Chapter 1693 - The Confused Prince and Princess (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Standing on the upper platform of the garage, Hao Ren watched as the refugees, whom he had just rescued, walked through the detection gate.

Nolan had only installed the detection gate and a temporary partition two minutes ago to ensure that everyone passed through the gate to enter the resettlement area. Supposedly, the detection gate was for security checks to prevent passengers, such as suicide bombers from sneaking into the area. But the real function of the gate was a lifeform scanner.

Hao Ren turned to look at the humanoid images on the holographic projection, below which was a progress bar. Whenever a passenger passed through the gate, the progress bar would extend a little.

Its purpose was to collect the lifeform data of the L’Haronne people. Whenever an inspector visited a new planet with intelligent life, gathering the parameters of the native lifeforms was the first task.

“Despite so many years on the job, it’s rare to work on a single task like this one,” Hao Ren lamented.

“Eighty percent is human, and there are a few mixed-races, such as elves in between.” The MDT floated next to Hao Ren’s head, reporting, “We’ve only saved a few hundred; the sample size is too small for us to analyze the species breakdown of the entire planet.”

Hao Ren waved his hand indifferently. “It doesn’t matter. After all, it’s just a start. But the real L’Haronne is very much different from the dream L’Haronne we visited earlier. The dream world groups many strange intelligent lifeforms on a single planet. Here, we’ve only seen humans and a few subspecies that are extremely close to humans so far. It looks like we can’t apply our experience in the dream L’Haronne here.”

Rheia rolled her eyes and said, “Are you blaming me for having a creative dream?”

“I still can’t believe that we just took in hundreds of refugees all of a sudden.” Lily scratched her head. Her ears flicked back and forth on her head. “Mr. Landlord, doesn’t this deviate from of our plan?”

Hao Ren shrugged. “You’ll get used to it. The life of an inspector is full of uncertainty. The only way is to adapt yourself. By the way, could you please tuck your ears away; there are no werewolves on the real L’Haronne.”

“Bah.” Lily snorted in dissatisfaction but still tucked her big fluffy tail and ears away.

The Petrachelys was neither an immigration spaceship nor a passenger ship. The living cabin could only accommodate a few dozen people, and there was no space for extra rooms and entertainment facilities. Building each of the hundreds of refugees a cabin would not be realistic.

Furthermore, Hao Ren was not going to allow those people to roam freely around his spaceship.

However, since they were refugees, they would naturally not be particular about the living condition and quality of life there. It was all the more so when these people had just escaped death, surviving the pirates’ guns and not falling into the World Scar. They would be thankful to have a safe place to stay.

The Petrachelys’ garage was massive. There were also many empty cabins added by the space expansion technology. Since the spaceship had transported some short-haul passengers a few times, the factory computer possessed a record of rapid resettlement facility drawings, which Nolan relied on to produce simple partitions and living necessities. Aided by the highly-efficient autonomous robots, Nolan completed the housing units while the refugees boarded the spaceship.

The refugees passed through the gates and walked to the end of the long winding corridor. There, they saw the clean dorms and were amazed. No one could have guessed that the novel and oddly-styled facilities had only been ready a few minutes ago and that they were standing in the garage at the lower section of the silvery-white spaceship.

After observing the refugee boarding process through a one-way transparent polymer window, Vivian felt bored and began to fiddle with a strand of hair on her chest. “They’ve boarded. Should we go and find out about their situation?”

“Captain Birken’s in Zone 1,” Hao Ren said. “At first, I thought that the old captain would have chosen to sink with the ship. Isn’t that a common story? I was ready to knock him out and bring him on board, but I was surprised that he didn’t follow the usual narrative.”

Lily could not help but shoot Hao Ren a look. “Who told you that every captain would sink with his ship? A uniformed old man with a white beard and a pipe would have abandoned ship, crying ‘it’s a trap’ the moment someone ‘biu-ed’ his ship with a pistol.”

Hao Ren knocked the husky maiden on the head and said, “Don’t simply quote game memes. Do you think everyone understands?”

Charlemagne walked cautiously into the room that was arranged for him. He had left the falling airship and was now standing in a solid spaceship, but he did not let his guard down. Instead, he was even more cautious in the strange and suspicious place.

The lack of magic sails and elemental trails, which made the ship seem unflyable, was not what mainly made him wary. The more important point was that with the erudite education he received, he could not even figure out where the ship had come from or the origin of the most common items in the ship.

The room door automatically closed after Charlemagne entered. He quickly turned around to check the door. After making sure that it was not locked, he began to look around the room. Charlemagne noticed that his cabin was cast from a type of silvery-white metal, and the finishing was meticulous as if it was the result of a one-time casting. The texture of the metal was unusual, its luster and hardness resembling mithril very much. But no one in this world would use mithril to build a house. So, he figured that it had to be some cheaper metal with excellent metallurgical performance.

Even so, the use of such remarkable technology and excellent material to build simple things amazed Charlemagne.

Charlemagne could easily see that the room had been built in a hurry. It had a square layout and was without any decorations. Besides having some windows and a door, it was basically a rectangular box made of six metal boards. The furnishings in the room were simple; there was nothing else he could do there other than use it as a sleeping quarter.

If the room were the result of a designer’s proper planning, it would only show that the designer had a catastrophic sense of aesthetic and design philosophy.