"It's hot, hot, hot! It's so hot!"
"Don't accidentally touch the metal here. The temperature is probably over 100 degrees."
"Ouch... I just touched it and it instantly got scalded and blistered..."
"ah!"
"careful!"
"It's slippery here, don't fall!"
"This... If I hit it directly, I would be burned and disfigured immediately..."
"With Sister Xuefei's pills, even if you are disfigured, you can recover."
"… snort."
The three of them shuttled through the sea of machinery.
After Coco led Xu Xin and the other two to find a secret intersection, she climbed onto Xu Xin's shoulders.
It probably felt that it was too hot to be in Xu Xin's arms.
“Hmm…” The little guy was so hot that he stuck out his tongue.
At this time, Xu Xin and the other two were walking on a winding corridor that was only one meter wide.
On both sides of the aisle were machines that constantly emitted heat, making the area very stuffy.
And this walkway is made of metal grid, so the three people can see below the road through this metal grid road.
It is also a sea of machinery.
They are now completely surrounded by a sea of machines.
"Where will this road lead to..."
Li Wenxi was soaked all over, with her hair sticking to her cheeks, and she spoke weakly.
Anyone will become weak in a high temperature environment.
Especially now the ambient temperature must be at least 70 degrees.
If their bodies had not been strengthened long ago, they would have probably fainted from heatstroke by now.
"I don't know, but don't hold out too much hope."
Xu Xin glanced at Coco, who was lying on his shoulder with her tail drooping.
Coco had no interest in this path.
I always feel that if Coco is not interested, there may not be anything good.
"Let's go check it out anyway. Maybe we can really find a way to destroy the engine of this giant ship."
Xu Ying also said weakly.
This temperature is really going to roast them...
But the passage here is too narrow, and Xu Xin can't take out the cooling device in his bracelet at all.
"Do alien invaders usually work under such high temperatures..." Li Wenxi turned his head to avoid a mechanical pipe spitting out from above his head.
“I don’t think so.”
Xu Ying glanced at Xu Xin's bracelet and said, "It seems that we have...put away the cooling device here."
Forehead…
It seems to be true.
If the cooling device was still there, the entire ceiling above this area would be able to cool it.
Because the giant beast's freezing space is right above this area, and the overall temperature is below minus fifty degrees Celsius.
But now, this cooling device has been put away by Xu Xin.
This will result in the loss of cooling measures in this area, and the temperature will naturally be much higher than normal.
"Ah... So, the freezer we went to earlier is not being roasted right now, right?"
Li Wenxi raised his head and looked upward.
You can't see the ceiling, only the densely packed mechanical parts and pipes.
"…It's really possible." Xu Xin said.
No wonder the giant beast in that space recovered so quickly.
He had previously thought that it was caused by the giant beast's body temperature.
But now it seems that the area below has been heating up so quickly because there has been a fire going on.
"Um... Do you feel that it's getting hotter here..."
Li Wenxi felt like he was having trouble breathing.
and…
call-
The hot air began to flow slightly.
call-
Not long after, another gust of wind blew by.
The temperature here was already ridiculously high, and the wind made it even worse. Instead of bringing coolness to the three people, it made their breathing even more difficult.
"We should be approaching the other cylinder of this giant ship's engine." Xu Xin speculated.
Isn't this kind of blowing air with such a high frequency the same cylinder they saw before
"Wen Xi, you should be able to see it with your ability, right?"
"ah… ?"
Li Wenxi looked up with some difficulty.
"Uh... it seems, it is? Oh... I can't see clearly. It's all metal here..."
Li Wenxi covered his head with his hands, his legs already feeling weak.
She was clearly suffering from heat stroke.
He even tripped and almost fell.
"careful."
Xu Xin supported her.
"Why don't you go into the bracelet first. But it might be very cold in the bracelet now."
After all, the device is in the bracelet.
But it doesn’t matter if it’s cold, just wear more clothes.
They also have scarves and snow suits to keep out the cold.
Just stay away from that device.
“No… No need!”
She patted her cheeks which had been baked red, then took out a pill and swallowed it, and immediately felt much more energetic.
"Without my abilities, you're too dangerous!"
"Well, don't force it."
As the three of them continued to move forward, the whirring sound of the hot wind grew louder and the temperature around them...
It actually slowly decreased a lot
"Huh... I finally feel better."
Li Wenxi breathed a sigh of relief.
At the same time, the three of them also saw through the gaps in the machine again a huge cylinder emitting a dark red light.
This was the second huge cylinder they had seen.
It was also a dark red color that seemed to be cooling down, and it was also constantly emitting gas upwards.
But the temperature here is much lower than that position in the other cylinder.
Although it was very hot, it was only around 40 degrees.
For three people, sleeping in an environment of over 40 degrees may be too hot to fall asleep, but there is no problem if they can endure it normally.
Especially after experiencing the temperature of nearly 80 degrees, which almost made my body feel roasted.
Even Xu Xin couldn't help but take a pill just now.
Otherwise he felt like he would get heat stroke and his internal organs would be steamed!
Now, over forty degrees
No big deal.
The three of them walked out of the mechanical ocean.
Because there is also a platform under this cylinder.
"It's really cool here!" Xu Ying exclaimed.
"It's probably because there's no problem with the cooling device of this tank." Li Wenxi speculated.
Xu Xin looked at the air outlet of the cylinder.
The dark red color of this cylinder was almost the same as the previous one, and it was also spewing hot air upwards.
Hot air sprayed on the metal ceiling.
But this time the metal ceiling was not burned red like the previous metal plate, but remained its normal color.
Obviously, there is probably a cooling device above here.
Maybe it's also a... behemoth cooling space
"The engine has actually stopped working, and all the machines around it have been stationary, so why is it still ejecting jets..." Li Wenxi asked in confusion.
"Is it possible that it is simply not functioning right now?"
Xu Xin looked up at the large metal vat.
"It is trying to stop, but it cannot stop at will. It needs to cool down first, otherwise it may cause unnecessary damage."
"That's right." Xu Ying nodded. "It's only been an hour since the giant ship returned. It does take time for the engine of such a giant ship to cool down completely."
"Is that so?" Li Wenxi used his sleeve to wipe the sweat that was about to flow to the corners of his eyes and blinked, "Um... Wait a minute. Generally, engine maintenance work must be done before the engine is cooled down, right? In other words..."
She looked at Xu Xin and Xu Ying with a look of despair: "That is to say, even if it is an alien invader, they will not enter here at this time when the engine has not completely cooled down, right?"
That is indeed the case.
The three of them looked at each other.
They both saw the speechless look in the other two's eyes.
This environment is really too dangerous.
Not to mention the high temperature, the surrounding mechanical pipe parts that are easily touched are extremely hot.
It's easy for these skinny humans to get bumped into if they're not careful, let alone an alien invader like a giant slime.
They won't come in here at this time.
"Isn't this just right?" Xu Xin said with a smile, "This shows that we are very safe now. They shouldn't come over."
"It seems so." Li Wenxi licked his cracked lips.
The high temperature and extreme dryness are really uncomfortable.
It feels like my throat is smoking when I speak.
"So, let's keep going?" Xu Ying pointed to the huge cylinder above that looked like a mobile suspended building. "There's nothing we can do about it, right?"
"Let's continue exploring inside." Xu Xin said.
Finding this place is a very good thing.
Even if they didn't find anything here, they stuffed a dozen nuclear bombs here before leaving, and if they were detonated after they left...
Even if we can't destroy these cylinders, this sea of precision machinery...
It will definitely be messed up.
By then, this giant ship might really be scrapped!
Even if it can be repaired, it will take some time.
In this way, even if their mission is not completely successful this time and all four giant ships of the alien invaders are scrapped, the deterrent effect on them will be greatly reduced.
Xu Xin told the two of them his idea. The three of them discussed it and immediately decided to place the nuclear bomb while walking.
Continuing to move forward, the three of them once again entered the mechanical sea.
"I think a nuclear bomb should be able to blow this place up directly."
Xu Ying stuffed a nuclear bomb into the large gap between the two machines.
"The temperature of the giant cylinder is not very high, only a few thousand degrees, but it is already red. The alloy material of the power system should not be the material of the giant ship's hull that cannot be penetrated by a nuclear bomb."
That being said, it does make sense.
The temperature at the center of a nuclear bomb explosion is over 100 million degrees, but it cannot do anything to the giant ship.
Here the engine is burned red at several thousand degrees.
It seems that it is not really the same material.
"That's perfect, when we leave, we'll blow this place up!"
Li Wenxi also stuffed a nuclear bomb aside.
Two nuclear bombs exploded at one location.
"Let's go, keep moving forward."
As they moved forward, the three of them became more skilled in their steps in the sea of machinery, and their movements became faster and faster.
During this period, there has been no danger.
Just as they had guessed before, the alien invaders would not come in here until the engine had completely cooled down.
The three also deployed more than double-digit nuclear bombs along the way.
Their mission this time was related to nuclear bombs, so they brought a lot of them. It would not have any impact even if they consumed more than a dozen of them here.
"Is this the end?"
Xu Xin and the other two have reached the end of the mechanical sea.
This section of road took us about seven or eight hundred meters. The straight-line distance was not far, but it took a lot of effort to navigate through the sea of machinery.
"It's finally over." Li Wenxi let out a breath.
"It seems like there's nothing... Hey, what is that?" Xu Ying's eyes lit up.
The three of them saw that at the end, there was actually a... small metal door
Here... there is actually a small room
"Could it be the room for engineers who specialize in maintenance here?" Xu Xin said to himself.
"Really? It's so hot here... Ah, it doesn't seem so hot here!"
Along the way, they saw a total of four huge metal vats.
The engine of this giant ship is a four-cylinder engine.
Of course, each tank is the size of a building.
The last giant metal vat was more than a hundred meters away from them.
Perhaps the cooling measures were effective, the temperature here is now around 30 degrees.
Thirty degrees is not comfortable for ordinary people, but it is a temperature at which one can live normally.
For alien invaders, perhaps it doesn't matter even more.
So, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with having a small room here.
"cocoa."
Xu Xin pulled the little guy who was lying on his shoulder and began to fall asleep again into his arms and wrapped him in the Hider cloak.
"Let's go and take a look."
The three of them walked to the door.
The door was not closed but half open.
The closer they got, the more they could smell a damp and rancid odor.
They had actually smelled this smell before they came down and saw the power system.
However, the taste was not very strong, so the three of them gradually got used to it.
But as you get closer to the door, the smell suddenly becomes several times stronger.
This made the three of them frown immediately.
"There's nothing in here..."
Xu Xin reached out and slowly opened the half-open door.
Immediately, a strong stench hit me in the face!
"Ugh..."
The three of them couldn't help but cover their mouths and noses.
My goodness, this tastes so...
When they saw the situation inside, they immediately knew the source of the stench.
There were two lumps of mud on the ground.
Obviously, they were two alien invaders.
But the mud was no longer pitch black, but grayish black, and even crawling all over the mud...
Tiny, dark spots.
The moment Xu Xin opened the door, these small spots flew up several dozen centimeters with a "buzz" and formed two black flying insect balls near the two pools of mud.
But after only two seconds, they seemed to sense that there was no danger and attached themselves to the bright mud again.
"Hey... this bug can't be..."
Li Wenxi covered his mouth tightly and muttered.
She was a little afraid that these carrion-eating insects would fly into her mouth, which would be extremely harmful.
The bodies of two alien invaders on the ground, which had obviously been dead for a long time and severely decayed, had been eaten to pieces by these carrion-eating insects.
It's really... indescribable.
Xu Xin felt like he was about to suffer from trypophobia.
Coco had even shrunk her entire head, leaving only her two little ears exposed.
"There are indeed two alien invaders living here, but they are dead..." Xu Ying also covered her mouth and said, "But..."
They saw a lot of equipment in this room.
Some push switches, pull rods, etc.
"It should be the switch that controls this power room, right?" Xu Ying was a little concerned. "Do you want to try pulling it?"
"Uh..." Li Wenxi looked at the bugs crawling all over the bodies of the two alien invaders, "Do we really want to go in... Besides, we don't know what those switches are for... Ah!"
Li Wenxi stared blankly at the corpse on the ground.
"What's wrong?" Xu Xin asked. Seeing her staring at the body, his eyes moved. "Did you find anything on the body?"
"... Yeah." Li Wenxi nodded honestly, "It's... a metal card."
Metal card.
Xu Xin looked at the various control devices in the cabin.
It seems that these switches can only be controlled by using the metal cards on the two alien invaders.
"I'll get it."
Xu Xin took a step towards the two bodies.
With just one step, the black-spotted insects were immediately alarmed and flew up again collectively, forming a dense insect ball around the two corpses!
"Don't!" Li Wenxi hurriedly pulled him back, "We don't know how aggressive these bugs are, and they may be poisonous!"
The bodies of the two alien invaders turned pale...
"Then..." Xu Xin frowned slightly.
"Brother, use that cooling device." Xu Ying suddenly said, "It's minus 100 degrees. I don't believe these bugs won't be frozen to death!"
"That makes sense, but... won't these facilities be damaged by the freezing?" Xu Xin touched his chin and said.
He actually wanted to light a fire to see if he could get these bugs to put out the fire, just like how they dealt with the swarm of insects.
But there is a light source here, and these insects don't seem to care about it. None of them flies towards the light source, and they all pounce on the corpses of the alien invaders.
They only care about the bodies of the invaders on the ground.
"It's broken, so what? We can just leave." Xu Ying said, "At least we can't let these carrion-eating bugs bite us!"
The bugs that gnaw on the corpses of alien invaders don't seem to be creatures from this earth.
No one knows what deadly alien germs or viruses this creature carries.
Maybe even Qi Xuefei’s medicine is useless!
Xu Xin nodded, and immediately turned the bracelet to release the cooling device.
Immediately, the temperature around dropped drastically!
The temperature here was only 30 degrees Celsius to begin with, and after the cooling device was released, it dropped to minus 70 or 80 degrees Celsius within a few seconds.
All three of them shuddered violently.
The ones that reacted even more violently were the carrion-eating flies.
The flying insects were originally flying very fast, and they formed two balls in an orderly manner beside the two corpses.
But in those few seconds when the temperature dropped drastically, the formation was in chaos!
Then they all fell from the sky and died on the ground.
A densely packed ground.
"It should be... dead, right?" Li Wenxi looked at the flying insect on the ground and whispered, "It won't come back to life, right?"
The two bodies of the alien invaders on the ground seemed to freeze in an instant.
A layer of white appeared.
At least... not so gross anymore.