Y'zaks was called out of the control room. Along with him came the hyperactive little Y'lisabet and deapanned Zadamor. Needless to say, they had been burying their heads in the pile of peculiar, high-tech gadgets. Y'zaks' face instantly turned anxious once he saw Hao Ren.
Hao Ren waved to motion the two elven aides to go to their boss for a debrief while he laughed. "Worried? Millions of interstellar marines and thousands of spacecrafts are now heading towards this city from the border of the bubble zone. They will be arriving in a day at the soonest. I came back first, so that we could arrange things around here, and meet the Aerymian elves a day later and go back out."
Actually, what the Aerymian elves sent were not interstellar marines. Hao Ren made it up because it felt so much cooler...
Y'zaks was all happy anyway. Meanwhile, Ysre and Aylu had been debriefed on their mission in planet Aerym. Basically, it was about Hilda's attitude towards Helcrown and the "diplomatic rhetoric" she wanted to send to the people of Helcrown. Y'zaks nodded and listened attentively. He then waved his hand. "Well, it's just as I expected. Hey, Hilda and I are acquaintances too. The Aerymian elves are truly brotherly."
"After this, you'll have all the time on your side to exchange feelings with the Aerymian elves." Hao Ren raised his finger, pointing in the direction of the wreckage. "Are you free now? I'm thinking that we bring a few men to fix the wreckge first, at least make it flyable. Waste no time, because when we meet with the Aerymian elves, we'll have to fly back out straightaway. We can't wait for them to install the engine. Let's do it ourselves."
"Go and assemble all the ethereal engineers as well as the dwarven craftsmen," Y'zaks turned to Zadamor. "Also, order the other demon technicians to come."
Zadamor left to carry out his orders. Hao Ren quickly added, "Don't gather in the city, go directly to the wreckage!"
A large group of technicians were soon called up and they assembled at the massive spaceship wreckage. Hundreds of kilometers was crazily huge for a spaceship. Hundreds of engineering teams gathered on a single piece of deck; that was how massive it was!
The spot where the team assembled had long been cleared out when Y'lisabet established her long-term exploration base camp there. The huge and flat armor plate was covered in runes and a gravity array, which regulated the air as well as temperature, forming a considerably large area of livable environment. The base had temporary buildings and facilities built with obsidian, indicating that people often lived there for a short period of time. In fact, when Y'lisabet planned to build a small town on the shell of the wreckage, the construction materials actually came from the ship's salvaged materials.
The little girl even had plans to use the resources of this alien dimension to rebuild their empire, at least to construct a stronghold. Judging from the size of the wreckage, her plan seemed highly workable. It was said that the girl even wrote a reconstruction masterplan, but the plan failed to be carried out because she found that she was unable to cut the "steel" plates off the spacecraft.
It was really a scene of Yuanmou Man meeting Zentradi technology. The alien race which had been defeated in this place 200,000 years ago was at least seven generations ahead technologically than the now indigenous people in the region. Y'lisabet had knocked herself out, yet she still could not even loosen a bolt from the spacecraft. When she finally cut two or three pieces of material down from it, she realized that the amount of worn out tools was more than the materials she had salvaged.
In short, the demon girl's ambitious work had to be set aside for the time being as the engineers of Helcrown had been assembled. The number was unexpectedly more than anticipated, so it seemed Hao Ren's worry of insufficient manpower was no more a problem. Come to think about it, this was in fact, no surprise. When Helcrowm was under siege, those who survived till the end had to be a high-value group of people, given the utmost protection right from the beginning. What was the most valuable resource according to Y'zaks? Knowledge was power, so it was talent! Hence, it was natural that half of Helcrown's population consisted of scientists!
Hao Ren opened his Dimensional Pocket and was about to clear out some stuff when a dimensional door suddenly emerged from some distorted space. Quirky, silver polyhedrons were pushed out from the door by several autonomous robots. Each polyhedron was about three to four meters in height, and it shone with a metallic lustre. Some of the alloy polygon covers had lights with Aerymian words dancing on them.
In short, they were very high-tech. Well, it seemed so to this world.
Then the squid-like autonomous robots ran around Hao Ren playfully. Y'lisabet could not hold back her curiosity and lunged towards one of the squid robots. "What is this thing?" she asked curiously.
The squid robot was stunned by her sudden appearance, but due to the commands in the squid robot, which identified her as a "friendly" party, it did not retaliate. It could only keep dodging left and right. Finally, it laid itself on the floor like a ball of yarn with all its tentacles retracted. Y'lisabet then took out a screwdriver and poked the ball of robotic tentacles. "This thing is really interesting."
Hao Ren glared at Y'zaks and said, "Shouldn't you keep your daughter under control?"
Y'zaks smiled wryly as he stepped forward and lifted the little demoness onto his shoulder with his fingers. "Let's continue. By the way, what is this thing?"
"It's a gravity regulator that's been been decommissioned from the floating islands in Aerym," said Hao Ren, pointing to a polyhedron device. "Those floating islands have been stabilized, and none of these things are in use now. Hilda keeps a whole lot of them in the warehouse, and they're ready to be recycled. I asked for some of them from her. You should place them in every corner of the spaceship wreckage. The effective range of each gravity regulator is 10 km in radius. I'd like at least two of them to be placed in each effective range, got it?"
Y'zaks nodded, but before he could say anything, Y'lisabet had slipped down his arm, and patted the huge polyhedron device excitedly. "A device that can produce 10 km of gravity magic? Oh gosh! The largest magic array is only less than two kilometers across!"
Hao Ren glared at the mischievous child with caution. "Please put down the evil screwdriver in your hand," he demanded.
The little girl tucked away her tool and curiously looked up at the text on the polyhedron's display panel. "What does it say?"
Hao Ren rolled his eyes. "This side up," he said.
Y'lisabet was speechless.
The makeover of the wrecked spacecraft was carried out incessantly. Technicians of Helcrown who could operate in space were all out, installing the gravity regulators in every corner of the wreckage. It was a stressful operation as they had to make over a 100-km-long wreckage in just one day. But since Y'zaks had promised the moon, Hao Ren could only trust those technicians.
Fortunately, the installation of these gravity regulators did not require the use of high technology. As a key installation of the floating island, these gravity regulators were self-sustaining in the best possible way. They could operate for months in the absence of an external power supply, and be physically mounted anywhere, yet still work safely. During Hao Ren's two days in planet Aerym, Hilda got her elven engineers to add a networked control system to the gravity regulators, allowing Hao Ren to control them with just a remote control.
The task of Y'zaks' engineers was to securely mount these alien devices all over the spacecraft, even with rivets...
Hao Ren never thought such high-tech equipment could be worked with such low tech tools, but since Hilda vowed that these gravity regulators would work well in any circumstances, he could only wait. He looked forward to see how a space fortress could fly safely in space with just rivets, super glue, cast iron bolts, wires, and ropes as a patch. If pictures of this unprecedented scene were posted on the information link of the local universe, it was totally possible that the post would have been pinned to the top for at least half a year. He even had the title for the thread already.
Meanwhile, the inhabitants of the many planes in this world were ushering in a frenzied day.
The mighty fleet of Aerymian elves had made it across the desolate desert on the fringe of the bubble zone. They were now roaring and flying over the heads of the locals.
Checkpoint soldiers all over the world were all surprised as countless generals gazed up and found the unidentified flying objects blazing through the sky. They all asked the same question, "Where did those things come from?"