Obviously you can't be serious with goblins - because they won't realize that you are being serious with them, and they won't understand what it means to be serious...
So Hao Ren and the others resolutely gave up asking why such important information could be forgotten, and instead conducted a more detailed inquiry and understanding of the "Nightmare Lair" that the goblin knew.
Of course, it is not wise to stay in the ventilation ducts close to the core area for too long, so they asked about these things while advancing towards the deeper passage under the leadership of the goblin.
As the goblin said before, she doesn't know much about the Nightmare Lair.
The surviving goblins in Amantir are only a small part, and even these surviving goblins have a rather limited range of activities—in order to survive, they have to fuse with the core of the earth and build a powerful shield to Completely isolating the outside world, while ensuring their safety on the one hand, on the other hand it is equivalent to locking all the goblins in a tight cage.
Ordinarily, the only channel for fairies to perceive the outside world is the crystals buried in various parts of the planet Amantiel. These crystals have basically been polluted by the power of the Lord of Madness, or destroyed by corrupted monsters as energy and resources. , less than 10% of them can still be used, and even if they can still be used, the goblins dare not activate these information channels too blatantly. Usually, they can only use the narrow bandwidth generated by the spontaneous resonance of the crystal at a minimum to collect information on the "upper" area, and three or four of the crystal veins are located near the Amantil crystal and the nightmare lair. The only way of information in that horrible land.
In the goblin's messy narration, Hao Ren learned that there was no underground space under the Amantir crystal: before the planet fell, there was a dense and thick layer of rock beneath the control center, which went deep into the mantle. Further down is the "Crystal Pillar" area and the "Grid" area that support the entire planetary fortress, and the nightmare lair was created out of thin air after the collective "fall" of the guardian giants.
It was formed shortly after the Equatorial Rift Valley was ripped open.
The Nightmare Lair is not located directly under the Amantir Crystal, but is offset slightly to the south, which allows it to avoid the tear zone of the Equatorial Rift Valley. The lair itself is an extremely wide ellipsoidal area, surrounded by a layer of powerful and strange energy field. It is difficult for the fairies to perceive the situation inside it, and they can only roughly understand that it is a cavity area with a complex structure. Many monsters have taken root in it.
The Nightmare Lair is adjacent to the Equatorial Rift Valley, and a part of the "content" penetrates the energy barrier and extends to the bottom of the Great Rift Valley, where the corrupt monsters have built a large number of facilities to use those extended structures, that is Hao The "summoning platform" seen by Jin and his party.
As for the "big monster entrenched in the middle of the nightmare lair" repeatedly emphasized by the goblin in the narration, Hao Ren didn't figure out what it was until the end. He could only generally think that it was an unprecedentedly powerful derivative of madness. body, and possesses outstanding spiritual and dream powers—this power may even be close to that of the original Lockmarton. In order to create a steady stream of troops for Amantir, the monster was in a long sleep state and weaved a huge nightmare, and its nightmare was projected into the real world through the extended structures at the bottom of the Great Rift Valley.
There, a large number of brain monsters gather around the device called the "Nightmare Pillar", and their task is to sleep with the "big monster" in the nightmare lair, and "draw" the monsters that are constantly born in the nightmare faster come out.
And this whole process is closely related to the Amantir crystal.
The goblins can't tell exactly what the connection between the two is, but in the monitoring of the goblins, it can be observed that the energy of the Amantir crystal is connected to the nightmare lair below, and a considerable scale is constantly being carried out. information exchange.
This made Hao Ren feel quite uneasy.
He was worried that the Amantir crystal had been completely infested by the power of the Lord of Madness. If so, it would be hard to say whether it could be recombined with the other two crystals to form a beacon.
"Are there usually goblins who come up and move around like you?" Hao Ren curiously asked the little goblin who was floating above the data terminal in a holographic projection in the passage leading to a deeper layer, "We first perceived That breath of yours is you, right?"
"We don't usually come out!" The little goblin said immediately, "The world above is full of those monsters. If you go out, you may not be able to go back. That's how several goblins who came out to explore the way died like this—we average a hundred years." Only an observer will be sent up. But this time, a monitoring line we set up in the upper area suddenly sensed a very strange energy fluctuation, and then found a group of rash guys who had never seen before running into the monsters. In the base, I was sent out by everyone to check the situation."
As she spoke, she puffed up her chest: "Of course the aura you sensed before is me! I have followed you for a long time, but you are so stupid that you didn't notice it all the time, and you even ran away recklessly. It attracted the monster's attention, if I hadn't shot at that time, you would have died by now."
"Okay, thank you for saving our lives," Hao Ren said to the goblin with a smile, then looked up and looked around, "By the way, where is the passage leading to your shelter?"
At this time, everyone has been advancing in the underground area for a long time. From the map, it can be seen that they have already left the underground part of the control center, and even entered an unmarked underground passage. The surrounding walls have changed from metal to solid and strangely shimmering rocks without knowing it. There are also large and small luminous crystals inlaid between the rocks, which makes the whole passage still appear sufficient without lighting. It is bright, and the humming sound of mechanical equipment can no longer be heard in the passage, which seems to indicate that the team has left the base group full of mechanical facilities and entered the depths of a more primitive planet.
The goblin's perception of the outside world now needs the help of various sensing modules of the data terminal. Although it is many times more sensitive and accurate than her original senses, it is quite difficult to use because of the data structure and proficiency issues in the middle. It was jerky, so it took the little one a little time to complete the positioning in the formation: "Oh, we are already close to the crystal pillar layer, beyond the crystal pillar layer is the big grid, and further down is the place where the goblins hide—but we don't You need to drill around in the crystal pillar layer and the large grid, there is a passage that can go directly to the shelter~~”
"What are the crystal column layer and the large grid?" Little Elizabeth asked curiously.
"This planet was built by the Goddess of Creation, so it's not the same as a naturally formed planet," the goblin chirped and explained, "Under the crust is not an ordinary mantle, but a large piece of crystal that looks like a pillar structure , that is the crystal column layer, where there are many automatically operating energy units and ancient facilities, because they support the operation of the upper layer of the entire planet, so even those monsters dare not mess with the things in the crystal column layer, and the large grid It is also the barrier between the crystal pillar layer and the earth's core. It is responsible for making the planet more stable and coordinating the energy and information transmitted from each crystal pillar. Part of our monitoring lines are connected to the large grid~~ ~"
The little devil girl was fascinated by the incredible astral structure in the mouth of the goblin, she opened her mouth and exclaimed in a long voice: "Wow—"
While talking, the team suddenly got rid of the long underground cave, Hao Ren's eyes suddenly opened up, and the underground scenery left him dumbfounded.
Magnificent and fantastic colors fill the field of vision, almost dazzling.
There is no darkness and oppression as expected, the vastness and brightness of the underground world is completely beyond everyone's imagination, Hao Ren only saw a crystal forest spreading out in his field of vision, everything in his sight was made of crystal clear crystals, the forest, Canyons, streams, bushes... all refract colorful phantoms in the light of unknown origin.
It's like a frozen world.
And in this boundless crystal world, Hao Ren saw the huge crystal pillars supporting the upper structure of Amantir: they are neatly arranged in the crystal world, just like the giant pillars supporting the heaven and earth in mythology, the pillars of the giant pillars The diameter is probably enough to build a city-state on its cross-section, and above it extends to the dark depths that cannot be reached by sight.
Everyone actually came down from such a crystal pillar.
The lower half of these huge crystal pillars lingered with a faint light. In the light, Hao Ren saw many strange structures revolving around the crystal pillars, like suspended rings, which should be the ancient facilities mentioned by the goblin.
The automatic operation mechanism deep in the underground of Amantir has been operating in this underground world since the day the goddess of creation created this starship. not affected in the slightest.
No, it's not unaffected—Hao Ren glanced across the crystal world, and he soon discovered that some of the crystal pillars had actually been polluted. Continuously shooting out violent dark arcs, it looks extremely dangerous.
"I... I saw a scene similar to this in the vision of the Last Throne," Vivian muttered as if dreaming, "but there are still many small animals there, and there is a crystal stag..."
"What you see should be the layer of crystal pillars under the hub," the goblin explained. "The hub, like the three planetary fortresses, was created by the goddess of creation. The structures inside are actually similar. The crystal pillars of Amantir The layer was originally very lively, and there were many crystal animals living here, but then the crystal pillars began to mutate, and the range in which the animals could survive became smaller and smaller, until now they basically disappeared, even the forests you see ... are actually dead, but the crystal plants will not rot after they die, so you can see them."
"Even if those monsters don't come down, the corruption has spread here," Yzaks looked at the mutated crystal pillars in the distance, and shook his head with his arms folded, "So even if you hide in the core of the earth, you will be destroyed sooner or later." devoured."
"I know, but we have no other place to hide," said the goblin on the holographic projection, spreading her hands. Her small size makes her mature gesture quite interesting, "The door to the shelter It's just ahead, and I'll show you the way."