Chapter 1075: Chapter 832: Someone, Feed the Young Master a Pancake! Ten minutes later, Huai Shi squatted next to the burning base, finally figuring out what had happened.
"It exploded?" he said incredulously.
"Yes," the base superintendent said mournfully, "it exploded."
"What about your restaurant?" Huai Shi anxiously asked, "The one famous for its lunar pancakes?"
"Gone." The base superintendent’s expression became increasingly sorrowful. "All the chefs are dead."
Huai Shi was furious.
Is there something wrong with this lousy travel group?
Kepler Base had disappeared before he even saw it. A big base, one of the ten famous moon restaurants, and it was just blown up like that?
Wasn’t everything fine when we arrived?
Both the spacecraft and Mitra Space Station were fine! How did everything change the minute we entered the lunar orbit?
Even sitting in an airborne cabin, one could encounter a meteor shower.
Landing was barely on time, but then Kepler Base vanished?
More importantly, how was he going to explain this to Broken Dog?
How am I supposed to tell the dog, sorry, the promised restaurant is gone? The pancakes are gone? This sled trip was in vain?
It seems you no longer want to live...
Huai Shi covered his face through his mask, feeling the pain of a tragic future.
The dog beside the sled had grown impatient waiting for the pancake Huai Shi promised and was gnawing on the sled’s frame; one could only see sparks flying in the vacuum, not hear any crunching.
Illuminated were the bodies piled behind the sled.
Extremely horrifying.
This was the ’gift’ brought by ’Santa Claus.’
The bodies of attackers encountered on the way.
Unfortunately, every face frozen in the extreme cold looked identical, with no difference whatsoever.
After checking, the alchemists fell into silence.
They were all artificial humans...
Moreover, they were of the most common version, made through the simplest methods, leaving no traces to follow.
Unnoticed on Huai Shi’s shoulder, the Raven phantom observed everyone’s appearance, slowly revealing a meaningful smile.
"Ah-ha, things are getting interesting," Tong Ji chuckled softly. "This curse is quite innovative, I see..."
"Curse?" Huai Shi asked.
"Yeah, don’t you see it, fool?" Tong Ji said, "Everyone here, specifically those heading to Helios Workshop, has been ’cursed.’"
Huai Shi hesitated, furrowing his brow, sensing something amiss.
As a rocket filled with negative energy, one would expect him to be highly sensitive to such matters. Virtually any curse that would fall on him should be rebounded by his divine nature; he even has an extra dose of Element of Destructive now—though it’s ominous, his fate seems increasingly resilient. What kind of fate could possibly overwhelm him?
Moreover, let’s not forget the Book of Fate...
Have you heard of tenfold rebound?
Anyone attempting this would only meet a tragic end.
And why was he completely unaware?
"It’s simple, Huai Shi. A curse is merely its expression and result—utterly ingenious, haha, no, should we say it’s like using a cannon to shoot mosquitoes?" Tong Ji understood everything after observing all the alchemists.
Because its subject wasn’t a single individual.
But everything they’ve seen.
Simply put, it’s the entire surface of the moon... reaching up to the orbital layer!
—Someone secretly set up a mystic ritual large enough to cover the entire moon!
Everything entering cannot, to avoid causing more signs due to a too-large scope and to conserve energy, the host of the ritual narrowed its range.
Targeting only ’all alchemists.’
All holders of the Helios Workshop beacon!
Because the ritual is so massive, its power became thinner when distributed, and with their heavy space suits, none of the alchemists noticed the tiny traces surrounding them.
They all failed to see, the ’moon’ holds malice against them!
This is why Tong Ji marveled, referring to it as using a cannon to shoot mosquitoes.
If the mountain won’t come to me, I’ll go to the mountain.
If there’s no way to make the sun revolve around the earth, then making the earth revolve around the sun works just as well.
Rather than letting people step into a trap willingly, the trap was shifted beneath their feet.
With such skill and ability, one could almost affect the moon’s operations, but it mainly turned the environment against everyone.