The Mech Touch novel Chapter 1765

Ves thought that was the end of it. Something flung from a ship while traveling in FTL space rarely if ever made it back to reality.

The higher dimensions bore only a loose connection to the material realm. Time, distance direction, mass and energy behaved very differently in these dimensions!

Many races including humanity took advantage of the properties of the higher dimensions to travel faster than light.

Technically, the ships weren’t traveling faster than light in the higher dimensions. It was just that distance was getting more compressed the higher the dimensions went, which allowed for a slow-moving ship to reach an incredibly distant destination in a reasonable amount of time.

The key was the FTL drive. As long as this complex ship component worked as advertised, the vessel was able to enter and exit the higher dimensions without becoming affected by all of the reality-bending transformations that could turn entire bodies into a string of spaghetti spread across numerous dimensions!

As soon as the Scarlet Rose ejected an escape pod while traveling in FTL, the object should have disappeared.

Whether it drifted aimlessly in the confusing higher dimensions for eternity or got torn apart because one end stretched too far from the other end of the object, something ejected into the higher dimensions without protection almost never made it back!

Of the countless times this occurred, only a rare couple scraps ever made it back to the material dimensions, let alone bump into another ship traveling through FTL.

Ves was almost sure he got rid of the mystery escape pod. To see it return into the same space as before spooked him to no end!

"This is impossible! This can’t be done!"

Barring perhaps the Big Two and the first-rate states, no one should ever be able to retrieve something lost in the higher dimensions!

Even if it was possible, then at the very least the object in question should have its own FTL drive!

Yet the escape pod contained nothing that suggested that it incorporated a means to travel through FTL! It was too small to carry a full-sized FTL drive, and even a minidrive that had recently been announced by the MTA was a little too big to fit the interior of a typical escape pod!

Ves suspected that he wasn’t dealing with anything technological at all! Instead, he encountered an anomaly that was likely related to the spiraling spiritual energy empowering the escape pod in some unknown fashion!

Whatever the sleeping woman was doing, she had accomplished something that only high technology should be able to do! For her and her escape pod to literally cross through space and maybe time and emerge onto his ship again without passing through any barriers was incredibly freaky!

"What is going on!? Am I stuck in some kind of ghost incident?!"

The spacer community circulated a lot of ghost stories. Many people who traveled in space sometimes encountered some strange anomalies and other unexplainable phenomena.

Whether they were true or merely the figments of a drunk spacer’s imagination, plenty of stories got passed around.

Some people treated them as entertainment. Others considered these tales to be superstition.

Only some spacers truly bought into the tales no matter how outlandish they sounded!

Ves refused to believe that he was caught up in a so-called ghost incident. He was merely the victim of some kind of spiritual stalker who chose to snuck aboard his ship for some reason! There shouldn’t be any ghosts involved!

"Get out! I don’t want you here! Go find some other to haunt!"

Ves activated the same commands as before and flushed the escape pod into the ravages of the higher dimensions without any hesitation!

An escape pod shouldn’t be able to surface exposure to the higher dimensions without the support of an FTL drive!

He didn’t leave the bridge during this time. He forgot about every other task on his agenda for the day and carefully observed the feed of the escape compartment like a hawk.

Nothing appeared out of the blue. The space which formerly held the escape pod remained completely empty as if nothing was about to sneak into it. Several hours passed by until hunger eventually affected his stomach.

"I should grab a bite."

Though he wasn’t sure whether he and his ship was in the clear, he still had to take care of his needs.

He left the bridge and entered the mess hall where he cracked open a nutrient pack and dumped its contents in his mouth as quickly as possible.

With everything that happened, Ves wasn’t in the mood to savor the unique tastes of Coalition-standard nutrient packs.

The moment he finished his meal, he reflexively activated an interface on his combat armor and called up the feed to the escape compartment again.

What he saw almost caused him to spit out a mouthful of nutrient mush!

"Why are you back?!"

The familiar old escape pod was alive and well! Even after ejecting it into the higher dimensions multiple times, this clingy space derelict kept returning to the Scarlet Rose over and over again!

Ves became incredibly angry. Who asked to be haunted by a ghost?!

"If I can’t get rid of you, I’ll just kill you first before I throw you out!"

Ves raced down the compartment in question in his full battle loadout. Once he entered the chamber, he approached the escape pod, ripped off the cover, pulled the lever and aimed his rifle at the sleeping beauty resting peacefully inside the pod.

Ordinary people couldn’t bear to ruin such a pretty image. The hibernating woman possessed a charm that reminded him of some of his mechs. He knew that this was one of the side effects of strong spirituality.

Yet even without this indescribably quality, the woman was still beautiful enough to attract a lot of appreciation. Ves wasn’t sure whether the woman was wearing makeup or not, but she hardly looked like she needed the help!

"Who cares if you’re pretty or not! I’m telling you once! Leave my ship and never go back!"

The woman did not wake up. The flows of spirituality spiralling out of her body did not exhibit any changes either.

It was as if the woman was truly unconscious!

Yet from everything that happened, Ves seriously suspected whether the sleeping beauty was truly slumbering.

How could her escape pod return to his ship again and again despite throwing her out for three times straight?

Enough was enough! Ves was still determined to avoid the problems surrounding the escape pod as decisively as possible!

Seeing that Ves elicited no reaction at all, he steeled himself while Lucky carefully peeked from behind the shoulder of his combat armor.