Chapter 712 The World of Scarlet Crystal (7000 Words!)

"Let's go in."

Xu Xin entered first.

The two alien invaders on the ground were already frozen hard because they were very close to the cooling device.

"Well...their cards are in their bodies." Li Wenxi pointed at the two frozen corpses of alien invaders.

Xu Xin nodded, then raised his foot and stepped on it.

"Crack!"

The alien invader's body, which had been frozen hard under his feet, was trampled to pieces and then shattered to the ground.

The alien invader's body had long been riddled with holes by those black bugs. After being slightly frozen, it shattered with just a step.

The metal card inside was not so fragile. It fell out from the broken body of the alien invader. Xu Xin leaned over and picked it up.

This metal card is bone-chillingly cold.

Li Wenxi lightly stepped on the bugs on the ground.

Well, it shattered into powder when stepped on, so it should be dead.

"Brother, this way."

Xu Ying has found a place to use metal cards.

Li Wenxi had already walked to Xu Ying's side and waved to Xu Xin.

"Come on, come on, this is it."

Xu Xin walked over and swiped the metal card at the card swiping position on the console.

"Buzz——"

The surrounding red and green light flickered a few times, then dimmed again.

"This..." Xu Xin and Xu Ying were a little confused.

"Ah, it seems that some of these machines cannot operate because it is too cold."

Li Wenxi, who could vaguely see the internal structure of the machine, looked at these consoles, blinked and explained.

"Ah..." Xu Xin shook her head helplessly.

There is no way, if you put this cooling device in this small room, the temperature of the whole room will be as low as one hundred degrees below zero.

He immediately put the cooling device away.

The temperature is approaching minus one hundred degrees. Over time, not to mention these sophisticated machines, even they will be unable to withstand it.

After putting the cooling unit away, the temperature in the room began to rise.

But because it is far away from the nearest engine cylinder, it does not rise very quickly.

The whole room was still very cold.

The temperature rises too slowly.

"...Then just wait a moment." Xu Xin said.

"The temperature should be restored in two or three minutes." Xu Ying looked at the mechanical sea tunnel outside the door.

"Hey, tell me, how did they die?"

Li Wenxi was very curious about the cause of death of the alien invaders here, so she squatted on the ground and asked about the fragments.

Now the bodies of these alien invaders are frozen, and they have no smell for the time being.

But when the temperature rises, the smell may return again.

"Didn't this giant ship just launch when we first came here, and then return within a few hours?"

"Why are there some alien invaders at the entrance of the giant ship and deep inside the power system that have been dead for at least a week?"

Li Wenxi said puzzledly.

This is also what confused Xu Xin.

According to Xu Ying, these alien invaders have been dead for more than seven days.

That means that before the giant ships were ready to attack humans, they had been dead for seven or eight days.

And a giant ship ready for battle, with so many corpses lying inside, didn't even bother to deal with it?

Not to mention this seems to be an important position deep in the power system.

The two alien invaders responsible for the power system also died.

Doesn't this matter?

...Is it because the alien invaders are too confident and look down on humans at all? Even if the inside of this giant ship is a mess, they still have to activate the battleship?

"Is it possible that these alien invaders died after we saw the giant ship activated and the giant ship entering the teleportation formation?"

Xu Ying suddenly said.

"Ah?" Li Wenxi was startled, "Didn't you say that they have been dead for more than seven days?"

"Is the degree of corpse decomposition related to temperature?" Xu Xin asked.

Xu Ying shook her head: "No, although it has something to do with the temperature, it only lasts a few hours. There is no way it will rot like this. And..."

Xu Ying looked at the sea of ​​power plant machinery outside the door.

"This giant ship has only been activated for a few hours...will the power unit really be so hot?"

"The giant metal cylinder of the engine just now was burned red. If it hadn't been overused, would it have become like that?"

"And..." Xu Ying looked at Xu Xin's bracelet, "Isn't the cooling method a bit too crude? It's not a fixed cooling pipe, but a small machine that can be taken away at will..."

Xu Xin was thoughtful.

He understood what Xu Ying meant.

"What do you mean..." Li Wenxi was still a little confused, "You mean, this giant ship had already been activated before we came here? That's not right..."

Those four giant ships were launched only after they made a big fuss in those factories.

The teleportation array was only fully connected after that.

This should be certain.

"No, I mean, after they entered the teleportation formation, we only had a few hours, but they..."

Xu Ying pointed to the crushed alien invader debris on the ground: "I'm afraid they spent much longer than us."

Li Wenxi now understood what Xu Ying meant.

She was surprised: "You mean, after this giant ship was dragged into the turbulence of time and space...their time flow rate is different from the outside world?"

For people who have lived for several months in the World Tree where time flows at a hundred times the speed, it is normal for time to flow at different speeds.

"Yes."

Xu Ying nodded slightly.

"This giant ship, as well as the three destroyed giant ships, probably fought in the turbulence of time and space for a long time."

Xu Xin touched his chin, which had grown slightly stubble.

Time and space are turbulent, not only space is chaotic, but also time.

Being involved in the turbulence of time and space, the flow of time becomes chaotic. This is a reasonable guess.

He remembered that when he eavesdropped on the leader's conversation, the leader once said that the energy of this giant ship, the only one returning home, was no longer enough and needed to be replenished.

He just thought at the time that it might be because the giant ship consumed too much when fighting against the turbulence of time and space.

But thinking about it now, it took less than three hours from the time the giant ship left to the time it returned.

Isn't it a bit wrong that such a huge ship consumes all its energy in three hours even in battle?

With the cautiousness of the leader of the alien invaders, he must manage enough energy, right?

But if this is what Yingying guessed...

"Those giant tanks outside that are very hot and even burned red are the result of long-term overloaded sailing. And the cooling device that I casually put into the bracelet..."

Xu Xin twirled her bracelet.

"Actually, it was a temporary refrigeration device they added to deal with the excessive heat?" Li Wenxi took over the words and said with some surprise, "There are also the corpses of alien invaders that have been dead for more than seven days... When I think about it, it really makes sense. It’s clear!”

"So, the three destroyed giant ships may actually have persisted in the turbulence of time and space for a long time, instead of being destroyed in such a short period of time." Xu Xin said to himself.

"I'm just telling you." Li Wenxi said clearly, "How could the alien invader's giant ship be so weak? It was gone in a few hours."

"However, didn't you say before that this space is isolated from the outside world?" Xu Xin asked.

"Space is, but time is not." Xu Ying said, "Alien invaders do not have the ability to travel through time, so it is even less possible to create a giant ship that is not affected by the turbulence of time."

This conjecture can be explained by almost all the situations they encountered before.

"That should be it."

The giant ship passed through the beam of light of the teleportation array, intending to destroy the humans living in the world tree with a thunderous force.

But unexpectedly, when they were teleported and about to emerge from the teleportation array, they were tied up with tentacles by an unknown giant beast and pulled back into the teleportation array.

Perhaps after a hard battle, or perhaps at the moment of being pulled in, the four giant ships were all involved in the turbulence of time and space.

The material of giant ships makes them immune to the effects of space chaos.

But the chaos of time cannot be stopped.

Therefore, they were trapped in the turbulence of time and space for a long time.

It may be more than ten days, or it may be dozens of days, or even hundreds of days, or even more time.

Even in extremely chaotic time, it is possible that in different areas of this giant ship, the flow of time will be very different.

During this period of time, the giant ship has been operating at full speed in order to fight against the terrifying turbulence of time and space.

This caused their power systems to overheat for a long time, and their own cooling system was no longer enough, which forced them to find other ways to cool down, so they came up with the small refrigeration machine in Xu Xin's bracelet.

During this period of time, some alien invaders inside the giant ship also died for various reasons.

Just like the hundreds of alien invaders they encountered before, and the two that were crushed to pieces now.

They appeared to have been dead for more than seven days, and their bodies were placed in the giant ship, seemingly unclaimed and uncollected.

Because the giant ship has just returned, and before it comes back, the other alien invaders in the giant ship are unable to protect themselves. Who will collect their bodies?

After returning, the remaining alien invader soldiers in the giant ship immediately disembarked and stayed in the city with the teleportation array. The giant ship directly flew dozens of kilometers and flew to the desert and stopped.

The guy who controls the giant ship probably never wants the giant ship to get close to the teleportation formation again in this life.

Only one of the four giant ships came back, truly escaping from death.

This is probably the truth.

"To put it this way, they are really miserable, a bit pitiful."

Although Li Wenxi said this, there was a smile on her face, and her eyes were full of crescent moons: "No wonder the leader of the alien invaders was so crazy after he came back, and he didn't look like a leader at all. This would make anyone go crazy. .”

"If this is true, then these alien invaders really deserve it." Xu Ying also smiled, "They just wanted to destroy a human world tree, but the result was huge losses, much greater than when they traveled in the universe. .”

"Yes, only one of the four ships came back, and it was in tatters. Many of them died." Li Wenxi sighed.

"We humans are really lucky." Xu Xin said with a smile.

"Is it just pure luck..."

Xu Ying took a deep look at Xu Xin.

She always felt that the giant beast that dragged the four giant ships into the turbulence of time and space... should be the result of her real brother, Xu Xin from another time and space.

Although I don’t know how it was done, but...

It can't be that the giant beast lives in the gap of time and space, and then plays with the giant ship when it has nothing to do, right?

"Okay, now the temperature has almost dropped, it's time for us to take the next step." Xu Xin said.

He swiped the card in the swipe area again.

"Buzz——"

Immediately, the ground in the entire room shook slightly.

Then, the buttons and levers in the entire room lit up.

Instead of flickering, it all lit up.

"It seems that this machine has been restored."

The temperature now has reached about ten degrees, and these machines should be able to move.

"Ah...it seems like we can press all the buttons?"

Li Wenxi looked at the buttons in the room and said.

Unlike the previous console where only a few buttons were lit up, this time the button levers all over the room were indeed lit up.

There is no need to use the second card anymore. The permissions of this card can control everything in the house.

"But we don't know what these buttons are for." Xu Xin spread her hands and said, "Do we have to press them casually?"

"It's not impossible." Xu Ying looked at the most conspicuous green lever and said, "We just press it, and then I will take you out of here immediately. As for what happened here, it has nothing to do with us."

That's true.

Their purpose was to destroy this power system.

It doesn't matter to them what these buttons are for.

"Just press randomly!" Li Wenxi also nodded in agreement.

Xu Xin touched the little head of Coco, who was not interested in the current situation at all, and thought for a while: "That's fine. But, the purpose of your coming here..."

"It seems that I can't answer it." Xu Ying sighed slightly, then pursed her lips and said, "Forget it, it doesn't matter. At this time, they should have almost completed cutting the scarlet crystal, right? We can't do it here Too much time is wasted here.”

"...Yingying, I have to remind you, we can't get out now."

Xu Xin said helplessly.

This giant ship was separated from the outside world, and Xu Ying had no way to teleport out directly.

They haven't found a way out yet.

"Don't we still have these cards in our hands?" Li Wenxi patted her backpack and said, "I feel that if we return to the entrance, we might be able to open the door with these cards."

"... Then we can only open one doorway, right?" Xu Xin said, "I'm afraid we don't have the right to open the huge hatch of this giant ship."

"We'll talk about that kind of thing later."

Xu Ying was already eagerly looking at the buttons in front of her.

"Brother, sister-in-law, let's do it!"

Xu Xin and Li Wenxi looked at each other.

"We're all here, we have to do something. Come on, the three of us will do it together."

Before Xu Xin finished speaking, Xu Ying directly pulled the most conspicuous green lever in the audience.

"Boom...boom...boom..."

The feet of the three people began to shake violently!

The three people reacted immediately and immediately turned their heads to look outside the room door.

Under the gaze of the three people, the sea of ​​machinery outside was still functioning!

Once the ocean pieced together by countless machines is put into operation, the scene will be extremely exaggerated!

The gears rotated perfectly, the sound of liquid flowing began to come from the pipes, and various mechanical arms also rotated at a dizzying speed.

And the road that the three of them walked just now was swallowed up by this sea of ​​machines in an instant!

If Xu Xin and the others were still on this path, they would probably be squeezed to death by this sea of ​​machines in an instant and torn into pieces!

"Boom...boom...boom..."

The operation movements became louder and louder, and the three of them even felt the giant ship under their feet trembling more and more!

Even... it started to tilt a little!

Although it was small, all three of them could feel it. The hull of this giant ship definitely tilted by about five degrees!

"I...did we activate this giant ship and let it fly?"

Li Wenxi said excitedly.

"It should just be that the power system started, causing the hull to shake slightly."

Xu Xin looked at the console behind him.

"It should be impossible to control the flight of this giant ship here."

Xu Ying nodded: "I think so too. This is not the cab of a giant ship, so how can it be possible to drive a giant ship."

"Then this is...the place to control the switch of the giant ship's power system?"

Li Wenxi looked at the other buttons: "What do those buttons do?"

"It should be subdivision control." Xu Xin reached out and pressed a red button.

The three of them looked outside at the same time.

Nothing noteworthy happened.

This sea of ​​machines is still operating step by step.

It made a roaring sound of "boom-boom-".

"Hey..."

Even in such a noisy environment, Coco turned over in Xu Xin's arms and was about to fall asleep.

It seems that the temperature around here has returned to more than 20 degrees, making the little guy feel very comfortable.

"This power system is so large, it should be that one part was controlled and did something." Xu Ying said.

"Oh... it's just like the main switch at home. In addition to the main switch, there are also some switches that control the circuits in each room." Li Wenxi said that she understood, "Then let's do it now..."

Xu Xin's eyes moved.

This is the main gate of the giant ship, maybe...

Here, these gates can be controlled to cut off the power supply to various areas of the giant ship.

The previous entrance was brightly lit, and the hatch of the giant ship could be opened and closed freely, so it should have been providing power.

After they came down, there were no lights in many places and it was pitch black. It was probably because they were not provided with energy.

As for why it is necessary to provide energy to the hatch of the giant ship, it is to be able to control the opening and closing of the hatch, and also to...

Maintain the spatial isolation between the interior and exterior of the giant ship!

According to the alien invaders at the door whose metal cards were stolen, they knew that the monster had entered the giant ship, and the space isolation of the giant ship was activated to prevent the monster from teleporting away.

They know that monsters have the ability to teleport anytime and anywhere.

But if Xu Xin cuts off the energy supply in that area now...

"We can go out now!"

Li Wenxi said happily.

Xu Ying looked at the buttons: "Then let's..."

"Press all the buttons quickly!" Xu Xin said immediately.

The two women nodded and took action quickly.

Xu Xin even picked up Coco, who was almost asleep in his arms, and threw him onto a console to let him press the buttons.

"嘤嘤嘤!!"

Coco first waved her little paws and complained a few times, then jumped up and down on the table and started pressing.

There are many buttons in the room, but Xu Xin and the others have four workers.

Two minutes later, all the buttons were pressed.

"Boom boom boom——"

The vibrations of the mechanical sea outside became more frequent.

After pressing all the buttons, everyone looked behind them. The sea of ​​machines at this time was already very different from the first.

It was as if all the parts had been put into the wok, tossed a few times and then poured back, becoming a bit...

very messy.

There is absolutely no sense of orderliness in spite of the numerous instruments at the beginning.

All the equipment was entangled together, as if the next moment, this sea of ​​machines would explode due to collision with each other.

But it doesn't.

Even in chaos, this sea of ​​machines is still functioning.

And... nothing seems to be wrong.

"How should I put it... It is indeed a giant ship that sails the universe. It is still operating after all this." Li Wenxi said in surprise.

Xu Yingze squinted her eyes slightly to feel it, and then said happily: "We can go out now, and we can teleport out directly!"

"Then let's..." Li Wenxi wanted to go out now, but thinking of Xu Ying's purpose this time, she suddenly couldn't say it.

Going out now would be equivalent to making Xu Ying give up hope and letting her die.

"Let's go back to the entrance and take a look first." Xu Xin said as she stuffed the little guy who climbed onto his shoulders into her arms.

"good!"

Xu Ying grabbed their arms.

Immediately, the three of them disappeared.

There was only a sea of ​​machines operating in chaos, completely blocking the only way in.

This control room was isolated in the deepest part of the chaos.

——

"Wow...it suddenly got so dark in here!"

Li Wenxi whispered.

The three of them had returned to the entrance.

The original lights here had been turned off and it was so quiet that Li Wenxi only dared to speak in a low voice.

And the alien invaders who entered with Xu Xin and the others no longer knew where they were.

There are only three of them left here, and a red panda.

However, the surrounding situation has changed greatly.

The passage they went down before was now closed. The wall was neat and smooth, and it was impossible to tell that there was such a big passage before.

But the upward passage was not closed. At the same time, a bright light lit up inside the passage, illuminating a small part of this dark area.

"How about... let's go up there and take a look?" Li Wenxi suggested, "Maybe there can be something good up there?"

She really couldn't bear Xu Ying to leave empty-handed like this.

"But, maybe at some point, the space here will be closed again..."

Xu Ying hesitated.

"Don't worry for now." Xu Xin whispered, "The place that can control the energy supply should be the place we just went to, but it is very chaotic now, the temperature is extremely high, and the road we are taking is also blocked. , they shouldn’t be able to get through.”

"Besides, even if they still have a way to get past, we can just teleport back and control them again."

Xu Ying has already been there and can teleport directly there.

"……good!"

Xu Ying nodded vigorously.

The three of them quickly arrived at the entrance of the upward passage.

It's almost the same as the downward passage, and it's very slippery just looking at it.

It seems... impossible to walk up.

However, this is not a problem for Xu Ying.

She grabbed their arms with both hands and teleported them directly.

She can teleport anywhere within sight.

The three of them came directly to the top of the passage.

Came to another level of the giant ship.

And this layer...

There is an almost earth-shattering difference from the lower level!

The bright red sky and scarlet ground can be seen in the distance...

Various scarlet mountains of different heights!

The vast land and endless mountains... are actually made of scarlet crystal? !

"this……"

The three of them were stunned at this moment.

How could you see such a scene in a giant ship? !

How do you feel... suddenly entering another world? !

The ground, the mountain... why are there scarlet crystals everywhere? !

Xu Xin even quickly looked back.

Fortunately, the passage is still behind me.

This is still inside the giant ship.

Can……

Why is there such a scene in front of me?

Could this world made of scarlet crystal be...? !

"...It is an image composed of virtual projection and screen."

Xu Ying suddenly spoke. She rubbed her head that was swollen due to the moment of extreme shock.

"Tsk... This alien invader leader is really outrageous. He actually transformed the inside of this giant ship into this look. I thought it was straightforward."

Xu Ying's words made Xu Xin and others react.

Indeed, if you look closely, these views seem...

It can be vaguely seen that it is caused by the projection and screen!

Because the projection and screen were too clear and real, Xu Xin and others did not react for a while.

Although there are scarlet crystal mountains in the distance, there is only flat land nearby. It is obvious that the peaks in the distance are illusory.

Xu Xin squatted down and touched the "Scarlet Crystal" ground.

It's just a screen on the ground that always displays the appearance of the scarlet crystal.

But the screen even has a bumpy, rugged shape. If you don’t touch it and look closely, you won’t even know it’s a screen.

He looked around.

The entire interior of the giant ship has been transformed into... a paradise for alien invaders.

Even Xu Xin and others can tell that the environment here probably imitates the home planet of the alien invaders.

Tsk.

This leader of the alien invaders really knows how to play.

and……

"We messed around in the power system, but it's still lit here?" Li Wenxi asked in surprise.

"It probably doesn't rely on the power system of the giant ship." Xu Xin said, "To make this place look like this, I'm afraid the leader will have to come here every day. If it relies on the power system of the giant ship, it would be really wasteful. "

The giant ship needs scarlet crystal to drive it.

Using the scarlet crystal to activate the power system of the giant ship is just to maintain this "paradise" scene... This is simply crazy for the alien invader group.

Therefore, an independent energy system should be used here.

"Huh...anyway, let's go."

Xu Ying took a deep breath, and then pointed to a four-story building made of unknown black material at the "foot of the mountain" in the distance.

That building was obviously bigger than the surrounding buildings and had two more floors.

"That, I'm afraid, is the control room of the giant ship."

"There... we might be able to use the firepower of the giant ship!"