Chapter 271 Life Support Chamber

The power of the wizard comes from learning, and the biggest motivation for learning is curiosity.

They will not let go of anything they are interested in, and this curiosity will cause a lot of trouble.

Aoerdai is no exception.

The psychic core of the spiral shell ship is right in front of her. If she doesn't grab it, wouldn't it be a waste of time?

After losing power, she clearly felt that the air around her began to become as cold as the outside of the spiral shell ship. The crystal that was originally well lit and well-lit began to become dimmer and dimmer, and gradually became like the emergency lights that automatically light up when there is a power outage.

This means that the spiral shell ship is now in a low-power operation state and is using the only remaining backup energy.

It also means that if there are still mind suckers on the spiral shell ship, it must have noticed the fact that someone has invaded.

But as mentioned before, Aoerdai is not afraid of mind suckers at all. As for whether other people will be scared to death when they see the octopus head of the mind sucker, that is not within her consideration.

After all, we are not familiar with each other. It is just a simple relationship between boss and employee. Do I still need to pay attention to your mental health?

The three people who were kept in the dark were obviously unaware of this. They all looked a little regretful, probably because they had not seen the gold coins and gems yet.

Everyone left the engine room and walked up the chitin staircase again, returning to the intersection where they went down before and continued to go up.

As expected, they soon arrived at a particularly spacious room with a good view as they continued to walk up.

This is a high-rise chamber with a dome, on which hangs some complex equipment composed of glowing jellyfish-like tissues. The jellyfish uses its curled glowing tentacles to construct a flickering star map.

Below is a high-back chair with short armrests, inlaid with some sparkling blue crystal balls, which are tilted towards the star map, as if attracting people to control it.

This is the bridge of the snail shell ship, the core area that controls the entire snail shell ship.

Directly in front of the chair is a floor-to-ceiling window composed of transparent petals, where you can see the scenery outside the snail shell ship, but it is not snowy.

The snowfield we saw before was an illusion, and looking out through the window of the snail shell ship, we can see a large area of ​​bare dark rocks, as if they were in a huge cavity underground.

If we get closer, we will find that there is a bottomless abyss not far in front of the snail shell ship. The snail shell ship is equivalent to being forced to land on the edge of the abyss and almost falling in.

Delger, who noticed this, immediately felt weak in his legs and hurriedly moved away from the window without making a sound.

Dwarves have a characteristic, that is, they are afraid of heights. The height of riding a horse is enough to scare them away, let alone such a bottomless place.

"We are still lucky. If we accidentally stepped on the air and fell into the abyss under the cover of the illusion just now, there would be no hope."

Oerde's words made everyone look fortunate. At least luck is on their side, at least so far.

On the starboard wall, there was an open panel, revealing a fleshy tentacle embedded with crystal fragments, and some patterns like words were etched on the flat part below.

This aroused the interest of Orday.

"Do you understand the words of the mind sucker? What is written on it?"

"I can barely understand it. It says that the ship was attacked by a red dragon. The coordinates were entered incorrectly during the emergency jump, causing the hull to come into direct contact with the ground and be damaged."

This part is consistent with Orday's guess, but the following content is a bit exciting for the other three.

"There are a total of four crew members on the ship, three of whom died when the spiral shell crashed, and one was seriously injured."

Orday turned around and pointed to the stairs leading to the upper part behind the bridge:

"The seriously injured left a record, hoping for rescue to arrive, and returned to the captain's room to use the life support device to hibernate temporarily."

"Could it be..."

"Yes, it may still be alive now."

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The horror legend of the mind sucker has almost become a story used by adults to scare children. Many people have childhood traumas about it. Even if they know that the mind sucker may be seriously injured, the octopus face alone is enough to awaken the psychological trauma.

But they can't not go up.

Alde unplugged the plug of the spiral shell ship, and the life support device would soon fail, awakening the hibernating spirit sucker. Several people did not want to be hunted by the octopus head.

So weighing the pros and cons, the most appropriate operation is to take the initiative before the spirit sucker wakes up completely.

So several people immediately climbed up the chitin stairs and came to the door of the captain's room to look inside.

This dome chamber was full of debris, many of which were piled on a workbench with a table leg only half a meter high. Behind the workbench was a crystal ball as big as a human head, which was mounted on a low bracket.

Five strange, glowing gadgets were fixed to the chitin wall seven feet above the ground. These devices looked like the head of a metal wand clamped with pliers.

In addition, the most obvious thing was a "coffin" placed directly opposite the door.

It was an oval, capsule-shaped thing, the bottom was made of flesh and chitin, and the upper part was made of a dark red translucent lid, and a rotating structure could be seen at one end of the lid.

This is the life support device.

Because the cover is dark red and translucent, under the dim light, only a humanoid shadow nearly two meters tall can be seen, and the long tentacles on its face can be vaguely seen.

Nemia, the wanderer used as a scout, was about to stick his head in to take a closer look, but was immediately stopped by the staff held out by Orde.

"There is a trap here, be ready for battle"

Orde only explained this sentence, and then whispered the spell.

As the spell progressed, everyone saw the large and small crystal balls in the room burst and exploded one after another, and screamed like living things. It was not until the last crystal ball exploded that Orde signaled that everyone could go in.

Compared with other things in the room, what everyone cared about most was the mind sucker lying in the life support device. Everyone drew out their weapons and approached the capsule-shaped device carefully.

Because they stayed here for too long, the shell of the capsule-shaped device was covered with a layer of dust. Nimia looked back at the others and saw that they clenched their weapons and were ready to fight at any time. Nimia went up and wiped the dust with his hand.

As a result, his hand shook, and under the crimson translucent shell, the octopus head that had not reacted suddenly opened its amber eyes, and Nimia screamed in fear.

"Quick! Hold the hatch!"

All the creatures of the mind sucker can be controlled by psychic energy, that is, telepathy.

The hatch of the life support device opened upwards at the command of the mind sucker, and several people standing next to the hatch quickly lay down to prevent the hatch from opening.

At this time, the dwarf Drerg, who was the heaviest and most powerful player in the hatch, felt as if a bomb had exploded in his head, making him dizzy and his consciousness blank.

Others saw Drerg suddenly let go of his hand and kneeled down towards the position of the life support capsule.

"He is controlled by the mind!"

The horror of the mind sucker is not only in appearance, but also in their ability to control other creatures through psychic power.

This mind sucker may have just awakened, and its psychic power has not yet recovered. It just asked Drerg to kneel on the ground and not get in the way.

But the physical strength of the mind sucker is not weak, and the speed of recovery of the mind sucker after awakening is much faster than everyone expected.

Without Drerg's suppression, the suppression of Nimia and the halfling priest Perrin alone could not be suppressed at all, and the mind sucker was about to crawl out of the life support capsule.

At this time, Aldea leaped onto the hatch, raised his staff while riding on it, and smashed the head of the staff inlaid with a huge blue gem towards the head of the mind sucker.

Then there was a thunderous sound, and Nimya and Perrin, who were holding the hatch, had to let go and cover their ears. The terrible sound echoed farther away like a shock wave.

However, the mind sucker who tried to hold up the hatch rolled his eyes, and purple-black blood oozed from his eyes and skin, and there was no movement.

"What happened just now? I felt like someone pulled my head."

Derger stood up with his temple pressed, and saw Nimya and Perrin covering their ears, and he didn't understand the situation yet.

"It's okay, the mind sucker is dead."

Aldea turned over and jumped off the life support cabin, but before everyone had time to breathe a sigh of relief, they saw a pile of black, liquid things appear at the door.

These liquids flew out from the wall near the door like spraying, viscous and gathered together as if consciously, and in the blink of an eye they turned into three black viscous objects in the shape of illithids.

"It's liquefied consciousness. I didn't expect the illithids to hide such a trap."

It's a little tricky...