"Let's go in."
Xu Xin entered first.
The two alien invaders on the ground had been frozen hard because they were very close to the cooling device.
"Um... their cards are in their bodies." Li Wenxi pointed at the two frozen corpses of alien invaders.
Xu Xin nodded, then raised his foot and stepped down.
"Kachcha!"
The frozen bodies of the alien invaders beneath his feet were crushed and then shattered to the ground.
The body of the alien invader had long been riddled with holes from being pecked at by the black bugs, and after being slightly frozen, it would crumble to pieces with just a slight step.
However, the metal card was not so fragile. It fell out from the shattered body of the alien invader. Xu Xin bent down and picked it up.
This metal card is freezing cold.
Li Wenxi gently stepped on the bugs on the ground.
Well, it crumbles into powder when you step on it, so it must be dead.
"Brother, this way."
Xu Ying has found the location to use the metal card.
Li Wenxi had already walked to Xu Ying's side and waved to Xu Xin.
"Come on, come on, it's right here."
Xu Xin walked over and swiped the metal card on the card swiping position on the console.
“Buzz—”
The red and green lights around flickered a few times, then dimmed again.
"This..." Xu Xin and Xu Ying were both a little confused.
"Ah, it seems that because it is too cold, some of these machines can't work anymore."
Li Wenxi, who was able to see the internal structure of the machine, looked at the consoles, blinked, and explained.
"Ah..." Xu Xin shook his head helplessly.
There is no other way. If we put this cooling device in this small room, the temperature of the entire room will be close to minus 100 degrees.
He immediately put away the cooling device.
The temperature is close to minus 100 degrees. If it lasts for a long time, not only these precision machines, but even they can't stand it.
After the cooling device was put away, the temperature in the room began to rise.
But because it is far away from the nearest engine cylinder, it does not rise very quickly.
The whole room was still very cold.
The temperature rises too slowly.
"… Then wait a moment." Xu Xin said.
"The temperature should be restored in two or three minutes." Xu Ying looked at the mechanical seaway outside the door.
"Hey, tell me, how did they die?"
Li Wenxi was very curious about the cause of death of the alien invaders here, squatting on the ground and looking at the fragments, and asked.
Now the bodies of these alien invaders are frozen and have no smell for the time being.
But once the temperature rises, the smell will probably return.
"Didn't this giant ship just start up when we first came here, and then return a few hours later?"
"Why are there some alien invaders who have been dead for at least a week at the entrance of the giant ship and deep in the power system?"
Li Wenxi was puzzled.
This is also what confuses Xu Xin.
According to Xu Ying, these alien invaders have been dead for more than seven days.
That means they had been dead for seven or eight days before the giant ships were ready to attack humans.
And a huge ship ready to go into battle, with so many corpses lying inside, wasn't anything dealt with
Not to mention that this seems to be a very important position deep in this power system.
The two alien invaders responsible for the power system also died.
Don’t you care about all this
… Is it because the alien invaders are too confident and look down on humans, so they want to start the battleship even if the interior of this giant ship is a mess
"Is it possible that these alien invaders died after we saw the giant ship start up and enter the teleportation formation?"
Xu Ying suddenly said.
"Ah?" Li Wenxi was startled. "Didn't you say they've been dead for more than seven days?"
"Is the degree of corpse decay related to temperature?" Xu Xin asked.
Xu Ying shook her head: "No, although it is related to temperature, it is only a few hours, there is no way it can rot into this state. And..."
Xu Ying looked at the sea of power plant machinery outside the door.
"This huge ship has only been running for a few hours... Can the power plant really get so hot?"
"Just now, the huge metal cylinder of the engine was burned red. If it wasn't overused, would it become like that?"
"And..." Xu Ying looked at Xu Xin's bracelet, "Isn't the cooling method a bit too crude? It's not a fixed cooling pipe, but a small machine that can be taken away at will..."
Xu Xin seemed to be thinking about something.
He understood what Xu Ying meant.
"What do you mean..." Li Wenxi was still a little confused, "You mean, this giant ship had already started before we came? That's not right..."
Those four huge ships were launched only after they caused a big commotion in those factories.
The teleportation array was only fully connected after that.
This should be certain.
"No, I mean, only a few hours have passed since they entered the teleportation array, but they..."
Xu Ying pointed at the crushed debris of alien invaders on the ground and said, "I'm afraid they have spent much more time than us."
Li Wenxi now understood what Xu Ying meant.
She was surprised and asked, "You mean, after this giant ship was dragged into the turbulent space-time flow... their time flow speed is different from that of the outside world?"
For people who have lived in the World Tree where time flows a hundred times faster for several months, the different speeds of time are a normal thing.
"Yes."
Xu Ying nodded slightly.
"This giant ship, as well as the three destroyed giant ships, probably fought for a long time in the turbulence of time and space."
Xu Xin touched his chin, which had already grown a slight stubble.
Space-time turbulence, it is not only the space that is turbulent, but also the time.
It is reasonable to speculate that being caught in the turbulence of space and time, the flow of time has become chaotic.
He remembered that when he eavesdropped on the leader's conversation, the leader once said that the energy of this giant ship, the only one returning, was running low and needed to be replenished.
At that time, he just thought that it might be because the giant ship consumed too much energy when fighting against the turbulence of time and space.
But now think about it, it took less than three hours for the giant ship to leave and return.
Isn't it a bit too strange that such a huge ship would use up all its energy in just three hours even if it was fighting
Given how cautious the leader of the alien invaders is, there must be enough energy, right
But if it is as Yingying guessed...
"Those huge tanks outside are extremely hot, even red hot, because they are the result of long-term overload sailing. The cooling device that I casually put into my bracelet..."
Xu Xin twirled his bracelet.
"Actually, they added a temporary refrigeration device to deal with the excessive heat?" Li Wenxi took over the conversation and said with some sudden realization, "And the bodies of the alien invaders who have been dead for more than seven days... When I think about it this way, it does make sense!"
"So, it is possible that the three destroyed giant warships actually persisted in the turbulence of time and space for a long time, instead of being destroyed in such a short time." Xu Xin said to himself.
"That's what I told you." Li Wenxi understood. "How could the alien invaders' giant warship be so weak? It was destroyed in just a few hours."
"But didn't you say before that this space is isolated from the outside world?" Xu Xin asked.
"Space is, but time is not." Xu Ying said, "The alien invaders do not have the ability to travel through time, let alone create a giant ship that is not affected by time turbulence."
This conjecture can be explained by almost everything they have encountered before.
"That should be it."
The giant ship passed through the light column of the teleportation array, wanting to destroy the humans living in the world tree with its thunderous force.
But they didn't expect that when they were teleported and about to get out of the teleportation formation, they were tied up by the tentacles of an unknown giant beast and pulled back into the teleportation formation.
Perhaps it was because of a tough battle, or perhaps it was the moment they were pulled in, the four giant ships were all caught in the turbulence of time and space.
The material of the giant ships makes them immune to the chaos of space.
But the chaos of time cannot be stopped.
So, they were trapped in the turbulence of space and time for a long time.
Maybe it will be a dozen days, or maybe dozens of days, or even hundreds of days, or even more time.
It is even an extremely chaotic time. It is possible that the speed of time flowing in different areas of this giant ship will vary greatly.
During this period of time, the giant ship has been running at full speed in order to fight against the terrifying turbulence of time and space.
This causes their power systems to overheat for a long time, and their own cooling systems are no longer sufficient, forcing them to find other ways to cool down, hence the small refrigeration mechanism in Xu Xin's bracelet.
During this period of time, some alien invaders inside the giant ship also died for various reasons.
Just like the hundreds of alien invaders they had encountered before, and the two that were being crushed now.
They looked like they had been dead for more than seven days, and their bodies were placed in the giant ship, with no one to collect them or claim them.
Because the giant ship has just returned, and before it came back, the other alien invaders in the giant ship could not protect themselves, so who would go to collect their bodies
After coming back, the remaining alien invader soldiers in the giant ship immediately disembarked and stayed in the city of the ring teleportation array. The giant ship flew directly for dozens of kilometers and stopped in the desert.
The guy controlling the giant ship probably doesn't want to let it get close to the teleportation formation again in his lifetime.
Only one of the four huge ships returned, truly escaping death.
This is most likely the fact.
"So, they are really miserable, a little pitiful."
Although Li Wenxi said this, her face was full of smiles, and her eyes were crescent-shaped: "No wonder the leader of the alien invaders was so crazy after returning. He didn't act like a leader at all. Anyone would go crazy if this happened to them."
"If that's true, then these alien invaders really deserve it." Xu Ying also laughed, "They just wanted to destroy a human world tree, but the loss was huge, much greater than when they were traveling in the universe."
"Yes, only one of the four ships returned, and it was in tatters. Many people died." Li Wenxi sighed.
"We humans are so lucky." Xu Xin said with a smile.
"Is it just pure luck..."
Xu Ying looked at Xu Xin deeply.
She always felt that the giant beast that dragged the four giant ships into the turbulence of time and space... should be the work of her real brother, Xu Xin from another time and space.
I don't know how they did it, but...
It can't be that the giant beast originally lived in the cracks of time and space, and then had nothing better to do than to build a giant ship to play with
"Okay, now the temperature has dropped almost enough, it's time for us to move on to the next step." Xu Xin said.
He swiped the card again on the swipe area.
“Buzz—”
Immediately, the ground of the entire room shook slightly.
Then, all the buttons and levers in the room lit up.
There was no flickering, but all of it lit up.
"It seems that the machine has been restored."
The temperature is now around 10 degrees, so these machines should be able to move.
"Ah... it seems like we can press all the buttons?"
Li Wenxi looked at the buttons in the room and said.
Unlike the previous console where only a few buttons lit up, this time all the buttons and levers in the room lit up.
The second card is no longer needed. This card has the authority to control all
"But we don't know what these buttons are for." Xu Xin spread his hands and said, "Do we have to press them randomly?"
"It's not impossible." Xu Ying looked at the most conspicuous green lever and said, "We just press it randomly, and then I will take you away from here immediately. As for what happens here, it has nothing to do with us."
That’s true.
Their purpose was to destroy this power system.
It really doesn't matter to them what these buttons are used for.
“Just press them randomly!” Li Wenxi also nodded in agreement.
Xu Xin touched Coco's little head in his arms, who was not interested in the current situation at all, and thought for a while: "Okay. But, the purpose of your coming here..."
"It seems that there is no answer." Xu Ying sighed slightly, then pursed her lips and said, "Forget it, it doesn't matter. At this time, they should be almost done with cutting the scarlet crystal, right? We can't waste too much time here."
“… Yingying, I have to remind you that we can’t go out now.”
Xu Xin said helplessly.
This giant ship is separated from the outside world, and Xu Ying has no way to teleport out directly.
They haven't found a way out yet.
"I, don't we still have these cards?" Li Wenxi patted his backpack and said, "I think if we go back to the entrance, we might be able to open the door with these cards."
"… Then we can only open one doorway, right?" Xu Xin said, "I'm afraid we don't have the right to open the huge hatch of this giant ship."
"We'll talk about that kind of thing later."
At this time, Xu Ying was already looking at the buttons in front of her with eagerness.
"Brother, sister-in-law, let's do it!"
Xu Xin and Li Wenxi looked at each other.
"Now that we're here, we have to do something. Come on, the three of us will do it together."
Before Xu Xin finished speaking, Xu Ying directly pulled down the most conspicuous green lever in the venue.
“Boom… Boom… Boom…”
The ground beneath the feet of the three people began to shake violently!
The three of them reacted immediately and turned to look outside the door.
Under the gaze of the three people, the sea of machinery outside was still operating!
The ocean made up of countless machines, once it starts operating, the scene is quite exaggerated!
The gears were turning seamlessly, the sound of liquid flowing began to be heard in the pipes, and various robotic arms were also turning at a dazzling speed.
And the road that the three of them had just walked on was swallowed up by this sea of operating machinery in an instant!
If Xu Xin and the other two were still on this road, they would probably be crushed to death or torn to pieces by this sea of machinery in an instant!
“Boom… Boom… Boom…”
The movements became more and more vigorous, and the three of them even felt that the giant ship under their feet was shaking more and more!
Even... it started to tilt slightly!
Although it was small, the three of them could feel it. The hull of this giant ship was definitely tilted by about five degrees!
"I... did we start this giant ship and make it fly!"
Li Wenxi said with some excitement.
"It should be that the power system was activated, causing the ship to shake slightly."
Xu Xin looked at the control console at the rear.
"It should be impossible to control the flight of this giant ship from here."
Xu Ying nodded: "I think so too. This is not the cockpit of a giant ship. How can we drive a giant ship?"
"So this is... the place that controls the giant ship's power system?"
Li Wenxi looked at the other buttons: "What are those buttons for?"
"It should be segmented control." Xu Xin reached out and pressed a red button.
The three of them looked outside at the same time.
Nothing noteworthy happened.
This sea of machinery is still operating according to plan.
It made a "boom-boom" sound.
"Hmm..."
Even in such a noisy environment, Coco turned over in Xu Xin's arms and was about to fall asleep.
It seems that the temperature around here has now returned to over 20 degrees, making the little guy feel very comfortable.
"This power system is so large, it should be a part of it that was controlled to do something just now." Xu Ying said.
"Oh... It's similar to the main switch at home. In addition to the main switch, there are also some switches that control the circuits in each room." Li Wenxi said that he understood, "Then what should we do now..."
Xu Xin's eyes moved.
This is the main gate of the giant ship, perhaps...
Here, the gates can be controlled to cut off the power supply to various areas of the giant ship.
The previous entrance was brightly lit, and the hatch of the giant ship could be opened and closed freely, which should have been providing power all the time.
After they came down, they found that many places were dark and without lights. It was probably because there was no energy supply.
As for why the hatch of the giant ship needs to be powered, it is to be able to control the hatch opening and closing, and also for...
Maintain isolation between the interior and exterior of the giant ship!
According to the alien invaders whose metal cards they had stolen at the door, they knew that monsters had entered the giant ship, and they activated the space isolation of the giant ship to prevent the monsters from being teleported away.
They know that monsters have the ability to teleport anywhere and at any time.
But if Xu Xin cuts off the energy supply to that area now...
"We can get out now!"
Li Wenxi said happily.
Xu Ying looked at the buttons: "Then we..."
"Press all the buttons quickly!" Xu Xin said immediately.
The two women nodded and quickly took action.
Xu Xin even picked up Coco, who was almost asleep in his arms, and threw it onto a console and asked it to press buttons.
“Oh!
”
Coco first waved her little paws and complained a few times, then jumped around on the table and started pressing buttons.
There are many buttons in the room, but Xu Xin and his team have four workers.
Two minutes later, all the buttons had been pressed.
“Boom boom boom—”
The vibrations of the mechanical ocean outside became more frequent.
After pressing all the buttons, everyone looked behind them. The sea of machinery was now very different from what it was at the beginning.
It was as if all the parts were put into a wok, flipped a few times, and then fell back, becoming a little...
A mess.
There is no such feeling as in the beginning where there were many instruments but they were very orderly.
All the machines were entangled together, as if the next moment, this sea of machines would explode due to mutual collision.
But in fact it is not.
Even in chaos, this sea of machinery is still functioning.
And... nothing seems to be wrong.
“How should I put it… It’s indeed a giant ship that can travel the universe. It’s still functioning even in this state.” Li Wenxi said in amazement.
Xu Ying narrowed her eyes slightly and felt it for a while, then said happily: "We can go out now, we can teleport out directly!"
"Then let's..." Li Wenxi wanted to go out now, but when he thought of Xu Ying's purpose this time, he suddenly couldn't say it.
Going out now would be equivalent to letting Xu Ying give up hope and let her die.
"Let's go back to the entrance and take a look first." Xu Xin said as he put the little guy who had climbed onto his shoulders into his arms.
"good!"
Xu Ying grabbed the two men's arms.
Immediately, the three of them disappeared on the spot.
All that was left was a sea of chaotically operating machinery, completely blocking the only way in.
This control room was isolated in the deepest part of the chaos.
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"Wow... It suddenly got so dark in here!"
Li Wenxi whispered.
The three of them have returned to the entrance.
The lights here had been turned off and it was so quiet that Li Wenxi only dared to speak in a low voice.
The alien invaders who entered with Xu Xin and his team had now disappeared.
There were only three of them and a red panda left here.
However, the surrounding situation has changed dramatically.
The passage they had gone down through before was now closed. The wall was neat and smooth, and it was hard to tell that there was such a large passage before.
But the upward passage was not closed. At the same time, there was a bright light inside the passage, illuminating a small part of the dark area.
"Why don't we go up and take a look?" Li Wenxi suggested, "Maybe there's something good up there?"
She really couldn't bear to see Xu Ying return empty-handed.
"But, who knows when, the space here might be closed again..."
Xu Ying was a little hesitant.
"Don't worry for now." Xu Xin whispered, "The place that can control the energy supply should be the place we just went to, but it's very chaotic there now, the temperature is very high, and the road we took is also blocked. They probably can't get through."
"Besides, even if they still have a way to get through, we can just teleport back and control them."
Xu Ying has been there before, so she can be teleported there directly.
"… good!"
Xu Ying nodded vigorously.
The three of them quickly came to the entrance of the upward passage.
It is almost identical to the downward passage and looks very slippery just by looking at it.
It seems... impossible to go up.
However, this does not pose a problem for Xu Ying.
She grabbed the two men's arms with both hands and teleported them directly.
She can teleport anywhere she sees.
The three of them came directly to the top of the passage.
Arrived at another level of the giant ship.
This layer...
Compared with the lower level, there is an almost earth-shaking difference!
Bright red sky, scarlet ground, and in the distance you can see…
Various scarlet mountains of different heights!
The vast land, the endless mountains... are actually made of scarlet crystals? !
"this… "
The three of them were stunned at this moment.
How can I see such a view in a giant ship? !
Why does it feel like... I've suddenly arrived in another world?!
The ground, the mountains... why are there scarlet crystals everywhere? !
Xu Xin even quickly looked back.
Fortunately, the passage is still behind me.
This is still the interior of the giant ship.
Can…
Why is this scene happening before my eyes
This world made of scarlet crystals, could it be...? !
“… it is an image composed of virtual projection and screen.”
Xu Ying suddenly spoke, rubbing her head which was a little swollen due to the extreme shock for a moment.
"Tsk... This alien invader leader is really outrageous. He actually transformed the interior of this giant ship into this state. I thought he would just..."
Xu Ying's words made Xu Xin and the others react.
Indeed, if you look closely, these views seem...
You can vaguely see that it is caused by the projection and the screen!
Because the projection and the screen were too clear and real, Xu Xin and the others were unable to react for a while.
Although there are scarlet crystal mountains in the distance, there is only flat land nearby. It is obvious that the mountains in the distance are illusory.
Xu Xin squatted down and touched the "Scarlet Crystal" ground.
It was just a ground screen that kept displaying the image of scarlet crystal.
But the screen even has an uneven shape. If you don't touch it or look closely, you can't tell it's a screen.
He looked around.
The entire interior of the giant ship has been transformed into a paradise for alien invaders.
Even Xu Xin and others could see that the environment here probably imitated the home planet of the alien invaders.
Tsk.
The leader of this alien invader really knows how to have fun.
and…
"We messed around with the power system, but it's still lit here?" Li Wenxi asked in surprise.
"It probably doesn't rely on the giant ship's power system." Xu Xin said, "This place is built like this, I'm afraid that the leader has to come here often. If it relies on the giant ship's power system to maintain it, it would be a waste of money."
The giant ship is driven by scarlet crystal.
Using scarlet crystal to activate the giant ship's power system is just to maintain the scene of this "paradise"... This is simply insane for the group of alien invaders.
Therefore, an independent energy system should be used here.
"Huh... Anyway, let's go."
Xu Ying took a deep breath and then pointed to a four-story building made of an unknown black material at the "foot of the mountain" in the distance.
The building was obviously larger than the surrounding buildings and had two more floors.
"That, I'm afraid, is the control room of the giant ship."
"There... maybe we can use the firepower of the giant ship!"