Lia looked at the decommissioned device on the ground and lightly tapped her toe against the floor, somewhat glumly. "We went to all that trouble to bring this thing back, and in the end, we only extracted one sentence from it. I can't help feeling a little annoyed..."
"It's still a clue." Hao Ren waved his hand, opened his personal storage space, and released the "metal egg" he had rescued at the last moment. "I also brought something out. I got it from somewhere that looked like a Control Center. I suspect it was the 'pilot's' cockpit, but the contents inside are a little strange."
The strange silver-white metal egg appeared before everyone, still carrying the heat from when it had been inside the Gorgon Lord's body. Standing before it, they could feel waves of heat washing over them. Lily froze the instant she saw the egg. No one knew how many bizarre leaps her thoughts had made before she suddenly blurted out, "Landlord, I'm afraid we'll need a really big pot for this egg!"
There was no way Hao Ren could keep up with the Husky's train of thought. "Huh?"
Lily gestured with her claws. "Landlord, wasn't the egg you brought back last time boiled into Dodo? Does this egg need to be boiled for me too?"
"Can't you remember anything useful?" Hao Ren brought a chopping-hand down on Husky Girl's head. "I just said this thing was a passenger cabin!"
He shook his hand, then activated the metal egg's outer shell using the same method as before. As the precise, morphing protective shell peeled away layer by layer, the inner chamber formed from a transparent polymer was exposed. The cloudlike black mass sealed inside the chamber "awakened" along with it.
It began to writhe violently and hurl itself