Interstellar Survival: Invasion

Chapter 184: Vapor Droid

Chapter 184: Vapor Droid

"So fast? Where are the 10 doors?" I asked in excitement.

The baron was about to answer when Li Yizhi interrupted him.

"Hand me your initial result. I will refine it," ordered Li Yizhi.

Baron Sisse did as told and handed Li Yizhi the portable drive containing the data.

With the portable drive in hand, Li Yizhi pulled out a cable from the part of her armor attached to her chest. The flexible cable reached out for the portable drive and wrapped several thin feelers around the drive.

It looked like the feelers were helping her access the data. That was the first time we had seen data being read without accessing the connection port. In fact, I even felt a slight sense of inferiority due to the superior technology she had. She then sat down and shut her eyes, looking like she was performing some intense calculations.

"She's acting all mysterious again. Canyue, look at this old lady. Is she going to perform the calculation with only her brain without any tools?" Zhang Bao'er complained non-stop like a devout monk chanting a scripture.

"We don't know for sure. There was once a person on Blue with amazing mental arithmetic capabilities, capable of easily calculating something mentally shortly after he was given the formula. Perhaps this senior is someone like that?" I said.

"Hmph. Then we'll wait and see. You already know I'm skeptical of someone acting like they have supernatural abilities," said Zhang Bao'er with a look of defiance.

"Brother Bao'er, I recall you mentioning ghosts quite a lot during our journey," teased Master Crystal.

"Why are all Storms the same? All of you are so quarrelsome!" said Zhang Bao'er as his bad temper flared again.

Upon hearing Master Crystal's voice, I recalled our earlier conversation about the issues with Li Yizhi's body. I tried to stealthily measure her body temperature. My system returned the result of 20 degrees.

'What is this? Humans are warm-blooded. No Blueling can survive with a body temperature of 20 degrees. Is her armor actually hiding her heat and messing with the scan?' I started wondering, but for the sake of politeness, I still refused to actually scan her body.

After shutting her eyes for 10 minutes, Li Yizhi stood up and calmly said, "Follow me, everyone."

The grave manner in which she delivered the command compelled us to follow her. Not even Zhang Bao'er voiced a complaint.

We followed her out of the forest. Outside the oxygen production room, I saw Baron Sisse releasing the triangular droid from its bindings and releasing the little fellow in the room, allowing it to resume its work of oxygen production. Wind Spirit and Dondon were already waiting outside with expressions of impatience.

"Why were you gone for so long? Did you find anything? complained Wind Spirit the moment she saw us.

"Sigh. The two of you missed out on it. The droid inside is extremely friendly. They actually threw us a feast with amazing dishes," teased Zhang Bao'er as he rubbed his belly.

The two appeared doubtful, but nobody bothered explaining the truth to them.

"Canyue, look, the holes in Zhang Bao'er's suit are gone," said Old Du.

I looked over and saw that sure enough, the holes in Zhang Bao'er's suit had mysteriously vanished after we had left the room.

"Looks like the information the baron had obtained from the droid's database was correct. Everything we saw in there was an illusion," I exclaimed in admiration.

With irrefutable proof before our eyes, Zhang Bao'er did not argue despite his argumentative character. Nevertheless, none of our theories was the focus at hand. We hurriedly followed Li Yizhi as she walked. Shortly after, we arrived before a door on the fifth layer. A flickering yellow light could be seen coming from the door.

There were even more electrical circuits running along the surface of this door than the door of the oxygen room. The design was extremely complicated, making it obvious that the room housed a program of similar complexity.

"It's here. Blow the door apart," commanded Li Yizhi coldly.

Old Du followed the order and installed a cluster bomb on the door. A similar scene appeared; the door collapsed onto the ground after the explosion. Different from the scene in the oxygen room, when the yellow door collapsed, a thick fog bubbled out of the room.

The milky white vapor instantly filled the entire layer, and every single one of us was surrounded by the thick vapor. The fog was so thick that we could no longer see our companions with our naked eyes. Only after turning on my laser probe did I manage to see the figures of my companions.

"With me, everyone. The water production program here seems rather powerful. The droid here will probably be hard to take. Work together. The two children who are basically burdens are to wait outside for us," ordered Li Yizhi without caring for anyone's feelings.

This time, Wind Spirit and Dondon both looked displeased. They had been treated with contempt repeatedly, and the haughty princess could not take it. Thus, Wind Spirit ignored the order and followed us with Dondon in tow.

Just as I was about to follow Li Yizhi into the room, I felt someone tap my head. I turned around and saw that apart from the dense fog, there was nothing there. Zhang Bao'er, the most likely candidate to play such tricks, was walking ahead of me, so it wasn't him.

'Weird, was I imagining things? But I did clearly feel something knocking on my head,' I thought in confusion.

But since we needed to keep moving, I threw the thought aside and followed the team into the world of fog.

"Who's knocking my head?" Zhang Bao'er suddenly scolded.

"Weird. I felt the same thing. Which fellow knocked on my head earlier?" asked Old Du, who was never prone to making trouble.

I felt a chill up my spine when I heard their words. There must be something else here.

"Be careful, everyone. There is something we can't see around here. That thing seems to be testing us. My head was knocked on as well," I said loudly.

"Everyone, circle formation. Children, stay in the middle to avoid being kidnapped. Weapons out and ready for combat!" Li Yizhi ordered decisively.

We immediately entered the circle formation with Dondon and Wind Spirit in the middle, and we looked cautiously at the world of fog around us. My hands maintained a tight grip on my laser gun. My laser probe was working rapidly, scanning the fog around us incessantly. Suddenly, I caught a glimpse of a silhouette in the fog. The silhouette, appearing intermittently in the fog, looked to be something with a pair of arms.

I tried my best to let my eye adapt to perceiving the world through my laser scan alone. Finally, while a thick clump of vapor was drifting away in front of me, I saw a white silhouette. I grabbed the momentary chance and fired unhesitatingly at the silhouette.

More than 10 green laser beams shot toward my target and struck the white silhouette accurately. A muffled sound of a machine exploding rang out as the white silhouette vanished.

"Canyue, what did you see?" asked Zhang Bao'er with a stupefied look. He was still struggling to see something amid the fog.

"I saw a white silhouette hidden in the fog. I must have hit it, but it was able to escape," I said regretfully.

Oddly, after the white silhouette fled, the fog around us slowly vanished.

"How annoying. I'm getting tired of these illusions," Zhang Bao'er started complaining again.

After the fog receded, a brand new world appeared before our eyes. Unlike the oxygen room, two suns hung in the sky above us. One was blue and the other was purple. Around them were the silhouettes of other massive planets. Together, they formed a beautiful painting above us.

Beneath the beautiful double-sun sky was a beautiful world of water. Clear and gleaming blue water spread as far as we could see. A long and narrow path stretched out from where we stood. At the other end of the path was a green island. From the peak of the mountain on the island, a massive waterfall was falling right into the sea.

"This is too beautiful. What a decently constructed illusion," praised Old Du.

"Do you see that island? I reckon that's where the droid is based. Let's go grab it and control it to start producing rain clouds," said Li Yizhi as she pointed to the island.

Instantly, a whoosh sounded as a white flash shot up into the sky beside me. I turned around to see that Anxashe had just released an arrow. His hands were still slightly trembling as he maintained his grip on his bow.

We hurriedly looked at the sky. We could see the arrow working hard to fly toward the sky. After rising for about one kilometer, I saw that the arrow had struck some sort of a transparent barrier. It lost its momentum and started falling.

While falling, the balance of the arrow seemed off, as though the arrowhead had struck something we couldn't see. It dropped faster and faster and landed on the sea after several seconds.

"What did you hit? Why couldn't I see anything?" asked Zhang Bao'er.

"There was a beast in the sky. I saw that it had transformed into the shape of a star, so I tried shooting an arrow at it," said Anxashe.

Zhang Bao'er acted skeptical again. "A transparent beast at an altitude of one kilometer. It's unbelievable that you can actually see that far."

I noticed that the arrow had not sunk into the sea. Rather, it remained floating in an odd position with its nock pointing to the sky, looking as if it was stabbed into something. That was enough to prove that Anxashe was telling the truth.

"Listen up, everyone. The illusion generator here is extremely powerful. It is capable of creating monsters that can blend with the surroundings. Stay close to me. We will charge toward that island. Do not stop no matter what happens," ordered Li Yizhi sternly.