Chapter 250 Giant Fireball
You cannot go directly to the propulsion unit from the maintenance channel, but you can reach the maintenance area in the second half of the propulsion unit. The thruster used by this space island is an extremely huge piece of equipment. Its main part is hundreds of meters long. If placed on the surface, it would be like a hill. The maintenance area in the back half is a factory-shaped equipment. between. This place filled with machinery, pipes, magic circles, and flashing indicators is located tens of meters deep underground in the city. It is under the rear of the propulsion device. When the unit exploded, it did not completely tear the place apart, but on its upper protective layer The cover opened a huge crack.
Hao Ren found that he was in front of a very wide room, surrounded by strange equipment that could not be named. The artificial gravity here had completely stopped, and the strongest acceleration phase of the propulsion unit had passed, so there were a lot of equipment fragments here. and other debris floating in the air. The roof of the room slopes and extends sideways. There is a huge crack on the sloped roof made of alloy. Dazzling light is shining in from the crack. The broken floating objects are cast towards the opposite wall in the strong light. A large grotesque silhouette looks strange and dangerous.
Hao Ren first ran to check the equipment that seemed to be the operating console. He knew that this was already inside the unit. If he could shut down the system from this big guy's body, it would undoubtedly be the best solution. He may not be able to operate these things, but he can directly transmit the pictures he sees to the data terminal, and then let the data terminal show it to the elf experts above. But he soon gave up on the idea: all the equipment was obviously broken, and the dull, cracked crystalline controllers couldn't possibly function.
Yzaks was surrounded by a layer of hot lava shield. He had already begun to prepare to release his power. After carefully sensing the energy flow around him, he came to the corner of the room and punched a huge hole in the wall. : "This should be the place where we lose control."
Hao Ren ran over and took a curious look, and found that there was dazzling light everywhere outside. After his vision barely adjusted, he could see the structure outside the room clearly: in front was the "burning tube" or something else of the propulsion unit, which could be seen A huge, tubular passage extended outside. In the flickering light at the end of the passage, one could vaguely see the starry sky in the distance. When he observed carefully, the shadow of another floating island flashed past the end of the passage. . Many small pipes arranged in parallel can be seen on the four walls of the passage, and the light is actually mainly emitted from those pipes. There is a buffer zone of about ten meters between those hot small pipes and this maintenance area, with a ring of huge equipment arranged in a ring. Despite the ten-meter buffer zone, Hao Ren still felt a burning sensation coming over him: it was probably just a psychological effect.
Yzaks tore the hole in the wall even bigger, and then jumped out. He stood in the center of the buffer zone and stretched out his body. A burst of red fire cloud quickly enveloped his body like rolling magma. His body quickly expanded in the surging demonic cloud, and in an instant he turned into a huge demon more than five meters tall.
Hao Ren jumped out and said, "I haven't seen you in this posture for a long time."
"Ha, it's more comfortable like this." Y'zaks moved his hands and feet. Fortunately, the two of them were talking mentally now, otherwise he would have sprayed sparks everywhere when he opened his mouth. "I want to go outside and take a look. It's difficult here." Determine how big the entire propulsion unit is.”
Hao Ren hummed, and when he lowered his head and looked around, he suddenly noticed something not far away.
He made a wait gesture to Y'zaks, and then floated over with great effort - just as the data terminal said, he could indeed move in a vacuum without any external force. Hao Ren could see himself in the process. A long series of faint afterimages appeared behind him, but this did not mean that he was floating very fast, but a spatial afterimage caused by some kind of coordinate displacement. When moving in this way, he would feel his senses for a moment. Being split into countless parts and distributed over the entire trajectory he passes through causes severe dizziness, so much so that he must be careful not to move continuously for too long. Only when he floated to his destination did he see clearly what was lying on the ground: it was an Irem elf, wearing a weird space suit, and he looked dead.
Hao Ren suppressed the surprise and nervousness in his heart, and stepped forward to turn over the other party's body. Under the transparent mask was the face of a young male elf. There was no sign of any pain before death, but his eyes were closed tightly as if he was sleeping. generally. Hao Ren found no obvious trauma on his body, so he was curious about the cause of the elf's death, until he suddenly discovered a very small crack on the back of the spacesuit: he died from loss of pressure.
Probably because the physiological structures of elves and humans are different, when they die in the vacuum, they just fall asleep normally.
Hao Ren subconsciously looked around and found the elf lying in front of a control device. Just now, his hand happened to be stuck on a control rod of the control device. He struggled to identify the text next to the control device, and finally translated the vague characters: emergency stop.
Hao Ren suddenly understood: It seemed that the maintenance area had noticed something before the propulsion unit exploded. This elf should be a staff member on duty. He wanted to rush to the combustion tube after discovering that the equipment malfunctioned and lost contact with the surface. Manual shutdown before, but he failed.
An ordinary Irem elf died due to his duty. Although he risked his life to protect the island, his last effort before his death failed to work.
"We'd better send his body to a safer place," Yzaks looked down at the elf, "This place will explode soon."
Hao Ren nodded silently, fixed the dead elf on his back and floated back to the passage as fast as possible. He placed the elf near the second gate, which should be the safest place he could find now.
Then he and Yzaks rushed out of the propulsion unit along the huge combustion pipe: in the end, it was a quite thrilling journey. Hao Ren never imagined that someone would be so bold as to rush from a plane hundreds of meters away with deadly deflagration flames. Rushing out of the long space thruster, he was even worried about whether his rigid shield could withstand the high temperature and impact at first, but it seemed that the Empire's products were indeed of high quality, and he did not suffer anything other than severe dizziness. harm.
However, the shield was indeed consumed somewhat.
A huge beam of light, more than ten kilometers long, flickered in front of the two of them, the sound was terrifying and shocking.
This is the flame erupting from the propulsion engine. There are three main nozzles in the engine, but this is the only one that is running. One of the other two nozzles has been extinguished, and the other one has only metal torn into pieces by the explosion. Wrecks, but in any case they were far from being completely blown up. It seemed that the elven spellcasters on the other side of the wall had greatly misjudged the condition of the engines. Near this huge engine, Hao Ren also saw those posture adjustment nozzles. They were distributed under the hoop of the floating island, spitting out smaller flames. They randomly tried to correct the fatal tearing caused by the main engine to the floating island, but failed. It can only make the situation worse.
Yzaks stood next to Hao Ren. The blazing flames all over his body could not be extinguished in a vacuum. The flames burned into a ball of fire without gravity, making this terrifying demon as terrifying as a small sun. . He frowned and looked at the engine structures that were not easy to understand for him, and compared them with several key features that the elf mage told him: "It seems that just blowing up that thing will be enough. Anyway, the situation is not the same." It will be worse.”
Then he began to brew an unprecedentedly huge super fireball mixed with green evil flames. Hao Ren took this moment to look around. He saw some small bright spots patrolling in the distance. Those were the Airem cruisers that came to rescue the accident but could not get close due to insufficient configuration. Those elves could only watch from a distance. Looking at the situation here, they were full of confusion about Hao Ren and Yzaks in demon form: these two must be "strange creatures" that were beyond their world view.
Hao Ren was finally viewed as an "alien" in a true sense.
After a while, Y'zaks' super fireball was finally ready. Hao Ren was dumbfounded as he looked at this giant thing that was more than ten meters wide, spinning rapidly in front, with several rune chains connected to Y'zaks' hands. : "Is it really okay to hit this thing?"
"It has been accurately calculated," Yzaks nodded confidently, then spun around twice and swung the big fireball towards the propulsion unit!
A huge beam of light erupted from the out-of-control engine. The power... was indeed smaller than Hao Ren imagined. It seemed that the precise calculation Yzaks said was true: this giant fireball technique did not Blast a bigger hole in the floating island.
Hao Ren stared nervously at the cloud of smoke after the explosion. Is the crisis... over?