The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace slowed down and slowly approached the shattered area deep underground, while the three drones left the queue first and began to conduct a comprehensive and detailed inspection of this area.
This cavity is already located in the deepest part of the mantle, and next to it is the molten core. The extremely high temperature makes this place like a purgatory. If it is inside a normal planet, it is impossible for anything to happen in this high-temperature and high-pressure place. Stable and empty, everything here will be swallowed by magma, and any voids and faults will collapse—however, the existence of the Firstborn makes this star structure that does not conform to the laws of nature a reality.
Around the earth's core, there are hollow areas like the one Hao Ren saw everywhere. The firstborn's tentacles hollowed out and reinforced these places to accommodate its huge tissues and organs or for other purposes. In these cavities, you What you can see is the most spectacular and frightening scenery: above is the hot and solid dome thousands of kilometers thick, below is the surging magma and the extremely rare floating islands solidified by the tentacles of the eldest son. The thick tentacles and the crimson deep quartz pillars act as connections between them. Due to the weak gravitational force, the liquid droplets produced by the magma hitting these tentacles and quartz pillars in the surge are slowly falling like slow motion, beautiful And deadly.
Under the magma is the molten core of the earth, but usually the eldest son will not be immersed in the core directly: it will grow around the core and bury its brain core in the cave deep in the mantle. Hao Ren believes that those who have This cave is located behind a large number of tendril-spreading rock walls.
"According to the shape and orientation of the big crack when we came here, this should be the 'deep structure' exposed after the eldest son opened the crust. Have you seen the broken tentacles in front? That's the deepest part," Hao Ren pointed to the picture on the holographic projection, tilted his head slightly and said to Vivian, "The description mentioned by N-4 should refer to that place. It is what human observers saw in space three thousand years ago."
Vivienne frowned, looking at the broken rock formations and the crystals scattered between them: "I really didn't expect it to remain in such a fragmented state after all these years. I thought the temperature near the center of the earth will fuse everything together."
"Those black fragments are no longer stones. They are the debris from the tentacles of the eldest son mixed with rocks. Ordinary magma can't deal with this kind of material at all." Hao Ren shook his head, "Only the temperature of the sun can burn these things .”
Lily blinked her eyes, staring straight at the crystal fragments scattered among the broken rocks: "What a beautiful stone—landlord, can we pick up two pieces later?"
Vivienne glared at her: "When you're so serious, can't you restrain your hobbies first?"
Hao Ren didn't care about the husky girl's non-serious speech, but said thoughtfully: "If I'm not wrong, those crystal-like things should be the result of the meteorite rain mentioned by N-4 three thousand years ago. It's a product. Nolan, let the drone swarm collect some samples and put them in the laboratory first. By the way, if it is confirmed that there is no harm, cut a small piece and give it to Lily to play with."
The husky girl burst into laughter when she heard this— she didn't realize that Hao Ren had the look of "my dog is tired of playing with old toys and I have to buy her a new ball" when he said this...
The drone collected the required crystal samples and at the same time found a crack in the cracked rock formation that could lead deeper.
There are powerful energy fluctuations coming from the depths of that crack.
"The spaceship can't get in, the crack is too small," Hao Ren glanced at the data sent back by the drone, and shook his head slightly, "And it's too close to the brain nucleus of the eldest son, and the nerve lines are very complicated, so if the drone digs it I'm afraid something will happen, and we'll have to go ourselves. Who's following me?"
"I'll go, I'll go!" Lily just got the new toy that Hao Ren promised (although she hasn't got it yet), and she is in a state of soaring loyalty at this time. I'm good at digging holes, if it gets blocked inside, I can help dig a hole out!"
"You, a Siberian sledger, are you going to a place like this that can kill dogs?" Nangong Wuyue looked at Lily suspiciously, "I feel like I'm starting to evaporate!"
Lily flicked her tail: "It's okay, anyway, there is a life-support collar, a shield, spring blossoms, and 26 degrees everywhere."
Vivienne looked contemptuously at this husky who was all about the fun, and nodded slightly to Hao Ren: "I'll go with you too."
"I'll go with you too," Yzaks stepped forward and said with a smile, with a look of nostalgia on his face, "This place reminds me of the bathing pool in my hometown back then. I really miss it."
Hao Ren: "..."
The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace slowly lowered its altitude and hovered over a relatively flat area on the edge of the broken rock formation. Hao Ren and his party left the spaceship and stepped into this purgatory-like hot underground world.
Despite the protection of the life support collar and shield system, Hao Ren still felt as if a wave of heat was rushing towards his face the moment he stepped on the rock formation. illusion. He couldn't help wiping the sweat that didn't exist on his forehead: "This place is really terrible, why does the eldest son like the center of the earth so much?"
Lily thought for a while: "Sleeping at the center of the earth, waking up occasionally to take a mouthful of magma, probably in the eldest son's world view, this is the most beautiful life."
Hao Ren shrugged his shoulders noncommittally, and behind him, Y'zaks moved his muscles and bones in place, then raised his breath and twisted his waist, and with a "ha", he dispelled the transformation spell he had cast on himself, accompanied by a burst of flames With the sound of explosion, the five-meter-tall Demon King stepped out from the billowing smoke and flames.
He is like a fish in water here. Standing in such a place with thousands of degrees Celsius, he doesn't even need a life-support collar. Instead, he took a very comfortable breath after transforming: "Hey-tsk, it really tastes like home..."
Hao Ren used his hand to block the sparks that came out of Y'zaks' speech, and whispered to Vivian next to him: "Old Wang looks very happy."
"After all, our family can't provide him with magma for 24 hours. Would you like to rent a house and only take cold showers for four years?"
"... I feel really guilty when you say that."
Y'zaks didn't hear what Hao Ren and Vivian were muttering. He just took a few breaths of "hometown-like air" (actually, rock vapor), and then bent down to take a breath from the magma. He picked up a piece of semi-molten rock core, gnawed it like a sweet potato and walked forward: "I saw that crack, let's go in and see the situation."
The real life style of the old devil is indeed bold and unrestrained.
The crack in the rock formation is less than 200 meters in front of the landing site of the four people. There is a steep rock wall extending upwards. There are large and small cracks and scattered crystal fragments everywhere on the rock wall. In the larger cracks It can be seen that there is a red light overflowing, which obviously leads to the deepest place.
For the giant turtle rock platform with a body length of several hundred meters, even the largest of these cracks is not enough for the spacecraft to pass through, but for Hao Ren and his party—even for Yizaks, who is five meters tall, these cracks are not enough for the spaceship to pass through. The crack is wide enough to lie down on.
Thick nerve threads snaked out from between the cracks in the rock, some submerged in the magma, and more stretched upwards and finally disappeared above the high rock dome. Hao Ren chose the widest passage, and led his team into it while carefully avoiding those nerve tissues.
"This place was indeed opened, and later the eldest son used external force to close it again," Vivienne pointed to the uneven structures above the passage, "but he should have lost control of his limbs at that time, so this The 'rock cavities' that house the nuclei don't close completely, leaving such channels."
"Be careful where you step, there are some cracks that can fall directly into the magma river," Hao Ren reminded, "Lily! I'm talking about you—don't knock on rocks, I'll dig you a pile later for you to play with. "
Not long after advancing, the scene in front of the group suddenly became clear.
A dark red underground grotto appeared in front of Hao Ren.
The grotto is extremely vast, but its shape is not very regular. Just like the eldest son's lair found on other planets, the center of this grotto is slightly sunken, and it is filled with a dark red viscous liquid like blood. A large number of dark tentacles are coming from all sides of the grotto. They gathered together, and all of them gathered on a certain organ soaked in the dark red liquid.
That indescribable huge organ was quietly dormant in the center of the blood lake, and there was still a slight gleam of light on its surface, but Hao Ren could tell at a glance that the flesh and blood organ used to accommodate the brain nucleus had been severely damaged, and No signs of recovery.
Its upper half was almost completely torn, and a terrifying wound almost penetrated two-thirds of the entire organ. In the torn wound, the dark red primordial blood was slowly wriggling feebly, and A brain nucleus that has been severely shrunken and whose skin has begun to turn black is soaked in the source blood that is about to lose its vitality. The culprit that caused this fatal injury is inserted next to the brain nucleus—it is a long and narrow blue-white crystal. .
Exactly like the crystals scattered on the crumbling rock formations outside.
"Sure enough, it's caused by these things." Hao Ren muttered, and cautiously approached the blood lake in front of him. Vivienne hurriedly followed and reminded: "Be careful, I don't think this brain nucleus is completely dead yet."
"Nerve activity is on the verge of disappearing, and even if it suddenly came back to life, it would cause a shudder at most." Hao Ren waved his hand, "I just feel... why do these crystals look familiar?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a memory from not long ago suddenly appeared in his mind.
"These seem to be the crystals I saw in the last vision!" Hao Ren exclaimed, and turned to look at Vivienne. "There are also crystal clusters like this at the bottom of your Red Moon Sea!"