134: Chapter 134 Omega Virus Returns to Zero, Spark Soars into Deep Space

Seventy-two hours after the activation of the omega virus backdoor reserved by the Doctor.

On the global omega virus real-time monitoring screens, the dense and terrifying purple infection zones that once occupied every continent—whether natural viral variants or the "Gardener" legion of killing weapons created by Alpha Capital—were frantically receding and disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Xiao Zhi's electronic voice echoed through all terminals:

[The backdoor program left by the Doctor has covered 99.3% of all omega virus variants worldwide! The viral RNA chains are autonomously breaking! All "Gardener" mutant strain activation channels are permanently closed!]

"I... I'm turning back into a human?"

A man who had just shed his monstrous shell spoke with a hoarse voice, touching his restored hands in disbelief.

At the same second, the same scene played out simultaneously in every corner of the globe.

Alpha Capital Global Headquarters.

This sixty-eight-story glass building was once the pinnacle of capital and a myth of wealth.

At this moment, the outside of the building was packed tight by tens of thousands of ordinary citizens.

There were no riots, no smashing, no roaring.

Everyone just stood quietly, holding up their phones, blank sheets of white paper, and old photos of missing loved ones.

The police set up a cordon, but made no move to drive them away.

Inside the cordon, special forces members were fully armed, clearing this den of iniquity floor by floor.

Third basement level, the Genetic Experiment Forbidden Zone.

Long Zaiyu sat slumped on the cold floor, his face ashen.

Those experimental subjects he had "requisitioned"—laborers abducted from Southeast Asian slums, felons deceived by "sentence reduction" deals in prisons, and homeless people who had mysteriously vanished from the streets—were now crawling out of the ruptured culture tanks one by one.

Their hollow, lifeless eyes finally regained human spirit.

"You... you can't come over here!"

Long Zaiyu backed away in terror, his back slamming hard into a gene sequencer, knocking it over.

No one paid him any attention.

On the later official autopsy report, there was only a cold line of text:

Cause of death: Blunt force trauma to the neck, fractured cervical vertebrae, died on the spot. No other suspicious external injuries.

No one was arrested.

Those experimental subjects who regained their freedom, having done what needed to be done, walked quietly out of the building and voluntarily surrendered to the special forces.

The man leading them said only one sentence that left everyone speechless:

"We are not monsters. They are."

No one refuted him.

Alpha Capital's global assets were completely frozen!

Those black funds hidden in offshore accounts, shell companies registered in tax havens, and secret funds used to bribe politicians of various countries were uncovered one by one under Xiao Zhi's cooperation with Interpol's network-wide investigation, and publicly displayed before the whole world!

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This was the largest, most efficient, and most penetrating transnational financial liquidation in human history!

Evil had nowhere to hide!

Fanxing Technology Building, top-floor CEO's office.

Chen Fan stood before the massive floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the lights of thousands of homes relit in the Magic City.

The threat of the omega virus was completely resolved.

Outside the window, the setting sun dyed the entire city's skyline a burning golden-red.

Chen Fan slowly turned around.

Su Qingyue stood three meters away, holding a newly printed report.

She was wearing that slightly faded beige trench coat—the one she had always worn since she was still a community nurse.

Her hair was casually tied back, with a few stray strands hanging over her forehead.

Chen Fan would never forget it for the rest of his life.

When they met for the first time, she was dressed like this.

That day he had a high fever, and in his daze, he only remembered that her voice was very soft and warm.

He walked toward her.

A distance of only three meters, yet it felt as if he had walked an entire lifetime—through the frozen desolation of the North Pole, through the lifeless void of the moon, and through a thirty-billion-year flood of memories.

From a down-and-out unemployed youth picking up trash on the streets to standing here as a powerhouse who single-handedly decided the fate of humanity.

After all the twists and turns, returning from ten thousand miles away, his destination was always her.

"Qingyue."

Chen Fan spoke, his voice carrying a hint of imperceptible dryness.

"Hmm?" Su Qingyue looked up, the setting sun reflected in her eyes.

"I have something... I've hidden for a long time and always wanted to tell you."

He slowly took something out of his pocket.

It wasn't a luxurious jewelry box or an exquisite velvet pouch, but just a simple silver-white metal ring, glowing softly in the sunset.

Chen Fan's fingertips gently traced the inside of the ring.

There, a line of small words was engraved that could only be seen with a magnifying glass:

A mortal body can rival the stars. But the stars are too far away; I only want to be by your side.

This ring was something he had made by hand three days ago, while staying alone in the Amplification Laboratory.

137 milligrams of gold, infused with his own Stellar Core Energy, and crafted with 137 times the limit of precision Amplification.

This ring was his promise for the rest of his life.

He took a deep breath, his gaze locked firmly onto her eyes, speaking each word with utmost solemnity:

"I just want to ask you first..."

"Su Qingyue, will you marry me?"

The air froze instantly.

Three seconds, five seconds, ten seconds.

In the vast office, only the sound of a violent heartbeat remained—Chen Fan could no longer tell if it was his or hers.

The next second, Su Qingyue cried.

She had never been one to cry.

Not during the most desperate moments of the omega virus outbreak, nor when Chen Fan went alone to the North Pole with his life hanging in the balance, nor when the fate of the world was on the line, had she shed a single tear.

But at this moment, looking at the ring in his hand, she could no longer hold it back, and tears streamed down her face.

Chen Fan suddenly panicked, his hand holding the ring shaking even more violently.

Su Qingyue, however, took the initiative to reach out, gently grasping his wrist, and slowly pushed the ring onto her ring finger.

The size was perfect.

Three days later, in the core conference room of Fanxing Technology.

Lin Hao cleared his throat, breaking the silence: "Fan Zi, do you really intend to personally travel through interstellar space to find that Stellar Core Energy vein or whatever?"

Wang Defu also followed up anxiously: "Xiao Fan, then how long will you be gone?"

Chen Fan was silent for a moment before speaking frankly: "I don't know. The Kuiper Belt is too far, and the coordinates of the vein left by the Sower are old data from three billion years ago. It could take a few months at the fastest, or a few years at the slowest. If there's an accident... maybe longer."

Lin Hao took off his glasses and rubbed his sore eyes: "Then will you still come back?"

"I will."

Chen Fan turned and looked out the window, his tone as firm as iron. "As long as I'm still alive, I will definitely come back."

Lin Hao was silent for a long time before putting his glasses back on, closing the three laptops in front of him, and standing up abruptly.

"Fine! I'll guard the company for you! The accounts won't be messy, and the people won't scatter!" He paused, and for once didn't make a sarcastic remark, only leaving behind one sentence: "But you owe me a drink; you must make it up when you get back!"

"Double." Chen Fan smiled.

"It's a deal!"

Two hands clasped tightly together.

Looking at these two young men, Wang Defu's eyes instantly turned red, and he wiped them hard. "Fine! For a junk collector like me, this life has been worth it!"

Seven days later.

Below the launch tower of the Fanxing Technology Aerospace Center.

The ship carrying humanity's hope was named the starfire.

It was not an ark for colonial plunder, nor a weapon for waging war; it was a pure exploration vessel.

Objective: Fly beyond the Kuiper Belt to find Stellar Core Energy veins.

Mission duration: Indefinite.

Mission danger: Extremely high.

The cockpit featured an Amplification version of the quantum communication system and the strongest energy shield current human technology could manufacture.

Also, Su Qingyue and Xiao Zhi.

"Are you sure you want to go personally?"

The eighty-four-year-old Academician Wang, with hair as white as snow, had specially flown from Beijing to see him off, his voice full of concern.

"No one is more suitable than me." Chen Fan's tone was calm but beyond doubt. "My body can directly withstand Stellar Core Energy absorption, and my Amplification ability can urgently modify equipment."

He looked back deeply at the crowd seeing him off, then turned and stroded into the hatch.

The hatch slowly closed.

[starfire, self-check complete. All systems normal.]

[Destination: Outer edge of the solar system, Sower legacy coordinate area.]

[Estimated voyage: Uncalculable.]

[Mission status: On standby.]

Xiao Zhi's voice sounded in the cockpit: [Host, I have been waiting for this moment.]

"Xiao Zhi, are you afraid?" Chen Fan asked with a smile.

[I am an artificial intelligence and do not possess a fear module.] After a half-second pause, the electronic voice actually gained a hint of warmth. [But if I did, it should be excitement right now.]

Chen Fan laughed aloud: "Then let's go!"

Engines started!

The starfire rose steadily from the launch tower, its tail spewing a pale blue energy stream—a new generation propulsion system merging Sanxingdui Anti-gravity Technology and Stellar Core Energy Amplification!

There was no deafening roar, no blinding flames; it was like a light feather, gracefully piercing the firmament and rising into the sky.

On the ground, everyone looked up, their eyes filled with tears.

The starfire crossed the atmosphere and entered low Earth orbit.

Outside the porthole, the azure planet slowly receded; the outlines of the continents, the patterns of the clouds, and the lights of the night hemisphere gradually lighting up were clearly visible.

Suddenly, the communication channel lit up.

Chen Fan raised his hand to connect.

Heng Shu's holographic image instantly appeared in the cockpit.

"You know where I'm going." Chen Fan looked directly at him.

[Yes. I also know why you are going.] Heng Shu's silver eyes looked toward the endless darkness in front of the ship. [The Kuiper Belt indeed has Stellar Core Energy veins left by the Sower. Those were the backup energy depots we left when we established the Harvesting System thirty billion years ago. The female gave you the coordinates.]

"Will you stop me?" Chen Fan raised an eyebrow.

[No.] Heng Shu shook his head slightly. [I have no right to stop the independent choice of a free civilization. Moreover...]

He paused unusually, his tone carrying a hint of unprecedented emotion:

[The Sower system has been running for tens of billions of years, and there has never been a precedent of a harvested species actively stepping into deep space to find energy. You have always only known of the existence of Stellar Core Energy when you were being harvested.]

"That's because you never gave them a chance," Chen Fan said flatly.

[Yes.] Heng Shu admitted frankly. [So I want to see how far you can go when the opportunity is placed before you.]

His image began to fade gradually.

[Chen Fan, remember our one-hundred-year promise. I will wait for your return in Earth's orbit.]

"What if I don't come back?"

[Then I will wait for the next challenger.] Heng Shu's voice floated in the void. [But I will always remember that there was a human from the Seventh Cycle who, in the first year of regaining freedom, chose to rush toward the stars.]

Communication cut off.

The starfire accelerated at full power.

The Blue Star grew smaller and smaller.

It turned into a point of light, then into an insignificant speck of dust in the cosmic galaxy.

Chen Fan gently held Su Qingyue's hand, his eyes full of tenderness:

"Let's begin our interstellar honeymoon journey."

[starfire, jump engine activated!]

[Target: Outer edge of the solar system, Sower legacy coordinate area!]

[Estimated voyage: Uncalculable!]

[Mission status: In progress!]

The ship turned into a brilliant light and instantly disappeared into the boundless deep space.

In the depths of the universe that humans cannot observe, a small ship was sailing lonely but determinedly.

It was looking for hope, looking for the possibility of letting human freedom continue forever.

The universe was silent, and the starlight was Hengyuan.

But this time, in the starlit sky, there was an extra star belonging to humanity itself.

Its name was—starfire.

[The End]