Only I Walk Alone

Wu Ge’s initial understanding of the disappearance site was that it contained a space where time flowed much faster, which could explain how a twenty-five-year-old explorer aged to appear in his seventies or eighties after entering and then exiting.

Before actually going to Venus, Wu Ge decided to first check on the condition of the explorer whose face had aged beyond his own memory.

Holding the information in his hand, it was described as follows: Cang Shu, male, 25 years old, werewolf race.

There was a lot more detailed information, encompassing the life of this werewolf race member, but Wu Ge did not read it in detail. He arrived at the hospital room and then stared at the old man sitting motionlessly in a wheelchair.

His body had no problems, as powerful modern medical equipment was continuously repairing his aging brain cells. As long as he kept using this device, he would not die for the time being. Unfortunately, the memories he lost could never be recovered.

Despite this, Cang Shu’s brain should still retain some information about that area on Venus. However, his brain cells were severely damaged, and the connections between memories were broken, making it impossible to retrieve those memories buried in the sea of memory.

Medical staff were busy scanning his stomach because they were curious about what a person could eat to survive forty to fifty years in such a barren place as Venus.

As everyone knows, even Wu Ge, even a Fourth-Dimensional being, must adhere to the law of conservation of energy. Even beings as powerful as deities must replenish their energy, or they would die.

Although the exploration team brought a large amount of food, it definitely would not last forty to fifty years. Therefore, there were rather malicious speculations, such as cannibalism. However, even so, it would not have been possible to sustain him for forty to fifty years.

What did Cang Shu eat to survive?

Everyone was very puzzled. After the medical staff’s scan, they all showed even more incredulous expressions because Cang Shu’s stomach contained undigested compressed food.

In other words, he had survived all these years by eating the compressed food brought by the exploration team.

This was unbelievable to everyone. Not to mention that the compressed food carried by the exploration team was not enough for such a long time, but also, the food would have expired after forty to fifty years. How could it still be edible?

Wu Ge mused internally, it seems the situation in that area of Venus is more complicated than we imagined.

Cang Shu was recovering, but he still could not speak. He was like an elderly person in his twilight years, or like a vegetative patient. He let the medical staff manipulate his body without resistance, as if he had no perception.

Wu Ge could tell he was very old, but he did not feel the sense of mental decay. The current Cang Shu seemed more like a patient with soul loss syndrome.

Wu Ge ordered the medical staff to continue examining Cang Shu’s body, then boarded a spaceship heading for Venus.

Although he could now move in space, he was not as fast as a spaceship. This is akin to how someone who can swim would still need a boat to cross an ocean.

Wu Ge arrived at Venus and first visited the Venus scientific research station, then set off towards the disappearance site with a dozen scientific robots.

Venus was covered in erupting volcanoes and rivers of lava, with most of the atmosphere consisting of carbon dioxide. Due to the dense gases, the atmospheric pressure was very high, making the robots move as slowly as if they were in the sea at a depth of 900 meters.

This is the same for other members of the Earth clan as well; Venus is an inhospitable place, and aside from those earthlings who seek to challenge themselves, ordinary members would not come here.

Wu Ge inquired, “What was Cang Shu’s relationship like with the other members of the exploration team? Did he join the expedition team on his own?”

Xiao Chao responded, “Yes, Cang Shu joined the third exploration team after receiving an invitation.”

The situation of the third exploration team differed from the previous two teams. The first two teams were mostly self-challenging or conducting scientific research, but the majority of the third team were looking for their missing relatives or friends.

After two teams disappeared in this dangerous place, others related to them couldn’t wait patiently and followed suit, but this turned out like the Calabash Brothers trying to save their grandfather, with each new group disappearing in turn.

Without thoroughly resolving the problem of this disappearance site, this situation will inevitably continue.

When the Earth civilization was at a loss, Wu Ge arrived. He would personally unravel the secrets of this area and entered the region.

With his Spirit Condensation realm, Wu Ge extended his psychic power, covering the entire area. He carefully searched, and eventually, at a peculiar location, he detected a unique fluctuation.

It wasn’t a fluctuation from the second spatial layer, nor was it a connection point to a four-dimensional world. Instead, it was a distortion in space-time. Wu Ge felt a ripple of space distortion, as if the water in a lake had suddenly been cleaved with a knife, causing ripples. What Wu Ge sensed was this spatial ripple.

Wu Ge asked Xiao Chao, “Have you discovered anything?”

Xiao Chao answered, “Nothing has been found. Everything is normal.”

The robots couldn’t sense these ripples. Only a being at Wu Ge’s level could perceive this fluctuation.

Wu Ge walked towards that direction, where a volcano was erupting. The lava flowing from the crater formed a giant river of lava, wider and longer than the Yangtze or Yellow Rivers. To reach that location, he would need to cross this river of lava.

Wu Ge’s body levitated as he said, “I might be gone for a long time, or perhaps just a moment, but I will eventually return, so there’s no need to panic!”

With that, Wu Ge’s body suddenly flew rapidly towards that direction. He knew the area was fraught with temporal disturbances, and rashly entering could lead him into a rapidly moving temporal vortex. However, Wu Ge was not worried.

He quickly crossed the river of lava, while the robots waited patiently in place, whether for a moment or a long time, they would continue waiting there.

Wu Ge plunged into the rippling space-time, and suddenly, he felt a mysterious aura acting on his body, an odd sensation that seemed to accelerate his body’s metabolism.

Immediately, Wu Ge wrapped himself in psychic power, blocking this peculiar aura. Then, he had time to observe this unique spatial rift.

Something had cleaved the space-time here, and it was unable to recover, constantly causing spatial ripples to spread around.

Wu Ge observed his surroundings, different from Venus’s harsh surface. There were no volcanoes, no lava; the ground was dry and intact. As he moved forward in this unique spatial rift, he soon came across a series of footprints.