"Boom!"
"Whoosh..."
"Whoa, too high! Gao, put me down."
"Woohoo~ I'm going to become a cucumber, a beautiful eyelash cucumber!"
The sudden commotion interrupted their discussion.
Huang Songming and Newmanda looked up. A scholar cosplaying as a kite struck all sorts of poses in the wind, moving their arms and legs as if testing something, calling to a helper on the ground, then raising a terminal to record data.
A figure slithered creepily out onto the ground, muttering as they began rolling around. Then they raised both hands above their head, turned into a straight cylinder, and shouted that they were going to become a cucumber.
They rolled off into the distance.
To the right, a huge hole had opened in Library Five. Heads poked out one after another, looking somewhat numb.
Not far away, a small mushroom cloud rose, leaving the shocked scholars covered in soot and dust from the explosion.
The entire space battleship tilted, like a proud eagle enjoying the freedom of the wind and sky, flying along just fine before someone suddenly whacked it on the head.
Its body lurched sideways, most of the confidence and pride on its face vanished, and all that remained was bewilderment and the panic of an imminent crash.
"What the fuck, is Calamity attacking us?!"
The personnel inside the battleship leaned sideways against the walls, veins bulging in the hands gripping the handrails to steady themselves, while their other hands tapped rapidly at their terminals.
Amid a stream of red alerts, they nervously maneuvered the battleship back to normal.
The tilted battleship steadied again. Shock lingered on the faces of those who had regained their balance, shock they had not experienced in over a decade.
"Holy shit, this battleship hasn't shaken like that in over a decade. What are those