Chapter 001: The Bronze Coffin in the Starry Sky

Life is the greatest miracle in the world. The universe encompasses all directions and extends infinitely, yet it has no fixed location to be sought. Time, which spans from the ancient past to the present and into the future, is called the cosmos. Although the cosmos continues to expand, its origins remain unknown.

The vast universe and boundless stars lead many scientists to speculate that Earth may be the only cradle of life. Humanity is, in fact, quite lonely. Amidst the vastness of the heavens, despite the billions of stars, it is difficult to find a second star that harbors life.

However, humans have never given up on exploration. Since the last century, numerous space probes have been launched.

Voyager 2 is an unmanned outer space probe that was launched from Kennedy Space Center in the United States in 1977. It carries a gold-plated record with the theme "Greetings from Earth" on board, which includes popular music and greetings recorded in fifty-five languages of Earth, hoping that one day it might be intercepted and received by a possible extraterrestrial civilization.

From the 1970s to the present, Voyager 2 has been on a solitary journey, as tiny as a speck of dust in the vast universe. Most of the space probes from the same era have either malfunctioned or lost contact, disappearing forever into the desolate cosmos.

Three decades have passed, and technology has continued to advance. Humans have developed more advanced space probes, and perhaps in the near future, exploration of the stars will make even greater strides. However, even so, for a considerable time, new space probes will still be unable to catch up with Voyager 2.

Thirty-three years have passed, and Voyager 2 is now 14 billion kilometers away from Earth. At this moment, it has reached the third cosmic velocity, and its orbit can no longer guide it back to the solar system, becoming an interstellar spacecraft.

In the dark and cold universe, stars twinkle like diamonds embedded in a black curtain. Although Voyager 2 is flying at extreme speeds, it seems like a tiny mosquito slowly crawling on the dark ground in the vast and cold universe.

More than thirty years later, at this very moment, Voyager 2 made an astonishing discovery!

In the desolate universe, nine massive corpses lay quietly there...

On May 22, 2010, NASA received a set of mysterious data transmitted back by Voyager 2. After a difficult process of decryption and restoration, they saw an incredible image.

At that moment, everyone in the main monitoring room of the space agency turned pale simultaneously, and then stood still like statues, shocked beyond measure!

It took a long time for the people to recover, and then the main monitoring room erupted into an uproar.

"God, what did I see?"

"This is impossible, unbelievable!"

...

Voyager 2 had long been unguided and could only move forward. After transmitting this set of mysterious data, it hurried past the dark universe, heading towards an even darker and deeper starfield.

Due to the great distance of that patch of the starry sky, even with significant discoveries and a shocking image captured, humans are currently powerless.

This set of mysterious information was not released to the public. Soon after, Voyager 2 malfunctioned and lost contact with Earth.

Perhaps this could mark the end, but sometimes things often go beyond people's expectations.

Whether it is for the observation and exploration of the stars or for the scientific research of life and physics, space stations have a unique and advantageous environment.

Since the Soviet Union first successfully launched a manned space station in 1971, a total of nine space stations have been launched worldwide to date.

On June 11, 2010, at this very moment, inside the International Space Station orbiting the Earth, several astronauts simultaneously changed color, and their pupils contracted sharply.

To this day, the existence of gods has long been denied. If anyone still believes, it is only because their souls are empty and seeking solace.

But at this moment, the thoughts of several elite astronauts were strongly impacted, and they saw an incredible image.

Outside the International Space Station, in the cold and dark universe, nine enormous creatures lay motionless, as if they had been there since ancient times, giving a sense of endless desolation and antiquity. They were nine dragon corpses!

Identical to the dragons in ancient myths and legends.

Each dragon corpse was a hundred meters long, as if cast from molten iron, exuding a sense of overwhelming power.

All nine dragon corpses were five-clawed black dragons. Apart from their crystal-clear, purple-glowing horns, their bodies were entirely black, with a dark sheen, and their scales shimmered with mysterious light in the darkness.

Dragons, legendary beings, stand alongside gods and above the laws of nature. But with the advancement of science to the present day, who would still believe that dragons truly exist?

The thoughts of the several astronauts inside the International Space Station were strongly impacted, and what they saw before them seemed incredible!

In the desolate universe, the cold dragon corpses were like an indestructible Great Wall of Steel, and one could even feel the terrifying power contained within the corpses.

However, they had lost their life force and now rest eternally in the cold universe.

"What is that..."

After being deeply shocked, the pupils of the elite astronauts contracted sharply once again as they saw an even more shocking image.

Each of the nine dragon corpses, a hundred meters long, was bound at the tail end with a thick black iron chain, leading to the dark universe behind the dragon corpses, where a twenty-meter-long bronze coffin hung quietly.

The massive chain, hammered and refined a thousand times, was thick, long, and sturdy, with a dark sheen that made it appear extremely cold.

The bronze giant coffin was simple and unadorned, with some vague ancient patterns on it, full of a sense of the passage of time, and no one knows how many years it has been floating in the universe.

Nine dragons pulling a coffin!

In the dark and cold universe, the nine dragon corpses and the bronze giant coffin, connected by the thick black iron chain, were extremely shocking.

After a moment of stupor facing the incredible surveillance image, the elite astronauts sent out a call signal for the first time.

"Calling Earth..."