Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 1436 - 710: Is This Giant Ship a 4-Cylinder? (Part 3)

"Finally reached the end." Li Wenxi exhaled.

"Seems like there’s nothing... Wait, what’s that?" Xu Ying’s eyes lit up.

The three saw that at the end of the path, there was a... small metal door?

This place... actually has a small room?

"Could it be a room for engineers specifically meant for maintenance here?" Xu Xin murmured.

"Could it be? It’s so hot here... Ah, it doesn’t seem so hot anymore!"

On their journey, they had seen a total of four giant metal cylinders.

The engine of this giant ship, is a four-cylinder engine.

Of course, each cylinder is as big as a building.

And the last metal cylinder is already over a hundred meters away from them.

Perhaps due to the cooling measures in place, the temperature here is now about thirty degrees.

While thirty degrees isn’t comfortable for regular people, it’s still a tolerable living temperature.

For alien invaders, perhaps it’s even less of a concern.

So, having a small room here doesn’t seem bad.

"Keke."

Xu Xin pulled the little creature that began to doze off on his shoulder into his arms and wrapped it in the cloaking cloak.

"Let’s go, let’s take a look over there."

The three walked to the door.

The door wasn’t closed, but rather half-open.

As they got closer, the trio could increasingly smell a damp, putrid scent.

This scent was something they actually smelled before they got down here and saw the propulsion system.

However, the scent wasn’t overwhelming, so they gradually got used to it.

But as they approached the doorway, the scent immediately intensified several times.

This caused them to immediately furrow their brows.

"Inside here, could it be..."

Xu Xin stretched out his hand to slowly open the half-open door.

Immediately, a strong stench assaulted them!

"Ugh..."

The trio couldn’t help but cover their noses and mouths.

Goodness, this smell is just too...

Upon seeing the interior, they immediately identified the source of the stench.

On the ground, there were two puddles of decaying mush.

Clearly, they were two alien invaders.

But this mush was no longer pitch black, but rather gray-black, and atop it crawled several...

Tiny, black specks.

In the moment Xu Xin opened the door, these specks buzzed up several centimeters, forming two black swarming balls around the decaying mush.

But after just two seconds, they seemed to sense no danger, and attached themselves back to the bright mush.

"Hmm... these bugs wouldn’t be..."

Li Wenxi tightly covered her mouth, mumbling.

She was somewhat afraid of these scavenging insects flying into her mouth, that would certainly be damaging.

The clearly long-dead and severely rotted alien invader corpses on the ground had been gnawed to mush by these scavenging bugs.

Really... unspeakable.

Xu Xin felt his trypophobia might flare up.

And Keke had entirely tucked in its small head, leaving only two small ears exposed.

"There were indeed two alien invaders living here, but they’re already dead..." Xu Ying also covered her mouth and said, "However..."

They saw quite a few devices in this room.

Some press buttons, levers, and such.

"Should be switches controlling this power room, right?" Xu Ying seemed interested, "Should we pull them to try?"

"Uh..." Li Wenxi looked at the insects covering the two alien invader corpses, "Do we really want to go in... Also, those switches, we don’t know what they do either... Ah!"

Li Wenxi stared blankly at the corpses on the ground.

"What is it?" Xu Xin asked, noticing her gaze fixed on the corpses, his eyes shifted, "Did you find something on the corpses?"

"...Yes." Li Wenxi nodded honestly, "It’s... a metal card."

Metal card.

Xu Xin looked at the various control devices in the small room.

It seemed likely they needed the metal cards from the bodies of these two alien invaders to operate the switches.

"I’ll get it."

Xu Xin took a step toward the two corpses.

Merely stepping forward, those black specks were immediately alarmed, collectively flying up again to form a dense bug ball around the two corpses!

"Don’t!" Li Wenxi hurriedly pulled him back, "We don’t know the aggression level of these bugs, and they might be poisonous!"

Those two alien invader corpses already appeared somewhat pale...

"Then..." Xu Xin furrowed his brow slightly.

"Brother, use that cooling device." Xu Ying suddenly suggested, "At minus one hundred degrees, I don’t believe these bugs won’t freeze to death!"

"Makes sense, but... wouldn’t that freeze these facilities too?" Xu Xin said, touching his chin.

He actually wanted to try lighting a fire to see if he could make these bugs rush toward it, like when they previously dealt with the swarm.

But there’s already a light source here, and the bugs seem uninterested in it, not a single one flew toward the light source; they all stuck to the alien invader corpses.

They only cared about the corpses on the ground.

"If they get damaged, they get damaged, we can always leave directly." Xu Ying said, "At least we can’t let these scavenging bugs bite us!"

The bugs devouring the alien invader corpses felt like they weren’t Earthly organisms.

Who knows what lethal alien bacteria or viruses they carried?

Maybe not even Qi Xuefei’s medication would work!

Xu Xin nodded, immediately activated his wristband, and released the cooling device.

Immediately, the surrounding temperature plummeted!

The place was originally just thirty degrees, but after releasing the cooling device, it plunged to minus seventy or eighty degrees within seconds.

Making the three shiver suddenly.

The scavenging flies reacted more dramatically.

The flies originally flew rapidly, forming orderly spheres around the two corpses.

But during the seconds the temperature dropped drastically, their formation went chaotic!

Then they all fell from the air, dying scattered on the ground.

A dense scatter on the ground.

"Should... be dead now, right?" Li Wenxi softly spoke, looking at the flies on the ground, "They shouldn’t come back to life, right?"

And at the same time, the two alien invader bodies on the ground also seemed to instantly stiffen.

A layer of white appeared.

At least... not as disgusting anymore.