Chapter 460 (1/2)
The planet of the Aerymian elves was beyond the World Gate.
The brilliant light film rippled and the first thing that flew out of the gate was the Petrachelys. It was followed by Vimm’s fleet and then the Helcrown, which had been escorted by the fleet. At the very end of the line was the gigantic wreckage.
A space fortress, similar to the size of Aerym’s floating island slowly floated out of the World Gate under the towing barge. The mottled hull was covered with remnants of huge tentacles. Scars, dents and radioactive perforations caused by explosions could be seen everywhere on the deck. A fleet of Aerymian elves who were waiting near the space station already knew that a huge wreckage would be parked on their tracks, but they did not expect the size of the wreckage to be so daunting. Although they had the experience of transforming huge floating islands, the transformation was carried out on the base of the rock layer. The ships they actually built were not that gigantic.
Nonetheless, they reacted quickly. After Vimm issued the order, a group of piloted spacecrafts began to flash bright lights and flew past the towing barge, leading the gigantic wreckage to the predetermined area to dock.
The “port” for the wreckage had been built about 1,000 km away from the space station. Dozens of silvery-gray spires were floating there, and the spires were connected by beams of light. There was also a small space station, whch acted as the “port’s” control center. These were the things that the elves of Aerym used to fix their floating islands that went out of control in the “death land”. The spires could be anchored in space and the small space station functioned as a surveillance facility. Now that the floating islands were gone, these devices lost their purpose. They were originally prepared to be recycled, but they were now useful again.
Although Aerym’s technical expertise was not the greatest in the entire cosmic civilization, it was at least good enough to help Hao Ren.
“The wreckage will be parked in the new planet of Aerym from now on. There is no extra space in Kuiper Station. Raven 12345 has clearly given me the right to dispose of this wreckage.” Hao Ren looked at the scene and turned to the communicator next to him. He could see Vimm’s image floating above it. “Just make sure the boat doesn’t drift into space.”
Vimm nodded and said, “Rest assured, that will be easy.”
The spacecraft wreckage from the Otherworld had special research value. Its main value lay in the First Born that traversed the void. After Hao Ren reported to Raven 12345, she said that she only needed a small number of its tissue fragments to carry out research. The wreckage itself was useless to her, so naturally, it became Hao Ren’s big toy. Hao Ren wondered what he could do with it. Turn it into a sea view room? He could not find such a big beach. Turn it into an apartment building? Nobody would rent it. Turn it into a battleship? It was not as sturdy as the Petrachelys. And honestly, he felt that even if he tried to sell it as scrap metal, nobody would want it. Hence, he decided to leave it on the new Aerym planet as a great treasure.
After all, this planet was also his property, right?
Despite that, Hao Ren had a feeling that such a huge space fortress would eventually come in handy. It was such a high-tech object that the average person could not have even imagined it. After transferring the remains of the First Born, someone could probably think of a way to use it…
Hao Ren sent out dozens of autonomous robots from the Petrachelys and allowed those little guys to go into the wreckage and cut each part of the First Born’s structure. He would bring those samples back to Raven 12345. He let those autonomous robots stayed there for the time being to clean up the remains of the First Born and preferably, dig up the wreckage in relatively good condition. He also expected them pile it up and put the pieces on a nearby natural satellite. The new Aerymian planet had a medium-sized moon, where they could build an engineering station on. Though he had no idea what the use of keeping it was, Lily said something that everyone deeply agreed with: “It did not matter if it was useful or not, just bring it back and keep it. It may just come in handy someday!”
Although the husky was a little dumb, sometimes she was still very insightful.
Cleaning up the wreckage, which spanned hundreds of kilometers was not an easy project. However, autonomous robots were highly efficient, and each of them came with small space containers (used to store their vast array of kits and materials), so it probably would not take long. Hao Ren was not in a hurry anyway, so those little ones did not have to worry.
After he had arranged the long-term projects in space, the Helcrown began to descend slowly, ready to enter the atmosphere to greet their new neighbors.
As the team’s “only highly educated girl”, Lily helped Y’zaks with writing a bulletin about their circumstances. It was sent to everyone in the city when Helcrown departed. Now everyone in Helcrown knew that they had come to another world and they were about to secure a dream home. But to be honest, they were all muddled up. Anyone who had a normal mind may not have been able to react to it properly at that point. Plus, they could not believe that such a good thing would happen to them. It was an incredible stroke of luck like pennies from heaven!