Chapter 1705: Engine Room
Yamato, engine room.
After waking the first person, Xiao Ran ignored everything else and rushed straight to the engine room. By the time he arrived, the moment the engine room door opened, he heard footsteps pacing inside. Likewise, the sound of the door opening when Xiao Ran entered caused the person inside to stop.
The entire engine room was roughly shaped like the Chinese character for eye. Xiao Ran entered from the upper-left corner, and at first could not see who had made the footsteps. Similarly, unless the person inside was on the far-left passage, they would not be able to see Xiao Ran immediately either.
Xiao Ran had handed the weapon he had been carrying to the crewman he had awakened. In other words, he had no weapon in his hands at all. The instant he entered the engine room, he shouted, "Who's there?! Who's in the engine room?!"
"Is that Lord Xiao Ran?" A familiar voice suddenly rang out in the engine room. A white-haired girl in a black dress slowly appeared before Xiao Ran, followed by another girl in a yellow Yamato uniform emerging from around a corner.
Only upon seeing the two of them did Xiao Ran finally relax. "It's you two. Is the engine room all right?"
One of the girls was the android Nine. Xiao Ran had also met the other before: Second Lieutenant Yuriya Misaki, the Yamato bridge crew's radar operator. They knew each other, but were not particularly familiar.
"Mr. Xiao Ran, you finally came." Nine blankly led Second Lieutenant Misaki over to Xiao Ran and said, "Everyone on the ship except us robots and Second Lieutenant Misaki has passed out. Chief Engineer Tokugawa, Mr. Yamazaki, and the others in the engine room can't be woken up."
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