Chapter 108 In Space Debris

Hao Ren led the two girls carefully through the space wreckage, passing by huge white spires and ancient walls inlaid with crystals. These things had been baked in outer space for over ten thousand years, but were still as clean as new, showing the superb material technology of the sirens in the past.

"This should have been a water world," Vivian looked up with emotion. There should have been a water dome above, but as the spaceship's energy core shut down, the water dome no longer existed, and the originally clear water-filled cabin had dried up. "If there is no water at all, the sirens can't live forever."

"The world is so wonderful," Lily grabbed a pipe and slipped past Hao Ren, "Human spaceships need to be filled with air, and siren spaceships need to be filled with water... What's that ahead?"

A broken alloy high wall appeared in front of the three of them. There was a large tear opening outward on the top of the wall, which was obviously destroyed by a shock wave. Hao Ren saw this and quickly flew forward: "Here we are, this should be an explosion point."

The tear opening was dark and gloomy. Sunlight could not shine into it without air scattering. Only vaguely could they see complex pipes and grid structures inside, which seemed to be a passage reserved for large equipment. Hao Ren casually threw a small glowing ball into it. The small ball suspended in the air, which roughly illuminated the surrounding situation: it was a section of messy pipes. A large number of broken and twisted metal pipes were entangled on the four walls, and torn grid structures could be seen between the pipes. These signs indicated a violent explosion.

Hao Ren took the lead in flying in from the tear opening, hoping to find the cause of the destruction of this interstellar giant ship from the broken remnants. Lily and Vivian followed closely behind.

"It doesn't look like an internal spontaneous explosion," Hao Ren pointed to some torn pipes, "I remember seeing this kind of water pipe on the Nasaton. It's a low-pressure circulation pipe. Places with a large number of these pipes are usually low-pressure areas. Even if the circulation pump has a problem, it is impossible to explode like this. The thickened protective walls nearby have been blown open."

Vivian flew slowly behind Hao Ren. A deformed small metal piece floated past her eyes, with the winding siren text on it: Zala Zahn, Sixth Low-Pressure Circulation Pump - Main Pipeline.

Hao Ren also saw the small metal piece, and he shook his head and sighed: "Zala Zahn, it has already been destroyed in orbit. I wonder what the situation is with the other two sister ships. I hope they set off successfully."

Vivian looked at the dark passage ahead, not knowing how deep it could extend, and decided to send a few clones out to explore the situation. She casually conjured up a few small bats. As soon as these little guys appeared, they began to flutter in place in the vacuum. Hao Ren couldn't help but say when he saw this: "How many times have I told you, your bats are useless in a vacuum, why don't you ever remember..."

"I know, so I improved it." Vivian said as she reached out and took out a slingshot from her body, put the little bat on the slingshot, pulled it full, and shot it out—and then the little bat was launched into the depths of the passage, "Look, how far it flies!"

Hao Ren stared blankly at Vivian, who used a slingshot to shoot seven or eight small bats in various directions in a few strokes, feeling that his whole mood was collapsing: "You... how can you be so ruthless to your own clones?!"

"It's just a slight dizziness when launching, I've fully adapted!" Vivian proudly folded her arms across her chest, "Following you to explore strange places all day long, how can I adapt to the new life without learning some new tricks?"

Hao Ren suddenly remembered Lily spending five years learning the Pegasus Meteor Fist. It turned out that this bat was no better than a husky—these abnormal creatures who lived for a human history could always waste a lot of time on useless things without caring. Usually, Vivian looked stable, but that was entirely because she had lived for more than ten thousand years and had already made all the stupid things she could make!

And now entering the sea of stars, this bat has opened a new door... She began to open her mind.

But no matter what, Vivian's little bats were more useful than Lily's bricks. Soon, a trace of blood returned to Vivian's side from various parts of the passage under the traction of magic. The latter frowned and looked in a certain direction: "There seems to be something over there, which doesn't seem like it should be in a pipe room."

Vivian's sight was pointing to a tangled and messy mesh-like object dozens of meters away. It should have been the place where several main pipes converged, surrounded by a layer of alloy grids, but the shock wave of the explosion twisted those grids into a large mass like a broken fishing net. As soon as Lily saw that there was something fun to join in, she immediately rushed forward: "I'll go take a look!"

Hao Ren couldn't help but remind her from behind when he saw the husky girl's reckless appearance: "Be careful!"

Lily waved her hand to indicate that she knew, but the next second she plunged directly into the pile of metal nets, with half of her body stuck in it, flailing her hands and feet. Hao Ren and Vivian went over to help her pull her out while chanting: "So didn't I tell you to be careful?"

Vivian crossed her arms and mocked: "Just like the way your internet gets stuck..."

Hao Ren: "...You're getting more and more refined in your speech."

"I seemed to have grabbed something just now," Lily didn't care what Vivian was saying at all. After tidying up her clothes in embarrassment, she looked at the pile of metal nets, and then took out a black metal block from inside after groping for a long time, "Oh, it's this!"

Hao Ren took the metal block and felt very curious: "What is this?"

It was a regular-shaped black cylinder, about half a meter long, with incomprehensible patterns on the surface, and it was impossible to tell what it was used for. Hao Ren fiddled with it for a long time and couldn't figure it out, and could only judge from the style and metal material that this should not be something made by the sirens. He casually knocked the black cylinder on the pipe next to him: "It feels quite hard... Huh?"

The metal cylinder collided with the pipe, and then one end suddenly began to flicker with red light. The next second, the entire cylinder lit up with rings of light as if it were charging, and a strong sense of crisis instantly struck his heart!

"Damn it!!" Hao Ren let out a strange cry, and threw the metal cylinder into the distance with the speed as if he had been burned by fire. Then he supported his shield, turned around, and dragged Vivian and Lily towards the nearest corner. While protecting the two of them with his body, a strong light burst out silently from behind!

In the next instant, a large amount of broken metal swept over like a storm. Hao Ren could almost hear the rhythm from his back. The rigid shield blocked the fragments that were like bullets, but some of the undissipated impact hit his head, still making him dizzy. Fortunately, this impact only lasted for a moment. Due to the vacuum, the bomb did not cause any shock waves. After the fragments swept through, everything calmed down.

"Are you two okay?" Hao Ren shook his head and looked at the two girls he was protecting. He had instinctively protected the two of them just now, and only then did he realize that these two superwomen didn't seem to need much protection.

Lily had a longer reaction arc, and only then did she look down and realize: "Aww, landlord, you stepped on my tail, aww..."

"It's okay," Vivian checked her body and looked at Hao Ren a little embarrassed, "I didn't expect to be protected by you... Big dog, stop yelling!"

Lily took out her tail with grievance and licked it while twisting her body hard: "Oh."

"What was that just now?" Vivian looked at the other end of the passage with some fear. A spherical cavity had been blown out there, and molten metal droplets were floating in the air. The power of that bomb was so great, "A bomb?"

"No... it's a shell, a dud that didn't explode ten thousand years ago," Hao Ren said with a serious expression, "It may also be part of a cluster bomb, after all, the shape doesn't look like a separate warhead."

Lily reacted: "That is to say..."

"The Zala Zahn was destroyed by artillery fire," Vivian widened her eyes, "The doom of Aioi was not caused by the Firstborn."

Lily scratched her hair: "Could it be the Mind Eaters? Can Mind Eaters make artillery?"

Hao Ren couldn't answer this question either. Just as he was about to continue investigating this starship that was destroyed by artillery fire, the voice of the data terminal suddenly came from the communicator: "Boss, the scan is complete. A place with concentrated energy has been found in the deep sea. When will you come back?"

Hao Ren waved his hand: "Let's go solve the problem of the portal first."