Without power, the space continent could only float in the vast universe in a fixed direction and speed. Fortunately, in such a vast space, a small celestial body drifting at low speed would probably not hit anything for millions of years. But for some long-term considerations, Hao Ren still ordered the engineering drones to stop the floating continent. Now, tens of thousands of drones were busy at the base of the space continent, installing a variety of conventional thrusters and hyperspace warp devices. This was a very big project, but fortunately, the technical difficulty was not high, and there were currently a considerable number of drones available. If all went well, the celestial body that had been drifting for 3,000 years would soon stop.
While the engineering drones were busy installing thrusters on the space continent, the logistics drones had cleaned up the battlefield wreckage floating around the continent. On the one hand, this was to complete the "sample collection" task that Hao Ren had assigned, and on the other hand, to prevent the wreckage from being captured by the space continent's gravity and posing a threat to the latter.
Hao Ren did not let the drones send the collected wreckage samples to the surface, but directly anchored a synchronized "stack" near the space continent to store the massive samples. The reason for this was that the festered monsters were very seriously polluted and mutated. The power of the Mad Lord had accumulated in these creatures for many years, and they themselves had become a very dangerous source of pollution. Therefore, the wreckage must not be analyzed on the surface.
The stack was a loosely structured space building complex, which relied on a force field rather than a physical structure to fix things in the field area. At the center of the depot was a massive integrated space anchor device. This silver-white tower could locate and lock the spatial entities within a radius of thousands of kilometers to prevent them from flying around. In the spherical space around the anchor tower, there were thousands of small spires arranged at a fixed distance. These small spires all pointed to the center and were connected by light beams. At the same time, the light beams also divided the spherical space lattice structure. Each lattice they divided was a storage space. The wreckage samples collected from the battlefield were stored in each of these lattices.
To ensure safety and prevent the leakage of these contaminated samples, Hao Ren installed two tons of space implosion warheads in each tower.
"Please submit your access code … Your access code has been verified. You now have the highest administrator authority and can access all areas."
The security system gave them permission to pass, and the "light film" in front of the spaceship turned from red to green. Nolan carefully accelerated forward and entered the "morgue" composed of countless squares.
"The samples that have been examined so far account for less than one-tenth of the total sample size, and it's only a cursory examination," the MDT said as it floated next to Hao Ren's head. As the holographic projection showed the hideous monster carcasses, it reported at the same time. "A considerable number of these samples carry a relatively weak divinity — of course, the divinity after being contaminated."
Hao Ren muttered to himself, "The first or second level creation of the goddess of creation …"
"Yes, these monsters were probably the direct descendants of the goddess of creation before they were corrupted," the MDT replied. "The goddess of creation not only created the guardian giants and the First Borns, but also many other creations. These things are not systematic and organized like the guardians, but there are many of them. You can say that they are her sons …"
"Do you think it's appropriate to use the word 'sons' in such a serious report?"
The MDT said matter-of-factly. "It's more vivid."
Hao Ren twitched his mouth, but in his heart, he highly agreed with the MDT …
"The fate of these 'sons' is not so good." Looking at the festered monsters on the holographic projection, Vivian could not help but sigh softly. "Now that I think about it, I almost became a monster like them … It's really dangerous to have a goddess as a mother."
"It's not so bad to have a goddess as a boss," Hao Ren said.
The Petrachelys stopped in one of the squares, where the sample was being dissected and analyzed. A giant with swollen body and enlarged skin was lying quietly in the binding force field. Several autonomous robots were flying around the giant's body, cutting the latter's lifeless skin and muscles, and stripping out the uglier and more disgusting decayed organs.
Hao Ren had noticed this distinctive giant in the previous battle. Now that he had a closer look, he had no doubt. "Guardian giants, flesh and blood, looks like Muru's compatriots."
"According to the sprites, the war at the heart broke out because some of the guardians suddenly went mad," the MDT said. "The three planetary fortresses, Naqdal, Agodal, and Amantir, bear the responsibility of guarding the heart. Amantir is the most powerful, and the bravest and most belligerent force of the guardians is stationed there. But this force suddenly went out of control and bombarded Naqdal with doomsday weapons without warning. Coupled with the sudden madness of some of the guardians inside Naqdal, the fortress fell apart on the spot. The largest piece of debris is the floating continent we found, and the sprites began to wander from that day."
Who would have thought that after the fall of the goddess of creation, such a grand war broke out in the distant and mysterious Star Cluster X?
"The Mad Lord had already projected his power into the goddess of creation. Whatever the goddess of creation did, there was a 50% probability that she was trying to destroy the world." Hao Ren looked quietly at the giant's body, which had become so distorted that it was hard to tell its original appearance. "This is undoubtedly one of them."
Vivian frowned. "Obviously, this is a fatal blow. At such a crucial node, the strongest wave of guards turned out to be the minions of the Mad Lord. Look at the degree of corruption and number of these monsters. It's a miracle that the heart did not fall on the spot."
"According to the clues I saw in the illusion, the heart should have been protected by the divine power of the goddess of creation. Otherwise, it would have been penetrated," Hao Ren said. "Now maybe we can explain the situation of the Denizens of the Stars' spaceships. The heart was attacked, and the attack did not come from the outside but from the inside. The guards on the outside could not react in time, so the spaceships of the Denizens of the Stars transmitted all their energy and consciousness directly to the battlefield."
"The attack from the inside also bypassed the divine power blockade on the outside, and I guess those guardians who suddenly went berserk had immunity from the divine power blockade. Otherwise, they would not have come out to kill those sprites," Nolan said.
Nolan turned around and walked past the dissecting workstation. After passing through the energy barrier of the square, he continued to move deeper into the warehouse.
The deeper they went, the more dangerous the samples were.
After passing the corrupted monsters that were larger than the guardian giants, an ugly starship made of metal and biological tissue appeared in front of them.
It was a black spaceship, huge in size. It must have had a majestic image before it was corrupted, but now the power of the Mad Lord had completely distorted this ancient war machine. Its armor plate was full of holes from the corrosion of negative energy. It was wrinkled and swollen like rotten flesh, and tentacle-like things protruded from every crack of the armor plate. It was abnormally disgusting.
But these things were now lifeless. The barrage of the drone's main cannon had torn the ship into four pieces of different sizes. The black tentacles that once twisted around were now lifeless gray, like rotten tree branches floating in space. The wriggling black matter on the spaceship's armor had completely solidified, and was now being cut off by the autonomous robots for analysis.
"Although this spaceship is severely distorted and 80% of the surface is covered, after analyzing its skeleton, we still confirm that it is the starship used by the guardian giants," the MDT said. "By analyzing the material level inside the sample, we can determine that these spaceships did not become what they are today overnight, but gradually and thoroughly eroded over a long period of time. If the erosion continues, you will not be able to tell that it used to be a spaceship."
Watching the autonomous robots digging out the indescribable matter from the wreckage, some of which were still wriggling even after losing their vitality, Hao Ren felt sick. But he could not help but think of the terrible changes that had happened to these spaceships.
The first to be eroded and mad was undoubtedly the spaceship's controllers, the guardian giants. The mutated crew members lost their minds and gradually merged with the spaceship to become a huge hybrid creature. The proliferating tentacles outside the spaceship and the flesh and blood tissue piled up between the compartments of the spaceship were, to put it bluntly, the limbs of the giants. Obviously, the disorder of the Mad Lord was once again reflected.
If you had not seen it with your own eyes, you could not imagine how these things were made. Even if you put 20,000 planners and a design together, you would not be able to come up with something like this.
Nolan's holographic image suddenly popped up next to Hao Ren. "I feel … a little nauseous."
"Ugh, as a spaceship, it is indeed a little exciting for you to see this," Hao Ren said with a strange look on his face. "But I just watched the guardian giants being dissected, didn't I?"
Nolan looked pale. "But when I think about what happened in this spaceship, I still … Ew —"
"Hey, cheer up!" Hao Ren said. "Hey, Nolan, cheer up!"
"F * ck, I can't help it … Ew —"
The Petrachelys shook for a while, and then the energy discharge grid and emergency gate at the front of the spaceship suddenly opened. A large amount of waste coolant and degraded energy crystals condensed in the circulation system sprayed all the way …
The shipgirl shook her head. "Much better this time."
"… F * ck, how can I describe how I feel now …" Hao Ren said.
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