Li Yao shook the tactical crystal processor on his wrist softly. The picture on the light beam suddenly changed into a 3D map of the part of the starship that he was in. @ Chinese Novel W.
As his telepathic thought moved, most of the tubes and connections between the cabins popped up in the form of translucent light and shadow, before they separated and combined into gaps that he could sneak through.
It was the general structure of the starship that he had deduced based on Tang Xiaoxing's description.
Naturally, such a 3D map that was both oral and deduced was not enough.
However, it could at least tell Li Yao where the oxygen tubes were.
Li Yao liked to sneak into starships more than anything. No matter how complicated a starship was in structure, as long as it was sailing in the vacuum of space, it needed an oxygen production and transmission system. Interconnecting oxygen tubes were required to deliver fresh air to every corner of the starship.
The larger a starship was, and the more people there were, the larger the scale and number of the oxygen tubes would be, too. It was certainly not a joke to supply the oxygen consumption of a hundred million people in a sealed environment instantly, unless everybody living inside the starship was carrying oxygen tanks and wearing breathing masks. That was absolutely impossible!
Firefly had been sailing in the sea of stars for a thousand years. It was heavily damaged from the inside to the outside. The oxygen tubes were no exception. There were a lot of damages and omissions on them, too. They were in the middle of full maintenance and renewal. It was impossible for them to be completely sealed.
Therefore, Li Yao was given an opportunity that he could take advantage of.
"Zi, zi, zi, zi!"
Zi! Zi! A dark red ring appeared on his finger. Light and shadow were floating on the surface of the ring. A series of runes seemed to have broken free from the restraint of the metal surface and floated to the midair. While they revolved rapidly, they constituted a crimson dagger of spiritual energy.
Although no heat could be sensed from the outside, the dagger, which was as thin as a cicada's wing, and especially the sawtooth flames at the periphery, boasted a temperature of almost a thousand degrees, which was enough to break the wall of a common metal or ceramic tube.
Li Yao cut the wall of the cooling tube carefully. Very soon, he cut a hole that was no larger than a fist but big enough for him to crawl through while crouching.
After he crawled out of the hole, he discovered that dozens of tubes were intertwined down below. It was a jungle of tubes!
"It's … here!"
According to Tang Xiaoxing's guidance, Li Yao soon found the oxygen pipeline.
However, he did not cut it immediately. Instead, he gently turned the ring, changing the flame from a scorching deep red to a cold blue.
The oxygen concentration inside was very high. If it accidentally exploded, it would be no joke.
In the meantime, he took out a piece of magical equipment that looked like an elastic membrane from his Cosmos Ring and covered himself outside of the oxygen tube.
There was an automatic pressure testing system in the pipeline. If a large amount of highly concentrated oxygen escaped, it would sound an alarm. Within five minutes, the maintenance personnel would rush over to check. In such a short time, the entrance that he was going to cut in the wall of the pipeline would definitely be noticed.
Now that everything was ready, Li Yao concentrated and carefully cut the wall of the tube.
After he drilled into the oxygen transmission pipe, he did not use the welding method to weld the circular pipe wall back. Instead, he used a special gel to gently "stick" it back.
Such a gel was naturally not very sturdy, and it was not very airtight, either. It could only last for ten days to half a month at best. But it was more than enough for Li Yao's plan.
If everything went well, they would be able to rescue Captain Tang Dingyuan in no more than twenty-four hours.
Li Yao took a deep breath and crouched inside the narrow, zigzagging oxygen pipeline. Looking at the dark depths of the pipeline, he did two things in the next moment.
Firstly, he straightened his arm and pointed the tactical crystal processor on his wrist at the front. A round probe slowly extended out of the front end of the crystal processor.
It was the magical equipment that he used to explore the structure of the pipeline.
The mechanism was very simple. It was neither an ultrasonic feedback system nor a telepathic thought exploration. Either of the two methods could be detected by the countermeasure magical equipment that might exist deep inside the pipeline.
As a matter of fact, what he was exploring was not the structure of the pipeline but the area up ahead that had a high concentration of oxygen.
In order to increase the efficiency of the delivery of fresh air, the oxygen inside the pipeline was multiple times denser than normal air and close to the pure oxygen for medical purposes. Therefore, as long as he could sense where the pure oxygen of such a high concentration was flowing to, he would be able to figure out the direction of the entire pipeline and its branches.
A moment later, on the light beam of the crystal processor, a super-large map of the pipeline that looked like a mixture of capillaries and neural networks slowly popped up.
Li Yao whistled softly. It seemed that he was not old after all!
He overlapped the map of the pipeline with the 3D map that Tang Xiaoxing had deduced and corrected the many omissions and errors on the 3D map. Then, he confirmed his destination again and calculated the shortest route from where he was to his destination.
However, before he began, there was one more thing that he needed to do.
Li Yao took out a piece of magical equipment the size of a palm that was cylindrical and embedded with more than ten foldable antennas from his Cosmos Ring. He stuck it to the wall of the pipeline softly with gel.
It was a piece of single-threaded magical equipment that could transmit and receive telepathic thoughts.
It could also be understood as a super-small 'spiritual tower' that had a dedicated line.
It was essentially a mini unmanned communication base. When Li Yao snuck into the depths of Firefly, he would leave more magical equipment of the same type that would be connected into a secret communication line. In such a way, even deep inside Firefly Super, Li Yao would be able to reach out to Long Yangjun, Meng Chixin, and the rest of them without any hindrance. There was no need to worry about the signal of the communication channel.
After setting up another four stealth rune arrays on the four corners of the super-small 'spiritual tower', Li Yao released Neltharion to explore ahead and officially marched toward his destination.
Five minutes later, he ran into the first 'obstacle'.
They were three pairs of surveillance cameras that had been deployed at the corners of the oxygen tubes.
What was more sordid was that they had also deployed stealth rune arrays around them, allowing them to monitor him in stealth mode.
Had it not been for the fact that Neltharion's anti-stealth detection magical equipment was of a higher level, and that Li Yao had been prepared for it since a long time ago, he definitely would've been caught by them.
Now that they had been discovered, everything was much easier.
Neltharion was Li Yao's best partner for stealth and murder. In the past hundred years, Li Yao had performed comprehensive upgrades and modifications on it more than once. Even when he was in the Ancient Sages Sector, he had upgraded it again with the brand-new techniques and technologies that he had learned on the Nuwa warship!
Neltharion right now was no longer what it used to be.
Right now, as a 'senior Yuanying', Li Yao's ability to manipulate Neltharion was ten times better than when he snuck into the 'Nether World' in the Blood Demon Sector!
Like a nonexistent ghost ship, Neltharion quietly circled to the back of the surveillance cameras. More than ten soft tentacles that were thinner than hair extended out from the front. Red, orange, yellow, green, and all kinds of feeble mystic rays were shining at the front ends of the tentacles.
Li Yao licked his lips. After three minutes, he successfully froze the photosensitive rune arrays on the crystal cameras for thirty seconds. Then, he took advantage of the thirty-second gap and flashed past.
After installing the second 'mini spiritual tower', he continued moving forward. This time, he moved forward for almost a kilometer and installed the third 'mini spiritual tower' before he ran into new trouble.
The seemingly empty oxygen tubes up ahead were in fact brimming with the air of extreme danger.
Li Yao's eyeballs were covered in special stealth chips. By adjusting the transmittance of the chips, he could see almost all visible and invisible light.
Through the chips, he could see that the narrow channel up ahead had been cut into a narrow space that was absolutely impossible for human beings to crawl through by the dense, dark red rays of light.
If he were to force his way through, no matter how fast he was, the dark red rays would be cut off instantly, which would trigger alarms.
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao took out dozens of rhombus-shaped crystals large and small from his Cosmos Ring. They were all as clear as water and highly transmittable.
Narrowing his eyes, Li Yao calculated crazily inside his brain. The dozens of rhombus-shaped crystals danced and even 'flowed' softly on his fingertips, allowing Li Yao to further understand their features and the angles of their every section.
Half a minute later, Li Yao's hands suddenly froze. Then, his ten fingers turned into ten phantoms and threw all the rhombus-shaped crystals at the net of dark red light! Shua!
Shua! Shua! Shua!
Shua! The rhombus-shaped crystals cut into the center of the dark red rays steadily.
Those rhombus-shaped crystals were all brought by Li Yao from the Ancient Sages Sector. They were of the highest quality, devoid of impurities, and the clearest quality. The dark red rays of light passed through them without any hindrance.
However, because of the different sections of the rhombus-shaped crystals, the direction of the dark red rays of light was subtly changed.
However, another rhombus-shaped crystal was waiting for it in the new direction, too. After several refractions, it returned to the original direction again.
The whole process took no more than 0.01 seconds, and it barely caused any disturbance. However, quite a few dark red rays of light changed from 'straight' into the shape of a 'bow'. There was a gap in the middle that was big enough for Li Yao to crawl through.
Li Yao's eyes were glittering. He stuck his hands to his body, and his legs were close to each other. Floating in midair with his spiritual energy, he crawled through like the softest eel!
It was almost the most complicated trap that Li Yao had ever encountered.
There were almost a hundred dark red warning rays in front of him. He had to calculate how to change the angles of the rays of light time and time again to create enough space for him to pass through. It took him forty-seven minutes to pass through the place.
However, after taking care of the 'obstacle', the following traps, such as the 'gravity sensing system', would be a piece of cake.
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