Feeling the emptiness in his arms, Hao Ren was startled. He then saw the flash of short-distance teleportation and the little mermaid lying on the crystal not far away. The little mermaid struggled a few times in the weightless environment before she finally mastered the trick of maintaining her posture. She grabbed the crystal with her little arms and wagged her tail at Hao Ren. "Daddy!"
"Don't run around!" Hao Ren said as he flew over. "Didn't I tell you to be obedient outside?"
At this moment, the little mermaid had developed a great interest in the crystal. She hugged a protrusion on the crystal and slapped the surface of the crystal with her tail. Her face was full of excitement. "Wake up, wake up! My daddy is calling you! He has called you many times! "
Perhaps the little mermaid had misunderstood when Hao Ren, Vivian, and Asurmen were circling around the hall trying to wake the spaceship. She really thought that there was a person "sleeping" there.
Vivian could not help but shake her head and laugh. "Lil Pea, come back. You are mistaken. You can't wake him up like this —"
Before Vivian could finish her sentence, she saw a colorful halo on the crystal where Lil Pea's tail had slapped.
Then, the halo quickly covered the entire crystal at an astonishing speed and suddenly expanded, sweeping across the entire hall.
A low hum suddenly rang out, and the parts of the hall that were swept by the halo quickly glowed with an energetic luster. The ubiquitous shimmer and clouds had disappeared in an instant, replaced by a variety of equipment and room structures made of crystals. Countless crisscrossing crystal arches formed above the pyramid-shaped hall, and flashes of light were all over them!
Among the crystal clusters that Lil Pea had hit, a mass of light spots and air masses that shone like a starry sky gradually brightened.
Hao Ren was stunned when he was halfway there. He could not help but want to bang his head on the crystal. "How the f * ck is this possible?!"
The dormant spaceship didn't respond no matter what they did, but Lil Pea woke it up with just a few pats?
"Daddy, daddy, I woke him up!" The little mermaid did not realize what she had just done. She was just happy with her success. As soon as the hall lit up, she immediately teleported back into Hao Ren's arms and happily patted her tail. "I can wake her up with just a few pats!"
"I almost smashed this thing into pieces," Hao Ren muttered to himself. Then, he came to his senses and quickly called out to Asurmen. "Asurmen, quick! Your compatriot has woken up. Quickly ask him what's going on here! "
"I'm already doing it." The crystal of Asurmen had drifted to the side of the crystal cluster and was emitting a few blurry light bands to connect itself to the thinking crystal. The flashing frequency of the two crystals gradually synchronized, and there seemed to be stars swimming in the light bands. However, Asurmen gave a surprising answer. "Strange … I still can't connect to the main consciousness of this compatriot. There is only nothingness in this thinking crystal."
"Still can't connect?" Vivian had also flown over. She frowned when she heard what Asurmen said. "Isn't he already awake?"
"In your words, the physical body has woken up, but the spirit is nowhere to be found." The light on the surface of Asurmen's crystal glowed. "I feel that his consciousness has gone far away, and even half of his spiritual energy has gone somewhere … The only thing that has woken up is the physical plane."
Hao Ren broke out in cold sweat. He could not help but think of the unconscious First Born on the home planet of the Executors, and the two felt strangely similar. "Why is it that brain-dead things in Star Cluster X are all the rage … Could it be that a divine crystal has smashed into the depths of the spaceship?"
"We did not detect any similar energy reaction along the way." The MDT shook its body. "Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that a divine crystal has pierced through the spaceship and disappeared into the depths of the universe."
At this time, the various crystallization devices in the pyramid hall had begun to operate. Even though only a small part of the luminous cloud structure had woken up, the operation of these devices did not seem to be affected at all. Hao Ren saw a holographic projection of what looked like a data report appearing on some of the prisms, and a crystal platform that was half the height of a person displayed the scene of the universe outside.
A thought suddenly came to Hao Ren, and he quickly grabbed the MDT and threw it at the nearest crystal prism. "Read the data of these devices. Quick, while this place is still stable, these automatic devices might have recorded something!"
The MDT swooped towards the prism as it yelled, "Can't you f * cking care for your high-tech products?!"
The MDT must have missed the feeling of being loved and protected by Hao Ren when he first got his hands on it, and was afraid of bumping into things wherever he went. And he regretted rejecting Hao Ren's kind offer to stick a screen on him …
But complaints aside, the MDT still knew its priorities. After flying over, it immediately began to scan and analyze the devices that were constantly projecting data reports, and even tried to establish a connection with the data processing center in the hall (if there was one and it was still working). After a few seconds, it began to yell, "Buddy! The data is very messy, it looks like after the host system went offline, the various processors ran on their own and pieced it together randomly. The valid information that can be read is less than 10%! "
"It's better than nothing." Hao Ren's heart sank, but there was also some relief in his disappointment. At least it was not a wasted trip. "What's there?"
"Sorting …" the MDT said as it continuously projected data and text in the air. Compared to the messy, garbled, and interfered images on the crystal prism, the translated and corrected information was much less, but clearer and more accurate.
The MDT's voice continued. "The data records are very old. The latest records are from three thousand years ago.
"After that, the entire system here went into a more thorough dormant state, and even the automatic recording function of all levels of the facilities has failed.
"Our last exploration of this place and the process of its destruction were not recorded.
"Among the information that was preserved, some are observations of the universe, and some are fleet dispatch logs that we can't tell anything about at the moment. The names and fleet numbers on these logs are all unfamiliar to us, so we can only save them and sort them out when we get back.
"This is some interesting information …"
The MDT marked some of what looked like logs with a striking background and pushed it to Hao Ren.
"… Combat zone XX … Breached. Protective barrier nodes 77 to 175 have failed. Invading force … Entering second phase. Inner zone has been locked down. All units are transferring energy to sequence XI-35-155 … Temporary barrier …
"… Final call completed. Throne confirmed … Invading force blocked at temporary barrier … Energy transfer complete. Unable to contact command center. Repeat, unable to contact … All units are now in hibernation mode …"
It was a paragraph without any head or tail, and there was a lot of missing information in the middle. Hao Ren and Vivian were confused when they first saw it. They looked at each other before Hao Ren guessed, "This looks like a report on a battlefield?"
Vivian nodded. "If these Denizens of the Stars and the divine network of Star Cluster X are the defensive measures left by the goddess of creation, then this' battlefield report 'is likely to point to a group of invaders breaking in, and they seem to have caused severe damage."
Hao Ren's eyes fell on the holographic projection in the air. He stared at the sentence inside. "All units are transferring energy to sequence XI-35-155. What does this mean?"
Vivian's eyebrows twitched. "You mean these dormant spaceships …"
"Didn't Asurmen say that most of this spaceship's energy and main consciousness are gone?" Hao Ren said. This was something he naturally thought of. "I believe that the 'light cloud structure' we observed in other parts of Star Cluster X is similar. If … Asurmen, let me confirm with you, do the Denizens of the Stars spaceships have the ability to long-range energy transfer? "
"Yes, they do." Asurmen's crystal replied with certainty. "This is one of the important chips that allowed our race to survive during the era when the Mad Lord ruled the universe."
Hao Ren nodded. "That's great. I feel that my guess is correct. This is an important place left behind by the goddess of creation, and the divine blockade and the starships of the Denizens of the Stars are the guards here. After the fall of the goddess of creation, a group of invaders must have ambushed this place, and their attack was very sudden and violent. The situation instantly worsened to the point that the starships of the Denizens of the Stars could not reach the battlefield in time, and the defense line was about to collapse. So they could only transmit all their energy to the frontline in a short period of time, and this left many starships in hibernation mode in Star Cluster X."
Vivian's expression turned serious. "I think we need to find this battlefield immediately."
"Of course —" Before Hao Ren could finish his sentence, the entire hall suddenly dimmed.
Then, all the operating equipment in the hall began to emit strange whistling sounds. The walls and floor of the hall, which had already become solid, began to emit large clouds of fluctuating light mist. The lighting in the surroundings flickered as if there was a problem with the energy supply. In just a few seconds, everything returned to the way it was when they first arrived.
Lil Pea jumped out of Hao Ren's arms and onto the thinking crystal, slapping it with her fishtail. But this time, there was no response.
"That was probably the last bit of energy stored here." The MDT carefully pulled the little mermaid back. "I don't know what happened, but Lil Pea activated this little bit of energy. That's not really waking up the spaceship."
The little mermaid climbed into Hao Ren's arms and curled herself into a little ball, a little depressed. Children's moods were really unpredictable.
"This is not your problem. You are already very good." Hao Ren gently rubbed the little one's head and looked at the MDT. "Have you recorded all the data?"
The MDT shook its body up and down. "Everything that can be read has been recorded, even the garbled code that can't be deciphered."
"It's not a wasted trip." Hao Ren forced a smile. "Let's go back and share the information with everyone. Let's discuss our next move."
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