The monitoring records left by the Control Center showed that, before being abandoned, the warship had been participating in a battle. The entire control hall had been bustling, with hundreds of officers and commanders of every rank directing the fleet. Everything was orderly, but the atmosphere was tense.
But all of a sudden, the three pillars of light in the center of the hall blurred as if interfered with by something. Large ripples of interference appeared across the surveillance footage as well. Once the image stabilized, Hao Ren saw a pool of blood-red liquid in the center of the screen.
Because of the severe interference, he had not seen how the liquid had appeared in the hall, but he guessed it might have been Spatial Teleportation. The liquid had no fixed shape. It floated in midair and writhed constantly like living slime. The moment it appeared, it caused enormous chaos.
Hao Ren saw the rebel commanders in the footage notice the intruder in the hall almost simultaneously, and all of them immediately looked panicked. The operators leaped from their stations and ran toward the nearest exits, while several officers began shouting in an attempt to restore order. Numerous soldiers who looked like guards rushed in from outside the hall. Under their officers' orders, they charged toward the liquid, but none of them dared approach the bizarre thing. The orderly Control Center descended into chaos within seconds. Shouts and cries of all kinds blended together, and amid the disorderly yelling, Hao Ren could make out only a few meaningful phrases: "It's found us!" "Abandon ship! Abandon ship and escape!" "Everyone stay calm, calm! It's only a fragment!" "Don't forget why we're here! Drive it out and continue the battle!"
While everyone in the control hall was thrown into chaos, the liquid