Although Hao Ren held back his stomach for questions, he obviously couldn't expect any answers from the little weak chicken.
For this little thing that acts entirely on instinct, it doesn't need any reason to do things. In fact, she doesn't even know what the word reason means.
So Hao Ren and Vivienne could only put their heads together and start various speculations and discussions—of course, it’s okay to say that it’s just guessing and nonsense, because what happened to the little one is too strange. And the nature of the big tunnel is even more strange.
Looking at the little weak chicken who was walking around on the nearby ground and baring its teeth and claws at the air from time to time, Hao Ren rubbed his chin thoughtfully: "I think the problem lies in the 'crazy' element of this little thing. , although she is now harmless to humans and animals (in fact, she has never been harmless to humans and animals), but after all, she is a creature catalyzed by the power of the Lord of Madness. It is normal for her to have extremely high resistance to the power of chaos and corruption matter."
Vivian immediately looked at the big crack not far away, and she understood what Hao Ren said at once: "You suspect that this big tunnel was also caused by the power of the Lord of Crazy? The power is from the same source, so the two will not hurt each other?"
"This is the most likely answer, and it is in line with the basic laws of how we have been doing things," Hao Ren nodded, "and more importantly, it is in line with our initial conception of the dark realm—this is where the Goddess of Creation fell. Earth, the power of madness and the power of the goddess fought a decisive battle here, so these two forces are the two main things in the dark realm. Now we can see the vibrant ecosystem on the planet Laherion as a The manifestation of the power of the Goddess of Creation, what about the corresponding? Obviously it is the Great Tunnel—this 'tunnel' may represent the form of the power of madness in the dark realm."
Vivienne thought for a while, but didn't think of a more convincing explanation, so she nodded: "It's a simple and easy-to-understand model, but we still have to figure out what's going on under the Great Tunnel. Now even you can't resist the Great Tunnel." The phagocytosis, and things like probes will lose their signal after entering the tunnel, we must find a way to observe the inside of the crack."
Of course, Hao Ren also knew that this was an urgent problem to be solved, and in fact... he already had an idea.
His eyes slowly fell on the cheerful little weak chicken who was playing alone.
The little thing who was running around on the ground suddenly sensed this gaze, and stopped throwing shadow arrows around for an instant. She looked back nervously, and immediately let out a small twitch after seeing Hao Ren's eyes. Voice: "Hey!!"
"Isn't this little thing able to resist the devouring of the big tunnel?" Hao Ren smiled slightly at Vivienne, and then waved to the little weak chicken, "Come here, I won't eat you—if you really can't come back, go back to me!" I'll just throw you to Raven 12345!"
"Alas!!"
"Don't just scare her, you don't know how to be kind to children." Vivienne immediately gave Hao Ren a look, then turned her head and smiled at the little weak chicken, "Come here, don't be afraid, we won't bully you."
Hao Ren couldn't help but looked Vivienne up and down: "A master like you who can throw a child away for four hundred years and can't remember it has actually studied the experience of raising a child—I don't know why Hesiana felt wronged when she saw this scene later. Sample."
Vivienne rolled her eyes at Hao Ren while letting the little weak chicken climb up her arm: "Didn't I have a bad brain back then, and it's not that I didn't care about Hessiana. Of course, I was a bit embarrassed when I was raising children before." Question, so recently I have started to take the initiative to call Hesianna, and I plan to let her come to my house to play for a few days. By the way, do you plan to let the little weak chicken help detect the big tunnel?"
Hao Ren nodded and took out a new probe from the portable space: "I'm thinking about it, this should work. The clothes on the little weak chicken are not her original ones, but you made her later. After coming out of the tunnel, the clothes on his body are intact, so I guess this little thing can not only be immune to the engulfment of the big tunnel, but also protect the things it carries within a small range from being engulfed. You see, I will give this explorer The needle is set to recording mode, we can tie it to the weak chicken..."
The little guy saw Hao Ren approaching him with a suspicious silver-white machine, and immediately raised his hand and let out a burst of roaring: "Hiss—scare!!"
Vivienne looked down at the weak chicken, with a helpless expression: "Your plan is very good, the only problem is... the person concerned doesn't seem to intend to cooperate."
This is a big problem, and Hao Ren suddenly realized something: Although the little weak chicken has made great progress now, not only has gained a richer relationship, but can also understand human speech, but being able to understand human speech does not necessarily mean Will be obedient, what should I do if this little muddled little thing doesn't cooperate
So he earnestly talked, but after a lot of hard work, the little weak chicken still showed no signs of softening his attitude, which made Hao Ren feel a great sense of frustration: he quarreled with his goddess, quarreled with his PDA, until now, he To even have an argument with a "detector", and the most f*cking thing is...
He also lost.
Little weak chickens are always invincible because they can't speak.
But in the end, the little weak chicken was still tied to the probe by Hao Ren, not because of reasoning, but because Vivienne took out a piece of meat, and Hao Ren took advantage of the moment when the little thing attracted his attention, and quickly Grabbing the latter directly, two loops of scotch tape tied the probe to the little thing's back.
Of course, the little weak chicken showed great indignation, but after taking two bites of the meat, she forgot about this unpleasantness...
Then Hao Ren threw her into the big tunnel filled with endless darkness.
During the short time waiting for the little guy to return, Hao Ren and Vivian chatted casually, and the topic quickly turned to what Liya said when she saw the ruins on the surface: about the Annuo ruins group, and the "outer space" visitor" conjecture.
"This world is basically confirmed not to be the home planet of the Godslayers," Hao Ren said, "There are not only the remains of the Godslayers here—in fact, there are only a few of the remains of the Godslayers here, except for their magnificent palace. In addition, there are a large number of traces of alien civilizations of unknown origin here, and according to the information provided by Leah, these ancient relics are not likely to be left by the indigenous races of this planet."
Vivienne has her own thoughts: "Some of them may be ancient civilizations that have completely disappeared."
"Yes, the ancient civilizations have completely disappeared, so there will be no follow-up traces of the relics they left behind, but this is certainly not all," Hao Ren nodded, "there are a lot of Annuo relics, and quite a few of them must be It cannot be explained directly by the ancient civilizations that have completely disappeared, they should really come from 'outside the sky'."
"During a certain period before the Godslayer War, various races including the Godslayers suddenly visited this place, left traces of their respective civilizations on the land of Gulahrien, and then suddenly left at the same time Already?" Vivienne frowned and shook her head slightly, "I can't explain it, I can't see the meaning of doing this, and it doesn't conform to our understanding of the Godslayers. And we also guessed that this world is the species of the Goddess of Creation As for the Vault, the only reason for the god-killing race to come here is to destroy it, so how does it work when you come here with a bunch of other races and leave a bunch of landscape buildings and then suddenly run away?"
Hao Ren stroked his chin: "...Explode a spectacle before the final battle to recover the achievement?"
Vivienne: "Play less games, especially the ones that will turn bald."
"There are too many things in this world that are difficult to explain, and there are inconsistencies everywhere," Hao Ren decisively changed the subject, "And now I think of a more interesting detail..."
"What details?"
"Do you still remember the information about the Great Tunnel we found in Leah's library?" Hao Ren reminded, "What is the description of the Great Tunnel?"
Vivian said while recalling: "It is full of poisonous gas, there are monsters wandering inside, and some large tunnels will corrupt and cover a large area of the surface world after being dug, and leave a black forest after the corruption disappears... But According to Leah, these studies on the large tunnels were actually done in the ordinary crypts outside the tunnels, and what was described was only the characteristics of those polluted crypts."
Hao Ren glanced around: "But we are now in a place like this. This underground palace and the caves here are directly connected to the big tunnel, which completely matches the description of Leah in the book, but—poison gas What about the monsters in the tunnel? What about those weird noises? There is only an empty underground palace in front of us, and we have even set up camp in this underground palace."
These inconsistencies are actually not difficult to find at all, but Hao Ren and his party had little understanding of the Great Tunnel before, and the only information they had came from some "folk scientist's writings" that were neither rigorous nor detailed, so they were very confused. It was difficult to realize the abnormality of the Great Tunnel the first time he came into contact with it, but Hao Ren recalled his experience a little in the dead of night, and felt something was wrong.
The big tunnel he actually saw was completely different from what was described in the book.
Although Leah once complained dismissively that more than half of the scholars who study the Great Tunnel are nonsense, but on some basic issues (such as whether there are poisonous gas and monsters in the Great Tunnel), those scholars will make up this level of nonsense Mess up? And is it still a random fabrication
"Perhaps the tunnels are not the same in every place," Vivienne speculated. "Poisonous gas and monsters are probably not standard equipment."
Hao Ren smacked his lips: "Anyway, I think there is something wrong with it. Let's look for more information later. After all, we only read a few books. And I can't completely believe what Liya says—although she always speaks in the same way. He looks confident, but I always feel that a mage who goes berserk and smashes his armor and then cleaves directly after encountering monsters in the wild is not so reliable... By the way, how long has the little weak chicken been down?"
"It's been a while," Vivienne looked at the big crack, "It stands to reason that I should be back."
Staring at the unmoving rift for a while, Hao Ren suddenly slapped his forehead: "Damn, that little thing doesn't understand action plans and the concept of time at all! What if she doesn't come back after playing in it?" What to do? Where are we going to find her!"
Vivian was also aware of this problem, and her face suddenly turned a little dark: "Should we tie a rope to her?"
Hao Ren waved his hand: "It doesn't matter, the 'anti-swallowing protection zone' of the little weak chicken is definitely not that big, the rope must be beyond her carrying range, and it will definitely break after entering."
"Then what if she really doesn't come back?" Vivienne looked worried, "I don't know how big the tunnel is, what if she gets lost?"
"Can you just 'take' her back? It's like taking back your little bat," Hao Ren asked, "The big deal is that you don't need the probe."
"She is not a little bat, and she is very disobedient. I have to get her back at a very close distance." Vivienne looked at her hand, "The distance should have been exceeded now, although the little weak chicken can fly It's very slow, but she's been down for more than ten minutes."
Hao Ren thought about it hard, and began to toss things from the portable space: "She can't run too far, I have experience, even if she is allowed to move freely, she can only toss in a small range. She made it out…”
Hao Ren's words are indeed based on experience. This is the rule that he usually sums up after letting the data terminal collect the living habits data of the weak chickens: probably because of the small size, the concept of distance and range is different from ordinary people. She runs a circle with a radius of ten meters as if she is traveling around the world...
After a while, Vivian looked at the thing in Hao Ren's hand and fell into a daze: "Are you sure this thing will work?"
Hao Ren nodded confidently while shaking the fishing rod in his hand: "Don't worry, there is nothing more attractive to her than this."
He moved a horse and sat on the edge of the big crack, holding a fishing rod in his hand—yes, it’s the usual fishing, but what hangs at the end of the fishing line is not the bait, but a piece of blood-stained fish. Raw meat slices, in order to prevent small things from being hurt, the hooks that go through the meat slices are not sharp fishhooks, but just ordinary knots.
Of course, in order to prevent the meat from being devoured, this "bait" was suspended in the air by Hao Ren, less than half a meter away from the dark "horizon". The raw meat that has lost its vitality is obviously not a living thing, so it did not trigger the active phagocytosis reaction of the Great Tunnel.
Vivian glanced at the piece of meat tied at the end of the fishing line, and then looked at Hao Ren with a strange look: "... I don't mean that there is something wrong with the piece of meat, I mean your idea... How did you get your mind wrong?" , can you come up with such an idea?"
"So you can't think of a Chinese monster at first glance, and you can't think of Jiang Taigong's fishing stalk at once."
"Are you sure that you thought of Jiang Taigong's fishing, and not because you have been with Lily for a long time and your thoughts are strange?" Vivian looked at Hao Ren with contempt. "And it's called an allusion! What the hell is the stalk..."
Hao Ren plausibly said: "Aren't modern stalks just ancient allusions? What's the matter with the evolution of language and writing?"
Vivienne wanted to say something more, but suddenly there was movement in that rift.
Accompanied by a shadow arrow in brown motion slowly flying into the air, a small figure flew out from the darkness in no time, and rushed straight to the piece of meat in the air—the next moment she was hanging in the air. On the top of it, the look of not letting go seems to be determined to live and die with the sliced meat.
Vivienne: "... This thing really works!"
No matter how whimsical Jiang Taigong's chicken fishing method was, it finally achieved the expected result. The little weak chicken was successfully caught, and the probe on her back was still there, and it didn't seem to be damaged at all.
Sure enough, this little thing can safely bring the things you carry into the big tunnel: although Hao Ren doesn't know the real principle of it.
"There is data!" Hao Ren carefully removed the probe from the little weak chicken (during this process, the little one never let go of his precious meat slices), and then immediately checked the storage status of the device, and immediately said happily, "Sure enough As I imagined, the probe has been operating normally under the protection of the weak chicken, and it is full of photographed data!"
Without anyone's instructions, the data terminal next to it has already floated over on its own initiative: "Leave it to this machine!"
The pictures taken by the probe were quickly transferred to the holographic projection of the data terminal.
The environment inside the tunnel is obviously not suitable for shooting—even though the probe has a very good information collection module, it is still severely disturbed. After the powerful decoding by the data terminal, Hao Ren and Vivian finally saw the video data, but the picture was still blurry and dim.
But at least there is a picture.
Hao Ren was finally sure that there were indeed some debris floating in the tunnel, and the "wreckage" captured by the probe that was sacrificed last time was also real.
But those things are not the only ones floating in the big tunnel.
On the dim and blurred picture, there are some large-scale things flashing by—because the photographer is a little fool who keeps spinning and flying around, the stability of the picture cannot be expected—the data terminal has valuable The part was cut from the image, sharpened several times and then enlarged. Hao Ren confirmed that those larger shadows were actually cities or plains floating in the dark void.
Fragmented palaces, cities, lands, and even things like spaceships, all kinds of fragments float in a dark and chaotic background, constantly rotating, drifting, colliding with each other, annihilated and reborn, sometimes they are just Like phantoms, they present an obvious void texture, but sometimes they become extraordinarily real, and even have a physical collision with the camera-that is when the little weak chicken accidentally hits a certain fragment.
Hao Ren and Vivienne put their heads together and watched intently the pictures processed by the data terminal. These pictures contained a huge amount of information, and seemed to reveal some secrets of the Great Tunnel, and Hao Ren also read the pictures from the pictures. Feeling a huge violation, and quickly figured out where this violation came from.
"Scale, the scale is wrong."
(Friendly recommend a book, "The Final Abyss" written by a friend, the infinite traversal type, the brain hole is not bad, everyone who is interested can go and read it.)