I Can Grant Origin Powers To Anything

Looking around, Han Yun City exclaimed, "What on earth happened? Where's the warship... how... did it disappear?"

"There are no signs of battle, the warship flew away on its own."

Liu Neng ran to the place where the warship had been parked, frowned, and said, "But Sun Qinglong's traces are gone. Indeed, my previous sense of danger wasn't wrong. There's really danger here, and Qinglong is probably in grave danger, as for the warship..."

"The warship didn't fly away by itself."

Han Yun City picked up his communicator and said, "If Xiaoli were to fly away, he would leave a message for us. Even if we couldn't receive it underground, now that we're back up, the message should have arrived. But I haven't received any message, which means..."

Xu Lingjun exclaimed, "Someone infiltrated our warship, killed Xiaoli and the others, and used Xiaoli's body to fly the warship away? And just then Sun Qinglong came up, so even she was killed?"

"That's very likely."

"But the warship has already activated its camouflage system, merging completely with the surrounding environment. Even a Mecha can't detect the warship's traces, so how did those people..."

"The most urgent task right now is to find out where the warship is."

"Wait, the engineering vehicle!!!"

Liu Dong suddenly exclaimed in shock, and shouted, "The engineering vehicle is matched with the warship. If we want to find the warship, all we need to do is detach the sensor from the engineering vehicle, and as long as the warship is still on this planet, we'll be able to detect it."

"Let's go, we're going down!"

Xu Lingjun motioned for the three to come up.

Sure enough, something unexpected had happened.

In this situation, it would be truly unwise for the four of them to scatter again.

The Mecha leaped again, jumping back down into the Earth Core passage.

Each journey took several hours...

But when they passed through the anti-gravity layer of True Qi again and reached the place where they had previously excavated the void scroll,

they were shocked to find out.

The engineering vehicle that had been left here to auto-mine was also missing.

Only a pile of broken ores remained on the ground. Judging by the amount of broken ore, not long after they left, the vehicle had been driven away.

"How is this possible?"

Zhao Yang cried out, "There is only one track leading in on the ground, where's the second track, how could this vehicle have been driven out?"

Indeed, the engineering vehicle is incredibly heavy, at this moment the ground was full of rolling marks, but those marks were left from the mining, only one track led out of the grotto, and that was from when the engineering vehicle came in.

But in fact.

The vehicle was just gone.

Han Yun City shook his head and said, "It feels like watching a suspense drama, how on earth did the opponents drive the vehicle out?"

Xu Lingjun didn't say anything, just let Xiaoya survey the surroundings again... This grotto is unlike the usual interconnected grottoes, it's just one huge cave.

The outer area is vast, resembling an Earth Core World.

But there were no traces of the engineering vehicle being driven out, so how did the engineering vehicle disappear?

Sure enough, Xiaoya thoroughly surveyed the area but still found nothing.

Xu Lingjun asked, "Old Liu, do you still have that sense of crisis?"

"My goosebumps never went down."

Liu Dong said with a bitter smile, "In fact, I've become accustomed to this feeling; now I just treat it as an illusion."

"It seems now, your intuition is far more useful than a computer."

Xu Lingjun shook his head and said, "It seems like your feelings were all true; there was indeed a group of people mining Void Gold before us, and since we landed on this star, we've been watched by these people."

"Then what should we do now?"

"Keep searching!"

Four hours later, having searched the surroundings but still unable to find the whereabouts of the engineering vehicle, it seemed to have disappeared just like Sun Qinglong and the Observation Level Warship.

"We should rest a bit on the spot first."

Xu Lingjun sighed and said.

"What?"

Zhao Yang couldn't help but exclaim, "We're... not searching anymore?"

"We've been digging for so long and going in and out, also now that we've checked out the surroundings, we've been up for over thirty hours without rest. If we're sure there's an enemy lurking around us, then ensuring we have enough energy becomes very important."

"That's correct."

Han Yun City chimed in, scanning his gaze over Xu Lingjun, saying, "Let's rest and have something to eat first."

"Yes... that makes sense too."

Zhao Yang responded, feeling that Xu Lingjun's words made sense, but vaguely felt something might be off.

However, seeing Xu Lingjun, Han Yun City, and Liu Dong all sitting down.

He could only sit down tightly with the three, watching Xu Lingjun take out some hamburgers from the Transformation Capsule... If it were normal times, he might have criticized what unhealthy substances were in these healthy foods and how it's best not to eat too much.

But since coming to Xuyun Star, he's constantly felt off as if it's been haunted here.

Even as an atheist, thinking of Sun Qinglong who vanished inexplicably just now, it's been two or three months since they left Blue Star, and everyone has developed feelings during this long interaction. He originally wanted to pursue her, but now... he can't accept that such a beautiful girl just disappeared?

After eating, everyone rested for a while.

In this Earth Core World, there is no distinction between night and day.

But after being tired for so long.

Everyone couldn't help but feel a bit sleepy.

Xu Lingjun offered to Han Yun City, "I'll take the first watch, I'll call you after three hours, then Zhao Yang will go next, and Liu Dong, you'll be last. Once we've properly rested, we'll use the Mecha to fly up and search for the warship. Such a big warship can't have left without any trace, we'll surely find it."

"Got it."

Everyone naturally had no objections.

Despite feeling a lot of unease...

But after eating and drinking, combined with the previously heightened spirits now suddenly relaxing, sleepiness had already crept into their hearts.

In no time, Zhao Yang had fallen into a deep sleep.

But just when he was sleeping soundly, he was suddenly awakened by someone, Zhao Yang was startled, opened his eyes quickly, only to find Xu Lingjun was already asleep.

Han Yun City made a gesture at him, indicating he should take the next watch while also handing him a pistol.

Zhao Yang, somewhat confused, held the gun, watching as Han Yun City also laid down to sleep...

Thinking to himself, did six hours pass by this quickly?

Why does it feel like I haven't had enough sleep?

But listening to everyone's snores, he couldn't help but yawn.

Just like Xu Lingjun said before, he hasn't rested for over thirty hours. It might not be a big deal for Xu Lingjun and others, but Zhao Yang is a scholar and naturally possesses a scholar's frailty.

Previously, he was fine without sleeping, but suddenly waking up after sleeping for six hours... he hadn't really recovered.

In fact, sleeping for a few hours felt more exhausting, his eyes felt as if sand had gotten in them, no matter how much he rubbed.

Seeing everyone asleep, he earnestly watched over the surroundings, with only the intermittent red flashes from the Mecha's eyes bringing him enough security.

But in no time, his eyelids started to droop.

Then with a shiver, he continued to hold the gun and watched, but his alert expression gradually clouded... and soon, the fourth snore joined in.

For a moment, apart from the occasional scarlet flashes from the Mecha's eyes, there was no other movement in the vast grotto.

Until...

A figure appeared quietly, even while moving, without leaving a trace, bypassed the four's bodies, and stealthily headed towards the Mecha.

The entrance was extremely high.

But the figure was extremely agile.

Like a nimble ape climbing rocks, a few small leaps quickly brought them to the entrance... just as they were about to sneak in...

Suddenly.

The previously motionless Mecha's eyes suddenly lit up, then raised its hand to grasp the person within its palm.

"Certainly, fell for it!"

"Caught him."

Xu Lingjun, Han Yun City, and Liu Dong all leaped up.

The sudden action startled Zhao Yang awake in confusion, exclaiming, "What... what... what's going on... I wasn't sleeping... I wasn't... wasn't sleeping... really wasn't sleeping..."

Holding the gun with a bewildered expression, he realized the three weren't looking at him.

Instead, their eyes were fixed on the Mecha... or rather, the captive caught by the Mecha!

He still hadn't comprehended what exactly had happened.