Deep Space Scavenging, Hand Over Alien Warships at the Beginning

Chen Weiguo picked up the communicator, his voice as steady as a mountain.

”Comrade Lin Yuan, let me emphasize one more time.”

”In this operation, our core task is ’exploration’, not ’treasure hunting’.”

”Your primary goal is to ensure your absolute safety. On the premise of safety, draw an internal map of the ’giant beast skeleton’ for us and establish a preliminary ’monster illustrated guide’.”

”Remember, we have plenty of time. Do not be greedy, do not act rashly. At any time, you have the right to abort the mission according to your own judgment and return immediately. Do you understand?”

”Understood!” Lin Yuan nodded heavily.

He knew that the Chief was giving him a reassurance.

”Good.” Chen Weiguo took a deep breath and issued the final order.

”The ’skeleton’ operation, officially begins!”

”Activate the deep space salvage system!”

”Hum—”

Lin Yuan felt his consciousness sink suddenly.

Everything around him began to become blurry and distorted.

The next second, boundless darkness swallowed him up.

When he regained consciousness again, he found that he was already in a dead silent, cold deep space.

And right before his ”eyes”, or rather, directly in front of him.

A... a corpse that made his soul tremble, so huge that it could not be described in any language... was lying there quietly.

It was too big.

It was so big that Lin Yuan’s wide-angle lens couldn’t even capture its full picture.

He could only see an endless, pitted, gray-brown carapace that looked like a dead continent.

In the crevices of those carapaces grew some bizarre, tumor-like hyperplastic tissues. Some huge, rugged tentacles like mountain ranges were curled up powerlessly, floating in the void.

The surface of the corpse was covered with countless huge holes, like craters. Some holes were bottomless and pitch black, as if they were entrances to hell. Some holes still had some broken, crystal-like tissue structures remaining, flickering with an eerie light under the reflection of distant starlight.

An ancient, decaying energy field filled with the breath of death and despair shrouded this airspace.

Lin Yuan could even ”smell” that faint, lingering stench of... corpse rot, mixed with the smell of rotting flesh and sulfur.

This was... Salvage Area 003.

The ’giant beast skeleton’.

”Holy... shit...”

In Lin Yuan’s consciousness, he could only squeeze out these two words.

He felt as if he were an ant, small to the point of insignificance, standing in front of a dead giant whale larger than a mountain range.

That fear and awe of a massive existence, stemming from the instinct of life, made him almost unable to think.

In the Command Center, it was also dead silent.

On the huge holographic screen, the real-time footage transmitted back by the ”ghost” was displayed synchronously.

Everyone was shocked into silence by this terrifying scene, which felt like the arrival of a myth and was full of Cthulhu-style horror.

”Is this... is this... a civilization?” Li Na’s voice carried an uncontrollable tremor.

”My God...” a biologist took off his glasses and slumped powerlessly in his chair, muttering to himself, ”Darwin’s theory of evolution... in front of it, is like a joke...”

”Start the scan immediately!” Academician Wang was the first to react from the shock, his voice becoming somewhat sharp due to extreme excitement, ”Start the ’biological energy flow map’ drawing program! I want to see it! I want to see what secrets are still hidden in this corpse of a ’god’!”

”Yes!”

Lin Yuan forcibly suppressed the shock in his heart and began to execute the order.

With a thought, the black ”ghost” silently activated its specially modified ’high-dimensional penetration scanning’ system.

”Hum—”

An invisible scanning wave, undetectable to the naked eye, spread out from the ”ghost” towards the massive corpse like ripples in water.

The next second, a biological energy signal, massive beyond imagination and chaotic to the extreme, rushed into the Command Center’s data processing system like a burst dam!

”Alarm! Alarm! Data stream overload!”

”The ’pangu system’ computing power instantly soared to 90%!”

”It’s not working! The signal is too chaotic! There are residual energy and mental pollution everywhere! We simply cannot distinguish the effective energy flow!” The Head of Technology Department looked at the chaotic, snowflake-like signal map on the screen, sweating profusely with anxiety.