The others camped on the shaft and kept in touch with each other, while Hao Ren and Vivian entered the dark and deep ancient cave together.
The light coming from above soon became only a small bright spot, and the bottom could not be seen at all. Vivian hugged Hao Ren's waist from behind and fell steadily and quickly, while Hao Ren held a silver spear in one hand and a lamp in the other to light the way ahead. He looked at the steel brackets and guide rails flying by beside him, and the sound of the wind when Vivienne's bat wings flapped echoed in his ears: "It's been a long time since we flew together."
"Yeah, I followed you all day to run around in weird places, either in space or in water, I almost forgot how to use wings," Vivian's voice came from above, and she adjusted slightly as she spoke. Wing angle, hovering and gliding in this wide shaft, "I still remember that you seemed to be airsick when you first went to the sky with me? Oh... It can't be called airsickness, it counts as me."
"Don't make trouble, I was mainly taken aback at the time. You dragged me to the sky without saying a word. How can ordinary people go through this?" Hao Ren moved his body slightly while talking, and the softness behind him The touch made it a little difficult for him to concentrate. Vivienne immediately noticed this, and laughed grinningly: "Why, I have flown together so many times, I still don't feel used to it."
Hao Ren curled his lips: "You're a pretty girl after all, okay?"
"... I really haven't thought about this, you know I usually have difficulty filling my stomach," Vivienne blinked, and suddenly saw a faint light appearing in front of her, "Landlord, it seems that the front is almost to the end Already!"
A moment later, the two lightly landed on a ring-shaped alloy platform. The platform is surrounded by the surrounding shaft walls, and in the center is a hollow with a radius of several meters, and a dark red light is coming from under the hollow. Hao Ren leaned on the railing and took a look, and suddenly found that there was hot magma underneath.
"That can't be the center of the earth..." Vivienne also took a look, her eyes widening in astonishment, "We've reached such a deep place?"
"It doesn't have to be the center of the earth. But it should be very close," Hao Ren looked at the slowly surging dim red light, the internal energy of the planet had already weakened. The magma lake near the earth's core also seemed a little weak, but that magma lake still made the scene at the bottom of the shaft look like hell. If it weren't for some kind of heat insulation technology that was still in effect, the entire metal platform might melt down. "This should be the energy source of the whole system. To exchange heat between the core and the surface of the earth... It's a huge project."
"Those old guys on the earth should really come here to have a look..." Vivienne sighed, "Why do I feel like my steps are light?"
Hao Ren took a few steps on the spot: "The gravity has weakened. We have come to the deepest part of the entire system. The gravity here is probably less than one-fifth of that on the surface. Let's look for it. There should be an entrance near here. The data terminal The scan revealed a hollow structure resembling a control center."
Vivian raised her finger and pointed to the opposite side of the circular platform: "You mean that?"
Hao Ren looked up and saw a thick gate with metallic luster standing quietly on the opposite side of the platform. A faint light flickered by the gate. Seems just to prove that the system behind the gate is still alive and well.
When the two came to the gate, Hao Ren looked at the control panel with flickering lights beside the gate, and he breathed out: "We've already been here, which is enough to prove our sincerity. Do we still have to close the gate at this time?"
It seems that no one on this planet should respond to his words, but the gate still moved in response. Amidst a "chic" sound of airlock deflation, the circular gate first retreated, and then rolled sideways open. Hao Ren and Vivian stepped into it.
They walked down a long safe passage and finally arrived in a rotunda.
A gigantic, plumbing-like cylindrical device was placed in the center of the hall. Its height extends to the dome more than ten meters high, and the dim streamer flows through its outer pipeline. Countless thick cables extended from the bottom of the cylindrical device, like vines spreading out on the floor of the hall, connecting a circle of machines around the hall. There is no formal lighting in the hall, and it is entirely the light emitted by the machines themselves that provides illumination, allowing people to see the figures of these ancient equipment clearly in the faint light and shadow. A low, compound hum echoed around, like an inorganic breathing sound.
Hao Ren looked at the cylindrical device in front of him, which should be the main engine of the Ark. He could feel that this place was the heart of the entire planet, and countless things—abstract and invisible things spread from here to the entire planet outside. He took a deep breath: "I'm here. Don't you speak?"
The machines were silent for a few seconds, and a low and emotionless synthesized voice sounded from the depths of the cylindrical device: "My mission is to manage the ark and bring the creators to a new home safely. I was created, they gave I think, give me logic, give me purpose...the whole system exists to keep civilization alive on this planet. It's the only thing I know I should be doing."
Hao Ren looked at the host as if he was looking at a real person: "What happened here?"
"Before the Ark, civilization was extinct."
A screen on the wall of the hall flickered brightly, and a crystal-clear, water-blue planet shining brightly in space appeared on the screen. Immediately after the sun explodes in the corner of the frame, intense solar material is blown across the surface of the planet, but under the action of some powerful shield, the planet seems to survive intact-however, after successfully resisting the solar explosion, the planet's surface But something abnormal happened. Hao Ren didn't see the essence of the disaster. He only saw the lights on the entire planet decrease and extinguish at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then fell silent.
Time passed after this, the sun cooled, the planet froze, a paleness covered the surface of the planet, the whole world just lost its life, and the artificial light has not been turned on since then.
Vivian turned to look at the host: "Who did it?"
"An indescribable creature, the creators called it a natural disaster," the synthetic voice of the mainframe of the Ark sounded again, and the picture flashed on the screen, a huge weird thing that seemed to be mixed together with countless tentacles, roots, plants, and pieces of meat Something appeared in the center of the screen. Its weirdness was indescribable. Only a sense of horror that seemed to arouse biological instinct permeated from those twisted roots. "It destroyed the civilization on the ark after death."
The one who appeared on the screen was indeed the eldest son, but Hao Ren was shocked after hearing the words of the mainframe of the Ark: "After death? Did you kill it?"
"It burst from the depths of the earth to the surface, but the creators, with the help of the Spacemen, managed to separate the creature from the planet and thrust it into the sun—then the Spacemen detonated the sun. The flesh of the creature Burned to ashes in the stellar flames, and yet... something incomprehensible remained on the planet. It eventually destroyed entire civilizations."
"Something incomprehensible?" Hao Ren felt a little confused, until Vivienne reminded him softly: "Similar things happened to Tanagus."
Hao Ren suddenly realized: "Is it the soul of the eldest son?!"
The mainframe of the Ark didn't make a sound, as if it couldn't understand what "soul" meant, and Hao Ren had already guessed what was the truth back then:
Although the aborigines on this planet have not surpassed the other second sons in terms of technology, with the help of the "people of the starry sky", they have indeed achieved a feat that other second sons have never achieved: they succeeded in building a new world at the cost of their own sun. destroyed the flesh of the firstborn. However, this feat failed to save the fate of their entire civilization—after the eldest son died physically, he still killed everyone on this planet with his soul!
However, this soul should have dissipated, and the sensor radar of the giant turtle rock platform did not scan the signal of the eldest son on the planet. It is precisely because it has dissipated that the people have never found evidence of the existence of the eldest son.
Hao Ren figured out the joint, sighed slightly, and then looked at the mainframe of the Ark seriously: "Who are the people of the starry sky?" (To be continued~^~)