Chapter 1528 - Forced Landing (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The night sky was hanging low on this planet as the light of civilization had disappeared on the planet a long time ago. The rapid-growing virgin forests and vines had long reclaimed the land once covered by metal and cement, and the skyscrapers of thousands of years ago had turned into steel skeletons, collapsed bridges had become dreck at the bottom of gorges and riverbed. Even the indestructible buildings that were once regarded as miracles were not imperishable after all; they had crumbled to the ground in the jungle, been lying deep under the yellow sand and submerged under the ocean. Only some of the exposed bleak ruins still pointed to the sky like the skeleton of giants.

Moss and vines had covered these grim bones, and the green that signified life seemed to have given these lifeless ruins a thriving makeover—without the participation of humans after the demise of civilization.

The faint glow from the two round moons sprinkled down from the sky, illuminating the world where artificial lights had gone off. This world was so dead quiet that even the sounds of breeze blowing past the cracks and holes in the ruins were audible. Occasionally, there were some short screams, and rustling sounds came from the corners of some plants. The sounds came from the fight between predators and small animals at night.

But such a peaceful night was suddenly shattered.

Over the ruins of a city almost wholly swallowed up by the forest, the glow of the two round moons flickered as the starry sky began to ripple like the water surface. Starlight distorted and formed into a whirlpool accompanied by a series of flashes. A gigantic object suddenly rushed out from the most distorted sky; it was a silver-white spaceship with thick and sharp lines. Blue energy veins were flashing on the belly of the spacecraft. The rear of the spaceship was billowing black smoke as metal fragments and sparks spurting like blood and organs out of a monster. The spaceship adjusted its angle in the air; it seemed that it was still under control. But then something in the belly seemed to have been overloaded. As a wave of explosion ensued, armor plates and components began to fall out of the fuselage. The spacecraft tilted, slid in a downward arc toward the southeastern direction.

The thunderous sound of explosions and fire had never stopped as the spaceship went down, startling the wild animals that lived in the woods and ruins. They ran out of their hiding places and fled toward the nearest water sources. It was as if this kind of explosion and fire falling out of the sky was not the first of its kind, they had learned to run to the shelters that offered the best survivability.

But the spacecraft did not explode over their heads, nor did the spaceship drop any explosives from the sky. It just glided in a very exaggerated trajectory, lowering its height while slowing down at the same time before it landed, or rather crashed, way away from the ruins of the city, in the level wasteland.

Shortly after the spacecraft crashed, the earth began to shake slightly before a loud noise was heard. A group of wild animals that had already reached and even hidden in the water looked up. When they saw no disaster coming, they calmly went back to their lairs and nests.

It seemed that they were no strangers to this thing.

The impact of the ‘landing’ was not as strong as thought. The inertial stabilizer of the spacecraft was overloaded, but it still managed to minimize the force of impact when the spaceship touched the ground. Everyone, however, felt it pretty rough onboard. After all, watching a land suddenly appear out of the blue in front of the eyes and crashing toward it was horrific enough. It was especially so for the Nangong siblings and Rollie, who seldom flew.

But Lily appeared a lot calmer than others. After all, she had just experienced flying up to 90,000 miles rubbing shoulders with the sun.

She scrambled to her feet and still had time to tidy up the hair on her tail.

“Have we landed?” Nangong Wuyue carefully poked her head out of her ‘tail ball’ and felt disoriented. “Am I or the place spinning?”

Hao Ren nodded while checking the damage report of the spacecraft. “Good news, we have landed smoothly.”

“You call crashing on a planet from outer space a smooth landing?” Nangong Sanba muttered as he helped Nangong Wuyue untie her tail. He was still in a state of shock. “I just f**king thought I was going to die.”

Hao Ren’s mouth twitched. “Okay, we have crashed safely. At least we are standing on the land now.”

The projector on the console flashed a few times, and then a distorted image appeared. The image kept flickered for a few seconds before it became clear. It was Nolan, the brain and consciousness of the spaceship. “I appreciate your humor, but as the one who has crashed, it hurts.”

“Have your functions restored so quickly? That just saves me the trouble of checking it myself. How is the spacecraft?”

While talking to Nolan, Hao Ren bent down and got hold of a furry tail under the chair. He grabbed and pulled it out. It was Rollie, who had curled herself up in a ball of hair. “Wuyue, could you please examine this dumb cat to see if she is injured? I think she has hit her head.”