Life Game In Other World
Chapter 626: Navigator’s Core Area (2-in-1 Mega - Vying for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 626: Chapter 626: Navigator’s Core Area (2-in-1 Mega Chapter Vying for Monthly Tickets)

"He Ao, I feel so light, and a bit dizzy too."

Perhaps to avoid the effects of the rotating cabin, the elevator’s ascent was not fast.

Thus, He Ao and Ye Yun could distinctly feel the sensation of ’gravity’ gradually leaving their bodies.

As the acceleration phase of the elevator ended, and it moved into the phase of uniform motion, both of them truly found themselves in a state of low-gravity weightlessness.

And because the ship’s ’gravity’ was simulated by the centrifugal force of rotation, as the elevator rose higher, the radius of rotation became smaller, the centrifugal force decreased, and the sensation of weightlessness they felt became even more intense.

In a state of weightlessness, the initial sensations are usually dizziness and nausea. This is because in the absence of gravity’s pull, the blood can collect in the head more easily when the heart pumps with the same pressure.

At the same time, the otoliths in the vestibular system, which aid in balance, have reduced contact with nerve cells due to weightlessness and lose their balance function, leading to dizziness and nausea.

Of course, apart from dizziness, there are other minor discomforts that the body experiences, but none are as immediate and severe as dizziness.

Although neither He Ao nor Ye Yun had undergone professional weightlessness training, both were C-level Transcendents, meaning in theory their bodily structure was no longer completely the same as an ordinary person’s.

After all, many C-level Transcendents could survive even with a destroyed heart, not dying completely.

The two of them adapted to this state very quickly.

"This really gives me a taste of what it’s like to be an astronaut," Ye Yun said with a laugh as he rubbed his temples, attempting to ease the dizziness.

"Hmm."

He Ao nodded, looking through the front view window at the scene outside.

At this moment, they were facing the rear of the entire ship, and the view from the elevator’s window offered a larger vertical perspective than the ring cabins below, allowing them to see much more.

He Ao lifted his head and could just make out a bit of the ’tail’ protruding from the ship’s central axis.

Most of this ’tail’ was a horn-shaped mechanical structure, with its wide mouth facing outward.

At the widest part of the horn’s opening, the diameter looked to be more than two hundred meters.

At this height, on the ground, it would be the equivalent of a skyscraper of seventy to eighty stories.

Yet on this massive Navigator ship, when compared with the massive rotating shafts and the enormous central core, such a behemoth still seemed to be ’just a little big’.

And facing the vastness of the galaxy, this huge space ship was no more than a speck of dust.

He Ao withdrew his gaze, looking at the starry sea outside.

In that silent darkness, it was as if countless invisible Concealment presences were whispering.

The deep space was the most eternal darkness.

"We’re quite insignificant, aren’t we?" Ye Yun also gazed out of the window. "Everything humanity has created up to this point seems so trivial and lowly when faced with the eternal vastness of the universe."

He chuckled, withdrawing his gaze, "Sometimes I wonder if there are other powerful life forms in the universe that toy with stars and play with galaxies and time, just as humans build skyscrapers with bricks and stone. Maybe such beings are the mighty Divine Beings of our legends."

He Ao turned his head to look at him, "You’re quite dangerous."

Curiosity, exploration, communication, and then madness.

"Huh?"

Ye Yun was taken aback, looking at He Ao and smiling, "Indeed, it is dangerous. If we truly face such terrifying beings, it seems we can’t do anything. We’re unable to resist, unable to harm, we can only submit, or wait for death."

"Or we could try to make friends with Them," He Ao said slowly.

"Huh?"

Ye Yun looked at He Ao, completely befuddled.

At this moment, the elevator began to slow down and then came to a gentle stop, followed by a slight vibration, as if something had been activated.

It must be the outer doors opening.

He looked up, "We’re here."

Ye Yun also looked up.

The elevator quickly rose, then stopped again.

It seemed that this central axis had a transition area, much like the ring cabins below.

Next, He Ao felt a slight vibration in the elevator. It must have been the outer doors closing beneath their feet.

The next step would be the opening of the ceiling hatch, and then the two of them would enter the central core.

Ding—

Just as this thought emerged in He Ao’s mind, the interior of the elevator suddenly lit up with the bright red glow of an alarm.

Something was wrong!

He Ao looked up at the control panel next to the elevator door. At the same time, a fuzzy alarm warning sounded in his ears,

"Core @# internal $* hatch failure, please @% contact maintenance personnel."

It seemed that he was supposed to contact the maintenance crew.

Unfortunately, there were likely no living maintenance crew members left on this ship.

He Ao unbuckled his safety belt and leaped gently, gliding out like a fish in a swirl.

Such elevator and hatch designs should have an emergency opening button.

"Hey, hey, hey."

Ye Yun reached to unfasten his own safety belt, but it was defective, tied to the armrest, and in the vacuum, it was hard to exert force, so he fumbled to untie the knot he had just tied.

"If I’d known, I wouldn’t have tied it so tight."

He decided to forcefully rip the safety belt off.

By this time, He Ao had already collided with the elevator’s wall.

He was now near the core axis, where the rotation radius was extremely small, and his body was in a state almost entirely devoid of gravity.

Moving in zero-gravity wasn’t as easy as He Ao had imagined, causing him to briefly lose control of his heartbeat, but he quickly adjusted his state.

He grasped the edge of the observation window and forcefully threw his body toward the control panel of the elevator door.

At the same time, he drew his bone sword and, just as he was about to miss it, inserted it into the crack of the elevator door to stabilize his position.

Then, inch by inch, he moved toward that control panel.

"He Ao, what’s the situation now?"

Ye Yun also jumped over.

He Ao stared at the control panel, which was flashing red lights, pressing every button he could press, and every area that was blinking red, but there was no response.

Such emergency buttons couldn’t be too complicated to operate; if not located on the control panel, they should be underneath some protective device.

"It seems there’s a problem with the hatch above, I didn’t hear it open," He Ao said quickly, "Look for an emergency door opening button."

He pointed to the left, "You check the left side; I’ll check the right."

"Alright."

Without hesitation, Ye Yun nodded and, grabbing the edge of the window, started searching to the left.

He Ao searched along the right side, his body passing through the window reflecting the vastness of space, quickly moving forward, his gaze sweeping over every corner of the right wall.

On the other side, Ye Yun was also searching meticulously.

Soon, He Ao found a ’little box’ with a red symbol embedded in the corner of the wall.

He stopped what he was doing, held onto the window, and dragged his body towards the little box, arriving in front of it.

He reached out and grabbed the little box.

It appeared to have a plastic cover on top.

He Ao lifted the cover of the box.

A nine-digit mechanical button appeared before his eyes.

The box required a password to open.

This design was likely in place for emergency situations where the door absolutely had to be opened from the outside by maintenance personnel, who would then communicate the password to those trapped inside so they could open the door from the inside.

He Ao glanced at the box and without hesitation inserted his bone sword into it, gripped the bottom of the box with one hand and twisted with the other, cutting off the box’s lid, revealing a red button.

The elevator’s alarm sounded even more intense.

He looked up at Ye Yun, "Find something to hold onto!"

"Huh?"

By this time, Ye Yun had floated next to a seat, looking at He Ao with confusion.

"Hold on tight!"

He Ao emphasized again and then directly pressed the button.

Crackle—

Accompanied by a light sound, the sealed elevator doors suddenly opened.

At that moment, due to the pressure differential between the inside and outside, all the gas in the elevator cabin began to flow out wildly.

The phenomenon manifested as wind.

In zero gravity, even a slight breeze could easily blow everything away.

Ye Yun quickly grasped the seat next to him to avoid being blown away by this sudden wind.

His entire body fluttered up like a flag.

But He Ao, holding onto the box firmly, kept his position stable and wasn’t affected much by the wind.

As the wind subsided, he let go, allowing himself to drift out of the elevator with the breeze.

"What’s the situation now?

Ye Yun let go and floated out after He Ao.

No sooner had he spoken than his face turned slightly red.

The air from inside the elevator had leaked into the transitional space, causing an overall drop in air pressure and oxygen levels.

He Ao turned on his flashlight, pointed upward, and then grasping the elevator’s exterior, pulled himself up with a bit of force, floating upward.

Under the illumination of the flashlight, a metal hatch like a ceiling lying above their heads appeared in their vision.

The elevator was stopped in the middle of this transitional space, with the top about a little more than a meter from the hatch.

He Ao scanned the area around the hatch quickly, soon finding a red mechanical rotary switch on the opposite diagonal.

He supported himself on the top of the elevator, swiftly floated over, and then used the bone sword inserted in the outer shell of the elevator for leverage, forcibly twisted open the mechanical switch.

Click—

With a soft click,

The whole hatch trembled, as if some locked mechanical structure had been released.

He Ao reached out, looked around, and found a row of three hidden folding handles on the hatch, with three corresponding folding handles on the elevator shaft wall aligned with the hatch handles.

He Ao flipped these folding handles out, then grabbed the hatch handle with one hand and the wall handle with the other, and gave a slight push.

The hatch trembled but did not open.

Something was obstructing the hatch from opening.

At that moment, Ye Yun also floated over.

His face was beet red, clearly suffering from some lack of oxygen and still needed to adapt,

He Ao gestured for him to grab two handles just like he was doing.

Then, both of them exerted force together.

Bang——

Accompanied by a sound like a steel column breaking, the entire gate burst open.

A violent gust of air rushed forth, sweeping over their bodies.

After quite a while, the gust finally subsided.

And this surge brought with it enough oxygen.

He Ao took a deep breath and let out a sigh.

Even a C-level Transcendent wouldn’t last long in an oxygen-free environment.

He glanced at Ye Yun, "Didn’t you say as a child you dreamt of being an astronaut? How can you have no knowledge of space?"

"I never want to be an astronaut again,"

Ye Yun, gripping the handle, gasped for air as he pulled his body out. Like a salted fish, he slowly floated out through the gap that the two of them had pried open, "All I want now is to go home."

Watching his retreating figure, He Ao chuckled softly and applied a bit more force to ease his body through the gap as well.

The bodies of the two of them floated gently upwards following the push they had just exerted.

The space behind this gate was large, and it was a broad sphere in shape.

A thick steel rod, clearly out of place with the surrounding environment, hovered not far in front of them.

Ye Yun’s body passed by the steel rod. Looking at the thick bloodstains on it, he said, "It seems like it was taken from somewhere else specifically to brace against the gate."

"Mm."

He Ao stared at the rod, then scanned over to the gate it was bracing against, examining the scratches on the gate, "The marks are fresh; it must have been put there not long ago."

"Ivier, that guy, even blocked our elevator."

Ye Yun instantly understood what was happening.

"Mm."

He Ao turned his gaze away and continued upward.

The two floated for quite some time before barely approaching the top.

"Why do I feel like there’s something wrong with the top?"

Ye Yun raised his head and looked above. There were many fragments on the ’ceiling,’ but they were not floating upwards.

"It’s gravity, adjust your body."

He Ao immediately shouted.

"Huh?"

Ye Yun looked at He Ao and, in that instant, his body seemed to cross a certain threshold and suddenly accelerated towards the steel ceiling above.

While speaking, He Ao quickly curled up his body, adjusted his posture, and, as his body crossed that threshold, used the pull of gravity to rotate and then landed smoothly, squatting down to absorb the impact.

Meanwhile, Ye Yun took a solid fall.

He staggered to his feet, swaying and rubbing his head, "Next time you speak I’ll act immediately, no questions asked."

He Ao glanced at him with a smile and then surveyed their surroundings.

The gravity under his feet was almost identical to that of the main world, which defied reason.

Because in reality, the maximum diameter of this core area was only about a hundred meters, and most of it should be hollow chambers, incapable of generating so much gravity.

"He Ao, what is this?"

By then, Ye Yun also realized something.

"It must be some kind of Transcendent item,"

He Ao mused.

He thought back to the main area of the ruins, which was simply a dwarf planet a thousand kilometers in diameter, yet still possessed gravity similar to that of Earth.

The source of gravity in the core area of the Navigator must also be something similar.

However, the Transcendent material inside the Navigator was not enough to support the entire ship’s gravity, which is why the Navigator was designed with those ring-shaped chambers that could mimic gravity.

The technology tree of the ruins civilization always hit points beyond He Ao’s expectations.

He had been wondering if there was gravity inside the core area of the Navigator.

It seemed that the ruins civilization not only had a high level of physical technology, but also took the utilization of Transcendent power to a new tier.

Yet such a civilization was so easily destroyed.

He Ao collected his thoughts and cast his gaze around. The decorations all around were simple, with broken pieces of iron everywhere. Only a small sliding door was slightly ajar.

This sliding door, more or less aligned with the direction of the elevator, seemed to be the original design for the exit route.

He Ao approached the sliding door, which wasn’t locked, and he easily slid it open.

Behind the door was a tunnel with a dark floor and tracks, and next to the door, a green button. The tracks inside the tunnel seemed to be in rapid motion.

He Ao extended his hand and lit up the button.

A thunderous rumble came from deep in the tunnel, followed in a brief moment by a small track vehicle smeared with bloodstains appearing in front of He Ao.

The door of the track vehicle slowly opened, revealing the plastic seats inside that had been damaged to expose the steel frame.

"Is this the car to the core area?"

Ye Yun looked over the track vehicle beside He Ao.

"It should be."

He Ao nodded and walked in.

"It looks like a subway. Why do we have to take a subway after leaving this place?"

Ye Yun followed him in.

Since most of the seats were damaged, both of them had to hold onto the handrails in the railcar to remain standing.

There were no buttons inside the railcar, and following a brief wait, the doors closed and the car swiftly moved forward.

At this moment, He Ao began to recall the route they had taken and started to simulate their position relative to the core area of the spaceship, figuring out where they were supposed to be.

After a short period of contemplation, he pointed in the opposite direction of the railcar’s forward movement, "The rotating cylindrical cabins are turning in that direction,"

he pondered,

"When we first landed, we were actually not stationary relative to the core area. The entire outer cylindrical cabins and the columns supporting the five cylindrical modules were constantly rotating. The ground we were stepping on was also part of this rotating system, therefore we were still maintaining a constant angular velocity."

He glanced at the front, "The purpose of this railcar isn’t actually to transport us to the destination, but to apply an opposing acceleration, negating the angular velocity we possess, allowing us to shift from being stationary relative to the rotating cabins, to being stationary relative to the core area.

"So it’s basically decelerating us."

"Yeah, that makes sense!"

Ye Yun nodded earnestly at He Ao.

He Ao chuckled upon seeing his clueless expression and turned to look towards the front of the railcar, where a small door had appeared in his field of vision.

The railcar also quickly ’stopped’ in front of the small door. The tracks below that He Ao saw continuously rotating were now still.

The track was actually stationary relative to the core area—in the rotating cabin section where He Ao stood, the track naturally seemed to be moving.

"So are we now entering the core area?"

Ye Yun leaped out of the railcar door, passed through the small door, and looked around.

"Yes."

He Ao’s gaze also swept the surroundings.

It was a dimly-lit, sparsely-illuminated hall.

Back when the spaceship was operational, those coming down from the rotating cabins might have been received in this hall.

But now, what greeted He Ao and Ye Yun was the silent gloom, mottled bloodstains, and...

He Ao raised his head, looking upwards.

A huge black shadow was rapidly expanding in his vision, falling from above.

Through the hazy light, He Ao could make out that it was a giant gorilla, covered in thick fur.

Exceeding the C-level limit, similar to the tentacled creature, but weaker than the Goat Creature.

"Watch out!"

Ye Yun also spotted the huge gorilla and hurriedly shouted.

At this time, He Ao had already turned his body sideways, lifted his leg, his entire body’s strength concentrated in his waist and legs.

Then, in the instant before the gorilla was about to land,

Bang—

A snap kick erupted, striking the gorilla monster’s body and sending it flying away.

"Is it really that outrageous?"

Ye Yun, who was just about to raise his sword, opened his mouth in shock.

He Ao retracted his leg and resumed standing on both legs. The metal floor beneath his feet had dented from the force of the recent impact.

This gorilla creature didn’t seem to have a concealed Plasma Cannon.

Then it was no better than the tentacled creature.

The giant gorilla flew backward, hit the metal wall creating a dent, and then staggered to its feet again.

It was almost three meters tall. Its cheeks were pure metal, and its body was covered with intricate features, with its torso and limbs exhibiting the texture of flesh.

By that time, Ye Yun had walked up to He Ao’s side.

He wanted to ask He Ao if he was alright, but clearly, the reality had already provided the answer.

"Look at its left shoulder, on the left side of its waist, on the right thigh,"

He Ao said slowly, watching the gorilla.

Ye Yun looked closely and saw fresh bloodstains at the three spots He Ao pointed out.

"Wounds, seem like puncture injuries," he quickly deduced, "These wounds are fresh, they must have been inflicted not long ago."

Then he quickly grasped what He Ao was implying, "Ivier?"

"He was in a hurry and did not take time to deal with this creature but inflicted some damage before leaving immediately,"

He Ao said calmly.

"Should we avoid this creature then?"

Ye Yun, holding his sword, looked at He Ao.

He was confident he could defeat the creature but it would take some time.

Ivier must have made the same assessment at the time.

"No need,"

He Ao picked up his bone sword, his figure flashed and vanished from the spot.