The Record of Unusual Creatures

It was a gigantic golden spacecraft. Its long axis should be around five kilometers and had an extremely symmetrical appearance. A series of round, curved metal beams and arched hull made it look like a grotesque and slender giant beetle. One end of the spacecraft is about three times larger than the other side. A large number of parabolic golden structures extended from the thicker end of the spacecraft to its waist, forming a cage-like structure, and inside the birdcage structure was a large number of neatly arranged raised devices—perhaps it was a weapon platform or something that was lethally powerful, such as a gravitational weapon or a material cracking unit. Hao Ren believed that there would be at least two high-tech things on the large spacecraft made by rebels.

The golden battleship was wandering aimlessly on the gravitational balance between Solenne and the Sun. There was no sign showing that it was controlled by anyone. In the rear part of the spacecraft, there was a series of shimmering narrow grids but only less than 10% of the grids released strong energy responses. It should be a propulsion system. The spacecraft was moving away from the sun at a very slow pace, propelled by this small amount of power. However, it seemed that it was hard to get rid of the gravitational force of the sun—if those grids were still in such a half-dead state.

The sun shone on the hull of the spacecraft, reflecting brilliant golden rays in space. It looked like a temple floating in space, solemn and majestic, but there was no sign of life inside.

The Petrachelys kept miles away from the golden battleship, wandering around it and releasing test signals of various frequencies. Nolan seemed very nervous. “Will it suddenly hit me?” she asked.

Hao Ren glanced at Nolan and said, “Aren’t you already tested it? This thing doesn’t respond to our signal at all.”

“Don’t forget that I’m looking straight at it. Aren’t you nervous when you confront something of your kind which is more than 10 times bigger than you?” said Nolan.

Hao Ren thought for a moment and realized that he had never been in a fight with someone or something of his size, even the husky was four meters taller than him after she transformed. But he was never nervous because those creatures were not of the same kind. The only time he ever fought with a man who was bigger than him was the battle with Muru. However, he was not fighting alone, so he could not understand how Nolan felt at the moment.

Hao Ren shook his head and turned his attention back to the spaceship. He turned on the communication with Muru and asked, “You see it? Is this spaceship made by the rebels? Do you know this model?”

“Yes, this is the battleship made by the rebels!” Muru immediately replied with a serious tone. “Try to zoom in, maybe we can recognize its identity.”

Nolan continued to approach the golden spaceship, zoom in on all the details and send it to the garage. The three giants gazed at the picture and then discussed quickly. As a veteran warrior, Lemendusa made the judgment and said, “It looks like an integrated command ship, which is modified on the basis of a warship. Those protrusions are devices that conduct electronic warfare and produce aggressive energy fields. The front end of the warship also has remnants of turrets. There’s not much this kind of ship in the rebel fleet. They usually serve as the flagship of the middle force and will be protected in the core of the fleet during the battle.”

“The spaceship seems to be in good condition, why was it abandoned?” Hao Ren wondered.

“We don’t know until we get in there,” Muru replied, “so many unthinkable things happened in this galaxy. And we don’t really know much about the rebels’ troops. The war broke out abruptly. The rebels used a lot of equipment that we had never seen before, and this kind of spaceship is one of them. We’ve fought with this kind of ship many times, but we don’t really know what’s inside it. This kind of spaceship is hard to capture.”

Hao Ren nodded and then instructed Nolan, “Prepare for the boarding process, Y’zaks, Lily and I will go in there and see. The rest of you will stay here and wait for our instructions.”

“Still don’t let me go with you this time?” Y’lisabet asked while holding a screwdriver, looking disappointed.

All she could think of was to enter the spaceship and tear some parts down. Hao Ren, of course, would not allow it. “Just stay on the spaceship. Who knows if there’s anything dangerous in that place.”

Hao Ren knew this demon girl like the back of his hand. He knew this little girl would try to touch everything all the way with the screwdriver. After experiencing the rebels’ remarkable self-explosive technology, he has made up his mind: Never let this little girl follow them!

“Oh.” Y’lisabet sounded disappointed. She climbed back to her chair and muttered to Lil Pea while Hao Ren, Y’zaks, and Lily left the bridge. As Petrachelys slowly moved closer to the golden spaceship, Muru’s voice came from the communicator. “Do you need me to go with you?”

Hao Ren thought for a moment and said, “Forget it, you probably can’t walk in there. The spaceship looks big, but it’s not for giants.”

“Then be careful.” Muru sounded a little sad, but he did not insist. “Those rebels are very cunning. This spaceship might be a trap. You’d better prepare the escape plan in advance.”

Hao Ren knocked on the data terminal on his shoulder and said, “This toy is my escape plan.”

“You know I’m important, so can you stop calling me a ‘toy’?”

Petrachelys was like a tiny hummingbird in front of the five-kilometer-long golden ship. It circled the giant spaceship and finally found something looking like a gate at the edge of the ‘birdcage’ structure at the rear of the giant ship. Hao Ren, Lily, and Y’zaks stood on the upper platform of Petrachelys, watching a group of UAVs flying to the gate and starting to cut the light golden armor around the gate with material pyrolysis rays.

Hao Ren and Nolan were closely watching the reaction of the golden battleship to see if it would react when the hull was damaged, such as activating the protective shields or releasing warning machines. But when the UAVs detached the whole armor plate from the spaceship, there was no reaction from the golden ship.

When the UAVs cut a big hole in the golden spaceship, violent air current and some metal fragments immediately gushed out of the big hole and the automatic damage control device of the spaceship was then activated. Hao Ren saw a large amount of liquid metal was ‘growing’ rapidly under the armor plate around the hole, trying to plug the hole. He immediately pulled Lily and Y’zaks and rushed in before the hole was completely healed.

Seconds after they rushed in, the hole was automatically sealed off.

When the air current around Hao Ren had calmed down, he stood up and looked at the hole behind him. He saw the pale golden liquid metal was moving through the armored wall and quickly covered the hole that was cut by the UAVs. The liquid metal was then hardened in a flash, leaving no traces of cut. The liquid metal was even molded into pipes and wires. Obviously, all the functions of the armored wall had been restored.

“Good technology,” the data terminal looked at it and praised the spaceship maker, “it’s good enough for a cosmic civilization. The entire shell of the spaceship should be able to grow and heal like this, and perhaps this is how it’s made.”

Hao Ren was impressed by the diversity of civilizations— the universe was so big that it had all kinds of technologies that you had never seen before.

A slight noise came from the front. Lily immediately looked up and saw a door was open. When the UAVs cut open a hole in the spaceship, some automatic devices were activated. The doors in this area were once closed. Now that the wall had been repaired automatically, so the doors were open.

“These basic systems are still running,” Hao Ren said while looking at the door, “but the higher level system has not yet responded.”

“To open the doors and repair the damage only need a simple automatic line to control, but activating the shields and self-defense firepower should require the participation of the mainframe,” the data terminal speculated, “I’m afraid the mainframe of the spaceship is down.”

Y’zaks continued to walk and said, “Then I hope it’s completely down.”