The Helcrown had been floating in the boundless chaos of the dark space for a long time and it finally arrived at the pitstop. On the tower terrace, the crowd could see some big and small shadows emerging from the dim sky. There were a lot of weird pieces of fragments and they were rapidly being magnified in front of the crowd. Hao Ren soon found that these fragments were much larger than he had imagined.
The largest of them was even the size of the Helcrown!
The Helcrown began to slow down and drift cautiously through the huge fragments. Pieces of weird, mountain-like things continued to sweep past the city. Their surface was covered with rough potholes and eerie ridges, which to Hao Ren appeared like the fractured exterior of some gigantic object that had been torn apart by brute force. Nangong Wuyue emerged out of the water and was surprised to see the "floating island" hovering over the city. "Whoa…"
Lily, who was running around in the city noticed something strange in the sky and immediately scurried back to the tower. She ran towards Hao Ren and started to bare her fangs as well as brandish her claws at the gigantic objects in the sky. "Wh-What are those?"
A swarm of bats flew to the terrace and re-emerged as Vivian. Vivian frowned at the objects in the sky and said, "They look like... pieces of a wreckage?"
Hao Ren had a feeling that the floating fragments were not ordinary objects too. Not only because they looked like wreckage bits, but also because he saw man-made traces in those fragments!
He saw a flat groove in some of the larger fragments and noticed neat surfaces that did not form naturally. On other pieces, he
could even see something like a broken pipe sticking out of them. All the torn pieces of wreckage carried the same luster of somthing between metal and plastic. Although he did not know what it was, it was obviously not stone—these things were man-made!
"Didn't you study these things?" Hao Ren looked at Y'lisabet. The young lady immediately put her hands on her hips and said, "Of course we did! They were blown up and detached from a huge man-made object. The main body of the man-made object isn't far ahead, let's go. However, I don't know what it is."
At this point, Lily saw a huge shadow amid the dark clouds in the distance. She immediately tugged on Hao Ren's clothes and said, "Landlord! Look over there!"
Hao Ren looked towards the direction of Lily's finger and was shocked right away. In between the dark thin clouds, there was a huge thing gradually emerging. It was like a mountain range that stretched across space, but its length was difficult to estimate. It could have spanned hundreds of kilometers. As the Helcrown was getting closer, Hao Ren confirmed the details of the gigantic object. It was a symmetrical structure, composed of two main bodies, and the main structure had been ripped apart. The torn towers and thee pierced armored bands were proof that the behemoth had suffered a thrilling catastrophe. Despite that, its miserable appearances still could not conceal its grandeur. Even after becoming a wreck, it was still a stunning... gigantic starship!
"It's a spaceship!" Lily perked up her ears at once. "A spaceship!"
Y'lisabet immediately looked at them curiously and asked, "You've seen this thing before?"
Hao Ren was still in shock, but he did not forget to answer the young lady's question. "I've never seen it, but it's a classic structure. It's a spaceship for navigating in space."
"A spaceship?" Elizabeth was not unfamiliar with the concept of a spaceship because her father spent his life studying how to build one. But, her concept of the spacecraft was obviously not the same as the gigantic object in front of her, and the scale was absolutely not to this extent. If Hao Ren and the others had never seen spaceships made by various civilizations, which would have allowed them to determine this sort of thing intuitively, they were probably not able to immediately confirm that the unrecognisable object was indeed a spaceship!
At this time, the air around them twisted. Y'zaks teleported directly from the engine room. He patted Hao Ren on the shoulder and said, "Hey! Did you see that thing? It looks like a spaceship!"
Y'zaks's patted Hao Ren's shoulder so hard that his feet sank more than two inches into the ground. And, his body was now covered in his protective shield. Hao Ren immediately grimaced with pain. He lifted his legs and punched Y'zaks. "Can't you pat my shoulder a little lighter? Don't you know that you're a walking chariot!"
Y'zaks scratched his big, bald head and apologized. "I was too excited... Y'lisabet, you said that the two energy cores in the engine room were found from there?"
The demon girl nodded vigorously. She then pointed to the middle of the gigantic ship's wreckage and said, "They were dug out from that place. There was a huge hole that allowed us to get into the wreckage."
The Helcrown had now drifted towards the wreckage, and it was slowing down to find a place to dock. The city's obsidian wall released a series of huge hooks, ready to be fastened to the wreckage. They could not wait for the city to stop in order for them to go and explore the giant ship. Y'lisabet saw it and insisted on following them. Hao Ren was surprised. He glanced at the young lady and said, "You want to come with us too? It's a place full of radiation, not a place to play. Your little body probably can't handle it."
It was not a problem for higher-order demons like Y'zaks and Lanina to enter the space without bringing anything with them. After all, their physical condition had reached the peak of perfection. This short and skinny little demon on the other hand, made Hao Ren worried. With her physical condition, she was probably considered a handicapped child among the demons...
Y'lisabet snapped her fingers and covered herself with a layer of shimmering energy shield. "My body is a little weak but I'm not stupid. Can't you use your brains?" Y'lisabet said
Y'zaks patted Hao Ren on the shoulder and said, "Knowledge is power."
"…"
As the Helcrown docked near the wreckage of the ship, they left the tower to venture into the depths of the wreckage. Lily, Vivian, and Nangong Wuyue also put on the life-sustaining neckbands to join them. Soon, they came to the "great hole", and they were startled by the scene before them.
The middle section of the gigantic wreckage was twisted and nearly broken off. A huge radial hole was present in front of them. The spacecraft itself reached a size of hundreds of kilometres, and the hole was like a large crater, which lay across the ship. Its width was almost one-third the size of the hull. The spaceship's armour belt near the hole had obviously suffered a tremendous impact, leaving behind ripple-like folds akin to melted plastic. The thick and strong hull structure was torn and warped, pointing to the vast space, looking sad and dreary.
Hao Ren's attention did not linger too long on the ship itself as he soon discovered that there were more things around the hole that they should be aware of: a large number of things that looked like plant roots or tentacles emerged from the hole and stretched out towards all directions in the ship's hull. The ship was almost wrapped up by those tentacles, which looked strange and creepy.
Lily was agitated at the sight of the tentacles. She kept moving her hands in the air, jumping up and down. Hao Ren grabbed her tail and asked, "What's wrong with you?!"
Lily just remembered that she could use the communicator, and immediately shouted, "Run!"
Vivian glared at Lily and said, "Can you please stop being so useless? Those tentacles are obviously dead, okay?"
While she spoke, she started the propeller to move closer to the huge hole, albeit not expertly. Hao Ren was worried about them and quickly moved to her side.
Indeed, as Vivian said, those tentacles were "dead".
The tentacles on the hull of the ship's wreckage had withered away. Although they still seemed frightening, there was no breath of life in them. Y'zaks then stepped on one of the tentacles lightly, and it quietly broke into pieces.
A lot of broken tentacles could be seen near the hole. These were traces that Y'lisabet had left behind when she led the men there to explore.
It was the carcass of a First Born.
It was already dead.