Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 1424 - 707: Swipe the Card!

Xu Xin and the other two followed behind Keke.

At the same time, they were observing these machines around them.

"What do you think these machines are for?"

Li Wenxi asked, puzzled.

"They look so strange..."

These machines were much smaller compared to the huge machines Xu Xin and the others had seen before, which were used to process scarlet crystals.

Each machine was two meters tall, standing upright.

It was like a series of tall tombstones.

But they weren’t made of stone, they were made of metal.

Moreover, each machine had different patterns on it.

These patterns weren’t engraved but were composed of densely packed dark red spikes.

The spikes were at least five to six centimeters long, and looked extremely sharp.

The areas without patterns were composed of relatively shorter and thicker black spikes.

Every machine looked like a porcupine, covered entirely with spikes from top to bottom.

Thinking about how he almost collided with these spike-covered stone slabs when he descended earlier, Xu Xin felt a bit fearful in hindsight.

Fortunately, an alien invader’s corpse had blocked him just in time.

Otherwise, he might have ended up lying in a pool of blood.

However, it wasn’t such a big deal, as they all carried a large bottle of Qi Xuefei’s medicine, so they weren’t afraid of getting hurt.

But they worried what kind of reaction these strange stone slabs might have.

"These things wouldn’t be tombstones for alien invaders, would they?" Li Wenxi speculated, "The shape is reminiscent of tombstones. Besides, there are dead alien invaders everywhere here."

"So... do alien invaders just let their bodies decay after dying without burial?"

Xu Xin felt that speculation was not quite right.

"Hmm, perhaps this is a unique burial method for alien invaders?" Li Wenxi glanced around at the surrounding corpses.

"I don’t think so?"

Xu Ying found it unlikely to be so simple.

"This is the entrance to the giant ship, even if they wanted to bury the dead, would they choose a place like this?"

"That’s true..." Li Wenxi approached one of the machines and inspected it carefully.

"Ying!"

Keke’s voice came from ahead.

It was obviously urging them to hurry over.

Xu Xin and the two others immediately quickened their pace.

Passing through the area of alien invader corpses, the three saw Keke lying on a platform.

Xu Xin approached, and Keke immediately leaped into Xu Xin’s arms and burrowed inside his cloak.

"This is..."

The three noticed that the platform was covered with a dense array of buttons.

Clearly, it was a control panel.

Moreover, the construction looked somewhat familiar.

This control panel looked almost identical to the control panel in the underground prison where countless giant insects and beasts were detained and the Insect Mother was suppressed.

This indicates that the control panel from back then was made to imitate the internal structure of this giant ship.

However...

"This must be the control panel for this space, right?"

Xu Xin wanted to reach out to touch it but feared triggering an alarm, so he refrained.

Li Wenxi looked at Keke in Xu Xin’s arms: "Keke, did you bring us here to operate this control panel?"

"Ying!" Keke nodded its half-exposed little head.

"But how should we operate it?" Xu Ying studied the buttons on the control panel.

All the buttons had labeled text.

But she couldn’t understand the text.

"Brother." Xu Ying turned to Xu Xin, "Can you understand the text? Isn’t this the alien invader’s language?"

Xu Xin shook his head.

He couldn’t understand the text on the buttons either.

He could understand spoken alien languages but not written ones.

He’s essentially an alien language illiterate.

"I knew it..." Xu Ying shrugged slightly, "We didn’t really study alien invader languages at all. I’m already quite surprised you can understand what they say."

"So what should we do? Does Keke know?" Li Wenxi reached out and touched Keke’s half-exposed little head.

"Ying..."

Keke clearly didn’t know either.

Xu Xin frowned slightly: "Stepping back, are we really supposed to operate this control panel? Can we really touch the things here carelessly?"

They were just here exploring the giant ship to see if they could find alien invader weapons or discover something else.

It wasn’t necessarily a must-do.

It felt better to minimize doing unnecessary things.

"Ying!"

Before Li Wenxi or Xu Ying could speak, Keke was a bit dissatisfied.

The little creature extended a small paw and waved it, indicating that they should proceed; trusting it was right!

Xu Ying looked around and said, "But we don’t know what to do now? This place is obviously sealed, and aside from the entrance we slid down, there are no other exits."

The giant ship is massive, over two thousand meters, two kilometers long.

They were still at the entrance to the ship, so it’s probably not just this small space here.

But...

There weren’t any doors around, and the situation here was so bizarre.

"What should we do..."

Li Wenxi studied the control panel.

Suddenly, her eyes lit up.

"Hey, look!"

She pointed to a spot on the control panel.

In the upper left corner of the control panel, there’s a rectangular red box, about the size of a playing card.

"Is this a place to swipe a card?"

Swipe a card?