenglong confirmed that he could breathe freely on this planet. He then piloted the Flying Dragon and used space jump to arrive at a deserted place on the planet, where he placed the Flying Dragon into the psionic space.

It's worth mentioning that the Flying Dragon is parked in Li Chenglong's psionic space within the space factory, where time flows normally and there are many intelligent automated robots that can perform maintenance and upkeep on the Flying Dragon.

Because of Ada's previous investigation, Li Chenglong discovered that the people here looked somewhat different from him. So he made a very realistic headgear on the Flying Dragon. Unless someone examined it very closely, it would generally not be discovered by the inhabitants of this planet.

After storing the Flying Dragon in his psionic space, he quickly headed towards a nearby town. Because the town had previously been attacked by void creatures, some areas were barren and had become a wasteland, so the boundary between the town and the outside world was very clear.

About 30 minutes later, he arrived at the entrance to town. The inspectors asked him only a few simple questions and then let him in. Since finding out things would be more appropriate in places like hotels or restaurants, he immediately began looking for them upon entering.

To Li Chenglong's surprise, the people on this planet also spoke an interstellar language, which made him feel much more at ease. Actually, he had originally planned to pretend to be deaf and mute if he couldn't understand the people here. He could wait until Aida had collected the data and input it into the automatic translator before speaking.

To his dismay, the staff in the restaurants and hotels were all robotic humanoids. Although they looked exactly like the local residents, they could only answer related questions, and it was impossible to ask about anything else.

After walking for quite a while, Li Chenglong finally found a few children and two elderly people who looked quite old in a small park. Everyone here possessed superpowers, so to determine if they were real people, he only needed to observe whether they exhibited any fluctuations of superpowers.

An elderly man with a cane was watching children playing in the distance. Li Chenglong saw this as a good opportunity and stepped forward to strike up a conversation.

But before he could even get close, the old man spoke directly, as if talking to himself: "The void creatures here were all driven away years ago. We don't have what you're looking for here. Also, if you want to go to the Interstellar Alliance, just keep heading in the direction of this coordinate point."

Li Chenglong was greatly surprised and was about to go forward to speak, but the old man simply vanished from the spot, leaving only a lingering fluctuation of superpowers. Looking at the children still playing in the distance, Li Chenglong cupped his hands towards the air and said, "Thank you very much for your guidance!"

After saying that, he activated spatial teleportation and disappeared from his spot, reappearing outside the town. He then activated dimensional travel to the place where he had landed, retrieved the Flying Dragon, and quickly left.

While spatial teleportation is relatively safe, the distance is limited, with a maximum range of only seven or eight kilometers. Dimensional travel, on the other hand, is more dangerous, but allows for much greater distances in a single trip. By using both abilities interchangeably, Li Chenglong could reach almost any location on Earth within a day.

When he was in the Interstellar Alliance, Guedes once said that their records showed that some powerful individuals with dimensional travel abilities could travel from one star system to another in a single trip, demonstrating their formidable strength.

After setting the coordinates, Ada immediately calculated that with the speed of the Flying Dragon and the jump navigation method, it would only take a week to reach the location of the Interstellar Alliance. Hearing this news, Li Chenglong couldn't help but feel happy, as it meant that he was getting closer and closer to returning home.

While Li Chenglong, Long Ling, and Aida were chatting, they talked about the old man he had met on that planet. Aida pulled up the data she had collected, which showed that the average age of people on that planet could reach 1800 to 2000 years, and that there had even been level 14 powerhouses before.

Long Ling asked, "Brother Li, was the old man you met a level 14 expert? Otherwise, how could he know your identity?"

Li Chenglong shook his head and said with some certainty, "He shouldn't be level 14. Although we spent very little time together, I could sense that his strength was probably not as strong as mine, and he might even be just a level 12 expert. The reason he knew my identity is probably because their technology is advanced and they were able to detect the Flying Dragon and my whereabouts. And this old man just happens to be good at detection, so he knew my purpose."

“And there is an even more crucial piece of evidence,” Li Chenglong added. “When I left that town, I carefully examined it with my True Dragon Eye and confirmed that there were no level 13 experts inside. My left eye can accurately detect detailed information no matter how well the enemy hides themselves. Just now, I did indeed only find one level 12 expert and some level 11 people.”

Since there was still a week left, Li Chenglong felt he couldn't waste it, so he and Long Ling learned a lot about Roland from Aida. As one of the medium-sized space battleships built with the combined efforts of the entire world, the Flying Dragon had acquired a great deal of valuable knowledge about Roland, which made Li Chenglong, who always loved learning but had little free time, very happy.

A week later, the Flying Dragon arrived near the coordinates, but this was not the Interstellar Alliance location that Li Chenglong had imagined; instead, it was an extremely terrifying place.