Had it not been for the goblin to lead the way, Hao Ren felt that even if he wandered around the crystal pillar layer for a hundred years, he would not be able to find the entrance to a deeper layer.
Because this entrance is not physical at all!
Guided by the goblin, a group of people went to the depths of the crystal forest, where there was a lake that had turned into solidified crystals. Before the power of madness invaded here, it used to be the most vibrant habitat in the Crystal Forest, where countless wonderful creatures and active energy gathered, but now, the lake seems to be frozen There was a whole piece of crystal, but in the open space by the lake, only the remains of creatures that had been turned into fragments of broken crystals could be seen.
And on the surface of the lake that was frozen like a mirror, a ray of light radiated from a distant crystal pillar, reflected on the lake surface, and shot towards the sky obliquely.
That is the way to the center of the earth.
"Just go up this road!" The little goblin said gesturing on the holographic projection, with a strong pride on his face, "You have to go up to reach the bottom of the earth's center - the goblins Isn’t creativity particularly powerful?”
Hao Ren and his friends were dumbfounded: This is not a question of creativity at all! There is such an operation
Hao Ren didn't know what others thought. Anyway, he immediately remembered the joke about the drunk man climbing up the beam of the flashlight—but here, driven by the incredible power of the goblins, the joke became a reality.
The road to the center of the earth is really a beam of light, and it is really possible to climb up along the light...
"Are you sure you won't fall down if you climb up this thing?" Lily was recommended as the first person to try it. She stood at the place where the light was reflected on the lake, looking at her with suspicion. A beam of light slanting upwards into the dome of the crust, "always felt like it would be stupid to climb up this thing."
"Are you still worried about this?" Vivian gave Lily a sideways glance, "Don't worry about climbing up, we'll cheer you up below—anyway, with your physical fitness, it won't be a big problem if you fall halfway up."
"Then you can fly! Why don't you go up first?" Lily crossed her waist and gave Vivian a look, then flattened her mouth, "Forget it, I agreed anyway, I'll be the first up—but You are not allowed to make trouble, no one is allowed to block the light!"
In fact, according to the goblin, this beam of light is just a pointer. Even if the beam of light is lost, the hidden passage will still not disappear, but it seems that Lily didn't listen carefully during the science popularization just now...
With righteousness and nervousness on his face, Lily stepped onto the bright light beam that slanted towards the sky.
Then she stood firmly on the surface of the beam.
"It's...it's really possible!" The nervousness on the husky girl's face turned into excitement and curiosity almost instantly, "And it's so tilted like this that I don't feel it at all! This thing is so interesting! Landlord, I'll go up and have a look Situation~~"
With just such a sentence, the husky girl who was extremely reluctant a second ago ran up the beam of light like a runaway, and was already hundreds of meters away in the blink of an eye. Hao Ren behind saw it Jumping up angrily: "Hey, wait... Fuck, you really deserve to let go..."
A group of people boarded the "secret path" to the shelter behind the excited husky girl, and after walking up the light beam for a while, Hao Ren discovered that this path was just like what the fairy said, it was a free path. The "road of miracles" outside the normal space-time structure.
Because when he looked down, he couldn't see the jungle at all: although in terms of physical space, everyone had only advanced a thousand meters.
Various grotesque scenes began to appear around the beam of light, like aurora and river-like lights and shadows flowing and floating in the void space on both sides, and some lights even condensed into images of palaces and buildings, and after a short time Dissipated.
As he continued to move forward, these scenes disappeared one by one. Hao Ren felt that the whole journey only lasted less than ten minutes, and the things around him had changed from illusory light and shadow to common sense reality: thick rock formations And huge crystalline prisms appeared all around. They were just broken pieces floating in mid-air at first, but further forward they were a solid whole: the team was passing through a spherical shell formed of stone and crystal.
"Wow-"
Lily, who was walking at the front of the line, suddenly let out an exaggerated exclamation. Hao Ren hurriedly followed, and his vision suddenly opened up.
The road has come to an end, and the team has passed through the divine-made spherical shell covering the outside of the earth's core. Inside the spherical shell is an extremely open space. Since Amantil is a planet created by the goddess of creation, this "earth core" is not as hot and high pressure as the core of a natural planet. On the contrary, there is a large space and suitable temperature here, and in the vast spherical space In the center, there is a "little planet" that looks even cute.
It was a crystal ball with a diameter of only a few thousand meters—it is not appropriate to say that it is a crystal ball, because it obviously has not been carefully processed and polished, and the rocks and crystals are still mixed together, more like stones and crystals are inlaid with each other. into a rough ball.
This is the "primitive crystal" in the mouth of the goblin, the semi-finished product produced by the Goddess of Creation in the process of making the resonance crystal (or node crystal).
Although it is a semi-finished product, this thing obviously has a huge effect. Hao Ren saw that there are countless lines that are flickering slightly on the surface of that small planet. They are runes and magic circles all over the ball. The facilities below are in operation, and they project a large area of geometric figures that are constantly moving, combining, and deforming automatically around the mini planet. It is dazzling at first glance, but it seems to contain extreme laws and mysteries.
"Those symbols..." Little Elizabeth's eyes gradually became interested in research, "Could it be the knowledge of the gods..."
"It's Xiaoxiaole." The goblin in the holographic projection replied crisply.
Hao Ren & Elizabeth: "... Huh?"
"It's Xiaoxiaole," the little goblin took it for granted, "The Goddess of Creation was bored when building the planet, so she added a Xiaoxiaole to the magic circle when engraving the earth's core magic circle—do you want to play? ? Super fun! Fairies are usually idle..."
"No, it's fine." Hao Ren covered his forehead with one hand and stopped the little goblin from continuing to speak. "Let's stop here. Talking any further will have a devastating blow to the morale of the team."
Goblin: "?"
"All in all, let's go down first." Vivienne's mouth twitched, but she managed to control her expression. "I saw a lot of small spots of light gathering over there. Are those compatriots who came to welcome you?"
"Ah, it's the fairies, it's the fairies!" Sure enough, the little goblin immediately yelled happily, urging the data terminal to fly over while shouting, "Fly, fly, I want to show other goblins My new mount~~"
"You are the mount, and your whole family is the mount!" The data terminal suddenly became furious, "This machine is high-tech, do you understand high-tech!"
While speaking, everyone had already flown to the sky above the surface of the mini planet, and even at such a short distance, Hao Ren could clearly see that the "earth" under his feet showed a great arc, and there were crystals inlaid there. On the surface of the "core" of the runes, a horde of goblins has gathered.
"Outsider! It's an outsider!"
"The goblins brought back a group of outsiders! The goblins are feeling nervous!"
"These people are the energy reactions detected before?"
"The goblins sent word back that they weren't bad guys..."
"Did something happen on the surface? Many runes have been heating up since just now..."
"These outsiders look so strange, the one over there looks several meters long."
Hao Ren even felt a sense of intimacy from the twittering: It really is a familiar atmosphere... It's the same style of painting as he is with the goblin.
Vivian looked around at a large group of little ones gathered around, and lightly touched Hao Ren's arm: "As expected, all goblins have that characteristic."
She was referring to the bunch of black and red goblin hairs on the heads of the goblins: all the goblins gathered here have exactly the same goblin hair, and that seems to be the only characteristic left by the power of the crazy lord on these wonderful creatures up.
At this time, the surrounding elves also noticed the state of the companion floating above the data terminal in the form of holographic projection, and immediately surrounded him curiously, and began to ask why the other party turned into this appearance.
"The goblin lives in this iron lump for the time being!" The little goblin (Hao Ren decided to call her No. 1 goblin for the time being) proudly hugged her chest, "These people are here to deal with those monsters, and they are still here. I plan to blow up this corrupted planetary battleship, but before blowing up, I have to pick up all the goblins—the way to pick them up is to let the goblins stay in this iron bump for a while!"
The data terminal let out a long sigh: "This is the worst time this machine has been hacked."
"Are they reliable?" "Is there a big space in the iron lump? Can all the goblins really be stuffed in?" "How does it feel to live in it?" "Would you like to have a game? Le?" "What is the world on the surface like now?"
The No. 1 goblin patiently answered the questions raised by the compatriots one by one. It seems that the goblin who can be selected as a scout to go to the surface to perform missions is really different from ordinary goblins. The goblin has a lot of patience and observation skills, and she can actually explain her experience in the upper area clearly.
But just before she was about to happily play a game of Match 3, Hao Ren couldn't help saying: "We have limited time, so let's discuss how to solve this task first."
The goblins immediately shouted: "Oh, by the way, you want to get the Amantil crystal, right?" "The Amantier crystal is connected to the nightmare lair!" "I have already told them this." So if you want to get the Amantir crystal, you must first get rid of the big monster in the nightmare lair!" "Otherwise you will be discovered in an instant, and then you will be overwhelmed by the monsters pouring out from the ground!"
"I want to know, what suggestions do you guys have?" Hao Ren looked at the goblins gathered at his feet without much hope, who were staring at him curiously with wide eyes, "We have learned from your The companion got the general information about the Nightmare Lair, that there are many monsters inside, and that there is an extraordinarily powerful guy dreaming in it. We want to know how to get the Amantir crystal without disturbing these monsters. Is it?"
"Don't be alarmed? I'm afraid it won't work," a goblin who looked a little more stable (really a little more stable) came out, "The Amantil crystal has become the energy source of the nightmare lair, and there are many deeper ones. connection, there is no way to take it away quietly."
"You seem to be very familiar with this matter?" Hao Ren glanced at the little guy in surprise, "Are you..."
"This is an expert among elves!" A little one jumped up and down and shouted, "She knows the most! Especially about the Amantier crystal and the control center, there is nothing she doesn't know!"
"I used to be an auxiliary goblin in the control center, responsible for monitoring the status of the Amantir crystal and inputting data into the central computer." It is still in the control center, and it has not been destroyed by those monsters—because my crystal is directly connected to the Amantir crystal, those monsters dare not do it casually. Through the resonance, I can feel the nightmare lair and Amantir The crystals are very closely connected, and the birth of every monster in the lair is related to the Amantir crystal. Although I don’t know why the sacred objects left by the goddess will become the “materials” for those monsters to make companions, but the nightmares in the lair Something is drawing power from the Amantir crystal for sure."
Hearing these words, Hao Ren and Vivienne looked at each other in dismay, while Y'zaks next to him rubbed his chin thoughtfully: "It seems that things still have to fall into that nightmare lair...we have to go there .”
Vivian frowned and shook her head: "But there is too little information. We don't understand the number and strength of the monsters in the nightmare lair. It is unwise to rush into such a place when there is insufficient information."
Hao Ren also nodded: "If there is another Lockmarton inside, the situation will be very difficult."
Lockmarton can be said to be the most difficult enemy that Hao Ren's team has ever fought. Although the monster was completely destroyed by Hao Ren's series of arrangements in the end, and the last duel even achieved an instant kill record, but that is It was achieved with the cooperation of more than a dozen judges and the conditions of the home game of the watch world. At that time, it was Hao Ren's home game, and Lochmarton was under siege, but the situation here was just the opposite: this was the lair of crazy forces.
If there is any carelessness, it will be Hao Ren and his friends who will be surrounded and beaten.
"Don't worry that there will be enemies with the strength of Lockmarton here, because the combat power of a Lockmarton is completely comparable to that of a planetary warship that does not activate the doomsday weapon. If there is such a killer in the corrupted monsters, they will soon I took it out to fight against the Guardian Legion head-on." After a brief analysis, the data terminal shook its body, "That monster is still in the nightmare lair and honestly responsible for the violent soldiers, which just shows its limitations. That is, its capability is limited to producing soldiers—the frontal combat capability should not be too strong.”
Nangong Sanba spread his hands: "No matter how strong you are, you are not weak. Summoning Liu is the most disgusting person."
"Are you going to look for that big monster in the nightmare lair?" At this time, a very cheerful voice suddenly sounded from inside the goblin, "I think... if you are really stronger than the Guardian Giant, then maybe you can Oh, I did."
Hao Ren looked at this new kid in surprise: "Huh? What do you know?"
"I'm in charge of monitoring and researching the nightmare lair!" The goblin crackled like popping beans, "Although we can't directly see the big monster in the nightmare lair, we can still perceive some of its activities. In order to continuously To create new soldiers, the monster must be in a dream state all the time, and there are no guards in a large area around it. We guess that is because the guards in the awake state will affect the effect of the nightmare, so the body of the big monster in the real world is Easy to break - as long as you can get around it."
Vivian frowned: "Won't it wake up?"
"Yes, but as long as the Amantir crystal is not directly stimulated, the big monster will wake up very slowly! In order to ensure the efficiency of creating monsters, the dreamer sinks very, very deep in the dream, and it has no influence on the outside world. The main perception is relayed through the Amantir crystal above and the temple network—in other words, the monster has little defense against the attack from the ground.”
A goblin next to him yelled: "Because Salaman's Guardian Legion hasn't hit the land of Amantir for so many years!" "So those monsters never thought that they would be attacked in their lair!" "They never I don’t think there is anything to be wary of underground in Amantil…”
"How much time do we have?" Nangong Sanba asked beside him.
"From the time the nightmare lair sensed the attack, it took about thirty minutes. We calculated it—it's just that the goblins don't have the ability to launch an attack, so we just calculated it..."
Hao Ren rubbed his chin: "If that monster really doesn't have the ability to fight back in the real world, and we have half an hour to act, then the feasibility is very high, but we must be able to break through the nightmare lair in a short time The barrier must be directly in front of that dream-creating monster, otherwise half an hour may not be enough for us to break through the defense outside."
At this time, a timid voice suddenly sounded from among the goblins: "If... If this is the problem, there should be a solution."
Hao Ren followed the sound and lowered his head, trying to find the little one who was talking among a group of goblins. Then a short, short-haired goblin came into his sight.
"I... I used to be in charge of monitoring the crystal column layer and the crustal stabilizer," the goblin said nervously, "I... I have been monitoring the geological and geological conditions near the area where the nightmare lair is located since I hid here. Space changes, I found that the nightmare lair has solidified in the earth's crust, and it and a large area around it are supported by... three crystal pillars, and the geological structure of that part is very fragile due to the large equatorial crack. …”
Hao Ren was so blessed at this moment, he directly took over the little guy's stammering words: "If we blow up those crystal pillars..."