Liya looked at the discarded device on the ground, and tapped her toes on the ground a little depressed: "It took so much effort to get back such a thing, but only one sentence was extracted from it, I always feel a little uncomfortable..."
"Something is a clue," Hao Ren waved his hand, opened his portable space, and released the "metal egg" that was rescued at the last moment, "I also brought out something from a place like a control center Made it out, I suspect it's the 'pilot's' cockpit, but the contents inside are a bit odd."
That weird silver-white metal egg appeared in front of everyone like this, and it still carried the heat from the time it was inside the Lord Gorgon's body. Standing in front of it, one would feel a rush of hot air rushing towards them. Lily was stunned the moment she saw this egg, and she didn't know how many times she went through the transition in her mind, and suddenly said: "Landlord, the pot that this egg needs may be very big!"
How could Hao Ren keep up with Husky's train of thought: "Huh?"
Lily stretched out her paws and gestured: "Landlord, didn't the egg you got back last time hatched a Doudou? Shouldn't this egg be boiled for me too?"
"You can't remember anything useful in your mind!" Hao Ren hit the husky girl on the head with a knife, "I just said that this thing is the passenger compartment!"
Then he shook his hand, using the previous method to activate the outer shell of the metal egg. As the layer of precise deformable protective shell faded away layer by layer, the inner cavity formed by a layer of transparent polymer was also exposed, and sealed in the egg. The cloud-like black substance in the cavity also "woke up".
It began to squirm violently, bumping around, its surface constantly raised and deformed into various unimaginable shapes. Although there was no sound, it was enough to see how crazy it was now just from the crazy twitching.
"Ugh... what the hell is this..." Lily frowned suddenly, "It looks so disgusting!"
"The names written on the shell should be people's names..." Vivienne remembered the words she saw on the "egg shell" before, "According to general logic, they should refer to the original occupants in this egg-shaped cabin." …but how did the crew inside become like this?”
This was also something that Hao Renzheng was curious about. He turned his head and looked at the Goddess of Creation who hadn't expressed his opinion since just now: "Leah, what do you think?"
"Interesting..." Liya said softly as if she was talking to herself, she stepped forward half a step, and gently placed her hand on the transparent polymer liner, "Plausible, between fiction and reality... how can this world be like this?" grow something?"
As her fingers touched the transparent inner liner, the smoky black substance soaked in the egg-shaped container seemed to be greatly stimulated for a moment, and it began to scurry around at an even crazier pace. It was as if desperately trying to escape from the spherical shell that was originally used to protect it, but its struggle lasted less than three seconds before it gradually disintegrated into scattered black flakes and gradually dissolved in the container. In the mysterious liquid.
And this is not the end, after the black substance dissolved, some pink, flesh-like components suddenly appeared inside the container, they quickly reorganized and grew, and formed a human body within a few breaths.
The Charlemagne brothers and sisters and Cam, who were watching curiously, were stunned.
It was a woman in a tight silver-white combat uniform with short light blonde hair. She was curled up slightly as if she was sleeping, and her limbs, including two arms and one leg, had obvious signs of being replaced by machines. There were many Multiple cables and tubes extend from the opening in her back, connecting to a spine-like metal structure inside the egg-shaped container, and there is a name tag on the left chest of her battle suit, which reads Her name: Allie Grenier.
The ancient human named Elle Grenier curled up quietly in the container for a while, then suddenly opened her eyes.
Those golden eyes were full of fighting intent and some kind of strong thoughts, but she didn't have any reaction to Hao Ren and the others outside the container—she was like a projection on another world line, completely ignoring Knowing the surrounding situation, and with a serious expression, he stretched out his hand and swiped in mid-air, as if he was manipulating something.
"It's a phantom," Leah explained, "the last memory of this pilot, and she's in a fight."
The phantom didn't last long, or the ancient warrior named Leah Grenier didn't survive the final battle—her body jerked violently, followed by convulsive pain Curled up tightly, the cables and pipes behind her began to overload and burst, blood gushed out from those broken pipes, and quickly dyed the liquid in the container pink, her last expression was distorted and hideous, but those eyes The golden eyes were always burning with unyielding light like a flame, until the blood overflowing from her body completely swallowed all her expressions, those eyes still remained in Hao Ren's mind.
There was only a cloud of increasingly cloudy blood left in the container, but Leah still did not stop her magic. She waited patiently, and finally waited for the moment when the transformation began.
Strands of black suddenly appeared in the container, and quickly devoured and assimilated the flesh and metal debris in the container. The tenacious thoughts of the soldier before his death could not stop this vicious erosion process. In just half a minute, the The matter was swallowed up and replaced by a swirling darkness...
At this point, Liya took her hand away from the egg-shaped container, and she breathed a sigh of relief: "That's all."
Hao Ren blinked: "So it really is..."
"It's fighting against the Lord of Craziness, and the last thing that appears is the infestation of Crazy Power," Leah nodded with a serious expression, and switched to a language of the dream plane, "but there is something strange... Crazy The power is very weak, and it shows obvious inertia, it did not continue to expand after it eroded, this is not at all like the kind of strength I have dealt with back then."
Hao Ren stroked his chin and said in Holleta, "Maybe it's just a minion?"
"Maybe it was weakened by something." Liya took a deep look at Hao Ren and said meaningfully.
"Weaken..." Hao Ren repeated subconsciously, and then a flash of lightning suddenly flashed in his mind: Vaccine!
Perhaps for the Charlemagne brothers and sisters who had never been in contact with the Lord of Madness, the scene presented in the egg-shaped container was enough to be called tragic and terrifying, but Hao Ren knew that it was nothing at all. The power of the Lord—even the power of minions is enough to tear apart planets and distort time and space, and if it acts on a mortal who has lost the ability to resist, then not only will the body of the corroded person be wiped out, but even the entire ship she is on will be destroyed. Battleships and even the entire fleet will turn into terrifying monsters mixed with metal and flesh, but those "Gorgon demons" don't seem to have undergone that degree of mutation—although they have indeed gone out of control, only the core area has been eroded. Externally, they still look roughly normal.
This means that the crazy power acting on them has been weakened.
This is exactly the purpose of Hao Ren and his party coming to Laherien: vaccines!
Vivienne also quickly figured out the joints, with an excited expression on her face: "So the Gorgon demon is the 'vaccine'?"
However, Leah shook her head: "Unfortunately, although this weakening phenomenon is very likely related to the 'vaccine', these so-called Gorgon demons themselves are meaningless to us."
Hao Ren was stunned for a moment: "What's going on?"
"Because..." Liya said as she looked at the metal "egg" that was one person tall, and tapped its shell lightly, "They have been annihilated in history..."
As Liya's voice fell, the "Neural Interaction Cabin" that carried the last memory of the ancient warrior named Elle Grenier, who had gone through many years of vicissitudes, suddenly burst into a hazy brilliance, and then fell silent The earth turned into shimmering particles that drifted with the wind.
Vivian couldn't help exclaiming softly: "This..."
"Gorgon demons are also 'fragments' between reality and reality. Although they appear in this world in the form of entities, and have even fought against the Laherian people so far, they are no different from phantoms in terms of 'existence' , As long as you leave Laherien, they will disappear immediately," Liya shook her head lightly, "In other words, they 'exist' only within the range of Laherien."
She paused, then said in conclusion: "The same is true for the black pine forest."
"In other words, the so-called Gorgon Abyss is another black pine forest... The nature of those Gorgon demons is also similar to the black pine here," Hao Ren understood Liya's meaning, "but they are obviously stronger than the black pine. Much closer to 'real', we even got into a fight with them."
Leah pressed her finger to her lips, this action was quite similar to Vivian's occasional subconscious action when she was meditating: "This is what I am most curious about. There are many virtual and real things on this planet Laherien, just It seems that the world lines that should be isolated from each other are stacked rigidly on this planet. Although I have a vision that can directly see through reality, I have no way to see what causes the stacking of world lines... "
Hao Ren tossed about his little knowledge in the field of information unification: "Could it be related to the end of the world? The collapse of the universe caused the histories of all civilizations in every corner of the world to be compressed and overlapped together, and as a result, Lahe was formed on this basis. Ryan, and then this Laherien was reborn again because of you, so the traces of the "history stack" were wiped out due to the self-healing mechanism of the bottom data of the world, leaving only the black pine forest and The Gorgon Abyss is like fragments between reality and reality, and you can't find the reason for their formation... "
Liya thought for a while, then tapped her palm with her fist: "Ah, the second section of Lesson 7 of "Introduction to Information"!"
Hao Ren: "... So reading more books is really helpful, right..."
"But it won't help us find a vaccine," Leah spread her hands. "These out-of-control Gorgon war machines are just the product of the vaccine. The real vaccine is still unknown."
Kaim frowned and watched these mysterious people who claimed to be from the "World Tree Temple" suddenly start talking in a language he had never heard, and the topic of conversation obviously revolved around the "core" of the Gorgon demon , So I finally couldn't help asking: "Do you know anything related to the Gorgon demon? The one that appeared just now...is it really a human?"
"That's right," Hao Ren nodded, "but that was a long time ago. The Gorgon now... is just a bunch of crazy war machines."
Seeing that the Broken Sword Knight wanted to continue asking, Hao Ren waved his hand: "These things can be discussed in detail after we leave this forest. I always feel...why is it getting colder and colder around here?"
Awenna blinked: "After all, the two Gorgon lords are dead. It is normal for the temperature to drop after their flames are extinguished."
"It doesn't seem to be." Lily, who is more sensitive to temperature changes, raised her head and looked at the dense forest opposite. "There is indeed a cold wind blowing from that direction, and it is becoming more and more obvious."
The team set out again after reorganizing a bit, and as they continued north through the black pine forest, the "drop in temperature" was quickly confirmed.
At first, everyone just felt cool, but after a while, the cool air turned into cold, and the wind passing through the forest was so chilling that the soldiers in the team had to activate their magic spells Amulets to resist the lower and lower temperatures, while Lily became more and more energetic as the surrounding temperature dropped.
After going forward for a short distance, crystal clear icicles appeared on the surrounding black pine, and snow and frozen soil began to appear under everyone's feet—however, this was completely abnormal, because the black pine forest never snowed, and there was never any snow in the forest. Records of temperatures dropping below zero.
Although pine trees are hardy plants, these black pine trees that grow against the laws of nature grow in the south.
What's more, the temperature drops too fast...
Although Lily was quite happy about it.
Continuing on for a short distance with more and more confusion, when Hao Ren was thinking about whether to stop for a while to let Leah open the whole picture, the forest suddenly came to an end.
The team walked out of the black pine forest.
The scenery in front of them suddenly opened up. A vast and boundless snowfield made everyone who was walking through the dark forest not long ago feel dizzy. Charlemagne and Aiwenna stared dumbfounded at the endless In the snow, Lily, who was walking beside Hao Ren, jumped up in surprise: "Wow! Snowfield! It's a snowfield! It's a snowfield!!"
Hearing the husky girl's excited voice, Hao Ren's first reaction was to stretch out his hand to hold the crazy dog's head, but his action was half a second behind his thought, and he could only look at the more excited as the temperature got lower. The guy flung out a string of afterimages and sprinted into the distance, and the next moment she was scurrying around on the vast and boundless snowfield.
Vivienne covered her forehead: "It's over... Don't expect her to stop within half an hour..."
Hao Ren, on the other hand, quickly accepted the fact that his husky had let go again, and turned his head to look at the Charlemagne brothers and sisters who acted as guides along the way: "I said... come out of the black pine forest and plunge directly into the snow, is this normal?"
"Of course this is not normal!" Charlemagne stared, "The northern exit of the Black Pine Forest is in the Fertile Plain, which is the middle of the empire!"
Kaim was also stunned for a moment when he saw the snow field, but he quickly saw the clues from the surrounding scenery. He immediately turned his head to look for something, and finally saw what he was looking for without much effort:
It was a huge red rift across the sky: the entrance to the Gorgon Abyss.
"This is the northern border!" Broken Sword Knight exclaimed, "Look there—that's the Gorgon Abyss!"