186: Chapter 186 The Reconnaissance Ship of the Gray-White Mechanical Holy Court?

The armor plate at the top of the cargo hold opened.

A figure plummeted directly from five hundred meters above.

Boom!

Chen Chen slammed into the center of the cargo hold plaza.

The alloy ground buckled instantly, and cracks spread outward.

The shockwave flipped over hundreds of people nearby, and the dilapidated iron frames rattled loudly from the vibration.

All thirty thousand rioters were stunned.

Some dropped their guns to the ground.

Others had been shouting "Charge!" but the sound got stuck in their throats, unable to be squeezed out.

Chen Chen stood up slowly.

His black tactical jacket was blown up by the shockwave, the Rift-Sky Gravity Ship-Slayer Blade hung on his back, and the sea-stabilizing needle was gripped in his left hand.

He scanned the corpses covering the ground, finally looking at those still holding weapons.

"Oxygen deprivation?"

No one dared to answer.

Chen Chen took a step forward.

"Think the cargo hold environment is poor?"

The crowd retreated.

A leader from The Three Major Alliances hid in the crowd and shouted in a low voice.

"Don't be afraid! He's just one person!"

"There are thirty thousand of us—"

He didn't finish the sentence.

Chen Chen's Mental Power exploded.

206 points of Mental Power turned into silver ripples, sweeping along the cargo hold corridor.

[Absolute Control: Gravity Field activated.]

[Mental Deterrence triggered.]

Thud!

The first row of people fell to their knees.

Immediately after, the second row, the third row.

The brains of the thirty thousand rioters went blank instantly, and the sound of knees slamming into the ground merged into one.

Some people still kept their hands in the posture of holding a gun, while their whole bodies were already kneeling on the ground, their breathing so suppressed they couldn't make a sound.

The leader hiding in the crowd suffered the worst.

Just as he tried to crawl away, he was pressed flat against the ground, his face stuck to the alloy floor, and two of his teeth were shattered.

Chen Chen raised his hand and tossed a blueprint to Shen Wanbing and Mio who had rushed down from behind.

"Deploy it."

Shen Wanbing caught the blueprint, golden light shining in her eyes.

"SS-rank Deep Sea Ecological Dome, can be deployed in the cargo hold."

Mio looked at the material list, her electronic pupils flickering.

"It requires two thousand High-Level Cores, one hundred Royal Court Blood Crystals, and thirty boxes of Ancient Crystal Marrow."

Chen Chen turned his head.

"There are some in the warehouse."

Yi Chang immediately handed over the authorization data pad.

"The cores just confiscated from the lower temporary warehouse are enough."

Shen Wanbing didn't waste any words.

"Mio, take over the cargo hold's top structure."

"Yi Chang, open the pipeline interfaces for number three, five, and seven."

"Tell Copper Hammer to shut up and start welding."

Mio complained while accessing the system.

"Working the moment you get back, your team really doesn't treat a ship spirit like a person."

Jiang Jiuyou's voice cut in from the deputy command console channel.

"You aren't a person to begin with."

Mio was silent for two seconds.

"Are you being polite?"

At the top of the cargo hold, hundreds of mechanical nodes opened simultaneously.

High-Level Cores were burned by the crate.

Royal Court Blood Crystals fused into the pipelines.

Ancient Crystal Marrow melted within the energy array.

Ten seconds later, an emerald green light curtain opened from the top of the cargo hold, covering downward along the four walls.

The turbid air was forcibly replaced.

The oxygen concentration curve rose all the way from red.

Twenty.

Twenty-five.

Thirty.

Thirty-two.

Shen Wanbing stared at the data.

"Oxygen concentration exceeds pre-disaster standards."

"Toxic particles decreased by ninety-six percent."

"Cargo hold life support pressure lifted."

The rioters kneeling on the ground were all dumbfounded.

Some took a few desperate breaths of air, and the cyan and purple on their faces began to fade.

Those who had just been shouting that only the upper levels had a way to survive were now looking at the emerald green dome above, like their bones had been pulled out.

"He... he can really save us?"

"Then what we just did..."

"It's over..."

Chen Chen didn't give them time to regret.

He took out the sea-stabilizing needle with a backhand motion.

Blue-gold light illuminated the entire cargo hold.

The High Priestess had just come down from the elevator and saw him raise the sea-stabilizing needle; her expression changed.

"Wait, that is the cargo hold's central axis array eye. Forcibly piercing it will—"

Chen Chen had already plunged the sea-stabilizing needle into the ground.

Boom!

The cargo hold's central axis array eye was pierced through by the blue-gold light.

The entire Floating City shook once.

The next second, the outer black fog made a piercing hiss.

Outside the suppression circle, the thick black fog was forcibly pushed away by a force.

One kilometer.

Five kilometers.

Ten kilometers.

Thirty kilometers.

On the high tower of the city wall, Qin Hongye saw the black fog line recede through the sniper scope and immediately cut into the channel.

"The black fog has retreated thirty kilometers."

"Safe zone formed."

"Remaining Aberrations in the outer circle are fleeing."

Iron Wall punched the turret in the South Gate channel.

"Boss is awesome!"

As soon as this sound came out, the old members exploded.

"The Lord is back!"

"The black fog has retreated!"

"There's air in the cargo hold!"

"Who just said the Boss was dead? Stand out!"

In the cargo hold, those newly recruited refugees knelt on the ground, not even daring to raise their heads.

Two top-tier items had landed.

Oxygen deprivation was solved.

The black fog was also forced back.

The reasons they used to riot just now were all crushed on the spot by Chen Chen.

Jiang Yanxue carried her blade and walked deep into the crowd.

She stomped on the knee of the hiding leader from The Three Major Alliances.

Crack!

The leader screamed.

Jiang Yanxue squatted down and patted his face with the back of her blade.

"Run."

"Didn't you just shout about dividing the City Lord Tower?"

"I heard your voice was quite loud, shout a couple more times?"

The leader was covered in sweat from the pain, his pants wet.

"I was wrong!"

"I was deceived by someone!"

"I was also doing this for everyone's survival!"

Jiang Yanxue laughed out loud.

"I'm tired of hearing that."

She grabbed his hair and dragged him in front of Chen Chen.

"Left him alive."

"He can talk, can identify people, just his knees are shattered."

Chen Chen looked down at the man.

"Who drew the route for you?"

The leader's lips trembled.

"I... I don't know the name."

Jiang Yanxue pressed the tip of her blade onto his other leg.

The leader immediately broke down.

"Gray-White Flag!"

"It was a person wearing a gray-white mask!"

"He said Chen Chen must have died in the deep sea, saying that as long as we held up the cargo hold, he could help us get the upper-level authorization!"

Shen Wanbing and Jiang Jiuyou spoke almost simultaneously.

"Gray-White Mechanical Holy Court."

Mio's projection popped up from the side, her expression also ugly.

"They left a backup plan."

Chen Chen raised his hand.

Jiang Yanxue understood and dragged the leader aside.

Chen Chen turned to the rioters kneeling all over the cargo hold.

"Judgment."

The cargo hold was so quiet that only the sound of breathing remained.

Chen Chen's voice spread throughout the city via broadcast.

"Those who participated in the riot, all have one leg broken and be thrown into the outer nuclear pollution cleaning tank of the Sea Scale."

"Life-long hard labor."

"The leaders, hang them at the South Gate."

"Live until the bones air-dry."

Someone in the crowd collapsed on the spot.

Someone wanted to beg for mercy.

But the Mental Deterrence hadn't completely dissipated, and they didn't even have the strength to crawl up.

Yi Chang walked to Chen Chen.

Her snake tail slowly retracted, turning back into slender legs.

Her black high heels stepped on the blood-stained ground, making crisp sounds.

She knelt on one knee and raised the city defense data pad with both hands.

"The Lord has returned."

"Cargo hold, shipyard, city defense pipelines, re-integrated into the main control sequence."

With this kneeling, the remaining people in the cargo hold also lowered their heads.

It wasn't acting.

They were truly afraid.

System prompts popped up immediately.

[Territory order restored.]

[Fear value of newly recruited population increased.]

[Overall territory loyalty increased.]

[Current core member loyalty: 94 or higher.]

[Lower-level refugee obedience: Forced stabilization.]

Chen Chen took the data pad without helping Yi Chang up.

"Get up, go calculate the losses."

Yi Chang stood up, the snake scales on the side of her legs receding into her skin.

"The list of leaders will be delivered within half an hour."

Jiang Jiuyou came down from the elevator platform, her cloak still bearing traces of seawater.

She glanced at Yi Chang, then looked at Chen Chen.

"The cargo hold is temporarily stable."

"But people from the Gray-White Mechanical Holy Court have mixed in."

Shen Wanbing also walked over, holding that scroll fragment in her hand.

"Chen Chen, let's go to the secret room first."

Chen Chen glanced at her.

Shen Wanbing didn't explain, only opened a corner of the scroll fragment.

The patterns on the edge of the blueprint were emitting a faint blue light.

It was completely consistent with the frequency of the characters on Chen Chen's system panel.

"This thing is self-deciphering."

"It's not an ordinary blueprint."

Blood Rose stood to the side, originally wanting to tease, but fell silent after seeing the code on the scroll fragment.

Shen Wanxing hugged her blanket and spoke softly.

"Sister, it seems to be calling Chen Chen's name..."

Chen Chen furrowed his brows.

"Let's go."

City Lord Tower secret room.

After the door closed, Shen Wanbing immediately activated the shielding field.

Mio, Jiang Jiuyou, Yi Chang, and Shen Wanxing were all left outside.

Only Chen Chen and Shen Wanbing remained in the secret room.

Shen Wanbing spread the [Mythical-rank: Interstellar Fortress (Fragment)] on the alloy table.

The next second, the system panel in front of Chen Chen popped up automatically.

[Ultimate vehicle evolution fragment detected.]

[Authorizing matching...]

[Match successful.]

The patterns on the scroll fragment lit up section by section.

The secret room lights flickered suddenly.

A line of strange code forcibly squeezed into the system interface.

[World truth fragment loading...]

[Warning: Current player authorization insufficient.]

[Warning: "Observer Chain" detected.]

Shen Wanbing's expression changed.

"Chen Chen, look at this."

She enlarged the projection.

Deepest within the scroll fragment, a string of coordinates appeared.

Below the coordinates, there was another line of text constantly jumping.

[Holder of the seventh Interstellar Fortress fragment: Gray-White Mechanical Holy Court.]

[The other party has located the first fragment's fluctuation.]

[Countdown: 59 minutes 59 seconds.]

At the same time, the alarm outside the City Lord Tower blared again.

Mio's voice came from outside.

"Chen Chen!"

"A reconnaissance ship from the Gray-White Mechanical Holy Court is opening a portal thirty kilometers outside the black fog!"

"It's deploying a coordinate beacon!"