My carefree life in space

Chapter 56 The Reasons

Mo Ze noticed her gaze and immediately went inside first, so that he could warn Shu Shu if there was any danger.

Lin Shushu understood his meaning, and a warm feeling welled up in her heart. Mo Ze was not as strong as her, but he was willing to stand in front of her, which made her very gratified. She knew she hadn't misjudged him after all.

Just as she was about to go in, Mo Ze's voice came from inside, "Shushu, don't come in yet."

Upon hearing this, Lin Shushu assumed there was some danger and refused to listen to him. She quickly entered the inner room, glanced around rapidly, and finally followed Mo Ze's gaze. There, on the stone bed, was a person sitting!

To be precise, it was someone who had been dead for an unknown number of years.

Inside, on a stone bed against the wall, sat an old man dressed in black, his legs crossed. The parts of his clothes that were visible were severely dehydrated, with only a layer of skin clinging tightly to his skeleton.

Mo Ze noticed Lin Shushu had entered and quickly raised his hand to cover her eyes. Lin Shushu smiled and stopped his hand from covering her eyes.

The scene before her was indeed a bit scary at first glance, but Lin Shushu wasn't frightened enough, after all, she had watched quite a few horror movies in her previous life.

The small stone chamber was completely visible from top to bottom, with nothing particularly special about it, nor anything that revealed the identity of the person in the bed.

However, Lin Shushu deduced from his clothing that he was a cultivator, as he was wearing a magical robe, which explained why the robe had remained intact without decaying. The spirit stones piled up in the corner of the outer room also confirmed this.

Since it was rare to encounter a fellow cultivator, Lin Shushu felt she should help him by finding a proper place to bury him.

She was about to step forward when Mo Ze beat her to it, saying, "Shushu, what should we do? I'll do it."

Lin Shushu had no choice but to agree, "Let's tidy up his clothes, take him out, and find a place to bury him!"

Mo Ze was puzzled. Why not just cremate them? That's how it's done in the interstellar world. He had no idea about the Chinese people's insistence on burial for peace.

Lin Shushu had her own thoughts. Even if this person wasn't Chinese, cultivators should still have such obsessions.

Mo Ze obediently stepped forward, and as soon as he touched the old man's clothes, a jade slip fell down.

Mo Ze didn't recognize it, but Lin Shushu guessed something. Perhaps the answer to all the mysteries lay in this jade slip.

Lin Shushu took the jade slip and placed it between her eyebrows. Instantly, detailed information appeared in her mind, and she finally understood the ins and outs of the matter.

The old man was named Shi Ye, with the Daoist name Tian Xuanzi. He came from the cultivation world, and at that time, his cultivation had already reached the Nascent Soul stage. His arrival here was purely accidental.

He was caught in a sudden spacetime black hole during a battle with an enemy. The black hole was so powerful that it caused a massive explosion after pulling him into another world, the location of which is now the Gobi Desert west of Star R15.

This is why this area transformed from a lush forest into a desolate desert overnight. Because the event was so sudden and the destruction so complete, investigators were unable to pinpoint the true cause.

Tian Xuanzi was caught off guard by an accident, but fortunately he reacted quickly and used all his magical treasures to resist, barely managing to save his life. However, his cultivation was almost completely destroyed, and his realm dropped to the Qi Refining stage.

After falling onto Star R15, he discovered that there was no spiritual energy there. Thinking of his destroyed cultivation, he was overcome with grief. Just when he was in despair, he discovered a vein of spirit stones underground.

So he carved out this stone chamber. Although he didn't have much cultivation left, he was still a formation master, which is why Lin Shushu and the others discovered the two formations.

It was precisely because his strength had declined so much that Lin Shushu was unable to break his formation.

Tian Xuanzi originally intended to rely on this spirit stone mine to resume his cultivation, but although he survived the explosion, he was seriously injured. Moreover, his storage ring was destroyed, and without healing pills, he soon succumbed and ultimately remained in this stone chamber forever.

For reasons unknown, on his deathbed, he recorded his experiences on a jade slip he carried with him.

After hearing Lin Shushu recount Tian Xuanzi's ordeal, Mo Ze sighed deeply. It was too tragic; swept away by some unknown force to a strange place, and died without a single person he knew by his side.

Out of consideration for their shared cultivation, Mo Ze resolved to give him a proper burial.

After discussion, the two decided to keep him in the stone chamber, as it would be difficult to explain burying him outside. However, Lin Shushu still cut down a large tree from her spatial storage, used her spiritual power to carve it into the shape of a coffin, and placed Tian Xuanzi inside.

Afterwards, they returned along the same route, rearranged the formation, and pretended they had never been there.

Knowing that Tian Xuanzi had come to the interstellar world by accident, Lin Shushu's doubts about the existence of a cultivation civilization here lessened somewhat, but she was still very curious about how this spirit stone vein was formed.

However, these curiosities can be put aside for now; what needs to be done now is to mine these spirit stones.

Although there is no shortage of spirit stones in the space, no cultivator would complain about having too many spirit stones.

However, mining the spirit stones was too much trouble. Lin Shushu had a flash of inspiration: could the entire spirit stone mine be transferred into her space?

Without hesitation, he put his mind to it and succeeded!

Looking at the huge pit left behind after the spirit stone mine was moved, Lin Shushu was a little dumbfounded. How was she going to explain this to others?

"It's alright, we'll fill it in. As for the difference in elevation, no one will care," Mo Ze reassured him.

Lin Shushu thought about it and agreed. This was originally an uninhabited area, so no one would care if something changed. Maybe these changes wouldn't even be noticed.

After the two worked together to fill the large pit, they entered the space directly.

They didn't want to go back to the hotel. The planet's inhabitants already knew they were staying there, and going back would inevitably lead to them being stared at. Anyway, their belongings were always stored in their spatial dimension, so it didn't matter if they didn't go back. They could just have Gu Huan help them check out the next morning.

Mo Ze hadn't forgotten about learning a skill, so as soon as he returned to his space, he immersed himself in the books.

Believe it or not, he actually found the skill he wanted to learn: weapon crafting.

"Refining weapons?" Upon hearing Mo Ze's decision, Lin Shushu was taken aback at first, then gave Mo Ze a thumbs up.

Mo Ze has a mutated metal spiritual root, making him a promising candidate for learning weapon crafting.

For the next few days, they didn't go out again, but instead sent a message to Gu Huan asking him to help them check out of the hotel.

Mo Ze was so engrossed in learning how to forge weapons that Lin Shushu could not match his diligence.

However, she wasn't idle either; while Mo Ze was refining weapons, she was refining pills.

While they were busy with their own things, a piece of news about the two of them went viral on StarNet, but not because of their identities. To be precise, apart from a very few people who knew them well, no one knew it was them.