In the end, Hao Ren found Willy and Master Orrow in an inn in the royal city. The two of them were the illegitimate son of a noble from a faraway city, and naturally did not have the right to stay in the king's castle. Willy was shocked when he saw Hao Ren and the rest, especially when he saw Vivian. The shocked young man immediately jumped out of his chair. "Ice Witch!"
"You call her that too?" Vivian smiled. "Everyone in the city is terrified of me."
"You're the Ice Witch." Willy instinctively shrunk his neck as he carefully looked around. This was a cheap room in the inn, with only a simple, thin wooden shack separating the room from the corridor outside. He had a feeling that there were countless people outside listening in, because he knew that he was talking to the Ice Witch. Perhaps the king's knights were already guarding the door. "I told you when we first met, but you didn't admit it … And you didn't mention that there was a Fire Witch in this world."
Lily scratched her head, her face confused. "Actually, I was just trying to act cool …"
"So are you still afraid of the Ice Witch now?" Hao Ren asked Willy with a smile. "You see, we do have the ability to plunge this world into winter. We have completely repaired the Furnace of the Ancestors, and of course, we can destroy it completely."
"I am," Willy admitted honestly. Perhaps his greatest courage was to admit that he did not have the courage. "But I think the Ice Witch isn't a bad person. To be honest, I used to think that the Ice Witch was a demon that would plunge the world into winter. My grandmother once said that on the first night of winter, the Ice Witch would appear from the end of the world on a chariot of ice, blowing the cold wind into the Furnace of the Ancestors and freezing the heart of the world. But you and the Ice Witch managed to repair it. Looks like the legends aren't all true. "
"That's right, not all legends are true. Humans don't control the truth, they only control the motivation to pursue the truth." Hao Ren patted Willy's shoulder and took out a few pieces of paper from his pocket and handed them to the young man. "We're about to leave this place, these are your gifts."
"This is …" Willy took the paper, puzzled. He had never seen such exquisite cardboard before. It was crisp, smooth, did not smell of mold, and the colors were vibrant. There were unbelievably beautiful pictures on it, almost as if they were magical. "What are these?"
"Is it beautiful?"
"Beautiful …?" Willy's tone had a hint of doubt at the end. "It's beautiful, but I don't know what it is."
"The forest, the ocean, the open sky, and the stars." Hao Ren pointed at the picture on the paper. "I found this in the library left behind by your ancestors. I printed it out. This is what the world you once lived in looked like. I've seen many people on this ark, but you're the only one who's interested in these things, so I'll give them to you. "
Willy quickly pushed the paper back. "I can't accept such precious things …"
"It's good enough to know that these things are precious." Hao Ren smiled and waved his hand. "I'm here to bid you farewell, and to give you something. Now that we're done here, it's time for us to return. Nolan, prepare to teleport. "
Willy instinctively took a step forward, but a white light appeared out of nowhere and stopped him. Hao Ren stood behind the white light and looked at the stunned old man Orrow. "Scholar, go back and tell the child's father that it was Willy who brought the Witch of Frost and Flame to the Furnace of the Ancestors. Willy's name has been engraved in the depths of the Furnace, and even if he were to be the viceroy for the rest of his life, his achievements would never compare to a single toe of his bastard child."
Master Orrow smiled and bowed slightly. "I'll request the king to personally write a letter to the viceroy to inform him of this. The letter shall be stamped with the royal seal, and forever kept in the treasury of Hearthfire."
This old man sure is naughty!
The teleportation beam disappeared in a flash, and in the next moment, Hao Ren and the rest were back on the bridge of the Petrachelys.
Y 'lisabet jumped down from her chair and happily welcomed Hao Ren as she complained about the boredom of waiting on the ship. Nolan's hologram floated over from afar. "The situation of the arks is clear."
Hao Ren pressed down on the little demon's head to calm her down as he turned to look at the hologram on the control panel.
In the vast space, the ark fleet had been completely corrupted by the droid swarm. He saw the large ellipsoidal space colonization ships covered in specks of silver light, and the heavy black armor on the front of the ships had been stripped away, revealing the complicated and old electrical system and mechanical structure. The engineering droids had installed a series of new control devices in the ancient system, like mercury in a dark crevice. Until now, there were still droid swarms roaming between the arks, and the droids were inspecting the control sensitivity of the arks as well as the fusion status of the 'Infiltration Core' with the arks.
While the droid swarm was Hao Ren's own army, the scene still gave him goosebumps.
It was like a swarm of termites gnawing and invading a group of slow beasts.
"I've already cracked the navigation system of the arks, and found that they have no clear destination, so I've turned off the original navigation, and had the droid swarm use the Infiltration Core to completely replace the 'nerves' of the arks," Nolan said. "I've also performed emergency repairs on the hyperdrive of a few of the arks, and now they can accelerate at any time. You can send them anywhere you want, but don't go overboard, these old machines can't take more than a few decelerations."
"These arks need to be docked and repaired immediately," the MDT added. "So far, we've found a few habitable planets in the Plane of Dreams. Partner, where do you think we should send them?"
As the MDT spoke, it listed all the habitable planets in the Plane of Dreams, and Hao Ren began to choose carefully. He first shook his head and ruled out Tannagost. "The atmosphere of Tannagost is toxic to the inhabitants of the arks, and there are already Zorm people living on that planet, and there will be Tannaeans moving back in the future … That's messy enough, no."
Y 'lisabet made a fuss. "Holletta's ecological environment is not bad …"
"Don't make a fuss, that place is owned." Hao Ren waved his hand. "It's not our turf anyway. And to be honest, the inhabitants of the arks have degenerated for too long, and now they're barbaric by nature. At least for a few generations, they're not fit to come into contact with any other civilizations. "
As he said, he smacked his lips regretfully. "To be honest, if it weren't for the flames of war, the Gate of Solenne would have many habitable planets. That place was the chief experimental field of the goddess of creation, such a lively place back in the day."
"But now there's only a bunch of burnt planets left, and the atmosphere is highly toxic." Nolan lamented, and then her expression turned serious. "If you're just looking for a place to stop, Io is actually a good choice."
"Io?" Hao Ren's eyebrows twitched. "There's no land there."
"These arks don't need land," Nolan said as she switched the holographic projection above the console. "I found some interesting structures when I was dismantling these ships … They seemed to have considered landing on the ocean at the beginning of their design, and the ship's ecosystem also has a special water filtration function. When landing on a planet rich in water, the life-support system will recover faster."
Hao Ren immediately looked at it with great interest, but his knowledge in this area was not as good as Nolan's. After looking at it for a while, he could only vaguely see that the outer shell of the arks seemed to have the ability to transform.
From the beginning, the designers of these arks had thought that their descendants would try to take root on all kinds of planets. They did their best to use relatively primitive technology to create a series of engineering miracles. Now, ten thousand years had passed, and these most basic settings were still intact!
"But Io is the planet of the sirens." After the initial excitement had passed, Hao Ren still frowned. "And even if the arks can land on the ocean, they can't float there forever. Without land resources, humans in the arks are no different from being trapped in space."
"We'll think about this later." Lily heard this and waved her hand casually. "The most important thing for these arks now is to find a place to take a breather. You can let them temporarily stay on Io for a while. When everything is fixed, you should find a new planet and move them there. If you can't do it, you can look for the siren queen and let the people on the arks sign an 800-year lease agreement with the sirens. After all, you're a pimp … "
Hao Ren immediately glared at the blabbermouth husky. Lily quickly shrunk her neck. "Err, I mean the real estate agent …"
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