Chapter 1 Water Star Aio Undergoing Upheaval

Water Star Aio was undergoing a cataclysmic change. Looking at the planet from space, almost no one would believe what they were seeing: the ocean covering the entire planet was rapidly being covered by a ghastly white. Tens of thousands of white spots appeared out of nowhere on the Aio Sea, and they were now expanding into ice sheets at a speed that defied the laws of nature. Giant waves hundreds of meters high instantly froze in mid-air, whirlpools in the ocean turned into ice caves in the blink of an eye, and extremely cold storms howled, sweeping thousands of tons of ice and snow into the sky, then slamming them down on the newly formed glaciers. The planet was turning into an icy hell at a speed visible to the naked eye, a scene that shocked Lily and the others who remained on the Giant Tortoise Rock.

The holographic projection in the center of the bridge displayed radar images of the Aio Sea below the surface, but now these images were blurred. Strong interference stripes flickered on every screen, the interference caused by the collapse point of the Wall of Reality. Although the previous double-ended detonation had successfully closed the portal here, the aftershocks caused by the brief collapse of reality had not subsided, and under the deliberate guidance of some powerful force, this interference was amplified many times over. Lily didn't understand what these images meant, but she knew that this situation was definitely not normal, so now all the fur on her body was standing on end. "Terminal, hurry up and think of a way, hurry up and think of a way! Or you can throw me down there, I'll dig the landlord out!"

"Don't be ridiculous, your dog head is not harder than that ten-kilometer-thick ice layer," Vivian grabbed the slightly panicked Lily. "Terminal, is there anything we can do from space?"

The data terminal didn't say a word, but silently activated a part of the Giant Tortoise Rock's armament.

The armor belt on the lower half of the ship slowly opened, revealing two rows of secondary gun ports flashing with blue light. The holographic projection on the bridge barely showed the images of the upper layers of the Aio Sea. The data terminal tried hard to identify them for a long time, found a trajectory where graviton bombs frequently exploded, and after repeated calculations, it activated the secondary guns on the lower deck of the ship.

After determining that there was no civilization on Planet Aio and that the entire planet was rapidly losing life signs, the ship's "ground bombing restriction" had been turned off. Otherwise, with the data terminal's authority, there was really no way to point these gun ports at the ground.

Several silent beams of light flashed in space, and the surface of Aio, which had turned pale, was followed by continuous large mushroom clouds rising up. The thick ice layer was temporarily melted and shattered, and some channels were opened.

After a while, the bridge door opened silently, and Hao Ren's trembling voice came, "Ali...alive... I'm alive... Who...who can help me knock the...the ice off my body..."

Hao Ren walked into the bridge covered in ice, followed by a large cloud of water vapor. Izhaks's bald head poked out from the water vapor, looking like an angry Vajra descending from the clouds. "Also, get two people to help deal with these few...few sirens. They're frozen. May, do you know how to deal with them?"

The bridge was quiet for a moment. Lily was the first to howl and pounce on Hao Ren. She used her claws to scratch the layer of ice shell on his body like armor, while shouting, "Landlord, you scared me to death! You scared me to death, you know! I thought I wouldn't have braised pork to eat in the future, you know!"

Fragments of ice fell to the ground with a crash. Hao Ren finally regained his mobility. He looked at Lily in astonishment. "So you're thinking about your braised pork at this critical moment?"

Lily rubbed her nose hard. "And the noodles you make...and the ribs."

Vivian also quietly breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Hao Ren appear, and smiled to comfort him, "You should be content. A husky can compare you with food, which is already considered a treasure in her world."

Nangong Wuyue also came over to check if Hao Ren and Izhaks had any injuries, and then she looked behind Izhaks, "The Queen and Shakiira, they are... uh, no wonder Lao Wang used 'roots'..."

Behind the gate were three sirens, but at this time they were all frozen, as hard as three super popsicles. It took Izhaks and Hao Ren a lot of trouble to carry them here from the teleportation room—after all, with their length, it was very problematic when passing through the corners of the corridor.

Wuyue came to the frozen Shakiira and knocked on the ice layer outside her. "Are you okay?"

Shakiira blinked inside the ice, trying to spit out a bubble, but there was too little liquid water inside, and this attempt failed.

The Siren Queen tried hard to twitch her tail, successfully making the tip of her tail curl up a little bit.

"Just let them thaw slowly, it's okay," Wuyue stood up. "Sirens aren't afraid of this."

Hao Ren carried the three sirens like flagpoles to the command hall, found an open space against the wall and tied them into the shape of a bonfire rack, then let Izhaks light a fire underneath to slowly roast them. Then he looked up at the console. "By the way, how did you guys blast open the ice?"

The data terminal's lazy voice came, "This unit used some emergency measures."

Hao Ren came to the console and took a look, and was immediately shocked. "What the hell! You blasted it with the ship's guns!?"

"What's so surprising about that? Calm down, you're a person with an ID card," the data terminal's voice was as annoying as ever. "It's just the secondary guns for self-defense, and this unit aimed specifically, and avoided you all. Besides, even if one shot accidentally hits, it's actually no problem. This unit calculated it. Counting the buffer of the ice layer, one shot won't kill you..."

Hao Ren: "...Damn it, luckily I have a big life."

"By the way, what the hell was going on just now?" Nangong Sanba asked with a look of shock. Watching an entire planet freeze in front of his eyes, and then seeing the spacecraft bombard the planet's surface from orbit, he couldn't pretend to be a big wolf at this time.

"How would I know," Hao Ren spread his hands. "We seem to have awakened something. Suddenly the entire ocean began to feel hostile..."

Before Hao Ren could finish speaking, Vivian's exclamation suddenly came, "Look, everyone! Aio's ice layer has melted! Something's coming out!"

Everyone quickly ran over when they heard the sound and saw the external monitor transmitting another incredible scene on the surface of Planet Aio: the planet, which had suddenly turned into a white ice ball just ten minutes ago, was actually starting to thaw again, and the thawing speed was even faster than the freezing speed before. Magnificent cracks hundreds of thousands of kilometers long quickly covered the entire planet's surface, and huge glaciers collapsed and turned into seawater in the roar. The angry waves surged up from under the glaciers in layers, and almost in the blink of an eye, they re-covered the planet's surface. And as Aio quickly thawed, something shocking appeared on its planet's surface.

It was a face.

A lifelike female face covered the surface of the planet.

This creepy face was entirely composed of seawater, spanning from the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere. The turbulent waves constantly changed the details of this face, making "her" seem to be constantly changing her appearance every second. This face quietly looked at the Giant Tortoise Rock in space, but her eyes flickered with madness and paranoia.

"She" opened her mouth slightly, and countless ice blades immediately pierced out from the seawater on both sides of her face, bombarding the Giant Tortoise Rock in space like a ground-based anti-aircraft gun. At the same time, the seawater in other places on the surface of Aio also began to detach from the planet's surface in a terrifying way, gradually forming strange structures like arms extending into space, as if to grab the spaceship in orbit!

However, due to the distance, the speed of those "ice anti-aircraft shells" and water arms could not keep up with the ship's maneuvers. The Giant Tortoise Rock quickly dragged the wreckage of the black ship that had been salvaged before and dodged in space, but this terrifying situation still made everyone on the bridge lose their souls. Lily grabbed Hao Ren's arm and shivered all over. "Woo... woo... Mom, what is that?!"

Hao Ren's shield flickered for a while, and he tried hard to break free from Lily's claws like iron tongs. "How would I know!"

At this time, a clattering sound suddenly came from the other side of the room. The Siren Queen and Shakiira and Soma finally thawed and returned to normal. They looked around in surprise. "What's wrong? What are you exclaiming about?"

"Is this a local specialty from your hometown?!" Nangong Sanba pointed at the terrifying scene on the holographic projection, jumping up and down and shouting, "Someone explain what's in the water in your hometown!"

The Siren Queen went over to take a look, dumbfounded. "This is... Ieva?"