Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Hao Ren was stunned by the creepy figure, he yanked himself out and away from it for several metres and so he believed that his speed could very well earn him appearance in Olympic Games several times in a roll. When he reached safe distance he was finally able to see what that damn thing was: a corpse.
Obviously it wasn’t earth’s people or any other humans. The corpse was one metre four to one metre five, clad in a thick uniform, with the exposed skin dark green but it wasn’t certain whether it was because of the water or it was originally like that. This strange alien had a cylindrical head, no nose, no ears and no hair, the only thing it had were a pair od big eyes and a big mouth. Basically it had the shape of a human but critically different from human. According to Raven 12345, it might be the native race which was far away from God’s information disturbance. This figure with round big eyes, which had been floating in the blood-red water for sometime could very well be one of the crew members of this spacecraft, it was carried by the sudden rush of current as the door was opened and drifted towards Hao Ren.
But it wasn’t yet known whether it was the unusual power of the lakewater or the unique quality of the alien body, this dead crew had been floating in the water for two months and yet showed no decay. Hao Ren carefully inched closer and found a row of words on the back of the uniform, which was translated as ‘Arcturus 4, Warehouse Crew’.
"This’ indeed a warehouse, but the spacecraft mightn’t be a cargo ship." The MDT floated wobbly in the water. "No space expansion configuration. The spacecraft’s very small, probably the size of an ordinary passenger ship or functional civilian ship."
"Could you determine its origin?" Hao Ren asked, frowning. "I’m sure it’s not from The Plane of Dreams."
"Need more information. Not all civilian ships are registered." The MDT sounded serious and was still wobbling in the water. "This thing must be taken seriously. It might’ve come from the Surface World."
"Surface World?" Hao Ren was shocked. "A big toy like this fell all the way from the Surface World into The Plane of Dreams?"
"Judging from the frames of the spacecraft, that’d be the case 90% of the time."
Suddenly, something crossed Hao Ren’s mind. "Didn’t you say that it was very hard to get into The Plane of Dreams from Surface World? About unidirectional teleporting or something, even we’ve to resort to dormant cabin to guide us through to avoid disrupting the equilibrium..."
Lights were blinking frantically on the MDT, signalling emergency. "That’s the problem. In theory, things in the Surface World couldn’t enter into The Plane of Dreams easily. For a being as fragile as a human to have an encounter with The Plane of Dreams is like getting blood from a stone, but now we’ve seen a huge spacecraft crashed into it—it might’ve caused great damage to the equilibrium, or worse..."
The MDT wheeled and swam further into the cabin with Hao Ren anxiously following behind. "What worse?"
"or worse, the equilibrium might’ve failed."
Everyone passed through the messy warehouse into a half crumbled passageway which led to the centre control room. Lil Pea was scurrying around Hao Ren like a hyperactive fry, she would swim through one crack and come back out from another hole, everyone was worried about her safety but soon they found the overall structure of the spacecraft was sound, so they let her. Her aptitude with water was so much better and nimbler than everyone else.
Lil Pea sneaked through a large crack the shape of a triangle, suddenly Hao Ren heard a scream.
He immediately lunged over only to see Lil Pea came back out with a strange oval-shaped plastic.
The plastic sheet was a handheld device. Looked like the device was very rugged to withstand harsh working environment. When Hao Ren took it in his hands, the device was still glowing with lights, its oval display read: ARCTURUS 4, TECHNICIAN MESSAGE, SPACECRAFT WAS DRAWN INTO A SPATIAL TURBULENCE, ALL SYSTEMS HAVE STOPPED RUNNING, PART OF THE HULL SUFFERS EXTENSIVE DAMAGE, GASES LEAKED, EMERGENCY QUARANTINE INITIATED BUT INEFFECTIVE, ABANDONING SPACECRAFT BUT FAILED, BRACE FOR DEATH. SPATIAL TURBULENCE RECORDED AS FOLLOWS. IF RESCUE DID COME, THIS MIGHT COME IN HANDY.
"Where did you find this?" Hao Ren looked at Lil Pea. She pulled Hao Ren by his sleeve toward the triangular crack. The crack was large enough for a normal adult to pass through, except adult like Y’zaks of course.
Hao Ren and Vivian had entered inside while the rest were waiting outside. It was a store cabin inaccessible from the corridor, it was only exposed because of the cracked wall. The cabin was in a state of chaos with everything collapsing on each other and dislodged pipeline. On the floor was a little green creature, much weirder than the one before, and lying face down.
It looked like a giant arthropod, a stubby mantis with four arthropod legs on the lower body. When standing upright, its upper body was relatively thin and having two pairs of forelimb of entirely different forms—one pair was thick and robust and seemingly used for fighting or carrying heavy stuff, another pair was slender and complex and seemingly used for performing fine skill jobs. It had a triangular head and two rows of purple spot beside the large compound eyes.
It looked like a large insect walking straight out from horror movie. The only thing that indicated it wasn’t an alien which had invaded the spacecraft was the equipment carried on its body and the uniform with personnel ID. It was one of crew of the spacecraft.
Vivian was surprised. "The world’s strange place where both things you could imagine and things you couldn’t even imagine exist—and the blood of this thing isn’t edible."
"It was fortunate for the unusual creatures to have come to the earth; if they were to arrive on any other planet there wouldn’t be demon hunters, and most vampires would be starved to death as well."
Vivian swung her head and said, "And those in the Holywood as well."
"It’s Torblec hivekin." The MDT came up taking an up-close look. "A highly intelligent race with close relationship with the empire, good at psionic technology.
The oval-shaped device Lil Pea found was probably the PDA of Torblec hivekin, it contained the vital record of the crash of the spacecraft. Hao Ren carefully put it inside the Dimensional Pocket and would show it to Raven 12345 later.
At that moment, Y’zaks called out from the outside. "There’s movement out here!"
Hao Ren quickly held Vivian’s hand and led her out. As they were back out at the corridor, they saw Y’zaks and Lily were bracing themselves, straight face. Meanwhile, Nangong Wuyue had transformed into a sea-snake, using her tail to curl herself up to provide sense of security. a series of metal scrapping sound reverberated from deep down the corridor.
Vivian was on full combat mode. "What’s that?"
Y’zaks shook his head. "No idea. Lily was the one found it. That thing hasn’t sign of life which I hadn’t noticed earlier.
Lily bent over on the floor and scratched the metal floorboard using her claws while stretching her legs backwards and raising her head, growling. Just when she was about to prance forwards, a huge brachiopod robot emerged from the corner at the end of the corridor.
A huge, sea urchin-like alloy monster came into view. Its body was covered with brachiopods all-round with every brachiopod was flashing with ominous red light as if the robot was seeing them as intruders, or maybe it was just simply confused as it had pointed three of the brachiopods towards them, flashing in red light, the moment it came out from the corner.
At the drop of a hat, Vivian had pumped up her power and launched an pre-emptive strike. ‘Lightning Strike—".
Ten minutes later, everyone was back up the surface. Lily had done a complete perm with curly hair from head to toe right down to her tail, like a feather duster. She was jumping up and down in a fight with Vivian. "Stupid idiot! Dumb*ss! Didn’t you know water, the corridor, and everything down there including me are electrical conductors? Did your P.E. teacher a mala perm seller before becoming a physics teacher?"
Holding Lil Pea in his hand, Hao Ren exhaled a mouthful of black smoke. What a day! He thought.
Looking on, Lil Pea emulated him by puffing out black smoke. She’d got a healthy body.
Y’zaks looked back at Nangong Wuyue not far behind. "Are you OK, siren maiden?"
Nangong Wuyue still stuck in her sea-snake form, her tail curled up like a ball of yarn as she was trying frantically to loosen it up. "I’m stuck...and numb."
Hao Ren and her daughter kept puffing out black smoke. What a day...
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Hao Ren was stunned by the creepy figure, he yanked himself out and away from it for several metres and so he believed that his speed could very well earn him appearance in Olympic Games several times in a roll. When he reached safe distance he was finally able to see what that damn thing was: a corpse.
Obviously it wasn’t earth’s people or any other humans. The corpse was one metre four to one metre five, clad in a thick uniform, with the exposed skin dark green but it wasn’t certain whether it was because of the water or it was originally like that. This strange alien had a cylindrical head, no nose, no ears and no hair, the only thing it had were a pair od big eyes and a big mouth. Basically it had the shape of a human but critically different from human. According to Raven 12345, it might be the native race which was far away from God’s information disturbance. This figure with round big eyes, which had been floating in the blood-red water for sometime could very well be one of the crew members of this spacecraft, it was carried by the sudden rush of current as the door was opened and drifted towards Hao Ren.
But it wasn’t yet known whether it was the unusual power of the lakewater or the unique quality of the alien body, this dead crew had been floating in the water for two months and yet showed no decay. Hao Ren carefully inched closer and found a row of words on the back of the uniform, which was translated as ‘Arcturus 4, Warehouse Crew’.
"This’ indeed a warehouse, but the spacecraft mightn’t be a cargo ship." The MDT floated wobbly in the water. "No space expansion configuration. The spacecraft’s very small, probably the size of an ordinary passenger ship or functional civilian ship."
"Could you determine its origin?" Hao Ren asked, frowning. "I’m sure it’s not from The Plane of Dreams."
"Need more information. Not all civilian ships are registered." The MDT sounded serious and was still wobbling in the water. "This thing must be taken seriously. It might’ve come from the Surface World."
"Surface World?" Hao Ren was shocked. "A big toy like this fell all the way from the Surface World into The Plane of Dreams?"
"Judging from the frames of the spacecraft, that’d be the case 90% of the time."
Suddenly, something crossed Hao Ren’s mind. "Didn’t you say that it was very hard to get into The Plane of Dreams from Surface World? About unidirectional teleporting or something, even we’ve to resort to dormant cabin to guide us through to avoid disrupting the equilibrium..."
Lights were blinking frantically on the MDT, signalling emergency. "That’s the problem. In theory, things in the Surface World couldn’t enter into The Plane of Dreams easily. For a being as fragile as a human to have an encounter with The Plane of Dreams is like getting blood from a stone, but now we’ve seen a huge spacecraft crashed into it—it might’ve caused great damage to the equilibrium, or worse..."
The MDT wheeled and swam further into the cabin with Hao Ren anxiously following behind. "What worse?"
"or worse, the equilibrium might’ve failed."
Everyone passed through the messy warehouse into a half crumbled passageway which led to the centre control room. Lil Pea was scurrying around Hao Ren like a hyperactive fry, she would swim through one crack and come back out from another hole, everyone was worried about her safety but soon they found the overall structure of the spacecraft was sound, so they let her. Her aptitude with water was so much better and nimbler than everyone else.
Lil Pea sneaked through a large crack the shape of a triangle, suddenly Hao Ren heard a scream.
He immediately lunged over only to see Lil Pea came back out with a strange oval-shaped plastic.
The plastic sheet was a handheld device. Looked like the device was very rugged to withstand harsh working environment. When Hao Ren took it in his hands, the device was still glowing with lights, its oval display read: ARCTURUS 4, TECHNICIAN MESSAGE, SPACECRAFT WAS DRAWN INTO A SPATIAL TURBULENCE, ALL SYSTEMS HAVE STOPPED RUNNING, PART OF THE HULL SUFFERS EXTENSIVE DAMAGE, GASES LEAKED, EMERGENCY QUARANTINE INITIATED BUT INEFFECTIVE, ABANDONING SPACECRAFT BUT FAILED, BRACE FOR DEATH. SPATIAL TURBULENCE RECORDED AS FOLLOWS. IF RESCUE DID COME, THIS MIGHT COME IN HANDY.
"Where did you find this?" Hao Ren looked at Lil Pea. She pulled Hao Ren by his sleeve toward the triangular crack. The crack was large enough for a normal adult to pass through, except adult like Y’zaks of course.
Hao Ren and Vivian had entered inside while the rest were waiting outside. It was a store cabin inaccessible from the corridor, it was only exposed because of the cracked wall. The cabin was in a state of chaos with everything collapsing on each other and dislodged pipeline. On the floor was a little green creature, much weirder than the one before, and lying face down.
It looked like a giant arthropod, a stubby mantis with four arthropod legs on the lower body. When standing upright, its upper body was relatively thin and having two pairs of forelimb of entirely different forms—one pair was thick and robust and seemingly used for fighting or carrying heavy stuff, another pair was slender and complex and seemingly used for performing fine skill jobs. It had a triangular head and two rows of purple spot beside the large compound eyes.
It looked like a large insect walking straight out from horror movie. The only thing that indicated it wasn’t an alien which had invaded the spacecraft was the equipment carried on its body and the uniform with personnel ID. It was one of crew of the spacecraft.
Vivian was surprised. "The world’s strange place where both things you could imagine and things you couldn’t even imagine exist—and the blood of this thing isn’t edible."
"It was fortunate for the unusual creatures to have come to the earth; if they were to arrive on any other planet there wouldn’t be demon hunters, and most vampires would be starved to death as well."
Vivian swung her head and said, "And those in the Holywood as well."
"It’s Torblec hivekin." The MDT came up taking an up-close look. "A highly intelligent race with close relationship with the empire, good at psionic technology.
The oval-shaped device Lil Pea found was probably the PDA of Torblec hivekin, it contained the vital record of the crash of the spacecraft. Hao Ren carefully put it inside the Dimensional Pocket and would show it to Raven 12345 later.
At that moment, Y’zaks called out from the outside. "There’s movement out here!"
Hao Ren quickly held Vivian’s hand and led her out. As they were back out at the corridor, they saw Y’zaks and Lily were bracing themselves, straight face. Meanwhile, Nangong Wuyue had transformed into a sea-snake, using her tail to curl herself up to provide sense of security. a series of metal scrapping sound reverberated from deep down the corridor.
Vivian was on full combat mode. "What’s that?"
Y’zaks shook his head. "No idea. Lily was the one found it. That thing hasn’t sign of life which I hadn’t noticed earlier.
Lily bent over on the floor and scratched the metal floorboard using her claws while stretching her legs backwards and raising her head, growling. Just when she was about to prance forwards, a huge brachiopod robot emerged from the corner at the end of the corridor.
A huge, sea urchin-like alloy monster came into view. Its body was covered with brachiopods all-round with every brachiopod was flashing with ominous red light as if the robot was seeing them as intruders, or maybe it was just simply confused as it had pointed three of the brachiopods towards them, flashing in red light, the moment it came out from the corner.
At the drop of a hat, Vivian had pumped up her power and launched an pre-emptive strike. ‘Lightning Strike—".
Ten minutes later, everyone was back up the surface. Lily had done a complete perm with curly hair from head to toe right down to her tail, like a feather duster. She was jumping up and down in a fight with Vivian. "Stupid idiot! Dumb*ss! Didn’t you know water, the corridor, and everything down there including me are electrical conductors? Did your P.E. teacher a mala perm seller before becoming a physics teacher?"
Holding Lil Pea in his hand, Hao Ren exhaled a mouthful of black smoke. What a day! He thought.
Looking on, Lil Pea emulated him by puffing out black smoke. She’d got a healthy body.
Y’zaks looked back at Nangong Wuyue not far behind. "Are you OK, siren maiden?"
Nangong Wuyue still stuck in her sea-snake form, her tail curled up like a ball of yarn as she was trying frantically to loosen it up. "I’m stuck...and numb."
Hao Ren and her daughter kept puffing out black smoke. What a day...
