In that instant, Yu Lian seemed to sense a faint hint of nervousness from the other party.
He barely thought about it—or perhaps he thought about it a great deal—before answering quite calmly, "Sounds good. Let's do that. Besides seeing if we can disable the firewall, we should see if we can bring down the shields, too. Mia and the others are itching to swing their axes."
"Oh? Aren't you worried those Ti Yang Kai will come charging back?"
"They won't. What harm could the grandmother of Edelweiss possibly mean? Besides, Little Gray has been plotting this for a long time. He won't let that happen."
Feifei said nothing more. She only tightened her grip around Yu Lian's wrist.
But then the subspace passage vanished. That was, of course, the result of the hyperspace jump completing. Everything in Yu Lian's field of vision had stabilized, but Feifei was nowhere to be seen.
When passing through a subspace passage, even a slight displacement could leave you thousands of miles from where you were meant to emerge. But Yu Lian could still sense Feifei's presence. She was less than a kilometer away in a straight line, indeed somewhere inside this ancient vessel whose age was beyond counting—and she had entered combat readiness even before he had.
Feifei did have something on her mind, but it wasn't important.
Yu Lian glanced around the stable compartment and strode forward with a swagger that dared anyone to get in his way.
Of course, "stable" was relative. Yu Lian walked on solid flooring, but the walls and ceiling of the passage beside him warped like melting wax, merging with a river of liquid metal that had emerged from who knew where.
Yet intricate patterns appeared across their fused surfaces, like the network of blood vessels in