Chapter 1 Beyond the World Gate Lies the Planet of the Irim

Beyond the world gate lay the planet of the Irim Elves.

A ripple spread across the glorious light membrane, and the first to fly out of the gate was naturally the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace. Closely following this silver-white spaceship was Wim's fleet and the Demon King's City, which was being guarded by the fleet. Bringing up the rear was the breathtakingly enormous wreckage.

Towed by the traction barges, a space fortress nearly the size of the old Irim floating islands slowly drifted out of the world gate. The ancient hull, scarred by countless years, was covered in massive, tentacle-like remains. Ruptures, twists, and radioactive perforations from ancient explosions could be seen everywhere on the armor plates, which stretched for kilometers. The Irim fleet guarding the space station already knew that such a wreck was to be temporarily docked in their orbit, but they never imagined that the wreckage would be so terrifyingly large. Although they had modified behemoths like the space floating islands, they had done so on the basis of rock strata. The spaceships they actually built were nothing like this insane creation.

However, they quickly reacted. After Wim issued an order, a group of navigation cruisers flashed bright lights as they flew past the traction barges, guiding the immense wreckage to the pre-designated docking area.

In an area about a thousand kilometers from the space station, a "port" specially prepared for this wreckage had been built. Dozens of silver-gray spires floated there, connected by beams of light, along with a small space station serving as the port's control center. These structures were once used by the Irim Elves to secure the uncontrolled floating islands in the "Land of Death." The spires could provide spatial anchoring, and the small space station served as a monitoring facility. Now that the floating islands were gone, these devices, which had been brought along for the ride, were naturally useless. Originally intended to be melted down, they finally found a way to make themselves useful.

Although the technological level of the Irim Elves was not impressive in the entire universe of civilizations, it was at least enough to help Hao Ren.

"The wreckage will stay at New Irim Star from now on. There's no room at the Kuiper Station, and Raven 12345 has explicitly given me the right to dispose of it," Hao Ren said, looking at the construction scene in space, turning his head to the communicator next to him. Wim's image floated on the communicator. "Just make sure this ship doesn't drift around."

Wim nodded. "Don't worry, that's easy."

The spaceship wreckage from another world had special research value - its main value lay in the fact that a "First Born" that had traversed the void had once parasitized it. After Hao Ren reported this to Raven 12345 last time, she said that she only needed a small portion of the "First Born's" tissue fragments to play with, and that she had no use for the wreckage itself. Naturally, this thing was left to Hao Ren as a big toy. Hao Ren thought about what he could do with such a several-hundred-kilometer-long hunk of iron—turn it into a sea-viewing villa? There wasn't such a big beach. Turn it into an apartment building? He wouldn't be able to rent it out. Turn it into a warship? It wasn't as sturdy as the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace. And frankly, he didn't think he could find a buyer even if he dismantled it and sold it as scrap metal, so he simply decided to put it on New Irim Star as a treasure to ward off evil spirits.

After all, this planet could be considered his property, right?

However, Hao Ren knew that such a large space fortress would eventually come in handy. No matter what, this was a high-tech object that ordinary people wouldn't even dare to dream of. After the First Born's remains were removed from it, someone might think of a way to use it... but that was a matter for the future.

Hao Ren sent dozens of autonomous machines from the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace to cut off the tissue structures of various parts of the First Born inside the spaceship wreckage, preparing to take those things back to Raven 12345 to hand them over. Then, he gave the autonomous machines an instruction to stay here for the time being and start construction, gradually cleaning up the First Born's remains in the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace, preferably digging out those remains relatively intact and piling them up on the nearby natural satellite. New Irim Star had a medium-sized moon on which an engineering station could be built. Although he didn't know what those things would be used for... but a sentence said by Lily resonated with everyone: no matter whether it's useful or not, first take it back to the den, maybe you can show it off someday!

That husky was stupid, but occasionally he had some good ideas.

Cleaning up a giant ship wreckage that was hundreds of kilometers long was not an easy task, but the efficiency of the autonomous machines was extremely high, and each of them had a small-scale space container (for storing their dazzling array of tool kits and material packs), so it probably wouldn't take too long. Anyway, Hao Ren wasn't in a hurry, and those little guys were even less in a hurry.

After arranging the long-term project in space, the Demon King's City also began to slowly descend, preparing to enter the atmosphere and greet their new neighbors.

Lily, in her capacity as the "team's only highly educated literary girl," helped Izhaks write a notice to the whole city explaining the situation. As early as when the Demon King's City had just set off, this notice had been sent to everyone in the city. Now, the residents of all races in the Demon King's City knew that they had come to another world and were about to obtain a stable home they had dreamed of. To be honest, they were all confused - anyone with a normal worldview would probably not be able to react at this time, and they would not dare to believe that such a good thing could happen. This was no longer a pie in the sky, this was simply a thunderclap and a beautiful wife falling from the sky, along with two properties, and a Dubai uncle who had cancer and was waiting to sign the medical advice and die...

However, the residents of the Demon King's City were all loyal to Izhaks. These people had an almost blind trust and worship of the Demon King. As long as Izhaks patted his chest and guaranteed that everything was scientific, no one in the city would express any doubts.

The data terminal commented on the people in the city: "As long as Izhaks declares that the earth is square, these people will dare to run to the ends of the earth to file a prism out of the earth... This is called die-hard loyalty."

In any case, under Izhaks' prestige, everyone in the Demon King's City had accepted and believed this incredible fact. Now, countless people were looking up at the magical scene outside the city's shield: the brilliant Milky Way, the endless stars.

People born in space bubbles had never seen the starry sky. The sight of countless stars shining in the sky had only appeared in the papers of some unpopular old scholars. Izhaks and Monina were the only people in the whole city who had seen the starry sky. Now, the star-studded universe was shining above the city. Civilians walked out of their homes, surprised and uneasy, but also feeling extraordinarily novel as they looked at the scenery above their heads.

They had already seen a glimpse of the starry sky on the other side of the world gate, but at that time the fleet was eager to pass through the gate, and the starry sky was just a flash in the pan. But now, people could slowly immerse themselves in the starlight.

Until the entire city sank into the atmosphere and greeted the rising sun as it slowly descended along an arc.

Led by the patrol aircraft, the Demon King's City slowly approached the southern part of the main continent, and an uneven coastline appeared in the faint morning light. Lights could be seen flickering on the coastline, which were the elves who had come to greet them in advance.

The Demon King's City in its current state could not directly land on land (after all, it was difficult for the elves to dig a pit of the right size for it), so the most suitable place for it to stay was the offshore sea. The elves found a landing point according to the size of the Demon King's City's base, so that the bottom of this floating city could just touch the continental shelf. After the city was securely docked, experts would come to help connect the base of the Demon King's City with the continental shelf, so that it would become a secure island. The hundred-zhang-high walls of the Demon King's City were not afraid of wind and waves, and the distance not too far from the coastline was also convenient for the earth-based mages in the city to build roads with earth and connect an artificial land to the continent, so that the Demon King's City could safely settle down.

The Irim Elves were experienced in this regard: they had settled more than a dozen floating islands back then.

Hao Ren and his party led a group of Demon King's City representatives to the coast, and then were surprised to find that Hilda was also standing in the welcoming party.

"Your Majesty the Queen actually came in person?" Hao Ren happily stepped forward to greet Hilda. "Aren't you busy today?"

"It's rare to have a little free time," Hilda said with a smile, looking at the most conspicuous bald head in the crowd. "And after all, an old friend is here, so we have to welcome him."

Izhaks scratched his bald head a little awkwardly, while Elizabeth sat on his other shoulder fidgeting restlessly. The little guy looked at the Demon King's City that was slowly landing on the sea in the distance, his face full of joy: Bear children basically have this reaction when they move to a new home.

"Last time I helped you move, and this time you're helping me move."

"Why say these things?" Hilda smiled, then glanced at Hao Ren. "Anyway, we're all renting..."

Hao Ren, as the landlord, immediately felt extremely subtle.

(It's a big holiday, give me some monthly tickets to calm my nerves!)