"It's different? What's the difference?" Vivian looked up at Hao Ren, "Because this is a larva?"
"It's not just a larva," Hao Ren looked at the tentacles and remains of biological tissues around him, "The eldest son we saw in the dream plane is closer to a certain kind of plant, and has precisely differentiated various functions, such as the forest on the surface, the rock formation The tentacles, the 'heart' buried in the ground, and various ganglia. The one in front of me looks like an incomplete evolution, giving the impression that it is just an embryo."
Next to it, Nangong Wuyue also added: "And how this thing escaped from the dream plane to this world is also a big problem."
Hao Ren raised his head and looked around the hall. This is the center of the spaceship. There are many passages leading to nowhere. The tentacles of "Eldest Son" spread along those passages. It is estimated that he can be found in other places some organs. He thought for a while and decided to look separately: "Let's act separately, it will be more efficient. If you find anything, contact each other immediately."
Everyone didn't have any opinions, so they were divided into groups. Lily and Hao Ren were in a group, Yizaks was in a group with his daughter and La Nina, and Vivian and Nangong Wuyue were in a group. After punching and turning the stick, three directions were determined, and they left the hall separately.
Lily was very happy to open the way in front of her with her firearm. At this time, she was not afraid of the playfulness, and Hao Ren followed the husky girl, carefully paying attention to the surrounding situation as she moved forward. After they left the hall, they had explored for a long distance, and found some empty cabins in the middle, but the cabins were either empty, or there were only ordinary tentacles, which were basically of little value.
Lily was very excited. When she found out that there were rare things in the spaceship, she had to pick them up and stuff them into her pockets. Before she had gone far, she had already stuffed all her pockets to the brim. In the end, she could only go to Hao Ren's portable space. The reserve of Wang Zhibao increased rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. Looking at the girl, Hao Ren couldn't understand: "How many stones you collect can be regarded as enjoying strange stones. What's the point of picking up broken iron pieces?"
Lily looked serious: "Whether it's useful or not, take it back to the den first. This is the common sense of werewolves!"
Hao Ren: "..." The werewolves in Lily's concept must include the sled pullers in the Arctic Circle...
The two of them walked forward while chatting, and finally found an empty room. The door to this room was almost completely blocked by the tentacles. Without Hao Ren's instructions, Lily waved her two paws and happily mowed the grass, cleaning up the dry and decayed debris. Hao Ren held up the data terminal and took a picture of the room: "It seems that there is nothing... wait. Yes! There is something!"
The blue light of the data terminal swayed in the room, and suddenly a reflective object caught Hao Ren's attention. He quickly floated in and dug it out from a pile of vines, and found that he saw it right: this is a little device. And it still looks fine.
The two of them felt something was wrong a long time ago, because there was basically nothing in the room they passed except the tentacles, and the huge spaceship was as clean as if it had just left the factory. Instead, an orderly evacuation was carried out. And now they've finally found something interesting.
The small device was only the size of a palm, shaped like an oval pancake, with a smooth surface, but no buttons could be seen. Hao Ren asked the data terminal to identify it: "Take a look at what this is?"
The data terminal floated over and scanned it: "It seems to be a foreign friend of this machine..."
"What?"
"Oh. This machine said that this thing seems to be a data processing device, similar to a PDA, but I don't know which civilization made it."
Hao Ren immediately looked forward to it: "Can I read it?"
"This is more difficult." The data terminal circled the small device twice, and went up to touch the latter's shell. "Hey, hey, buddy, what about the living?"
After touching it a few times and nothing happened, the data terminal shook its body regretfully: "The ball is dead."
Hao Ren took out an alloy brick from the portable space and pointed it at the data terminal: "If you play again, believe it or not, I will give you a crisp sound? Do you want to compare the hardness with professional bricks?"
The data terminal rushed back to the side of the small device: "Isn't this machine calming down the atmosphere—don't panic, wait for this machine to do a physical hard reading..."
While talking, it clings to the ancient device that has been scrapped for tens of thousands of years, releasing a faint blue light all over its body, and begins to forcibly decipher any information that may remain inside the latter. Because it is difficult to determine the storage mechanism and structure of this thing, the data terminal slowly moved while reading it. Lily looked at this scene and stroked her chin thoughtfully: "Why do I feel that the data terminal is obscene. Corpse..."
Hao Ren slapped Lily on the head: "You can't be so simple-minded! How could such a pure and artistic young woman become so wretched and wretched when I first came here!"
Lily covered her head and looked at Hao Ren aggrievedly: "I'm pretty pure. I haven't even come into estrus for so many years—but you can't stop me from reading a lot, can you?"
Hao Ren immediately felt that he had realized the cultural difference between him and the monster girl again.
While the data terminal was busy, it silently listened to these two unscrupulous people discussing moral issues there. I couldn't help but muttered: "It's almost enough. This machine is not interested in this kind of short and poor equipment that doesn't even have four sets of redundant processors. What this machine yearns for is the kind of processor with a stomach full of cores. They are all expansion slots, and they all use sixteen threads of unrestrained mainframes—of course, the kind on battleships is the best... "
Hao Ren was surprised to find that there was a cultural difference between him and his own PDA!
At this time, the data terminal seemed to have finally scanned something, and suddenly exclaimed in surprise: "Hey, it really is, this thing's performance is not good, the memory is solid, and a small part of the data has been saved!"
Hao Ren's eyes lit up immediately: "Hurry up and let it out!"
The data terminal is processing the data: "Wait a minute, this machine is translating, and by the way, put the useless materials aside—you are not interested in alien movies, are you?"
Hao Ren looked at his nose, nose, mouth and heart, and Baoxiang solemnly raised the alloy brick: "Should it be loud or brittle?"
The data terminal shivered for a moment, and quickly released the processed document: "Let me show you, this should be the log left by the crew of the spaceship. The thing mentioned in it is probably the 'eldest son' who corrupted the ship."
The diary has been translated and the most valuable parts have been intercepted intelligently. Hao Ren and Lili hurriedly read it carefully:
"Logbook one... Keyword: cruise log.
"We have been in this galaxy for six months, and we have discovered a large number of star systems and habitable planets with life. This place should be a thriving place with lush life. I have been busy recording coordinates and collecting planetary data these days. It's a little boring. But it's a joy to find a planet with life. Those creatures called 'demons' are very interesting. They are highly intelligent, but grumpy and seem unable to negotiate. Maybe this has something to do with their survival It is related to the harsh environment? Those planets are really not very suitable for living, and this is the first time I have seen creatures that can move in magma."
"Log 2, keyword: accidental disaster.
"... an unbelievable accident happened, and I should be glad I'm still alive... the wind of my hometown. I don't know how long this ship can last! A huge... weird thing suddenly appeared in space and hit the ship. It contains The incomprehensible energy overloaded the shield system of the spaceship at the moment of contact, and almost broke the ship. Now the weird ball is still stuck in the central gantry. It is unbelievable that a nearly The 100-meter ball unexpectedly exploded a hole more than ten kilometers wide. This should be related to some kind of space phenomenon. The spaceship had a serious gas leak, and thousands of people were killed or missing. At present, the emergency control device has successfully stopped the gas Leakage and spreading fire, but we fear there is no way we can repair the ship."
"Log Three. Keywords: Growth, Weird.
"Unbelievable, unbelievable. Unbelievable, unbelievable! That's the only way I can express my astonishment. I'm a biologist. I've spent my life studying life in the universe, but I never imagined that the one that crashed into the spaceship Gnar Ku's orb turned out to be some kind of life! It was just a sphere yesterday, but today its surface is cracked, and something strange is growing out of it...I'm sure that's a sign of life. It spans space, Survival in the universe, with incomparable power, why does such a thing exist in the world? The people on the spaceship had a meeting today to discuss what to do with the ball, and someone suggested throwing it back into space. But soon we will Found this impossible. The orb has 'rooted' to our ship, and its supernatural powers have prevented some of the more violent tests. We can only watch it lie there now. Then pray for it Do no harm.
"Another: The navigators also discovered a bad situation. For some unknown reason, the space around the spaceship seems to be closed, and we seem to be temporarily trapped in a warped space bubble. The only fortunate thing is that the technicians seem to The time-space module that can repair those escape boats seems to be planning to evacuate, and I should probably study what grew out of that sphere before that."
"Log Four, Keyword: Gentle Seed.
"I've been dealing with the weird creature that grows rapidly in the sphere for the past few days. It's unexpectedly gentle. Although we still can't communicate with each other smoothly, it seems to realize that it's on someone else's spaceship, so It cautiously slowed down the expansion speed. If I guessed correctly, it should have tried to apologize to me—of course, other people don’t care about this little discovery of mine. They are busy investigating the space anomaly. The sleepiness was worse than expected."
Hao Ren was stunned when he saw this, and couldn't help raising his head: "It says that the 'eldest son' is very gentle?!"
Lily's expression was as silly as Hao Ren's. She recalled the berserk tentacle monster in the Dream Plane, and the fur on her tail trembled. She shook her head vigorously: "How can it be gentle! I almost let it eat me!"
At this time, the logs extracted by the data terminal were still increasing. Hao Ren temporarily put aside the huge confusion in his heart, and continued to study the next records.
"Log five, keyword: spatial variation.
"I very much want to continue the record about that 'space sphere', but today I have to record a worse situation: within the detectable range, the structure of space seems to be changed.
"Now it can be confirmed that the spacecraft is trapped in a strange environment like a warped bubble, and the surrounding space has been sealed, as if the entire universe has suddenly shrunk to a diameter of only 10 million kilometers. The released probe encountered The wall of the closed space, after flying in one direction, will come back from the other end of the space. The technicians calculated the circulation paths of these probes, and finally determined that the center of this closed space is our spaceship. What happened? The whole Has the universe collapsed around us? Anyway, technologists are still looking for the reason for the mutation, but I'm not very optimistic."
"Log Six. Keyword: None.
"We know so little about the universe.
"That strange spherical creature - that's all I can call it now - seems to be the root of everything. The technicians analyzed the instrument records of the sudden appearance of the spherical creature near the spacecraft, and they were surprised to find that it was not in the usual sense. But a more exotic teleportation phenomenon. Records show that when the sphere appeared, many nearby natural laws were distorted, as if the sphere 'dropped' from a universe completely different from ours It is the same as the one that came in. It may be that this "traveling" behavior caused the disorder of the space law, causing us to be trapped in a closed space bubble. Fortunately, there are signs that this space is not completely sealed. Fixed locations can open some unstable teleportation points, and technicians are testing this opening law."
"Log seven, keyword: bubbles. Spread.
"We have finally confirmed the situation outside, and the 'outside' here refers to the situation outside the space bubble.
"Things are even more bizarre than we imagined. There is a strange atmosphere lingering in the spaceship, and everyone is very disturbed. Obviously, in the past period of time, a huge change has taken place outside the space bubble, and we have been ignorant of it: the outside The spatial structure of the space has been torn apart.
"The technicians opened several portals leading to the outside world, and the probe successfully traveled through and returned, and the news brought back was surprising. There were also space bubbles outside—one after another, connected by hyperspace channels. Each closed warped space. None of the detectors found the shadow of the starry sky, maybe the entire universe has mutated? No one knows what the real situation is.
"It's as if a basin of calm water was added with a foaming agent and then stirred wildly. Now the universe outside us is completely different from the world we know. The continuous visible and accessible space has been broken, and the cause of all this …just a seed. Possibly a seed from another parallel universe.
"It's still growing. Although it's slowing down, it has completely occupied the middle section of the spacecraft and is spreading to the power core. I still believe that its nature is gentle, but its life instinct is gradually disintegrating our body. spaceship.
"A group of soldiers tried to destroy those tentacles and achieved some results, but it was meaningless. The mental state of those soldiers became abnormal after returning. It is estimated that there will be no new 'weeding operations'. This morning, I found some small bumps in the corner of my cabin. Probably the tentacles are going to grow here too."
"Log eight, keyword: none.
"We finally decided to abandon the ship, including the 'spherical creature' that has been completely symbiotic with the spacecraft. Oh, it is no longer a sphere, it is now like a forest, spreading in half of the spacecraft cabin.
"Technicians have roughly predicted a space model. They believe that the region where mutations occur should be limited, and the laws of the universe will smooth out the intrusion of external information. The phenomenon of space bubbles is probably such a 'cosmic self-healing method'. We have enough The small spaceship is available for evacuation. According to the route speculated by the technicians, as long as we keep jumping between the space bubbles according to certain rules, we can leave this weird star area.
"The orb creature seemed to know we were leaving, it expressed some kind of 'regret' emotion. I don't know how to tell people how I communicated with that weird creature: it was a spiritual connection, probably because I live so close to one of its ganglia that I can hear it in my sleep.
"It said that it couldn't leave this place. This is a failed sowing. It will continue to grow here, at least to complete its mission of 'incubating the first generation'. If it has spare capacity, it intends to evolve a short-term A small ecological circle. I don't quite understand what it means, but it seems that some more powerful higher organisms created it to perform a task similar to the seeding of life. In any case, our understanding of the universe Know too little."
The log ends here.
Hao Ren and Lily looked at each other. What this diary revealed was so important, far beyond Hao Ren's initial expectations.
It seems that a lot of problems have suddenly been solved!
Of course, there are a lot of problems popping up again.
Lily stretched out her paws to scratch the wall, and muttered as she scratched: "How old is this ship... The space bubble was smashed out for a long time?"
"It has been detected," the data terminal floated in front of the two of them, "You guys are shocked - after converting the time scale, this ship was abandoned at least 200,000 years ago."
Hao Ren didn't realize it all at once: "Oh, two hundred thousand years... what?!"
"200,000 years ago, 200,000 years ago on the Dream Plane," the data terminal said in a serious voice, "This is a huge amount of information..."
Just as Hao Ren was about to say something, he suddenly heard Vivienne's voice from the communicator: "Landlord! We found some strange things here!"
(I couldn’t update due to something tonight, so I thought about it and merged the two chapters into one post.) (To be continued~^~)