Chapter 303 Catch Up
After seeing the unfamiliar starry sky outside the porthole, everyone in the control room fell into a strange and uneasy silence.
A member of the monastery who was in a slightly better condition climbed up from his seat and staggered towards the tall and thin old man in white robe. His steps were difficult, not only because of the impact caused by the exit of the "Pillar of Order" but also because there was a problem with the gravity system of the entire "tower". Now the direction of gravity in the hall was disordered.
"Where are we now, sage?"
The white-robed old man called "Sage" had a sinister look on his face. He held the armrest of the chair tightly with one hand. After a long while, he spoke in a deep voice: "...The jump process has been disrupted. Navigator, report the situation."
"Yes... yes!" another member of the hermitage replied hurriedly, "Our preset jump point should be the gravitational collapse point near the 'Bright River Nebula'. It is a bright dust cluster that is very easy to identify, but now it is not visible in the visual range of all external monitors. Star map comparison... the entire navigation system is offline, and manual comparison will take a long time."
"First, confirm the damage to the Pillars of Order and whether there are any leaks in the inner shell, and then find a way to repair each subsystem," the sage said, "Prioritize repairing the navigation and engines, and figure out where we are - and then this damn gravity system!"
“Yes, yes!”
The sage took a deep breath and calmed his voice again: "What about the situation of the space calibrator and the 'holy coffin' room?"
"We have just made contact with the core module. The space calibrator is not damaged. There is some damage in the holy coffin room, but the 'Saint' is not affected and is still recovering."
The sage lowered his eyelids so that the people around him could not see his eyes. He tapped the armrest of the seat with his fingers in annoyance and muttered in a voice that the people around him could not hear: "...that waste..."
After a moment of unbearable repression, he raised his head and said in a cold and hard voice: "Speed up the repairs and get the 'artificial saint' out of that iron coffin as soon as possible."
"But, but the Saint was seriously injured this time, especially her mental barrier. If she forcefully catalyzes it, there may be problems in the future..."
"As long as it doesn't melt down today, we can deal with future problems later," the sage immediately interrupted his subordinate, "I want her to return to the battle position immediately... I have a bad feeling that our troubles are not over yet."
"yes!"
The sage nodded, his expression finally less tense.
Seeing this, a member of the Order beside him finally plucked up the courage to speak: "Sage, what do you think attacked us? Could it be some kind of warp jamming technology from the Secret Service?"
The sage shook his head slowly. "The Pillar of Order is equipped with the most powerful phase engine and core protection system. To disrupt it, it must be a large fixed disruption device installed near the star gate or on the fortress facilities. The Secret Service has only recently realized the existence of the 'Deep Realm City'. They don't have time and no reason to build such a thing there."
He was silent for a few seconds before he slowly spoke: "In the battle data sent back by the Artificial Saint, those suspicious guys who broke into the thick fog... everything started to get out of control after they appeared. The collapse of the concealment mask was also caused by them, but the key is, who are those guys, and what did they do..."
He suddenly stopped, raised his head and stared at the porthole in a daze.
An unprecedented look of astonishment and even horror appeared on the face of the old man in white robe. He opened his eyes wide and stared in that direction, as if he had witnessed the most absurd, bizarre and terrifying scene in the world.
Soon after, one gaze after another looked in the same direction as the sage.
A man, one of the "them" the sage just mentioned, was leaning on the porthole, looking at the members of the hermitage in the hall.
He was wearing an ordinary casual jacket that looked like something from a street stall, and in one arm he was holding a furry thing that looked like a tail. He was exposed to the universe without any protection, staring at everyone in the hall like a curious observer.
Then, he realized that he was seen, and he noticed the terrified faces in the control room, so the "humanoid creature" smiled - it was a happy and sunny smile - he just smiled and raised his hand to signal "yeah" to the members of the monastery.
Shouts of fear filled the control hall, followed by the angry shouts of the "Sage" and several small leaders who tried to maintain order.
"Quiet! Calm down! Send out the knights to get rid of that monster!" the old man in white robe shouted loudly.
The figure outside the porthole began to crawl to the side, grabbing the protrusions on the tower's shell.
"He moved!" someone in the hall exclaimed again, "He went towards the radar array!"
"External monitors, cut through the external monitor images... Oops, more than half of the external monitors were destroyed in the previous impact! That's a monitoring blind spot!"
"Send out the drones that clean up the hulls. They have cameras too!"
"'Knight' has entered the passage and will leave in three minutes!"
The hall was in chaos and noise. Having just experienced a fatal crisis, the entire "pillar of order" was in a dangerous state of confusion. A "person" lying outside the porthole and staring at everyone seemed to be the last straw that broke the camel's back for many people. Some people were trying their best to maintain order in panic, wanting to get rid of the guy who looked like a human but couldn't be a human at all.
The "Sage" sat in the middle of the crowd, not saying a word, but looking towards the empty porthole with a grim face.
That "person" had completely moved to a place that could not be seen from this side - in the blind spot of the "pillar of order" shell. What was he doing? What was he going to do? How did he "catch up" when the tower failed to jump? Who is he? What is he...? Yu Sheng carefully crawled along the shell of this strange tower, one arm still holding the big tail of the fox.
This reminded him of Irene, who often crawled in the dark corners of the house - such as under the table, under the coffee table, and under the sofa, where the little dolls were always crawling around.
But he felt that he was different from Irene. The little doll crawled in a dark way, while he crawled in a sunny, healthy and moderate way.
Even the purpose of crawling is very positive - he wants to find an entrance to get in and bring surprises and happiness to the cultists hiding in this "flying tower".
It doesn’t matter if he’s unhappy, since he’s happy now anyway.
He stopped on a relatively flat shell and took a short rest, then raised his head and looked at the dark and boundless space and the beautiful stars that were quietly dotted in the depths of the darkness.
“It’s really beautiful…”
Yu Sheng muttered to himself.
He couldn't say the words out loud because he couldn't breathe here.
At first, he was not used to it and was even mentally prepared to go back and stare at Irene and the others in half an hour - after all, his eyes went dark and he was in outer space when he opened them again. He thought he was not going to survive this time.
But after a while Yu Sheng discovered that breathing was not necessary for him.
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That is just a clinical feature that comes with the state of "survival".
At least that's how he understood it.
Looking at the vast deep space in front of him, Yu Sheng felt as if his thoughts were magnified by this boundless space.
It is said that the more powerful monks in Qianfeng Lingshan can also survive in space. I don’t know how they do it... Did they also "optimize" their breathing?
I don’t know if Irene can move around in a space environment like this. After all, she doesn’t seem to have a heart or lungs.
What about Hu Li? She's very powerful... maybe she'll be okay? Yu Sheng was just thinking about it, and then his thoughts were interrupted by a voice that suddenly came from his mind: "Hey, Yu Sheng! Yu Sheng, are you still alive? Are you dead? Do you want to come back from the dead?"
Of course it’s Irene who speaks in such an annoying way.
"Alive, floating in space," Yu Sheng responded unhappily, "Let me tell you, this tower built by these cultists... is actually a fucking spaceship, you know? But I 'pushed' it when it was activated, and now it seems to be broken, floating around here... I'm hanging on its shell now, trying to find a place to get in, but I haven't found a suitable spot yet."
There was no movement from Irene for several seconds, as if she was startled.
Then she exclaimed, "Oh my god! You can do this?"
"I was also quite surprised," Yu Sheng responded in his mind, "By the way, tell the fox that her tail has been silent since it got here. I don't know if I broke it."
After a while, Irene responded: "I told her, and she said that the line was broken because of the distance. The tail is useless after the line is broken. You can find a place to throw it away, or open the door and throw it home. She will make you a scarf later..."
Yu Sheng thought about it, then casually opened a door leading to No. 66 Wutong Road and threw the tail in.
"I threw it back home - how are things going over there?"
"The Secret Service is here. Xuan Che is explaining the situation to them. The commander of the deep-sea unit came to me just now and asked where you were. I told him that Hu Li used his tail to launch you out, and he gave himself an injection on the spot..."
Yu Sheng: “…”
"Hey, when will you come back?" the little doll asked again.
"I'll try to get into this 'tower' first - without blowing it up, after all, it seems to be quite fragile," Yu Sheng said, "If possible, I'll try to bring back some local specialties. After all, I've chased them all the way here, and it would be awkward to return without any gains."
"Well, don't die too quickly."
"I know, I know."
(End of this chapter)
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