At the end of the maintenance channel, Li Yao opened a cover below him and jumped down. ↓ ↓,
The cabin was so dark that not the slightest bit of light could be seen. But inside his brain, the structural designs overlapped and interweaved into a complicated three-dimensional structure.
Li Yao's eyes were glittering as if they could see through everything. He scanned the environment clearly.
"If this crystal warship is of the same level as Neltharion, then the internal structure shouldn't be too different. Maybe it has been modified, but the location of the core cabins such as the bridge shouldn't have changed.
"I should be in the … engine compartment right now!"
Li Yao's spiritual energy was rippling in the air like waves as he scanned every inch of the cabin wall. As he expected, he found a lot of exclusive magical equipment that could only be installed in the engine compartment.
Li Yao was running crazily in the darkness like a silent cannonball.
The cabin door that was powered by spiritual energy was closed, but there was an emergency opening device that was powered by machinery nearby. Li Yao tried for ten seconds. The cabin door was half opened after squeaking noises.
"Shua!"
Three beams of green light suddenly jumped out of the darkness in front of him, as if three invisible rays had pierced through his brain and body, scanning his brain, limbs, and bones thoroughly.
Li Yao felt a chill run down his spine.
He felt that countless offensive magical equipment was ready to be launched in the darkness.
The three glimmers flickered for a moment. Then, green lights that were as soft as water appeared on the walls around him, outlining a long and narrow pathway, as if they were guiding him.
Li Yao was overjoyed and thought to himself,
He thought to himself, "This must be the scanning magical equipment on the warship. After confirming my identity as a human being, it was automatically opened!
"It seems that although the warship looks broken, it is not completely destroyed. However, it hasn't been completely scrapped. Some of its core components are still functioning normally! "
"Also, the owner of the warship must have hoped that a human being would find this place. Therefore, before he left or died, he set the defense rune arrays to the mode that they would all be opened as long as a human was found.
"If a demon snuck in, he would've been killed. I'm afraid he's already been killed! "
Li Yao stopped hesitating and moved forward quickly. After passing through the medical cabin, the crew's living area, the canteen, the ammunition depot, the crystal storage room, and two training rooms, he finally arrived at the control center of the bridge!
Along the way, they didn't find any corpses of the crew members, but there weren't too many wreckage or fragments either. It was as if someone had carefully cleaned up the place.
"Chi!"
The Red Dragon Swallowing the Sun emblem engraved on the cabin door spread out like a crab claw chrysanthemum. The door of the cabin slid open silently. A metallic smell unique to large crystal processors rushed out.
Li Yao swallowed his saliva, held his breath, and carefully walked in.
The scene inside the bridge was almost identical to the illusionary world that he had simulated after his telepathic thoughts flooded into Neltharion. The operation platform was right in front of him.
Suddenly, a beeping sound came from a dark corner. A strong gust of wind blew over!
Li Yao's spine stiffened as he retreated in a flash. On one of his knees, he grabbed the handle of the Boiled Blood Wind Slashing Saber with his right hand, while the Lightning Vibration Claw on his left hand popped out one after another, too!
In the darkness, two dark red spots that were about to die out were blinking nonstop. They were uttering hoarse and sluggish noises. Dragging out the intonation, it took almost ten seconds for it to utter one word. It kept repeating the monotonous syllables.
"Trap … Trap … Trap … Trap …"
Li Yao finally saw clearly that it was a hunched metal puppet that looked like an abnormal skeleton. Because of the lack of components, many units had been exposed to the air and had been seriously corroded.
It only had one arm left. One of its legs was long and the other was short. It staggered to Li Yao one step after another, with its only arm shivering slightly.
"Trap … Trap … Trap … Trap … Trap …"
Its crystal processor seemed to have been seriously damaged. It had lost 99.9% of its computational ability. That was all it could say.
While it was talking, it retracted its only arm and scratched its chest hard, as if it were trying to open its chest and take something out.
Li Yao observed carefully for a while. Suddenly, he shuddered and moaned in surprise.
He discovered something inconceivable. This thing was not a metal puppet, but a ghost cultivator!
Although it was also a mechanical body, the metal puppet was a non-living creature driven by a crystal processor.
Spectral Cultivators, on the other hand, were essentially living human beings. They were Cultivators in a different form!
The structure of the two entities, as well as the metal materials used to build their bodies, were slightly different.
Li Yao even sensed a fire of soul that was about to die out but was still bouncing stubbornly inside the incomplete metal skull.
It was like a candle that was about to burn out in a storm!
"How is it possible?
"The Star Ocean Imperium was at least seven thousand years ago!
"Even if this crystal warship is one of the last starships of the Star Ocean Imperium that fled in a hurry after the Armageddon Rebellion, it should be at least seven thousand years old!
"Even a spectral Cultivator shouldn't have been able to live for so long. How strong was the Cultivator when he was alive?"
"Crack! Crack! "
No matter how strong the spectral Cultivator had been when he was alive, after thousands of years, his thinking ability had long gone with the wind. He was just scratching the metal cover in front of his chest.
"There seems to be something hidden inside his chest, and he wants to give it to me!"
Li Yao took a deep breath and extended his hand tentatively.
The spectral Cultivator did not object. Instead, he held his chest high.
Li Yao found the gap in his chest and scratched it softly. A green line suddenly appeared and extended to all directions, forming a square frame that collapsed inwardly.
Then, a jade slip was taken out.
"Hu …"
From the metallic throat of the spectral cultivator, an incomparably tired yet gratified gasp echoed. Like a soldier who had finally accomplished his mission, he curled up in relief. The redness in his eyes grew weaker and weaker. Three seconds later, it vanished into thin air.
The spectral Cultivator had perished.
Li Yao was greatly shocked.
"There is no reason for the spectral Cultivator's fire of life to burn for thousands of years. He should've perished a long time ago. But in order to wait for the arrival of a human being and deliver the jade chip, he has been holding on for a long time with some secret arts! "
Immortality was not necessarily a good thing.
It was especially so in the debris of a warship that was buried by billions of tons of rocks ten thousand meters below the ground. Hiding in a metal body and living for thousands of years in an environment where there was no daylight?
Li Yao felt creeped out just thinking about it.
Living was worse than death. Absolutely worse than death!
"The senior spectral Cultivator endured such torment in the darkness for thousands of years just to deliver the jade chip to a human being!"
"What is inside the jade chip?"
"He has forgotten everything. Even his self-awareness is gone. But he keeps repeating the word 'trap'. What kind of trap is it? Who is he targeting? "
Although Li Yao did not know the cause and effect, what the Cultivator of the Imperium had done gave him a tragic feeling.
He first placed the metal body of the Imperial cultivator in a corner, placed it neatly, and bowed respectfully. Only then did he begin to study the jade slip.
The jade chip was of the model of the Imperium of Star Ocean. It was also one of the most solid magical equipment in the world of Cultivators. Therefore, it was often found in the Tian Yuan Realm.
Yuan Manqiu had found it. The fragment of the jade chip that stored the files of the Crystal Suit was of the same model.
Therefore, although the interface of the jade chip was different from that of the Xing Yao Federation, Li Yao made a small adapter with the materials inside his Cosmos Ring very conveniently.
He inserted the jade chip into the adapter and then into a jade chip interface on the back of the head of the Crystal Suit. The crystal processor buzzed and began to function. The scanning took five minutes.
Li Yao was secretly surprised. The crystal processor of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit had been modified by him multiple times with the most advanced configurations. It even had the cooling system from the Occult Orbs. Although it was only the size of a fist, its computational ability was as good as that of some large crystal processors.
But it took five minutes to scan the jade chip. How enormous was the information stored in the jade chip?
Finally, the scanning was over.
But the crystal processor indicated that most of the information stored in the jade chip was stored in a mysterious structure and could not be opened. Only a small part of the text and images could be read.
The first thing that appeared on the light beam was a giant Red Dragon Swallowing the Sun emblem. After it disappeared, the identity information of the owner of the jade chip slowly popped up.
It was not until then that Li Yao learned that the owner of the jade chip was named Gao Xingce. He was a Cultivator from Jin Dan and the main gunner of the crystal warship.
The name of the crystal warship was' Sparkle '!
Then, it was Gao Xingce's personal combat and training diary.
Streams of information flooded into Li Yao's brain like ocean tides, telling him a touching, inspiring story that took place ten thousand meters below the ground of Boneyard thousands of years ago.
"July, year 899 in the Star Ocean Calendar.
"We have completed the encirclement of the Phantom Moon Space Zone. There are no organized forces of the demon race in this space zone anymore. Only a few groups of bandits are still running around.
"I'm told that the frontline is also winning. The three main fleets of the demon race have been annihilated. Our expedition army is about to march into the 'Ten Thousand Demon Sector', the nest of the demon race, and annihilate the Demon Beast Empire once and for all!
"It's a pity that we can only suppress the bandits in the rear. How depressing!"
Li Yao suddenly thought of something.
The year 899 in the Star Ocean Calendar was the last years of the Star Ocean Imperium. Later, when the 'Billions of Lightyears Expedition' was about to be won, the famous' Armageddon Rebellion 'would take place. The Blood God, the commander-in-chief of the expedition army, would be corrupted by extraterrestrial devils and turned into' Mad Armageddon ', a demonic Cultivator. A second great war of the Cultivators would be raised, leading to the complete collapse of the Star Ocean Imperium.
No wonder the crystal warship had been hiding in this place and had never been discovered.
It must have been because of the civil war that broke out after the Armageddon Rebellion. The world was in chaos.
"July 29, year 899 in the Star Ocean Calendar.
"Today, the captain announced a piece of good news. We are going to carry out a new mission and explore a planet named Boneyard. It is said that the demon clan has been acting stealthily on Boneyard. They are doing mysterious things on the planet."
"Our mission is to investigate and annihilate the demon race!
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