Chapter 113 The Livable Egret Island
The little cutie scouted ahead, leaving a bright pink trail wherever it went, and Silverwing followed closely behind without Achen's permission.
Qingxi moved very fast, but it perfectly avoided the impact of the meteorite and did not cause the meteorite to derail.
With it leading the way, the mecha moved very smoothly, but Achen did not let his guard down at all, remaining fully focused and sensing everything around him.
The asteroid belt was over ten kilometers wide. At the speed of the mechs, they could have passed through it in no time if they weren't trying to avoid asteroid impacts.
But now, it took more than an hour to even reach the edge.
Just when they were about to pass through smoothly, Ah Chen suddenly sensed an extremely strong danger and shouted, "Qingxi, back off!"
Before he finished speaking, the palm petals scattered around the mecha closed one after another, at the same time conveying an extremely dangerous signal to Madam Xuan.
The next second, everyone saw a burst of brilliant flames erupt from the void between a luminous green meteorite and a silver-red meteorite.
The flame was bright white with a faint blue tinge at the edges. Everyone knew that this color of flame had the highest temperature in the visible spectrum, exceeding 1600 degrees Celsius.
Even though Qingxi was extremely fast, it immediately teleported backward upon hearing Achen's warning, and a tuft of fur on the tip of its tail was scorched by the high temperature released by the flames into the surrounding air.
A round, black lump hung from its tail, looking quite strange.
The mech activated its camera at maximum resolution and finally captured the spot where flames were shooting out.
It turns out that a colorless and transparent meteorite was hidden there. It was easy to overlook its existence between two brightly colored meteorites, and even the S-class Qingxi did not find it.
Fortunately, it scouted ahead; if the mech had rushed in, its outer shell would probably have melted.
With this meteorite that can both breathe fire and become invisible, it's no wonder that the previous expedition team almost perished.
Achen promptly transmitted the images he had captured back to the warship. After analysis, Yu Shan was finally able to confirm that this meteorite was the location of the killing formation within the array composed of meteorite belts.
Once it is touched, it will trigger a series of attacks, and it is estimated that every meteorite in the entire asteroid belt will take turns attacking it.
Fortunately, Qingxi was petite enough and retreated with lightning speed, thus avoiding triggering the killing formation.
"The person who set up this formation is incredibly cunning! They actually placed the most dangerous spot right where we're about to pass through!"
"We dodged the intruders who were struck by meteorites along the way, and now that victory was in sight, we must have let our guard down. As a result, we fell in the darkness before dawn," Mina couldn't help but complain.
She had insisted on going with Young Master Chen to scout ahead, believing that with her wind-based abilities, she could definitely avoid danger.
But looking at the video Chen sent back, the little beast clearly used teleportation and its tail was burned. Even if she, a B-rank wind-type, is fast, she can't outspeed an S-rank teleportation!
Judging by the temperature of the flames, their inevitable fate is likely to be reduced to ashes.
Everyone was still shaken. If it weren't for Young Master Chen's ability to warn of danger, that little beast would have been badly injured, if not killed.
Having been away for so long, this was the first time they realized how dangerous this trip had been.
Having located the killing formation, and working backward, Feather Fan finally confirmed the location of the formation's core. It was located on the path that Achen and the others had passed through, in the groove of a yellowish-brown meteorite shaped like a water basin.
"Ah Chen, you all stay there and don't move. Once I activate the array's core, the killing array will automatically retreat, opening a safe path," Yu Shan instructed through the communicator.
Madam Xuan and Xiao Ran exchanged a glance, both seeing shock in each other's eyes. It turned out that the Feather Fan they thought was the weakest was actually proficient in formations.
Indeed, everyone who dares to travel to interstellar space possesses extraordinary skills.
Following the instructions of the feather fan, Xiaobai teleported to the location of the array's core and found a depression that looked like a footprint in the groove.
As I stomped hard on the footprint, the rapidly spinning meteorite belt in front of me suddenly seemed to be paused.
Ah Chen and the other two naturally witnessed the strange sight of the meteorite stopping its movement. Even the transparent meteorite that intermittently emitted white flames stopped spewing fire.
He immediately activated Silverwing, traversed the last stretch of road, and was the first to reach safety.
On the other side, Yu Shan gave the order: "Start the warships and pass through quickly!"
Mao Li immediately steered the warship along the bright pink route drawn by Qingxi earlier, and in just a few minutes, it passed through the asteroid belt and entered the atmosphere of Luda Star.
Just fifteen minutes later, the meteorite belt resumed normal operation, as if the pause button had never been pressed.
Madam Xuan and Xiao Ran's scientific worldview was shattered by this bizarre and unscientific phenomenon.
It turns out that such unscientific things really do exist in this world.
The person who could use such a huge meteorite to set up an array must be an extremely powerful being, right?
They originally thought that once they broke through to SSS level, they would become invincible top-tier beings. However, they never expected that in the face of true powerhouses, they were nothing more than insignificant beings.
These two were stunned, not to mention the others on the warship.
Among them, the person most able to accept this unscientific phenomenon was actually Mao Li.
Their mechanical race has preserved many ancient books, and he used to enjoy reading them, which is how he learned about many mysterious and supernatural beings.
For example, his master first demonstrated knowledge far exceeding that of a scavenging woman in a remote area, and later awakened the incredible skill of time reversal.
After waking up this time, he gained many amazing abilities.
For example, tracing blood relatives, purifying the Dharma seal, and this time, finding the array's core.
If he could, he would follow her forever, to the vast universe, no matter how arduous the journey, he would have no regrets.
The atmosphere of Egret Island Star is very thick, with more than 3,000 kilometers of atmosphere enveloping an elliptical sphere with a diameter of more than 500 kilometers, which looks incongruous no matter how you look at it.
After passing through the thick atmosphere, the warship finally landed on solid ground.
The island, which is about 10,000 square kilometers in area, is surrounded by a vast, purplish-blue ocean.
This island is also the only landmass on this planet. The advantage is that the island is more than 300 meters above the water, so there is no need to worry about the seawater submerging the island.
The island is covered with lush vegetation and forests. Many seabirds inhabit the coastal areas, and there are small terrestrial animals in the forests. There are no particularly dangerous large animals in the entire food chain.
At the edge of the forest, there are large, flat rock formations suitable for building houses, making it seem like a truly desirable place to live.
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