Chapter 493 It’s dark!
Bang!
The thrusters on the Dragon Girl's body instantly ignited, and the powerful propulsion force left an afterimage of her figure in the original place. The buzzing sound of the VK electric blade tearing through the air suddenly became sharp, and two intersecting blue electric lights flashed by. The monster didn't even have time to hiss, and a sticky dark brown liquid spurted out from the precisely cut cross-section of its torso. The hideous head rolled to the ground, and the glowing threads in its compound eyes quickly extinguished.
Seeing this scene, Lin Xian immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "Can he be hacked to death? It seems that I thought too seriously..."
However, before the blood from the Dragon Lady's electric knife had even dripped, a faster shadow silently swooped down from the viscous darkness, clinging to the ceiling! Another one, yet the dark energy scanners hadn't detected it. In an instant, dozens of glowing tentacles, like living venomous snakes, precisely wrapped around the joints of the Dragon Lady's right arm, which had just completed the slash and had not yet retracted. A powerful energy interference pulse surged along the tentacles. Amidst the piercing sound of a short circuit, the hydraulic pipe at her right elbow suddenly exploded in a cloud of oil mist. Sparks danced wildly, and her entire arm instantly sank limp, the light of the VK electric blade completely dimming.
"Disconnect the link! Cut off the arm!" The sudden change caught Lin Xian off guard, but he immediately responded decisively.
The monster seemed to be able to devour energy integration, which seemed to be a physical material decomposition force, more terrifying than corrosion.
Without a moment's hesitation, Lin Xian's command was relayed. The Dragon Lady's VK electric blade on her left arm swung back, a cold blue light precisely passing over her right shoulder joint. Smash! Sparks and broken cables flew, and her heavy metal right arm, along with the glowing tentacles wrapped around it, fell to the ground.
Almost at the same time as the severed arm hit the ground, the Dragon Girl's only remaining left arm rose up like lightning, and the armor on the palm slid open, revealing a nozzle inside that was rapidly charging and emitting a dazzling incandescent light like the sun. The next second, three silver plasma beams shot out violently, instantly nailing the monster directly to the wall. There was no explosion, only a dazzling white light and a teeth-grinding burning sound. The monster burned silently in the torrent of pure energy, leaving only a charred mark and a pungent smell of ozone.
At this time, Lin Xian immediately flew in more than a dozen micro drones that he had prepared in advance. The lights suddenly turned on, and he quickly checked the entire warehouse area. After confirming that there were no other living creatures, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Inside the shelter room, Lin Xian looked through the holographic vision at the arm of the Dragon Girl lying on the ground in front of the girl, which had turned into a pile of gray metal debris. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
That was close!
Luckily, Lin Xian had a robot to test the waters. Repairing an arm was easy for him. This monster wasn't that formidable; the Dragon Girl could easily dispatch it with a single strike. However, the power of that silken touch was giving Lin Xian a headache. It seemed that even interstellar-grade power armor wouldn't be able to withstand it if it touched him. Wouldn't that be fatal?
Lin Xian was in a complicated mood. While thinking, he let the drone and the dragon girl conduct a full-scale exploration of the warehouse. At this moment, he found some clues from the picture.
This supply compartment actually has a reserve energy system that is providing power at a low energy consumption!
In the picture, the drone found an opened functional pipeline, which was directly connected to a small high-energy capacitor system in another cabin. The two strange monsters just now seemed to be devouring this, and it seemed that the power here had been out of power for several hours.
"Energy devouring... Humanity's electrical energy and dark energy are common?"
Chi~
At this moment, the Dragon Girl mecha remotely opened the door to the supply bay. As soon as it opened, a stream of cold white air mixed with a faint crimson aura gushed out. Lin Xian, watching this scene, was moved and immediately ordered all drones to fly in. This time, he quickly discovered that although many of the supplies inside had begun to rot like before, the degree of decay was far different. Many of them were even relatively fresh and looked like they could still be eaten...
But it was limited to canned food and purified water that seemed to have not spoiled yet. The other fresh or ordinary food in the refrigerator had all become completely moldy. The mold had nothing to do with the refrigerator. The drone could even detect that the temperature inside the refrigerator was not too high, which meant that the power outage here was indeed not long ago. However, the food had become moldy in such a short time, which must be related to the scarlet aura just now.
At this time, Lin Xian suddenly realized a problem, that is, there may be a technology in this material compartment that can independently keep the food from rotting. It was only after the power was cut off that this place was corrupted by scarlet!
"Absolutely!"
Lin Xian immediately stood up, his heartbeat quickening. If his guess was correct, it meant that the Phoenix Society already had a way to preserve food and survive in the scarlet, which also meant that the Phoenix Society was likely to still exist!
"Humanity has not yet perished!"
Lin Xian's voice was trembling. He put on his power armor and went straight to the supply compartment along the original route. While carrying the supplies back, he had to find the instruments or devices to store the supplies, complete the scanning and then manufacture them. Otherwise, these supplies might not be able to be stored tonight, and he would be happy for nothing.
Lin Xian moved swiftly and without any unnecessary movements. He soon arrived at the cabin and immediately dispatched dozens of transport drones to start moving the supplies he wanted as required. Then Lin Xian began to mechanically scan the entire cabin.
With Lin Xian's experience, he quickly found an independent device with multiple pipelines in the mechanical structure of the entire storage compartment. This device was obviously modified later and designed separately for the storage compartment. The most important thing is that Lin Xian found blood essence on this device!
"Sure enough, it looks like a dark energy generator. Some kind of frequency? Isolation?"
While scanning the blueprint, Lin Xian began to devour the contents of the material warehouse for material conversion to facilitate future manufacturing. At the same time, he began to be amazed at the design above. It looked like an upgraded dark energy isotropic device. Although the principle was still unclear, with his understanding of mechanical structure, he soon realized that this was some kind of frequency generator manufactured by converting dark energy, which seemed to be able to isolate the scarlet in some way.
"Strange, why isn't this device used throughout the entire starship? Why is it only used to store supplies? Or is this just a backup plan..."
"Never mind for now."
There was no point in thinking too much at this point, so he quickly finished scanning the blueprint, then took a third-level blood essence from the device and prepared to go back to the shelter room to make a simple version to use first. He didn't have any blood essence on hand now, so of course he couldn't let go of the ready-made one.
"The blood essence is with Teacher Chen. Hey, the Phoenix Society's response plan was so quick. I hope everyone can be safe."
After returning to the shelter room, Lin Xian immediately activated all the manufacturing sequences without saying a word and created a 'storage warehouse' the size of a small truck compartment in a very short time. All the resources 'rescued' by the drone were put into it. After activating the third-level blood essence and energy capacitor, he was shocked to find that the scarlet air inside disappeared at an extremely fast speed!
"The effect is immediate..."
After finishing everything, Lin Xian sat down on the stool, sweating profusely as he looked at the storage in front of him. He did not dare to delay even a minute in this operation, for fear of wasting the food and water that he had found with great difficulty, otherwise he would be completely doomed tonight.
After catching his breath for a while, Lin Xian stood up and walked into his small storage room to open two cans to see what was going on. However, as soon as he walked in, his vision suddenly darkened and became pitch black!
What’s going on!?
Lin Xian was stunned. He turned around and looked at the brightly lit room he had just turned on. The small door of the storage room was clearly open, but it was pitch black inside, as if he had entered another world.
"I see……"
Lin Xian turned on the light and looked at the neatly arranged water and canned food inside. He remembered the monster that emerged from the scarlet when he was escaping on the ocean track before, and a strange idea came to his mind.
The world shrouded in scarlet is of another frequency!
In other words, it's like another dimension!
Although this speculation was quite outrageous, Lin Xian did not doubt it at all. After all, it was the most plausible explanation.
Thinking of this, he immediately walked out of the storage room, came to the edge of the room, and stretched out his hand to start scanning the area. He did not want to scan the entire starship wreckage, but to focus the scanning area on a piece of outer armor. The main purpose was to confirm the guess in his mind.
A few minutes later, Lin Xian opened his eyes, his expression horrified.
"Sure enough, the entire starship has this frequency system to isolate the scarlet. They will definitely survive!"
He turned around and waved his hand, and countless materials flew out from the air. This time, he quickly constructed the frame in the entire room and spread the pipeline device throughout the room. After everything was made, Lin Xian came to the porthole that was about to break, used mechanical powers to repair it, and then looked at the scarlet flying sand outside and pressed the switch.
bass!
The space in the entire room suddenly changed, from scarlet and dull to clear and bright, as if even the air had become much fresher.
Lin Xian untied the power armor, and in an instant a familiar feeling came over him again. Although there was little scarlet aura in the shelter cabin and it was isolated by the building, it still made people feel very uncomfortable. It felt like the body's immune system was collapsing and the whole body was weak. Now that the device was installed, the scarlet aura completely disappeared, as if returning to the night of the past.
"Done. It seems a lot has happened in the past three months."
Lin Xian heaved a long sigh, took out a bottle of water, opened the lid without saying a word, and gulped down a big gulp. He didn't care how much the water was corrupted by the scarlet at this moment. After drinking it, he just felt extremely comfortable all over his body, and all the cells in his body were cheering.
Tsk tsk!
After filling the bathtub with water, Lin Xian stood in it. Three service drones sprayed water mist to clean the blood stains on his body. The blood and sewage were collected by pipes for water purification and storage again.
Although he had mastered the device to isolate the Scarlet, he did not want to waste any supplies. Next, he still had to look for clues about the team and the Phoenix Order in the Scarlet. These things were undoubtedly very important.
Bang!
In the room, the right-hand robotic arm made by Lin Xian was precisely fitted on the dragon girl's right arm. The alloy right shoulder interface lit up with a faint blue light, and the maintenance robot slid away silently, completing the task assigned by Lin Xian.
It wasn't too difficult to take her out of the Black Star Forge, but putting her in was extremely tiring, so Lin Xian had no intention of taking her back.
Ding ding, ding ding.
At 18:45, before Lin entered the hibernation capsule, the reminder sound set by the electronic watch that had accompanied him all the way rang again. He curled up in the metal chair by the porthole, looking outside through the starship porthole. The scarlet wind swept up the rusty sand and splashed a sea of solidified blood on the sky. There were no clouds, no light, only a layer of red dome pressing down on the earth.
He didn't know if there would be darkness, nor did he know if the current night was any different from the previous one. At this moment, he could only wait quietly. Outside, the sky and the earth were scarlet, and the red wind was flowing in the air like waves. The entire sky seemed to be falling down, and no clouds could be seen. It was as if there was a red barrier in the sky, completely covering the earth.
Lin Xian looked out the porthole, and darkness suddenly poured down!
It was like the giant shadow of some planet silently moving across the world, staining the scarlet into a deeper, almost bloody dark brown, making Lin Xian realize that it was getting dark.
Another kind of darkness.
At this moment, Lin Xian's breathing suddenly became tense. Among the hills and ravines of piled wreckage, a strange vision suddenly appeared. He seemed to see several twisted gray shadows emerging in the surging red sand without warning, like smoke blown away by the wind, or like residue seeping out from deep in the gravel. They had human-like outlines, but their limbs were folded and stretched out at the wrong joints, and their steps were erratic, appearing and disappearing in the scarlet blood mist. When the wind swirled, they disintegrated into mist, and the next moment they condensed into new grotesque shapes.
"Strange body?"
Lin Xian's face looked a little ugly. The scarlet color made these things look illusory, but at the same time, they seemed extremely deadly.
At this moment, his eyes fixed. Farther away, on the top of a sand dune torn by a half-buried starship's broken wing, stood a "person". It was four or five meters tall, with a shriveled torso like a dried-up tree trunk, but its limbs were strangely evenly lengthened. It stood silently under the red sky like a rotten obelisk.
It had no movement, no breath, and it was even unclear whether it was facing him or with its back to him. It was just a pure black silhouette.
It was a 'person' that looked exactly like a human, with the head and shoulders, except for the frighteningly long limbs, like the lonely tall man in a horror story.
Lin Xian narrowed his eyes and contracted his pupils, trying to see through the dizzying darkness, but found that he could not see clearly at all.
However, just as Lin Xian blinked, a huge human face with a pitch-black hole strangely appeared outside the porthole. It was a face without any facial features, with only a bottomless hole occupying the entire face. Deep in the hole, a sticky scarlet light pulsated like a living thing, and was "nailed" to the window.
Stare at him!
(End of this chapter)
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