The Giant Turtle Rock flew silently over the still sea of red moon, as if a ghost descended from the dark space, using its countless eyes to carefully look at the strange red below. world.
"The probe has sent back signals, confirming that the red moon is covered with a complete layer of liquid surface, only sporadic islands and reefs protruding from the 'sea', accounting for less than 3% of the entire planet's surface area," Nolan's voice came from all around It came, with a hint of confusion, "And the scene in other places is similar to this side, the sea is 'stationary', and there is no sign of movement."
"After all, it was summoned by Vivienne, and it's normal to have these weird things," Hao Ren nodded, checking the signals sent back by various sensors, "Release the contact detector, and look at the sea surface. Is it a phantom?"
Although all kinds of radars had sent back signals of entities on the surface of the red moon, a single detection method was far from enough for this supernatural thing that did not operate according to common sense. Hao Ren decided to increase the depth of detection step by step.
A crack was opened in the ejection hatch below the Giant Turtle Rock Terrace, and a silver-white cylinder was released from the spaceship. This cylinder circled twice on the surface of the still Red Moon Sea, and then plunged into the The surface of the blood.
The probe and the Sea of Red Moon came into contact silently, and disappeared from Hao Ren's field of vision in an instant. There were no waves on the sea—the contact between the two was like two shadows passing through each other, without causing the slightest interference .
Hao Ren frowned slightly: "It really is a phantom?"
"No... The detector has sent back a signal, it's not a phantom, it passed through a layer of water that actually exists, and is now continuing to move through the water body," Nolan replied immediately, "... the detection of water pressure, water temperature and resistance Existence, the composition of the water body is similar to the source blood, and the concentration is higher as it goes down. This layer of sea really exists."
Hao Ren was a little surprised: "It really exists? But just now when the detector entered the water, it seemed to pass through a layer of shadow, and the waves didn't even splash."
Nolan's voice also sounded a little puzzled: "It's unexplainable, the sea of the Red Moon is absolutely still, and the whole is like a frozen image. When the probe touches this layer of sea surface, it can't affect the latter's body at all. form, but at the same time the detectors can also detect the presence of a liquid environment... The ship is releasing more detectors, and more data will be compiled later."
The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace began to release more probes into the sea water of the Red Moon. These probes shimmered like light powder sprinkled from the body of a fluorescent giant moth, and sank into the sea silently—just as they Like its "predecessors", these detectors did not bring the slightest ripples and splashes when they fell into the seawater.
"What do you think it looks like?" Hao Ren lightly tapped the console panel in front of him with his fingers, and the object of his question was the data terminal floating around beside him.
"Red moon? Or this sea?"
"Red Moon."
"This machine thinks of the founding star - this machine guesses that your partner thinks the same thing."
"That's right, the founding star," Hao Ren nodded, "I have associated these two things together more than once before, and it is even more so now. The red liquid surface covers more than 97% of the ocean area , and also detected ingredients similar to source blood... There are not many planets with this remarkable feature. Before I always thought that the surface of the red moon was solid, or it was simply some kind of phantom, but now it seems that its surface is a layer of sea—even though this layer of sea is static."
"But the size seems to be a bit different," Nolan's voice sounded, and her holographic image appeared beside Hao Ren, "According to the information provided by Mulu, the founding star is a planet larger than the earth. And the Luna... it's clearly a dwarf planet."
"Of course the red moon will not be the real founding star, at least neither Muru nor Limendusza said that the ocean on the founding star is static," Hao Ren shrugged, "I'm inclined to this one' The dwarf planet' is some kind of projection of the founding star. Perhaps Vivienne has the data of the 'homeland' stored in her mind—very likely, considering she was born from the divine blood of the goddess of creation—and she summoned the red The essence of Yue is actually to project this hometown stored in the subconscious."
At this time, Nolan suddenly interrupted him: "Hao Ren, my detector found something."
Hao Ren raised his eyebrows: "What is it?"
"On the back of the planet, traces of 'artificial' were found on a small island protruding from the sea."
"Fuck? Hurry up and have a look!"
The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace immediately turned to accelerate, dragged a blue light and disappeared into space, and arrived at the position mark sent back by the probe in the next instant. On the screen sent back, Hao Ren saw a small island as expected.
Ninety-seven percent of the area on the red moon is covered by oceans, but less than three percent of the area still has land protruding from the water. Most of them are scattered reefs or tiny islands. The dwarf planet is most likely a "shrunken version" of the founding star, and the size of these tiny islands is even smaller.
The miniature island in front of me is already a relatively large one. Its width is about two to three hundred meters, and it protrudes from the water surface to a height of tens of meters. In the center of the island, there is a circular pit that is obviously too regular. There are many artificial traces in neat shapes. And Hao Ren also noticed a detail: within a fairly large area around the island, the sea surface was unbelievably calm, the water surface was as smooth and smooth as a mirror, and not even a single ripple could be seen.
It seems that no matter how huge the storm is in the Red Moon Sea, the island here does not have to worry about being swallowed by the waves.
"Obvious traces of artificial modification," Hao Ren thought that Nolan's judgment was correct, looking at the regular circular pits on the small island and the carefully arranged stone structures around the pits, but on this red moon Why is there such a trace? With such thoughts in mind, he stood up and straightened his clothes, "I'm going to go down and see for myself."
"This is dangerous," Nolan reminded aloud, "This is only the first summoning experiment, and it is not yet certain how long the red moon's stable state can last. We should test the continuous limit of the summoning ceremony before proceeding." …”
"I can't sleep with such an eye-catching thing, and it's hard to test it once. I don't plan to take a second look in the sky and leave." Hao Ren waved his hand, "Besides, I trust Vivian."
"You are the captain, you have the final say." Seeing that Hao Ren had already made up his mind, and that Hongyue was indeed in a relatively stable state, Nolan didn't insist anymore, "This ship will continue to monitor Hongyue's activities. , once you find that the energy response has improved, you will be sent back forcibly—this is a necessary safety measure."
"Of course, this is no problem." Hao Ren nodded. "You let the detectors that have entered the sea continue to expand the scanning range. I hope they can come back with some results when I go down to check the situation."
"learn."
After a while, Hao Ren and the data terminal came to the surface of the island—one said they were down to earth, but Hao Ren felt that he was completely floating. Although he had actually touched the surface of the planet, the red moon itself still hadn't A tiny bit of gravity was on him.
The diameter of the pit is about forty meters, and the deepest part is about ten meters. The material of the island itself is hard black rock, but inside the pit is covered with a layer of white fine sand. Around the pit, Hao Ren I also saw a series of small pits, some open, some covered with stone slabs or something else, large and small pits formed a complex artificial nest.
The data terminal flew around next to Hao Ren's head: "Partner, what do you think this place is for?"
"God knows... But if the red moon is really the projection of the founding star, then the man-made traces here are very likely to be the work of the goddess of creation. I just don't know why she dug so many holes on her planet."
"Every Creator likes to dig holes."
"What? Is that so?"
"Hey, this machine is just talking nonsense, why do you take it seriously?"
The two "persons" chatted and looked around. Suddenly, a stone slab protruding from the ground not far away attracted Hao Ren's attention.
The stone slab stood beside a small pit, with shiny veins on it.
"What is this?" The data terminal flew to the side of the slate, and used the scanning beam to shine on those shiny lines, "It looks a bit like text, but the structure is so weird, and it can be translated by information extraction method." not come out?"
Hao Ren looked at those symbols thoughtfully. He felt that these symbols were similar to the "sacred script" he saw in the goddess palace in Corpus, but they looked more... childish, or Speaking of confusion, it seems that the writer himself cannot accurately grasp the meaning of these words, but is just painting based on his feelings. Hearing the data terminal say that conventional analysis could not decipher the secrets of these symbols, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and put his hand on the shimmering slate.
The lines on the slate seemed to "live" instantly, twisting and moving around in front of his eyes, and then these moving lines spelled out neat words:
"Where Lochmarton sleeps."
Hao Ren blinked, a little dazed.
"Partner, is your talent online again?" The data terminal immediately noticed Hao Ren's strangeness, and leaned over to ask.
Hao Ren came back to his senses in an instant, and immediately ordered: "There should be other symbols here! If it's correct, every 'pothole' should have a corresponding symbol! Hurry up and find it!"
"Tsk, good performance is hard work..." the data terminal muttered, and began to search for shimmering patterns similar to those on the stone slabs in the nest.
Sure enough, more texts were discovered soon and were analyzed by Hao Ren.
"Where Lockmarton plays."
"Where Lochmarton eats."
"A rock picked up by Loch Marton from the bottom of the sea."
"Rockmarton..."
This was enough evidence to prove the connection between the Founding Star and Red Moon, but he never expected it to be presented in front of Hao Ren in such an unexpected way.