Xu Xin and the other two followed Coco.
At the same time, the three of them were also observing the machines around them.
"What do you think these machines are used for?"
Li Wenxi asked in great confusion.
"It looks so strange..."
These machines are much smaller than the huge machine used to process scarlet crystal that Xu Xin and his team had seen before.
Each machine is two meters high and stands upright.
Just like, a tall stone tablet.
But it is not made of stone, but metal.
Moreover, each machine has a different pattern.
These patterns are not carved on it, but are composed of densely packed dark red spikes.
These spikes are at least five or six centimeters long and look extremely sharp.
The areas without patterns are made up of relatively short and thick black spikes.
Each machine is like a hedgehog, covered with these spikes all over its body.
Thinking about how he almost bumped into these thorny mechanical monuments when he came down just now, Xu Xin felt a little scared.
Fortunately, there was a corpse of an alien invader that blocked his way.
Otherwise, he would be killed on the spot.
But it’s not a big deal. As long as they don’t die, each of them carries a large bottle of Qi Xuefei’s medicine, so they are not afraid of getting hurt at all.
But I’m afraid this strange stone tablet will react.
"Could these things be tombstones of alien invaders?" Li Wenxi guessed, "Their shapes are similar to tombstones. Moreover, there are dead alien invaders everywhere."
"This... After the alien invaders died, they were not buried and their bodies were left to rot?"
Xu Xin felt that this guess was not quite right.
"Hmm, maybe this is a unique burial method used by alien invaders?" Li Wenxi said as he looked at the corpses around him.
"Shouldn't it be?"
Xu Ying felt that it couldn't be that simple.
"This is the entrance to the giant ship anyway. Even if you want to bury the dead, would you choose a place like this?"
“That’s true…” Li Wenxi walked to a machine and looked at it carefully.
"Bing!"
Coco's voice came from the front.
It was obvious that he was urging them to hurry over.
Xu Xin and the other two immediately quickened their pace.
Passing through the area of alien invaders' corpses, the three saw Coco lying on a table.
When Xu Xin approached, Coco immediately jumped into Xu Xin's arms and hid in his cloak.
"This is… "
The three noticed that the table was covered with densely packed buttons.
Obviously, the console.
Moreover, this structure looks somewhat familiar.
This control console looks almost exactly the same as the one in the underground prison that held countless giant insects and beasts and suppressed the Insect Queen.
It seems that the original control console should have been made to imitate the internal structure of this giant ship.
but…
"This should be the control console that controls this space, right?"
Xu Xin wanted to reach out and touch it, but was afraid of setting off an alarm, so he didn't touch it in the end.
Li Wenxi looked at Coco in Xu Xin's arms: "Coco, why did you bring us here? To let us operate this console?"
"Hmm!" Coco nodded her little head which was half exposed.
"But how do I control it?" Xu Ying said, looking at the buttons on the console.
The buttons on the console are labeled with text.
But she couldn't understand these words at all.
"Brother." Xu Ying turned to look at Xu Xin, "Can you understand the text? This should be the text of alien invaders."
Xu Xin shook his head.
He couldn't understand the words on the keys.
He could only understand the language of the alien invaders, but not read it.
He is an alien illiterate.
"I knew it..." Xu Ying shrugged slightly, "We didn't know anything about the alien invaders' writing at the beginning. I'm surprised that you can understand what they say."
"What should we do? Does Coco know?" Li Wenxi reached out and touched Coco's half-exposed little head.
"Hmm..."
Coco obviously didn't know either.
Xu Xin frowned slightly: "Stepping back, do we really want to control this console? Can we touch these things here casually?"
They just came to this giant ship to try to see if they could find the weapons of the alien invaders, or to see if there were any other gains.
It is not necessary to do it.
I think it’s better to do as little unnecessary things as possible.
"Bing!"
Li Wenxi and Xu Ying hadn't spoken yet, but Coco was a little dissatisfied.
The little guy stretched out a little paw and waved it, indicating that it was right to do so and it was right to trust it!
Xu Ying looked around and said, "But we don't know what to do now? This place is obviously closed. There is no other exit except the entrance we slid down from."
The giant ship is very large, more than two thousand meters, or two kilometers in length.
This is at the entrance to the hatch of the giant ship, so it is highly unlikely that there is only such a small space.
but…
There are no doors on any side, and the situation here is so strange.
"What should I do..."
Li Wenxi looked at the console.
Suddenly, her eyes lit up.
"Hey, look!"
She pointed to a spot on the console.
In the upper left corner of the console, there is a rectangular red box the size of a poker card.
“Is this the place to swipe your card?”
Swipe card
ah… !
Xu Xin and Xu Ying reacted immediately.
"Those metal cards! Didn't we just get seven metal cards? They might be useful!"
As he spoke, Li Wenxi took out the seven metal cards from his backpack.
In the darkness, the metal card glowed with a faint red light, slightly illuminating the surroundings.
"Huh? Were these cards lit before?" She was stunned.
Of the seven metal cards in her hand, only two were emitting a pale red glow.
"It's too bright outside to see, right?"
Xu Ying pulled out a card emitting a faint red light from Li Wenxi's hand and examined it carefully: "Perhaps the card emitting red light has a higher authority?"
Li Wenxi handed the other one to Xu Xin: "Look."
On the card, a red light flowed like liquid.
Just like the reddish wall they saw when they came in.
"Perhaps, there is a reaction between it and this console."
Xu Xin glanced at the console and said.
There are no changes to the console at this time.
"You mean, these two metal cards have the authority to control this console?"
Xu Ying said thoughtfully.
"A guess. Perhaps this metal card will become active when it is close to a device that can be controlled?"
Xu Xin speculated.
"That… "
Li Wenxi held the metal card that was still glowing red in his hand and slowly backed away.
Xu Xin and Xu Ying knew what she was doing, they were both looking at the red card in her hand.
When she retreated about twenty meters, the metal card in her hand suddenly dimmed.
"It's true!" Li Wenxi whispered in surprise.
Then she quickly took a few steps closer to Xu Xin and Xu Ying.
I always feel so insecure being twenty meters away from my companions in this giant ship of alien invaders!
"In that case, let's... give it a try?" Xu Ying held the red card in her hand and looked at the "card swiping area".
"Bing!"
Coco was the first to agree.
Xu Xin rubbed the little guy's head and said, "Then let's give it a try."
He now has great trust in the little guy's choice.
The little guy always brings him unexpected surprises.
Li Wenxi put away the five cards that were not red: "Then try yours first, swipe the card!"
"Okay." Xu Ying didn't waste any time and took the card to the "card swiping area".
When the card was about ten centimeters away from the card swiping area, the dark red box in the card swiping area slowly lit up.
“There is a reaction!”
Xu Ying placed the card directly in the red box.
Immediately, with a slight "buzz" sound, the entire edge of the console lit up in a circle.
And a few of the densely packed buttons on the console suddenly lit up.
Then, there was no response.
"Um... why are only these few buttons lit up?" Li Wenxi looked at the console and asked, "Does it mean that only these few buttons can be used?"
"That should be it." Xu Xin looked at the table, "Perhaps this card only has the authority to press these three buttons."
Only three buttons lit up.
Two lit up red and one lit up green.
According to the alien invaders' different understandings of red and green, the green button is probably more important.
"Bing!"
Coco jumped out of Xu Xin's arms.
Xu Xin did not stop it and watched it jump onto the table.
Its small body pressed against the unlit key.
Then, its little paw pressed directly on the green button.
"Coco, you..."
Li Wenxi exclaimed and quickly picked up the little guy.
She was afraid that the little guy's body would overwhelm the other buttons.
But in fact, Coco did not press any of the unlit buttons at all.
These buttons cannot be pressed.
Instead, it gently pressed the green button with its little paw.
Then they felt the metal ground beneath their feet shaking slightly.
"What… happened?"
It was very quiet around, with only the faint voices of alien invaders coming from outside the entrance where I had slid down before.
So far, none of the alien invaders have come down to check, even though the cards on them are lost.
But the slight vibration under my feet was real.
"What happened... Ah!" Li Wenxi looked towards the entrance, "That entrance is about to be closed!"
Xu Xin and the other person also looked over.
The only source of light in this space, the entrance to the landslide, is shrinking rapidly!
Around the entrance, countless blocks of metal seemed to come alive, rushing towards the entrance passage.
The process was very quiet, with almost no sound. Even the faint voices of the alien invaders outside were much more obvious.
If the only light source had not been shrinking, Xu Xin and the other two might not have been able to discover it.
And after three seconds, the entrance was completely closed.
The entire space became completely dark.
Fortunately, Xu Xin and the other two now have excellent night vision, so they can still see clearly even in the dark.
"Um... the button just now, is it just a button to close this place?"
Li Wenxi looked at the entrance, and then she looked at the control console.
She found that the green button on the console had dimmed, leaving only two red buttons still lit.
She couldn't even find the dimmed green button.
She turned and looked at Xu Ying.
"Yingying, you should be able to teleport us out, right? Isn't this place also isolated from the outside world?"
She couldn't help but ask.
Xu Ying felt it for a moment, then shook her head: "No, I can take you up there, so you don't have to worry about not being able to get out."
"That's good." Li Wenxi breathed a sigh of relief.
"In that case, let's just ignore that entrance. Apart from this entrance, there shouldn't be any changes around here, right?" Xu Xin said.
"No more... um... yes." Li Wenxi suddenly changed the topic.
Xu Xin and Xu Ying looked at her.
Li Wenxi pointed at the metal tablets with various thorns around him and said, "These things seem to have changed a bit."
"Some changes?"
Xu Xin looked at the nearest metal monument.
"I don't know what has changed. It should be something that has changed internally. Anyway, my ability has just been sensed."
The three of them looked at each other and immediately walked towards the nearest one.
Next to this metal monument, there is also the corpse of an alien invader.
In fact, there is a corpse next to each metal monument.
It really looks like a tombstone.
but…
"Look, the scarlet thorns that originally protruded from the metal monument have been retracted!"
Li Wenxi said in surprise.
Originally, the scarlet thorns on this metal monument were much more prominent than the normal metal-colored thorns.
But now, the red thorns have been retracted, and...
Seems to be fading slowly...
"The color of this pattern will soon become the same as the other spots." Xu Ying said with interest, "What will happen after it becomes the same... Will these thorns come out?!"
"hiss-"
The three of them immediately felt that it was possible!
"Get behind that console!"
Xu Xin said immediately.
The three of them moved quickly and hid behind the control console within two seconds.
In this area, only this control console can be used as a cover.
"Hmm?" Coco cried out in confusion, tilting her little head in Xu Xin's arms.
What Xu Ying guessed did not happen.
The three of them waited for about half a minute, but no spikes appeared.
"It's just to scare people..."
Xu Ying couldn't help but stick her head out to see what was going on, but was stopped by Xu Xin.
"Wenxi, what's going on now?"
Xu Xin grabbed Xu Ying and turned to ask Li Wenxi.
"Nothing has changed... Ah! Something has changed!"
Li Wenxi's eyes lit up, and then a hint of surprise flashed across his face: "Those stone tablets... are opened?"
Is it opened
"Ah!" Coco cried and struggled twice in Xu Xin's arms.
It seemed to be saying, there is no danger, don't hide here, go out and take a look!
"There should be no danger now."
Xu Xin stood up and walked towards the nearest metal monument.
The metal tablet... opened as expected.
It's like the shell of a macadamia nut, with a crack in the middle.
And this gap was constantly expanding in front of Xu Xin and the other two.
The interior of this metal monument is actually hollow!
The metal monument is more than two meters high, half a meter wide, and thirty to forty centimeters thick.
But the metal shell of this thorny monument is only five centimeters thick.
Therefore, the space inside the metal monument is actually very large.
Maybe it shouldn't be called a metal monument, but... a cabinet
The three of them looked inside.
The inside was different from the outside, it was very smooth, just like the stairs they had slid down.
And on this smooth inner wall, there are some objects hanging.
Some of these objects look cold and sharp, some are small prototypes, and some clearly have black muzzles!
"ah!"
When Xu Ying saw those things, she exclaimed.
"This is... a weapon from alien invaders!"
She tried to grab one of the alien invader's guns.
This gun is long and does not have structures such as a buttstock that humans are familiar with, because the alien invaders do not need it.
They only need to insert these guns into their bodies to use them, so it seems that the gun only has a muzzle.
"Really!" Xu Ying took the weapon and her eyes lit up, "A light weapon from alien invaders!"
"Will this weapon work against the scarlet crystal?" Li Wenxi asked.
"I don't think so..."
Xu Ying looked over and over again, and finally found a push-button trigger at one end. Then she smiled and said, "But this weapon is different from ours. These weapons can kill alien invaders!"
Capable of killing alien invaders!
Suddenly, Xu Xin and Li Wenxi felt the weight of these weapons!
The pistols, machine guns and the like they now have can't cause much damage to the alien invaders, and they can almost recover on their own.
But these weapons can!
Because weapons are meant to be used against one's own people in war.
The weapons of the alien invaders will naturally cause huge casualties to the alien invaders!
"nice one!"
Xu Xin looked around.
Each of these metal tablets was opened.
There are all kinds of weapons of alien invaders hanging inside!
"Let's loot all of this!"
Without further ado, the three of them quickly started to fight.
Xu Xin came to a metal monument, kicked away the body of the alien invader on the ground, and collected all the things inside.
But then he looked at the body of the alien invader that he had kicked away.
"Ah... I know what these metal tablets are for."
Xu Xin understood.
"Hmm? What do you do?"
Li Wenxi was packing up the weapons in front of the metal monument next to him. Hearing this, he turned to look at him and asked.
"Isn't this an armory?"
"Of course not." Xu Xin pointed to the space inside. "If it was just a weapons depot, why are there only weapons hanging on the inner wall, and a large empty space?"
As he spoke, he looked at the dead alien invaders on the ground.
"Ah... you mean..."
Li Wenxi also looked at the corpse under her metal monument.
"This alien invader was originally in this monument?" Xu Ying also reacted.
She looked inside the monument and said, "This hedgehog metal monument is actually the alien invaders'... soldier hibernation chamber?"
The three of them looked at the large number of dead alien invaders on the ground again.
"Then how did they die?"