Chapter 1551 - The Lunar Base (2/2)

“She seems to have cooled down suddenly.” Vivian looked back at the robot lady, surprised. “It is a strange life form.”

“Maybe you blocked her cooling vent.” Lily shot Vivian a sideways look. “She just did not want to embarrass you.”

“I did not! I was at least one meter away from her! It is you! The hair of your big furry tail might have clogged the air inlet of N-6.”

Hao Ren decided to intervene lest the two quarrelsome partners went physical. “Stop arguing. By the way, N-6 has no radiator vent and air inlet. Nolan has said that N-6 is liquid cold.”

“Mr. Landlord,” Lily looked at Hao Ren with despise. “Most liquid cooling systems need radiator vents.”

Hao Ren was embarrassed.

The husky had embarrassed him in terms of common sense and intelligence.

But Hao Ren could not care less because the spacecraft was approaching the moon now.

Hao Ren and his team were in the lower compartment of the spacecraft. It was initially the weapon bay and part of the redundant system storage, but the autonomous robots had modified them into the passenger compartment. Hao Ren, Vivian, Lily, N-6, and Y’zaks were the main team members while Lil Pea, who hid in Hao Ren’s collar and poked out her head looking around curiously, could not be counted as one.

At first, Hao Ren had no intention of bringing the little mermaid along in this operation, but the little guy was enthusiastic. She nagged until Hao Ren gave in. Since Lil Pea had been well-behaved in several previous missions, Hao Ren decided to bring her along albeit reluctantly.

Hao Ren figured that he could readily hide Lil Pea in the dimensional pocket if the situation turned ugly. But letting the little mermaid stay onboard the Petrachelys, which was now in the middle of the battlefield, did not seem to be a good idea after all.

The rest of the men, including N-4 and her team members, stayed on board the Petrachelys.

Since the two transport planes that N-4 brought had lost their identification rights, Hao Ren suspected that the Cortex Prime had also blacklisted, or even issued an arrest warrant for N-4 and her team. The appearance of the N-4 team on the lunar base would guarantee the triggering of the alarm and failure of the operation. So, Hao Ren made them stay onboard the Petrachelys but brought along N-6 because he needed a guide.

Hao Ren could clearly see the situation of the lunar base through the external camera of the spacecraft.

Thousands of years of development and transformation had turned this lifeless, quiet, natural satellite into something unrecognizable from its original appearance. Deep gullies and holes covered the surface like dehydrated fruit. A layer of metal like a coat covered the land; those were the factory and residential complexes that the Executors built.

There was no clear boundary. The entire surface was a megabase of factories, mines, domes, and reactors with crisscrossing tracks and piping system that connected them together. Among the sea of metal structures, some places were even more densely populated with facilities, which, in a sense, could be deemed as the “cities”.

Above the moon, space stations and satellites were hovering in orbit. There were also orbital cannons pointing at the home planet neatly arranged in space.

The battered spacecraft began to decelerate, change directions, and swiftly but stably zoomed past the orbital cannons and surveillance satellites. Whenever the spacecraft passed by a checkpoint, there would be a brief security check.

They passed the identity verification.