Chapter 176

Lili waved her Icefire Dual Blades, clearing a path through the crisscrossing wreckage of pipes and broken metal. She was a metal storm of unprecedented power, and soon the annoying obstacles were cleared away. However, she basically couldn't see anything around her: imagine ice shards mixed with boiling water bubbles swirling together like a tornado. Anyway, not long after Lili started working, Hao Ren didn't know where the girl was. It wasn't until half a minute after the clanging sounds inside the wreckage subsided that he saw Lili emerge from a hole in the other side of the hull, eyes spinning in circles, "Finally out... can't use these claws in the water..."

Lili's cheeks were flushed, her hair was curled in circles, and she looked like she'd been lying in a steamer for ten minutes while getting a perm. The water temperature around her was at least two hundred degrees, a real testament to the girl's good health.

"You should learn to control your power, not just treat it as a weapon," Izhaks said, pointing to Lili's Icefire Dual Blades with the air of someone who'd been there, done that. "These weapons are powerful, but you're wasting them by letting their power dissipate. Look at my Chaosfire; you can't feel any heat from it more than a centimeter away, but this thing can vaporize a block of hafnium alloy in seconds."

Nangong Wuyue clicked her tongue in amazement, curiously asking, "What's the point of such precise control?"

"It slightly improves core destructive power," Izhaks pointed to his Chaosfire ball, "But the main purpose is to keep things cool when I'm using it for lighting. It took me two hundred years to solve the heat dissipation problem when using Chaosfire for lighting in my castle."

As Hao Ren swam towards the wreckage, he couldn't help but turn back and ask, "Don't you demon lords have anything better to do when there aren't any heroes coming to cause trouble?"

Izhaks smiled, "I guess I'm the only demon who's like this."

As expected, the crack in the wreckage led to a personnel passage, and it was relatively wide, at least wide enough that Izhaks wouldn't feel too cramped. Nangong Wuyue also returned to her mermaid form for ease of movement. Doudou was numb at this point. The little girl gave up trying to understand the principle of this transformation, and just patted her tail with her small hand to cheer herself up – she seemed to firmly believe that as long as she grew a little bigger, her tail could also change like Nangong Wuyue's. It seemed that the little girl's worldview was beyond saving.

This section of the corridor was severely skewed and twisted, probably because it was too close to the outer hull and was badly damaged in the "crash" two months ago. Wide cracks could be seen everywhere in the white alloy walls on both sides of the corridor, and they were filled with blood-red lake water, making the already eerie and distorted corridor look like something out of a horror movie. Hao Ren swam in the front, carefully observing the situation inside. He felt that the style of this spaceship was different from anything he knew. It didn't have the simple lines of the Transport Ship 883, nor was it like Kuiper Station, nor an Imperial ship, but he was sure it came from a high-tech civilization.

"This shouldn't be an ordinary 'crash'," Hao Ren said to the data terminal beside him, "The Knights stationed at Blood Lake didn't see this thing. It seems to have appeared directly at the bottom of the lake, and then BAM, it crashed into the bedrock of Lakeheart Island. This is probably the reason for the flashes, explosions, and earthquake at the bottom of the lake that night."

"Yes, it seems to be a spatial accident," the data terminal replied, "This unit is scanning the ship's structure, but it's a mess inside. Many passages are twisted and broken. This unit needs to find a relatively safe route to the control room."

Lili swam to Hao Ren's side, her tone full of amazement, "Ha, this is a spaceship? Landlord, Landlord, what does your spaceship look like? Is it more impressive than this?"

"Of course, it's a government ship after all," Hao Ren immediately became smug, "I'll let you go up and take a look when I get the chance, after you wait for me to memorize the 'Inner-Cosmic Navigation Management Regulations'..."

Not only Lili, but Vivian was also seeing this kind of high-tech thing for the first time in her life. Even the vampire girl, who usually seemed dignified and steady, couldn't help but be amazed at this time. She touched the cold, super-hard alloy plate beside her with great emotion, and deeply realized the gap between advanced civilizations and the one-acre, three-point land on Earth: "With this thing, you can fly into space, but no matter how strong I train my wings, I can't get rid of Earth's gravity... the decline of the Other is inevitable on Earth."

Hao Ren didn't expect Vivian to think so far, but he had a different opinion, "You can't say that either. This world is the hometown of the Other. Human civilization is also brilliant. Although the technology is pretty seriously cut off, but back then the werewolves and blood clans maxed out their biochemical technology. Humans haven't created artificial life yet, but they can create their own long-lived species - the Others on Earth can't develop, I think the main reason is that there are too few of them, they live too scattered, they don't form a civilization base, and they are often disturbed by demon hunters."

"If the path is wrong, then everything is wrong," Vivian sighed, "I don't know what happened when the Others first came to Earth. If they really came from the Dream Plane, then why doesn't anyone remember the situation in this world? The guys I know are all busy with strange things, and no one thinks about developing civilization or anything. Until later, we were even overtaken by humans - they were still like monkeys at the beginning."

Hao Ren felt that this was indeed a question he hadn't thought about: Raven 12345 had already said that the Others on Earth came from the Dream Plane, so the first generation of Others on Earth should know how brilliant this world once was, but they did nothing on Earth, which was a bit strange.

"Maybe the Others on Earth crossed over after the apocalypse event in the Dream Plane," Hao Ren guessed, "This timeline is very vague, even Raven 12345 doesn't seem to know it very well, but if it was after the apocalypse, then everything would be easier to explain."

There was still too little information about the Others crossing over to Earth, and Hao Ren and Vivian didn't get any results after discussing it. By this time, everyone had reached the end of this passage, and a skewed alloy gate blocked the way.

"There's a very wide space behind this," the data terminal released the ship's structure scan results, "The main frame of this gate is still intact, and it should be able to be opened directly, but there's something stuck on the other side. This unit doesn't recommend forcing the door open. The structure here is very fragile, and forcing the door open may cause problems."

Hao Ren saw on the three-dimensional projection that a detached metal rod on the other side of the gate was stuck on the locking mechanism. This was a retro-designed spaceship, and some of its gates used classic exposed mechanical locks, relying on shafts or winches to lock the door, and the metal rod was right against the winch behind the gate.

He peered inside through a crack that had broken open next to the gate. It was a crack that only allowed an arm to enter, and through the crack, he could see a warehouse-like place on the other side, and he vaguely saw some small human-shaped objects floating in the red lake water, which immediately made him very concerned.

"Who can figure out a way to open the door?" Hao Ren turned his head and asked, Nangong Wuyue immediately stepped forward: "Use a tentacle..."

"No, that's too shocking," Hao Ren quickly waved his hand, and then he suddenly saw Doudou swimming back and forth in the pure water ball beside him, "Speaking of which, there doesn't seem to be any strange smell here anymore, right? Then I'll take Doudou out of the water ball."

With a wave of Hao Ren's hand, the little mermaid jumped out of the water ball and rubbed against his face. The cold and slippery fish tail rubbed against him like... well, like a carp. Hao Ren held the little girl and tried her at the crack next to the gate, and found that she could just fit in, so he patted the little girl's head with confidence: "Doudou be good, go in and open the door..."

Nangong Wuyue stared, "Can this work?"

As a result, before she could finish speaking, Doudou let out a soft cry and then slipped through the hole, which was only as thick as an adult's arm. A few seconds later, a few clicks came from the other side of the gate. Hao Ren turned the winch on this side a few times, and the gate opened.

"I noticed it a while ago," Hao Ren pushed open the gate, hugged the rushing Doudou in his arms, and patted her, "This little girl is scarily smart. Although she can't speak, she can understand most of our conversations, even including part of Lili's barking."

Hao Ren looked at everyone's surprised expressions with satisfaction, proudly hugged his smart daughter, turned around, and swam into the warehouse section, then came face to face with a green humanoid creature that was floating over and had been wrinkled from being soaked.

"Holy crap!"