Hao Ren hadn't seen this kind of monster with a story in the dream plane for a long time—the last time he saw it was when Nasathorn was solving the siren problem. At that time, a brain monster occupied the city of deep sea. They also exchanged minds with the Siren Queen. After a lot of effort, Hao Ren and his party managed to capture the monster alive, but in the end the monster escaped the strict monitoring on the Giant Turtle Rock Platform by uploading its consciousness. , Hao Ren regretted this matter for a long time.
After that, he has never seen this kind of terrifying creature mutated from the brain of a guardian giant. Whether it is on the deserted planets in the dream plane or in the vast space, these monsters seem to have disappeared out of thin air generally.
He didn't expect to see them again here, on the planet Amantiel ruled by crazy minions - or to see one of them.
The shadowy sky that Vivienne set up in advance was a wise move. Under the cover of powerful magic, the brain monster in the room did not notice the strange aura above it for the time being. It just crawled on the round metal pedestal like a mollusk , connected his tentacles (actually nerve cords) to the holes around the pedestal, and gave instructions to various equipment in the room while making vague grunts, like ooze squirming.
If they hadn't known the origins of these monsters in advance, I'm afraid no one would associate this terrifying meatball with the race of guardian giants.
"It didn't notice us," Nangong Sanba quickly backed away after glancing at the probe. "The sound this thing makes is disgusting...don't tell me it's a new popular song in the Corrupted Legion."
"Brain monsters are one of the highly intelligent and crazy creatures." Vivian frowned. "Could it be that the commanders behind those monsters are these brain monsters?"
"You mean that this planet is actually the lair of brain monsters?" Lily blinked, "Not necessarily, we only saw one, maybe it just happens that there is such a brain monster among the corrupted monsters here..."
"No, it shouldn't be the only one," Hao Ren noticed the details in the room, and retorted loudly, "Have you noticed those devices? And that pedestal—those devices have nerve cables that can be directly connected to the brain monster biochemical interface, and there are no other control panels besides those interfaces, which means that these devices are specially prepared for brain monsters, and there are no other controllers. If the brain monsters are just corrupt legions There should be no need to prepare such a large number of special equipment for an inconspicuous single individual, and there is no way for others to use it."
"It doesn't rule out that the things below are the 'exclusive equipment' of that brain monster," Nangong Wuyue said in a low voice, "What if it is the boss here?"
Hao Ren thought for a while, and had to admit that it was possible: "It might be... It depends on whether we can find more brain monsters in the future."
Lily bared her teeth in the direction of the floor: "Then what about the one down there? Do you want to kill it?"
Hao Ren thought about it carefully, then shook his head: "Don't get into trouble—don't forget the various special abilities of the brain monster in the spiritual field, it may be able to directly warn the outside world through thought waves, in case we don't have the trouble of killing it immediately It’s too big, and there’s no way to capture or extract a confession with this thing, so it’s worthless.”
The others also agreed with this view, so Lily could only let out a little disappointed, followed Hao Ren obediently, and continued to move deeper into the underground facility with the team.
Thirty minutes later, they successfully passed through the outer area of the Great Temple and formally entered the underground area of the Temple area.
At this point, it has been counted within the scope of the building where the control center is located, but the entire control center of the planetary fortress is a rather large facility—it includes a huge ground temple like a tower and an underground structure called an underground city. The underground part is even larger than the above-ground part. When they were in Nakdal, Hao Ren and his party were led by goblins, and they went straight to the machine room through the upper and lower passages, which was naturally convenient and fast, but here, they had to follow the intricate piping system in the underground facility. Going around, the speed of action is greatly reduced.
"The news from Salaman that the sporadic exchange of fire in space has also ended, and now the Guardian Legion and the Drone Legion have all retreated to their predetermined positions, facing off against the Amantir defensive circle," Hao Ren said in a low voice, "In the In the next time, part of Amantir's defenders will retreat into the planet's atmosphere, and the defenses outside will be strengthened as a result, we must be more careful in our actions."
Nangong Sanba looked at the dimly lit passage in front of him. The monotonous and depressing environment here made people uncomfortable, and greatly consumed everyone's patience. Even he became a little impatient: "Where are we now?"
The data terminal projects a holographic map showing the route provided by Salaman. In the center of the map is a light blue beam representing the Amantir crystal, and everyone is now above the light blue beam , surrounded by intricate obstacles: "The straight-line distance from the Amantir crystal is two kilometers—but considering the endless pipes and corridors, the distance we really have to travel is more than ten times this distance."
Sneaking in from the pipeline is of course not going in a straight line. In fact, the route Hao Ren and his party took was almost half a circle around the entire underground area—they entered from the south of the Great Temple, and then followed a roughly spiral downward arc. Turn half a circle underground, and there is even a section of route close to the Great Equatorial Rift Valley in the middle, and finally enter the computer room where crystals are stored from the northern entrance underground of the temple. This route is the safest route in theory.
Nangong Sanba sighed: "Oh... I can only go on..."
After continuing to walk along the route map for a certain distance, Lily stopped in doubt: "Do you feel... it seems a bit hot here?"
Not only did she feel it, in fact Hao Ren also noticed it: the surrounding temperature seemed to have risen.
"We are on the edge of the Great Rift Valley." Hao Ren glanced at the road map. A striking red crack on the road map "cut off" nearly a third of the original complete underground facility. "It should be the Great Rift Valley." The heat is transferred in."
Facts quickly proved Hao Ren's deduction.
Not long after continuing to walk, the restless heat flow in the surrounding air has turned into an obvious heat wave, and there are obvious traces of later repairs on the pipelines passing by, and there are even unexpected parts that are not marked on the road map. Crossroads and gates outside: these things are the result of re-construction.
Obviously, after the equatorial region of Amantir was torn apart, the planet's Corruptor defenders completely repaired and remodeled this region, and the road map provided by Salaman could no longer be used after arriving here.
"The underground facility is obviously not completely sealed, otherwise the heat wave wouldn't come in," Izaks sniffled, with a disgusted expression on his face, "compared to the air quality in my hometown, the smell of sulfur Not pure at all."
Hao Ren gave him a disdainful look: "Don't mention the air quality, the air quality in your hometown is as good as the three lung cancers of ordinary people."
While talking, they just arrived at a fork, which was not marked on the road map at all, and it was up to personal judgment to move forward. Lily raised her tail and swayed in the air, looking at the direction where the fluff on the tip of the tail fluttered: "That's where the airflow comes from—shall we go and see?"
What the husky girl was pointing at happened to be the approximate direction of the original route, so Hao Ren nodded in agreement.
Following the direction in which the scorching air flowed in, they found themselves gradually breaking away from the ventilation duct system.
The road ahead is getting wider and wider, and there are several abandoned gates, and the lighting systems on both sides are also turned off. All signs indicate that this is an ancient passage that was once used but has now been abandoned.
Hao Ren's vision widened.
"...this place..." Nangong Wuyue folded her arms, poking the tip of her tail on the ground uneasily, "I feel like I'm starting to evaporate!"
After coming out of the last gate, the open space outside is directly connected to the equatorial rift valley!
A dazzling red light filled the field of vision, and the outside scene gradually became clear after the eyes got used to the light. Hao Ren discovered that there was a wide metal platform connected to the outside of the gate, and the metal platform itself was built directly on the fractured rock formation. Under the platform, red light kept surging. Pushed and tumbling, and on both sides of the platform, exposed mechanical structures and pipes, platforms, beams, and gates can be seen everywhere on the burned red rock walls. These facilities almost extend along the cliff to the magma below!
"Pay attention to concealment!" Nangong Sanba suddenly yelled in a low voice, and almost at the same time, Vivienne's shadowy sky shrouded everyone again.
With the shelter of the shadowy sky, everyone hid in a depression on the edge of the platform, and a group of hideous and twisted flesh and blood monsters flew over the platform in the next second.
Those flesh and blood monsters don't seem to be a special patrol team, but soldiers who have just been "created" from the rift. They roared chaotically while pushing and shoving into the sky, and they didn't find a few small intrusions at all. Those who are hiding right under their noses.
Hao Ren turned his gaze to the distance. In this vast rift, more monsters are being created continuously from the rift filled with magma: Although compared to the overwhelming tide of monsters in the previous battle There's a lot less to see gushing out of the Rift, but it's still a heart-pounding phenomenon.
Lily couldn't help sticking out her tongue: "No way... Could it be that they 'made' soldiers out of magma?"
With a wave of Vivian's hand, a little bat flew out from the nearby shadows and turned into a blood mist and returned to her body. She shook her head: "No... the monster didn't come out of the magma, I used the little bat to check it out. Let’s see, there’s a facility like a ‘summoning field’ below.”
Hao Ren frowned: "The summoning field?"
Vivienne did not explain, but directly drew a few runes on the ground, and the scene that the little bat saw before appeared above the runes: Although it was far less clear than the holographic projection, it was still enough to distinguish .
Everyone saw that at the bottom of the rift, near the source of the magma, countless huge black platforms were neatly distributed along the cliffs. On the black platforms, complex symbols and patterns were drawn with dark red stripes. Those lines The chaos presented even made Hao Ren feel dizzy for a while. Every once in a while, the pattern on the black platform will brighten up, and then a distortion monster slowly takes shape in the air and flies into the sky...
"...Damn..." Seeing this scene, Hao Ren couldn't help but explode, "Is there any reason for such a violent army?"
Lily glanced at him: "The guy who has produced 80 billion drones in four years is ashamed to say that other people's violence is unreasonable?"
Hao Ren: "..."
"These are not the most important, the most important thing is what comes next," Vivian interrupted the conversation between Hao Ren and Lily, indicating that there is a follow-up to this video, "Look, these platforms are actually connected..."
Sure enough, as the angle of view of the little bat increased, everyone saw that those black platforms were not isolated from each other. They all extended a black pipe-like thing, and those pipes all converged at the center of the magma river at the bottom of the rift valley. , there is a huge black metal tower there, on the surface of the metal tower there are several rings of protruding hemispherical structures, and a monster is crouching on each hemispherical structure at this moment.
That's brain monsters, more brain monsters.
Amantel is indeed the lair of brain monsters!