Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 982: Have you never taken it to heart?

"Arus binary starship, full speed ahead!"

Following the order from the new captain, Yieta activated the full performance of the new engine called the planetary power unit. After the enhancement, the space battleship, which had acquired a brand new look, emitted a high-pitched cry like a whale's long roar from the inside out, like the whistle of a train before departure. It leaped over the dark blue curtain that reflected the huge star rings and countless ancient celestial bodies, and flew towards the star field that was ravaged by the interstellar storm. The flame particles spurting out of the giant wings were like countless blazing fireballs, pushing the heavy ship's body and pulling out spectacular tail flames behind it.

To the storm that was sweeping across the star field like an invader, this warship that rashly broke into the center of the tide was undoubtedly insignificant and foolish. It didn't even notice that those stars that were countless times larger than itself in size and mass were wailing and trembling under the rush of this violent flow of magic power, and their surface protective layers were stripped off, revealing the reddish-brown and rust-colored interiors full of holes. It just rushed in. Could it be that it thought that the layer of steel armor was much stronger than the planet itself and was enough to protect itself from the storm?
This rash and arrogant behavior undoubtedly aroused its anger, and in an instant several huge waves formed in front of it, rushing over with great momentum. The unstoppable momentum was as if even if what was blocking its way was not such a tiny fish, but an entire nebula, it would be completely submerged by it.

The captain tapped the railing with his pipe and gave the order leisurely: "Start the Meteor propulsion device, turn the rudder to right, 30 degrees north east, and accelerate to 25 knots."

Her instructions were concise and clear, and even Yieta could react and quickly follow her instructions. As a result, the layers of metal armor at the tail of the Arus binary starship cracked open, revealing the dark and cold holes inside. They were somewhat similar to the holes on the wing bones, but with a larger caliber and a triple embedded structure, which obviously had a stronger propulsion force.

The next moment, the inside of the thruster seemed to have detonated countless planets at the same time and turned them into fuel, and instantly erupted with a star-blue flame that was brighter and brighter than the sun. The blazing flame pushed the Arus twin starship to accelerate suddenly, almost so fast that it turned into a meteor, drawing a straight trajectory in the raging and roaring interstellar storm, and instantly like an arrow shot from a bow, accurately piercing through the waves, and crushing their obstructions in an astonishing speed of less than one tenth of a second, so fast that even the huge waves themselves did not react, until the Arus twin starship flew forward for thousands of kilometers, the pierced holes were re-filled and slowly filled by the infiltrating magic flow.

Then the huge waves suddenly hit, and the surging "seawater" turned into an endless tide, sweeping across the entire star field. Every planet visible to the naked eye was trembling, and then lost its light and split and disintegrated. High-energy magic and low-energy magic themselves would not intersect with matter, but the energy storm and chaotic magnetic field caused by their collision would cause the gravitational field to be unbalanced, destroying the balance of the star from the inside, making it like a house without a main support, and it would collapse like a building block with a slight push.

Only the Arus binary starship escaped the impact of the first wave of flood peaks. After the tail propulsion device burned out, it fell silent again, returning to a cold and silent deathly silence, as if the dazzling eruption just now was just an illusion. This is the special feature of the meteor propulsion device. Its explosiveness and sustainability are inversely proportional. The faster the eruption, the shorter the duration, just like a meteor, gorgeous, dazzling, but fleeting.

It is necessary to seize this fleeting opportunity and turn on or off the Meteor propulsion device at the right time to use the amazing speed it provides to avoid danger while preventing the device from entering a cooling state due to overheating. This requires extremely high timing and psychological quality from the operator.

However, our Captain Gloria is undoubtedly well aware of this. She is on the platform with a big screen to view the overall situation. She often only issues concise orders, but they are all issued at the most appropriate time, and even the reaction speed of the driver Yieta is taken into consideration, so there will never be a situation where it is opened too early or closed too late. At least Yieta thinks that her command level is much better than Alice's. That guy can only stand on the platform and shout nonsense such as "get out of the way", "rush over" and "hold on". Those who know think she is talking nonsense, and those who don't know think she is commanding a Pokémon battle.

Under the wise command of Captain Gloria, the Arus binary starship successfully passed the obstruction of the outer tides and gradually penetrated into the core area of ​​the interstellar storm. From here on, the scale and frequency of the magic flow became more violent, even washing the surface of the dark blue curtain, causing the entire void to show an obvious inward concave distortion phenomenon, as if a huge hand was subverting the dark side of the universe, kneading the void like paper, tearing out dense wrinkles and deep torn gaps, comparable to canyons thousands or even tens of thousands of meters deep. Looking down, there was a dizzying darkness.

In addition, the star ring belt covering hundreds of thousands of kilometers formed by the wreckage of torn stars, the huge meteorites that originally existed in the universe, and the meteors captured by the gravitational field also caused considerable obstacles to the progress of the group. When sailing in this area, the Arus binary starship not only had to avoid the sunken rifts formed by the distortion of the void and prevent itself from falling into the darkness that would swallow up even the light, but also had to be on guard against the stellar debris that came at super high speeds under the involvement of the interstellar storm. They all had terrifying mass, and under the blessing of the energy storm and the chaotic magnetic field, they could easily burst out with destructive power comparable to that of a demigod or even a true god. Once a meteor flew in from outside the field of vision, even if the armor was as strong as the Arus binary starship, it would probably not be able to get away with it.

Fortunately, Captain Gloria was still very experienced in this regard. She appointed all the people on the ship except the driver and operator as observers, and asked them to pay attention to the outside world at any time through the operating platform and control screen of the Arus binary starship. Once danger was found, they would be warned in time, and then she would respond. Obviously, she seemed to make arrangements based on her experience of sailing on the sea, but what was the difference between the sea and the sea of ​​stars to her? Perhaps the destructive power of the interstellar storm was indeed many times more terrifying than the storm on the sea, but the warship she was commanding now was also countless times stronger than those sailing ships in the pirate era, wasn't it?

Lingge tacitly agreed to Gloria's seizure of power, probably out of this consideration. Alice, this useless person who occupies the captain's position and gives orders blindly, will sooner or later lead everyone to the end. It is better to support a truly capable person to take the position, and also find an excuse for serving the public wholeheartedly, rather than plotting to usurp the throne. As for the golden-haired maid hiding in the corner pretending to be a depressed patient? Who is she? I don't know her.

Under the captain's orderly command and the concerted efforts of everyone on board, the Arus Twin Starship was moving forward smoothly, and the pilot's operating level became more and more proficient. The interstellar storm seemed terrifying, but to be frank, it was just a natural imagination in the universe. As long as you are familiar with the laws of the explosion of magic flow, there is no reason that you cannot avoid it. Moreover, they also have the Arus Twin Starship, a warship that can be said to be ahead of its time. If they are still unable to do anything about it, what qualifications do they have to say that they want to replicate the miracles of the saints?
Saint Tumi is a ruthless man who can cross the sea of ​​stars with his mortal body.

Just when Linge expected that they should be able to get through the storm safely, as the Arus binary starship went deeper and deeper into the core area of ​​the tide, everyone saw an unexpected scene.

"What is that?"

It took several days after the power was seized - or maybe several weeks. There is no sunrise or moonset in the universe, and Lingge was too lazy to calculate the time. However, he felt that given the golden-haired maid's psychological resilience, none of the above might be accurate, and it might be several hours. In short, it took Alice a while to recover her spirit. She looked through the huge translucent screen in front of her, blankly at the center of the most turbulent interstellar storm and the blue tide that twisted into a terrifying vortex, and murmured, "It turns out that there really are little monsters in the universe..." They are called little monsters, but in fact they are not small at all.

It was impossible to accurately estimate their height by visual inspection. Lingge and others in the cab could only see the tip of the iceberg through the screen. The huge body that was looming in the surging magic flow oppressed everyone's sight. On one side was a giant bird with platinum flames burning all over its body. It had three heads, six huge wings and nine chain-like tails. Each head had twelve pairs of scarlet eyes, but only one claw on its belly, showing the rusty luster of the planet's extinction; on the other side was a ferocious beast covered with black flaming hair, with three wolf-like heads and a large circle of lion-like mane around its neck. The end of the fire was not black flames, but a strange blue residual light. It had no microblogs, but instead had circles of blue halos arranged in circles, swinging back and forth with the movements of killing and biting, stirring up circles of magic ripples. In addition, similar halos were also wrapped around its waist and limbs, but there were fewer of them.

In front of these two nameless horrific beasts, the Arus binary starship was as inconspicuous as dust. They did not notice the tiny fish that occasionally passed by, but focused on fighting the enemy in front of them. Obviously, both sides contained terrifying and majestic magic power, even a beginner like Lingge who was only a sequence nine could feel it, but the fight between them did not use any magic power, but the most primitive and bloody melee, claws tearing flesh, fangs gnawing flesh, white and gold feathers and black lion mane flying everywhere, like falling meteors.

This struggle even stirred up the state of magic flow, making the impact between high-energy magic and low-energy magic more frequent. The already turbulent interstellar storm became even more violent and restless, and with the battlefield as the center, a vortex zone was formed across the entire tidal area. The space collapsed and kept pulling inwards, crushing and swallowing all invisible matter.

The two sides were so engrossed in the desperate fight that they didn't care how many planets they destroyed, how many huge waves they created, or how many kilometers of space they disturbed. Their actions were dominated by the instinct to destroy the other side. But did they understand where this instinct came from, or did they just follow it blindly and gave up the desire to think?
Lingge thought it was the latter, and felt that it was not that they had given up thinking, but that they did not have the ability to think in the first place.

All power but no wisdom, this is probably the kind of huge and terrifying monster mentioned by the Great Wizard Sanzod in the "Almanac of the Stars". He believes that these monsters are the source of the cosmic tides, and their death will lead to the early arrival of the disaster of destruction. Now it seems that it is not groundless.

The game system gave the detailed information of the two cosmic monsters that were fighting:

[Extraterrestrial Disaster Beast—Phoenix of the Stars, HP: 10059061/20000000]

[Extraterrestrial Disaster Beast - Spiritual Beast Demon Kane, HP: 10148190/20000000]

So, although the two sides looked very different, they seemed to belong to the same race, and their health points were really exaggerated. Remember that the Earth Mother Titan in the Salia Plains only had one million health points? Of course, considering the size of the extraterrestrial disaster beast and the huge magic power contained in its body, such a difference in combat power seemed to be a matter of course.

Did the extraordinary people and magicians who lived in the Mirror Star World know about the existence of extraterrestrial disaster beasts? It seems that there is no other record except the Star Calendar of the Great Wizard Sanzod? Could it be that these extraterrestrial disaster beasts consciously stayed away from the Mirror Star, so that their fight would not affect the only planet in the universe that gave birth to life?

In terms of their intelligence and fighting instincts, they don't seem to have similar consciousness. In addition, there is another thing that Ling Ge is very concerned about, that is, their names: Star Phoenix Finnice and Spirit Guide Beast Demon Cain. Generally speaking, low-intelligence monsters will not give themselves such names, so this should be a code given by humans.

Who gave the alien beasts different code names? This is a question worth pondering. It could be Saint Tumi who had traveled across the starry sky, or it could be the great wizard Sanzod who had observed traces of alien beasts' activities, but Linger would rather believe in another possibility, a possibility that is difficult to say.

They were the ones who gave these alien beasts code names, and they were the ones who stopped the alien beasts from invading the Mirror Star World. Even the tidal phenomenon that has always existed in the universe may have been caused by their elimination of the alien beasts. Although it is unknown what their purpose is in doing these things, and whether they are well-intentioned, at least they did protect the fragile and beautiful planet.

When the magicians and extraordinary people, countries and religions, humans and aliens on the earth are still immersed in the struggle for power and interests, will they think that in the distant night sky, their long-time enemies have never taken them seriously and even indirectly protected them?

Thinking of this, Lingge couldn't help but remain silent, with mixed feelings.

Give me some meow