When Nolan returned from Earth, she finally stopped lagging and returned to her normal form.

"It's much more comfortable in this state," Nolan's life-size holographic projection circled around the bridge. "Before, it was so laggy."

Hao Ren inquired about the unloading situation: "Where did you put that ark? Did everything go smoothly?"

"According to the navigation signals sent by the sirens, I sent the ark directly to the bottom of the sea, right next to Nathaton. The Siren Queen will be able to see it when she returns," Nolan nodded. "There were no problems, except for a little turbulence caused by unloading the cargo, but it didn't affect Nathaton. The sirens in charge of 'receiving' the cargo should be busy inspecting and waterproofing the ark. Such a big thing… it'll keep them busy for a while."

Hao Ren nodded and turned to look at the remaining twelve ark behemoths. These giant ships were gradually accelerating away from the drone hive control area under Nolan's remote control. Because they used relatively backward warp engines, they had to wait until these ships had traveled a considerable distance before they could initiate hyperspace jumps. Similarly, when they arrived at Aerym, they also had to leave hyperspace in advance and slowly decelerate. This entire process would take three or four days. He glanced at Lawrence beside him: "You'll stay on my ship for these two days. I also need to tell you about the current cosmic situation and more of the truth about the disaster back then."

Time passed peacefully as the ark fleet embarked on its journey to Aerym as planned.

On the second day of the fleet's acceleration, the ark fleet reached the "jump window" about one light-year away from the drone frontier in a sub-light state. The Petrified Turtle Rock then entered hyperspace with the entire fleet and traveled at faster-than-light speeds until it reached the "exit window" position 1.5 light-years away from Aerym. On the third day after leaving the drone hive, the entire fleet left hyperspace, leaving a distorted lens millions of kilometers long at the edge of the Aerym solar system. Nolan then performed a final check on the status of the twelve arks, confirming that the main functions of all the ships were still intact and that the landing transformation mechanisms were on standby. So she made a final calibration of the arks, and the mighty formation of giant ships readjusted their course and sailed towards the blue water star 1.5 light-years away.

When Aerym's azure sea appeared on the main projection, Lawrence didn't say a word for several minutes.

"Aerym has no land. Your arks are the only isolated islands, so you can only guard this sea for the next two hundred years," Katrina said in a good mood after getting the ship she wanted, and proactively introduced her new home to her tenants. "We sirens like this kind of planet very much, but it may not be very comfortable for you… It's a place to settle down, but it's not suitable if you want to rebuild civilization and seek development."

Lawrence still didn't speak. He just stared at the azure sea on the holographic projection, remaining silent for a long time.

"Are you stunned?" Lily blurted out, poking the old man's back. "Or are you fascinated by Aerym?"

Lawrence suddenly reacted. He took a few breaths as if he had just broken free from Aerym's vast, endless sea. After a long while, he whispered, "...This is the sea..."

"This is just a remote shot," Hao Ren smiled slightly. "You'll be even more surprised next. Nolan, start the ark landing program."

The twelve ark behemoths had slowed down to a state where they could land on the planet at any time. After receiving remote instructions from the Petrified Turtle Rock, these mountain-like behemoths immediately adjusted their posture and began to fall into Aerym's dense atmosphere. The ark behemoths' rough, olive-shaped shells rubbed violently against the atmosphere, gradually glowing with a red light, like twelve flame-wrapped mountains sliding from space towards the planet's surface. The Petrified Turtle Rock followed in the shadow of the Throne ark, entering Aerym's atmosphere along with the entire fleet.

As the altitude gradually decreased, the ark behemoths activated a series of additional systems. A translucent "film" that seemed to distort space appeared around each ship. This was the gravity distortion device at work. This massive gravity control device, which could envelop the entire ship, isolated the ship from Aerym's gravity to prevent these giant monsters, more than a hundred kilometers long, from being twisted into scrap metal in the planet's powerful gravity. As the gravitational force between the arks and Aerym weakened, the deceleration process of these ships gradually reached its final stage.

The first to approach the Sea of Aerym was the ark "Massif," the ancient behemoth that had saved the entire fleet with its spirit of sacrifice. It slowly descended with a solemn posture, and the massive airflow wrapped around the ark caused the sea to roll up waves, scattering in all directions. As the ark gradually touched the water surface in a horizontal position, the ship's built-in universal adaptive landing device was activated. The heavy black armor layers slowly lifted with a huge roar, and the armor belt at the bottom of the ship slowly opened to both sides while dropping a large amount of debris. The dropped debris was pre-cut and embrittled by Nolan because the system was too old. If those deformed parts were not cut off, it would not be able to complete the subsequent series of transformations.

After the bottom of the ark opened, a large number of huge pipes, metal piles, suspension cylinders, and immersion-type detection devices stretched out from the previously hidden dark compartments. They were immersed in the sea water of Aerym. These ancient devices, which had been dry for ten thousand years, were finally used for the first time. On this unfamiliar planet, they greedily collected information about the surrounding environment and reported it to the ark's main control computer.

However, the data they reported would not be executed - Nolan had already cut off the main control computers of these arks and replaced them with a series of simulated hosts built by the drone swarm, so that the arks would not rashly take the actions preset in the program after landing, but would put the entire process under controllable conditions.

The twelve ark behemoths landed slowly one after another, forming a ring-shaped "archipelago" on the vast Sea of Aerym. The only intact Throne ark was surrounded in the center under Nolan's control. The airflow caused by the landing of these giant ships and the vibration of the ship's body when the gravity isolation system was released caused huge waves on the sea. In a large area of the sea around the fleet's landing area, gale winds howled and huge waves surged, just like a storm. The Petrified Turtle Rock flew around the Throne ark in this gale and rain to confirm that the most important ship was not damaged in any way during the landing process.

The various sensors set inside the Throne ark and the infiltration core that penetrated into the ark's control circuits also sent the latest data, indicating that everything was in good condition - except for a slight water ingress in the two isolation compartments at the bottom of the ship, the landing process was smoother than expected.

While reading the latest data, Nolan reported to Hao Ren: "The water and atmosphere detectors have been activated. The ark's life support system is updating the gas pools and reservoirs. These things that have been circulating for ten thousand years can finally be slightly replenished. In addition, those ships are still using deep-sea radar to detect the seabed terrain, but the Sea of Aerym is too deep. The seabed resources are unattainable for the ark civilization. I decided to temporarily turn off those radars - anyway, they are useless."

Hao Ren nodded: "Notify the drone swarm, send some engineering units over to start repairing these ships."

Nolan issued a summons to the drone swarm and remotely controlled the arks to enter the equipment shutdown process.

After running continuously for ten thousand years, these ancient ships finally landed on a planet, and their severely overloaded machines could finally rest. Of course, the machines in the ship could not be turned off all at once. During the time when the drone swarm came to repair them, the equipment would take turns resting and restarting, which provided conditions for the entire repair process.

While Nolan was busy with these technical operations, Hao Ren turned to Lawrence: "Next is the most important part - opening the ark's dome. Are you sure the people in the ship can accept what's about to happen?"

Lawrence nodded slowly: "They will see the sky sooner or later. It's better to do it while they are still willing to believe what I say."

"Wait," Lily exclaimed suddenly, "Are you planning to open the ship's hull?!"