Katreina and Ayesha jumped into the water and swam around the reborn Eva, looking at the spirit of the ocean with great surprise and curiosity. Eva also looked at them curiously. She swam in the water, chasing Katreina's dancing tail with the water, and reaching out to shake hands with Ayesha. She behaved like a child learning to crawl. Nangong Wuyue noticed this. "She looks … weird."
"She's completely reborn, but only part of her memory remains." Hao Ren still could not believe Eva's resurrection. He did not understand how it worked, and could only explain the current situation based on the fragmented information he sensed during their mental connection. "It's hard to say if she's still the original 'planet's consciousness'. Maybe she's reincarnated. But no matter what, she's Eva, just that she needs to grow. "
Eva accompanied Katreina and Ayesha as they swam happily in the sea, and finally returned to Hao Ren's side. She patted his arm with her cold hands and made a series of unrecognizable sounds. "Gurgle … gurgle …"
"She still remembers me, but only a little." Hao Ren could not understand what Eva was saying, but he could read her mind after physical contact. He did not know how it worked, but his inexplicable 'telepathic' ability seemed to work particularly well with the siren. "She said she thanked me for the gift — the moss fragments. She found a way to reproduce the moss fragments, and changed their form. "
"She's reshaping the planet's ecology?" Nangong Wuyue was surprised. "I thought only the First Born could do this …"
"She's not as powerful as Zorm, but in the ocean, she can do many similar things." Hao Ren smiled. "She's still very weak now, and can't compare to the original planet's consciousness. She's basically only active in this part of the sea, and the other side of the planet is still very far away for her."
Just then, Katreina swam back. Eva immediately used her body, which was made of pure water, to gently bump against the siren queen's tail. She made a series of gurgling sounds. Katreina looked at Hao Ren awkwardly. "What did she say?"
Hao Ren put his hand into the water and understood what Eva was thinking. She said that she often traveled between the surface and the bottom of the sea. There were ruins of siren cities at the bottom of the sea. Many of the cities were completely destroyed, but some still survived. She asked when you would move back.
Katreina's expression darkened when she heard this. Hao Ren maintained his spiritual connection with Eva and explained to her why the sirens could not return home for now. Eva did not seem to understand these complicated things, but she seemed to sense some hope from Hao Ren's thoughts, or rather, positive feelings. This made her happy again, and she quickly circled around Hao Ren.
"What is she talking about now?" Katreina asked curiously.
"She's talking about the 'rocks' that landed on the surface of the sea." Hao Ren looked in the direction where the ark fleet had landed. "She's very curious about those things."
The three sirens looked at each other.
Eva's sudden appearance was unexpected, because the "planet's consciousness" and "spirit of the sirens" had already disappeared. Even though Hao Ren had guessed that she might reappear, he did not expect her to recover so quickly. Now that the Ark civilization had suddenly landed on Io, it attracted Eva's attention. What did she think of the sudden appearance of a group of foreigners on this planet?
Could this young version of Eva understand the plight of the ark civilization, and the various agreements between the sirens and the ark?
With all sorts of considerations in mind, Hao Ren tried to explain to Eva about the "rocks". Just as he was about to communicate with Eva, Nolan suddenly sent him a message. "Captain — the dome of the ark is about to open."
Eva squirmed around Hao Ren, splashing water all around her. Even though she did not have any facial features, her body language expressed her curiosity. Hao Ren looked at her hesitantly for a while, but finally decided to bring her along to see the opening of the dome.
The group set off towards the ark fleet's landing site. Eva's way of following them was an eye-opener: she did not follow behind them, but disappeared back into the sea as soon as Hao Ren and the rest set off. At first, Hao Ren thought that she had left, but he soon found her on the surface of the sea not far away. In this area of the sea, Eva was really everywhere. She did not need to use conventional means of movement. She could appear anywhere on the sea.
The Petrachelys had already descended from the sky, and was now floating on the surface of the sea some distance away from the Royal Throne, monitoring the situation of the ark from afar. When Hao Ren returned, he saw Nangong Sanba and Nangong Wudi standing on the upper platform of the ark, waiting for him. Rollie was squatting on the edge of the platform, staring intently at the water in front of her, as if trying to catch a fish.
Seeing Eva brought back by Hao Ren, Nangong Sanba's jaw dropped. "She's resurrected?!"
"Sort of," Hao Ren briefly explained Eva's situation, and then looked up at the giant ark floating on the surface of the sea. "We'll talk about Eva later. Nolan, how's Lorenz doing? "
"Everything is going according to plan. According to him, the dome can be opened at any time."
Hao Ren nodded and turned to look at Eva, who was curiously rolling around in the water. He nodded slowly. "Open the dome."
Accompanied by a deep mechanical roar that seemed to come from the depths of the earth, the Royal Throne's outer shell, which had been sealed for tens of thousands of years, finally opened.
On the dark steel shell of the giant ark, countless thick alloy plates slowly rose up, and then retracted into the armor's deformed compartments. A puff of smoke came out from the top of the ark's outer shell. That was the gas that came out when the pressurized compartments on the outer layer of the ark opened. Amidst the incessant roars of machinery, the unbelievably huge steel monster was like a curled leaf that was slowly unfolding. The ellipsoidal body of the ark split open from the middle and slowly extended to both sides, while the spherical shell that was originally at the front and back of the ark popped out like the lid of a container and slowly fell into the sea. Gradually, the originally hidden underground structure of the ark city was revealed: layers of steel plates, ancient frames, the equipment compartments that were emitting sparks, and the piping system that was constantly leaking gas. These things that had been hidden underground for thousands of years were exposed for the first time, and the extent of their internal aging was shocking. However, these internal structures were not exposed for too long. As the transformation continued, all of the equipment compartments' sealing systems were activated. A series of gigantic alloy gates cut off the outer compartments of the ark one by one, forming a huge gaseous chamber to prevent seawater from flowing into the mechanical compartments.
And as the ark's outer shell opened, the ark city was finally exposed to the sky.
"The ark's gravity system is normal, correcting the gravitational guidance …" Nolan reported as she focused on monitoring the transformation of the ark. "Attitude is stable, normal … the hull is tilting at 3.35, tilting back … switching gravitational guidance …"
The sight of the mountain-like warship slowly opening up on the sea was awe-inspiring, especially at such a close distance. Even Hao Ren, who had seen many great things in his life, could not help but praise the giant warship as a near-miraculous engineering creation — at least for a mortal race. And as the shocking process unfolded, Eva's full attention was drawn.
She did not know when, but she had forgotten about the tumbling water, and was now fully focused on the steel "giant egg" that was opening up on the surface of the sea. When she saw a city inside the steel egg, she suddenly became excited and let out a burst of loud splashing sounds. She knew what a city was, because there were countless cities of the sirens under the sea, but she had never seen a city like this in the "air world". Eva was extremely shocked!
Hao Ren grabbed Eva's hand, and as the ark gradually opened up, he also told the newly awakened soul of the ocean, the will of the planet, and the spirit of the sirens bit by bit.
"They came from another planet," Hao Ren said to Eva in his heart. "They lost their home, just like the sirens. They escaped from their own planet, and until now, they have no home to return to. They hope to rest here, they need water, food, and air, because their spacecraft can no longer produce these things … "
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