The land turned into scorched earth, the ridges and hills were razed to the ground, and the raging fires were gradually devouring the forest vegetation in the marginal areas, and in the most severely damaged areas, the world seemed to be doomed—the rocks melted by high temperature It is a river of magma, flowing wantonly on the surface full of fissures, and thick smoke spews out from the craters everywhere, dyeing the sky into a scorched sky, and the huge wreckage of the fortress can be seen everywhere on this newly formed "disaster plain" , pointing angrily at the sky like a growing and mutating steel forest.
And the rift across the land is surrounded by these doomsday scenes, and the charred remains of tentacles can be seen on its jagged edges, and rocks and clods are constantly falling from the edge of the rift into the lower In the abyss, two uncooled magma rivers hang down on the cliffs, just like the sulfur rivers that connect hell and the world in myths and legends. And at the bottom of the big fissure, a faint red light could be seen faintly shining in the dimness.
It was the nerve node of the eldest son, shimmering in the dark.
The drone group established a temporary stronghold around the big rift. The large equipment originally used for space engineering operations was dropped directly from the orbit to the surface, and after being assembled on the spot, it became those disintegrated beams hanging on the edge of the rift and pointing to the bottom of the abyss. generator. Right now, there are three groups of disintegrating beam generators in operation. They use powerful high-energy rays to dismantle all the solid matter along the way, and they are cleaning up the obstacles deep in the crack.
Some engineering drones are busy flying between these large devices, while more other types of drones have entered the cracks, where they are exploring and pioneering work. Occasionally, a flash of light can be seen in the depths of the big rift. It is an armed drone performing painful anesthesia on the still active eldest son tentacles, kinetic energy hypnosis, physical deletion...
Anyway, almost the same meaning.
The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace lowered its altitude and entered the crack smoothly and silently. As the altitude continued to drop, the skylight from above gradually turned into a distant and blurred bright line. Apart from the light of the material decomposition beam Other than that, there are only swarms of drones flying around the spacecraft.
Hao Ren looked at the beam of disintegration thoughtfully: "The mining gun is indeed the most powerful anti-armor weapon in the world..."
"Hey, it's quick to burn rocks, and if you encounter something with a bit of technology, it's not as good as a single shot of the ship's main gun," Nolan said a little unconvinced, "What's so great about breaking rocks with light. "
Nangong Sanba gave Miss Jianniang a strange look: "Are you competing with a bunch of mining guns?"
Wu Yue touched Sanba's arm with the tip of his tail: "Brother, don't tease—Nolan finally repaired the main gun, but he didn't use a single shot. He's holding back the fire."
On the other hand, Hao Ren didn't care about his little temper. He was concentrating on the digging operation of the drone group and the situation in the depths of the big fissure.
This is a "deep dive" operation that is different from the past - he has also entered the core area of the eldest son before, but it is either the young eldest son like Holleta, or the harmless human and animal like Zhuom Good boy, the most dangerous time was on Purgatory Planet. He led the team into the body of an adult eldest son who was still alive. In fact, his eldest son has been completely sealed by the demon god Vivienne, and there is no threat at all until the seal is lifted.
It's different here: the eldest son of this planet is not only alive, but his tentacles can also move freely. Although his consciousness has dissipated, his body is not bound by any means. For such a powerful mythical creature, The subconscious activity of the body is enough to cause devastating consequences.
It's no wonder that Hao Ren prepared such a big battle for this operation, and even sent a swarm of drones to escort him.
"How is the lullaby program?" He tapped on the console panel in front of him, bringing Nolan back from his thoughts.
"The leading drone has carried a lullaby device into the depths of the crack, where we found a large number of ganglia emitting strong nerve impulses, and now those ganglia have been hypnotized." Nolan projected the situation at the bottom of the crack while talking , the picture presents a dark red underground canyon landscape, the sides of the canyon are nearly straight rocky cliffs, while the bottom of the valley is slightly closed, a large number of tentacles and shimmering nerve lines grow in and out on the rock walls, And they interweave together at the bottom of the valley, almost completely blocking the cracks. Among the intertwined biological tissues, you can see many tumors that emit brighter red light, which are ganglia.
The engineering drones are busy working around those ganglia. They fixed the metal beams on the rock wall and the more stable tentacles, and placed the lullaby equipment near the ganglia. The light of those tumors flickered at a speed Very stable, apparently in a deep sleep state.
They slept so peacefully that three mine guns were punching holes in the top of their heads without them knowing...
Hao Ren glanced at the material decomposition beam that was shooting down from the side of the spaceship and was ablating those tentacles, and reminded: "Make sure that the lullaby equipment is stable, and at least two sets of lullaby generators must be running at the same time in each area, otherwise It’s a lot of fun when this thing wakes up.”
"Nolan understands."
"Is there any change in the deep signal response?"
"No change," Nolan replied. "The signal from near the center of the earth shows that the brain nucleus of the eldest son is still offline. The drone found two main nerve lines, and it can be confirmed that the two nerves are directly from the brain nucleus area." By extension, we didn't read any thought fluctuations from those two nerves."
Hao Ren nodded, but did not speak.
The height of the spaceship continued to drop, and it passed the tentacles blockage point at the bottom of the canyon: this blockage point has been burned out by a powerful material decomposition beam, and a deeper underground cavern is underneath the big hole.
In the process of the eldest son parasitizing inside the planet, the physical structure of the planet will inevitably undergo tremendous changes, and some planetary structures that would never appear under natural conditions are produced in this way.
The most common structures inside a planet parasitized by the firstborn are continuous cavities and fault zones—marks left by the firstborn as it grew and developed. When this powerful mythical creature was conceived from the first seed for the first time, he would drill deep underground while shaping the ecological environment on the surface. This will leave a large number of tunnels and cave structures; at the stage of transition from juvenile to adult, he will transfer to the mantle, soak part of his body in magma to absorb energy, and A part of the body sticks out of the surface to continue monitoring the ecological circle, which will leave many penetrating "rock formation hollow pillars"; and when it reaches an adult body, the eldest son has almost grown to the point where it can cover the entire planet, and its internal structure will be transferred to the center of the earth , and gradually replaced the role of the earth's core (such as maintaining the planet's magnetic field), while his surface tentacles spread all over the world.
During this series of transfer, growth, and metabolism processes, a large number of cavities and faults were left inside the planet. Under normal circumstances, if a planet becomes like this, it will inevitably collapse. The physical structure of the body will actually be stronger than before.
The Juguiyantai is advancing in such a series of cavities and faults.
The excavation equipment built by drones shut down after drilling through the earth's crust and a part of the mantle, because the "underground world" below is already spacious enough, and Nolan can find enough holes for himself to pass through without them continuing to drill holes— Even if it encounters a place that is difficult to pass, the drone swarm as an escort aircraft can help dig it out.
Nangong Wuyue lay beside the projection device, looking at the picture sent back from the external monitor in amazement: "It's really spectacular."
The spaceship has just crossed a layer of rock dome, and now it is flying over a hot underground lava lake. In the red light from the magma, it can be clearly seen that several thick tentacles traverse the entire fault. It grows out of the center, supports and penetrates the top of the rock above, and there are some branched "branches" between the tentacles. Occasionally, dancing lights can be seen flashing across the surface of those branches, as if there are flame elves living in them.
Nolan slowed down and carefully flew between these giant tentacles, and the moment the spaceship passed one of the tentacles, the external monitor sent back an incredible scene:
Everyone saw that the lava lake below suddenly disappeared, replaced by a large lush forest, and then the forest was swallowed by yellow sand. Some ancient megalithic buildings could even be seen in the yellow sand. After a few seconds, the megalithic buildings blown away by the wind. With the passing of time, the desert turns into a pure white snowfield, and there are medieval knights in hard clothes trekking hard on the snowfield...
The moment Lily saw Xue Yuan, she became energetic and swallowed hard to suppress the "ooohoo" in her throat.
"There is a large ganglion nearby," Nolan's voice woke everyone up. "The 'dream talking' produced by the ganglion distorted the real space in the underground cave and created these things."
Hao Ren reminded everyone: "Don't take these scenes for real. Although they are real for the time being, maybe this dream will end at some point, and the forest, snowfield, desert, etc. will turn into lava lakes in a blink of an eye. "
"Unbelievable..." N-6 muttered, "Galactus has such power..."
"This is not all of his strength." Hao Ren glanced at the robot girl, "he is not a symbol of disaster from the beginning as you imagined. After this incident is over, I will leave a file for you , then you will know the truth."
N-6 nodded gratefully, while the data terminal on one side said: "The large ganglia that can create phantom reality have appeared here, indicating that we are already very close to one of the brain nuclei."
As soon as the data terminal finished speaking, Nolan said in a hurried tone: "Boss, I think I found something! Look over there!"
On the screen specially marked by Nolan, Hao Ren suddenly saw that the rock formation in front of him looked fragmented, and a large number of crystal clear crystals were mixed in the broken rock formation, and several large black tentacles spread from the bottom of the rock wall. Come out, those tentacles are the central nerve lines connected to the brain nucleus.
They found it.