As he was lost in thought, Xi Tong had already opened the half-beastman's armor from below.
"Hurry down!"
A催促 sounded in Fang Er's mind.
"What did you find?"
Fang Er snapped back to reality and quickly landed beside Xi Tong.
"Look quickly!"
Xi Tong pointed at the corpse within the armor.
The armor had a huge gash, exposing the corpse directly.
Green liquid, like blood, flowed everywhere.
"Is this what half-beastmen look like?"
Fang Er froze after a single glance.
Through the gap in the armor, part of the half-beastman's body was visible.
It had a human body, a lizard head, and grayish-green scales.
"The half-beastman isn't the point. The point is the material of this armor and weapons!"
Xi Tong reminded him from the side.
"Is there a problem?"
Fang Er looked twice but found nothing noteworthy and asked with confusion.
"Idiot! This is shape-memory alloy!"
Xi Tong glared at him and then took out a large hammer from her warehouse, smashing it forcefully onto the half-beastman's corpse.
With a bang, the armor was dented to the size of a quail egg.
But after she retracted the hammer, less than ten seconds later, the dent had healed itself!
"Holy crap!"
Fang Er was stunned.
Could this be something half-beastmen could create?
Weren't half-beastmen supposed to be stupid?
What happened, did their souls tumble?
Did they gain sentience?
He picked up the weapon the half-beastman had dropped.
It was a chisel, like the one Dian Mu wielded.
Pointed, over four meters long.
Such a large weapon was surprisingly light.
He almost sprained his back by accident.
"Why is it so light!"
Staring at the chisel in his hand, he was utterly bewildered.
Given its size, even if it were made of pure aluminum with a lower density, it would weigh over three hundred jin!
But holding it now, it felt at most around one hundred jin!
"These half-beastmen must have a significant origin!"
Xi Tong's expression was grave.
Fang Er quickly realized it too.
Memory alloy, even after being researched in later generations, had only been around for less than a hundred years!
But what era was this?
Before Christ!
And where did these half-beastmen come from?
"My Lord! Your subordinate has a situation here!"
Suddenly, Zhuzi's voice came through the walkie-talkie.
Fang Er's spirit jolted, and he quickly inquired about the location and rushed over.
Also around Lishan, upon their arrival, he and Xi Tong were shocked by the scene before them.
It was a pit nearly four hundred meters long and wide, and over twenty meters deep!
Beside the pit was a circular spacecraft tens of meters high and nearly three hundred meters in diameter!
My heavens!
This thing is too damn big!
"Notify everyone, operate independently by battalion!"
Having discovered this, he couldn't leave for a while.
It wasn't ideal for the three divisions to stay by his side, so he sent them all off.
Only Zhuzi and his subordinate regiment remained to search the spacecraft.
The spacecraft seemed to have crashed into the mountainside during landing, with a large area of damage.
They entered through the damaged section. The interior walls and floor were all silvery-gray, of an unidentifiable material.
They proceeded aimlessly through the internal passages.
The vast spacecraft, in terms of usable area, was several times larger than the Varyag!
The internal space was immense, with ceiling heights exceeding ten meters.
In the evening, they found a cabin resembling a warehouse, filled with various weapons.
Not the modern weapons on the half-beastmen, but the giant cold weapons they carried.
Greatswords, hammers, chisels, gear saws, and axes.
After a tour of the warehouse, they casually collected all visible weapons into their own storage.
But as he collected them, Fang Er's brow furrowed.
These items gave him a strange feeling.
It seemed their original purpose was not as weapons!
The half-beastmen's armor had modern weaponry like machine cannons and missile launchers, so why would they still need cold weapons?
He shared his doubts with Xi Tong and sought her opinion.
"Sister Tong, what do you think?"
Xi Tong didn't answer immediately. Instead, she picked up a greatsword and examined it in her hand.
Her strength was immense!
Exactly how immense, Fang Er didn't know.
What he was sure of was that this five-meter-long broadsword felt as light as a rolling pin in Xi Tong's hands to an ordinary person.
After a moment, Xi Tong voiced her guess with some uncertainty.
"What if we consider these as shovels?"
Fang Er's heart stirred at her words.
His gaze drifted to the other weapons.
If they disregarded the swords, and if those items were scaled down a bit...
Hammers, saws, axes, chisels!
These seemed like tools for work!
"If that's the case, these half-beastmen aren't actually armed militants?"
"But alien craftsmen?"
This speculation made him gasp in disbelief!
Damn it, a group of craftsmen could almost bring down the Great Qin and cause its demise?
Then what was the intention of the aliens behind these craftsmen?
To repair Earth?
This is utterly preposterous!
That night, everyone rested aboard the spacecraft.
The next morning, they continued their search.
The entire spacecraft had no windows. Perhaps these aliens had other ways of observing the outside, like radar or sonar.
Their search of the entire spacecraft took nearly five days.
Besides the "weapon" warehouse, there were several food warehouses.
The food was edible but tasted very bad, and it was impossible to tell what it was.
Apart from that, there were many empty cabins with nothing in them, seemingly for rest?
They couldn't find the spacecraft's power core, possibly because the aliens' method of powering the spacecraft was beyond human comprehension.
They did find the bridge, a cabin of about five hundred square meters, containing seats, a control console, and some instruments of unknown purpose.
The control console had many buttons larger than fists. Fang Er pressed them all, but the spacecraft showed no reaction.
This greatly disappointed him. He could only take the spacecraft back for the research institute to study slowly.
Leaving the spacecraft, Fang Er looked at Lishan before him and had another guess.
He turned to look at Zhuzi behind him and pointed at Lishan.
"Take the brothers into the mountain!"
"Yes!"
Zhuzi nodded, then led his regiment into the mountain.
The half-beastmen had been discovered in Lishan before. Besides trees, the mountain was filled with all sorts of wild beasts.
Why had they gone into the mountain?