Chapter 1602: Wall
In the passageway, the XN3848 spaceship was still moving forward at an extremely slow speed. To the monster’s eyes, it seemed as though the X-N3848 spaceship hadn’t moved at all.
The monster’s two eyes remained fixed on the X-N3848 spaceship, not shifting away.
Fu Feng was sweating more and more, and his body started to tremble slightly, almost to the point of collapsing...
But!
Fu Feng bit down silently, refusing to let his body move, almost like a machine that could automatically produce sweat.
For a long time.
...
Who knows how much time had passed, maybe a minute, maybe an hour... In this torturous moment that felt like years, in the vast darkness beyond the passageway walls, the monster that resembled frog eggs suddenly departed.
It came unexpectedly, and it left just as suddenly, almost as if it could teleport, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
But!
The terrifying pressure it caused lingered for a long time.
No one made a sound, and no one moved. Even Fu Feng, who couldn’t steady himself and was about to faint, remained motionless.
As expected—
The next moment, this grotesque-shaped monster suddenly returned!
Ji You almost burst into tears and swore!
But!
Ji You didn’t dare to curse, she didn’t even dare to entertain the thought.
Quickly.
Act like a dog, a stealthy dog. Ji You even thought that wasn’t enough, if possible, she was willing to become a wisp of air, released with the wind.
...
In the darkness, the monster’s two eyes continued staring at the small spaceship inside the passageway wall, seemingly flying weakly, like a speck in the vast cosmos.
The monster did nothing but stared, examining it as if it was something rare, without moving or blinking its eyes.
Just as Fu Feng thought he couldn’t hold on any longer, a breeze gently blew by, like a drop of rain in the hot summer, trickling down and nourishing his nearly exhausted spiritual power...
Then.
Fu Feng encouraged himself, shielding the fluctuations of spiritual power around him once more.
The person energizing Fu Feng was none other than He Bi, who had opened his eyes while lying in the medical room. He Bi did nothing else but spread his palm open, revealing a crystal core, letting it emit a faint light.
He dared not use spiritual power; in front of such a monster, neither the spaceship’s shell nor other objects could obscure it...
The monster could see the entire interior of the spaceship vividly, except for the area blocked by Fu Feng’s spiritual power shield—He Bi, Ji You, Chu Jiaojiao, Shen Changqing... all 8 people on the spaceship were within Fu Feng’s spirit shield range. Yet, even under these circumstances, He Bi dared not move more than necessary, fearing not even a slim chance...
So He Bi could only muster a breath of air, and when Fu Feng’s spiritual shield leaned towards him, he took the opportunity to open his palm and reveal the crystal core tightly held within.
What exactly this crystal core could do, He Bi himself was uncertain. However, letting Fu Feng fall and then the discovery by all the others was not something He Bi, as Captain, should let happen.
So—
He had to do something and seize the best timing.
Cough cough...
Although his captain’s position was ousted by this bunch of rebellious juniors, He Bi never verbally admitted it—
Anything he hadn’t verbally agreed to was just carbon dioxide in a heap of air!
The result of He Bi’s risky trial was very pleasing; at least this stubborn junior Fu Feng held on, and temporarily at that! Next, he surely could hold on as well.
He Bi refrained from making redundant movements because he thoroughly considered himself as cosmic floating trash...
Could trash have any thoughts?
It mustn’t have any.
...
The monster was still curiously staring at the spaceship, its eyes unblinking, like gigantic brass bells, hanging outside the passageway wall...
second.
seconds.
seconds.
...
Just as Fu Feng felt his brain might explode, the monster finally moved; from its sticky, chaotic mass of a body, a thin thread suddenly emerged—
Neither Ji You, nor He Bi, or Fu Feng... none saw this occur, that thread, sprouting from a pore like a sesame seed, aimed straight towards the X-N3848’s position!
Bang~
Just as the thread was about to touch the passageway wall, suddenly, a very faint sound echoed in the ears of Chu Jiaojiao, Ji You, and others; no one dared to open their eyes out of curiosity...
But judging by the sound, it seemed the thread hit the wall.
Ji You didn’t dare move, nor dared to let her thoughts wander...
As the thread touched the passageway wall, it seemed to be blocked, and the monster’s eye flickered with confusion before it retracted the thread, ceasing to force its way through the passageway wall.
Then.
The monster continued to crouch, but after a while, as if receiving some message, it suddenly vanished from its spot.
Then.
A minute, two minutes, three minutes... the monster never appeared again, giving Ji You, Chu Jiaojiao, and the others a breath of relief.
Nonetheless, no one got carried away with joy; the temporary escape from danger was just that, temporary, and the monster could come back at any moment, so Ji You dared not harbor any complacent thoughts.
Chu Jiaojiao spoke again: "Everyone, pay attention, accelerate."
Shen Changqing had already switched the spaceship from autopilot to manual control. Without hesitation, he dashed toward the end of the passageway as quickly as he could!
Next, perhaps due to bad luck, after covering some distance, Chu Jiaojiao suddenly widened her eyes: "Damn! Who didn’t wash their hands after going to the bathroom?"
Silence.
No one responded.
Since at this moment, no one cared to pursue who hadn’t washed their hands because the passageway walls seemed to have suddenly weakened. Then, Chu Jiaojiao realized, just as she and Shen Changqing were about to work together to increase the spaceship’s speed by several times, they felt the space around them shake slightly as if subtly displaced. As they narrowly maneuvered the spaceship to avoid falling into the pitch-black outside the passageway wall, they noticed the way ahead seemed blocked by something.
It was a once transparent, invisible, unclear wall.
And this sudden wall seemed to be undergoing intense changes inside, constantly emitting a crackle, crackle, crackle... repeatedly sawing sound, as if grinding this space...
What on earth was it?
What lay ahead?
Everyone’s hearts sank to the bottom.