Tmkoc Sex Stories Chapter 222: The buried ship compartment
Chapter 222: The buried ship compartment
When Rover opened his eyes, what appeared before him wasn’t earth.
Nor a natural cave.
It was a massive metal corridor stretching deep into darkness. The walls on both sides curved slightly, their surfaces covered in flickering blue lines like the circuitry of a dying machine. The air was cold and dry, carrying the smell of old metal and an inorganic feeling so uncomfortable it gave the impression of having stepped inside the body of a massive mechanical creature.
Sunako stood near Rover, looked around, then slowly said: "This place... doesn’t feel like an underground structure."
Nanoe reached out and lightly touched the metal wall. Blue light immediately ran across her fingertip then quickly faded. She frowned slightly. "The surface is made from a very special material. Not like any metal we’ve found before."
Selina looked at the long corridor stretching into the distance. "More like a ship’s compartment."
Rover didn’t answer.
Because he thought the same thing.
Not an ordinary ship.
More like the interior of a massive spaceship that had been buried within another layer of space.
Rover turned to look back. The mirror surface behind them still existed, reflecting the freight depot above. The way back hadn’t disappeared. At least, if trouble arose, they could immediately return.
"Let’s go."
The group began moving deeper into the corridor.
Light from the lantern in Sunako’s hands shone on the cold metal walls. Footsteps echoed far into the distance, making the already empty space feel even heavier. Elith released a swarm of small spiders ahead, but this time she didn’t let them go too far. Partly because the fog had vanished, and partly because this place made her uncomfortable.
No monsters.
No spirits.
No sound at all except their own footsteps and the occasional flicker of electricity from the lines on the walls.
After walking a few hundred meters, Elith suddenly stopped.
A large cube lay tilted in the middle of the corridor.
It stood nearly three meters tall, its surface covered in strange veining. Part of the shell had burst open, revealing complex mechanical structures inside. But just a glance was enough to recognize that the crack hadn’t come from outside.
It had come from inside.
As if something had once been locked inside the cube, then broken through the shell itself and crawled out.
Rover stepped closer.
No corpse inside.
No blood.
Only a severely damaged mechanism remained. Black wires stretched out like blood vessels, the core was hollow, and the metal plates inside were torn outward in a very clear direction.
Nanoe crouched down to examine it. She didn’t touch it directly, only observed for a long moment then said softly: "Not damaged recently."
Rilia asked: "How long ago?"
"Can’t determine." Nanoe shook her head. "But certainly very long ago."
Sunako looked at the hollow core inside, frowning slightly. "Where did the thing that used to be in here go?"
No one answered.
Because no one knew.
The group continued deeper.
The further forward they went, the more destroyed cubes appeared. At first only one lay tilted in the middle of the corridor. Then three. Five. Ten. Some cubes were completely torn apart, their metal shells scattered around like the carcasses of massive machines. Others were only partially broken, revealing a gap large enough for the creature inside to crawl out.
But strangest of all, no traces remained.
No blood.
No flesh.
No bones.
No footprints either.
As if whatever had once been locked inside had left this place long ago and completely vanished.
Elith sat down beside a smaller cube and directed spiders to crawl inside and check. After a moment, she frowned slightly. "There’s a mechanism inside, but it’s almost completely destroyed. A few circuits still have very faint reactions."
Nanoe looked at the complex wiring. "Could be a containment chamber. Could also be a growth or transformation device."
Sunako shivered. "Doesn’t sound like something good."
Selina said gently: "If it were truly something good, they wouldn’t have broken out of their own boxes."
Her words made the corridor feel even quieter.
Rover looked at the broken cubes scattered around. A very uncomfortable feeling rose within him. These things didn’t resemble items randomly generated by the Endless Game. They had clear structure. Clear function. Traces of having been used over a long period of time.
In other words, this place had once been operated by someone.
Someone had once built these cubes.
Someone had once locked something inside them.
But now, the operators had vanished. The creatures that had been locked inside had also escaped. What remained was only a cold ship compartment, buried within a strange layer of space directly beneath the freight depot.
The group walked on a bit further.
At the end of the corridor, a circular metal gate appeared in the darkness.
It stood over ten meters tall, its surface thick and heavy, engraved with veining resembling energy channels. Both sides of the gate showed numerous deep scratches, but the central portion remained intact. Beside the gate was a rectangular control panel. The screen had become slightly dim, but the numeric keypad below still glowed very faintly.
Sunako looked at the keypad, then at the gate. "Do we need to enter a password?"
Rover didn’t immediately answer.
He tried raising his hand.
A small mirror face appeared in mid-air.
But in an instant, the mirror face shuddered violently.
Crack!
It shattered.
Rover frowned.
He tried again.
This time, [Mirror] couldn’t even form.
The surrounding space felt like a block of steel that had been locked shut. Every pathway leading into the mirror world was forcibly closed by an invisible force before it could even open.
Nanoe immediately noticed the change. "What’s wrong?"
"Mirror isn’t working."
Selina looked at him. "Only here?"
Rover tried summoning [Shadow].
Darkness beneath his feet spread normally.
He turned to Rilia. "Try your ability."
Rilia raised her hand. An ice spike quickly formed in her palm, the cold aura radiating without any sign of abnormality. Elith also released a few strands of spider silk. Selina channeled energy into her sword normally. The flame in the lantern Sunako held still burned steadily.
Only [Mirror] had been disabled.
Rover looked at the metal gate.
A very strange feeling arose within him.
Not like a simple ability suppression.
More like [Mirror] was standing before something directly related to its own origin. A tiny fragment that couldn’t operate freely within the territory belonging to something far greater.
Rover looked at the control panel.
In his mind, an old memory slowly surfaced.
The psychiatric hospital.
The flickering lights.
The professor whose eyes seemed to be able to see through time.
And a sequence of numbers that had once appeared as a reward after he completed a side mission.
Rover’s gaze deepened.
Nanoe stood beside him, noticing the very small change on his face. "You know the password?"
"Perhaps."
Sunako looked at Rover. "Perhaps again?"
Rover glanced at her. "I’ve never used it before."
Sunako fell silent for two seconds, then quietly stepped a little closer to Selina. "I feel standing near Selina is also fairly safe right now."
Selina raised an eyebrow slightly. "Not sticking to Rover anymore?"
"Great Lord Rover is doing something dangerous." Sunako answered very naturally. "I don’t want to affect his concentration."
Nanoe curved her lips slightly but didn’t interrupt further.
Rover stepped up to the control panel.
His finger touched the first number key.
Click.
Then the second number.
The entire sequence appeared on the small screen.
Rover paused for a moment.
His hand pressed the confirm button.
Click!
No immediate reaction.
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds.
Sunako unconsciously held her breath. Rilia stared fixedly at the gate, the cold aura around her beginning to spread. Selina lowered her center of gravity slightly, the sword in her hand ready to leave its sheath. Elith silently directed the spider swarm to spread to both sides of the corridor, checking the surrounding blind spots.
Right at that moment, a low rumbling sound rang out from behind the gate.
BOOM...
Heavy.
Like a massive machine waking from far too long a sleep.
The energy veining on the gate lit up simultaneously. Blue light ran along each metal ring, then spread to the corridor walls, causing rows of small lights on the ceiling to flicker on and off in succession.
Beep!
A dry electronic sound rang out.
A strange string of characters appeared on the screen. Then, as if the system recognized that the person standing before the gate couldn’t read that language, the text automatically changed.
[Temporary access confirmed.]
[Welcome back.]
Rover frowned.
Welcome back?
He had never been to this place before.
But the gate gave him no more time to think.
Screech...
Two thick layers of metal began separating to either side. The sound of friction echoed throughout the corridor. A stream of cold air flowed out from within, carrying neither the damp mustiness of the earth nor the cold of the fog. It was dry, clean, so inorganic it gave the feeling of stepping into a room that had been sealed shut for hundreds of years.
The space behind the gate gradually came into view.
It was an enormous hall.
The ceiling rose so high that the lantern light in Sunako’s hands couldn’t reach it. Leaning metal columns stood around the hall, their surfaces covered in wires and faintly glowing circuits. Dozens of cubes lay scattered across the floor, most broken from within, like massive mechanical cocoons destroyed by something after completing a transformation process.
But that wasn’t what drew everyone’s attention.
At the center of the room were thousands of spirits.
They circled in rings, rotating around a single point.
Some still retained human form.
Others were only faint points of light.
But all of them were looking down.
Not at Rover.
But at a body lying in the middle of the hall.
Sunako’s mouth opened slightly. "That’s..."
She couldn’t finish her sentence.
Because the scene before them was completely different from what everyone had expected.
That body was wearing a spacesuit.