Chapter 150 Remnants of a Starship

The Devil King's City drifted through the boundless chaotic darkness for a long time before finally reaching a region with spatial entities. On the tower terrace, the crowd saw shadows of varying sizes gradually emerging in the dimness ahead. They were oddly shaped fragments, and Hao Ren quickly realized that each fragment was much larger than he had imagined.

The largest piece was nearly the size of the Devil King's City!

The Devil King's City slowly decelerated and drifted cautiously among these huge fragments. Bizarre objects, almost like mountains, swept past the city. Their rough, pitted surfaces, covered with strange ridges, looked to Hao Ren like the cross-sections formed when some enormous thing had been brutally torn apart. Nangong Wuyue suddenly sat up in the water with a splash, looking in amazement at the "floating islands" drifting overhead: "Wow—"

At this moment, Lily, who was running around the city, also noticed the strange things in the sky. She immediately scurried back to the tower, ran to Hao Ren's side in a few steps, and started baring her fangs at the behemoths in the sky: "Awoo—what are these?"

A flock of bats fluttered to the terrace, and Vivian condensed into form from the bat swarm. She frowned as she looked at the things in the sky: "They feel like... wreckage?"

Hao Ren was also increasingly aware that these floating fragments were very concerning, not only because they looked like wreckage, but also because he saw traces of artificial construction on them!

He saw straight grooves and neatly curved surfaces that didn't seem naturally formed on some of the larger fragments. On other fragments, he could even see things that looked like broken pipes protruding from inside. All the torn wreckage had the same luster: somewhere between metal and plastic. Although he didn't know what it was, it was clearly not stone—these things were artificial!

"Didn't you guys study what these are?" Hao Ren looked down at Elizabeth. The little girl immediately put her hands on her hips: "Of course we studied them! They were blasted off a very large artificial object, and the main body of that artificial object is not far ahead. We're going there now—but I don't know what it is."

At this moment, Lily, with her sharp eyes, suddenly saw a huge shadow appearing in the distant, dim gas cloud. She immediately tugged at Hao Ren's clothes: "Landlord, landlord! Look over there, look over there!"

Hao Ren looked in the direction Lily was pointing and was immediately shocked: in a cloud of chaotic, thin gas, a behemoth was gradually appearing. It undulated like a continuous mountain range in space, its length difficult to estimate, perhaps hundreds of kilometers. And after the Devil King's City got closer, Hao Ren confirmed the details of this huge object—it was a symmetrical, twin-bodied structure, composed of two main bodies. The main structure was tattered. The torn towers and pierced armor belts proved the terrifying disaster this behemoth had suffered, but these miserable appearances could not hide its inherent magnificence. Even as wreckage, it was still an astonishing... interstellar dreadnought!

"This is a spaceship!" Lily's ears perked up excitedly, "A spaceship!"

Elizabeth immediately looked at them curiously: "Have you seen this thing before?"

Hao Ren was still dumbfounded, but he didn't forget to answer the little girl's question: "I haven't seen it before, but this structure is too classic. It's a ship, for space travel."

"A spaceship?" Elizabeth was no stranger to the concept of a spaceship, because her father had devoted his life to researching how to build spaceships. However, the spaceship in her mind was obviously different from this big guy in front of her, and the scale was definitely not to this extent—if Hao Ren and the others hadn't seen various civilizations' space vehicles and had an almost intuitive ability to judge what a spaceship was, they probably wouldn't have dared to confirm that this unrecognizable thing was a spaceship at first glance!

At this moment, the nearby space twisted, and Izhaks teleported directly from the power room. He came up and patted Hao Ren on the shoulder: "Hey! Did you see that thing?! That thing looks like a ship!"

Hao Ren's feet sank more than two inches into the ground from Izhaks' pats, and his whole body's shield flashed. He immediately bared his teeth and pulled his legs out while punching Izhaks: "Can't you be gentler, you don't know you're a walking tank, do you!"

Izhaks scratched his bald head apologetically: "I'm just excited... Elizabeth, you said the two energy cores in the power room were found in this place?"

The little demon girl nodded vigorously, then pointed to the middle of the immense spaceship wreckage: "They were dug out from that place. There is a particularly huge hole there, you can drill into the wreckage."

The Devil King's City had now drifted to the side of the wreckage and was decelerating to find a place to dock. A series of huge hooks stretched out from the obsidian outer wall of the city to fix it to the wreckage. Hao Ren and the others couldn't wait for the city to dock steadily and were about to jump down to explore the dreadnought. Elizabeth, seeing this, immediately clamored to follow. Hao Ren looked at the little girl in surprise: "You're going too? It's vacuum and radiation outside, not a place to play. Your little body probably can't handle it."

It was understandable that high-level demons like Izhaks and Lanina could go directly into space without anything, after all, their physical qualities were all top-notch. If they were thrown into the sun, it would probably take half an hour of slow simmering to kill them. But this little demon loli, who was only a little over a meter tall and skinny, was not reassuring. Her physical condition would probably be considered a disabled child among demons...

As a result, Elizabeth snapped her fingers and added a layer of shimmering energy shield to herself: "I'm just physically weak, not stupid—if my body is not good, can't I use my brain more?"

Izhaks patted Hao Ren on the shoulder: "Knowledge is power."

Hao Ren: "..."

After the Devil King's City docked steadily next to the giant wreckage, the group left the tower and headed into the depths of the wreckage. Lily, Vivian, and Nangong Wuyue also put on life-support collars and followed to join in the fun. Soon they came to the location of the "huge hole" that Elizabeth had mentioned, and everyone was taken aback by the sight before them.

The middle section of the immense spaceship wreckage was almost twisted to the point of breaking. A huge, radial hole was shockingly presented before everyone. The spaceship itself was hundreds of kilometers in size, and the hole was like a large crater spanning the spaceship, its width about a third of the ship's body. The spaceship armor belts near the hole had obviously suffered a huge impact, and they were curled up layer by layer like softened plastic, leaving ripples like wrinkles. The thick, solid hull structure was torn, warped, and pointed towards the vast space, surrounded by a strange, desolate atmosphere.

However, Hao Ren's attention didn't linger on the spaceship itself for too long, because he soon discovered that there were more and more concerning things around the hole: a large number of things that looked like plant roots or tentacles snaked out of the hole and extended to all sides of the spaceship's outer shell. Those tentacles almost wrapped around the spaceship's waist, looking strange and terrifying.

Lily became excited when she saw those tentacles, waving her hands and feet in the air, flailing everywhere. Hao Ren grabbed the girl's tail: "What's wrong with you!"

Only then did Lily remember that the communicator could be used, and she immediately explained righteously: "Can't be a coward, run quickly!"

Vivian glared at this coward: "Have some ambition, will you—those tentacles are obviously all dead, okay."

As she said that, she started the thrusters, albeit not very skillfully, and approached the huge hole. Hao Ren was worried that something might happen to her, so he quickly followed.

Indeed, as Vivian said, those tentacles were all "dead."

The tentacles on the outer shell of the giant ship wreckage were withered and shriveled. Although they still looked frightening, they didn't have a trace of life. Izhaks casually kicked a tentacle, and before he could exert any force, it silently turned into fragments.

And near the hole, you could also see a lot of broken tentacle wreckage—these were all traces left when Elizabeth led people here to explore at that time.

The corpse of a "Progenitor."

And it was already dead.

(Eat my big recommendation technique! I recommend the book "Fantasy Ship Girl," which tells the story of ship girls, a slice-of-life story, worth reading. It is a new book by an old author who has written many books, trustworthiness♂ value.)