Chapter 453 Great Transformation

Izhaks had been called out from the control room, along with the bouncing demon girl Elizabeth and the serious-faced Gadamo. The three of them clearly had been researching the pile of high-tech gadgets with a mismatched art style. Seeing Hao Ren return, Izhaks immediately looked anxious: "Are..."

Hao Ren waved his hand, telling the two elf followers behind him to return to their leader to report for duty. He chuckled, "Could there be a problem when I'm on the case? A million space marines and several thousand starships are heading this way from the edge of the space-time bubble. They'll be here in about a day at the earliest. I came here first to find you and prepare, and then in a day, we'll join up with the Aerym Elves and charge right out."

Actually, what the Aerym Elves sent wasn't a space marine corps at all, but Hao Ren thought it sounded more impressive…

Izhaks was immediately delighted to hear this. At the same time, Joseph and Ailu also briefly reported on their respective mission situations on New Aerym, which were basically the Aerym Elves' attitude towards the Demon King's City and some "diplomatic rhetoric" that Hilda personally asked them to convey to the residents of the Demon King's City. Izhaks listened and nodded, finally waving his hand, "Good, good, just as I thought. Hey, Hilda and I are old acquaintances. The Aerym Elves are really righteous."

"There will be plenty of time to exchange feelings with the Aerym Elves later," Hao Ren pointed to the direction of the spaceship wreckage, "Are you free now? If you are, bring more people with you and help me clean up that pile of wreckage, at least so it can 'set sail' at any time. Time is precious. After joining up with the Aerym Elves, we'll rush straight out. We can't wait for them to come and install propulsion devices on the wreckage—we have to do it ourselves."

"Go and gather the standby Spirit Race engineers and Dwarven artisans," Izhaks turned to Gadamo and ordered, "Also, have the demon technicians come over."

Gadamo accepted the order and left. Hao Ren quickly added behind him, "Don't gather in the city, go directly to the spaceship wreckage!"

A large group of technical personnel was quickly gathered and assembled at the bow of the huge spaceship wreckage. This giant ship, hundreds of kilometers long, was of such a crazy size that hundreds of engineering teams standing together occupied less space than a single armor plate!

The place where the team gathered was a "foothold" that had been opened up long ago, a base that Elizabeth had ordered to be set up earlier to facilitate long-term exploration of the spaceship wreckage. The huge and flat armor plate was engraved with gravity arrays and demon runes that maintained air and temperature, which could form a considerable area of habitable environment no different from the surface of a planet. There were also simple houses and other facilities built of obsidian on the temporary base, which showed that people often lived here for short periods of time. In fact, Elizabeth even planned to build a small town on the outer shell of the spaceship wreckage—using materials collected from the wreckage.

The little girl even planned to rebuild the empire using the resources of this other dimension, at least to rebuild a base camp. And according to the scale of the spaceship wreckage, her plan seemed to be highly feasible. It is said that the little girl even wrote a reconstruction plan, but later this plan failed—because she found that she couldn't cut the "steel" plates on the spaceship...

This was a true case of the Yuanmou Man encountering Zenith Star technology. The technological gap between the aliens who sank here two hundred thousand years ago and the natives of this area today was at least six or seven eras. Elizabeth used all her strength but couldn't knock a few bricks from their ancestral graves. She finally cut off a few scraps, only to find that the tools she wore out were more numerous than the materials she cut off…

In short, let's put aside the ambitious things the demon girl did in the past. The engineering personnel of the Demon King's City had already gathered here, and the number was unexpectedly large. Originally, Hao Ren was still thinking about what to do if there were not enough people, but now it seemed that he didn't have to worry about this problem. In fact, thinking about it, it was normal: The Demon King's City was once besieged, and those who could survive to the end were naturally the high-value people who had been closely protected from the beginning of the war. What was the most precious thing here in Izhaks's place? Knowledge is power—talent! So in the end, the Demon King's City was crowded with scientists occupying half the city!

Hao Ren opened his portable space, preparing to release some of the things first. A twisted space door suddenly appeared in mid-air, and then a strange silver-gray polyhedron was pushed out by several autonomous machines, huffing and puffing. The polyhedron was about three or four meters high, shining with metallic luster. On some of the alloy cover plates on the surface, indicator lights could be seen constantly flashing, and some Aerym characters were constantly swimming on the metal surfaces where those indicator lights flashed.

In short, it looked very high-tech, at least high-tech for this world.

After the few squid-like autonomous machines finished their work, they made a series of chattering sounds and began to run around Hao Ren for entertainment. When Elizabeth saw this, she couldn't stay still. The little girl immediately ran up in two steps and pounced on a mechanical squid: "Ah! What is this?!"

The mechanical squid was startled by this sudden attack, but due to the identification instructions that the other party was a "friendly force," it didn't dare to resist. It could only keep dodging left and right. In the end, when it really couldn't do anything, it simply retracted all its tentacles and instantly curled itself into a ball of yarn, lying on the ground and pretending to be dead. Finally, Elizabeth held a screwdriver and poked around on the pile of mechanical tentacle balls: "Hehehe, this is really interesting..."

Hao Ren glared at Izhaks: "Are you going to discipline your daughter or not?!"

Izhaks chuckled and stepped forward, using a few fingers to pick up the demon girl and place her on his shoulder: "You continue, you continue. By the way, what is this?"

"This is a gravity regulator taken from those floating islands of the Aerym Elves," Hao Ren pointed to the polyhedron device, "Those floating islands have stabilized, so these things are no longer needed. Hilda dismantled a large pile of them and stored them in the warehouse. She was originally planning to remelt them, but I asked for a batch. You put them in every corner of the spaceship wreckage. Each gravity regulator has an effective range of a sphere with a radius of ten kilometers. I want at least two to be placed within each effective range, understand?"

Izhaks had just nodded and hadn't said anything yet when Elizabeth suddenly slid down her father's arm like a slide. The little girl excitedly patted the huge polyhedron device: "One device can generate a gravity magic with a radius of ten kilometers?! Oh my god! The largest magic array is only less than two kilometers wide!"

Hao Ren stared at this academic bully child, his face full of vigilance: "Just say it, put down that sinful screwdriver in your hand first!"

The little girl embarrassedly put away the tool and curiously looked up at the panel on the polyhedron that displayed the text: "What's written on it? Are those runes used by people from another world?"

Hao Ren rolled his eyes: "It says 'This side up'."

Elizabeth: "..."

The "reconstruction" work on the spaceship wreckage was in full swing. All the technical personnel in the Demon King's City who could act in space were dispatched to install the gravity regulators in every corner of the wreckage. To改造完 this wreckage, which was hundreds of kilometers long, within a day, even with sufficient manpower, it would be a very stressful project, but Izhaks thumped his chest and assured him, so Hao Ren could only trust these technicians.

Fortunately, installing these gravity regulators didn't require too much technology: As the key facilities of the floating islands, these gravity regulators were made to operate independently as much as possible without being affected by the outside world. They could operate independently for several months without an external energy supply, and they could work safely as long as they were securely physically fixed. During the two days he stayed on New Aerym, Hilda also had the elven engineers add a networked control system to this batch of gravity regulators, allowing Hao Ren to control them with a remote control device.

The task of Izhaks' engineers was to securely fix these alien technologies to various parts of the spaceship—even with rivets…

Hao Ren really couldn't imagine that this kind of rough method could solve this kind of high-tech problem, but Hilda confidently guaranteed that these gravity regulators would work well in any situation, so now he could only wait silently, expecting that a space fortress modified and reinforced with rivets, super glue, cast iron bolts, and steel wire ropes could really soar safely in the sky… That scene would definitely be unprecedented, and taking a photo of it would be enough for him to hang it at the top of his personal universe information chain for half a year. He even thought of the title of the post: Death-seeking Star People Achieve Divine Skills, Duo Liu Steamed Steel Anti-Gravity Space Fortress Soars in the Sky.

At the same time, residents of many planes in this world were ushering in a crazy day.

The mighty Aerym Elf fleet had already crossed the desolate and uninhabited places on the outermost edge of the bubble zone, and now they were roaring and flying over the heads of the locals…

The checkpoint guards all over the world were stunned, and countless fortress generals looked up at the strange things flying by overhead and uttered the same sentence:

Where did these grandsons come from?

(I have to go out all day today, so I updated it in advance =.=)