Strong Abyss Reactions, unsettling black-and-red paint covering their hulls—for mortal races, merely looking at them felt as though crazed evil thoughts would invade the mind, while touching them would instantly twist one into a mutated monster. That was the impression Fallen Apostle ships gave many people. The equipment used by the New Empire's Abyss Independent Regiment had already been purified, yet for most people, it remained dangerous stuff best not even looked at without a resolute will. These ships that had just arrived from the Abyss Zone naturally carried an unprecedentedly sinister aura, denser and more dangerous than ever. The Deep Diving Port's automatic detection systems had already sounded several alarms. If we had not instructed the Deep Diving Port's mainframe to suppress the automatic defensive counterattack systems here beforehand, the entire port would probably have opened fire by now.
To receive these special "visitors," Tawell had set up a relatively small starport in open space far away from the Deep Diving Port's many sensitive facilities. Keeping this starport away from the other facilities was partly an instinctive precaution against the Abyss Zone, and partly to prevent the polluted aura from damaging the sensitive equipment here or disrupting the Abyss Gate's routine recording work. Abyss Shilin understood the arrangement quite well.
Three large Transport Ships and a cluster of smaller craft slowly docked beside the small starport. Immediately, a large number of blue-glowing Autonomous Machines and engineering probes poured out from the starport's various passageways to conduct routine inspections. Following the agreed procedure, the ships from the Abyss Zone opened all their main and auxiliary passages to facilitate boarding inspections by the Empire Army. Before long, a special forces commander sent a message: "Your Majesty, we have scanned the cargo holds. They match the manifest. We also made contact with