Chapter 38

The silver exterior of the spacecraft reflected a faint glow, clearly showing that the entire ship was in excellent condition.

When Chen Ang entered through the broken opening of the spacecraft, he could only access a small area consisting of about four or five rooms; the other areas were sealed off by thick alloy walls. The Sand People had left no traces here, and it was evident that they frequently cleaned and maintained the spacecraft.

Chen Ang could even see some precious agates embedded in the corridor, along with strange characters and symbols carved in a crystalline powder, extending all the way to the large warehouse at the end. Several dreamlike beautiful stone beads were embedded in the ceiling, forming a strange symbol.

"This is a Kretodron Pearl, this is the Sand People's holy place!" Anakin exclaimed.

The Kretodron is the most dangerous creature in the Jandor Wastes, with several subspecies, also known as canyon dragons. They can grow up to 10 meters tall and 30 meters long when fully grown. Kretodrons continue to grow throughout their lives, becoming stronger with age. They have five horns on their heads and keratinous bone plates on their faces.

The Sand People revere these fierce creatures, worshiping their savagery and lethality. The precious stones in the Kretodron's gizzard, known as Kretodron Pearls, are also the Sand People's favorite decorations for their holy places.

Chen Ang pinched one of these smooth stones, squinting his eyes to examine its vibrant and changing patterns. In his eyes, the Kretodron Pearl was surrounded by a circle of pale golden radiance, filled with warm and gentle energy.

"The Kretodron Pearl is very beautiful and is a luxury item favored by the upper echelons of many planets. They usually pay a high price to buy it as a decoration," Anakin explained. Every Tatooine resident was very familiar with this precious specialty.

"This Kretodron Pearl is no ordinary thing!" Chen Ang smiled. "If it were just for decoration, it would be a waste!"

He gently touched the Kretodron Pearl, feeling the gentle energy slowly seeping out, gradually expanding his meridians, like the morning sun, warming his body.

He put away the Kretodron Pearl, ignoring the confused Anakin behind him, and slowly walked towards the alloy door, placing his hand on the metal wall in front of him.

The dull silver alloy suddenly glowed white, the metallic color quickly fading to reveal transparent crystal material. Several faintly blue mysterious characters appeared on it. Chen Ang lightly tapped a few times, and the characters quickly disappeared. Soon, a transparent model of the spacecraft was suspended in front of the two.

"What is this?" Anakin was very curious.

"This is the design blueprint of the spacecraft. I retrieved it from the light brain. The Sand People are indeed stubborn; they never discovered it even after so long."

Anakin felt a bit choked. He looked around at the identical metal walls, trying to see the hidden secrets, but after a long time, he gave up in disappointment. He thought to himself, "Could it be that my intelligence is on par with the Sand People's?"

"This is a research spacecraft that has been crashed here for over ten thousand years. Fortunately, the instruments inside are in excellent condition, and many things are still advanced even today. The functional areas are also very complete. I think I should change my residence!" Chen Ang enlarged the virtual image of the spacecraft and smiled.

"Can it still fly?" Anakin asked in surprise.

"The damage is not severe, but for a large spacecraft like this, the conditions on Tatooine are far from sufficient to repair it. The large-scale technological level on Tatooine is at least three generations behind this spacecraft. Repairing small spacecraft is still possible, but dealing with a research ship like this is out of the question," Chen Ang said calmly. An alloy wall behind him suddenly opened without warning, revealing a passage.

"Follow me closely!" Chen Ang instructed Anakin, stepping into the passage.

The functional areas of the large spacecraft were well-organized, with a layout of large zones and smaller mixed zones. The corridors were simple and clear, with a wider main road connecting the major zones and intersecting branch roads connecting the various rooms and corridors. This could accommodate at least a thousand people for living and research.

Considering the consumption of research materials, it could support the survival of five hundred people.

But such a large research ship was completely empty, with many areas still retaining traces of human life, but no living beings appeared, not even a corpse. It was as if the people here had orderly evacuated.

Abandoning a spacecraft with minimal damage to carry out a more complex evacuation?

This behavior was truly hard to understand.

Chen Ang opened a laboratory and saw the neatly arranged experimental instruments and materials. After a brief search, he had to admit that this place had indeed been abandoned.

The experimental data and materials had been taken away, and most of the instrument data had been cleared. Even some instruments that required careful storage had been carefully stored. Everything was as if the researchers had gone on a long trip, carefully packed, and would soon return.

However, this place had been silent for over ten thousand years. The spacecraft had been honestly sitting in the canyon's crack, even buried by sand at one point, until the Sand People discovered it and revered it as a holy place.

"How about it, Anakin? Do you want to move in here?" Chen Ang left the laboratory and brought Anakin to the captain's cabin, checking the spacecraft's condition while speaking to him.

Anakin's head perked up in surprise at the words, but after a moment, it sagged in disappointment. He muttered, "But Watto won't let me go. Even if I offer him a large sum of money, he won't release my mother from slavery. He did agree to let me buy my freedom, but I have to work for him for ten years before I can redeem my mother."

"With Jabba backing him, he said if I dare to run away, he will give my ownership to Jabba, who will send bounty hunters after us."

"Let me talk to him!" Chen Ang smiled and comforted him. "You go and tidy up a room first. We still need to assemble the droids. Once everything is settled, I will go and talk to Jabba. I hope he will like my way of talking."

"Really, Master! That's great!" Anakin cheered, picking up the light brain and rushing out of the room.

In the captain's cabin, there was direct management authority over the entire spacecraft. Chen Ang operated the spacecraft to activate the hidden mode, controlling the laser cannons on both sides to break the stone walls on either side of the cliff, allowing the sand to pour down and completely bury the spacecraft. With another sandstorm, the terrain here would completely disappear.

The maintenance droids on the ship had already started working to maintain the spacecraft's operation, but the materials and energy on the ship still needed external supplementation. The daily energy supply of the spacecraft was currently sufficient, but it would only last for a year.

This was the result of the spacecraft collecting solar energy for over ten thousand years. If the main engine could not be activated to provide power, it would have to rely on external high-energy battery packs for power.

The efficiency of the main engine's energy section was much higher than that of the battery packs. Using the latter to supply energy would be very costly. It would be like using a coal stove to burn leaves, which would be inefficient.

In recent days, Chen Ang had been focusing on learning the scientific knowledge of this world and studying the various alien races. These amazing races had different abilities, diverse forms, and varied skills.

One close relative of the plasma leech, the Volcabash, had a miraculous body. Their bodies were made of flesh and blood, with a high metal content in their blood. Due to their diet rich in plasma, a magnetic field formed around their bodies, and certain internal muscles, such as their tongues, could control this magnetic field.

This miraculous ability gave Chen Ang a burst of inspiration. Electricity and magnetism are fundamental energies of the world, containing profound mysteries and the power to influence the world and manipulate reality, no less powerful than internal energy. On Earth, there was a comic called "Sea Tiger," where the power of magnetic field rotation had the ability to shock the real world.

Gravitation, electromagnetism, temperature, vectors, fluids, and light intensity, these fundamental physical forces, seemed to have vast potential for expansion. Originally, Chen Ang needed to wait until his over-frequency control reached the genetic level before conducting research on superpowers. However, the Volcabash gave him a new inspiration—human body modification technology.

Unlike the popular mechanical human body modification in the galaxy, Chen Ang was more inclined to mimic the various amazing creatures in the universe, studying the secrets of their bodies, and using a mimetic approach to transplant artificial organs to control these physical forces.

In fact, Chen Ang had an even more radical idea. He wanted to try combining internal energy with artificial organs, using his advantage in human medicine to integrate artificial organs into the human body, promoting the evolution and mutation of artificial organs with internal energy, and reshaping the human body from the inside out through the disruption and reconstruction of yin and yang balance.