It is not possible to go directly to the propulsion unit from the inspection passage, but it is possible to reach the maintenance area of the second half of the propulsion unit. The thruster used by this space island is an unusually huge device. Its main part is hundreds of meters long. If it is placed on the surface, it is like a hill. The maintenance area in the second half of it is a factory-shaped device. between. This place full of machinery, pipelines, magic circles, and flashing indicators is located tens of meters deep underground in the city. It is lower at the rear of the propulsion device. The hood opened a huge crack.
Hao Ren found that in front of him was a very spacious room, surrounded by strange equipment that could not be named. The artificial gravity here has completely stopped, and the strongest acceleration stage of the propulsion unit has passed, so there are a lot of equipment fragments here. and other debris floating in the air. The roof of the room slanted and extended to one side. There was a huge crack on the sloping roof made of alloy, and the dazzling light was shining in from the crack. A large group of grotesque silhouettes looked strange and dangerous.
Hao Ren first ran to check the equipment that looked like an operating console. He knew that this was already inside the crew, and it would undoubtedly be the best solution if he could shut down the system from inside this big guy. He may not be able to operate these things, but he can directly transmit the picture he sees to the data terminal, and then let the data terminal show it to the elf experts above. But he quickly dismissed the idea: all the equipment was clearly broken, and those dimly cracked crystalline controllers couldn't possibly be working.
Y'zax was surrounded by a shield of hot lava. He has begun to prepare for the release of power. After carefully sensing the energy flow around him, he came to a corner of the room and punched a huge hole in the wall: "There should be a place out of control in front of this."
Hao Ren ran over to take a look curiously, and found that there were dazzling lights everywhere outside. After his eyes barely adjusted, he finally saw the structure outside the room: in front was the "combustion tube" of the propulsion unit or something else, and he could see A huge, tubular passage extends out, and the starry sky in the distance can be vaguely seen in the flickering flames at the end of the passage. When he observed carefully, the shadow of another floating island flashed away from the end of the passage. . Many small pipes arranged in parallel can be seen on the four walls of the passage. In fact, the light is mainly emitted from those pipes. And between those scorching small pipelines and this maintenance area, there is a buffer zone of about ten meters, with a ring of huge equipment arranged in a ring. Despite the ten-meter buffer zone, Hao Ren still felt a scorching heat attack: it was probably just a psychological effect.
Y'zaks tore the hole in the wall even bigger, and then jumped out. Standing in the middle of the buffer zone, he stretched out his body, and a crimson fire cloud quickly enveloped his body like tumbling magma. His body swelled rapidly in the surging cloud of demons, and turned into a huge five-meter-tall demon in an instant.
Hao Ren jumped out, "It's been a long time since I saw you in this posture."
"Ha, it's more comfortable like this." Y'zaks moved his hands and feet. Fortunately, the two are talking spiritually now, otherwise he would definitely spray sparks everywhere when he opened his mouth. Determine how big the entire propulsion unit is."
Hao Ren hummed, and when he lowered his head to look around, he suddenly noticed something not far away.
He gestured to Y'zaks to wait. Then drifted past with great effort—as the data terminal said. He could indeed move in a vacuum without any external force. During this process, Hao Ren could see a long series of faint afterimages appearing behind him, but this did not mean that he was floating very fast, but was caused by some kind of coordinate replacement. Spatial afterimage, when moving in this way, he will feel that his senses are split into countless parts in an instant and distributed on the entire trajectory he passes, which causes severe dizziness, so that he must pay attention not to move continuously too long. And when he floated to the destination, he saw clearly what was lying on the ground: it was an Aerym elf, wearing a strange space suit, who looked dead.
Hao Ren suppressed the surprise and nervousness in his heart, and stepped forward to turn over the opponent's body. Under the transparent mask is the face of a young male elf. There is no pain before death, but the eyes are closed tightly as if in a deep sleep. Hao Ren found no obvious trauma on his body, so he was very curious about the cause of the elf's death, until he suddenly found a very small tear on the back of the space suit: he died from decompression.
Probably the physiological structure of elves and humans is different. When they die in a vacuum, they seem to have fallen asleep in an ordinary way.
Hao Ren looked around subconsciously, and found that the elf was lying in front of a control device, and his hand happened to be stuck on a control rod of the control device just now. He struggled to make out the words next to the controls, and finally managed to translate the vague characters: emergency stop.
Hao Ren suddenly understood: It seems that the maintenance area has noticed something before the explosion of the propulsion unit. This elf should be a staff member on duty. Before manually shutting down, but he failed.
An ordinary Aerym elf who died in dutiful duty, and although he desperately tried to protect the island, his last attempts at dying failed.
"We'd better get his body somewhere safe," Y'zaks looked down at the elf. "This place is going to explode soon."
Hao Ren nodded silently, fixed the dead elf on his back and floated back to the passage as fast as possible. He placed the dead elf near the second gate, which should be the safest place he can find now.
Then he and Izaks rushed out of the propulsion unit along the huge burning pipeline: in the end, it was a rather thrilling journey. He rushed out of the long space thruster. At first, he was even worried about whether his rigid shield could withstand the high temperature and impact, but it seemed that the products of the Empire were really of good quality, and he didn’t suffer much except severe dizziness. harm.
However, the shield was indeed consumed a little.
A huge beam of light, more than ten kilometers long, waved in front of the two of them, its momentum was frightening and shocking.
This is the burst of flame from the propulsion engine. There are three main nozzles in the engine, but only this one is running. One of the other two nozzles has been extinguished, and the other is only the metal that was torn into pieces by the explosion. Wreckage, but they are far from being completely blown up anyway. It seems that the elf casters on the other side of the wall have misjudged the status of the engine. And near this huge engine, Hao Ren also saw those attitude adjustment nozzles, which were distributed under the hoop of the floating island, spewing out smaller flames, trying indiscriminately to correct the fatal tear caused by the main engine on the floating island, but It can only make the situation worse.
Y'zaks stood next to Hao Ren. The raging flames all over his body could not be extinguished in a vacuum. These flames burned into a ball of fire in the absence of gravity, making this terrifying demon full of shock like a small sun. . He frowned and looked at the engine structure that was not easy for him to understand, and compared it with several key features that the elf mage told himself: "It seems that just blowing that thing up, anyway, the situation is not good. It will be worse."
Then he began to brew an unprecedentedly huge super fireball mixed with green fel flames. Hao Ren took advantage of this moment to look around. He saw some small bright spots lingering in the far distance. Those were the Aerym cruisers that came to rescue the accident but could not get close due to insufficient equipment. The elves could only see from a distance. Looking at the situation here, they were full of confusion about Hao Ren and Y'zaks in demon form: these two must be "strange creatures" beyond their worldview.
Finally, Hao Ren was seen as a "heterogeneous" in a real sense.
After a while, Y'zaks' super big fireball was finally ready. Hao Ren stared dumbfounded at this gigantic thing that was more than ten meters wide, spinning rapidly in front, and connected with several rune chains and Y'zaks' hands. : "Is it really okay to hit this thing?"
"It's been accurately calculated," Y'zaks nodded confidently, then turned twice on the spot, and smashed the big fireball at the propulsion unit!
A huge ball of light erupted from the out-of-control engine. Its power...was indeed a little smaller than Hao Ren had imagined. It seemed that the precise calculation that Izaks said was true: this giant fireball technique did not reduce the buoyancy. The island exploded a bigger hole.
Hao Ren stared nervously at the cloud of smoke after the explosion. Has the crisis... passed? (to be continued~^~)