Chapter 51 Scream
“Position 733…”
Lonis gave position 733 a brief glance and abandoned the idea of going there.
It was too far from her! It would take more than a day to go back and forth, and if she left now, the school of star-fish might disappear.
So, Lonis tentatively sent a telegram, trying to inform the other party of her current situation.
But…
No response.
Perhaps the Vast Sea was too vast. After waiting for an hour without receiving any response, Lonis had to restart the ship and set sail for the position confirmed yesterday.
“Mm, Elus, please wait for me.”
Placing the little fox doll beside her, Lonis piloted the ship and began her journey.
Should I say that her heart felt uneasy? That was certainly true…
After all, everything had changed. Not to mention other things, but every time she ate, Lonis was alone, which made her feel very uncomfortable.
However, what she felt more was a kind of courage.
Because Lonis knew…
Only by enduring loneliness can one achieve happiness.
The road ahead would never be smooth, and there would always be some obstacles that could not be overcome.
This was not only a part of the hero’s trial but also the pain she had to endure to save the world.
Grasping the persistence in her heart, and the ideal of never giving up…
So…
“Let’s go, Lonis!!!!!”
Perhaps it was because they were approaching the Vast Sea?
The weather here had become unusually strange and unpredictable.
It was calm and peaceful in the morning, just like sailing in the Pacific near the equator.
But by the afternoon, the entire sky seemed to have been swallowed by dark clouds, covering all the sunlight.
The calm sea surface was stirred up by waves, and countless lightning bolts were brewing in the clouds, as if accumulating some terrifying power.
“Is it coming…”
Looking at the scene before her, Lonis’s heart sank.
She knew that she was about to face the most severe challenge of her life.
Perhaps the environment of the Sea of Ice Lava was more terrifying than this, but at this moment, she had no companions to help her.
There would be no Elus nagging her with a scolding attitude.
There would be no calm and collected senior Isumi gazing into the distance, providing protection for everyone at critical moments.
There would be no senior Zhisheng Luo sitting in the captain’s chair, broadcasting every crucial piece of information.
Everything had to be done by herself.
So…
“Steady, don’t force along the route for now. You have to steer the bow into the waves to maintain stability!”
Although at this time, the best choice would be to activate the Time Shuttle’s anti-gravity engines and let the ship fly in the air.
However, Lonis was just a beginner.
Just sailing on the sea had taken up most of her energy. Moreover, if she were to fly, she would also have to control the altitude?
So Lonis did not take the risk, and just sailed on the sea surface.
The girl’s steady choice was not wrong, and in fact, Lonis, who was piloting the ship, did not make any fundamental mistakes.
But the difficulty was…
Such a huge ship could not be controlled by one person alone!
In the previous epoch, a ship of this size would require at least a 10-person crew team. Although the Time Shuttle’s modules were highly integrated and equipped with auxiliary piloting, it could be operated by one person for most operations.
However, that was when the weather was calm.
If a storm was encountered, the difficulty of control would increase exponentially, and Lonis was a novice. So…
“No, no, the engine power has decreased! But why is that?”
“The system is not damaged, is it because of electromagnetic interference? If so… what shall I do!”
…
The pouring rain was overwhelming, vast and boundless, as if it were about to submerge the world.
The huge waves sometimes reached more than ten meters high… that was the height of a five-story building! They hit the surface of the ship, stirring up bursts of waterwaves.
The Time Shuttle swayed in the storm, looking like it could capsize at any moment.
Lonis tried her best to control it, but she could only barely maintain the stability of the ship… but at this moment, the worst thing happened.
This was not an unusually ordinary storm, but a hail storm carrying foreign objects.
If it were just ordinary frozen ice, the Time Shuttle would not have any problems, but what made Lonis feel suffocated was that there were rocks in the storm!
These stones were drifting from the Vast Sea. Their quality was not small, but because they were mixed with anti-gravity materials, their weight was almost negligible.
This caused these rocks to fly like cannonballs at speeds of over a hundred kilometers per hour through the air!
And alarms sounded in the Time Shuttle’s control console:
“Detected giant floating stones approaching, please activate the energy control console.”
If several tons of stones hit the ship, the result would be very dangerous. But Lonis was already unable to do anything else at this moment, and could not operate the energy control console anymore.
Once she left the driver’s seat, the ship might completely lose control.
The situation had become extremely critical, and Lonis felt exhausted and filled with sorrow.
It seemed that many things…
Could not be overcome by courage alone?
If the Time Shuttle was damaged at this moment, there would be no chance to save Elus.
Lonis gritted her teeth, and her spirit was tense to the extreme.
However, at this very moment…
…”Whine whine whine~~”
“Woof woof woof~~”
“Chirp chirp chirp~~”
Behind Lonis, cute sounds suddenly came.
The silver-haired girl had no time to look back, but immediately after, a familiar light came from her side.
(Is it the star-fish? Is the star-fish coming to help me?)
Lonis was suddenly moved, but she did not think that the little star-fish could help her pilot the ship.
Because it was so thin, even if it could read the dials, how could it press the buttons?
However, in the very next moment…
“Energy control console activated, entering full defense mode.”
“What?!”
Lonis was startled and looked at the control console.
And at this moment, she finally realized…
Not only that little star-fish, but even the slimes were brought over!
There was Bai Ye’s dark green matcha slime, which took the lead and jumped onto the control console first, activating the switch.
There was Senior Zhisheng Luo’s metal slime, which seemed to have the greatest strength, so it worked with Senior Isumi’s slime to move a hydraulic switch.
There were Cécile’s light blue slime and Candelle’s red slime, which cooperated with each other to press the confirmation buttons, so that warning messages could be played out smoothly.
As for Elus and Lonis’s slime, they directly jumped to the silver-haired girl’s side, helping her control the ship’s rudder…
…
Thus, the slimes jumped and hopped on the control console, constantly helping Lonis to correct the ship.
This sight…
It was as if everyone was still on the ship.
So…
“I absolutely cannot lose!!!!!!”
Facing the storm before her, Lonis let out a hysterical scream.
