Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 1437 - 711: The World of Crimson Crystals (7,000 Words!)

"Let’s go in."

Xu Xin led the way inside.

The two alien invaders on the ground, being close to the cooling device, had already become somewhat rigid from the cold.

"Uh... their cards, they’re inside their bodies." Li Wenxi pointed at the two frozen alien invader corpses.

Xu Xin nodded, then lifted his foot and stomped down.

"Crack!"

The alien invader’s corpse, already frozen stiff, shattered underfoot and scattered across the ground.

The corpse of this alien invader had long been riddled with holes by those black bugs, and after being slightly frozen, it shattered with just a stomp.

The metallic card inside, however, was not so fragile and fell out from the ruptured alien invader’s corpse, which Xu Xin picked up.

The metallic card was cold to the bone.

Li Wenxi gently stepped on the bugs on the ground.

Hmm, they crumbled into powder with just a step, should be dead.

"Over here, brother."

Xu Ying had already found where the metallic card should be used.

Li Wenxi had already moved next to Xu Ying, beckoning Xu Xin over.

"Hurry, here it is."

Xu Xin walked over and swiped the metallic card over the card reader on the control panel.

"Buzz—"

The red and green lights around flickered a few times, then dimmed again.

"This is..." Xu Xin and Xu Ying were somewhat puzzled.

"Ah, it seems the machinery is too cold to function properly."

Li Wenxi, observing the internal structure of the machinery through the control panels, blinked and explained.

"Ah..." Xu Xin shook his head helplessly.

There was nothing they could do. With the cooling device in this small room, the temperature in the entire room approached minus one hundred degrees Celsius.

He immediately put away the cooling device.

At temperatures nearing minus one hundred degrees, not only would these precise machines fail, but neither could they endure it.

After storing the cooling device, the temperature in the room began to rise.

However, it wasn’t rising quickly since the nearest engine cylinders were quite far away.

The room was still very cold and gloomy.

The temperature was rising too slowly.

"...Then let’s wait a bit." Xu Xin said.

"The temperature should recover in two or three minutes." Xu Ying looked at the machinery outside the door.

"Hey, how do you think they died?"

Li Wenxi was very curious about the cause of death of the alien invaders here, squatting down by the fragments on the ground and asked.

Now the bodies of these alien invaders are frozen, and there was no smell for the moment.

But once the temperature rises, the smell might return.

"The giant ship, didn’t it just set off when we arrived and returned a few hours later?"

"Why are there alien invaders dead for at least a week both at the entrance and deep within the power system of the giant ship?"

Li Wenxi wondered.

This also puzzled Xu Xin.

According to Xu Ying, these alien invaders had been dead for over seven days.

Which means they died seven to eight days before the giant ship was ready to attack humans.

Yet inside a ship preparing for battle, so many corpses lay unprocessed?

Especially deep within the power system, seemingly an important location.

The two alien invaders responsible for the power system also died.

Was this ignored?

...Was it because the alien invaders were too confident, completely underestimating humans, activating the warship even if the inside was a mess?

"Is it possible these alien invaders only died after we saw the giant ship start and enter the Transmission Array?"

Xu Ying suddenly suggested.

"Ah?" Li Wenxi was stunned, "Didn’t you say they had been dead for over seven days?"

"The degree of decay of the corpse, is it related to temperature?" Xu Xin asked.

Xu Ying shook her head: "No, although it’s related to temperature, just a few hours couldn’t make them decay like this. Besides..."

Xu Ying looked at the machinery sea outside the door.

"This giant ship has only been operating for a few hours... could the power system really get this hot?"

"Just now, the metal engine cylinders were red hot. Would they become like that without being overused?"

"Moreover..." Xu Ying looked at Xu Xin’s wristband, "Isn’t that cooling method too simplistic? Instead of fixed cooling pipes, it’s a small portable machine that could be taken away..."

Xu Xin was contemplative.

He understood what Xu Ying meant.

"What do you mean..." Li Wenxi was still somewhat baffled, "You mean the giant ship had been activated before we came? No, that can’t be right..."

The four giant ships activated only after they made a commotion in those factories.

And the Transmission Array only fully connected afterward.

That should be certain.

"No, what I mean is, after they entered the Transmission Array, only a few hours passed for us, but for them..."

Xu Ying pointed to the alien invader remains on the ground, "The time they experienced might be much longer than ours."

Li Wenxi understood what Xu Ying meant now.

She exclaimed: "You mean that after the giant ship was drawn into the time-space turbulence... their time flow was different from the outside world?"

For them, having lived for months in the hundredfold time speed world of the World Tree, different time flows were nothing unusual.