The Mech Touch novel Chapter 1764

When Ves approached the compartment holding the escape pods, he slowed his pace while keeping his heavy assault rifle pointed forward.

With all of the weirdness surrounding the escape pod that inexplicably entered his ship, Ves couldn’t afford to take anything for granted. What if this was just a ruse by some infiltrator with a sick sense of humor?

Though he felt tempted to dump the escape pod from the ship remotely, Ves nonetheless felt a little bit curious about the occupant of the derelict escape pod.

He could still remember the frightening face that Lucky transmitted. The screaming mouth, the dark, dried skin, the scared expression and the sense of age all signified that there was something very weird about the corpse!

"How long has this escape pod been drifting in space?"

Ves didn’t know the answer to this question. He still hadn’t managed to match the model of the escape pod yet, nor did he study any of its markings or properties that could explain its origin.

Whatever the case, Ves had a feeling that it didn’t belong to the Friday Coalition or any of the nearby states.

When the hatch slid open and Ves tentatively entered the compartment, Lucky was still shivering while clinging on the shoulder of his combat armor.

Lucky, who never exhibited fear, now appeared completely afraid! This was something that Ves had never seen from his brave but fool-hardy cat!

"What is wrong with you, Lucky? It’s just a body! You’ve killed plenty of people! Why should you be afraid of another corpse?"

"Meow meow meow!"

Ves ignored his cat and slowly shuffled over to the escape pod resting in one of the center spaces left open by the departure of another escape pod.

His rifle muzzle aimed straight at the center of the pod, ready to fire a deadly particle beam if a threat ever happened!

The moment he passed by the scanning bot that shut down for some reason, Ves felt as if he entered into a strange field.

He quickly checked his combat armor and rifle’s telemetry and saw that they were still running at normal power.

Whatever affected the scanning bot didn’t appear to affect his gear.

Strange.

Very strange.

His apprehension towards the mystery escape pod increased and his vigilance rose to a greater height.

There was definitely something suspicious about this escape pod!

The moment he came within reach of the escape pod, Ves paused and waited for something to happen.

Nothing.

Seeing that he failed to elicit a reaction, ves slowly put down his rifle and whipped out a multiscanner.

He carefully activated it and began to scan the escape pod via a number of different methods.

He quickly encountered an anomaly.

"No results?"

Aside from optical scans and some other scanning methods, his multiscanner failed to pick anything up! It was as if there was a chunk of indescribable matter in front of it that they simply failed to grasp!

Ves became a bit alarmed! Either the escape pod was wrapped in some kind of anomalous energy field that interfered with his scans, or its materials were naturally resistant to scanning methods!

Whatever the case, Ves knew that he wouldn’t be able to obtain any usual data from his scanning efforts.

"It looks like I’ll have to take a closer look."

He felt very leery about investigating the odd escape pod in person, but the corpse resting inside the escape pod was simply too strange to be left alone!

Once he put away his multiscanner, Ves held his rifle at the ready while slowly examining the surface of the escape pod for any control panels.

He eventually found a small and damaged cover which had become stuck to the surface. Ves had to leverage the strength of his combat armor to pry off the cover.

After he did so, Ves spotted a few buttons which no longer worked and a simple lever that served as a backup option to open the escape pod.

Ves slowly grasped the lever and pulled it with a forceful jerk!

The pod seemed to come alive for a bit. A few surface lights that hadn’t been destroyed by all of the microimpacts began to light up in a strange pattern.

After a few seconds, the front surface of the escape pod abruptly slid open.

At least that mechanism still worked.

The front cavity exposed a tube-shaped interior that held enough room for a single person and some supplies.

"What the?!"

"MEOW!"

Ves expected to encounter a mummified woman locked in a frightening scream.

He did not expect to see a pristine body of a woman sleeping peacefully in the pod!

"Where did you come from?!"

Ves jerkily jumped back and brought his heavy assault rifle to bear on the body!

Had Lucky been pranking him?! No! His cat looked just as scared and confused at this unexpected turn of events!

The dried, mummified corpse turned out to be a living human body! Not only that, but the woman didn’t appear to look dead at all! He carefully perceived her slim chest rising and falling at a very gradual pace, as if she was deep in hibernation!

Even as his heart started to beat faster, Ves study the woman’s appearance as carefully as he could in order to figure out her identity.

She was a slim woman with a thin figure and a face that emanated classical beauty. There was an indescribable charm to her, as her pale-as-white skin made her out to be a ghost.

Was she a spaceborn clansman, or was she pale for some other reason?

The strange thing about her skin was that it appeared to be completely healthy and moisturized, as if the image that Lucky transmitted was completely false!

Her hair was lustrous brown that seemed to shine in an eerie fashion underneath the harsh light of the escape compartment. Her hair trailed down her face in curls so bouncy that it seemed as if her hair was as lively and vibrant as a living person!

Her vacsuit, which should have been aged and eroded to the point of becoming unidentifiable, now appeared to be factory new!

Ves could immediately tell that the quality of the vacsuit was something else. He failed to identify its materials, but he could tell they were all very high quality.