"You should have stayed farther away when you were fighting it."
Dan Heng helplessly climbed up and began assessing the aircraft's damage.
He pointed at the large number of ice cones stuck into the steel shell and said in a deep voice:
"March, your ice arrows even shot into the aircraft."
"Tch, who told Zeig to dodge!"
"Zeig, you too. Your vines directly rooted their stems into the aircraft's surface. The internal structure is already very unstable. It will collapse with just a few more collisions."
"Cut it out. Who told this pit to run!"
"…"
Dan Heng was silent for a moment before saying to the two:
"How about we just abandon this aircraft? It's already badly damaged. Even if we drive it out of the cave, it won't fly far."
"No—!!"
Zeig was the first to disagree!
"This thing was rented on loan under my name by that beast. It absolutely has to be returned!"
Dan Heng hesitated for a few seconds and continued:
"But it's already been affected by your battle to this extent. Even if we return it, we'll still have to pay a high repair compensation fee."
"Damn!"
This completely infuriated Zeig.
No matter what, he still had to pay money?
"Hey, can't that gun of yours heal the aircraft a bit?" March 7th pointed at Zeig's Abyss Flower and muttered.
Zeig widened his eyes:
"Fuck, have you ever seen someone heal an aircraft? How do I heal this thing? Hang it an IV drip?!"
"Bullshit. Last time when you soloed Dan Heng, weren't you constantly healing those Automaton troops? Why doesn't it work on an aircraft!"
"In Simulated Universe, even a Puffer can heal Automaton troops! But when have you ever seen them heal an aircraft?"
"Why don't you just try it?"
"I don't want to try something so ridiculous."
"Damn it, then I'll do it!"
March 7th snatched Abyss Flower, directly raised it and pointed it at the aircraft.
"Hm?"
Under Zeig and Dan Heng's gaze, a complex emerald-green array glowed softly, then turned into light spots that poured into the aircraft.
At that moment.
The ice cones slowly melted away, and the vines continuously receded.
Even the shattered windshield fragments floated up and recombined.
Soon.
A perfectly intact (though still fragile) aircraft was parked there.
"…"
This scene left Zeig and Dan Heng staring with straight eyes.
March 7th panted heavily, wiping the fine sweat from her forehead while proudly saying:
"See? Automaton troops can be healed, so why can't an aircraft?"
"Damn, what the hell is the principle behind this?"
March 7th tossed Abyss Flower back, weakly bending at the waist:
"Ah… I feel like I'm about to die. Why does this thing consume so much energy? I feel completely drained."
Previously when she and Zeig took those Silvermane Guards and Automaton troops to bomb the glacier, he could casually heal hundreds of people by himself.
How come she only healed for a few minutes and was already wilted?
"Good guy, now we don't have to pay compensation."
Zeig put away Abyss Flower and looked at Dan Heng with satisfaction:
"Dan Heng, go drive it."
"…"
Seeing Dan Heng remain silent, March 7th, who was hammering her old waist on the side, also urged:
"Dan Heng, hurry up and move."
"…"
Dan Heng seemed as if he hadn't heard and silently looked up.
Zeig and March 7th also looked up together. The top of the cave was filled with ice cones and vines, all caused by the two of them fighting earlier.
Under Abyss Flower's healing, some of the ice cones on top had receded and the vines had shrunk.
But earlier these two things had been embedded into the rock walls.
With them suddenly disappearing, plus the intense energy fluctuations from Abyss Flower's healing.
From above the entire cave came a small cracking sound.
"What's that sound? Did you fart, Dan Heng?" Zeig asked doubtfully.
"The cave is about to collapse." Dan Heng said in a deep voice.
"No way? Just from that little mess we made earlier, how could it collapse already? Unless something really heavy stepped on it."
"I parked my aircraft on top."
"…"
Rumble—!!
The sky collapsed and the earth cracked. Rocks tumbled down.
This small hill that wasn't originally very big endured pressure it shouldn't have at its age and collapsed with a bang.
…
A few minutes later.
Herta Space Station.
A large pile of mountain rocks and snow, mixed with steel fragments, surged out from the toilet like a mudslide.
"Splash splash splash—!!"
The entire toilet door was smashed open, flowing wildly like a mountain flood.
It lasted about five minutes.
Only then did this mudslide gradually subside.
"?"
A staff member poked their head out from the mudslide, looking blankly at the flooded cabin section.
"What happened? Did Qlipoth manifest? Building walls in the space station?"
"Fuck… Why are there mountain rocks and dirt here!"
More and more staff members poked their heads out from the ruins.
"Who was doing a spatial jump experiment? Didn't we tell you to abandon that toilet?!"
"It wasn't us…!"
As staff members crawled out from the ruins one by one, a few sharp-eyed ones quickly pointed at the steel armor fragments inside and said:
"Hiss, this appearance — it's an aircraft?! It's smashed into paste!"
"What? Could it be that a staff member met with an accident outside and used spatial jump to return?"
"Quick, quick, find where the cockpit is! See if the person is still alive!!"
"…"
Through the staff members' efforts, they finally found a spherical cockpit.
Although the windshield was smashed to pieces, showing that this aircraft was super cheap, the interior was relatively well preserved.
"I dug out half a cup of milk tea from the dirt! I smelled it — it seems to have gone bad. It's been sitting for a long time!"
"There's a notebook here! Everyone come quick!"
"It's very likely a clue left by our compatriots!"
"What? Let me see!"
The group of staff members gathered together and opened the pink-blue notebook.
'X Month X Day, Night. That idiot Zeig actually dragged me all the way to Jarilo-VI just to find Peppy. What a fucking idiot!'
'X Month X Day, Morning. Fuck! Why does Peppy get a bed while I sleep on the floor like a dog?'
…
'X Month X Day, Noon. Damn it, why was my proposed policy for the museum rejected? It's definitely jealousy of this old lady's talent!'
…
'X Month X Day, Noon. Oh my god, is Jarilo-VI having a coup? Even so, Zeig still says he wants to return to the space station. So heartless!'
…
'X Month X Day, Morning. Fuck, Peppy said Zeig went back. Causing trouble without bringing me! I'm going too. I'll just rent an aircraft on loan under Zeig's name!'
…
'X Month X Day, Evening. How did Dan Heng come too? And he even dyed his hair blond? So tasteless!'
The group of staff members fell into silence.
…
"…"