Interstellar Greening Master

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While they couldn’t determine the exact reasons behind Qing Mengxing and Mang Ya’s successful traversal of the wormhole, they could roughly speculate that it had something to do with a delicate balance. Perhaps certain coincidences played a crucial role in making this journey possible. In that dimension beyond dimensions, Qing Mengxing and Mang Ya had acquired abilities that didn’t belong to their original dimension.

“Because Mang Ya’s time was reversed, his abilities couldn’t be hidden from the beginning. Coupled with his natural intelligence from a young age, the Galactic Alliance only needed a little manipulation to make him cooperate willingly. It’s even highly likely that I was the condition.” Qing Mengxing’s throat moved a couple of times, and his gaze dropped. Clearly, as an older brother, he had always been a protector, but later, he discovered that he was the one being protected, making accepting the truth incredibly difficult.

Cheng Que recalled the desolate figure he had seen on the operating table, unrecognizable from their original appearance. What kind of despair had they experienced to completely change a person’s disposition and give rise to that emotionless and indifferent gaze? And what kind of experiences had turned Mang Ya into the pathological and war-hungry madman he is today?

“Thanks to the Galactic Alliance’s greed, they didn’t bring both of us into the lab at the same time. It gave me the opportunity to enter the lab and see…” His voice abruptly halted.

Cloning was strictly forbidden in the Galactic Alliance, so when Qing Mengxing saw countless clones, his last shreds of sanity crumbled. These people were his family, yet they seemed entirely different, completely unlike Mang Ya, yet eerily similar.

This time, Qing Mengxing took a longer time to compose himself and then quickly recounted his actions of sabotaging the experiment. Due to the escape of the clones, the experiment was forcibly terminated, but this was only a surface-level termination. The experiment was still ongoing in the unseen shadows.

Simultaneously, Qing Mengxing exposed himself. “To evade capture, I had to flee in all directions, even with my ability to see. I was in a desperate situation. While hiding and evading, I saw the future of someone, a disruption of space-time, a loss of meaning in life and time. And soon, I discovered that this wasn’t an isolated phenomenon. Everyone lost their future. It didn’t take long for the entire Canghai Galaxy to vanish. It was as if the entire galaxy had been compressed. I can’t describe it accurately, but indeed, everything was heading towards destruction.”

Cheng Que’s heart skipped a beat as he pieced it all together. So that’s it. In the previous life, Cang Zhan Star managed to survive the destruction, which meant they couldn’t have been entirely unprepared. The person who provided them with accurate end-of-day information should have been Qing Mengxing. That’s how Shui Jing Gong could embark on a similar path of greening. In this life, thanks to his warning, the greening efforts had started earlier, making it potentially easier to weather the crisis.

“Six years from now, everything will cease to exist. I desperately searched for a glimmer of hope and finally saw a sliver of it in an exiled death row convict. The planet to which they had been exiled was Cang Zhan Star, so I came here. I knew the people from the experiment base would come looking for me. However, what surprised me was that this time they seemed to have learned their lesson. They didn’t intend to use force; instead, they exiled many people, including those involved in the Yan experiment. They pretended not to know me, and I played along. I gathered these people and established the Dream Star River Base. They really underestimated me; the people they sent constituted such a large base.”

“So, the demise of the Dream Star River wasn’t an accident. It was a joint plan between you and Mang Ya?” Nan Ge inquired.

“Not entirely. Cang Zhan Star had no way to return, and in addition, research on cloning outside was heavily restricted. They planned to transfer the entire experiment base to Cang Zhan Star. This planet was the most restricted, but it was also the freest. Furthermore, there were internal problems within the experiment group. Multiple leaders wanted to control both me and Mang Ya simultaneously. One of them tampered with the experiment and could forcibly control Mang Ya’s thoughts. So, the destruction of the Dream Star River happened because greedy people gathered together. The most likely outcome when greedy people congregate is uneven distribution of the spoils. After all, there is only one true Mang Ya and one true me, but so many people. The ultimate benefits from the experiment results weren’t enough to go around.”

The three of them understood now. The internal factions within the Yan experiment group were too fragmented, all wanting to control Mang Ya and Qing Mengxing. One of them had taken action first, controlling Mang Ya and exterminating the Dream Star River, effectively the entire experiment group. “You were avoiding this person, right? Afraid that you would be controlled by him as well?”

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Qing Mengxing nodded. “Indeed, there is a connection between twins, and this sensation becomes even stronger after gaining abilities. I could feel Mang Ya’s strong desire. He likes this place and wants me to come here. However, that person probably sensed it too. He’s been controlling Mang Ya’s clones to monitor the area, trying to catch me. So, it wasn’t until the freezing season that I was able to get close.” He paused for a moment and then smiled faintly. “I wanted to know what the place he likes looks like, and it’s truly comfortable.”

“Who is this person?” Cheng Que had some guesses.

Qing Mengxing smiled. “One of the main figures in the Gu Langu Reconstruction Program: Yang Tianjun.”

Both Nan Ge and Liu Po were surprised and glanced at Cheng Que instinctively, as Cheng Que had also been one of the participants in the reconstruction program. Cheng Que remained briefly silent. “He’s a leading figure at the elder level of the Alliance. If he was secretly involved in the Yan Project, it’s not difficult to understand why the Gu Langu Reconstruction was so successful.”

“What does that mean?” Nan Ge frowned.

Qing Mengxing answered, “It means that before the Gu Langu Reconstruction, there were endless supplies of test subjects, each one brand new, and if they went wrong, they could be disposed of at will. The reconstruction technology matured through countless experiments. And it’s not just Gu Langu; during that period, the Alliance’s reconstruction technology saw significant advancements. It’s just that Gu Langu was the most perfect…”

Another long silence followed. Others’ experiences were merely stories to them, but to the ones who lived through it, it was hell.

“What are your plans next?” Nan Ge inquired.

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This time, Qing Mengxing didn’t answer immediately. After a while, he said, “He wanted me to come here for a reason. I plan to stay for a while, at least through the winter. I will pay the standard accommodation and other fees. I’ll just be a regular homeless wanderer.”

“Can you talk in detail about what you saw regarding the end of days?” Cheng Que hoped that the Shui Jing Gong group could have a clearer and more direct understanding of the apocalypse, of the crushing power of the higher-dimensional civilization. The dimensions within the wormhole were beyond conventional comprehension, and perhaps that’s why Qing Mengxing could see the end of days. This should have been a crucial turning point for Shui Jing Gong in the previous life.

“Of course,” Qing Mengxing didn’t refuse and began to describe what he had seen on different people, the same end of days, and the chaos within it. The sensation of time distortion sometimes made him think thousands of years had passed, but in reality, only a few seconds had gone by.

The conversation continued for over two hours before Nan Ge and the others finally got up to leave. As a reward for the information provided, Shui Jing Gong offered Qing Mengxing free accommodation, food, and modifications to his simulator.

Before they left, Qing Mengxing asked if they weren’t afraid that he might be an impostor of Mang Ya as well.

All three of them expressed their trust in him, believing that no one would tell such a lie, and based on their deductions, the Canghai and Xian Ge Galaxies were indeed facing imminent destruction.

So, Qing Mengxing stayed in Shui Jing Gong. When he was seen taking a walk around the base the next day, the Shui Jing Gong members had a sense of familiarity; they had seen this scene not long ago.

Since Nan Ge had accepted Qing Mengxing, the others in Shui Jing Gong didn’t deliberately ostracize him. However, the memory of Mang Ya’s madness from that day left a deep impression, and for a while, they hesitated to approach him.

Qing Mengxing didn’t mind. He seemed focused on enjoying the comfort and warmth of Shui Jing Gong, as if patiently waiting for something.

Finally, Qing Mengxing met Shu Shuishui.

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Shu Shuishui and Gu Langu received Nan Ge’s message in the simulator, learning about the impending destruction of the Canghai Galaxy six years later. With the more comprehensive information they obtained this time, they could confirm that the crisis was the arrival of a higher-dimensional civilization. Furthermore, they could deduce that this civilization was at least seven-dimensional, with top-tier space-folding technology, enabling them to swiftly engulf the two Galaxies.

After awakening from the simulator, Shu Shuishui and Gu Langu gained a more detailed understanding of the situation. Shu Shuishui took the opportunity to meet the real Qing Mengxing. As for Gu Langu, he couldn’t wait and proceeded cautiously to collect his share of the profits from this period.

Upon their first meeting, Qing Mengxing and Shu Shuishui immediately understood each other. They exchanged silent glances and, after a moment, introduced themselves to each other.

“I seem to have seen you before,” Qing Mengxing felt an inexplicable familiarity with Shu Shuishui, and it was likely the same for Mang Ya, which is why he chose Shu Shuishui as a trading partner. “In the wormhole.”

Before coming, Shu Shuishui had already heard a detailed account from Cheng Que about Qing Mengxing and Mang Ya. In fact, the members of Shui Jing Gong had a feeling that Qing Mengxing and Mang Ya’s abilities were quite similar to the first simulation dungeon they had conquered together. Both involved timelines of the past and future, where time could be the past, the present, or the future.

Even the clue characters, Li Meng and Wu Lan, in that simulation dungeon, seemed to be counterparts of Shu Shuishui and Gu Langu from a past life, although this was purely speculative. Was it all just a coincidence?

The exact time when the Li Meng and Wu Lan simulation dungeon truly occurred was unknown, but if, by chance, two disrupted timelines were connected through a wormhole, everything would suddenly make sense.

Wormholes were, after all, gateways to another time and space. In this case, Li Meng and Wu Lan were trapped in a cycle of reincarnation within the wormhole. When the wormhole opened, the exploration team got caught up in it, and Qing Mengxing and Mang Ya survived due to being twins, along with many other coincidental factors. That’s why Qing Mengxing found Shu Shuishui familiar when he first saw him because he had interacted with Li Meng and Wu Lan within the wormhole. However, these interactions were dream-like, neither real nor fake. Without seeing Shu Shuishui and Gu Langu, Qing Mengxing wouldn’t have realized these phantom-like feelings and memories until he met them in person.

Because of this contact, Qing Mengxing and Mang Ya gained some of Li Meng and Wu Lan’s abilities – the ability to see the past and the future. It was because of this contact that many years later, the simulator captured the Li Meng and Wu Lan dungeon. Everything appeared coincidental, but in reality, there was a deeper cosmic order at play.