Chapter 1 May This Journey Lead Us Starward

Orion Astra sat on a chair, his tough and handsome face reflected on his phone screen. Except for the dark circles under his eyes, Orion was undoubtedly a handsome man. He was scrolling through posts in boredom and quickly exchanged "polite" terms on the internet, but his eyes were focused on the Honkai Star Rail starting screen.

"It's just ten o'clock. Supreme Lord, Jade Emperor, Three Pure Ones and Six Imperial Kings, Jesus Christ..." Orion muttered something under his breath, "In addition to my roommate's twenty-year luck in love, please, three five stars in this one ten pull. Okay." He clasped his hands and closed his eyes tightly, looking like a very devout believer.

After a while, a group message interrupted Orion's prayer, and he took a closer look.

"What! Opening the server early? That's great!" In order to grab an early UID, Orion hurriedly opened the login screen that he had prepared.

On the screen, in the vast universe, a star train traveling across the world was moving through the starry sky. Orion felt that when his finger just clicked on the screen...

His finger seemed to... pass into the screen!

Orion rubbed his eyes, wondering if it was an illusion. When he opened his eyes again, the star train in the picture was already rushing toward a crack in the starry sky. This was the beginning of the game. Orion relaxed and waited for the game to start.

But the train didn't rush into the crack; it grew larger and larger until it occupied the entire screen and Orion's entire field of vision!

"This!?..." Before he could even exclaim, a golden light burst out of the screen, filling Orion's entire field of vision...

"Let's go, Orion, let's eat... Um, where is he?" When the roommate who had been unlucky in love for twenty years came back, he only saw an empty room and the golden light flickering on the table...

Darkness

The boundless darkness shrouded all of Orion's senses. He felt as if he had turned into an egg in chaos, wrapped in a universe the size of a nutshell. A line cut through the vast mist, and a loud voice, like words or "information," was introduced into Orion's confused and chaotic thinking.

"You... can be a container... carry other survivors... destroy hope in the universe... link the diversity and see the end... you can be blessed on the other side of the journey... you can see on the other side... can people be kind to each other until we communicate?"

Intermittent words, thoughts, information, or other things were beating in Orion's mind. One moment it was like a veil blowing on his face, and the next moment it was like words cutting through wood, making Orion feel pain and relaxation. Struggling, if Orion could still feel his mouth, he would have screamed loudly in pain.

I don't know how long it took, but Orion "heard" the sound of hammers; crazy and foolish laughter; the clicking sound of mechanical gears; the sound of bowstrings cutting through the sky; a voice so gentle it made people want to give up on themselves; the shouts of many in unison...

Sound, sound, sound! There were only various "sounds" left in the dark perception for Orion to "listen" to, and the thoughts accompanying the sounds would crush Orion's brain if he still had it.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

Just when Orion's mind and spirit were about to be crushed by various "sounds," a glazed light appeared in Orion's mind. He had no time to think about the "thing" that could still be called his body. He rushed straight into the light and disappeared into it.

The "voice" disappeared, and in the boundless chaos, Orion saw only one "person," or a "human form."

The light cut through the darkness, as if God had lit a lamp, and the human figure reflected in his sight was composed of millions of mirrors, finally forming a crowned, indescribably shining human figure. In each mirror, Orion saw memories and emotions, presenting the information of the whole world and the entire universe in front of him. A sense of coercion originating from the depths of life's thinking appeared in Orion's heart, making it difficult for him to look directly.

"Memory."

Unknowingly, a word appeared in Orion's mind. Orion instantly knew the figure's identity. ——

The Aeon of "Remembrance," Fu Li.

Orion wanted to say something, but while he was not allowed to speak, a fragment separated from Fu Li's body and came to Orion. He could not refuse, and the fragment of the mirror slowly merged into the space between Orion's eyebrows.

Just for a moment, Orion's thoughts began to fade away again. At the last moment before he fell into a coma, Orion saw three golden rays of light hidden in the mirror between his eyebrows...

In the dazzling Milky Way, a space station floated quietly within it

**Herta Space Station**

"March, prepare for artificial respiration." In his hazy consciousness, Orion heard a cold and steady male voice ringing in his ears.

"I don't want to; it's better for Dan Heng to do it." The voice on the left was a clear and sweet female voice with a cute tone.

"Did I pass out again?" A thought came up, but Orion didn't have the strength to open his eyes yet. He could feel that he was lying on a cold floor; his body seemed to be filled with lead, and his eyelids seemed to weigh a thousand pounds. He couldn't open them.

"Anyway, there are two unconscious people, and you have to be responsible for one of them." The cold male voice came from the right again, with a hint of helplessness. "There are people from the [Antimatter Legion] everywhere now, and we can't spend too much time arguing."

"Okay, let's take one each, a boy and a girl." The cute female voice hesitated for a moment but finally agreed.

"My first kiss is going to be taken away by a man!" This was the only thought in Orion's mind. He wanted to do something but was unable to. He could only wait quietly for the future he didn't want to face.

"Dan Heng! She's awake!" Just when Orion could feel the man's breath, a surprised voice interrupted his actions.

There seemed to be another person standing up next to him in a confused mood.

"Confused, that's not right." Orion realized something that had happened to him since he woke up:

It seems that I can sense the "emotions" of others. Even if my body has not yet woken up, my mind has already woken up!

There seems to be a disconnect between my mind and body.

While Orion was thinking, the three people around him had already finished communicating.

A girl with a good figure and short pink hair was holding a special bow and arrow, as if she had just thought of something.

"Dan Heng, what about him? Time is running out. We can't carry him on our backs. We are girls. If you want to carry him, you can!"

"Don't worry, March; I've been observing him while we were talking, and his breathing has stabilized."

The man named Dan Heng was wearing a black outfit, a green shawl, and special headphones. He wore red eyeshadow and had a calm look. He was obviously concerned about Orion's situation.

Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, Orion, who was lying between the three of them, slowly got up.

"Thank you for saving me," he said weakly.

Through all kinds of bizarre experiences, Orion, who had not felt the world for a long time, finally opened his eyes in this world.

In the eyes of the three people opposite, two rays of light suddenly shot out of the eyes of this man, who looked weak and haggard. Their first impression of Orion was:

A man with stars in his eyes.