PGVCW 79

Playing God in Various Catastrophic Worlds

Chapter 79: The Miracle in the Cosmos

The robust physiques of the Yunxing inhabitants, as You Mo had previously noted, were no mere exaggeration.

For ordinary inhabitants of other worlds, exposure to the vacuum of outer space would result in fatal collapse within three seconds.

Yet here in Yunxing, every single individual aboard that shattered vessel remained alive, the vast majority retaining full cognitive awareness.

Precisely because they were conscious, every passenger observed with absolute clarity as a raven-haired maiden gently raised her hand, effortlessly elevating their failing bodies with telekinetic grace.

She executed the feat with utter ease, as though she were lifting nothing heavier than a single strand of hair.

The Yunxing people possessed extraordinary visual acuity; even on active battlefields, stellar beasts thousands of meters distant rarely escaped their piercing sight.

Consequently, at this moment, the injured Yunxing citizens rolled their bestial eyes, fixing their collective gaze entirely upon the mysteriously materialized maiden.

She possessed a rare cascade of raven hair that drifted around her like the black expanse of the starry cosmos enveloping the resting tiger star.

Her attire was singular in design, appearing so impossibly light and buoyant that it resembled a drifting cloud, prompting inevitable speculations as to whether it had been woven from vapor itself.

She wore a mystical visage of such breathtaking beauty that direct gaze felt prohibited; despite their proximity, Yunxing's elite visual faculties struggled to map her features clearly, as though a brilliant radiance perpetually obscured her countenance.

007, currently acting as her lighting technician: Heh, heh.

In short, these massive, fearsome, beast-form Yunxing citizens were effortlessly rescued from the vicinity of the ship's wreckage.

The Spectacle on the Interstellar Net

Thus, a bizarre spectacle unfolded across the cosmos.

Ahead, a young maiden glided gracefully through the void, shimmering ribbons trailing and fluttering softly beside her.

Behind her, a massive cluster of bizarre, grotesque beast-forms followed in docile obedience, seemingly bound by an invisible force as they glided swiftly in her wake.

"What in the universe is happening?"

As a civilian starship traversed the sector, its passengers spotted the surreal tableau and crowded urgently toward the observation ports.

Although the commercial vessel sped past the coordinates the very next second, the passengers' optical cybernetics had already recorded the entire sequence.

Their astonishment was mirrored across countless vessels; virtually every civilian craft passing along that navigational corridor erupted with cries of disbelief.

Even the starship's pilot stared through the cockpit glass and muttered aloud: "Cosmos above... piloting starships long enough truly guarantees encountering every conceivable absurdity."

Footage fragments were captured instantly and uploaded onto the Interstellar Net with blistering velocity.

In the interstellar era, everything moved at hyper-speed—starships traveled fast, video feeds streamed fast, and uploads propagated instantaneously.

Passengers merely needed to issue verbal directives, and their internalized neural interfaces handled the execution naturally.

Consequently, even as Saruo and his companions were still floating through space, the Interstellar Net was already saturated with multi-angled video feeds accompanied by diverse audio commentaries:

【Along navigational route 24-23-879, a starship suffered a catastrophic accident, yet its passengers were rescued by a mysterious, anomalous power.】

【Since when has our technology advanced to the point where humanoid entities can achieve unassisted flight through a vacuum?!】

【Great cosmos, had I not witnessed this with my own eyes, I would have assumed this was a fabricated deepfake! Yet it is authentic, as over a hundred surviving passengers can attest.】

【Her apparel appears exceptionally bizarre; it does not conform to standard Yunxing designs. Could she be an extraterrestrial? An extraterrestrial capable of breathing freely in open space?】

The Crisis of Yunxing

Virtually every uploaded clip trended instantly. Perhaps regardless of civilization, human fascination with extraordinary spectacles remained eternal; yet for Yunxing citizens, tuning into this viral event transcended mere spectator amusement.

As universally acknowledged, the Yunxing civilization had conquered the stars through technological supremacy. Propelled by their formidable industrial foundation, they had unified all exploratory star sectors a millennium prior.

Yet Yunxing inhabitants refused to rest upon technological laurels. While technology was immensely powerful, human biology remained fragile compared to autonomous machinery.

Entrusting collective survival entirely to external apparatuses failed to provide absolute security—particularly following the emergence of stellar beasts. These gargantuan entities possessed the capacity to traverse the vacuum of space and devastate planetary infrastructure. While Yunxing resistance had initially proven effective, once stellar beasts breached military starships, human occupants exposed to outer space suffered rapid physiological collapse.

Consequently, genetic engineering initiatives were launched. Over a two-hundred-year developmental cycle, Yunxing humanity adapted to novel genetic frameworks, transforming their physical constitutions into formidable predatory beasts capable of withstanding stellar beasts and cosmic pressures.

Initially, the transition flourished, granting Yunxing sustained military advantage.

Until five centuries ago, when the ostensibly flawless novel genes manifested a terminal defect: as Yunxing citizens grew increasingly powerful, their psychological stability deteriorated, rendering them progressively susceptible to uncontrollable psychotic frenzies.

While these manic episodes failed to diminish combat efficacy, afflicted individuals endured excruciating agony during attacks and lost all capacity to distinguish friend from foe.

Yunxing researchers rapidly identified the etiology: despite its apparent perfection, the engineered genome required regular consumption of natural organic flora to maintain equilibrium.

Yet fifty years prior, across all star sectors accessible to Yunxing exploration, every single species of natural vegetation had suffered an unexplained, systemic extinction.

At the time, though perplexed, Yunxing authorities had dismissed the phenomenon, reasoning that their advanced technological infrastructure rendered organic botany superfluous to daily survival.

Who could have anticipated that a technologically supreme civilization would teeter upon the brink of self-annihilation simply due to the loss of natural plant life?

Despite desperate efforts to cultivate and propagate organic flora across artificial biospheres, every colonized star sector seemed cursed; regardless of human diligence, not a single green leaf would sprout.

In the present era, starships engaging in self-destructive, suicidal ramming maneuvers had become commonplace, driven by passengers who succumbed to sudden psychotic episodes and vandalized vital control systems from within.

Because such incidents occurred frequently amidst an ongoing war of attrition against stellar beasts, resource shortages forced rescue fleets to lag behind catastrophically, leaving countless citizens stranded.

Those unfortunate passengers exposed to the vacuum of outer space following vessel fragmentation had no recourse save transforming into their beast-forms and awaiting protracted expiration.

Yet presently, an individual had manifested who required no beastial transformation, exhibited zero physiological distress within open space, and deployed an invisible transportation matrix to rescue every single stranded civilian.

【Official authorities! Is this novel technology deployed by the Federation?! A novel innovation permitting human survival in unshielded space without trauma!】

【I doubt this individual belongs to official ranks; she wears no institutional uniform, and her stylistic design diverges completely from Yunxing aesthetics.】

【Could she be an emissary from an unexplored planetary civilization?】

【Wait, hold on... why does her vestment appear vaguely familiar? I seem to recall encountering it within an ancient historical archive...】

The Search and Rescue Vessel

While spectators debated wildly across the Interstellar Net, and media journalists, alliance military personnel, and idle spectators converged upon the coordinates, Xia Wang'an had already locked her focus onto a stationary starship.

Precisely speaking, it was a search-and-rescue vessel.

She remained oblivious to its classification; her decision to approach was dictated purely by the fact that among the drifting wreckage, this singular craft maintained absolute stationary stillness within the void.

Faint structural telemetry indicated that vessel crew members were actively evacuating the interior, transforming into massive beasts the instant they cleared the airlocks, struggling desperately—

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