Chapter 119 Cracks (Part 4)

Mingyu: “!”

Could it be... the 'father' that Albin mentioned?

His whole body tensed up, and he was ready for battle in an instant.

However, the next second, the tentacle separated from the giant moth's body in the twisting of the space crack.

"brush--"

The moth's wings spread again, and every scale on its body trembled.

The space crack disturbed by the energy became unstable and the aircraft began to shake violently.

The moths outside were unable to penetrate the spatial rift. After a moment, the strange noise faded away. The scenery outside the rift shifted, the moths vanished, and the nebula's brilliance reappeared outside the window.

The nebula's violent spatial crack was very far away, and it seemed to emit a light earthy color through a piece of black cellophane, like the star rings of some solid planet.

This was a scenario hundreds of thousands of times safer than that scary moth, yet the vibrations of the aircraft were even stronger than before.

A yellowish-brown nebula flashed by, and then a bright spot suddenly appeared at the front of the shaking space-time rift right in front of the aircraft.

Mu Baixing suddenly reached out and covered Mingyu's eyes.

The next second, the light, once so distant and star-like, suddenly intensified, becoming so close that it felt as if dozens of searchlights were being turned on right before Mingyu's eyes. Even through Mu Baixing's fingers, the light was incredibly dazzling.

The energy turbulence in the space crack was even more violent. Their aircraft was like a marble colliding back and forth in orbit, making people dizzy.

"puff!"

In the chaos, Mingyu heard a crash, like the sound of an aircraft crashing into a large ball of water-soaked sponge.

Amidst a series of collisions, Mu Boxing removed his hand.

The light around him dimmed again.

"Come out from the space crack?" Mingyu looked around.

This is a completely enclosed space like a rectangular box. A little light at the top comes from nowhere, like the light of a natural mineral, illuminating the spherical objects that fill the space, stacked like a honeycomb, but with a soft texture and full of holes.

Mingyu: “…”

He picked it up and was about to put it down, but now he suddenly picked it up again.

"...The nest of the Black Tide Insects?" Ming Yu looked around and couldn't help but ask, "What is this place?! Could we have entered the Black Tide Star Sea?!"

That would be very bad!

Mingyu was nervous and subconsciously wanted to release his mental power, but Mu Baixing gently pressed his shoulder.

"Don't move. You are prohibited from using mental power for ten hours after the overload."

As he spoke, a dark golden spiritual energy illuminated within the aircraft. The golden spiritual energy burned around him and Mingyu, isolating the black tide energy from the black tideworm larvae and clearly illuminating the scene outside.

The spherical, hollow nests of blood lay tightly stacked one upon the other, revealing a vast expanse of varying shades of black. Thick black energy, like a tide of water, flowed from the holes, and their aircraft crashed right into the center of the vast nest.

This is indeed the nest of black tide insects.

One after another, low-level, beetle-shaped black tideworm larvae crawled out of the holes where the water flowed. The aircraft's already damaged hull hissed as the energy corroded it. The man's combat boots stepped onto the aircraft's roof, his eyes quickly scanning the space outside. A golden dot stretched out in front of him and dispersed in all directions.

The driver's mental power was not sensitive enough. If he wanted to know the size of the nest, he had to release his mental power to measure outward and use the length of his mental power to confirm the boundary of the nest.

Black tidewater nests vary in size, and this one didn't look particularly large. A few seconds later, Mingyu saw Mu Baixing raise his eyebrows slightly. And before he could speak, the man bent down and reached down.

Mingyu looked around, climbed up the bent seat to find a fulcrum, and with a smooth movement, he used Mu Baixing's strength to jump up -

He had already spotted the landing spot on the top deck of the aircraft, but he didn't expect Mu Baixing to suddenly stretch out his other hand, put it around his waist, and then let go of the arm that was originally holding his hand, and instead supported his hips and lifted him up.

Mingyu: “…Brother Mu?!”

Mingyu was caught off guard, and Mu Baixing held him in his arms like a toy. With his legs dangling in the air, he instinctively leaned forward, clamping onto Mu Baixing's waist to keep himself in place.

"It's convenient to move around." Mu Baixing said calmly.

His body sank downwards as the aircraft dissolved, but his mental strength suddenly surged.

Then the black overlapping nests turned into a golden ocean. A large amount of black tide energy was swallowed up by Mu Boxing, and the black tide worm larvae and nest tissues were also shattered by the golden tide.

The black tide energy supporting the aircraft disappeared, and Mu Baixing's body sank instantly.

The golden mental power rolled up waves under his feet, forming a new support and carrying him and Mingyu to the ground.

Without the obstruction of the Kuroshio creature's nest, Mingyu clung to Mu Baixing's shoulders and saw clearly the source of the light in the space.

That was not the special mineral that could emit light as he originally thought, but a piece of

A most common U-shaped light tube made by humans.

“…”

Mingyu looked confused for a moment.

The black tide bloodline organizations just now seemed like illusions, and after they retreated, they left behind this man-made space.

But it is impossible for him and Mu Baixing to have hallucinations at the same time.

In an instant, Mingyu remembered the chip in the body of the black tide worm queen on the Maze Star.

This seems to be an experimental base for breeding black tidewater insects.

As he pondered, Mu Boxing's gaze swept across the artificial metal walls surrounding the space. After a moment, the man raised his left arm and clenched his palm in the air.

The golden mental power appeared again, stretching rapidly to the left and right in his palm, forming sharp ends, and with a loud bang, it crashed into the left and right sides of the space.

"Bang!"

At the first blow, spider-web-like cracks radiating outward appeared on the left and right walls simultaneously.

The second time, the space shook and the sound of metal breaking was heard.

Behind the single-sided metal glass, several analyzers flashed green lights in operation, and alarms on the screens piled up one after another.

"drop--"

"Alert—Data fluctuations are occurring in the F11 laboratory in the East Area of ​​the F Floor—"

"Come again?!" The experimenter on duty said sleepily.

He was no stranger to such alarms. For the past few months, they had been going off every few days, signaling an invasion of the base's upper-level space gates by black tide creatures. He first pressed the base's emergency bell before turning to check the data coming back from the analyzer.

Experimenter: “…”

He rubbed his eyes.

"How could it be in a lab?!" he exclaimed in disbelief. "Could it be that the Black Tide creatures have undergone some new evolution?!"

The base's security robots immediately activated and rushed to the F11 laboratory. The guard on duty was cleaning and maintaining an old cannon barrel. Upon receiving the alarm, he quickly donned his powered exoskeleton and attached the barrel to his right arm. His movements were simple, without a single unnecessary step, clearly demonstrating his thorough training in emergency situations.

In just over ten seconds, he had fastened all the buckles of the exoskeleton and quickly arrived at the observation post closest to the F11 laboratory.

The scene inside the F11 laboratory was transmitted back through the security robot's mechanical eyes.

At the same time, Mu Baixing broke the metal walls around him, revealing the scene behind the space.

It was a rather dated hall. It wasn't very spacious, mostly filled with black cabinets. Green operating lights flickered above them, resembling large array analyzers in a laboratory. They were in what seemed to be an observation room in the center of the hall, separated by a single pane of glass.

Several security robots lined up in front of the analyzer array. A row of black gun barrels pointed directly at Mingyu and Mu Baixing.

Above the muzzle of the gun, the mechanical eyes on the security robot's head flashed red, locking onto the movements of Mingyu and Mu Baixing.

The golden mental power flickered in Mu Baixing's palm, and the solid mental power shield was about to fall at any time.

Mingyu was forbidden from using his mental power and had no weapons at hand, so he clung to Mu Baixing's shoulders, acting like a koala while watching the security robot.

The appearance of these security robots was different from the ones Mingyu was familiar with. Their shells were bulkier and heavier, and they seemed to be models from decades ago. The factory serial numbers printed on the sides of the machines had turned yellow, and the letters printed between the numbers were not the standard letters used in the Central Star Region.

Each security robot has an additional clear number five printed on its chest, with text next to it that Mingyu cannot understand.

Mingyu narrowed his eyes.

This is obviously not the central star field.

The shape of these words... looks like the Celtic language of the Northern Star Region.

The hall was silent.

After a moment, Mu Baixing took the lead and took a step forward.

His steps were light, his brows were furrowed, and his cold eyes swept across the muzzle of the gun in front of him.

The red light on the security robot's mechanical eyes flashed frequently, and a light appeared in the gun barrel, which was a sign that the energy gun was storing energy.

"North Star Region?" Mu Baixing asked. His eyes also swept over the number on the chest of the security robot. "The laboratory under the fifth star. We received the distress chip you sent."

He spoke the same words twice, in Celtic and in the common language of mankind.

“…”

The security robot's mechanical eyes flashed.

A moment later, the ceiling above the hall made a mechanical movement sound and opened to both sides.

A slightly old mechanical escalator descended, revealing a figure. The person was tall, wearing a full combat-grade powered exoskeleton and a protective suit underneath, so tightly wrapped that his features were invisible.

He had a heavy-duty arm-mounted cannon on his arm, and engraved on the barrel was a pattern that Mingyu was somewhat familiar with: a blooming golden flower, connected to a white bird hanging upside down with its wings spread.

Below the white bird, there is a special "X"-shaped mark drawn in gold.

Mingyu: “…”

"Brother Mu." He leaned on Mu Baixing's shoulder, twisting his neck to look back and whispered, "This looks like the emblem of the Northern Star Region Border Army? Does it have any impression? Space rifts... they shouldn't have the ability to travel through time, right?! And... what's the distress chip? Did you hear what was on that chip?"

Mingyu was a little confused about the situation.

However, the outdated equipment in this place and the North Star Region Border Army, which should have been disbanded after dawn, made Mingyu feel as if he was traveling through time and space.

But time is a dimension that can never go back.

Mu Baixing frowned slightly. His gaze fell on the special mark below the white bird. Blurred thoughts swirled in his mind, bringing with them the sharp pain that accompanied every memory fragment.

But this time, what was clearer than the pain was the designer's warm breath spraying on his ear.

"Also, Brother Mu." The young man was whispering to himself, "Do you want to put me down first?"