Chapter 9 - Alter

Three hours before, the captain placed a call to earth.

The space patrol alpha captain making the call walked away from the camera, followed by three other space patrollers.

They held a device that detected the presence of something very mysterious. It was dark golden in colour. It had a screen like a phone. On one side of the screen there was a clock like image and on both sides of it there were three switches each of RBG colours.

One of them also had a device with him that lit up their path, as this planet was dark as hell since there wasn't any sun or any natural light source.

Other space patrollers, apart from these three, were moving with the camera person and the source of artificial light that illuminated their path as they walked. They kept filming, unaware that most of their comrades had left them.

"The energy detected from this direction is more than the one detected from the other direction, captain." One of the space patrollers informed Captain Zulan that he was the one in possession of the device.

Captain Zulan nodded.

Because his cultivation was that of a grandmaster, he was not afraid of impending dangers that might await them.

Nevertheless, intrigued, he wanted to know why the energy level from this direction was higher than the others.

It is most likely that it might even be a dragon or something very powerful, or even a legacy tomb, as most times, legacy tombs of alien cultivators also appear on certain planets.

The four space patrollers, three young men, and a beautiful lady kept trying to trace the cause of the energy level difference.

Four hours later, the groups kept searching.

Until they got to a place different from the other places on this new planet.

There, they met an alter set up high into the sky it has mysterious symbols and several sets of writings written in different languages including most of the languages they knew such as Chinese and English language. 

The illuminating device was pointed at the body of the alter and one of them was able to comprehend what was written.

He read it out loud for the other space patrollers to hear.

"It's space patrol team 88. If you find this, please flee!"

He figured it out.

Immediately, the remaining space patrollers felt their hearts tremble.

team 88?

The space patrol team that lost connection with Earth 5 years ago

Since then, no one has heard or received any information from them.

It was believed that they were dead and their bodies were likely lost in space or probably eaten by a monster that existed on another planet.

Wait, if this is their message left for the people who will find it in the future, then '

Then it means that they are not the ones who discovered it first.

It means that the planet might have begin to evolve it's own life, it's own being and it's own energy which is by far superior to the energy on earth. 

"Damnit." I thought I was the one who discovered this planet first..now this. I need to inform someone on earth about this or else the backlash will be unbearable.

"This is an alter, which means that there is someone here."

Captain Zulan let out his opinion on the matter.

The beautiful space patroller nodded her head. She was also used to strange languages and symbols.

She took notice of seven Chinese symbols...

Death intertwined with time, darkness and evil; the true god is the evil god...

She wanted to tell the others, but she couldn't because Captain Zulan was on the phone with someone on Earth.

"It's captain Zulan of space patrol alpha team 344, reporting. Can you check the details of team 88 for me? We found a clue, and we'd like to be sure if it's true."

[Team 88 Hold on a minute. They are the team that got lost on a space voyage 5 years ago.]

"Something seems quite odd about this place; an alter and a few human and alien writings and symbols can be seen as well."

[An altered, strange symbol with both human and alien origins? Wait a minute, how the heck did an alter appear on a newly found planet?]

"...."

His attention was no longer on the phone. His eyes at the moment were wide open.

An entity has appeared....

The entity was human, a man at that, but dressed anciently in a red and black robe that was dirty with blood and remains of flesh.

His eyes was dark red in colour, his body emitted auras which can only be possesed by those that has broke through past grandmaster realm. 

On his hands were unimaginable strength and a dark red energy.

The other space patrollers were drawn to his arrival, and they even prepared their weapons.

"D... am... n p...ests."

He was speaking in the ancient Chinese language. His eyes released powerful killing intent that immediately caused the space patrollers to start firing their guns.

A bullet containing lethal energy was fired out of their guns.

Pa

The typical sound of a gun being fired could be heard. The bullets collided with the body of the man...

Because the space patrollers were experts, not even a single bullet missed the body of the man, but each time they do.

The bullets are compressed into the shapeless forms, and then they fall to the ground.

The man moved, albeit as fast as lightning.

"Ahhhh"

The head of one of the soldiers was ripped off in just a second...

After three seconds, all the space patrollers were killed except Captain Zulan.

The eyes of this man glared at Captain Zulan, but he didn't kill him. Instead, he disappeared into thin air.

Thud....

The phone fell from his hands and landed on the ground.

[Captain Zulan? What's going on, Captain Zulan?

The caller from Earth was alerted after hearing a series of gunfire and screams and then the loud thud that sounded when the phone fell on the ground.

Captain Zulan's legs lost their strength and the will to stand and he fell knee first, his ears still showing how scared he was.

He was so scared that he didn't even know when he fainted on the spot.

He wasn't so lucky as the man returned back again to pick his body up while he kept making the same sentences over and over again, like he was reciting a school rhythm.

"Time intertwined with Death, Darkness and Evil; The True God is the Evil God."

"The true god was killed. The whole world should prepare to face death."