Chapter 394: Escape (1/2)

Chapter 394: Escape

Translator: EndlessFantasy TranslationEditor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Before he hopped off the spaceship, Luo Yuan’s checked the entire building with his Sense for any signs of life. The insane slashing earlier had damaged most of the energy-transmission structures within the cabin. It was dark inside and apart from some glowing lights on machines that made no sense to him. It seemed to be empty. There were no living creatures or intelligent robots in sight. Although, if there were any, they would not have lasted long against his glowing blade.

While he was still in the air, he went into the Earth Pulse mode. As he landed, he lifted his foot and stomped down hard. His Sense that had gained two points made his Earth Pulse gain a level too. It was now level seven. The power of his Earth Stomp was a few times stronger than it was before.

An explosion echoed through the jungle like a bomb went off on the deck of the spaceship. The deck shook violently, but there was no damage to it at all. It was tough. However, the outer layer, packaging and strange decorations in the cabin splintered and shattered into millions of tiny pieces.

The entire spaceship shuddered for a few moments after. The effect of his Earth Stomp was no longer limited to that particular area. The ‘ground’ was now more of a general reference to his range. As long as the structure was connected to the ground and was not an independent system that floated in the air, the effect was no different to him stomping right on top of it. He did not stop his attack on the ship. He stomped three times continuously and the entire spaceship rocked fiercely.

The weaponry on the ship was no doubt powerful, but at the same time, it had its weaknesses. It was deadly at long distance attacks that were almost impossible to defend, had an almost impenetrable outer shell and it was also terrifyingly flexible to movement and strategy. However, when the interior was compromised, it fell apart immediately. The same would have happened to mankind in a similar attack, Luo Yuan thought, as the extraterrestrial beings had technology that could easily annihilate any human countermeasure he knew.

His strong Sense allowed him to visualize all the movement within the spaceship. Perhaps the attack was too sudden and Luo Yuan’s intrusion into the spaceship was so quick that the aliens had no time to brace themselves for the attack. There were only seven aliens in the spaceship and all of them seemed to have died when the first Earth Stomp hit. They were all smashed into small heaps of minced meat and bone. One of the corpses laid on a crescent-shaped machine. It seemed to be the only one that had managed to escaped the attack but it had passed out and laid there motionless. Seeing that it was was not moving, it was no threat to him so he decided not to slice it open with his saber just yet.

However, as compared to the fragile life forms that were on the ship, all the robots that were still intact had begun stabilizing and rebooting the ship’s powerful defense system. The Earth Stomp was nothing to such terrifyingly intelligent robots. They were similar to the Earthly robots in shape as they were round and sturdy. It seemed like they were categorized into three modes based on color and size.

Luo Yuan had seen the smallest one before. The middle-level one was yellow and stood at a height of one meter while the final robot was green and 1.5 meters tall.

To mankind, such a robot was tiny. Even for the third green robot, it seemed to not pose a threat at all. But, considering the size of the aliens, which was half a meter tall, such robots were considered massive.

The extraterrestrial civilization seemed to worship spherical figures. Be it the decorations of rooms, devices and the shapes of their robots, most of them were designed to be spherical. The shape influenced everything in the spaceship. Suddenly, Luo Yuan sensed the presence of a mini intelligent robot near the cabin that seemed to notice disturbance. It flew straight at him with a wide smile on its robotic face.

Luo Yuan lifted up his foot and stomped down hard again. That was no longer an Earth Stomp, but instead, what happened was more of a powerful Earth Geyser!

The deck shook once more, a terrifying wave pierced through the deck straight at the flying robot. Without a moment to react, it was hit hard by the force, rocketed into the ceiling and fell hard on the ground.

Slashes of electric arcs sparked on its surface. It struggled for a while, its body seemed like it was attempting an escape. But with a soft fizz followed by a tiny explosion, it fell immediately and its body shook the last time.

What the small robot had experienced was not a simple physical hit, but instead, it was hit with a high-frequency quake from the Earth Geyser. The more precise the technology, the more complicated the internal structure. Once a tiny part of the system was affected, the entire system would be compromised.

His Earth Geyser attack was the best against such intelligent robots. Luo Yuan used the same method to kill the rest of them too. If one hit was not enough, he could repeat it two or three times for better effect.

As time went by, the intelligent robots lay paralyzed, fizzing on the deck floor.

The strength of the internal weapons of the spaceship was very limited. After removing the external laser beam ‘claws’ of the spaceship, there were no other threats left within the structure.

He then decided to initiate a large scale attack to take it down. His strong Sense made the entire spaceship a kill zone for the last Earth Geyser attack.

Luo Yuan noticed a trail of smoke out of the control room that was located in the middle of the spaceship. The screens in the room started to shut off one by one.

Something seemed to be affecting the energy-transfer circuit, electric sparks shot high into the air! The reserved energy and machines lost their power and froze.

Soon, all the lights in the spaceship went off and the actual gravity in the ship was restored.

The gravity in the spaceship was only 60% the gravity of the earth. Luo Yuan felt like he was floating and it made him very uncomfortable. After a few seconds, the gravity went back to normal, and he felt much better.

After the power of the spaceship was completely out, he proceeded to destroy the possible cameras and all the controls on the spaceship. Now, he felt safer as nothing recorded his massacre of all the aliens.

Finally, Luo Yuan was relieved that the mission was a success. There were two stories in the spaceship and the bottom floor had a larger compartment. It was the location of the power center and an engine filled with gigantic metal tunnels. It was complex like a maze, and that floor was no doubt the core of the spaceship was where the most valuable pieces of technology were stored.

However, those gadgets were not what Luo Yuan was after. Those objects were massive and at least 100 tonnes to 10,000 tonnes. Even a simple small part weighed 100 kilograms! With him alone, even if he tried, he would not be able to take much back with him. Furthermore, he knew very well that the technology that was needed the most by the reconstruction area was not from the spaceship engine. Instead, they were more interested in the attack capabilities developed by the extraterrestrial civilization.

Higher functional energy weapons, higher density and more concrete nuclear fusion devices as well as more powerful analyzing abilities or more advanced detection techniques were part of the inventory he was supposed to search for in the wreckage.

Fortunately, all the intelligent robots were fitted with the first three technological advancements they needed. Although they were small, size did not determine the power within it. Though it was not the latest updated technology, skills were transferable and the differences were not too major. The biggest difference would have been the matchlock and flintlock, which came with similar threats anyway.

For the fourth technology they needed, it all depended on luck. However, based on Luo Yuan’s estimation, that was a simplified version of such a technology within the intelligent robots.