Edge of the Apocalypse

Chapter 240: Enter The Power Room

Wilick released his grip on the air mass, and the saturated flames immediately erupted. A huge fire dragon sprayed out like a rocket. In exchange for an incomparable push force, Allen and the others crashed into Broy. Then, the four of them shouted and rushed forward fiercely. Broy even got up from the ground and grabbed the few of them tightly, allowing the huge kinetic energy behind him to fly forward with him.

The four of them shot past the corridor like cannonballs. They were constantly moving in the warp space. Fortunately, as Lucy had said, the warp space here was already very weak because of the long period of time. In addition, the artificial ejector that Allen and Wilick had used together greatly increased the speed of the four of them, greatly offsetting the impact of the warp space.

If there were anyone else in the corridor right now, they would see Allen and the others faintly disappearing in the corridor, their positions constantly shifting slightly. That was precisely the phenomenon of them coming out of the warp space. In the end, the four of them collided heavily at the end of the corridor, at the side of the automatic door that separated the outside world from the power room. Its landing point has deviated from their initial orbit by nearly 30 degrees.

Broyle clung to his scalp and made intimate contact with the metal, but his tyrannical body was used as a protective layer for others. The four of them bounced back from the collision and rolled away in different directions. Everyone was dizzy and after a while Lucy screamed and jumped up and said, "Let's see if I'm getting old!"

Age is always a natural enemy for women, regardless of race or age. Alan stroked his head and laughed, "It's fine, you're still so pretty."

"Really?" Lucy was relieved.

Wilick jumped up and raised his hand to cheer, "Haha, we've succeeded. Boss, I didn't expect our abilities to be able to assemble such a thing. It's not only a thruster, it's also a heavy artillery. If we aim at the enemy and fire a cannon later, it'll definitely be better for them to see."

He was just speaking casually, but Allen had a thoughtful expression on his face. Welik's suggestion was indeed feasible. Perhaps the abilities of Origin Energy practitioners could be combined and superimposed to create a more powerful cooperative battle skill. Of course, this requires tacit understanding and trust between the two sides, otherwise it will be difficult to play a role.

Cooperative combat skills could be said to be a way to temporarily increase one's power under the premise of the original foundation. It was a pity that the time and place were not right, and Alan did not have the mood to think deeply about this question at this moment.

I'll leave everything to the future.

At this moment, Broy, who was the most injured, shook his head and woke up from a short coma. Even the copper skins and iron bones of the Highlanders were bleeding from this collision. Lucy immediately bandaged him, and soon stopped bleeding and cleaned the wound slightly. This injury wasn't a big problem for the Highlanders. The heavy collision shattered the Origin Energy that protected his body. The Origin Energy uncontrollably surged out of his veins, but he suffered some internal injuries.

"Alright, let's see what's in the power room." After Lucy finished bandaging Brooey, she waved her pink fist and pointed at the wall beside the door like a commander, "Somebody pry it open for me!"

Alan directly carried Qianjun up and waved his heavy saber, tearing open a hole. With another pry, the complicated system circuits beneath were exposed. Lucy licked her lips and squatted down vigorously, fiddling with the circuit panel. Not long after, the automatic door cracked and retracted to both sides. Perhaps it had been too long since the door opened, and dust kept falling from both sides of the door.

Everyone retreated. When the door opened, they could clearly see that there was a dark passage inside. The passageway was about three to four meters long, and there was only a row of red emergency lights on both sides. It seemed that the main lighting had lost its function.

"Let's go." Alan carried Qianjun and took the lead.

Lucy and the others walked behind and entered the power room. The automatic door closed itself, completely isolating them from the outside world. The air in the power room was very stuffy. Dust could be seen floating under the lights. It seemed that no one had entered this place for many years. In the blink of an eye, he arrived at the end of the passageway. After stepping on it, Allen abruptly retracted it.

"What's the matter?" Lucy, who was walking behind him, saw that something was amiss and stuck her head out to look at the ground.

The metal floor of the power room was covered by something fleshy, and it was like some kind of living organism's tissue that was sprinkled over the ground. Through the dim light, one could see that the thin flesh membrane was covered with many nerve cartilages. Among them, the cyan-purple nerve was the thickest, and countless bright red nerve filaments extended around it, forming an exceptionally complex neural network.

"What is this?" Alan asked.

Lucy didn't know, but she shook her head and said, "Everyone be careful."

The power chamber is a wide circular area with a metal cylinder in the middle connecting the ground to the dome. The surface of the metal cylinder was filled with pieces of crystalline material, most of which were dim and irrelevant. However, a small fraction of it still emitted blue light from the inside. There were six circular metal platforms with simple patterns on the surface, and large blue crystals were placed on top of them. Four of the platforms were no longer in operation. Only the two remaining platforms still had afterglow inside the crystal stones. They would flicker from time to time, and then fluorescence would flow between the lines on the surface, flowing downwards, disappearing into the floor.

Most of the floor was covered with strange membranes, and even the metal columns and bases in the center climbed up quite a bit. Not far from the entrance of the power room, Alan could see a few corpses from afar. These corpses had already become bones, and their flesh and blood had completely decomposed and melted away. They were still wearing the armor in front of them. When Alan walked to one of them, he could see cracks and dark red spots all over the armor. It was obvious that he had fought fiercely with the enemy in his lifetime.

These corpses were basically only the upper half of their bodies, and the lower half of their bodies were connected to the flesh membrane. It was as if the flesh membrane covering the ground had grown from the corpses. It was extremely strange. When Alan was examining a corpse, a spider the size of a fingernail suddenly emerged from the ribs of the corpse. It seemed to be frightened by Alan and suddenly retracted into the ribs.

Alan also found it strange to see spiders in the power room. '"Boss, come over here," Welik shouted.

He stood up, stepped on the meat and walked towards Welik. After Ellen left, the membrane he had just stepped on shook slightly. The hair-sized pink nerve lit up, followed by the thick cyan-purple nerve. After a regular flash, everything calmed down. At this time, the spider drilled out from the crack in the bone again. The surface of the spider suddenly split open and rolled out a silver eyeball, looking in Allen's direction.

William and the others were standing beside a corpse.

The corpse was tall and unskeletalized. The muscles beneath his skin had already shrunk, and his wrinkled dry skin was almost sticking to his bones. It was holding a rough warhammer in its hand. The surface of the warhammer had natural markings. It was the weapon of the Saber Demon Chieftain. Without a doubt, this corpse was none other than the Saber Demon Chief. He sat on the ground, his hands powerless to both sides, but before he died, he also tightly grabbed onto the warhammer.

A portion of the chief's skin had already assimilated with the flesh cloth on the ground. He did not know why the Saber Demon would undergo such a change after its death. However, looking at the lifeless corpse, Alan felt that something was wrong, but he could not say what was wrong. The chief leaned against the metal cylinder in the center of the power room. This was actually the console of the power room. Lucy had already walked to the other side and kept pulling out the crystals on the surface.

After the crystal stones were lifted out, a thin rectangular chip was basically attached to the back of the crystal stones. Most of the chips were already dim and unrelated. Only a small portion of the crystals were still lit up, and their chips still flickered with star-like fluorescence. When Lucy touches the fluorescent light with her fingers, the chip will have a lot of patterns on it. The girl began to use her fingers to scratch the fluorescent light, allowing them to move along the lines of the chip to a specific location.

"How is it?" Alan walked over and asked.

"Our luck is not bad. The ship's reactor is about to go out of service," Lucy said. "At the moment, it's not going to last more than 50 years. There's still energy available, so I can give it priority to the ship's main system."

"What do you want to do?" Allen said.

"Do you think that if we cut off the energy and open all the clearance gates, the Saber Demon will let us swagger away?" Lucy blinked her eyes and said, "So I want to give them some trouble to see if I can operate the weapons platform inside the ship, or if there were any defenders left. If not, I'll just remove some of the sentinels' dormancy devices. I think I can cause some trouble for the demons."

Lucy patted Ellen and said, "Go, take out those glittering crystals."

Ellen was happy to help her. After pulling out seven or eight chips, he suddenly heard Wilick say, "Eh? Why are there so many spiders in the power room?"

Lucy stopped and looked down with Alan. At some point, a group of spiders crawled towards them from all directions. However, these spiders were simply too small. Even if they were mutated creatures, it would be difficult for them to threaten everyone. However, it was not normal to see a spider in the power room. As far as Alan knew, there was no such thing as a spider on Nether Domain Star. No matter what type of spider it was, there was no such thing!

Hundreds of spiders crawled and formed a rustling sound, causing Lucy to shrink back. Alan looked at her and saw a spider crawling down a metal column not far above Lucy's head. The surface of the spider's body suddenly split open, and then a silver eyeball rolled out. The eyeball looked at Lucy, then the spider knuckled and jumped down at her.

The eyeball suddenly bulged, forming a sharp point. The surface of the spider was quickly dyed with a layer of silver ash, and after twisting in mid-air like a liquid, it formed a silver nail and pierced into Lucy's head. Just as they were about to nail the girl's head, a black tide swept over. Qianjun smashed into the silver nail and bounced it away with a tinkling sound.

Only then did Lucy realize something was amiss and look at the silver nail on the ground. The silver nail twisted and turned into a drop of silver liquid.

Lucy's expression changed greatly as she exclaimed, "It's the Silver Winged Runner!"