The vast space is cold and dead, and the boundless dark space is only accompanied by starlight. A bright silver arc suddenly cut through the darkness, and the giant turtle rock platform jumped out of the crack in space, performing routine calibration during the continuous jumping process.
The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace is currently headed for Io in a general direction, using hyperspace jumps and regular voyages alternately, and the current voyage is coming to an end. The spacecraft's navigation system recalibrated the starlight lens two days ago, and input the star map from Nasathorn into the navigation program. After some comparison, the ship's main engine found the star area suspected to be the mother galaxy of the Kraken. The ship is now heading there.
Since the Kraken's star map is indeed not accurate enough, and the celestial body drift caused by the time of 10,000 years also seriously affects the reliability of the hyperspace transmission, the spacecraft cannot directly reach that coordinate. For the sake of safety, and in order to collect as much sporadic information as possible in this universe, the navigation assistant program suggested that the spaceship jump on its way section by section like this—although it takes a little time, it does not delay anything.
At present, the spacecraft is passing through a monotonous and boring place. There are only cold open areas and the occasional extremely thin radioactive clouds. Except for the starlight in the extreme distance and a bright nebula belt, there is no scenery here. to speak of. Hao Ren sat on the captain's seat and looked at the documents boredly, while coping with Lily's occasional frenzied calls.
He is no longer the rookie who first came into contact with the stars and the sea a year ago, the monotonous starlight in this place can no longer make him unable to extricate himself. Of course, the scenery of the vast universe is always attractive, but these attractions are not worth the work at hand.
He was studying the data extracted from the mainframe of Nasathorn.
"Io... the planet of water, your parent star is a planet with 100% ocean coverage. Huge ice floes and storm clouds orbit the surface of the planet every year. All ecosystems of the entire planet develop from the deep sea. Get up—you didn't know the concept of 'atmosphere' until your ancestors established an outpost on the first ice floe." Hao Ren held up the data terminal and looked at the Siren Queen next to him, "This is the fun of exploration—the universe It’s so big. There are always weird places to come across.”
The Siren Queen stared at the vast star map displayed on the navigation console, feeling incredible: "I can't believe it. I am here at this very moment... My people and I have lived in the deep sea for ten thousand years. I thought it was the nature of the sea monster to live in the deep sea... But our ancestors have studied the secrets of the stars. Do you often take this kind of travel?"
"Basically, we are experts," Lily said, lying on the back of the seat and wagging her tail, "Have you heard of space dogs? Let me tell you..."
Hao Ren felt that this husky was going to ruin the three views again, so he put away the data terminal and walked towards the door: "I'll go to the laboratory to have a look."
Nangong Wuyue was resting in a ball with Shaqila and Soma on the open space of the bridge when she suddenly opened her eyes and pulled herself out of the ball: "Wait a minute. I'll follow you too In the past! It's too boring to just hang around like this!"
Hao Ren looked blankly at the snake girl who was so embarrassed that she almost rolled and crawled towards him, and then looked at Shaqila and Soma who were left behind by Wu Yue and were trying to reunite into a new ball: "By the way, the racial culture of your sea monsters is really incomprehensible..."
"This is a symbol of friendship!" Nangong Wuyue shook the tip of her tail in the air like a rattlesnake, "I just learned it from them!"
After Hao Ren and Wu Yue left the bridge, Shaqila and Soma looked at each other: "She still needs to be familiar with this way of resting." "Yes, she is too loose, and it is easy to fall out after falling asleep." " No, I mean she just tied me up." "Oh, that's me... I'm having nightmares."
Nangong Sanba was holding a magazine next to him and pretended to read a book. At this moment, he suddenly blurted the book on his face: "The world is so fucking amazing..."
Hao Ren led May out of the bridge, passed through the central corridor, and came to the laboratory on the spaceship. This space was previously occupied by various devices and platforms for studying the eldest son. But now these research projects have basically been transferred to the Crystal Nucleus Research Station, and the laboratory suddenly became empty. Now there are only two project teams that are still in operation. One is the "Raging Spirit Scanner" that has not yet been decoded. One was a large restraint device in the center of the lab—a brand new device.
"It seems that it is still trying to study the memory code of the spirit of anger," Hao Ren and Wu Yue first passed by the scanner of the spirit of anger. He saw that the instrument was flickering with regular light as always, but the light in the groove in the center of the instrument remained unchanged from last time, "I hope this thing can produce results soon."
Wu Yue glanced at Nu Ling, the worry in his eyes flashed past, then he turned and looked at the center of the laboratory: "Are you sure it won't suddenly go out of control?"
In the center of the room is a large transparent container, a crystal vertical tube with a diameter of nearly ten meters that emits a faint blue light. Various sensing devices and recording devices are distributed around the container, and inside the container is quietly suspended a strange creature: a mass of swollen flesh, shaped like a brain.
It was the brain monster captured from Nasathorn.
"The protective crystal shines on this thing 24 hours a day, and it's impossible for it to escape." Hao Ren pointed to the bottom of the container, where a colorful diamond-shaped crystal was inlaid. The light from the crystal shone on the surface of the giant brain, causing the latter to twitch from time to time, "As long as it doesn't become too weak and die inside."
Wu Yue lay curiously on the wall of the container and looked at the brain inside: "I heard that this thing eats everything?"
"Anyway, the organic substances tested so far are all effective," Hao Ren nodded, and then a mechanical hand in the container sent a piece of animal flesh to the brain monster's tentacles, and the latter immediately rolled up the ball of flesh and blood and absorbed it in the blink of an eye. "It uses tentacles to eat, and the tips of those tentacles can secrete super-corrosive digestive juice in an instant and open a series of fine 'teeth' to grab prey. Hasselblad didn't ask where its mouth is-it's those tentacles. I am now feeding this guy according to the 'recipe' submitted by the Krakens. It needs to eat four to five times a day. Both plants and meat are fine, but according to Katrina's memory... It seems that it is more palatable when eating raw meat. You Don't mention it to her face."
Wu Yue stuck out her tongue: "Eh...then I won't ask about the excretion process of this thing."
"Before we arrive at the station, I'll try to communicate with it again." Hao Ren said while activating a certain device next to the container.
There is an invisible traction force field restraining the brain monster in the container. It is slowly pushed to the edge of the container, and a tentacle is fixed to a certain silver-white cylinder. A similar cylinder rose up in front of Hao Ren, and the holographic projection above the cylinder displayed the words "connection ready".
Hao Ren didn't want to have close contact with a tentacle monster every time to understand the other's thoughts, so he ordered to design such a set of things. This is a set of small devices that can replace the direct connection of limbs. It can not only undertake the perfect function of mental connection, but also strengthen the connection and record the data flow during the connection—in other words, now Hao Ren can not only see the brain monster memory, and it can be scanned like a video. Although the recorded data is always severely distorted and blurred, this is indeed an important function.
In this way, he can look back at the video to find those scenes in his communication with the brain monster that appeared in his subconscious level but were ignored by his conscious mind.
Hao Ren put his hand on the top of the silver cylinder, and a wave of strange thoughts flooded his mind immediately.
The chaotic red color, the chaotic sky, the slanted and falling starlight, all kinds of bizarre scenes immediately fell out of his field of vision as if he was on the scene. Hao Ren realized that he was on a certain doomsday-like alien planet. However, this is not what he wants.
A huge mushroom cloud rose beside him, and countless terrifying shadows came from all directions as if they wanted to tear him apart. Hao Ren stayed in this illusion for only a few seconds before he began to be baptized by these terrifying images. Rumbling and incomprehensible howls sounded in his mind. This howling sound and the surrounding scene seemed to join forces to drive the most terrifying impression in the world into the intruder's mind. Using the word "fear" The original weakness of mortals to drive away intruders into this spiritual sea. Hao Ren stood in the illusion of alien stars, watching all kinds of weird things tearing his body to pieces time and time again. He looked up at the starry sky that was constantly collapsing, and sent out a challenge from the depths of his heart. roar:
"You know it won't work! Come out and talk to me face to face!"
There are only hollow echoes coming from all directions in the world of the sky-shattering mind, and the brain monster refuses to answer any further prying.
Yes, this complete brain monster has the ability to build barriers to its own thinking, even if Hao Ren can directly cut into its memory, he can only move a single step. (to be continued~^~)