Earth Found

Zod's face darkened, feeling completely disregarded by Fang Ye's lofty and arrogant attitude.

However, when he thought about Fang Ye's strength, Zod had no choice but to continue suppressing his frustration. Without the power to challenge Fang Ye, all he could do was obediently play along.

"We won't disturb Mr. Fang Ye then..."

Zod replied with a fake smile, leading his subordinates to remain stationed in the outer space around the star.

This was already their limit to endure. Getting any closer would expose them to the scorching heat radiating from the star.

This contrast revealed the vast difference in power between them and Fang Ye. While Fang Ye could freely stroll on the star's surface, they could only stay in outer space. The gap between their strengths was immeasurable.

Understanding this, Zod had to swallow his displeasure and put on a facade.

After being awakened by Zod, Fang Ye had no more sleepiness. He stretched lazily, intending to explore the star.

Exactly!

In the past two years, Fang Ye had spent most of his time sleeping, as there was nothing else to do.

His strength had increased significantly over the past five years, to the point where the high temperatures on the star's surface no longer affected him.

As long as he didn't fall into a magma pool, Fang Ye could wander around the star's surface without any problem.

At first, Fang Ye had enjoyed exploring the star, but after he had circled the entire star two years ago, he lost interest and had been using sleep to pass the time.

There wasn't much to explore on the star anyway. Besides the uneven magma pools, there was hardly anything else.

Five more years passed, and by the fourth year, Zod and his people could stay on the star's surface for a brief moment, although it was only a moment before they had to retreat. They couldn't endure the scorching heat for more than half an hour.

Due to Fang Ye's unexpected appearance, Zod and his team's strength had caught up to the time when Man of steel descended on Earth.

Meanwhile, Fang Ye, after absorbing five more years of stellar radiation, had even begun to attempt stepping into the magma pool. However, the temperature of the magma was too high; Fang Ye had attempted it once and suffered severe burns.

He estimated that he could only withstand the heat of the magma pool for about five minutes at most, which indicated just how terrifying the temperature inside the pool was.

"Mr. Fang Ye, we've received news about Earth..."

Sitting by the magma pool, Fang Ye suddenly heard a familiar voice.

The owner of the voice was Fiona, the female officer who often followed Zod in the original plot.

However, Fiona didn't approach him, since no one could wear clothes on the star's surface. Just as Fang Ye was about to get up and approach, Fiona darted away like a frightened rabbit.

"A rather interesting woman..."

Fang Ye chuckled softly, shaking his head lightly. Then he shot out of the star and headed towards the newly terraformed planet.

Fang Ye's speed had already exceeded a hundred times the speed of sound. However, even at a hundred times the speed of sound, which was about 34,000 meters per second, he was still far from reaching the speed of light, which was about 299,792,458 meters per second. Breaking the light-speed barrier was still a distant dream.

With his current strength, Fang Ye was so powerful that he couldn't even estimate it himself. However, judging from his speed, his strength should have increased by about ten times.

Spending ten years on the star was equivalent to absorbing radiation from the planet for a hundred years, so the rate of his strength improvement wasn't slow.

After returning to the terraformed planet, Fang Ye put on his briefs and the peculiar clothing that Zod and his people provided. The clothing style was very different from Earth's.

Then Fang Ye headed straight for the World Engine spaceship. Seeing his arrival, Zod's face lit up with joy as he hurried over.

"Mr. Fang Ye, could you please come and confirm if the information we intercepted is indeed from Earth?"

"Sure!"

Fang Ye readily agreed, because he had grown tired of spending twenty years in this desolate place.

In the original plot, it was Superman who initiated the exploration spaceship, and Zod and his team received the distress signal and found Earth.

But now, it seemed that humans themselves had launched a space probe, and Zod and his team had used this signal to confirm Earth's interstellar coordinates.

Fang Ye wasn't surprised. Even without him explaining Earth's situation to Zod, they would likely still ignore this signal.

"I can confirm that it's Earth!"

"Great!"

All the Kryptonians were excited. Finding Earth meant finding the Codex.

The Codex was extremely important to the Kryptonians. If they wanted to rebuild Kryptonian civilization, the Codex was an essential item.

Zod took a deep breath and looked to Fiona beside him.

"Fiona, how much reserve energy does the Ghost Engine spaceship have now?"

"General, currently, the stored energy is only sufficient for fifteen space jumps."

Fiona respectfully reported.

They had accumulated this energy over the years by scavenging from outposts while searching for Earth.

However, this was their last energy reserve. The outposts were all depleted, and they would have no way to replenish their energy once it ran out.

Frowning, Zod calculated the distance to Earth. It was about twenty-four light-years away. They also needed to reserve some energy for the terraforming process on the new planet. Otherwise, how would they rebuild Kryptonian civilization?

After some calculations, Zod realized that it would take at least thirteen years to reach Earth.