The Record of Unusual Creatures - Chapter 861
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Chapter 861: The Command Ship of the Rebels
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It was a gigantic golden spacecraft. Its long axis should be around five kilometers and had an extremely symmetrical appearance. A series of round, curved metal beams and arched hull made it look like a grotesque and slender giant beetle. One end of the spacecraft is about three times larger than the other side. A large number of parabolic golden structures extended from the thicker end of the spacecraft to its waist, forming a cage-like structure, and inside the birdcage structure was a large number of neatly arranged raised devices—perhaps it was a weapon platform or something that was lethally powerful, such as a gravitational weapon or a material cracking unit. Hao Ren believed that there would be at least two high-tech things on the large spacecraft made by rebels.
The golden battleship was wandering aimlessly on the gravitational balance between Solenne and the Sun. There was no sign showing that it was controlled by anyone. In the rear part of the spacecraft, there was a series of shimmering narrow grids but only less than 10% of the grids released strong energy responses. It should be a propulsion system. The spacecraft was moving away from the sun at a very slow pace, propelled by this small amount of power. However, it seemed that it was hard to get rid of the gravitational force of the sun—if those grids were still in such a half-dead state.
The sun shone on the hull of the spacecraft, reflecting brilliant golden rays in space. It looked like a temple floating in space, solemn and majestic, but there was no sign of life inside.
The Petrachelys kept miles away from the golden battleship, wandering around it and releasing test signals of various frequencies. Nolan seemed very nervous. “Will it suddenly hit me?” she asked.
Hao Ren glanced at Nolan and said, “Aren’t you already tested it? This thing doesn’t respond to our signal at all.”
“Don’t forget that I’m looking straight at it. Aren’t you nervous when you confront something of your kind which is more than 10 times bigger than you?” said Nolan.
Hao Ren thought for a moment and realized that he had never been in a fight with someone or something of his size, even the husky was four meters taller than him after she transformed. But he was never nervous because those creatures were not of the same kind. The only time he ever fought with a man who was bigger than him was the battle with Muru. However, he was not fighting alone, so he could not understand how Nolan felt at the moment.
Hao Ren shook his head and turned his attention back to the spaceship. He turned on the communication with Muru and asked, “You see it? Is this spaceship made by the rebels? Do you know this model?”
“Yes, this is the battleship made by the rebels!” Muru immediately replied with a serious tone. “Try to zoom in, maybe we can recognize its identity.”
Nolan continued to approach the golden spaceship, zoom in on all the details and send it to the garage. The three giants gazed at the picture and then discussed quickly. As a veteran warrior, Lemendusa made the judgment and said, “It looks like an integrated command ship, which is modified on the basis of a warship. Those protrusions are devices that conduct electronic warfare and produce aggressive energy fields. The front end of the warship also has remnants of turrets. There’s not much this kind of ship in the rebel fleet. They usually serve as the flagship of the middle force and will be protected in the core of the fleet during the battle.”
“The spaceship seems to be in good condition, why was it abandoned?” Hao Ren wondered.
“We don’t know until we get in there,” Muru replied, “so many unthinkable things happened in this galaxy. And we don’t really know much about the rebels’ troops. The war broke out abruptly. The rebels used a lot of equipment that we had never seen before, and this kind of spaceship is one of them. We’ve fought with this kind of ship many times, but we don’t really know what’s inside it. This kind of spaceship is hard to capture.”
Hao Ren nodded and then instructed Nolan, “Prepare for the boarding process, Y’zaks, Lily and I will go in there and see. The rest of you will stay here and wait for our instructions.”
“Still don’t let me go with you this time?” Y’lisabet asked while holding a screwdriver, looking disappointed.
All she could think of was to enter the spaceship and tear some parts down. Hao Ren, of course, would not allow it. “Just stay on the spaceship. Who knows if there’s anything dangerous in that place.”
Hao Ren knew this demon girl like the back of his hand. He knew this little girl would try to touch everything all the way with the screwdriver. After experiencing the rebels’ remarkable self-explosive technology, he has made up his mind: Never let this little girl follow them!
“Oh.” Y’lisabet sounded disappointed. She climbed back to her chair and muttered to Lil Pea while Hao Ren, Y’zaks, and Lily left the bridge. As Petrachelys slowly moved closer to the golden spaceship, Muru’s voice came from the communicator. “Do you need me to go with you?”
Hao Ren thought for a moment and said, “Forget it, you probably can’t walk in there. The spaceship looks big, but it’s not for giants.”
“Then be careful.” Muru sounded a little sad, but he did not insist. “Those rebels are very cunning. This spaceship might be a trap. You’d better prepare the escape plan in advance.”
Hao Ren knocked on the data terminal on his shoulder and said, “This toy is my escape plan.”
“You know I’m important, so can you stop calling me a ‘toy’?”
Petrachelys was like a tiny hummingbird in front of the five-kilometer-long golden ship. It circled the giant spaceship and finally found something looking like a gate at the edge of the ‘birdcage’ structure at the rear of the giant ship. Hao Ren, Lily, and Y’zaks stood on the upper platform of Petrachelys, watching a group of UAVs flying to the gate and starting to cut the light golden armor around the gate with material pyrolysis rays.
Hao Ren and Nolan were closely watching the reaction of the golden battleship to see if it would react when the hull was damaged, such as activating the protective shields or releasing warning machines. But when the UAVs detached the whole armor plate from the spaceship, there was no reaction from the golden ship.
When the UAVs cut a big hole in the golden spaceship, violent air current and some metal fragments immediately gushed out of the big hole and the automatic damage control device of the spaceship was then activated. Hao Ren saw a large amount of liquid metal was ‘growing’ rapidly under the armor plate around the hole, trying to plug the hole. He immediately pulled Lily and Y’zaks and rushed in before the hole was completely healed.
Seconds after they rushed in, the hole was automatically sealed off.
When the air current around Hao Ren had calmed down, he stood up and looked at the hole behind him. He saw the pale golden liquid metal was moving through the armored wall and quickly covered the hole that was cut by the UAVs. The liquid metal was then hardened in a flash, leaving no traces of cut. The liquid metal was even molded into pipes and wires. Obviously, all the functions of the armored wall had been restored.
“Good technology,” the data terminal looked at it and praised the spaceship maker, “it’s good enough for a cosmic civilization. The entire shell of the spaceship should be able to grow and heal like this, and perhaps this is how it’s made.”
Hao Ren was impressed by the diversity of civilizations— the universe was so big that it had all kinds of technologies that you had never seen before.
A slight noise came from the front. Lily immediately looked up and saw a door was open. When the UAVs cut open a hole in the spaceship, some automatic devices were activated. The doors in this area were once closed. Now that the wall had been repaired automatically, so the doors were open.
“These basic systems are still running,” Hao Ren said while looking at the door, “but the higher level system has not yet responded.”
“To open the doors and repair the damage only need a simple automatic line to control, but activating the shields and self-defense firepower should require the participation of the mainframe,” the data terminal speculated, “I’m afraid the mainframe of the spaceship is down.”
Y’zaks continued to walk and said, “Then I hope it’s completely down.”
Chapter 862: The Abandoned Battleship
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The spaceship built by the rebels was showy and exaggerative, just like themselves. Inside the giant spaceship, every corridor, every piece of equipment, everything was beautifully decorated and meticulously arranged.
The corridor was spacious and bright. It had a gracefully curved vault, with plenty of pale golden glowing light streams with crystals hanging at the end of them falling from the vault. There were countless relief sculptures on the walls of the corridor, depicting pictures of religious legend with exquisite artistry, including struggles against natural disasters, mystical rituals related to the stars, and the domestication of dangerous beasts. The heroes or heroines of these pictures were, of course, all tall, handsome and beautiful ‘perfect human’. They were either dressed in holy armor or clothed in robes that represented wisdom and knowledge, playing the role of savior or leader in every picture. And all sorts of other species, including humans who looked like them but thinner, were all prostrating at the feet of these ‘Gods’.
Hao Ren felt like he was walking in a magnificent temple. If it weren’t for the flickers of the facilities between the sculptures and the statues of Gods, he would have almost forgotten that it was a spaceship floating in space.
Y’zaks was walking beside Hao Ren and looking at the luxurious decorations around him. These magnificent and beautifully decorated corridors reminded him of something about his home—the art-loving elves and the human kingdoms would build something similar. Of course, they were slightly less luxurious, but from the point ‘exquisite art’, the two were very similar.
“If it’s not a weapon, it’s actually quite a fine piece of art,” Y’zaks said with a smile, “but such decorations should not appear on the battlefield. As a battleship, it’s too luxurious and full of unnecessary decorations.”
“It’s a luxury on the battlefield. Human beings have had such a period, but that was in ancient times. It’s hard to imagine that a space civilization will keep this practice,” Hao Ren said and shook his head, “these treacherous children have completely gone insane, becoming gods can’t be real and they have already taken themselves as true Gods.”
Lily was poking at the sculptures on the wall with her Frostfire Claws while muttering, “Collective insane. This happens from time to time in any society. Anyway, it looks like there’s really no one here.”
The data terminal was floating in front of them and scanning around with a blue light. It was detecting the flow of energy in the walls of the corridor and the life in the vicinity. “No signs of life were found—except some microbes. The spaceship’s power seemed to be intact, and I detected a regular signal transmission, so the basic system is probably still operating automatically but it seems that the core system is off-line. I found a line that’s in a silent state. This line runs through the entire spaceship. We can locate the host of the spaceship through the line and then figure out the general structure of the spaceship.”
“Oh,” Hao Ren responded. He wanted to figure out the structure of the spaceship, but he’s more concerned about the whereabouts of the crew. Every inch of this place corner looked elegant and magnificent, but at the moment, it was all lifeless, like a cold handicraft floating in space, and he wanted to know why. Along the way, he did not find any traces of damage and there were no signs of fighting on the walls of the corridor. So basically, he could rule out some factors that might have caused the crew to abandon the spaceship, such as invasion, crew mutiny, and internal environmental disasters. Similarly, because no apparent injuries were found outside the spaceship, he could rule out the possibility of the ship being abandoned because of damage.
The ship was abandoned in perfect condition.
They came to the end of the corridor. There was a fork, and a door in the middle of the fork, which might be a place for the staff to take a break. Lily scratched the metal door with her paws and asked, “What’s behind this?”
Hao Ren pushed the husky girl aside to stop her from making noises and then went forward to check the door. The power supply of the access control system should be fine, but he did not know how to activate it. He walked around the door and found that there were two small sculptures symmetrically placed on both sides of the door. The sculpture was some kind of beast with long fangs and slender faces. When Hao Ren put his hand on the head of the sculpture, he heard a slight noise coming from the wall, then the door slid open.
“This reminds me of those tomb traps in the TV series. The design is quite retro,” Hao Ren said.
Behind the door was a small rectangular room, which, as Hao Ren guessed, was a lounge. There were some soft, spacious seats and long metal tables in the room but what caught their attention were the things that were placed on the metal tables.
Hao Ren walked quickly into the room. The metal tables were set with strange cutlery, and some of the food had not been touched at all. There was a holographic projection in the corner of the room showing a section of the cabin that they had not yet explored. Lily exclaimed with surprise when she saw the food on the table, “Ah, they also need to eat?”
“Of course. Raven 12345 also eats instant noodles, not to mention these guys who are not even demigods,” Hao Ren said while reaching for a drink on the table which was cold as expected, “Err, it looks like they’ve been away for a while.”
Y’zaks looked at the scene in the room and frowned. “The food was on the table and the projector didn’t turn off, but there was no sign of fighting. Probably they were evacuated abruptly, and the cause of the evacuation has nothing to do with violence. Judging from the situation, they left here in a hurry but did not panic. So the reason for the crew abandoning the spaceship is most likely to be the order of the superior.”
“Let’s keep looking.”
The evacuation order was probably sent from the bridge or a similar command center, so everybody targeted there. The data terminal looked for command center by hacking the data lines buried in the corridor and led them all the way to the depths of the ship.
As they went deeper, they continued to find more evidence that could prove that the crew was evacuated under a unified order.
They found more cabins like lounges, meeting rooms, dormitories and a variety of workshops. Every room showed signs of a sudden abandonment: food was left untouched on the table, personal belongings discarded in the corner of the room, and some devices maintained on the power-on state. In some rooms, the clothes were thrown in the bed, it seemed that the owner of the room suddenly ran out while changing the clothes. Hao Ren wondered what had happened that made those treacherous children evacuate in a panic.
Finally, they found a broad corridor leading to the deepest part of the ship. At the end of the corridor was a magnificent door that allowed giants like Muru to walk in. The door was made of crystals and carved with the image of the Gods, and was bigger and taller and more exquisite than every door they met before. The data terminal confirmed that the control center of the spaceship was behind the door by hacking into the surrounding lines.
This time, Hao Ren could not find the control switch of the door. Lily tried to force open the door with her paws but it did not work. “It is so sturdy!”
Hao Ren looked around and confirmed that the door could not be opened like the previous ones. He knocked on the data terminal and asked, “Is this door connected to a self-destruct or any other warning switch?”
Data terminal then checked the door and replied, “No, just a simple access control system.”
Hao Ren patted Y’zaks on the arm and said, “Give us some technical support.”
Y’zaks rolled up his sleeve and summoned the Infernal Brimstone, swinging it and then smashed it towards the door. “Get out of the way!”
Lily was still trying to open the door with her head down. As soon as she looked up, she saw a fireball of the size of a calf flying over her head. She screamed and sprang away and then, a loud bang echoed in the corridor.
Lily was shouting and stamping her foot in anger in the smoke, “Don’t do it so abruptly! Can’t you give me a little time to react?”
“You should have realized it was going to explode when he mentioned technical support,” the data terminal said mockingly, “and that’s great, my partner. Your work style is getting more and more on the right track!”
Chapter 863: The Footage
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The big explosion caused by the demonic flames ripped the entire door apart, and half of the corridor was shaking violently. After the choking smoke finally slowly dissipated, Hao Ren was holding the shield walking in front of them, being the first person to enter the control center of the spaceship.
Behind the door was a large, bright chapel-like hall, with irregular polygons. In addition to the iconic sculptures, there were many fancy control devices and projection devices in the hall. All consoles were arranged in concentric circles and were distributed in layers into three rings. The equipment was carefully decorated and designed, which, although looked like a machine, was more like ritual equipment to be used at some religious ceremony. They could see this style throughout the ship, so there was nothing to care about.
The dome of the hall was towering, with three large round openings in its ceiling and bright beams of light shone down from the round openings, arranged in the center of the circle of equipment in the innermost part of the hall. The light beams were floating with dazzling figures and graphs. As Hao Ren entered the hall, they were still refreshing rapidly. This should be the display interface of the main control system of the spaceship.
Hao Ren was on high alert, in case there was any automatic warning devices or sentinel robots, but he reached the three huge columns of light without being attacked. It looks like even the core area alarm of the spaceship had gone offline. He stood in front of the three huge beams of light, curiously looking at the runes that were constantly refreshing. Because he had never been exposed to the technology of treacherous children, he had no idea what the state of the thing was.
The data terminal roughly interpreted the information on the light beams, “This is the self-check program of the core host. It’s jammed and constantly repeating a few threads. Maybe there’s a problem during the process of trying to restart.”
Hao Ren was walking between the control equipment curiously. He noticed that the light of the control equipment was still on. The operating panels of those devices were unique: There were several parallel rows of crystals on most of the operating panel. Between the bars of crystals, there were strings of red lights, which was the input device. After the data terminal confirmed the function of one of the devices, he carefully placed his hand on the panel and plucked a ‘light string’, and then the lights on the ceiling dimmed—which was an interesting way to operate.
Although the stubbornness and foolish behavior of those treacherous children had brought severe suffering to the universe, Hao Ren had to admit that they might be a species uniquely gifted in art. It would be nice if they could use their talent in a slightly normal way.
Suddenly, Lily shouted loudly, “Landlord! There’s a corpse here! There’s a corpse here!”
Hao Ren immediately ran towards Lily and saw that she was pointing at the space between the two controllers and said, “Look!”
Hao Ren looked in the direction of her finger and saw a man in a short, gorgeous robe lying face down on the floor and his body twisted into a strange posture. Apparently, he had been dead for a long time.
Hao Ren and Y’zaks were stunned by the unexpected discovery. They did not expect that a body was left on the abandoned spaceship. Perhaps they would be able to uncover the secret of the emergency evacuation from the dead crew. Y’zaks turned the body carefully, and three of them were surprised when they saw the state of the body.
The dead was a treacherous child, looked like a commander, and he died a terrible death. His face looked pale, his eye sockets were sunken, and his skin was wrinkled and showed obvious signs of dehydration. These characteristics seemed to imply that the man suffered severe blood loss before his death. And what was more worrying was the man’s expression: horror, utter unspeakable horror. His eyes were almost completely protruding from their sockets and his mouth was so wide open that he almost tore his mouth apart. Every inch of muscle on his face was filled with fear and his eyes were bloodshot. One of his hands was pressed in the heart, and the other hand twisted strangely to the back as if he was trying to grab something.
And it looked like he was scared to death.
None of them were qualified coroners, so the data terminal took the initiative to check the body. Watching the data terminal examining the body, Hao Ren could not wait to get the answer and ask eagerly, “What is the cause of death? Is he really scared to death?”
“One of the causes of death is horror. His heart was all broken. But the other cause of death is… blood loss. The body lost at least half of its blood, and every blood vessel had varying degrees of distortion. And some of his internal organs seemed to have been heated. In the area where the blood vessels were denser, the internal organs were almost cooked. Both factors are lethal. I’m not sure if he was scared to death or was boiled to death from the inside by his own blood first.”
The data terminal described the cause of death flatly without any emotions. “That sounds strange,” said Lily.
“This way of death is quite fresh and refined.” Hao Ren was trying to make this topic seem less bizarre but everyone knew that he could not say anything nice. Lily slapped him with her tail as soon as he opened his mouth. “Err, never mind how he died, let’s see if there are any other bodies.”
Lilly sniffed about but found nothing. The man lying on the floor seemed to be the only clue.
Hao Ren stood up, pondering the bizarre death of the commander while looking at the machinery equipment that was on standby. He suddenly had an idea and asked, “Is there any surveillance equipment here? After all, it’s such an advanced spaceship.”
“I go and look for it, but don’t get your hopes up,” the data terminal said as it was floating to the center of the hall, “the system is completely off-line, so it’s hard to say if there’s any data being saved when the accident happened.”
The data terminal came to the center of the three large beams and then activated its sensing function. A large number of tiny pale blue lines emerged from its silvery outer case. A kind of soft and pleasant melody rippled in the air. The data terminal, which was often being teased as a coaster, brick, paperweight, and hammer, finally had the chance to show off its power of being a high-tech product. Its signal waves resonated with the ‘humble’ equipment nearby and began to invade the spaceship’s nervous system with crushing force.
As the data terminal massively invaded all the devices nearby, the consoles that were in standby or offline mode were starting to run as if they were resurrected. Hao Ren then heard the noises of running machines and systems. Two projectors in front of him were turned on, and the holograms above the projectors were showing the view of outer space and Petrachelys appeared in the corner of one of the pictures. It seemed that the data terminal had gained access to the external monitor.
The data terminal first tried to reset the host state of the spaceship and gain control of the entire ship, but it later found that the host model was a little special and it would take a while to completely take over. In order to avoid total loss of control, it relocked the restart process of the host and then began to separate the data that looked like the surveillance data in the spaceship.
They waited patiently. As the data terminal said, they did not get their hopes up.
But today seemed to be a lucky day. Soon, the data terminal shouted happily, “I found it!”
Hao Ren snapped his fingers and said, “Connect it to the projector!”
The data terminal took over control of one of the three huge beams of light. It temporarily blocked out the host status report that was constantly refreshed on the light beam and then transferred the screen of the monitoring system to it.
The screen was shaking slightly, but it was soon stabilized. It began to play the footage that was left behind not long ago. It was the scene in the control hall and was recorded before the crew abandoned the ship and escaped.
It was a busy scene in the control hall. The officers were busy issuing orders and making plans on the command ship. Everyone sitting in front of the console looked serious. According to their actions, the spaceship was apparently in a war zone and was probably in the midst of a battle.
The three of them stared at the screen, wanted to find out what had caused the huge changes in the spaceship.
Then they saw a mass of thick liquid substance suddenly appeared in the center of the footage.
Chapter 864: It’s Her?
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
According to the surveillance records, the warship was taking part in a battle before it was abandoned. The whole control hall was busy. Hundreds of officers and commanders at all levels commanded the fleet in the hall in an orderly and tense atmosphere.
Then, without warning, the three beams of light in the center of the hall seemed to be disturbed by something and suddenly became blurred. A large number of interference waves also appeared on the monitoring screen. When these footages stabilized, Hao Ren saw a mass of thick liquid substance suddenly appear in the center of the footage.
He could not see how the liquid appeared in the hall due to intense interference, but he guessed that it might be teleported there. The liquid was not fixed in shape, floating and constantly twisting in the air like a living slime. It caused total chaos in the hall as soon as it appeared.
Hao Ren saw the commanders noticing the intruder in the hall and all of them immediately appeared panicked. The operators jumped from the seats and rushed to the nearest exit while several officers began shouting, trying to control the situation. A lot of the soldiers ran in. They rushed to the liquid under the orders of the commander, but no one dared to get close to the weird stuff. The orderly control center turned chaotic in just a few seconds, and everybody was shouting and yelling. Hao Ren could only roughly understand some words from those chaotic cries.
“It found us!”
“Abandon the spaceship! Run!”
“Everybody calm down! It’s just debris!”
“Don’t forget why we’re here! Get it out of here and keep fighting!”
And everyone in the control hall was in a panic. The floating liquid did not do anything at all. It was just quietly floating in the middle of three beams of light, seemed to be pondering something and twisting slowly. After the chaos lasted for a while, it started to move again and drifted slowly toward the exit of the hall. But it still ignored everyone around.
The liquid was moving to a corner. As it drifted slowly towards the door, a terrified officer suddenly jumped. The officer seemed to think that the liquid was directed at him, and his first reaction in the great panic was to attack it. Hao Ren saw him suddenly pulled out a wand, summoning a dazzling lightning ball and throwing it at the liquid.
The lightning ball collided with the red liquid but the lightning ball was annihilated before it could cause the slightest ripple. Then, a red light burst out of the liquid and hit the officer. The officer trembled violently as if he was struck by thunder. The wand in his hand turned to ashes instantly, and his whole body was rapidly suffused with a layer of faint red mist. The mist was actually the boiling blood that was transpired from each pore. The blood in his body began to boil, leaving the body and floating toward the red liquid in the air, and his skin was turning pale and withered. In just a few seconds, the handsome officer had turned into a corpse. He fell to the ground with great horror, losing a lot of blood and his skin shriveled and pale like a zombie.
Right where they found the body.
“This is not an ordinary fragment! This could be a soul fragment! Don’t attack! Don’t attack!” the guards immediately shouted.
A senior officer, who looked like a captain, appeared in the footage. After realizing that the situation was out of control, he finally shouted, “Notifying all crew, abandon the ship and escape! Leave the bridge, all of you! Stay focused, don’t attack!”
All the crew in the control center fled the place in a panic. A moment later, Hao Ren heard a broadcast coming from the footage, “The flagship No.3 is watched by the gods! Please abandon the ship!”
“So this is how they evacuated,” Lily blinked and said, “that thing looks like lifeblood. And those treacherous children looked pretty scared of it.”
Hao Ren did not respond. He was still staring at the surveillance footage because it was not finished yet.
After all the officers in the hall were evacuated, the liquid was still floating silently in the air. It stopped moving after the attack as if it was startled. It did not pursue and attack those treacherous children, nor did it destroy the equipment on the spaceship. Although they saw it as a scourge, it seemed to have no tendency to attack any of them. It was just floating there quietly and a few minutes later, it trembled as if it were waking from a dream, and then drifting towards the door.
Then, a communicator in the hall suddenly lit up and a woman appeared on the holographic projection. The moment Hao Ren saw the holographic projection, he felt that the woman on the projection looked familiar.
“Flagship No.3, report your situation… Flagship No.3… What’s this?”
The woman appearing on the communicator did not seem to know what happened to the flagship No.3 and kept calling for responses. Then, she stopped abruptly. She froze when she saw the red liquid floating in the air.
The red liquid was also startled by the holographic projection that suddenly popped up. It then immediately leaned towards it with great interest and then twisting itself before the projection. At first, Hao Ren did not know what it wanted to do, but soon he saw that there were other colors and things appearing in the liquid. It slowly elongated, ‘growing’ hands and feet and clothes, simulating the skin color and fabric texture. It created long hair for itself, but it was not satisfied and kept adjusting the hair. Hao Ren finally realized what the liquid was doing: It was imitating the woman who appeared on the communicator.
The woman on the holographic projection finally realized what she was looking at. She screamed and then cut off the line directly.
The liquid had transformed into a human. The newly formed woman was startled by the scream. She had not had time to fully adjust her appearance to look exactly the same as the one appearing on the holographic projection, so she was a little annoyed. She was not looked exactly the same as the woman she was trying to copy, but now she looked exactly the same as the one Hao Ren knew: Vivian.
‘Vivian’ was only frustrated for a while and soon forgot about it. She looked at the clothes she was wearing with a look of satisfaction on her face, and then she imitated the voice she had just heard and shouted to the empty hall, “Flagship No.3, FlagshipNo.3…”
No one answered, so she clapped her hands and opened a teleportation portal in the air, striding in and muttering, “What is this… What is this…”
And the surveillance footage ended here.
Hao Ren, Lily, and Y’zaks were totally stunned. After a while, Lily suddenly jumped up as if someone had stepped on her tail and exclaimed, “That’s battie! That’s battie, right?”
“You think so?” Hao Ren asked, then pinched his face and it hurt. “WTF! I thought I was wrong… That’s Vivian!”
Lily was jumping up and down for a moment and then suddenly jumped to Hao Ren, grabbing his sleeve and said, “Landlord, I want to call battie! Give her a call now! I have something important to tell her!”
Hao Ren handed the data terminal to her and said, “Connect the home landline.”
Lily waited for a while, and Vivian finally answered the phone, “Hello?”
“Battie!” Data terminal was startled by Lily’s shriek. “I just witnessed how you were born!”
“Doggie, you’re crazy! You called me across the universe just to say this?” yelled Vivian and hung up the phone.
Hao Ren also thought that Lily was crazy, but he could understand her feeling now as he himself was not really able to remain calm either. When Lily finally calmed down, he touched his chin and muttered, “If it’s true, what we just saw is how Vivian was born, and we finally found the evidence.”
Chapter 865: The Timeline Is Finally Sorted
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
After arriving at the oblique nebula, Hao Ren had seen things that left him dumbfounded more than once. Ten thousand years was compressed into ten hours here, bringing a wonderful sense of the paradox of time. He saw that the thick smoke still billowed over the battlefield, the fallen soldiers killed 10,000 years ago had only just fallen down here, and the ruins were still warm. However, none of these surprised him as much as what he had just seen: The birth of Vivian from the lifeblood.
Vivian was actually created by the goddess, the material used was lifeblood, and she was clearly a unique individual. This was no longer a conjecture, but a clear and unmistakable fact. He even knew that when Vivian was just born, she did not have a body at all. Her appearance at first was a mere imitation of the appearance of a female commander—what a dramatic fact. The most unique creation of the Goddess of Creation actually shaped itself after seeing the appearance of a rebel.
“Luckily battie did not get to completely imitate the woman. Otherwise, her skin would be pale gold,” Lily stuck out her tongue and said.
Hao Ren did not respond. In his mind, all sorts of information about Vivian were rapidly regrouping and rearrangement. A lot of things he had been trying to figure out were clear now. Y’zaks was also pondering something. He then asked, “So, what kind of race is Vivian?”
“I think she doesn’t belong to any race,” said Lily while scratching her hair, “she’s not even the Firstborn or guardian, I think she’s just a super life.”
“But she looks like a vampire now. How did she become like this?” Y’zaks asked curiously.
“Because of imitation. Maybe when she came to Earth, the race she first met was vampires,” Hao Ren guessed, “according to the surveillance footage, Vivian didn’t have any shape or form initially, so she just copied whatever she saw, and the situation might have persisted for some time until she had a clear sense of self. It’s not important anyway. As a creature born from the lifeblood, I’m not surprised at what she had become.”
He dropped these things aside and then connected Petrachelys. “Muru, have you all seen it”
Hao Ren had been keeping in touch with the three guardian giants and they could see all the footage via the data terminal. Apparently, the surveillance footage had also deeply shaken the three guardians, especially Muru, who knew Vivian. “Are you sure that the woman who was born from the lifeblood is the one living in your house?” asked Muru.
“You all know who she is?” Lemendusa asked eagerly.
“Of course we do,” Hao Ren replied, “she is Vivian, and she’s in my house now. Her present identity is an ancestor of the blood clan on Earth.”
“She’s with you?” Lemendusa sounded unusually agitated. “I want to see her! She should be the key from the mother. She must have some important information to convey to us…”
“Sorry, I’m afraid there’s nothing she can do even if you meet her. She had no idea of her origins, her memories were all gone, and she had no idea of her relationship with the Goddess, and if I hadn’t been investigating, she wouldn’t have known that she was actually coming from the Plane of Dreams,” said Hao Ren.
“Next time we come to this world, I’ll take her with me. But don’t get your hopes up. Muru has met Vivian. He can testify that he can’t feel anything about the Goddess of Creation on Vivian,” Hao Ren promised.
“Vivian…” Lemendusa could only sigh. “OK, I know.”
Hao Ren then turned to the dead commander and crouched down to check the body. “How long has this man been dead?”
The data terminal scanned the body, roughly inferring that the person’s death time was about three days ago—the standard time on Earth. Given that this galaxy was distorted for 10 hours, Hao Ren was finally able to sort out a timeline:
In the final battle before the explosion of the Star of Creation, the Goddess created the prototype of Vivian (that blood) and sent it to the depths of the universe. But for some unknown reasons, the blood came to the battlefield of the Solenne Gateway and broke into the battleship of treacherous children. Those treacherous children then abandoned the battleship for ‘being watched by the Gods’. At the same time, Vivian imitated the appearance of a female officer and opened the dimensional door to leave that world.
Then the war went on, and two days later, the crucial event occurred: the Star of Creation exploded. The time of Solenne Gateway was distorted in the explosion and plunged into a strange limbo.
And Vivian had crossed The Wall of Reality before the explosion. Her first stop was Inferno between the cracks in time and space. She split herself into two on the planet and teleported directly to earth through the gate of Inferno and it was very likely that she lost her memories at that time. After that, part of her left in Inferno to save the planet while she began to wander unconsciously on earth.
Vivian had been wandering for 10000 years, and at the same time, the Solenne Gateway was still sinking in the mysterious Umbral Realm. In the distorted time and space, this place had spent 10 hours in the Umbral Realm. To put it exaggeratedly, the bodies of rebels who were killed by Vivian’s blood magic were still warm.
Hao Ren looked up at the empty hall and muttered, “I can’t believe that Vivian just left this place three days ago! Lily, go and sniff around. Maybe you can smell the bloody scent she left three days ago!”
Lily tried to sniff around and then said, “But she has been so poor on Earth for 10,000 years!”
“…”
Luckily Vivian was not there, otherwise, doggie and battie would definitely fight again. Lily just would never stop hitting Vivian’s sore point.
Hao Ren let the data terminal continue to connect with the mainframe of the spaceship and uploaded all the data that could be backed up to the database of Petrachelys. He then made a more thorough exploration of this spaceship.
Of course, because of the size of the golden battleship and the complexity of the internal structure, it would take a long time for them to walk around the ship on feet. So after completing the inspection of the core compartment, he handed over the following work to the probes and autonomous robots. As the smart robot assistants were examining the battleship, Hao Ren left the data terminal there, and they returned to Petrachelys.
“I’m going to take this spaceship back and do further research,” Hao Ren told Lemendusa, “and you and Heve are coming with me. Let’s go to Tannagost together.”
Lemendusa was extremely resistant to anything that rebels made, but if it was a trophy brought back from the battlefield, it was another matter. Seizing such a large command ship was a great honor to any warrior, so he readily agreed and said, “This is your trophy, and this glory belongs to you.”
Lemendusa was particularly serious in detail. He was like a traditional and stubborn warrior, so Hao Ren just accepted it. He called the data terminal on the golden battleship and asked, “How’s it going? Can you reboot the mainframe over there?”
The data terminal was still in the control hall, connecting itself with the mainframe of the golden battleship. Under its control, three large beams of light in the hall were refreshing a big amount of data at an alarming rate. However, it was not satisfied with the data and said, “The mainframe of this spaceship is too fragile and full of loopholes. Vivian caused a big impact on the main control system when she opened the door to the Surface World. I tried to restart it twice but didn’t succeed… I’m afraid the main control system has some physical damage.”
Hao Ren noticed that the glowing grid at the rear of the golden battleship flickered several times. The data terminal seemed to be attempting to restart the main engine. However, as the main control system was offline, the attempts were not successful.
Hao Ren had no other way. He turned to Nolan and asked, “Err… Can you be a tugboat?”
Nolan paused for a few seconds, and then looked at the golden ship of more than 10 times longer than her through the external monitor and said, “Are you kidding me? I don’t have this function!”
Hao Ren thought about it and agreed.