Chapter 38: A Beauty’s Grace is Heavy, How to Repay It!

A distance of two thousand meters was not exactly long, but it wasn’t short either, especially when one was in the pitch-black seawater.

“Lei, I can’t see anything at all. Could there be any Monsters in this sea?” She couldn’t speak in the seawater, so Fuweili could only use the Combat Suit to send brainwaves to Lin Lei.

Although she tried hard to suppress it, the message she sent still carried a tone of trembling; she was truly terrified.

He couldn’t blame her. Lin Lei was also scared enough when he came here for the first time, but he could only rely on himself, whereas Fuweili had Lin Lei to rely on.

“Monsters? Of course there are. I met one when I came last time,” Lin Lei deliberately paused for a moment.

“What?!” came a startled cry, and then Lin Lei felt Fuweili wrap around him like an octopus, her whole body still shivering.

…”But it has already been killed by me! I swear, what I said is all true.” Lin Lei began to make vows.

Monster? The real Monster is the one holding you in his arms, Lin Lei thought to himself.

This Blue Rain Star wasn’t Tokyo, Japan; how could there be a Monster every day? That would be no way for people to live, and he didn’t have Ultraman rushing over to save him.

Haha, even if Ultraman came, facing a 150-meter-long Loki Behemoth, he would be helpless too, as the size difference was still double.

“Fuweili, why is your courage so small? You are just scaring yourself. Don’t think about anything, close your eyes, hold me tight. Two thousand meters, it will be quick. Look, we have already covered half the distance.” Lin Lei tried hard to comfort her, but the effect was not significant, and Fuweili’s body was still trembling a little.

Lin Lei didn’t have any good methods either, so he could only wait patiently.

Fortunately, the Leto Raw Stone in his hand was heavy enough and had high density, which made their sinking speed not slow.

Slowly, the surroundings were no longer dark, and a faint yellow light began to appear in the seawater.

They had arrived. After a ten-minute journey, Lin Lei’s feet touched the bottom of the sea.

“Fuwei, open your eyes, there is nothing to be afraid of. Look, it’s extremely beautiful here.” Lin Lei gently pinched Fuweili’s arm.

Fuweili thought Lin Lei was tricking her again and refused to open her eyes, but she was also curious in her heart; how could this deep sea be beautiful?

She slowly opened her eyes and the first thing she saw was the beautiful crystal emitting yellow light on the seabed. This yellow light was soft and rich; stepping on it was like walking on clouds, very wonderful.

This time Lin Lei wasn’t wrong; it was indeed extremely beautiful here.

“Come, this way.” Lin Lei held Fuweili’s hand and walked toward where the spaceship was located.

After three months, Lin Lei returned here again.

Because the dual protections of the door and the force field here were both cracked by the System, Lin Lei and Fuweili easily passed through the force field that looked like a curtain of light and arrived at the spaceship hall.

“Heavens! There really is a spaceship here!” Seeing it with her own eyes was completely different from just hearing Lin Lei talk about it; the shock in her heart was distinct.

Fuweili saw and even used spaceships every day on Apocalypse Star, but none left as deep an impression on her as this one.

Now, only this spaceship could take them away from Blue Rain Star.

“Lei, let’s go inside the spaceship and have a look!” Fuweili was in high spirits.

“How do we get in? The spaceship has no energy, and the door won’t open.” Lin Lei didn’t want to break the door by force. If the spaceship leaked air when they reached outer space, Lin Lei wasn’t sure if he could survive in a vacuum.

Fuweili pulled Lin Lei along as she ran, pointing to a black hole at the bottom of the spaceship and said: “If we guess correctly, this is an emergency entrance; isn’t it open?”

Lin Lei’s face really turned red. He had seen this half-meter-wide hole himself, but he just thought it was some engine exhaust port or something, and he simply didn’t think of it as an entrance.

This hole was four meters high from the ground, and there was nothing to climb around it, but this didn’t stump Lin Lei.

With such a small height, he could completely climb up, which was exactly what he was doing.

Lin Lei jumped up from the spot, used his hand to leverage the edge of the entrance, and got onto the spaceship.

He still had the last rope on him, which he had tied to himself and Fuweili when they encountered the storm earlier, and now it came in handy.

He lowered the rope, first hoisted the Leto Raw Stone up, and then Fuweili.

There was no light inside the spaceship; one couldn’t see their hand in front of their face. The two could only rely on the faint light emitted by the Epic Beast skin for illumination.

“Let’s go to the top cabin of the spaceship; light from outside can penetrate there,” Lin Lei suggested.

Fuweili thought for a moment and said: “Let’s find the power furnace first. After we have the modification plan, we can go to the top cabin.”

“Alright.” The spaceship was only two hundred meters long, so walking the length of it wouldn’t take much time.

The two walked in the dark for half an hour before they found the spaceship’s power furnace.

“The spaceship is actually powered by controllable hydrogen nuclear fusion!” Fuweili saw the fusion reactor at a glance.

She carefully observed the design of the reactor, and finally said with regret: “It’s a pity. With this type of structure, the utilization rate and output rate of the fusion energy are very low. No wonder the spaceship uses inefficient plasma thrusters.”

The energy of hydrogen fusion was enormous. Almost all stars in the Universe relied on this method to burn, so they could continuously emit light and heat. This was the most common and efficient way to obtain energy in the Universe.

If utilized well, it could completely cause a qualitative change in the speed of the spaceship.

Sub-light Speed flight, Warp Flight, Space Jump—efficient controllable hydrogen fusion could provide enough energy for all of them.

In fact, because the Universe contained very rich, nearly infinite hydrogen elements, although there might be better ways to obtain energy, spaceships powered by controllable hydrogen fusion had never been eliminated.

Right now, the fusion furnace on this spaceship had already been extinguished. Under these conditions, it was impossible for Fuweili to repair it.

“Lei, this spaceship’s energy conversion is from hydrogen energy to thermal energy, then through a thermal generator to electrical energy, and then accelerates the plasma in the ion pool to obtain forward power. We just need to change the electrical energy output interface of the generator to our energy source,” Fuweili explained.

Lin Lei understood a little bit of this, but he didn’t know the specific work at all. Now he saw the difference of a level eight intelligence; just by observing like this, she could discover so much.

If it were him, even if he stared until his gaze burned a hole through the spaceship, he would still be completely in the dark—helpless.

“Fuwei, you speak, I’ll do it.” It didn’t matter if he didn’t understand; he had an expert commanding him.

“Mhm, okay. Let’s go to the top cabin first. I’ll get the energy converter out.”

The light in the spaceship’s top cabin wasn’t very strong either, but at least one could see things. Lin Lei entered first.

However, he paused for a moment when he saw the object on a seat inside. Lin Lei hurriedly turned around, blocking Fuweili’s line of sight behind him. His movement was very natural, as if he had turned his body just to bypass a table blocking the way in front of him.

“Clang!” Lin Lei deliberately kicked something, stumbled forward, and then, while Fuweili’s attention was diverted, he quickly threw the object on the seat under a certain seat.

“Lei, is your foot okay?” The sound was quite loud just now, so Fuweili was a bit worried.

“It’s fine, hehe. Even if I kicked a hole through the spaceship, my foot would be fine.” Lin Lei rubbed his fingers with a bit of disgust. What was on that seat just now was actually a dried corpse. Although he was very likely the real owner of this spaceship, in order not to frighten Fuweili, he would just have to suffer and stay under the chair for a while.

Fuweili didn’t notice anything and just rolled her eyes at Lin Lei: “You just love bragging.”

Lin Lei giggled foolishly…

Fuweili’s energy control valve was inside her Combat Suit. To modify it meant that this Combat Suit would be destroyed. If there were any accident, Fuweili, without the Combat Suit, wouldn’t even be able to reach the sea surface.

Success or failure hinged on this one move. Fuweili looked at Lin Lei, pursed her thin lips tightly, and resolutely took off the Combat Suit on her body to start the modification.

But just as she made the decision, Lin Lei realized something was wrong and quickly stopped her: “Fuwei, what are you doing? You want to dismantle this?”

“Without doing this, there is no energy control valve. Don’t worry, we will succeed!”

Lin Lei got anxious. What if there was a mishap? In that case, Fuweili would be trapped at the bottom of this 2000-meter-deep sea: “Bullshit! What if we don’t succeed? Stop right now!”

In his anxiety, he even blurted out crude language. The woman before him was one of the few who could make Lin Lei this anxious and worked up.

Lin Lei had always thought that Fuweili just wanted to use the tools on this spaceship to go down with him. He didn’t expect that what was turning in this woman’s mind was the thought of “succeed or die trying.” Not to mention anything else, the oxygen in this space was limited. If they failed, Lin Lei didn’t dare to imagine the consequences.

He absolutely did not agree! Lin Lei gritted his teeth, grabbed Fuweili’s hand, and said: “No, let’s go. We don’t want this broken spaceship. Who knows if it will leak air when it flies into outer space. Let’s go, we’ll return to the sea surface, return to the continent. Maybe your family has already arrived by now?”

“I won’t!” Fuweili broke free from Lin Lei’s hand and forced a smile: “It’s already too late. I have already given the Combat Suit the command to disassemble.”

Although she was smiling, tears were flashing in her eyes. For Lin Lei, so what if she was trapped at the bottom of the sea?

In comparison, this spaceship now had the greatest possibility of leaving Blue Rain Star. Other hopes were too slim.

It had been several months since she fell to Blue Rain Star. With the technology of Apocalypse Star, if they really wanted to search, they wouldn’t fail to find her, so Fuweili knew that the so-called rescue might never come.

Lin Lei was stunned, and it took a long while for him to recover: “When did you give the command? Are you lying to me?”

Fuweili lowered her head, looking at the Combat Suit that was constantly dissolving, and remained silent.

Lin Lei’s eyes became hot, and his heart felt sour. He didn’t know what to say either. After a long while, he tightly hugged this woman’s soft body, smelled her familiar hair fragrance, and said word by word: “If I let you down in this life, may Heaven strike me down!”

Fuweili gently patted Lin Lei’s back and said in a gentle voice: “Alright, let me go. I need to start the modification.” Although her voice was soft, it was faintly trembling.

Lin Lei let go of his hand a bit awkwardly, gave a chuckle, and while Fuweili wasn’t paying attention, he quickly wiped his face.

The current Lin Lei was completely different from when he first arrived at Blue Rain Star. The long, barbaric, primitive life had honed his heart to be incredibly hard and rough. It wasn’t exactly heart of iron and stone, but at least he wouldn’t cry easily.

Men do not shed tears lightly, only because they haven’t reached the point of heartbreak. Lin Lei really didn’t want to lose this woman who gave everything for him.