Jack Spencer had just finished speaking when his slightly warm phone suddenly went black, and then his phone brand's logo popped up. "Out of battery at such a critical moment! Damn it! What a crappy phone!"

Extremely irritated, Jack Spencer stuffed the phone into the left pocket of his pants, took a deep breath as he looked at the red dot in front of him. He knew he had no choice.

He was now afraid that something bad would happen if he touched the red dot, but he was also afraid that nothing would happen at all.

Because this was his only option left—he had searched everywhere else. If this red dot didn’t react, he would be completely trapped in this metal labyrinth.

After closing his eyes to calm himself for a moment, Jack Spencer held his breath and reached out his finger to poke the red dot.

When he saw the red dot go out, merging completely with the surrounding darkness, Jack Spencer's heartbeat almost stopped.

But soon, everything around him began to tremble, and a buzzing sound of some kind of resonance came from beneath his feet.

The sudden change around him made Jack Spencer extremely tense. He kept staring at the pitch-black surroundings, nervously watching for any possible changes.

However, nothing changed around him. The first thing to change was himself. As the red button was pressed, his feet gradually left the ground, and in the end, he was actually floating in the air!

This strange change left Jack Spencer stunned. What kind of world was he in? "I can fly? I can fly? Magic? Superpowers?"

But before Jack Spencer could feel even a bit of joy, with a muffled sound, a crack suddenly appeared in the wall directly in front of him in the arched room. An extremely dazzling light shot in through the crack, illuminating everything inside.

As Jack Spencer squinted and barely adapted to the intense light, he saw the arched wall sliding backward to the left and right, centered on that crack.

And at the very instant the wall fully opened, a gigantic planet filled his entire field of vision.

Jack Spencer felt his heart pounding violently, his throat tightening as if being strangled, every breath making him feel suffocated.

A planet—such a common concept—only when it truly appeared before his eyes did he feel the weight and gravity of the word.

The light of a star illuminated one side of the planet, while the other side, hidden in darkness, looked like a giant abyssal mouth, making Jack Spencer feel as if he was being stared at by a cosmic behemoth.

Suddenly, Jack Spencer remembered something. He looked down at his floating feet, then looked up again at the massive planet outside the glass.

"Damn! I’ve been in outer space all along?!"

Chapter 2 Intelligence

At this moment, Jack Spencer finally understood. Why there were doors on the ceiling and floor, and why all the walls were metal.

Because those weren’t doors at all—they were airlocks. He had been walking sideways on the walls ever since he woke up!

After being shocked for a long time, Jack Spencer pressed his face against the glass to look carefully. Although it was gray, he was certain that this planet was indeed Earth.

However, something had changed. The blue planet was completely wrapped in a mass of gray metallic debris, as if covered by a layer of gray gauze.

All that metallic debris was satellites—countless, all kinds of satellite junk completely surrounding the planet.

Some of them Jack Spencer could barely make out with the naked eye from here, which showed just how huge those satellites were.

"Why are there so many satellites? What year is this?" Jack Spencer was certain that, with the technology of the era he remembered, there was absolutely no way to achieve something like this, not even if he included the five years of memory he had lost.

And when Jack Spencer shifted his gaze from Earth to the left, he instantly froze. A silver-gray planetary ring, like a belt, encircled the Earth’s waist. And the moon, which should have been there, had disappeared.

Most of the planetary ring was made up of rocks, spaceships, and space station debris, and he was currently inside it.

At this moment, Jack Spencer finally figured out the question that had been bothering him since he woke up—where exactly was he? He was inside a large space station wrapped in the moon’s planetary ring.

But then a second question immediately followed: how was he supposed to get back?

He was in a space station in outer space, and this space station looked half-derelict. Getting from the sky back to the ground would be harder than reaching the heavens.

But this was not a problem Jack Spencer needed to solve, because harsh reality had already solved it for him.

The tremors of the entire space station were intensifying, and the screen behind him was flickering constantly, even feeling a bit hot to the touch. Jack Spencer was shocked to discover that his action just now seemed to have broken the long-maintained gray equilibrium of this place.

With all this commotion, Jack Spencer saw a terrifying change outside the glass: the space station beneath him, like a spinning top, was slowly pulling itself out of the planetary ring and tilting toward Earth’s atmosphere.