Chapter 1257: Into the Tiger's Den. After Mu Wang boarded the spacecraft, he instructed it to leave Bahia 354 at maximum speed.

He only relaxed when the radar showed no one pursuing him from behind.

Unbeknownst to him, this was all Yang Zun's arrangement; killing him within Bahia 354 would yield a reward of 1,000,000 energy coins.

This was money Yang Zun himself couldn't produce, but he never intended to.

Seeing the Bahia 354 grow increasingly distant, shrinking to a tiny speck, Mu Wang's tension was replaced by intense fury.

"Yang Zun!"

"Just you wait, I will definitely kill you!"

Mu Wang knew that many humans in the Star Countries of Human Civilization possessed almost infinite lifespans.

So, he still had ample time to prepare for revenge.

"Set destination to the Cabell Stellar System in the Tonsla Nebula."

"Please note, your set destination is outside the Ai Wu Star Country and has entered the Rasti Star Nation's territory. Do you still wish to choose this Stellar System as your destination?"

Mu Wang suddenly thought of something and immediately changed the destination.

"No, I misspoke. Change it to the Blue-Eyed Bream Interstellar Fishery."

That was a location on the border of the Ai Wu Star Country.

45 years later.

Mu Wang arrived at the location.

There were no prompts when he entered the fishery.

Mu Wang had read the descriptions; this place was once incredibly prosperous.

People from within the Star Country, and even many other Star Countries, would come here specifically to fish for Blue-Eyed Bream.

With the outbreak of war, Rasti aggressively expanded its borders to the doorstep of the Ai Wu Star Country. The Blue-Eyed Bream Fishery closed and has remained so until now, utterly desolate.

However, through the radar on his spacecraft, Mu Wang still detected traces of some small starships and aircraft.

He approached that area.

He discovered a Star City.

This Star City was called Linyin. When the Blue-Eyed Bream Fishery was prosperous, its population once reached 12 billion.

Now, viewed from space, the entire Star City was dim, with only sporadic lights detected.

Most of these were concentrated around the Starport.

Mu Wang knew he had come to the right place.

Searching for information online, he learned that although the Blue-Eyed Bream Fishery was closed, many experienced or obsessed fishing enthusiasts still came here.

There weren't many fisheries in the Star Country, especially large ones like the Blue-Eyed Bream Fishery, which covered over 6 cubic light-years and contained over 300 billion types of interstellar fish.

And after the mass evacuation of people, the resources here became incredibly abundant, turning it into a sacred place for many fishing enthusiasts.

Mu Wang was not human, so he found it difficult to understand these things.

But it didn't stop him from coming here to buy an aircraft that could leave and to find a suitable route.

For the people here, this was very simple.

He sold his original spacecraft for 38,000 energy coins.

After asking several sellers, Mu Wang spent less than 4,000 energy coins for the aircraft and the route.

Of course, the reason was that the aircraft was sufficiently dilapidated.

After Mu Wang boarded the aircraft, he saw that its manufacturing date was in the year 231784 CE.

During the process of completing all this, what he didn't notice was that a small item from his original spacecraft followed him onto the new aircraft.

Following the route, it took Mu Wang 91 years to finally reach the Cabell Stellar System.

Upon arriving here.

Mu Wang saw a gigantic human figure standing in space from a great distance.

It was a female humanoid creature.

While in the Ai Wu Star Country, Mu Wang had heard that Rasti possessed a weapon called the War Goddess.

It was enormous, and its firepower even surpassed that of a Dwarf Planet-class Battleship.

For Mu Wang, a humble being from a Starfire Civilization of only Level 2.2, such a thing was hard to imagine.

Starfire Civilization also had giant warships and giant weapons, but they were far from reaching the planet level.

Moreover, this was a living being.

And when he truly saw the creature at this moment, even just a glimpse from an extreme distance, Mu Wang couldn't help but gasp.

"Too perfect..."

Even if he wasn't human, he could still feel the beauty displayed by the War Goddess's body.

In the Cabell Stellar System, this was deterrence.

Because of her existence, the Ai Wu Star Country dared not launch an attack here.

"If only my Civilization could possess such technology!"

Mu Wang couldn't help but fantasize, but it was only a fantasy. He knew that what was lost would never return, and there would be no 'if only' in this world.

Passing by the gigantic figure at approximately 10 astronomical units, Mu Wang finally saw the only Star City in the Cabell Stellar System, Crossroads Star City.

True to its name, the entire Star City resembled a giant cross.

"Welcome to Crossroads Star City. Your aircraft has no registered information. Please use the special channel for unregistered vehicles and undergo inspection."

"For your safety, please follow the guidance at all times, do not make any unnecessary movements, do not attempt to leave the guided route, and do not activate any weapons on your aircraft. Thank you for your cooperation."

Mu Wang saw some defensive cannons floating in space turning towards him, and he couldn't help but feel a surge of tension.

This was not the Ai Wu Star Country.

This was the powerful Rasti.

In recent millennia, it was rumored that the Rasti Federation had nearly brought the entire Twenty-Eight Star States Alliance to collapse.

Among them, the Frost Blue Star Nation, one of the upper Star Countries, now only had less than a tenth of its star territory remaining, truly a tragic state.

And the barbarity of the Rasti Federation was also well-known in the Ai Wu Star Country.

Although Mu Wang also felt that most of it was misleading propaganda from the upper echelons of the Ai Wu Star Country, he dared not gamble with his life.

Perhaps, as soon as it was confirmed that he came from the Ai Wu Star Country, those defensive cannons would open fire.

His body couldn't even withstand the punch of a single mecha, let alone defensive cannons specifically designed to attack warships!

At this moment, Mu Wang even regretted coming here.

It would have been better to contact Rasti's people from outside to avoid being accidentally harmed.

This timidity lasted until he entered the Starport, and then a human, clearly a soldier, walked up to him.

"You must be Mu Wang!"

Mu Wang looked at his splendid officer's mecha. Despite trying hard to maintain his pride, he quickly succumbed.

"Mmm!"

He mumbled in response, his demeanor clearly lacking confidence.

However, the other party didn't make things difficult for him. The timidity displayed by a creature from a small Civilization upon meeting a true Unknown Civilization creature was quite normal.

Officer Jae Enbin led the way, asking, "Mr. Mu Wang, after entering the Cabell Stellar System, you must have already seen Changxi, right?"

Mu Wang was puzzled.

Jae Enbin added, "The War Goddess!"

"I saw her. So, her name is Changxi."

Mu Wang silently noted it down.

"Changxi is the goddess in mythology who gave birth to the moon; there is also a corresponding Xi He."

"These are the two latest creations of the War Goddess project, but the President is not satisfied with either of them."

Jae Enbin spoke as if telling a story, but Mu Wang vaguely felt that this person wouldn't simply be telling a story.

However, he couldn't guess Jae Enbin's purpose yet, so he just followed along and responded.

"Is that still not perfect enough?"

Even if his aesthetics were vastly different from Human Civilization's.

But just as humans find cats and dogs cute, lions and tigers majestic, and flowers beautiful.

This didn't prevent him from appreciating the beauty that came from Changxi.

However, such beauty, which he believed had reached an extreme, still couldn't satisfy someone?

What kind of person was the President Jae Enbin spoke of?

"Indeed, the beauty of the exterior ultimately cannot conceal the ugliness within. If you were to go inside the War Goddess, you would find grotesque flesh mixed with machinery."

"This has always been something the President cannot let go of."

"He wants to build an absolutely perfect creature. He told us that he would spare no effort, even if it meant sacrificing his own life."

Mu Wang clicked his tongue.

"That would probably be very difficult to achieve."

Unexpectedly, Jae Enbin actually nodded, agreeing with his words.

"Indeed, this is something that even the entire Human Civilization would find very difficult to achieve; just thinking about it makes it seem impossible."

"After all, nothing performs better than electronic machinery. A body without these components is just a mass of powerless flesh; even a slight movement would be enough to cause cells to atrophy."

"After all, flesh simply cannot sustain such enormous consumption."

"Moreover, to allow such a creature to fly freely in the universe, reach sub-light speed, and then rapidly stop from sub-light speed..."

"A calculation would show that it would require astronomical amounts of energy, and the basic flesh and blood biological structure simply cannot store such massive energy."

Mu Wang listened with some strangeness. He followed Jae Enbin into a hovercar.

Through the car window, he could see the prosperity outside.

This was a scene of prosperity Mu Wang had never witnessed since coming to Human Civilization; it wasn't just prosperity, but also the relaxed demeanor of every human, making it seem as if they weren't in a time of war.

Entering a long tunnel, where the circular lights inside constantly came and went, Jae Enbin then spoke again.

"Mr. Mu Wang, are you interested in the War Goddess?"

Mu Wang was silent for a moment, perhaps sensing the deeper meaning in the question, but Jae Enbin did not rush him, waiting for his answer.

After a long while, with the tunnel exit just ahead, he finally replied.

"Of course, not to mention me, a creature from a small Civilization; even within your esteemed Civilization, it would probably be difficult to find someone uninterested in the War Goddess."

Jae Enbin laughed heartily.

"Indeed, it seems I asked a superfluous question."

"Please forgive my rambling. Since Mr. Mu Wang is interested in the War Goddess, would you be willing to participate in the research of the War Goddess?"

"For the new War Goddess, 'Nuwa,' the President has placed high hopes. He has been struggling to find a solution to replace flesh and blood, and coincidentally, Mr. Mu Wang appeared on the President's desk with a report."

"He is very fond of you and said he absolutely must meet you."

Mu Wang felt no joy after hearing this.

Instead, he felt an endless chill.

So, this was the real reason Rasti helped him.

And not because he could help Rasti open a gap in the Ai Wu Star Country.