"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 already 'precisely' differentiated various functions, such as the forest on the surface , the tentacles in the rock formations, the 'heart' buried underground, and various ganglia... But this one looks incompletely evolved, 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 guessing coins, punching punches, and spinning sticks, the three directions were determined, and they left the hall separately.
Lily was very happy to open the way in front of her holding her firearm. She was not afraid to play sex at this time, and Hao Ren followed the husky girl, carefully paying attention to the surrounding situation as she moved forward. They have explored a long distance after leaving the hall, and found some empty cabins in the middle, but the cabins were either empty. Or there are only ordinary tentacles, which are basically of little value.
Lily was in high spirits. I found that I had to pick up any rare things in the spaceship and stuff them into my pockets. Before I had gone far, all the pockets on my body were stuffed to the brim. In the end, they could only dump the goods in Hao Ren's portable space, and 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, it's the common sense of werewolves to bring it back to the den first!"
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' of 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 wreckage. Hao Ren held the data terminal to go. I took a photo in the room: "It seems that there is nothing... wait a minute! There is something!"
The faint blue light of the data terminal swayed in the room. 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 was right: it was a small device, and it seemed to be in good condition.
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 is only the size of a palm and shaped like an oval pancake. The surface is smooth, but the button cannot be seen. Hao Ren asked the data terminal to identify it: "Take a look, what is this?"
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. It's 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. Go up and touch the shell of the latter, "Hey. Hey, buddy. What about the living ones?"
After touching it a few times and nothing happened, the data terminal shook its body regretfully: "The ball is dead."
Hao Ren conveniently 'touched' an alloy brick from his 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 'touched' her chin thoughtfully: "..."
Hao Ren slapped Lily on the head: "You can't be more simple-minded!!"
Lily covered her head and looked at Hao Ren aggrievedly: "I'm 'quite' pure, 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 the issue of "fucking", and couldn't help but muttered: "It's almost enough. I am not interested in short and poor devices without redundant processors. What this machine yearns for is the kind of bold and unrestrained host with a full stomach of processing cores, full of expansion slots, and 16 threads for cursing - of course the best It’s the kind on a battleship…”
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 actually been saved! "
Hao Ren's eyes brightened immediately: "Quickly release it, hurry up!"
The data terminal is processing the data: "Wait a minute, this machine is translating, by the way, put the useless data aside—?"
Hao Ren watched his nose, his mouth, his heart. Baoxiang held up the alloy brick solemnly: "Would it be loud or brittle?"
The data terminal trembled, 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 log has been translated. And intelligently intercepted the most valuable part, 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 full of 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 they have a bad temper and seem unable to 'negotiate'. Maybe this Is it related to the harsh environment they live in? Those planets are really not very suitable for living. This is the first time I have seen a creature that can move in magma."
"Log 2, keyword: accidental disaster.
"... an unbelievable accident happened, I should be glad that I am still alive... Bless 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 spacecraft. 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 large "hole" more than ten kilometers wide, which should be related to some kind of space phenomenon. The spaceship had a serious gas leak. Thousands of people were killed or missing. At present, the emergency control device has been successful We stopped the gas escape and the fire from spreading, but we're afraid we won't be able to repair the ship."
"Log Three, Keyword: Growth. Weird.
"Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. Unbelievable! That's all I can say about my astonishment. I'm a biologist and I've spent my life studying life in the universe. But I never imagined that the man who 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. Something strange is growing out of it... I'm sure that's a sign of life. It spans space, Survive in the universe with incomparably powerful 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. Someone suggested throwing it back into space, but soon we will This was found to be 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 and 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 surprisingly gentle. Although we still can't communicate with each other smoothly, it seems to be aware of itself. It's on someone else's spaceship, so it cautiously slowed down the expansion rate, and if I'm not wrong, it should have tried to apologize to me-of course, other people don't care about my little discovery, they are busy investigating space Due to the abnormal situation, the trapped state of the spacecraft is more serious 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 hair on its tail became excited for a while, and she shook her head vigorously: "How can it be gentle! I almost let it have eaten!"
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 would very much like to continue the record about that 'space sphere', but I have to record a worse situation today: 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. It seems that the entire universe has shrunk to only a mere 10 million kilometers in diameter. The released probe met 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. It was 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. space jump, 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 Yes. Some unstable teleportation points can be opened at a fixed location, and technicians are testing this opening law."
"Log seven, keywords: bubbles, spreading.
"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.
"Technicians opened several teleportation 'doors' to the outside world. The probe successfully traveled through and returned, and the news it brought back was amazing. There were also space bubbles outside—one after another, relying on hyperspace channels Connected, each enclosed 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 pot of calm water was added with a foaming agent and then stirred wildly. Now the universe outside of us is completely different from the world we know, and the continuously visible and accessible space has been broken. And the cause of all this …just a seed, possibly from other parallel universes.
"It's still growing. Although it's slowing down, it has completely taken over the middle section of the spaceship. And it's spreading to the power core. I still believe its 'nature' is gentle, but its life instinct is gradually growing. Disrupt our ships.
"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."
"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 'spirit' 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 'first-generation incubation'.
If it has spare capacity, it intends to evolve a short-lived small ecological circle within its coverage area. I don't quite understand what it means, but it seems that some more powerful higher creature created it to perform a task similar to life seeding. Either way, we know so little about the universe. "
The log ends here.
Hao Ren and Lily looked at each other in blank dismay. What was revealed in this diary turned out to be 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 it due to something tonight, so I thought about it and merged the two chapters together and posted it together.) To be continued, please search for better updates and faster!
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