NOVEL NEXT 10: Star Eclipse
Ling Miao drove the hover car along a special channel.
Knowing she wouldn’t be in danger, Ye Lan felt much more relaxed.
She was also quite curious about the Star Eclipse. She’d just take a quick look, and after these Night Watcher experts resolved it, she’d go back to cuddle with Ye Xing and play games!
“I have a question. After a Star loses control, what happens to the person who is its vessel?”
As a Star holder herself, Ye Lan naturally worried about her internal Star losing control, but what would happen to her if it did?
This was something she needed to know.
“Oh meow? Didn’t you carefully read the common knowledge Night Watchers need to know?”
“I was reading it, but I bumped into you before I finished.”
“Oh~ I see meow. Then I’ll tell you.”
Although she was a bit mischievous, she would answer such questions properly.
“Stars and people are one. When Stars lose control due to the person’s state, it naturally feeds back and affects the person. First, you’ll no longer be you, gradually forgetting who you are. Your obsessions will drive the Star Eclipse to do what you’ve always wanted to do. Even if it’s good, it will be twisted into something bad by the Star Eclipse, affecting everyone around. But even so.”
Ling Miao pondered for a moment.
“However, that probably wouldn’t be considered human anymore, but a Star Eclipse consciousness imbued with human thoughts and obsessions. The Star Eclipse will control your body, constantly doing what it thinks is right.”
Hearing Ling Miao’s explanation, Ye Lan understood.
“Is there any solution?”
“We Night Watchers will act according to the situation. If it’s not severe, we’ll try to awaken them. But if it’s irreversible, we can only destroy the vessel.”
Ye Lan had already guessed something.
“By destroy, you mean…”
“It means killing the core of the Star Eclipse, which is the person who triggered it. Only we Night Watchers can do it.”
“Mm…”
Killing people?
Ye Lan felt it was so distant from her.
But now that she had become a Night Watcher, it seemed very close, giving her a feeling of unease.
Ling Miao seemed to notice Ye Lan’s concerns and patted her head.
“Don’t worry meow. There are specialized people to handle this aspect. We just need to locate the position of the Star Eclipse core. Sometimes it’s very difficult to find.”
“Mm.”
……
A while later.
Ling Miao’s hover car stopped.
They were now in a huge plaza with many people moving about.
“We’re here. You wait in the car. I’ll go by myself and livestream it to you.”
“Okay,” Ye Lan nodded obediently.
Seeming unsure, Ling Miao admonished again: “Don’t wander off under any circumstances, or you’ll be in big trouble!”
“Yes, Senior Ling Miao!”
“Good.”
Hearing Ye Lan’s spirited response, Ling Miao left with a satisfied expression.
Ling Miao activated her floating unit device, turning on the camera to record everything she saw.
Ye Lan, sitting in the car, received Ling Miao’s signal and began watching from a first-person perspective.
Alone, Ye Lan felt much more relaxed and started to comment.
“Night Watchers are amazing. They can go out on missions at such a young age. And Ling Miao isn’t scared at all, so brave. But isn’t this child labor? Or do Night Watchers not care about such issues? It seems like a not-so-easy job. Feels like I’ve been tricked…”
Alone in the car, she simply lay down in a comfortable position to watch the livestream more comfortably.
Now she’d see how Night Watchers work.
Ling Miao, who was livestreaming to Ye Lan, also started speaking.
“Watch carefully meow. I’m about to make an outstanding contribution!”
After saying this, Ling Miao entered the unaware crowd.
……
On the other side, Bai Tu and her two companions quickly mobilized after receiving the message.
Bai Tu looked calmly at Cai Xun and Bu Jie, asking, “Where’s Ye Lan? Did you leave her alone at the base?”
Cai Xun laughed, trying to hide his embarrassment.
“Haha… Don’t worry, that loli seems quite precocious and seems to know quite a bit. She should be fine.”
Bu Jie quickly agreed, “Right, right, right. Cai Dog is correct. That little girl knows a lot. Ignoring her size and appearance, I’d think she was an old hand who’s been in the game for years.”
Bai Tu gave the two a deep look, then withdrew her gaze.
“Fine, let’s focus on the mission first.”
“Alright!”
The three quickly dispersed.
Star Eclipse fluctuations appeared at Wanyu Plaza.
This plaza was huge, with numerous entertainment facilities and a massive daily flow of people.
Star Eclipse had a strong mental contamination effect. It would unconsciously influence nearby ordinary people, making them perform actions that seemed normal to themselves under strange abilities.
The more people in an area, the greater the influence, which sometimes became a factor interfering with Night Watchers’ judgment, extremely troublesome.
Wanyu Plaza had three levels, each smaller than the last, with large and small equipment forming obstacles that blocked the line of sight.
The huge flow of people was an even bigger problem.
But there was no other way.
Forcibly evacuating people would only cause chaos among the uninformed, making the Star Eclipse more severe, and the Star Eclipse core would take the opportunity to escape.
Finding the Star Eclipse core in such an environment was quite challenging.
But fortunately, quite a few Night Watchers had been mobilized.
As long as they got close, they could sense it, and then through the tight connections between Night Watchers, they could form an impenetrable encirclement, making it quite resolvable.
Second floor.
“Found it.”
Cai Xun’s expression turned serious.
A familiar yet extremely discordant feeling arose in his heart, like hair suddenly standing on end, his scalp tingling.
Not far away, on a stage providing virtual projection performances stood a masked figure. The stage was surrounded by spectators, seemingly young people attracted to the show.
“Ladies and gentlemen, we will now present you with a spectacular performance! Please look forward to it!”
The masked man seemed to notice Cai Xun’s gaze and turned to smile at him slightly.
At this moment, Cai Xun broke out in a cold sweat.
He blinked, finding that he had lost his sense of the Star Eclipse, and when he looked at the masked person on stage, he found him to be an extremely ordinary person.
No, this wasn’t right.
He could clearly sense just now that he was the initiator of the Star Eclipse!
As soon as this thought emerged, the discomfort brought by the Star Eclipse returned.
Blinking again, everyone in the venue had turned into masked people, identical to the one on stage!
“Damn!”
In Cai Xun’s vision, everyone around had become the Star Eclipse initiator—to the left, right, front, and back.
Thump thump! Thump thump!
Cai Xun’s heartbeat began to accelerate, cold sweat soaking his back, the atmosphere he sensed incredibly oppressive.
These masked people turned their heads, their eyes seemingly glowing red, corners of their mouths curled into eerie smiles, as if mocking Cai Xun.
Diffusive mental contamination.
Cai Xun realized he had unknowingly fallen victim.