In the darkness, a ripple of soul energy came through!
"Who's there?"
Qin Heng swept his divine sense across the surroundings, searching heaven and earth.
Within the cabin, there was one and only one soul aura. There were no other living beings.
The other party's aura was not weak. It had already reached the peak of the King realm, having undergone one more transformation than Qin Heng. Its presence was especially formidable, yielding not an inch even compared to an Emperor!
Sensing Qin Heng and Dong Huaiyue's arrival, the figure revealed itself.
In the darkness, Qin Heng saw a sphere.
A mechanical sphere made entirely of metal, covered in various components, intricate and complex!
The mechanical sphere was enormous, thirty million kilometers across—larger than Qin Heng's true body by a full size.
Zzt~
It gave off a faint electric crackle and sent out a divine-sense ripple. "Native humans, please communicate with me through divine sense first."
That form of address made Qin Heng frown.
He asked, "You call us natives? Where do you come from?"
The mechanical sphere emitted a mechanical voice. With only a single strand of divine sense, it analyzed Qin Heng's language system and spoke fluent Earth Mandarin. "I am a cleaner from the Kashmor Universe of the Eighth Island Chain in the Nine-Layer Boundary Sea. You may call me Cleaner No. 2."
Qin Heng and Dong Huaiyue exchanged a glance, both stunned by that string of terms.
The Nine-Layer Boundary Sea, the Eighth Island Chain, the Kashmor Universe... a cleaner at the peak of the King realm?
This mechanical sphere had come from another universe!
"Are you something from this Tribulation Ark?" Dong Huaiyue immediately asked.
Cleaner No. 2 replied, "This vessel is called the Freedom Treasure Ship. It is the vehicle of my master, Hou