Sky-cracking Rider-Chapter 598: Section 594 - Starmist Island Brawl

The tormented Imperial Princess of the Silan Dynasty said weakly, "Stop beating around the bush, just give us the straight facts, okay?"

She had never imagined that this young man from the Chen Family could still be so energetic at this time.

In Princess Lin Ziyu’s view, there was no such thing as good news—it was probably only bad news piled on top of more bad news.

And that bird as well, truly, what kind of person raises what kind of bird.

Compared to the emergency escape pod spinning wildly in the gastric acid of a giant creature, the combat aircraft barrel-rolling through the sky with countless spins in the blink of an eye, the two were simply not on the same level.

Xiao Jiu could spin better than a fighter jet!

Even if Chen Fei were dizzy, it might not be.

Housekeeper Mars, whose physical strength was second only to Chen Fei among the group, couldn’t help but retch a few times, and said irritably, "Hurry up!"

"Alright! The good news is that we are no longer in the stomach of some creature; the bad news, however, is that we are at a depth of 12,000 meters below the sea level."

Chen Fei spread his hands.

To estimate altitude, you would use a barometer; to estimate ocean depth, you would need a hydraulic gauge, based on standard pressure to calculate height and depth.

It was the same story, if it hadn’t been for the metal elemental psychic power covering this emergency escape pod, completely transforming it and supporting an unimaginable strength, the immense deep-sea pressure would have crushed it and everyone inside to powder long ago.

"12,000 meters?"

Almost everyone was dumbstruck.

In their memory, they should have recently been above the sea level in the sky, so how had they suddenly come to the deep sea.

The female Shadow Guard Lize Jina suddenly thought of something and hastily asked, "This escape pod..."

The vehicle they were in was not a submarine; it couldn’t withstand such deep water pressure.

They feared that one second they were chatting cheerfully, and the next second, the emergency escape pod would be crushed like a balloon by the water pressure—a terrible feeling of lingering before Ghost Gate Pass.

"Don’t worry! My special ability covers this escape pod throughout, and there’s also no need to worry about running out of oxygen," Chen Fei alleviated most of their concerns before continuing, "To avoid decompression sickness, we can only rise slowly to the surface, and this process will take quite a long time."

Even though a sturdy shell resisted the huge water pressure, ensuring the cabin pressure didn’t change much, for safety’s sake, Chen Fei still followed the diving rules he knew.

Besides, above the sea level, there were attackers and storm clouds—far less safe and peaceful than below the sea level.

The only downside was that the seawater blocked wireless signals, temporarily losing contact with the outside world—though Chen Fei himself was still connected.

Compared to Blue Star, Cangqiong Star, which could capture two satellite moons named Qingpo and White Dew, was not only larger in diameter, but also had more continental plates and a similarly vast oceanic area.

The ten-thousand-meter trenches of Blue Star were merely a little brother on Cangqiong Star. In the oceans between the vast continents such as Morning Star Continent, Frostmoon Continent, Chongyang Continent, Zhenlu Continent, and Cloud Heaven Continent, ten-thousand-meter deep seas were common, with the deepest parts even exceeding twenty thousand meters.

"It’s good that you’re okay!"

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Feeling the slight rocking of the emergency escape pod drifting with the waves, Princess Lin Ziyu finally breathed a long sigh of relief.

Only now did she and the others truly escape from danger.

Lin Ziyu did not forget to nod at Chen Fei in thanks.

"Mr. Chen Fei, you have worked hard!"

Luckily, the royal commission had been entrusted to this descendant of the Chen Family; otherwise, everyone might have long since been dead—either falling into the vast sea and being torn and devoured by frenzied marine creatures, or being blown up by a suddenly rebelling "Sky Falcon" with missiles from the air, or being swallowed whole by a sudden appearance of a sea monster, digested in its strong gastric acid without leaving even the residue behind.

"Don’t mention it; it’s my duty,"

In order to protect the princess, Chen Fei had indeed exerted all his strength.

Depth 11,000 meters, 10,000 meters, 9,000 meters...

When the emergency escape pod finally escaped the undercurrents and surfaced, it was already 48 hours later.

The storm had long passed, and the sea was relatively calm with no sight of fierce marine creatures.

It was deep in the night, and twin moons were high in the sky, with a brilliant starry sky.

In the fluctuating seawater, some marine plankton emitting bioluminescence drifted up and down, their light flickering like breaths.

"Locating coordinates, huh, we’ve drifted over 3000 kilometers? That’s really far!"

Chen Fei muttered to himself as he looked at the satellite coordinates, finding the current location of the emergency escape pod.

First came the storm, then the oceanic giant creature, and finally the deep sea current; the emergency lifeboat, beyond control, was brought near the waters of the Duskwind Archipelago.

The Duskwind Archipelago is the largest island cluster on Cangqiong Star, comprising over three thousand islands. The largest, Starmist Island, is comparable to a small continent and serves as an autonomous area governed by one of the intelligent species of Cangqiong Star, the Darknight Tribe.

Ding-a-ling-a-ling!

Following her exit from the cabin, Princess Lin Ziyu, who had come outside for some air, heard her cellphone ringing.

There were no communication bases nearby, yet signal could be obtained through satellites.

"Hello! Mother, I’m still alive, and everything is safe..."

Unable to help himself, Chen Fei listened in; it turned out that Her Majesty the Empress of the Silan Dynasty, upon detecting her daughter’s cellphone automatically connecting to a satellite, had called immediately.

A moment later, Lin Ziyu finished the call with her mother, the Empress of Cangqiong Star, and turned to Chen Fei, speaking earnestly, "Mother has ordered us to head to Starmist Island, the main island of the Duskwind Archipelago, to await the Royal Void Fleet’s assistance."

"Understood, setting course to Starmist Island of the Duskwind Archipelago, distance 1300 kilometers, move forward!"

Chen Fei pointed toward Starmist Island and waved his hand forcefully.

The emergency lifeboat slowly surfaced, its damaged light wings completely detached, making it look even more like the small Magic Cube Warship, "Spear Falcon Number."

After ascending to a height of 3000 meters above the sea level, the propellers on either side of the tail began to whir, propelling this odd-looking "Spear Falcon Number" towards Starmist Island.

1300 kilometers was just the distance to the Duskwind Archipelago, but if Starmist Island was the destination, at least another 800 kilometers would be required.

Having lost the light wings, which would have replenished crystal energy and assisted with flight, the crystalline blocks used on this emergency lifeboat couldn’t sustain flight over the full distance of 2100 kilometers at its current efficiency rate. However, Chen Fei still had another crystalline block of similar grade and capacity, enough to last until the destination.

Worried about running out of crystal energy, Housekeeper Mars had given Chen Fei another crystalline block, which matched the grade of the original one used in the bootleg crystal jet, but its size and capacity were more than double.

Rarely does sudden wealth enrich a person; rarely does unplanned fodder fatten a horse.

If everything were taken too seriously, the princess would probably meet an unfortunate end!

The flight speed of the emergency lifeboat was inherently slow; after all, its initial design was intended for escaping danger and emergency landings. Even if the internal crystalline block hadn’t been tampered with, it wouldn’t have supported a single, thousand-kilometer long flight.

The journey of at least 2100 kilometers took a full 18 hours; it passed sunrise, noon, and nearing sunset, the emergency lifeboat finally caught sight of the coastline of Starmist Island.

Once bitten, twice shy; fearing that the Royal Void Fleet coming to their aid might include a mole again, Princess Lin Ziyu repeatedly insisted that no assembled combat aircraft be sent for support, which is why the emergency lifeboat had to complete the full journey alone.

A Royal Void Battleship, belonging directly to the Royal Family, arrived ahead of schedule at the main island of the Duskwind Archipelago.

Compared to the Light Wing Ships, which could only fly within the atmosphere, the Void Ships capable of entering outer space were much faster, needing just a few hours to travel from the Imperial Capital Delan City on the Morning Star Continent to the distant Duskwind Archipelago.

However, each ascent of a Void Ship consumed a great deal—typically reserved as strategic-level military hardware, they were perennially stationed on the Morning Star Continent under the direct control of the Royal Family.

In terms of combat power, a fully staffed Light Wing Ship corps is no match for a single Void Ship, and not even Blue Star’s Magic Cube Warships and Sky Patrol Ships stand a chance against a fully armed Void Ship.

In some ways, Void Ships are not just air-force units operating within a planet’s atmosphere, but rather space forces crossing the star systems within the Slan Dynasty’s well-established Void Fleet, which had been set up even before the Light Wing Ship corps, representing a rare technological inversion.

As the emergency lifeboat neared the airport on Starmist Island, suddenly many figures appeared on the ground, clashing chaotically; inexplicably, it turned into a battlefield.

"Please do not land, please do not land, the Darknight Tribe and the Neanderthal tribe are having a large-scale racial conflict."

The airport navigator, who was guiding the emergency lifeboat into Starmist Island airport, suddenly changed the instructions, causing Chen Fei to be taken aback.

What?

Neanderthal tribe?

Where did the Neanderthal tribe on Cangqiong Star come from?

Blue Star had reserved an autonomous area for the Neanderthal tribe, defeated thirty years ago, located in the southern hemisphere on the Ocean Continent. Nowadays, the so-called reserve had turned into a tourist spot. The Neanderthals, having the same ancestors as Homo sapiens, were inevitably influenced, since earning money to support the family didn’t make one less dignified!

The artificial intelligence "Adam" had indeed provided a reminder: one of the twelve ruling Neanderthal tribes, the Pandolang Clan along with its dependent small tribes, had migrated to Cangqiong Star thirty years ago with over ten thousand people, leaving only eleven tribes on Blue Star. This made the Pandolang representative in the Supreme Council purely a figurehead, a decoration. After all, the rebuilt Supreme Council was really just a theatrical stage without any real power left, amply satisfying those both on and off it.

The Neanderthal Tribe currently fighting with the Darknight Tribe, according to the airport navigator, were indeed the Pandolangs who had migrated thirty years prior.

The fact that immigrants and indigenous people could incite such a scale of conflict suggested that the Pandolang’s life here was not going so well.

With a throng of people, sand flying, and cries of fighting filling the air, but without the sound of gunfire or explosions, most of the conflict involved hand-to-hand fighting, with only a few using clubs. After a rough count, the participants in this mass brawl had surprisingly exceeded ten thousand people.

It was understandable that the Darknight Tribe were the indigenous people of the Duskwind Archipelago, so for the Pandolang Neanderthal tribe to muster such numbers, either every man, woman, and child joined the fray, or their population had expanded quite favorably over the thirty years.

Such a scale of melee was rare anywhere.