Chapter 959 (1/2)
While Hao Ren hated to admit it, Lily the dumb husky could actually come up with some rather sensible suggestions. Lily was right. The arks do not need a permanent place to call home. To the people in it, the concept of ‘homeworld’ had long vanished, and even a generation or two would not revive such a notion within their minds. So regardless if you were to give them a planet, or how long you would allow them to live on one is immaterial. Now what the arks sorely need is a place to call port, and a chance to repair those ancient, decrepit and now soon to fall apart systems. Even ten years would be too optimistic a timeframe to complete the repairs.
Hao Ren ran through his progress within the Plane of Dreams, and figured that he would probably run into a suitable planet soon enough. At that time, he will just have Lawrence and his kin to move again.
Y’zaks was a little apprehensive when he heard Lily’s suggestion. “While technically possible, but humans are fickle. It’s easy to send them to Io, but after they find out about the world beyond the ark, getting them back into space may not be as easy.”
“Oh? The rampaging mad demon king finally gotten a grasp of human psychology?” Vivian gave Y’zaks a wry look.
“That’s a minor problem.” Hao Ren laughed. “Any case, the arks controls are with Nolan. I tell you, after knowing old man Lawrence, those buggers down there are just really bratty children. While me as outsider should not interfere with their social order, but I have a responsibility to stop these rascals from wrecking other’s property. If they could rebuild their civilisation, that will be for the best, if they were to get mired in chaos for a length of time…. then giving them a spank would be a duty of a proper adult.”
He then aded. “Of course, that’s after we get the Siren’s approval. I’ll go look for Queen Katreina once we go back, and see if she’s okay in letting someone else bunk on her homeworld. We cannot afford another mistake like Tannagost. So before that… Nolan, move the arks near the drone hives. Let the drones run some emergency repairs on the ship. There’s some defensive firepower there too, that should protect the ark.”
Nolan nodded as her projection disappeared from the bridge. A moment later, Hao Ren saw the arks started turning slowly. A flash of silver light beamed from the ancient black hulls (that is the light from the osmotic cores). The massive engines on the side of the arks started a series of complicated realignments and adjustments as the normal engines shut down one-by-one while the grids of the distortion generator into standby, turning from dark red, into blazing white. What followed was a series of dimensional distortion appearing all along the arks length, as one-by-one the arks entered hypserspace travel and disappeared.
As the arks vanished into hyperspace, what was left was a trail of distortion mirrors. And the stars around the area had distoted into odd shapes, while the center of the trail was pitch black.
Hao Ren did not return to Earth after the arks had left. He ordered Nolan to reset the navigational target and headed towards CARS.
He wanted to send the third gilded disc back, and talk to the three guardian giants about something.
Crystal Apple Research Station, Laboratory Sector
In the vast crystal hall, the third floating platform had been activated. A new gilded disc was suspended in mid air and started spinning alongside the energy field. A few light orbs and crystalline clusters floated around the disc, and started performing some prelimenary scans of this new test subject. Beside the floating platform, two other gilded discs floating like masks in midair, staring expressionlessly towards their new ‘sibling’.
From the surface, the three gilded disc are only suspended where they stood, but from the readings of the test instruments, there was a series of highspeed data transfer between the three discs, and the transference model was many times more complicated compared to when only two discs were present. They not only received the infdormation, they had also recompose, change, edit these information and every resonance results in at least two variables. And the edited data would cause a new resonance, and every cycle sees data being discarded, or new data formed to merge into the combined resonance of the three discs.